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

• What was the enrolment in each Division at the House of Representatives election on 25th October 19697 [More…]

• What percentages of votes at the House of Representatives election on 25 October 1969 were (a) ordinary, (b) postal and (c) absent votes. [More…]

• What percentages of votes for candidates whose names were placed first on the ballot papers at that election were (a) ordinary, (b) postal and (c) absent votes. [More…]

• Did the Commonwealth Industrial Court recently rule that section 141 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act makes it lawful for a union executive to carry a resolution containing an erroneous expression of legal opinion as to a member’s rights to petition for a controlled election in his union and that the only way of testing the validity of an erroneous interpretation of union rules is for a member to risk defiance of such an interpretation, by gambling his standing or office in a union against his own untested interpretation of the law. [More…]

• Is he able to say whether each State Companies Act and Territory Companies Ordinance fixes a maximum tenure of office for which a director of a public company can be elected without being required to face another election; if so, what are the maximum terms laid down. [More…]

• Does the Minister for the Interior recall his own and his predecessor’s assurances that something would be done to prevent the postal voting racket which makes a farce of Commonwealth, State and local government elections in Australia, particularly in Queensland? [More…]

• Will he discuss the matter with the Prime Minister and explain the situation to him so that high legislative priority is given to this matter, thus preventing a situation whereby the next Senate election will be held with the system still needing urgent attention? [More…]

• The honourable member for Reid claimed that during an election campaign in Western Australia I advised Country Party voters to give their second preference votes to the Labor Party candidate. [More…]

• During the election campaign in 1966 the Deputy Prime Minister, speaking in the electorate of Canning, asked Labor Party voters to give their second preference votes to the Country Party candidate because, he said, there was no real difference between the policies of the 2 Parties. [More…]

• ls it a fact that the voting population of the Australian Capital Territory will soon approximate the quota necessary for two seats in the House of Representatives: if so, will- he consider the division of the present electorate into two seats prior to the next general election. [More…]

• Will he give a specific answer as to whether the Commonwealth Industrial Court recently ruled that section 141 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act makes it lawful for a union executive to carry a resolution containing an erroneous expression of legal opinion as to a members rights to petition for a controlled election in his union and that no remedy would be available under the Act until an implied threat became a reality. [More…]

• Any money that is available could be distributed according to the number of honourable members in the House, or the number of votes received at the last election, or the amount of money that has been spent. [More…]

• The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (I), (2) and (3) In his 1969 Election Policy Speech the Prime Minister promised that Commonwealth medical benefits and fund benefits would be increased so that the difference between benefit entitlements and the common fee charged by doctors would not at any time exceed $5 even for the most complicated and costly surgical procedures. [More…]

• The decision did not, however, involve any further increases in the rates of contributions to the health insurance funds over and above those foreshadowed in the Election Policy Speech. [More…]

• Was any increase in costs caused by additional proposals to those detailed at election time; If so, what are the additional proposals and in each case what extra cost do they involve (a) in total to contributors and (b) to the Government. [More…]

• Neither Askin nor Gorton can call an election at a time when the campaign would coincide with any of Gretel’s races. [More…]

• What number of votes was cast for each subdivision of each Brisbane metropolitan Federal electoral division at the Brisbane City Hall on the occasion of the 1969 general election. [More…]

• In view of the Minister’s frankness as to why he has not prosecuted for breaches of the National Service Act, will he tell the House why neither he nor his predecessors have prosecuted members, possibly including himself, for the multitudinous and continuing breaches of that portion of the Commonwealth Electoral Act that prescribes $500 as the maximum amount that can be spent by candidates on election campaigns? [More…]

• The first time I contested an election as Deputy Leader of my Party the Liberal Party and the Australian Country Party were in the same position of electoral jeopardy as they are now and the same state of tension existed between them as exists now. [More…]

• by leave - Honourable members will be aware that to fulfil the requirements of the Constitution the next Senate election must be held before 30th June 1971. [More…]

• Accordingly the Government has decided to invite His Excellency the GovernorGeneral to communicate with the State Governors proposing that the next Senate election be held on Saturday, 21st November 1970. [More…]

• When replies have been received from the States I shall inform the House of the full timetable proposed for the election. [More…]

• introduction of the Government’s decision to implement a statutory wool marketing commission, I ask; If this legislation cannot be introduced in this House before the House rises for the Senate elections, will the Prime Minister reconvene the Parliament after the election and before. [More…]

• If so, does the Prime Minister propose advocating an extension of working hours during the Senate election campaign? [More…]

• What total amount was expended on each (a) television channel and (b) radio station in each of the States by each of the political parties which contested the recent Senate election. [More…]

• Based on the statistics furnished to the Australian Broadcasting Control board by the commercial broadcasting and television stations following the Senate election, the answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: [More…]

• What were the proportions of time purchased by parties and candidates from commercial (a) broadcasting and (b) television (i) metropolitan and (ii) country stations for political matter (other than opening speeches) at the Senate election in 1970. [More…]

• I have received a return to the writ which I issued on 15th February for the election of a member to serve for the electoral division of Murray in the State of Victoria to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the Right Honourable Sir John McEwen. [More…]

• Is it a fact that Australian military forces are said to be in Vietnam and men are conscripted for service so that there may be free elections in South Vietnam and so that the people of South Vietnam may have the government of their choice? [More…]

• If so, is it also a fact that every Australian citizen is entitled to the same rights in the election of his or her government? [More…]

• Has the Austraiian Broadcasting Commission determined to what extent and in what manner political matter or controversial matter will bc broadcast over its stations in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, particularly during an election period. [More…]

• What number and percentage of the formal votes were recorded for the several political parties in each State and Division, of the Senate election on 21st November 1970. [More…]

• Votes at Senate ‘Election (Question N. 2478) [More…]

• Will the Prime Minister give an assurance to the House and to the Australian people that he will now cease using the Communist bogey during any future election campaign, a bogey on which his and previous governments have relied so heavily to maintain them in power? [More…]

• Has the Government any objection to elections being held, whereby the self-governing areas could have elected representatives, at the same time as the next election for the House of Assembly in February? [More…]

• Is he able to say which overseas countries and which Australian States provide voting rights for 18 year olds in the election of Governments. [More…]

• The number and percentage of medical and hospital benefits organisations that have provision in their constitutions for the election of contributor representatives to their governing bodies are as follows: [More…]

• What (a) number and (b) percentage of (i) medical and (ii) hospital benefits organisations make provision in their constitutions for the election of contributor representatives to their governing bodies. [More…]

• If the quota established as a result of the recent Census affects the number of seats in each Slate of the Commonwealth, will he arrange for a redistribution of electoral divisions for the House of Representatives to be made before the election of the 28th Parliament. [More…]

• How many students in each (a) Government, (b) Catholic and (c) other private secondary school in each Commonwealth electoral division (as defined and boundaries for the 1969 Federal election) have (i) sat for Commonwealth secondary scholarship examinations and (ii) been awarded scholarships in each year since the scheme was introduced but excluding the examinations contested in 1971. [More…]

• Ten days ago I had a long chat about the prospects in the next election with Sir William Aston. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State of Queensland will this year conduct an election for certain positions in The Australian Workers’ Union and that some of these positions, namely, Delegates to Annual Convention, are to be elected on the basis of one delegate for each 4,000 members or part thereof, of the organisation in the Queensland branch of that organisation. [More…]

• If there is no separate membership register for each of these two organisations, how will the Electoral Officer determine the number of Delegates which the Queensland Branch will be entitled to elect to the Annual Convention of The Australian Workers’ Union, and how will he ensure that only those persons who qualify for membership in The Australian Workers’ Union, and who are, in fact, financial members of that organisation, are supplied with ballot papers in the election for positions in the organisation. [More…]

• Act that the cost, or portion of the cost of a branch election of an organisation conducted under section 170 of the Act at the request of the committee of management of a branch should be borne by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• On how many occasions has the Minister exercised his powers under section 170a (6) of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to determine that the cost, or portion of the cost of a branch election of an organisation conducted under section 170 of the Act at (he request of the management committee of a branch should be borne by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Which branch of which organisation was concerned and in which year was the election held, in each case. [More…]

• Will all necessary steps be taken to seen that the rolls are 100 per cent accurate for the next election. [More…]

• There was a redistribution in 1968 and an election in 1969. [More…]

• What was the enrolment for each (a) electoral division and (b) sub-division in Western Australia at the (i) last redistribution, (ii) time of the 1969 House of Representatives Election, (ii) time of the 1970 Senate Election and (iv) end of September 1971. [More…]

• How many persons voted at each of the polling places in each electoral division in Western Australia in the (a) 1969 House of Representatives Election and (b) 1970 Senate Election. [More…]

• It will report to the Prime Minister within the 12 months after the assembly of Parliament following each general election, and the reports will be tabled in Parliament. [More…]

• What 1 am putting to you is that because of the arbitrary way in which the Government has closed down debate - and this is no secret to any member of the House - this matter has been buried in the Notice Paper and will not be resurrected between now and the next election, whenever that happens to be. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to a statement by the Leader of the Opposition in New Zealand during a recent visit to Singapore to the effect that if his Party came into power at the forthcoming general election in New Zealand it would retain its troops in Singapore even if the Labor Party came into power in Australia and withdrew its forces. [More…]

• Was President Nixon’s request to visit China in an election year directly related to United States domestic policy? [More…]

• An educational programme in the Division of Grey will be conducted prior to the next House of Representatives election. [More…]

• Does it participate in party political election campaigns. [More…]

• The right honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Calwell) will remember that in the 1966 election campaign he made statements on defence, that his Deputy Leader made statements on defence, and that they were quite far apart from each other. [More…]

• Can he say in what countries and states a deposit is required from candidates seeking election to Parliament, and what is the amount of the deposit in each case. [More…]

• After the next election honourable members opposite will be in the same position as they were before the last election, when this procedure operated in their favour. [More…]

• Nothing is more certain than that, as night follows day, we will be returned after the next election with an overwhelming majority. [More…]

• The former Prime Minister in his election policy speech of 8th October 1969 stated that: [More…]

• Information was prepared by my Department on the costs of some election proposals put forward by the Australian Labor Party at the elections mentioned. [More…]

• Did his Department cost the election proposals put forward at the 1969 House of Representatives Election and the 1970 Senate Election by the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• Will he provide a costing of the election proposals put forward at those elections by the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]

• If the exhibition by the honourable member for Balaclava (Mr Whittorn) is the basis of the Government’s policy at the next election, one result, unfortunately, will be that we will need to have members of the Australian Labor Party sitting on both sides of the House because there could not possibly be any Liberals returned. [More…]

• I want to make this point very clearly: Whilst the honourable member referred to section 39a of the Commonwealth Electoral Act in criticising the Bill now before the House for what is not in it, the fact is that in his attempt to make a great show of claiming that we were denying to persons under 21 years of age the right to stand as candidates for election to the Federal Parliament, be did not refer to the fact that under section 39a a serviceman under 21 years of age is not given the right to stand as a candidate for election to the Federal Parliament. [More…]

• In answer to that question the Minister said he would look at the failure of himself and other lawyers who were then in the Ministry to complete the return of their expenses at the last House of Representatives election as required by the Commonwealth Electoral Act. [More…]

• Since he has not yet actually told the Leader of the Opposition, as he promised, and since he might soon have to sit in judgment on others who seem to have broken the law, I again ask him why he did not complete the return of his last election expenses. [More…]

• Can he say whether the United States of America has recently, imposed a limit on expenditure by candidates and public organisations in campaigns for the election of presidents, senators and members; if so, can he supply full details of this legislation. [More…]

• As many members of the Opposition in this House have stated through the years that they are socialists and are proud of it, and as some of them have recently been requesting certain referendums, will the Prime Minister arrange for an early referendum in which the people of Australia will be asked whether they desire to be governed under socialist rule, or does the right honourable gentleman consider that the coming Federal election is tantamount to the submitting of this question to the people of Australia? [More…]

• 1 ask the Prime Minister: In view of widespread speculation as to the date of the federal election, will he give the House and the people the benefit of his thoughts on this most important matter? [More…]

• Now that the Prime Minister has given us the benefit of his thoughts on an early election, I ask the Deputy Prime Minister whether he will make a frank statement of his thoughts on the same subject. [More…]

• If not, when will the documents be released, and does the Prime Minister expect that all documents up to 1945, which will give a clear illustration of the outstanding quality of the Labor Government, will be released before the election? [More…]

• We are on the eve of an election, and we find that this proposal is being referred to the Public Works Committee in the week prior to a week’s parliamentary recess so that the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) may go to the Territory and use this for electioneering purposes. [More…]

• Which of these organisations makes provision in their constitutions for the election of contributor representatives to their governing bodies. [More…]

• may I say quite bluntly that I believe it is because the 2 Government Parties receive donations amounting to thousands of dollars for election purposes from the companies of the international oil cartel. [More…]

• The fact that he is facing certain defeat in the next election is no justification for him– [More…]

• As there is no provision in the Commonwealth Electoral Act which requires political parties or any persons or person, other than candidates, to furnish returns supported by statutory declarations showing the amount spent by the parties or persons or a person in a Federal election campaign, for either or both Houses, will he take action to amend the Act so as to require all political parties and persons concerned to declare on oath how much has been spent by them in a Federal election campaign in the same way as is required by the laws operating in the United Kingdom in respect of Parliamentary elections in that country. [More…]

• Has it been brought to his notice that all 5 parties in the election campaign for 1972, i.e. [More…]

• Various newspaper reports have appeared relating to the election budgets of the various political parties. [More…]

• Based on the statistics furnished to the Australian Broadcasting Control Board by the commercial broadcasting and television stations following the Senate election, the figures for the individual States are as follows: [More…]

• Has the Government any plan for the adjustment of pension rates that will apply to those of us who are retiring from this Parliament or who will be defeated at the coming election? [More…]

• by leave - I wish to inform the House that it is the intention to hold she general election for the House of Representatives on Saturday, 2nd December 1972. [More…]

• With the honourable members for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) and Oxley (Mr Hayden) I made a fortnight’s tour of the Territory in December 1969 and January 1970 - the sixth visit I had made to the Territory since my election to this Parliament. [More…]

• Will the right honourable gentleman give an undertaking to this House, preferably before the election, that urgent consideration will be given to the provision of special financial assistance to New South Wales to help overcome this crisis? [More…]

• 1 ask the Minister for Supply: Is it a fact that this Government, following its return at the forthcoming election, is to reduce the Commonwealth car pool and transfer the heavy transport section to private enterprise? [More…]

• Is the implied reduction of employment yet another Australian Labor Party inspired election furphy? [More…]

• I think I should issue the caution immediately before an election campaign that I have never known so many incorrect and totally wrong statements to have been made in my long parliamentary history. [More…]

• During the election campaign we will be detailing certain very concrete proposals which will be extremely helpful in the community in overcoming the difficulties I have briefly mentioned. [More…]

• Honourable members, the next business of the House is the election of a member as Speaker. [More…]

• In a sense, it is ironic that a government which has so eloquently spoken of the need for open government in its policy speech before the election and in the Speech of the GovernorGeneral - 1 recall the phrase ‘a more open society’ - should have proposed this motion which, together with the motion which is to follow relating to the time of adjournment, seeks to shorten the time available for debates in this House. [More…]

• I preface it by reminding him that during the election campaign he stated that a Labor Federal government would meet the financial commitment for stage 2 of the Ross River Dam project in Townsville. [More…]

• I ask: When can we expect a decision from the Government on the implementation of Labor’s election policy to cause the Australian National Line to accept full responsibility for the King Island shipping services? [More…]

• The Labor Party election policy booklet ‘It’s Time - Rural* states that the Labor Government will provide long-term low interest loans for farmers. [More…]

• Will he confirm the Australian Labor Party’s election undertaking that the maximum contribution for any family under the scheme will be limited to$1 35? [More…]

• The honourable member has drawn attention to a statement which apparently appeared during the last election campaign. [More…]

• Has the Prime Minister at any time said, and in particular did he prior to the general election in December last say himself or authorise anybody else to say with his approval, that the strength at Lavarack Barracks in Townsville would be raised to 4 battalions and that therefore a Labor government, far from reducing the size of Lavarack Barracks, would increase the strength? [More…]

• I will give him a more detailed answer at a later date but broadly 3 farm-in applications slipped through during the caretaker period immediately prior to the election campaign. [More…]

• We have seen the using of actors employed by the Labor Party in the election at a parliamentary opening as a payoff. [More…]

• The figures show that the honourable member for McMillan received 8,282 primary votes in the last Federal election which amounted to 16.63 per cent of the vote in the Division of McMillan. [More…]

• My Government’s support for the direct representation of local government at the proposed Australian Constitutional Convention was clearly stated in the election policy speech. [More…]

• What action has been taken to implement the statement in the Prime Minister’s election policy speech that Ayers Rock and Mount Olga would be included in a Central Australian Aboriginal Reserve and placed under the control of Aboriginal Trustees? [More…]

• (The document read as follows) - Clause SO after the end of paragraph (d) add new paragraph (da): shall provide that where a person who is or who has been a scrutineer at any election makes an application to the Industrial Registrar under the provisions of section 159 of this Act in connection with such election, then the organisation and every officer of the organisation shall be obliged to make available to the Industrial Registrar all relevant documents and information within their possession or control.’ [More…]

• It is only where the rules of an organisation do not provide for it that, notwithstanding the omission on the part of the union rules, the vacancy can be filled by the management committee of the union pending another election. [More…]

• Throughout the 3 years preceding the last election I consistently said - I repeat it now, and if the honourable member for Corangamite agrees to consider the report of the Health Insurance Planning Committee, he will find further confirmation of the view - that private hospitals and private nurs ing homes will have a role to fulfil in the health program that this Government will apply. [More…]

• The Victorian State President of the Returned Services League was reported in the Melbourne ‘Sun’ of 15 January as saying that the Minister for Defence, prior to the election and when he was Deputy Leader of the Opposition and spokesman on defence and repatriation matters, had informed the President of the British subbranch of the Returned Servicemen’s League that if elected the Australian Labor Party would amend the appropriate Act to provide war service homes loans for British exservicemen resident in Australia. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Did he make such a promise in writing to the President of the British sub-branch of the Returned Servicemen’s League prior to the election and, if he did, when will eligibility be extended to this group? [More…]

• One of the problems - I sympathise with the AMA on this - is that it says to me: ‘How can we trust governments when we had such dishonourable treatment by the last Government just before the last election?’ [More…]

• As soon as the election was out of the way the costing was adjusted to $32m. [More…]

• Did the Government give emphasis at the last election to the need of the aged, as well as need for aid to local government. [More…]

• In my case it is correct that preferences were counted in the election of 1960. [More…]

• But in the elections of 1961, 1963, 1966, 1969 and 1972 I received the support of my constituents to the extent of an absolute majority. [More…]

• Did the Minister state that the election promise of the Prime Minister, to introduce the 35-hour week for the Commonwealth Public Service in the life of this Parliament, could not be carried out with any economic responsibility? [More…]

• Does he still adhere to that view or does he support the carrying out of the promise made by the Prime Minister at the election and by implication endorsed again just a few minutes ago? [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister whether he agrees with the Minister for Labour that his election promise concerning the 35-hour week for the Commonwealth Public Service cannot be kept, or does he agree with the Federal President of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Hawke, who says that it can? [More…]

• I have received a return to the writ that I issued on 14 August for the election of a member to serve for the electoral division of Parramatta in the State of New South Wales to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the Hon. [More…]

• Has the Minister noted the remark of a former Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Higgins, that there ought to be an election immediately with pensions as an issue? [More…]

• If so, does the statement of the Leader of the Country Party amount to a proposal that the people of Australia should be required indirectly to finance the election campaigns of politicians who are firmly committed to a policy which will result in the further erosion of Australian control of Australian resources? [More…]

• When in Canada recently I ascertained that the conditions that apply to radio and television there in regard to broadcasting political matter before an election apply to the Press also. [More…]

• I refer to the remarks made by Sir William Dargie on Saturday at the presentation of the Alice Art Prize and the selection of paintings for the Alice Springs art collection. [More…]

• Sir William said that for a government which made so much in its election promises of giving assistance to Australian artists Mr Whitlam’s Government has done so very little in this direction. [More…]

• Does the Minister also regard it as a childish anomaly that the radio and television broadcasting of political matter must cease 2 days before an election while the Press may carry the fight up to the eve of the election? [More…]

• The honourable member for Blaxland is dealing with matters associated with the Department of Services and Property and with an election campaign - not pre-selections or anything else. [More…]

• Parliament has been down to support him throughout this election campaign. [More…]

• On 13 December, after the election, the Prime Minister wrote to Mr Dixon who was then Chairman of the National Council of Independent Schools. [More…]

• That is consistent with the Prime Minister’s earlier statements preceding the election. [More…]

• Is the Prime Minister aware that the Premier of Victoria, Mr Hamer, has blamed the Commonwealth Government for his repudiation of an election promise to rebate 50 per cent of pensioners’ municipal rates? [More…]

• Was any approach made to the Commonwealth Government by the Victorian Government prior to the Victorian election for assistance with this scheme? [More…]

• If not, is this just another case of a Liberal Premier making the Commonwealth Government a scapegoat for an election promise that he never intended to keep? [More…]

• When the right honourable member is campaigning in the next election - if he is still the Leader of the Opposition - we will Show this Hansard to him and point out how he opposed any opportunity for the youngsters to get $700m and how he fought tooth and nail to get $8m for school children attending wealthy schools. [More…]

• The official announcement of site, cost and details of the huge project is expected to be made next month as a ‘vote-catcher’ for Labor in the State election. [More…]

• -Did the Prime Minister announce before the last election that he would legislate to allow for the payment of certain social security benefits to be credited direct to a beneficiary’s credit union savings account? [More…]

• How does a person qualify to be an Aboriginal in order to stand for election to the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee. [More…]

• What is there to prevent a person who in not of Aboriginal or part Aboriginal descent standing for election. [More…]

• In the event of a dispute over qualifications to stand for election, who adjudicates. [More…]

• That was said before the election. [More…]

• That Speech outlined the Government’s plans for this session, plans which continue the great program of reform outlined by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) before the election, so much of which has been implemented already. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, I seek leave to make a statement on the Senate election and the referendums. [More…]

• -The Prime Minister made a statement on the fixation of the date of the referendums and the Senate election. [More…]

• The matter before the House is that precise matter - the date for the Senate election and the referendums. [More…]

• That statement deals with the date of the Senate election and of the referendum - a question of time. [More…]

• It is intended that the referendums be held concurrently with the Senate election. [More…]

• This year presents great difficulties in relation to the sittings of the Parliament because of Easter and other holidays and the Senate election. [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to reports from the business community that the multi-national backers of the Liberal and Country Parties have urged them to go to an election immediately? [More…]

• That would suit the Opposition very well because it could then have an election without taking the risk of this Bill having become subject to the deadlock provisions in the Parliament. [More…]

• If you want an election we will give you one.’ [More…]

• Australian election campaign? [More…]

• Did the Prime Minister offer advice to the Governor-General that he should advise the Governor of Queensland of a request to issue writs for the election of 5 senators for Queensland? [More…]

• In the course of his speech the honourable member made a statement that I had allegedly told the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) that I felt confident of winning my seat at the next election. [More…]

• The Labor Government has no commitment at all except to pluck a few million dollars out of the hat every time an election is around the corner. [More…]

• The Government ought to have more sense really, because it has a few tacticians on its side and I thought that they would have learnt a lesson at the by-election in Parramatta. [More…]

• Honourable members, the next business of the House is the election of a member as Speaker. [More…]

• The Treasurer will recall during the election campaign denying the existence of a credit squeeze. [More…]

• In view of the excessive interest rates now being charged and the massive lift in the official rate since the election, does the Treasurer still deny the existence of a credit squeeze? [More…]

• If not, has he abandoned the 8 per cent target which he announced publicly during the election campaign? [More…]

• The evidence is quite clear because I was able to produce the figures during the election campaign - [More…]

• The economic matters which I raised and which I touched on in response to other people during the election campaign and the telecast which I made after the Government’s confirmation in office dealt with a program for dealing with inflation. [More…]

• Does he recall that during the course of the recent election campaign he made no mention whatsoever of the drastic and, indeed, draconian economic measures which the Government has subsequently found to be necessary? [More…]

• Does he also recall that during his first telecast after the election claiming victory he gave notice of these measures showing that they were in his mind all along? [More…]

• The honourable member for Eden-Monaro (Mr Whan) in his speech on the Address-in-Reply indicated that I had made a statement that the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) had not given me any support in my election campaign. [More…]

• What I said in the interview was that during the pre-selection campaign I received no support from the Leader of the Country Party - which is as it should have been. [More…]

• During the election campaign- itself, as anybody who observed the campaign in Hume would know, I had the complete and full support of the Leader of the Country Party - which also is as it should have been. [More…]

• During the recent election campaign in Ballarat I was criticised by my Australian Labor Party opponent on the ground that I had not put sufficient pressure on the Minister to have Ballarat declared a growth centre. [More…]

• Will the Prime Minister give an undertaking that employment in the textile industry, particularly in Wangaratta and other decentralised cities, will be restored to the level at which it was prior to the election in May? [More…]

• I invite the Opposition to come out of its stunned silence which was so obvious in the course of the election campaign and debate the report. [More…]

• In the course of the election campaign the Opposition thought discretion the better part of valour and the word went out to the faithful and to the candidates that under no consideration were they to refer to this report. [More…]

• I remind the Prime Minister that in his policy speech before the last election he described the areas of schools, health and social security as ‘the only fields where meaningful cutbacks can be made’. [More…]

• -Does the Prime Minister recall his commitment during the 1972 election campaign that a Labor Government would publish the Treasury’s economic forecast? [More…]

• It is unfortunate that he did not reflect on the pitiful record of his own Liberal-Country Party Government which, in the 1 1th hour of its great number of years in office, suddenly found an interest in decentralisation when it realised that that issue would be a real election winner for the Labor Party in 1972. [More…]

• We, on taking office, assured Japan that we would honour contracts entered into right to within a couple of months of the election despite the fact that the contracts were made at excessively low prices. [More…]

• -I ask the Deputy Prime Minister: Is it a fact that following the election pledge made on behalf of the Liberal Party prior to the 1 949 election that value would be put back into the pound there was a period when inflation in Australia reached an annual rate of 20 per cent? [More…]

• During the campaign preceding the 18 May election I sent a telegram to the Minister challenging him to debate the Fitzgerald report in Perth because of the importance of it to the mining industries in Western Australia. [More…]

• Did he or any of his staff release it in the middle of the election campaign in such a way as to prevent members of Parliament and other persons from obtaining a full copy before the press had given comments on its contents. [More…]

• -Just tell the Minister what happened to the Labor Party in the last election for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• Yes, and you put on the election. [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister: Is this the same corner as he said we had turned during the election campaign of April and May of this year- because that was a disastrous turning- and, on turning this elusive corner which is still in the future, can we now have any confidence that we shall arrive at a different and happier destination? [More…]

• No wonder the Country Party will win the election up there. [More…]

• We consider that the members recently elected- we will not go through the business of the electionshould have the right to consider this matter. [More…]

• So did the Labor Government, as is clearly demonstrated by the results of the last election. [More…]

• -Can the Prime Minister inform the House whether the Australian economy generally and business confidence specifically is being affected by the continued threats from the Opposition parties, particularly the Country Party, to force an early election by again blocking Government business in the Senate? [More…]

• Despite the fact that this attack is probably linked to the forthcoming State election in Queensland, can the Minister give the House details of the funds flowing to Queensland for housing, in comparison with the allocations by the previous Federal Government? [More…]

• What was the result in each sub-division in the State of New South Wales in the election for the House of Representatives held on 18 May 1974. [More…]

• The bulk milk supply provision was a policy commitment that we announced in the 1972 election campaign. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Defence indicate to the House the improved conditions under which officers of the armed forces retire today as compared with the conditions that existed prior to the election in 1972? [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Prime Minister been drawn to recent suggestions that an election should be held before the Parliament has run its full 3-year term? [More…]

• ( 1a) Within 12 weeks after the day fixed for the polling for an election, every person who was at any time the official agent of a candidate for the election shall file with the Chief Australian Electoral Officer a return in the form prescribed, setting out- [More…]

• The first is an allegation that the previous Government, in which I was Minister for Primary Industry, instructed the Wheat Board not to sell wheat to Chile following the election of President Allende. [More…]

• Will pensions accordingly be increased by $8 a week in April, which is the first month of the June quarter, to bring them up to 25 per cent of average weekly earnings so that the election promise of the Labor Party can be fulfilled or has that promise been suspended? [More…]

• I believe Mr Giles is a fit and proper person to occupy this position and I thoroughly recommend his election. [More…]

• Honourable members, I have to announce that the next business is the election of a Speaker. [More…]

• It was my privilege to be associated with him during his campaign preceding his election. [More…]

• Since my election last May I have often turned to Joe Berinson for assistance in matters relating to my parliamentary duties and he has always given me the greatest assistance very cheerfully. [More…]

• -In view of my election as Speaker a vacancy now exists for the position of Chairman of Committees of this House. [More…]

• I have to report that accompanied by honourable members I this day proceeded to the Library of the Parliament and presented myself to His Excellency the Administrator as the choice of the House and that His Excellency was kind enough to congratulate me on my election to the office of Speaker. [More…]

• Advice has been received from the Prime Minister that he has appointed Dr Klugman to be a member of the Joint Committee on the Parliamentary Committee System to fill the vacancy caused by my resignation from the Committee following my election as Speaker of this House. [More…]

• and (2) The Government’s election pledge related to petroleum products. [More…]

• What percentage of all contracts awarded by the Department of Manufacturing Industry since 2 December 1 972 have honoured the Government’s election pledge to buy Australian. [More…]

• If those people voted Labor at the last election, surely they would provide the definition of a 3-time loser. [More…]

• First, taken overall, the proposals in this Bill are intended to allow for a speedier finalisation of Federal election results and to improve voting facilities for electors. [More…]

• Third, it proposes consequential amendments of the Senate Elections Act 1903-1948, the Senate Elections Act 1966 and the Representation Act 1903-1973. [More…]

• It should be noted that, in regard to the Australian Broadcasting Commission stations, a summary is only available in respect of the 1972 House of Representatives election and the 1 974 double dissolution election. [More…]

• Information is not available for the previous elections in a form which would allow such a dissection. [More…]

• How much time was made available to broadcast election speeches or political advertisements in respect of each political party on each radio broadcasting station and television station in Australia in each of the last 10 years. [More…]

• These date back to Labor’s 1972 election program. [More…]

• I think it is worth pointing out and repeating- it has been done often enough before- that at the time of the 1972 election no commitment was entered into with respect to a time scale for the achievement of pensions equal to 25 per cent of average weekly earnings, though many people assumed that the 3 year target applied to that as well. [More…]

• How much time was made available to broadcast election speeches or political advertisements by each political party in Australia on radio stations 2K.Y, 2HD, 3KZ and 4KQ in each of the last 10 years. [More…]

• Did he make inquiries to ascertain whether the Government’s environmental protection procedures were being observed- or was he more concerned with his campaign for the Queensland State election? [More…]

• What are the qualifications necessary for a person to nominate as a candidate for election to the House of Representatives? [More…]

• 539 in the Senate on 14 May 1975, the Australian Electoral Office was not in a position to publish tables showing the voting position at half-hourly intervals on election night in respect of each State and Australia as a whole. [More…]

• Progress of the Count in the House of Representatives Election held on 18 May 1974- [More…]

• The election of senators to fill casual vacancies is covered by section 15 of the Constitution, as was explained in the House yesterday. [More…]

• However, I think that the honourable member may have been referring in a round about way to the election yesterday in the Queensland Parliament of a person to fill a vacancy of the kind he mentioned. [More…]

• Has the Prime Minister now abandoned his promise prior to the 1972 election to reduce the working hours of all Commonwealth employees by 1 Vi hours, to 35 hours. [More…]

• Which polling booths in each House of Representatives electoral division are to be closed before the next election. [More…]

• The Government does not seem to realise that it has only a little time to run and that as soon as the electors can get their hands on it they will destroy it, for there is not the slightest doubt that if an election can be brought about the Government will be thrown from office, dragged screaming from the tart shop, as the phrase goes. [More…]

• Also point out that acceptance of our findings on public questions depends on our ability to predict elections and referendums accurately. [More…]

• (We have published predictions for every Federal election and referendum since 1943, usually accurately. [More…]

• If a Federal election were being held today, which party would receive your FIRST preference (if you had a vote)? [More…]

• Would you please make a cross in the square beside the Party you’d give your first preference at a Federal election? [More…]

• What progress has been made with the implementation of the Prime Minister’s May 1974 election promise of an additional radio network for the ABC in the majority of rural areas that now receive a single ABC service. [More…]

• What progress has been made with the implementation of the Prime Minister’s May 1974 election promise of a domiciliary dental service for the chronically ill and frail aged. [More…]

• It has never been defeated in the year and a half since the last election and in those circumstances it is appropriate, I believe, that you, Mr Speaker, should forthwith advise the Governor-General- waiting upon him forthwith to advise him- that the party I lead has the confidence of the House of Representatives, and you should apprise His Excellency of the view of the House that I have the confidence of the House and should be called to form His Excellency’s Government. [More…]

• It will be my sole purpose to ensure that Australia has the general election to which it is constitutionally entitled and which has so far been denied it. [More…]

• Until the judgment of the Australian people has been registered at this election my Government will make no appointments or dismissals or initiate any new policies. [More…]

• Honourable members, the next business of the House is the election of a member as Speaker. [More…]

• -These matters have to be examined, but the honourable gentleman will know that we did set our minds against the forced movement of public servants from one place to another and that was announced well before the election period. [More…]

• -Is the Prime Minister willing to confirm the report published in the Canberra Times last Friday that a spokesman for him said on the previous day that he himself had been aware in the last week of the election campaign of the published allegations against the honourable member for Curtin? [More…]

• Is he aware that 5 days after the election the OECD figures were published and revealed that the forecast for Australia in 1976 was not 15 per cent, as claimed by the Prime Minister, but 13 per cent? [More…]

• I congratulate both the right honourable member for Bruce (Mr Snedden) on his election as Speaker and the honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock) on his election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• Has Esso-BHP approached the Minister in either a formal of informal manner since the election and sought a further increase in the domestic price of crude oil? [More…]

• I might say that the Government made it clear in the election campaign that it would introduce 2 specific initiatives designed to assist the small business community. [More…]

• I assure honourable members that I shall not take too long but as this is the first time that I have had anything to say in this chamber in the life of this Parliament, may I congratulate you, Mr Speaker, on your election to your office and may I say that I hope you remain there for many years- you in your capacity and we in ours. [More…]

• Was any allegation or information regarding the transfer of overseas funds in connection with the last election campaign forwarded by the Reserve Bank to the Attorney-General, or the Attorney-General’s Department, or the Commonwealth Police, before the Commonwealth Police were involved in this matter? [More…]

• The -report is that he spoke to 2 journalists last Wednesday evening and that subsequently reports appeared in the Press alleging that $500,000 in Arab funds had already been transferred to Australia for election purposes. [More…]

• The number of electors in each electoral Division as at 13 December 1975 and at each previous election held on the present boundaries is set out in the following table compiled by the Australian Electoral Office. [More…]

• How many electors were enrolled in each Division at the elections on 13 December 1975 and at each previous election held on the present boundaries. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, as it is customary that I should congratulate you on your election and appointment to the position of Speaker of this House, I do so with some pleasure because of the fact that I believe it must be a bitter pill for the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to swallow to realise that after having defeated you as the Leader of the Opposition after 2 attempts he now has to accept you as the Speaker of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• What an excellent record the Government has already, with one Minister having resigned and awaiting a charge to be heard as to alleged malpractice in the election campaign! [More…]

• If it is publicised, how was it publicised prior to the last election. [More…]

• Four weeks ago the honourable gentleman told the honourable member for Prospect that although he had not after the 1974 election made the return of electoral expenses which the Commonwealth Electoral Act requires- nor did I- he had put in the form for the 1975 election. [More…]

• Because of the consideration that will be given to the report I expect there will be some delay in the introduction of the freight equalisation scheme as proposed by members of the Liberal and National Country Parties prior to the election. [More…]

• -I should like to take this opportunity to offer my congratulations to the new Speaker and to the Deputy Speakers on their election in this place. [More…]

• Will the Deputy Prime Minister honour his election promise on Albury-Wodonga and ensure that the Albury-Wodonga growth centre is aided by continued Commonwealth involvement? [More…]

• Will he urge his colleagues to introduce the proposed Australian Government Public Service transfer program as well as urging them to establish a university in Albury-Wodonga in 1978-79, these being particular commitments he made to the people of Albury-Wodonga during the recent Federal election campaign? [More…]

• Australian Heads of Mission in Singapore since the Prime Minister’s election to Federal Parliament have been the following: [More…]

• On what occasions and in what capacities had the present Prime Minister visited Singapore since his election to the Australian Parliament [More…]

• The returns to be made by political organisations pursuant to section 152 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act must be filed with the Australian Electoral Officer for the State in which the election took place, within twelve weeks after the result of the election has been declared. [More…]

• If the honourable member had looked at the statement made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development he would realise that instead of applying from the end of 3 years, as it was interpreted before the last election, it applies earlier. [More…]

• I therefore ask the Prime Minister why he has so soon dishonoured yet another election policy pledge? [More…]

• Does the Minister view this election promise seriously? [More…]

• Can the Prime Minister say whether he intends to take part in the New South Wales election campaign? [More…]

• During the last election campaign did the Prime Minister make an unqualified commitment to maintain the tax deductibility scheme on home mortgage interest rates as introduced by the Labor Government? [More…]

• -I ask the Prime Minister: Did he advise the New South Wales Government to call the election in New South Wales prior to the bringing down of the 1976 horror Budget? [More…]

• During the course of the adjournment debate tonight the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) canvassed a number of matters relating to the State election in New South Wales. [More…]

• I was fascinated to discover that the New Guinea Party’s president and its candidate for the seat of West Sydney in the 1963 election is now a magistrate in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• I want to talk about the collegiate system of voting in union elections. [More…]

• I begin by saying that the Australian Labor Party’s platform provides for participatory democracy in union affairs and provides that no financial union member shall be deprived of the right to vote in the election of union committees exercising any powers of management and that no committee man shall be permitted to occupy a full time office unless he is elected by a direct secret vote of the rank and file of his union. [More…]

• I ask for leave to incorporate in Hansard a list giving examples of the unions which had full time office bearers elected directly by the membership and those where the election was by the collegiate system. [More…]

• There was a 7 per cent increase in the Australian Labor Party vote, there was a 4 per cent swing overall on a 2-party preferred vote but there was over a 7 per cent swing from the last Federal election. [More…]

• The Bill which in this respect is of a purely mechanical character will bring about this result but it also validates acts or things done by the Electricity Authority and any election by the Legislative Assembly of a member of the Authority since the time the Advisory Council was superseded by the Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• On what occasions and in what capacities has he visited Manila since his election to the Australian Parliament. [More…]

• On what occasions, and in what capacities has he made official visits to Singapore since his election to the Australian Parliament. [More…]

• They are measures which the Government hopes will satisfy the magic wand formula that it undertook to introduce when it sought election. [More…]

• If one reads carefully in retrospect what the present Prime Ministe said during the election campaign and the way he tends to put policy, when the facts start showing themselves it is easy to see that one can be deceived. [More…]

• Is the Prime Minister aware of statements by the New South Wales Premier, Mr Wran, that he would be unable to fulfil his election promises because of the Commonwealth’s economic measures? [More…]

• 1 ) How much time was made available to broadcast election speeches or political advertisements in respect of each political party on each radio broadcasting station and television station in connection with the elections on 13 December 1975. [More…]

• That kind of activity would not be quite so necessary if the honourable gentleman, amongst others, did not participate in certain endeavours such as he did outside Northcote Town Hall on one occasion during the last election campaign, when he did everything he could to make sure that demonstrators became even more violent. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the donation by Qantas Airways Ltd of a free trip from Fiji to London as first prize in an election fund raising festival queen competition for the Fijian Alliance Party? [More…]

• If the value of each gift was in excess of $100, has it been paid for by the recipient in accordance with the Prime Minister’s election promise. [More…]

• When does the Government propose to implement its election promise to abolish the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]

• -Mr Speaker, the last election campaign - [More…]

• -Mr Speaker, when the last election campaign was on - [More…]

• and (3) No statistics are available to the Commonwealth Government on the number of life insurance companies which hold contested elections of directors or on the percentage of members who vote in such elections. [More…]

• I also understand that vacancies on the boards of the 9 mutual companies registered under the Act are more often than not Med without the need for a ballot for election. [More…]

• How many names have been removed from the Commonwealth Electoral Rolls in each State in each of the last 5 years where (a) an elector’s name was notified to a Divisional Returning Officer as being a woman over the age of 18 years whose marriage had been registered in the State during the month preceding such notification, (b) after each election, for either the Parliament of a State or of the Commonwealth, an elector had failed to vote at the preceding election and had not responded to a letter from the Electoral Office seeking an explanation for the elector’s failure to vote and (c) the Electoral Office discovered that the address of the elector had been changed notwithstanding that he or she had continued to reside within the same sub-division or had continued to reside in the same Division for the purpose of sections 39(3) and 39B of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918-1975. [More…]

• -The phrase used by the honourable member for Grayndler contained a general reference to members of parties standing at an election. [More…]

• I do not want to go over this point again, except to say that every member of this House who stood at the last election in the interests of the Liberal Party of Australia or the National Country Party of Australia committed the most indecent exposure- quite as indecent as anybody in shiny jackboots at Nurenberg. [More…]

• It is a payoff to those who contributed to the finances of the National Country Party and the Liberal Party at the last election. [More…]

• The Opposition does not oppose the Bill but once again we draw to the attention of honourable members that the Government has welshed once again on one of its election policies because this was one of the issues that it was not going to pursue. [More…]

• Election of Officers in Employee Organisations (Question No. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Transport been informed of statements made during the Tasmanian election campaign by the Premier of Tasmania to the effect that if his Government is re-elected it will challenge the two airlines agreement in the High Court of Australia? [More…]

• Can the Minister inform this House whether there was any official communication on this important subject between Mr Neilson and himself prior to the opening of the Tasmanian election campaign? [More…]

• Has the Prime Minister’s attention been drawn to the election result in Western Australia? [More…]

• I draw the attention of the honourable member to the Hansard report of the other place in which the Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Withers) indicated that the question of procedure for election at large was under study. [More…]

• It only made sense to review the matter when the Government came into office because, although an earlier decision had been made by the previous Administration, no attempt had been made to process that decision or refer the matter to the Public Works Committee up to the time of the 1975 election. [More…]

• That this House deplores the hypocritical attempts by the Opposition to make cheap political capital out of the problems facing those engaged in the apple and pear export industry and recalls that the Opposition when in government betrayed the fruit growers of Australia by failing to give the industry the support and assistance which it had pledged in the election campaign prior to December 1 972. [More…]

• The House notes with concern that Mr James McCrudden, a Sydney solicitor who was a Liberal candidate at the last election for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Mount Druitt, apparently arranged for an American gangster known as Vincent Teresa to be met at the Sydney International Airport and to be accompanied to and through customs by Commonwealth Police without information concerning his arrival being provided to any other department or agency, State or Federal. [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…]

• Before the 1975 election Mr Fraser promised that Medibank would be retained, but he has since proved to be untrustworthy. [More…]

• Politicians of Western Nations ought not to be eligible for election until they have travelled the ancient world. [More…]

• It only goes to show that it is a piece of legislation hastily drafted for the air traffic controllers’ strike, put away and forgotten and now dredged up in an entirely different situation to lay the base for an election campaign that will take place in the near future. [More…]

• I ask and challenge them to bring on an election as soon as they can. [More…]

• -I inform the House that I have today issued a writ for the election of a member to serve for the the division of Cunningham, New South Wales, in place of the Honourable Reginald Francis Xavier Connor deceased. [More…]

• The dates in connection with the election are as follows: Date of nomination, Friday 23 September 1977; date of polling, Saturday 15 October 1977; date of return of writ, on or before Friday 25 November 1977. [More…]

• What sum has the Government directed towards solar energy research in Australia since its election to office in 1975. [More…]

• He lasted until after the 1972 election. [More…]

• You lasted until after the 1974 election. [More…]

• The economic uncertainty caused by the comments of the Prime Minister and senior Ministers about the economy and an early election. [More…]

• On what date was each such election conducted. [More…]

• For election to what office within what organisation was each such election conducted. [More…]

• For election to what office within what organisation was each ballot conducted. [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister: Is it his intention to have the House of Representatives dissolved for the purpose of holding a general election later this year? [More…]

• I know that some people are a little uptight and are getting edgy because they realise that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has made a decision to have an election shortly and Joe Riordan will be returned. [More…]

• He will be aware that the three-year term of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly expired recently and that members of the old Assembly consider that they no longer have a mandate to speak on behalf of the people of Canberra, their election having been for three years and that term having expired. [More…]

• Why has the Minister not ordered another election? [More…]

• Is he concerned that an election for the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly would produce a result unpalatable to the Government? [More…]

• In view of these allegations, will the Prime Minister assure the House that prior to the holding of the election in December the necessary laws will be altered so that donations to all political parties - [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister whether the views expressed yesterday by the Deputy Prime Minister on an early election for both Houses of the Parliament represented the Government’s view. [More…]

• I have received a return to the writ which I issued on 8 September for the election of a member to serve for the electoral division of Cunningham in the State of New South Wales to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the Honourable Reginald Francis Xavier Connor. [More…]

• The Government is panicking because there could be an election and it is frightened to hear the truth from honourable members on this side of the House. [More…]

• -I ask the Prime Minister Has his attention been drawn to allegations in the Press that the political parties backing the Liberal Party of Australia and the National Country Party of Australia have $4m available to them for the forthcoming election? [More…]

• The honourable member for Riverina (Mr Sullivan) said he would represent that division after the next election. [More…]

• The Leader of the House (Mr Sinclair) may make his gracious condescending acts on my behalf but I will be here after the next election. [More…]

• What provision does the State or Commonwealth law, or the rules of each private fund, have for the election of the governing board by contributors to the fund. [More…]

• What provision does the State or Commonwealth law, or the rules of each private fund, have for the election of the governing board by contributors to the fund. [More…]

• What provision does the State or Commonwealth law, or the rules of each private fund, have for the election of the governing board by contributors to the fund. [More…]

• What provision does the State or Commonwealth law, or the rules of each private fund, have for the election of the governing board by contributors to the fund. [More…]

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• -by leave- On 27 October, during a discussion of the electoral redistribution for New South Wales, I sought and obtained leave to incorporate at page 2543 of Hansard a paper prepared by the Parliamentary Library which detailed the changes in the political allegiances of the various seats in this House since the 1966 election. [More…]

• Honourable members, the next business of the House is the election of a member as Speaker. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Speaker I would like you to pass on my congratulations to Mr Speaker on his re-election and I would like personally to congratulate you on your election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• Is he aware that the major political party in the Islands, the Vanu Aku Party, withdrew from the November election because of this and that there is a rising tide of tension in the Islands? [More…]

• Will the Minister use whatever strength of persuasion Australia can muster with the French and British authorities to have a new constitution drafted granting adequate powers of self-government to the local people with new elections to be held as soon as practicable? [More…]

• -The Leader of the Opposition is referring to a document which was leaked during the course of the last Federal election campaign. [More…]

• Some negotiations and discussions necessarily have to take place with the States because the States have some schemes that impinge upon the proposal that we advanced during the last election campaign. [More…]

• Before the general election, the Government undertook to provide assistance towards air fares and accommodation for people in isolated areas who require specialist medical attention. [More…]

• I was defeated in an election campaign, though not accepted as a candidate. [More…]

• 1 ) Did he announce on the day before the recent Federal election that Australia was backing a United Nations resolution to enable all nations to use nuclear power under stringent safeguards, with particular emphasis on the needs of developing countries. [More…]

• The Government stated during the course of the election campaign, and has since stated, its belief that sustainable reductions in interest rates of the magnitude of 2 per cent in respect of the calendar year period of 1978 were feasible and in prospect. [More…]

• -The honourable member well knows that that Press release and what was stated during the election were against the background of the Government’s decision to maintain the levels of activity in the textile clothing and footwear- apparel- industries following a report which came to the Government from the Industries Assistance Commission, I think last July or August, and which would have resulted in very considerable further unemployment. [More…]

• Was the Press release I have referred to just another election gimmick? [More…]

• Immediately before your announcement of the election, and again soon afterwards, I expressed some of my concerns on this subject to Mr Lynch. [More…]

• -The Government did say before the last general election that among other measures to assist people in remote areas, it intended to extend the limit for the provision of free telephone line plants from 12 kilometres to 16 kilometres. [More…]

• -The Minister for Post and Telecommunications will recall an announcement prior to the 1977 general election expressing the Government’s intention to extend the free connection radius of telephones from 12 kilometres to 16 kilometres. [More…]

• 200 asked by him in respect of the 1975 election (House of Representatives Hansard, 30 March 1976, page 1 162). [More…]

• The information requested is contained in the Australian Electoral Office interim publications ‘General Election for the House of Representatives 1977, Result of Count of First Preference Votes and Distribution of Preferences’, and ‘The Senate Election 1977, Result of Count of First Preference Votes and Distribution of Surplus Votes and Preferences’. [More…]

• Will the Minister give, as the Minister responsible for the Electoral Act in 1970 gave, the names of the members of the Ministry in the House of Representatives who lodged returns of their election expenses after the last election. [More…]

• The information requested is contained in the Australian Electoral Office interim publications ‘General Election for the House of Representatives 1977, Result of Count of First Preference Votes and Distribution of Preferences’, and ‘The Senate Election 1977, Result of Count of First Preference Votes and Distribution of Surplus Votes and Preferences’. [More…]

• The proposed amendment states that the Bill fails to implement the election promise of the Government ‘to equalise the price of petroleum products between city and country’. [More…]

• The amendment points out that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has failed to introduce legislation in line with his election promise. [More…]

• in reply- I can understand the widespread concern amongst members of the Australian Labor Party Opposition at the introduction of this measure into the Parliament because it represents yet another fulfilment of the Government policy from the last election. [More…]

• During the course of the debate the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has been attacked for not fulfilling his election undertaking. [More…]

• I say to the House deliberately that this measure fulfils the undertaking of this Government given at the last election. [More…]

• Furthermore, a council for an Aboriginal reserve is a council constituted under the provisions of the Queensland legislation which provides that there is an election. [More…]

• I ask him whether at any time in the month preceding the election of 10 December 1977 he personally or a member of his family, either directly or by means of a family trust, nominee company or other legal device, was involved in the sale or purchase of land in Victoria? [More…]

• These tables show details of radio and television broadcasts of election speeches and political advertisements for the period 25 August 1977 (date of issue of writs) to 14 September 1977. [More…]

• 1 ) How much time was made available to broadcast election speeches or political advertisements in respect of each political party on each radio broadcasting station and tele vision station in connection with the State election in South Australia on 1 7 September 1 977. [More…]

• I cannot refer to Sir Robert as a former parliamentary colleague because my election to this House took place shortly after his retirement in 1966. [More…]

• I am indebted to the advice and guidance which he so generously gave to me at that time as well as subsequently, upon my election to this House. [More…]

• These tables show details of radio and television broadcasts of election speeches and political advertisements for the period 14 July 1977 (date of issue of writs) to 13 August 1977. [More…]

• The honourable member had held that position prior to the General Election of 10 December 1977. [More…]

• The honourable member having been returned at the election, payment of the salary of that office was continued, in accordance with long standing practice, until the nomination of a successor. [More…]

• 1 ) How much time was made available to broadcast election speeches or political advertisements in respect of each political party on each radio broadcasting station and television station in connection with the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly election on 1 3 August 1977. [More…]

• I refer the Acting Prime Minister to the coalition’s election promise to provide rural producers, through a primary industry bank, with ‘long-term credit to viable borrowers for up to 30 years at concessional rates of interest’. [More…]

• Before the last State election in which Mr Wran came to power he promised the people that he would stop any work on any port development in Botany Bay and institute an environmental study. [More…]

• Election- National Aboriginal Conference- $25,428 [More…]

• Election (N.A.C.) [More…]

• 120.3.05 (1977-78) National Aboriginal Conference- Election expenses [More…]

• Berrie Currie $4,444 Staff Recruitment (Departmental); $15 Election (N.A.C. [More…]

• Insight Advertising $439 Staff Recruitment (Departmental); $2,065 Election (N.A.C. [More…]

• Weston Advertising Film Australia $2,599 Election (N.A.C. [More…]

• 1) Is it a fact that the registered rules of the Australian Workers’ Union require that ballots for the election of Federal and Branch officers shall be held at the same times and places but that, subject to certain criteria, the Executive of each Branch may fix a different opening and closing date for these ballots. [More…]

• Does the Prime Minister regard the consistency of Labor support, as reflected in both the Werriwa by-election and the New South Wales election last weekend, as a rejection of his Budget and his economic policies and as a reflection of the lack of credibility in which he and his Government are held? [More…]

• I regard the election result in New South Wales as a remarkable personal victory for Neville Wran. [More…]

• I said clearly last November, before the last election, that we would continue to support the underwriting of the operating deficit of the Mt Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd. [More…]

• The honourable member for Capricornia talked about the fact that before the last election his party recommended that payroll tax should be done away with. [More…]

• I might add that the Opposition, of course, before the last election proposed to abolish payroll tax. [More…]

• One can only believe that in the heat of the election campaign the Victorian Government will finally commit itself to some kind of transport plan and it will finally establish a transit authority and develop some rationality in transport planning. [More…]

• Australia people who are as directly aware of the impact of Government policy as they are aware of what this particular issue is about also will be aware that this Government and the parties behind it are not to be trusted, because whatever it says in the context of an election campaign, whatever guarantees its Ministers give either inside or outside the House and whatever the words of this Government may be, we know that inevitably its deeds are in the direction of this particular decision, that is, to reduce people’s benefits, to increase inequities and to create a situation where people are literally forced below the poverty line. [More…]

• 1 ) As I have stated publicly the Government does not believe that the election of members of staff to commissions is the most appropriate way, either to ensure an effective Commission or to further the relationship between staff and management. [More…]

• -I refer the Prime Minister to his letter of request to the former Governor-General on 26 October 1977 in which he sought a dissolution of the House of Representatives and a simultaneous election for half the Senate. [More…]

• In particular, I refer him to his statement in that letter that the election was justified because 62 per cent of the Australian electorate had approved of simultaneous elections in the May 1977 referendum. [More…]

• Will the Prime Minister now give an assurance that he will apply the same principles when seeking a date for the next election? [More…]

• and (b) The Prime Minister in his election policy speech in November 1977 promised to encourage families to care for their sick and aged by increasing and expanding the domiciliary nursing care benefit. [More…]

• Did the Prime Minister in his election policy in November 1977 promise to (a) increase the domiciliary nursing care benefit and (b) reduce the age for eligibility. [More…]

• I have stated publicly that the Government does not believe that the election of members of staff to commissions is the most appropriate way, either to ensure an effective Commission or further the relationship between staff and management. [More…]

• That the House refuses to increase payments to any State in order to fund promises given in the course of an election campaign which do not have a valid economic base; and that this House therefore condemns the failure of the Australian Labor Party in Victoria to disclose the cost of its election promises established at not less than $ 1, 000m and the necessity to raise those funds from Commonwealth sources. [More…]

• When does the Government intend to implement its 1977 election promise regarding its intention to increase the benefits for domiciliary nursing care to $4 a day and to reduce the age limits for the receipt of such benefits. [More…]

• I congratulate the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) for implementing a commitment made by the Government during an election campaign. [More…]

• I understand that there is a suggestion in Tasmania that Mr Lowe knew what a good Budget it would be and therefore was determined to have an election before the Budget came down. [More…]

• Budget would be for Tasmania and that that was the reason he called his phoney snap election weeks before the Budget was brought down. [More…]

• A general election was held in the Kingdom of Lesotho in 1970. [More…]

• The election was declared null and void by the Lesotho Prime Minister, Chief Jonathan. [More…]

• The parties which contested the election were the Basotho National Party, Basotholand Congress Party, Marematlou Freedom Party and the United Democratic Party. [More…]

• I will be glad when the State election is over. [More…]

• I am looking forward to the results of the South Australian election, which will be announced on Sunday. [More…]

• It is difficult to establish what proportion, nationally, of the electorate voted in the 1964 election, as the election was boycotted by the Opposition in some areas and part boycotted in others. [More…]

• Elections in Lagos were effectively boycotted and also in Eastern Region where elections were deferred until March 1965. [More…]

• The following parties took pan in the 1964 election campaign: [More…]

• If so, what percentage of the electorate voted and was there a genuine choice of candidates from differing political parties at each election. [More…]

• If so, what percentage of the electorate voted and was there a genuine choice of candidates from differing political parties at each election. [More…]

• If so, what percentage of the electorate voted and was there a genuine choice of candidates from differing political parties at each election. [More…]

• If so, what percentage of the electorate voted and was there a genuine choice of candidates from differing political parties at each election. [More…]

• If so, what percentage of the electorate voted and was there a genuine choice of candidates from differing political parties at each election. [More…]

• Until the election of the Fraser Government increases in compensation rates to Commonwealth employees and seamen took place annually. [More…]

• How are the boards of management of each of the private health funds in Australia chosen and how often do they face election. [More…]

• If the Government is bereft of plans in this area of great need will the Treasurer please tell the House why the Australian Labor Party solution outlined before the last federal election cannot be adopted in this sphere as it has been in so many others? [More…]

• He has retreated a considerable distance - in fact, a long way - from the position he frequently upheld until the last election, namely, of asserting the excellence of the scheme as it currently operates. [More…]

• Their prospective defeat at elections is expected everywhere just as the defeat of the Parliamentary Under Secretaries occurred in the 1968 election. [More…]

• I am bound to say that the Board’s action in making its offer public carried very strong political overtones because the announcement was made only 4 weeks before the election was held on 25th November last year, and it was made in such a way as to suggest that more could be expected when the Commission made its final award. [More…]

• But the negotiations and hearings dragged on for 2 years and, as I have already pointed out, on the eve of the recent Federal election the Public Service Board made its first offer. [More…]

• If, after the election, the Government did not pressurise the Commission into rubber-stamping the Board’s decision it should say so. [More…]

• The honourable member alleged that this was done 4 weeks before the general election with a promise implicit that there would be much more after the election. [More…]

• He then said: Imagine the shock when, after the election, there was not a lot more. [More…]

• Its subject is not a controversial issue, and in fact it was not in dispute in the last election campaign. [More…]

• I make it only to indicate that we are wrong in plucking something out of the air as a social welfare service because we think This will be very good for votes at the next election. [More…]

• We will sit onit until about 6 months before the election and then we will act. [More…]

• The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) reminds me that we will wait 6 months after the election to introduce it. [More…]

• So the grave concern diminishes as the election date recedes. [More…]

• The Government proposed this measure at the last election. [More…]

• If the administrator makes this election the shares must, however, be valued by reference to their ‘assets-backing’ value for all estate duty purposes, including the general liability to duty and the proportion of duty attributable to rural property. [More…]

• It also contains provisions under which an election made by an administrator to have shares in a proprietary family company included in the rural property in the estate may be withdrawn, if, for example, their inclusion at an ‘assets-backing’ value would, even with the allowance of the rebate, result in an overall increase in the duty payable by the estate. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to bring into operation for repatriation service pensioners the election promise of the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) that the Government would introduce legislation providing increased pensions for married means test pensioners who lose the economies of living together because of failing health. [More…]

• The Government put its tail between its legs again and did nothing until after the election. [More…]

• The official policy prepared for the election last year was withdrawn. [More…]

• On the second point, the assumption that the ALP knows something about the problems of rural industry, it must have been very embarrassing for its candidates in country areas to have to go about during the last election campaign trying to explain what their policy was. [More…]

• In many respects it contains the shreds and patches that the defeats at the last election inflicted on Government members, when they received an indication of what needed to be attended to. [More…]

• I would hope that this nation does not forget that this is the same Government which during the 1963 election campaign promised us the Fill aircraft. [More…]

• We have had the election of 1966 and the election of 1969, and we still do not have the FI 1 1 aeroplane. [More…]

• I would commend to honourable members - and particularly to new members - of this House the 17th November 1969 issue of a publication called the ‘Current Affairs Bulletin’, which was issued after the recent general election, entitled ‘Defence Hardware’. [More…]

• Thus the concentration of the Liberal Party’s realistic opposition to Communism in a pamphlet of the 1966 Federal election campaign was so dramatically effective as to provoke numerous accusations of oversimplification. [More…]

• I say that knowing of one case where an independent candidate for election received sustained support to the tune of 120 column inches under 10 captions of 36 point type or larger, while the major party candidates were almost ignored. [More…]

• Mr COHEN (Robertson) [4.29- Mr Deputy Speaker, may I first pay tribute to the 25,000 people of Robertson who sent me to this place and to the magnificent band of Labor supporters who worked so hard and effectively during the election campaign. [More…]

• It is to their great credit that 20 years of defeat in Federal elections has not dimmed their enthusiasm. [More…]

• Having almost lost an election it is now in the process of attempting to do something about the crises that have existed in many areas such as the health and rural fields in an attempt to salvage some of its tattered image before the Senate elections later this year. [More…]

• I sometimes think it is difficult for members of Parliament, particularly at election time when we have the leaders of the political parties going out and competing with each other. [More…]

• Admittedly it now seems to have a slightly more unified effect, but is it the true policy of the Labor Party or is it the patched-up policy which was put forward at the last election and is to be put forward for the Senate election later this year? [More…]

• I think that the points mentioned by the Governor- General are essential; they were promised in the policy speech before the last election. [More…]

• I wonder if in this decade the situation that we are in, where our major former Commonwealth partner is vacating the South East Asian region and where there is a possibility that the United States of America will withdraw from the area, does not constitute a challenge to this nation to stand on its own feeL I wonder if it is necessary each time that there is an election to promise more and more to the people merely to achieve power. [More…]

• All the amendments referred to so far will take force on or after 27 October 1969, the first day of business after the recent general election. [More…]

• The opportunity was taken - after the elections - to reject the joint request of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations and Public Service organisations for 4 weeks annual leave for public servants, thus completing the Prime Minister’s sabotage of this proposal during the Prime Ministership of his predecessor. [More…]

• It was used to lift the 40-year-old ban on the export of merino rams, in defiance of a resolution of the Senate and in spite of undertakings given by the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr McEwen) during the election campaign to industry leaders that no further action would bc taken on the ban until further consultation with all sections of the wool industry. [More…]

• The post election period has been used to increase a whole range of fees and charges in areas where the Commonwealth can exercise responsibility - to increase university fees, which are three times what they were 10 years ago, and medical, hospital and pharmaceutical charges and local government rates and charges. [More…]

• The Governor-General’s Address repeats in even vaguer terms the vague promise of the Prime Minister to reduce taxation, made last election. [More…]

• But the taxation issue at the last election was not merely about the weight of the taxation burden; it was really about the incidence of taxation. [More…]

• I was the only Party Leader in that election who promised it. [More…]

• This is the first occasion since the last election on which the people of Australia have had an opportunity to listen to the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam). [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, I ask you to pass on my personal congratulations and the congratulations of the constituents of Wimmera to Mr Speaker, firstly on his re-election to that important position and secondly on his recognition by Her Majesty. [More…]

• Bold thought is confined to the election platform and bold action is never seen, yet thousands of young people qualified for entry to tertiary institutions are turned away. [More…]

• on the State side we have the loud plaints of such governments, particularly at election time, against the Commonwealth. [More…]

• The answer involves many complex factors but I want to mention only two which continually came to my attention during the recent election campaign. [More…]

• The vote at the recent election was meant to be a rebuke to the Government and obviously has been accepted by the Government as a rebuke. [More…]

• In the recent election the Labor Party placed considerable emphasis on questions such as the cost of land and rent, education, hospitals and urban development, all areas the essential control of which lies with the State governments. [More…]

• After the election we were accused of in some way misleading the electorate by this concentration on what were said to be primarily State issues. [More…]

• Now, 6 months after the last federal election to be held in this country - that was in October 1969 - the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is to make a trip to the United States ostensibly for the purpose of investigating the F111 but quite obviously, from what the Minister has said, for the purpose of cancelling the project. [More…]

• I am surprised at the Government making another grave political blunder in view of the results of the election held on 25 th October last. [More…]

• It is no wonder that the Government nearly lost the last election. [More…]

• What the Government has done is lo provide, in the conciliation and arbitration legislation, provisions for secret ballots or for members of unions to require an election for offices of unions. [More…]

• Before coming to the main part of my speech I should like to pay tribute to the outstanding leadership given to the Labor Party during the recent elections. [More…]

• I would have voted for him if I had been offered the choice given the Liberal members following the last election. [More…]

• I do, however, undertake to remain such a critic after the next election, if I am re-elected, when we move to the government benches and when the present Leader of the Opposition becomes Prime Minister. [More…]

• Therefore I have on the one hand to thank all those who contributed in any way to the success of our cause and on the other to express for them in the strongest possible terms the censure that my election to this place represents for the Government’s involvement in the fighting in Vietnam and for its neglect of the whole of rural Australia. [More…]

• On that occasion I was endorsed only 6 weeks before the election and I failed to achieve the demonstration of public feeling that was sought. [More…]

• However, believing that our cause was right and that the Government should be embarrassed Into reversing its policies, with a Minister being defeated or forced to a distribution of preferences, I sought endorsement immediately after the 1966 election. [More…]

• It is only since the election defeat of my predecessor that we have had more fully disclosed the Prime Minister’s grasp of the importance and place of the Department of External Affairs. [More…]

• Results of by-elections in Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales suggest that an election today would give the Australian Labor Party occupancy of the Government benches in spite of preferential voting. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) has shown that he is big enough not only to survive a prolonged and vicious attack by a section of the so-called popular Press but also a bitter personal attack by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) during the recent election campaign. [More…]

• It functioned until the Parliament was dissolved for the last general election. [More…]

• The Committee was quickly reappointed after the election - in fact, on 25th November 1969. [More…]

• In the first place, clause 3 of the Bill proposes the insertion of a new section which specifies that, for the purposes of paying allowances, ‘the day of election’ is polling day, or, when there is no poll, the day the result is declared. [More…]

• Secondly, under the present Act, parliamentary allowances of a sitting member who stands for re-election but is unsuccessful cease with the election of his successor. [More…]

• Any possibility of doubt is avoided by redrafting the provision to ensure that a member will be paid his allowance until the day before the day of his reelection or, if he is not re-elected, the day before polling day. [More…]

• In essence, what this House has been discussing during the past few days has been the election programme of the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton). [More…]

• It is refreshing that this election programme should be debated because, after stating these policies in his policy speech, the Prime Minister did not debate them further. [More…]

• As a result, an election campaign which should have settled down to constructive and wide ranging dialogue was cheapened by the Prime Minister. [More…]

• This process is so deeply ingrained in the Liberal Party-Country Party election strategy that it is doubtful whether it can ever be scrubbed out. [More…]

• It is remarkable that in a country of Australia’s maturity it is next to impossible because of the default of the Government, to have a rational and reasoned debate on defence policy during an election campaign. [More…]

• The Prime Minister was not privy to that arrangement - he was not then Prime Minister - but having to face the possibility of an election in 1 968 he had stepped in and made the best deal he could. [More…]

• Of course, it was an abortive move in the sense thai the election for which the Prime Minister was preparing was vetoed by the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]

• There will be chaos, confusion and litigation and the ultimate result will be the defeat of the Government on this issue at the next general election. [More…]

• In view of the election, I have had to recommit the Bill to the Government. [More…]

• I was pleased, particularly, with the honesty with which the honourable member for Burke reaffirmed the Socialist platform of the Australian Labor Party because so often this has been swept under the carpet, particularly at election times. [More…]

• On the 1-day sitting of this Parliament following the recent election this House was kept in session until 1 a.m. whilst the honourable members for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns), Oxley (Mr Hayden) and the right honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Calwell) attacked the United States over the unfortunate killing of villagers in Song My village in South Vietnam; a village which, nonetheless, harboured Communist forces. [More…]

• This situation persisted through the course of the election campaign despite repeated efforts by the Democratic Labor Party to coerce the Prime Minister into an aggressive defence stance. [More…]

• Basic defence planning was not a key issue in the election because the Prime Minister deliberately adopted a low key attitude to constructing national defence policies. [More…]

• The right honourable gentleman was able to resist the standover tactics of the DLP before the elections. [More…]

• This will be done in an election context, with the Senate election at the end of 1970 in mind. [More…]

• This is the same Government that shamelessly exploited Vietnam as an election issue in 1966. [More…]

• Certainly it would be an act of extreme political cynicism to exploit withdrawal at an election after winning an earlier election on building up a commitment to the Vietnam war. [More…]

• The issue was to be raised during the election campaign in 1963. [More…]

• I must remind the honourable member, his leader and the whole of the front bench - what a glittering array they are - that the election is over and that the Labor Party lost the election. [More…]

• Labor was not returned to office at the last election: [More…]

• During the last election campaign a lot of statements were made on soap boxes throughout the country. [More…]

• One statement which was made during the election campaign was that the superphosphate bounty, which will amount to $50m a year this year, was of no benefit to the actual producer because it is all absorbed in costs. [More…]

• I was deeply concerned at the long absence of a parliamentary sitting following the election. [More…]

• Distance and cost make this impossible for many, and the lack of early rectification is an even greater disappointment as they were led to believe that immediate relief would be offered by the Government, having regard to its statements during the last election campaign. [More…]

• In fact, a pre-Senate election broadcast by a former Prime Minister stated that the escalation of national defence expenditure by over $700m since 1963 had not upset the Australian economy. [More…]

• The case where one spouse goes into a nursing home is clearly what is envisaged by the Minister, because he quoted the Prime Minister’s policy speech at the last election in which the Prime Minister specifically mentioned the case of a spouse committed to a nursing home. [More…]

• The statement by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) in his policy speech prior to the last election, as adverted to by the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) was: [More…]

• We have heard two harangues in regard to this legislation which is quite simple and was introduced as a result of a promise made in the speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) before the last election when he said: [More…]

• Here in this legislation is the time honoured connotation of the dollar complex and the inevitable and mercenary relationship of social welfare legislation to a forthcoming election. [More…]

• I predict that we will have some other legislation between now and the Senate election and that it will not be of a serious nature. [More…]

• M we look at the history of social service legislation we see usually that some benefit is given not in the period following an election but in the period preceding an election. [More…]

• Usually nothing substantial is done in the 2 years immediately following an election. [More…]

• Apparently just enough will be done this year to prepare for the forthcoming Senate election. [More…]

• If the means test had been eliminated, as proposed by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) during the last election campaign, the matter to which I have just referred would not be a problem today for aged people. [More…]

• For some years as each State election came along the Queensland Government - a government of the same political persuasion as this Government - has blatantly resurrected the possibility of a hospital construction programme in the Wynnum area. [More…]

• At the last election in 1969. knowing that the Wynnum State electorate was continuing to vote solidly Labor, Mount Gravattt suddenly became the suggested site for a hospital. [More…]

• The election successfully over, the Mount Gravatt hospital faded to a feasibility study. [More…]

• Let me remind honourable members opposite of the cruel, contemptible propaganda which this Government waged during the last election campaign against Labor’s free health scheme. [More…]

• Honourable members will recall that 1966 was an election year. [More…]

• In Queensland both State and Federal elections were held that year. [More…]

• After some road and fence building activity before the 1966 elections, when a large sign was erected announcing that the great project was in progress, work has ceased, the sign has become weather beaten and the roadworks have deteriorated through lack of maintenance. [More…]

• While not completely victorious at the last election, we of Labor have shown the electors that we alone of the recognised political parties in Australia have the credibility and capacity to govern alone. [More…]

• Another of the traditions which I am pleased to observe now is to congratulate Mr Speaker on his election to his high office. [More…]

• If the Government is bereft of plans in this area of great need will the Treasurer please tell the House why the Australian Labor Party solution outlined before the last federal election cannot be adopted in this sphere as it has been in so many others? [More…]

• I do not agree with a lot the the things he said but I go along with his congratulations to Mr Speaker on his re-election to office. [More…]

• I also would like to congratulate the Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees on his re-election. [More…]

• I noted with Interest during the election campaign that all the leading exponents of Labor’s rural policy had different policies. [More…]

• I am inclined to think that the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson), as shadow Minister for Primary Industry, must have been relieved to some extent that Labor did not win the election, as he would have had to try to implement the opposing policies enunciated by them. [More…]

• I wish also to thank the members of the Australian Labor Party in the Blaxland electorate for the assistance and unselfish help that they gave me throughout the course of the election campaign. [More…]

• Honourable members might remember that at the last general election the Labor Party advocated that we should set pensions as a high percentage of average weekly earnings. [More…]

• He had to wait until the 1969 elections for a handout of $1 from the Government. [More…]

• At the general election in October of last year the people of this country wanted to change the government, but the system would not allow them to do so. [More…]

• Labor was defeated at the elections simply because of the positions its candidates held on the ballot papers. [More…]

• After all, the rightful election of a government is the most important single step in maintaining a democratic society. [More…]

• During the 1963 election, which was the election after the 1961 election when the Government had a majority of 1, the then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, raced in on the contract for the TFX bomber, which is now called the FI 1 1 - and people are familiar with the Fill. [More…]

• We had a subsequent election in 1966, but no Fill aircraft had been delivered. [More…]

• We still had no FI 1 1 aircraft at the time of the 1969 election. [More…]

• The final lesson is that a decision to buy several squadrons of highly expensive planes is not one to be taken lightly or on the eve of an election … Sir Robert bought in haste; Australia is now left to repent at leisure. [More…]

• I also wish to commend the Government on the manner in which it is implementing legislation to fulfil election promises and other matters referred to in the GovernorGeneral’s address. [More…]

• As it is, in the way I see it, the Government is proving to the people in the shortest time possible that it is a responsible government which will honour its election promises. [More…]

• Is he aware that in the recent election the Leader of the Opposition engaged in the same form of advertising in the Division pf Mitchell? [More…]

• I regret to say that I did not catch everything the honourable member included in his question, but I do know that during the last general election campaign and on other occasions, people have tried to simulate telegrams as publicity or advertising media. [More…]

• I would like to ask members of the Opposition, and I would like them to give a clear, frank and unequivocal reply, why they have not put before the people at election time, or at any other time, their true platform. [More…]

• I regret having to remind the House that during the last general election campaign on a television programme ‘Meet the Press’ the Leader of the Opposition, answering a question put by a member of the interviewing panel as to whether the ALP still stood for nationalisation, said: ‘No, that is out of date.’ [More…]

• If they do they should tell the people of Australia now from this Parliament and at election time. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) and the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) have repeatedly, at election time, in this House and in other places, shown that it is this Government’s deep concern to seek out areas of need in the community and to help them to the best of its ability. [More…]

• Indeed, his appreciation of Socialism is as profound as his knowledge of his electorate, which explains why his electors deserted him in such enormous numbers in the last general election, just as his listeners today desperately departed from this chamber when he commenced his speech. [More…]

• This surely must be a record low contribution from a Minister whose portfolio was a central issue in the election. [More…]

• One wonders how recreant the Government must be in its implicit assumptions when even now, after the election, it fails to discuss in this House .and to outline to the people what its objectives are and what its progress has been in handling the development of health policies. [More…]

• At election time, the only definite amount stated by the Prime Minister was $16m_. [More…]

• Why was there such a serious error in the calculations by the Government at election time? [More…]

• Because it was an election year and tremendous opposition against the proposal was being built up throughout Australia, the Government forgot all about it until after the election. [More…]

• The 1969 election results showed a remarkable change in electoral fortunes from 1966. [More…]

• On the night of the Federal elections the Prime Minister, in a television interview, was asked how he viewed the big swing to Labor in South Australia. [More…]

• In answer to a question during the last election campaign, the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) said, in relation to university fees: [More…]

• However, might I remind members of the Opposition that the last election recorded the loss of their ninth election in a row in the 20 years from 1949 to 1969. [More…]

• I am quite confident that after the next election it will be 10 losses out of 10. [More…]

• I refer to the last election and draw attention of the House to the remarks of the spokesman for the Australian Labor Party on health matters, the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden). [More…]

• He is an appointed spokesman for the Australian Labor Party on health matters but I would like to draw his attention as a fell’ow Queenslander and somebody who I would like to believe is interested in the welfare of the people of my State to a statement made by his leader during the last election campaign. [More…]

• I know that there are no ladies and very few gentlemen here but I am quite sure that after the next election the former member for Kingston will be returned and a couple of other ladies will be elected to this side of the House and we will again be blessed with feminine company. [More…]

• I can assure honourable members opposite, who are sitting here in their bloom tonight, that after the next election their petals will droop and this Liberal Party will be returned to its previous strength under the leadership of our Prime Minister (Mr Gorton). [More…]

• If the Australian Labor Party had won the election that year, today we would be the most lonely nation in the world. [More…]

• That was why so many of them in South Australia lost their seats at the last election. [More…]

• In fact the previous member representing this electorate - a member of a board - had the effrontery to have letters sent to aged women - women as old as 85 years - a week before this federal election threatening them with expulsion and eviction into the streets. [More…]

• How many Government supporters know how the votes were cast in the election of their Prime Minister? [More…]

• At the last general election the Government was charged with mismanagement and incompetence. [More…]

• My success at the election held almost 6 months ago was apparent as early as 2 or 3 days after the election. [More…]

• We have required these things right from the time of the election, nearly 6 months ago. [More…]

• We accepted that submission and it was being examined when the last election took place. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that the decision in relation to this was not made until after the election. [More…]

• The matter was not finanlised until after the election. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition, during t he 1969 election campaign, said in his policy speech: [More…]

• I did not hear one criticism of this proposal in the whole of the election campaign. [More…]

• The election held at the latter part of last year marked the ninth successive loss by the Australian Labor Party - as was pointed out last night - in its bid or endeavour to become the government of this nation. [More…]

• I think we should look at this aspect a little more closely, because many Bills being brought forward by the Government deal with proposals made by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) in his policy speech for the recent election and upon examination are seen to be only window dressing. [More…]

• The Labor Party proposes this amendment, which will give to the Committee itself the discretion as to when it may meet in camera and when it may hold public meetings as distinct from the present situation where this is a matter for decision by the Minister, because the Labor Party wishes to upgrade the standing of the Foreign Affairs Committee as a committee of this Parliament and we of the Parliamentary Labor Party who expect to be in government after the next election- [More…]

• My own parents, like thousands of citizens of this Territory, had utter faith in .lim Fraser as a fellow citizen and a representative, lt would be proof enough to refer to the remarkable vote he achieved in the last election, but more humanly and more movingly there was the remarkable display at his funeral last Friday by the people of this city by all sections of this community - sometimes thought to be the most reserved and restrained in Australia. [More…]

• His immense majority in the recent general election was itself evidence of this and the tremendous tribute that was paid to him by people of this city on the occasion of his funeral was the second great manifestation of this respect and affection. [More…]

• Even should there be a change of government in Britain between now and 1976 - the election after next - there will be no significant British presence in this area after 1971. [More…]

• Three national elections - two general elections and a Senate election - have been fought with Vietnam as a central issue. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition talked about the 3 elections that had been held since the Vietnam war commenced, but he did not make the point that one of those 3 elections in which the Vietnamese policy was the vital issue, the 1966 election, saw this Government returned with the greatest strength that any Government has had during the 70 years history of federation in this country. [More…]

• Therefore it seems to me to be tragic that during the last election campaign he was prepared to go to South Australia and say that his Party would proceed with Chowilla. [More…]

• He is going to attempt to defeat it by saying that a Labor government would press on even though he knows full well that if he wins the next State election and attains power he would have to agree to Dartmouth dam. [More…]

• The Premier of South Australia, who assumed office a little more than 2 years ago, and whose signature appears on the Agreement, fought the elections in South Australia 2 years ago by emphasising to the people that a Liberal Government would build the Chowilla dam, and saw fit to cast criticism on anybody who may have even suggested that that may not be the case. [More…]

• He wants to hold an election in a few weeks with this matter as an issue. [More…]

• Yet in 1963 members of his Party used it in their election campaign. [More…]

• If Labor happens to win government at the possible early election which is foreshadowed in South Australia, you can be quite sure, Mr Speaker - and I think thai the people of Australia can be sure also - that within a very short time such a Labor government would find some pretext or another which would justify the reversal of its attitude and seeking to do what the present Premier now sees as vital to the State. [More…]

• Since then, a general election has been held. [More…]

• He claims untruthfully that the Leader of the House broke an agreement made with the Opposition on the first day that this House sat after the election. [More…]

• The Leader of the House was faced with an obstructive process that was Initiated because of an election which it is suggested will take place in South Australia. [More…]

• The Leader of the House set the pace by gagging the debate on the election of the Speaker. [More…]

• He did the same thing with the debate on the election of the Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• The Government does not represent the Australian people, because the Australian Labor Party received 250,000 more votes than it did at the last Federal election. [More…]

• The first session of the new Parliament following the general election lasted for only 1 day, which was dominated by ceremonial. [More…]

• This is the reason for my election to this place. [More…]

• Wilh the FU 1, the Chowilla dam was the big issue of the election of 1963. [More…]

• Each one of us is here because certain procedures have been gone through in an election. [More…]

• I remember when, during the 1966 elections, the Liberal Party, authorised by its Federal Secretary, Mr Carrick, issued a scurrilous leaflet to the effect that the people of Australia should be afraid of China. [More…]

• This is the way the Liberal Party works its dirty, scurrilous propaganda at election time. [More…]

• He has stated publicly from the election platform that he does not believe that there are any Communists in the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• He held the position of chairman of the Australian Country Party in New South Wales from 1957 until his election as a senator for New South Wales in 1958. [More…]

• This took place just prior to the last election. [More…]

• The curious relation between Senate elections and sedition is a subject for our political scientists. [More…]

• In 1964, we had the great debate on the Sydney Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament; in 1967, we had the great Hong Kong petition debate; and now in this third successive Senate election year, we have this. [More…]

• One of the ways they can show their contempt is to attend meetings in a peaceful and orderly but determined manner, to expose the conduct of the present Government of Australia, and to substitute at the first election available a Federal Labor government which will end the conscription of Australians, which will end the participation of Australians in the war in Vietnam, and which will do all that an Australian government can do to stop the prolongation and spread of this war. [More…]

• As a result of the recent election the Labor Party has come to be within a few seats of obtaining government in this nation and for that very reason a special obligation was placed upon it, its leaders and each of its members to observe the laws and the appropriate ways in which to protest. [More…]

• The best thing that a member of Parliament can do is to be frank at election time to tell the people what his attitude is and what his philosophy is. [More…]

• Throughout my campaign prior to the last elections I adopted the very sound policy of telling the truth. [More…]

• If honourable members on this side of the House make the blue they made prior to the last election and fail to reveal the extent of Communist infiltration - if they fail to reveal the Communists for what they are - they will betray the people of Australia and deceive the decent Labor man. [More…]

• The figures of the last Federal election show that the Liberal Party which supplies most of the members of the Cabinet polled 2,125,000 votes. [More…]

• How many honourable members opposite carried their own electorates with an absolute majority in the last election? [More…]

• It was apparent that about mid October - honourable members will remember that the Government decided to have an early election in that month - the figures would be reversing if that trend continued. [More…]

• In fact 2 weeks before the last Federal election 55% of Australians were in favour of withdrawing our troops. [More…]

• We know that the last election for this House returned a Government majority only on second preference votes. [More…]

• We know that the Government’s re-election was not a mandate for it so far as its Vietnam policy is concerned. [More…]

• We know that the Gallup polls show that the people were not in favour of the Government’s Vietnam policy before the election. [More…]

• The point is that I have never before or since my election refrained from associating with Communists - as the Minister has done - when I have believed that the cause was just. [More…]

• Just before the last election the issue was raised again. [More…]

• The honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen), as he then was, agreed to oppose me in that debate, which was held just before an election. [More…]

• That was the first time a public debate was held on Vietnam immediately prior to an election. [More…]

• My predecessor was returned at the election with a handsome majority. [More…]

• Shortly before the last general election a challenge was thrown out by a young gentleman who opposed me in the election. [More…]

• The Liberal Party will announce a rural policy before the next general election. [More…]

• One of the motions put forward was amended to read that the Party should not make a pact with the Country Party before an election and that if one was made after an election the agriculture portfolio should go to the Liberals. [More…]

• -It is my intention to issue a writ on Monday, 20th April, for the election of a member to represent the Australian Capital Territory to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr James Reay Fraser. [More…]

• The dates in connection with the election will be fixed as follows: Date of nomination, Thursday, 7th May 1970; date of polling, Saturday, 30th May 1970; date of return of writ, on or before Friday, 26th June 1970. [More…]

• Recently we had a Federal election. [More…]

• The Government made an election pledge to increase from $15,000 to $17,500 the maximum limit of grant under the homes savings grant scheme for the purchase of land and the building of a dwelling. [More…]

• The Government could have easily brought this legislation forward last November when the Parliament assembled after the October election. [More…]

• It is now 6 months after the Government made its election promise that this thimble and pea legislation has been introduced. [More…]

• to April 1970, that is, from the time that the Government made its pledge at election time in October of last year to increase the value of the home for which a grant may be paid, to April of 1970. [More…]

• The Government had faced near defeat in the 1961 general election. [More…]

• T here can be no argument that this was considered to be a very popular election gimmick. [More…]

• It is ironical that it was introduced 6 months after the 1963 election. [More…]

• These few amendments now before us have taken about the same time from the last election to be brought before the House. [More…]

• 1 repeat that these few miserable amendments have taken the same time to bring before the House as the entire original legislation took to be introduced after the 1963 election. [More…]

• Today we are seeing those election guarantees honoured not only in the contents of the Bill but in the timing of its presentation. [More…]

• We see the Government meeting yet another of its election promises. [More…]

• The first proposal for this scheme came in Sir Robert Menzies’ policy speech for the 1963 election. [More…]

• Its essential weakness lies in the fact that it is a scheme which was introduced to help the election prospects of the Government in 1963 rather than to help the housing prospects of the people whom the Government said it was setting out to help. [More…]

• It was an election gimmick. [More…]

• It was a good election gimmick in 1964 and the grant remains fixed. [More…]

• It implements the Government’s undertaking, given at the last general election, to raise this limit. [More…]

• It was alleged by both the honourable member for Reid and the honourable member for Perth (Mx Berinson) that this Bill was only a sort of election gimmick. [More…]

• They were up to date as at the time of the election. [More…]

• The Prime Minister announced this change in his policy speech and he made the legislation retrospective to the first business day after the election of 25th October of last year. [More…]

• The honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) when moving the amendment quoted the words of Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, the then Prime Minister, in his election speech in 1963. [More…]

• He said that these measures were conceived during the 1963 election campaign, Typically, we had to wait until 9 months later for the introduction of the Housing Loans Insurance Corporation. [More…]

• There is really no question of election. [More…]

• J think the late Ben Chifley was revered by everybody in Australia irrespective of his or her politics, yet by innuendo Ben Chifley was classified by honourable members opposite during the 1949 election campaign as pro-Communist and a fellow traveller. [More…]

• He once said that he would rather resign from the Parliament than accept election on Communist Party preferences. [More…]

• Following the honourable member’s election in 1961 Sir Robert Menzies said: ‘Killen, you are magnificent.’ [More…]

• The provision of $250,000 in the 1970-71 Budget was announced by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) in his policy speech before the 1’969 House of Representatives election. [More…]

• last Federal election. [More…]

• The writs were issued on Monday, 29th September, and the election was held on 25th October, just 23 days later. [More…]

• As a consequence I received my rolls less than 2 days before the day of the election. [More…]

• In the electorate of Phillip, a very important electorate which was won by the Speaker, only on the donkey vote, we received the supplementary rolls only on the day before the election. [More…]

• Should supplementary rolls be issued only the day before the election? [More…]

• I believe writs should be issued at least 6 weeks before an election to give the printers a chance to get the supplementary electoral rolls out so that those people working not only in the Labor Party campaign rooms but also in Liberal and Country Party campaign rooms can help any persons who come in to ascertain whether they are on the roll. [More…]

• We know that during the last election campaign the [More…]

• More particularly, it will enable us to get through the programme which was outlined in the policy speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) at the time of the last election, when we were returned to office with not merely a mandate but a duty to implement the legislation. [More…]

• To me and, I think, to the majority of people, democracy means that when a fair and just election has been held - in which the people have been able to vote freely - and the result has been obtained, the Government is allowed to govern. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite have the right at every election to criticise the laws. [More…]

• purpose of the election of members to this Parliament. [More…]

• I remind him and all Australians of his speech last September to the Fabian Society during which he stated that if the Australian Labor Party won the election it would withdraw all our forces from Vietnam regardless of our military situation, and regardless of our allies’ situation. [More…]

• Prior to the last general election the Government said that the first day of business after the elections would be the most appropriate date of operation but the Labor Party, which has suggested that this scheme be abolished, has drawn the line between- [More…]

• In these circumstances it is only fair that the provision operate from the last election. [More…]

• The date ’31st December 1967’ was the latest date allowed in the amending legislation passed early in 1967, following the general election of 1966, for designating accounts as homes savings accounts. [More…]

• One is the day to day election pressures which have been accentuated by the forthcoming by-election in the area; the second is because of an equally shortsighted fear of a credit squeeze. [More…]

• The only time we see Ministers in the drought area is just prior to an election. [More…]

• I do not want to go into the figures of the last election but there have been occasions when the Opposition Party, whether Liberal or Labor, has represented about the same number of voters as the government has. [More…]

• What I suppose the honourable member for Gwydir wants to be careful about is that the honourable member for Riverina does not undertake to stand for Gwydir at the next election because this seems to bring very unfortunate results for Country Party candidates. [More…]

• This election does not have to bc made immediately on retirement. [More…]

• contract officers who have exercised their right of election not to contribute for benefits under the Retirement Benefits (Contract Officers) Ordinance. [More…]

• Right up to the eve of the October election the Prime Minister held to the line that ‘when and if an Australian withdrawal occurred it would be 1 out all out’. [More…]

• In his last television broadcast before the pre-election shut-down, he said: [More…]

• Some months have passed since the tiresome ramblings at State Council about the Federal election. [More…]

• In the last election swinging voters were prepared to vole against a government which seemed apathetic to their own particular problem. [More…]

• Aliens cannot vote at elections or stand as candidates for election. [More…]

• What action is he taking to implement his election pledge for a phased reduction of $200m in personal income tax? [More…]

• Can the nation have faith and trust in a man who, until his Party’s trau matic experiences at the last election, asserted frequently, loudly and overbearingly the unqualified virtues of the Government’s so called voluntary health insurance scheme? [More…]

• In March this year, chastened by the cathartic effects of the 1969 election results he confessed with a characteristic want of grace that: The Government accepts the Nimmo Committee’s findings that there, have been some practices of a wasteful , character, particularly those arising out of the undesirable competitive activities between some open funds’. [More…]

• What credibility can be invested in a Minister who engineers an election promise of his Party - reform of the health insurance scheme - based on the fundamental principle of making it more expensive for those able to remain within its framework as contributors, and then after the election blandly admitting his costing of the alterations was. [More…]

• Clearly, its radically altered tack on this issue of policy is convincing evidence that it interprets the 1969 election results as a stunning vote of censure against it by the Australian public. [More…]

• Naturally I was somewhat intrigued by this assertion of the General Practitioners Association and accordingly I telegrammed the Minister to obtain from him an explanation of the true intent of the Government because, after all, it is not written specifically into the legislation before this House - that is, we have no undertaking as to what measures the Government will adopt to ensure that the common fee is upheld by medical practitioners, that patients who resort to medical practitioners can expect that they will obtain the benefits that were outlined by the Prime Minister according to a peculiar mathematical formula which some describe as from the top of the head approach during the last election campaign. [More…]

• The next episode, no doubt after the Senate election is safely out of the way, will come when the Government proposes certain steps somehow to resuscitate hospital insurance in Australia. [More…]

• When the Government during the election campaign last year announced its ‘new’ scheme, the AMA should have made it clear that doctors have no part to play in patient-government relationships. [More…]

• Let us remember the political context; at this stage the Government was supremely confident over the coming election. [More…]

• In August 1969, according to the gallup poll, the Liberal Party had over a 5% lead when people were asked: ‘How would you vote if an election was held today? [More…]

• The ALP’s scheme had a 58% to 39% margin, which was the biggest margin in relation to any of the issues which the gallup poll organisers thought were up for discussion at the last election. [More…]

• Following the rather embarrassingly disastrous opening of the election campaign the Prime Minister lost his nerve. [More…]

• Since last October the Minister has been trying to produce legislation to implement the Prime Minister’s election promises. [More…]

• He admitted that his, or Mr Justice Eggleston’s, guesstimate at election time of $ 1 6m extra cost to the Commonwealth and almost no extra cost to contributors was out by over 100% as far as the Commonwealth was concerned and that the increase in subscriptions from contributors would be at least $22m per year. [More…]

• When dealing with the registration of funds there is still no obligation on them to let members have any say in them or even for members to know the directors, the method of election or even the constitution. [More…]

• It is obvious from what has been said by the two speakers from the Opposit on to date that they are jealous of the fact that the Government has introduced a Bill that is so much more advantageous to the patient than the Labor socialised scheme, of which we heard so much of during the last election, could possibly be; they know that this is what the public will want. [More…]

• Any person who, throughout the hours of polling on polling day, will not be within the Slate for which he is enrolled, may make an application for a postal vote any time after the tenth day prior to the issue of the Writ for an election, although ballot-papers cannot be issued in response to an application until after the hour of nomination. [More…]

• The discusisons about the national health scheme during the 1969 election campaign involved a fairly pedantic consideration of costs. [More…]

• This current crop of hastily prescribed antidotes to the nation’s ailing health scheme first and foremost, in my view, is a reflection of the recklessness of the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) and the fact that he went into the election campaign without having properly prepared the grounds for the submissions he made on behalf of his Party. [More…]

• In other words, there was a hotch-potch of half conceived proposal’s heaped one on top of the other as election expediency dictated. [More…]

• It represents some kind of deceit when at election time the Prime Minister went into a pedantic discussion about how much one party’s scheme would cost against another and when we now find that after the debate on this Bill has started alterations to the proposals have been made that will double the cost of important facets of the scheme. [More…]

• To that extent the proposal of the alternative scheme, the health scheme put forward by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) at the last federal election, will represent a benefit and advantage to the entire Australian community. [More…]

• He went on further to say that it seemed strange that after the 1969 election the measure now before the House should in fact involve suggestions from the Government side for further discussions with medical practitioners, with the several groups of the profession. [More…]

• Before the last election no campaign on health was really necessary. [More…]

• Now there is to be an election in South Australia and the Liberal Minister for Health, realising that the next South Australian Government will be a Labor government and will have to implement such a scheme, has said that the Liberal Party would implement the payment of consultants at the public hospitals as from January 1971. [More…]

• Another method that was suggested in the Labor Party’s health proposals at the time of the last election was that the scheme should be financed by a flat levy of 14% of the taxable income of a family up to a maximum of $100 per family. [More…]

• Before the Parliament was dissolved for the election last year the Minister for Health was denying all the criticisms that were made of the scheme by the Opposition. [More…]

• It is likely that we will have a member of the Liberal Party representing the electorate of Kingston after the next election. [More…]

• This Government, in effect, was elected in the election held in December 1949. [More…]

• During the recent election campaign the Prime Minister promised - this has been referred to this afternoon - that the maximum amount a patient would pay for a medical service or an operation would be $5, provided that the common fee was charged. [More…]

• Ali honourable members realise that the proposals put forward by the Australian Labor Party prior to the last election would have meant disaster and a backward step for the State of Queensland. [More…]

• Both in this House and during the election campaign I have challenged any member of the Opposition to stand and deny that the proposals of the Australian Labor Party outlined in their policy speeches prior to the last election would not have meant the end of the free hospital scheme in Queensland. [More…]

• As 1 said at the outset, 1 expected to be speaking not at 8 o’clock tonight but rather after 9.30 and I was caught a little unprepared but I am quite sure that other members of the Government team who will follow me in this debate will ably refute the socialistic views propounded by the Opposition, and that the Australian people will realise fully that if the Labor Party had won at the last election not only would the people of Queensland have been deprived of a free hospital scheme but the people of Australia would have gone 10 steps backwards in the medical treatment that would have been handed out to them. [More…]

• The amounts are far in advance of what the Government told the people at election time last year. [More…]

• Last year the only claim that the Government would make at election time was that an additional SI 6m would be necessary. [More…]

• I also ask: Why, after the election, are such figures evident? [More…]

• Why is it only after the election? [More…]

• Inevitably, one returns to the conviction, as did the majority of electors at the last election, that Labor’s scheme of universal insurance based on capacity to pay and operated by an efficient national health insurance commission is far preferable to the scheme put forward by the Government. [More…]

• I could not help but be almost wryly amused by the Minister’s comment about the difficulty of the election estimate by the Government of $16m as the cost of the improvements in our medical insurance scheme. [More…]

• I will tell honourable members why this scheme is on the stocks tonight, ft is because the Government won by 7 seats at the last federal election. [More…]

• In the middle of the election campaign, without having given it any consideration whatever, the Prime Minister was forced to answer Labor’s great policy on health by promising for $5 any treatment that one wanted. [More…]

• Some honourable members sitting here temporarily till the next election want to remember that it was probably the Government’s promise about the S5 maximum fee that got them into this Parliament. [More…]

• This was a desperate move by the Government parties in order to return to the Government benches, and to stop the Labor Party from winning the election because of the scheme it promised. [More…]

• They voted for one at the last election. [More…]

• Although proof is not really necessary the validity of the proposals of the Labor Party at the last election would be clearly established. [More…]

• This Bil] is an attempt to bring into operation a health proposal which was put forward in panic during an election campaign, lt was not well thought out and it is quite clear that this Bill contains enough anomalous material to fill a number of volumes of Hansard. [More…]

• It only does so now because of what happened at the last election and because of the pressure brought upon it by the Australian Labor Party and by the people in other places. [More…]

• Of course, the basis of this scheme is similar to the basis of the scheme that the Australian Labor Party proposed before the last election. [More…]

• Basically the suggestion that has been put forward by a number of these people is that the only reason for the appointment by the Government of a group of people to consider the matter of Communism and the danger of Communism has been to assist the Government to win an election. [More…]

• Had Ward won the deputy leadership of the Opposition in 1 960 the Labor Party would most certainly have won the 1961 election. [More…]

• As events happened the Labor Party lost very narrowly in what was the most closely contested election in the history of our federation. [More…]

• Then there is Mr W. E. Gollan, a member of the national executive of the Communist Party of Australia and a delegate to the Peace Council in Khartoum; E. Boatswain, who organised the secondary schools march in Canberra last year or the year before; and A. Outhred, a former secretary of the Sydney University Labor Club and a candidate for election to the Senate of the University. [More…]

• But any party that tries to play ducks and drakes on a matter so important as water is to South Australia deserves the censure it will unquestionably get at the State election to be held soon. [More…]

• It was announced in the last Federal election campaign that the policy objective of the Party to which I belong - and I hope it will soon become Government policy - is to grant assistance to local government authorities, through the State [More…]

• This was proved in election after election. [More…]

• It has turned round at the last minute in every election that I can remember for some considerable time and has supported the Government parties. [More…]

• The situation is reached where we and this Parliament must look at the policy propounded by the Leader of the Opposition in the last Federal election campaign. [More…]

• It is designed to alter the policies that have been supported in election after election by the Australian people, lt also indicates a lack of concern and a lack of willingness by the Australian Labor Party to accept the verdict of the Australian people in elections. [More…]

• He went to court and alleged that a Communist was using a photograph of him to try to gain additional support in a union election. [More…]

• There have been a number of nationwide elections; but there has been no free nationwide election in North Vietnam or in any Communist country. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that the combined vote given to the Australian Labor Party was 300,000 more than the combined vote given to the Liberal and Country parties in the last election? [More…]

• When the next election is held we will see that 300,000 so significantly increased that this hypocritical Government will not be here with the majority it has today. [More…]

• The Government, before the last House of Representatives election, introduced a Bill to amend the National Health Act. [More…]

• 1 look forward to the time when, after the next Federal election, the Australian Labor Party will be able to introduce the scheme which it has made known to the people during the last election campaign and in the last few years and which it is its intention to introduce. [More…]

• By proposing his amendment that a national health insurance commission financed from graduated contributions would pay for medical and hospital services for all Australians more equitably and economically than the health benefits plan as proposed in this Bill, the honourable member for Oxley is rehashing his leader’s confidence trick of the last election. [More…]

• That was the cost at election time and it would be the cost now for the same proposals. [More…]

• But if the Commonwealth would give us an assurance that we could meet soon after the election for the purpose of further discussing our difficulties, with the Commonwealth attitude not being one that it is going to take away from the States all it can as a result of the High Court predictions - if ] can call them predictions - I would feel happier about the whole thing. [More…]

• My own inclination would be to write to the State Ministers and tell them that, due to pressure of the forthcoming Budget session of Cabinet, followed by the parliamentary Budget session and the prospects of an early election, I feel unable to propose a firm date to resume these discussions in the immediate future. [More…]

• The ‘events at the Commonwealth level’ was obviously a reference to the coming election and the possibility of some Cabinet reorganisation. [More…]

• As for the other part of the honourable member’s question, Government policy is to be determined at the ballot box on policies put to the electors at election time. [More…]

• These were put to the people of Australia at the last election and they were determined. [More…]

• I am indebted to the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean), who will be the Treasurer of the Commonwealth after the next election, for the preparation of these notes. [More…]

• In the 1967 by-election which brought me to this House the then Prime Minister’s wife, Mrs Zara Holt, said in my home town: ‘Queenslanders have a wonderful potential but they will not wake up to it and sometimes I feel like shaking them’. [More…]

• We protested vigorously about this at the byelection, as we have at every election since. [More…]

• At the last Federal election the campaign in Capricornia was fought largely on this issue, and one of the results was this promise, just before the election, of up to $80m for Queensland at 6.4% interest, provided Queensland would be able to show that it would attract export industry. [More…]

• This concession was not offered in the original agreement before the last federal election. [More…]

• Is he aware also that the Premier of Victoria has offered at least $120m additional expenditure in election promises in the policy speech of the Liberal Party last night? [More…]

• Has the Prime Minister promised the Victorian Premier that if his Government is reelected the Commonwealth will provide additional finance to the State in order that these election promises can be redeemed, as has happened in the State of Tasmania? [More…]

• If this is so, will the Prime Minister advise the leaders of the other Parties participating in the State elections of this fact so that all Parties can assess properly the financial state of the Victorian economy? [More…]

• Did the former Minister for Defence just prior to the last Federal election foreshadow a naval exercise off the coast of Western Australia? [More…]

• I am afraid I cannot assure the honourable member that 1 remember some naval exercise, which, I think he said, was scheduled to take place before the last election, off the- [More…]

• During the election campaign the Prime Minister did indicate that flood mitigation would be one of the items to be included in the new water development programme. [More…]

• In answer to the first part of the question, I would point out to the honourable member that the Premier of Victoria and the Premier of South Australia are both engaged in election campaigns and are therefore not eager to have an early meeting. [More…]

• Honourable members are well aware of the Government’s promise during the Federal election campaign last October that no patient seeking attention from either a general practitioner or a specialist would have to pay more than $5 for such a visit. [More…]

• When we put this with the guillotining that is going on and the suggestions that are being made around the lobbies that this printed material of the Government in connection with the National Health Bill might be brought out in such a way as to be used to the Government’s advantage at election time, there is good reason why the amendment that we have proposed should bo enthusiastically supported and carried. [More…]

• The results showed that those polled were substantially in favour of the proposals advanced by the Labor Party during the last election. [More…]

• More likely it will drop even further when the public discovers after today that the promise of the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) at the last election that the common fee proposed by the Government would he adhered to by the medical fraternity, that the general public need not fear that they would have to pay more than the set scale of excess charge established by the Government, is rubbish. [More…]

• In spite of the tremendous expensiveness of the proposals now before us - expense which was 69% understated by the Prime Minister and the Minister during the last election campaign - the public in fact will be saddled with the quite significant cost problems which have been the blight of the system in the past. [More…]

• He is asserting that I established tonight that the Government, in this Bill, is introducing something different from the promises made by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton), during the election campaign, in respect of the benefits which the public would receive. [More…]

• I know that just prior to the last Federal election pilots were instructed to fly over my electorate in order to try to save Barton and St George for the Liberal Party. [More…]

• It has been made perfectly clear by the Government, commencing with the policy speech delivered by the Prime Minister for the last election, that its new health benefits plan and the benefits proposed under it are related to the common fee principle - that is, the fees most commonly charged by doctors. [More…]

• Let us be quite clear on this point: I would say that, during the election campaign last year, the medical benefits funds and hospital benefits funds put more money into the propaganda machine of the Liberal Party than any other organisation, including even the oil companies. [More…]

• We waited around for 4 months after the last election. [More…]

• That Association ran a particularly vitriolitic campaign against the Australian Labor Party at the last federal election. [More…]

• People who, over a period of time, contribute millions of dollars, have no say in the election of directors. [More…]

• They do not know who is eligible for election or why people are elected. [More…]

• As many members in this debate have pointed out, we have had the shocking spectacle of the Minister trying to implement a policy pronounced by his leader during the election campaign last October. [More…]

• We are not responsible for the delay in passing this legislation which the Australian public had been assured would be introduced as one of the first legislative items when the House resumed after the general election. [More…]

• If the Labor Party were in government, as it will be after the next election, we would in fact expand the activities of the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories. [More…]

• At every election time similar kinds of aims drop from the mouths of various members. [More…]

• I remind the Deputy Prime Minister that Mr Frankel was a Liberal Party candidate at the last election. [More…]

• Briefly, the history of events is that just prior to the commencement of the election campaign I heard a rumour that the site for the second international airport for Sydney was to be in the electorate of Robertson. [More…]

• During the last election campaign the Labor Party went to the people claiming that there should be an investigation to determine the best national superannuation scheme for Australia and a firm commitment to its introduction, and that it should link the age, invalid and widows pensions to the. [More…]

• It also said that the whole question of welfare and pensions must be taken out of the electioneering atmosphere engendered by the Liberal Party’s cynical $1 rise on election eve. [More…]

• The minutes also show that at the third minerals conference, which was held on the last day on which the House sat before the last general election, 26th September, there was no change made in the assurances - the undertakings - which had been given at the March meeting by the Minister for National Development. [More…]

• He went along with the whole proceedings and agreed that the whole matter had to be put off because the election was pending. [More…]

• He also agreed that the matters which had been discussed at the meeting in March would have to wait until after the election had been concluded. [More…]

• All of them were under the very clear impression - and the minutes bear this out - that the undertakings given in March last year would govern the conduct of the Federal Government if it was returned in the forthcoming election. [More…]

• This meeting on 26th September to put off all discussions until after the election - this purely provisional meeting - proceeded throughout on the basis that the undertakings given in the preceding March would be honoured if the Gorton Government were re-elected in October. [More…]

• The undertakings given by the honourable member for Farrer as Minister for National Development were clearly made on behalf of the Third Gorton Government on the assumption that the Second one would in fact win the elections which were then pending. [More…]

• It was conceded on all sides at this one Party gathering that the Commonwealth Government faced certain political difficulties because of the imminence of the election. [More…]

• The then Attorney-General was with him throughout that meeting, and indeed, quite apart from the special political circumstances which led to the honourable member for Farrer’s resignation from the Ministry after the elections, there was no certainty that he would remain Minister for National Development in a re-elected or re-shuffled Gorton Ministry. [More…]

• Did the Minister for Education and Science inform the post election Cabinet of the undertakings to which he had committed the Government in company with the honourable member for Farrer? [More…]

• As far as future discussion was concerned the honourable member for Farrer said, according to page 3 of the transcript of the meeting on 26th September: tt would be quite impossible for me lo say what the Government is likely to do not knowing, firstly, whether we will be the Government after the election and. [More…]

• The honourable member makes it quite clear that the uncertain circumstances at the time in view of the approaching election made it impossible for him to give any firm undertaking. [More…]

• I put it to the House that in view of the honourable member’s earlier statement - and it is so important that I shall give it again: ii would be quite impossible for mc to say what the Government is likely to do not knowing, firstly, whether we will be the Government after the election and. [More…]

• On page 17 the honourable member returns to this problem of making commitments pending the results of the Federal election and he says: [More…]

• The conclusionsI have reached after a most detailed and exhaustive study of the relevant documents are as follows: In my opinion the honourable member for Farrer when acting as Chairman of the Australian Mineral Council at the meeting of 26th September expressed the view that because of the impending election it was impossible for him to know what the Government would do or whether he would be in a position to influence its actions or decisions. [More…]

• Since the last election the honourable member for Farrer has been intensely worried about the morality of the Cabinet and of the Government. [More…]

• Can it ever be said that it was not unprecedented, immediately after winning an election for a former Minister of the Crown, quite deliberately and sanely, to say that he was not prepared to serve in the same Ministry or in the same Cabinet as a victorious Prime Minister? [More…]

• At the first meeting of the combined Government Parties which took place after the federal election, the honourable member for Farrer openly stated that he was not prepared to serve under the Prime Minister. [More…]

• It was a time of election. [More…]

• It would be quite impossible for me to say what the Government is likely to do, not knowing, firstly, whether we will be the Government after the election and, secondly, whether I will be the Minister. [More…]

• Could I, not from the viewpoint of wanting to take any fourth form debating points put this proposition to the honourable gentleman and to the House: What would have been the position of the States if the Gorton Government had not been returned at the last election. [More…]

• He told us that the Prime Minister was concerned with the election. [More…]

• We were all concerned with the election; even I was. [More…]

• It is essential to the case that is being made against the Government today firstly that there should be shown to have been a commitment given on behalf of the Government at the meeting held on 26th September 1969 that the incoming Government, assuming it were the same Government in political colour, coming into office after the election, agreed that it would not introduce unilaterally legislation with respect of off-shore minerals without, as a necessary pre-condition of introducing that legislation, first consulting with the States. [More…]

• But more importantly than that, if one is to look at the second part of the case made against the Government, those who seek to press this attack must demonstrate, and demonstrate according to a pretty heavy burden of proof - because this is, as everybody agrees, a serious charge - that those members who took office in the Government after the general election of October 1969 knew that the honourable member for Farrer when a Minister had given this commitment, but proceeded to disregard it before, and at any time up to, the point when the Cabinet made its decision, I think in late January, to legislate. [More…]

• It was apparently considered in July and August, when the correspondence took place between the honourable member for Farrer and the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton), that it was not an appropriate time to have another meeting with the State Mines Ministers, having regard to the busy programme in connection with the Budget and the forthcoming general election. [More…]

• I remember very well the way in which my predecessor was repudiated by the Prime Minister purely for the purpose of mollifying the opposition being received from the Democratic Labor Party and to gain the support of that Party in the last federal election. [More…]

• Then of course we had the announcement after the federal election in November last year that the Treasurer had been sacked. [More…]

• We have seen the attacks on the Prime Minister going on over the last 6 months; in fact, since immediately after the declaration of the election results. [More…]

• In any event we believe that now that this matter of the continental shelf and the mineral resources of the Commonwealth has become an issue of controversy within the Government, this issue is worthy of an election. [More…]

• If he votes for that because he fears that if there is a general election there will be a Labor Government in office, surely that is not sufficient justification for it. [More…]

• It is not a mere matter of coincidence that I undertook at the election for the House of Representatives last October that my Party would establish such a Commission. [More…]

• I also repeated this proposal in my manifesto, which was issued on Monday last week, for the by-election for the Australian Capital Territory which will take place on Saturday week, as I am sure honourable members will recollect. [More…]

• Follow ing the yet unhonoured election promise of the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) to reduce exorbitant taxation on the lower and middle income groups, there is no alternative but to resort to the latter controls, that is, to the control of money supply and interest. [More…]

• We will put the Corporation to other and better uses when we undoubtedly occupy the Treasury bench after the next general election. [More…]

• I say that, in this instance, we have taken from the policy of the Australian Labor Party - and this was outlined by the Leader of the Labor Party in his policy speech for the last election - this democratic Socialist weapon and we are paving the way for the Labor Party to implement its policies on democratic Socialism. [More…]

• A tentative draft of revised and unified regulations was promulgated last year or even the year before - it was before the last election - and a number of journalists indicated that they believed the revised and unified regulations would give them reduced access to servicemen compared to the situation that had previously existed. [More…]

• This was at an election meeting at Bendigo - wielding banners carrying such slogans as ‘We are a profession, not cheap labour’. [More…]

• I promised it in my policy speech at the elections for this House last October. [More…]

• There was no thought given to the proposal before the policy statements at the last election. [More…]

• (a) The method of voting in United Kingdom Parliamentary elections is ‘first-past-the-post and the Speaker’s Conference decided that there should be no change in the existing law in relation to the method of election. [More…]

• Voting is not compulsory in United Kingdom Parliamentary elections and the Speaker’s Conference decided not to recommend any change in the existing law in this respect [More…]

• It is in the main directed at the public and with a view most often to the next election. [More…]

• After all, honourable members offer themselves for election on the basis that they have something to contribute to government. [More…]

• Many people come into the area, particularly at election time- [More…]

• The Government does not see it as appropriate to equate the role of a member who holds office by virtue of election with that of a public servant who is a member of the House of Assembly by appointment by the Governor-General on the nomination of the Administrator. [More…]

• It was first introduced into this House on 5th March 1970, being part of an election promise. [More…]

• Therefore, the Bil) would reduce by $600 the allowances received since the election by the members for just on 20 electorates. [More…]

• Clause 3 inserts a new section specifying, for the purpose of paying allowances, ‘the day of election’ is polling day, or when there is no poll, the day the result is declared. [More…]

• This doubt is removed by amending clause 5 to ensure that a member will be paid his allowance until the day before the day of his reelection or if he is not re-elected the day before polling day. [More…]

• Entertainment expenses are included in the electorate allowance, amongst other things, but election expenses are not included. [More…]

• The expense of conducting elections is a necessary incident of a Member’s employment. [More…]

• We have felt unable to adopt this view, because it is wrong in principle that a silting Member should have his election expenses paid out of the public purse, while his opponents enjoy no such advantage. [More…]

• I repeat that this allowance does not include election expenses, which undoubtedly are a big item. [More…]

• The point is that I have been returned to this House at the last election. [More…]

• We do not believe that anyone should seek election to Parliament for personal profit nor do we believe that anyone should be debarred from a seat in Parliament simply because he cannot afford the financial sacrifice. [More…]

• Part of the expenses of honourable members are election expenses. [More…]

• In all the Western countries the cost of elections is tremendous. [More…]

• American presidential elections cost up to $100m, including the primaries, and this is rising rapidly. [More…]

• The difficulty there has not been to raise money for these election expenses, but to raise money from enough people so that the amount of pressure that any one contributor could put on the political party to which it contributed would be insignificant. [More…]

• At present there is a State election campaign in progress in Victoria and two proposals are being offered as remedies for the chronic inadequacies in the staffing in country schools. [More…]

• He has an election to face this year. [More…]

• Naturally, being a representative of the Liberal Government in Canberra, the Minister for Education and Science was not going to say that Sir Henry Bolte has not raised them for the very simple, shrewd opportunist reason that he has an election to face. [More…]

• It is an election year. [More…]

• The first is that before the honourable member makes this type of speech appropriate to a soapbox in a State election campaign he should get his facts correct. [More…]

• But any party that tries to play ducks and drakes on a matte, so important as water is to South Australia deserves the censure it will unquestionably get at die State election to be held soon. [More…]

• It is my belief that the Liberal Party in South Australia, which has had no right to govern since 1968, has used the question of Chowilla and Dartmouth as an excuse to hold an election at this point of time, rather than holding an election in March of next year. [More…]

• This will have an adverse effect on the electors’ votes in the country areas of South Australia, if the State election is left until March of next year. [More…]

• The fourth reason why the Government in South Australia is to hold an election at this point of time-and I raise this matter for those people who are not aware of it - is that we have the greatest electoral gerrymander and it is associated with the Upper House in South Australia. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party wasted votes in areas like Port Melbourne and elsewhere, and well honourable members opposite know it, to the point at which if an election was held tomorrow in this nation, it would take the Australian Labor Party marginally more figures as a percentage to form the Government than it would us. [More…]

• We would not want to do it; we would not want to enter into an auction at election time with a government saying We will offer this in wages and conditions’ and the opposition offering something else. [More…]

• Despite the heavy parliamentary programme and the interruption caused by the election, the Committee met regularly to examine witnesses and to consider evidence. [More…]

• Its people in South Australia would not have lost 8 out of 12 seats at the last election. [More…]

• The Senate election came along and when we were told in June 1967 we could not get any money, a few months later when there was to be a Senate election there was no difficulty in finding $1 00m for particular works. [More…]

• In Victoria the Government, just about on the eve of an election, set out to introduce some changes. [More…]

• The gallup poll to which be referred was a poll taken on 4th April to define the then voting intentions of the people of the whole of Australia in a possible Federal election at that time. [More…]

• That sample should give an accurate forecast of the result of the State election. [More…]

• During the last Federal election, it invited two of my apponents to be guests on its ‘Meet The Press’ programme for half an hour on the last Sunday before the election was held. [More…]

• A figure of 90% return on medical fees was not promised during the election campaign. [More…]

• I think this was probably a case of human error rather than an intention on the part of any pe-son to create sabotage, and I am pleased nevertheless that the result of the election showed confidence in the Premier without the most current television tape. [More…]

• Two others I proposed at the 1967 Senate elections, on education and natural disasters, were rejected; another on overseas control of resources was partly debated, and the 2 on poverty and housing have never even been debated. [More…]

• At the next Senate election, and at the House of Representatives elections, I shall propose joint standing committees - for example, on Aboriginals, science and technology, health, education and welfare and technical change as my Party’s platform ordains, and, as I have often advocated, on such matters as law reform, Commonwealth-State agreements and New Guinea. [More…]

• Last year was an election year. [More…]

• One personal feeling 1 have is that unfortunately we have too many elections. [More…]

• I accept the fact that honourable members who are supporters of a government perhaps do not look forward to an election with the same degree of optimism in certain circumstances as do Opposition members whose position cannot be worsened whilst the position of government members can be. [More…]

• But, quire seriously, I believe that because Senate and House of Representatives elections are held at different times, unfortunately, there are too many elections and we do not get the continuity of government that is really necessary to valuable government. [More…]

• This position arises because we are constantly facing an election of either the Senate or the House of Representatives. [More…]

• But I do say this much: Firstly, the method of election of the Senate is apt to leave half of that body well behind current community views which this House alone can accurately reflect; and, secondly, the Senate already has too much power as opposed ro responsibility. [More…]

• First or second position on the ticket of u major party ensures election and Stales’ rights must come a poor second to that sort of logic. [More…]

• It means a short range or shortsighted policy - what will serve until the next election. [More…]

• I was under the impression that it was promised in connection with the election. [More…]

• It was promised at the time of the election by the Leader of the Country Party, who certainly spoke for the Government on that occasion as on many other occasions. [More…]

• If the State has come up, as Western Australia did with the Ord scheme - a patent white elephant and a failure if ever there was one, 8 1 00m down the drain because there was an election in Western Australia - with the Bundaberg scheme just because some member is in trouble in the Bundaberg area, and if we continue always to apply the old pork barrel politics in this way then I think the question must arise in any unbiased mind - and I: am afraid there are not many here - is this the best way to decide upon projects, that is to accept the recommendations of the States. [More…]

• However, at election times we have been used to hearing from the Government the parrot-like repetitive cry: ‘How much will the Labor Party’s policy cost? [More…]

• We would have been shot down in flames for proposing an open ended commitment such as this at the election. [More…]

• It is done for the cynical political gain which can be grabbed at election time. [More…]

• This is legislation that was promised by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) in the October election and is just another new break-through by this Government. [More…]

• The Minister referred in the opening remarks of his second reading speech to the election policy speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) and the remarks he had made on this subject. [More…]

• The Minister then said: 1 did not hear one criticism of this proposal in the whole of the election campaign. [More…]

• Until recently it had a bank overdraft of $338,000.In a fit of pre-election conscience Sir Henry Bolte discovered the plight of handicapped children and tossed them $100,000. [More…]

• pretty quickly as a result of an election promise, but nevertheless it is a step in the right direction. [More…]

• This promise was not challenged by the Opposition during the election campaign. [More…]

• It is a hastily drawn up measure to satisfy a hastily conceived election promise. [More…]

• There was even a suggestion during the last State election in Victoria that certain things promised by the Premier had been guaranteed in advance by the Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]

• Stale Companies Act: Election of Directors (Question No. [More…]

• ls it a fact that at least one State Companies Act clearly requires that one-third of the directors of a public company must retire from office each year and, if desirous of continuing in office, must face an election by shareholders once every three years. [More…]

• Similarly, the Premier of Victoria and the then Premier of South Australia, whose Parties had opposed the legislation when the leaders of my Part) had proposed it in 1968, each said that if he won the State election last Saturday he would introduce such legislation. [More…]

• The onus therefore is on those in this place who want to delay this reform to say why in the 2 larger States and in 1 other State votes should be available for 18-year-olds in State elections and not in Federal elections. [More…]

• Some States - I think 4 of the 6 States - have rolls of electors which are common for both Federal and State elections but 2 States do not have common rolls. [More…]

• Unless we are to have uniformity in the voting age throughout the Commonwealth for the purposes of both Commonwealth and State elections, I can see considerable confusion and great administrative difficulty in relation to the voting rolls. [More…]

• If a State which is now one of the 4 States using the common voting roll were to reduce the age of voting for the purposes of its State election, then the necessity would arise to compile a completely new roll for each electorate of the State concerned. [More…]

• In the time I have had to make inquiries I have been told that Sir Arthur Rylah said during the election campaign that his Party would reduce the State voting age to 18 but that it would not move independently of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• That slates in substance that no adult who has a right to vote under the law of a State shall be deprived, having that right, of a vote in a Commonwealth election. [More…]

• The difficulty of interpretation that arises would in turn give rise to very grave practical and administrative difficulties if we cannot achieve consistency and uniformity in the voting age on the level of all parliamentary elections in the Commonwealth. [More…]

• The position is that in certain instances - I refer to those young people who are serving overseas and to those who apply for special consideration - young people automatically are entitled to vote in an election. [More…]

• By the way, the honourable member went into the Mallee to help 2 Labor men in the recent Victorian State elections. [More…]

• They were my political opponents in the election. [More…]

• A general election is to take place in Britain shortly. [More…]

• Everybody is hedging a bit on their bets on the outcome of that election. [More…]

• The facts of the matter are that at the last election, when there were many worrying agricultural problems, the vole in the country areas was to support the Government because the people had no confidence whatsoever in the policies of the Australian Labor Party, which added up to nothing for country people. [More…]

• It was said that in the election of 1874 [More…]

• In 1963- he thinks it was then because he told me on the phone about an hour ago that he believes it was just before an election - the pension was increased to $28 a fortnight to 2nd May 1969. [More…]

• Those who make this election will become entitled to the full Commonwealth share of the increase in benefits now being provided. [More…]

• Finally just before the 1949 election the charge was exploded to signify the commencement of this great work. [More…]

• In supporting the remarks of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) I would point out that it is now 228 days, or thereabouts, since the Federal election. [More…]

• Of course, I have already asked the Minister, as a result of a statement he made in the House, what are the improvements and additions he has included in the health insurance scheme to those which he outlined at the last election. [More…]

• which incurred a Si 3.5m cost increase on the $16m that he estimated at election time. [More…]

• That $13.5 cost increase is approaching a 70% increase on the election assessment. [More…]

• There should have been no delay in supplying this information because it would have been something which would have been based on additional benefits built into the scheme after the election. [More…]

• It seems that there is always a high degree of precision demanded of the Opposition whenever it puts forward a proposition in any field, particularly health, but the greatest degree of waffle and inaccuracy appears to be fair average per formance for the Government - $ 1 3.5m out in election promises. [More…]

• But I see no reason whatsoever why the Government should use this business of the relationhip of optometrists to ophthalmologists as the reason for depriving many thousands of patients of the benefits promised by this Government during the last election campaign. [More…]

• The first sod was turned just before the election of 1949, and, of course, a representative of the Labor Party officiated. [More…]

• Labor thought it was a great election stunt. [More…]

• For a few months after the last election it appeared that the Labor Party was ascending. [More…]

• By the time the next election is held Labor will be only entering the straight when the Government is passing the winning post. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite do not do their best for the people whom they purport lo represent, hut the electors of Victoria most certainly did not give them much support at the recent election. [More…]

• The Government is carrying out what we call election promises, but this measure is not intended to be the be-all and end-all which will completely solve the troubles of the wool industry. [More…]

• It will fulfil one of the promises made during the election campaign a few months ago. [More…]

• I have received a return to the writ that I issued on 20th April for the election of a member to represent the Australian Capital Territory to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr James Reay Fraser. [More…]

• Will the method of election inside the organisation be made public? [More…]

• One of the main issues at the last Federal election was the question as to whether Australia would have a so-called voluntary health insurance scheme or the Labor Party’s alternative health insurance scheme. [More…]

• There is no method of election, and no-one knows their background. [More…]

• I suppose - I just make passing reference to this - that maybe some funds went into the Government’s coffers for its election campaign. [More…]

• If the directors were elected by a vote of the people concerned and if we knew who they were, we would probably know their qualifications for the job and the ramifications of their investments before they stood for election. [More…]

• In the policy speech of the Prime Minister during the campaign for the last election he laid great stress on the point that this Government would protect Australian industries. [More…]

• In view of subsequent events, including the assurance of the Chairman of the Board to the Associated Chambers of Manufactures of Australia last year and the policy speech of the Prime Minister before the last general election, I find it extraordinary that some people and organisations are persisting in this attitude. [More…]

• In October last, just prior to the general election, the honourable member for Lalor (Dr Cairns) published a paper on protection. [More…]

• I had every intention of introducing the legislation in this Budget session….. but this is nol possible because of the general election. [More…]

• One is that it is he and not the Government which decides what are election issues. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition is presumed to have helped Mr Holding at the last State election in Victoria. [More…]

• 1 always thought that 50% of the vote won an election. [More…]

• What did Mr Clyde Holding say about this tax when he introduced his own fiscal policy during the State election campaign in Victoria only weeks ago? [More…]

• Even Mr Dunstan in the recent South Australian State election did not say that he would repeal the tax. [More…]

• Since the election last October the Government time and time again has displayed complete inability satisfactorily to resolve the complaints of the State governments and a complete refusal even to consider those of local government. [More…]

• It has become quite clear in the months since the last Federal election that this Government is pathologically incapable of resolving the problems of Commonwealth-State-civic financial relations. [More…]

• Even at election times the way in which the management treats its workers is manifest. [More…]

• Sir Wilfrid Selwyn Kent Hughes.I have to inform the House that on 13th August I issued a writ for the election of a member to serve the electoral division of Chisholm in the State of Victoria in place of the deceased gentleman. [More…]

• The dates in connection with the election were fixed as follows: Date of nomination, Friday, 28th August 1970; date of polling, Saturday, 19th September 1970; date of return of writ, on or before Friday, 16th October 1970. [More…]

• He transferred to the Federal Parliament by winning the seat of Chisholm in the general election of 1949. [More…]

• The other 2 delegates, Mr Harrison and Mr Peters, retired from the Parliament at the election that took place just after the Conference concluded. [More…]

• We want to move about our electorates to look after ourselves, to maintain our vote, to see that we come back at the next election. [More…]

• I for one want to return at every election. [More…]

• which is what happened after the last general election. [More…]

• The Government will make the decision because it has the numbers, and I suggest that when we are the Government after the next election and we have the numbers the House will sit the times we want it to sit. [More…]

• The Committee recommended that the Constitution should be amended to provide for an election for half the senators every time there was an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• Committee believed that this would cut down the number of elections, that it would avoid the situation which has obtained ever since the premature election for the House of Representatives in 1963. that it would also promote concentration on the same issues for elections for both Houses, and that it would minimise the distraction of elections and the differences between the Houses. [More…]

• Accordingly the Bill provides that both senators for each Territory should be elected every time there is a general election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• The Acts which give representation to each Territory in this chamber provide that there shall be an election for the member for each Territory if there is a general election for members of the House of Representatives for the States. [More…]

• Under this Bill in the 2 Territories at least there would be an election for both Houses of the Parliament, at the same time. [More…]

• If it is suggested that there may not be an election for the House of Representatives at the same time as there must be an election for half of the Senate at some time during this present financial year T would very happily accept an amendment to provide that the first 2 senators for each of the Territories should be elected at the first election for either House. [More…]

• In 1966 the member for the Australian Capital Territory was given the right to vote on any matter after the next general election for this House. [More…]

• The Government, of course, was very much embarrassed, and particularly was the Government candidate embarrassed, at the recent Australian Capital Territory by-election by the position disclosed in relation to housing, consumer protection and other matters concerning the population of the Australian Capital Territory - the fastest growing, the youngest and, in many ways, the most affluent and best qualified electorate in Australia. [More…]

• Where this results in an alteration in the number of members for any State, such shall take effect for any general election after a redistribution. [More…]

• The 6 States which first formed the Commonwealth may well hold a view on this matter, and indeed the people of the States might regard the election of Territory senators as a move by the Commonwealth to change the balance of power in the Senate. [More…]

• The election of senators is based upon a system of rotational retirement which preserves a measure of continuity in representation, and it may not be desirable to vary this practice specifically to meet the case of a Commonwealth Territory. [More…]

• On the other hand, of course, the principle of election under proportional representation as it is applied to Senate elections could be frustrated if provision were made for 2 Territory senators retiring on a rotational basis, thus necessitating the election ofI senator for each Territory at each election. [More…]

• The fact that the Australian Capital Territory is hopelessly under-represented was conceded by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) during the recent by-election when he said that the Australian Capital Territory would have a second member in this House in no time at all. [More…]

• Their election would meet many of the existing problems of under representation in the Territories. [More…]

• As it is I look forward to resigning at the time of the next general election, which cannot come too soon. [More…]

• However, I do agree with the honourable member for Bradfield in his general criticism of the reduction in the size of a quorum insofar as the reduction relates to the number of honourable members required for the election of an Acting Speaker, for the meeting of the House and for a division. [More…]

• Then an election intervened. [More…]

• 1 am delighted to have the opportunity to explain to the honourable gentleman that, as he may not be aware, there are many responsible members of the trade union movement who have been substantially behind the repeated election of governments from this side of the House. [More…]

• Let me state briefly the Labor Party’s policy on the commitment, as enunciated by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) during last year’s election compaign. [More…]

• This was that a Labor government would, on election, immediately notify the governments of the United States and South Vietnam that all Australian forces would be withdrawn from Vietnam. [More…]

• This policy of swiftly phasing out the Australian commitment was condemned by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) during the election campaign. [More…]

• It was clear in November 1969, at the time of the last general election, when Labor’s policy on Vietnam was announced by the Leader of the Opposition, that if Labor won our troops would be withdrawn from Vietnam by the end of June. [More…]

• In the period between 1950 and 1954 under President Eisenhower the Republicans realised that by the 1954 election they would be tarred with exactly the same brush - that they, the Republicans, had lost Vietnam. [More…]

• I point out that the Philippines has already withdrawn its 2,400 troops following the recent election there so that Australia in withdrawing its troops will not be alone. [More…]

• By that time, there can be an election for both Houses. [More…]

• An election therefore would cause no disruption. [More…]

• The man on $16,000 - the income which to the Prime Minister, according to his election promise, represented a middle income - receives $500, or $10 a week. [More…]

• On the other hand, it is fair game in an election for the Liberals to produce all sorts of costs for Labor’s proposals within 24 hours of my policy speech even though we tried in vain for months previously to obtain the official estimate of the very proposals we made. [More…]

• During the last election the Prime Minister rubbished these proposals on the grounds of cost - $ 1,500m for national superannuation, and his own figure for means test abolition which was twice as great as the then Treasurer’s estimate. [More…]

• An election is the only way to give them the opportunity. [More…]

• In such an election, on such a cause, the people would be delivering judgment not only on this Budget, not only on the Gorton Government, but on themselves as a nation. [More…]

• In reducing personal income tax rates the Government has not only met an election pledge but has more than met it. [More…]

• gave the Government an opportunity to honour its pledges at the last general election, it also gave the Government an opportunity to restore taxation justice and social justice. [More…]

• I submit that the Government, through the Treasurer (Mr Bury), has not honoured the election promise of the Prime Minister to review tax scales and to give relief to the lower and middle income groups. [More…]

• A compulsory secret ballot in all union elections would eliminate almost completely the extreme left wing and the Communist dictatorship which have seized power. [More…]

• Any truthful union member will agree that fewer than 10% of financial members ever attend meetings or participate in the election of union leaders. [More…]

• They should be prepared to accept the challenge of my Party to hold an early election. [More…]

• Prior to the last election the Prime Minister told the people that if the Government was returned it would, over a period of 3 years, reduce income tax on the lower and middle income groups by about $200m. [More…]

• While the Prime Minister and his colleagues made great play during the election campaign of their intention to reduce income tax they were very careful not to mention their intention to make up for those reductions by substantially increasing indirect taxation. [More…]

• Let the people decide whether the Government was strictly honest during the last election campaign. [More…]

• If the Treasury required additional revenue in order to meet election promises, this fact must have been known to the Government when those promises were made. [More…]

• I think he made a very good contribution to the recent election campaign. [More…]

• Not only has the honourable member forgotten this, but obviously he has not made a close study of the policy speeches of leaders of the Australian Labor Party who have from time to time during election campaigns - in 1953, 1954 and 1955 in particular - made enormous gestures towards a welfare state in Australia. [More…]

• Apart from the first election in 1954 it can be fairly said that they have not failed in their political ambitions to attract Australians by the process of earning votes by promises. [More…]

• He seems to have completely forgotten that at the time of the 1969 Federal election when his own leader, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), was making a policy speech in which he promised substantial variations in our system of income taxation he stated that the policy commitment of the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) -to reduce the level of income taxation on the lower and middle levels over the next 3 Budgets by more than $200m was not enough. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) had promised during the course of the last election to give taxation relief to people in the lower and middle income tax groups. [More…]

• The choice of subjects is also of great importance in any programme or over any given period, lt is possible, for example, to choose a series of topics prior to an election, which are all themes on which one party or another is weak or vulnerable. [More…]

• is not there to mount a campaign of attack and, prior to an election, it ought to be scrupulously fair in choosing series of themes equally embarrassing to or laudatory of either side of the political fence. [More…]

• Whilst the Budget was framed to stabilise the inflationary pressures on the economy and to fulfil the election promises of the Government I believe that the matters I have raised demand the urgent consideration of the Government to restore confidence in the vast and productive rural areas of Australia which produce 93% of our food requirements and more than half of ou> export income. [More…]

• The Government boasts of having carried out an election promise to reduce income tax by 10%. [More…]

• I have no doubt that he was hoping that the Opposition’s real ideas on economic management would be clouded or hidden in the confusion of an election campaign. [More…]

• This Government stood up to its responsibilities as an honest and responsible government and has balanced the Budget in this a Senate election year. [More…]

• One of the outstanding features of this Budget is the honouring by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) of his election promise to reduce taxation for the lower and middle income groups. [More…]

• That was his election phrase, not mine. [More…]

• After $300m, 3 Prime Ministers and almost a decade we are now to lease 24 substitute aircraft to protect us from that invisible enemy which threatened to over-run us so many years ago - on the eve of a Federal election. [More…]

• Such threats come only at election time. [More…]

• The decrease in personal income tax announced in the Budget fulfils an election promise. [More…]

• I think it is a rather ridiculous suggestion to make that there should be another general election. [More…]

• I have known of occasions when the Opposition has adopted the attitude that it is a waste of money to hold a general election before the 3-year term of the Parliament has expired and that the Government should not contemplate doing so. [More…]

• We now find that 8 months after the last general election the Leader of the Opposition is suggesting something of this nature. [More…]

• However, the electors of Australia are quite used to the Opposition holding out all sorts of baits to them on the occasions I have mentioned, namely, during an election campaign and after the bringing down of a Budget by the Government. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition spoke about his belief - as he did in the last election campaign - in the nationalisation of health services in the country. [More…]

• 1 have in front of me the policy speech of the Leader of the Opposition in the last general election campaign. [More…]

• The Liberal Party polled 2,126.987 votes in the last election. [More…]

• These facts can be checked with the Chief Electoral Officer’s report for the last election. [More…]

• The sum total of their efforts was shown in the last election results. [More…]

• The honourable member for Kalgoorlie (Mr Collard) yesterday said that we ought to have the courage of our convictions and face an early election. [More…]

• lt is less than one year since we had a Federal election from which we gained a mandate, no matter how gallingly small it was to the Labor Party. [More…]

• Now we are asked to have an election on a balanced Budget. [More…]

• The constant attack in this House on Australian workers who, as I have said previously, are mostly ex-servicemen who fought for this country in world wars under Labor Governments for the freedom of election which we now enjoy, is repugnant to me as it must be to the workers and citizens of Australia generally. [More…]

• But the selfsame middle income earner still finds himself hit by the tapered means test when he retires, for there has been no attempt by this Government, in all the years that he has been campaigning, to ease it, nor has the Government prepared a programme to abolish it such as was outlined by the Australian Labor Party at the last general election. [More…]

• One of bis illustrations of our desire to involve the people in extra costs was that we wished to cause an election to be held over this Budget. [More…]

• The Government, by taking the elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate out of tandem, involved the Australian people in a cost of about $500,000 each 3 years. [More…]

• So, if we were to cause the holding of an election on this Budget and bring the elections back into tandem again, we would be saving the people of this country at least $500,000 every 3 years. [More…]

• My remarks in this regard apply not only to those who have sought the comfort and protection of this House in spite of their policies; they are directed also to those people I see at the polling booths at election time who hand out cards supporting the Democratic Labor Party, the Liberal Party and the Country Party. [More…]

• When 1 travelled through my electorate on the day of the last election f took with me some recruiting pamphlets which 1 had received from Captain George whom I know and who is with the Army’s recruiting section. [More…]

• I defeated the former Minister for External Affairs on this question at the election. [More…]

• 1 trailed him by 10,000 votes at the election in 1966 but after taking more time to argue the point 1 defeated him at the last election by 1.054 votes. [More…]

• That action was taken on good advice at election time to protect Australia because it was going to be invaded by Indonesia the next week. [More…]

• That means that the 1963 election cost us not only $500,000. [More…]

• The Libera) and Country Party Government entered into this war purely for election purposes. [More…]

• The Government has had all its mindless menials parroting about law and order because they are all frightened to debate the Budget and I suppose we will hear of nothing else but law and order until after the Senate election is over. [More…]

• The clarion call has gone forth: ‘We must fight an election on the law and order issue.’ [More…]

• Are we to have a law and order election? [More…]

• Let us have an election on law and order at this very time. [More…]

• I can see those honourable members opposite who want an election, and one of them is the honourable member for La Trobe. [More…]

• Let us fight an election on law and order. [More…]

• 1 have no doubt that if such an election took place the Labor Party would have so many members on the Government side of the House that it would be one of the most historic victories of our time and one of the greatest. [More…]

• It is quite obvious that the LiberalCountry Party coalition is endeavouring to fight the Senate election and possibly a House of Representatives election by kicking the Communist can again. [More…]

• The election made headlines in the newspapers every day. [More…]

• I think it was the PostmasterGeneral (Mr Hulme) who pointed out yesterday that it is only a few months since the last election. [More…]

• However, when it comes to election time the people recognise whether they are good or bad, or worse than others. [More…]

• During the election campaign last year the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) promised a reduction in income tax. [More…]

• The Parliament which was elected at the general election met last November at some considerable waste of money to the Commonwealth, because it quickly and swiftly went into recess to lick its wounds until 3rd March of this year. [More…]

• Commentators criticise us and say that we are using this law and order issue only as an aid for election purposes. [More…]

• Might there not come a time when people will realise that this policy and thought of the Government is right not for the sake of an election factor but because it is for the safety and security of this country? [More…]

• The great philosophers of the Australian Labor Party have suddenly decided that the Party cannot win an election while the Victorian Executive exists in its present form. [More…]

• They now realise that they cannot win an election while a certain Victorian gentleman represents their Party in the other place. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party at the last election put forward a policy for increasing the pension by $1 in February of this year and by $1 in this Budget with a view to bringing the pension up to one-quarter of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• At the last Federal election we intended to take the pension progressively up to $18.50, and it would have been closer to $20 today had we been put in office. [More…]

• So if Labor had been returned at the last election pensions would have been substantially better off than they are. [More…]

• In his policy speech for the 1969 Federal election the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) said: [More…]

• Wc on this side of the House face the challenge of an election with great confidence. [More…]

• We know that honourable members opposite live in fear of an early election. [More…]

• How pensioners must wish that the Australian Labor Party had been successful at the election last October. [More…]

• What kind of bonanza is this for the people who voted for the Liberal and Country Parties at the last election expecting to get relief from taxation? [More…]

• An election is the only way to give them the opportunity. [More…]

• In such an election, on such a cause, the people would be delivering judgment not only on the Budget, not only on the Gorton Government, but on themselves as a nation. [More…]

• The Government proposes to cap it all by secrecy and backdoor methods, because for its 1970 election gimmick it will be announcing the acceptance of a tender to construct an atomic reactor at Jervis Bay of an outmoded type and in an unsuitable location. [More…]

• We are to have a repetition of the 1963 election fiasco. [More…]

• The Government has no conscience, but it has a highly developed sense of political expediency, and if and when there is an election in the offing some increase in pensions is given. [More…]

• He said that he wanted the votes of women in the next Federal election. [More…]

• He said that the next Federal election should be a supermarket election and that the Australian Labor Party was entitled to the support of women. [More…]

• I wish to see, in conjunction with the Senate election, a referendum on this matter. [More…]

• This Government has callously disregarded the needs of education and has failed to acknowledge in the Budget the undertaking given by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) in his election policy that this Government would give consideration to the survey of the needs of state education over the next 5 years which was made by the Australian Education Council. [More…]

• He attacks the large amendment and liberalisation of the income tax scale which more than fulfil the Government’s election promise. [More…]

• I note that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) in his Budget-cum-election speech appeared to be upset by the fact that the Government had honoured its election promise to reform the taxation structure for those in the middle and lower income groups. [More…]

• If the country does not accept the Budget the people should vote the Government out of office at the next election. [More…]

• Within eight weeks after the result of any election has been declared, every candidate at the election shall sign and declare before a Justice of the Peace and file with the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the Slate a true return of his electoral expenses showing; - [More…]

• Can the Attorney-General (Mr Hughes), who talks so much about law and order, honestly claim that as required in sections 145 to 147 of the Act no more than $500 was spent by him or on his behalf or in his interest during any of his election campaigns? [More…]

• Or KLUGMAN - Can the AttorneyGeneral honestly claim that as required in sections 145 to 147 of the Act no more than $500 was spent by him or on his behalf or in his interest during any of his election campaigns? [More…]

• If honourable members on the Government side think that the Australian Labor Party cannot win an election then why not give it a go? [More…]

• We know that the honourable member for Hume (Mr Pettitt) will be cast into political limbo the minute an election is held, be it next year or next week. [More…]

• The Government’s decisions when framing the Budget are arrived at by the simple old Liberal method of tweedledee tweedledum - -is it an election year or is it not? [More…]

• The Government gives $1 in an election year and 50c. [More…]

• Let the people judge, and let me prophesy that there is no doubt what will happen if there is an election. [More…]

• We are now beset with troubles that flow from the fact that we hardly met for 5 months after the last election. [More…]

• After all, a Senate election is approaching, and the Conservatives have found that it is a bad practice to fight an election on issues. [More…]

• When one goes back over the Government’s records one finds that a carefully contrived hysterical situation has always developed just prior to an election. [More…]

• It is quickly forgotten after the election, but nevertheless lt is necessary to divert people’s attention away from the real issues which should be discussed. [More…]

• The amendments were never used after the election. [More…]

• Of course, the Government is wise in not wanting to fight an election on its record. [More…]

• What the Government has not told the Australian public is that this carefully contrived situation of banning the American comedian was brought about solely to create an atmosphere for the forthcoming election. [More…]

• My Leader when speaking at the Sydney Town Hall during the last general election campaign said that if Labor were elected, by the end of June 1970 every Australian serviceman would be out of Vietnam. [More…]

• Let honourable members get out on the hustings at election time and tell the people from whom they expect support that of a total of 125 elected members if 25 members vote in a division a simple majority of those who vote will suffice for an affirmative decision. [More…]

• I refer to section 74 of the Income Tax Assessment Act, which provides that expenditure incurred in the year of income by a taxpayer on being elected as a member, or in contesting an election for membership, of the Federal Parliament or of the Parliament of a State shall be an allowable taxation deduction. [More…]

• This is a reasonable provision as far as it goes, but I believe that it should be extended to cover persons who contest elections in the field of local government. [More…]

• I find it very difficult to understand in a country which has 3 recognised and essential forms of government - federal, state and local - why our tax laws differ in their treatment of candidates for elections in these 3 different forms of government. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) undertook in the last election campaign to reduce taxation for the middle and lower income groups. [More…]

• The Government has obviously deliberately abrogated the undertaking it gave in the last election campaign. [More…]

• It has also had one election. [More…]

• It had one election to which I am going to refer. [More…]

• Objections were raised to the conduct of and irregularities in this election and a committee was set up to investigate it. [More…]

• It reported that the election should be declared invalid and another election held. [More…]

• In fact an election was held shortly before I arrived on the island, and 9 Communists were elected to a parliament of 35. [More…]

• The election of these Communists helps to create a serious international situation as far as Cyprus is concerned. [More…]

• Is the honourable member suggesting that we equate the victims of an armed conflict between 2 armies with the deliberate murder of women and children in an orphanage to prevent a democratic election? [More…]

• The honourable member for Capricornia (Dr Everingham) suggested in a highly illinformed fashion that there had only been one election held in South Vietnam. [More…]

• There was an election to set up the provisional government in that country at which 90.5 per cent of those on the rolls voted. [More…]

• That government, which is now in existence, had a senate election, a representatives or congressional election, and a presidential election. [More…]

• Since then every few months there have been local government elections and Just recently the second class senators on the other half of the bicameral system went to the people again. [More…]

• President Thieu informed honourable members from all parties recently that he expected the An Quang Party to lead the state in the Senate election held recently in South Vietnam and that he felt it would be a good thing for the future of the country if this were so. [More…]

• 1 think I should draw the attention of the House to the fact that prior to the 1963 election we were told that this work was on the priority list and would be proceeded with. [More…]

• On past practices and behaviour of Government members at election campaigns the Minister will be denied by any of them; he is as likely to deny himself by challenging information quoted by Opposition members enforcing Government deficiencies, even though that information comes from a Minister as a reply to a question in the House. [More…]

• Having extracted these figures from the tables incorporated in the Minister’s speech on the Budget and having interpreted them, I can only assume that he could not have had sufficient time to study them properly and digest their implications before he introduced them into the House, lt is rather distressing to find that so often - almost exclusively, but not quite exclusively - when an increase is provided in the pension rate for social service beneficiaries it is associated with an impending election. [More…]

• In the last decade, of the seven changes in the pension rate, including the current one before the House, six have been associated with an election. [More…]

• The only one not associated with an election occurred because of the grave and undeniable erosion of purchasing power of pensions which had fallen to the lowest level for the decade up to that year. [More…]

• It is literally a level of deprivation for so many social service beneficiaries, for which this Government is responsible by manipulating pensions at election time in an effort to bribe votes and then neglecting the welfare of beneficiaries at crucial moments subsequently. [More…]

• If it is election time a little more than the normal amount will be produced. [More…]

• I instance the disgraceful manner in which pensions are manipulated like prizes in a lucky dip near election periods and then allowed to erode under the sapping influence of spiralling inflation in the intervening years. [More…]

• It is crass political opportunism which motivates a government to manipulate social welfare programmes like a box of tricks for election audiences to ‘ooh’ and aah’ over and then, after the election is over, to tuck the box away with determination after carefully labelling it: ‘Not to be used until the next election’. [More…]

• But this Government, and also the Labor Party, went to the people at the last election with a policy of reducing income taxation on middle and lower income groups. [More…]

• Whichever Party had been elected at the last election, neither would have had a mandate to increase income taxation, and the only way any government could have increased the pensions in these circumstances would have been by cutting down on some other vital sector of the economy. [More…]

• This could have been done if the Government had not honoured its promise to reduce income tax but the Government has honoured that promise, just as the Labor Party would have been forced to do had it won the last election. [More…]

• The Labor Party did not want to buy votes at the last general election by giving away a few favours on the eve of polling day. [More…]

• I opposed the taking of any action by the Labor Government on the eve of a general election that might have gained a few extra votes for its candidates in return for favours granted. [More…]

• Let us contrast this Government’s inglorious neglect of the pensioners with Labor policy as enunciated by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) prior to the 1969 House of Representatives general election. [More…]

• Prior to the elections of 1969 the Prime Minister loudly praised in a television interview the tapered means test. [More…]

• Such action just prior to an election was misleading and taken with a view to winning votes. [More…]

• As I stated before, it should not be a question of a government being able to grant a pension increase because an election for the Senate or the House of Representatives is coming up. [More…]

• I suppose that is a product of the fact that this year is not a general election year. [More…]

• The history of this Government is to provide relatively beneficial benefits in the period preceding general elections and only very small ones in the period in between. [More…]

• We of the Australian Labor Party stand for the Australian assistance plan which was ununciated by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) during the last general election campaign. [More…]

• In the long run this might cause us to spend our debating time under the heading of social services on other than an increase in the pension of SOc or SI, depending on whether it is the first, second or third social services measure introduced after an election. [More…]

• In the campaign preceding the elections of 1949 the Liberal and Country Party promised, if elected, to grant child endowment in respect of the first child. [More…]

• Since my election to this Parliament many pensioners have come to my office and my home with problems about many matters. [More…]

• If it is an election year for the House of Representatives the Government hands out an increase of $1 a week. [More…]

• If it is an election year for the Senate the Government hands out an increase of 50c a week. [More…]

• If there is no election at all, the Government gives nothing to pensioners. [More…]

• This is saying no more than what the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) said on behalf of this Party during the Federal election campaign last October. [More…]

• Last year a number of new Bills were introduced in a flurry in preparation for the last general elections. [More…]

• This sort of thing is very good window dressing for election purposes but it does nothing for the unfortunate people whom it was meant to assist. [More…]

• What the Labor Party suggests in the amendment moved by the honourable member for Oxley, and what was suggested at the last general election, is that we should be getting on with the job of introducing a national superannuation scheme in this country. [More…]

• What fee is payable to the Australian Broadcasting Commission for the use of staff and facilities at its Canberra studio for the programme of training and familiarisation in the use of television which has been arranged before the Senate election campaign for the Prime Minister? [More…]

• I live for the day when the RSL will really get out at election time and say Here are the issues and this is the side we will support this time’. [More…]

• It sets out the constitution of the committee, the tenure of office of members of the committee, and then it provides for resignations, the filling of vacancies, the election of a chairman and vice-chairman, the number of members who would form a quorum, the procedure at meetings, the sitting of the committee during recess, the power of the committee to send for persons, papers and records, the powers, privileges and immunities of the committee and the functions of the committee. [More…]

• The Labor Party stated m its election policy last year that this proposal should be implemented within 3 years with substantial relief being granted in the first year. [More…]

• The loss of 17 seats at the last general election set the Liberal Party experts in the back rooms looking for an issue. [More…]

• I heard the honourable member for Hume (Mr Pettitt) in one of his more brilliant moods a few moments ago refer to the Chisholm by-election. [More…]

• I suggest to the honourable member that he should have another look at the figures for the Chisholm by-election and ask himself how the combined Australian Democratic Labor Party and Liberal vote, which represented approximately 61 per cent of the total votes cast in Chisholm 9 months ago, has dissipated to 53 per cent in a very short time. [More…]

• If the Government loses the DLP support to that extent in future elections, the honourable member for Hume and the rest of his colleagues will not be here. [More…]

• He received it on Saturday when the vote for the Liberal candidate in the New South Wales by-election dropped by some 6,000 votes. [More…]

• The Minister will not be laughing when the Government is defeated on this issue at the next general election. [More…]

• The Labor Party has a policy for the shifting of the airport but in the intervening period while this caretaker Government is in the State and until it can be changed at the next election, proper regard must be given by the existing Government. [More…]

• In an endeavour to save 2 Liberal members of this Parliament the Government directed aircraft over my electorate in the last few days of the last election campaign. [More…]

• That shows that mean, contemptible tricks do not count even at election time. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister at the next election will not stoop to the contemptible tactics adopted by this Government in the past and make people in my district suffer because it wanted to save some Liberal members from defeat. [More…]

• One thing 1 like about the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) is that he is honest and, unlike some other members of the Labor Party who try to pretend that the socialisation plank in their platform no longer exists, particularly at election time, he is one who has always come out and admitted both in this House and elsewhere that he would like to see socialisation in Australia. [More…]

• He must be very worried about the next election and the Country Party candidate who will be opposing him. [More…]

• -I have received a return to the writ which I issued on 13th August for the election of a member to serve for the electoral division of Chisholm in the State of Victoria to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sir Wilfrid Selwyn Kent Hughes. [More…]

• I would point out that on the eve of the last election there were 250,000 people in my electorate. [More…]

• I will not be that until after the next election. [More…]

• It was a reaction to the election promise of the Australian Labor Party in 1963 to provide secondary school scholarships to every student in the last 2 years of his or her secondary education. [More…]

• I suggested he should stand for election to the House of Assembly in 1972 because I believe, rightly directed within the democratic process, his talents could prove a valuable contribution to his country. [More…]

• For too long the development of public health services in Australia has been shaped and promoted on the auction block of election expediency. [More…]

• It is obvious that by the time of the next general election the Government’s scheme will be so bloated by costliness and its institutionalised inefficiency that it will be totally discredited to the public. [More…]

• election time so we must anticipate these unfortunate aberrations into fantasy. [More…]

• In the light of these figures the Minister’s exaggerated costing of our scheme is as ridiculous and as unreliable as his costing of the Government’s election promises on its health insurance scheme proved to be. [More…]

• Incidentally, on this one score alone that provincial government looks like being defeated next election. [More…]

• That was reinforced and brought about as a result of an election not long ago. [More…]

• The old Communist bogey again, lt is raised on every occasion the Government is in trouble and when a Senate election is pending. [More…]

• But let us look at it not as a question as to who wins the Senate election or who is important in this House, whether he be Labor or Liberal, but as it affects Australia. [More…]

• Shortly before the election of the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) to that office the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns) said: [More…]

• He wanted to know what members of the Ministry had complied with the law by stating the amount they had spent in their election campaigns, as is required by the provisions of the Electoral Act. [More…]

• Up to the last election I represented a quarter of a million people. [More…]

• The Liberal Party hopes that it will be able to use it at election time and that some people will swallow the bait, as it were. [More…]

• The rabble that sit opposite fight so often, and this is the only occasion on which we have seen them unite on anything since this Parliament met after the last election. [More…]

• I serve this warning on behalf of the grass roots of the nation: The coming Senate election and In fact the next election of the House of Representatives will not be fought on street photographs such as we have seen produced here. [More…]

• It lapsed with the prorogation of the House for the last general election. [More…]

• But I do suggest that the patience of the Government can be tried only so far and that, if we do not have the co-operation - and the full co-operation - of the medical profession, this indeed will make it difficult for this Government to continue to operate this scheme which, in the long term, and compared with the proposals of the Labor Party, is by far more beneficial to the people than the scheme as suggested by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), prior to the last election. [More…]

• It is fitting to recall on this occasion, particularly as I am a member representing a Queensland electorate, that it was the Leader of the Opposition who proposed a scheme during the last House of Representatives election which, if implemented, would have meant virtually the end of free medicine to the people of Queensland. [More…]

• In his 1963 Federal election policy speech, the then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, announced a unique governmental measure to assist and encourage young people to acquire their first matrimonial home. [More…]

• Would it be any good for me to stand in this chamber this afternoon and say in respect of the areas of Rostrevor, Campbelltown, Paradise and Dernancourt in the electorate which I represent that I was doing justice to the burdens that confront these young people who will become new home owners or who are new home owners by saying that 5,000 new electors have come into these areas since writs were issued for the last Federal House of Representatives election? [More…]

• What ought to be said in this chamber - and it should be said more often - is that this Government by its actions since the time when the last Federal election was held has heaped a burden upon the home owner that is an absolute and utter disgrace. [More…]

• I point out just as an illustration that in Queensland - my own State - mobile polling booths are used satisfactorily and efficiently at these institutions for State and municipal elections. [More…]

• I would be very grateful to the Minister if he would pursue his inquiries into the possibility of introducing mobile polling booths for Federal election purposes. [More…]

• There were 17 or 18 candidates in the Senate election being held and she did not know one from the other. [More…]

• In fact this did happen in a case in Victoria relating to the last Federal election in October 1969. [More…]

• We use the exhaustive ballot system for the election of Party leaders, for example, in the Parliament. [More…]

• The political future of the Northern Territory demands this, lt would enable a different type of man to seek election to the Legislative Council and the Territory would be far better off if there were a realistic approach to the question of remuneration of members. [More…]

• I trust that that does not mean that members who belong to the same parties as honourable members opposite are not so gifted with public spirit that they would offer themselves for election to the Council in the interests of the people of the Northern Territory notwithstanding the disadvantage under which members of the Council presently operate, the present Government having been in office for over 20 years. [More…]

• But a lot of people forget that preferences are not counted until the candidate ceases to have a chance to win the election. [More…]

• As yet no migrant has been able to receive party endorsement for successful election” to any of our parliaments. [More…]

• This, followed by the election of a Labor government in the House of Representatives, will see a new era of labour management co-operation out of which increased productivity will lead to higher real wages, and higher wages and greater co-operation will lead to higher and higher productivity. [More…]

• Every election in which we elect a young man who is of military age to this place on a Liberal Party-Country Party ticket is an exercise in national humiliation. [More…]

• An amendment of the Local Gov- - .ernment Ordinance 1963 to reintroduce the requirement that only native councillors are eligible for election. [More…]

• by leave - The Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) has announced the proper procedure by which a Senate election is announced, that 1%. [More…]

• 1 propose a method by which they can vote in a national election. [More…]

• Prime Minister to have an election not merely for the Senate but for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• Elections for the House of Representatives can be held whenever a Prime Minister ventures to have one. [More…]

• There is to be a national election for one House. [More…]

• Accordingly, if proper order is to be achieved in the financial relations of this country and proper relations achieved between the heads of government, Federal and State, in this country now is the time to achieve that by having an election for the House of Repre sentatives at the same time as the election for the Senate. [More…]

• Let us synchronise the elections for both chambers in this Parliament. [More…]

• In fact, if the Bill were now rejected, more than 3 months after the previous rejection, and the Bill had again been rejected, the Government could have had a double dissolution - an election not just for one and a half Houses but for the whole of both Houses. [More…]

• This is not to be an election year for the House of Representatives, so the pensioners could not expect to have their living standards maintained. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to give effect to the election policy of the Government to increase the amount of Commonwealth assistance given to educational research in Australia. [More…]

• This is not a new project; it has been mooted for many years, ft has been part of Labor’s Federal election campaign for the past 3 elections. [More…]

• However, with a Senate election imminent it is possible the submission will get a much quicker passage to the Prime Minister’s ‘in’ tray. [More…]

• There is no objection to this grant being offered as part of the Government’s electoral programme; this is a legitimate tactic and, as I pointed out earlier, the Labor Party has been committed to the project in the last 3 election campaigns. [More…]

• Have any of his election campaign speeches since the beginning of 1965 been written by an official or officials of his Department. [More…]

• Disqualification from voting at an election (State, Federal or Municipal) or from standing as a candidate for such an election. [More…]

• by leave - When I informed the House on 1st October that the Government proposed that the next Senate election should be held on Saturday, 21st November 1970, I undertook to give full details of the timetable when replies had been received from the States. [More…]

• The first interpretation of any weight was given by Mr Justice Windeyer in the case of William White which honourable gentlemen, will recall as a controversial issue in the 1966 election campaign. [More…]

• I remind the Opposition that the 1966 election was fought purely on the operation in Vietnam, and look at the overwhelming majority we had on that occasion. [More…]

• As I said earlier, the 1966 election was fought on the issue of our involvement in Vietnam. [More…]

• This is the very group which the Prime Minister before the last election said required consideration in relation to income tax and the very section which he agreed was being treated inequitably and which he promised to assist but which, in actual fact, has received very little consideration in relation to income tax reductions. [More…]

• The State Opposition has pledged to abolish the tax in Western Australia so no doubt the Federal Government will have to face up to this matter after the next election. [More…]

• I suppose before a Senate election, or for any other devious political purpose, it is always opportune for an Opposition to raise this kind of argument. [More…]

• The Income Tax Bill which is now before us for discussion is the result of a rather hurried promise made by the Government just prior to the House of Representatives election last year. [More…]

• While Government supporters prior to the election preached relief for those on low incomes - and this is where relief should have been given - it is very disappointing to find now that although the Government can see its way clear to give relief amounting to only 82c per year to a person whose taxable income is only $500, it is prepared to accept and indeed has accepted as being in the middle income group taxpayers with taxable incomes of $30,000. [More…]

• So if the Government had decided before the election how it intended to implement its promise, it is little wonder that it was very careful not to spelt it out to the electors. [More…]

• The proposal came up immediately before the last general election which was about 12 months ago and it is being fulfilled just prior to the current Senate election. [More…]

• Have arrangements been made for the Australian Broadcasting Commission to provide staff and facilities at its Canberra studio for a programme of training and familiarisation in the use of television for the Prime Minister before the Senate election campaign. [More…]

• It indicates what our approach will be when a Labor government is returned at the next election. [More…]

• J should mention that, the opportunity has been taken to remedy defects that have been found in sections 52 and 88 of the principal Act that relate to the rights of an employee who resigns to contest a parliamentary election. [More…]

• In the very near future we will be having a Senate election campaign. [More…]

• It is traditional with Senate elections to lash out in terms of electoral largess. [More…]

• On the Committee are three senators who are standing for re-election at the forthcoming Senate election, and therefore their prime objective is to get re-elected. [More…]

• There is nothing like an impending election to flush out a little action from an otherwise tardy Government when the rights and entitlements of sections of the community are concerned. [More…]

• The honourable member for Oxley, who has set out to try to retrieve that position and stir up goodwill, -came along this morning with a speech that I have not -the slightest doubt he started to prepare a week after the last election when he looked at the results and saw that his vote at Amberley was down. [More…]

• as the honourable member for La .Trobe pointed out, with a Senate election in the offing it would be impossible to expect candidates for election to attend to this business. [More…]

• Presidential election to move the United States armed forces towards an allvolunteer Army and abolish the draft. [More…]

• After his election he appointed the Gates Commission to investigate the feasibility of an allvolunteer Army. [More…]

• I would like to know whether the Leader of the Opposition will have the honesty in the next campaign or the one after that to get up and say: ‘It is our purpose to reduce the defence vote’ because if that were clearly stated in an election campaign - and it has been very clearly stated by the honourable member for St George - I suggest that it would very quickly lead to further defeat of the Labor Party at the polls. [More…]

• Out of a batch of 531 enlistments, at the end of a specified period of 64 days after which they could make an election to slay. [More…]

• If this is to be the conduct of the Army officers I hope they will give us a run down on the Minister for the Army, Navy and Air Force and what it really thinks of them because that will make the best political propaganda for the Labor Party that we can put before the people in any election. [More…]

• In the electoral redistribution which preceded the last election 2 sub-divisions were added to the Mallee electorate. [More…]

• There is a lack of discretionary power for the Minister to act in respect of those technicalities, and there is little doubt that a large proportion of people who should qualify, if the intention of the legislation as announced on the eve of an election campaign were implemented, cannot qualify simply because of those technicalities. [More…]

• 1 believe also- thai it the figure he gave was correct and the Chinese are spending about $US200m a year in assisting those countries around her, this amount pales into insignificance when compared with the $US2,500m a day which the Americans have been pouring into Vietnam in weapons and men as a result of its rejection of an election to enable the people of Vietnam to chose their own government. [More…]

• Let me quote from a speech made in the House of Commons on 22nd July of this year by the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, that great intellect who has been resurrected since the recent election of the Conservative Government. [More…]

• This is a far cry from the warm welcome that Mr Gordon Freeth, a previous Minister for External Affairs, gave to the Russians just prior to the last general election. [More…]

• Not long ago, just prior to the last House of Representatives election, a television interview took place and this question was asked: [More…]

• One would hope that by the time the next House of Representatives election comes around there certainly will have been that. [More…]

• But what on earth is the same man saying today, or is there noi an election round the corner? [More…]

• When this statement was made it was just prior to an election and that was a case of the cheapest bit of political expediency based on lack of principle that I have heard for some time. [More…]

• He was saying, in effect: ‘We will have to wait and see what happens prior to the next Federal election’. [More…]

• The only thing that dictated the defence policy of the Opposition was: ‘When will the next election be held? [More…]

• I ask: Would it be possible to arrange for a referendum in conjunction with the coming Senate election on the question to electors Do you favour a Socialist State?’ [More…]

• Or does the coming Senate election give electors the opportunity to signify their opinion in this regard? [More…]

• If the electors are aware of the policies of the parties nominating candidates at the election there is an opportunity for those electors to register a vote on the question whether or not they want a Socialist state. [More…]

• Therefore, it is true to say that if electors are aware that this is the Labor Party’s policy they will have an opportunity to cast their vote on the question at the Senate election. [More…]

• As to the third part of the question, the honourable gentleman will be aware that the Prime Minister in his policy speech before last year’s House of Representatives election undertook to examine the possibility of bringing into the health insurance field intensive care nursing home patients who had been members of an insurance organisation - I forget the exact phrase - for some time. [More…]

• It is far past the time when pensions ceased to be a political football, being increased only when an election is pending. [More…]

• It is imperative that these matters should be resolved before they become political, footballs too, to be kicked around only at election times. [More…]

• I suppose that with the miserable amount that is paid as pensions and because of the inequitable way in which they are determined - it has been said that pensions are a political football with a 50c increase in off-election years and a $1 increase in election years - it is only reasonable to associate pensions with social services, but to my mind social services cover a far wider field than the payment of pension. [More…]

• Secondly I think - and there is no doubt about this at all in my view - that pensions are used deliberately by this Government as a political gimmick at election time. [More…]

• These off the cuff decisions have been made when it has been felt necessary to gain some political advantage at election time. [More…]

• We are prepared to make representations on behalf of the pensioners of this country to a government which is not at all sympathetic and which has, throughout the whole period of its office, been prepared to grant a miserable increase in an election year but never at other times. [More…]

• Let him look at the records and he will find that whenever this Government has granted an increase, small though it may have been, it has always been in an election year. [More…]

• But judging from the tone of their speeches and the way in which they have been going on with this kind of rhetoric, one would have thought that they were concerned not with the pensioners but with the coming election. [More…]

• Indeed, it is rather peculiar to find that on the one hand the Government is accused of doing something good just before an election and, at another time, of doing something miserable just before an election. [More…]

• Is it because we have a Senate election coming on? [More…]

• Then there is another suggestion, and it is a very good reason for the Government’s holding up the announcement until after the Senate election. [More…]

• Obviously it is because a Senate election is imminent and the report contains information and comment which would react to the detriment of Government on the eve of that election. [More…]

• That would react to the detriment of the Government in its election campaign. [More…]

• So it is to be kept secret until the election is over. [More…]

• Let them know where they stand so that the people concerned can make representations to the Government as ‘ quickly as possible and before the Senate election is held. [More…]

• Was a By-election held in Melbourne on the 20th June 1970 for the Upper House seat of Monash. [More…]

• of the Broadcasting and Television Act prohibit the televising of any election matter after midnight on the Wednesday before an election. [More…]

• Did the Board according to custom send a circular- to all Television Stations reminding them of the Monash By-election and Section 116(4.). [More…]

• He agreed that a by-election was being held at that time. [More…]

• of the Act prohibits the televising of election matter as defined in the Act from midnight on the Wednesday preceding an election to the close of the poll. [More…]

• I attach for your information a copy of the definition of election matter in section 116(6.) [More…]

• In my view there was an obvious breach of the Broadcasting and Television Act which clearly lays down conditions regarding the telecasting of election material. [More…]

• We were told that there would be a complete blackout of all election material, whether televised or broadcast, from the Wednesday prior to the Senate election. [More…]

• What I want from the Government is an explanation as to why the television Press conference which the Prime Minister held on the Thursday before the Monash by-election was allowed to be televised in Victoria. [More…]

• ), the matter broadcast or televised must fall within the definition of ‘election matter’ as set out in section 116 (6.’). [More…]

• These were things that were not political and that would have no effect on the Monash by-election. [More…]

• As I mentioned earlier, the Government has decided not to amend the Electoral Act to delete the blackout on political broadcasts from midnight on the Wednesday before an election. [More…]

• I want to make these points: First of all, Mr Deputy Speaker, there is no reason whatsoever why I should not have a Press conference in Canberra and why that should not be televised merely because there was an election in Victoria. [More…]

• In this Section election means an election of a member or members of either House of the Parliament in the Commonwealth or a State. [More…]

• Election matter means matter commenting on or soliciting votes for a candidate at an election. [More…]

• Nothing in my view, and in the view of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, which is more important, in the Press conference I had could be said to be commenting on or soliciting votes for a candidate in a Victorian upper House election. [More…]

• Matter commenting on or advocating support of a political party to which a candidate at an election belongs. [More…]

• But that, all must agree, cannot have been a matter for decision at an election for the Upper House in Victoria because it has no authority whatsoever in these matters. [More…]

• Was it a matter referring to meetings held or to be held in connection with an election? [More…]

• During the course of his reply to the honourable member for Newcastle, the Prime Minister stated that there was a certain ban on radio and television programmes prior to an election being held in the Commonwealth or in one of the States. [More…]

• It applied on one occasion to my good friend and colleague, the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby), when he was completely banned from the ‘Big Country’ show because an election was being held in Victoria. [More…]

• I am sure that the honourable member for Riverina on that occasion did not intend to campaign in the State elections in Victoria. [More…]

• It has been broken because the Senate election will be held on 21st November. [More…]

• Why is the Senate election being held on 21st November? [More…]

• I understand that it is because His Holiness the Pope will visit Australia late in November and nobody wants the Senate election confused with that event. [More…]

• I understand that the election could be held at any time until May next year, so if is not only discourteous to the people who run this place but, 1 believe, it is a breach of faith and a breach of the result of the discussions we held here. [More…]

• The lighthearted way in which this decision was made about the Senate election is what makes me weep. [More…]

• Because of the announcement of the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) to the effect that we would have a Senate election of 21st November and that certain legislation had to be resolved in this place before that election it was decided that we would sit for 4 weeks straight. [More…]

• Nevertheless, the only point I really wish to raise on this occasion is that honourable members will recall that earlier this week I asked the Prime Minister whether he would consider bringing the House back after the Senate election in the event of certain legislation not being passed or at least not being brought before this House. [More…]

• The honourable member raised a very important point about what the House intends to do after the Senate election. [More…]

• 1 submit to the House that if we were to deal with all of the matters that are on the notice paper this Parliament would have to sit well into December, even excluding the period that will be occupied by honourable members campaigning in the Senate election. [More…]

• The Senate election will be held on 21st November. [More…]

• Will these 465 questions be answered next week or will honourable members be receiving answers to their questions in December, after the Senate election, or early in the New Year? [More…]

• They are important issues that ought to be dealt with before the Senate election is embarked upon. [More…]

• Most of these motions relate to issues which obviously will be matters for discussion during the course of the Senate election. [More…]

• If the Government has determined that the Parliament should adjourn for the holding of the Senate election - nobody would deny that this must be done - it is within the power of thegovernment to call Parliament together after 21st November. [More…]

• The membership of the House of Representatives and, indeed, the Senate will not be altered as a result of the Senate election. [More…]

• Those who are elected to the Senate as a result of the forthcoming election will not take their places in the Senate until 1st July 1971. [More…]

• Generally they have a tradition of electing members of the puny Australian Communist Party which the voting public has rejected at election after election. [More…]

• The honourable member asked the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) whether he would see that this legislation was passed by Parliament this year and if need be would he recall Parliament after the Senate election to see that the legislation was put through so that a flexible reserve price scheme could be operating for the next selling season beginning in January. [More…]

• I pay a compliment to the honourable member for Darling for the interest he showed upon his election to this House and the gracious way in which he was able to have us received in communities in at least some of which one is not popular if one has been interested in the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• Whenever they can defeat the Government and so bring about an election, they are not prepared to vote against the Government. [More…]

• Their very existence depends on charitable handouts at Budget or election time and their standards of living are forever lagging behind price increases. [More…]

• More will be heard in the very near future of the ‘politics of the consumers’ purse’ in what could be a supermarket election. [More…]

• In the coming Senate election campaign the question of price control will be one of major importance. [More…]

• This amount will come out of the $50m over the next 3 years which was promised at the last election. [More…]

• To make political capital out of the issue just before the Senate election, he delayed this work. [More…]

• Nothing can be changed as a result of a Senate election anyway. [More…]

• Whatever happens in the forthcoming Senate election, those people elected will not take their seats until 1st July 1971, and the Government will be writing another Budget by that time. [More…]

• As to the second point involved here - and perhaps I could now answer the interjection - there is nothing in the 1954 Agreements or in the 1962 Accords requiring an election in South Vietnam. [More…]

• Is there any protection for political parties under the Electoral Act when a candidate for a Senate election becomes associated with a breakaway group? [More…]

• I believe, though 1 would like to look up the matter more carefully, that there is protection for a political party in a Senate election to prevent unauthorised persons from standing in that party’s name. [More…]

• Of course, the answer is that a Senate election is approaching and the Parliament is to rise at the end of this week. [More…]

• When I was speaking on the Budget I said that the holding of elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives separately is a waste of money. [More…]

• It costs the country about $l+m to hold the elections separately. [More…]

• It is certain that this legislation would not have been introduced and dealt with if the Senate election was not upon us. [More…]

• Yet it has acted only at this late stage because a Senate election is around the corner. [More…]

• The Government would have been content, in other words, to allow this situation to continue for at least another 2 years until the next House of Representatives election is due. [More…]

• We hope that the disintegration that has taken place within the ranks of the parties opposite together with the rebuff that they will suffer at the Senate election which is approaching will force any early general election so that it will be a matter of only 12 months or even less before the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson) stands on the opposite side of the table to which he stood this evening to present to the Parliament the Bill which will include the proposals of our Party for the wool industry. [More…]

• For example there is nothing to stop the Minister for Primary Industry from jacking up the reserve price if an election is close and he feels he is in trouble in his electorate. [More…]

• I have no doubt that after the next federal election for the House of Representatives there will be a Labor Minister for Primary Industry. [More…]

• The second fundamental principle required to be recognised in any realistic and serious approach to the crisis is urgent and realistic government action, not mere window dressing and confidence tricks on the eve of an election. [More…]

• The Country Party is desperate about the Senate elections. [More…]

• A second motion to oppose all Government candidates at the coming election was only narrowly defeated. [More…]

• Meantime the Government obviously is not aiming to fight the election on its chronic record in primary industry. [More…]

• A new and spurious bogy in the 35-hour working week has been whipped up to compensate for the waning market power of Communism at elections. [More…]

• Has it acted merely because there is a Senate election within the next few weeks? [More…]

• It is only because the pressures within the industry are so great, plus the fact of the forthcoming Senate election, that honourable members opposite have got to their feet to speak about this matter at all. [More…]

• The Country Party which would have some 20 seats in this House gained only a small percentage of the votes cast at the election. [More…]

• The Government, of course, wants to get this Bill passed before the Senate election. [More…]

• Is the Prime Minister aware that the Leader of the Opposition made no reference to the Australian Labor Party’s 35-hour week policy in his Senate election campaign speech last night? [More…]

• and Mr Whitlam in saying that the 35-hour week is an issue that should be discussed and judged at this election. [More…]

• When the Senate election is over we may get a report. [More…]

• However, as I will not be a candidate at the next election for the seat of Bradfield I wish to refute any suggestion that 1 am concerned with winning votes from people whose suffrages ! [More…]

• If this amendment were adopted it would mean that there would be an election to be prescribed by regulation and conducted presumably amongst the general body of electors in Canberra to select these 3 representatives. [More…]

• 1 am not convinced that it is necessary to go through the expense of an election in order to secure 3 persons who can adequately represent the Canberra community. [More…]

• If this would cost so much why not run it concurrently with the other local elections that take place in Canberra? [More…]

• For instance, the election of community representatives to the Council could be run in conjunction with the election of members to the Canberra Community Hospital Board or the Advisory Council. [More…]

• Here, on a very important educational body, it would be a very good thing if in the Canberra community there were controversies - electoral controversies - as to what ought to be policy about this place and in the election of these representatives educational issues would come into focus. [More…]

• We came in when the universities were in a state of crisis, when we had the findings of the Murray Commission, and we have come in at election times with Commonwealth scholarships, with science grants, with grants for school libraries and so on. [More…]

• In the resent election there was a tendency to discover something dreadfully sinister in a proposal of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) that universities shall be free. [More…]

• The Minister also draws our attention to the fact that the Government made an election promise to stimulate educational research by special assistance commencing with the allocation of $250,000 in the 1970-71 Budget. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to provide a basis for legislation in the programme of assistance to research in education which was outlined to the Parliament by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) in April of this year and introduced in accordance with the statement of policy made by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) during last year’s election campaign. [More…]

• in his election policy speech last year the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) did say that naval facilities would be installed over a period. [More…]

• I do not think that the honourable member’s gentle impeachment on this matter has any basis because the Senate election is a coincidence. [More…]

• The first relates to the question that was raised in what I thought was a rather doubtful or unpleasant way by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) - that we were being urged to get this report in so that the work would be approved before the Senate election. [More…]

• At this stage, while I cannot on behalf of the Opposition, wish Government supporters success in the Senate election, I will say that we hope they go well hut not well enough. [More…]

• But to all those associated with the election I repeat the Opposition’s good wishes. [More…]

• On 15th February 1 issued a writ for the election of a member to serve for the electoral division of Murray, in the State of Victoria, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the right honourable gentleman. [More…]

• The dates in connection with th; election were fixed as follows: [More…]

• I refer to the proposal outlined by him in his policy speech at the time of the recent Senate election for the provision of long term loans for primary producers who are in difficulties but whose cases are. [More…]

• In view of the decision of State electors at a recent State election will the Prime Minister now give an assurance that there will be no such restriction? [More…]

• 1 believe that it is not in the long term interests of Australia that this should occur.In his policy speech before the 1969 election the Prime Minister announced the Government’s intention to take the initiative in promoting and accepting responsibility for expanding the existing facilities for the instruction of adult migrants, to provide intensive full time English courses and to provide special courses in existing schools for migrant children. [More…]

• Throughout the current election campaigns in New South Wales and Western Australia the Liberal Premiers have reaffirmed their opposition to the legislation which Sir Robert - then Mr - Menzies promised in 1961. [More…]

• In preparation for last year’s Senate elections, the Prime Minister insisted on fulfilling not in 3 years but in one year a House of Representatives election promise which in fact was never made. [More…]

• These great matters should be tested and settled; they should have been tested and settled last November by holding an election for this House concurrent with the Senate elections. [More…]

• Those elections settled nothing, except to show the Liberal and Country Parties at their lowest ebb in history. [More…]

• The income tax deductions which we made in accordance with an election promise, partially offset by indirect tax increases, might be argued to have increased personal demand and therefore to have influenced price rises but, as at the end of the year, consumer spending had not risen unduly and was not a significant factor in price rises, and therefore the income tax deductions made cannot be claimed to have been a significant factor in price rises during that period. [More…]

• Incidentally, if we recall that halcyon election and look at the figures given in World Wide Inflation - A Study of the Phenomenon’ we will find that in the 4 years after the Chifley Government fell only one country in the world exceeded Australia in inflation and that was Austria which was then crippled by its post-war problems. [More…]

• The manufacturer, while paying lip service every federal election to the great doctrines of free enterprise and free competition, spends his time avoiding competition like the plague. [More…]

• Let us recall his somersault at the time of the Senate election campaign. [More…]

• He made his plea just as the last session of this House ended before the Senate election campaign but I doubt, from recollection, that he said it in this House. [More…]

• If honourable members opposite believe the people are not interested in the state of the economy they should look at the election results in New South Wales and at the number of votes received by the Liberal Party at the last Senate election. [More…]

• Yet disproportionately they are represented in the mentioned in dispatches area while on the other hand other people who have made a lot of money, who have been near the Government and have been no doubt able to assist the Government at times when it has been under stress, such as during an election campaign, have been disproportionately represented in the award of high honours. [More…]

• I am afraid 1 have come to the conclusion that the only reason why this battalion was dispatched in the last week or so is that the Government is afraid of its Democratic Labor Party allies and that it wanted to guarantee continued support of DLP second preferences at election times. [More…]

• It is quite clear that the next election will be closely fought and it may well result in. [More…]

• They want the procedures of the House to prevail; they want the policy of the Government to prevail; they want time to pass until eventually - perhaps before the next election in about 18 months time - the Government decides to increase pensions. [More…]

• This will be the position although as usual, we have had pledges that we have now reached the plateau, that the Minister for Social Services is mustering his posse and all his horses and that he and the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) are galloping off to the next 50c pension increase - depending of course on whether or not there will be an election this year. [More…]

• 1 suppose it would be rather nasty of me to point out that the loan was granted at the height of the State election campaign, and there seemed to be a suggestion of some political gimmickry at the time of the offer. [More…]

• It was paid on 30th June 1970, and the election was held not many weeks before hand. [More…]

• 1 can speak with some authority on this subject since I was employed in the investigation field of the Taxation Office for 15 years prior to my election to this House. [More…]

• I am pleased to note that the Commonwealth is not dealing with the expenditure in the same manner as the New South Wales Education Department did, when it apparently allocated funds for the recent State election campaign for political broadcasts on television. [More…]

• I fold Caucus, as I now tell this House, that on either 19th or 26th October 1966 at a pre-election Caucus policy meeting the Leader of the Opposition, who at that time was the Deputy Leader of the Opposition was Acting Leader and was occupying the chair in the absence of Mr Calwell who was unwell. [More…]

• Members were discussing election policy items and 1 had brought to the notice of Caucus an anomaly in the social welfare regulations in that aged widow and widower pensioners who had either a child or children living at home caring for their parent were being refused the Postmaster-General’s Department’s fringe benefits in those cases where the child was earning in excess of the permissible supplementary income a pensioner was allowed to have. [More…]

• Before the 1969 House of Representatives election the honourable member for Shortland was opposed by another gentleman for selection as the Australian Labor ‘ Party candidate for that electorate. [More…]

• If we go back to what happened in 1962 to encourage the introduction of this investment allowance we find that the Government had just received a dreadful fright in the election of 1961. [More…]

• Historically section 62aa was introduced as what might be termed a political douceur or sweetener to rehabilitate the status and the fortunes of the Government immediately after its hair breadth escape from annihilation at the hands of the Australian electors in the 1961 election. [More…]

• Four days before the State election on 13th February, Mr Beale and the wood chip company concerned, as hosts in conjunction, held a great celebration at Eden marking the arrival of a vessel to load wood chips for Japan. [More…]

• That reply is on the level of a famous statement by a Liberal member at about the time of the last Federal election and which put a- couple of my colleagues into this Parliament. [More…]

• I recognise that there are elements of nationalism in the Saigon Government which are worthy of election by the people and I am quite sure that had the Vietnamese been allowed to govern their own affairs they would have shared power in a coalition with other elements, whether they, had been the National Liberation Front, the [Buddhists or other political parties opposed to United States involvement in their country. [More…]

• I believe the reason for the bombing is a political one linked to the primaries to be conducted to choose the nominee for the Republican Party at the next Presidential election. [More…]

• What happened at the time was that the then Leader of the Opposition in South Australia thought that this was a good way for him to win the election and become Premier. [More…]

• This news was spread throughout the countryside, and Mr Hall, the South Australian Premier at that time, was defeated at the election on the Chowil laDartmouth issue. [More…]

• The fact is that the election in South Australia was like the election in Western Australia where the Labor Party received 49 per cent of the votes, the Liberal Party received 29 per cent and the Australian Country Party received 5 per cent. [More…]

• After the 1961 elections it had a majority of only one. [More…]

• On the eve of the 3963 elections the then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, brought down in this place the first flood mitigation Bill which provided for Commonwealth expenditure of some $8m. [More…]

• At that stage this is one of the election gimmicks which the Government uses. [More…]

• I spent nearly the whole of yesterday with Mr Unicomb the Labor candidate for the electorate of Paterson at the next Federal election, and 1 am confident that he will be the next member for Paterson. [More…]

• The Government cannot say that it has not had draftsmen available to prepare the legislation because this Bill is a simple piece of legislation which could have been introduced during the first full week that the Parliament sat following its resumption after the last election. [More…]

• The Country Party has already lost the seat of Casino in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in the last election and it was battling to hold the seat of Clarence. [More…]

• • and I am answering what has been said - that at election time the Government brings forward a gimmick. [More…]

• At the next election which was held on J 10th December 1949 - a month or so after the Snowy Mountains scheme was announced - Labor was thrown out of office, and it has been out of office ever since. [More…]

• Because the 1963 election was in the offing - it was held some months later - and the Government had an overwhelming desire to regain the seat that because its loss was like a thorn in the side of the Country Party, the Government finally adopted the policy that Frank McGuren has espoused over the years. [More…]

• We were able to come back to this Parliament and enunciate a policy, from memory, in the last couple of months before the election. [More…]

• Because the Government had a snap election on its hands is decided that it wanted to use our policy as a political gimmick. [More…]

• What disruption would an election now cause compared with the disruption already caused by the events of the last 2 weeks, or the disruption likely to be caused by the incompatibility and instability of this or any possible McMahon Ministry? [More…]

• They can be resolved only by an election. [More…]

• The election of the former Prime Minister did represent a recognition by the Liberals that the old certitudes were not enough. [More…]

• Not often can a Prime Minister embark so confidently on an appraisal of his own election promises made only a year ago as Mr Gorton did last night. [More…]

• On the day before the Senate election: [More…]

• The honourable gentleman made 2 comments as to why 1 had delayed appointing a ministry or why I had not agreed to an election. [More…]

• He said that I would say, first of ail, that there were too many elections and, secondly, that so far as a ministry was concerned, I had been the Prime Minister for only 5 days. [More…]

• As to the reasons there should or should not be an election, I believe that when we are speaking about this problem we should speak against the constitutional background with some knowledge of constitutional law and constitutional procedures and practice. [More…]

• It is only when the party fails that one can ask for an election. [More…]

• It is only when there are very special circumstances that the GovernorGeneral, on the advice of the Prime Minister, can call an election. [More…]

• When Sir Robert Menzies resigned and Mr Harold Holt took his place, did the Leader of the Opposition then suggest that we should have an election? [More…]

• When Mr Harold Holt died and his place was taken by Mr Gorton, did anyone suggest then that there should be an election? [More…]

• Mr Scullin did not move a no confidence motion and he did not suggest that there should be an election. [More…]

• They come back to carry out the policy speech that has been delivered by the leader of the 2 parties which have won the election. [More…]

• In New South Wales there has been an election of a new Executive but under the supervision of one of the members of the Federal Executive. [More…]

• As things stand, the Australian people have been suddenly given a Prime Minister who has never presented himself to them for election in that role. [More…]

• The only reason why the Opposition is going ahead with this motion is that it is so rattled by the way the election of a new Prime Minister has been received by the Press and by the Australian public that it feels that it must try to salvage something for itself. [More…]

• In fact, I believe that there was an election for the Prime Ministership immediately after the general election. [More…]

• Is the Labor Party trying to say now that if a Prime Minister other than Mr Gorton had been elected then, a new general election would have been needed to give that new Prime Minister a mandate? [More…]

• It seemed to me from the tenor of his speech that what he wanted was an election so that he could lead a government in this country. [More…]

• Of course, every time there is an election each individual is elected as the representative of his constituency. [More…]

• This is an issue which is decided immediately after the election. [More…]

• Immediately after the election the 2 parties on this side of the House elect a leader and there is no obligation on them to see that that leadership is not changed. [More…]

• He set out the reasons which he believed the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) would give for not holding an election immediately. [More…]

• Does the Leader of the Opposition imply that every time the leader is changed there ought to be an election? [More…]

• I know of no precedent in any major Parliament in the world for having an election in circumstances similar to those which have taken place here. [More…]

• The Prime Minister referred earlier today to a number of cases where the leadership of the Government has been changed without the Government going to the people - without the necessity for an election. [More…]

• If he is so anxious to have an election let him have one on Wednesday when Caucus next meets. [More…]

• Let him put his own position as leader on the line and see what measure of support he has in his own Party because the public will have an opportunity of saying what it thinks of Labor’s policies when it votes in the byelection for the electorate of Murray on Saturday next. [More…]

• Neither the new Prime Minister nor the new Deputy Prime Minister has led his party to an election. [More…]

• The challenge of an early election has been issued by my leader on behalf of the Labor Party, and I support that challenge. [More…]

• If Sam, the brother of the new leader of the Liberal Party, can beat him at everything except poker, 1 guarantee that my leader and his supporters can beat him at an election. [More…]

• An election must take place or our democratic system will be further weakened. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) suggested that because there is a new Prime Minister there should be a new election. [More…]

• But it is worth asking the rhetorical question: ‘Why does the Leader of the Opposition want an election?’ [More…]

• What of the howl of dismay that went up during the last Senate election campaign when Mr Whitlam dipped into his Pandora’s box of tricks and pulled out Indonesia as the forward line of defence? [More…]

• Then, of course, during an election campaign it is London to a brick that somebody will make a most damaging statement. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition is a practised giver and receiver of the shock announcement during an election campaign. [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister to tell the House what action he intends to take to give effect to the timeworn election promises to decentralise industry and population in Australia. [More…]

• In the policy speech for the 1969 election a promise was made to co-operate with the States and when that survey is completed - these are the actual words - the States and ourselves will discuss the assistance we should each provide to promote the further development of education in all schools’. [More…]

• A responsible approach to this matter requires that we should act in cooperative federalism in just the way we are doing and in furtherance of the promise made before the 1969 election. [More…]

• This is not good enough and the survey of educational needs should have been a spur and a whip to get the Government doing something more than giving the answers it has been giving for years and which the Australian people are getting heartily sick of and will no longer tolerate, as they will demonstrate at the next general election. [More…]

• They were interested in new initiatives from Australia to increase the trade which has been static for some years- The Indian Government wanted to do this and awaited an Australian initiative but they were in the middle of a general election and obviously did not want to operate publicly, and direct attention to the shortcomings in their economy. [More…]

• Does the Prime Minister recall that his predecessor at the opening of the last Senate election campaign promised that the Government would bring in legislation to inplement proposals for more help for the sick aged in nursing homes? [More…]

• If the honourable member for Wimmera wants to fight the next election on the present situation in regard to wool he may do so, and I wish him luck because he will need it. [More…]

• Shortly after the Commission was set up a Senate election was held. [More…]

• Just prior to that election we noticed that there was a slight firming in wool prices. [More…]

• Of course, it is well known now that the price of wool did not continue to firm after the Senate elections. [More…]

• My predecessor, the late Mr Jim Fraser, campaigned strongly on this issue during the 1969 Federal election. [More…]

• Taking the story further, one comes to the by-election of May 1970 when the Attorney-General (Mr Hughes) announced out of the blue that it was the intention of the Government to set up an independent law reform commission, notwithstanding the fact that for about 6 years there had been a persistent demand for the setting up of such a body. [More…]

• Territory - the impression that it had all the features of an election gimmick. [More…]

• Although there was some delay on the part of the Committee in conducting this inquiry because of the Senate election, the fads are clear :t llC once again we have been asked to consider a proposal whose timetable has lagged badly. [More…]

• Prior to my election to this Parliament I had some experience in looking after the welfare of prison officers, social welfare officers and psychiatric nurses, particularly those charged with the care of people whom I might loosely term as criminal mental defectives. [More…]

• I also ask whether he has ever conferred with any of the present Premiers on the restrictive practices legislation which the Menzies Government promised in March I960, and in particular on the steps to eliminate resale price maintenance which Sir Garfield Barwick detailed several times when Attorney-General and which Sir Robert Menzies promised to introduce during the 1961 and 1963 election campaigns. [More…]

• Now there is Mr Chaney who was defeated at the last election. [More…]

• The people who would love to dispose of those honourable members are not likely to come back here after the 1972 election. [More…]

• Obviously he has been backing and filling over the last few days - almost since- his election - on what changes he will make, what moves he will make, whether he will be able to fit the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) into a ministerial position without incurring the wrath of a great number of other members of the Party, whether the numbers game can continue to be played in his favour and a whole host of other things.- [More…]

• Party are never told what they are to do but who has gone on record in the last week or so as making off post haste after his election as Prime Minister to confer with the top leaders of the Liberal Party. [More…]

• Recently there was an’ election in Western Australia, which may be news to people who live in the eastern States, especially those who read only the Sydney Daily Telegraph’. [More…]

• However, the result of the election for the Legislative Council in the Western Australian Parliament was 5 seats for the Labor Party and 10 for the combined Liberal and Country Parties. [More…]

• By combining seats together in this way it is ensured that 9 anti-Labor members will be returned to the upper House at each election and 5 Labor members) with one seat doubtful. [More…]

• Of course, that would be bad enough but there was such a swing to Labor in Western Australia at the last election that the Australian Labor Party came within an ace of winning a number of those upper House seats. [More…]

• The only way it will ever succeed is by securing 65 per cent to 70 per cent of the vote at 2 consecutive elections, so giving Labor a narrow margin. [More…]

• I believe that Labor’s only hope, if preferential voting is not abandoned altogether, is for the Parliament of Western Australia - and I would hope other Parliaments in Australia - to accept optional preference voting whereby people would not be forced to record a vote in order of preference for each candidate who is standing for election. [More…]

• If they desired, they could vote for one person, two persons or three right up to the total number of candidates which, in some instances in the last election, was 7. [More…]

• However the metropolitan areas within those electorates have grown to such an extent that they will be won by the Australian Labor Party at the next election. [More…]

• We polled more votes at the last Federal election than the collection of nondescripts who govern the country from that side of the House at this stage. [More…]

• In November 1970 the then Prime Minister charing his campaign on the Senate election made further statements in relation to this matter. [More…]

• I come back to the matter which was initiated by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), namely, that this Government has delayed acting on recommendations and, indeed, has failed to fulfil the undertaking it has given on the hustings to the people of Australia at election time. [More…]

• During the last session of the previous Parliament, the then Minister informed the House that a review of the provisions, of the Commonwealth Electoral Act and the Regulations thereunder had been in progress for some time, and that, although it was not possible to reach the point where amendments to the Act could be presented, to the Parliament for consideration before: the 1969 House of Representatives election, the Government’s intention. [More…]

• was that the review should be resumed immediately after the elections and taken to finality as soon as possible. [More…]

• I refer to the provision which deals with the position of a member of the Legislative Council for the Northern Territory who wishes to be nominated for election to the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]

• Section 70 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act debars a person from nominating for election to the Commonwealth Parliament if he is, at the date of nomination, or has been within 14 days prior to the date of nomination, a member of the Parliament of a State. [More…]

• Just as it has been thought wise that the member of a State legislature should not be eligible to stand for election to this Parliament, so it is considered that a member of the Legislature of the Northern Territory should not be able to nominate. [More…]

• Provision is also made in the Bill to prevent a person from becoming a candidate for two or more Federal elections held on the same day. [More…]

• At the 1969 Federal elections, a person in South Australia - I am sure well known to the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) - nominated as a candidate in the Senate election to fill a casual vacancy in that State as well as for the House of Representatives in the Division of Hindmarsh. [More…]

• While the consent and declaration imply that a person may not become a candidate at more than one election held on the same day, a returning officer has no alternative where a person makes the required declaration other than to accept the nomination and leave the question to be decided in a court of disputed returns. [More…]

• In the South Australian case, an impossible situation would have resulted had the dual nominee been successful in both elections - certainly challenges would have been mounted in the court and most likely fresh elections would have been ordered. [More…]

• The proposed new provisions, if they become law, will operate to invalidate nominations of the same person as a candidate at two or more elections held on the same day, unless that person withdraws his consent to the earlier nomination before consenting to a further nomination. [More…]

• Concern has been expressed in the past at the possibility of a candidate assuming the name of, say, the sitting member, primarily for the purpose of gaining some political advantage at an election and thereby causing confusion in the minds of the electors. [More…]

• At the Victorian Senate election held on 26th November 1966, how-to-vote cards obviously intended to mislead voters as to the political affiliation of certain candidates were printed and distributed. [More…]

• It is therefore proposed to prohibit any person who has at any time by act or statement announced himself, or allowed himself to be put forward, as a candidate for election, from making a gift, donation, prize, etc. [More…]

• After each election, every candidate is required to submit to the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State a return of his electoral expenses. [More…]

• In addition, every organisation which has incurred expenses in an election is required to file a return with the Commonwealth Electoral Officer. [More…]

• With respect to expenses by candidates, it has been argued that the present limits of $1,000 in the case of a Senate election and $500 in the case of a House of Representatives election are insufficient by present day standards. [More…]

• No expense returns are required in respect of State elections in New South Wales, Queensland or South Australia. [More…]

• After very careful consideration, the Government concluded that no good purpose is being served by limiting the amount which may be expended by a candidate at an election or by the submission of returns of expenses. [More…]

• I now turn to a matter which causes some concern on the occasion of every election. [More…]

• This restriction applies irrespective of whether the building or place is, or is not, a public place, and consequently, it is a contravention of the law to exhibit such a poster within a room being used for an election meeting, although relief from the 1,200 square inches restriction is given in respect of signs on or at the office or committee room of a candidate or political party. [More…]

• Under a provision proposed by this Bill, the exhibition of an electoral poster of any size will be permitted at a meeting held within a building in connection with an election or referendum. [More…]

• The present definition of ‘candidate’ is inappropriate where an election is uncontested. [More…]

• Accordingly, by this Bill the words day fixed for the polling for the election’ are to be inserted in lieu of ‘day of election’. [More…]

• They cannot with any credibility claim to raise the money by increased taxation, because the Labor Party went to the people at the last election with a policy to reduce taxation. [More…]

• The Liberal-Country Party edifice will crumble at the next election like a house of dominoes, which is the fate it very richly deserves. [More…]

• I wish to record my emphatic protest that pensions and social services are still a matter of handouts at election time or when the Government is in trouble. [More…]

• After all, the Government opposed it at the last election. [More…]

• It is still the same team that contested the election - or claims to be. [More…]

• We beg you to put into effect the policies and put into effect those portions of your rethinking and election promises to those who are most in need. [More…]

• In the present Queensland Parliament the Labor Party has 31 seats, although it won 46 per cent of the votes in the 1969 State election. [More…]

• So the present unjust and imbalanced electorate size will be maintained until after the next State election, which is due in May 1972. [More…]

• One of the Prime Minister’s tactics since his election tq that office has been to suggest that members do not have the right and should not continue to have the right to place questions on the notice paper in order to solicit answers from Ministers. [More…]

• This statement expresses the basic principles of a democratic society, that there should be free elections and that those elections should reflect the will of the majority. [More…]

• However, it is true to say that gerrymandering of electoral boundaries, voting systems and the position of candidates’ names on the ballot paper have a great influence on the election result and can defeat the majority view, irrespective of the will of the people or the policy of the candidates. [More…]

• This Bill seeks to preserve the basis of democratic elections by ensuring that those elected individually or as a government shall reflect the wishes of the majority. [More…]

• Its purpose is not designed for the advantages of any party or individual but, by an amendment of the Commonwealth Electoral Act, to provide for a truly democratic election to the House of Representatives. [More…]

• To amend it completely, both for Senate and House of Representatives elections, is a major undertaking. [More…]

• On the election of a Labour government next year immediate steps will be taken to redraft the Electoral Act to meet the changing needs of our time and to bring it into line with what has been found necessary in other. [More…]

• Pending this review of the Act, the Opposition proposes these three major amendments as the basis on which a democratic vote may be registered by the people of Australia in the election of their government. [More…]

• Only the Country Party will wholeheartedly support the principle of rural weighing, giving country voters a louder voice in the election of Parliament and Government than their numbers warrant. [More…]

• The Country Parly has never polled more than 10.9 per cent of the total vote at any House of Representatives election from 1949; yet it has invariably held anything from 15 to 20 seats in a House of 124, and 6 portfolios in a Ministry of between 20 and 25. [More…]

• Does it mean half the number of votes plus one or a majority for any of the candidates contesting the election? [More…]

• experience has shown that the system so applied permits the development of strong third parties and indeed the adoption of the alternative vote in Australia has been largely due to the pressure of the Country Party for a method by which they could contest elections against older non-Labor parties without running the risk of putting the Labor Party into office. [More…]

• In 1961 the Labor Party polled 2,534,640 votes, or 46.76 per cent of the votes, and in 1969 polled 2,870,792, or 46.95 per cent of the votes, in both cases having a clear majority over the combined totals of the present Government Parties, but was defeated in the elections. [More…]

• In the recent State election in New South Wales under this system the Labor Party gained a majority of 70,000 votes over the Liberals but is still out of office. [More…]

• Had first past the post voting been in force in the Commonwealth sphere in 1961 democracy would have been served by the election of a Labor government with a majority of 8 instead of a minority of one. [More…]

• In the present Parliament, if a first past the post system had been in force at the 1969 elections Labor would hold 70 seats, or a majority of 15 over its opponents, instead of a minority of 7. [More…]

• J ask leave of the House to incorporate in Hansard documents prepared by the Legislative Research Service, being a summary of Federal elections since 1958 under the preferential and first past the post systems. [More…]

• Preferential voting allows minority or splinter groups to decide the result of elections both for the member and the Government. [More…]

• This happened when the Communist Party preferences elected the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) in the 1961 election. [More…]

• The Democratic Labor Party represents a very practical example of the manipulation of the preferential voting system and the election of minority governments, lt claims to be a Labor Party, picks candidates where possible to be first on the ballot paper and allocates its preferences to non-Labor candidates. [More…]

• Because of the exploitation of the preferential voting system as exemplified by splinter groups, 2 other changes are necessary - change in the voting method to prevent the’ election of minorities and a draw for the position of a candidate’s name on the ballot paper. [More…]

• What was the (a) number and (b) percentage of informal votes in each electoral Division in Australia in the last Senate election. [More…]

• What was the (a) number and (b) percentage of informal votes in (i) each State and (ii) Australia in the last Senate election. [More…]

• For those who say that preferential voting is the only safeguard against the election of minority government, we have to accept the argument that every government elected between 1901 and 1918 in Australia came under this category. [More…]

• This in fact indicates support for the ‘first past the post’ system where a democratic election would have given the people the candidate of their choice. [More…]

• Election results indicate that the No. [More…]

• 1 position on occasions decides the election result. [More…]

• For instance, at the last Federal elections, in New South Wales alone that party had 32 candidates of whom 20 were placed on top of the ballot paper. [More…]

• In the Senate elections a draw is made for positions on the ballot paper. [More…]

• It is recognised as fair and equitable and there appears to be no reason why the same principle should not apply in House of Representatives elections. [More…]

• There is no reason why a person named Smith, for instance, should be at any disadvantage with, say, a person named Brown in an election. [More…]

• I am certain that there is a clear system of selection by the Government to produce candidates whose surnames begin with the letter higher than that of the sitting member. [More…]

• The real test of an electoral system is whether the outcome of an election truly reflects the wishes of the majority of the electors in the electorate in which the election is being held. [More…]

• However, where there are more than 2 candidates this can have a most serious effect in that it can and does lead to the election of a candidate who is supported by only a minority of the electors. [More…]

• He points out that in the election for the Legislative Council held this year the Labor Party polled 50 per cent of the votes and gained 5 seats while the Liberal Party-Country Party coalition polled 35 per cent of the votes and gained 10 seats. [More…]

• In Queensland in the election of that year the Labor Party polled 337,928 votes and gained 26 seats. [More…]

• This trend was particularly evident at the last election. [More…]

• Such a proposition, however, may appeal to the Prime Minister as an ideal way of creating the kind of political climate in which an election may be fought with political advantage to the Government. [More…]

• Such reckless irresponsibility and blatant political opportunism as this will backfire on the Government because the public will be intelligent enough to realise that an election fought in such a climate will resolve nothing. [More…]

• If the Government can win the next election the law will remain the same after the election as it is now and the ACTU’s resolve to resist to the utmost this pernicious law will remain the same. [More…]

• Before the 1969 House of Representatives election - [More…]

• This and the fact that the Government was very nearly tossed out at the last general election are the reasons why the Government has had another look at the politics of the situation. [More…]

• Is it properly regarded as a right or a charity?Is it a measure for the good of the recipients or for the good of politicians who are short of something to say at election time or, on more recent precedent, during motions of no confidence? [More…]

• The Australian political parties have been notorious for the way they have forced pensioners to look anxiously for election year because, and I say this quite impartially as it applies to all parties in Australia, that is the time when pensioners may expect some increase in their pensions. [More…]

• There are 14 countries and there may well be more which make automatic adjustments, not at the behest of a Prime Minister desperate to hang on to his position or in the face of an impending election, but regularly and automatically in relation to a fixed index, whether it be cost of living or the average wage in the community. [More…]

• I can tell the House that only a few days before the last election the person who represented the electorate of Sturt had eviction orders served on pensioners occupying homes that had been provided for them. [More…]

• I remember that over 20 years in election campaigns and at other times members of the Opposition have been saying 2 things: Firstly, that the Government was driving wages down, and, secondly, that there would be colossal unemployment. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the former Prime Minister undertook in his 1969 election policy speech to establish a Bureau of Transport Economics and to take measures to reduce transport costs? [More…]

• The only way the differences can be papered over at election time is by saying as little as possible, by omitting (as did Mr Whitlam) any mention of the ANZUS or SEATO treaty, by neglecting (as did Mr Whitlam) to express any opinion on such urgent controversies as the recognition of China or Russia’s proposed Asian collective security system. [More…]

• We put on a naval exercise in the west at the time of a Senate election. [More…]

• The men concerned say they were there because of the Senate election. [More…]

• The Commission further determined that during the election period in .1968, it would not allocate time on its stations to political parties. [More…]

• It was an election gimmick chosen as a sop to be thrown to the people of Canberra to win a by-election. [More…]

• Rolls for use at elections must be brought up-to-date with the official rolls held by the Electoral Registrars and these up-dated copies constitute the Certified Lists for use in the polling booths. [More…]

• The number of Certified Lists prepared for an election must match the number of polling places for a Subdivision. [More…]

• If a Division roll comprised a single alphabetical list of names, the preparation of the Certified Lists would be a tremendous task on the occasion of an election, except where the rolls could be printed as at the issue of the Writs, as there are more than 150 polling places in some Divisions. [More…]

• As soon as the election has passed the same ministerial gentlemen, acting on behalf of the Australian Government, spend their time wooing China in an endeavour to retain that nations goodwill. [More…]

• Who will ever forget the fanatical hate campaign which was launched against Labor in the 1966 Federal election campaign and which revolved round a map depicting China, South-East Asia and Australia with red arrows emanating from China and engulfing Australia, indicating that China was ready to invade Australia? [More…]

• In a television interview given immediately after his election to the leadership of the Australian Country Party, the text of which was released on Sunday, 7th February 1971, in answer to a question Mr Anthony said: [More…]

• Each election time the threat becomes worse and the invasion imminent but between elections the Government has reaped the benefit of what is largely a oneway trade. [More…]

• It was not put to the people at the House of Representatives election at the end of 1969 or the Senate election at the end of last year. [More…]

• I have heard the continual cry of riot, revolution, danger and sedition which has been going on for those 15 years and for 6 or 7 years before that, since the election of a Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]

• That scheme was first announced by the Federal Government at the time of the Federal election in 1969 but there has been a very great delay in implementing it. [More…]

• Did the previous Prime Minister, Mr Gorton, undertake during the 1969 election campaign to remove all discriminatory legislation against Aboriginals by 1972? [More…]

• Finally, does the Minister now regard the election promise to abolish all discriminatory legislation as being fulfilled, or has there been a sell-out by the Commonwealth? [More…]

• The introduction of such a scheme was anticipated during the election campaign of 1969. [More…]

• The Minister will have to say to it: ‘I appreciate the money you have given our Party at election times. [More…]

• He seemed to think that you can win elections with donations to campaign funds. [More…]

• Suddenly, after a near defeat in a vital Senate election and after defeat of the Liberal Party candidate in the Murray byelection, the Government suggests that we need more Federal political laws to give us law and order. [More…]

• However, it should be added that in almost every election since the Dawson by-election in 1966 the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association has protested at Sir John McEwen’s use of senior officials of the Department of Trade and Industry to write political speeches and briefs while he was Minister for Trade and Industry. [More…]

• I believe that if the Government cannot see its way clear to repeal this legislation it will be annihilated at the ballot box in the next election. [More…]

• As I said before, the record of Mr Speaker since his election in 1967 has been outstanding. [More…]

• Since your election and often under trying circumstances you, Sir, have endeavoured to the best of your ability to maintain a high standard in this House. [More…]

• I remember distinctly after the 1969 House of Representatives elections that during a debate on the election of Speaker of this new Parliament at least two honourable members on the opposite side of the House spoke. [More…]

• Other honourable members and I have noticed a tendency during the course of the present Parliament, since the 1969 Federal election, for some honourable members to be provocative, to defy the Chair, to make too many interjections and to refrain from restraining themselves even when requested time after time to do so by the Chair. [More…]

• The purpose of this confrontation was political exploitation of issues of dissent for the Senate elections and for State general elections and State by-elections. [More…]

• There was also speculation that it was intended as the vehicle for a snap election, an election which, fortunately for the Government, never materialised. [More…]

• I preface my question by stating that prior to the last House of Representatives election a Russian Embassy official broke ali precedents and protocol in addressing a Liberal Party branch meeting in Canberra while wearing a badge to vote No. [More…]

• I ask: Will the honourable gentleman make it known to all Embassy officials that it is most unethical to take part in another country’s political elections? [More…]

• Of course, we regret the loss of life, and I can make it known here in the House just how much we regret that there should be bloodshed, particularly because, I point out, recently there had been an election in both East and West Pakistan and the Awami League had received strong approval from the people of East Pakistan. [More…]

• The Government foolishly believes that such a situation would create a favourable political climate for its re-election in a snap election more than a year before this Parliament’s term expires. [More…]

• Employers, however, are not willing to lose millions of dollars just to provide political profit for a stale, tired and arrogant Government that has held office continuously for 21 years and which knows that it faces certain defeat at the next election, no matter when the election is held. [More…]

• When the next election is held, that will be the sort of reform which this country will see brought about. [More…]

• If, as the Prime Minister hinted yesterday, he would seek an election on this issue” - fancy stooping to bring politics into sport - then the real issue will not be about a cricket tour. [More…]

• The yellow hordes and Red menace became a colourful election winning formula. [More…]

• East Pakistan showed in an election that Sheik Mujibir could get 167 seats out of 169. [More…]

• When will the Government implement the undertaking given 18 months ago at the opening of the Senate election campaign to establish pre-school child minding centres throughout Australia? [More…]

• The high cost of Liberal election gimmickry is nowhere more evident than in matters of health. [More…]

• Let me say here and now, as I have said publicly time and again during election campaigns and over the air, that I have the greatest admiration for the British people. [More…]

• Why do they not tell the House and everybody who might be listening and record in Hansard that there has been no election in Taiwan since 1948? [More…]

• It is ridiculous for people simply to say: ‘We will elect a government and then wait until the next election to do anything more’. [More…]

• Before the Senate election I was in a railway camp in North Queensland when he and I were both in the Labor Party. [More…]

• The Bill provides in clause 3 for the recommended increases in the number of open and regional members of the House, clause 4 adjusts the quorum figure for the House and clause 5 provides that the amendments are to apply from the date of completion of the next general election in Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• The elections for the 1972-1976 House of Assembly will commence in March-April 1972. [More…]

• The Government is anxious that the amendments to the Papua and New Guinea Act contained in this Bill are made as soon as possible so that sufficient time will be available for the necessary redistribution action to be completed and in operation for the 1972 House of Assembly elections in Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• We said at the 1969 election, and have continued to maintain, that States should be financed by the Commonwealth to enable them to acquire land to develop and sub divide and then sell it at cost. [More…]

• This Government has been returned to office in this place time after time with the support of 22 members from a small party which at a Federal election obtained only 8 per cent of the total votes cast. [More…]

• Has consideration been given to requiring the stations to afford reasonable opportunities during an election period for the broadcasting of election matter to all political parties contesting the election, being parties which were represented in the House at the time of its last meeting before the election period (Cf. [More…]

• The question of political broadcasts will again be referred to the Administrator’s Executive Council for consideration before the next general election. [More…]

• During the 1970 Senate election campaign the Government announced as a new Commonwealth initiative, as the honourable gentleman has mentioned - the introduction of a scheme to assist in the introduction and operation of child care centres of approved standard. [More…]

• It feels that by building up this machine and at the same time quelling the rebellion in its ranks it will be able to survive at the next election, whenever it may be. [More…]

• He criticised what his own Party has been indulging in for some years prior to his election as Prime Minister. [More…]

• I would remind the honourable member for Angas that he has moved the gag against mc personally some 30-odd times since my election to this place. [More…]

• Debate on this Bill is long overdue: Is the reason why the Government does not bring this Bill on for debate because the Government wishes to continue with the present electoral set up in Australia which favours a system which elects to this Parliament 22 members of 1 Party which, at the last Federal election, across the length and breadth of the Commonwealth, polled less than 8 per cent of the total vote? [More…]

• Last year, the House sat on 38 days totalling 398 hours, and this was due especially to the fact that there had been a House of Representatives election at the end of the previous year, with a number of measures from that period being left over to be considered. [More…]

• The intention of that legislation was that the trade union movement should cause more friction and more industrial strife on the waterfront so that the Government could have an election on that score. [More…]

• The extent of the distress which Labor policy has created is measured by a motion which passed through the House of Assembly by 36 votes to 11 and which stated that, if Labor won the next election in Australia and attempted to impose selfgovernment on Papua New Guinea without the consent of a majority of the people, the next House of Assembly should petition the United Nations to direct the Australian Government to act in accordance with the freely expressed will and desire of the people of Papua New Guinea, as guaranteed by the United Nations declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples, and by the policy of the present Australian Government. [More…]

• Indeed, the Australian Senate is at present finding a new and vital role in Australian government, and it could be that the particular needs of the local communities in Papua New Guinea could well be met with the provision of an upper chamber which has built into it the local and regional factor - perhaps by way of election to the upper house via the local or regional scene. [More…]

• Opposition has consistently told the people of Papua New Guinea: ‘You will have independence in 1972 or early 1973 should Labor come into power at the next Federal election in Australia’. [More…]

• A very interesting sentence in the report states that the Committee is aware that the election of a Labor government in Australia ‘could result in internal selfgovernment becoming a reality before the majority of the people are prepared to accept it’. [More…]

• Do they seriously think that an election every 4 years is as intimate a thing to them as the ownership of land? [More…]

• Does it want to use industrial trouble throughout the nation for its own political and election purposes? [More…]

• It stands for hasty decisions at election times. [More…]

• To make the 1963 election an election on the question of defence, Sir Robert Menzies hastily raced in to purchase the Fill on the advice of the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]

• I have heard about 3 of them speak out but they disappeared from here at the next election because they could not get the endorsement of their Party. [More…]

• If an honourable member opposite gets up and speaks against or about the Labor Party machine he knows that he will not be endorsed at the next election. [More…]

• I suggest to these members that they roll up that newspaper, stop listening to Mr Carmichael and Mr Hawke, and pay closer attention to what is really happening in this chamber because the next election will be a bloodbath, and the oncers should at least take away sufficient memories to entertain their grandchildren. [More…]

• On the eve of the State election in Western Australia the members of that organisation invited all the representatives of the political parties to be present on the platform to deliver to a very substantial gathering of women from rural areas the policies of their parties and what they proposed to do in respect of the rural crisis. [More…]

• This new association which is political as well as industrial but which claims to be non-party political proposes that on the eve of each election, both Federal and State, it will direct its voting preferences in certain directions in exchange for commitments and obligations by leaders of the major political parties. [More…]

• He won the election and he promised, of course, to introduce a moratorium, and to do all sorts of things in return for the preferences of the candidates of the United Farmers and Graziers Association. [More…]

• The political wing of the United Farmers and Graziers Association of Western Australia yesterday accused the Premier, Mr Tonkin, of not honouring a gentleman’s agreement made before the State election in February. [More…]

• It said that it gave the ALP its second preferences on condition that the ALP would take immediate action to alleviate farmers’ problems if it won the election. [More…]

• Spokesmen for the UFGA independent candidates’ organisation, which fielded candidates in 19 seats in the election, said that the Parly had 2 meetings with Mr Tonkin. [More…]

• Mr Tonkin had agreed to implement such measure immediately after the election in an early session of Parliament in exchange for the UFGA preferences. [More…]

• It was 10 weeks since the election and little had been done. [More…]

• House of Representatives: $2,500 or 3c for each vote cast for the office at the last general election but not exceeding $5,000. [More…]

• Senate: $10,000 or 3c for each vote cast at last Senate election but not over $25,000. [More…]

• New Zealand - The total election expenses of a candidate shall in no case exceed 500. [More…]

• United Kingdom legislation provides that all expenditures made by or in support of a particular candidate must be made by or through the election agent of the candidate. [More…]

• The election agent must submit to the Returning Officer a sworn account of all the election expenditures and a statement of money or securities received by the agent for campaign expenditure. [More…]

• The first Commonwealth Electoral Act (assented to on 10 October 1902) required a deposit in the sum of 25 to be made by or on behalf of the person nominated for election to the Senate or House of Representatives. [More…]

• 48 e 1965 (assented to on 3 June 1965) the amount of the deposit was increased to 100 in the case of a Senate election and to 50 in the case of a House of Representatives election. [More…]

• He did so under the auspices of the Government, after Mr Menzies had put such proposals to the people at the 1961 election and after they had been outlined at the opening of the Parliament in 1960 and 1961. [More…]

• Let the public recall that the Barwick proposals, which were put thoroughly and exhaustively to the people - which Mr Menzies, as he then was, put to the people at an election - have been described by the present Prime Minister as old-fashioned and cumbersome. [More…]

• November 1961 Mr Menzies, as he then was, in his policy speech for the approaching election said: [More…]

• I think that the honourable member might remember that there is the beginning of an election campaign in that country and that a number of statements are often made in election campaigns, even in this country. [More…]

• Also, I would like to take this opportunity of pointing out to the honourable member that in South Vietnam an election campaign is possible. [More…]

• Free elections can be held, whereas they cannot be held in North Vietnam, and that is one purpose of our presence there - to see that the South Vietnamese retain the right to have a free election. [More…]

• I would suggest that for administrative reasons this provision for election was repealed on 1st July 1967. [More…]

• An election under section 82z of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971 by a person to whom sub-section (1.) [More…]

• of this section applies, as an election duly made by that person under sub-section (1.) [More…]

• of the Superannuation Act 1922-1971 in relation to a person who has made an election under subsection (1.) [More…]

• a person makes an election under the last preceding sub-section that section S3 or 86 of the Superannuation Act 1922-1971 shall apply in relation to him; and [More…]

• of that Act, the election does not have any effect unless an amount equal to the amount of the payment, or the sum of the amounts of the payments,is paid to the Fund or to the Provident Account, as the case may be, within seven days after the date of the election. “ [More…]

• of this section applies may make an election under section 119u of the Superannuation Act 1922-1971 within twenty-one days after the commencement of this Act. “ [More…]

• The Board may, if it is satisfied that there are special circumstances that justify it in so doing, extend the period for the making of an election referred to in sub-section (2.) [More…]

• of this section applies makes an election under section 82z of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971, any election made by him under subsection (1.) [More…]

• The science laboratory grants began with the election of 1963. [More…]

• Like a lot of imperfectly thought out pieces of policy - the Fill being another - they were brought in for the exigencies of a particular election. [More…]

• I can see the competition growing from time to time, so that eventually in election campaigns we will be trying to outbid one another by trying to produce within the non-state systems the same relative expenditure as goes from State funds into State schools. [More…]

• What total amount was expended on each (a) television channel and (b) radio station in each of the States by each of the political parties which contested the recent Senate election. [More…]

• They are the men who will not be contributing to the Liberal Party funds for the next election, whenever it comes. [More…]

• There are very great and pressing reasons why we must have an election now. [More…]

• There will undoubtedly be various reasons given why we cannot have an election now. [More…]

• We can very readily, if we wish, this week enact any improvements in social services or any grants of rural relief, and there does not then have to be another election until June 1974 when elections for the 2 Houses could be synchronised and when, as my [More…]

• Up to the events of a fortnight ago everyone knew that the present Prime Minister wanted an early election. [More…]

• He particularly wanted that election to take place round about November - in, as he said, the second week of November which he thought would be about the time of the first test match between Australia and South Africa. [More…]

• He was thinking of an election in the framework of great violence, bitterness and disruption in our community. [More…]

• I put it that there are men in this chamber on the Government side who realise that to have an election now. [More…]

• We will need a strong Opposition after the next election. [More…]

• These are part of a grab-bag of policies which the Prime Minister seems to have improvised during the recess with an eye to an early election. [More…]

• In 1966 the Government campaigned and won an election on committing troops to the Vietnam war. [More…]

• The existing complexities of the war within South Vietnam will be complicated by the presidential election which is already disrupting political life in that country. [More…]

• It will be recalled that when a policy of phased withdrawal was first put forward by the Labor Party in the 1969 election campaign it was intended that withdrawal would be completed within 6 months. [More…]

• The Government won a tremendous majority in 1966 by persuading the people that we ought to be in Vietnam and tonight it has hopes of winning the next election by telling the people that we are getting out of Vietnam. [More…]

• Conveying to the Military Government oi Pakistan the conviction that the overwhelming election of Mujibar Rahman should be allowed to follow its normal constitutional path to the formation of a Government. [More…]

• How it would be stressed that Mujibur Rahman had 167 seats of 169 seats in an election conducted by Yahya’s government and that if anybody represents the people of East Pakistan, he does. [More…]

• But it did conduct this election. [More…]

• Elections were held throughout all Pakistan in December 1970. [More…]

• So following years of exploitation and the democratic election of a government, the Assembly was never convened. [More…]

• conveying to the Military Government of Pakistan the conviction that the overwhelming election of Mujibur Rahman should be allowed to follow its normal constitutional path to the formation of a government;- [More…]

• If so, will he for the sake of unity in the nation and in this once great Party - if I might coin a phrase - either call a general election, resign the Prime Ministership and test his standing in the Party at a secret ballot, or at the very least recall from the Cabinet in exile the honourable member for Wannon and Killen the magnificent? [More…]

• This matter came to a head on the election of the new SecretaryGeneral. [More…]

• When it comes to the next election this Government will see very quickly what the wheat farmers and woof growers think of its foreign policy on China. [More…]

• He is the Chinese candidate for the next Australian election; he is the Chinese advocate for the Chinese cause in Australia and around the world. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite are introducing McCarthy ism in preparation for the next election. [More…]

• It is going to be the China Premier election, or something of that sort. [More…]

• But let us make it quite clear now that if the issue of the next election is the McCarthyism which we have heard here this afternoon we will take the Government on. [More…]

• He was speaking to get Australian Democratic Labor Party preferences at the next election. [More…]

• He was speaking to protect his DLP preferences at the next election. [More…]

• He said that he could not take time off in the election year of 1969 to do so, but he said: ‘I am determined to do so’. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite have sat in this chamber as members of Parliament in the last few weeks as a result of the election promises of the previous Prime Minister, John Gorton. [More…]

• One of the promises which the Government gave during the last Senate election campaign was that child minding centres would be established. [More…]

• This is protection, of course, against certain political opposition during the course of the next election, no doubt in Victoria. [More…]

• After the first general election no Minister of State shall hold office for a longer period than 3 months unless he is or becomes a senator or a member of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• I appreciate that there would be anticipation on both sides of the House that the ins and the outs would reverse their positions at the next House of Representatives election. [More…]

• This Parliament does not work as effectively as it should because those people who serve on the Opposition executive, and those who will serve on the Opposition executive after the next election, cannot and will not effectively work with the assistance available to them when the Parliament is sitting. [More…]

• Currently, 73 of the 93 organisations operating hospital funds and 67 of the 81 organisations operating medical funds, make provision for the election of contributor representatives to their governing bodies. [More…]

• In the case of friendly societies, contributors are elected at society meetings and to be eligible for election to the management body the contributor must be a member of the society. [More…]

• In the remaining cases, election is usually made at general meetings of the organisation. [More…]

• It was about the time of the Senate elections last year that the Canadian Government finalised its arrangements for the recognition of Communist China anr) 2 weeks after that was announced to the world the Chinese announced that the Canadians had won a bumper contract, one of the best that the Canadian Government had ever pulled off. [More…]

• This is admitted by Mr Eric White, public relations manager for the Liberal Party in election campaigns. [More…]

• The Government used hysteria in the 1966 general election campaign. [More…]

• Mr Chou must be looking forward to an Australian Labor Party win at the next election so that he can extract his pound of flesh from its Leader’s glib promises. [More…]

• It is preventing the Government from honouring its election promises and is stopping it from fully implementing its 5-year plan. [More…]

• Well, the only reason why people of such intellectual incapacity bellieve that the Chinese will come down for the next election is this: They look at a map hanging on a wall and, because China is above Australia on that map, they think that the Chinese must come down to Australia. [More…]

• What a tragedy that led us to - hundreds of Australians dead - and we are leaving Vietnam in exactly the same situation as when we went there, with a dictator in charge and when even VicePresident Ky will not contest the elections because he says that they are too crook even for him. [More…]

• They certainly have not paved the way for the election of a democratic government there. [More…]

• The present unsatisfactory position in relation to the presidential election in South Vietnam is an immediately contemporary example of the sort of thing that I have in mind. [More…]

• Still speaking in this vein, if I think that the performance of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) in Peking is open to criticism and was in some respects, as I believe, not such as to serve Australia’s best interests, I must say that I feel no compulsion whatsoever to denigrate him as a disgrace to Australia or as the Chinese candidate in our next general election. [More…]

• I am very concerned about the fact that a short while ago it appeared as if the Prime Minister was prepared to sacrifice this nation by having an election after the cricket tour had been going on for a few weeks. [More…]

• You will not be here after the next election. [More…]

• As I have already said, the Opposition has lost 9 elections in a row. [More…]

• It is 16,000 hours since you were elected at the last election by the failure and misgivings of the people in the electorate of North Sydney and we have met for 1,073 hours of them. [More…]

• The whole situation is ridiculous, and I believe that the situation which has accrued since the last Federal election is a national scandal. [More…]

• That means that we have met for 109 days since this session began, as well as the one day when we came here after the last election. [More…]

• It is only occasionally that it is necessary to sit until 2 o’clock in the morning, and any honourable member who complains about that - I have no reservations in regard to this matter - should never have sought election to Parliament. [More…]

• If I may return to the point which I believe is most important in this matter, apart perhaps from the fact that things ‘.re considered to be impossible which have not been properly tried, it seems to me that at some point in time - it may not be now and it probably will not be now - all honourable members in this House will have to take their courage in both hands and decide that they will jointly, severally and otherwise risk the wrath of their electors at the next election, but they will risk it a good deal less if they act together, and say: Look, we believe that our prime purpose in being parliamentarians is to be here, to have sufficient time here or anywhere else to make constructive speeches, to do the requisite work and so on, and I will be available in my electorate when I can outside those times’. [More…]

• This Budget synchronised an election timetable and an economic timetable. [More…]

• At the time this Budget was framed, the Prime Minister proposed to have an election concurrently with a South African cricket tour in the disgraceful hope that there would be violence and that his Party would be the shameful beneficiary of that violence. [More…]

• It was set to go off after the elections the Prime Minister wanted, but now does not dare have. [More…]

• Because of the negative Liberal attitude to the federal system, the Liberal inability to operate that system constructively, and the straitjacket of Liberal annual budgeting, we have, particularly at election times, the whole question of finances and functions reduced to the narrow sterile limits of the question: Where’s the money coming from? [More…]

• Presumably most of this reduction will be effected by postponing establishment of the Office of the Environment - deemed to be a matter of urgency by the former Prime Minister at the last Senate election and as recently as last Wednesday still awaiting ‘final approval’. [More…]

• The former Prime Minister knew, perhaps from his own experience, that family farms cannot survive without proper access to long term, fair interest finance, and he promised therefore in his opening speech in the Senate election campaign that the Government would establish a rural finance insurance corporation. [More…]

• The truth is that the present Prime Minister’s extravagant attacks during the 1969 election campaign on the ALP proposals for a national superannuation scheme have made it impossible for him to accept this principle. [More…]

• At the House of Representatives election the former Prime Minister repeated this undertaking. [More…]

• The Treasurer’s answer is to increase a whole range of costs, to administer the medicine as before in relation to nearly every activity of State arid keep a domestic surplus df $630m, presumably in case of an election. [More…]

• I am convinced that one of the most urgent matters facing this Government is the introduction of compulsory secret ballots under the supervision of the Commonwealth Electoral Office for the election of all union executives, and the conduct of a compulsory secret ballot of all workers engaged in an industry before a major strike is called on. [More…]

• Compulsory secret ballots in union elections would put the control of the unions back into the hands of the rank and file where it ought to be. [More…]

• This Budget has finally convinced me that pensions must be taken out of the auspices of Parliament altogether and placed in the hands of an independent tribunal which will give proper consideration to the needs of these people and not take into consideration whether it is an election year or not. [More…]

• Is this yet another matter which is being saved as the subject for an election gimmick? [More…]

• these situations before, and how many election promises have been kept? [More…]

• We need imaginative action over and above the personal ambitions of Government members, above vote catching measures ia election years and above party politics. [More…]

• Americans, was responsible for the overthrow of the Diem regime has refused to stand in the forthcoming presidential election. [More…]

• Vice-President Ky who was feted at Kirribilli House in Sydney by the then Treasurer, now the Prime Minister, has refused to stand in this election because he has said that it is rigged. [More…]

• It has been revealed publicly now, although I have been saying it for years, that the Government led by President Thieu is a minority government; it had the support of 34 per cent only of the population at the last general election. [More…]

• In fact the most probable increase in unemployed after the next election will be the present Leader of the Opposition though I doubt whether that would be important statistically. [More…]

• It leaves the social services and repatriation pensioner in the position where any adjustment to his income is left solely to the whim of the Government in power, with the manipulation according to whether there is a possible election forthcoming. [More…]

• This was part of the policy enunciated by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) at the Federal election of 1969. [More…]

• Whilst the Government found it convenient to promise that something would be done on the national survey on educational needs prior to the last election, it appears that it has allowed this to fall into the background. [More…]

• I would like to place on the record what would have been the position if the Labor Party had won the 1969 election. [More…]

• I draw his attention to the election promises of his Party’s leader, Sir Robert Menzies, who, in 1949, promised the abolition of the means test. [More…]

• Before the 1969 general election the Government promised the people that if it were re-elected it would substantially reduce taxation over a period of 3 years. [More…]

• The conduct of the forthcoming elections in the Republic of Vietnam is the domestic responsibility of the elected government of that country. [More…]

• lt would not be appropriate for the Australian Government to publicise particular statements made in the context of an election campaign in the Republic of Vietnam. [More…]

• It hopes that by the time of the expiry of the provisions of this Bill the present government - if there has not been an election in the meantime - will have done all that it can to bring in a modern, comprehensible and accessible code of criminal procedure for all those persons and Territories falling within its jurisdiction. [More…]

• In regard to the date that is set - 31st March - if there should be an election before then the new Liberal-Country Party Coalition Government in power would bring in the Act which would put this back into force. [More…]

• Firstly, he had his plans for a snap election on a bogus issue completely disrupted by the Gorton episode but having in due course dispatched him he came back to face the House and in the process discovered such a drop in support for himself amongst the people of Australia that he was not game to face the people. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is inter ested only in winning elections. [More…]

• He took himself off to a conference and used the Springbok visit to make political capital and foster further unrest and brutality to create a situation favourable to him for an election. [More…]

• He will ignore the real issues affecting Australia and endeavour to run an election on false and despicable issues ignorning the mess in foreign affairs, education, health services, social welfare, etc. [More…]

• The Prime Minister hopes to divide the nation and thereby win an election and to hell with all the issues. [More…]

• It is only under such a system that we can make full benefits a matter of right and so get completely rid of the means test During the new parliament we will further investigate this complicated’ problem with a view to presenting to you at the election of 1952 a scheme for your approval. [More…]

• Is it not true that the Government did not increase the excise on beer because it got plenty from the breweries to run its next election campaign? [More…]

• This Government has held office by the use at election time of a number of issues which have divided the people. [More…]

• With law and order becoming one of the issues of the day - indeed at one stage it was thought that it might be an election winner for this Government - and even though this matter is on the lips of supporters of the Government, we find that there have been no fewer than 3 Attorneys-General in the first half of 1971. [More…]

• In what unions and branches of unions in each of the past 15 years has the Registrar received a request under section 170 of the Conciliation and Arbitration- Act that a union election De conducted by the Registrar with a view to preventing irregularities. [More…]

• In which of those requests grunted by the Registrar was the election actually conducted by (a) the Commonwealth Electoral Officer and (b) the Registrar. [More…]

• Does the Registrar keep a record of the number of man-hours spent in completing each of the elections conducted by him; if so, how many man-hours were spent in conducting each election. [More…]

• The total votes recorded for honourable members on this side of the House in the last House of Representatives election were far in excess of the votes recorded for the Government Parties. [More…]

• After the Liberal Party allowed and assisted the Press to destroy the last Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) the present Prime Minister endeavoured to suggest that it was his right as the new leader of the coalition to continue in office under the very shaky mandate gained by his predecessor at the 1969 election. [More…]

• Although it was always difficult to be sure exactly what was meant by the then Prime Minister when he used that term there is no doubt that the reference he made during the Senate election campaign late last year to the establishment of child care cum kindergarten centres did indicate his Government’s intention to make some financial grants to this level of the State’s education system. [More…]

• The Government has reversed the election promise to reduce taxation; it has ignored the pledge to pay special attention to the chronically ill; it has sabotaged the undertaking to establish a national system of kindergarten child minding” centres; it has failed in its social welfare programme to make adequate provision for those most in need; it has forgotten its indication to act on the report of the nation-wide survey on education. [More…]

• During the new Parliament we will further investigate this complicated problem, with a view to presenting to you at the election of 19S2 a scheme for your approval. [More…]

• There is the question of child care for working mothers and working widows, which was a feature of the Government’s platform in the last Senate election campaign but which has been let slip since. [More…]

• The one and only satisfactory method of providing a fair and just pension is to adopt the policy enunciated by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) during the 1969 election campaign - that is, that the pension should be 25 per cent of the average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• It was introduced because an election was in the offering at that time. [More…]

• Child endowment for the first child was the basis of great election programmes and promises by the Liberal Party in 1949. [More…]

• It was introduced as a result of a completely cynical election promise because it has never been altered since it was introduced in 1950. [More…]

• The honourable member has not been here for very long but similar speeches have been made by members of this Parliament who have since lost their seats at the various elections. [More…]

• All such agreements have been placed before the people of Australia and have been voted upon at elections time and time again. [More…]

• When one looks at the debates on the North West Cape installation, which was an election issue, and when one looks at the speeches of distinguished members of the Opposition prior to elections in years gone by, one finds that these matters were great issues. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Labour and National Service relating to the continued inactivity by the Government on its undertaking given during the Senate election campaign to establish or assist child minding centres. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman refers to a proposal in relation to child minding centres made during the Senate election campaign. [More…]

• Does he recognise the interdependence^ - the interlocking - of the 3 components of the plan which the former Prime Minister proposed at the last election for the development of an Australian film industry? [More…]

• Lastly, will this non-activity of another election promise, to use today’s phrase by the Minister for Labour and National Service - ‘this further piece of deGortonisation - threaten the success of the programme as a whole? [More…]

• He may be here next year, but that depends on when the next election will be held. [More…]

• He has been Postmaster-General since the federal election in 1963 and over those 8 years has directed his Department through a period of massive growth. [More…]

• I know that the PostmasterGeneral is retiring at the next election. [More…]

• I did read a statement that Mr Ali Bhutto had informed President Yahya Khan that his party would not be prepared to accept an enforced solution which deprived the people of their right to- vote in a properly conducted democratic election. [More…]

• Perhaps there is nothing more urgent than a fundamental review of social services and of methods for adjusting them; yet while a pledge has been given, it will not be realised this side of an election. [More…]

• The Prime Minister announced in my electorate that he wished to hold an early election. [More…]

• Another major achievement of the year has been the number of promises made by the Government during the Senate and House of Representatives election campaigns which have been deferred and which for all practical purposes have disappeared from the public record. [More…]

• It is quite obvious that many of the promises made by the Government and many of its statements in its platform for re-election in 1969 had and still have no meaning. [More…]

• If we accept that and accept what the previous Prime Minister put forward as election policies on behalf of that party we have to reject the projected theory that the new Prime Minister had the right to repudiate policies on which the Government sought and obtained its mandate. [More…]

• We were told at the time of the last election that this scheme would involve a very small increase for contributors. [More…]

• I should like to remind you, Mr Deputy Speaker, and the Parliament generally that that statement was made only 2 months before the 1969 Federal elections. [More…]

• Since that election, no extra assistance has been granted to independent schools throughout Australia. [More…]

• 10 for the next election. [More…]

• It periodically bobs up at every election. [More…]

• At the last election the Government did not want to have a politician commenting on the Fill so it got a retired air marshall, Sir Valston Hancock I think it was, to write in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ that it was still the most marvellous aeroplane of our age, the best thing on wings since the angels. [More…]

• If this aircraft will not fly I hope the Government will spare us another election on it, and tell us what it feels should be the substitute for the Fill. [More…]

• Are they a practical proposition or is the Government only stalling until after the next election so that then it will not have to make a decision about where a new airport is to be located or whether it will retain Mascot only. [More…]

• This has been fought as an election issue. [More…]

• We will fight the next election on this issue and we will say that when we tried to debate it here the honourable member for Cook and others - including the honourable member for Bradfield (Mr Turner) - did not have the courage to give us a chance to do so. [More…]

• It deserves to lose every Liberal seat in this area, and the next election will be fought on this sheer issue. [More…]

• As for the former member for St George, Mr Bosman, it was terribly sad that he took a flight with Air Japan or some other airline on the eve of the election because this issue in electorates is a vital one and it is one which no government can discard. [More…]

• At the last election I think there were 1,500 voters in Wyoming. [More…]

• I imagine that I could not have a better pamphlet to distribute at the next election campaign than the speech just rendered by the honourable member for McMillan (Mr Buchanan). [More…]

• The people recognise what the Government is doing - that it is just procrastinating, prolonging and fobbing-off the decision in the hope that it will get through yet another election without making a commitment on this matter. [More…]

• I should point out that the city of Ipswich is a fairly substantial section of my electorate and that the people there have for some years now voted very wisely at each election. [More…]

• The way that this Government is behaving with its anti-inflationary policies, and the fact that we are fast approaching high levels of unemployment, will blast the Government out of office even before the next election. [More…]

• The Democratic Labor Party stopped the former Prime Minister from holding a House of Representatives election in 1968 when he had everyone keyed up for it, including his own party. [More…]

• The Budget was designed for an election at the end of this year and the Government hoped that its bad effects would not be revealed until after the election. [More…]

• The skies are black with the chickens coming home to roost and whenever the next election takes place, sooner or later, this Government will get it where the chicken got the axe. [More…]

• It is such that the only man in their ranks who in any way genuinely understands rural problems recently cried out almost in anguish that the performance and decisions at the recent Launceston conference were such that it would be difficult for the Australian Labor Party members in marginal rural seats to bold them at the next election. [More…]

• This in itself makes stable government impossible and unless there is an election and a change of government the outlook for Australia will indeed be grim. [More…]

• This has all happened without an election, lt is no longer true to say in the Liberal Party that it is easier to get into Cabinet than to get out of it. [More…]

• If that is so I give him credit for it, but if that is not so let us see what happens at the next election to the electoral figures in rural seats held by members of the Opposition who believe that the economy now needs some stimulus. [More…]

• I do not believe he will be a member of this House after the next federal election. [More…]

• I am sure that, if it comes to an election, whatever other failures the Government may have the people of Australia will respond to that one challenge. [More…]

• At the following election the Labor Party had the support of the Australian people. [More…]

• Of course, this was done in the context of an election campaign, where election fever had to be generated over some kind of issue and the issue was the downward thrust of China between the Pacific and Indian Oceans. [More…]

• 1 would hope that at the forthcoming election there will be somebody who will take up in the electorate of Kennedy the issue of Vietnam and conscription, and the other important issues that face this country at the present time, as 1 did in the electorate of Forrest in 1966 and again in 1969. [More…]

• This occurred only a few days before the general election in 1966. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman will remember that during the course of his election campaign I visited his electorate and I was then well informed of the problem relating to pears and the canning problems associated with them. [More…]

• We can foreshadow that it will make a decision after the next election and not before. [More…]

• Is the Prime Minister in accord with a recent statement by his Deputy Prime Minister that an early election will be held in the first half of 1972? [More…]

• As this Government assures us that Australia is: primarily concerned with the democratisation of Vietnam, did Australia have observers in that country to witness the conduct of the recent presidential election? [More…]

• I have no wish to make any comment about the election conducted in South Vietnam. [More…]

• As to the first part of the honourable gentleman’s question, we deliberately refrained from sending observers to Vietnam because of the way in which we knew the election would be conducted. [More…]

• The question does not concern the insurance proposal promised in September last year by the former Prime Minister but another proposal promised by the former Prime Minister during the election campaign in October last year, namely, the proposal to establish a rural finance insurance corporation. [More…]

• If this amendment is not accepted, it will be ‘Goodnight, nurse’ for the honourable member for Denison (Dr Solomon) at the next election in Tasmania, even though his electorate is not an apple growing area. [More…]

• He purports to show some concern because he is afraid that the Country Party may take his seat from him at the next election. [More…]

• The time for the honourable member for Angas to have acted on behalf of his electors in relation to the imposition and the removal of the wine tax was prior to the autumn recess when he should have ensured that his voice was heard at Cabinet level during the time that Cabinet sat in its concrete vault thinking whether or not there should be an early election. [More…]

• He was a Country Party candidate at the election when he won the seat. [More…]

• We have a full employment economy, and this Government should realise that in 1960-61 when there were 220,000 people unemployed the Labor Party, for the first time since I have been a member of this Parliament, went within one seat of winning the election. [More…]

• No Government member is opposed to those industrial entitlements; if he were he would say so at election time. [More…]

• The fact that this happened before budgets almost every year - except sometimes in election years when taxes were not expected to rise - and that the companies could have trebled their savings by paying duty on all the petrol on bonded storage suggested that there was no leakage that duties would rise. [More…]

• I have been advised by a friend of mine, Mr Ashley Brown, the Australian Labor Party candidate for the Mitchell electorate at the next Federal election, that he attended a meeting of residents who protested against the possible closure of non-official post offices in the Hawkesbury Valley. [More…]

• We know, according to well informed reports coming from Government supporters opposite, that the plan of the Government is to provoke some confrontation with the trade union movement, not caring what damage this will cause management, in order that there may be created the kind of political climate which it believes might help it to win an election. [More…]

• Referring to the nationwide survey of educational needs, he pledged in his 1969 election policy speech: [More…]

• He referred to the fact that 83 per cent of medical benefit organisations and 77 per cent of hospital benefit organisations have provision in their constitutions for the election of contributor representatives to their governing bodies. [More…]

• The establishment of the Ministry for the Environment really had its beginning during the last Senate election campaign when the then Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), made the Government’s intentions plainly known during that campaign. [More…]

• I say the reason is that a general election is coming up in the Northern Territory on 23rd October for the Legislative Council. [More…]

• According to a Northern Territory newspaper, a Dr Dick Klugman, who I take it is the honourable member for Prospect, will go to Alice Springs on Friday, 15 th October, to assist an Australian Labor Party candidate at this election who is standing for a local country electorate. [More…]

• I hope that this is how we shall regard it, but in about 12 months we may well have an election. [More…]

• I know that many promises are made at election time. [More…]

• The only time that Mr Mackerras has called on me was when he had a book for sale that he had written - I think after the election before last - and he called on me endeavouring to sell me one. [More…]

• Your statement further went on and said that this was going to be used during the election campaign, which is a statement of fact by you. [More…]

• I did not know who told you, and the fact is that you involved me and went on further in your statement in this matter to involve the candidate against me in an election campaign. [More…]

• However they do not have much influence on local opinion and I am sure that when the results of the election held last weekend for the Northern Territory Legislative Council come out this will be clearly in evidence. [More…]

• When I was working last week in an area where the Aborigines live, the votes from only one ballot box in the Legislative Council election had been counted, and the colleague of the honourable member for the Northern Territory, representing the Country Party had received 39 votes and the Australian Labor Party candidate had received 152 votes. [More…]

• Urgent preparations for early self-government will be the main theme of the Pangu Party’s campaign for the 1972 House of Assembly elections. [More…]

• revealed this in the Pangu election manifesto he released in Wewak. [More…]

• Will the Prime Minister emulate his Foreign Minister by making a naive and nationally damaging election speech in New York? [More…]

• I ask the right honourable gentleman the following question: In view of the report of the Commonwealth Statistician that the census held in June last shows that Western Australia is now entitled to an increase in its representation in this House from 9 to 10 will he arrange for the Government to give early consideration (a) to a redistribution of the seats of this House before the next election; (b) to an increase in the number of seats for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory respectively from 1 to 2; and (c) to the passage of the necessary legislation to permit citizens of 18, 19 and 20 years of age to be enrolled as citizens of the Commonwealth before the next election? [More…]

• I should think that there is no likelihood of a redistribution being undertaken before any possible election, the present timing of the election being about the end of next year. [More…]

• I want all honourable gentlemen on both sides of the House who support the former Prime Minister’s undertaking to the people at the last election to support this Bill. [More…]

• This link has been repeatedly advocated by the Australian Labor Party; it was promised as part of Labor’s election policy at the 1963 and 1966 elections by the former Leader of the Opposition, the right honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Calwell). [More…]

• The present Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) made it plain during the 1969 election campaign that a federal Labor government would provide funds for the rail link. [More…]

• Mr Acting Speaker, as you will know 18 to 20-year-old persons in Western Australia have the right to vote and they exercised that right at the last State election. [More…]

• Now 1 am sure that you would have expected that, under that provision of the Constitution, 18 to 20-year-olds in Western Australia would be entitled to vote at a Federal election and that 18 to 20-year- olds in New South Wales, South Australia and other States, when legislation was introduced to provide to those people the right to vote in elections in those States, would similarly be entitled to vote at a Federal election. [More…]

• Because of that provision and because in Western Australia the right of this age group to vote had been exercised in a State election, I wrote to the Minister for the Interior (Mr Hunt) on 29th June. [More…]

• I asked, further, what procedures would be adopted in the event of an election if no instructions had been issued. [More…]

• We know that this qualification still exists in the election of upper houses in the Parliaments of South Australia and Tasmania. [More…]

• 1 think the reasons for this must be that the Liberal-Country Party saw that the first election in which 18 to 20 year olds voted resulted in a Labor government being returned in Western Australia and it has associated those 2 facts. [More…]

• If I have an opportunity later I will discuss what the Labor Party’s policy on land will be after the 1972 election, so as to make land available to young people at a reasonable price and. [More…]

• The prospects of carrying out this promise which was made before the election for the ACTU congress have receded further into the distance. [More…]

• Does the Government want to fight an election on that policy? [More…]

• It wants an election fought on racist issues. [More…]

• He knows the danger to this country, as do many of the more responsible Ministers, if this kind of election issue gets out of hand. [More…]

• I hope that the Government will come to its senses, because the last thing I would like to see in this country is a racist election. [More…]

• One can imagine how the Press corps of Washington and London will be agog at this news that the Prime Minister of Australia actually won re-election when Sir Robert Menzies decided to hold an election. [More…]

• What a triumph it is for the Prime Minister to hold his seat over all these elections. [More…]

• This has been a matter of great interest to me both before and since my election to this Parliament. [More…]

• Honourable members will recall, and the taxpayers outside are not likely to forget, that just prior to the last election at the end of 1969 the then Prime Minister promised the people that if his Government was re-elected it would bring about reductions in income tax, but now we have this Bill before us which will have an opposite effect and will increase the amount of individual tax paid last year by 2i per cent. [More…]

• But this Government is either concerned only with the rich or too lazy to have a proper review of the Taxation Act, and the only way that those people other than the wealthy can win is to ensure that they elect a Labor government at the next election. [More…]

• The prospect of an election is a great steadying influence. [More…]

• This has been suggested by the Acting Prime Minister as an election issue to save a government. [More…]

• I think in the last couple of days we hate seen the nadir of government administration and policy approach reached with the statement made by the Acting Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) that he expected that there would be an early election next year fought on issues of industrial relations because the Government intends to bring in such industrial legislation as will create trouble and cause strikes. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party has asked at election times where it is to obtain funds to implement its policies. [More…]

• The cynicism of this Government was exposed by the Acting Prime Minister when he referred to the possibility of an early election next year in the wake of trouble which the Government will create by the introduction of industrial legislation. [More…]

• At this point of time the Acting Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) is making repeated statements to the Press that there could be an election next year, fought on industrial issues. [More…]

• If there is an early election it will be because the Government intends to engineer some industrial disturbances. [More…]

• Is it now the policy of the Labor Party to help nobody but to take in large blandishments so it does not get too involved in election policy and can always answer either way with respect to anything? [More…]

• Was this the situation, or was it simply that the error having been made our friends in the Opposition saw their opportunity once again to strike a blow for those who they know are the enemies of Australia and whom they have been aiding and comforting for so long in the hope that they could secure some degree of political advantage to give them an opportunity to win votes at an election based upon the fact that they believe in their hearts that a significant number of voters are people bereft of courage, bereft of character and possessed only of the desire to avoid any threat to their own safety? [More…]

• We on this side of the Parliament are particularly interested in the remarks of the former Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), who said when he was Prime Minister that 18-year-olds would have the right to vote at the next Federal election. [More…]

• When all is said and done, an election for the House of Representatives will be held some time next year. [More…]

• The amazing situation exists that people in electorates in some States who have the right to vote in State elections are denied that right with respect to Commonwealth elections. [More…]

• When I was there some 2 or 3 weeks ago for the election campaign for the Legislative Council present also were the Minister for the Interior, the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair), the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr Anthony) and any other Australian Country Party Minister who could get on a VIP plane, to see what they could do to try to save the seat for the Country Party in the long run. [More…]

• Let mc quote what Dr Goff Letts, a Country Party candidate at the recent Legislative Council election, said. [More…]

• Humpies would be too complimentary a term for the primitive unsanitary kennels in which people live’, said Dr Goff Letts, a Country Party candidate in the Northern Territory’s Legislative Council election. [More…]

• I have checked and I can say that Eddie Connellan is not a member of the Australian Country Party and that Connair Pty Ltd did not supply free travel during the recent election. [More…]

• On 14th April, 1971, the Industrial Registrar decided that a request from the Executive Council of The Australian Workers Union that the election for Queensland Branch delegates to the 1972 Convention of the Organisation be conducted under section 170 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act had been duly made. [More…]

• The Registrar arranged for the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State of Queensland to conduct the election. [More…]

• I am advised that the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State of Queensland as the officer conducting the election has examined the information available to him and has given certain directions under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to enable him to conduct the ballot. [More…]

• Under the heading ‘Snedden’s straight bat on election wicket’ it states: [More…]

• 1 hold strong views that an individual who is taken before a committee should at his own election have the right to be represented. [More…]

• I remind him that at the last election a commitment was made by the Prime Minister of this country that Australia would develop an atomic power station at Jervis Bay, but it has now been abandoned at enormous expense. [More…]

• The Jervis Bay project may have been a successful election gimmick - otherwise that barren site at Jervis Bay is a monument to massive Government mismanagement. [More…]

• The protest is reaching such momentum that the recent Wollongong local government election was fought between the pro-Clutha and anti-Clutha factions. [More…]

• Will the Prime Minister emulate his Foreign Minister by making a naive and nationally damaging election speech in New York? [More…]

• I remind the House that it is not many months since the honourable member returned to this Parliament after a trip around the world undertaken within 2 years of his election. [More…]

• The honourable member may not be here after the next election. [More…]

• Is the Lady Gowrie Child Centre a model of the sort of kinder-Gorton which the right honourable member for Higgins said in his 1970 Senate election opening speech would be established oy the Government as a matter of ‘very high priority’? [More…]

• We have not been here longer than is necessary since the last Federal election - just over 130 sitting days. [More…]

• At the present moment the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) has just left the United States, and in the United Kingdom he has been doing some campaigning for the next, election. [More…]

• Mr Menzies undertook in his 1949 policy speech to devise a national superannuation scheme and to submit it for approval at the 1952 election, but nothing was ever done. [More…]

• Finally, on Budget night itself, providing an election is pending, the mountain at last brings forth a mouse. [More…]

• It is a procedure utterly degrading and destructive of human dignity which makes pensioners dependent upon the timing of elections or the downfall of Prime Ministers for a meagre 50c. [More…]

• I welcome the presence of the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) on the opposite side of the House at this point, lt is quite obvious from what the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) said to the House earlier tonight that the Labor Party is committed to a national superannuation scheme for Australia and that it will take prompt action upon becoming the government after the next election to introduce such a scheme. [More…]

• If in 1966 the Government could blandly claim in election material that the North Vietnamese going into South Vietnam posed a threat of invasion to Australia then possibly it could think about what sort of a threat could exist if the economy of India is not able to sustain the type of strain which is being placed upon it by this crisis. [More…]

• It was at least a merciful providence that the Indian general election was over before the reign of terror commenced. [More…]

• I call that Party the ‘Flash 8’ because at the last general election its members obtained about 8 per cent of the total vote. [More…]

• The leader of the Country Party - your Leader, Mr Deputy Speaker - frightened of the fact, I understand, that the Government will suffer defeat at the next election wants an early election. [More…]

• However, the Prime Minister got the word somewhere because I see that he is bleating off from London, or somewhere, that we can expect an election in March. [More…]

• Here is a Party, which forms a coalition government after receiving 8 per cent of the total votes cast at a general election, the leader of which is writing to 50,000 of his Party’s hard core supporters - the Party still hopes that it has that number of supporters - asking them to give the Party some guidance. [More…]

• What a great example of positive leadership from the adjunct of the Government - a Party which receives only 8 per cent of the total votes cast in a general election - to send out 50,000 letters asking for guidance. [More…]

• When I was there some 2 or 3 weeks ago for the election campaign for the Legislative Council present also were the Minister for the Interior, the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair), the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr Anthony) and any other Australian Country Party Minister who could not get a VIP plane. [More…]

• The favourite theme of members opposite is that the South Vietnamese elections are rigged, that they are no longer democratic and that they will no longer support them. [More…]

• But can members opposite tell me when the last democratic election took place in Mainland China? [More…]

• Members opposite cannot tell me when a free election took place in North Vietnam. [More…]

• Before the last Federal election for this House the then Minister for Health was saying that the Government’s proposed improvements’, as they were called, in the health insurance scheme would cost Si 6m. [More…]

• After the election we were told that they would cost in fact $29m. [More…]

• Earlier, just before the 1968 election, we had costing presented publicly by the Minister for Health which was allegedly of the Labor Party’s proposals on health insurance. [More…]

• It is not really doing anything to improve the community standard of health unlike the policy which will be implemented by the Australian Labor Party after the next Federal election. [More…]

• But we have this archaic set of rules, and my point is: Let us make a few submissions back to the Australian people, certainly every time on which there is a Senate election, because they are not so contentious. [More…]

• Mr Aikens said that the mid-election campaign of the Federal Australian Labor Party was financed by Marrickville Margarine Pty Ltd. [More…]

• The allegation made in the Queensland Parliament that the Federal ALP mid-election campaign was financed by Marrickville Margarine Pty Ltd is a deliberate and a malicious lie. [More…]

• The claim by Mr Aikens that I would not accompany the Leader of the Opposition into dairying areas because Marrickville Margarine Pty Ltd was financing the Australian Labor Party’s mid-election campaign is the height of absurdity and is a lie. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition, as every member of this Parliament knows, did not at any stage go into dairying areas in his mid-election campaign. [More…]

• This same gentleman who seems to specialise in attacks of this type - he is well known to a number of Queenslanders - made very serious allegations against me in the State Parliament on the first occasion when I sought election to this Parliament as an Australian Labor Party candidate. [More…]

• We will fight the next election on that issue and the Government will not win one seat in the KingsfordSmith Airport approach area, because people have their investments, their homes, their schools, their hospitals and their other amenities there. [More…]

• The Government is indicted on these issues and they will be the ones we will use to penalise Government sitting members and candidates for Sydney electorates at the next election. [More…]

• The Committee will recall that the Prime Minister, soon after taking over his high office, appointed a Minister for the Environment in accordance with the election promise of his predecessor. [More…]

• Honourable members are well aware that during the Senate election campaign the then Prime [More…]

• Yet here we have 2 Liberal members not even caring about the election prospects of the honourable member for Cook when they say that that is the place where an airport ought to go. [More…]

• I predict that he will lose his seat at the next election because of his advocacy of the destruction of the Royal National Park. [More…]

• There are critics, including my opponent at the next election, who say we should not have a public meeting until we have more information. [More…]

• When the Government is faced with an election, it has no problem at all in this respect. [More…]

• It is part of the patter of falling dominoes that always seem to start collapsing when the Government is in its greatest panic - usually towards election time. [More…]

• So Australia’s defences have just collapsed because the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) has come back, his Party is in disarray and an election is in the offing. [More…]

• Indeed, the Prime Minister has had to back-pedal somewhat on one of the issues which, hopefully, the Liberal Party was aiming to make the major election issue - the ever-growing ‘menace’ of the Russian presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• I am sure the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who is a great Red baiter and who is relying heavily on Democratic Labor Party votes at the next election, will flog this issue when he rises to speak tonight. [More…]

• The Prime Minister went overseas because he wanted an election issue. [More…]

• By using these means the electoral office expects the Northern Territoryroll to be as up-to-date as possible for the next House of Representatives election. [More…]

• In particular I ask: When will the Government proceed with the Territorial Sea and Continental Shelf Bill which was introduced in April last year on his behalf, when he was Minister for External Affairs, which was included in the Government’s programme at the election in October 1969 and in the GovernorGeneral’s Speech opening the Parliament in March last year, but which is at present item 70 on the notice paper? [More…]

• If we have any doubts about the appreciation by the people of Australia of this and other policies of the Government I suggest that it is interesting to look at recent election results. [More…]

• In the most recent election result at Ascot there was a 10 per cent swing against the Labor Party. [More…]

• The Sun’ claimed that Mr Dunstan acted on the conviction that the situation would change dramatically after the next Federal election with a Labor government in power. [More…]

• Let it be a warning to everybody between now and the next election when the Government proposes, as it will propose, new approaches to many of the current national problems that if this type of proposal is any indication of what the people can expect from the Government all they will receive will be the same type of treatment that they have received continually from Liberal governments over the years. [More…]

• We are very proud of our housing policy and we are proud that it is available in printed form for all Australians to know the proposals that the Labor Party will put into effect after the next election. [More…]

• It is time the Prime Minister took the matter in hand and tried to honour the undertakings given during the last Federal election campaign by his predecessor. [More…]

• I had reason to have a debate, in the University of Western Australia with my Liberal opponent at the last election. [More…]

• 1 think that there are enough elements in South Vietnamese politics, especially if South Vietnamese politics becomes an election between 2 people instead of the election of one person on the classic communist model which we are ready to deride when it is practised by communists but apparently not when it is practised by Thieu, lo ensure that from 2 candidates in some future election there will emerge in the South Vietnamese Parliament, if it still exists - and parliaments usually do not last long in Asia - some other element in the Government which will want to go into collusion or collaboration with the North, perhaps to seek unity with the North, and the position of South Vietnam may well be weakened. [More…]

• Consequently at every opportunity - during election campaigns and at other times - members of the other side of the House criticised this Party and its members for being disloyal, for being procommunist, for being opposed to Australia’s security and all those things that went with it. [More…]

• I do not expect them to agree with us after the next election when we are running the country much more effectively than it is now. [More…]

• I often hear people say, ‘Why do not you teach the youngsters in your schools all about politics and about how to vote so that we can cut down on the great number of informal votes at election times?’. [More…]

• On what date (a) was the last proposal to redistribute electoral boundaries for the House of Representatives announced, (b) were the reports of the Commissioners presented to the House and (c) was the next General Election following the redistribution. [More…]

• Usually some new snipper of policy is adopted just before an election. [More…]

• So we got the science blocks scheme just before an election. [More…]

• The honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) in trying to remember his careless raptures, which I would suggest were probably many years ago, suggested that the creation of the concept of science blocks was purely a political move for the 1963 Federal election, which is some years ago now. [More…]

• It is quite clear to everyone that the former was an election gimmick in 1963, and one which has been carried through. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), touring the country on his mid-term election campaign, had no economic programme at all for Australia. [More…]

• The Government takes this position because it needs inflation for its election policy. [More…]

• It believes that it needs to be able to attack wages and to attack the trade unions if it is to have any hope of winning the next election. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) went abroad on his celebrated pilgrimage to see whether he could dig up a suitable election issue. [More…]

• I warn the Federal Government against working up to a law and order election. [More…]

• It is just over 2 weeks since the Labor Party’s high-powered $20,000 midterm election campaign ended. [More…]

• He would not be here after the next election. [More…]

• Morethan that - it is rash to prophesy - I will be most agreeably surprised and so will a lot of people in Australia if before the next election the Government has produced any amending legislation to replace what it is ramming through the Committee here tonight.It will dive for cover. [More…]

• They should look, after themselves, and when they are next thinking of unemployment benefits they should put them up because a lot of them will need them after the next election. [More…]

• He is looking for friends because we all know that when Labor does not win the next election fearless Freddie will be back in favour steering the destiny of this nation insofar as he can as Labor’s spokesman on its immigration policy. [More…]

• Mr Askin, did not accept the Commonwealth offer until just prior to the election held this year and therefore none of that money was expended in the first year, 1969-70. [More…]

• After the election he took up the offer. [More…]

• However, just after this there was a council election and 8 of the 9 councillors were removed from office. [More…]

• However, another election was held and the council was removed from office almost in toto. [More…]

• Who will forget the famous election words of Sir Arthur Fadden, the then Leader of the Country Party, in 1949 when he said: ‘We will build the Burdekin dam’? [More…]

• There is a very good reason for having an Administrator’s Executive Council elected by the Ministers who are themselves selected, by a Parliamentary process of selection, by a committee of the House of Assembly which is elected by the House of Assembly, and that that election should be subject to the confirmation of the House of Assembly. [More…]

• They feel that they are just as good as anybody else from the point of view of experience, and want to know why they should be denied an opportunity to stand for election to represent these areas. [More…]

• They are from the same team and if we split them on a party basis one of them will be beaten in the next election. [More…]

• They are actually selected by election of the House of Assembly. [More…]

• For instance the voting age in municipal council elections is 18. [More…]

• The suggestion is that because of a long series of accidents - his selection as the candidate for Mcpherson; his election to this Parliament; and his selection, by whatever method, for the Ministry - he if suddenly endowed with the kind of wisdom that allows him to select from unknown people 2,000 miles away. [More…]

• Even if it does not run here yet, we will fix that after the next election. [More…]

• When will the Government proceed with` the Territorial Sea and Continental Shelf Bill which was introduced in April last year on his behalf when he was Minister for External Affairs, which was included in the Governments programme al the election in October 1969 and in the GovernorGeneral’s speech opening the Parliament in March last year, but which is at present item 70 on the notice paper? [More…]

• It must also serve as notice of an early election next year, with the Government deliberately creating industrial unrest for political purposes in order to deflect public opinion from the real issues, which are rising prices and massive unemployment. [More…]

• Just as the Government has failed to understand and solve industrial relations in the past, so it will fail in the future should the people of Australia be foolish enough to re-elect this inept and indecisive Government at next year’s election. [More…]

• The Government will alter the law regarding the challenge of elections that have been conducted by the Registrar. [More…]

• The Government will stipulate that a challenge to an election conducted under union rules shall be made within a specified time. [More…]

• Why else would the director of the Victorian Chamber of Manufactures, Mr Ian Macphee, have felt compelled to issue a warning last month that an election fought on industrial issues would lead to even greater social and industrial disarray? [More…]

• A Government that has nothing better to offer than a continuation of industrial strife and which then tries to blame unions for inflation, deserves to be thrown out of office, and that will surely be the fate of this Government no matter when the election is held. [More…]

• The recommended salary is linked to the proposal that there should be regular reviews of parliamentary salaries in future - held in the 12 months after each general election. [More…]

• The Nimmo Committee was set up within a month of the Senate setting up, pursuant to a promise I made in the 1967 Senate election that there would be a Senate select committee to look into medical and hospital costs. [More…]

• The Government having acknowledged the need to go into this field I hope that it will move as quickly as is possible, and I would hope that when we come back, discounting for the moment all the talk about an election later next year, we will be able to consider this legislation on insurance with some degree of tranquillity and some degree of detail. [More…]

• Above all, Sir, I say that honourable members on this side of the House who make up the Government will do all that we can to make certain that the Government is successful whenever an election might be held. [More…]

• Election policies are being talked about. [More…]

• It has been said that the Government may introduce its election policy by next March. [More…]

• On which occasions has the Industrial Registrar granted a request by the committee, of management of a branch of an organisation for an election to be conducted under section 170 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act for the election of delegates to represent that branch at an annual conference being the governing or rule making body of the organisation. [More…]

• On how many occasions has the Minister determined that portion of the expenses connected with the kind of election referred to in (1) above be borne by the Commonwealth in accordance with section 170A(6.) [More…]

• The Act does not authorise a branch committee of management to request that an election for an office in the organisation be conducted under section 170. [More…]

• Consequently, the Industrial Registrar cannot grant a request by a branch committee of management for the election of such delegates to be conducted under section 170 and there is no basis for the operation of section 170A(6) of the Act. [More…]

• If so, did he also note that Mr Macphee made the plea that the Government must resist the temptation to turn the bar table into an election platform. [More…]

• Australian Democratic Labor Party: Cost of Election Proposals (Question No. [More…]

• Did his Department cost the election proposals of the Australian Democratic Labor Party put forward at the 1970 Senate election; if so, will he give details of the costing. [More…]

• personnel be made available to ensure that ‘all subdivisions are checked before the anticipated general election towards the end of 1972; if not, why not. [More…]

• However, the Labor Party is not reticent about making exorbitant promises at election time, promises to help in this section of the community or in something else which would ultimately mean crashing taxation or runaway deficit financing. [More…]

• If the Labor Party is concerned about inflation it had better think a second time about these wild promises it makes at election time. [More…]

• Until these facts began to see the light of day the Treasurer seemed to be the logical Leader of the Opposition after the next election. [More…]

• If we measure the contribution we find that Hawke was responsible for achievement while the Minister was hoping to aggravate the situation as part of the plot of the Government to try to create industrial affairs as a major election issue. [More…]

• The Minister for Immigration who interjects, but who, without any conscience or without any sense of moral responsibility, has tried to inject crude racism into the impending election campaign centred about immigration policy. [More…]

• Here is the Government trying to stop the economy, trying to halt spending and trying to contract business activity and all of a sudden now with about 6 or 8 months to a Federal election it has to press the go’ burton. [More…]

• The Government will not care very much if its stop go policies result in another splurge of inflation in 6 or 12 months time after the elections are conveniently out of the way. [More…]

• It is the open season to attack the Government because this is an election year. [More…]

• If so, what action will be taken by the Government to ensure that their rights under section 41 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth will be protected in the event of a by-election in South Australia for a vacancy in the House of Representatives or for the next House of Representatives election. [More…]

• Finally, I ask the Leader of the Opposition: Is what he spoke about today but has not covered fully yet ALP policy on land rights for Aborigines or is it his own thoughts on the matter or something he dreamed up on the spur of the moment for political expediency to gain the support of the coloured people prior to the next election? [More…]

• This is, of course, an issue in an election year and so it should be. [More…]

• So the Labor Party does not have to apologise for the programme that it has espoused and which it is determined to give effect to after the next election. [More…]

• That reminds me that this is an election year. [More…]

• I am not quite sure of the motive of the mover, but it may be that that also is associated with this being an election year. [More…]

• It is interesting to look at the statistics and to note why this discussion is taking place in an election year. [More…]

• Why has this matter been brought up in an election year? [More…]

• This trend in itself should justify the defeat of this Government at the forthcoming federal election. [More…]

• He wanted to paint as black a picture as possible because he was afraid that the true position would militate against the Labor Party’s chances of winning in the next election. [More…]

• Nor will they accept it next month if this Government has enough courage to face the people in an election. [More…]

• I think it is reasonable to say that members of the Opposition seem to have in their passion - which I claim to be feigned - a degree almost of glee that here they see a situation that they can really ride on until the next election. [More…]

• I do not think that normal people - the electors of this country - necessarily are impressed when members of the Opposition, while admitting that there is a degree of unemployment today, add to that figure another 40,000 and add to it forecasts of gloom and depression so that anybody who may be thinking of having sufficient confidence to expand their industry to create new industries and new jobs will not take that action until after the next election. [More…]

• Is this part of the tactics of 1972 to bring about an election victory and to bring about hardship to the people of this country? [More…]

• By the time the election comes around the people will have had enough of this Government and will toss it out of power. [More…]

• The Government would not have moved to increase unemployment benefits if an election had not been pending. [More…]

• An important area of Socialist belief - price control policy - which eventually would be imposed on the leadership of the Labor Party, now has to be faced in an election year by the people of this country. [More…]

• Labor has always wanted price control, and however the matter may be glossed over in an election year, Labor would implement price control if it formed a government, because Labor governments have always resorted to it before long. [More…]

• I think the Treasurer has changed his position because now the Government is getting ready its election campaign. [More…]

• It will campaign in the election against the trade unions and against wage increases. [More…]

• They say that this is one of the main ways in which the Government is preparing for the election and I think the Treasurer has changed his position in accordance with that. [More…]

• What the Treasurer is putting forward now in his economic statement is not an economic policy; it is an election policy. [More…]

• Let us look at some of the results of this election policy and what it does. [More…]

• The policy is, approximately 12 months before the election, to impose credit restrictions and to restrict expenditure as far as possible so that what the Government identifies as inflationary factors will be deleted from the economy. [More…]

• Then, 6 months before the election, the Government is able to release bank credit, increase expenditure and to provide a budget immediately before the election containing many handouts. [More…]

• By this means, it hopes that it will improve its currently very low prospects of winning an election. [More…]

• I say that this is an election policy and not an economic policy. [More…]

• It is in the political interests of the Government, so the Government believes, to have industrial disputes and industrial trouble, to blame the wage earners, unions and workers for inflation and campaign for an election under more favourable circumstances in order to have the best prospects of winning. [More…]

• But a government comprised of political parties such as the Liberal and Country Parties which carry on electioneering and campaigning in this way and which put into operation an economic policy of this kind must be held to know the consequences of that policy. [More…]

• That is one of the consequences of this kind of economic election policy about which I am talking. [More…]

• Those are the consequences of what it has done in order to bring about stability in the economy and to give itself a better prospect of winning the next election. [More…]

• This is an election year. [More…]

• Let us realise, even though this be an election year - and I suppose that judgment tends to be clouded in an election year - that the fault lies on both sides. [More…]

• In fact, only in Queensland where there is an election to be held and in Western Australia where there is certain government action threatening has there been a slight reduction in interest rates, and that reduction is not enough, ft is about time this Government met its responsibilities by protecting young people and by giving money to enable people to buy homes, thereby creating a stimulus. [More…]

• We want to win the election anyhow and we have $630m of domestic surplus in the pork barrel to dip out to our friends’. [More…]

• He will recall saying on the programme ‘Monday Conference’ on 6th December last year that defence would be the key issue at this year’s election. [More…]

• If not, has defence been relegated as an election issue by the deterioration in the economy and the decline in the Government’s electoral support? [More…]

• Answering the last part of the question first, I can assure the honourable gentleman that defence will be one of the most important issues that the Government and the Opposition will face at the next election. [More…]

• I cannot help being suspicious when this legislation is foreshadowed in an election year, with the Government holding out the bait to industry but not introducing the legislation to bring the grant back to 50 per cent until the financial year 1972- 73. [More…]

• Now only a few months before an election legislation is introduced to extend the period for which television and broadcasting licences can be renewed. [More…]

• The period of extension will take those licences to within a few months of the following Federal election when a Labor government will be in office. [More…]

• The Opposition takes a great deal of heart, however, from the clear acknowledgment that the Postmaster-General (Sir Alan Hulme) at least believes that the Government of which he is a Minister will be defeated at the forthcoming election, and he is trying to protect the interests of his friends. [More…]

• The 10th annual report of that organisation for 1970-71 given by the general manager, Mr Arthur Cowan, makes critical or strong comments or raises doubts about such matters as the Australian content in television programmes, the future of musical and variety shows, the difficulty of children’s programmes, the veracity of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board’s research, the credit loading on good class documentaries and current affairs programmes, the restrictions on election telecasts, the criticism of television stations over cigarette advertising and the restrictions on Sunday morning programmes. [More…]

• The mass media does not give the Opposition a fair go but the Opposition still goes very close to the Government in elections. [More…]

• It gets more votes in Australia at any federal election than the Libera” Party and the Country Party combined but it is still not the Government. [More…]

• It is time that a firm decision was made and ensuing legislation brought down for the provision of equal free time for local government candidates, State parliamentary candidates, Federal parliamentary candidates or, for that matter, any person standing for an elected position of important community function where most of the community population has the right to vote or will be affected by an election. [More…]

• The third matter which is dealt with in the Bill relates to election telecasting or broadcasting and there is no objection to that. [More…]

• So, to all honourable members who will be involved in the next election, I can say that they will be able to have an extra 20 seconds in a 5-minute telecast as a result of this amendment. [More…]

• It is all right being cynical and saying that this is being done in an election year. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that since the election of the Menzies-Fadden Government up until the present time no fewer than 23 LiberalCountry Party members of the House of Representatives and 8 senators have received knighthoods. [More…]

• I should like to deal tonight with the position around Alice Springs from the point of view of the voting in the last Legislative Council election and to draw some conclusions and make some suggestions about how the next Federal election ought to be run if it is to be run more fairly. [More…]

• That article dealt with alleged shortcomings in the conduct of the 1971 ballot in the Stuart electorate during the Legislative Council elections. [More…]

• One of the points made by the Reverend Grierson is that Aborigines and others in outlying districts, which are defined as any places more than 5 miles from the nearest polling booth, are automatically supplied with a ballot paper in elections in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The right honourable gentleman will know that the former West Australian Liberal-Country Party Government, the present South Austraiian Labor Government and the present Tasmanian Liberal Government have all introduced votes for such citizens in Slate elections and that the other State governments have, I believe, all supported the proposition although stating that it would be easier and cheaper 10 introduce if the Commonwealth introduced it at the same time. [More…]

• I ask the right honourable gentleman whether his Government supports the statement made by his predecessor during the Senate election in 1970 that such citizens would have votes at the next House of Representatives election. [More…]

• in the case of a House of Representatives election - Two hundred and fifty pounds. [More…]

• They will recall that there was a challenge in the High Court by one Sarina against the election of certain senators. [More…]

• I ask: Why did he fail to complete in obedience of the law, the necessary form under the expenses section of the Commonwealth Electoral Act in respect of his expenses at the last House of Reprsentatives election? [More…]

• After this next election there will be no draft. [More…]

• After this election there will be no draft’. [More…]

• I believe that in this particular case there is a plan to keep the apprehension of Mr Johnston deferred until the election approaches and nominations have closed. [More…]

• Mr Johnston before the courts and have him convicted before the election date, and too late to nominate anybody else, there would be a situation inwhich Mr Johnston could not be elected to the Parliament or sit in the Parliament and my party could not contest his seat. [More…]

• In an election year when 130,000 people are unemployed - and the figure is mounting - I think the Australian people, and particularly those in industry, will want to know what are the policies of the major parties of this country on this important issue of tariff protection. [More…]

• It is an election year and I hope that the Government will give a similar assurance on this issue as has the Labor Party. [More…]

• The honourable member for Grayndler did this, and he went on to say that this is an election year, and that of course explains the larger part of his speech. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that honourable members opposite sit where they sit tonight fully recognising that they will be defeated at the next election? [More…]

• We need some decent candidates in the next election whose hearts are in the Labor movement. [More…]

• I am quite sure that, come the next election, the honourable member for Sturt, like many other members of the Opposition, will be back where he came from and this Parliament will again be blessed with men of ability and discretion. [More…]

• Following the election of a Liberal and Country Party Government in New South Wales, that Stale was the first to appoint a Minister for Decentralisation and Development, the honourable John Fuller. [More…]

• kind of schemes that, no doubt, it will propose at the next election. [More…]

• Yet these resources in manpower and machines are being neglected, forgotten by a Government that merely talks of decentralisation at election time as a political gimmick. [More…]

• Like the blessed word ‘Mesopotamia’ or ‘Mecca’, this is a delightful work that can be used at election time to tickle the minds of country voters, and idealists who live in the city and the city people who formerly lived in the country and who are eating their hearts out to get back to the country to live a worthwhile life and apply themselves to the problems of the nation in the environment that they know so well and among their friends. [More…]

• The State Ministers for Agriculture agreed that the best solution to the problem would be to provide for the election of producer representatives to the Board in [More…]

• A producer will be entitled to vote at a poll and to be a candidate for election if he is the owner of 200 hives of bees. [More…]

• Proposals have been submitted by the apiarist associations in Western Australia and New South Wales that it be made a condition that candidates for election should be restricted to persons who only pack honey from their own hives. [More…]

• This proposal 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…]

• The State apiarists associations in the Federal Council of Australian Apiarists’ Associations have all accepted the principle of the election of producer representatives and it is considered that the amendments proposed will give honey producers added confidence in their representatives on the Board which is necessary to enable the Board to continue to conduct its affairs in the best interests of the Australian honey industry. [More…]

• I have been 27 years in this Parliament and I saw the prolonged resistance of Sir Robert Menzies for 15 solid years - from 1949 until about the elections of 1963 - to Commonwealth intervention in education except at the university level. [More…]

• Then, when he was hard pressed in a certain election and the Democratic Labor Party indicated where preferences would go if there were science blocks, or something like that, there began a steady Commonwealth movement into the field of education. [More…]

• Opposition, a prospective Prime Minister he thinks, as stated during the last Senate election campaign. [More…]

• That $20m for government schools will expire as soon as conveniently possible after the election. [More…]

• It is a $20m grant that will run out as soon as the election is over. [More…]

• The Minister’s grant of $20m which will miraculously expire after the election, constitutes 4 per cent. [More…]

• If so, can a duplicated revised list be prepared for use until the next election when many further changes will undoubtedly take effect. [More…]

• My question, which I address to the Prime Minister, concerns the timing of the holding of an election for the Senate in relation to the holding of an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister: Does the Government acknowledge that the present absence of coincidence in the holding of elections for the 2 Houses of Parliament is both vexing and expensive? [More…]

• If so, could the Government prepare a White Paper pointing to the difficulties and to the possibilities of resolving the position so that the objective of holding elections for the 2 Houses together would be met? [More…]

• If a request has been received, does the Prime Minister expect that an announcement regarding some special Federal financial assistance will be made before the Queensland State election, which is due to be held in May this year? [More…]

• Secondly, as to the other point that is raised - that is, about the 18-year-olds - I think I can assure him that the law will not be changed in time to give 18-year-olds a vote at the next election. [More…]

• It depends upon political largesse, usually conditioned by how close it is to an election. [More…]

• It seems to me to be a gilded bait handed out in pre-election times. [More…]

• In my view this is a bait which is being dangled before their eyes as an election issue. [More…]

• I hope that the Treasurer will do something positive in this field before the next election. [More…]

• The Government had to be prodded in an election year to accept even the present quota because it was no: going to accept it. [More…]

• They come back to carry out the policy speech that has been delivered by the leader of the 2 parties which have won the election. [More…]

• Taking the policy speech for the 1969 House of Representatives election first, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), who was Prime Minister at that time, said that in 1968-69 our economic growth, at 8.7 per cent at constant prices, had been greater than at any previous period in our history. [More…]

• The former Prime Minister, during the Senate campaign, promised votes to persons of from 18 to 20 years of age at future Federal elections. [More…]

• Today the Prime Minister said that this would not be done before the next election. [More…]

• Its members play their doctrinaire policies very quietly before an election but we know that underneath their socialistic tendencies still prevail and this became quite obvious when we got into this question of price control and the use of selective tariffs to make price control work. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Primary Industry and refers to the election of members to the Australian Dairy Produce Board. [More…]

• Federal dairy producer organisations have made submissions to me for some change in the constitution and method of election of members of the Australian Dairy Produce Board. [More…]

• Accordingly, I can assure the honourable gentleman that the Government will give consideration to change in both the method of election and the membership of the Australian Dairy Produce Board. [More…]

• I appeal to the Government in the final few weeks or months of its existence, depending on how long the Cabinet can keep together, not to let the health scheme collapse completely because it will make it extremely difficult for us to establish ours quickly after the election if the present scheme collapses completely in the time that is left to the Government. [More…]

• In election campaigns the Government and the Opposition openly state that they support assistance being given to local government by the federal authorities, yet very little action is taken by federal sources. [More…]

• The honourable member for Oxley seemed to think that the Minister should not have said what he did, but I hope, and predict, that after the next election this House, and this country, will have the benefit again of the work of Ian Wilson. [More…]

• 1 hope, as does the Minister, that we will see him back again after the next election. [More…]

• Then, just before the 1969 election, there was the States Grants (Home [More…]

• This was a big boost before the 1969 election but very little in fact has come into reality. [More…]

• I felt he would have a lot more to contribute when he is re-elected as the member for Sturt at the next election. [More…]

• The Government has been so preoccupied with the dirty little business of stirring up the old sectarian scum simply because there happens to be an election coming up this year. [More…]

• This has not been an education debate; this has been just a dirty little political scavenging hunt in the hope that something can be brought up and quoted later on in the election campaign. [More…]

• and in reply to the honourable member for Hindmarsh and his comment that I have election jitters, I would like to refer to something he said now that he has come into the House, and I welcome him into it. [More…]

• Will the $68m rise to $80m because we are getting close to an election? [More…]

• At about election time, the pressures will build up. [More…]

• In October 1969 the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) undertook in his election policy speech that: [More…]

• If that is the sort of policy on education that the honourable member for Kingston wants adopted in the national sphere - this petty, penny-pinching policy that is adopted in the 2 States controlled by Labor governments - then I do not want to see a Labor government in the Federal sphere, and neither would most of the Australian people, and that will be proven when we go to the election at the end of the year. [More…]

• The Bill was first introduced in September 1969 and there was an election held in October 1969. [More…]

• Now we find that in 1972, an election year, the Government is again seeking to increase the per capita grants. [More…]

• ABC News yesterday reported statements by you in the following termsQuote: The General Secretary of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales, Mr Peter Westerway, claimed today that officers of the Commonwealth Electoral Office had rigged election results in key marginal seats in previous elections. [More…]

• The flying squad would concentrate on eight marginal seats in New South Wales at the Federal election later this year. [More…]

• I will be very happy to have all the facts of his conduct prior to the election examined in this House whenever an opportunity arises. [More…]

• neutrality of Belgium because I can tell you that there is going to be an election and if we are in office we will not honour the treaty’? [More…]

• It was necessary for the 1963 election. [More…]

• We must make sure that there is equity between one section and another’ - this in the year of an election. [More…]

• If we are to go through a catechism of this kind in the national Parliament, wasting the time of the Parliament I might just as well ask the question whether the Leader of the Opposition remembers his attacks during the 1966 election upon his then Leader on the subject of the Australian presence in Vietnam. [More…]

• The Government does not know; it has not the machinery to know; in the past it did not want to know, and even today it is not prepared to tell the people of Australia the truth before the next election. [More…]

• Of course, on 8th November, during the mid-term election campaign, the Leader of the Opposition issued a policy statement limiting the size of primary and secondary school classes. [More…]

• If it happens during an election campaign a fantastic cost is attributed to the proposal. [More…]

• The Labor Party’s campaign to reduce the qualifying period from 20 to 10 years for age pensions succeeded in making Mr Menzies, as he still was, say in the 1961 election campaign that it was unreasonable that elderly migrants who had worked and paid taxes in Australia for lengthy periods should not qualify for age pensions. [More…]

• Finally, the Maltese will be waiting patiently until Polling Day to cast our votes in this, the most vital election for your government. [More…]

• This year this Government and the Opposition are going to elections. [More…]

• We will use this sort of information as part of our election campaign because we are here to protect the interests of all the people, not the small minorities which use these tactics against the basic people in Australia. [More…]

• The legislation is insidious in its nature in the precedent it will set and in the industrial electoral manoeuvering which the Government is now commencing for the purpose of this year’s election, lt sets precedents of industrial terminology which are unacceptable to any person in organised labour. [More…]

• With incredible duplicity because of its own failures to create an election confrontation with the people it should be representing, instead of threatening, withour attempting to investigate the cause of the unrest, we are faced with the appalling terminology ‘industrial situation’. [More…]

• The Government overlooks the fact that those people are subject to election, just as are honourable members opposite. [More…]

• During the forthcoming election campaign I will be visiting other electorates. [More…]

• In other words, it covers a very large area and many federal electorates including Mitchell, a key electorate in the coming election. [More…]

• If any honourable member believes that that is an unreasonable attitude I would like him to go on record and say it, not only in this Parliament but also on the hustings in the forthcoming election campaign. [More…]

• The fully documented evidence of the Pentagon Papers shows that the EisenhowerDulles Administration rejected the Geneva Agreement and its election, set up the Diem Government and began immediately to supply it with military power for only one reason - so that it could immediately set out to destroy the communists, as it was put, in South Vietnam and equally as much elsewhere in Indo-China. [More…]

• On the other hand the Pentagon Papers show equally clearly that North Vietnam accepted the Geneva Agreement and told their people in South Vietnam to prepare for the election and began to seek relations with Diem. [More…]

• But it is hardly likely that the war in IndoChina can long continue after that election. [More…]

• He talks of the will of the North for elections. [More…]

• Does anyone in this House, even the honourable member for Lalor, believe - is anyone prepared to state - that there has ever been a free election in a communist dominated country where majorities of 98 per cent and 99 per cent for the government in power are the common thing? [More…]

• Quite plainly with the universal elections foreshadowed by the Geneva Accords of 1954, where the numbers in North Vietnam were greater than those in the South - with a 98 per cent majority in the North - there was no possibility of a fair and impartial judgment over the whole country. [More…]

• Let me assure the Government that Australians will remember for a very long time the hysterical attempts in the 1966 election campaign to construe the civil war in Vietnam as part of a Chinese policy of territorial expansionism. [More…]

• He never mentioned that the North Vietnamese were promised free election in 1954. [More…]

• Their attitude was tame until they woke up to the fact that they were being deprived of free elections in accordance with the principles of the Geneva Accords. [More…]

• When the North Vietnamese were deprived of free elections a right which the Australian people have cherished for many years - they took up arms because they had been deceived. [More…]

• This Bill is really confined to the setting up of machinery for the election of producers and packers to the Australian Honey Board. [More…]

• As I understand the position, the changed manner of election should overcome the problems associated with selecting the best people from those States that are entitled to have a representative on the Board. [More…]

• The minimum requirement does appear to be high in relation to poll requirements in other primary industries for such things as referendums, elections to marketing boards and so on. [More…]

• The salient point in the Bill is that a producer will be entitled to vote at a poll and to be a candidate for election if he is the owner of 200 hives. [More…]

• These people should not have to depend upon this kind of sordid political gesture a few months before an election to give them what is their birthright and what the tradition of this country entitles them to. [More…]

• The Labor Party did not even stipulate immediate withdrawal from Vietnam in the 1969 election, campaign. [More…]

• This would give a breathing space of 7 or 8 months after an election. [More…]

• That is what we will stand for and that is a matter on which we are prepared to fight the coming election. [More…]

• The other political consideration is that this defence review and the defence statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) come in an election year. [More…]

• The only time the Liberals ever talk about defence is in an election year. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) says that defence will be an issue in the forthcoming election. [More…]

• The honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating) said that the Government talks about defence only at the time of an election. [More…]

• I would like to remind everybody that it is pretty obvious that the Australian Labor Party does not talk about its policy of socialisation of industry and everything else in an election year, lt talks about these things only when it is at the point furthest away from an election because it knows that if it ever put this forward as its actual policy it would be rejected by the people of this Commonwealth on that alone, apart from anything else. [More…]

• I would agree that this is one of the problems which will face whatever government is in power after the next election. [More…]

• This is very much within the consciousness of members of the Labor Party, and no policy of the Labor Party given effect to after the next election or at any time in the future would imperil the security of Australia. [More…]

• The Government’s motives confirm the need for an early election that will give the people of Australia the opportunity to pronounce judgment on Ibis Government [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that such an election be held as soon as possible. [More…]

• I have reason to believe from an analysis of some of those petitions that, of 20 signatures relating to an early election, 13 were those of members of the Parliamentary Labor Party here present. [More…]

• Every Australian, voter or not, should study this defence debate before the next election. [More…]

• It would be nice to know that the Government is serious about Australia’s defence and that it does not think that it is just a political gimmick to be wheeled out at election time. [More…]

• As the honourable member observes, we have seen much too much of it and we see it unfortunately not long before a particular State goes to an election. [More…]

• With all respect to the long preponderance of one sort of government here, the emphasis usually has been in the direction of giving largesse to a Liberal State government shortly before a State election. [More…]

• We saw an example of it this afternoon in the proposal to grant, I think, $10m to Queensland which, I understand, is on the eve of an election. [More…]

• Just before the State election in Victoria a couple of years ago Sir Henry Bolte was able to get the nice round sum of $10m. [More…]

• I was one of those who, year after year, used to assist in publishing advertisements especially at election time showing that Tasmania received something like 1.6 or 1.7 times the national average in return from taxation moneys and that it was something like 2 times the smallest per capita return for the worst off State, which I think was possibly Victoria. [More…]

• It is a question that has been much canvassed and I do not intend, nor do I have time, to dilate upon it at any length now but I should like to take up one particular point in that regard because a State election is to be held in Tasmania within the next couple of weeks and I think it is entirely relevant. [More…]

• He noted that in a State election year the Liberal governments usually get considerable assistance by way of grants. [More…]

• I remind him that in one of the Bills we are discussing it is proposed that New South Wales should get no less than $ 17.5m by way of special assistance for its Budget and it is not an election year in New South Wales. [More…]

• This is an election year. [More…]

• Then the honourable member for Macarthur (Mr Jeff Bate) said the Liberals would be sure to lose the seat of Macarthur at the next election. [More…]

• He has already lost his party’s pre-selection to contest it. [More…]

• If that is not bad enough, we find that a Liberal club in Canberra has told all of its members to vote Labor at the next federal election. [More…]

• He anticipates a Government majority of at least 12 seats in the House of Representatives as a result of the next election. [More…]

• (a) The next educational programme to inform the Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory of their franchise rights will be undertaken about August-September next in order to ensure that the greatest benefit is derived from the programme by these people before the next House of Representatives election. [More…]

• Perhaps it has been good enough in Australia to retain both government inertia and the economic jungle when, as for years the ‘London Times’ reminded us, ‘policy has never been relevant in the election of a government in Australia for many years’. [More…]

• Policy is now relevant to the election of a government in Australia, and the people of Australia are ready for a change. [More…]

• I do not believe that we must wait until the eve of the next election to get decisions on water conservation and beef roads, because that is not the way to manage this country. [More…]

• But when the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson) spoke and gave his first election speech - that is what it was - I felt that I should speak very briefly in order to point out to him that one or two things which he said were erroneous. [More…]

• However, this is the type of comment we hear, especially as election time is approaching. [More…]

• I have spoken in many places - in streets and elsewhere - and I do not allow things to stop me speaking, not even the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Foster) and, goodness knows, sitting where I do I have had to put up with a lot since the last election. [More…]

• But I am not going to make an election speech. [More…]

• The time will come when we will be making election speeches. [More…]

• I am not standing again for election as everybody knows and I hope that what I have said will be accepted in the spirit in which it has been said. [More…]

• We regret the necessity for the legislation but we indicate to the people that this is more than ever a reason why they should vote for Labor candidates in the forthcoming election and destroy those who, under the guise of representing the country people, misrepresent them in this Parliament. [More…]

• It is quite clear that both these honourable gentlemen had very much in mind that there is to be an election in one of the States of the Commonwealth next month, and they made in their own way a contribution to this Bill related to the economic position within that State. [More…]

• Earlier this year in an answer from a Labor Minister, after the last election in Western Australia, I was informed that Labor had increased the amounts to $261 for the third year in zone A and up to $312 for the fourth and fifth year students, while in zone B the amounts had been increased to $210 and $252 respectively, which means that the allowances in that regard have been increased by approximately $100 a year. [More…]

• I suppose it would not be unfair to relate that to the State election which shortly is to be held in Queensland. [More…]

• I think he will appreciate that that disgraceful record will be under examination at the State election when that Government will have, in fact, a magnificent victory. [More…]

• The Victorian ALP then endorsed a draft resister as a candidate for the Federal election. [More…]

• It is obvious from this debate, that members opposite yearn for the days of the colourful election-winning formulas of ‘the Red menace’ and ‘the yellow hordes’. [More…]

• Members opposite, want to turn the clock back to the 1966 election when their election propaganda had the communist Chinese dripping blood down over Asia and onto Australia. [More…]

• The House has met for only 165 days since the last election. [More…]

• Here is a chance in an election year for the honourable member for North Sydney to be a real statesman, to vote without fear of expulsion and to cross the floor and vote on the important things and the really emotional issues of the Standing Orders. [More…]

• We have the folly of members of this House signing petitions calling for elections. [More…]

• The Prime Minister would say: ‘No, we will have an election in our own time’, or ‘We will have one according to the Constitution, within the time specified for an election’. [More…]

• Let us wait and see how much authority emanates if the Executive happens to change at the forthcoming election. [More…]

• We have met for 165 or 166 days since the last Federal election on 25th October 1969. [More…]

• Will the Prime Minister ensure the fullest co-operation with the OECD secretariat now and with the visiting team in September and will he further ensure that the results of this first open scrutiny of the Australian economy and development will not be held up by the Government until after the election and thus deny the opportunity to the Australian people to have access to an independent judgment of the Government’s economic performance? [More…]

• Whether it is a question of canvassing on behalf of candidates for this place or for candidates for election to bodies representing primary producers, the amount to be spent in support of such campaigns seems to be a matter of dispute. [More…]

• The Labor Party will hammer the Government on this and it will slay the Government on this between now and .he next election because today, whichever country is in possession of the resources of fuel and energy will be a major nation and Australia is in possession of those resources. [More…]

• There are quite a number of other approaches which ought to be looked at and which, frankly, I would like to discuss a little closer to the next general election than now. [More…]

• He has approved that offence which is euphemistically called draft dodging, and he espouses a Labor candidate for election to this Parliament who is commonly described as a draft dodger. [More…]

• The Government will not appoint him to that office just before an election because it is not game to have a by-election before this takes place. [More…]

• Quite plainly on the evidence of contributions from 3 Ministers in this Parliament today, the Government plans a dirty and vicious election campaign. [More…]

• The third reason - this is rather a cynical reason which pretty well everyone assigns to them - is to influence the people of the United States in their thinking in a presidential election year that the United States policy in Vietnam will fail. [More…]

• Subsequent to the 1966 election there were 3 battalions as well as Caribou and Canberra aircraft in Vietnam. [More…]

• A Labor government which will take office after the election on the last Saturday in November or the first Saturday in December of this year will inherit a situation. [More…]

• We know that a Federal election is to be held this year. [More…]

• If a guess is made, and it is wrong, after the election it will be too late for the people to say that they did not know. [More…]

• If the statements of the Leader of the Opposition are only to cover over the facade until after the election, if the statements of Mr Ken Carr, who, on behalf of the 26 revel unions in Victoria spoke to the motion on Vietnam moved by the Victorian Branch of the Australian Labor Party, are correct, that every true Socialist in the Labor Party supports the National Liberation Front and wants the Communists to win in Vietnam - if these are the true outlooks of the Australian Labor Party - after the election it will be too late for the Australian people to say that they did not know. [More…]

• On page 17 under the heading The Political Scene’ some reflections are made upon what might happen at the House of Assembly election. [More…]

• Of course, since the document was written the election has taken place. [More…]

• As the country prepares to go to the polls in February-March it is clear that the result of the election is an extremely hazardous forecasting exercise. [More…]

• The outcome of the election is of vital importance to the economy, since the confidence of both existing and potential businessmen is dependent upon it. [More…]

• I tell electors in country districts that men like the honourable members for Dawson (Dr Patterson), Riverina (Mr Grassby), Darling (Mr Fitzpatrick) and Kalgoorlie (Mr Collard) are the type of men who will come into this Parliament in floods after the next election and who will really speak for the rural and primary producers of this country. [More…]

• I congratulate him on his intelligence, even though he has not done much for the country people between election years; he did nothing until this year. [More…]

• The Government is getting really generous in an election year. [More…]

• A ‘tremendous swing against the Labor Party occurred at the next Federal election and the present Government came into office. [More…]

• As a result of a statement made there by the Leader of the Opposition, to the effect that as so many people live in the cities we could not really spend any money in the country, the honourable member for Maranoa is now more assured than ever of a record majority at the next Federal election. [More…]

• This Government, in co-operation with State governments, has sought over recent times to do something about rural reconstruction, but it cannot be denied that the tempo of the Government’s activity is increased when an election becomes closer. [More…]

• In the normal time following an election there is barely a sentiment expressed cr a word spoken about the needs of the people in the country. [More…]

• It was referring to Mr Howard Richter, the Country Party candidate for McPherson at the next election - of conducting a misleading campaign on the closure of Gold Coast post offices. [More…]

• Shortly stated, they will place a time limit upon the institution of proceedings under that section in relation to the election of office bearers in organisations. [More…]

• Is it by coincidence that the paper reports that a determination was made that the Government, because of its defence policy, ought not to receive a huge mandate from the people in the 1969 election and should be held down to about a majority of 6 or 7? [More…]

• He faces the most difficult election since the Liberal Country Party, Government won office in 1949. [More…]

• In order to secure these policy objectives, there were 5 desirable objectives in the October Federal election: [More…]

• I said that they were over-protected because by carrying the tag ‘Assistant Minister’ they would not be opposed at the election by Liberal Party or Country Party candidates. [More…]

• At election time we hear Government supporters talk about their great concern for people in country districts. [More…]

• The General Secretary of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales, Mr Peter Westerway, claimed today that officers of the Commonwealth Electoral Office had rigged election results in key marginal seats in previous elections. [More…]

• I have discussed the allegations by Mr Westerway with the Chief Electoral Officer who has stated categorically that during his 30 years with the Electoral Branch, 13 years of which he has been the Chief Elec.toral Officer, there has not been a single incident, or suggestion of one, of any officer of the Electoral Branch rigging an election or committing any other malpractice in connection with the conduct of an election. [More…]

• At page 13474 of the Notice Paper, one sees listed the Commonwealth Electoral Bill 1971, the Senate Elections Bill 1971 and the Referendum Constitution Alteration Bill 1971. [More…]

• They have been on the notice paper since 31st March last year and the Minister is not game to debate them in parliament because he knows that they will reveal the gerrymander taking place in Queensland trying to get them back into the Parliament at the next election. [More…]

• All this leads me to say that Mr Westerway may well be the most experienced conductor of ballots for the ALP and have personal knowledge of vote rigging, branch stacking and other irregularities, but whatever his personal experience might be he does not have the right to reflect on the integrity of the Public Service and align his smutty little experiences with the holding of an Australia-wide election. [More…]

• It is one of the features of democratic government and one of the great comforts to any member of parliament or any candidate for election to parliament to know that the electoral system of this country is completely impartial and is run with the strictest attention .to the law of the land. [More…]

• If we are to become political in this debate I will refer to a situation in Queensland at the moment, on the eve of a State election. [More…]

• It is beyond my comprehension why this Bill which was introduced over a year ago has not been proceeded with, and I hope that the Government does something about it before the next Federal election. [More…]

• I asked a question about it in this Parliament and received an assurance that sufficient money would be provided to enable a proper enrolment canvass to be carried out in all electorates in Queensland before the election at the end of this year. [More…]

• 1 propose to ask further questions on this matter to make sure that enough money is being provided because this matter comes within the control of the Minister and is of vital importance if we are to have fair electoral rolls at the next election and give members of the public the opportunity to cast the vote which they are entitled to cast under our system. [More…]

• Of course, it was simply a political speech made with the idea of trying to help the Australian Labor Party members in Queensland win back some of the prestige they have lost there, when an election is just about to take place. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, let me again bore the House by quoting this in its entirety because I feel that from now until the election the Government, which feels that it cannot win, is looking for new ideas and is taking them almost directly from Labor Party policy. [More…]

• Labor believes that its proposals, formulated in 1965 and which we expect to implement after the election in November, will serve Australia better than will the advisory committee proposed in the Prime Minister’s belated and inadequate announcement today. [More…]

• Contrary to the untruthful and malicious propaganda conceived by this Government during the 1969 Federal election campaign, Labor will develop and expand Queensland’s free hospital system. [More…]

• With an election about to take place, the serious implications of the situation would be not only certain defeat for that Government but perhaps if such were possible, a further erosion of public support for this Government. [More…]

• lt is a shame that 1972, a year in which Queensland has asked for and received its first grant, just happens to be an election year in that State because since this debate began we have heard and seen nothing but displays of sheer and utter humbug and politicking from members of the Opposition. [More…]

• However, I realise that all Queenslanders will see for themselves that Queensland has progressed since the election of the Liberal-Country Party government in 1967 and that the Queensland Government will be returned to office in a few short weeks. [More…]

• Western Australia - another Labor State - withdrew in 1969 and, since the election of a Labor government, that State has not seen fit to apply to the Grants Commission. [More…]

• He dragged out some of those matters which the Australian Labor Party used to their sorrow in the 1969 election campaign when it tried to suggest that the Premier and various people in Queensland had been involved in illegal transactions in shares, etc. [More…]

• The facts of life are that while members of the Opposition have tried to gain public support and make political capital out of the alleged failure of the State Government to erect or to go on with a university on the south side of Brisbane, in recent years we have seen the creation in Townsville, a city so ably represented by the honourable member for Herbert (Mr Bonnett) who will be returned here with even a greater majority after the next Federal election, of the James Cook University. [More…]

• If there were any doubt about the status of this man and his leadership let us look briefly at the results of 2 recent by-elections in Queensland. [More…]

• At the by-election in the electorate of Maryborough there was a 17.5 per cent swing against Labor. [More…]

• If that is not enough, take the byelection in Merthyr. [More…]

• It is traditional for by-elections to show a swing against the government. [More…]

• In the recent by-election in Western Australia a 10 per cent swing was recorded against the Labor Party candidate, although he still won the seat. [More…]

• I very much regret that the laws of Queensland prevent one going around running a book on the next election. [More…]

• When they start to compare policies they find, as the honourable member for Dawson, for whom I have the greatest respect, pointed out not so very long ago, that the rural policy of the Australian Labor Party is such that any Labor man who holds a marginal seat in rural areas will lose his seat at the next election. [More…]

• Opposition members have tried to burn him at the stake because they realise that unless they can break down the character and the image of the Prime Minister they will not get to first base when election time comes round. [More…]

• If he is unsuccessful at the election, he is reinstated. [More…]

• The Ministers elected Mr Michael Somare, the parliamentary leader of the Pangu Party, to tie the Deputy Chairman of the Administrator’s Executive Council and the House of Assembly in turn endorsed that election. [More…]

• In making this statement today the Government has shown, once again, its fear that at the election at the end of this year it will be defeated. [More…]

• But I would suggest to the Minister that as Leader of the House and as the person controlling the list of speakers on the Government side he should suggest to such speakers that they restrict themselves to debates on legislation before the House and not raise any red herrings because it is an election year. [More…]

• But it is worth while the House remembering and the people noting that in the 925 days - almost 1,000 days - I think it is, since the last Federal election we have met on 170 days. [More…]

• The initiative was sabotaged not because it was incorrect or dangerous but because it was politically unacceptable to Senator Gair and therefore politically embarrassing for theLiberals in an election year. [More…]

• Since then we have had the election of 1966 and the election of 1969 and we are about to have the election of 1972, yet we still have not received the Fill. [More…]

• I think that these are the questions that surely have to be’ answered at the next election. [More…]

• It is not very easy to run an election campaign around a new income tax schedule, but basically these’ are the kinds of things which ought to be considered but which are not being considered. [More…]

• By the time the election comes around I think people will say: “ Fair go, mate. [More…]

• In doing so I wish largely to talk about elections and issues of elections because I have some concern as had the previous speaker, the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins), that the electorate may be confused as to what are the important issues at the next elections. [More…]

• After all, it will make such a mess of things that it will be thrown out at the following election’. [More…]

• Candidates for election to the House of Representatives to be elected on the basis of the greatest number of votes to any candidate, i.e., first past the post’ and on the basis of one vote one value. [More…]

• As the Minister for the Navy (Dr Mackay) happens to be in the chamber, I would like to quote what happened in the electorate of Evans at the last election. [More…]

• I have taken some figures from the last elections. [More…]

• Would honourable members opposite think that he should have won that election? [More…]

• The total average vote received by the Labor Party for these 12 seats at the last election was only 46 per cent and the total anti-Labor vote was 54 per cent. [More…]

• 1 would say that this was preparation for the next election. [More…]

• In the last election there were 465 candidates. [More…]

• But let us remember what happened in the Senate election in 1937 with the Labor Party candidates in New South Wales. [More…]

• At the forthcoming election for the House of Representatives Senator Bonner from Queensland will have to go to the people. [More…]

• But that person would have to go to the polls at the next Federal election in November. [More…]

• It is absolutely certain that in the event of an extraordinary by-election in Tasmania for a Senate seat a Labor senator would be elected. [More…]

• To those who are thinking of risking the future of this country at the next election I say: ‘Do not do it’, because if the Opposition became the Government we would not get it out in a generation. [More…]

• Even now, with the Air craft Noise Committee having made its recommendation about the airport sites, the Government deliberately stalls and will not choose the location for Sydney’s second airport until after the election. [More…]

• I interpreted his speech as virtually meaning ‘that the Government is doomed and that the Labor Party will fill the Government benches after the next election. [More…]

• Until I added that part the Minister for Labour and National Service, who is at the table, smiled because he could see a ray of hope in that I was still contemplating that he would be in charge of the Department after the next election. [More…]

• I believe this is industrial brinkmanship deliberately designed to create a crisis in an election year. [More…]

• Officially controlled ballots show that as a rule there has been a fairly high return of ballot papers in controlled ballots for the election of officers. [More…]

• Employers and unions alike are now looking for the election of a Labor government because after 22 years they have come to realise that this Government has not yet learnt even the rudimentary facts of industrial life. [More…]

• When the urgent need for amalgamation is seen by management and labour alike and by the Minister, our Prime Minister decides to dive head first into the DLP dunghill of political blackmail in a frantic search for the hidden preferences with which he foolishly believes he can avert the certain defeat that now faces him on election day. [More…]

• But, of course, if the Government fails to pin full responsibility for inflation on to the trade union movement and on to wages it will have lost the next election. [More…]

• That is the gimmick by which it hopes to win the law and order election. [More…]

• He warned this Government in July last of the consequences of trying to use industrial turmoil as a means of winning an election. [More…]

• This is an election year. [More…]

• Mainly as a result of interference by the DLP and pressure put on the Government by the DLP over allocation of preferences in the next election, in future it will be very difficult for unions to amalgamate. [More…]

• The honourable member for Grey (Mr Wallis) said that this alteration is being made because the Government is looking for election propaganda. [More…]

• I will use this slogan if I have to during the election campaign because those who belong to militant unions have overrun their real responsibility to the unions concerned and to Australia. [More…]

• It is because we have a free enterprise economy that we will retain government after the next election. [More…]

• He somewhat predictably opened his remarks on the Bill with a denunciation of the Government’s activities in the field of industrial relations generally, and he stated specifically that our statement of last December served as notice of an election early ‘next year’. [More…]

• Of course, the early election did not come about. [More…]

• He asserts that the Government wants industrial disruption for an election campaign. [More…]

• We hear it from them much more at election time. [More…]

• The 4 men resigned because their executive producer stood for election to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in April, and having failed to secure a seat was reinstated in his same executive position. [More…]

• I defend anyone’s right to stand for election to Parliament. [More…]

• The general manager may, upon application (by a person who has resigned to contest an election) . [More…]

• Television producer, Mr Harry Holgate, will seek ALP endorsement in Bass for the State Election. [More…]

• Mr Holgate, because of the sensitive nature of commentary on election matters at this time, is not actively associated with the day to day running of T.D.T., but is working on general matters answerable to me. [More…]

• On 2nd May, the election having taken place on 22nd April, Mr Holgate was reemployed as Executive Producer of ‘This Day Tonight’. [More…]

• On the same day The Examiner’ reported from the declaration of the poll that ‘Mr Holgate said he hoped to contest an election “ in the near future, somewhere in northern Tasmania “ ‘. [More…]

• By the time the election comes around I think people will say: ‘Fair go mate, give him a chance’. [More…]

• It was very interesting to read the other day a report of a statement by a member of the Federal Executive of the Australian Labor Party who used words which are exactly the same as I have been using, and that is that the Labor Party should be prepared to expose its policy and all its policies and not hide those things which it thinks may tarnish its image for electoral purposes in the election coming up. [More…]

• Before the last elections for the House of Representatives and during the election the then Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), promised that at the next election for the House of Representatives men and women citizens of 18, 19 and 20 years of age would have the vote. [More…]

• The whole of the public has understood that the Liberal Party was committed at the last House of Representatives election to introducing the right to vote for 18. [More…]

• 19 and 20 year old men and women at this year’s elections for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman who interjected belongs to a party which, just under 3 years ago, was understood in the words of its leader to promise votes at 18 years in this year’s election. [More…]

• At the last elections in the United Kingdom men and women of 18 years of age had votes. [More…]

• In this year’s elections in the United States for the Presidency, for governors, for senators and for members of the House of Representatives, citizens of 18 years will have the vote. [More…]

• In Western Australia at the last State elections citizens of 18 years had the vote. [More…]

• Is it to be wondered at then that men and women of 18, 19 and 20 years are becoming increasingly alienated and frustrated by the Liberals refusal to carry out an election understanding? [More…]

• The Government should accept, with good grace, votes at 18 years in this year’s House of Representatives election. [More…]

• There are excellent chances that men and women of those ages will be able to have a vote in this year’s House of Representatives election, even if the Government does not allow a vote to be taken on the Bill I have introduced today, or on the Bill which I introduced in June 1970, or on the Bill which the Government itself introduced in March last year to which we would move an amendment to give votes at 18 years of age, The reason why these people might have a vote at this years House of Representatives election is because the Constitution states: [More…]

• House of Representatives and Senate elections in those States. [More…]

• The article reads: li might have been the case that the 18-year-olds would have had to wait until the election, and then presented themselves at the polling booths and demanded to be allowed a vote, and only then started to take legal action if refused. [More…]

• Fortunately, however, they can test the matter before the election and very simply. [More…]

• The Gorton Government had time to consider this matter and we all understood it had agreed to introduce votes at this year’s election for citizens of 18, 19 and 20 years of age. [More…]

• Therefore I would urge the Government, gracefully and promptly, to give voting rights to those citizens, just as such citizens will have that right in this year’s United States elections, as they have had in the British and will have in the Canadian elections, as they have had in Papua New Guinea, as they have had in Western Australia as they will have in every future South Australian election. [More…]

• If the Government does not yield on this matter one would hope that 18-, 19- and 20-year-old citizens in South Australia and, if the Western Australian Parliament passes the full adult Act, in that State also will exercise their right and it would appear their legal duty to apply for enrolment to vote in this year’s election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• Will 18-year-olds have a vote at the next Federal election? [More…]

• At the forthcoming election for the house of Representatives Senator Bonner from Queensland will have to go to the people. [More…]

• In Western Australia 18 year olds voted for the first time at the last State election, and in South Australia they have been given the right to vote. [More…]

• In these circumstances it is desirable that similar legislation should be introduced prior to the coming election for the Australian Parliament. [More…]

• We face the extraordinary position, unless the Commonwealth implements the reform, that 18 year old persons will be voting in State but not Federal elections. [More…]

• The United Stales Administration has indicated approval for it to apply to elections for the United States Congress. [More…]

• In Great Britain 18 year olds voted for the first time during the last election. [More…]

• Unless the Commonwealth falls into line and brings about the uniformity that the Minister mentioned was essential with State legislation, even on the administrative side it will be necessary to keep 2 electoral rolls in each State, thus creating a chaotic situation between State and Federal elections. [More…]

• Is he able to say which overseas countries and which Australian States provide voting rights for 18 year olds in the election of Governments. [More…]

• Great Britain, the United States and other nations accept the principle that if a youth is old enough to be conscripted for military service he is old enough to vote and have a voice in the election of his Government. [More…]

• The Government fears the vote of the 18-year- olds at the forthcoming election and for this reason the Government stubbornly rejects the legislation. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Statistician indicates that 700,000 men and women will be eligible to vote if the age is lowered to 18 years for the next Federal elections. [More…]

• It means that the present Government is prepared to deny a vote to about 10 per cent of the voters at the next elections because it believes they could decide the fate of the Government. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is working on the theory that it is better to deny them a vote and be certain that the majority will not vote against him in preference to giving them democratic justice, and a say in the election of their Government. [More…]

• President Nixon evidently did not fear a swing to the left by the 10 million or 11 million 18 to 20-year-olds who will vote in this year’s Congressional elections. [More…]

• Another matter which concerns me about this Bill and which I find rather a peculiar provision is that although it lowers the age at which a person may be enrolled for voting, it does not lower the age at which a person may stand as a candidate for election in this Parliament. [More…]

• All the arguments that have been advanced for enabling or justifying a person to enrol as a voter at 18 years are arguments that can just as validly be put in respect of the proposition that an 18- year old should be able to stand as a candidate for election to this Parliament. [More…]

• I put it no higher than that - that it is curious that there should be this dichotomy in the Bill that is now before the House between the age for enrolment and the age for candidature for election to this House. [More…]

• I have mentioned one of them already - the fact that the age for nomination for candidates for election to this Parliament is not touched by this legislation and I would like to know why. [More…]

• When the Government says, ‘We will do something about industrial unrest’, and it introduces legislation that is designed, deliberately or recklessly, to cause industrial unrest, one can only think that that too is done deliberately in some miserable, almost wicked hope that with no positive policies of its own in this important election year, the Government will in some way be able to distract the people. [More…]

• The prospect of an election is a great steadying influence. [More…]

• Let us examine what happened after the 1965 legislation the purpose of which was the same as that which the Government must be accused of pursuing today - the enacting of legislation in the hope that the trade unions would over-react and the Government would win an election on that issue. [More…]

• But the Minister for Labour and National Service and previous Ministers for Labour and National Service have gone along to various levels of employer organisations to persuade them not to do this because they were fearful that the unions might come to some form of agreement with the employers and that the Government would lose another stick to use in an election campaign. [More…]

• What the Minister is saying in this legislation as a first tenet is that there must be a 50 per cent poll, that is, half of the people must vote in an election before it is a valid election. [More…]

• He is referring to the watersiders - they have a tradition of electing members of the puny Australian Communist Party which the voting public has rejected at election after election. [More…]

• He is evidently of the opinion that he will get knocked off at the next election, to use his own term, when he will want to go back as an employee of the University of Tasmania. [More…]

• I would also like to make some reference to the fact that once again on an election eve we have an industrial Bill before the House. [More…]

• I have a suspicion that this has been done by design, that this industrial legislation has been brought before the House on the eve of an election to meet the particular narrow thinking of the Government. [More…]

• The facts are, of course, that in 1961 Mr Menzies was returned as Prime Minister of this country by the election of the honourable member for Moreton and by Communist Party preferences. [More…]

• I say it now, and that will be the policy on which we will fight the election. [More…]

• He said that the Chamber would rather see legislation which confined the election of union officials to no more than 3 years. [More…]

• An order shall not be made under this section that would have the effect of treating as invalid an election to an office in an organisation or branch of an organisation, other than an officially conducted ballot, that was completed before the institution of the proceedings under this section unless the proceedings under this section were instituted - [More…]

• the date of completion of the election, whichever was the later. [More…]

• after the expiration of the period of twelve months that would be applicable under the last preceding paragraph but before the expiration of the period of office to which the election related, and the Court shall not proceed with the hearing of proceedings in which an order of the kind referred to in this sub-section is sought, being proceedings instituted in accordance with paragraph (c) of this sub-section, unless the Court is satisfied that the person instituting the proceedings did not have, within the period of twelve months referred to in paragraph (b) of this sub-section, and could not, by reasonable diligence, have acquired within that period, knowledge of, and the means of establishing, the matters that are alleged as a reason for the making of the order. [More…]

• Clause 46 amends section 141 of the Act to provide a limitation on the precise time in which challenges can be made to elections for office bearers conducted by the organisations themselves. [More…]

• The reasons were to give office bearers reasonable security of tenure in the event of innocent defects in their election being found after lengthy periods. [More…]

• The Bill restricts such challenges to a period of 6 months after the elections. [More…]

• It has, however, been strongly put that in many cases it is difficult to ascertain the facts which will lead to action of this nature within a period of 6 months, perhaps because of some fraud en the part of the persons in control of the election. [More…]

• The amendment proposes to extend from 6 months to 12 months the period in which an applicant may challenge under section 141 an election for office bearers conducted by the organisation itself. [More…]

• There h a further proviso that the court shall not allow the use of this let out clause after the period of office involved in the election. [More…]

• The Government wants to carry this right through to the limit because it has a particular interest with the forthcoming election in provoking industrial disturbances for its own political survival. [More…]

• The normal voting percentages in ‘officially conducted’ ballots for office bearers ranges from 12 per cent to 75 per cent, and in the majority of such elections less than 50 per cent of eligible members have voted. [More…]

• In addition the percentage varies substantially as between different unions and from election to election in the same union. [More…]

• I am sure that this is the common expertence of us all in regard to an election of a member to a committee in large bodies, when people simply do not vote. [More…]

• Is it possible for the Commonwealth to arrange an election of constitution convention delegates at the same time as the next General Elections for the House of Representatives so that non-Parliamentary delegates could then join with Parliamentary delegates at a convention and begin drafting reforms to the Constitution; if so, will the Attorney-General advise the Government to do this. [More…]

• The United States of America ‘Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971’ limits the amount a candidate or his immediate family may contribute to his own campaign to $50,000 for President or Vice President, $35,000 for Senator and $25,000 for Representative. [More…]

• The ‘Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971’ also limits the amount that may be spent by or on behalf of federal candidates for advertising in communications media (including radio, television, newspapers, magazines, billboards and automatic telephone equipment) to 10 cents per eligible voter, or $50,000, whichever is the greater. [More…]

• The limitation applies to all candidates for President and Vice President, Senator and Representative and will be determined annually for the geographical area of each election. [More…]

• Further details may be obtained from the ‘Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971’ a copy of which is available for perusal in the Parliamentary Library. [More…]

• Has the Teachers Federation now imposed a $14 increase to be so deducted, which will be used to assist the Opposition to conduct its general election campaign? [More…]

• Government, it should have sought supply for only 2 months and should be going to the country in an election so that the people would be able to decide whether the majority of them still support this rather ramshackled government that seems to be taking all sorts of desperate measures in anticipation of the next Budget to save its own political skin. [More…]

• Unfortunately nothing came of that proposition, but I would hope that the new government, whoever it might be, after November or whenever the election will be, will revive that concept. [More…]

• In some respects, 1 think that elections should be held 6 or 8 months before the presentation of Budgets rather than a month or two afterwards, because there is the tendency to throw things into that last Budget before an election. [More…]

• A member of the Council elected by either House of the Parliament holds office, subject to this Act, for such period, not exceeding five years as is fixed by that House at the time of his election. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that a member of the Council elected by either House of the Parliament should hold office, subject to this Act, for such period not exceeding 5 years as is fixed by that House at the time of his election; and that subject to this Act, each member appointed by the Governor-General should hold office for such period, not exceeding 5 years, as is specified in the instrument of his appointment and on such terms and conditions as the Governor-General determines, but would be eligible for re-appointment. [More…]

• My arithmetic says that it is 935 days since the last election. [More…]

• 1 hope that when the people of Australia come to the next election they will take as a major issue of policy the manner in which this Parliament is run and the slow and continual denigration and degradation of this institution over the last 10 or 15 years and, in particular, the last 5 or 6 years. [More…]

• The matter which I wished to refer to this morning and which I have been denied the opportunity to mention is the grave injustices that are about to be inflicted upon the people of Queensland as a whole by the carrying out of the first election to be held under the greatest gerrymander that has ever been inflicted upon the people of Australia - inflicted by the Country Party-Liberal Party of that State. [More…]

• If it were possible for a man from Mars to come down and look at what is going on in this House it would not be very long before he realised that we are getting near an election. [More…]

• These are the people who select and endorse candidates for election to parliament. [More…]

• The whole endeavour has been to defer this legislation until after the election - perhaps for ever. [More…]

• For purposes of a safety valve, the Government has permitted discussion on this legislation today, and then it hopes to turn off the valve and bury the legislation quietly until after the forthcoming election, and beyond. [More…]

• We would like to have an election. [More…]

• The people want an election as soon as possible, too. [More…]

• But we could not, with the best or the worst will in the world, produce an election by carrying this Bill. [More…]

• What the Government has done - this is as far as it is prepared to go - is to accede to the pressures in the Liberal Party and at the same time, hopefully on the Government’s part, still hold some of that support from the tobacco and television companies which is helpful to the Government at election times. [More…]

• As we have heard during the debate tonight, it has taken 7 to 10 years, during which time very convincing medical and technical evidence has been given about the hazards of cigarette smoking, to persuade the Commonwealth Government now at this late hour, just before an election, to change its attitude and to say: ‘We will not wait for the States’. [More…]

• Money would not come into the compaign coffers and that is what it is all about in this election year, the first election in 23 years at which this Government looks like being defeated. [More…]

• The Australian voters are entitled to know, before they cast their votes in what I believe will be one of the most important elections in our history - an election in which defence and foreign policy must be a major issue - where the Government and the Opposition stand on these matters. [More…]

• We should also recognise, acknowledge and approve publicly that, after ail, there has been an election in Indonesia, that that election was conducted with candidates, that there were political parties involved, that there was a fairly hot contest in that election and that it was run along fairly democratic lines. [More…]

• One also should say publicly that we recognise that the Indonesian Government has had the courage, in view of its recent history, to hold the election along generally democratic lines. [More…]

• To the credit of that Government it does not pretend that the election was completely democratic, using the definition of ‘democratic’ that we would use in Australia. [More…]

• What it has said is that now it has achieved a measure of stability, now that it has come through an election along generally democratic lines, it will continue at each subsequent election along those lines until there is a completely civilianised and democratic government in that country. [More…]

• I have not noticed the honourable member for Henty being invited to Queensland to speak in the current election campaign in that State where, at the last election, the Country PartyLiberal Party coalition won about 44 per cent of the votes, which was slightly less than the percentage won by the Australian Labor Party, but which gave it a majority of 11 seats. [More…]

• I can remember in the 1966 elections when, under the leadership of Mr Calwell, the Labor Party took a very courageous and costly stand on some of these issues in Vietnam. [More…]

• I do not pretend to be entirely satisfied with the way that the Labor Party’s policy was spelled out in that election, but the facts of the matter were that many of the things that Mr Calwell was saying and which certainly were the policy of the Labor Party have been vindicated by subsequent developments. [More…]

• Whoever is in government in Australia in the period after the next election will have this problem. [More…]

• If so, did the Federation state that it has been pointed out forcibly to the Government that individual members of the organisation have been consistent and substantial supporters of the Government in its election campaigns in the past and that it would expect the Government to acknowledge that support and the role and significance of the industry in the general economy. [More…]

• If the merits of the claim of this industry are to be reconsidered prior to the introduction of legislation amending the Income Tax Assessment Act, will he ensure that the attitude of the Government will reflect the significant economic factors involved rather than the financial support received by the Government from master builders at election time. [More…]

• However, I doubt whether the amended rule would apply to the 1972 election. [More…]

• In the discussion I had stipulated that I was prepared to continue, subject to winning an election, for a period of upwards of 18 months, provided that Tingira Heights Branch had its charter withdrawn and the Branch reformed according to rule, and that -Mr Donnelly be expelled. [More…]

• Of course, the difficulty facing the Labor Party during the Federal election campaign in 1969 was that it did not quite know what to advocate. [More…]

• Two wool policies were proposed: One by a present member of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and one by a past member of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics one a present member of this House and one, I understand, a contender for election to this House. [More…]

• For this reason, I felt that I had to place this point of view on the record to counter what was said by the honourable member for Corio as, undoubtedly, his comments would be used during the election campaign. [More…]

• The Prime Minister said that he hoped to avoid making any mistakes before the next election. [More…]

• It is just another example of this Government’s attempting to introduce legislation to help its cronies and those who support it financially at election time. [More…]

• The Labor Party’s campaign to reduce the qualifying period from 20 to 10 years for age pensions succeeded in making Mr Menzies, as he then was, say in the 1961 election campaign that it was unreasonable that elderly migrants who had worked and paid taxes in Australia for lengthy periods could not qualify for age pensions. [More…]

• Indeed, it is because migrants from those countries realise this - and the Leader of the Opposition has woken up to the fact that they realise it - that he has begun to become concerned about the migrant vote in the coming election. [More…]

• It seems to me that it would be inappropriate for the simple reason that the Government wanted to engage in a window dressing process in this period preceding the election campaign to give the migrants around Australia and those Australians who may be considering living abroad the idea that the Government at last was doing something positive about this question. [More…]

• The honourable member for Sturt need not worry very much about his parliamentary pension because after the next election he will be on the waterfront whence he came. [More…]

• An examination of the provisions relating to nominations for election for office in the rules of 70 union organisations registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act has disclosed that the rules of The Australian Workers’ Union provide that the General Returning Officer shall submit all nominations for election of executive officers to the Executive Council which ‘shall then decide whether such nominations are in order and if not, in what particular’. [More…]

• The examination also disclosed that the rules of The Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers provide, in relation to the qualifications and election of Federal Secretary and Branch Secretary, that ‘AH aplications shall be submitted to Committee of Management for approval of qualifications before a ballot for the office is held’. [More…]

• An examination of the provisions relating to qualifications for nomination for office in the rules of 70 union orginisations registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act has disclosed that the rules of The Australian Workers’ Union provide that ‘no person shall be eligibile for nomination for election as an officer unless he has . [More…]

• The examination has also disclosed that the rules of The Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers provide, in relation to qualifications and election of Federal Secretary and Branch Secretary, that he ‘shall have been a financial member of the Institute for the preceding 5 years’. [More…]

• Did senior officers of his Department publicly offer an appointment as telephone exchange operator to a former Australian Labor Party candidate for election to the Queensland Parliament who had switchboard experience in the Armed Forces, was a competent tradesman, and who had a wife and daughter well qualified to assist, after no response had been obtained to repeated advertising of the position. [More…]

• Last Saturday a State election was held in Queensland. [More…]

• A State election was held a month ago in Tasmania and there was a change of government. [More…]

• A State election was held in Queensland last Saturday. [More…]

• During the last session of the previous Parliament, the then Minister informed the House that a review of the provisions of the Commonwealth Electoral Act and the Regulations thereunder had been in progress for some time, and that, although it was not possible to reach the point where amendments to the Act could be presented to the Parliament for consideration before the 1969 House of Representatives election, the Government’s intention was that the review should be resumed immediately after the elections and taken to finality as soon as possible. [More…]

• They include the matter of people who lose their franchise when they are posted overseas; the removal of a person’s name from the roll although he has not ceased to live permanently in the subdivision for which he is enrolled; the eligibility of a member of the Legislative Council for the Northern Territory to nominate for election as a senator or a member of the House of Reprsentatives; and electoral expenses, a matter on which the Labor Party has some very sound and profound views. [More…]

• This is an election year in both the Queensland and Commonwealth spheres and, Mr Speaker, I want to diverge for a minute because there is some concern about what is happening at the Evans Deakin shipyard and the possibility of the shipyard obtaining further orders. [More…]

• What percentage of those (a) medical and (b) hospital funds which provide for the election of contributor representatives have, in fact, an elected contributor representative on their governing bodies (Hansard, 8th September 1971, page 977). [More…]

• Was the election by all fund members in the area concerned in each case; if not, what other method was used. [More…]

• What percentage of open funds provides for the election of contributor representatives to their governing bodies. [More…]

• Both organisations are friendly society funds and one of these makes specific provision in its constitution for the election of contributor representatives. [More…]

• Which of these organisations make provision in their constitutions for the election of contributor representatives to their governing bodies. [More…]

• What is the method of election or appointment of the Council and Committees. [More…]

• Mr Blakeley represented the electorate of Darling in New South Wales for the Australian Labor Party froth 1917 until his defeat at the general election in 1934. [More…]

• Following his defeat in the 1934 election he took an appointment as a Commonwealth arbitration inspector, and for the last 10 years before his retirement in 1952 was a Commonwealth conciliation commissioner. [More…]

• I ask him whether the Government has considered holding a referendum in conjunction with this year’s election for the House of Representatives, since the Bill for such a referendum would be forthwith supported by the Australian Labor Party and the referendum could be put to the people 2 months after it was passed, that is, comfortably before the end of October. [More…]

• The next point I would like to make is that I do not believe that it is a common sense or sensible proposition that at a time when you are having an election and when the whole attention of the community should be directed to election issues you should attempt to confuse those issues by introducing such a matter as constitutional reform. [More…]

• In order to test the Government’s support for this system of compulsion, will he agree to conduct a referendum of the Australian people in conjunction with the forthcoming election, asking whether they approve or disapprove of conscription? [More…]

• The reason that the Government is going to have an election this year is that it knows that it cannot cure the unemployment position. [More…]

• I am quite certain that this Government would like to see a bigger pool of unemployment but it will not seek it simply because it is frightened about election prospects. [More…]

• The Prime Minister will remember that several questions have been asked as to why there should not be a distribution of electorates before this year’s election on the basis of the census in June last year when a distribution of electorates was achieved before the 1955 elections on the basis of the census in June 1954. [More…]

• This qualification is worth stressing because it gives the lie to the charge that the growth of Western Australia unemployment can be linked directly to the election of a State Labor Government. [More…]

• Since the inception of the Greater Brisbane system in 1925 Brisbane has enjoyed a unique form of local government, and more particularly in the last 11 years since the success in the 1961 election of the Labor team led by Lord Mayor Clem Jones the Brisbane City Council administration has been an outstanding success. [More…]

• The fact (hat the proposals were announced only 6 weeks after a State election without reference having been made during the campaign to them can only be described as one of the most lamentable exercises in cynicism in the history of Australian politics. [More…]

• 1 believe that the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) should take an interest in what is happening in Queensland and take up the challenge that was thrown to him by the Premier of Queensland during the State election campaign when, as we all remember, there were full page advertisements in the Queensland newspapers which proclaimed: ‘While the nation looks for leadership Queensland has Joe BjelkePetersen’. [More…]

• I think it is a good sign for the Government’s chances at the next election when a Federal member of the Opposition sets out to try to confuse those more important issues which relate to Federal Government, which are more vital to people - foreign affairs, defence and questions on education - and which the Labor Party tries to hide from, by talking about the Brisbane City Council. [More…]

• I am quite sure that after the next election, whenever it may be, those members of the Opposition who are left will still be sitting on that side of the House. [More…]

• The 5-year rolling plan, which is very high in the Government’s list of election ploys this year, was introduced by a former Minister for Defence, Sir Allen Fairhall, years ago. [More…]

• But every 3 years the 5-year plan gets a shot in the arm, and that is invariably in an election year. [More…]

• The foresight of the Budget will end in about November, just in time for the election. [More…]

• So with his election strategy in tatters the Prime Minister has only 2 things left: The Budget with which to buy votes and the good old well worn issue of defence. [More…]

• This is but one rock on which the Labor Party will perish at the next election. [More…]

• This was the myth upon which the Government fought the 1966 election with the concept of the Chinese or communism or whatever it was pouring down over Asia and dropping on to Australia as though on every Sunday morning we could expect to see the Chinese communists or somebody else on Bondi Beach. [More…]

• I think one of the great challenges held out to all of us on both sides of the Parliament, whoever might be governing after the next election, is to restore the CMF to that position which it previously occupied in the defence of Australia. [More…]

• There is complete silence about the election pledge of the former Prime Minister, Mr Gorton. [More…]

• Although the Liberal Party has now disposed of him it won an election under his leadership. [More…]

• During that election campaign he promised the establishment of what the Sydney ‘Bulletin’ calls the ‘Gortongartens’ - the pre-school centres promised by then Prime Minister Gorton. [More…]

• Every member of the Liberal Party was identified with that election pledge. [More…]

• We will, no doubt, if the Government lasts long enough, find a day when, having resisted this over at least 18 years, the Government will turn around, presumably in some period before an election, and start to organise a pre-school system and claim the credit for it. [More…]

• He made a commitment on behalf of his Government on 4th November 1970 during the Senate election campaign. [More…]

• I would not care whether they were said on an election platform by a Labor man, a Liberal man or any other man. [More…]

• If so, what is the reason for the delay in announcing the date of the election? [More…]

• In any case, when will he announce to the House and the nation the day of political judgment for his Government, namely, the date of the Federal election? [More…]

• I can assure him that the assumption upon which he has asked his question is just as ridiculous as most of those he asks and that will be shown when we hold the next election. [More…]

• It is an election promise, not a Budget proposal. [More…]

• On one side the Labor Party with 2 decades of support for abolition, or the Liberal Party with 2 decades of denunciation of it; the Labor Party which has committed itself in every election since 1954 to abolition, or the Liberal Party which until 6 weeks ago was wrangling about it, with the Prime Minister and the Treasurer opposing it; the Labor Party with its full programme of combining the base single pension rate to one-quarter of average weekly earnings, the abolition of the means test and the introduction of national superannuation, or half a dozen lines - a completely uncosted proposal - in the last Liberal Budget, uttered by a Treasurer who only a few weeks ago was rubbishing the whole idea? [More…]

• Our 1969 proposal to abolish the means test could have been implemented by our winning that election. [More…]

• By all means let us have an election on this Budget; the sooner the better. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman has said: ‘By all means, let us have an election on this Budget’. [More…]

• How much more important is this opportunity to make a clear statement in the major economic debate of the year with only a few months remaining before the election, and in a year when aspects of the economy are of major political interest. [More…]

• I thought that the Leader of the Opposition looked a little agitated but we must remember Labor’s traditional sentence for election failure. [More…]

• The speech tonight of the Leader of the Opposition was made in the hope that it will assist the Labor Opposition’s election prospects. [More…]

• This same private secretary, 1 understand, is a candidate for the next election, is being paid as a permanent public servant and is currently electioneering in the electorate of Casey. [More…]

• 1 was careful to point out in answer to the parity question, that 1 did not believe that I had the same liberty to dilate on this subject as had economic writers, because so near to an election people might assume that after the election the new government would appreciate the Australian dollar. [More…]

• It is not something that politicians like to talk about because with an election coming on people will immediately assume that if we are elected that’s what we will do. [More…]

• He would need to do a lot better than he has done if he wants to impress people between now and election day. [More…]

• If it is an election year then it will usually be earlier. [More…]

• Everybody knows that there is to be an election some time before the end of this year, in fact a challenge was issued last night to hold an election immediately; of course, the Opposition will meet the Government’s wishes in this respect. [More…]

• Surely there is no reason for this procedure to be adopted at this early stage, particularly in view of the fact that no honourable member on the Government side so far has suggested when the general election should be held. [More…]

• However, no honourable member opposite has suggested whether the election is to be held in October or November. [More…]

• Personally, I hold the opinion that the election is more likely to be held in November and if it is to be in November, why this haste to curtail the opportunities of honourable members to speak? [More…]

• In this election year the Minister not only wants to sweep aside the rights of private members but also wants to prevent a discussion of matters that are of terrific importance. [More…]

• They are wondering why we should desire to get legislation through before the election. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) challenges the Government to proceed with the election but would anyone think for one moment that the Government would hold an election before its Budget proposals were implemented by legislation? [More…]

• From an Opposition point of view this is obviously an election Budget. [More…]

• The people of Australia will not be fooled about 10 weeks before an election that a Budget is now able to be introduced and depicted as the cure for all the ills they have had to endure over all these years. [More…]

• If the Government were returned at the next election it would only introduce another punitive Budget next year. [More…]

• The people should not fall for the Government’s election gimmick that there is something for everybody in the Budget because there is not. [More…]

• Rumours are being fostered by members of the Opposition - I have heard some in Tasmania - that if this Government is returned at the next election it will bring down a mini-Budget in January or so of next year. [More…]

• It is almost impossible to do so while at the same time avoiding the cynical and other comments to the effect that a particular Budget is merely for election purposes or is helping some rather than others who may be more needy and so on. [More…]

• If the Leader of the Opposition were to look a little bit behind him and a little bit forward to the forthcoming election campaign I think he would see in true measure that the Government is not unaware of the national goals which the Australian community should be attempting to achieve. [More…]

• They have been designed to last only until the presidential election in the United States is over. [More…]

• During the last election campaign members of the Government Parties asked the Labor Party where the money would come from to finance its proposed programme. [More…]

• Yet the Government criticised Labor a few elections ago when it advocated a SI 20m deficit Budget. [More…]

• Only 3 years ago the then Prime Minister, Mr Gorton, brought down an election year Budget proposing a 9 per cent reduction in taxation. [More…]

• Labor won 72 out of 126 seats at the last Federal election and should have been the government according to the country’s first preference votes. [More…]

• Why did a 9 per cent tax cut fail to win Mr Gorton extra seats at that election and instead lost him 17? [More…]

• The people are saying: ‘It is an election Budget. [More…]

• It is election bait. [More…]

• Because this Budget is absolutely inflationary, it could mean a mini-Budget next April - whoever wins the election- to correct the galloping inflation that will be caused. [More…]

• Thus it is an election Budget-r-a short term Budget devoid of long term aims or planning. [More…]

• The Government is not looking any further ahead than the election date, and the sooner the election comes about the better it will be for the people of Australia. [More…]

• This foreboding of doom by the Labor Party is assisted by certain of the trade unions that wish to bring about a continual state of unemployment in this country up until the election time because on that basis they consider that they can win. [More…]

• On this side of the Parliament we have a democratic party system of election to the front bench and we have democratic decisions by all of the elected representatives on policy. [More…]

• It is not something that politicians like to talk about because with an election coming on people will immediately assume that if we are elected, that’s what we will do. [More…]

• There has been a great deal of speculation and many statements about whether there should be an immediate election. [More…]

• In a case like this where a promise in fact has been made I express my unqualified opinion that promises of this kind must be put on the statute book before any date for an election is announced and that those who are entitled to the benefits that the Treasurer mentioned should receive the benefits as soon as is practicable and is possible. [More…]

• Of course I have given very careful consideration to the date of the election. [More…]

• I share his enthusiasm that when we have the election the Liberal Party and the Australian Country Party will go into it with confidence, and I believe that we will have the support of the majority of the Australian people. [More…]

• The only way in which retribution can be exacted for this political crime is for the Australian people to reject the Australian Labor Party completely at the next election or, as the only alternative, for the Labor Party to change its leader. [More…]

• Because of the statement of the Leader of the Opposition, over the next 2 months or until we have an election the Australian dollar will be under attack by the international monetary bandits who know that they can speculate on the possibility of a change of government and an alteration in the value of the currency. [More…]

• This year it is considerably heavier than it was in other recent election years. [More…]

• I can only reiterate what I said yesterday in relation to the impending election, to which the Minister referred. [More…]

• We hope that the election will be held as soon as possible. [More…]

• We will be looking forward to the election as soon as possible. [More…]

• If the Parliament must rise for an election at some time in the near future, any additional time which can be made available to honourable members to debate legislation in this Parliament ought to be made available to them. [More…]

• My arithmetic says that it is about 1040 days or thereabouts since the last election. [More…]

• Yesterday the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) said, when 1 was speaking: ‘If you put the election on straight afterwards, we will let you get the Budget through tomorrow’. [More…]

• As most people know, It’s time’ is the Labor Party’s slogan for the forthcoming Federal election. [More…]

• This being an election year, the Government hopes that a spending spree will cause the people to forget what occurred 12 months ago and the repercussions that flowed from that. [More…]

• It now realises that unless it can retrieve the position in the few weeks before the election, it has had it. [More…]

• They are newly implemented policies but the fact that they have been part of Liberal thinking is indicated by the knowledge that the proposal for assistance to nursing homes was part of the policy put forward by the Liberal-Country Party Government in the 1969 election campaign. [More…]

• The child minding centres proposal was part of a policy speech during the 1970 Senate election campaign. [More…]

• That ought to dispose of any suggestion that these ideas have just been thought up at the last moment for the purposes of this election. [More…]

• The Australian people now know that when an election is nigh the money can be found, just as it could be found back in 1964 when we started our arms expenditure for the Vietnam war. [More…]

• Benefits are given on the eve of an election and, immediately after the Government is re-elected, it is followed by savage increases in both direct and indirect taxation. [More…]

• In previous Budgets, even under this Government, we have had enumerated to us, especially on election eve, great national projects, great road building works, great highway systems, railway works and the like. [More…]

• I can imagine the debate that went on in the Cabinet room yesterday about how soon the election should be held. [More…]

• The Prime Minister said that the legislation which has been promised in the Budget should be put on the statute book before the election date is finalised. [More…]

• Admittedly, they form a very small section of our community with little voting power, and apparently are accordingly ignored by the Government in this election year. [More…]

• On the other hand, the Opposition - one must always remember in a Budget debate that the Opposition is the alternative government, and the more so on the eve of an election - proposes nothing of this kind. [More…]

• They will get theirs when the election comes at the end of this year. [More…]

• Right in the middle of the oil strike the New South Wales Liberal Government conducted a by-election in a blue ribbon Liberal seat. [More…]

• In the last election campaign my Party made promises concerning this matter. [More…]

• This Budget is a document produced for election winning purposes by a gaggle of Ministers who have all the facilities at their disposal. [More…]

• It has not been, as the last speaker said, put together by a gaggle of Ministers for the purpose of winning an election. [More…]

• I think it is quite obvious that this Budget has not been put out just for election purposes. [More…]

• The speeches of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) and the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) last Tuesday night must have shattered completely any hopes which Government supporters may have held that the Budget could give them some slight chance of winning the next election. [More…]

• Cabinet members - indeed the Ministry generally - have engaged in a wrangling match, the bitterness of which I have never before witnessed during the time that 1 have been here, about whether they should go for an early or a late election. [More…]

• It must be remembered that on this occasion, as in 1949, the Government has put forward only an election promise. [More…]

• There is every indication to suggest that the same pattern will be followed in the future and that if it does retain the Treasury bench at the forthcoming election it will reimpose taxation at something like the existing rate plus the increases which have been imposed over the years. [More…]

• There seems to be little doubt that it would have remained in the granary and been added to this year but for the fact that an election is just round the corner. [More…]

• In addition I am reliably informed that, the honourable member for McMillan (Mr Buchanan), having lost his preselection due to the machinations of certain members of the Liberal Party, intends to contest the forthcoming election as an independent. [More…]

• I am informed that representations were made to the Prime Minister to grant these privileges to the honourable member for Gellibrand and possibly the honourable member for McMillan, should he be unsuccessful in the election. [More…]

• Perhaps the information will be forthcoming again after the election. [More…]

• The Communist Party bogy was introduced by honourable members opposite because they had to win the election. [More…]

• My colleagues and I have argued on numerous occasions that the pensioner, instead of being treated as a human being possessing pride and dignity, is being treated as a political football by a Government trying to bribe voters before this election. [More…]

• This assumption is based on the concept that by some mischance this Government will be returned at the forthcoming election. [More…]

• We recall that in the 1966 House of Representatives election campaign, the Prime Minister of the day, the late Harold Holt, after addressing a meeting at Rockdale was manhandled as he moved outside to his car. [More…]

• Let me draw the honourable gentleman’s attention to the fact that 3 years ago he and all the other members on the Government side were severely critical of the Australian Labor Party’s policy, as announced in the last election campaign, to abolish the means test in 6 years, that is, by 1975. [More…]

• The attitude of the Government to thi rural half of the nation referred to in the last sentence of the amendment of the Leader of the Opposition in this election year Budget is reminiscent of the treatment of an occupied territory. [More…]

• It seems to me that the scant attention paid in this election budget to the Australian countryside indicates one of two things - either the Government has written off the countryside from the electoral point of view or it has decided that it is invincible and that the natives will remain friendly, no matter what. [More…]

• Take tariffs: Every election time, Government country members go out into the countryside to tell the electorate that the tariffs are too high, that the tariff burden on primary industries is crushing and must be relieved. [More…]

• I cannot really ses the private banking system and the pastoral finance companies doing any more to further this proposal than they did when at the last election. [More…]

• What he is doing, in effect, is putting Australian export industries - primary industry, secondary industry and mining - on notice that their financial returns would be less if the Labor Party were to win the next election. [More…]

• That the alternative Prime Minister of this country should make such a statement a few months before an election shows a complete lack of responsibility towards the economic wellbeing of Australia and its export industries. [More…]

• In a recent television debate Mr Hawke even in effect opened Labor’s election campaign. [More…]

• This is a right which is normally taken by the Leader of an Opposition or the leader of a Party but when he should have been debating law and order with Senator Ivor Greenwood he was in effect opening Labor’s campaign for this year’s election. [More…]

• Suddenly, as the 1972 election drew near, members of the Labor Party started renegeing all over the place. [More…]

• Exactly 2 weeks ago the Budget burst like a bombshell over this country with a great cloud of expectation that it would trigger off a snap election to retrieve the flagging fortunes of the McMahon Government. [More…]

• Where is the early election? [More…]

• We have reached the stage, as 1 said a moment ago, that instead of there being a snap election the Prime Minister is no longer prepared to go on television and discuss with his counterpart of the Opposition the political issues of the day. [More…]

• ), which - after years of cogitation, heartburning, internal argument and public confusion - has produced a very mouselike 1972 Federal election rural policy brochure. [More…]

• His caucus colleagues nave entreated him to acknowledge the error of his ways but although it may well cost them the next election as indeed it should, if they insist on giving front bench space to such a Leader it is clear that he will continue to speak and act unilaterally whatever it costs them so long as his leadership life shall last. [More…]

• The only virtue in all this is that once again the nation has been reminded - the reminder is most timely coming as it does on the eve of an election - that if by any horrible quirk of fate the Leader of the Opposition should attain the Prime Ministership, we can expect to be governed with a degree of responsibility roughly equivalent to that of a maddened bull in a china shop. [More…]

• The same applies with equal force to the Leader of the Opposition in the period immediately prior to an election. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds) interjected as the Prime Minister concluded his statement, it is a sad commentary on 23 years of LiberalCountry Party administration of this country that, after the expiry of this period of nearly a quarter of a century, the Government grudgingly concedes, on the eve of an election when rather chilly winds of retribution are blowing in the direction of the Government, that an inquiry into poverty will be held. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Welfare in the Liberal Government in Victoria reacted critically to this proposal and said that all that the Government - his colleagues here in the Liberal Federal Government - was seeking to do was to have an inquiry which would shift the responsibility from the Federal Government to State Government authorities because of the imminent Federal election. [More…]

• The Australian public has had to wait more than 5 years for such an inquiry and then, with only the fear of an adverse result at a Federal election hanging over the shoulders of the Federal Government, has this commitment been made. [More…]

• This Government is guilty and the fact that it is having a poverty survey now is in my opinion nothing more than a sop with an election coming up. [More…]

• He is concerned with the election. [More…]

• He is only worried about trying to make his own marble good in the coming election. [More…]

• Hopefully, it will expand its interest between now and election time. [More…]

• It is now clear that the most embarrassing question anyone can ask Mr Whitlam during the election campaign will be whether he is prepared to guarantee not to raise taxes if Labor wins office. [More…]

• Let us face facts: This is an election Budget and on the proven past performance of this very same Treasurer (Mr Snedden) we will have a further mini Budget which will no doubt impose fresh taxes and be used to curtail any, in the Government’s opinion, inflationary tendencies in the economy. [More…]

• Menzies won the election in 1949 on a promise that he too would abolish the means test. [More…]

• This Government has made only a vague election promise to investigate ways and means of eliminating the means test, and we will find subsequently that it will not be doing so. [More…]

• Of course, it is good tactics in an election year to stir up a few strikes and to create a situation where employers and employees fight each other publicly. [More…]

• I made it clear to the Parliament recently that because of the legislative programme with which it is faced before the forthcoming election, it would be quite impossible for the parliamentary officers to draft the necessary legislation. [More…]

• It will certainly not be implemented before the forthcoming election. [More…]

• The simple answer to this is that no government can allow the legitimate business of the country to stagnate simply because an election is approaching. [More…]

• If this philosophy were to be followed no government would take any major decisions in a election year. [More…]

• It has been said that this has been done only to win an election. [More…]

• I am sure it will win an election but that does not mean that the Budget has been presented in this form purely and simply for that purpose. [More…]

• People should know of the hard work that has been undertaken by a lot of committees that were appointed last year - not this year, suddenly to rub something up for the election. [More…]

• 1 am hopeful that the Government Parties will come out in their election policy speech with a statement about the provision of some assistance for decentralisation. [More…]

• The Government is handing out a few crumbs to pensioners and some small tax concessions in the hope that it may be reprieved by the people of Australia at the next Federal election from the political scaffold. [More…]

• I think that the true answer is that the Leader of the Opposition is terribly worried about the result of the next election and he is terribly worried about his own leadership. [More…]

• There is no doubt that if an election were held today for the leadership of the Labor Party in this place the [More…]

• I remind honourable members of what happened in the New South Wales election of delegates to the ALP Federal Conference. [More…]

• But in the last election there was a strong move to the left with the election of Mr Heffernan, Mr Gietzelt and their dear old friend Mr Robert Gould, manager of the Third World Bookshop, as delegates. [More…]

• The Treasurer (Mr Snedden) an nounced a Budget with an expenditure of Sl0,078m and a deficit of about $730m, and the Budget was introduced in an election year. [More…]

• But this year, there is to be an election and so the sky is the limit. [More…]

• I say to the Australian people that if they want anything out of a Liberal-Country Party government they should make sure that they have an election every year for the simple reason that the only time the public gets anything from the Government is in an election year. [More…]

• In Tasmania recently the Tasmanian Executive of the Liberal Party failed by only one vote - I think a Liberal walked out and was not game to vote - to pass a resolution demanding on the eve of the Federal election the resignation of the Prime Minister. [More…]

• Would they want the public to know that the old shotgun wedding is on the rocks on the eve of a Federal election and that members of the Country Party are at the throats of the Liberals? [More…]

• With these things happening personally and politically, the sky had to be the limit because, with this situation and with an election pending, what else could the Government do? [More…]

• Nothing has been possible for years but the Government now is providing everything on the eve of an election in an endeavour to save the discredited collection of members who masquerade as a government on the other side of this Parliament. [More…]

• This is 1949, mind you - we will further investigate this complicated problem, with a view to presenting to you at the election of 1952 a scheme for your approval. [More…]

• Everyone knows that this is just an election gimmick and that there is no promise in the Budget that the means test will be abolished. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) is confident that his Government will ‘murder’ the Labor Party at the coming Federal election. [More…]

• I think you could say we will murder the brutes,’ he said last night in an election rally party in a fruit packing ham at Nare Warren North. [More…]

• This Government put itself in the position of being the spokesman for the oil companies during the strike because as part of its desperate plan to find some sort of issue to bring up for the coming election - it knows it has lost the elections - it was casting around trying to draw on the law and order issue and trying to associate the trade unions with it. [More…]

• Rather do ( trust that I can make some worthwhile contribution towards a solution, as I know that after the next Federal election, when a Labor government is installed, this problem will be not only assaulted but resolved. [More…]

• It will remain in Opposition after the next election. [More…]

• On the day of the election the silent majority who believe in the progress and future of this country will return this Government to continue the policies in defence and economic matters that it has followed in the past 23 years. [More…]

• Liberal-Country Party governments have decried the suggestion year after year, election after election. [More…]

• As I say, I think it can be expected that a Labor government will be elected at the next general election irrespective of what is said on the Government side of the House. [More…]

• Of course, leaders come into the question of an election very much in these days. [More…]

• The banking issue and petrol rationing were 2 of the main factors that lost Labor that election. [More…]

• It has become a custom in an election year to expect an election winning Budget from the encumbent Government. [More…]

• If there was ever an election winning Budget, this surely must be one. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition challenged the Government to hold a general election on this Budget. [More…]

• But the Government has given certain undertakings in the Budget and it will see them fulfilled before it goes to an election this year. [More…]

• The election must be fought on all issues, because then and only then will it be clear to the voter the ill which would be wrought to this country if the Labor Party were to gain the Treasury bench at the end of this year. [More…]

• But in Australia we are still fiddling around with election eve sops tossed out in the form of $20m to the farmers on the pretence that the Government is doing something about rural stability and the chronic problem of rural indebtedness when in fact it is not doing any such thing. [More…]

• One can only conclude that it is a hoax on country people aimed at dressing up a last minute election gimmick. [More…]

• It is an election eve gimmick dreamed up the night before. [More…]

• They are done 2 months before the election. [More…]

• This proposal for a new bank will go the same way as the Government’s 1969 election promise to set up a rural loans insurance corporation to guarantee more long term low interest rate loans. [More…]

• The proposal was scrapped after the election and has not been heard of since. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition criticised these tax cuts in a way that precludes Labor, if it is ever successful at an election, from taking advantage of the natural growth in tax revenue. [More…]

• The correct reference is to the honourable member for Melbourne Ports but the future reference will be to the honourable, the Treasurer, come November or whenever the Government agrees to calf the general election. [More…]

• In case anyone is wondering at this early stage why the Liberal-Country Parties should have allowed this to happen, may I say quite bluntly that I believe that it is because the 2 Government Parties receive donations amounting to thousands of dollars for election purposes from the companies of the international oil cartel. [More…]

• With the federal election imminent we shall undoubtedly be faced with attacks on the Australian Labor Party’s alternative health scheme. [More…]

• The Treasurer (Mr Snedden) has unashamedly presented a desperate Government’s election Budget. [More…]

• The harsh proposals of the last year which caused large scale unemployment have been put to one side at least until after the election. [More…]

• These give way to the election promises of correction of injustice and the remedy of anomalies. [More…]

• When election time comes, another promise is made. [More…]

• Lip service will be paid to this issue during election time. [More…]

• A report has been promised and, because an election is coming near, a report will be presented. [More…]

• It was quite obvious to me at that time that its suggestion was what could be termed election bait, because I feel absolutely sure that it was of the opinion that this Government would never undertake such a move as complete abolition and consequently it felt safe enough to offer such bait. [More…]

• As I have said, how this must sting the Opposition, for it can no longer use such an attractive plum as election bait. [More…]

• That this is apparent to so many people, particularly in our inner suburbs, is shown by the large numbers of candidates who offered themselves for election in the just concluded municipal elections. [More…]

• First of all the Opposition, given an election in a few months’ time, will not necessarily be bound by the terms of reference or the personnel of this inquiry or any other inquiry set up by the Government. [More…]

• After the next election, when Labor is in office and sets up a broad committee of inquiry into social welfare we will do what we hope this Government would do in framing the terms of reference for the matter dealt with by the Minister. [More…]

• This Budget is not something cooked up for the election but is the result of many months of planning, research and imagination. [More…]

• The Government will give them 50c here or Si there in a Budget in the great hope that this will placate them, particularly on the eve of an election. [More…]

• On the eve of a Federal election some 9 years ago - note that it was the eve of an election - this Government with its fear phobia entered into a most extraordinary contract to purchase the F111C aircraft. [More…]

• You are seeking to secure favour in the election’. [More…]

• I think that the choice before Australia in the coming election deserves to be stated with some measure of clarity. [More…]

• For my part I would like the Labor Party to know that I go out into the next election, along with those others who stand behind the Government, with my head held high, and unless I am greatly mistaken I will be back here, my head again held high. [More…]

• Would Mr Geoffrey O’Halloran Giles, in a desperate attempt to hold off a Country Party challenge at the next election, seek protection from the Country Party? [More…]

• Other members of the Federal Parliament have been refused pre-selection by the Liberal Party machine, and Mr Gorton and Mr Killen are waiting on the back benches ready to jump at the chance of getting away from the McMahon Liberal Party in a respectable way. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) must be aware of these moves and be deeply concerned about them, as they represent a serious threat on the eve of a Federal election. [More…]

• So, the Leader of the Opposition has promised each farmer in Australia that, if he is returned at the election at the end of this year, each farmer will have a lower income than he would otherwise have had. [More…]

• Between now and the election there must be a significant number of people who will contemplate bringing capital into this country in the hope that the Leader of the Opposition might win the election and put into effect his policy of revaluing the Australian dollar upwards. [More…]

• If this scheme is to be introduced, why must the introduction be delayed simply to suit the Government’s purpose of announcing its introduction in its election policy in an effort to buy votes. [More…]

• He came to power by the political assassination of the previous leader of the Liberal Party who the Party then believed, quite wrongly, would be the most disastrous leader to take them to the next election. [More…]

• If this applies to the present Government surely it must apply to the Labor government after the next election. [More…]

• Australia would be well warned that the past performances of this Government mirror the future that they can expect from the Government should they ever be unlucky enough to have the same Goverment inflicted upon them after the next election. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly) reminded the House yesterday, the Country Party of Queensland had very little confidence in the Prime Minister during its last election campaign when it com.paigned with a full page newspaper advertisement claiming that while Australia searches for a leader Queensland has found Joh Bjelke-Petersen. [More…]

• The things the Australian people should be carefully considering in the next few months before the election are very clear to him. [More…]

• But of course even Government supporters are reflecting public opinion because many of them during this Budget debate have indicated the certainty of a Labor victory in the next election. [More…]

• They know that this transparent, hoodwinking Budget is nothing but an election bribe. [More…]

• I am sure that there will be a change of government and that the industry will be secured after the next election. [More…]

• Apparently the Government has decided that there is only one way in which it can win the next election, and that is by destroying Whitlam. [More…]

• Parliament without the present Prime Minister ever having had to face an election. [More…]

• I refer now to the figures for the 1969 House of Representatives election and the 1970 Senate election that were contested in both instances with the present Leader of the Labor Party leading the Labor Party and with different leadership of the Liberal Party and the Country Party. [More…]

• In the 1969 House of Representatives election, under the leadership of the present Leader of the Labor Party Labor received 2,870,792 votes, or 46.95 per cent, of all formal votes and it won 59- seats. [More…]

• Let us face- this next election on the Budget that has been produced - a completely predictable Budget. [More…]

• It is: a Budget which almost every political commentator and political writer judged to be the type of Budget that would be brought down, for 2 reasons: first, it was an election year and, secondly, inflation was riot in the community. [More…]

• But this stagnant Government would not have taken action had it not been an election year. [More…]

• It is a good election Budget but it was a predictable one. [More…]

• It is as it is, as I said earlier, because it is election year and because the economy of the country is running down rapidly. [More…]

• Nobody in his right mind, in a Budget speech just prior to an election, would expect the Labor Party to telegraph its punches as to what will be its policy speech at the election. [More…]

• But if I can give him a little bit of advice, I would think that after the election his prayer might go something like this: ‘Mea culpa, mea culpa, mca maximum culpa’; a rough translation of which would be: ‘Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault’. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite do not now say: ‘When we win the election’ - and this is the point - they now say: ‘If we win the election’. [More…]

• I think the Prime Minister acted correctly when he said that he would not have an early election because even now, after I have studied the Budget, I am finding every day some special benefit that has been provided in it for the people of Australia. [More…]

• Therefore if the Prime Minister calls an election after all the Budget provisions have been explained it will be a certainty that the Government will come back into office. [More…]

• This Government has issued bribe after bribe in its Budget policy and I have no doubt that this is the first of many such eleventh hour decisions, forecasting what it will do in the future, that this Government will make between now and the election. [More…]

• As a member of that Committee, even at this late stage preceding the elections, I would be prepared to make some sacrifice and go to Tennant Creek to help the residents with the difficulties they encounter. [More…]

• He could have said, for example, that this year - election year - the Committee looks like undertaking about twice as many inquiries as have ever been undertaken in the history of the Public Works Committee. [More…]

• In my case, I leave Sydney at 7 o’clock on Monday morning and fly to Papua New Guinea - to Lae and Port Moresby - and return via Canungra, Amberley and Townsville arriving back in Sydney on Friday, This is a valuable week in this pre-election period as I am sure you, Mr Speaker, will recognise. [More…]

• This has happened in the past and, of course, he would like the Committee to go back to the Northern Territory as many times as possible before the election. [More…]

• But we should not be exploiting the Public Works Committee or this process for miserable election purposes. [More…]

• I would like to ask the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) whether he suggests that by going to New Guinea we are doing some electioneering? [More…]

• It is wrong to suggest that the Committee is doing certain work because this is an election year. [More…]

• Perhaps the Minister for Customs and Excise (Mr Chipp) who is at the table could indicate to the Parliament when the election date will be. [More…]

• If we knew when the election will be we could determine whether this referral is a reasonable proposition. [More…]

• If the election will be in three or four weeks the Committee will not be able to do justice to this important inquiry which concerns a Supreme Court building; it is not something to be trifled with. [More…]

• I doubt very strongly, from a consideration of the time which will be available to members of the Committee to move around between now and the election day, whether the Committee will be able to go to Alice Springs and conduct a public inquiry. [More…]

• I want to give some figures showing broadly what the increase in taxation has been in Australia since the time of the last election, a period of nearly 3 years. [More…]

• That table shows that for the financial year ended just before the last election - the last election was held in November 1969 - the total collections by the Commonwealth from all sources of taxation amounted to $5,466,303. [More…]

• When the last election was being fought, the aggregate collected in income tax for the period ended 30th June1969 was about $2. [More…]

• We are having trotted out in this House- humbug about reducing taxes in an election year. [More…]

• Perhaps that is something He will mention to his constituents when he is up on the hustings before the forthcoming election. [More…]

• This will be possible only under a progressive government, which I hope will take office after the next election. [More…]

• I serve notice on Government members that in this election year I will not respond to this filthy type of attack and to the defacing of my office door in this building. [More…]

• What is more contemptible is that the Minister is attempting to silence this particular individual - his own constituent - and also intends to scare the newspaper from printing anything that this person or others may write, in the hope that he can tie the paper down during the course of the coming election campaign. [More…]

• If any honourable member opposite thinks that I have been unfair to the Minister let him stand up here tonight and say so, but I can draw no other possible conclusion because there have been letters to the editor of the newspaper since the last election and the Minister has not responded to them in any way. [More…]

• I seem to recall that Prime Minister Bruce went to his reward when he lost the general election, lost his seat and left his country never to reside here again. [More…]

• The honourable member alleged that all major oil companies and refiners in Australia including Ampol and H. C. Sleigh, are acting in collusion with this Government to squeeze the 2 small Melbourne-based independent marketers out of existence on the grounds that the Government parties receive thousands of dollars for election purposes from the international oil cartel. [More…]

• It might be said also that there would not be time for people gaining the vote under this Bill to be enrolled for the House of Representatives election this year. [More…]

• There has been a great deal of speculation as to when the election will be held. [More…]

• We are happy to have the election as soon as the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) can make up his mind. [More…]

• But, nevertheless, for a State of that population, a very targe increase in enrolment occurred and it was satisfactorily accomplished in time for last year’s election for the Western Australian Parliament. [More…]

• The first is that the former Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), on the eve of the last election for the House of Representatives, forecast - I said earlier that he promised, but he pointed out that it was a forecast and not a promise - that 18-year olds would be voting in this year’s election. [More…]

• There is no question that the general expectation which has been entertained for nearly 3 years has been that 18-year olds would be voting in this year’s election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• In fact it was thought that they would be voting in the last Senate election also. [More…]

• They had it at the last State election in Western Australia and they will have it for the next election for the State Parliament in South Australia. [More…]

• The Commonwealth has promoted suffrage for 18, 19 and 20-year old men and women in this year’s election for the House of Assembly of Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• Quite clearly for political motives we are seeing a situation develop within the ranks of the Opposition whereby this issue has been raised within a few weeks of an election campaign. [More…]

• It is one of those instant coffee type situations that can arise, and certainly have arisen, on the eve of an election campaign. [More…]

• I suppose that there would be political reasons why a party would want to try to stampede this issue on the eve of an election campaign, thinking that there could be short term political gains in the form of support at the polls from the youth of Australia. [More…]

• I appeal to the House not to try to rush something through like this on the eve of the election, as it were. [More…]

• 19 and 20-year-olds on the eve of an election. [More…]

• However I do not think it would serve any purpose to suspend the Standing Orders and to put aside other business which the Government deems to be urgent in order to deal with this matter on the eve of an election. [More…]

• Far more difficulties face the Commonwealth Electoral Office right now because in South Australia and Western Australia its officers have to make the distinction between people who can vote in State elections and those who can vote in a Federal election. [More…]

• Here is a Party which in an election year goes around Australia agreeing, for obvious reasons, to practically every request for funds in practically every area. [More…]

• It is a most inequitable tax and one which the Labor Government of 1949 was in the process of eliminating from the taxation schedule when unfortunately it was defeated at the election. [More…]

• They know all too well what is happening, and while the Prime Minister is on his knees praying to win the next election the people of Australia are praying that the Arbitration Commission will wake up to the fact that they cannot live on $51.10 a week. [More…]

• In a month - certainly in not much more than 2 months - there will be an election in Australia. [More…]

• That election will not be fought on what will happen if we get a 35-hour week in 12 months, 2 years or 3 or 4 years time. [More…]

• The election ought to be fought on the Government’s performance in relation to the economy. [More…]

• I suggest that these are some of the things on which the election will be fought. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) today made his statement on the 35-hour week solely in the belief that it would help his very desperate Government in its election campaign. [More…]

• They do not mind how false an impression is given as long as it will help them to win the election. [More…]

• I think that if the Australian people are asked to vote in the coming election on the alternatives of the Labor Party policy or the policy of the Prime Minister they will be inclined to vote for the Labor Party policy. [More…]

• But, if the Government wants to have an election on the issue of the 35-hour week and if the people can see the facts as to the policies of the Government parties and the Opposition party, I am confident that they will support the Opposition party- [More…]

• They know that when the Opposition wins the election it cannot guarantee a 35-hour week or a long weekend every month or a long weekend every fortnight. [More…]

• This means that we face now and in the future a situation where election campaigns are going to be very costly indeed. [More…]

• Mr BERINSON (Perth) (6.3)- At a time when we are within weeks of a Federal election - at a time when every blow has to count, so to speak - it is rather strange to see that we have put time aside to discuss questions of parliamentary reform, questions without any electoral impact at all. [More…]

• For over 20 years the Senate has had the potential to be a highly negative and disruptive body and with the imminence of a general election and the likelihood of a Labor government thereafter, that potential could be realised all to soon. [More…]

• The alternative could well be an election every year and that would benefit no one, least of all the country. [More…]

• When I look at those honourable members opposite who will be sitting on this side after the next election, I realise that no amount of staff could advise them intelligently. [More…]

• Nothing demonstrates that better than the absurdity, as my friend the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen) remarked a moment ago, of this charade or Irish two-step or whatever it is about the forthcoming election. [More…]

• elections for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• It is time we took some, steps to do something specific about section 28 of the Constitution so that the dissolution of the Parliament should take place on a specific date from the last election unless it is earlier dissolved by a fall of the Government - in other words, by a resolution of the Parliament within the House. [More…]

• We will have an election.’ [More…]

• In the 1060 days since, the last election we have met for 190 days. [More…]

• I do not think that the honourable member for Ryan could have been here today when we had a complete and utter waste of the Parliament’s time with a debate initiated by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) on a matter which has been discussed in this Parliament almost daily for the last 2 years purely for the purpose of finding a platform from which he could try to make the matter an election issue. [More…]

• In the last few weeks we have heard Ministers - it is election time, you know - talking about decentralisation. [More…]

• As the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would know, the Parliament has a tremendous amount of business before it to carry out before the election. [More…]

• This is an election year and the proceedings of the [More…]

• Of course, no-one can quantify it exactly, but we have yet to hear what will be the loss as a result of the further adjustment of world currencies which will take place following the United States presidential election. [More…]

• What faith can anybody have in this Attorney-General, a man who we all know broke the law of the land himself when he filled in a false declaration about his expenses in the election. [More…]

• Speaking on behalf of the part- Aborigines who live in the South Sydney area in my electorate of Sydney, I assure honourable members that they are absolutely disgusted with the action of this Government and that they will certainly vote accordingly at the next election. [More…]

• I should also point out that another extraordinary circumstance is that this measure has been introduced on the eve of an election. [More…]

• The drama and the haste with which it was introduced on the eve of an election by no less a person than the Minister for Trade and Industry, after 12 months of procrastination, is not good government. [More…]

• As was their usual practice, the oil companies offered to negotiate with the unions earlier this year, but because it was an election year the Government said to the oil companies: ‘We do not want you to negotiate. [More…]

• It is consistent with the errors made by the then Prime Minister and the then Minister for Health during the last House of Representatives election campaign. [More…]

• Before the election of 1969 the Minister for Social Services described the home services for the aged as being an outstanding programme, but in fact it turned out to be a monumental flop in many ways. [More…]

• But no matter, because the 1969 election is safely out of the way and it is time to move into the field again and make fresh errors which will not be discovered until the coming election is out of the way. [More…]

• One of the criticisms has been that it is an election gimmick. [More…]

• To me when people use the criticism of something being an election gimmick they mean that they really do not consider it is necessary, but because there may be some popularity attached to it, that particular action is being taken. [More…]

• I believe it is up to the Opposition to say quite clearly whether or not it believes that this sort of legislation is necessary because by using the term ‘election gimmick’ I contend that members of the Opposition are saying that they consider that the legislation before us is not necessary. [More…]

• I suppose at this time of the year, just prior to an election, this is only to be expected. [More…]

• Certainly, it is a Party of concern around election time. [More…]

• Ail members from both sides of the Parliament could well be affected by this article in the forthcoming election. [More…]

• It was written on the basis that Federal members expected, whichever Party was in power after the election, to receive an increase in salary. [More…]

• On 22nd October 1969- it might just be a coincidence, but that was a few days before the last Federal election - the Brisbane ‘Telegraph’ carried the headline: Plans on new airport “nearly ready” ‘. [More…]

• I would sooner chance getting it from this Government and from the government which will be elected at the next election, which will be the same Government. [More…]

• The proposition which I will put is not put with a view to getting votes as I am not nominating for the next election. [More…]

• This is only a natural sequence of events with an election coming on. [More…]

• The next matter to which I wish to refer relates to the Public Service Board and the fact that we have in our midst at the moment until after the federal election Dr David Butler of Oxford University. [More…]

• I ask that the advisers who report to the Treasurer, even at this late hour with an election pending within the next month or so, request him to take action to overcome this particular problem. [More…]

• I think there is nothing surer than that after the next presidential election in the United States there will be a further reshuffle in the international currency situation. [More…]

• Throughout my electorate- the Government’s stupidity may even cost it the next election. [More…]

• In directing my question to the Prime Minister I refer to an election promise made by the Australian Country Party in 1969 to provide Commonwealth assistance to local authorities for amenities such as swimming pools. [More…]

• Finally, is this the reason why we so frequently hear members of one Government party blaming the other for the non-implementation of election promises? [More…]

• As we are approaching an election and there may well be a change of government, in which case the trade policy of the incoming government would differ quite significantly from that of the outgoing government, I think there is an obligation upon the Government at present in office to take no action until the election is held and until the people of Australia have a say as to who they want to govern this country, if I may use the term in respect of a matter of this kind, 1 think we should have a moratorium on further action until after the election. [More…]

• However, it is that significant that it is being completely ignored by the Federal Government and those schools will again come in for very substantial Commonwealth assistance if this Government is returned after the next election. [More…]

• Firstly, we have said that no-one will be disadvantaged by participating in the Jess scheme; that everybody will have a right of election to ensure that by participating in the new scheme he is not disadvantaged. [More…]

• The Bill before the House seeks to amend a Bill which was introduced following an election promise in 1963 by the then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that this homes savings grant legislation was originally conceived through the motive of political expediency, almost on the hoof during an election. [More…]

• The Treasurer (Mr Snedden) in his Budget Speech claimed that the Budget was not designed to improve the chances of the Government at the forthcoming elections. [More…]

• However, it is interesting that the home savings grant scheme was introduced in the Government’s policy speech prior to the 1963 elections. [More…]

• That was the first bit of expediency for election purposes. [More…]

• The limit on this value of eligible homes has now been increased 3 times and each time this has been done in an election year. [More…]

• The limit was increased to $15,000 in the Government’s 1966 policy speech, it was increased to $17,500 in its 1969 policy speech and, in this pre-election Budget, it is to be increased to $22,500. [More…]

• Yes, it is election bait. [More…]

• It is lifting the value of an eligible home, not when it is apparent that it should be lifted but in a period preceding an election campaign. [More…]

• Of course, this is the period of the Government’s greatest distress from an election point of view. [More…]

• I remind the House that this legislation was always designed as an election winner. [More…]

• It has been brought up to date in pre-election periods. [More…]

• The honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren), the shadow Minister for Housing who would be the Minister for Housing if the Labor Party were to win the next general election, is the spokesman for the Labor Party on these matters. [More…]

• If the honourable member was not present in the House last night, he may not be aware that at long last, because we are in an election year, the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) has grasped this fact. [More…]

• I am sure that at the coming election the young people of this nation will be behind this Government for what it has done and that the shadow Minister for Housing will remain a shadow. [More…]

• While members of the Government were down in the concrete vaults of the nation hammering out the nation’s Budget in this election year a national survey was carried out. [More…]

• The whole of the electorate should take note of the fact that the last time the Government did anything in relation to this matter was also in an election year. [More…]

• However, there are other honourable members on the Opposition side who have scoffed at the scheme, derided it and used phrases such as ‘a magic trick’, ‘an election gimmick’ and ‘a thimble and pea act’ to describe the operation of the homes savings grant scheme. [More…]

• They have spoken so strongly about the scheme, so strongly against it - they have used such language about the scheme by describing it as a magic trick and an election gimmick - that one could be excused for coming to the conclusion that the Opposition had in fact decided to abolish the scheme. [More…]

• Sir Robert Menzies promised in his 1949 election policy speech ‘a positive decentralised national programme of rural production, to be carried out co-operatively with the States and with regional and local authorities’. [More…]

• When Labor is elected to office - on whichever day the Prime Minister chooses to hold the election - this is the policy which will be implemented and it will give the Australian manufacturing industry some idea of our forward planning which it needs to conduct the industry efficiently. [More…]

• I do not think it should be done during the final few days of an election campaign when the people are bombarded with literature and so-called factual material. [More…]

• I hope that honourable members will be aware of this when the election campaign commences. [More…]

• Obviously what has been thrown to the pensioners is nothing more than a few miserable crumbs from a grudging Government to buy off pressure with an approaching election. [More…]

• Very early after the election we will institute a national inquiry to assess national superannuation schemes in operation overseas and the proposals which have been put forward in this country. [More…]

• During the new Parliament we will further investigate the complicated problem with a view to presenting to you at the election of 19S2 a scheme for your approval. [More…]

• Of course, the present Minister for Social Services is being consistent with the Government that destroyed national insurance legislation in 1938 after building it up for election purposes. [More…]

• The Earle Page Government did exactly the same thing in 1927-28 after building up the expectations of people for election purposes. [More…]

• Why cannot we get away from this political auction mart where this matter seems to gain great stimulation in the period preceding every election? [More…]

• We will have no truck with the cynical, if not contemptible, practice of playing with pensions for election purposes. [More…]

• It is absolute nonsense to suggest that any government, particularly in an election year, would deliberately go out of its way to see that there was a large repository of unemployed. [More…]

• With an election approaching it would have been interesting and valuable not only to this Parliament but also to the people of Australia to be told the exact’ policy of the Labor Party on social welfare. [More…]

• Now, several weeks before an election even he has become converted to the idea. [More…]

• I believe the Government is entitled to whatever applause or approbation there may be because some increases have been effected to pension rates generally, but as I indicated a few moments ago, the general rate pension has not been increased since 1964, In my opinion it is wrong for this Government to wait for a general election before it is put in the position where it has to make an adjustment to the 100 per cent general rate of pension. [More…]

• Despite the representations made and the points of view expressed by honourable members on this side of the House nothing has been done until we are faced with a general election. [More…]

• Too many people in our community, including many on the Opposition benches - not including, I am glad to say, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) who, although making a good election speech, was out of tune with a large section of his Party - have forgotten the purpose of the repatriation system, which is to repay a debt the community owes to those who risked death or injury in the defence of all of us. [More…]

• mingled with the congratulations is a degree of suspicion, because 1972 is an election year and it has been obvious, since the rebellion occurred in the Liberal Party and the new Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) took over, that the Government was in trouble and that things had to be done. [More…]

• It is an accepted political fact that during election years increases are granted across the board in social service and repatriation benefits. [More…]

• So I emphasise again that introducing increases in the general rate pension in a Budget shortly before an election is to be held is a cynical political trick. [More…]

• This year, an election year, because there are not nearly as many people getting the 75 per cent and 100 per cent general rate war pension as there are getting less than those rates, the Government forgets about the incapacity and the increase in the compensation allowance and gives across the board increases to the whole range of general rate pensioners. [More…]

• This is why the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) will not announce the date of the election. [More…]

• He wants the altered social service benefits to get into the pockets of the people before he announces when the election will be. [More…]

• I say that, fundamentally, this is the reason that the Prime Minister will not tell the Parliament or the people when the election will be. [More…]

• If the reaction to the social service and repatriation increases is not as good as the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) and the Prime Minister believe it will be, the election will not be held until 9th December. [More…]

• Two elections ago we suggested that we would do it in 6 years. [More…]

• Last election we suggested 6 years. [More…]

• The Government has not once brought down a proposal to do it, until this Budget - a budget for an election year. [More…]

• Despite all that it has done, it will have no opportunity of seeing government after the election this year, because it is time, and there will be a change. [More…]

• So we have not raised these amounts by as much this year - this election year, as the honourable member for Lang said - as we raised the full total of repatriation services in the previous year. [More…]

• I think I demolished the argument that the Government’s proposals amounted to election gimmickry by pointing out the amount of money which ha been spent on repatriation over recent years. [More…]

• At a time when an election is just around the corner the Opposition is indulging in some carrot hanging. [More…]

• Since my election to this Parliament and for the time I will be in this House I will play my part in achieving that end. [More…]

• However, the Government obviously has faced up to the fact that in an election year this decision was electoral suicide. [More…]

• I conclude on this point: Even after these stupid blunders have occurred at least I am glad that, even in an election year, there is a little bit of sensitivity coming from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• Therefore, I am pleased that at last, after all its blunders, this Government has decided in this election year not to go ahead with its Budget proposal to impose this tax. [More…]

• One of the problems in any election year, with a properly functioning Opposition, is that there is the opportunity - I think the people of Australia should recognise it - for people who owe no responsibility to the nation to go throughout its length and breadth telling people what they want to hear. [More…]

• This Government is not prepared to show its full hand, pending an election which will take place at any time within the next 2 months. [More…]

• The right honourable gentleman will have noted that the New Zealand election has been announced for 25th November. [More…]

• Is there any truth in reports that he has made a deal with the New Zealand Prime Minister to hold simultaneous elections? [More…]

• If so, will he confirm that the Australian election will be held on that date? [More…]

• If not, why is the Prime Minister persisting with a conscious policy of deferring a decision on the election until the last possible moment? [More…]

• Has the right honourable gentleman confirmed that the last date on which an election can be held is 20th January? [More…]

• Does he favour an election in the apolitical atmosphere of the Christmas-New Year holidays? [More…]

• Finally, did the Prime Minister abandon plans to have an election on 28th October because of the bad unemployment figures? [More…]

• This legislation, like the amendment to the law as it existed previously when the Government got the inspiration in September 1969 with an election in November 1969, seems to have been brought about by the Government getting the same inspiration and the impulse to act on the law just a month or 2 before the next election. [More…]

• Is it because the Government knows it will be defeated in a few months when the election is held and therefore it wants to commit the Parliament by way of this legislation to something with which it is afraid the Opposition may not be prepared to proceed? [More…]

• I have said on many occasions that as a nation we are but babes in arms when it comes to the handling of the tourist industry and I hope that after the next election, when this Government is returned, we will see a recognition of what has been done in other countries and an application of some of those principles in this country. [More…]

• The honourable member for Newcastle suggests that we should delay the passing of the Bill to enable the Opposition to set its own conditions after the next election. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party has been living on hope for some 23 years now, and if this Government had had to put everything off until after each coming election nothing would have been done in the last 2 decades. [More…]

• I do not know what Qantas has done to him, whether it lost his luggage in some foreign port or whether there is some other reason why he is so anti-Qantas, but I would hope that after the next election, if he retains his shadow portfolio, he sees a little good in Qantas and recognises that it is now endeavouring - I use the words ‘now endeavouring’ - to get back on the path of success. [More…]

• on 16th September 1969, just before another election, the then Prime Minister said in his statement on overseas investment in Australia, which is the exact title of the statement presently before the House: [More…]

• The Government is always talking about the 5-year rolling programme for defence, but the only time that the 5-year programme gets a spurt on is every 3 years, which is an election year. [More…]

• I think I can safely say that unless there is an election of a Labor Government at the end of the year there will be no aircraft industry in Australia as we know it today. [More…]

• He suggested that the Australian aircraft industry, which is one of the most highly technical and skilled industries in Australia, is not competent, not capable of doing a better job of constructing an aircraft than the manufacturers of that phantom aircraft, the Fill, which was ordered as an election gimmick in 1963 but which in 1973 may well arrive on board a ship because the damned thing will not fly. [More…]

• If the Government wins the next election it can go on with its Bill for the next 5 years. [More…]

• But it is quite plainly impertinent on the part of the Government to attempt to bind for 5 years its successors when it does not know its own fate in an election. [More…]

• We believe that the establishment of a schools commission objectively to examine the question of need will take this whole question out of the field of Party politics where it now is at every election. [More…]

• I suspect that they will remain so clouded until such time as at least this forthcoming election is completed and we find out whether or not anybody will be able to implement the unnamed details of the Australian schools commission. [More…]

• I should imagine that over the next few weeks until the election is held the honourable member along with other Government supporters will run into a lot of hostile meetings about the Government’s performance in education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Prime Minister and it arises out of the question by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition yesterday concerning an election date. [More…]

• Will the Prime Minister tell us why he refuses to announce the election date? [More…]

• Finally, in view of the decision of the Government on this subject, is it not childish, immature and at least irresponsible for a Government at the end of September in an election year to refuse to disclose the date of the election? [More…]

• I hope that when the Prime Minister reveals the date of the election I can step up the tempo of this investigation to produce all the relevant facts prior to the rising of this Parliament if at all possible. [More…]

• An invitation had come from the teachers in my electorate to all the candidates who announced that they would be standing in it at the forthcoming general election. [More…]

• It is not surprising, one would think, that political party leaders are committed so far ahead in election years. [More…]

• I believe that the only way in which it will be maintained is by the return of the present Government to office at the forthcoming general election. [More…]

• For the first time for some time we have an alternative Labor scheme that could well be the legislative skittle of the next election. [More…]

• Because it is an election year we have heard charges being hurled from one end of the country to the other about what future plans mean. [More…]

• I said to the parliamentary liaison officer for the Department of Immigration in Sydney that I hoped the election would come soon so that the people who would be put in charge of the Department of Immigration and other departments would realise that they were dealing with human beings and not with files - that it is terribly important for the migrant in Australia and especially for the relative he is trying to bring out here that there is no delay through loss of files. [More…]

• But to suggest, as some honourable members opposite have suggested in the fear tactics preceding an election, that this attitude of the Australian Labor Party indicates an open door to Asiatic migration or to the breakdown of the Australian way of life, is malicious in the extreme. [More…]

• As the time available to me this evening is brief 1 will not devote any more time to that point, but I am sure that the Australian people will take those remarks of honourable members opposite for what they are worth and disregard them completely because I think that today they are well aware of the actions of this Government as it moves one step at a time towards injecting tear into the community in the hope that Government supporters will retain their seats in the Parliament and that the Government will regain office at the forthcoming election. [More…]

• I invite the Minister or any Government supporter, once the Prime Minister decides when we should have the election, to trot into my electorate and I will tell him some facts. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science, if he is lucky enough to return as Minister after the election, will accept full responsibility for bringing every private school in Australia up to the finest possible standard. [More…]

• The Liberal and Country Parties were desperate to win an election. [More…]

• But there was an election in 1963, so Sir Robert Menzies ran out to a private school and opened a science block. [More…]

• One needs only to look at the remarks of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) as reported in Hansard of 9th March of this year, those of the honourable member for Fremantle as reported in the South Australian Teachers Journal on 24th May of this year or those of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) in one of the pamphlets on education which he has issued in an election year, to see that this is so. [More…]

• Do the Articles of Association of the Fund provide that only medical members have a vote in the election of its Council, that medical members shall be elected by the Council or by a committee appointed by the Council, that contributory members shall not be entitled to attend or vote at any general meetings or to receive notice thereof and that 5 medical members personally present shall be a quorum of a general meeting. [More…]

• As a result of that determination the representation for Western Australia will be increased by one member as from the first general election held after that State has been redistributed into electoral divisions. [More…]

• On 17th August I asked the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) why there should not be a distribution of electorates before this year’s election on the basis of the census in June last year when one was achieved before the 1955 elections on the basis of the census in June 1954. [More…]

• If sufficient resources bad been given to the Statistician to carry out the duty which the Constitution imposes upon him, then whenever the Prime Minister makes up his mind to hold this year’s House of Representatives election there would have been time to have a distribution in Western Australia. [More…]

• At the time of the by-election for the Australian Capital Territory the then Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), said that there would be a second electorate in the A.C.T. [More…]

• For how long is this nonsense of waiting around for the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) to decide when he will announce the date of the election to continue? [More…]

• Can the House be advised as to the Government’s legislative programme between now and the date on which the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) will announce the date of the election? [More…]

• Personally, I do not give a continental when he announces the election date; it does not worry me one iota. [More…]

• I am well geared for the election and I suppose that most other honourable members on this side of the House are similarly prepared. [More…]

• But if the Prime Minister wants to play a one man band in regard to when he announces the date of the election- [More…]

• I am not informed of the date of the forthcoming election. [More…]

• The aim is to make political points particularly a couple of months before an election. [More…]

• The paper would never have been introduced had the Government not been faced with almost certain defeat at the next election as a result of its inaction in this and many other areas of policy, such as its refusal to introduce indicative planning, to put teeth into the Restrictive Trade Practices Act, and to control the activities of fringe and merchant banking. [More…]

• The political consequences are here today and the Government, in this panic move at the last minute before an election, is trying to overcome the problem. [More…]

• His policy speech before the 1969 election promised means to enable governments to deal in urban land. [More…]

• The Prime Minister, in this pre-election period, has developed grandiose visions of a new ministerial council made up of the passing parade of State premiers which, with him as its inspirational head, will lead us all to the promised land of planned decentralised urban living. [More…]

• Consequently nobody believes that in 1972, on the eve of an election, this Government has suddenly come to learn the folly of its misdemeanours and shortcomings and that it will turn over a new leaf. [More…]

• From the programme ‘Frost over Australia’ we learned that the Prime Minister has resorted to prayer in a desperate bid to obtain deliverance at the forthcoming election. [More…]

• In the 8 years since Sir John McEwen, the Country Party’s former leader, set up the Commonwealth-State Officials Committee under Country Party responsibility nothing happened until this year - this election year. [More…]

• We can confidently expect that there will be 2 fewer members of the Country Party in this House after the forthcoming election. [More…]

• After the election they will be able to write to their leader and advise him that his sins have found them out. [More…]

• It is a good thing that the Government, even if motivated only by election panic, has decided that something can be done about decentralisation. [More…]

• • I have the very strong feeling that if the Government is returned after this election it will do exactly the same thing to this scheme. [More…]

• It could be held even before the election. [More…]

• It will certainly be held after the election on the basis that if they will not take some action, loan funds will be withdrawn. [More…]

• During the course of the 1970 State elections in South Australia full page newspaper advertisements were placed by the Liberal Party’s great friend and political ally, the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]

• Without question, they were among the most scurrilous advertisements ever placed by any political party during an election campaign. [More…]

• Later in 1970 during the Senate election campaign of that year advertisements were placed in Adelaide newspapers by the Liberal-Country Party League which were so similar in design and appearance as to be almost indistinguishable from the DLP advertisements for the State election campaign. [More…]

• I see no prospect of any change in salaries or pension arrangements before the election. [More…]

• Honourable members on the other side of the House may be interested in applying for this position after November, or whatever the date of the election is to be. [More…]

• We are waiting for the election day to be announced. [More…]

• Even though the Government has emerged so belatedly, in this pre-election period, with concern about Aboriginal welfare, environmental matters and many other things, it will help to compound the efforts that have been made by the Australian Labor Party to make these real issues for the whole country. [More…]

• If the Government were re-elected - which I think everyone now concedes is a dubious proposition - would it really be intent on crowding 15,000 people into one Commonwealth building at Wooloomooloo, or would it give expression to the new policies of decentralisation which have been eloquently outlined by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) and other spokesmen for the Government in this period preceding the election campaign? [More…]

• We have not only had speculation on the election date, we have even had just as much speculation about the day ;hat the date would be announced, and as that day approached we even had speculation about the time of the day on which the date would be announced. [More…]

• He appeared to intend to hold his own election on 25lh November - the ultimate gesture of Country Party independence. [More…]

• My Party - both the members in the Parliament and its officials outside - has been ready for this election for many months, whenever it was to be held and whenever it was to be announced. [More…]

• The Labor Party will win this election because of the known qualities of its team and its policies, because it has men better prepared for office than any who have sought to gain office at any election since federation, and because our policies are the best prepared and most thoroughly scrutinised ever presented by any party at any election since federation. [More…]

• It is on these facts and our faith in the good judgment of the Australian people that we rest our confidence on the outcome of the election now announced to be held on 2nd December. [More…]

• I think that if the Minister were fair, and if this were not an election year he in turn would pay tribute to the Leader of the Opposition for the wonderful job he did in January 1970 when he visited Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• The Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen) has proudly announced that the Soviet Union will support our election to the Security Council. [More…]

• Just winning an election is not really the be-all and end-all of governments in Australia. [More…]

• At least up to the present the Commonwealth has not provided funds for urban public transport but again this will be an election gimmick at the eleventh hour. [More…]

• This is an election vear and, as far as the Labor Party is concerned, the crisis in our cities and the future role of the ^Federal Government in relation to that crisis are major issues. [More…]

• Why do these questions crop up only at election time? [More…]

• Forrest Place, Perth, will be known by many members of this place who have spoken at the distinctive lunch hour open air meetings which are held there during every election campaign. [More…]

• I would say it is still being exploited to an extent which would command the respect even of Al Capone because he himself is credited with having had an interest in various election results during his day. [More…]

• I draw the attention of the Minister to the fact that in the election of 1966 on which I did a lot of work, postal votes represented 2.4 per cent of the total number of votes cast. [More…]

• We do not allow a political party representative to follow a voter into a polling booth on election day to see how he votes or to take his ballot paper and fill it in for him. [More…]

• I hope that I will be in this place after the next general election. [More…]

• If the present Government survives the forthcoming election 1 hope that we might have the announcement in this regard. [More…]

• This is an election year and I think that we should put forward positive proposals so that members and people know what our proposals are. [More…]

• He continued in his article that the 1969 election campaign represents an important shift in the structure of political allegiance. [More…]

• From information received, as the policeman says in the witness box, the discredited Mr Oakes hopes to be blanketed into a very important position in the Public Service if the Labor Party wins this election. [More…]

• I hope that he will not achieve his ambition if the Labor Party wins the coming, election. [More…]

• Every member of the Labor Party hopes that the Labor Party will win the coming election. [More…]

• Between now and next year there will be a presidential election, and if there were to be any change in the Administration the new administration might have some policy changes to make. [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister a question for the third time about a wrong statement that he made well before this election campaign commenced - in fact, on 18th February last year - in answer to the honourable member for Mitchell. [More…]

• Rolls for the forthcoming elections in all the States, except Tasmania, will be computerised. [More…]

• It has been a mammoth task to switch over to the computerised rolls for the coming election and I believe that the officers have done a tremendous job in completing this task for the election. [More…]

• Let us look very briefly at the price averaging plan which was introduced after the 1969 election. [More…]

• Let me turn now to the Australian Wool Commission which, once again, was set up as a political act on the eve of a Senate election. [More…]

• It came into operation 2 days before the Senate election took place, just as this half baked and inadequate legislation now before the House is being presented to the Australian wool grower 7 weeks before the House of Representatives election. [More…]

• Of course he would not because there is an election coming on. [More…]

• There will be an election in 6 weeks. [More…]

• It would be intolerable if a Prime Minister seeking re-election as head of this nation’s Government were to go to the people under such a heavy cloud of doubt. [More…]

• The other reason the legislation has been introduced is so that the Government can say before the election that it has begun to move. [More…]

• introduction of the legislation has to be seen in relation to these 2 things - the disillusionment that has caused people who have been traditional supporters of this Government to say that they will actively work against it and the fact that the election is drawing so near. [More…]

• If this Government were returned after the election - I cannot see that happening - there would need to be this provision. [More…]

• It is a pretty serious thing that character assassination of the kind that is occurring immediately before an election should be tolerated. [More…]

• anybody to go to the countryside 6 weeks before an election and say that the Prime Minister will phase out up to 14,000 wool growers, that he will not have an acquisition scheme that 20,000 people in the wool industry have asked for at the meetings to which I have referred? [More…]

• It is a name which comes to their minds in any election year because of the magnificant handouts that such companies make to the Liberal-Country Party political machine. [More…]

• Obviously they do not give themselves any hope of winning the election; otherwise they would not be worried about this time period of 6 months. [More…]

• The honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) claims that the Opposition wants the Government to delay action for 6 months which suggests to his mind that the Labor Party does not believe that it will be in power in 6 months’ time; in other words, it would not be the government after the next election. [More…]

• The fact is that before Parliament meets after the election this Corporation will have been set up. [More…]

• This allegation on the eve of an election is a shocking example of political chicanery. [More…]

• I had not intended to deal with the matter I am about to deal with tonight except for the attitude displayed by the Minister for the Interior (Mr Hunt) in using the terms that he used in relation to the Australian Labor Party and the position that we might be in during an election campaign. [More…]

• I could stand here tonight and sling mud about what is happening to the Liberal Party and the Liberal movement in South Australia but I will fight this election on the issues, not on personalities and what is happening within political parties. [More…]

• I was misrepresented by the Minister for Education and Science according to a news report on radio station 3BO yesterday following a speech made by the Minister at an election meeting last Saturday night at the Bendigo Town Hall. [More…]

• Surely nothing could be more grotesque than to see, a few weeks before an election, the introduction of the sort of measure that has just been brought into the House. [More…]

• If ever there was a grotesque example of this type of approach, it is this measure which, again, is a pre-election measure that has been introduced into this Parliament tonight to obtain virtue from a sum of $200,000. [More…]

• Even in New South Wales and Victoria his own Party has not proposed in any recent State election policy speech to introduce a free hospital system. [More…]

• He was referring to the 1.25 per cent figure that was quoted at the last election and the upgraded figure of 1.35 per cent that is being quoted at present, which includes provision for additional services. [More…]

• I believe that following the election results we will have a. representative for Macarthur who will be continuously assiduous in his representations for the needs of decent developmental and environmental standards for the people of Canberra, for the people of Campbelltown and, indeed, for the people of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]

• I can only hope that at the next election the Labor Party will be given an opportunity to ensure that these great reserves of energy producing material in this country are used for the development of this nation. [More…]

• If South Australia is to receive assistance for the Lock-Kimba pipeline we will probably get a decision before the election. [More…]

• If assistance is not given before the election a decision will not be made at all. [More…]

• This Government follows a ritualistic policy whenever an election is approaching. [More…]

• Last time a plan for an atomic reactor was trotted out by the Department of National Development as a gimmick for the election then ensuing. [More…]

• It is quite extraordinary that it accepted the views of the honourable member for Riverina - a member of the Opposition - without question, especially with an election coming up. [More…]

• If necessary, regulations or legislation should be introduced to ensure the ready availability of television time to political parties at election time. [More…]

• Indeed, it appears probable that the new policy will be relegated to an election promise for the Prime Minister’s policy speech. [More…]

• The Australian public will recall that similar election promises were made by the former Prime Minister prior to the 1969 House of Representatives election. [More…]

• It must not be left to the doubtful status of an election policy promise. [More…]

• The Liberal Government failed to honour a similar promise made by the former Prime Minister before the 1969 elections. [More…]

• There is a danger that this area of Commonwealth-State relations will become an area for election gimmickry, grants becoming available only when elections are pending. [More…]

• There was no election pending in February last year when the files were first sought. [More…]

• The Cabinet took the matter seriously; the Press took it seriously; the public took it seriously, as we all remember from the ensuing Senate election campaign. [More…]

• This is unfortunate because this will probably be the last chance we get to discuss important defence issues before the election. [More…]

• It is unlikely that defence will play a major role in the election campaign, although the Prime Minister still gives it some sort of priority in the Government’s list of the issues. [More…]

• The Deputy Leader of the Opposition said that defence will not be an issue at the next election. [More…]

• Once again the Government is trying to raise the issue of defence in an election year in an attempt to save its hide. [More…]

• Every 3 years, in an election year, the big spurt is on. [More…]

• At the time of the last election the Five Power Defence Arrangement was the big issue. [More…]

• The Government is trving to make a last minute deal with France, just before the election, for the coproduction of the Mirage Fi in Australia. [More…]

• That is what happens at every election. [More…]

• I believe that at the forthcoming election the Australian people will be deciding that they want quality. [More…]

• It is part of the challenge at election time. [More…]

• When Opposition supporters saw that the gallup poll rating of 43 per cent, which gave us a majority of 9 members at the last election, suddenly went up to 45 per cent they started character assassination but the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) was one too good for them. [More…]

• I can only hope that this legislation which has come into the Parliament to be decided in its closing hours does not mean that it is an election arrangement which will form some part of the history of the House but Will not be translated into action at the earliest opportunity. [More…]

• Twenty-three years late and two months before an election the penny has finally dropped. [More…]

• Even more importantly, the 1949 election of the Menzies Government was based on a major proposition that there would be national superannuation and, on the election of that Government, in the succeeding 20-odd years until this point we saw no indication that there would be a national superannuation scheme. [More…]

• Are we about to be confronted with an election campaign in which one of the major issues once again will be a promise of an inquiry into national superannuation by the Liberals, based on those operative words in the terms of reference ‘with a possible scheme being introduced’? [More…]

• We hear that pretty regularly at election time. [More…]

• I suppose decentralisation’ would be the most overworked word in the English language in country areas at election time. [More…]

• As so often happens every 3 years, 3, 4 or 5 weeks before an election something comes up. [More…]

• It is in such a hurry to rush this through before the election. [More…]

• The man called an Authority, which he is not, will report to the man who does not want to receive a report because he is not interested in the subject except in perhaps fooling a few people into voting for the Government at the forthcoming election. [More…]

• Along with a whole host of new policies which have suddenly been found to be possible to conceive just 6 to 8 weeks before the election - I refer to such things as an investigation into national superannuation which was announced tonight, the proposal to abolish the means test and the proposal to control the foreign takeover of our national assets - this scheme of urban and regional development has been concocted in haste. [More…]

• There is no outline as to which areas are to be chosen for development, and country people will be kept guessing as Liberal and Country Party candidates throughout the course of the election dangle before the electors the found hope that theirs will be the area to benefit from this programme. [More…]

• in reply - It would be quite extraordinary if, 4 sitting days before the House rose to fight a general election, no politics were to intrude into a debate. [More…]

• The honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Kennedy) disclosed his concern when he said, with his voice quavering with fear: ‘All you Liberals and Country Party members are going to dangle this before the voters before the election.’ [More…]

• Perhaps it is too late for him to bring in a supplementary budget before the election to alleviate this sad situation but I trust that if he is returned to office - I do not believe that he will be - something will be done in the new year. [More…]

• It is true that the Australian Labor Party put this forward in 1966 as part of its election campaign proposals. [More…]

• Fortunately we were able to carry out a much more thorough analysis subsequently than we had been able to carry out up to the time of that election. [More…]

• spelt out before election day. [More…]

• Tt is a section of Labor’s policy which will be put into effect very soon after the next election. [More…]

• Furthermore, my intervention on clearly stated grounds of principle was assiduously interpreted to an ABC staff meeting as being motivated by the desire- to compromise or undermine the position of the Australia Party candidate for the forthcoming Federal election in Denison, who like the member for Franklin some years ago, is an ABC news reader. [More…]

• By the time the forthcoming election is held I will have served in the national Parliament one week short of 23 years. [More…]

• It does not want pensioners to apply before the election. [More…]

• As it is pointed out in .relation to South Australia that of the 2 friendly societies one specifically makes constitutional provision for the election of contributor representatives, does this mean that the other has contributor representation on its governing body as an act of grace. [More…]

• In the case of Western Australia, (a) is election to the Management ‘Committee at the Annual Meeting an election in which all contributing members to the fund are entitled to participate or is it restricted only to certain contributors, (b) are all contributors advised of their right to vote at the Annual Meeting and (c) are all contributors entitled to nominate for election to the Committee. [More…]

• The procedure followed for the election of office bearers by the Friendly Society referred to by the honourable member ensures that contributor representatives can be elected. [More…]

• The procedure for the election of office bearers is that members of each branch or lodge elect a delegate or delegates to the annual meeting and the annual meeting elects the office bearers who form the governing body of the Society. [More…]

• (a) Election to the Board of Management is restricted to financial ordinary members of the fund. [More…]

• Ordinary members constitute the large majority of the fund’s membership, (b) Notice of the Annual General Meeting is published in a Perth Newspaper, (c) Ali financial ordinary members are entitled to be nominated for election to the Board. [More…]

• In referring to Tasmania in Part (4) of the reply to Question 5023, it was advised that none of the 3 largest open funds in that State provided specifically in their constitutions for the election of contributor representatives, but nevertheless one organisation observed a practice whereby 3 directors retire each year and the vacancies are filled by election at the annual general meeting. [More…]

• All contributing members to the fund are entitled to participate in the election of the Management Committee. [More…]

• The notice advises the place and time of the meeting and details of business to be discussed including the election of the Management Committee. [More…]

• It is well known and beyond dispute or even argument that honourable gentlemen on the other side of the House are controlled by an outside organisation not responsible to this House, lt happens to be a matter of great significance that the leading role in explaining the policies of the Australian Labor Party is now being taken by people who are not representative of this House and who are not endorsed as candidates in the election. [More…]

• Firstly, we have said that no-one will be disadvantaged by participating in the Jess scheme; that everybody will have a right of election to ensure that by participating in the new scheme he is not disadvantaged. [More…]

• What appals me is the attitude of the Government - that on the eve of an election, no doubt believing that because it has regarded servicemen in the past as being somewhat conservative with their voting, it can do as it likes. [More…]

• One would expect that just prior to an election the Parliament, as a matter of fundamental right and in accordance with parliamentary procedures, should be permitted to debate fully the implications of that report. [More…]

• The Government should declare itself clearly and unequivocally before the election and should not try to avoid facing up to this responsibility any longer. [More…]

• It seems that the ‘other measures’ will be to give more money shortly after the election is out of the way. [More…]

• I think there is just one clear reason for it: That the Prime Minister somehow or other, whether explicitly or otherwise, clearly understands that there will be further support for the Liberal Party from the AMA before the general election, as suggested by the Liberal Party, probably in the privacy of the consulting room. [More…]

• I do not think there is any doubt at all that what it will mean is a further rise in medical fees after the elections. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party government which will be on the treasury bench after the next Federal election will look at properly organising health care not just in the Australian Capital Territory but throughout the whole community. [More…]

• If there are 2 representatives one will be a Labor representative and in all possibility if there were a Senate election there would be a Labor representative in the Senate. [More…]

• I hope that the nest statement that the Minister makes to the Parliament - he will not be able to present it before the election - will put forward a plan which will involve minerals and land because I can see no reason why some major aspects of Crown land and minerals cannot be handed over to the Northern Territory Legislative Council for administration. [More…]

• I believe that after the next Federal election there will be an improvement in the voice that they have here, but still that voice will need to be supplemented by senators and some extra numbers in this House. [More…]

• In the short time since the last election in 1969 something like 40,000 people have come to live in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• We have done nothing about social and economic planning in Australia because we have had a series of governments for 25 years which have never needed a policy to win an election. [More…]

• It is obvious that the honourable member for Paterson (Mr O’Keefe) is finding it hard to accommodate himself to the new election look of the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon). [More…]

• The Government knows that the issue of the takeover of Australian companies and assets, not to mention our national resources, is a gut issue in this election campaign. [More…]

• In reality this legislation is a chloroforming operation in order to anaesthetise the public and is designed only for the period of the election campaign. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that something like this should have been done at least 15 years ago but the legislation should have been extended far beyond what is proposed and should be fair dinkum, not something designed to get the Government over the election period, then to be done away with by proclamation. [More…]

• I call it a chloroforming operation for the election period. [More…]

• The public may rest assured that after the election is over and provided a Labor government is elected - I believe a Labor government will be elected - the Australian Labor Party’s policy of common sense and effective controls over foreign investment will be introduced in the interests of Australian industry, the Australian public and the posterity of the nation as a whole. [More…]

• In the coming Federal election there will be 3 major issues and no conservative government has ever been more vulnerable on them than this Government will be when it faces the electors. [More…]

• But circumstances have overtaken the Gov!ernment - the pressure of events, Australian Labor Party demands, the Press and it is now on the eve of an election - so the Government has decided to whip something through. [More…]

• In the last federal election pamphlets and how-to-vote tickets for Australia Party candidates came from Steam Mill Street and Barndana Pty Ltd. [More…]

• In the last New South Wales State election pamphlets, postal vote information and how-to-vote cards came from these sources for the Australia Party, the DOGS and the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• For this coming Federal election the honourable member for St George (Mr Morrison) who is sitting across the chamber from me tonight, has a postal voting card from Southwood Press Pty Ltd, authorised by Mr Hunt and printed by Southwood Press. [More…]

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• Unable to reach a Polling Booth on Election Day [More…]

• To say that the choice had been made ‘taking into account local employment and social effects’ is one way of saying that the decision will help the Country Parly’s election prospects in marginal timber-producting electorates such as Forrest, in Western Australia. [More…]

• Another pamphlet that I had printed for the last election - and it rather hurt me to have to accept the quotation, but it was the lowest - was produced on a printing press in the Hurstville area that is owned by Sir Frank Packer. [More…]

• The Government accepted this view and on 20th September last the Minister for Defence announced that no-one would be disadvantaged by participating in the new scheme, that everybody would have a right by election to ensure that by participating he would not be disadvantaged. [More…]

• He had to get some measure of commitment to his scheme without rocking the boat too much in the last days before an election. [More…]

• Certainly this Government will not act but after the election, when there is a change in government, we certainly will. [More…]

• On the eve of the election the Government says: ‘This is what we propose to do. [More…]

• If he returns after the election it is quite likely that he will not be able to occupy the position as Chairman, that position usually being occupied by a member of the Government, but I have no doubt that in the event of his being returned to the Parliament he will continue as an effective member of the Committee making a worthwhile contribution to its work. [More…]

• The aircraft were ordered on the eve of an election campaign and now, on the eve of another election campaign, we are proposing to build shelters for them. [More…]

• I also join in the Prime Minister’s references to those of our colleagues on both sides who have announced that they will not be nominating for election to the next Parliament. [More…]

• Among the 10 members who have announced that they will not be nominating for election to the next House one is retiring from public life at a much earlier age than honourable members ordinarily choose. [More…]

• We have an election before us. [More…]

• The Parliament will bc the poorer for their leaving and I am sure that some of the more objectionable members on the other side of the Parliament unfortunately will not be here after the election. [More…]

• But I pay particular tribute to the Whips who have unfailingly kept the House running and have made sure that we won every division, just as I am sure that when we are in government after the next election Maxie Fox will make sure that we win them all. [More…]

• We have not really reached the standard that has been achieved in England where they change the government at every election or every second election. [More…]

• I shall watch events as they unfold and on the night of the election I will be totting up the results too. [More…]

• The usual last minute rush of legislation before an election is taking place in Canberra. [More…]

• On any occasions when there has been an election or by-election up Newcastle way Charlie’s home has always been open to any Labor members who went up to Newcastle. [More…]

• I only hope that many honourable members opposite will in fact suffer by losing their seats at the forthcoming election. [More…]

• Earlier this evening we heard a speech by the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) concerning the pre-selection ballot in the electorate of Shortland. [More…]

• The honourable member for Mackellar spoke and tabled the letters for one purpose only - to discredit Alderman Peter Morris, the selected and endorsed Labor candiate for the seat of Shortland at the forthcoming Federal election. [More…]

• These letters were tabled to villify this man, in an attempt to discredit him on the eve of an election. [More…]

• Will he ignore any representations to prevent Mr Kolesnik’s admission as part of a bargain to obtain USSR support for Australia’s election to the Security Council of the United Nations. [More…]

• Which of the Commonwealth, Queensland and Western Australian laws that could be regarded as discriminating against Aborigines (Hansard, 19th August 1970, page 248) have been abolished as the former Prime Minister promised in his election policy speech on 8th October 1969 would be done in the life of the present Parliament. [More…]

• I object to being made a stalking-horse for the Victorian election campaign, the policies being invented for us which are not in fact our policies. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, on behalf of the parliamentary members of the Australian Country Party, I congratulate you on your unanimous election to the position of the supreme office bearer of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• My Government has already announced, in accordance with its election program, a wide- ranging series of measures to improve Australia’s social security system. [More…]

• He was elected at the byelection caused by his uncle’s death. [More…]

• For 15 elections the Riordans - uncle and nephew - were endorsed by the electors of that vast territory. [More…]

• I have noted an account of Bill Riordan’s by-election campaign in the Queensland ‘Worker’ in November 1936 in these terms: [More…]

• At the time of his election Bill Riordan, at 28 years of age, was the youngest member of the House. [More…]

• He was elected at a by-election in June 1963. [More…]

• He was re-elected in the general elections of 1963. [More…]

• He was defeated in the elections of 1966. [More…]

• On that occasion it was a double dissolution election. [More…]

• Mr Jack Mortimer became the member for Grey at a by-election in 1963. [More…]

• I think it is fair to say that he endeared himself to members of both sides of the House, including those who campaigned against him in the by-election in the iron triangle of South Australia, as a gentle large man. [More…]

• By coincidence some years later Tom Burke and 1 were opposed to each other in the pre-selection ballot for the seat of Perth for the 1969 elections. [More…]

• I won the pre-selection and he lost, and he was very keenly disappointed by that loss. [More…]

• At the same time, in the best traditions of the Labor movement, as well as in keeping with his own personal standards of conduct, he never permitted that disappointment to interfere with the assistance which he gave to me in an unstinted and unreserved way towards my own election in 1969. [More…]

• A couple of months ago I had association with him again when I wrote to him to express my thanks for his work in organising a polling booth and for his assistance in many other ways in the election of last December. [More…]

• As honourable members have heard, his concern in general for the problems of the rural community resulted in his election to the State Parliament as the member for Wammerawa in 1922 and later as the member for Castlereagh. [More…]

• In my final remarks I remind honourable members, as Bill often proudly told me, that he met his wife when he was introduced to her by the man who represented Melbourne until the last election, the right honourable Arthur Calwell. [More…]

• Finally, will the honourable gentleman indicate whether his Government is taking or omitting to take any action which would hinder the implementation of his clearly stated election promise? [More…]

• On behalf of the Australian Labor Party at the election I undertook that all Commonwealth employees would receive 4 weeks annual leave. [More…]

• He will recall the present Prime Minister guaranteeing in Hobart during the election campaign that Tasmania would not be disadvantaged in respect to shipping freights as compared with freight rates on the mainland. [More…]

• It is true that in the course of the election campaign the Prime Minister did give an assurance to the electorate in Tasmania that the Labor Party, if elected to government, would do something positive about the disparity in shipping freight rates and the great difference demonstrated by a comparison between the cost of transporting goods a certain distance in the mainland States and the cost of transporting goods an equal distance between Tasmania and the mainland. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to bring forward legislation to lower the franchise age and the age of candidature to 18 years for Federal elections. [More…]

• the roll and, when enrolled, to vote at elections for sena tors and for members of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• However, under a special provision, a member of the defence forces serving in a war zone outside Australia, who is under 21 years of age, is entitled to vote at a Federal election. [More…]

• As honourable members may be aware, the age qualification for candidature at Federal elections has been coincidental with the minimum age for enrolment and voting since federation and the Government takes the view that there is no logical reason to depart from the uniform age practice under Commonwealth electoral law. [More…]

• We believe that, in conjunction with the extension of the right to vote at 18 years of age, young people of this age should also have the right to nominate for election if they so choose. [More…]

• They already enjoy this privilege for the South Australian House of Assembly elections. [More…]

• The lowering of the age for candidature for Northern Territory Legislative Council elections to 18 years is a natural consequence of the adoption of that age for candidature for election as a member of this House. [More…]

• The lowering of the age for enrolment and voting for both House of Representatives and Legislative Council elections in the Northern Territory will be achieved by amendment of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations. [More…]

• Furthermore it provides for payment of the pension increases to be made retrospectively from and including the first pay day for each category of pension occurring after the election of this Government. [More…]

• It is worth noting that in the last election campaign the then Prime Minister made no specific proposal to increase pensions. [More…]

• May I take this opportunity, Mr Speaker, to congratulate you on your election to the Speakership. [More…]

• Before the election we found in rural newspapers and journals that the rural community had been promised $500m at 3 per cent with a repayment period of up to 40 years. [More…]

• Farmers were certainly misled before the election and they are now being ignored. [More…]

• I should like to take this opportunity to congratulate you, Mr Speaker, on your election to the high office of Speaker of the Mouse of Representatives. [More…]

• It is my pleasure, for the second time since my election to this House, to speak in an AddressinReply debate. [More…]

• That bogy almost disappeared in the 1973 election and after 3 years of this Government it will totally disappear. [More…]

• We intend to carry out a comprehensive programme and I am quite certain that the result will be our re-election at the end of this 3- year term. [More…]

• During the last election campaign it was bruited around the country that Chou En-lai said to the Labor or socialist leaders in this country: ‘If it will help your cause we will give to the Australian Wheat Board an order for $60m so that you can become the government of Australia and a satellite of Peking’. [More…]

• The then Leader of the Opposition, now the Prime Minister of this country, also said during the election campaign what he would do so far as communist countries were concerned. [More…]

• I am very proud to say that a large proportion of the people of Australia, whether they have supported all the decisions that the Government has made since the election or whether they have not, at least have been singularly high in their praise of the Government for at least making decisions and of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) for at least acting as a Prime Minister should. [More…]

• We on this side of the House who were honoured to be members of the last Parliament know full well that the opportunity was taken by the people of Australia on the occasion of the last election to cast out the Liberal-Country Party coalition and to elect the Labor Party into office after 23 years of Liberal-Country Party rule despite the gutter tactics that were used and despite the lies of the previous government and particularly those of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]

• I can say that in Queensland the fear and smear campaigns of the enemies of Labor during the last election did not succeed. [More…]

• So, never again can the fear tactics of the parties that previously have depended on them for their return to office, rather than depending upon the presentation of progressive policies for election to office, be used to the detriment of the Labor Party and to the disadvantage of the country as a whole. [More…]

• I believe that the election of this Government will see the speedy end of the DLP which has grown and lived on hatred and bitterness towards the Party that is now in office - hatred and bitterness which I hope can no longer continue. [More…]

• Parliament were excellent and show the very high calibre of people who were brought into the Parliament as a result of the last election. [More…]

• Of course, the result of that election gave the Australian Labor Party a majority so that today it can govern for the first time in 23 years. [More…]

• First of all, Mr Deputy Speaker, I hope that you will pass on to Mr Speaker my congratulations on his election and that you will also accept my congratulations on your appointment as Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• We know that the ALP made 140 promises at the last election in order to attract that extra 2.7 per cent of votes which has given it its present majority. [More…]

• Support for communists and denigration of our allies, not only by the Prime Minister but by any of his Cabinet who choose to shoot off his mouth has become the accepted mean; If it was not so disastrous to the nation it would be humorous to recall the words of the - American Ambassador who, just before the last election said that he did not see any variation in Australian-United States relations if the Australian Labour Party won the election. [More…]

• May I preface my remarks by firstly congratulating you, Mr Deputy Speaker, on your election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• Mr Speaker may I, in rising for the first time in this Parliament, congratulate you on your election to your high office. [More…]

• It is most unexpected that a Government should have acted so badly so soon after its election - a performance so poor as to deserve censure in the first week of the new Parliament. [More…]

• This is clearly in line with the expressed policy of the Prime Minister in the election of December 1972. [More…]

• Since the elections we have proceeded promptly to act on the mandate the people gave to us. [More…]

• The Government’s actions since the election are a clear proof of our intention to honour our promise to implement these policies. [More…]

• While the Government can claim that some of its actions have been taken as a result of the mandate given to it - a mandate that was by no means overwhelming - the Australian people were not aware or expecting, let alone told, that the degree of national political realignment following the election of a Labor Government would be so radical and pursued with such indecent haste. [More…]

• But if we read the ‘Australian* of 27th February - a journal which was not noticeably unsympathetic to the Prime Minister during the election campaign - we learn that the Prime Minister’s self-assumed mantle of an Evatt-style world statesman has been hit for six by his Indonesian escapades. [More…]

• It is valid for the Left to support the election of the Australian Labor Party to government, at the same time attempting to develop approaches and initiatives which would bind the Government to a left-wing course of action when it took office. [More…]

• The former Government used this in an election campaign by trying to mesmerise the Australian people with scraps of paper. [More…]

• After uttering soothing words in the period prior to the election about the importance it attached to the Five Power Arrangements and playing down those provisions in the ALP platform which required it to bring the troops back to Australia, it was confronted with the imminent visit of Lord Carrington. [More…]

• I do not say this in any political sense, but on the eve of the election, for some unknown reason, the Liberal Party decided to demolish the Prime Minister’s suite. [More…]

• Mr DALY (Grayndler - Leader of the House (3.51) - in reply - Anybody listening to the debate this afternoon, particularly the speeches from the Opposition side, would have no doubts as to why honourable members opposite were rejected at the last Federal election. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, I offer my congratulations to you on your election to a very high and distinguished office. [More…]

• During the election campaign copies of an impressive document headed ‘Labor’s Rural Policy’ were circulating around my electorate. [More…]

• This has been further aggravated by the Government’s decision to subsidise Australian tourist air fares out of the country, despite its election policy calling for the encouragement of cheap air holidays within Australia. [More…]

• They showed it at the last State election and at the Federal election on 2nd December last. [More…]

• I congratulate you, Sir, on your election to your high office. [More…]

• On Saturday week there is to be a State election in South Australia. [More…]

• In its election campaign the Australian Labor Party promised, if elected, to develop the AlburyWodonga complex as the first step in its concept of urban and regional development. [More…]

• Therefore, I now ask the Government to honour its election promises of regional development by acting in a positive manner to assist this city with its plans for regional growth. [More…]

• During the last election campaign we heard a lot spoken and written about moral issues. [More…]

• I also congratulate those members who have made maiden speeches during the evening’s proceedings, particularly my colleague, the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Bourchier), who made an outstanding contribution to the future of the Liberal Party by his election to the seat of Bendigo. [More…]

• It was a hard fought election and he is a member who I am certain will make a very great contribution to the deliberations of this Parliament. [More…]

• The people who voted in the recent election believe that the charter of their new Government will create new opportunities and a better life for all Australians. [More…]

• We recognise above all things that just as our basic task in this Parliament is to oppose, to criticise and to scrutinise, equally our task is to initiate, to formulate and to develop new policies upon which the people of this country can make their judgment when the next election takes place. [More…]

• I was pleased to hear mat the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) recognises the change in society and that he concedes the fact that the Australian people in voting in the last election voted for a change. [More…]

• But the odd thing was that, with all his rhetoric, he then proceeded to talk in the very self-same vein in which I have heard him talk for the previous 3 years, as if in fact he had learnt nothing at all from the recent election result. [More…]

• I believe that both showed in what they outlined the hopes and aspirations of this Government and of the Australian people, which supported it at the general election. [More…]

• with post-mortems on why they lost the election. [More…]

• I watched several former Ministers on election night when they conceded defeat, and having had to cop it sweet for a number of years - I learned early in politics never to whinge- -I listened to some of the, most abhorrent whingeing in the world from some of those Ministers who claimed to be the most progressive in the previous Government. [More…]

• I also suggest that if members of the Liberal Party and the Australian Country Party in this place do not stand on the platforms of their Parties, are heard publicly to state that they do not support the policies of their Parties and are not in this Parliament or other parliaments for the purpose of implementing the policies of their Parties, their election is nothing short of a confidence trick. [More…]

• They have stood for election on a party platform but they come into the Parliament and say that they are not prepared to accept the policies of the party which they sought election to represent. [More…]

• I suggest that any man who seeks his Party’s endorsement and stands for election on the policy of that Party and then seeks to repudiate in the Parliament the right of that Party to ask him to carry out the policies on which he was elected is a person not fitted to be a member of this or any other Parliament. [More…]

• How convenient it was that these threats appeared just prior to an election and faded quickly after the election was over. [More…]

• Since 1 joined the Labor Party I have heard at least 10 different explanations why the Australian Labor Party lost the 1949 election. [More…]

• Those who will prosper from the last election are those who realise that a little of all those reasons contributed to the change of Government. [More…]

• The nice gerrymander that prevented Labor from taking office in 1954 and 1961 when it gained the majority of the 2-party preferred vote operated again during the last election so that Labor required 52.7 per cent of the 2- party preferred vote to gain office, whilst our opponents could have retained office with 48.5 per cent of the vote. [More…]

• It is easy enough to operate without clear-cut policy when a party has control of the Treasury, when it can distribute largess, when it can alter electoral boundaries, when it can select the timing of an election or when it indulges in the gutter politics that marked the last week of campaigning of the 1972 election, but it is another ball game when it is denied those advantages, lt has been obvious to the Australian Labor Party for many years that what passed for national goals and policies were simply a nervous twitching from time to time as the political climate changed. [More…]

• Firstly I should like to add my congratulations to Mr Speaker upon his election to the Chair. [More…]

• I offer my congratulations to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, on your election to that position and to the position of Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• My remarks in this Address-in-Reply debate will be confined to the subject of regional development and to the statements made on this subject by the present Government during the last election campaign. [More…]

• I should like to know also whether this statement about promoting a regional growth centre in Townsville was just another election gimmick to win votes in north Queensland. [More…]

• An additional reason which makes the Government’s pre-election promises suspect is the purpose of the last Federal Conference of the Australian Labor Party being held in Townsville early in 1972. [More…]

• Or was it just another election promise that will be fobbed off with excuses until it becomes another distant memory? [More…]

• These are the policy statements the Labor Party made on this subject during the election campaign. [More…]

• During the election campaign and at a Press conference after the election, the piesent Prime Minister was most emphatic that Townsville would be regarded as a centre for regional development and accelerated growth, and while I think this is a highly commendable intention. [More…]

• Whether the Prime Minister was angling for votes I do not know but he stated during the election campaign that this project would be proceeded with. [More…]

• Although we belong to different parties and have different points of view on many important matters of policy, we have, through 2 election campaigns remained friends. [More…]

• Prior to the election many people fell for the slogan: It’s time for a change.’ [More…]

• It is 12 weeks since the election was held last December. [More…]

• In the McMillan electorate we have some very fine hospitals, but a program of further assistance for the frail aged is very necessary, and again it will be my earnest endeavour to see that this Government honours its election promise. [More…]

• As the demand for these facilities rises, I hope to see the great election promises of this Government honoured. [More…]

• In applying myself to the task of being an effective member of Federal Parliament and a worthy representative of the Holt electorate, I am grateful for the confidence shown in me by those responsible for my election. [More…]

• The second argument was, in effect, to keep election faith. [More…]

• In that election a Prime Minister lost his seat. [More…]

• In this election the Liberal Party lost an independent and outspoken member in Mr John Jess. [More…]

• A prominent feature of the last election was the lack of response in rural areas to Australian Labor Party policies. [More…]

• I add my congratulations to those of other honourable members to you, Mr Speaker, upon your election to your high office. [More…]

• The electors of Stirling increased the Liberal Party vote by 10 per cent over the 1969 election figures and that trend was broadly reflected right across Western Australia. [More…]

• We had an instant meddling by the Commonwealth in the affairs of the territorial confines of Queensland very shortly after the election. [More…]

• There were various other proposals put during the election, in Queensland at any rate, that led one to believe that the whole emphasis of this Labor Government was to be towards leasehold of land and homes rather than purchase. [More…]

• However, it is interesting to note that when the Prime Minister was asked, at a Press conference in Brisbane during the election campaign, what was his Party’s policy on this matter, he told us that it was to electrify the railway in the northern corridor of Brisbane. [More…]

• One might be forgiven for thinking that the abolition of university fees is simply a shoddy, political trick to endear the Government to potential voters at the next election. [More…]

• During the election campaign, the Prime Minister visited both the local authorities in the Petrie electorate and made certain promises to them. [More…]

• J listened this afternoon while the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) made reference to what occurred following the 1972 Federal elections. [More…]

• Perhaps I should feel a little guilty because the reason that the Labor Government could not function properly was that the electorate I represent was the last in Australia to provide a result following that election. [More…]

• I place on record my thanks to the people of Lilley who supported the Labor Party and recorded a vote for me on the occasion of that election. [More…]

• I referred to the somewhat small majority, but 1 hastily add that one receives encouragement from many sources and I was particularly encouraged, following the election, when the new Leader of the House (Mr Daly), in his own inimitable fashion, took me aside in a friendly way and assured me that if 1 worked hard in my electorate, looked after the people and attended my duties 1 should have no trouble in doubling that majority. [More…]

• I am confident that when the people of Australia realise - I know they have done so to a great degree even at present - the progressive type of policy that the Labor Party in office will be pursuing in future, at the next Federal election there will be an avalanche of support for this Government. [More…]

• Anyone investigating this allegation must wonder how any conscientious government could attack the sound proposal put forward by the Australian Labor Party in the election campaign preceding the last Federal election. [More…]

• Unfortunately these articles appeared not before the federal election but following it. [More…]

• At the last Queensland State election the Labor Party promised that if re-elected it would go ahead with the electrification scheme. [More…]

• By a strange coincidence on the night following the election speech delivered by the Leader of the Australian Labor Party in Queensland, the Deputy Leader of the Queensland State Government, delivering his policy speech, promised the people of Queensland that a transport commission would be established and that work would be commenced on the electrification of the Brisbane railway system. [More…]

• In rising to speak for the first time in this House I ask the Deputy Speaker to convey to the Speaker and to the Chairman of Committees my sincere congratulations on their election to their exalted positions. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, I join with other members of this House in congratulating you on your election to your very high position as the person in charge of the proceedings within this House. [More…]

• His Excellency referred to the clear decision of the people at the Federal election on 2nd December. [More…]

• I address to the Minister for Northern Development a question which is supplementary to a question asked by the honourable member for Braddon concerning a review of Tasmanian shipping freights and the election promises of the present Prime Minister and the assurances of the Minister for Transport that the matter would receive consideration. [More…]

• The main point of confusion seems to stem from that part of the Government’s policy speech made during the election campaign which refers to an immediate increase in pensions and subsequent automatic adjustments twice yearly. [More…]

• It was proposed that the first increase would be retrospective to the first pay period after the election. [More…]

• No longer will a pension rise be a political football; dependent upon the imminence of an election or the likely collapse of another Liberal government. [More…]

• Finally, I wish to give warning to my Government that the election pledges which brought us to office must be implemented on a fair and balanced basis. [More…]

• This was before the general election. [More…]

• In future, pensioners will not have to wait for a pre-election budget, an election platform or - as occurred in that celebrated case 2 years ago - a motion of no confidence in the then Prime Minister before they gain some pension increase. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, since this is my first speech in the new Parliament, I ask you to convey my congratulations to Mr Speaker and his Deputy the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes), especially on their unanimous election by this House to their offices. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, may I take this opportunity to ask you to extend to the Speaker my congratulations upon his election to .that illustrious office, and may I congratulate you and other Deputy Speakers on your elevation to the very high office you hold. [More…]

• In this my first opportunity to speak in this House since my re-election I have cause to regret that it is not an opportunity to make wide reference to the problems in my electorate or to thank extensively those people who worked so hard to ensure my return here. [More…]

• In past elections all social security beneficiaries have had to wait anxiously to see which party was elected and then to see what promises it was prepared to keep. [More…]

• It was interesting to note that in Western Australia the Federal election was fought on State issues. [More…]

• No election is held for membership of boards of management. [More…]

• Hundreds of persons petitioned the Parliament during the last session requesting that action be taken to ensure resident representation on the boards of control of homes for the aged and to provide for the annual election of such boards which should report in detail to the residents of those homes. [More…]

• During the new Parliament we will further investigate tha complicated problems with a view to presenting you at the election of 1952 a scheme for your approval. [More…]

• This Government will have to face more politics in regard to pensioners because of its failure to live up to its election promises which many people believed would be carried out and which will not be carried out by the legislation which is proceeding at present. [More…]

• I had people coming to my office after the election asking when they were to receive their $100. [More…]

• Considering that many Australians voted for the Australian Labor Party at the election in the belief that they were to receive additional benefits more or less immediately, I think it is up to the Government to say what is a reasonable time so that the people of Australia, particularly the pensioners who have been lulled into this belief, will have a clear indication of what will be the Government’s performance as distinct from the Government’s promise. [More…]

• Other matters such as national superannuation were also contained in Labor’s election promises but at least the step taken by this Bill is a start. [More…]

• As against the easy accusations which were made in this House a few moments ago, we did not at election time put forward policies for election purposes. [More…]

• Before the last election the Australian Labor Party deleted from its platform all reference to the South East Asia Treaty Organisation. [More…]

• Why should there be any suggestion that any Australian-American treaty arrangements would be imperilled by the election of a Labor Government in Australia? [More…]

• The agreement relating to the North West Cape installation was signed in 1963 by the then Minister for External Affairs and the then American Ambassador, lt was signed only a few months before the election in 1963 - an election in which the Labor Party substantially improved its majority in this parliament through a vote on the issue of defence. [More…]

• As 1 said earlier, this Bill will provide some generous increases in pensions, and those increases will be made retrospective to the first pension day following the election on 2nd December last year. [More…]

• This Bill also honours a further election promise of the Labor Party in that the rate of class B and class C widows pensions will be raised to the same base rate as class A widows pensions, namely $21.50 a week. [More…]

• Mt Deputy Speaker, I join with other honourable members who have taken part in this debate and the debate on the Address-in-Reply in congratulating you and Mr Speaker on your election to the high offices that you now hold. [More…]

• The number available for Liberal members who will be elected at the next election is so limited that the only solution will be that we will have to move to the side of the House on which the honourable member for Adelaide now sits and he will have to move back here. [More…]

• My election on 2nd December has given me an exciting and challenging responsibility to fulfil on behalf of the electors of Sturt, whether they voted for me or not. [More…]

• The change in government resulting from the election on 2nd December will arouse increased public concern as to the political philosophies which motivate their politicians. [More…]

• But one of the great bases upon which the Australian Labor Party put forward this proposal during the election campaign was its desire to have a pension rate ‘that will no longer be tied to the financial and political considerations of annual budgets’. [More…]

• Everyone knows that following the election there was a period when there was a great deal of speculation as to the date from which these pension increases would operate. [More…]

• That they operate from the first pension pay day following the election date shows at least that the Government was consistent with some attitudes it had previously expressed, but I would urge it now to show a consistency in the future by letting the public, and particularly those who depend on the. [More…]

• Merely to fulfil an election promise not to increase taxes by collecting the necessary income by calling it a contribution is again typical of the double talk that we are becoming accustomed to hearing. [More…]

• In relation to the first point, there has been considerable confusion, as my colleague the honourable member for Herbert (Mr Bonnett) has rightly pointed out, concerning the Labor Party’s election promise. [More…]

• As to the question, I indicated during the course of the last election and before it that it was the opinion of the Australian Labor Party that the strength of the Army should be about 31,000. [More…]

• Before replying to the points raised perhaps I ought to point out that the practices which are being applied are ones which we inherited and which have been used for the past 23 years up to the last election by a succession of conservative governments. [More…]

• I also point out - and this is not without significance - that last night in this House in the course of the debate on the Social Services Bill honourable members who had been members of previous conservative governments until the last election and who are now in the Opposition were particularly vocal in their objections that this Government was being too generous in the provision of social security benefits. [More…]

• In view of the Government’s substantial financial commitments, its obvious difficulty in meeting the cost of its election proposals and the inflationary pressures which it has generated, it is inconceivable that it should now initiate procedures which by their very nature will entail wastage of public funds. [More…]

• The increases to these repatriation pensions proposed by the Bill, like those provided in the Social Services Bill, are to be paid retrospective to the first pay day following 2nd December last year, which was the date of the election. [More…]

• The amendments to the Act proposed by the Bill before the House will implement to a large extent the policies outlined by the Australian Labor Party during the election campaign in relation to repatriation pensions and eligibility for pensions. [More…]

• Finally I raised it with the Deputy Leader of the Labor Government subsequent to the Federal election, and I am pleased to say that he did not hesitate in arranging to ensure that the payments which would have been made but for the applicant’s death be paid into the estate. [More…]

• I am pleased that as a result of the election of a Labor Government this undesirable feature of the legislation is being removed. [More…]

• The House is debating cognately 5 Bills which implement the election promises of the Government. [More…]

• The policy speech delivered by the then Leader of the Opposition in the recent Federal election campaign stated that a Labor Government would be prepared to take the financial aspects of welfare out of budgetary considerations. [More…]

• As far as I am aware, since the election and particularly since the Parliament resumed, the Australian public or this Parliament have not been told of the total cost of the promises made in the 47 pages of the policy speech. [More…]

• However, as this man was injured at the end of October 1972, some 5 weeks before the election, he is apparently not covered by the new provisions. [More…]

• I therefore ask the Minister to make retrospective the amendments to the Act which were proposed in December 1972 soon after the election of the new Government. [More…]

• time of the general election that we expected to increase the general rate of pension or restore its relativity to the minimum wage as a result of one legislative action by this Government. [More…]

• Some confession - and a clear vindication of what members on this side of the House were saying during the election campaign, when trying to bring the Labor Party’s ‘pie in the sky’ promises back to some sort of reality. [More…]

• The election of 2nd December 1972 will come to be recognised as a turning point in Australia’s history. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wilmot (Mr Duthie) said that the last election was a turning point in the history of Australia. [More…]

• I would remind Government supporters that they did not win the last election; the previous Government lost it. [More…]

• Having looked at the political situation, we must confess that the previous Government did everything it could to lose the election. [More…]

• A great deal of the Governor-General’s remarks were presented by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in the election campaign. [More…]

• Honourable members will remember the comments that were made before the election that a 35-hour week would be introduced only in industries that could afford the financial implications and complications of a 35-hour week. [More…]

• I should tike to join with other honourable members who have congratulated Mr Speaker and the Chairman of Committees on their election to those very important offices. [More…]

• I believe that these are good questions in the light of some of the decisions which have been taken by the Gov ernment since its election and before Parliament had met so that no discussion was possible. [More…]

• If we want further evidence of this there is the fact that the present Government endorsed a lawbreaker as one of its candidates in the last election. [More…]

• Since 2nd December, the date of the election, there have been at least 7 major strikes. [More…]

• It was issued just prior to the last election by a group calling itself the Socialist Workers League, which is a communist organisation. [More…]

• In 2 days time an election will be held in South Australia where the South Australian Liberal Party - that is both factions of it - appears hell bent on trying to get into government to force confrontations with the trade unions. [More…]

• This was not put forward during the election campaign and yet it is happening, not quickly, not dramatically, but with a considerable and massive momentum. [More…]

• In that one sentence the Minister exposed the sham of the Prime Minister’s claim just before the election that the Labor Party’s grandiose proposals would be financed from an increasing national rate of growth. [More…]

• In the election campaign of 1972 we were told by the Labor Party that it was time for a change and, for better or for worse, a change it is. [More…]

• The election of a Labor Government was a personal victory for the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and one must congratulate him and his Parry on the win that they have had. [More…]

• The Left is no longer prepared to be silent as it was prior to the election. [More…]

• The unions consequently grow more powerful and more wealthy and at election time they have more money to donate to the ALP to keep a Labor Government in power. [More…]

• There was a lot of personal satisfaction involved in winning the election after all the sacrifices which my wife and family cheerfully put up with during the campaign. [More…]

• However, the election has been run and won and the affairs of this nation are now being handled with a zeal and purpose never before seen. [More…]

• The ending of conscription is one of the major results of the election by which Australia has gained in self respect and in international respect. [More…]

• There has been a great deal of talk ever since the House met about the mandate that the Government has to put into effect its various election promises. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, I want firstly to take this opportunity of conveying my congratulations to both Mr Speaker and the Chairman of Committees on their unanimous election to the high offices they hold. [More…]

• Ian Pettitt and I were, of course,^ of different political persuasion, yet whilst we attacked each other on matters of policy during 2 election campaigns, and between those campaigns, we were able at all times to maintain a cordial personal relationship. [More…]

• For many years the Australian people have witnessed the performance of a government that was prepared to take legislative action and to make concessions to important national commitments purely and simply to win elections. [More…]

• Concession to education by way of grants for science laboratories and libraries, increases in pension rates, the allocation of finance for home savings grants and many other pre-election moves, whilst good in themselves, were not designed to overcome a particular deficiency, to correct a specific wrong or to make any radical change in existing policies. [More…]

• Throughout the 1972 election campaign and again in His Excellency the GovernorGeneral’s address at the opening of this Parliament the present Government has strongly emphasised the needs of social welfare, and in this field possibly one of the greatest needs .s the need to provide adequate care for aged people. [More…]

• I think it is proper, too, that at this stage I should congratulate the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) on his election to office, an office that has evaded him for so many years as has government evaded his Party. [More…]

• Most of the older members will agree that it is the aim of most candidates when they stand for election to be elected. [More…]

• Once they get into this place they say that they do not want people to think their election was a fluke so they seek re-election for another term. [More…]

• I think it will be found that they will tell the Government quite frankly at the next election where they stand on this question. [More…]

• As I have said, at the next election they will certainly let the present Government know their views on the matter. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, will you please convey to the Speaker on my behalf my best wishes on his election to the office which he has achieved. [More…]

• Prior to this Government’s election to office the 800 million people of that nation were ignored by successive Liberal PartyCountry Party coalitions. [More…]

• The previous Minister for Primary Industry, the honourable member for New England (Mr Sinclair) rightly told the Federation leaders that just prior to the election it would not be right for him to commit a government in advance. [More…]

• The previous Minister said: ‘My suggestion to you is that if we are returned I will meet the Federation straight after the election if I happen to be the Minister’. [More…]

• Most of those members of the Country Party who sat on this side of the House before the last election were as quiet as rabbits suffering from myxomatosis. [More…]

• The election campaign was, I suppose, the most lavish in Australia’s history and the cost was astronomical. [More…]

• So I ask whether overseas money was involved in that election. [More…]

• Another significant thing was that on this occasion, as distinct from any other occasion in our history, very few communists stood for election. [More…]

• In the first week after the elections they were horrified. [More…]

• I thank the honourable member for Bennelong (Sir John Cramer) for the great assistance he obviously rendered to the Australian Labor Party during the election campaign. [More…]

• I hope that in any future election campaign he will be prepared to make that type of speech in public everywhere that we can possibly get him on a platform for us, because no self respecting Australian would vote for a party that had the type of philosophy we just heard in that speech. [More…]

• If any political party - I do nol exempt any political party - tries to develop support for itself by religious vilification, it will suffer the same fate as that suffered by a political candidate in a by-election in 1967 when a major spokesman for a political party tried to raise religious issues in the election campaign. [More…]

• (But) having regard to the Government’s election promise the Opposition will not seek to defeat legislation which grants 4 weeks annual leave to all public servants. [More…]

• The Opposition parties recognise the great impact the 18-year old vote will have on future elections. [More…]

• When it receives the votes of some of the 18 to 20- year olds at the next election, will the Government respect their votes by insisting that youth has a real say in the running of this country? [More…]

• The last Prime Minister stated that he would not introduce legislation to lower the voting age before the last election. [More…]

• Or does the Deputy Leader of the Opposition mean that the political climate which his Party wrought to maturity actually matured on the eve of the last election rather than going through a process of maturity during his Party’s term of office? [More…]

• The Federal Constitution - the overriding authority in the matter - provides by section 30 for the election of the Federal Parliament. [More…]

• Victoria has announced its intention to lower the voting age before the next State election. [More…]

• The Government secured a mandate at the last election. [More…]

• No real conclusion can be drawn, especially when the trends are related to State elections, because of the size of the samples. [More…]

• For the purposes of the last election it would have necessitated 3 special form or an enrolment claim card with a distinguishing mark on the electoral roll against the name of 18, 19 and 20-year- olds made eligible by this unilateral action of the Australian Government. [More…]

• I know that on 2nd December, the election day, I was followed on my visits to polling booths by 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20-year-olds who could not vote but who expressed support for the need for a change of government. [More…]

• It pointed out that the swing of 3 per cent which gave the Australian Labor Party SO per cent of the first preference votes in the Federal election held on 2nd December was caused mostly by a 6 per cent gain by the Australian Labor Party amongst voters aged 21 to 29. [More…]

• The enactment of this legislation will mean that if an election were held tomorrow the number of eligible voters in the Australian Capital Territory would jump from about 83,000 people - which is already by far the largest number of voters in any electorate in Australia - to approximately 93,000. [More…]

• Even as late as the occasion when the parties were delivering their policy presentations to the electorate prior to the election held on 2nd December last the Australian Country Party failed to permit the Liberal Prime Minister to include in his policy a definite undertaking to lower the voting age for Federal elections. [More…]

• The fact that this Parliament is today considering the extension of the franchise to 18- year-olds is due to the decision of the Australian people to accept the Labor Party’s proposition at the time of the last election that ‘It’s Time.’ [More…]

• Those countries have had such a provision in their electoral laws but that provision did not exist in the electoral laws for the election of Federal parliaments in this country. [More…]

• Even as late as the last Federal election this influence prevented the Liberal Party from throwing out the bait to the electorate that it surely would have wished to throw out to match the promise that had been made by the Labor Party. [More…]

• By the next election the vote for 18-year-olds will be an accomplished fact. [More…]

• Let me remind the honourable member for Kooyong that the enlightenment of the electorate, as shown in the last election, which returned a Labor government, certainly will be rewarded by measures, of which this measure is typical. [More…]

• Father Dethlefs was- commenting on a statement that had been made in Brisbane the previous week by the then Prime Minister that the voting age would not be reduced for last year’s Federal election. [More…]

• We realise this fact, and we realise that in these changing times many young people who have reached the age of 18, who have left school and who have accepted the responsibility of assisting in the support of their families and in the payment of taxes from their incomes should be given the opportunity to receive the franchise and to have some say in the election of people from their own age group, if they so desire, to this Parliament to assist in the decision making of the nation. [More…]

• This was made manifest in the results of the last Federal election. [More…]

• My son did not have the opportunity to vote in the last Federal election because he turned 21 after the rolls had closed. [More…]

• He is looking forward to having his first vote in the Victorian State election this year. [More…]

• Government supporters should get their ears to the ground a bit more before they shoot off their mouths about the great success they had at the last election. [More…]

• In fact, I will stand here and say that they would have supported me in preference to the Australian Labor Party candidate in the last election. [More…]

• Nevertheless, the informal vote at the last election, despite a termendous effort on behalf of the electoral officers concerned, was 5 per cent. [More…]

• The result of the election shows that they followed the cards quite accurately. [More…]

• As there was a 5 per cent or greater informal vote at the last election, I ask the Ministers responsible for this matter to start now to teach not only Aborigines but also young men and women down to the age of 18, or as the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) suggested, down to the age of 14 years. [More…]

• I say this because prior to the 1972 Federal election a number of schools in the electorate conducted mock elections and on each occasion the Australian Labor Party was victorious. [More…]

• This indicates the intelligence of the youth in the Lilley electorate, the good judgment that they showed and how they were able to anticipate the final outcome of the election. [More…]

• Since the election I have visited many schools in the area at the invitation of the principals and have found that students of today are interested in the future of Australia. [More…]

• During the last election campaign in my electorate the people in that area who worked on my behalf and on behalf of the Australian Labor Party were predominantly young people who were aware of what was occurring in this great nation of ours and were clamouring for change. [More…]

• Since my election I have been inundated with requests from schools and from students seeking information about political activities. [More…]

• No doubt the opponents of Labor trembled upon seeing the result of last Saturday’s election in South Australia in which the Dunstan Australian Labor Party Government was overwhelmingly returned to office. [More…]

• I am confident that when the Victorian election is held in the near future Clyde Holding and his team will have a similar success. [More…]

• Minister, announced prior to the election that we were moving quickly towards this step. [More…]

• I made it quite clear during that period that I strongly supported the measure and expected it to operate before the next Federal election. [More…]

• My colleague, the Premier of Victoria, Mr Hamer, has introduced similar legislation and 18-year-olds will be voting in the next Victorian State election. [More…]

• To amend it completely both for Senate and House of Representatives elections is a major undertaking. [More…]

• On the election of a Labor Government next year, immediate steps will be takento redraft the Electoral Act to meet the changing needs of our time and to bring it into line with what has been found necessary in other fields of national legislation. [More…]

• I am hopeful that they will be passed into law before the next elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate. [More…]

• With a State election pending and Liberal and Country Party members at each other’s throats, the State Parliament in turmoil, discussion of electoral legislation had to be suppressed at all costs. [More…]

• This is a reasonable answer to those who say that the Labor Party does not appreciate the needs of a country electorate, lt has the confidence of the country people, as exemplified at the last election. [More…]

• Only those who believe in a selective form of democracy oppose the principle of equality of voting, and the election of governments by the majority. [More…]

• The Country Party has never polled more than 10.9 per cent of the total vote at any House of Representatives election from 1949; yet it has invariably held anything from IS to 20 seats in a House of 124 and 6 portfolios in a Ministry of between 20 and 25. [More…]

• To be representative there must be provision made for elections to be held. [More…]

• The Opposition does not mean that the elections must necessarily be proscribed by the formal systems now operating in Australia. [More…]

• They may in fact involve a greater degree of election by consensus or general agreement. [More…]

• I think the record shows that prior to his election to this House the honourable member did take a strong stand against racial discrimination. [More…]

• Will the Minister assure the House that the much publicised promise was not an unworthy election gimmick and that the Government will not in any circumstances renege on the undertaking? [More…]

• It is a matter of some concern to honourable gentlemen on this side of the House to learn from recent Press reports of the major increase in the number of migrants returning home since the election of a Federal Labor Government. [More…]

• Contrary to the view of my Leader, I believe that perhaps there should be a little bit of politics in this debate, because in my view the Australian Labor Party in the election campaign promised to remove the sales tax on contraceptives to appeal for the vote of women in the electorate. [More…]

• The legislation has been put forward because of an undertaking given during the election campaign by the then Leader of the Opposition, the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam). [More…]

• If the second reading speech and the blatant political tactics of the Australian Labor Party in Opposition are not enough to drive home the point that I am making, let me instance the activities of the Premier of South Australia, Mr Dunstan, in the period prior to the last Federal election. [More…]

• This sort of criticism is almost as irrelevant and as damaging as the action of the Premier of South Australia the other day when, wanting to make a headline in the atmosphere of an impending State election, he said: ‘My Government will legislate to stop the small wineries in this State being taken over’. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Prime Minister, ls the honourable gentleman aware that his recent comment that the next election could be contested on at least an optional preference system has been widely interpreted throughout the Australian community as a dishonouring or a repudiation of the clear, earlier understanding given by the honourable gentleman that the Australian Labor Party would not change the voting system for the next election? [More…]

• It was alleged during the last election campaign that it was still committed to first past the post voting. [More…]

• I believe that the support given to the Labor Party in the last election by people from country areas has been wasted. [More…]

• During the election campaign the Australian Labor Party made great play of its concept of open government. [More…]

• As is well known, the Labor Party as part of its propositions during the recent election campaign suggested that because of the wide concern in the community about inflation, and arising out of our belief that wages are not the only factor to be considered as leading to inflation - we believe that prices should also be considered - we would establish certain mechanisms to assist in the regulation of prices and to try better to adjudicate the social equation as between prices and wages. [More…]

• The Government has an election commitment to repeal as quickly as possible section 66 of the Commonwealth Banks Act. [More…]

• Before I come to the subject on which I rose to speak I want to say a few words in defence of Mr Norman Foster, a former colleague of ours who served with distinction in this Parliament and was honourably defeated at the last election. [More…]

• So we have this November agreement under which the growers concerned have been paid $500,000 of the $781,000 that was mentioned before the election. [More…]

• But the fact that I wish to make is this: The statements by the then Minister for Primary Industry before the Federal election misled the growers and indeed misled the honourable member for Riverina. [More…]

• Let me just place on record the last statement of the former Minister, made in my electorate, in which he spent, incidentally, 2 weeks during the last Federal election compaign. [More…]

• Let us go to 4 o’clock on Thursday afternoon, 30th November - 2 days before the election. [More…]

• So the statement that was made on Friday 1st December, the day before the election, was a vital statement. [More…]

• The subject on which 1 wish to speak tonight is the Labor Party’s promises at the last election. [More…]

• The Government should do something positive for Australia instead of airing a lot of unnecessary words which will not bring it credit when the next election is held. [More…]

• During the election campaign we made promises about decentralisation which we would have kept. [More…]

• When its present term of office expires, the Government will find that the people of Australia, particularly the people of Victoria, will remove it from office because it will not have kept a fraction of the promises that the Labor Party put forward in the election campaign. [More…]

• The Victorian Government, which is acting purely in an election situation, has no power or authority in this field but has a Minister running around the country making all sorts of irresponsible statements. [More…]

• This legislation is designed to enable the Government to carry out its undertakings and its election promises to the people of Australia. [More…]

• My concern is that the previous Government in its anxiety to reduce unemployment figures prior to the last Federal election on 2nd December stipulated that loan money for unemployment relief was to be used by the States to absorb the largest number of unemployed. [More…]

• The fact is that the Government, bewitched by its own election propaganda, has something of a fixation about unemployment. [More…]

• Contrary to statements from the present Government, the truth is that in December last year, as the seasonally adjusted figures indicated, the Australian economy was on course for the achievement of full employment, as members of the then Government asserted prior to the election and Opposition spokesmen have claimed since the election. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite would have knighted him had they had the opportunity and had not adopted a policy of not giving honours because no-one pushed their barrow harder than he did in Western Australia prior to the election. [More…]

• This, in spite of his comments before the election. [More…]

• The Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) and the Prime Minister are now eating their words relating to the economy on the predictions they made before the election about the level of unemployment as it would be today. [More…]

• I remind the Government that there is a difference of only 3 per cent between the number of electors who supported it and the number who did not support it at the last election. [More…]

• The lack of objectivity of the Government was tangibly demonstrated right throughout last year’s election campaign. [More…]

• That point is close to the hearts of honourable members on this side of the House but we would not know whether it is close to the hearts of Opposition members because they were responsible, by their budgetary policies and by their being happy only with outworn economic attitudes, for the growth of unemployment to the shocking stage that we had it from this time last year until near the election. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite know that the proposal now before the House was one of the issues that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) put to the people during the recent Federal election campaign. [More…]

• We believe that together there is every reason to expect that, come the next election, we will again be the government and can formulate policies which will be to the betterment of persons in country areas, unlike the policies being implemented today by the Labor Government. [More…]

• The Government probably realised that the only real hope that it had of being returned at the next election would be to cause a division in the ranks of the Parties opposing it. [More…]

• It feels - I think rightly so - that unless it can demonstrate to the people of Australia that there is not the unity on this side of the Parliament which is necessary for effective government, it will not be returned at the next election. [More…]

• Before the election I made it quite clear that I believed, whether we were to be in government or in opposition, that a salaries Bill ought to be presented early in this Parliament. [More…]

• If I can take honourable members back to the time prior to the election, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in his policy speech promised to. [More…]

• Here was the Government in one of its first acts after the election dishonouring an election promise made to Commonwealth employees who were not members of a recognised union or association. [More…]

• The hypocrisy of the Government’s changed stance on its election promise and the peculiar political logic which guided its actions were revealed by an answer by the Prime Minister to a question asked in this House on 28th February. [More…]

• The members of this House, as well as the public of Australia, are entitled to assume that the Prime Minister had this principle in his mind when he spoke to the public during the election campaign and made his promise to all Commonwealth public servants without discrimination. [More…]

• Whilst the Opposition does not oppose the granting of 4 weeks annual leave to public servants, which will again put them in front of employees in private industry, it has a duty to expose the repudiation of an election promise; the attempted disruption of the independence of the Public Service Board; the erroneous propositions of the Prime Minister and the dangerous consequences of pacesetting by the Commonwealth for private industry at the expense of established industrial tribunals througout Australia. [More…]

• I was here when he first came into this Parliament as an upstanding, bright, eager-eyed young man from Wannon, but never once have I heard him say anything about Portland until now when a State election is pending. [More…]

• May I say that we recognise that by their vote at the last election many Australians have demonstrated a belief that they thought the Australian Labor Party was likely to bring about some of these adjustments which the people thought were necessary or at least that Labor would try to bring them about. [More…]

• Particularly, will the committee be muzzled by a majority vote when it wants to look at the direction of foreign policy and, in particular, when it wants to look at the major scandal of the last few months when - without a mandate, because these things were not mentioned in the election campaign - the Government has changed sides for Australia and now wants to put us into the communist as against the free world? [More…]

• One would expect that in that time there would not have been a secret kept from the people of Australia and that the Labor Party would have kept its word, because this is a matter on which it sold itself successfully prior to the last election. [More…]

• It is a matter of total irony that the Opposition is responsible for the introduction of this Bill thereby ensuring that the Government maintains one of its election promises. [More…]

• Prior to the introduction of this Bill the Government, in the view of the Opposition, deliberately sought to dishonour an election promise; to introduce the concept and application of compulsory unionism into the Public Service; to interfere with the longstanding independence and integrity of the Public Service Board; to avoid parliamentary approval of its policy and to set in motion the beginning of its long term design to use the Public Service as a pace-setter in the achievement of the Australian Labor Party’s industrial objectives. [More…]

• However, this policy, formulated after the election, was a complete denial of the Government’s policy as expressed in its policy speech. [More…]

• The Opposition’s objectives in disallowing the Public Service Arbitrator’s determinations were, firstly, to make it clear to the Australian public that an election promise made by the Australian Labor Party was being dishonoured on its election to government and, secondly, to object to the nature of the policy which the Government sought to implement - a policy which was discriminatory, unfair and lacking in merit and substance; a policy which in application would have created a division in the Commonwealth Public Service which was contrary to the interests of this country; a policy which sought to create a group of second-class and under-privileged citizens within the Public Service; and a policy which sought to implement union demands for compulsory unionism within the Commonwealth Public Service. [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…]

• He said that this Government sought to dishonour an election promise. [More…]

• Without acknowledging in any way that the decision to grant extra leave to unionists was not justified, the Government is not prepared to deny the extra leave to its employees in spite of the attempts by the Opposition to prevent it from carrying out its promise made before the election. [More…]

• Another point concerned me considerably when the Bill was going through the rigours of being implemented, from the time it was suggested by the present Government prior to the election. [More…]

• When I think of reasons why the previous Government had never granted it my mind goes back to 1961 when the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon) met extreme opposition in his own election campaign in that year. [More…]

• The Minister believes the propagandas of election night when it was said to be a landslide. [More…]

• Australian Federal election results have been as close as could realistically be expected to reflecting the will of the Australian voters. [More…]

• Curiously, that election was contested on boundaries set by the Labor Party in 1948. [More…]

• After the 1948 redistribution the Labor Party lost office because what it did was to make sure that every sitting member in the smaller House got a safe seat and Labor left it open to us to come in and win an election. [More…]

• In 1922 the redistribution under the Electoral Act with a tolerance then, as now, of 20 per cent serviced 5 elections. [More…]

• Similarly, the 1934 redistribution serviced 5 elections. [More…]

• The 1948 redistribution serviced 3 elections and the 1955 redistribution serviced 5 elections. [More…]

• In fact, in the last election the Labor Party polled fewer votes in proportion than the percentage of seats it holds in this Parliament. [More…]

• We could not do it last year because we could not obtain the Statistician’s certificate, following the census, within the time needed for the process to be carried out before the election. [More…]

• Well, I remember him as a very dynamic opponent in Fremantle during the 1949 election. [More…]

• At the last State election in Western Australia the Liberal Party won 29.3 per cent of the vote, the Australian Country Party won 5 per cent of the vote and with 34.3 per cent of the vote between them, naturally they lost the election by only one seat. [More…]

• It was the greatest shock that I ever had because I did not believe that they could ever lose the election. [More…]

• What is an election about? [More…]

• An election in the last resort is about who the majority of people want to govern. [More…]

• If honourable members opposite do not believe that, I ask them: What on earth is an election about? [More…]

• Is an election about a decision to arrive at a result that has been predetermined? [More…]

• The Government is acting with an eye to the possibility of an early election. [More…]

• There will be a redistribution within the life of every Parliament, a redistribution before each election. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Government wants to change boundaries on which only 2 elections have been held. [More…]

• Five elections were held on the boundaries established in 1922, 5 on the 1934 boundaries, 3 on the 1948 boundaries and 5 on the 1955 boundaries. [More…]

• Under the present law we could have at least one and possibly 2 more elections, depending on when they are held without a redistribution. [More…]

• From now on the Labor Party wants only one election on a set of boundaries, and then a new set. [More…]

• In the famous election on 2nd December 1972 which brought so many changes we found that this sterling fighter for freedom that we heard just before dinner represents the 9 per cent that has 16 per cent of the Parliament. [More…]

• He told the House that Labor regarded the Commonwealth Electoral Act as ‘outdated and outmoded’, and that, upon the election of a Labor government, immediate steps would be taken to redraft the Act. [More…]

• It should be noted, however, that the election of 1954 was contested on the basis of the boundaries set in 1948 in the Calwell redistribution. [More…]

• Since 1968, however, Grayndler has experienced a decrease of 12.13 per cent in voter enrolments, with the result that on the basis of the figures at the time of the December election it was almost 8 per cent below quota. [More…]

• In the period of little more than a year between the 1968 redistribution and the 1969 election, for example, a number of electoral divisions experienced population changes of more than 10 per cent. [More…]

• Clearly, it was because they recognised the administrative impossibilities and the representational absurdities of having a redistribution before every general election. [More…]

• I point out to the House that at the time of the next Federal election, if there is not a redistribution before then, the honourable member for Wimmera, together with the honourable member for Mallee (Mr Fisher), will represent fewer electors in this Parliament than the honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr McKenzie). [More…]

• The Deputy Leader of the Opposition, just before he sat down, made a claim that in every election except the 1954 election the party which has obtained the majority of votes has won the election. [More…]

• Government parties obtained a greater number of votes than did the Australian Labor Party in every election except the one in 1954. [More…]

• The Australia Party has received a significant number of votes in elections it has contested and it has directed its preferences to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• We did not win the election. [More…]

• It is absolutely essential that every person has the right to an equal say in the election of representatives to the Parliament. [More…]

• As I said earlier, if a redistribution does not take place before the next elections we will have a situation where in one electorate a vote will be worth more than twice as much as a vote in another electorate. [More…]

• Even though under the tolerance of 20 per cent up and 20 per cent down that was applied to the last distribution no redistribution has become necessary in any State other than Western Australia at the moment, by the time the next election is held it is almost certain that in some of the [More…]

• The record of redistributions for Federal purposes has been free from charges of gerrymandering The fairness of recent redistributions has been demonstrated by election results where, in elections since 1949 with the exception of one - although one honourable member has challenged this - the Party or parties which gained the highest percentage of votes throughout Australia formed the Government. [More…]

• The results of the last election where Labor won 49.6 per cent of the votes and 53.6 per cent of the electorates would seem to underline the fairness of the 1968 redistribution. [More…]

• Indeed, some of the legislation introduced and decisions taken by the Government, such as increased social security and repatriation payments and the provision of the vote to 18-year-olds, are worthy of support; while some decisions on unilateral currency revaluation, foreign policy and industrial matters have concerned the nation, including many people who voted for the Labor Party at the last election. [More…]

• They have said that the Australian Labor Party has only once gained the major vote at an election. [More…]

• In most elections, except for a few, the Labor Party has won on the primary vote. [More…]

• If honourable members opposite wish to assess the results of elections on a primary vote basis, let us have first past the post voting and let us have none of this nonsense with which they are carrying on. [More…]

• We have a preferred party voting system; that is the system under which we operate and that is the way we should calculate which party received the major vote at an election. [More…]

• The last election results prove that Australian voters are doing the same sort of thing. [More…]

• What value is an election if one party or coalition is guaranteed control of the legislature? [More…]

• So that a redistribution should not take place after each election, those growing electorates would have to be brought down to a maximum of 10 per cent below the quota. [More…]

• I only hope that Labor Party voters in country Victoria, as well as in country areas in other States, will remember some of these points when the next election is held, irrespective of what new electorates there may be. [More…]

• It was all very well for the present Minister to say that he mentioned this matter prior to the election. [More…]

• If that story had any substance, what about the honourable member for Riverina and his promise during the election campaign that if elected the Labor Party would make available $500m at an interest rate of 3 per cent per annum for loan purposes for primary producers. [More…]

• I would suggest to the people, and Mr Deputy Speaker, I would suggest to you, that if this Bill gets the publicity that it deserves outside of this place so that people can know what does go on, no doubt all bar two of these electorates will return to either the Liberal Party or the Country Party at the next election. [More…]

• In conclusion I would again challenge the Prime Minister to postpone this Bill until after the election and let the people decide what they want. [More…]

• The question has been asked why the Labor Party has introduced this legislation at this time, why it has not deferred the legislation until after the next election. [More…]

• So we wish to institute as many electoral reforms as may be possible so that if a challenge does come to us from the other place on an issue of importance we might proceed to an election or to a double dissolution, if that is necessary, and might do so on fair terms. [More…]

• We would be betraying the interests not only of people who voted Labor at the last election but of those people who live in the cities and who voted Liberal if we did not make every possible endeavour to carry out these electoral reforms as early as we might in the present Parliament. [More…]

• Notwithstanding the internecine fighting between the two Government parties in Queensland - the Country Party, which is the majority party, and the Liberal Party - the President of the Liberal Party came into this place tonight and betrayed the interests of the Liberal Party and those people who voted Liberal at the last election in the same way as he and his fellow committee members and parliamentarians of his Party in the Queensland Parliament betrayed the interest of the people who voted Liberal in that State. [More…]

• The Government has been challenged to go to an election on this matter. [More…]

• The last election that I can recall being fought on the question of a redistribution was the one at which a Labor government won office in Victoria in the early 1950s. [More…]

• The overriding issue of that election was the question of a redistribution. [More…]

• When we go to the next election it will not be on the question of boundaries only. [More…]

• Many people who voted against the Labor Party at elections have done so because of fears that have been built up about the Labor Party, the fear that allegedly it would destroy the American alliance, sell out Australia to Peking and Moscow, and destroy all morality in the community. [More…]

• In recent elections many people have voted other than Labor because they believed some of the things that were spread about by Labor’s political opponents. [More…]

• I believe that at the next election these people will be voting in most cases for one of the major parties. [More…]

• I believe that at the next election that section of the DLP vote will sort itself out between the Labor Party and one of the other major political parties. [More…]

• The Labor Party does not need this legislation to enable it to win the next election. [More…]

• We will win it on our record, whenever the election might be held. [More…]

• I do not want to traverse at great length the points I made during my maiden speech, but I want to ask this Government to give serious consideration to putting its money where its mouth was during the last election. [More…]

• Then December came and with it a Federal election, a change of government and a new fruit season. [More…]

• An elaborate pretence was made right up to within 24 hours of the election that the arrangements which had been made by the previous Administration would give growers money which the Minister and the Government at the time knew they could never receive. [More…]

• The Government announced during the course of the last election campaign that it would honour the Five Power Arrangements. [More…]

• Including the non-Labor States and particularly the 2 States which between them contain two-thirds of the population of Australia - Victoria and New South Wales - and which do not have Labor governments and whose governments seem to be concerned about the fate of the electors only a month or two before an election. [More…]

• The only consideration was that the Country Party was getting funds for its election campaign from its mates in the mining industry who had to be protected. [More…]

• We all know that the chaos in Sydney and Melbourne determined the result of the last election, and that is why we are now bringing forward this legislation to amend the National Urban and Regional Development Authority Act and why we set up the new Department of Urban and Regional Development. [More…]

• Time and time again honourable members from this side of the House have said in this debate that since 1949 there has been only one election, that of 1954, in which the party which has achieved an overall majority of votes has not received an overall majority of seats. [More…]

• The 1954 election was undertaken under an Act and under a redistribution conceived by the last Labor Government. [More…]

• The Government’s move to get rid of Clem Jones by ending the separate Lord Mayoral vote in yesterday’s City Council election proved a dismal flop. [More…]

• Tha people of Brisbane answered by giving Clem’s team the biggest vote triumph in Australian election history. [More…]

• At the 1972 State election the Country Party received 20 per cent of the total vote cast in Queensland and won 26 seats; the Liberal Party received just over 22 per cent, which was about 2 per cent more than the Country Party received, and won 21 seats, which was 5 seats fewer; and the Australian Labor Party gained 48 per cent of the total vote and won 33 seats. [More…]

• As I mentioned, it was very evident last Saturday at the municipal election held in Brisbane. [More…]

• In the same election there were 31.616 electors in the electorate of Kalgoorlie. [More…]

• Let us take the seat of Kennedy at the same election. [More…]

• vote one value would be to have a national redistribution of electoral boundaries a day after the census is taken and have an election held the next day. [More…]

• Even though the electoral commissioners will distribute electorates on the basis of actual electors 1 hope they will also look at the matter from the point of view of the total population, realising that we represent not only people who will have a vote at the next election but also people who do nol have a vote either because they are too young or because they are not yet naturalised. [More…]

• He has made speeches in which he has strongly supported the present system of election to this House and the present form of democracy which exists in this House. [More…]

• I am quite sure that the honourable member for McMillan will not be here after the next election. [More…]

• If the Honourable Murray Byrne had the interest in the welfare of Portland that he pretended to have for the purposes of the election campaign, I would have thought that at least he would have replied to my letter to him dated 27th March, but not a word have 1 heard from the Honourable Murray Byrne. [More…]

• Until recently he did not bother to have even a parish pump interest in the electorate of Wannon but now at any rate he has been able to muster this interest while the Victorian State election campaign is in progress, a synthetic parish pump interest in the affair. [More…]

• And if it were not for the fact that we have a State election in Victoria his interest now would be no more than it was then. [More…]

• But that was an election fought under a redistribution introduced by a Labor government. [More…]

• But under all the redistributions that we have introduced the party that won the majority of votes was the party that won office, and that includes the last election. [More…]

• It has been made quite plain that if the same Party were returned to office after another election there would be the first past the post voting system, which is the second plank in trying to ensure perpetual Labor rule. [More…]

• The 2 proposals that we are now debating, coupled with the foreshadowed changes after another election if the Government is lucky enough to win it, need tq be looked at in that light. [More…]

• Any examination of the numbers of people eligible to vote in the various electorates as they stood at the election on 2nd December clearly indicates the great variations that exist. [More…]

• In New South Wales, which at the time of the last election had an electoral quota of just over 57,000, the number of electors varied between 47,000 in the seat of Calare, 68,000 in Chifley, 44,000 in Darling and 71,000 in Mitchell. [More…]

• However, the results of the last election are a clear warning to the Legislative Council in that State that refusal to pass legislation from the House of Assembly on matters in which the State Government has a clear mandate from the people will result in the Legislative Council having to answer to the South Australian people for their actions. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that at the election on 10th March the size of some electorates had remained at 9,000 while some had grown to 23,000 or 24,000. [More…]

• There were not many cheers when he said that because even if he has not done so, many others opposite have read the election results. [More…]

• I refer him to the election of 1956 which was fought on the basis of a Labor distribution. [More…]

• I have the official figures for the Queensland State general election held in 1956 showing the enrolment for each electorate in Queensland at that time. [More…]

• At that election the Liberal Party held a number of seats in the city of Brisbane. [More…]

• I can quote the figures for the 1947 and 1950 elections in Queensland. [More…]

• At the next election held in 1950 Labor with 46.3 per cent of the vote won 42 seats. [More…]

• The second point I want to make is that the Leader of the Country Party (Mr Anthony) said that the proposed legislation would cause redistributions to be conducted so frequently that they would be absurd and that perhaps a redistribution would be required in the life of every Parliament - a redistribution, in his words, ‘before every election’. [More…]

• It would be as well to remind the Leader of the Country Party as well as all honourable members that the Queensland Government, after deciding on a redistribution to take effect before the State elections in Queensland in 1972, found, due to the comments of the State Secretary of the Labor Party, that a few mistakes had been made in some of the boundaries. [More…]

• Not satisfied with having a second go before the election, as some seats such as Albert and Redlands were finally won by the Labor Party in the subsequent election he has recently announced that the State Government is likely to consider a mini redistribution of boundaries of some electorates before the next Queensland election. [More…]

• Not satisfied with the job he did earlier of gerrymandering the electoral boundaries in Queensland he intends to have another go at redistribution before the next election. [More…]

• We are prepared to let the Labor Party have a go at it and see if it can conduct an effective redistribution that will not require to be changed or adjusted before each election’. [More…]

• We have only to look at the result of the last election where the Labor Party received 49.7 per cent of the vote and won 53.6 per cent of the electorate. [More…]

• The Government would have a redistribution and create a situation in which the Labor Party, with the same number of votes that it received at the last election, would win a vastly increased majority. [More…]

• A few moments ago the honourable member for Farrer said that only once since 1949 has the party that obtained the majority of the votes not won the election. [More…]

• In Queensland in the last State election the Country Party with 20 per cent of the vote won 26 seats and the Liberal Party with 22 per cent of the votes won 21 seats. [More…]

• As honourable members know 750,000 18-year-olds are now eligible to go on the roll and there will be half a million more such voters by the next election. [More…]

• I. suggest that the last election was significant for the lack of support by country people for this Government, and I have not the slightest hesitation in saying that at this stage support for this’ Government must be at an all time low in rural areas. [More…]

• The percentage number of votes polled in any election in relation to the number of seats held is a useless and unsound comparison. [More…]

• At the last State election in Western Australia the Liberal Party won 29.3 per cent of the vote, the Australian Country Party won 5 per cent of the vote and with 34.3 per cent of the vote between them, naturally they lost the election by only one seat. [More…]

• It was the greatest shock that I ever had because I did not believe that they could ever lose the election. [More…]

• Partly because the Liberal Party was at that time in government in coalition with the Country Party, naturally it did not oppose at the election the Ministers of its coalition partner. [More…]

• The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a new redistricting plan but allowed its use for the 1966 election. [More…]

• In Victoria at the election in 1952, with the biggest swing to the Labor Party that ever occurred, the main issue was electoral reform. [More…]

• I think most people would agree that the first requirement in any election is that the Party or Parties which get the majority of the votes should form the government. [More…]

• The Minister for Services and Property quoted the results of several elections with the object of showing that although the Australian Labor Party vote had exceeded the Liberal-Country Party vote on more than one occasion this had not resulted in the formation of an ALP government. [More…]

• At the last election, held in December last year under a system which this Government alleges was heavily biased against the ALP, the Labor Party got 49.9 per cent of the votes but won 53.6 per cent of the seats. [More…]

• Let me inform the Committee of the position in the Legislative Assembly election on 20th February 1971. [More…]

• Lest honourable members think that since I am a Country Party member I do not have very many people in my electorate, let me remind them that at the last election there were about 65,000 electors in my electorate. [More…]

• Notwithstanding anything in section twenty-four, the number of members to be chosen in each State at the first election shall be as follows: - [More…]

• I would like now to quote what was said by honourable members opposite on your election as Mr Speaker.. Before I do so, I remind honourable members that you were, the unanimous choice of this House. [More…]

• Your integrity and honesty are such that the Opposition did not oppose your election. [More…]

• This Parliament placed that on record by your election. [More…]

• This Bill, the second amending social services Bill to be introduced in the current session, is designed to give effect to the election policy speech undertaking of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) that pensioners receiving age and invalid pensions, including wives’ pensions, or widows’ pensions in Australia will be able to receive those pensions wherever they choose to live. [More…]

• Throughout the election campaign, I made no apologies to the electors of Eden-Monaro for the fact that my children enjoyed the facilities of pre-school education in the A.C.T. [More…]

• There has been no mention in the three or four months that the Government has been in office of discussions which were under consideration at the time of the election. [More…]

• When the Minister visited the Northern Territory before the election he said that he saw future political independence in the Northern Territory as being part of its relationship with the Federal Parliament, but that this would only be defined after talks with local elected representatives if Labor won power. [More…]

• Our inflationary problem today is undoubtedly being markedly aggravated by the implementation of the Government’s package of very expensive election promises, plus the grants, handouts and spending program which the present Government has announced since the election late last year. [More…]

• and it is a matter of record, that the former Liberal Party-Country Party Government handed to the new Labor Administration a sound economy and a program of anti-inflationary policies which were at the time of the election seen to be successful. [More…]

• Many of these communications were received prior to the recent election. [More…]

• What the Opposition has done is try to elevate into a monster that place upstairs, and the monstrosity is allowed to continue because it is not a place that had to go to election in December. [More…]

• I can call on no less an authority than the Government’s main instrument of public relations in the election campaign, the ‘Australian’, which said this week: [More…]

• He was a party to that infamous propaganda which was put out during an election and which listed as a communist every person who walked down the street with a communist. [More…]

• We were defeated in that election a few years ago because of the policy of guilt by association employed by the right honourable member for Higgins and those who sit behind him. [More…]

• The honourable member for Curtin suggested that I was misrepresenting the situation when I said that at the last State election in Western Australia the Liberal Party won 29.3 per cent of the vote and the Australian Country Party won 5 per cent of the vote, and with 34.3 per cent of the vote between them they lost the election by only one seat. [More…]

• The Dauer-Kelsay index of representativeness points out that a party could win government in Western Australia with 33.1 per cent of the vote at the election that took place on that occasion. [More…]

• But quite apart from that particular accidental vote of that election, the Dauer-Kelsay index pointed out that one could govern Western Australia on 33.1 per cent of the vote in the Lower House of that State. [More…]

• I am sure that from a political viewpoint it cost the previous Government dearly during the last election campaign. [More…]

• During the course of the election campaign I did not hear it said that the incoming Government would subject the project to scrutiny. [More…]

• An opportunity presents itself at the forthcoming Senate election not only for this House but also for each legislature, both upper and lower, in each of the States. [More…]

• Eight days before election day political appointees were appointed to the Australian Wool Corporation by the Australian Country Party. [More…]

• I would hope that such Bills would be put to referenda the next time there is an election for either House of the Parliament or for both Houses together. [More…]

• I said that at the last State election in Western Australia the Liberal Party won 29.3 per cent of the vote and the Australian Country Party won 5 per cent of the vote, and with 34.3 per cent of the vote between them they lost the election by only one seat. [More…]

• In 1954, Dr Evatt who then led the Labor Party at an election made a pledge on this matter without consulting the ALP authorities, for vote getting purposes. [More…]

• But the Prime Minister in his election speech again went against his Party’s policy and said: We will do it in one Parliament’. [More…]

• Even without that, the rate of benefit that will be provided according to these adjustments would be much greater at any given time than the rate of benefit which the present Opposition proposed in its policy speech at the last election would be provided through the adjustment mechanism that it was to introduce. [More…]

• Quite clearly the beneficiary or the people drawing age pensions under our proposals would be considerably better off under the mechanism we aim at achieving than under the one that the last Government was putting forward - and putting forward in a belated and rather uninspired way in the closing stages of the election campaign. [More…]

• He tried to intimate as much in the closing stages of the election campaign, sensing with that peculiar sense of selfpreservation which he has that the then Government was on the way out. [More…]

• The honourable member for Mackellar had the biggest swing against him of any Liberal member in Australia at the last elections. [More…]

• The stated intention of the 3 parties in this place at the last election was that they would abolish the means test within the life of this Parliament. [More…]

• In speeches I made as shadow Minister for Labour in the 18 months preceding the elections, in the Parliament and at seminars and conferences throughout the Commonwealth, I stated and explained our policies. [More…]

• Our intentions were fully discussed in the election campaign. [More…]

• Financial members are to be given an absolute right to vote in any election for office bearers and in plebescites touching rules or policy. [More…]

• No person who is a candidate in an election for an office shall be permitted to determine whether any other candidate for election is eligible to stand for office. [More…]

• In the past, nominations have been scrutinised and rejected by the very persons who were under challenge in a pending election. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) who is sitting at the table to place the points just expressed before the Minister concerned because I think it is very important that if a particular party at election time makes a promise and does not fulfil that promise the people have a right to know why the promise has not been fulfilled. [More…]

• I congratulate the Government on the step ‘ that it has taken so far and hope that it will be able to continue to fulfil the promises that it made at the last election. [More…]

• Just prior to the recent election, while I was President of a local council in my electorate, I was asked to make representation on behalf of a young couple who were in dire circumstances. [More…]

• And I can find no better tribute to Arthur Fadden than that paid to him by another Prime Minister, the late Harold Holt, who wrote in a letter to him on the eve of his own election as Leader of the Liberal Party in 1966: [More…]

• I remember that soon after my election to Parliament Artie Fadden gave me one of those lectures one receives occasionally on what to do when you get to Canberra. [More…]

• This was done for the deliberate purpose of creating industrial unrest on the waterfront during a period approaching a Federal election and I think it should be made clear to everyone that that was the prime reason. [More…]

• One wonders whether the motives of such people are to benefit their area or just to gain political points immediately before a State election. [More…]

• It is fortuitous for the Victorian Liberal Party Government that the committee was established at a time when its report could not be made to the present Victorian Government because of a pending State election. [More…]

• People might have been misled because of the advertising prior to the 1972 Federal election. [More…]

• Mention of the terra ‘per cent* reminds me of the promise of the Australian Labor Party in its propaganda during the December election campaign. [More…]

• The honourable member for Bowman will be lucky to be here after the next election, that is for sure. [More…]

• When I raise this matter in this manner I think honourable members on this side of the House and thinking members on the Government side who may have been ambitious for ministerial rank after the last election but who failed in their endeavours will share my disquiet about what is going on in the Government ranks. [More…]

• How many, persons have received Australian citizenship since election of the present Government. [More…]

• After all, this Government has been in a position to legislate for only about 9 weeks since its election to office on 2nd December. [More…]

• The restraint within the Senate’s amendment, however, was that the election of a chairman should be in another instance - the message we debated a moment ago - only from among the members nominated by the Prime Minister and in this instance only from among the members nominated by the Leader of the Government in the Senate. [More…]

• One of the important aspects of this Bill is that it gives the people eligible under its provisions an opportunity to get a reasonable maximum loan, lt certainly was the intention of this Government prior to the election to increase this amount even further and in the Minister’s Press release on 16th January, prior to the introduction of this Bm, the following appeared: [More…]

• Mr Johnson said that because of the substantial funds needed to fulfil other election promises in relation to housing, he bad proposed to Cabinet a progressive raising of the limit, firstly to $12,000 and then to $1 5,000. [More…]

• It parades itself as a government of generosity, a government which is out to help people; but I would suggest that in the defence forces morale has become so low that the Government considers that if it does not initiate a form of a bribe the number of members in our armed forces will, by the lime of the next election, fall so drastically from the number at the time of the last election that is will prove a complete and utter embarrassment. [More…]

• Shortly after the election 1 received a phone call from a young man who said to me: ‘Well, they are in now. [More…]

• I believe that the 4 things which I have mentioned are an indication of what we said during the election campaign would be the dangers facing this country if the Australian Labor Party were ever put on the treasury bench. [More…]

• If the Australian people had known the truth they would have put that government out of power at the election immediately following Australia’s involvement in that war. [More…]

• In 1972 - an election year - they were promised that there would be action. [More…]

• The ‘Seacoaster’ contract was one which Evans Deakin virtually had in the bag prior to the last election. [More…]

• At the last election they did not know what they were voting for because this was not put in the policy speech of the new Government and was not made explicit to the people. [More…]

• There is some truth in this but the only truth, really, is that if there is a fair election they will not be re-elected. [More…]

• There will not be a fair election if at any time they can control the Senate because only the Senate stands between us and the imposition of a completely unfair electoral system. [More…]

• What is going to happen at the next Senate election which will occur sometime between now and June 1974, the date not yet being fixed? [More…]

• Let us examine what is going to happen at that election. [More…]

• If the Australian Labor Party is to control the Senate after the next Senate election it thus needs to Win 17 seats, which means it must win in 5 of the 6 States. [More…]

• Subject to the chances of casual vacancies occurring one would say that the position would be safe, even after the next Senate election. [More…]

• It could be vital if the Labor Party could engineer, before the next Senate election, a casual vacancy for a long term non-Labor senator for either Queensland or Western Australia, which are the 2 vital States because these are the States where with 5 vacancies the split would be likely to be 3 to 2 against Labor, but with 6 vacancies the split would be likely to be 3 all. [More…]

• He said it was a foregone conclusion before the election that it would go to Evans Deakin. [More…]

• However, the people in Victoria will realise that they belong to the same Party and are equally responsible for the chaotic conditions that prevailed prior to the December election that led to the defeat of the Liberal-Country Party coalition and which will, I hope, lead to the removal of the Liberal Government in the forthcoming State election. [More…]

• After refusing to listen to the Labor Party for a number of very expensive years, on the eve of the election the Hamer Government slashed $700m off the freeway program simply because the freeways were planned to run through Liberal seats and the inhabitants were up in arms about it. [More…]

• My principal purpose in entering this debate today is to draw to the attention of the Government a matter that gave me much concern in the days between the end of the last Parliament on 26th October and the holding of the election on 2nd December. [More…]

• The former Prime Minister in an interview on 25 November, a few days before the election, said: [More…]

• This was not put forward during the election campaign. [More…]

• Throughout the period since the election we have endeavoured in every way not to restrict debate in any way. [More…]

• We all know that he made a statement before the last election concerning his views on the abolition of fees and that the views put forward in that statement are at variance with the policy he is forced to espouse at the moment. [More…]

• Despite this previous inability to spend moneys available to it for education, the Victorian Government is offering, in its current election program, new expenditure of $72m for education. [More…]

• The way to teach this lesson is for the 500,000 people who may be affected to throw themselves into the next Senate election campaign and determine which persons are best fitted to represent the needs of the people of Australia. [More…]

• With the Victorian election campaign on he wrote me a letter setting out the plans over a number of years of the Victorian Government in connection with education of the handicapped which presumably were adopted before the finest committee in the world could report on them. [More…]

• Not having got a negative from the Commonwealth, because there had not been a request put to us, Mr Thompson invented a negative last Thursday for the sake of his election campaign. [More…]

• When will the Government announce its policy as contained in the election policy booklet “It’s Time - Rural’ of long term low interest loans for farmers? [More…]

• If it has no intention of so doing, will the Prime Minister publicly state that the election Press statement of 2nd November 1972 by the honourable member for Riverina of the Labor Government’s policy of $500m to be lent at 3 per cent interest was, as the Minister for Health stated in answer to a previous question, a cheap pre-election political trick? [More…]

• We are certain that no mandate for the detailed changes was given at the election. [More…]

• Prevously I referred to the motivation behind this Bill and to the action taken by the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) immediately before the election. [More…]

• An article appeared in the ‘Australian’ of 2nd August 1972 in which it was stated that major oil refineries had finally decided that the cost to the industry of going along with the McMahon Goverment’s election strategy of industrial confrontation was far too high a price for the companies to pay. [More…]

• One could apply the same, sort of theory, I suppose, to the election of trade union officials; two out of 1,000 members could also elect a general secretary or any other officer. [More…]

• The Government has stopped talking about an early election. [More…]

• The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) appointed, I think, 6 commissioners in October, just before the election. [More…]

• Some did not take office until after the election. [More…]

• After proposed sob-section (1A) insert the follow ing proposed sub-sections: (1b) Where, at an election in respect of an office within an organisation, being an office referred to in paragraph (a) of sub-section (1), no valid nomination has been received - [More…]

• where the members entitled to vote at the election are some or all of the members of a branch of the organisation, the committee of management of that branch, may, notwithstanding the rules of the organisation, within the period of 12 months that commenced on the closing date for nominations in the election, appoint an eligible person to hold the office for a period not exceeding the remainder of that period of 12 months, but a person shall be elected to the office in accordance with the rules of the organisation within, or as soon as practicable after, the period of that appointment as if the holder of the office had died and the appointment shall cease upon the election of such a person. [More…]

• applies in relation to an election in respect of which nominations closed before the date of commencement, of that sub-section as if the references in that sub-section to the period of 12 months commencing on the closing date for nominations were references to the period of 12 months commencing on the date of commencement of that sub-section. [More…]

• (b) states: where the members entitled to vote at the election are some or all of the members of a branch [More…]

• In proposed new sub-section (1) of section 133, after the end of paragraph (d) add new paragraph (da): ‘shall provide that where a person who is or who has been a scrutineer at any election makes an application to the Industrial Registrar under the provisions of section 159 of this Act in connection with such election, then the organisation and every officer of the organisation shall be obliged to make available to the Industrial Registrar all relevant documents and information within their possession or control’. [More…]

• I am sure that if the Minister really wants fair elections in unions this provision will commend itself to him. [More…]

• All he will be doing will be to say: If a scrutineer at an election thinks that there has been any misdemeanour in regard to that election, and if he makes as he can under the Act an official complaint to the Industrial Registrar, the rules of the union shall provide, that all information and documents within the control of the union and every one of its officers shall be made available to the Industrial Registrar for examination. [More…]

• I do not believe that anyone should be in a position to criticise the government, from whatever side it may be drawn, if he has not cast a vote in the election of that government. [More…]

• Frankly, as an Australian, I resent a British migrant being able to come to this country and, after residing here for only 6 months, having the right to vote on the affairs of this nation, just as I believe as an Australian that I should not have the right to vote in a United Kingdom election after living for only 6 months in that country. [More…]

• I do not have accurate figures for the last election but my memory is clear on the subject. [More…]

• At the election held on 2nd December last, the [More…]

• The protests are against clause 50 of the Bill which prohibits future registration of any union rule which would have the effect of depriving the rank and file of that union of a direct vote in the election of the members of the union’s management committee. [More…]

• I think this particular opposion to the Bill will disappear when it is understood that machinery is provided in the Bill to allow the cost of Commonwealth elections to be met entirely by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Elections can be asked for, which will cost the unions nothing, but I dare say that part of the opposition to the collegiate system will disappear when the position is understood. [More…]

• Clause 50 does not apply to existing union rules which permit the collegiate system for the election of federal secretaries. [More…]

• During the election campaign I made various statements - that I believed this was a matter of conscience; It was a matter primarily for the woman and her doctor; it was primarily a matter of choice. [More…]

• The fact that 2 new members are introducing this Bill makes one wonder why so soon after their election they should decide to take this action. [More…]

• Before the last election the Australian people were assured by the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) that abortion on demand was not an election issue. [More…]

• In Victoria we could very well have a similar Bill coming forward after the next State election if the Labor Party should win. [More…]

• Under the present law a marketing authority which acquires ownership of goods it exports or sells for export may, within 60 days of coming into existence, make an election which gives it the right to have these goods taken into account for the purpose of ascertaining its export grant. [More…]

• The proposed amendments will enable an election to be made by an authority whether or not it acquires ownership of the goods it exports and will also remove the 60-day limit for making an election. [More…]

• An election made after the commencement of the amending Act may, at the option of the authority, apply from as early as the commencement of the 1971-72 grant year. [More…]

• Labor Party, and we follow the promise, made by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in his election speech, for early passage of this legislation. [More…]

• It represents the first legislative action to carry out the election promise by the Government to provide Commonwealth funds to improve the quality of life in the deprived sectors of our major cities. [More…]

• The simple fact with respect to urban planning and the problems of the cities on which the Government concentrated in the recent election campaign, is that there is great urgency. [More…]

• We on this side of the House are proud of the fact that the last Budget, introduced by the present Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) started to bite into the economy about the time of the election and at this stage, what the country needed was sensible economic management instead of over expenditure. [More…]

• I can only plead that I did undertake, before the election, that 1 would have a Press conference every Tuesday when I was in Canberra. [More…]

• I just make the point that those who sit opposite represent a minority of the Australian public because they gained less than 50 per cent of the vote at the last election. [More…]

• This came from a government, the Prime Minister of which went north of Brisbane once during the election campaign. [More…]

• I admit that during the last State election, the Premier of South Australia was rustled up to come to Canberra to discuss this very point. [More…]

• I think that in the 3 years leading up to the last election we made specific promises to improve facilities in the developing suburbs. [More…]

• One can see the movement of this Government towards helping those cities particularly, I emphasise, the outer suburbs of them simply because that is where, at the last election, the Government received its electoral support and not in many other regions of this country. [More…]

• The present Minister for Labour, prior to the election, was predicting that unemployment would rise to 200,000 in the early part of 1973. [More…]

• If I heard the Deputy Leader of the Opposition correctly he said that there was unemployment, but he was gracious enough to acknowledge that relatively serious unemployment occurred in the period prior to the Federal election. [More…]

• One good reason for not doing so is that little more than one-half of the people who vote on election day are women and women are starting to stand up on their hind legs - if they have hind legs; I do not know what women do - and demand some proper recognition. [More…]

• I think that many honourable gentlemen opposite who are smiling at this idea of women standing up for their rights might find that they will lose either their smile or their seat after the next election if they do not pay proper heed to what women are thinking. [More…]

• Everybody knows that this was after the date on which the Parliament rose for the election. [More…]

• It has been said, I think rather unfairly, that this was done as an election gimmick. [More…]

• If it had been done as an election gimmick a committee of inquiry would not have been set up. [More…]

• It will certainly be much more with the feather-bedding that is going on at the present time by the minority government which is a sedulous and obsequious servant of the union bosses, because it is aware the unions will not re-endorse it for the next election. [More…]

• One of the main characteristics of the former Government was the introduction of election gimmicks for its political preservation. [More…]

• In the 1969 election campaign it proposed the Jervis Bay reactor. [More…]

• We have been confronted with approval for some 6 contracts which were entered into by the former government within a month of the 1972 election. [More…]

• A. Rebeschini, private secretary to the Archbishop of Melbourne, Cardinal Knox, was commenting on State Labor’s election promise of a commission. [More…]

• It is a further indication that the concept of open government has now been indecently interred by a government of double standards unprepared to practise in this House what it has preached outside it in the pre-Federal election period. [More…]

• My reason for so doing is because of the activities of Government supporters when in opposition and the proposals that they put to the people last year in the election campaign. [More…]

• The Opposition at that time contested the election campaign on open government. [More…]

• The simple fact is that since the elections and since the new Government came into office the people of Australia have seen that they were duped, that open government does not prevail at all and that in fact proper and frank debate is being prevented. [More…]

• I think that the reactions of the people in 3 by-elections in New South Wales demonstrate that the new Government has certainly lost a great deal of glamour throughout Australia. [More…]

• I think this view will be fortified by the results of the elections in Victoria on Saturday, and indeed the Gallup poll which came out last week also will be fortified by those results. [More…]

• The actions of the Government are contrary to what it put to the people at the last elections. [More…]

• Let there be, as the Labor Party promised at the last election, frank and proper discussion on these matters of great and vital moment to the nation’. [More…]

• This policy was mentioned by the Leader of the Australian Labor Party (Mr Whitlam) in his election policy speech and it is also incorporated at page 29 of the decisions of the 1971 Federal Conference of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• Those statements have emanated especially in Victoria during the current Victorian election campaign. [More…]

• The Labor Opposition in Victoria has promised to introduce price controls if it wins the State election. [More…]

• I feel quite sure though that if the Minister for Labour happened to succumb to such a suggestion he would have no difficulty in reaching the proper diagnosis, which undoubtedly would be myopia, the inability to concentrate on any but one single issue, one single election slogan at a time. [More…]

• So it is necessary to resort to this type of distortion to justify an argument which is so narrowly based that it becomes an election slogan than can be understood by the simplest of Country Party supporters. [More…]

• But the Government did not say during the election campaign how this was to operate. [More…]

• Of course he made many promises during the election campaign, and I always regard these claims about a mandate with some reserve. [More…]

• A Party cannot be said to have a mandate for hundreds of different promises that may be made in the course of an election campaign. [More…]

• That the question of a new national anthem, a matter of great consequence for the people of Australia for a long time to come, should be introduced as part of an election campaign and, one might say, really as a gimmick - because the campaign was conducted very largely on lines associated with foreign investment and in a general atmosphere of chauvinism - taints the production of a national anthem. [More…]

• I went on to say that in the policy speech by present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) prior to the 2nd December election he indicated that if elected to form a government, his government would establish an Australian Schools Commission. [More…]

• Throughout the period, leading up to the election and in the actions subsequent to it, this sense of great urgency about needs to be fulfilled and, by implication, the Government’s intent and purpose of fulfilling the needs, was established. [More…]

• Having made it the ground of insult, especially in the case of Victoria, they have gone on in their election campaign to make promises on the basis of the money coming to them - money which they appeared to indicate they would not be willing to accept because they called it Commonwealth control when it will simply be grants under section 96. [More…]

• He has made it clear that the Government of Victoria has no intention of increasing rents before the election. [More…]

• I am not prepared to overstate and say that it is inevitable that rental increases will follow, but I think it is implied because the Victorian Government, like other State governments, often, delays the review of rents until after elections and too frequently rental reviews are conducted triennially rather than annually. [More…]

• Conversely, there has been a clear implication in what I have read to the House, which is an account of what the Victorian Housing Minister has said, that the Victorian Government will be contemplating such an increase after the State election. [More…]

• It was agreed that no announcement would be made on any other area during the Victorian election campaign because the Australian Government should not be used in the politics of that State’s elections. [More…]

• In fact, Mr Jones was subjected to this sort of vilification and terrorism for some time just before the last election. [More…]

• About a fortnight before the last election the electorate office of the honourable member for Boothby was attacked by the People’s Liberation Army. [More…]

• The importance of the State Election, to be held on the 19th May, to the people of Victoria, and indeed the whole of Australia cannot be over estimated. [More…]

• Now suddenly at election time it has started what I think is called a Sir Henry Bolte rehabilitation wing at St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne. [More…]

• These promises are made at State election after State election in Victoria. [More…]

• In the last 3 election campaigns the Colac residential training centre for the mentally retarded has been mentioned. [More…]

• As I said, I found it personally offensive on the ground that, after battling for many years in that State to see these matters rectified, so little action has been taken except for making vague and empty promises at the time of each election. [More…]

• I suppose that, with the Victorian election to take place on Saturday, we must expect Labor members from Victoria to make speeches of the character of the speech made by the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins). [More…]

• We have already seen this Government, which claimed that it would bring in a procedure of open government, in a very short space of time - it is only 5 months since the election - even give up defending its position in that respect. [More…]

• Before the election honourable members opposite promoted that whole principle with great vigour. [More…]

• One wonders about his objectivity, because since the election his pen has not been seen to have raised one criticism of the way in which the Labor Party is running this [More…]

• This matter is creating some very unfortunate situations because of its use as a vehicle for campaigning in the Victorian State elections. [More…]

• Prior to the 1970 State elections undertakings were given by both major political Parties to establish a fourth university in Victoria. [More…]

• Following the 1970 election a committee was set up to inquire into a fourth university in Victoria. [More…]

• He does not want to do this because of the coming Victorian election. [More…]

• I think that those people who are running round making political gimmickry for the sake of an election in which possibly no seats will change hands in these areas are doing a total disserve to the people they purport to represent. [More…]

• I should make it plain that what I had in mind was not his majority at the last election but his performance in this House and the likelihood of him being replaced by someone of better quality. [More…]

• All that happens when governments rely on those policies to contain inflation is what happened in this country between February 1971 and the election of a Federal Labor Government, namely, a tragic rate of unemployment with prices continuing to rise; in other words, stagflation. [More…]

• I must say this about him: Having had the experience originally of tackling him in a Federal election in 1966, I have never doubted his capacity to stand up for the things in which he believes. [More…]

• I daresay that it was due to the arguments of the honourable member for Moreton and the former Prime Minister that the Liberals were able to avoid that split, but it is a sad condemnation, that there still exist in the ranks of the Liberal Party so many who have not been prepared to learn the lessons of the last election. [More…]

• I am ashamed to have observed over recent weeks in this House the position of a certain gentleman from Melbourne sitting on the other side of the chamber and being surrounded by members of the Australian Labor Party because they realise that if they are to get pre-selection at the next election they have to dance to the strings that he pulls. [More…]

• The State member’s charge against me cannot be sustained but is exposed for what it is - a political action designed to discredit me as the Labor Federal representative for La Trobe and to enhance his own electoral prospects at the Victorian State election to be held this Saturday. [More…]

• The second Bill which I introduced on 5 April gave effect to another of the Government’s election promises and provided for the continuation of age, invalid and widows pensions to Australian pensioners proceeding overseas, irrespective .of their destination and without any of the restrictions which had been imposed by the previous Government and which had limited the. [More…]

• If the Minister is genuine in his view - he stated in his second-reading speech that there is agreement between the Opposition and the Government on what was agreed to prior to the last elections as to the functions of TAA - there should be no difficulty in the Government’s accepting the amendment because it clearly puts into proper perspective the agreement reached between the previous Government and TAA prior to the last election. [More…]

• It is the intention of the Government to put into effect matters on which it had been the intention of the previous Government to legislate should it have been the Government of this country following the last election. [More…]

• They knew that it was the intention of the previous Minister for Civil Aviation to introduce similar legislation to the Bill now before the House, should the previous Government have been in a position to do so after the last elections. [More…]

• He will be quite anxious to pay his debt of gratitude to the Director of Ansett Transport Industries who, I am led to believe, played a very prominent role in the honourable member’s last election campaign. [More…]

• The Bill as it stands - and I know that we are discussing a proposed sub-section at the moment - is such as to allow the present Government, or if there happens to be a disaster and that Government continues after the next election, to introduce changes to implement the Labor Party’s policy. [More…]

• Being the honourable member for Diamond Valley and coming from Victoria, recalling the election results of only last Saturday I think if I were a member of the Australian Labor Party I would suddenly be waking up to what the Australian people want. [More…]

• The Australian Capital Territory was given representation in the Australian Parliament in 1948 on the initiative of the then Labor Government, with effect from the 1949 elections, on the basis that the member representing the Australian Capital Territory had the same voting rights as the member for the Northern Territory at that time, namely, that the member could vote only on a motion to disallow an ordinance affecting the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• In 1966, after years of advocacy by the former distinguished member, the late Jim Fraser, and the Australian Labor Party, the member for the Australian Capital Territory was given the right to vote on any matter after the ensuing general election for this House. [More…]

• It is estimated that the electoral enrolment of the Australian Capital Territory will exceed 120,000 by December 1975- the normal time for the next general election of members of the House of Representatives - and 185,000 by 1980, an annual increase of about 9 per cent. [More…]

• If an additional member for the Australian Capital Territory were provided as from the next House of Representatives election on the basis of the Territory being divided into 2 divisions, the estimated average number of electors per division - about 60,000 - would be in reasonable conformity with the average for the States combined, namely 58,741 as at 27 April 1973, and considerably in excess of that for Tasmania. [More…]

• This arises from the differing legal opinions as to whether it would be constitutionally practicable to provide for the election of an additional member for the Australian Capital Territory during the term of the current Parliament. [More…]

• However, because a doubt exists about the matter, the Government considers that 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 election of the senators will in the interim period provide the additional representation so urgently required in the Australian Capital Territory. [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…]

• The Prime Minister in presenting the Labor Party policy at the last Federal election made it clear that further representation would be given to the Territories if Labor were elected. [More…]

• It was recommended by the Committee that the Constitution should be amended to provide that there should be an election for half the senators every time there is an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• The Committee believed that this would cut down the number of elections and so minimise the distraction of elections and the difference between the 2 Houses. [More…]

• The decision to bring the elections of territory senators into line with those of the House of Representatives is in accordance with the Constitutional Review Committee’s findings. [More…]

• Both senators will be elected every time there is a general election of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• So for the Territories there will be elections for both Houses of Parliament at the same time. [More…]

• When this Bill passes the Parliament, the writs will be issued for the elections of senators for the Territories concurrent with the next Senate general election or House of Representatives general election, whichever is the sooner. [More…]

• Thereafter all the senators for the Territories will retire at each House of Representatives election. [More…]

• Although I critically contest the past Government’s action in appointing the board of the Corporation immediately prior to the election and although critical of some decisions since, particularly with respect to testing contracts and the relationship to IWTO, I believe that the strength of the Corporation will ultimately depend on the strength of the administrative divisions within it and the quality of its advice and research. [More…]

• The matter was largely concluded last year; and in election periods, particularly in the mood of last year, there is not much room for praise. [More…]

• Did the Australian Labor Party promise during its election campaign to allow pre-school fees as an income tax deduction. [More…]

• The Prime Minister, in his Election Policy Speech, announced a proposal to allow income tax deductions in respect of payments to a recognised child care centre, up to a maximum of $260 per annum. [More…]

• Will the honourable gentleman tell the House whether he has ordered a revision of the Government’s proposed Freedom of Information Act which was so widely referred to by him during the election campaign but which is now apparently a matter of some secrecy itself? [More…]

• Will the honourable gentleman indicate to the House when his Government intends to give legislative effect to his pre-election promise of open government? [More…]

• A week before the Victorian election, the Prime Minister and I attended a meeting of Premiers, after which committees of officers were set up to bring along proposals. [More…]

• The Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby), in a most effective confidence trick, talked during the last election campaign of making low interest finance available to farmers in massive amounts. [More…]

• Finally the primary producers had had enough, as was demonstrated in the last election. [More…]

• I have noticed a great change in the honourable member’s character since the previous government lost the election. [More…]

• There were no discussions with the Australian Wool Industry Conference or with wool industry leaders on changing arrangements which ought to have been honoured by the present Government because before the election they were a firm commitment for the wool research and promotion funds. [More…]

• Minister for Immigration before the election and deliberately so, in what has happened with revaluation compensation. [More…]

• Of course it might have been the Victorian election, which indicated that the Australian Country Party vote in Wimmera, for example, was halved and that there was an increase in the Australian Labor Party vote in Dundas, Portland and Kara Kara. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) is reported in the Griffith ‘Times’ of 20 November as saying at Griffith when he was speaking during the general election campaign: [More…]

• Yet here we have, in May, the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Enderby) setting up his own private little monopoly for margarine in the Australian Capital Territory in the form of a company, Marrickville Margarine Pty Ltd, which was widely rumoured to have financed the midyear campaign of the Labor Party prior to the 1969 election. [More…]

• The facts are that we entered the election campaign with not a farmer knowing whether there was to be a rural credit scheme. [More…]

• Who were the supporters - luke warm I admit - on the election platform? [More…]

• The reason that this matter of definite public importance has been raised today is that in the Victorian electorate of Dundas the Australian Labor Party first preference vote increased in the recent Victorian election. [More…]

• We lost that seat because the Country Party in one of a series of desperate moves in the previous election had given its preferences to the Labor Party. [More…]

• However, in this election the Country Party withdrew those preferences from the Labor Party and witnessed the spectacle of its total vote being reduced considerably. [More…]

• I mentioned earlier the vote in the Victorian electorate of Dundas in last Saturday’s State elections. [More…]

• The vote for Labor in Dundas, Portland and Kara Kara was higher than for the previous State election. [More…]

• The Country Party vote in Wimmera was half of the vote it received at the previous election. [More…]

• The only solid result to emerge from that election in Victoria is that the Country Party and the Democratic Labor Parity are a dying race. [More…]

• I was extremely interested to hear the honourable member for Eden-Monaro (Mr Whan) talk about what he saw as the 2 elements which had suffered from last Saturday’s election result in Victoria. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite can protest as much as they like; that is the key point of the Victorian election. [More…]

• How silly it is of honourable members opposite to bring the Victorian election forth as a red herring to try to divert attention from the argument when we, the Opposition parties on this side of the Parliament, have introduced today a very serious matter for the notice of the nation. [More…]

• lt may be valid to ask whether the Government has taken this step of proposing only a year’s planning because of the possibility of an election. [More…]

• The Government’s policy in that regard is quite clear and was made clear to the public prior the last election. [More…]

• If the Opposition is foolish enough to believe it has the support of people in rural areas it should ask itself why it was that it lost seats in the last election, why it was that its representation declined in rural areas and why it was that it did not receive a greater number of votes from those particular people. [More…]

• The fact is that the previous Government had no long term realistic policy in the general field of primary industry and its unconcern caught up with it at the last election. [More…]

• Indeed, an earlier Bill was introduced just before the last election when Parliament was dissolved. [More…]

• On the other hand, the present Government strongly criticised the Opposition for its failure to provide the tenth member for Western Australia at the last election, thus denying electoral justice to the people of that State. [More…]

• As the honourable gentleman would be very well aware, the State of Western Australia returned additional representation to the Opposition benches during the course of the last Federal election. [More…]

• He would be the first Minister to acknowledge that the real reason that the redistribution was not carried out prior to the last Federal election was that the then Governmnent did not receive the final population figures from the Commonwealth Statistician in sufficient time to enable a redistribution to take effect in that State prior to the last election. [More…]

• We look forward to the support of the people of Western Australia - support which has not been denied us in the past and which was so obviously heavily forthcoming in the course of the last federal election. [More…]

• The Government will go ahead and have a redistribution based on the old formula and then proceed to have an election, probably at a later stage when the Government feels that the climate may be more favourable to it. [More…]

• As one of the Western Australian members of this Parliament I congratulate the Leader of the House (Mr Daly) on his anouncement that Western Australia will get the tenth seat in this House to which it was entitled at the last election. [More…]

• His consciousness of this, of course, is his knowledge that Western Australia was deprived of the seat that it was entitled to by redistribution before the last election. [More…]

• The late McMahon Government failed to carry out its constitutional duty, which it could have carried out, and it deprived Western Australia of the tenth seat to which it was entitled because of the voting pattern in the federal election of 1969 and the State election which followed. [More…]

• I accept that the Labor Party at the last election put forward certain proposals and as it won the election it has a degree of mandate to enable it to seek this amendment to the Grants Commission Act. [More…]

• What was proposed before the last election by the Prime Minister has been proposed over a considerable period of time. [More…]

• At the same time I must say that this issue was put very fully from time to time before the Australian people, and at the last election they voted the present Labor Government into power. [More…]

• I do not agree that a government necessarily has a mandate to carry out every item which has been mentioned in a policy speech or in the course of an election campaign. [More…]

• They may disagree violently with some points of policy outlined in a policy speech or mentioned in the election campaign and yet, because of other major items which appeal to them or because of something they dislike in the policy of the other party, they vote in favour of that particular party and return it to power even though they disagree with items in the policy speech. [More…]

• Of course we have the occasional situation in which a particular policy that is mentioned in a policy speech or made an issue in an election campaign is so much in the forefront of things, is so vital an issue and the parties are so much in conflict about it, that the party which is elected can truly be said to have a mandate to carry out that policy which it espoused during the election campaign. [More…]

• The function of an opposition is at all times to see that what is in a Bill, as distinct from the broad general issue which might be debated in an election campaign, is proper, and to oppose anything in the Bill to which it takes exception. [More…]

• I believe that this would be contrary to the wishes of the Australian people as evidenced by their vote at the last election, following the way in which this matter was put to them. [More…]

• 3,125 had either made an election to continue their service until the expiry of 18 months or had elected to continue their service as Australian Regular Army soldiers. [More…]

• Note- The balance are accounted for as follows: 2,135 had not made an election. [More…]

• In addition it is assumed that the majority of those who have not made a formal election and who are still serving will also complete their initial engagement. [More…]

• There is no doubt that it had an electoral impact in the last Federal election. [More…]

• The election of the present Federal Government marked a turning point in the fortunes of local government. [More…]

• Indeed, an agreement between the Director-General and the Commission, dated 13 October - that was prior to the last election - included aerial work and charter operations as being a rightful part of TAA’s operations. [More…]

• Prior to the election in Victoria the Victorian Government announced, as part of its policy, that the $200 deposit previously needed for a person to buy his Housing Commission home would be no longer required and that people would be able to buy homes on a no-deposit basis. [More…]

• Let me turn to a Labor election promise in relation to housing. [More…]

• We have heard very little about it since the election. [More…]

• An election promise made by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in his policy speech was: [More…]

• This sense of security received a severe jolt with the election of a Labor Government and the appointment of the present Minister for Housing. [More…]

• The big wheels are in action, and there will certainly be some major changes before the next election. [More…]

• Even with the changes between the 1970 election and the last election in Victoria, Fuller would go. [More…]

• The honourable member for Ballaarat stated that the honourable John Dedman made the statement 2 years after it was in fact made and he also said that it was made on an election platform. [More…]

• The Government wants up to date electoral rolls and maximum efficiency in the conduct of elections. [More…]

• The Government also wants quicker production of election results. [More…]

• The public demands for information about elections and electoral procedures, requiring more extensive research, are increasing. [More…]

• In Labor’s election policy no mention was made of eliminating or placing any restriction at all on home ownership in general, and in particular no restriction on the sale of homes built under the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement was mentioned. [More…]

• For the first time ever an Australian Government has given a firm, unswerving commitment to relate pension rates to an index - a much more generous one than the one the previous Government of some 23 years standing suddenly, in a moment of panic, discovered was necessary on the eve of the last election. [More…]

• Labor made it a red hot propaganda issue during the election campaign. [More…]

• The election campaign was fought on social issues. [More…]

• last election campaign as a major area for government expenditure. [More…]

• Five months after the Government was elected we find economists resorting to the solution of cutting back on public expenditure at a time when this Government is meeting problems and issues which cere clearly put before it as the major issues at the last election campaign. [More…]

• This Bill is another indication of the clear thinking which commenced on 2 December 1972 upon the election of a Labor Government. [More…]

• In view of this, it was more than a matter of surprise that the present AttorneyGeneral, Senator Murphy, made an election promise on behalf of the Australian Labor Party in November 1972 stating that a Labor government would introduce and establish a women’s bureau in the Department of Labour. [More…]

• Clause 20 contains the general provision that at the time of each general election of members of the House of Representatives an election of members for the Territory is to be held. [More…]

• It reaches its culmination when the local mayor or member ends by running for election against him. [More…]

• Was this intended to refer rather to the extent of representation - for example, the number of representatives - and the terms of representation in the sense in which one refers to the manner of their appointment or election or is it without express mention, a way of altering earlier sections in Part II of the Constitution? [More…]

• There is of course no constitutional bar to a change in the method of election to the Senate. [More…]

• They are to run for election always at elections held for the House of Representatives and clearly only on House of Representatives issues. [More…]

• I would not oppose a proposal such as was put forward in the report of the Joint Standing Committee on the Constitution in 1959 to bring the Senate elections into line with the House of Representatives elections by making senators have, say, 2 consecutive Representatives terms as their term of office. [More…]

• However, while I was Attorney-General, I sought to devise a scheme by which this could be done and I presented a paper in which, with some variation of what had been proposed in 1959 by the Committee, a scheme was propounded which would make it possible for senators to be elected for about 6 years - 2 successive House of Representatives terms - still being elected in succession, overlapping each other, and so that always, the elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives would be synchronised. [More…]

• Their election will be at a House of Representatives election in which the issues are different. [More…]

• Taking the last 3 House of Representatives election figures for the Australian Capital Territory as a basis it is clear that, on one occasion cer tainly and on the last 2 occasions probably, on distribution of preferences they would have produced 2 Senate representatives from one side of the House. [More…]

• It is suggested that this method of appointing 2 senators for the short term coming after the House of Representatives election and having 2 senators possibly carrying the balance of power in the States chamber should not be put into effect before the States have had an opportunity, as the Constitution really contemplates, of passing their opinion on the matter. [More…]

• I am reminded that as long ago as 1970 the then Prime Minister spoke during a by-election in which 1 was elected to this House in support of the proposition that the size of the Australian Capital Territory was such - I quote him loosely because I do not have his exact words in front of me - that it either was or shortly would be ready for increased representation. [More…]

• However it is indicative of the different thinking of the 2 Parties - the Liberal and Country Parties on one side saying: ‘We will not, because we cannot see advantage for ourselves in it’, and the Labor Government saying: ‘We will honour an election promise that has been in our policy for many years to do the right thing by the Northern Territory even if we cannot take advantage to ourselves as a Party from it, and we will do the right thing by the Australian Capital Territory at the same time’. [More…]

• I can tell this House right now that if Jim Fraser had run at another election or had stood behind a candidate for this place one of the things that he would have been saying from the platform in that election campaign would have been that the job of representing the ACT is too big for one man. [More…]

• He should have remained throughout that term without a vote and then should have gone to election when we would have had a member elected who had voting rights, that matter being determined by the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Mr Corbett - It was confirmed at the next election, anyway. [More…]

• I repeat that the conferring of the right to vote in this House on the member of the Northern Territory when it was done in mid-term and not as a condition of the election in which he was originally elected was one of the most disgraceful episodes in the electoral history of this country. [More…]

• The commissioners may need more than 10 per cent to achieve one vote one value at the time of an election, depending on the capacity of growth. [More…]

• The term of service of a senator for a Territory commences on the day of his election and expires at the close of the day next preceding the polling day for the general election of members of the House of Representatives next following his election. [More…]

• The term of service of a senator for a Territory commences on the first day of July following the day of his election and continues for three years. [More…]

• Furthermore, if he thinks that this is part of a sinister plot of the Labor Party completely to dominate and control the Parliament by the election of these senators, I suggest that he should have a chat with the President of the Liberal Party in the Australian Capital Territory who thinks that it is a first class Bill and that it should be introduced by the Opposition side of the House even if the Government did not do it in this session. [More…]

• These are the men who supervise the elections. [More…]

• The very election of this House and the Senate is under their control. [More…]

• Also, apart from that is the consideration that every person who has a responsibility to vote in the election of this Parliament should exercise it consistent with the laws of this country. [More…]

• It is significant also that this Bill allows the electoral officers to take steps in connection with and for the conduct of an election or ballot within the confines of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]

• In the divisional office in my electorate a problem arose at the last election because of flooding. [More…]

• The staff there went to no end of trouble and were subjected to a great deal of strain in deciding whether the election should be held on the scheduled day in that division. [More…]

• The divisional returning officer earned great credit for himself, his staff and the temporary staff in seeing that the election was conducted so efficiently. [More…]

• The Labor Government undertook on election to abolish conscription forthwith. [More…]

• As Minister I also confirmed arrangements which the Department of Labour and National Service had brought into effect on the Monday morning following the election. [More…]

• I would suggest that the Minister for Defence study this in conjunction with clause 25 (1) and sub-clause (3) for it is my interpretation that some hundreds of service members could be penalised by the inclusion of these words ‘but for’, which would deprive them of the right of making an election referred to in sub-clause (3). [More…]

• Where the Authority so determines, an election under sub-section (3) is of no effect unless the person making the election pays to the Commonwealth a contribution under this section of such amount as the Authority determines as being appropriate . [More…]

• I congratulate the Minister for Defence on thus honouring an election promise he made on behalf of his Party. [More…]

• I believe this Bill is an honest attempt to implement the findings of the Jess Committee and the election promises of the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• But if I may come back to the historical background of this legislation it was quite clear that a policy decision made by the Opposition back in 1972 which was outlined to the people of this country during the election campaign of December 1972 proposed that the DFRB legislation would be introduced in this Autumn session of the Parliament. [More…]

• Just before the last election the previous Government agreed that it would make available $2.1m of the $3m needed to complete the scheme in a reasonable time. [More…]

• For 6 months prior to the election the Australian Labor Party was making unconditional election promises that it would require the Australian National Line to operate the Straitsman’ which has been tied up in Melbourne since 4 June, and to start an immediate shipping operation to King Island, which would carry a separate subsidy account. [More…]

• The Bill, of course, honours the undertaking that we, when in government, gave prior to the last election. [More…]

• I want to express my sheer disappointment that a Labor Government which before the election clearly said that it would honour an obligation and an undertakinfg to Captain Houfe, should dishonour that obligation. [More…]

• I am sure that the result of the Victorian election, which would be the pattern in other parts of Australia, measures the amount of the popular disillusion with this Government, which is a temporary Government. [More…]

• But I think that the result of the Victorian election shows the change of heart in the country. [More…]

• This being so, is the Prime Minister advocating that, for the protection of the people against the Executive, voters in the next Senate election would be well advised to perpetuate this situation? [More…]

• I ask: Where development, technical and environmental considerations can thus be harmonised and are further supported by the economics of the matter, and still the environmental viewpoint is overruled, does not the Treasurer agree that the professed concern of his party and his Government for the environment, which it is said was an important factor in their winning the last election, is humbug and a sham? [More…]

• The former Government wished to delete it and, of course, if that Government had been returned at the election in December it would have, as it announced, enacted those provisions and cut out the unjustifiable taxation avoidance involved. [More…]

• Indeed, work on this matter was carried out even before the last election. [More…]

• Soon after the election the Treasurer made certain of his intentions clear. [More…]

• China subsequently supported us in our election to the Security Council. [More…]

• Following a plea by the Prime Minister to the Conference that he did not want an intolerable burden placed upon him to carry into an election, a rather bland resolution was passed. [More…]

• I am starting to understand that we have been completely deceived by the present Government in its policy presented to the people cf Australia at the last election. [More…]

• These things have bien promised for one year and no longer, no doubt with the possibility of a general election in view, so this one year may carry the Government through the intermediate period. [More…]

• With respect to the South Pacific, the uncalled-for presumption of the Prime Minister and the Labor Party was well illustrated in their policy speech before the last election. [More…]

• Let me emphasise that what has happened since the election is not that Australia has suddenly swerved into a series of unpredictable and unrelated moves that are out of the mainstream of movements in world affairs. [More…]

• That Government did not proceed with it because it found an election on its hands and it was fighting for its life. [More…]

• It was fighting for its life in an election. [More…]

• Last year it was rumoured that Marrickville Holdings gave $100,000 to the ALP election funds. [More…]

• If he is not, the rural people will make sure that his colleagues in rural seats are banished from this Parliament at the next election. [More…]

• That achievement of 1 96 1 was a very personal one and the subsequent failure of the 1963 election to redeem our great hopes fell as a very bitter blow upon him. [More…]

• His closest associates feel that, remarkably resilient a man as he was, that blow- a series of blows really, beginning with the assassination of John F. Kennedy a week before the elections- left him permanently depleted. [More…]

• His contribution to the Federal Parliament of this country is well recorded and his place in history is firmly established by his wonderful career as the Federal member for Melbourne- the electorate I now have the honour of representing, having succeeded him on his retirement prior to the election of 2 December. [More…]

• My very first political memory is that of being taken by my mother, at the age of eight, to hear that great Labor man, Dr William Maloney, speaking in the by-election campaign in which he defeated Sir Malcolm McEacharn for the seat of Melbourne in the House of Representatives. [More…]

• His first act as Leader was to attend the same afternoon as his election to that position a picnic of Canberra . [More…]

• On 14 August I issued a writ for the election of a member to serve for the electoral division of Parramatta in the State of New South Wales to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the honourable gentleman. [More…]

• The dates in connection with the election were fixed as follows: Date of nomination- Friday, 31 August 1973; date of polling- Saturday, 22 September 1973; date of return of writ- on or before Friday, 19 October 1973. [More…]

• -Today is the thirtieth anniversary of the re-election of the Curtin Governmentthe election of the Australian Labor Party to govern in its own right. [More…]

• It is also, as the honourable member is kind enough to recall, the thirtieth anniversary of the election of the father of the House- the Leader of the House. [More…]

• Of course, in this measure the Minister is honouring an election promise to provide these benefits. [More…]

• The Labor Party’s election undertaking had a lot to do with the Government’s desire to retain the seat of Bendigo which contains the large Army complex of Puckapunyal. [More…]

• We followed the comments that were made by the honourable member for Barker, the shadow Minister for Defence, who was the previous speaker, about the results of the last election. [More…]

• Since taking office nine months ago the Government has acted energetically to implement many of its election undertakings. [More…]

• If they were elected, will he supply details of how the election was conducted. [More…]

• The Government’s election policy includes an undertaking to establish large multi-purpose centres at school, which during the day can be used for school purposes and in afterschoolhours for adult education or for useful cultural or artistic activities, art, dancing, sport, photography and so on by all members of the community. [More…]

• One of the basic policies put forward by the Prime Minister at the last election was the Government’s policy on cities. [More…]

• The second Bill gave effect to another of the Government’s election promises and provided for the continued payment of age, invalid and widows pensions to Australian pensioners proceeding overseas. [More…]

• The honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh) who interjected received 17 per cent of the primary votes at the last election and he got into the Parliament. [More…]

• It seems, when I look at those 2 ex-Ministers opposite, that they have not read the election results. [More…]

• I have not been in this House a long time but during the election campaign, and ad nauseam since December, we have heard the Government tell us how it espouses open government. [More…]

• Perhaps it means the dangling of election promises of $500m for rural finance for long term credits at 3 per cent. [More…]

• I believe that the figures of 3.2 per cent and 3.5 per cent were expressed during the last general election campaign. [More…]

• It is quite clear that these were the priorities that Labor had announced in the 1972 election campaign. [More…]

• One of the major planks of our election platform, and the chief reason for the [More…]

• Australian Labor Party winning the last election, was our commitment to the improvement of the quality of life and standards of service in existing cities. [More…]

• The National Urban and Regional Development Authority was established one month before a critical election, and after more than 20 years. [More…]

• The proposals for isolated children, foi technical education, for pre-schools, and as incorporated in part of the Karmel report, the primary school libraries, were proposals of all political parties before the last election, as also were proposals for specific disadvantage schools, whether those schools be government or non-government schools. [More…]

• After the election on 13 December 1972 the Prime Minister gave the same commitment in a letter to the Chairman of the National Council of Independent Schools when he wrote: [More…]

• He told the House that Labor regarded the Commonwealth Electoral Act as outdated and outmoded and that upon the election of a Labor government immediate steps would be taken to redraft the Act. [More…]

• There could be no better example than the Federal election held in December 1972 when the present Government received 49.6 per cent of the votes of the Australian electorate and, as a result, received 53.6 per cent of the seats. [More…]

• It provides a convincing refutation to Labor Party claims that it went into recent elections for the national Parliament competing not only against the anti-socialist political parties in this country but also against an Electoral Act which they allege is unfair. [More…]

• As well as ensuring that we have fair and impartial elections, current Australian legislation measures up more than favourably with electoral law in force in comparable countries overseas. [More…]

• At the last election in France, constituences ranged from 25,000 to 150,000 electors. [More…]

• It should be noted, however, that the 1954 election was contested on boundaries drawn in 1948 in the Calwell redistribution. [More…]

• How could the honourable member for the Australian Capital Territory argue that all electoral divisions should be equal in size when, prior to the election last year, he called for 2 seats for the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]

• In each election the minority votes of the population of Australia elected the majority of members to the Parliament. [More…]

• The purpose of drawing electoral boundaries is to achieve a parliament representative of the majority of citizens; it is not designed to ensure a convenient and easy means for members of Parliament to ensure their re-election or an easy and convenient way for them to represent their constituents. [More…]

• In support of this principle, George Mason of Virginia ‘argued strongly for an election of the larger branch by the people. [More…]

• This attack began immediately after the last election and it reached its climax this week with the Budget. [More…]

• But the average discrepancy between city and country electorates at the time of the last election was not 40 per cent but 14 per cent. [More…]

• Of course, the reason for this opinion was the understanding of these officers of the practical difficulties in carrying out redistributions where only a small tolerance is allowed and of the nonsensical proposition which the Minister is asking us to accept, namely, that redistribution should occur more frequently, in fact before every election, so that each election is conducted on a new set of boundaries. [More…]

• If that is what the Government wants, let it do that by all means; let us have an election fought on this issue. [More…]

• If this government wants to pull on a national election on this issue, then let it do it; but the fears and the suspicions of the people are well justified and will be vindicated by the result. [More…]

• I also pointed out that the Premier of South Australia and the Labor Government were deficient in their responsibilities to that State because they would not seek a firm agreement on water quality and that all they had done at that stage, when they had been flushed out, if I may use the term, prior to a State election, was to come out with a few blithe words to the effect that they were watching this problem very carefully. [More…]

• and (2) As foreshadowed in my Election Policy Speech last November, the Government has established a wide range of commissions, committees, research groups and authorities to assist in the implementation of the Government’s policies. [More…]

• I remind him that the Commonwealth electoral office at Parramatta during the last Federal election campaign was outdated and outmoded and in every way unsuitable as an electoral office. [More…]

• Probably the officers moved into them in order to ensure that the Parramatta by-election is conducted in circumstances and with facilities which are better than those which existed on the last occasion. [More…]

• Honourable members will recall that the need for an Australian film and television training school was raised originally by the Australian Council for the Arts, that the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) undertook in his 1969 election policy speech as Leader of the Liberal Party to establish an interim council to investigate and report upon the project and that at the time when the right honourable member removed himself from office the report was in hand and a start was to be made. [More…]

• I think there should be a call from his electorate for him to resign as Minister for Immigration because what is being put forward in the Government’s policy is so diametrically opposed to what he made an issue of and stood on as a point of principle in this House and during his election campaign. [More…]

• However, as the Treasurer (Mr Crean) pointed out in his second reading speech, such an election can now only be made in the first 60 days of existence of an authority. [More…]

• In addition, an effective election cannot be made by an authority in relation to a class of goods which it does not own at the time of export or sale for export. [More…]

• The amendments contained in the Bill seek to remove the time limit within which an authority may make an election to be treated as a producer for export of the goods it exports or sells for export and will also permit an authority to be so treated even though it does not acquire ownership of those goods. [More…]

• I remember prior to the last election supporters of the then Government - and this happens now - being pulled out of debates in order that members of the Opposition could get some chance to debate the legislation - although quite often not the chance that they really wanted. [More…]

• it fails to honour election promises.’ [More…]

• I firmly believe that thousands of voters who supported the Australian Labor Party voted Labor for the first and last time in that election. [More…]

• Yet the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) said before the election: “There will be less industrial trouble under Labor because there will be no need for it.’ [More…]

• Some of them will have an opportunity in the by-election for Parramatta to demonstrate clearly that they are disenchanted with the ALP by voting very solidly for Mr Phillip Ruddock, the Liberal Party candidate. [More…]

• This allocation of funds to education makes me particularly happy because it kills the claim made by Labor’s opponents prior to the 1972 Federal election that Labor Government would eliminate aid to private schools and that our education promises prior to the election would be broken. [More…]

• Just before the 1972 election, in my electorate of Lilley a vicious campaign was waged by the National Civic Council, the Democratic Labor Party, the Liberals and pseudoLiberals - cum-DLP-supporters who stooped to every undesirable tactic to instil fear into the minds of people about the future education of their children. [More…]

• Let me indicate to the people of Lilley what has occurred in the electorate where a great deal of this pre-election false propaganda had its infamous beginning. [More…]

• It must hurt the fearmongers who, with an attitude of ill will, spread their gospel of fear prior to the 1972 Federal elections. [More…]

• On the eve of each election we found that the government could find finance to make available to pensioners 50c or $1 or whatever it might have been, and after the election of course the then govern ment forgot all about its responsibility to these people. [More…]

• Through Labor’s plan an end has been brought to the disgusting and degrading action of previous governments whereby pension handouts were used as bait for an election and pensioners and their plight were made political footballs. [More…]

• In terms of plain everyday English this means: ‘To he’l with inflation - we will honour our election promises whatever the cost to the nation’. [More…]

• For how much longer can we afford a government which deliberately fosters inflation, if this is the price it has to pay for a set of election promises, some of which at least are a little dubious? [More…]

• On the eve of the by-election for Hawkesbury, about the Thursday before the election, out came the headlines over reports that Sir Robert had said that Richmond would not be accepted by the State Government as a site for a second Sydney airport. [More…]

• His eighth and closing point was that the Budget fails to honour election promises. [More…]

• As I say, the electors will be the final judge of whether the Labor Party has provided them with the sort of election policies for which they were looking. [More…]

• it fails to honour election promises.’ [More…]

• I believe that when the Parramatta by-election is held in a few weeks time the Government will get a sensible reply to its policies, at least from the sophisticated section of the community who can add two and two and get four and know that you will never get fifteen. [More…]

• The Budget which was presented by the Treasurer is designed to carry out the policy proposals which were put by the Opposition at the time of the last general election. [More…]

• At the time of the last elections the then Leader of the Opposition, now the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), indicated that the policies which were put by him on behalf of the Australian Labor Party would be introduced within the life of this Parliament. [More…]

• But there is still scope for new initiatives in domestic aviation to make air travel available to wider market sections and to carry out the Government’s election undertaking to provide holidays within Australia competitive with overseas travel. [More…]

• It dishonours a number of significant pre-election and postelection promises. [More…]

• Its range and size of social welfare benefits fall far short of its election promises and the increased benefits do not keep pace with the erosion of real money values caused by inflation. [More…]

• It is pertinent to refer again to the election speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in which he said: [More…]

• Even the pre-election promises on Lake Pedder have been conveniently put aside. [More…]

• We were told at election time that the present Government was going to increase the pensions rapidly until they came to 25 per cent of average male weekly earnings. [More…]

• The second area of injustice is that the much publicised assistance for decentralisation and for local government that would help country areas - the promises were made during the election campaign and since - is nonexistent in this Budget. [More…]

• Where are the great promises of assistance for interstate highway and railway transport that one heard before the election? [More…]

• What has happened to the election policy statement of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam)? [More…]

• I hope that that shock comes about at the same time as an election. [More…]

• I deplore the breaking of a pre-election promise by the Prime Minister that existing aid to independent schools would not be’ reduced. [More…]

• Had the previous Government been returned at the last Federal election the situation would have been completely out of hand and the whole environment could have been irreparably destroyed. [More…]

• I think it was quite a tragedy for those of us who know him to be a pleasant man to find that he found so narrow the path between responsibility on the one hand and, on the other hand, promises made by his leader the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in order to win the last general election. [More…]

• With due regard to the Treasurer, I say that the Budget is an irresponsible document which attempts to honour some of the statements made by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in order to win the general election. [More…]

• He did not say: ‘I will support the granting of powers to enable you to do it and if you fail at the next election, I will have those powers and will do it’. [More…]

• The Government suggested in its election campaign that it would provide for uniform telephone charges as an encouragement for industry to decentralise. [More…]

• What about the election promise of this Government to allow a tax deduction for child car centres? [More…]

• Their election promises were monumental deceits. [More…]

• The historic Budget which was brought down by the Treasurer (Mr Crean) represents the foundations for a transformed Australian society in which the person matters, and reflects the mandate given to the Government at the last election. [More…]

• We have now got the answer to the question asked repeatedly during the election campaign; ‘Where is the money coming from?’ [More…]

• But of course the Government could not wait for a just, equitable and efficient reform of the tax system, lt needs money urgently so it can at least make a pretence of meeting its election promises. [More…]

• Do honourable members remember how enthusiastic the Labor Party was to save Lake Pedder before the election? [More…]

• It got off to a superficially impressive start when the 2-man Government implemented a number of election promises by executive decision. [More…]

• In the next election this whole ramshackle regime will surely be swept aside and this country set back on a straight course for its great destiny. [More…]

• I ask honourable members opposite whether they will reject a redistribution in Western Australia where 10 seats must be created before the next election is held, knowing full well that if a Federal election is held only 9 seats are contested in that State, it can be challenged constitutionally. [More…]

• Does he really believe that at the next election Diamond Valley should have 95,000 voters while Mallee, which sent to this Parliament the man who sits among the incompetent members of the Country Party should have 45,000 or 50,000 electors. [More…]

• Irrespective of what the Minister for Services and Property has said this evening, somewhere along the line between now and 1976, irrespective of the causes, there will be a general election. [More…]

• Prior to the 1970 State election both major political parties promised to establish a fourth university in a country area. [More…]

• I want to spend a few moments trying to probe the reasons behind the Government’s betrayal of promises given before the last election to a number of people about education and assistance to schools. [More…]

• Probably the most serious aspect of this cruel decision is that the Government has broken yet another election promise by agreeing to the phasing out of per capita grants to category A schools. [More…]

• We have heard from the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) quotations detailing the Prime Minister’s statements before the election and, of course, the results after the election. [More…]

• He has virtually admitted as much by his own statements before the election and the actions that he has been forced to take since the election. [More…]

• However, because of the Labor Party’s callous breach of election promises made by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) and the Prime- Minister (Mr Whitlam)- [More…]

• We assumed that the Labor Party undertook to honour its election promise that it would continue the real value of grants to every independent school at the rate of 20 per cent of the cost of educating children in the state system and then, if over and above that, the question of needs were to be looked at, it could be looked at in an objective fashion and considered according to its merits. [More…]

• It is to be hoped that when the Minister for Education takes this matter to the Caucus he will be able to persuade the Caucus to honour his election promise so that every child can receive the grants which they were assured by the Minister and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), in the month leading up to the last Federal election, would be available to them. [More…]

• If the Government wins the next election it can go on with its Bill for the next S years. [More…]

• But it is quite plainly impertinent on the part of the Government to attempt to bind for S years its successors when it does not know its own fate in an election. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) was very vocal on these issues before the last election. [More…]

• Then he reneged after the election and announced that the whole matter of telephone charges, postal charges and the operation and financing of the Post Office would be inquired into by a royal commission. [More…]

• I remind honourable members that after very full second reading and Committee debates the Bill was passed without amendment by this House which, because of its recent election, so clearly represented the will of the people. [More…]

• The plan that the Commission will help us outline was a key proposal in the policy speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) at the last election - the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• The whinging, whining prophet of doom attitude that he has taken surely indicates the frustration of the Country Party when it realised that it was led by the nose into opposition by the failure of its senior partner in coalition, not only in the months preceding the election but also in a period of some years preceding it. [More…]

• In his speech last Tuesday evening, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) endeavoured to suggest that one of the points on which he was taking the Government to task was its failure to implement election promises. [More…]

• What hypocrisy for the Leader of the Opposition to suggest, after this Government has been in office for only 9 months, that there would not be some election promises that as yet remain to be implemented. [More…]

• Let me remind honourable members opposite that, for 23 years, their Government continually made promises at election after election and many of them will recall, certainly if they are honest in their recollections, that those promises for the most part failed, and failed miserably. [More…]

• I can think of at least 2 pre-election promises that have not been honoured. [More…]

• The Minister for Education said that no school would receive less than it was receiving before the election, but all honourable members are aware that these grants have been chopped off to many schools. [More…]

• For the benefit of honourable members of the Country Party I now quote from the statistical returns showing the voting within each sub-division in the general election for the House of Representatives 1972 which were issued under the authority of myself and Mr Ley, the Chief Electoral Officer for the Commonwealth. [More…]

• In my opinion, in the present conditions we will be lucky if the deficit for 1973- 74 as a whole can be kept to $400m or $500m, unless there is swingeing taxation and a severe credit squeeze immediately after the Senate election. [More…]

• If, as seems probable, the Labor Government is window dressing in preparation for a Senate election next year - and possibly a House of Representatives election too - it will, after the elections, introduce a real horror Budget to make up the deficiencies by taxes. [More…]

• These statements were given considerable publicity during the election campaign. [More…]

• I add the shabby trick played on home builders by excess spending on housing in the public sector and its stated intention to intro- duce early in the new year an interest rebate scheme which must increase demand, drive up prices and affect the interests of the young married couples, particularly in the outer metropolitan areas of Sydney and Melbourne, that is, in the electorates which voted strongly for the Labor Party in the last election. [More…]

• Despite the election undertaking of Mr Beazley that all children whether at state or private schools would be equally the concern of the Labor Government, Labor, without a whimper from the Minister for Education, has blindly followed the Karmel recommendation of discrimination against the independent schools in certain classifications. [More…]

• I think it was rather amazing to hear the speech that was just delivered by the former Prime Minister particularly when we consider the 1971 Budget - a Budget that created massive unemployment in Australia - and the 1972 Budget which was brought down to try to win an election. [More…]

• Following that he was able to fool the Australian people, win the election and we then saw the greatest bout of inflation that Australia has ever seen. [More…]

• Following the winning the election on 2 December the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) set up the Interim Schools Commission under Professor Karmel, a well respected and renowned South Australian educationist, and of course he has brought down his report. [More…]

• This action is in line with the electoral primise given by the Prime Minister prior to the House of Representatives election in December last. [More…]

• Let us not forget that that scheme was introduced initially purely and simply as an election gimmick in the early 1960s. [More…]

• All the matters I have mentioned have been part of the Labor Party’s election promises; they are promises that have been kept. [More…]

• Last year, 1972-73, the then Government was so panic stricken about such a massive pool of unemployment with an election 3 months off that it injected an enormous amount of money into the economy at the time of the last Budget. [More…]

• As I recall it, the Leader of the House tonight in his response related his statistics only to the 1972 general election and then quoted figures- [More…]

• In the 1966 general election 18 of the 21 seats won by the Country Party, including the electorate of New England- [More…]

• I have referred to the electorate of New England which has been inaccurately portrayed in respect of every election other than the 1972 election. [More…]

• With respect to the electorate of New England and 18 of the Country Party seats won in the 1966 elections the Leader of the House was inaccurate. [More…]

• In respect of the 1969 elections and in relation to the electorate of New England and 14 of the seats won by the Country Party the figures given were not accurate. [More…]

• Only at the 1972 elections were the figures accurate in respect of the electorate of New England, but they were not accurate in respect of eleven of the twenty seats won by the Country Party. [More…]

• The first positive step in our assurance to the people that our election promise to abolish the means test in the life of this Parliament has been taken. [More…]

• In my explanation tonight I said that the honourable member for Cowper got 48.49 per cent of the primary votes of the electors of Cowper who were enrolled at the last election. [More…]

• Party in each of the last 3 general elections - without going back any further - have been elected with more than 50 per cent of the vote after the distribution of preferences, whether one takes it as formal votes or as primary votes. [More…]

• But it concerns me that the Leader of the House, I believe, has thrown discredit on the Government because something like 50 per cent of the members of the Australian Labor Party in the last election received, as I understand it, something less than 50 per cent of the primary votes cast. [More…]

• There is a convention in Britain that before a general election members of the Opposition may meet with senior officials and discuss such matters as the structure and working of departments and the problems of personnel and administration. [More…]

• However, in the interests of good government I intend that as long as I am Prime Minister the opportunity for such discussions will be made available to the Opposition in the periods before general elections. [More…]

• By the reintroduction of the Bill, the Government demonstrates its determination to adhere to its policies, as announced before the last election, and to which the Australian people gave their stamp of approval on 2 December last. [More…]

• After the election last year there was a general air of expectation in the country. [More…]

• The claim that was made before the election that there would be fewer industrial stoppages under a Labor Government has been proved by events to have been completely unfounded. [More…]

• Of course, this will be a tremendous slug for the middle income group - the people to whom before the election the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) was so concerned about giving tax relief. [More…]

• Most of the educational expenditure is for programs to which the former Liberal Government had been committed before the election period. [More…]

• If I have misled anybody I correct it by saying that it is in an area which is greatly influenced by the Parramatta byelection. [More…]

• I know that the people in the Parramatta electorate will express their opinion on them on election day. [More…]

• The fourth aspect I would highlight is the deception, almost dishonesty, which is now apparent in respect of some of the election bait which was cast out on 2 December last. [More…]

• I remember the election promise of the Australian Labor Party that there would be no reduction in the aid to independent schools. [More…]

• I have always opened my election campaigns on the subject of defence. [More…]

• I think there has been quite a bit of dishonesty in regard to the election promises. [More…]

• It begins the long term restructuring that was so clearly necessary to the majority of voters in the last election. [More…]

• The Government will of course delay facing up to the inevitable day of reckoning as long as it can - certainly, I believe, until after the Senate election - but Australians should realise that bruised though they are by this Budget, the worst is yet to come. [More…]

• In education, Labor has dishonoured preelection and election promises. [More…]

• But with sleight of hand, after no indication of this action in the course of the election campaign, the Labor Party is to end the valuable homes savings grants scheme, which has been of great assistance to young married couples in helping to provide a deposit on the purchase of a home. [More…]

• We heard a lot about cities during the election campaign, but the proposals in the Budget were not a very inspiring first effort to tackle some of the real problems of urban life. [More…]

• In his policy speech prior to the last general election the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) said: [More…]

• The Labor Government’s election promises on taxation were no more than a classic illustration of the 3-card trick, and more tricks are yet to come. [More…]

• The public will recognise that these charges are another form of income tax, the imposition of which will amount to a breach of Labor’s election promise not to increase rates on income tax. [More…]

• Labor will increase the tax take by fostering and fanning inflation and by retaining the present rate structure in breach of its election promise to retard the increase in tax payable by middle and lower income earners. [More…]

• I would hope that this Labor Government would give serious consideration to the proposition that, at the first opportunity when a national election is held, the people of Australia be asked by referendum to alter the Australian Constitution to enable legislation of this nature to be given effect. [More…]

• In the forefront of Labor’s election campaign last December, a better deal in education was a major plank of our election platform, and I am certain that this issue was a major factor in the Australian people electing the Whitlam Labor Government. [More…]

• Now 8 months after the election, the Labor Government in its first Budget to this Parliament, has earmarked a total of $843m to be spent on education during the 1973-74 year, or almost double the amount provided in the previous Liberal-Country Party coalition [More…]

• Previous Liberal-Country Party governments have deliberately used this important section of our youths’ education for political advantage, and I refer to the various legislative Acts of science laboratories, school libraries, and sectional handouts, all announced just prior to election days for the past 23 years. [More…]

• Election promises, such as the promise of $500m at low interest to assist the rural areas which was made just before 2 December - not so very long ago - have been quickly forgotten and replaced with this punitive attitude. [More…]

• Not all the election pledges are fulfilled in this first Budget. [More…]

• I reject entirely paragraph 8 of the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) which states that the Budget fails to honour election promises. [More…]

• Of course there are still election promises unfulfilled. [More…]

• Was this promise just a political gimmick which can be safely forgotten now that the election is over? [More…]

• The 2 judges who retired in 1950 after the election had gone on long leave before the election. [More…]

• it fails to honour election promises’. [More…]

• I have not, of course, given an exhaustive list of these less spectacular commitments but it does illustrate the extent to which this Government is implementing its election pledges. [More…]

• Of course, it is the public’s fault that at the last election it did not realise the full extent of what the Labor Party would do. [More…]

• He said: He rejected entirely paragraph 8 of the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) which states that the Budget fails to honour election promises. [More…]

• They brought out 140 promises before the last election and were elected by a small majority and then honourable members opposite say that they have a mandate to do everything that was contained in their policy speech. [More…]

• We were told before the election: ‘All you have to do is put the Labor Party in government. [More…]

• A couple of days ago the honourable members for Calare (Mr England) referred to the initiatives of the Government but he had to preface this by referring to the approaching Parramatta by-election. [More…]

• Since Robert Menzies won the 1949 election on. [More…]

• The old warlords - my friend from North Sydney would come into that category - who got us involved in the monstrosity that was Vietnam, still seem convinced that we are about to be attacked by that wonderful enemy they always managed to produce near an election. [More…]

• During this time the standard of personal living and affluence of the people of this nation raced ahead of that in most other nations and I could not but feel amazed that this Government, after so many years and so many election promises and after having set itself up as champion of the small man, the wage earner and the small business man, could introduce a Budget so devoid of any policy to deal with the crippling rate of inflation. [More…]

• During the general election campaign all political parties laid great emphasis upon the policies of financial support to local government authorities and to a determination of a successful balanced development program financed with support from the Federal Government. [More…]

• They must know if this Labor Government is going to honour its election promise. [More…]

• The election campaign saw a wooing of rural electors by the Australian Labor Party with policies attractive to man/ producers who had forgotten past unjust treatment by Labor governments. [More…]

• This Government is condemned by its double standards - one standard used by Australian Labor Party candidates with glowing promises and gimmicks at election time and the real one that uses the rural people as scapegoats for unprecedented Government spending. [More…]

• Do members of the Opposition not realise that they partly lost the last election because they failed to spend extra money on education on a needs basis to close the gap between the poor and the rich schools? [More…]

• When the effect of that policy starts to show up in increases in mortgage repayments, when the bond rate goes up to 8i per cent and when the lending rates of institutions such as building societies and insurance companies operating in this field go up to 10 per cent or more, the man in the street and in particular those people who were led by election promises to expect not higher mortgage repayments on their houses but an effective reduction as the interest component in that was to be made tax deductible, will rise up in anger at the actions of this Government in seeking not to attack inflation in this Budget but in this way to throw the whole weight of attacking it onto monetary policy. [More…]

• But when the election statements of the Prime Minister are remembered - when he said often enough that the Australian Labor Party’s spending programs would be financed out of Government revenue without any increase in taxation - and when one sees now in the Treasurer’s Budget Speech the statement that it is necessary that the increase in outlays budgeted for be more than covered by increased receipts; when it is realised that the runaway wage increases inevitably move wage and salary earners into higher progressive tax brackets with a corresponding amount of income tax paid into the Treasury; and when the swelling effect this has on Government revenue is observed, there is again an inescapable conclusion that this Government actively sponsored in the Public Service, in the national wage case and in its dealings with unions, an inflation of wage and salary earnings in Australia and that the sponsorship was for the purpose of providing the increased receipts necessary for the Treasury to receive in order to cover the massive increases proposed in the Budget spending. [More…]

• Therefore, the Government had to take anti-inflationary action outside the Budget but, and this point cannot be over-emphasised to the people of Australia, none of the action taken by this Government either last weekend or in the months before can return Australia to the pre-election rate of inflation, diminishing as it demonstrably was at that time. [More…]

• What was the picture 9 months ago, just before the election? [More…]

• If the Opposition points out that all our election promises have not been carried out, I remind it that the Government has at least 2 more years in office. [More…]

• He mentioned direct taxation and said that the Government had not broken any promises made prior to the last election not to increase direct taxation. [More…]

• Direct taxation has been imposed upon pensioners in direct contravention of the promises of the Labor Party before the last election. [More…]

• Probably my first memory of a political crisis occurring was in 1939, when the then AttorneyGeneral in the Lyons Government, R. G. Menzies, resigned from Cabinet because he claimed that the Government had not honoured its election promise to bring in a national superannuation scheme. [More…]

• Obviously the Government decided against using the Budget to fight inflation, at least until after the Senate election early next year. [More…]

• The new honour able member for Lilley (Mr Doyle) gained his seat by 35 votes at the last election. [More…]

• That quotation was taken from the policy speech of the Honourable R. G. Menzies in opening the Liberal-Country Party election campaign in 1949. [More…]

• The Government is considering, in accordance with its policy announced at the last election and in accordance with its attitudes expressed by me and many others for many years past, selective interest rates in favour of mortgagors if bank interest rates go up. [More…]

• If that is an indication of the interest of the new Government in the people of Brisbane we can look forward to the return of the Federal seat of Lilley to the Liberal Party following the next election. [More…]

• He was accused of wishing to attach his personal principles to others: In this Parliament we accept a responsibility on election to make laws governing community standards. [More…]

• A poll was conducted in California at about the time of the last United States presidential election. [More…]

• The Labor Party matched this pledge in its election promises. [More…]

• I agree with the abolition of the means test and I have expressed this point of view in election campaigns for this House since 1966. [More…]

• The Minister conveniently referred back to June 1972 and tried to present a picture that would suggest to the casual reader of this table that Labor had done so much since it came to power, that immediately after the election there was an increase of some 17.8 per cent for the single pensioner, and that after the present Budget increase it would be 26 per cent. [More…]

• If we relate the increase of S3 since the last election back to the S20 at which the pension stood prior to the unfortunate and tragic defeat of the previous Government, we will see that the increase has been only 15 per cent. [More…]

• In Labor’s policy speech at the last election the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) said: [More…]

• Let me warn honourable members opposite that unless this new Government does more to help those persons on fixed incomes it will not just lose the next election but honourable members opposite will be lucky if any of them remain. [More…]

• 1 am quite confident that if the Government does not do something constructive about inflation it will be out at the next election, and the people who already recognise that they were given a fair go under LiberalCountry Party governments will decide to return those Parties to government. [More…]

• When has any government ever made increases retrospective to election day? [More…]

• There are so many things: The Australian assistance program; the special provision for homeless men; the inauguration of a program of national superannuation; the setting up of the inquiry on national superannuation, the report of which we hope by the time of the next election we will be able to present at long last to the Australian people; and a national compensation scheme inquiry. [More…]

• This policy was announced jointly before and during the last election campaign. [More…]

• In the first place the Bill confirms the Government’s intention to honour its election commitment to increase the standard rate pension twice a year by at least $1.50 a week on each occasion until a pension level equal to 25 per cent of the average weekly male earnings is achieved. [More…]

• 1 have in my hand, to illustrate that it is no dis covery at all, a paper presented to the very first meeting of the Health and Social Welfare Committee of the Labor Caucus held after the last election. [More…]

• Honourable members on this side of the House have seen the double means test converted into a merged means test, the disincentive features of the merged means test abolished by the introduction of the tapered means test and then a promise in our election policy speech to abolish totally the means test if we had been returned to power. [More…]

• 50 a week increase that took place in autumn, when pensioners expected an increase immediately following the election and another in the autumn - only the autumn increase occurred - represented an increase on an annual rate of only 16.2 per cent on the existing rate of pension. [More…]

• It is just a myth which was sold prior to the last election. [More…]

• In the 1969 election the previous Government sold hard to the Australian public that a situation was about to be introduced of a common fee whereby patients were led to believe that for the most expensive services they would be charged no more than $5. [More…]

• Everybody knows from reading the Australian Labor Party’s platform and from hearing the present Government’s policy before the last election what the Government aims to do about extending the operations, charter and scope of the AIDC. [More…]

• It is a matter of some interest to refer to the Prime Minister’s election policy speech on 13 November in which he said quite explicitly and categorically: [More…]

• This is in spite of the promise made by the Australian Labor Party before the last election. [More…]

• The result was, as I mentioned earlier, unemployment greater than 130,000 at December last year when the election was being fought. [More…]

• Of course, what happened was that with the approach of the election in late 1972 the then Government was jolted into panic, and this is where we get the seeds of the present problem. [More…]

• Within a month of the election of the Labor Government, there was an uneasiness in the minds of the community. [More…]

• Government supporters hid this pretty well during the election campaign, but the obsession is all too clear for everyone to see now. [More…]

• Before the last election the word was around: ‘We will understand the trade unions. [More…]

• In his pre-election speech, the Prime Minister promised that the totally and permanently incapacitated pension would equal the minimum wage. [More…]

• But, once again, the increased rates announced are not in keeping with the promises made by the Prime Minister before the election. [More…]

• Surely, many people, already confronted with a growing list of broken promises, have completely lost faith in the credibility of the Prime Minister and the undertakings he gave in bis Utopia-like preelection speech. [More…]

• I am arguing that Labor has not stuck to its promises solemnly and sincerely given by the present Prime Minister when he broadcast his election speech. [More…]

• He referred to Labor’s election promise to bring the totally and permanently incapacitated pension up to the level of the minimum wage. [More…]

• They will realise the full impact of this and vote accordingly the next time the election comes around. [More…]

• That the people of Australia were misled during the last election campaign and the period preceding it oan be easily demonstrated by this piece of legislation. [More…]

• At least that is the case on rare occasions the local branch holds meetings in the Gippsland electorate, which occurs about 3 weeks before an election campaign. [More…]

• At the time of an election the odd senator might attend a meeting. [More…]

• Before the election there was a certain amount of rivalry between him and the Minister for Northern Development as to who would be the principal spokesman for primary industries. [More…]

• The honourable member for Lilley (Mr Doyle) won his seat by only 35 votes at the last election. [More…]

• It is unfortunate that the honourable member for Lilley, who does not have any personality problems, will be sacrificed on the altar of progress at the next election. [More…]

• Comments have been made on the morale damage since this Government took office not merely by Mr Denis Warner but also by other correspondents and more particularly yesterday by the man the Minister for Defence had ghosting most of his speeches last year and during the 1969 election campaign. [More…]

• Honourable members will recall that the Army intelligence officer, Mr Young, was a candidate for the seat of Lowe in the 1969 general election. [More…]

• The second reason why Standing Orders should be suspended is that Major Peter Young, the pre-election spokesman on defence for the Australian Labor Party, has come out and condemned the Government, of which he would have been a member had he been elected, and the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) for the way in which they are administering the defence portfolio. [More…]

• When we have those 3 grounds for the suspension of Standing Orders - the defence statement that has not been debated; Major Peter Young, the principal spokesman for the Australian Labor Party prior to the election coming out and condemning the Labor Party and the Government for their inability and their failure in the defence field; and, finally, the Minister for Defence offering to debate the issue - it is absolutely imperative that there be an adequate opportunity for us to demonstrate in this Parliament how the morale of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force has been affected. [More…]

• In connection with the functions of the Commission, honourable members will recall that the need for social planning at the regional level was recognised in a major election proposal, the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• Although the Opposition supports the Bill we are obliged to emphasise that this legislation represents yet a further instance of alterations to the tax structure in spite of assurances prior to the general election that no rates of taxation would be altered. [More…]

• This is the brochure distributed by the ALP before the last election. [More…]

• Apparently they do not squirm; they do not have any conscience at all when it comes to what they wrote in their policy speech before the last election. [More…]

• I say this because measures such as the petroleum subsidy scheme were introduced usually on the eve of an election with a view to gaining some electoral support for the then government parties. [More…]

• In 1958 he unsuccessfully contested the ward of Mount Gravatt at the Brisbane City Council elections of that year as a member of the Communist Party. [More…]

• But its sails will be trimmed by the Parramatta by-election on Saturday. [More…]

• This is a very distressing situation and I am indebted to my colleague the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Cooke) for reinforcing my statements to this House and pointing out that because of this strike, inspired by a member of the Communist Party who contested an election under the banner of that Party and who, when his boss left, stirred up trouble, many innocent children and many people who unfortunately have been afflicted with mental problems were denied their rightful place and hospital care and attention. [More…]

• He had been a member of this House since the 1966 elections. [More…]

• That was the extent of his interest in Eagle Farm airport during the whole of the 6 years he spent sitting on the back benches in support of a government that did nothing until just before the last election. [More…]

• Let me explain what I have done since my election to this House. [More…]

• When I came here the day after my election to this Parliament was confirmed, I approached the Minister for Civil Aviation and asked him what he was going to do about modernising Brisbane airport and proceeding with the work. [More…]

• Some of them involve considerable work before the election - or more probably during the actual campaign, when the Minister is otherwise engaged and his Private Office has time at its disposal. [More…]

• The problem with honourable members opposite is that they want to talk on everything and, as I mentioned before, there are very few of them who have yet read the last election results. [More…]

• It is true, I suppose, that a number of former Labor members who lost their seats at the last election or who retired could be found nice cushy jobs running around as members of Cameron’s corps. [More…]

• (1) A financial member of an organization may request the returning officer in respect of an election for an office of the organization or a branch of the organization or in respect of a ballot taken for the purpose of submitting a matter to a vote of the members of an organization or a branch of the organization to supply the member with information for the purpose of determining whether there has been an irregularity in or in connexion with the election or ballot. [More…]

• Notwithstanding the rules of an organization, if two or more candidates are nominated for an election in respect of an office of an organization or branch of an organization and one of those candidates dies before the close of the ballot, the election shall be discontinued and a new election shall be held.’. [More…]

• also seeking to allow amalgamations to take place by election under union rules. [More…]

• Putting aside the provisions of the earlier Bill relating to penalties, the protection of unions and members from civil action, which are to come forward again in a separate Bill, so we are told - I imagine that will come forward after the Senate election - there is no question that the rules are being changed in this Bill to make the lot of the militant unionist easier. [More…]

• I do not really expect to see it before the Senate election. [More…]

• The only hope I have - it is a poor hope - for a solution is to recall the words of Nye Bevan, the left wing socialist leader in Britain who was asked one day by a questioner why it was with such a large proportion of the British electorate being unionists, the Labour Party did not win every election. [More…]

• He said “ sourly that at each election the British unionist votes in condemnation of his own anarchy. [More…]

• Accordingly, the home is to be closed down because of an adverse Fire Brigade report and because the proprietor of the home had decided, well before the election to office of the present Government, to close down the home following that report. [More…]

• Are these organisers and enrollers eligible to bc candidates for this election to the consultative committee? [More…]

• What is happening with regard to the election which Aborigines are supposed to be holding to put Aboriginal members on to that Council? [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…]

• Fifteen years ago the Constitutional Review Committee, upon which all parties were represented, recommended that there should be an election for half the senators every time there was a general election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• Bringing elections for Territory senators into line with House of Representatives elections accords with the recommendation of that Committee. [More…]

• It is proposed that the first election of the Territory senators will take place at the next Senate elections or at the next general election of members of the House of Representatives if such takes place sooner than the next Senate elections. [More…]

• Especially I wish to acknowledge the work of the honourable member for Henty for his able chairmanship and for his continuing work as a member of the present Committee; of Dr Solomon, former member for Denison, who lost his seat at the last election, and of the honourable member for Northern Territory (Mr Calder). [More…]

• Unfortunately, an appalling confidence trick was played upon the people of New South Wales by the Premier of that State, Sir Robert Askin, just prior to the last State election. [More…]

• We tried to convince the previous sitting Liberal member in the area, who was defeated at that election, that there was an urgent need for the Liberal Party to accept this Act. [More…]

• Just prior to the election, in his policy speech Sir Robert Askin said: ‘Yes, we will accept it’. [More…]

• After the election we broached the subject of his acceptance of the Act and he said: ‘Yes, we have accepted it but we are not going to give any money’. [More…]

• The Government has inherited these problems from the rather reckless behaviour of the last Government in a desperate and panicstricken bid to try to buy back favour as the election date closed in on it. [More…]

• I would have thought that if the Government and the Prime Minister had learned one thing - and the Leader of the House is constantly preaching the lessons that ought to be learned - it was the lesson of the Parramatta byelection result. [More…]

• That massive swing against the Government, not attributable to the simple fact of a by-election, was a sharp rebuff to Government and to a Prime Minister with no clear concept as to how to handle Australia’s inflationary problems. [More…]

• They have not yet learned the lesson of the result of the last Victorian State election. [More…]

• And there are more lessons to come - this will be demonstrated in State elections to be held in this country in the near future. [More…]

• The by-election figures indicate without doubt that all members on the Government benches of this House stand indicted for the fragmented, ad hoc, piecemeal approach which they have brought to the problem of fighting inflation in this country. [More…]

• Many believe the Labor Government wants a permanent high rate of inflation to fill the coffers of the Treasury which would enable it to meet some of the unrealistic election promises which won it power and which now seem meaningless. [More…]

• They suspected this before the election and it has been confirmed since. [More…]

• As soon as the by-election was over the Leader of the Opposition came before this Parliament and said: ‘It is only a temporary problem. [More…]

• The prospect of an election is a great steadying influence. [More…]

• We are reminded of a meeting that the Prime Minister had with the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union last year before the election. [More…]

• From the minutes of the meeting which became available to other people it was plain that the Prime Minister had given policy commitments to the AMWU and, as a result, who but Mr Carmichael should move a motion that $25,000 should be paid into Labor Party funds before the last election. [More…]

• But I do not think that in a House of 125 members, with the closeness of the contest at election time and the narrow margins by which governments are often elected, a solution of that type - the giving away of one seat - is one which any political party in this place will easily accept. [More…]

• Tribute has been paid already to the wives of members, who on their husband’s election suddenly find they have to become a second or shadow member in the electorate and are expected to know all and be part of it all. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite should read the election results of last year. [More…]

• Looking at the Minister for Labour reminds me of an occasion last session when a report was released of what had happened in Caucus about the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill in respect of the election of union officials. [More…]

• By the time of the Federal election in December 1972 the losses for the 1972 year had not been finalised. [More…]

• This is an indirect form of placing an added burden on young families which the Government indicated it would assist when seeking election prior to 2 December 1972. [More…]

• So did other people and, in particular, a very talented and able group of Victorian parliamentarians who formulated a proposal in a document entitled Labor’s Blueprint for the Latrobe Valley’ which was put out just before the last federal election. [More…]

• The Minister refused to detail to this House that another participator in the publication was a defeated Labor candidate at the State election in Victoria. [More…]

• Why does he not in all truthfulness detail to this House the respect in which those people are held in their own State when it comes to election time? [More…]

• As I have indicated, this is a direct pinch from the Victorian Labor Party’s election speech. [More…]

• With the election of 3 Labor senators the balance of power in the Senate would be completely disturbed and would fall more favourably into the hands of the Government. [More…]

• But I will bet that the Leader of the House had some figures prepared before he introduced this Bill which would suggest that the Government might do rather better than 50-50 at a Senate election from the Territories. [More…]

• No one would seriously challenge the right of the honourable member for the Northern Territory to be here, except his opponent at the next election, and he would be only trying to replace him. [More…]

• When the first Bill was debated on 30 May I moved an amendment which virtually sought to bring the date of the election for the proposed senators from the Northern Territory into line with the Senate election in the States. [More…]

• There is no reason why their election should not take place at the same time and under the same terms as the election for the senators from the States. [More…]

• With 18-year-olds being granted the vote, the number of constituents in the electorate at the moment eligible to be on the roll if an election were to be held tomorrow would be between 90,000 and 95,000- nearly 100,000. [More…]

• Whether the Labor Party wins, loses or draws in an election in those Territories does not matter. [More…]

• The last election for the House of Representatives for the electorate of the Northern Territory returned Country Party support, not Labor Party support. [More…]

• At the time of the election this offer had not been debated either in the Northern Territory Legislative Council or by the Northen Territory people themselves. [More…]

• It offered an advancement towards statehood, which is something that the present Minister for Northern Development (Dr Patterson) promised the Northern Territory prior to the last election. [More…]

• Yet after the election the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and, indeed, the Minister for the Northern Territory indicated that the Northern Territory would not get statehood. [More…]

• Clause 6 of the Senate (Representation of Territories) Bill provides that ‘the term of service of a senator for a Territory commences on the day of his election and expires at the close of the day next preceding the polling day for the general election of members of the House of Representatives next following his election’. [More…]

• The only argument that the Minister for Services and Property has given us is that it is the policy of the Government that the time of election for senators and members of the ‘House of Representatives should be brought together. [More…]

• It was recommended by the Committee that the Constitution should be amended to provide that there should be an election for half the senators every time there is an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• The Committee believed that this would cut down the number of elections and so minimise the distraction of elections and the difference between the 2 Houses. [More…]

• The decision to bring the elections of Territory senators into line with those of the House of Representatives is in accordance with the Constitutional Review Committee’s findings. [More…]

• Both senators will be elected every time there is a general election of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• So for the Territories there will be elections for both Houses of Parliament at the same time. [More…]

• The term of service of a senator for a Territory commences on the day of his election and expires at the close of the day next preceding the polling day for the general election of members of the House of Representatives next following his election. [More…]

• I have visited schools in my electorate since my election in December. [More…]

• It is a sure-fire vote winner for the Askin Government to pull a major industrial upheaval correctly timed for the coming State election based on these emotional issues. [More…]

• One might perhaps wonder whether this is not tied up with the internecine bitter struggle which is going on on the other side of the House about who is to be the Leader of the Opposition before the next election? [More…]

• Of course that was just before an election, and it was a promise; I suppose that that makes some difference to the matter. [More…]

• I leave it to the people at large to judge whether the Government has kept within cooee of the spirit of its election promise not to increase taxes - under the breath, of course, ‘tax rates’ - in the formal sense. [More…]

• If we accept the fact that the last Budget introduced by the Liberals was an election Budget designed to eradicate a pool of unemployment of 130,000 persons and also to save their sagging electoral stocks, and if we realise also that the excess money which was proposed for expenditure in that Budget finally trickled into our economy in March and April of this year causing an inflation level of 13 per cent, we understand that we cannot afford to put very much more money into the economy directly in the succeeding Budget. [More…]

• Do honourable members remember how enthusiastic the Labor Party was to save Lake Pedder before the election? [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in the course of his election campaign said that he would not increase taxation. [More…]

• If the Government does the opposite, as has been suggested, and removes the averaging system entirely, all I can say to the Treasurer is that he should keep his eyes and ears open because otherwise at the next election he will certainly get the result that may be expected from this side of the chamber but not expected by honourable members on the other side. [More…]

• Before the election the present Treasurer espoused the concept of government planning and the establishment of guidelines for economic development. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Chairman, you might convey the message that the people of Australia are just waiting for an election, for the opportunity to show the Prime Minister, his 27 Ministers and the rest of the Australian Labor Party what the people think of their first 305 days in office. [More…]

• That was a demonstration of meanness which I do not think the Prime Minister of that period would find particularly encouraging or creditable if he wished to make pensions and his performance in particular an issue in any election campaign. [More…]

• Contracts that were entered into prior to the recent election will be fully honoured - the interested parties have been told that - despite the fact that in some cases there was what might be termed a death bed repentence. [More…]

• I certainly hope that the election of a Labor government to office will mean that the people of these areas will not be affected in the way that some people have been affected in the past. [More…]

• As I mentioned earlier, a special pamphlet was issued during the campaign for the last election which stated: ‘Why will women vote Labor in Lilley?’ [More…]

• To illustrate this point I quote figures of ships that were on order at the time of the election on 2 December 1972, and of ships on order at present. [More…]

• Vessels for which tenders had closed but for which no orders had been placed numbered 7 at election date but there are now 33. [More…]

• During the election campaign the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) made one of his promises that he would electrify the northern rail corridor of Brisbane. [More…]

• The honourable member probably heard during an election campaign a Labor man putting forward a proposal that Redcliffe should be linked to Brisbane and the penny suddenly has dropped as far as the honourable member for Petrie is concerned. [More…]

• I resigned from the board of Connellan Airways because I knew very well that his colleagues would consider my position on it to be some sort of political angle on which they could attack me when I first stood at a House of Representatives election - and they did. [More…]

• and (2) Following the Government’s election, consideration was given to implementation of the provision in the ALP Platform to establish an Office of Economic and Social Affairs and a Bureau of Industrial Statistics. [More…]

• It appears to me that Labor members who represent rural areas thought, in their enthusiasm after their election, no doubt in moments of dreams and journeys into fantasy land, that they would be pioneers in search of land to clear. [More…]

• There are widespread rumours and some fairly substantial reports that major international organisations are, because their profit taking is threatened by the present Australian Government, seeking to purchase an election in Australia to replace the present Government. [More…]

• The situation is that very substantial amounts of money are said to be available for persons who would be disadvantaged by any action they might take in the Parliament which would result in an election; that high official office is being offered to certain persons whose careers might be interrupted or damaged. [More…]

• If the Senate rejects Supply even members of Parliament stop getting paid, pensioners do not get paid, the Public Service will not be paid and there will be no funds to run an election. [More…]

• Very strong statements have been made that multinational corporations are trying to buy an election in Australia. [More…]

• If an election is bought in Australia on this occasion the parliamentary institution is totally dead. [More…]

• That will happen if there is an election in the near future and the Labor Party, as it most certainly will, goes out of power. [More…]

• It would be impossible to achieve the objective of one vote one value unless an election was held on the day on which the census was taken. [More…]

• I am willing to wager a bet now that the next Federal election will not be undertaken on new electoral boundaries. [More…]

• I forecast that the next election will be undertaken on the 20 per cent margin that now applies. [More…]

• But no matter when the next election is held it will be carried out on the old boundaries under the old system. [More…]

• It of course won the election and as a result of that it has now brought forward legislation for a permanent schools commission. [More…]

• Honourable members will not find it hard to recall how, prior to the 1969 election, the honourable member for Wannon promoted the idea of a nationwide survey on educational needs as a means of staving off the demands not only of teachers’ organisations and of parents’ organisations but also of State Ministers and others who make up the Australian Council for Education, for which he has suddenly developed so high an opinion, until after the Government of which he was a member could get over a critical pre-election period. [More…]

• How rapidly he and his leader moved to discredit the results of that survey as soon as the election was over. [More…]

• But the point is that in spite of all of the guarantees the Government made before the last election in regard to the future of independent schools it has now guaranteed only the future of one sector. [More…]

• We remember his pre-election prophecies about how this Commission would want to appoint every teacher to every school in Australia and all this sort of nonsense. [More…]

• That report lay on the table for 18 months prior to the last election and hardly a thing was done about it. [More…]

• We went to the election on 2 December and all those handicapped children in Australia, not only those in private schools but also those not able to get into any school at all, were deprived. [More…]

• In fact in New South Wales, at a time approaching the State election, the Minister for Education is busying himself going around announcing how many teachers he is going to recruit. [More…]

• As has been said earlier in this debate, the educational policy of the Australian Labor Party in its campaign before the last election was aimed squarely at the establishment of a Schools Commission. [More…]

• We do not intend to do what members of the Opposition were prophesying or trying to portray before the last election as what we would be apt to do, such as appointing teachers to one school, shifting them around, telling them what they would teach or anything of that sort. [More…]

• So all the nonsense about centralism and suggestions that we are not consulting others is the kind of idle propaganda - mischievous propaganda - that was put up at the last election. [More…]

• This Bill has been introduced by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in performance of an undertaking given by his leader, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), in his policy speech prior to the last election. [More…]

• During the election campaign the Government made promises that no aid being given to independent systems would be reduced. [More…]

• The day on which all of us were waiting for the results of the last election, 2 December 1972, was almost the finish of the last biennium of the McMahon Government. [More…]

• I might say to the honourable member for Eden-Monaro (Mr Whan), who I do not think will be the representative of that electorate after the next election, that at least I speak with genuine feeling. [More…]

• He has admitted, in answer to a question in this House, that he deliberately dishonoured an election undertaking to keep defence spending above 3.3 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]

• On the economic basis we find that there will be an even greater run down than the people were led to believe prior to the election. [More…]

• On 28 November 1973, 4 days before the election for the House of Representatives, the present Minister for Defence said: [More…]

• This is a clear breach of a clear election promise. [More…]

• Mine will be a speech delivered by a member of the Australian Labor Party in support of legislation that was approved by the Australian people at the time of the last election. [More…]

• In our election policy speech we said that we would expand the functions of the AIDC to enable it to join with Australian and foreign companies in the exploration, development and processing of Australian resources. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party at the time of the election said that it would expand AIDC in this way. [More…]

• This matter had the support of the Australian people in an election and it is impertinent of the Opposition to suggest that it will vote against both Bills. [More…]

• If AIDC is a useful vehicle for that purpose and is not cutting across private industry in any drastic fashion it ought to be supported by the Opposition, particularly as it was an election plank of the Labor Party at the last election. [More…]

• The people themselves have shown their feelings at the two most recent by-elections in New South Wales and Victoria. [More…]

• They should soon be given the chance to express it again at a Federal election. [More…]

• This happens at election time and I hope that that situation never changes. [More…]

• Promises were given before the election by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) who is seated at the table that this would not be done, and those promises were broken. [More…]

• I agree with my predecessor as Prime Minister - the right honourable member for Lowe - who, it will be remembered, urged during the election campaign last November that there should be a referendum to give the Australian Parliament power to legislate with respect to prices and also to legislate with respect to incomes. [More…]

• Will the Minister also include in the legislation a requirement for disclosure by the contributor rather than by the recipient, thus minimising the bureaucratic and cost impact of disclosure instead of terrorising, as the honourable gentleman wants to do, every electorate in Australia by having some sort of a commission inquiring into the source of campaign funds for each election. [More…]

• It would be very interesting to learn the source of the $lm which the Labor Party spent on the last election campaign. [More…]

• The policy upon which the Labor Party was elected at the last election included a plank on Aboriginal affairs and that plank remains. [More…]

• Leading spokesmen for the Labor Party gave election assurances that no school would be worse off under a Labor Government. [More…]

• Of course it will matter enormously when we get to the next election and when the explanations go out. [More…]

• This will become known and understood before any election campaign can possibly get under way from this point on. [More…]

• It is well known by anyone who is aware of electoral figures that any government in office loses support at by-elections. [More…]

• I would seriously ask the experts in psephology - the study of electoral affairs - as I have seriously asked members of the Opposition, to study those by-election results a little more. [More…]

• It is well known that some 5 per cent or 6 per cent fewer people vote in by-elections than in general elections. [More…]

• It so happens that at the Parramatta by-election 7 per cent or 8 per cent fewer people voted than normally. [More…]

• At the Greensborough by-election 6 per cent or 7 per cent fewer people voted than normally. [More…]

• The situation in a general election is totally different. [More…]

• In a general election the Prime Minister of the nation and the Leader of the Opposition - one only has to put them together- [More…]

• It amuses me to hear the honourable member or Kooyong says: ‘Let us have an election now’. [More…]

• Whether we have an election now is up to the Opposition. [More…]

• If it wants to have an election now, it is in its hands to have one. [More…]

• At the last election the Australian Labor Party proposed to the people an extension of the role of the Australian Industry Development Corporation, a corporation set up by a Liberal government, but, of course, started at the behest of Sir John McEwen. [More…]

• One has only to glance at the comments made at the election of the Chairman and Council of the Sydney Stock Exchange in recent days. [More…]

• We can perhaps understand his concern if we recollect the circumstances that existed just before the election. [More…]

• It knew what the public had expected after the election and it was prepared to act responsibly. [More…]

• It would interfere with the comfortable position of its supporters, the unions, which finance its election campaigns and which provide large sums. [More…]

• It was a plank in the Australian Labor Party’s plaform at the 1972 election. [More…]

• It comes to the Parliament with the support of the people of Australia on the basis that it was one of the planks of the Australian Labor Party at the last election. [More…]

• We would hope that if this process of gearing up did take place, in the next Budget there would be the signs of very large increases in the budgetary allocation to achieve some of the things which the Labor Government in its election promises led the people to believe would in fact be achieved. [More…]

• and (2) Neither the Platform of the Australian Labor Party nor the Election Policy Speech lists as policy the suggestion that all moneys collected as petrol taxes be used solely for road systems. [More…]

• The Australian people would welcome an election on 8 December along with the referendum proposals, and the Opposition parties would likewise welcome it. [More…]

• any future Australian government - the sort of government which might come into power if this motion were carried and, at the subsequent election, the government changed. [More…]

• At any election from now on the issue is whether the Australian Government is itself to fall under foreign control. [More…]

• I can fully understand his concern and his desperation when he sees divisions between his Party and between the trade unions; when he sees the ineptitude of his own Ministers in handling their portfolios; when he sees every single by-election either on a State level or a Federal level moving against the Labor Party: and when he reads the public opinion polls which show the Labor Party going down lower and lower. [More…]

• We believe that the Government deserves a resounding censure and that the people should be given an opportunity to express themselves at an election. [More…]

• As I mentioned, every by-election, State and Federal, has demonstrated how concerned the people are with the present Government. [More…]

• If there is one thing that has become very clear in the last week or so, it is that the Government is scared stiff of an election. [More…]

• In the field of defence the Government has deliberately dishonoured its pre-election commitment to maintain Australia’s defence expenditure above 3.5 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]

• The Labor Party’s expenditure commitment was so consistently emphasised in the pre-election period that defence was not a major issue at that election. [More…]

• Indeed, that now discredited election pamphlet ‘It’s Time’ stated this: [More…]

• He has said that he will honour contracts, but I will indicate in a few minutes 10 election promises which have been broken by the present Government. [More…]

• Is not an election promise a contract with the people of Australia? [More…]

• That is the Government’s attitude to low interest rates and to a pre-election promise of that kind. [More…]

• The result of the election of this Government, as we know, is that time lost as a result of industrial disputes has increased greatly and the amount of wages lost has almost doubled. [More…]

• They have been raped by this Government and by those people who, before the election, had done most to suggest that a Labor government would be concerned for the wellbeing of our rural communities. [More…]

• Whenever an election is held - whenever the Government is game to go to the polls - Bill Snedden, Leader of the Opposition, will see that the Government is put out of office and that the coalition parties are put back into office. [More…]

• I believe that it is in the reflection of the attitude of the Government to this motion that we perhaps see epitomised its general attitude towards anyone expressing concern at where it is leading this country and where it is distorting the patterns of government since its election 1 1 months ago. [More…]

• It is interesting that this motion comes before the House only a fortnight after the Prime Minister himself acknowledged some of the difficulties that he has, because he then saw the then Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Enderby) running into a position where there was no prospect at all of his te-election and the Prime Minister sought to move him. [More…]

• They have said that they will support him again if they have an election, provided he does not lose by too many votes. [More…]

• Labor would ‘romp in’ if a snap election were called now and if the rift between the Country and Liberal Parties continued, Mr Doug Anthony warned yesterday. [More…]

• Presumably the implication is that the Chinese decision to sign a 3-year wheat agreement was brought about only by the election of a Labor Government in December 1972. [More…]

• In regard to the most fundamental area mentioned by the Prime Minister before the election, we have seen the sacking of a Minister, namely the previous Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• Again honourable members opposite prophesied disaster when within hours of assuming control of the nation’s affairs we honoured our election promise and removed the scourge of conscription for national service. [More…]

• The ideological catchcries of the past - the images of gigantic hordes assailing our shores from the north, although employed with a blatant appeal to naked fear prior to the general election in December by all 3 conservative parties, and having been a successful tactic during their 23 years of government - did not succeed in persuading the Australian people. [More…]

• The most spectacular election campaign opening ever - that is what it was. [More…]

• It opposed it and made it very much an issue during the 1965 State election campaign, following which the Government was defeated. [More…]

• I think one should take note of the events in the years preceding the election of this Government. [More…]

• All one can do is look forward to an early election date when this gang opposite can be thrown out. [More…]

• The fact that the Karmel Committee is enshrined in a schools commission and in legislation with a major policy commitment by a one-Party Government which was elected at a Federal election does not cut any ice at all. [More…]

• I was interested also in the remarks of my colleague, the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson) who, I point out, won his seat from the Australian Labor Party despite the general swing against the then Government at the last election. [More…]

• If Government supporters see any merit in the situation where Caucus can reverse the policy of Cabinet or reverse the policy that its leaders put forward at election time, I suggest that next time they do not put those leaders in a position where a Minister looks a bloody liar. [More…]

• Do I have to tell the people in my electorate that nothing is certain while we have an election? [More…]

• It should remember that in 1966, when we were slaughtered at the election we did not give up. [More…]

• But if you take the reasons he states for an election and denial of supply and look at them consistently you see that he should be the last to raise such a question of machiavellian proportions. [More…]

• In other words, Sir Robert Askin treated the Opera House opening as his election campaign opening and put on as good a turn for his friends and supporters as Thommo’s puts on for its customers. [More…]

• It is significant that this function took place a day or two after the Premier of New South Wales announced that a State election would be held in some 4 weeks time. [More…]

• This illustrates the kind of election campaign and the kind of discussion that we are to have about the great issues that will affect New South Wales, the senior Australian State, in . [More…]

• I direct the attention of honourable members to the ‘Australian’ of 20 October which headlined an article relating to the New South Wales State election: ‘Government has no time to pass promised legislation’. [More…]

• This is what the New South Wales Government was going to do, belatedly, before the next State election. [More…]

• Since my election I have been active in the interests of the people I represent, seeking protection for those who may be affected as a result of a new airport being built and seeking information in respect of the planning and work to be carried out in building this new airport. [More…]

• Last December, Mr Whitlam and your Federal Member promised in an election pamphlet elimination of noise within 3 years. [More…]

• I questioned him on the claim that the people of Lilley were given a promise by me prior to the last election that noise nuisance would be overcome at the airport within 3 years after a Labor Government took office. [More…]

• As I have said previously in this Parliament, when the Liberal-Country Party government returns to power after the next election if it acts in the same manner as the present Government has acted towards the people of Brisbane in their desire for a new airport, I will be just as- vociferous and will attack and condemn it just as strongly. [More…]

• The day after the Vice President of the United States resigned the Premier of New South Wales announced that there would be an election in my great State. [More…]

• Optimism was so high that Government supporters even talked about what they would do as a government after the next election. [More…]

• They having now settled down to the realities of life and having learned the arduous responsibilities of government, we do not hear them any longer talking about what they will do as a future government; instead we see them retreating to their foxholes and sniping at the members of the Opposition with snide remarks about election funds being collected to get them out of office, as they say. [More…]

• I have yet to see any tangible evidence of any decisions by several Ministers who have been requested by responsible people in my electorate to carry out the lavish pre-election promises. [More…]

• I say in regard to his challenge to the Government to hold an election that it is quite pleasing to see that the Democratic Labor Party in its political wisdom is too astute to fall for the stunt of the hollow challenge of the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) to call for a double dissolution. [More…]

• Mr Whitlam’s election speeches, his professed sympathy for local governments’ financial difficulties, the direct access of regional groupings to the Grants Commission, and a voice on the Loan Council hold promise of some relief in the future. [More…]

• I want again to put on record the performance of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in June 1972 when he went to communist organisations in order to obtain money to finance his election campaign. [More…]

• This is what happens when multinational international communist controlled organisations pay the election expenses of this Government. [More…]

• When we have a look at these estimates, what do we find about such things as the $500m at 3 per cent over 40 years which was promised before the election? [More…]

• I wonder what sort of reception he will receive on the platforms in his electorate in the next election when he goes out among the primary producers. [More…]

• This implements the promises made by the Government at the last general election. [More…]

• I reiterate a question which I heard posed in the course of the last general election campaign. [More…]

• Ten months after the election of the Labor Government, one could pose the following question: ‘Today, after 10 months of Labor Government rule in Canberra, every primary producer is doing fine. [More…]

• I want to raise as a matter of public interest some questions about the very devious means being employed to attack this Government’s health insurance program - a program for which we were given a clear mandate at the last election. [More…]

• It is worth recalling to the House that in a sense the Prime Minister is Senator Gietzelt’s protege, because Senator Gietzelt ran his election campaigns for him and in fact - this happened a long time ago - master-minded and organised his pre-selection in Werriwa when Mr Lazzarini, the previous member died and the seat of Werriwa became vacant. [More…]

• It stands on the record, I think, that at that stage the Prime Minister took his preselection at the hands of what was, if not the Communist Party, something very near it - because in this interview Senator Gietzelt practically admits his close association with the left wing. [More…]

• He does not need an election to introduce emergency legislation if there is any need for it. [More…]

• The proposal that the Labor Party would, first, abolish fees on tertiary education and, secondly, provide a more generous living allowance based on a much more liberalised means test was a very important factor in the last election campaign for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• I do not want to give the present New South Wales Government any kudos at this time as there is to be an election on Saturday week. [More…]

• Let the Liberal and Country Party senators and the DLP senators go to the people at the next Senate election and tell them that they favour up to $100m of taxpayers moneys being donated to privileged individuals. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether the radio stations 2KY and 2HD, which are managed by the Australian Labor Party, have broadcast policy speeches and advertisements for any political party other than the Labor Party during the past New South Wales election campaign. [More…]

• It is a fact that the Government seeks to remedy all the injustices that have occurred in the past in respect of radio and television broadcasting at election times. [More…]

• What we seek to do under these proposals is to ensure that everybody seeking election to office in this country has equal opportunity on our radio and television waves. [More…]

• But between the time the election was actually announced and the writs were issued and when the election took place appointments were made and confirmed. [More…]

• This Government put its industrial proposals to the people and received a mandate at the last election. [More…]

• I now turn to the Constitution Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) Bill. [More…]

• In the national Parliament, in the 11-year period from December 1961 to December 1972, we have had 8 national elections. [More…]

• Only one of these elections - that in December 1961 - was an election for the Senate and the House of Representatives simultaneously. [More…]

• But I do fundamentally question the present out of phase state of our electoral process, requiring us to conduct in each 3-year period one House of Representatives election and one separate Senate election. [More…]

• The elections were put out of phase in 1963. [More…]

• This Bill honours an election commitment by the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• The 1958 and 1959 reports recommended that the terms of senators should ‘be changed from 6 years, as they now are, to 2 terms of the House of Representatives, so that the elections for both Houses could take place simultaneously. [More…]

• The proposal is simply that at each House of Representatives election, be it at the normal 3-year interval or earlier, half the Senate also will face the electors. [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…]

• In normal circumstances, there will be elections for the House of Representatives in 1975, 1978 and 1981. lt is proposed under the transitional arrangement that a currently sitting senator, whose term began in 1971 and would in accordance with present constitutional provision expire in 1977, will continue in office until the second House of Representatives election after the constitutional alteration comes into force, that is, until 1978 unless there is a double dissolution or early election for the House of Representatives. [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…]

• But we think that the alternative of reducing their term of service to certainly less than 6 years would be less than in accordance with the terms of their election. [More…]

• This would, however, almost certainly mean that it would take longer to get to the point of simultaneous elections. [More…]

• In future, under this legislation, the Australian Parliament will have the authority to make laws for determining the times and places of election of senators. [More…]

• Honourable members may recall that, in 1968 in the Senate, my colleague the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Murphy), in his capacity then as Leader of the Opposition in that House, also introduced legislation to provide for the establishment of electorates within each State in which the number of people was, as nearly as practicable, the same, and to democratise the election of the members of all Houses of State Parliaments. [More…]

• Now it is proposed that the people should decide - by referendum at the time of the Senate election. [More…]

• Also, it will make it necessary for States to do away with the remaining cases where election of members is by only a privileged class of voters. [More…]

• The aim of the proposed amendment to the Constitution which will be submitted to a referendum at the time of the next Senate election is to make funds available direct to local government, both by way of grants and by loans at lower interest rates, so that urban and rural councils and other local government bodies can be freed from the straitened circumstances of the past. [More…]

• This was one of our election under takings and one of the first to be honoured. [More…]

• This is a clear breaking of a promise made by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) during the election campaign. [More…]

• I have made it clear, and the point was raised by the Leader of the House, that the honourable member for Blaxland has been referring to an election campaign. [More…]

• Although the connection may be a little remote the honourable member has been dealing with an election campaign which does come within the province of the Minister for Services and Property because of the joint arrangement between the Commonwealth and the States concerning certain electoral costs. [More…]

• Under the estimates for the Department of Services and Property you will see an amount of $9,000 for the printing of supplementary rolls for State purposes, and this affects a roll for an election in which the candidates have taken part in bribery and corruption in the State seat of [More…]

• He is not dealing with preselection or an internal Party matter; he is dealing with an election campaign. [More…]

• I am dealing with the holding of the State election campaign. [More…]

• At a large public meeting held Tuesday Deniliquin following a Murray Electorate Council Meeting of the Country Party, Jerilderie man, Mr Bruce Jeffery, was re-endorsed to stand at the State Election to be held on 17 November. [More…]

• As the New South Wales Parliament is in recess at the moment there can be no review of this matter in that Parliament before the election is held in that State. [More…]

• So at least the electors of Murray who take part in this coming election will know that there are at least 2 honest candidates, the Liberal Party candidate and the Labor candidate. [More…]

• Then, not losing any time, this chap scurried down and then obviously offered from the Country Party’s coffers and slush funds $1,500 or $1,000 whichever he thought the Labor Party would be prepared to accept by way of a bribe to give its preferences to the Country Party in an endeavour to beat Mrs Millen, the legitimately elected Liberal Party member for the State seat of Murray who was returned at the last election for that seat. [More…]

• If by descending into the gutter is the only way that the New South Wales Labor Party has any hope of faring well in the New South Wales State election campaign, well, good luck to it. [More…]

• A by-election for the seat of Murray was held recently in New South Wales. [More…]

• This seat was won on the preferences of the Labor candidate who polled very badly in that by-election. [More…]

• Bruce Jeffrey, who was the Country Party candidate at the by-election, is standing as an Independent. [More…]

• Earlier this week the charge was made that one of the candidates for the seat of Murray in the State election had offered to buy the preferences of the Labor candidate. [More…]

• I return to the subject of the by-election. [More…]

• Why does not Mr Drew reveal what he did in the course of the by-election campaign when he offered Labor Party preferences to the highest bidder? [More…]

• If there is to be any investigation by any AttorneyGeneral into malpractice in the course of this election, why is not the true malpratice investigated in respect of which witnesses are available who can verify what occurred? [More…]

• If the Labor Party and the honourable member for Blaxland are sincere in claiming that they want the truth to emerge, why do they not ask their own upstanding, publicspirited, public-minded candidate, Mr Drew, to reveal what has happened in Murray in the course of the last 2 elections for that seat. [More…]

• Government members can laugh and carry on if they wish, but why do they not carry through their threats and go ahead with the nice little charges that have been made by the honourable member for Blaxland and then see what the facts are, not just some alleged tape recording but something in which witnesses are involved who can speak if required, and so see how the offer made by Mr Drew and the New South Wales State Labor Party, made obviously with the support of the Labor Parry, happened in the course of that by-election? [More…]

• We might also learn about Mr Drew’s attitude in this election. [More…]

• If there is any attempt by the Labor Party to cloud the real issues in the New South Wales election, particularly in country areas if there is an attempt to draw attention away from its dismal failure, its antirural attitude, its belabouring of all areas outside Sydney - which will count heavily against it in the New South Wales State election - if the best it can do is to draw a smokescreen over the position, it is a pretty poor attempt and it typifies the gutter attitude it has to politics in this country. [More…]

• I repeat that if the Labor Party is keen to pursue the question of Mr Drew supposedly being offered a bribe or an amount of money for preferences, let us see what Mr Drew himself has been up to during both elections. [More…]

• Let me quote from the previous Prime Minister’s policy speech before the last election where he dealt with his philosophy on local government. [More…]

• I made up my mind then and there to learn about the system of postal voting so that the ALP would not exploit the system in the following election as it had in the year I managed to win. [More…]

• When an election or a referendum, such as we have on the horizon now, comes around I believe it is the duty of the Commonwealth Electoral Office to send to those persons with as much detail as possible already completed, an application form and an accompanying note reminding them that it is their responsibility to read carefully the terms of qualification to establish in their own minds whether they qualify. [More…]

• I did not like the honourable member’s holier than thou’ attitude nor particularly did I like his statement that his organisation had not been guilty of any of these breaches and abuses of postal vote organisation during an election campaign. [More…]

• I take this opportunity of reminding him of completed postal vote application forms with the names and addresses filled in that have been sent out by his organisation together with an accompanying letter, not signed by the honourable member naturally because he would not breach the Electoral Act, but signed by a responsible officer, usually his campaign director - and posted to people throughout the electorate on the basis of the the card index system of postal votes for the previous election that he keeps. [More…]

• Let me go further and remind the honourable member for Griffith of the blatant misuse of the privilege of allowing people to vote by post that was carried out during the last election campaign by his friend, the dishonourable - I mean the honourable - member for Lilley in the days of the last Parliament, Kevin Cairns, the great architect of virtue, the Democratic Labor Party member of the last Parliament who sat in this chamber. [More…]

• I recall very clearly how in 1969 a man, who later became Federal President of the Australian Labor Party and is now the member for Lytton in the Queensland Parliament, Mr Tom Burns, tried 3 weeks before the election of that year to make a big issue of the claim that I was engaging in illegal practices. [More…]

• Now that the subject of politics has been raised, I remember how during the 1966 election campaign a Labor alderman ran one of my workers off the road in a car at Stones Corner. [More…]

• It must be remembered that when the Homes Savings Grant Bill was introduced on 5 May 1964 it followed an election promise by the then Prime Minister, the right honourable Sir Robert Menzies, to introduce such a scheme designed to encourage young people to accumulate savings towards the purchase of their home. [More…]

• The letter refers to the campaign that was mounted in Western Australia by some doctors in the Balcatta by-election. [More…]

• As this was a State election the local candidate, now the member, stood aloof and did not answer the misleading campaign, which became a onesided issue. [More…]

• So a swing in the State by-election has been attributed to this one-sided propaganda campaign. [More…]

• Although it was a State election, Federal matters influenced the electors considerably. [More…]

• station prior to the 1972 Federal Elections because of his action in preparing and making available anti-Hayden antisocialised medicine pamphlets for distribution from his own surgery and that of the doctors in the Federal seats of Stirling, Swan and Forrest. [More…]

• A week before the Balcatta by-election the ‘Sunday Independent’ gave prominence to the fact that the treasurer of the Balcatta Liberal Campaign Committee, also a member of the A.M.A. [More…]

• Although the proposals received the overwhelming support of the people at the last election the Opposition has allied itself with the extremist elements of the medical profession in an attempt to thwart this popular mandate. [More…]

• In short, he was saying that one day his Party would come to power and would do so much so quickly that even if it lost the next election it would leave the country in such a state that it would be difficult for the returning Liberal-Country Party coalition to restore the damage. [More…]

• If, as we have been told over and over again in this chamber, the Government has a mandate to bring in a national health scheme, if the people have spoken conclusively on the Government’s scheme, why does the Minister need to spend $250,000 advertising the scheme to the people who are supposed to have been convinced by his propaganda at the election and who voted for the Government, giving it, as he says, a clear mandate? [More…]

• Mr Gordon Freeth, upon his defeat at a general election, was appointed as Ambassador to Japan. [More…]

• Mr Fred Chaney, on his defeat in an election, was appointed Administrator of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• That is more than a little ironic, as this is one of the areas in which Labor chose to make some of its most extravagant election promises and, characteristically, it is also one of those significant areas in which it has failed to keep faith with the electorate. [More…]

• Maybe I am a little cynical when I suggest that it is being delayed deliberately so that it cannot be challenged at a time which would enable the Government to have an election with the proposed referendum to be held on 8 December. [More…]

• Honourable members are aware that a certain time has to be provided for election preparations. [More…]

• If the Appropriation Bil.1, is delayed sufficiently it will be quite impossible to have an election with the referendum on 8 December. [More…]

• I remind honourable members opposite also of the error of the previous Government during the 1 969 election campaign when it said that the common fee plan would cost an additional $l6m after 12 months experience. [More…]

• Early in the next year, 1970, after the election it had to revise its estimate and add another SI 3m to that total. [More…]

• I know that many excellent people - doctors, administrators, staff both trained and domestic, and patients - will throw this statement back into the teeth of the Minister at the next election. [More…]

• That person was Dr Rex Patterson who resigned his position in the Commonwealth Public Service, and after an election for the seat of Dawson became a member of this Parliament in February 19.66. [More…]

• The next historic episode occurred when, after the election of a Labor Government on 2 December 1972, the Ministry of Northern Development was created and the honourable member for Dawson became its first Minister. [More…]

• This Government, in its policy speech before the last election, made it clear that in all these types of projects there would be evaluations. [More…]

• Many honourable members might remember him as being a somewhat riotous individual who left the Parliament for a very good reason, that is, he was defeated at the last election. [More…]

• Therefore, I make this final suggestion: Where there has been a strike in contravention of the industrial arbitration authority or in contravention of government intervention, a small percentage of the members of the union concerned should be entitled to call for a ballot for the election of the officers of their union. [More…]

• Is it also true that since the election Mr Young has accepted an extensive and lavish overseas trip to Sweden, paid for by a major overseas aircraft company with the intention of trying to sell to the Government through the Australian Labor Party a fighter aircraft to replace the Mirage? [More…]

• A constitutional referendum is not needed to ensure simultaneous elections. [More…]

• All that is required is for the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and his Government to have the courage to have a House of Representatives election. [More…]

• There must be an election for half the Senate in the first half of next year. [More…]

• Let the Government have a House of Representatives election at that time, and then there will be simultaneous elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives. [More…]

• This Bill purports to require an amendment of the Constitution in order to have simultaneous elections. [More…]

• As I said before, it needs only a decision by the Executive, the Government or the Prune Minister to have a House of Representatives election with the Senate election, and there will be simultaneous elections. [More…]

• If the Government is worried about the people of Australia having to vote at elections too frequently, it has the cure in its own hands. [More…]

• I do fundamentally question the present out of phase state of our electoral process, requiring us to conduct in each 3 -year period one House of Representatives election and one separate Senate election. [More…]

• Possessed of that power - a majority in the House of Representatives and in the Senate - there is no reason whatever why the Government cannot introduce and pass legislation which would return the Senate from its present proportional representation system to some form of election which would lead to the ludicrous position which it had in its earlier life when, at one stage, there were 2 Opposition senators to 34 Government senators and when, from 1946 to 1949, there were 3 Opposition senators to 33 Government senators. [More…]

• The further reason that the Prime Minister gave was that it was an election commitment of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• If it was an election commitment we are entitled to look at the entire platform. [More…]

• There are, in my view, real objections to the provision that every time the House of Representatives precipitates an election one-half the Senate should go up for election too. [More…]

• Such elections of the House of Representatives may emanate from internal personal differences, alterations of party allegiances, or miserable party manoeuvres. [More…]

• Further, the growing constitutional development of the right of Heads of Government to secure a dissolution of the popular House upon request, in my opinion, makes it imperative that the Prime Minister should not have the power to treat the States’ House as an appendage of the Popular House and take one-half of the Senate to election at the will of the Executive Government. [More…]

• The truth is that these 3 referendum proposals have been put together by the Government for the specific purpose of trying to confuse the issue at the next Senate election. [More…]

• The Government knows that at the present time it has no possibility of winning the next Senate election. [More…]

• It knows that it cannot convert the next Senate election into a majority for the Labor Government in the Senate. [More…]

• This populist way of doing things is being followed so that people going to the Senate election will be, it is hoped by the Government, led to vote for the Australian Labor Party in the Senate election because they are supporting the referendum proposal which they have before them at the same time. [More…]

• This proposal - that which is called the simultaneous elections proposal - should be rejected on 2 grounds: firstly, because it is unnecessary; and secondly, because its adoption would be dangerous in constitutional and democratic terms. [More…]

• It is unnecessary because if the present situation is unsatisfactory it can be cured by a House of Representatives dissolution at the time of the next Senate election. [More…]

• House of Representatives elections have had to be held frequently in the past to overcome internal problems. [More…]

• Should there be a Senate election on each occasion when, for party political reasons and domestic internal matters, an election for the House of Representatives is forced? [More…]

• The Senate should not have to be submitted to an election at the same time. [More…]

• This Bill provides for an alteration of the Constitution so that elections for the House of Representatives and for the Senate are held at the same time. [More…]

• Consequently we believe that the present system whereby the Senate and House of Representatives elections must be held separately is costly, unsatisfactory and inconvenient and it is time the system was changed. [More…]

• For the convenience of honourable members, let me firstly give a little background to the occasions when the Senate and House of Representatives elections have not synchronised. [More…]

• The House of Representatives was dissolved on 16 September 1929 and an election for that House only was held on 12 October. [More…]

• The next Senate elections were not due until 1931. [More…]

• The consequential elections were held on 28 April 1951 and in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, the terms of the newly elected senators were taken to have begun on 1 July 1950. [More…]

• The back-dating of the term of service necessitated further Senate elections before 30 June 1953 whereas the newly elected members of the House of Representatives began their 3-year term from the date of the election - that is as from 28 April 1951. [More…]

• The next general election for the Senate was held on 9 May 1953, and the next general election of members of the House of Representatives was not held until 29 May 1954. [More…]

• The Senate and House of Representatives elections were brought together again al the elections of 10 December 1955. [More…]

• However, the elections of 9 December 1961 left the Government with a majority of only one in the House after the election of a Speaker. [More…]

• Representatives after only 2 years of office and a further election was held on 30 November 1963, once more resulting in the Senate and House of Representatives elections being held at different times. [More…]

• Senate elections followed in 1964, 1967 and 1970 and elections for the House of Representatives were held in 1966, 1969 and 1972. [More…]

• It honours an election commitment made by the Australian Labor Party and it takes up the proposal of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to the Constitutional Convention held recently in Sydney. [More…]

• In general, Senators will have a term of service equal to 2 terms of the House of Representatives rather than a fixed term of 6 years, thus making it possible for elections for both houses to be held simultaneously. [More…]

• In one case, the Senators whose terms began in July 1971 will continue in office until the second House of Representatives elections after the constitutional alteration comes into force; that is, 19.8, unless there is a double dissolution or an early House of Representatives election. [More…]

• These proposals simply provide for simultaneous elections for both Houses - nothing more and nothing less - and they provide that we ask the people, not the Parliament, to decide. [More…]

• Half the Senate will be elected at the time of each election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• The arguments in support of simultaneous elections are clear and simple. [More…]

• Since 1950. electors have been called upon to vote in 9 Senate elections, 8 House of Representatives elections and 2 referendums, excluding State and local government elections. [More…]

• Of the 9 Senate elections, four were held separately. [More…]

• Another Senate election must be held before 30 June 1974. [More…]

• Fewer national elections would simplify and sharpen the political process. [More…]

• Voters would know the choice before them - the election of a government - and could be more confident that the government so elected could effectively carry out its mandate, while political parties would be able better to plan their campaigns and formulate policies for government. [More…]

• With simultaneous elections, the party returned with a majority of seats in the House of Representatives usually obtains the majority of the Senate vacancies in dispute at that time. [More…]

• The election is a statement of which party the people wish to entrust with the reins of government, the party from which they want leadership. [More…]

• Separate elections do not, in practice, affect the formation of governments, but often they lead to situations where the government in the lower House the duly elected government at that time is frustrated by an oppositionheld senate. [More…]

• But when additional expenditure is both unnecessary and detrimental, as in the case of separate elections, financial considerations are very relevant. [More…]

• There can be no doubt that the holding of simultaneous elections would represent a substantial saving to the public purse. [More…]

• The elections for the Senate in 1953 and the House of Representatives in 1954 cost the taxpayers $489,491 and $479,051 respectively a total of $968,542. [More…]

• In 1955, the simultaneous election for both Houses cost $600,912. [More…]

• The 1961 simultaneous election cost $866,439. [More…]

• Two years later, the House of Representatives elections, plus one Senate seat for Queensland, cost $942,497.I spoke to the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) about this a few moments ago. [More…]

• I have here figures showing the cost of elections from 1961 to 1973 and the esti mated cost of possible future elections if held during 1974. [More…]

• The financial benefits of simultaneous elections can readily be seen from these figures. [More…]

• The cost of a simultaneous election is only a little greater than the cost of a single election for either House. [More…]

• Put another way, the cost of a combined election is approximately 55 per cent of the total cost of 2 separate elections. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman this afternoon has sought to encourage the House to accept one simple proposition, which is that this Bill is a simple measure merely calling for the simultaneous .election of both Houses of the Parliament. [More…]

• It would mean that every time there was a political disturbance in this House which forced the Leader of the Government of the day to hand in his commission or, rather more pointedly, to go to the Governor-General and say ‘I ask you to dissolve the House of Representatives’ the effect of that would simply be that half of the Senate would have to stand for election again for no reason at all other than a political disturbance which had taken place in this chamber. [More…]

• If the referendum were to be carried, say in May next year, it would not be until the next elections were held for the House of Repre sentatives that the Government would be able to pull out half the Senate. [More…]

• So, half the Senate today would be brought out in another 18 months or 2 years following upon the Senate election in May. [More…]

• In that period the Senate and the House of Representatives’ elections were not in conjunction and yet at no time did the government of the day decide to go to the people to bring them into line so that money would be saved. [More…]

• The result was that in that period elections cost the Australian people say another $7m because the Senate and House of Representatives elections were not held in conjunction. [More…]

• In fact, the election was held as late as possible, but we all know that it did not save the former Government. [More…]

• Not only does it have simultaneous elections, but also elections are held on exactly the same date, the first Tuesday in November, every 2 years, and a presidential election is held on the same day every 4 years. [More…]

• I should like to refer now to the question of the cost of elections because this is one of the very cogent arguments advanced in favour of holding simultaneous elections. [More…]

• The Minister for Services and Property mentioned that the conjoint elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives in 1961 cost $866,000. [More…]

• The election for the House of Representatives which followed cost $942,000. [More…]

• The following election for the Senate cost $1,042,000. [More…]

• The election for the House of Representatives in 1966 cost more than $lm, and the cost for the Senate election in 1967 crept up to nearly $1,400,000. [More…]

• There has been a continuing rise in the cost of elections. [More…]

• So at the present time the cost of holding an election for either House of the Parliament is getting very close to $2m. [More…]

• The Committee has recommended (19S8 Report, paragraph 49) that the Constitution be altered to omit the provision now made for senators to be chosen for terms of six years and to provide instead that senators should hold their places until the expiry or dissolution of the second House of Representatives after their election, unless the Senate should be earlier dissolved under the provisions of section 57 of the Constitution. [More…]

• But I do fundamentally question the present ‘out of phase’ state of our electoral process, requiring us to conduct in each 3-year period one House of Representatives election and one separate Senate election. [More…]

• As part and parcel of the exercise of the bicameral system, under our Constitution the Government represents the party with the majority in the lower House and the party with the majority in the lower House at any House of Representatives election need not have a majority in the upper House. [More…]

• The House of Representatives has always had in its power the capacity to go to the people and to synchronise elections if it so desires or if it does not so desire, to call elections out of phase for the House of Representatives alone or to call for a double dissolution subject to the approval of the Governor-General. [More…]

• So there is a flexibility within the Constitution which enables the Government to go to the people and seek another mandate through its majority in the House of Representatives, to go to the people by way of a double dissolution or to go to the people by way of an election for the House of Representatives at the time of the normal 3- yearly election for half the members of the Senate. [More…]

• For example, under the British parliamentary system the House of Lords lacks the power that the Senate, the Upper House in this Parliament, enjoys; that is, the power to deny the passage of legislation and the power to force the Government to an election. [More…]

• I am concerned that there should be no derogation of the power that a senator exercises as a result of his election for a term of 6 years, and that is where it comes in in this Bill. [More…]

• They set out in detail an analysis made by that learned gentleman of the way in which a senator’s rights and responsibilities are exercised, in part, through his election for a term of 6 years. [More…]

• A 6-year term gives a senator a measure of independence which a relationship between his term of office and a House of Representatives election would deny him. [More…]

• I believe that a case can be set out for the retention of that independence, related alone to the fact that when elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives are out of phase people register a more meaningful vote for their senators. [More…]

• I believe that when a Senate election takes place at the time of a House of Representatives election the very nature of this chamber, the nature of the election of government, the nature of policies that originate in this chamber and the machinations of power that those who abuse it in the Labor Party seek, are likely to distort the democratic process, and particularly the democratic process that applies to the election of senators. [More…]

• The only way we can bring about simultaneous elections at the moment is to have a double dissolution. [More…]

• Sir George Turner went on: which is not very likely to happen in connection with the Federal Parliament - we may allow an election for senators and for representatives at certain times to take place together, and by that means save a considerable amount of expense. [More…]

• My figures are a little different from those of the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) but the fact is that it is the economic question that ought to be considered when we talk of synchronising the elections for both Houses. [More…]

• A conjoint election would cost between 55 per cent and 57 per cent of the total cost of separate Senate and House of Representatives elections. [More…]

• In 1970 the Senate general election cost $1,735,122. [More…]

• In 1972 the House of Representatives general election cost $1,980,132. [More…]

• The total cost of those 2 elections was $3,715,254. [More…]

• Therefore, an estimate for conjoint elections would be about 55 per cent to 57 per cent of $3m. [More…]

• Despite all that, the Government has to face a Senate election. [More…]

• The Government knows that the results of the Senate election will be disadvantageous to it. [More…]

• So the best thing to do is to try to cloud the issue and clutter up the Senate election with referenda in the hope - I believe that the Government will be disappointed - that it can confuse the electorate sufficiently. [More…]

• It will find that Australians have sufficient intelligence to appreciate that separate Senate elections, should they be a part of the democratic process and they still are, provide some benefits. [More…]

• What is wrong with the views of the smaller political parties being reflected at a Senate election or any other election. [More…]

• The supporters of the Government are backing certain moves designed to effect the holding of simultaneous elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives at any subsequent election. [More…]

• All their election promises are based on money which is being made available by the Australian Government to New South Wales and other States to upgrade their various facilities for the people of those States. [More…]

• I want to make the point that when in the course of an election campaign a political leader makes what he is pleased to call a policy speech and a number of other speeches and issues supplementary statements and so on there may be 199 different matters that he has mentioned. [More…]

• What also worries honourable members opposite is that if they do not succeed in forcing an election by June of next year, they will never occupy the Government benches again. [More…]

• Do members of the Government believe that everything that was mentioned by every Labor Party condidate at the last election was accepted by all the people and that therefore they can legislate in respect of it? [More…]

• It is notable that on the eve of the State election in New South Wales a new teachers’ college is proposed at Mortdale, in my electorate. [More…]

• The facilities of Parliament and the privileges of a Minister have been abused in this case to promote further the Australian Labor Party in the New South Wales State election. [More…]

• If this can be done in a State election, goodness knows what will be done in a Federal House of Representatives election or a Senate election where Ministers have unlimited use of departmental facilities and officers and a stamp allowance on which there is no limit. [More…]

• The honourable member for Phillip (Mr Riordan) has just reminded me that the previous Speaker, Sir William Aston, used the crest in his last election campaign. [More…]

• I publicly ask the Chief Electoral Officer for New South Wales to disallow the candidature of Mr Jeffery in this election for the State seat of Murray. [More…]

• The other provision in clause 7 is that everybody over 18 years of age shall have a vote for State elections. [More…]

• In all States 18 year olds already have the right to vote or will have by the next election. [More…]

• He seeks to deny this Parliament the right to ask the Australian people to determine whether individual citizens’ rights should be guaranteed in respect of the election of members of all parliaments throughout Australia. [More…]

• Indeed, New South Wales has a redistribution before every election; at least that has been the pattern in recent years. [More…]

• In Victoria, for example, a table showing the advantage or lack of it that would have been gained at the 1969 election if electorates had been drawn on a population basis shows the greatest advantage going first to 8 Labor seats, then a lesser advantage, or disadvantage, to a mixture of seats consisting of 5 Country Party, 7 Liberal and 3 Labor - and then the least advantage, and in fact an increasing disadvantage, going to 11 Liberal seats. [More…]

• Coming back to the proposal to insert a new section into the Constitution dealing with the election of members of State parliaments, I must say that I find it quite remarkable that the Prime Minister is so filled with a sense of power that he has taken it upon himself to initiate this matter. [More…]

• Surely nothing is more central to the authority of the States than the methods of election of the Parliaments of the States. [More…]

• Not only does he want new powers written into the Constitution dealing with federal powers to control prices and incomes, but he now wants also a whole new section written into the Constitution directing the States as to how they shall manage their parliamentary elections. [More…]

• One way of judging whether we have a fair and democratic electoral system is to relate the percentage of votes won by a party to the seats gained by it at an election. [More…]

• I have a table prepared for me by the Chief Electoral Officer, showing a comparison of results of the last 4 elections for this House. [More…]

• The Bill before the House today has been made necessary by the intransigence of vested political interests in this country in maintaining their privileged position by the techniques of indirect election, gerrymandering and restricted franchise. [More…]

• We have in the New South Wales Upper House one of the classic examples of the frustration of democracy, namely, the process of indirect election. [More…]

• Indirect election is one of the favourite means often used to avoid too much control of the elite by the bulk of the population. [More…]

• In other words, indirect election is a means of frustrating the popular will of the majority of the people. [More…]

• There, the technique employed is not a matter of indirect election - this is under a Liberal Party-Country Party government - but rather the division of the State into electoral zones so that the number of electors returning one member of Parliament differs substantially from zone to zone. [More…]

• Only in this way can the Country Party gain election in that State with 19 per cent of the vote and win more seats than the Liberal Party or the Labor Party. [More…]

• Thus, if an election for this House were held tomorrow, an elector in Maranoa would have a vote worth 1.83 times the vote of an elector in Diamond Valley. [More…]

• I submit that the people are entitled to express their opinion on any issue, and honourable members opposite who fight that deserve the fate that they met at the last election. [More…]

• In my view the Bills are a smokescreen to cover Labor’s failure with its economic, industrial, defence and other policies and to confuse the issues at the next Senate election, and also the election in 1974. [More…]

• The Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly), who preceded me in this debate, has informed us that in the United States case, Wesbury v. Sanders (1964) the then Chief Justice of that country, Earl Warren - a man more noted for his political judgments than his knowledge of jurisprudence, as will become obvious - ruled that the relevant part of this Article should be interpreted as meaning that in United States Congressional elections - to use his own words - one man’s vote in a Congressional election (in the United States) is to be worth as much as anothers’ [More…]

• In other words, does the vote at election time enable the party which polls the majority of votes to win the majority of seats? [More…]

• One of those occasions was in 1954, when the election was contested on boundaries drawn up under the supervision of the late Mr Calwell when the Labor Government was in power. [More…]

• The other occasion was the result in the 1972 election which is especially interesting. [More…]

• One real step forward in the creation of such a system would be the democratisation of the election procedures of these Houses, as the undemocratic nature of their composition currently would prevent their holding the respect of the electorate when they inhibited the activities of government. [More…]

• I would explain that prior to the 1972 State election there were 78 electorates in Queensland. [More…]

• So it came to pass that at the 1972 State election in Queensland the people went to the polls to elect- [More…]

• The result of this election illustrates the detrimental effect to democratic elections that the political racketeers achieved in Queensland. [More…]

• The result of this was the election of 17 Liberals who collectively gained 36.7 per cent of the city vote and the election of 15 ALP candidates who collectively gained 51 per cent of the vote. [More…]

• The rotten position in Queensland as a result of political wheeling and dealing is that, at the 1972 State election, on average it took 13,045 votes to elect one ALP candidate, 9,600 votes to elect one Liberal and 6,972 votes to elect one Country Party member. [More…]

• The magnitude of the political racketeering which has been imposed upon the people of Queensland is shown when one realises that Brisbane’s Lord Mayor at the last Brisbane City Council election received 30,000 votes more than the Country Party could muster in the whole of the State at the previous State election. [More…]

• Within 9 months of their election, the Government managed to jack up the long term bond rate from 6 per cent to Si per cent. [More…]

• At the time of my election to this Parliament I was a councillor for the City of Dandenong and it was around that council table that I gained the experience that convinced me of the tremendous financial problems faced by the municipal government. [More…]

• The Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) was quoted in the ‘Australian’ on 29 November - 3 days before last year’s election - as saying: The abolition of national service would decimate our defence forces. [More…]

• This proposal was part of the policies which we presented to the people before the recent election. [More…]

• Sir Robert Askin has said that he had a site in mind but he would not name it - that is, not prior to the last election. [More…]

• Let me deal with one most serious problem that arose in my electorate in the course of the last State election in New South Wales. [More…]

• He was elected member for the Gosford electorate last Saturday and I congratulated him on his election. [More…]

• Now that the election has been held, I hope that he will adopt a different attitude, that he will agree with the attitudes expressed by other local councillors and that he will join with us in a spirit of co-operation, such as has been shown to this Parliament today with respect to the Albury-Wodonga development. [More…]

• This Government, in accordance with its election campaign pledge of 1972, is committed to the strengthening and upgrading of local government. [More…]

• If the Senate rejects the Bill it will be passed again in this chamber in the new year and the Australian people will have the opportunity at the referendum to be held in conjunction with the next Senate election to authorise an amendment to the Constitution which will give local government access to the Australian Loan Council for borrowings. [More…]

• Something happened at the last election. [More…]

• The last election was determined in 2 cities. [More…]

• The outcome of the last election in Sydney was determined in the electorates of Phillip, Cook, Evans, Mitchell and Macarthur which includes the urban area of Campbelltown. [More…]

• Did the Minister for Social Security tell the Prime Minister before the Prime Minister’s election speech that about $500m would be needed from Consolidated Revenue to finance the health scheme in its first year of operation? [More…]

• If he did, in view of his constant complaint about misrepresentation can he explain, and has he protested to the Prime Minister about, the blatant misrepresentation practised in that pre-election speech as illustrated by the fact that there was no mention whatsoever of this huge additional sum of money amounting to an average of about $80 per taxpayer which will come indirectly from that taxpayer and which will be additional to the 1.35 per cent of his taxable income? [More…]

• The honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder), who has already spoken in this debate, has since his election to this chamber expressed his concern that the same opportunities should be provided for Territorians, whether they be in the north or here in the Australian Capital Territory, to express a view on matters that affect all other Australian citizens, for those that affect all other Australian citizens must equally affect them because they too are Australian citizens. [More…]

• shall be submitted in each State and Territory to the electors qualified to vote for the election of members of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• It is economical and sensible to hold referendums at the same time as elections for either or both Houses of the Parliament. [More…]

• An election for at least one-half of the Senate must be held before the end of next June. [More…]

• It would, accordingly, be sensible and economic to have a referendum on this proposal, as well as referendums on other proposals, at the time of that Senate election. [More…]

• Nevertheless, we criticised the Government for the slashing of defence expenditure, for running down the defence forces, for cancelling or deferring vital equipment expenditures and, above all, for breaking a clear election promise to spend 3.5 per cent of the gross national product on defence. [More…]

• Really, for a person, who had run around the country for some years before the last election in order to reassure Australians about the Australian Labor Party’s defence policy, to make such a statement before a body like the RSL Congress I believe needs no further comment from me. [More…]

• In regard to equipment, in its notorious document entitled ‘Its Time’ which was pub:lished before the last election, the present Government promised that the defence forces would have excellent equipment. [More…]

• Again, before and just after the last election the present Government was making brave words about our self reliance. [More…]

• Prior to last Saturday’s New South Wales election the Australian Country Party candidate for the seat of South Coast inserted in a local newspaper an advertisement which stated: [More…]

• I return to the statement by the Country Party candidate in the seat of South Coast at last Saturday’s New South Wales election. [More…]

• The growers were aware that the plan which covered the delivery and marketing of the 1972-73 harvest had in effect expired on the eve of a Federal election. [More…]

• Quite apart from the economic implications of these proposals it should be made clear that they do not represent the implementation of election policies. [More…]

• But country electors spoke very loudly and clearly in their ballot in the New South Wales State election. [More…]

• What it promised at the last election was not to increase personal taxation. [More…]

• The Opposition has argued since the election that we are living in an inflationary situation at the present time and that we should have increased personal taxation to a level that would have obviated the need for the introduction of other monetary measures during this year. [More…]

• So in honouring our election promise we did not increase personal taxation. [More…]

• As for the honourable member for oranges who has not got a clue, he had better wake up because on the result of the New South Wales election his seat is gone a mile. [More…]

• I have a letter which was distributed throughout my electorate prior to the last Federal election. [More…]

• Did members of the Government Party go to Kalgoorlie before the election and say that this is what they would do if they were put into power on 2 December 1972? [More…]

• The reason that I have been so keen to incorporate so many figures into the Hansard record is that I wish to put something on the record to rebut completely the arguments that some of the Country Party candidates used for last Saturday’s New South Wales State election. [More…]

• I want to deal with a couple of matters this evening, one of which was occasioned by a Press release which went out last night and a couple of Press reports as well as a comment earlier by the honourable member for Angas (Mr Giles), indicating that the Liberal Party seemed to be enjoying some sort of euphoria at the prospect of winning the seat of Robertson at the next Federal election. [More…]

• I have no objection to anyone claiming that they are going to knock me off at the next election. [More…]

• During the course of the recent State election campaign in the seat of Murray a proposition was put to the Labor candidate, Mr Doug Drew, in relation to Labor Party preferences. [More…]

• But he went on to make completely unsubstantiated allegations against Mr Drew in connection with a previous by-election. [More…]

• It is quite incredible, if he had any evidence of wrong doing, that he did not raise it during the by-election when his candidate was defeated. [More…]

• He is the one who started it, he is the one who spread the mud in a cowardly character assassination in the events that led up to the State election. [More…]

• The honourable member has allowed alarmist headings to be placed in newspapers in the electorate concerned in an endeavour, I believe, dishonestly to affect the outcome of the election in that seat. [More…]

• If one wants to talk about charges, the only charges that one can refer to in the sense of breaking some guidelines or rules are those relating to preference selling, not to preference buying, because on 2 occasions - ‘both in a by-election and in a general election - the Labor candidate wanted to sell his preferences not only to the independent Country Party candidate but to other candidates as well. [More…]

• and Mr Bruce Jeffrey, the endorsed Country Party candidate, seeking an arrangement regarding the by-election to be held on 6 October. [More…]

• In the election, I repeat, once again Mr Drew was offering his preferences to the highest bidder, or so he claimed. [More…]

• He stated that as the price paid in the by-election was $2,000, the price would have to be higher. [More…]

• On Thursday morning prior to the State election, after the closing time for all political comment, on the 8 a.m. news on 2QN, through the assistance of Labor Party people, these allegations that have been made in Parliament were broadcast in contravention of the Broadcasting Act. [More…]

• I propose to encourage my Party at the next election to make certain- [More…]

• He was exhilarated by his Party’s victorious by-election in Corio in July 1967, just over 27 years after his own by-election victory in Corio. [More…]

• He was equally exhilarated by his Party’s success in the general election a year ago. [More…]

• There was a change of government after the 1949 election. [More…]

• Is the Prime Minister aware that on 19 October last year Mr Dunstan, the Premier of South Australia, wrote a letter to most people involved in the wine industry -in South Australia seeking funds for the Australian Labor Party election campaign to be given on the condition that a future Labor Government would ‘abolish the (wine) excise and not replace it with a sales tax or any other imposition’? [More…]

• It is interesting to note that one of the principal instigators of this dispute is, I believe, a Liberal Party nominee for pre-selection for the seat of Mitchell, and that, in actual fact, he was the campaign director for the defeated Liberal candidate for Mitchell at the last election. [More…]

• There is a story kicking about Western Australia that the Liberal Party had printed for the State election thousands of pamphlets which attacked the Federal Government on this issue. [More…]

• This was to provide an immediate increase of $1.50 a week following the election, and thereafter $1.50 a week every spring and every autumn until the pension reached 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]

• It was a first effort by the new Treasurer (Mr Crean), and given the chance today at an election the electorate of Australia would make certain it was his last. [More…]

• The Labor Government must accept complete responsibility for the change in the feelings of the Australian people and their decision when next an election is held, and I hope it is pretty soon. [More…]

• Let us remember that in the December 1972 election the Australian Labor Party gained additional support in 29 rural electorates and lost support in 21. [More…]

• I note that the Premier of South Australia, Mr Dunstan, has certainly had no inhibitions in vigorously attacking his Federal Labor colleagues for a gross betrayal of preelection promises to the wine and grape growing industries. [More…]

• A brochure distributed by the Labor Party before the December election stated: [More…]

• They certainly showed in the New South Wales election, that they realise where their friends are. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and his colleagues during the election period gave an undertaking to the Australian electorate that their Party, if elected to office, would not raise taxation, would not increase the tax burden of any individual taxpayer. [More…]

• Insofar as that tax is imposed upon them today where it was not their responsibility last year, it is a breach of the Labor Party’s election promise. [More…]

• I have a copy of a letter which came into my hands during the election campaign showing that the Premier of South Australia, claiming to be the Chairman of the Australian Labor Party Federal Election Finance Committee, wrote to members of the wine industry asking them to forward donations upon the basis that they would send that money to the Labor Party on hearing that the Prime Minister had given an unequivocal assurance during the election campaign that any government led by him would abolish the excise and not replace it with a sales tax or any other imposition. [More…]

• At the time I called the Premier of South Australia a law broker and a man who was prepared to go out into the electorate and seek contributions to election funds in exchange for legislation. [More…]

• Have we reached a situation in this country where governments regard it as the normal pattern of conduct to dishonour election promises specifically given? [More…]

• At the request of the Prime Minister and on behalf of the Labor Party I gave an assurance at the last Federal election that the SOc a gallon excise duty on wine would be repealed and not replaced with another impost’, he said. [More…]

• That is the letter that has been referred to that he wrote to many people in the industry to obtain funds during the election. [More…]

• When he had reminded the Prime Minister of his promise to S.A. at the election, Mr Whitlam had replied: ‘Frank Crean has had a difficult time’. [More…]

• Nevertheless, there was public agitation about it and both sides supported such a view in the last election campaign. [More…]

• The projects, which will be funded by the transfer of grants previously allocated and two of which were approved by my colleague, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), are the New South Wales Election Board, the Prahran College of Technology and the Emily McPherson College. [More…]

• However, it should be emphasised that this was a policy outlined by my Party at the time of the last general election. [More…]

• This was one of the promises that was made by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in the election campaign, and it is another of the promises that has been kept. [More…]

• The promise was made by the Victorian Government at the election held in 1970 to move for the establishment of a fourth university in Victoria. [More…]

• In December, on the election of the Labor Government, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) as Minister for Education in the First Whitlam Ministry set up an inquiry into university needs in Melbourne and the surrounding areas. [More…]

• We know that there has been an election in Victoria. [More…]

• which he went to look at in rather spectacular fashion just before the election; and the British vessel ‘Sheffield’. [More…]

• So to get a valid comparison between what the present Government is doing this year or is intending to do next year and what the Opposition Parties would have done or would have been doing if they were in office one would basically have to add to the Opposition Parties’ earlier commitments the sorts of commitments that they undertook at the time of the last election and which they have not had an opportunity to put into effect. [More…]

• This decision by the Government was taken in spite of the undertaking of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) prior to the election that any new forms of aid to independent schools should be given in addition to existing programs of aid. [More…]

• Although the Prime Minister and his Government have broken a pre-election promise, one retains respect for and extends sympathy to the Minister for [More…]

• In Labor’s policy speech for the 1972 election the Prime Minister said that a Federal Labor government would allocate the increased grants for 1974 and subsequent years on the basis of recommendations prepared and published by the Schools Commission. [More…]

• It was a promise by the then Leader of the Opposition the now Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) prior to the election that the Interim Schools Commission would be commenced at the earliest time. [More…]

• Prior to the election, the now Minister for Education spelt out Labor’s proposal in no uncertain words. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in his pre-election speeches also spelt out what was anticipated and what is now coming to fruition in this Bill which provides for an amount of money to be spent on a schools commission. [More…]

• So when the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), as the Leader of the Australian Labor Party, at the last election, went to the people one of the first issues he put to them in the policy speech was education. [More…]

• It is quite clear from the statements that were made before the election and those made after the election that the Government is carrying out the wishes of the majority of Australians in presenting this Bill. [More…]

• We believe quite sincerely that it is in accordance with the preferences and the general direction of the thinking of the Prime Minister as expressed before the election. [More…]

• In fact, if my Party had continued in government after the last election I know that a community centre would have been established in Townsville by now. [More…]

• They set up, in conjunction with the Commonwealth Electoral Office and other authorities, the machinery for carrying out the election. [More…]

• The honourable member for the Northern Territory said that the election was carried out with undue haste. [More…]

• The Government’s assertion today, through the mass media, to the effect that there should be a general election because the Senate is frustrating its will, has been completely negated by the Government’s acceptance of this amendment. [More…]

• Rather should it be described as a plagiarist government which appears socially aware during an election campaign and, after success, hibernates until the next election. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) have failed to honour clear promises which they gave many times throughout 1972, both before and after the election, in the following terms: The Prime Minister in speaking of recurrent grants to schools said: “The ALP will support any forms of benefit already existing.’ [More…]

• We will have a double dissolution if the Government wants it, and would win the election. [More…]

• By implication, throughout the election campaign last year every member of the then Opposition was saying to the parents of children in the private schools: ‘You can vote Labor, and the principle of per capita grants will be retained’. [More…]

• The Prime Minister and the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, claimed repeatedly prior to the last election, and I quote the Prime Minister: [More…]

• The Interim Schools Commission was given terms of reference that did not match the spirit of the undertakings given by spokesmen for the then Opposition, prior to the last election. [More…]

• What the Opposition has done is to try to force the Prime Minister and the Government to honour their pre-election undertakings to the Australian people. [More…]

• The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, told a Labor Party Caucus meeting yesterday the Government would win an election fought on the Opposition’s amendments to the $690m schools grants program. [More…]

• Look, the Prime Minister is quite wrong and he is quite deliberately forgetting the undertakings which he gave to the Australian people prior to the last election. [More…]

• He thinks that he can bluff the Australian people and the Opposition on this issue, believing that it might be the thing on which he can win an election. [More…]

• In his speech which opened the election campaign and which persuaded the Australian people to vote for the Australian Labor Party the Prime Minister said: [More…]

• Honourable members opposite lost an election on this issue. [More…]

• The circumstances of their election had nothing to do with what led the Australian people to elect the Labor Government to office last year. [More…]

• Despite the preelection promises made by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education a deliberate secret instruction was given to the Karmel Committee - ‘government schools will not be pre-determined’. [More…]

• That was in complete contradistinction to the promises delivered to the Australian population before the election, because the Australian Labor Party knew before the election that this was a really live issue. [More…]

• A major step in this constitutional advance occurred in April 1972 with the election of the present House of Assembly and the exercising of increasingly greater responsibilities since then by Papua New Guinea Ministers. [More…]

• We all recall the haste with which the Liberals and the Australian Country Party suddenly discovered one month before the last election the problems facing the cities. [More…]

• Whether we had won or lost the election, this had been set up under Sir John Overall, an extremely able person. [More…]

• Sooner or later, the councils or shires in the area either will cease to exist or will have so little authority as to make it difficult to get anyone of top quality to stand for election to these bodies. [More…]

• When will the Government implement its election promise to give local call access by telephone from Albury-Wodonga to Melbourne and to Sydney? [More…]

• I live in an outer suburban area, as do many of the new members who were elected to this Parliament after the 1972 election. [More…]

• The Bill will enact principles for a health insurance program which were placed before the public at the last Federal election and for which the Government was given a clear mandate. [More…]

• Perhaps after the next election he will be out looking for a seat in the State Parliament, because he certainly will not continue as a member here. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wide Bay is another who will be lucky to hold his seat after the next election, likewise the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Doyle) who has a grimace on his face. [More…]

• In the election campaign last year the Minister promised, as did all other Australian Labor Party candidates, that a Labor government would spend 3.4 per cent of the gross national product on defence. [More…]

• I never made any such promise on behalf of the Government Party at the last elections. [More…]

• The Australian Government’s approach to local government is quite clear from the fact that we so early sponsored amendments to the Grants Commission Act and also the fact that we are sponsoring referendums next year coincidental with the Senate election or other elections at that time, and one of them will make it possible for the Australian Government to deal directly with the elected local government bodies as regards both outright grants of money and also grants which are repayable. [More…]

• To make the position quite clear, because such aspersions are constantly made about him and about me, I shall repeat the motion which he moved and which he, I and all our colleagues now in Government supported by our vote and which throughout the election campaign he and I put to the people. [More…]

• After 23 years of an open-door policy in respect of the inflow of foreign capital into Australia, into all of our industries, on the eve of the election when their electoral socks were sadly sagging, honourable members opposite decided that they would do something about foreign takeovers. [More…]

• The Labor Party announced its policy in September 1972 and the previous Government cynically brought in a Bill in October 1972, just 2 weeks before the House rose and about 4 weeks before the Federal election. [More…]

• All we can say to that is that honourable members opposite were not very concerned until they realised that the issue of economic nationalism was such that their Parties could have been in jeopardy at the election. [More…]

• This Government, before the election, promised industrial harmony. [More…]

• The previous Government was trying to float itself through an election. [More…]

• There was an election looming in December 1972 and it lost. [More…]

• Before the election we had this extraordinary approach of the Government: The Liberal-Country Party Government has had some problems in the industrial area, but if the people elect a Labor government of course the Labor Party can talk to trade unionists and we will have industrial peace’. [More…]

• I have read speculation that we could have a double dissolution or an election before the middle of next year. [More…]

• If the Opposition does have a policy on this matter and it wins the next election on that policy, it can do something about such a statutory body. [More…]

• When we look at the people nominated by the Opposition we find that they are very much against the Government’s policy on education and are on record as having opposed the Government vigorously right throughout the last election campaign. [More…]

• Opposition in every election we fight that it would not allow a commission to be set up, out of personal venom and spite. [More…]

• There are no lack of promises - at least, before the election - but there is a distinct shortage of performance. [More…]

• I refer to the statements of the honourable member for Wilmot (Mr Duthie) and others prior to the last election. [More…]

• Prior to the last election, several Government supporters in Tasmania continually stressed that if they were in government the grower representatives to the statutory marketing authority, which they had outlined would be established under their government, would be elected by the growers themselves. [More…]

• This may be an appropriate opportunity to mention the collegiate system of election of grower representatives to marketing boards, as practised in New Zealand. [More…]

• The collegiate method of election may have some application in the Australian context. [More…]

• If honourable members opposite feel that it has some application in the Australian context, they might have con:sidered using that method of election of grower representatives to the Corporation rather than breaking their word and having the Minister appoint the grower representatives. [More…]

• Before the election, they said that growers would elect their representatives themselves. [More…]

• elected representation of growers to the Corporation as promised by its spokesmen prior to the last election.’ [More…]

• I think he said, if I remember correctly, that we in fact had promised, prior to the election, that there would be total grower representation. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Corangamite mentioned, the growers in the industry were told by the Labor Party spokesmen before the general election that they believed in elected representatives. [More…]

• Finally, I turn to the matter of having elected representatives of growers on the Corporation as promised by a Labor spokesman prior to the last election. [More…]

• Before the election when we were still in Opposition we hoped to establish a statutory marketing authority for apples and pears which would take over the entire crop and handle it from the paddock to the plate, wherever it was sold - at home or overseas. [More…]

• The election of the grower representatives was referred to by the honourable member for Corangamite (Mr Street). [More…]

• He tried to make out that we said before the election that there would be a grower controlled board. [More…]

• I do not know what the honourable member may or may not have said to his growers prior to the last election but certainly many people, including the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby), I believe would have made some rather strange remarks prior to the last election. [More…]

• Honourable members will have no trouble in recalling the way in which the Liberal Party inserted advertisements in the name of the convenor of the Australia Party, Mr Gordon Barton, at the time of the last election, encouraging Australia Party voters to depart from their Party card. [More…]

• During the recent New South Wales State elections, in the electoral district of Coogee a number of citizens who applied for postal ballot papers did not receive them, despite the assurance by electoral officials that they were posted. [More…]

• As there is a strong possibilty that certain ballot papers have been either lost or stolen in the post, will the Postmaster-General institute an immediate inquiry into this matter in order to ascertain whether the ballot papers were ever posted and/or whether there was any interference with the mail in order to deprive electors from exercising their right to vote in what is a very close election? [More…]

• Newspapers all over the country carried reports of a speech made at Griffith by the now Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) on 19 November 1972, just 13 days before the election. [More…]

• If this is rejected by honourable members opposite then that is their choice, but as far as I and the majority of the Australian people are concerned I think the effort that has been made by the Prime Minister in conformity with his promise made at Griffith 12 days before the last election should be commended and we will implement it. [More…]

• But naturally the people of Australia would accept the principle that such a referendum would be held in conjunction with other referendums or with an election for the Senate or for the House of Representa tives. [More…]

• Again these are the kinds of people who at the last election the Labor Party was supposed to champion and to appeal for directly. [More…]

• Honourable members may take their pick about the motive, but the fact is that at election after election the Government has promised that it will not terminate Queensland’s free hospital system. [More…]

• He has accepted the present system in Queensland, and the vote achieved by the Labor Government in Queensland at the last Federal election, when one of the election issues was health, indicated that the people of Queensland will not have a bar of this scheme. [More…]

• I hope that at the next election the people of Toowoomba remember that the Prime Minister endeavoured to close the foundry. [More…]

• I compare his attitude to that of my colleague, the honourable member for Gippsland (Mr Nixon), who, prior to the last election, saw fit to carry out an inspection of the Toowoomba foundry. [More…]

• It is not often that one hears of a person coming from Queensland complaining about the finest State in Australia, the best governed State in Australia, a State which has a Government which has been returned constantly and a State in which the percentage of the Labor vote fell at the last election. [More…]

• In point of fact it ridicules and shows just how pathetic and paltry were the prices that were obtained in respect of contracts that were approved by the previous Government immediately before the election. [More…]

• Ever since they have asserted this principle and have promised at every election that they would not reverse it, they have maintained power, albeit on a minority vote, in the Queensland Parliament. [More…]

• When it went to election last year, it said that it was going to have a national health scheme and one of its first decisions in government was to set up the Deeble-Scotton committee to tell it what it ought to do. [More…]

• It was never understood by the Australian Labor Party at the time of the election, much less by the public. [More…]

• We, the Opposition Parties, are more concerned about health than is the Government and we are more responsible, and on this basis we will be glad to conduct an election campaign on the issue. [More…]

• The national election of that year demonstrated the growing acceptance of them. [More…]

• In the three years between those elections, we had the chance to develop our policies further and to explain them in greater detail to the Australian people. [More…]

• There can be no doubt that this basically new program was thoroughly understood in the 1969 House of Representatives election and in the 1972 House of Representatives election. [More…]

• I think this illustrates the importance of the Senate and the importance, while this Government goes on as it is, of maintaining always in the Senate and after the next election an anti-Government majority. [More…]

• The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) In pursuance of undertakings given prior to the election, a list of the reports prepared by or for the Bureau of Roads in recent years has been provided to the Prime Minister with a view of his considering their release. [More…]

• The honourable member is blatantly disregarding the people’s expressed view on 2 major questions that were put at the last election by having the Senate vote against them consistently. [More…]

• Under the previous Government, contracts were signed by Sir Reginald Swartz as Minister for National Development - I believe criminally signed - 3 weeks before the last election to sell uranium at $6 per lb. [More…]

• But the platform of the Labor Party determined by the Launceston Conference in 1971 contained the policy which prevailed during the election which took place on 2 December 1972. [More…]

• Later, again under the heading ‘Fuel and Energy’ - and this policy was available for all Australia to see at the time of the last House of Representatives election; yet Opposition members put up the spurious argument that these matters were not in our policy speech - the Platform provides: [More…]

• They know as well as we do that we will be back in office after May or June, or whenever an election is held. [More…]

• I am certain that no member of this House would be able to confuse the concept of a loan as distinct from a grant which, of course, was promised by the Prime Minister in the course of the earlier election campaign. [More…]

• But I hope that the point will not be lost on the Minister because although we welcome the Government’s initiatives in this area we accept them with certain qualifications which I am sure we are required to put on the record: What the Government now proposes to provide is quite different from what was promised at the pre-election compaign. [More…]

• The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch), the previous speaker, referred to a statement by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) during the 1972 election campaign. [More…]

• This Bill will provide funds for the implementation of the first stage of this Government’s election promise of action to enable the principal water and sewerage authorities to embark promptly and economically upon a continuing program to provide services in their areas by 1978. [More…]

• The Prime Minister in his election policy speech spoke of the sewerage backlog being overcome by 1978 which, of course, is only 5 years away. [More…]

• If we had a double dissolution the issues would not be just this narrow issue, although I .am prepared to fight an election on that issue; but the real issues would be defence and foreign policy. [More…]

• He has until the next election for this House so honourable members opposite had better make their interjections loud and clear now. [More…]

• We will miss him after the next elections. [More…]

• I am able to say, as I will say in a joint policy speech at the next general election, that we will, as a coalition government, restore these payments. [More…]

• We will fight the next election on this principle. [More…]

• Also, a great deal of confusion was created by various Labor members of Parliament and Labor candidates for election to Parliament who said that if the Australian Labor Party became the Government, the means test on eligibility would be completely abolished. [More…]

• The Minister reminds me of the shire councillor who, on election as shire president, ensures that the road from town to bis front gate is sealed immediately. [More…]

• When the Labor Party was seeking to woo the voter at the last Federal election, it made all sorts of rash promises. [More…]

• In discussing this allegation with Mr Hastings it was learnt that any applications for -a postal vote received after 6 p.m. on the day before the election, i.e. [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to statements by the Chairman, Mr St. John, at the opening of the Conference for the Retention of Australian Ownership, that the Liberal Party’s failure to stop foreign ownership in Australia was one of the main reasons why Labor came to power in thelast Federal election, that the Labor Government despite its initiatives had not stemmed the flood of foreign ownership and that no detailed figures relating to foreign ownership were available; if so, are these statements well founded. [More…]

• The fact that Dr Cameron, was the first Australian Minister for Health to address the Assembly, and his election as vice-president, illustrate the esteem in which he was held in health circles. [More…]

• Non-compliance with accepted procedures was also evident in the control by the Department over expenditure on the establishment and election of the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee; temp orary cash advances to officers; travel; and certain other expenditures from the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account. [More…]

• The Prime Minister also said in election policy speeches: We will restore the second mail delivery’. [More…]

• Had the PostmasterGeneral not read that election promise of the Prime Minister? [More…]

• 3 position in the Labor Party team in Victoria for the forthcoming Senate election. [More…]

• In fact, as long ago as the 1969 election Senator Willesee, . [More…]

• This above everything else shows the importance of the Senate and the importance of keeping the Australian Labor Party out of the Senate at the next election. [More…]

• It has been suggested that this time table is necessary because of a desire on the part of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to hold all these referendums at the time of the Senate election. [More…]

• He has not announced the date of the Senate election so how do we know whether it is urgent to have these Bills panicked through the House at this point? [More…]

• If he were fair dinkum about it the Prime Minister would announce the date of the Senate election. [More…]

• He would then let us know the time table for getting these Bills through the House and to the Senate so that the questions could appear on ballot papers at the time of the Senate election. [More…]

• The Government says that it needs this timetable in order to have the referendum pro posals dealt with at the same time as the Senate election is held. [More…]

• But how can we know whether this matter is urgent when we do not know the date of the Senate election? [More…]

• The plain fact of the matter is that nobody has been told officially what the Senate election date is. [More…]

• The public media have been saying that the Senate election date will be 11 May. [More…]

• Why cannot the Prime Minister say when the Senate election will be held? [More…]

• The Prime Minister says that we must have a referendum in order to have a Senate election at the same time as a House of Representatives election. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is committed to hold the Senate election before 30 June next. [More…]

• he can go there tomorrow, or he can go there at any time and say: ‘I want to bring the elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives into the same time frame. [More…]

• Then we can see that he, as President of the State branch of the Australian Labor Party in Victoria, is confident of a Labor Party victory in Victoria in the forthcoming Senate election. [More…]

• If he wants to show his strength of purpose and character and his influence as President of the State branch of the ALP in Victoria, and if he is prepared to vote for this Bill, then he should say to the Prime Minister: T want this; I want simultaneous elections. [More…]

• But in the extraordinary convolution of logic that he will apply to this matter, he will vote for this Bill, that is to say, he wants simultaneous elections, but then he will sit back meekly and mildly and not insist on an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• In 1954 we had an election on the boundaries which were determined by the Labor Government in 1949. [More…]

• You will be gone after the next election and we will all be happy about that. [More…]

• The first of the 4 Bills being debated cognately is the Constitution Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) Bill 1974 (No. [More…]

• Does anybody deny that we should change the procedure by which a Senate election is held one year, 18 months later an election for the House of Representatives is held and some 18 months thereafter a further election for the Senate is held? [More…]

• Of course simultaneous elections need to be held so that government can be continuous. [More…]

• Too many elections are held in this country and therefore the Constitution should be altered to enable simultaneous elections to be held for the Senate and the House of Representatives in accordance with that alteration. [More…]

• This cognate debate covers the Constitution Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) Bill, the Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill, the Constitution Alteration (Local Government Bodies) Bill and the Constitution Alteration (Mode of Altering the Constitution) Bill. [More…]

• There can be no doubt that at the last election this Government received a mandate to carry out, to formulate and to implement policies for our cities both old and new. [More…]

• Because these questions would be decided at the same time as a Senate election is held the attention of the people may be diverted away from the domestic issues. [More…]

• We have just seen an election in Britain under the first past the post system. [More…]

• For example, if this proposal had been operating at the time of the 1969 election the greatest advantage in Victoria would have gone to 8 Labor seats, and a disadvantage to 11 Liberal seats. [More…]

• Fewer national elections brought about by the holding of Senate and House of Representatives elections concurrently would simplify and sharpen the political process. [More…]

• Voters would know the choice before them - the election of a government which they could more confidently expect to effectively carry out its mandate. [More…]

• If a simple majority of votes is sufficient for election to this Parliament, if a simple majority of voters in each State, and across the Commonwealth, ds good enough, then a majority of the States should suffice. [More…]

• The Bills before the House seek parliamentary approval for the conduct of 4 referenda which the Government proposes to hold conjointly with the Senate election in May. [More…]

• The Constitutional Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) Bill seeks to alter the Constitution to ensure that the Senate elections are held at the same time as the House of Representatives elections. [More…]

• There is no constitutional constraint to the holding of simultaneous elections for both Houses of the Australian Parliament. [More…]

• It is the Prime Minister’s prerogative to call an election for this House in May. [More…]

• We were and are prepared to fight an election on the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill, on the Commonwealth Electoral Bill, on the Health Insurance Bill or the 4 Bills now before this House. [More…]

• The Prime Minister repeatedly threatened to go to the people o these major issues and each time has been forced to acquiesce to the pressures of Government members, and, more particularly, his own realisation that an early election would see the defeat of the Whitlam Government. [More…]

• Just as we will actively campaign against the Government in the forthcoming Senate election, so too will the combined Opposition parties campaign against these referenda proposals. [More…]

• Some of those whom I know voted for my Labor Party opponent at the 1972 election voted clearly and unmistakably for a No-No vote in that referendum. [More…]

• They have heard the statement of the Prime Minister that he intends to join, in the next Senate election, the referendum on these Bills and have realised that something is going on in the land about which they are not clear. [More…]

• Each suggests that the time is not appropriate for the submission to the people of this referendum - certainly not at the time of the impending Senate election. [More…]

• The Constitution Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) Bill 1974 is a rather interesting Bill. [More…]

• The House of Representatives, being elected for a 3-year or shorter period must of necessity be constantly looking towards the next election whereas the senators with a longer span are able to make a more balanced approach to legislation. [More…]

• Also, the argument was put just a few minutes ago by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in the Committee stage that the reason for this Bill is to make sure that elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate are held on the same day. [More…]

• He cited the instance of the United States of America where by its constitutional arrangements all elections are held in December of whatever year it might be. [More…]

• The first or second Saturday in December is election day and all elections are held on that day. [More…]

• If the Prime Minister seriously wants to achieve that objective he can achieve it simply by fixing a statutory date for commencement of terms for the House of Representatives and making it coincide, with an election date for the Senate. [More…]

• It wants to be able to go to the people with an election when it thinks that it can sufficiently bribe the people by largess from the public purse. [More…]

• It wants to be able to manipulate the date on which an election is to be held. [More…]

• But if the Government is serious about having elections on the one day, it could achieve this without trying to annihilate the Senate. [More…]

• First of all, he said that if we called for a general election now this would resolve the problem, lt is quite correct to say that it would resolve the problem for that election but the same thing could happen ad infinitum. [More…]

• There would not be a guarantee of simultaneous elections in future; it would be only for one election. [More…]

• It asks: Are you in favour of the democratic election of Parliament? [More…]

• Of course we are all in favour of the democratic election of Parliament. [More…]

• Every election due in any Parliament will have been held before 1 July 1976. [More…]

• That being so, to carry out my election undertakings I had to sponsor a referendum. [More…]

• My Government made it plain, as I had made it plain during the election campaign, that the Constitutional Convention would be quite futile if local government was not represented at it. [More…]

• Nevertheless, the Government still had its obligation to the people and to local government to carry out what it had promised in the election campaign. [More…]

• On 25 February there was the first suggestion from Mr Punch that it might be inappropriate for the referendum to coincide with the Senate election. [More…]

• I think the very fact that it is hastening its passage through this Parliament and the fact that it is not prepared to listen to the Constitutional Convention or to the arguments of those committee members who have been examining the measure in detail or to consider the measures that have been advanced by the States indicate that the Government is not really concerned with the passage of the Bill but rather is concerned to get a package that it can present at a Senate election - a package which, I submit, is designed to confuse the electorate. [More…]

• One would see the Government as trying to gain support at the polls for its Labor candidates in the Senate election, not based on any premise of providing order and good government for this country but based on providing a confused understanding of where it is taking, by way of change, the Australian people and the Australian electorate. [More…]

• Apparently it is proposed that the constitutional alteration proposed in this legislation should be put with 4 other referenda at the Senate election which presumably will be held in May. [More…]

• Firstly we have discussed the grossly misnamed Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill. [More…]

• I agree with the purpose of the other 2 Bills - the Constitution Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) Bill and the Constitution Alteration (Mode of Altering the Constitution) Bill. [More…]

• I think the reason came out in the remarks of the honourable member ‘for New England (Mr Sinclair) when he talked about the concurrent holding of a Senate election when the referendums were put. [More…]

• In other words, what this amounts to is that the Opposition does not want a popular referendum - one which it supports and which it knows everybody will support - to be held concurrently with a Senate election. [More…]

• Having said that and, I believe, responding in a responsible fashion to what the Leader of the House has just said - we seek to claim no political credit for the malfunction which has taken place - I want to go on record as saying that, despite the precedent to which the honourable gentleman referred, this situation is really a little different because it concerns 4 major constitutional Bills which the Government has put before this Parliament as Bills of fundamental importance which it intends to take to a Senate election. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in his policy speech before the last general election stated explicitly that fee abolition would also apply to technical colleges. [More…]

• I know that the people listening to this broadcast are thinking of a Senate election which will take place very shortly. [More…]

• We adjourned on 26 September 1969 for an election. [More…]

• It is getting very close to the 25 per cent that was promised by this Government prior to the last election. [More…]

• It is also proposed to limit the amount of money spent in election campaigns so that no person because of wealth will have an advantage over a person who has not been so fortunate. [More…]

• There has been a new spirit of change since the election. [More…]

• The Liberal Party introduced what I thought was a progressive change in the election of its executive. [More…]

• If we took notice of some of the things that are said on the other side of the House, for instance the opposition to having Senate and House of Representatives elections held concurrently, we would have unstable government. [More…]

• But if an election is held every single week legislation will be thwarted and we would never get anything done in this country. [More…]

• The Australian public recognised this in 1972, and I believe that they will recognise it when this Government comes up for election again. [More…]

• Mir LYNCH - The honourable member for Robertson who is alleged to represent one of the largest pensioner groups in the Australian community might be better advised to stand in this House and tell the community that he advocates some form of indexation which will ensure that his people and those who may well have voted for him at the last election are better protected than they are under the policies of his Government at the present time. [More…]

• I am amazed that one could prepare an address outlining the various issues that a government proposes to introduce from now until election time which could be so weak. [More…]

• Young people - the people that the Labor Party sought to support it at the last election - are now paying substantially higher interest rates on their homes, the one major purchase people make in their lives, yet here we have in government a high interest rate party. [More…]

• It means, firstly, that if the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in particular is genuine and if he wants to bring the elections for the 2 Houses together he is but a few short miles and a few short minutes away from Yarralumla, and I am certain that the Governor-General would accede to his request for a double dissolution. [More…]

• Let us go to the polls and let the country judge at a Senate election which will be held in May. [More…]

• If we look at the results of elections held in the various States we can see that the Government does not have a mandate from the majority of States. [More…]

• No government can claim a mandate for the sort of policies which it has enunciated during an election or in the years prior to an election. [More…]

• I think that national ownership was one of the things through which the Australian Labor Party gained much support in the 1972 election. [More…]

• People have seen from a national control of our resources, by speaking on a national scale to those countries to which we were selling our resources and which so often join together to deal individually with people in Australia to the detriment of Australians, that for the first time, because of the election of a Labor Government and the appointment of Mr Rex Connor as Minister for Minerals and Energy, that they are dealing with another set of people. [More…]

• For instance, prior to the last election promises were made about interest rates. [More…]

• If so, in view of the forthcoming Senate election, will he clarify the position ‘for electors in order to avoid confusion and informal votes? [More…]

• In view of the projected legislation dealing with the registration of political parties and, just as importantly the forthcoming Senate election, it is necessary for the people to know precisely the parties contesting elections in order that they may avoid in many ways informal votes. [More…]

• It will campaign - I say this for the benefit of the people and to assist the Country Party - in the Senate election in May under the name of Country Party, except in Queensland where it will run a joint ticket with the Australian Democratic Labor Party under the name of the National Alliance. [More…]

• I understand that in respect of the 1974 Senate election, on 10 March the Country Party and the Democratic Labor Party announced that they would be running a joint ticket under the name of the National Alliance. [More…]

• By the way, for the benefit of the people, those arrange ments will be for the Senate election only and do not imply any merger of the 2 parties. [More…]

• In Western Australia on Wednesday, 13 March, the leaders of the Country Party and the DLP will launch a joint campaign for the Western Australian State election under the name of the National Alliance. [More…]

• I hope this explanation will avoid people casting a false vote and, in effect, will avoid people casting informal votes at the forthcoming Senate election. [More…]

• Where is the Minister for Immigration who used to come in here caterwauling week after week last year and who went out at election time making promises a mile long and who has delivered nothing? [More…]

• The Government is now in a position where it is finding that it is impossible for it to pay for the programs it promised prior to the election. [More…]

• No matter what vacillations take place in the final determination of what will happen to the superphosphate bounty and no matter what plaintive cries come from members of the Labor Party who supposedly represent rural electorates, the action which the Government has taken against the rural sector will be seen clearly and precisely by the people in the country and their attitude will be expressed at the next Federal election. [More…]

• A few months ago our opponents were howling for an election. [More…]

• With the 4 opinion polls released in recent weeks showing that the Government’s stocks have risen considerably, they are still calling for an election but with not quite the same enthusiasm. [More…]

• Despite their air of bravado they manage to convey, they are acutely conscious of the problems they would face in an election as day by day, week by week, voters become conscious of the new Australia that is starting to emerge as the Government’s program starts to imprint itself on the consciousness of the electorate. [More…]

• In a general election, unfortunately for the Opposition, that attention will focus on them. [More…]

• Horrifying as it must be to them to have to face an election without policies or programs, it must be even more scary when they think of who has to present nothing to the electorate. [More…]

• As a Labor member, I relish the prospect of an election campaign between the clown prince of politics, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) and the best Prime Minister Australia has ever had. [More…]

• In order to provide such widespread benefits, Governments often have to impose extra taxes and often have to change the order of priorities, but let me assure honourable members opposite who fancy their chances in an election that the Australian people are daily becoming more and more aware of just how many benefits are being planned and implemented in their communities. [More…]

• The purpose of the speech was to bolster the flagging chances of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) of winning support at the Senate election. [More…]

• So I ask the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) who is at the table to run a message to his leader and say to him: ‘The Opposition parties want an election of the House of Representatives to accompany the Senate election’. [More…]

• We want that election so that the people of Australia will have the opportunity to see what are the policies of the Labor Party compared with those of the Liberal and Country parties, and to decide whether they want to continue with this Government or would prefer to have us return to office. [More…]

• Prime Minister - please do not get it wrong like the boy scout - what we are saying is: Have an election for the House of Representatives with the election for the Senate. [More…]

• If the Government is afraid of an election it should understand this: If an election of the House of Representatives is not held with the election of the Senate, the Prime Minister and his Party are acknowledging that they will have to continue to govern the country with a Senate which they describe as obstructionist or hostile. [More…]

• At the time of the 1972 election inflation was not an issue. [More…]

• I repeat that the only way to avoid 2 more years of the downward movement of the social and economic standards of this country, to get rid of the confusion and the uncertainty, to restore Australia to a strong path of growth and social justice where the poor and the weak can have an increase in living standards which they are not enjoying now, is to have an election. [More…]

• The Prime Minister must have a Senate election before the end of June. [More…]

• That can be done by an election in the next month. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party realised years before the 1972 election that these problems existed and emphasised the fact that on taking office its first consideration would be a grant to commence construction of the Westmead teaching hospital and to relieve the position with regard to hospitalisation within the area as quickly as possible. [More…]

• The Government is prepared to hold 5 referenda in conjunction with the forthcoming Senate election. [More…]

• If it is so fond of seeking people’s opinions on a host of matters, why does it not put its own credibility to the test and its future on the line by holding an election for the House of Representatives on the same day as the next Senate election? [More…]

• In the months before the 1972 election the then Prime Minister, Mr McMahon. [More…]

• At the very time when a great increase in the supply of money in the community was being engineered by the then government in order to win political kudos for itself in a difficult election year, the banks were being encouraged to lend money to all comers and for all purposes. [More…]

• We know that the effect of the prorogation is to take everything off the notice paper to allow the Prime Minister to orchestrate the business of both the House of Representatives and of the Senate, in a period when we are, as we know, approaching a Senate election. [More…]

• So he will attempt to build up in the minds of the people of Australia the thought that the Senate is obstructionist and therefore the Government’s candidates at the forthcoming Senate election should be returned. [More…]

• 1 have the official figures of the Queensland Stat: general elections held in 1956. [More…]

• I can remember how the main roads gangs and railway gangs were moved about at election time just to make sure that the seats went as Labor wanted them to go. [More…]

• One can rationalise that in any way one likes by using percentages, but the facts are that if the system is to be democratic every person who is above the age at which a vote is allowed and is an Australian citizen or a British subject is entitled to vote, and any diminution of that right to have a full vote in the election of a parliament is a denial of democratic principle. [More…]

• That now discredited Labor Party election pamphlet entitled ‘It’s Time - Economics’ asked the rhetorical question: why has our rate of inflation grown so fast that the interest rate on money we save no longer even covers the loss from inflation? [More…]

• The Government’s pre-election commitment to a generally low interest rate structure has been dishonoured in the same way as many similar commitments have been dishonoured. [More…]

• that he cannot name one constitutional authority to support the view that in the last election he received any mandate in the way that he expresses it. [More…]

• It has been said outside this place by the Leader of the Opposition that the proposal to hold a referendum on this matter - this referendum is most likely to be held at the time of the Senate election - is designed to create a giant gerrymander in Australia and proposes undemocratic processes of elections. [More…]

• I think that the Labor Party in that State which at almost every election receives better than 50 per cent of the vote is able to elect 2 out of 19 Legislative Councillors. [More…]

• I believe that there should be some standards which all parliaments in Australia should be required to meet as regards the election of representatives to govern. [More…]

• I hope that this change will take place at the next election. [More…]

• An example of this is the situation in New South Wales where the Government redistributed the seats so late in an election campaign that the Electoral Office was not able to send a member of this Parliament ballot papers for the electorate in which he was enrolled. [More…]

• The honourable member told us that his ballot paper was delivered to him the day after the election. [More…]

• In New South Wales while the Liberal and Country Parties have been in office there has been a redistribution before every election - three in 7 years. [More…]

• Unfortunately, some people in my electorate were gulled into voting for the Australian Labor Party at the last election. [More…]

• So, as I said, if it were not so tragic it would be laughable that people misguidedly voted for the Labor Party in the last election, believing that at least in one sphere there might be some semblance of order, some progress and some development. [More…]

• The Government proposes to ask the Australian people to approve of various amendments to the Constitution by way of referendums at the time of the next Senate election. [More…]

• The first of these proposals is to allow an amendment to the Constitution to ensure that Senate elections are held at the same time as House of Representatives elections - a reform designed to correct the position created by [More…]

• Sir Robert Menzies when Prime Minister, which requires an election each year. [More…]

• Mr Whitlam, the Prime Minister of Australia, as Leader of the Opposition before the last election, promised that the Government would take action on this matter. [More…]

• People are sick and tired of going to an election each year. [More…]

• They have a State election one year, a House of Representatives election the next year, and a Senate election the next. [More…]

• Why should the Senate election not be held at the same time as the House of Representatives election? [More…]

• There are at least 2 endorsed Labor Party candidates for the next general election working on the staffs of Ministers of this Parliament. [More…]

• I wonder what the advice from the Treasury to the previous Government on revaluation was just prior to the last election. [More…]

• There was the total stagnation that existed in Australia just after that Budget and prior to the 1972 election. [More…]

• The Association concluded this very interesting document with the words: ‘Mr Uren will have to gallop out of his complacent canter that he showed prior to the last election’. [More…]

• lt went into the 1966 election saying that Australia had been invited by the South Vietnamese Government to commit forces to South Vietnam. [More…]

• The previous Government was mesmerised in its conduct not only of aid programs but also in its conduct of foreign policy by the technicolour election winning formula of the Red menace and the yellow hordes which regrettably had operated for far too long. [More…]

• The previous Government did stir itself when an election was pending, but at the end of the 1972-73 financial year, 42 per cent of the money appropriated in the 2 categories that I have just mentioned was unspent because of inadequate preparation for the task that was so belatedly recognised. [More…]

• Before resuming my seat I would like to refer to the shocking record of the Government since its election to office, particularly its record in the part of the world from which I come. [More…]

• Of the many programs put forward in the time leading up to the election in 1972 to my mind 2 stood above all others. [More…]

• In the event unemployment rose to unacceptable levels, but more significantly the foundation for 1973 increases in inflation was laid in the election year of 1972 when that government, whose members are now in opposition, sat back and did nothing effectively to curb the huge inflow of capital which created such difficult problems in 1973 on the liquidity side. [More…]

• A Senate election campaign is coming up. [More…]

• As I said, there is a Senate election campaign to be financed. [More…]

• Indeed, it has lost the confidence of many people who supported it at the last election. [More…]

• On the other hand, the people knew and endorsed the Labor Party’s whole program in the 1972 election and they want results. [More…]

• In these debates on defence, foreign affairs and world oil supplies the Opposition showed its weakness of not having reviewed its outdated policies which were rejected overwhelmingly by the people at the last election. [More…]

• They will have their chance at the Senate election later this year. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition wants an election. [More…]

• His friends on the other side, particularly in the Country Party do not want an election. [More…]

• The Senate election will not come fast enough for us, so that we can get on with the job which in 1972 we were asked to do. [More…]

• The honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Lamb), for all his brave words, must be quivering in his shoes at the thought that his Leader might creep out to the Governor-General, in his usual style, and advise the Governor-General to call a House of Representatives election without consulting the honourable member. [More…]

• Nothing would terrify the honourable member for La Trobe more than a House of Representatives election at the present time because if there ever was a classic ‘oncer’ in this House it is the honourable member for La Trobe. [More…]

• Press in the last few days, hurriedly with the Senate election on his doorstep - orders some of these United States patrol frigates. [More…]

• This is one thing the Opposition ought to stop and think about when it continues to call for a general election. [More…]

• So I suggest that before the Opposition starts calling for an election, it should think about the policies on which it will stand. [More…]

• But I accept the word of the right honourable member for Richmond who said at Griffith during the 1972 election campaign - he said it honestly, and I give him credit for it: ‘We had to get the industry to accept quotas’. [More…]

• If this is so, has he been overruled by someone and can he give an assurance to the House that the decision will not be reversed after the State election? [More…]

• It is well known that from the days of Sir John McEwen onwards, BHP has contributed very substantial amounts to Country Party election funds. [More…]

• Last week we mentioned that Mr Anthony’s call for the Government to approve higher steel prices was in no way influenced by the fact that BHP gives large sums to Country Party election funds- [More…]

• Obviously the honourable member who started tilting at the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) a couple of weeks ago when the Prime Minister announced the removal of the superphosphate bounty, had to redeem himself in the eyes of his own rural electors in order to try to ensure his re-election at the next [More…]

• One might wonder where is the concern of the present Government for the city dweller upon whom Mr Whitlam sought to rely so much in the last election. [More…]

• What has happened to the appealing pre-election Utopian economic and social welfare policies of this Government? [More…]

• It was the Prime Minister as the leader of his Party, who boasted to the nation prior to the election that a Labor Government would restore industrial order and ensure good industrial relations. [More…]

• Let no one who votes for the referenda and the Whitlam Government at the Senate election be heard to complain after the event that they did not know the gun was loaded. [More…]

• This policy was carried out last year with two $1.50 increases, the first of which was made retrospective to the first pay after the election. [More…]

• For many years in the Legislative Council elections we had a very restricted franchise. [More…]

• At the last State election, due to .a large number of enrolments - enrolment for the Legislative Council was voluntary - we were able to wrest 2 of these seats from the Liberal Party. [More…]

• I am sure that they will indicate their support for this program at the Senate election which will be held very shortly. [More…]

• It is indisputable that the Government has broken a clear election promise, which fooled many people, over defence expenditure. [More…]

• It was explicitly stated in its election material on defence that defence spending would be maintained at 3.5 per cent of gross domestic product. [More…]

• I propose accordingly to discuss one aspect of the current debate on that relationship and I shall approach the topic by way of a brief comment on the current Western Australian State election campaign. [More…]

• The Western Australian election is only 11 days away and there has been an amazing change in public expectation as to its result. [More…]

• Mr Tonkin, as the Premier, goes into this election with a background of honest effort and solid achievement in the interests of his State. [More…]

• Every one of his 1971 election commitments has been honoured, excepting only those proposals, particularly price restraints, which were frustrated by the Liberal-Country Party majority in the State Upper House. [More…]

• Sir Charles Court, on the other hand, as the election comes closer increasingly gives the impression that his well known compulsion for knocking is now being rivalled by his sense of desperation. [More…]

• It is all very novel and entertaining but not really helpful except in terms of assisting Labor’s re-election. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, I am sure you would appreciate, as would all politicians, how tempting it is particularly at election time to concentrate on the more obvious absurdities in Opposition proposals. [More…]

• Parts of this debate seem to have developed into putting the pros and cons before the people of Western Australia of their election which is to take place on Saturday week. [More…]

• I believe that in his remarks about the election campaign in Western Australia and his comments on Sir Charles Court the honourable member did really less than credit to Sir Charles Court who is Leader of the Opposition in the Western Australian Parliament. [More…]

• But that is part of a price that one pays for trying to simplify a matter which could appear in an advertisement during any election. [More…]

• He is a positive man, and as leader of a Western Australian government, as I fully expect him to be after the election on 30 March, he will not be, as we have had for the last 3 years, a leader of a do-nothing government but he will be a leader of a vigorous government which is earnestly attempting to find - practical solutions which will increase standards of living in the widest sense. [More…]

• We all remember very well what happened soon after the 1972 election. [More…]

• The Senate election doesn’t have to be held until the end of June because the senators who will be elected will take office on 1 July. [More…]

• Ordinarily Senate elections, like ‘House of Representatives elections, are held on Saturdays. [More…]

• So, accordingly, it would be possible to have the Senate election on the last Saturday in June. [More…]

• The vital nature of the Senate election is, of course, apparent. [More…]

• But let us consider what would happen if the election for the Senate were held on 29 June. [More…]

• Everybody is aware that it takes three or four weeks to finalise the counting of votes in a Senate election. [More…]

• I do not think the Prime Minister has much chance of getting a working majority among the 60 senators after the election. [More…]

• I think that the Senate election will go against him significantly. [More…]

• It will be on the fifth seat in each State that the Senate election will really be determined and it is on those fifth seats that we will be making up our leeway on the continuing 30 senators who will not be retiring this year. [More…]

• Never before has an election of the Senate been concluded before the retiring senators have left their places in the Senate. [More…]

• I know that there are some doubts but it seems to me that it is probable that if the Prime Minister does the unthinkable and, as he has threatened in his Press conference, if he delays the Senate election until 29 June I think it will be possible for a State to step in and see that an election is held at an earlier date so that the senators for that State will be ready to take their places in the Senate on 1 July when the other senators go out. [More…]

• I can assure him that he will get the surprise of his life and will realise that he has wasted 20 minutes of the time of this House when the Senate election date is announced. [More…]

• Only just prior to the last election it got a big lift to 20 per cent when the previous Government saw what was happening in the electorate. [More…]

• Under the arrangements proposed by the Australian Government there would still be the 6 Premiers, 6 representatives elected by and from local councillors in each State through a process of free election by a method to bc determined by the councillor; themselves, and 4 representatives of the Australian Government. [More…]

• But the point to which I want to draw the attention of the House is that Mr Kennedy has been reendorsed as the Labor Party candidate for Bendigo at the next Federal election. [More…]

• This simply means that Mr Kennedy is campaigning - and no one would deny that - for the next election and his salary is being paid by the taxpayers. [More…]

• If I were a social worker with qualifications I do not think that I would be voting Labor at the next election. [More…]

• I suggest to honourable members that Mr Mick Young is employed in the Prime Minister’s Department at the taxpayers’ expense in order to campaign for the next Federal election. [More…]

• During the election campaign Mr Young travelled with the then Leader of the Opposition in VIP aircraft. [More…]

• Before I leave the staff of the Prime Minister’s office, I point out that he also appointed to his staff a Mr Colin Bednall, who was the defeated Labor candidate for Flinders at the last House of Representatives election. [More…]

• I do not know whether Mr Bednall has been reendorsed as the candidate for Flinders at the next House of Representatives election. [More…]

• Mr Cameron stated in Adelaide the night after the last House of Representatives election- [More…]

• I quote what Mr Clyde Cameron said in Adelaide the night after the last House of Representatives election. [More…]

• I suggest this, reinforced with the memory that just 2 elections ago a Mr C. J. Sumner was the endorsed Labor candidate against me. [More…]

• He was, unfortunately, defeated at that election! [More…]

• Mr Harry Webb was defeated at the last election. [More…]

• any of you chaps are defeated - and some of you will be defeated at the next election - you will all have jobs if the Labor Government is lucky enough to stay in office. [More…]

• The point is that, prior to the 1972 election, the now Minister for Education and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) had solemnly promised to the people of Australia on platform after platform in words spoken and in words written that assistance in this area, in particular state aid, would be in addition to current commitments and expenditure which was already Commonwealth expenditure. [More…]

• Tonight and, indeed, this year, we have heard the Minister for Education revert to this principle which he avowed before the election but which he deserted or was possibly forced by this Party to desert last year. [More…]

• Now they are getting it but only because of action we took in this House last year to keep the Government to its promises which it had made solemnly again and again before the election. [More…]

• It could not get its members to hand out how-to-vote cards for Senator Neville Bonner at the last Senate election in Queensland, and on this occasion they are not prepared to run with him on the same ticket. [More…]

• It is a policy on which this Government was endorsed in the 1972 election. [More…]

• Their then leader as Prime Minister at the last election said that pensions, if his Government at that time had been returned, . [More…]

• A 13 per cent increase in that $20 would mean that today, the third occasion on which, if a Liberal-Country Party government had been re-elected, it would have increased the pension rate since the 1972 election, the pension would stand at $22.64 for the standard rate pension. [More…]

• Of course, that was a Senate election year. [More…]

• It can be seen that increases occurred in election years - elections for either the Senate or the House of Representatives. [More…]

• In 1966, an election year, the pensioners received an increase of $1; but in 1967, a non-election year, nothing. [More…]

• In 1969, an election year, the increase was $1. [More…]

• I now refer to Senator George Hannan, the well liked and respected colleague’ of the Leader of the Opposition, who shocked his former associates yesterday when he announced his resignation to lead a 3-man Liberal team called the National Liberal Party at this year’s Senate election in Victoria. [More…]

• In quite a non-political way, to assist honourable members opposite in their hour of need and to avoid the confusion that exists between the trendy and the non-trendy Liberals, the Country Party Alliance, the National Alliance and the National Country Party, I suggest that the best way to make a formal vote in any following election is to vote No. [More…]

• The relevant Constitution Alteration Bill makes it plain that there will not be an election in the normal course to replace any senators until the election for the House of Representatives after next. [More…]

• As I said last night, under the LiberalCountry Party Government pensions languished between 18 per cent and 19 per cent of average weekly earnings and reached 20 per cent just prior to the last election. [More…]

• We will get rid of one of the most obnoxious features of politics in this country whereby pensioners were guaranteed a rise only in an election year and afterwards were ignored. [More…]

• It ill behoves the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen) to try to distract attention from the problems which the Labor Government is facing in fulfilling its election promise to increase pension rates to 25 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]

• The Labor Government is caught in a cross-fire between an election promise to raise pensions to 25 per cent of average weekly earnings and runaway inflation. [More…]

• What we have had since the election of this Government, particularly in this Bill is a qualitative change as well. [More…]

• In mid-November 1972, which was just about the date of the last election, the pension rate was $20 and the appropriate CPI for that date was 127.7. [More…]

• If pensions had been increased as the last Government proposed in its election policy speech to increase them according to movements in the consumer price index and if pensions were to move for the third time through biennial increases they would now be only at $22.64 a week with the passage of a Bill similar to this one - that is, pensioners would be some $3 a week worse off under a Liberal-Country Party government than they will be under this Government. [More…]

• Mention has been made from time to time of preelection promises. [More…]

• I want to refer to two of the pre-election promises of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam). [More…]

• In a speech in 1972, prior to his election to office, the Prime Minister said that the basic pension rate will no longer be tied to the financial and political considerations of the Budget. [More…]

• The other matter to which I wish to refer in relation to the comments of the Prime Minister prior to the election is his specific reference to repatriation. [More…]

• The Prime Minister, in his pre-election speech, definitely implied to the 20,000 or more TPI pensioners that if the Labor Party was elected the pension would be immediately raised to the minimum wage and kept at that level. [More…]

• I ask the Government to give an assurance that it will adhere to its pre-election undertaking to meet its obligations and immediately adjust the TPI pension to the new minimum wage. [More…]

• If you are men of your word you would keep the promises that the Prime Minister made on behalf of the Labor Party in his pre-election speech in 1972. [More…]

• It all boils down to the fact that the Labor Party fooled the Australian people in 1972 with a slick promotion campaign which glosses over the misleading and wildly irresponsible promises contained in the pre-election speech which was delivered by the Prime Minister. [More…]

• It is because there is to be an election? [More…]

• I have heard rumours of there being an election towards the end of the month. [More…]

• He ascribes that, it seems, to a transparent election device. [More…]

• In October 1972, I first approached the Prime Minister, who was then Leader of the Opposition, to ask whether he might be interested in a suggestion for his forthcoming election platform. [More…]

• The right honourable gentleman knows quite well that on some occasions it is possible for his colleagues or his confederates in the Senate to prevent the will of the majority of the members elected at the most recent Federal election, that it is possible for senators elected in December 1967 and in December 1970 to frustrate the will of the people expressed in the election of the House of Representatives in 1972. [More…]

• Within weeks of the election of the Government the Prime Minister announced interim arrangements to replace the old ad hoc bodies so that support for the arts could be continued, commitments honoured, and the planning of new programs begun. [More…]

• I approached the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in October 1972 with a suggestion for an election platform item. [More…]

• The result was that on 17 November 1972, at an election speech in Forrest Place, Mr Whitlam made this project a commitment of an incoming Labor Government. [More…]

• This is an area which we members of Parliament know fairly well because at election time we stand on a platform there and harangue anybody who is, perhaps, foolish enough to come along. [More…]

• On 17 November 1972 - honourable members will recognise that as a date just before the last Federal elections - the present Prime Minister made a speech in Forrest Place in which he said: [More…]

• When one looks at the files and cuttings one realises that these matters are raised only at election time - in December or November 1972 and now early in 1974. [More…]

• I believe that the debate exposes the fact that the motion is completely a party political manoeuvre which is solely in the interests of helping the Labor Party in the elections on Saturday week. [More…]

• When the Government attempts to break a principle - this has been ventilated quite clearly - and where publicity can be given to actions that the Government intends to take just prior to an election, we ask why the matter was brought to the Public Works Committee without the documents being ready. [More…]

• The reason was, I submit, to give publicity and political advantage to this Government in the State election and also in the Senate elections because of what it is going to do for the Western Australians. [More…]

• The Prime Minister promised the creation of the new Forrest Place Plaza at an election meeting in Forrest Place shortly before the 1972 Federal elections. [More…]

• Firstly, it is election time in Western Australia - and I will pull no punches as far as that is concerned. [More…]

• An election is coming up in Western Australia and if some advantage can be gained by this - I doubt very much that there are any votes in it - and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) thinks so, then why not bring it before the Committee ahead of the elections to let the Western Australians know that the money will be spent in Western Australia? [More…]

• The Prime Minister promised the creation of the new Forrest Plaza at an election meeting in Forrest Place shortly before the 1972 Federal elections. [More…]

• It is useless for anyone to contend that this is a State election gimmick and to say in the same voice - what is true, of course - that the Prime Minister was strongly advocating this development back in 1972. [More…]

• Is it a bad thing for a government to encourage such a matter to become an election issue? [More…]

• The State elections are imminent. [More…]

• Why should such a matter now not become an issue in the State election campaign? [More…]

• When all is said and done, it seems to me that if a Court government instead of a Tonkin government is elected in the Western Australian elections, one of the sequels will be that the redevelopment of Forrest Place, Perth, will not take place. [More…]

• The Government during its election campaign said: ‘Labor will deliberately plan to reduce interest rates wherever practicable’. [More…]

• I remind the House that 3 months before the last Federal election my predecessor in office, Sir Reginald Swartz, wrote to the WoodsideBurmah company suggesting that it should disclose what it had found and expressing his concern at the low Australian equity in the company. [More…]

• I wonder why at that time they did not stand on their feet and say exactly the same things as the honourable member for Wilmot is now saying, perhaps in an attempt to clear himself as an election looms on the horizon. [More…]

• However, because of the fact that various pastoral finance companies and houses are finding more money for loan funds in this industry, and of course others, I thought it only right, in view of the incredible remarks of the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) a moment ago, to remind him again - it must be 3 months since I have - that it was his promise during the last election campaign to make $500m available at, from memory, 3 per cent per annum interest. [More…]

• It would be nice if the Minister’s statement or so-called statement or alleged statement made to primary producers in some sectors of Australia at the time of the last election campaign were true. [More…]

• As you know, Mr Speaker, there is to be a Senate election on 18 May and there will still be half the Senate remaining in office. [More…]

• It could he vital if the Labor Party could engineer, before the next Senate election, a casual vacancy for a long term non-Labor senator for either Queensland or Western Australia, which are the 2 vital States because these are the States where with 5 vacancies the split would be likely to be 3 to 2 against Labor, but with 6 vacancies the split would be likely to be 3 all. [More…]

• It has endeavoured to disenfranchise the people of Queensand at the forthcoming election, because the split must be 3-3 and they will not be able to express their preferences for the Government or the Opposition by a split of 3-2 which is possible if there is an uneven number of senators to be elected. [More…]

• When a country’s standing in political rights is analysed, attention is first directed to general elections. [More…]

• We want to know how recently there has been an election, and whether there was any competition. [More…]

• In an election we want to know the percentage voting for a particular party or candidate for head of state. [More…]

• Unless the country is very small, the more secondary elections there are, and the more power the winners gain by election, the more democratic we assume the society. [More…]

• In all elections we want to know what percentage of the people participate, and how exclusions are created. [More…]

• Adelaide was not the only one who made that statement prior to the last general election. [More…]

• My friends from the Australian Country Party and country members of the Liberal Party will surely spell out between now and the next election the long term effects of the Coombs Report. [More…]

• It could be vital if the Labor Party could engineer, before the next Senate election, a casual vacancy for a long term non-Labor senator for either Queensland or Western Australia, which are the 2 vital States– [More…]

• I will not mention tonight the $500m at 3 per cent which was the alleged promise - I will be careful - of the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) prior to the last election because I want to go one stage further. [More…]

• Let us couple that situation with the referendum for so-called democratic elections. [More…]

• On the other hand, the referendum for so-called democratic elections will base electorates on total populace including those below 18 years of age which will give a biased result in some inner city suburbs. [More…]

• Let us consider the results of the recent election in Western Australia. [More…]

• That percentage was accurately portrayed at the last election. [More…]

• Tonight I raise a matter that I think will be of the utmost importance to the Australian electorate at the time of the forthcoming Senate election. [More…]

• I want to refer to a matter that will have very serious implications for the Australian people and the Australian taxpayer in particular if the Australian people are saddled, after the Senate election, with a non-Labor majority in the Senate which takes the same attitude as the present non-Labor majority in the Senate has taken in relation to land acquisition in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• I believe this is something that the people must bear in mind very closely when they cast their votes at the Senate election on 18 May. [More…]

• If so, why has there been such a delay in finalising this election promise. [More…]

• I stated on 21 March 1974 (Hansard, page 755) that it is intended that the referendum for the proposed law be held concurrently with the Senate Election, which it is proposed will take place on 18 May 1974. [More…]

• Prior to the last election I found it difficult to discover any in depth review of the freeway schemes which were causing concern to so many people. [More…]

• Our political opponents in the Liberal and Country Parties may win future elections in Australia, although I very much doubt it, and they may resort to their deflationary tactics if they do win - that is, by cutting government expenditure, creating unemployment, slashing prices and bringing misery and wastage to this country. [More…]

• They may win an election, although we doubt it, and do all this over again, but the people of Australia will bitterly regret the day they allow this to happen because all this achieves is wastage, unemployment and misery. [More…]

• If they fail to pass it will mean that the Government must go to an election. [More…]

• We would then make suitable arrangements for the appropriations now sought to be passed after the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) had announced that there will be an election and a dissolution of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• That is but a small recitation of the whole range of policies which we would put before the Australian people at an election. [More…]

• When we go to an election we will put clearly before them the alternatives - this in the economic and social field, and this in the foreign affairs and defence field. [More…]

• The only way to determine that is by an election for the government of Australia. [More…]

• Then we would make appropriate arrangements for the money to be made available after the Prime Minister has announced a dissolution of this House and the calling of an election so that the people can decide. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, it is not just time for the election of a government of Australia but for a parliament of Australia - an election of the whole Parliament of Australia. [More…]

• There will be an election, as things stand, for the Senate on 18 May. [More…]

• If a Senate, so archaic in its election, can refuse supply at this stage, it could refuse it again after 18 May. [More…]

• I shall advise that he issue writs not only for an election of the House of Representatives on 18 May but also for the election of a new Senate on 18 May. [More…]

• A writ for a Senate election issued by a Governor-General of Australia subsumes any writs issued by State governors - colonial governors. [More…]

• But if the Senate gives me that ground then I shall certainly also have reinforced grounds - grounds which have never been available in the 73 years of this Federation - as well as those for rejection of Bills for advising the Governor-General that there should be an election for the whole of the Senate as well. [More…]

• It is the view of the Australian Country Party that the behaviour and record of this Government since its election have been such that the grounds for an election have existed for a long time. [More…]

• This week’s events have strengthened our conviction that the Prime Minister can honourably take no other course than to call an election. [More…]

• It won the election principally by the votes of people in Sydney and Melbourne, but nowhere else in Australia; yet it claims that it has a universal mandate to bring forward whatever form of legislation it wishes. [More…]

• If the Minister for Secondary Industry and his gaggle of colleagues who represent the so-called Cabinet of this country are prepared to make loose allegations as to the success of their policies so far, let them face the music, let them go to a general election so that the people of this country will have an opportunity to record their vote, and to reject the discredited nature of the present administration. [More…]

• The Opposition Parties will reject the Bills before this House in order to force the Government to call a general election and face the country - a decision which the discredited Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) has so far refused to take, despite his vain protestations that he is in fact a lame duck Prime Minister. [More…]

• In these circumstances no government with any sense of national responsibility could avoid the prospect of a general election. [More…]

• At successive elections since that date the Australian Labor Party has been decisively rejected. [More…]

• That was the case in the Victorian State election, the New South Wales State election and the Western Australian State election. [More…]

• It was also the case in both the Greensborough and Parramatta by-elections. [More…]

• It has exceeded its so-called mandate and dishonoured the promises which it had put down in the context of the last election campaign. [More…]

• The pre-election promises made by the Government to implement a deliberate plan to reduce interest rates have been completely abandoned. [More…]

• If the Government believes that it can stand successfully on its record, let it put this to the test of a general election. [More…]

• I say in conclusion simply that we totally reject the Bills because we believe that this country ought now to have an election. [More…]

• This will be an important issue in the forthcoming election campaign and if honourable members opposite are prepared to fight it they should vote for this motion for the suspension of Standing Orders. [More…]

• Undoubtedly it will be a major election issue and undoubtedly the Health Insurance Commission will be an important one. [More…]

• It should permit those gentlemen in another place to take their minds off ex-Senator Gair, their distinguished colleague to whom they object so strongly today, and let them discuss this matter of urgent national importance before the elections so that the people will know which is the party in this country that stands against good health insurance for the Australian people and so that they will know what is Labor Party policy. [More…]

• Earlier tonight, on the most important issue which they said they have ever brought before the Parliament - when they challenged us to an election - the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) stood alone in this place with not one person behind him. [More…]

• Therefore having formally moved the motion for the suspension of Standing Orders I suggest that it will be carried if those opposite want to put to the Australian people one of the most important of election issues and to let those in another place know where they stand on this issue and let them know that they are against it and that they will not hide and run away from their responsibilities when they face the Australian electors. [More…]

• Yes, because it is frightened by the prospect of a general election. [More…]

• We are prepared to brin to acount in terms of a general election. [More…]

• He would not last in an election. [More…]

• It has been our intention, and we are fulfilling that, to reintroduce this Bill because we regard health as an important issue at any election, but not the only issue. [More…]

• There are many other important proposals which attracted public support for this Government at the last election and which still hold powerful appeal to the community. [More…]

• We are quite happy to have this as one of several key issues to be debated in the course of this election. [More…]

• We are doing this because the introduction of an equitable and efficient health insurance program covering all Australians was one of our major election promises and one which was clearly approved by the electorate. [More…]

• Instead of opposing I would suggest that the Opposition tonight should go further than that and in the course of the debate and in the forthcoming election campaign it should explain exactly the cost of any proposals it has to rectify the defects in its scheme and indi cate from where the money is to be raised, given its clear undertaking that it will cut back savagely on public expenditure. [More…]

• They are chosen by the present board or council and they are the only people who have a vote in the election of the officers. [More…]

• We are allowing debate now and we will be happy to debate this issue in the forthcoming election. [More…]

• We are prepared to fight in the forthcoming election on this issue and the other key issues for which we believe we have a public mandate. [More…]

• The Government reintroduced it only as a desperate political gambit for the forthcoming election campaign. [More…]

• Because of the proposed election it now remains to be seen whether they will be introduced. [More…]

• I myself undertook during the last election campaign to conduct a competition for a national anthem, and I detailed the proposals on Australia Day last year. [More…]

• That Government was not able to implement that legislation because the government changed at the election. [More…]

• It introduced the measure just before the general election of 1972. [More…]

• From all these proceedings - the minutes of these meetings, the agenda and the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention - it was quite clear that all the Premiers wished the Constitution Alteration (Interchange of Powers) Bill to be put to the people at the next Federal election. [More…]

• The fact is that every head of government in Australia expected that the Constitution Alteration (Interchange of Powers) Bill would be put to the people by the Australian Government at the next Federal election. [More…]

• Accordingly, this Bill will be put to the people at the subsequent Federal election. [More…]

• The point of my reference to the Constitutional Convention Committee A on Friday 22 March was that following the rejection by the Senate of the Constitution Alteration (Inter-change of Powers) Bill I reported to the other representatives from the State Parliaments that it would not now be possible for the Australian Government to put to the people at the forthcoming Federal election the Bill which last September at the Constitutional Convention and at the various meetings in between of draftsmen and Attorneys-General it had been agreed that the Australian Government should put to the people. [More…]

• Because in our parliamentary system the Speaker is elected by the House on each occasion it meets following an election, for the House, it follows that the Speaker always comes from the Government side. [More…]

• If they thought that the things they were putting over today in their electioneering speech were correct, why did they not oppose your appointment to the Chair? [More…]

• All honourable members opposite supported your election as Speaker. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, on behalf of the parliamentary members of the Australian Country Party, I congratulate you on your unanimous election to the position of the supreme office bearer of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• We only have a couple of week to go if there is an election’. [More…]

• Had the next House of Representatives election in Western Australia not been held until 1975, it is likely that the gap between enrolments in these 2 Divisions would have closed considerably. [More…]

• It is clear from the tone of his argument that the Government is fully expecting an election. [More…]

• On television last Thursday night when the Prime Minister was asked whether he would proceed with an election if the Appropriation Bills were passed by the Senate he said ‘no*. [More…]

• So let us not have any talk about the Government welcoming an election. [More…]

• The Prime Minister earlier may have called an election but he chose not to do so. [More…]

• In my view, and the view of Liberals in Western Australia, if the redistribution could have been achieved before the December 1972 elections it probably would have been to our benefit. [More…]

• On the basis of the results as they came out, I think it was more likely to have been 6 to 4 because after the December 1972 elections the Liberal and Country Party had 5 seats and the Labor Party only 4. [More…]

• I point out that since the current system of elections came into being for the Senate in 1949, Western Australia has never returned more than 2 Labor senators out of 5 at an election. [More…]

• I suppose that at this stage it is only history but so much was made of it both before and after the election that it is high time some rebuttal was offered. [More…]

• Perhaps if there had not been the possibility of an imminent election the Government may not have introduced and agreed to the proposals with the 3 qualifications made by the Minister today. [More…]

• He was saying that if the next election were held in 1975, which is the full term of the Government, the electorates which are under quota would have caught up. [More…]

• I am particularly pleased to see that in this case under this Government at least Western Australia is having some allowance made in that, facing an election, we are making room in the timetable to bring forward this particularly pertinent piece of legislation which at least will give some respect to Western Australians true feelings. [More…]

• However, I am delighted that Western Australia is to have a tenth seat in the forthcoming election and I am delighted that the status quo will be preserved. [More…]

• My only regret is that it could not have been done prior to the last election so that Western Australia would have had at least another member on the Government benches. [More…]

• House especially those from Western Australia will certainly see that this motion is given speedy acceptance so that the redistribution may be put into effect for the election that we fully expect will be held very shortly. [More…]

• I am quite confident that I will still be there, much as Government supporters would like to see the change in boundaries result in the election of a Labor member for Stirling. [More…]

• I refer to areas such as Woodlands, Wembley Downs and Double View, which supported me so well in the 1972 election. [More…]

• It is equally obvious, too, that with the election for this House which will be held on 18 May, the Government could not go to the people of Western Australia without having given the tenth seat to them. [More…]

• We know that the Government had the opportunity further to delay these proposals, if not to reject them outright, which it has the right to do if it so desires, and had there not been an election on 18 May, it would have rejected these proposals and sent them back to the commissioners. [More…]

• We on our side of the House are happy to go into an election on 18 May with the new boundaries, and we are happy that the people of Western Australia will have this tenth seat. [More…]

• There can be little doubt that had it not been for the election of this House which is to be held on 18 May, the matter would not have been brought forward by the Minister last Thursday. [More…]

• Surely the situation is that even had the Government brought in the redistribution the day after it was elected to office the situation would not have changed until the next election. [More…]

• It was not until just a few days ago that there was the possibility that there could be an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• Had the previous Government acted as quickly as it should have done there would have been a tenth seat in Western Australia before the last election. [More…]

• The Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) has acted very quickly and very correctly to ensure that whenever the next election comes forward the people of Western Australia will gain this tenth seat. [More…]

• Having represented the Merredin-Yilgarn area for about 6 years and the Esperance area for many many years, I would like to place on record my sorrow that those areas will not now come within my electorate at the next election, whenever it is to be held. [More…]

• Clearly the Government has a constitutional responsibility to provide for a redistribution in Western Australia prior to the next election, which we anticipate will be held on 18 May. [More…]

• There are 14 separate steps that must be taken in accordance with statutory times, so it was impossible between 27 September 1972 and a proposed election day before the end of that year to undertake a redistribution in Western Australia. [More…]

• There is no way in the world that the elusive concept of one vote one value can be achieved unless there is a redistribution the day after a census and an election the next day or very closely to it. [More…]

• 1 am sure that the honourable member for Gwydir would recognise that with an election in December 1972 and no sittings of the House until 1973 the appointment of Distribution ‘ Commissioners in June 1973 was not an undue delay. [More…]

• We were not ali possessed of the prescience that there would be an election within less than 12 months: The normal assumption of one who is elected for 3 years is that he will carry on for 3 years. [More…]

• If 48.8 per cent of the vote in the State election in Western Australia is a sign of no confidence in Labor, may I ask what 10 per cent of the vote for the National Alliance is? [More…]

• I would be very happy to see reproduced in Western Australia in the election for both the Senate and the House of Representatives the vote that took place at the recent State election. [More…]

• However, 1 did not come down in the last political shower and I know that people do not necessarily vote the same way in State and Federal elections. [More…]

• I do not care what result is derived from an election as long as it is indicative of the way the people voted. [More…]

• I ask: What is an election about if it is not ascertaining the peoples’ will? [More…]

• Australian Capital Territory in the event of a general election for this House before the Distribution Committeefor the Australian Capital Territory has completed its task. [More…]

• This Parliament has already enacted legislation supported by the Opposition to give the Australian Capital territory 2 membersfrom the next House of Representatives election. [More…]

• The appropriate procedures for the Division of the Australian Capital Territory into 2 areas have been in train for some time but, because of the unprecedented threat made by the Opposition to deny Supply to a popularly elected Government, it may be necessary to hold a general election for this House before the Committee has completed its task. [More…]

• If a general election for this House is held without the passage of the interim measure proposed by this Bill, the people of the nation’s capital will be denied any form of democratic representation. [More…]

• because of the unprecedented threat made by the Opposition to deny supply … it may be necessary to hold a general election for this House. [More…]

• To cope with the urgency of the possibility of an election on 18 May this Bill has been introduced to ensure the creation of a new seat in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• The Opposition is seeking to deny the Australian people an opportunity which is their entitlement - an opportunity for their elected Government to give effect to the legislative obligations which it has, following a sweeping victory in a general election. [More…]

• Why is it that the Australian Country Party, in particular, and the Liberal Party are so terrified of an election? [More…]

• I repeat that it is quite remarkable to see the change in policy emphasis between this document and the concepts which dominated the thinking of the Liberal Party prior to the last Federation election. [More…]

• The Opposition cavils at the concept of the Bill, but in fact the concept of it was approved by the people at the 1972 election, because the content of the Bill was announced by the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), when he was then Leader of the Opposition, in his policy speech in Blacktown in 1972. [More…]

• There is the prospect of a double dissolution, and the passage of this Bill through the House of Representatives, if the Bill is again rejected by the Senate, will qualify it for a pass in the event of a joint sitting of the 2 Houses of the Parliament, should the Labor Party be returned after the election in the same position as it is in now. [More…]

• These 2 Bills are being reintroduced now so that, in the event of the Senate refusing Supply, they will become an issue - an essential part of the action - in any double dissolution election which would follow. [More…]

• The Australian people would expect the Australian Industry Development Corporation to be a central part of that election. [More…]

• But I think that many people who did not feel strongly about the last election will feel strongly about this one. [More…]

• This is part of the Government’s dirty tricks’ campaign and the tissue of fabrications on which it intends to base its election campaign. [More…]

• The Labor Party Government won an election as recently as December 1972 when one of the issues concerned foreign ownership and control of Australian resources. [More…]

• The Opposition forced a showdown with the Government on the question of an election and a double dissolution. [More…]

• Anyone who saw him on television last Thursday night knows that the Prime Minister does not want an election. [More…]

• Of course, he would have called an election if he wished to have one. [More…]

• he said: “The election will not go on*. [More…]

• Let us have an election; let us have another look at them’. [More…]

• The Government is now about to be forced into an election. [More…]

• In the 3 years prior to the Labor Government’s election at the end of 1972 a massive upswing in lending by banks, major life offices and permanent building societies occurred - so much so that the total amount of loans approved by these lenders in 1972, that is $2,28 lm, was 62 per cent higher than in 1971 and 105 per cent higher than in 1970. [More…]

• The laugh will be taken off their faces at the next election. [More…]

• ‘I am quite sure that I can say on behalf of the Opposition that when it is re-elected after the next election on 18 May it will implement immediately the Coombs report, which confirms that the Liberals would spend $13m immediately, $18m the year after, and SI 30 thereafter. [More…]

• a Senate opposition whose party had just been completely defeated at a general election, would be in command of the government of the nation. [More…]

• The Government would be more sincere if before the election on 18 May it paid the amounts of money that it has promised. [More…]

• The report in the ‘Courier-Mail’ of today’s date, from which I am reading, states that the airport is in the electorate of Lilley, which was won narrowly by Mr F. Doyle, Labor, in the 1972 elections. [More…]

• I do not have much time, but I want to say that I was concerned when listening to the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Cooke) because whenever I hear Liberals talk about Labor Party members and their election signs I recollect vividly that the Labor candidate for Lilley lost a great number of his signs in 1966. [More…]

• If, after this election, we are introducing a universal health insurance scheme and people wish to approach us and put a point of view, accepting the changed situation where we no longer have a Senate which is impeding every major piece of legislation which we are bringing before this Parliament, I will talk to those people. [More…]

• The House is debating today a very serious matter, a matter which is central to the forthcoming election - that is, that the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) and the Government have misled the House and the people of Australia over the Government’s health proposals which are supposedly to be one of the major features of the Government’s election program. [More…]

• These are all serious matters and matters that must be considered as we approach an election. [More…]

• This is one of the important election issues. [More…]

• We have an election at hand and we have in front of us a serious example of a senior Minister misleading the Parliament and the Australian public and resorting to desperate tactics when cornered. [More…]

• This is what the people of Australia must face up to on election day, 18 May. [More…]

• We are shortly to have a general election. [More…]

• As I said, we have an election imminent in Australia. [More…]

• The Minister said at his Press conference on Sunday that these decisions will defuse defence as an issue at the coming election. [More…]

• Does the Minister really think that they will think that the leopard has changed its spots just because he has chosen to announce the spending of a miserable $350m on defence equipment on the eve of an election? [More…]

• Will they forget the shameful dishonouring of an election promise to spend 3.S per cent of the GNP on defence? [More…]

• He has had a change of heart; or has the imminence of an election concentrated his mind wonderfully? [More…]

• At the outset I would like to refute the squeals from the spoilt babies in the Opposition who say that this announcement is an election gimmick and that it is too little too late. [More…]

• It is rather tragic that today an assessment of a rolling program should have been brought forward only because of the imminence of the new threat that apparently emerged at the weekend - the threat of an election. [More…]

• So, long after, on the eve of an election, we get a decision by the Minister, which is a non-decision because he has not even told us which aircraft he is going to buy. [More…]

• I can look after myself like the people of Queensland will look after the honourable member at the next election. [More…]

• It is pretty obvious that, when the Govern- ment senses urgency - apparently it does with a general election pending- money can be found for all sorts of things particularly in certain electorates about which the Labor Government apparentily has very good reason to be concerned. [More…]

• The action to be taken later in connection with this matter will be considered, as the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) has already indicated, in the light of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) having gone to His Excellency the Governor-General, handed in his request for a double dissolution or handed in his request for at least a dissolution of the House of Representatives and subsequently set a date for a general election. [More…]

• That is a typical illustration of the way in which, as the momentum of an election draws upon the Government, there is a concentration of its thinking to recognise the contribution that primary industry can and does play in the Australian community. [More…]

• Otherwise a Senate opposition whose party had just been completely defeated at a general election, would be in command of the Government of the nation. [More…]

• Mr Gair will have been forgotten in a week or two and then we will have nothing but an Opposition which wants an election because it thinks it could win. [More…]

• If Australia is to have a system of government in which the government can be eroded, obstructed and frustrated and forced to an election every year or so, people will despise the whole process. [More…]

• When Gair is forgotten the real issues of this election will be seen. [More…]

• Pensioners would be able to squeeze out of it only what fear of losing an election would permit, and that very often only in the Budget before an election. [More…]

• A general election for the Government of Australia will now be held. [More…]

• I assure the Minister for Services and Property and all who sit behind him that I will do my utmost, and with what impoverished means I have at my disposal, to ensure that after the election they sit on the Opposition side and we sit on the Government side. [More…]

• I want to say to the House and to the country that while in this House I challenge on the most proper of grounds the basis of this election - and I will do so in the electorate - I will have something to say about the circumstances under which it is brought. [More…]

• Obviously difficulty has a catholic selection. [More…]

• That is why I say to my friends opposite: ‘No matter how this election may be brought about, count upon one thing: Wherever I am given a platform in this country, I warn you, I will ensure that the people of Australia understand the sense of irresponsibility that controls you.’ [More…]

• I should like to point out to the Minister for Services and Property that that is how he will be walking on this side of the House after the election which the Government by its acts in this country have succeeded in bringing about. [More…]

• Let us look at this because this is the background to this great event on the eve of an election which this country is facing. [More…]

• The House of Representatives can be sent to the people every 6 months by the Senate, without the Senate itself ever having to answer to the people, except once every 3 years in the splendid by-election type isolation which normally surrounds Senate elections. [More…]

• Opposition is defeated in an election. [More…]

• Unfortunately, his opportunities are limited only to election day. [More…]

• It is only a short time since a by-election was held for the seat of Parramatta. [More…]

• This project was commenced and a site subsequently was acquired, albeit after the election of 1972. [More…]

• During the by-election he produced roughly drawn diagrams which appeared, strangely enough, in the newspapers in Parramatta. [More…]

• This answer differs greatly from the comments made by the Minister during the by-election campaign and differ greatly from the recognition that I have paid and the Minister paid some 16 months ago to the urgent need to sat isfy the demands for real accommodation - that is Government-owned accommodation - in this important metropolitan centre. [More…]

• I would expect the Australian people to be very interested in the outcome of this matter: It will be a significant matter in the forthcoming election. [More…]

• Or is he hoping to avoid a general election? [More…]

• Whilst the decrease in unemployment figures since the election of the Labor Government indicates an improvement in the economic welfare of the country, does the Minister have any figures indicating whether the reduction in the unemployment figures is the total measure of the buoyancy of the economy and the benefits that flow to those seeking work? [More…]

• The Government does not lightly by-pass the Public Works Committee but recent events in Parliament, such as the intention by the Opposition to refuse supply and force the Government to hold a general election, has put the Government in a difficult position if it is to face the need for a new terminal in a responsible way. [More…]

• With the greatly increased complexities raised by the intrusion of an election campaign and a general election for both Houses of Parliament, then the delay could well extend to almost a year, given the return of this Government. [More…]

• Those honourable members who sit opposite clearly must share the blame, if not predominantly accept the blame, for the fact that the time honoured custom of referring such projects to the processes of the Public Works Committee cannot effectively be fulfilled in the present situation while the House is facing the prospect of an election. [More…]

• He would know, first of all, that the holding of an election could possibly take up to 18 May. [More…]

• Recently - before the Western Australian State election - we had what I would call a very grave exposure of the way in which the Government is beginning to use the Public Works Committee. [More…]

• In this case, with an election coming up, no one consulted this side of the House. [More…]

• The fact is that last Sunday Cabinet met in Canberra under most unusual circumstances - the threat of an election. [More…]

• All of a sudden when we were faced with a double dissolution and a general election for this House and the Senate last Monday we heard the first announcement of money to be spent on Brisbane airport. [More…]

• Today we have a motion that the Public Works Committee be bypassed so that the work can be started and capital can be made out of it by the Government in order to support the shaky chances of the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Doyle) at the next election. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite talk about this proposal being an election gimmick. [More…]

• They claimed that this was a political gimmick which was brought on because an election is pending. [More…]

• Let me quote from an article in the Brisbane Telegraph’ of Wednesday, 22 October 1969 - 3 days before the Federal election of that year on Saturday 25 October. [More…]

• The contract for the site filling as a preliminary part of the work can be let and the work can be under way before the election day so that the people of Brisbane will know at last that the pre-election promises about the Brisbane Airport will be achieved, that the pre-election promises by this Government about the Airport will proceed to the point of completion, not as happened on so many occasions with the last Government’s pre-election promises for the development of the Brisbane Airport. [More…]

• What I am saying is that if the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) would make plain what he is doing and whether he is about to dissolve the Parliament for an election, we would co-operate. [More…]

• We cannot examine them, but we were prepared to allow them to go through this House when the Prime Minister stated that there would be an election. [More…]

• He still refuses to state that there will be an election. [More…]

• The Prime Minister, this man who is supposed to lead the destiny of this country, this man who is supposed to provide leadership, this man who has that duty entrusted to him apparently does not know to this moment whether he will have an election. [More…]

• Why does he not come into the House and say that there will be an election, the writs will be issued on a certain day, nominations will close on a certain day and the election will be held on a certain day. [More…]

• I said: ‘Well, I will co-operate with you, but I would like you to co-operate with me by telling me the date for the issue of writs, the date on which nominations close and the election day’. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) either does not know the dates for the closure of nominations, the issue of writs and the election because Caucus has not yetapproved them or there is another possibility - I think this is a real possibility - he is dreaming up some political skulduggery. [More…]

• The whole of the Australian nation, and everybody in the House, has assumed that we are to have an election. [More…]

• I hope that he enjoys being Government Whip for these remaining few hours, because he is coming to the end of an undistinguished period of service in this House at the next election. [More…]

• He deserves his fate when he supports a man who is able to contemplate a national election in which political opportunism, conspiracy and skulduggery are applied against a man who has the right to present himself to the people for election. [More…]

• I unhesitatingly request this House to support the nomination made by me and seconded by my friend from Brisbane for the election of Mr Cope to be the Speaker of this House. [More…]

• For 2 parliaments prior to his election to the high office of Speaker at the start of the last Parliament Mr Cope was a Deputy Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• Honourable members who were here in the last Parliament will recall that after the December 1972 election the position of Speaker was not contested. [More…]

• Of course, not only one person contested that position; there were a number of persons, all of whom obviously believed, as they offered themselves as candidates for election as Speaker, that either they had better qualities or that the man who is the nominee of the Government is unsuited to hold the position of Speaker. [More…]

• Members are entitled to stand for election to an office. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition, who will find out shortly that he lost the election - I repeat it; and in another place they reckon that is right, too - said on the occasion of the honourable member for Sydney being elected as Mr Speaker: [More…]

• I congratulate you on your unanimous election to the position of the supreme office bearer of the House of Representatives … [More…]

• I have to report that, accompanied by honourable members, I this day proceeded to the Library of the Parliament and presented myself to His Excellency the Governor-General as the choice of the House and that His Excellency was kind enough to congratulate me on my election as Speaker. [More…]

• This was given as the reason for his defeat at the polls in the 1966 election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• I ask: Does the Treasurer recall telling the Australian people just before the election that ‘inflation was on the way down’? [More…]

• Was this statement made, as some have claimed, to defuse inflation as an election issue? [More…]

• The predictions - if one could call them that - that were made by the Leader of the Opposition and other Opposition speakers before the last election have proved to be wrong as far as May and June are concerned. [More…]

• Let us reflect that during the recent Federal election campaign the Federal Treasurer (Mr Crean) who sits opposite at the table, consistently denied the existence of a credit squeeze. [More…]

• Who in this chamber will forget the attacks upon the private banks of this country made by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) during the course of the last election campaign? [More…]

• It has abandoned the Prime Minister’s 1972 election promise that: [More…]

• That was said in August 1971 and, of course, the consequences of that policy were so disastrous by October and November 1972 that when an election was held the Government was turned out of office. [More…]

• Nothing that the Opposition speakers have said in this debate or in the election campaign has given one word of assistance, one word of indication of how they might deal with the situation. [More…]

• So the first point that I make is that I do not believe that the Leader of the House (Mr Daly) realises how necessary it is, if matters such as these are to be considered effectively, that those who have been elected to this House following the last election should have the chance to debate these pieces of legislation. [More…]

• We seek only to introduce and perpetuate, as far as possible, the principle of ‘one vote one value’ and to ensure that the result of an election will reflect the opinion of the majority. [More…]

• However, I will refer to the results of the House of Representatives election held on 18 May 1974, because they so adequately illustrate the inequity and injustice of the present system. [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…]

• With regard to the term of office proposed by the Bill for Territory senators, I would remind honourable members that 16 years ago the Constitutional Review Committee, upon which all parties were represented, recommended that there should be an election for half the senators every time there is a general election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• Bringing elections for Territory senators into line with House of Representatives elections accords with the recommendation of that Committee. [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…]

• Consequently in respect of representatives of the Territories there will be elections for both Houses of Parliament at the same time. [More…]

• On its election in December 1972, the Government established a Health Insurance Planning Committee to develop in detail the proposals which had received such solid community support prior to and during that election campaign. [More…]

• Accordingly 75 minutes which might have been devoted to this important legislation, on which a general election was called, was wasted. [More…]

• He has returned to this country after having studied the Canadian election. [More…]

• No doubt the Government will claim that the election result represents a mandate for it to force this legislation through the Parliament. [More…]

• Let us not forget the outcome of the election. [More…]

• I know it is hard to imagine the Minister keeping quiet about anything but he said nothing about the fact that enrolments in electorates in Canada - this situation applied in the most recent election held only a few days ago - vary from 7,500 people to 80,000 people. [More…]

• If honourable members examine the situation in Britain they will see that at the election this year there was a variation in electoral enrolments of 22,683 to 96,300. [More…]

• I refer to the results of the election. [More…]

• He got it from Moss Brothers because he believed that Billy Snedden had won the election. [More…]

• As I understand it, 2 senators will be elected from each territory and the basis of their election will be proportional representation for 3-year terms. [More…]

• What wilt happen is that half of the Senate will go out every 3 years but the senators representing the Territories will go out at every House of Representatives election. [More…]

• It is a matter of vital concern to the people of Australia and particularly so with the election of a Labor Party to the Treasury bench in the House of Representatives because it wants to get a complete and absolute stranglehold as a centralised1 government in Canberra. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Services and Property whether, during his recent visit to Canada, he investigated the Canadian Election Expenses Act which provides for the disclosure of campaign funds to political parties. [More…]

• Will he also state whether the proposed legislation will necessitate the revelation of the sources of all political campaign funds such as the huge amounts received by the anti-Labor parties from the mining corporations during the recent Federal election? [More…]

• Then he was asked if he would be interested in the Minerals and Energy portfolio if the Liberal and Country Parties won the election. [More…]

• Of course, Mr Snedden still thinks he has won the election. [More…]

• This is the reason why we are bringing in legislation requiring the disclosure of the source of election funds. [More…]

• Therefore the public should know of the sources of some of the funds that went in to try to defeat Labor at the last election. [More…]

• The Government knows this and yet without consultation with the medical profession since the election, without consultation with the private hospitals, the States, the private health funds or with anybody else associated with the delivery of the health care system, the Government, with the persistence of the stupid, is pursuing this course of possible no return. [More…]

• The implementation of the Bill was part of Labor’s election platform in the 1969 Federal election. [More…]

• It was part of Labor’s Federal election platform in 1972. [More…]

• The national health scheme legislatioin was not introduced into the House of Representatives in April until after rejection of the Supply Bill, which meant that an immediate election had already become almost certain. [More…]

• That it did become the subject of these provisions can only be seen as a result of an Opposition decision, presumably deliberate, to again make the health scheme a major element in the recent election campaign. [More…]

• In response to the evidence provided by 3 successive elections and after 6 years intensive campaigning on this very subject, all that the Opposition can bring up is continued reference to some gallup poll which shows that a number of Australians - a majority if you like - are not enthusiastic about [More…]

• Again I emphasise that the Bill we are discussing today is not the outcome of some vaguely worded election undertaking to provide a better health scheme, or some other such generality. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party made a broadly defined policy statement prior to the 1972 election. [More…]

• After that election the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) decided that a committee should report to the Parliament on how the scheme would be implemented. [More…]

• An interjection was just made in regard to the recent election. [More…]

• Yet the Minister stood up in the House yesterday and said that the people of Australia had endorsed the objectives of such a program at 2 consecutive elections. [More…]

• One would have thought that we would have had enough of this nonsense that the Govern- ment has a mandate for every one of its policies just because it had won the election. [More…]

• What happened at the recent elections was that the Government’s majority in the House of Representatives was virtually halved. [More…]

• That was the net result of the election held on 18 May 1974. [More…]

• This rate rose to about 14 per cent prior to the recent election. [More…]

• At the last election 12 of the 18 Labor candidates for House of Representatives seats in Queensland were defeated. [More…]

• I refer to an advertisement which appeared in the ‘Daily Telegraph’ on 14 May - the Tuesday before the election on 18 May. [More…]

• I give him the opportunity of denying the contents of this advertisement which appeared in the newspapers on the Tuesday before the election. [More…]

• This Bill is an important one and one that achieved some prominence during the recent election campaign. [More…]

• It is a principle of logic that a narrow victory by the Government did not represent a complete endorsement by the people of the legislative program of the Australian Labor Party but rather represented a marginal result of a closely balanced election revolving around inflation. [More…]

• When the Leader of the Country Party took this issue, along with other issues, to the Australian people at the last election, the Australian people judged him to be what he was and what is Party is - an apologist for foreign-owned mining companies. [More…]

• If we had been allowed to debate and examine the 54 clauses of the Bill on an earlier occasion I imagine that there would have been some 20 or 30 matters which the Opposition would have brought to the attention of the Parliament and about which the Opposition might have been able to inform the Australian people before they voted at the last election. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) today has taken the unusual course of seeking the suspension of Standing Orders because during the election campaign the Leader of the Opposition made inflation and the economy an issue. [More…]

• The simple fact is that the Leader of the Opposition made this an issue before the election. [More…]

• Since the election all that we have had has been a series of statements from a variety of ragbag Ministers giving their views on the state of the economy. [More…]

• Before the election the Prime Minister claimed that inflation was on the decrease. [More…]

• When the Premiers came to this table in this chamber a few weeks after the election they found out how inflation was on the decrease! [More…]

• At the last election that collection opposite who sit there and think that they won the election, won 61 seats, and it takes 64 to carry a motion for the suspension of Standing Orders. [More…]

• It will be discussed at about the election after next because there will not be enough general business days to get to it sooner. [More…]

• Everybody knows that the Leader of the Opposition fought the election on the issue of inflation, so he said. [More…]

• That was the issue on which the Opposition fought the election. [More…]

• In the Senate the Opposition has swapped 5 Democratic Labor Party members for one Steel Hall and it still does not think it has lost the election. [More…]

• I remember during the election campaign that the Leader of the Opposition and the Country Party leader got a bit out of focus in regard to communication. [More…]

• In addition to that, the Government will never accept the fact that the Opposition won the election. [More…]

• Whatever he says about inflation, whatever he says is wrong with the economy, whatever he says is wrong with respect to Ministers and about other things, let me tell him that the Australian Labor Party was endorsed at the recent election against his leadership. [More…]

• I would expect the Leader of the Opposition to set an example and a ‘high standard of parliamentary representation and not to misuse the Standing Orders of this Parliament in order to bring forward phoney resolutions and issues on which he was defeated at the last election. [More…]

• However, in their inevitable fashion the men of the past finally realised in preparing ‘policies’ for the recent election that the community demanded that the Australian government, regardless of whichever party it was, take action in this field. [More…]

• Such a circle means that delays to this program, such as that which resulted from the action of the honourable Liberal and Country Party gentlemen opposite in forcing the recent election, are even more intolerable. [More…]

• With the injection of finance into public transport through this Agreement we will be able to rectify this wrong which was, to a large extent, perpetuated by the honourable gentlemen opposite in the Liberal and Country Parties by their failure to act whilst in government and then in their shabby approach in forcing the recent election which delayed the introduction of our programs. [More…]

• Such an approach would be as lopsided as that which has developed through the in difference of governments before our election in 1972. [More…]

• If it had not forced an election the nursing homes would have received increased bedday subsidies at a much earlier date. [More…]

• If anyone is in trouble because nursing home benefits cannot be introduced at an earlier date, let him blame honourable members opposite; let him blame the honourable member for Hotham who was as excited and as enthusiastic as anyone to bring on the last election. [More…]

• This allegation was made repeatedly during the recent election campaign. [More…]

• 20 it would not be debated until after the next election. [More…]

• The Minister wants to lay at our door the blame for the horrific dilemma, involving financial and other problems, in which nursing homes find themselves now, because we dared call a general election. [More…]

• There have been many fee increases in the period since the last election. [More…]

• election. [More…]

• The fact that we cannot backdate the subsidies, the fact that private nursing homes are being deprived and have been deprived of this money and that they may find themselves in financial distress is solely th; responsibility of members of the Liberal and Country parties who as a matter of abject political opportunism rushed this country needlessly into an election at great cost to the community only to confirm this Government in office and only to confirm the policies we carried out but to the distress, I repeat, of private nursing homes and th: unfortunate patients in those homes. [More…]

• During the election campaign I said that the scheme for housing interest to be tax deductible would cost an estimated sum of $120m per annum and that about one million home owners would benefit. [More…]

• However, there is no doubt that if the Opposition had taken over the Treasury bench the home buying public would have suffered greatly by the loss of this $120m because the Opposition said during the election campaign that it intended to abandon the proposed tax deductibility scheme and to retain instead the obsolete home savings grant scheme which would benefit only about 40,000 people at an estimated cost of approximately $21m a year. [More…]

• Parliament was dissolved for the election 3 days later and the Senate again failed to consider the Bills. [More…]

• This Bill is designed to give effect to the Government’s decision, which I foreshadowed during the election campaign, to strengthen the Prices Justification Tribunal and extend its scope in certain important ways. [More…]

• I thank all those people in Henty who worked for 5 years to make my election to this Parliament come true. [More…]

• The policies of this Government were not presented to the people a mere 3 weeks before the 1974 election or even 3 weeks before the 1972 election. [More…]

• They were not thrown together for election purposes. [More…]

• When the Government faced an election for both Houses the people clearly confirmed their decision of 1972. [More…]

• The basis of election to a seat in Parliament is service to people. [More…]

• The people made our election possible. [More…]

• I thought that surely some reason prevails in this House and that honourable members know that through no fault of the Government there was an election on 18 May and that the last Parliament was dissolved on 11 April. [More…]

• The highly fortuitous thing about the situation, without elaborating on what the honourable member for Boothby (Mr McLeay) said, is that the Government is facing up to the issues of inflation which were prominent in the election campaign. [More…]

• The election result, which is the subject of the introductory paragraph of the Governor-General’s Speech, was indeed an interesting result in Eden-Monaro. [More…]

• ‘National’ is a word the Country Party will not be able to use again, because it has come out of the 1974 election representing 3 States. [More…]

• The members of the Country Party have paid for the impulsive decision to precipitate an election which had no relevance. [More…]

• During the election campaign it promised that it would provide a special allowance, a contribution or what have you to the homes which would leave a pensioner patient at least $4 to $5 a week for himself. [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to complaints made as recently as last week that there is still ignorance in some quarters as to the outcome of the recent elections? [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to complaints from the same sources that the election held on 18 May was the wrong election at the wrong time? [More…]

• I also understand that there are no shortcomings in the electoral system, as evidenced by the splendid result of the election of 18 May. [More…]

• As for being the wrong election at the wrong time, that all depends on the side from which one looks at it. [More…]

• Although the reason for the election on the last occasion was surprising, those who have seen the results and participated in the election will agree that so far as Senator McManus and the Democratic Labor Party are concerned it was the wrong time, the wrong election and the wrong result. [More…]

• I appreciate the concern that is expressed opposite as to the result of the elections. [More…]

• We have had one or two votes in this House and I do not know just what has happened but we have certainly been winning the divisions even though we are not supposed to have won the election. [More…]

• Prime Minister had the Vernon Committee report since last April and refused to make it public, notwithstanding the fact that we had an election on 18 May? [More…]

• Will he table the Vernon Committee report now and not, as would otherwise appear to be the case, keep it secret until after the results of the by-election in New South Wales next Saturday? [More…]

• The speculation on the matters, of course, preceded the election of the present Government, as was revealed well over a year ago by the former Postmaster-General, the present Special Minister of State. [More…]

• I have a Press release issued by the Minister for Housing and Construction on 2 May 1974, during the election campaign. [More…]

• In other words, it was the Minister himself who said in an election campaign that one million families would receive $250 each. [More…]

• I was heartened to hear during the election campaign the enthusiastic support which the official spokesman for the Opposition on these matters gave to the project of manpower training. [More…]

• Statements were made, before and during the election campaign, in which the Minister indicated that proposals were ready to be placed before Cabinet. [More…]

• The Opposition parties pulled on, forced, what some would call a very irresponsible election. [More…]

• The Deputy Prime Minister was most polite to me and said he would do what he could but shortly thereafter there was an election followed by a strike by marine and power engineers. [More…]

• Everything that the members of the Country Party have said in respect of their policies was put to the Eden-Monaro electorate at the last election and the honourable member for EdenMonaro magnificently triumphed over the rotten polices put forward by those opposite. [More…]

• Fancy the Country Party ‘ eing offended at what the honourable member for Eden-Monaro said, when during the last election campaign it filled the newspapers of this country with the most rotten advertisements ever seen in political history. [More…]

• One of the great promises of the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) before the election before last was that because of the close links of the Australian Labor Party with the Australian Council of Trade Unions, with Mr Hawke and with the union movement generally, the Labor Party would be able to bring to Australia a real degree of industrial peace that had not been seen before. [More…]

• Now there is to be an election without there being any executive. [More…]

• I do not altogether go along with that, because if the elected representatives prove to be unacceptable to the people of the Northern Territory undoubtedly they will be voted out of office at the next election. [More…]

• If we had another election in the circumstances of the 1 1 elected members it would make quite a farce of the situation. [More…]

• They talked of 24 October as the date for elections to be held under the Northern Territory ordinance. [More…]

• I realise that it may not have been the honourable member’s tough election campaign. [More…]

• I repeat, it will not provide one extra living unit, which was supposed to be the linchpin of all the policies of urban redevelopment expounded by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) before the recent election. [More…]

• Just prior to the 1972 federal elections, when it became obvious that the Liberal-Country Party coalition would fall, the Deputy Leader of the Country Party, the honourable member for New England, in his capacity as Minister for Primary Industry, performed an act which was completely inexcusable. [More…]

• Just prior lo this vital election, which saw the annihilation of the Liberal-Country Party Government, this Minister appointed the members of the Wool Corporation, which is the most powerful industry executive in Australia, be it primary or secondary industry. [More…]

• The appointment by the then Deputy Leader of the Country Parly of Mr S. S. Nevile as Deputy Chairman was also made just prior to the federal election. [More…]

• Just prior to that, federal election, Mr D. J. Asimus was appointed by the Deputy Leader of the Country Party. [More…]

• conditions for the election of the members to whom he referred. [More…]

• The whole of the substance of the Labor Party campaign in the federal election was how it had succeeded in containing inflation. [More…]

• Unlike the impeccable behaviour of the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in the 1974 election and against all the conventions and decencies of politics, the Deputy Leader of the Australian Country Party who, I repeat, was then the Minister for Primary Industry, renominated the members of the Corporation 8 days before election day in 1972. [More…]

• Within weeks of the election of the Government I announced interim arrangements to replace the old ad hoc bodies so that support for the arts could be continued, commitments honoured, and the planning of new programs begun. [More…]

• It has been involved, right down to the grass roots, in all the previous decisions affecting the mining industry, because that is where its election campaign funds have come from. [More…]

• The Leader of the Australian Country Party gets his election funds from the mining industry which does not want control of- [More…]

• However, with the Budget timetable now so delayed by the election, we have decided to take certain steps immediately. [More…]

• It is remarkable that there should have been such an increase in prices when imports of textiles have been so great and, so we are assured, so cheap, and at a time also when so many textile companies have taken the opportunity afforded by the recent election campaign to endeavour to blackmail the Australian Government, to the extent in fact of grossly misstating their own economic position. [More…]

• Pension increases mostly were geared according to the proximity of an election. [More…]

• One of the election opponents of the honourable member for Fraser, in comparing a private practice health centre with salaried doctor health centre, also made the error of comparing the number of patients registered at one centre with the number of attendances - patient visits - at the other. [More…]

• I suppose during the election campaign one had the balmy dawn of the Opposition, for the first time in over 23 years, actually mouthing words like ‘consumer protection’ and ‘the interests of consumers’. [More…]

• It said, in a late pre-election bid for votes that it would order some other new equipment but up until now there have been no new firm orders. [More…]

• This decision was cancelled by the incoming Labor Government and nothing done until just shortly before the general election, when .it was announced that we were to purchase 2 patrol frigates from the United States. [More…]

• However, an evil genius within the member for Grayndler, the Minister, raised its head in the weeks prior to the May general election. [More…]

• During the election campaign the entire secretarial pool of three was allocated exclusively to the Australian Labor Party machine in Queensland. [More…]

• Public servants were forced to work in an election campaign for the Australian Labor Party members of the House of Representatives and a senator at taxpayers’ expense. [More…]

• After the election, when I challenged the situation with a departmental official from the Department of Services and Property, he told me that nobody else had asked for help. [More…]

• I complied without grumble to avoid the understandable antagonism and tension that exists at election time, despite what I could see was happening elsewhere. [More…]

• If he was too slow to get secretarial assistance at election time, I cannot help it if the Liberal Party picks dull members like him. [More…]

• During the recent election campaign secretaries were available to any members who applied for them. [More…]

• Will the honourable gentleman affirm to this House his election pledge to provide in the next Budget personal taxation relief for ail income earners receiving up to $14,000? [More…]

• During the election campaign, honourable members will recall, certain allegations were made which led the Government to make a reference to the specially created textile authority in the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]

• The Government is very concerned about this situation, and the electors demonstrated their concern at election- time. [More…]

• Does the honourable gentleman not recall that he specifically made that pledge in those terms during the recent election campaign? [More…]

• There was a monetary boom which the last Liberal-Country Party government wilfully created in a moment of panic by spurting out a great expansion of money desperately to lift the economy again as an election approached. [More…]

• I know why they were appointed so soon before the 1972 election. [More…]

• During the course of the election campaign inflation became an issue because the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) forced the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Government to recognise that the people of Australia were concerned about it. [More…]

• These are the sorts of advertisements that greeted the people of Australia during the election campaign. [More…]

• This is the sort of garbage - if I may use that term - that was served up to the people of Australia during the election campaign. [More…]

• That shows how bad was the deception by Ministers during the election campaign, and by the Prime Minister in particular. [More…]

• It has taken him as long to make that speech as I think it took the Liberal Party after the 1949 election to put value back into the 1. [More…]

• It is something of which we are all well aware, although the Government attempted initially during the last election campaign to maintain that inflation was not a problem. [More…]

• It shows that up until 16 May - 2 days before the election - the Government persisted in saying that inflation was not a problem. [More…]

• We did not get it before the election or in the Governor-General’s Speech, which we have not yet concluded discussing, and now we have not got it in the mini-Budget - or, as I have heard it called in other places, the micro-Budget - that was introduced last Tuesday evening. [More…]

• I am pleased to acknowledge that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden), in the course of the last election compaign, also said that he would adopt the recommendations of the Vernon Commission. [More…]

• It did not increase it in 1972 because that was an election year. [More…]

• We said so during the last election campaign. [More…]

• Now supporters of the Government find themselves in the position where they have to break promises that they made during the election campaign because they did not heed the warnings of the Opposition. [More…]

• I have in front of me a telegram, a copy of which was no doubt sent to the Minister for Social Security, from the South Australian Public Service Association, the South Australian Government Superannuation Federation, the South Australian Government Superannuated Employees Association and the South Australian Institute of Teachers - most of which bodies I should have thought would have been Labor supporters and would have come out in support of the Labor Government during the last election campaign - expressing disenchantment with the Labor Government for welching on yet another promise that it made to them concerning fixed incomes. [More…]

• I understand that the Opposition in its policy thrown together before the last election wants to tie the pension to increases in the consumer price index. [More…]

• Talk of hollow promises seems rather incongruous coming from honourable members on that side of the House at the moment as we see more and more of their election promises being broken. [More…]

• In an election speech he made considerable reference to the handicapped but said nothing about the greatest area of need which is those handicapped children who are too young - that is, under 16 years of age - to receive the invalid pension and are unable to be accommodated in a home. [More…]

• In 1969 it fell to 19.4 per cent, in 1970 to 19 per cent, in 1971 to 18.1 per cent and in 1972, with a disastrous election looming before him, he raised it to 19.2 per cent. [More…]

• Regarding this new increase in pensions the question could be asked: Is it in keeping with the 1972 election promise that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) made when referring to the war widows pension and relating it to the fact that the totally and permanently incapacitated pension would be increased to equal the minimum wage, the general rate pension would be increased to 50 per cent of the minimum wage, other pensions would be adjusted proportionately and allowances also could be included? [More…]

• As each dollar represents $lm the Government will have to find another $8m to live up to its 1972 election promise. [More…]

• But the Government is still $56m behind with its 1972 election promise which was delivered by the Prime Minister. [More…]

• In Queensland and other States during the election period the secretaries were allocated in the normal course in priority of receipt of request. [More…]

• No such direction has ever been given, as everything done in a member’s office both before and during election time is for political purposes. [More…]

• Senator Milliner approached my Department prior to the election. [More…]

• No member of the Liberal or Country Parties in Brisbane - I do not know about country members - asked for this kind of assistance prior to the election. [More…]

• It is true that there was no .national policy on the collection of items of historical significance or the establishment of a national museum prior to the election of this Government. [More…]

• Presumably this matter has been brought before us again because the Parliament was dissolved prior to the last election. [More…]

• That which the honourable member for Curtin (Mr Garland) has just said was raised prior to the last election. [More…]

• This legislation will allow for the election of 19 councillors, one of whom will be elected as Speaker by his fellow councillors. [More…]

• I cannot see in this legislation any indication of the formation of electoral divisions in the Northern Territory or the nature of those divisions, and we must bear in mind that the election for the fully elected Northern Territory Legislative Assembly must be held before 24 October 1974. [More…]

• The deadline is not a deadline for the Committee to present a report, it is a deadline for the election to be held before 24 October 1974. [More…]

• It is a deadline for the election to be held with great haste before 24 October 1974. [More…]

• Surely a reasonable man - ‘most of us here at least claim to be reasonable men - would appreciate the fact that the Committee was given a matter almost of days to prepare its report but before the report is received there is a rush election. [More…]

• He must feel, as does everyone else in the Territory, that there is something questionable about the tremendous haste to hold an election almost preceding the Committee’s report. [More…]

• Will members appointed to the Administrator’s Council, presumably by election of the Council in full meeting, constitute the Executive? [More…]

• Would we or any normal, reasonable person be forgiven for thinking that perhaps all these matters will be subject to the result of the election? [More…]

• If the Labor Party is defeated - I do not think there is very much doubt about the election - then of course the position probably will be entirely different. [More…]

• I am sure that the people of the Territory, particularly those who are to take part in the proposed election and who will perhaps sit on the first fully elected constitutional body in the Territory, are anxiously waiting for clarification from the Minister. [More…]

• Often there was great cry before an election about the neglect of our Government, which was anything but neglect because of the agitations of Calder of the Territory. [More…]

• I turn now to the mechanism of the election. [More…]

• It seems to me that it would be a big blow to the relationship that should exist between the Northern Territory and its people and the national government if provision were not made for an election to be held in the Northern Territory before 24 October next. [More…]

• If it had done so, the Government would not be in the predicament it finds itself in now concerning the timing of the introduction of this Bill and whatever powers are to be offered to the Legislative Assembly and the election of members of that Assembly. [More…]

• The election for the proposed assembly is to be held on 19 October, if that is practicable. [More…]

• The men and women who will seek election at that time time for the purpose of trying to help in the development of the Northern Territory will want to know the answer to this practical question: Where will responsibilities lie. [More…]

• In the time remaining to me, I point out that if the Government does hold the election for the new assembly on 19 October - the term of the present Legislative Council expires on 24 October and the Minister is under the whip, as it were, of the Prime Minister to produce a fully elected body prior to the end of the year - the date proposed for the closing of nominations is 11 October. [More…]

• The electoral officer for the Northern Territory would be in absolute dismay at the thought of only 8 days between the closing of nominations for the new body and election day. [More…]

• For the purposes of the last Federal election, he had 20 days in which to work from the date when the time allowed for nominations closed, 29 April 1974, to pollingday, 18 May 1974. [More…]

• But the electoral officer had 20 days in which to organise for that election, after the close of nominations. [More…]

• Mr KELLY (Wakefield) (2.45>- The purpose of this Bill is to provide for the election of a fully elected Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory. [More…]

• It would have been better if the people of the Northern Territory had known before the election takes place for the proposed Legislative Assembly on 24 October what the task of the new Assembly would be. [More…]

• It would be better - this may be a counsel of perfection - if it is known before the election is held what will be the duties of the people who are elected at that election. [More…]

• But unfortunately that is not so because the Minister for the Northern Territory (Dr Patterson) has made it clear that after the election in October he is going to approach the members of the newly-elected Legislative Assembly and they are going to sort out some of the problems as to the form of government they are going to administer. [More…]

• The honourable member for Kennedy (Mr Katter) asked: ‘Why is it necessary to hold an election for the Northern Territory legislature before the end of the year?’ [More…]

• The Northern Territory (Administration) Act requires that an election be held no later than 3 years after the last preceding election. [More…]

• This means that the election must take place before 24 October 1974. [More…]

• The honourable member is saying that since the election the members of the Legislative Council have said that they do not want it. [More…]

• It would be utter deceit to defer an election for say 3 months, 6 months or 12 months.’ [More…]

• But certainly as far as the delay which has been caused by the election is concerned, we would put the full blame on the Opposition. [More…]

• For many months in 1972, before the election of this Government, the Country Party and the Liberal Party were fighting over whether Australia should revalue. [More…]

• When my colleague, the former Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, announced the election date in 1972, the then Leader of the Opposition in one of his typical performances rose and said: Well, 2 December is the anniversary of Austerlitz’. [More…]

• All that the Australian people have been given since the election is a blow by blow account of ministerial infighting over economic policy. [More…]

• The contrast between the Government’s preelection propaganda statements on inflation and its post-election statements reveals an unprecedented deception. [More…]

• Compare that with the movement in interest rates since the election, as shown in the table on page 374 of the Reserve Bank’s June statistical bulletin. [More…]

• What a different tune the Premiers heard from the Prime Minister on 7 June, barely 6 weeks after the election, when the Prime Minister said: [More…]

• What was impossible and unacceptable before the election became, less than 3 weeks after the election, not only possible but totally acceptable. [More…]

• During the election campaign I consistently stressed the need for a reduction in government spending. [More…]

• The Prime Minister attempted to ignore this during the election campaign. [More…]

• I said during the election campaign that I could not match the Prime Minister’s promise on preschool education. [More…]

• If this Prime Minister makes a major economic promise before an election, we can depend on that promise being dishonoured after that election. [More…]

• That all words after ‘that’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words in place thereof: the Government should be indicted for its incompetence in economic policy and the control of inflation and its broken promises as exposed by: the Treasurer’s statement; the public disagreements between Ministers; the irresponsible and misleading pre-election commitments; and the total failure of its economic management in the past 20 months, demonstrated by price increases at 14.4 per cent in the past 12 months and the other grave difficulties currently facing the national economy.’ [More…]

• That is the heading given to a full-page advertisement that the Prime Minister knew to be false at the time it was put in, that the Treasurer knew to be false at the time it was put in, and that every member of the Australian Labor Party responsible for the conduct of the election campaign knew to be false at the time it was put in. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, for the sake of posterity’s knowing what false advertising was made during the course of that election campaign, I ask for leave to incorporate in Hansard this advertisement. [More…]

• That all words after that’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words in place thereof: the Government should be indicted for its incompetence in economic policy and the control of inflation and its broken promises as exposed by: the Treasurer’s statement; the public disagreements between Ministers; the irresponsible and misleading pre-election commitments; and the total failure of its economic management in the past 20 months, demonstrated by price increases at 14.4 per cent in the past 12 months and the other grave difficulties currently facing the national economy.’ [More…]

• Indeed, thefirstappearance of the words was not as I hadexpectedinthe early days of Labor policy, norwasiteven in 1969 when the present Prime Ministerintroduced his first policy speechatageneral election. [More…]

• The plain truth is that Labormade no mention of urban transport policyuntilthe 1972 general election. [More…]

• States in February 1973 - 2 months after the election - had the proposals not reached such a forward stage. [More…]

• So, for the Minister to say that the delay of 3 months caused by the election is the reason for not one cent being made available to the States by this time is pure humbug. [More…]

• I trust that this promise is real and not like some of the shabby promises that have been broken since the election. [More…]

• I trust that it does not turn out to be another empty pre-election promise. [More…]

• He was sacked as Postmaster-General after the last election. [More…]

• The simple fact is that in the 1972 election campaign the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Whitlam, in his policy speech promised to undertake a $700m program of expenditure over 5 years to update urban transport systems. [More…]

• They can recall that following election after election under their government none of the promises made was ever honoured. [More…]

• These grants are urgently needed and required and were of great importance during the last election campaign. [More…]

• A great deal of play has been made of the delay occasioned by the election that intervened between the introduction of this Bill initially and today’s debate. [More…]

• As the public of Australia is only too aware, a further delay was caused by honourable members opposite forcing an election earlier this year. [More…]

• They know that this Bill was introduced earlier in the year, and the unnecessary interruption of government by the election has forced the States to wait this further period for funds which are urgently required to upgrade urban public transport systems. [More…]

• Return us at the next election and we will guarantee 42c a lb and all your problems in the dairying industry are over’. [More…]

• It was originally advocated by the Liberal and Country Parties in the 1972 election that there be specific assistance in this direction. [More…]

• The Labor policy on margarine quotas, it seems to me, is a result of the Government’s desire to pay off one of its multinational backers in the last election. [More…]

• I no longer carry around with me the right honourable gentleman’s estimated cost of his election promises. [More…]

• But I happen to have a report of what the Leader of the Australian Country Party said during the election campaign. [More…]

• At the election campaign it was pointed out that $20m was a modest amount but that it was to be allocated in addition to all commitments that were made. [More…]

• That statement reminded me that the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) had stated prior to the last election - and honourable members will appreciate why I hold the statement uppermost in my mind - that his Department was appropriating $2m for the Hunter Valley regional councils, many of which are in the electorate represented by the honourable member for Paterson. [More…]

• The Government made many expensive promises during the last election and has many expansive reports before it at the present time. [More…]

• Before it has even considered 2 of its most expensive schemes, those concerning compensation9 and superannuation, which the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) mentioned would require massive increases in taxation to finance, the pre-schools scheme so loudly trumpeted during the recent election has already been truncated. [More…]

• Even the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon) came into it during the election campaign. [More…]

• He has neglected completely that he and honourable members opposite, hoping to form a government, were totally incapable of providing a costing of their scheme at the last election. [More…]

• That is not necessarily in conformity with the rules of an organisation because while some unions very rightly and very properly have secret postal ballots for the election of officials and on other matters, there are other unions which do not. [More…]

• These things can be done under cover of an amalgamation arrangement, and at the same time the rights of individual members of a union, an organisation, are further reduced because in relation to those unions which have a collegiate system of election, where there is not direct election by the rank and file, the Minister is inserting a provision which states that for 3 years after amalgamation the rank and file members will not get a vote. [More…]

• I shall tell honourable members about Coogee and about a recent trade union election in New South Wales in which the Miscellaneous Workers Union was involved. [More…]

• The Minister for Labor and Immigration should enforce the principles of rank and file control of oganisations through the provision of a secret ballot under Commonwealth Electoral Office supervision for the election of the officials of all organisations. [More…]

• He knows perfectly well that once that left wing gets command of the ballot machinery no election will be fairly conducted. [More…]

• He does believe that members of a union should have their right to express their views, whether on a ballot or on an election of officers, free of intimidation and corruption. [More…]

• All the time that Opposition members were in government they never sought to impose the same kind of provision for the election of officers. [More…]

• Surely it is much more important to have the election of officers conducted in a way that is proper than it is for an amalgamation ballot to be conducted in this way. [More…]

• Yet never once did it occur to honourable members opposite when they were in government to make it a compulsory requirement of the Act that all union ballots for the election of officers shall he conducted by an electoral officer. [More…]

• He told the House an untruth because Senator Marriott of Tasmania rang him well before the election and complained that the entire secretarial typing pool in Tasmania had been allocated to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• They started before the election and demanded rights equal to those which had been given to the ALP members who had been allocated the relieving typing pool to help them in their bid for re-election. [More…]

• It is true that during the election campaign I made an announcement that I would recommend to the Government that we do not proceed with the Galston development. [More…]

• Is the Prime Minister aware that in the recent by-election for the electorate of Coogee in the New South Wales Parliament in which he played such a decisive role by waging a strong campaign and which resulted in an outstanding victory for the Australian Labor Party - it was not even close - there was a candidate representing the Nazi philosophy? [More…]

• Is the Prime Minister also aware that the Nazi candidate appeared on election day, 20 July, dressed as a Nazi storm-trooper complete with the swastika displayed on his arm? [More…]

• He certainly will do so at the next general election for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• I wish to correct the completely false and dishonest statement made by the Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) when referring to what I said during the election campaign. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that the statement which the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) has endeavoured to read into Hansard in his explanation of what happened after the blunder he made early in the election campaign of what the Opposition was going to do to pay off- [More…]

• The Prime Minister had it during the election campaign. [More…]

• The honourable member knows what an election campaign is. [More…]

• We do not criticise the principles of that program but we do deplore the action of a government which, for political expediency, was prepared irresponsibly to use this issue as an election gimmick. [More…]

• It was a gimmick that undoubtedly had a strong appeal and influence on the result of the past 2 elections, despite the fact that it is now obvious that no coherent or workable policy had been developed that would allow for a successful commencement of this program and which not only recognised the needs of the children but could also operate within the bounds of our economy. [More…]

• In the 1972 election campaign the Australian Labor Party, through the present Prime Minister, announced a proposal to allow income tax deductions in respect of payments to a recognised centre up to a maximum of $260 per annum. [More…]

• The Opposition parties made it quite clear before the May election that they would continue the programs which had been developed. [More…]

• What did the Government say in the course of the election campaign? [More…]

• The honourable member for Moreton referred to the previous election campaign. [More…]

• The Prime Minister’s adviser on women’s affairs said on the radio program ‘AM’ before the last election: [More…]

• That is what the Prime Minister’s adviser on women’s affairs had to say before the election and following the election. [More…]

• Prior to the election of the Labor Government, the performance of the Australian Government in the area of education had been most restricted. [More…]

• In the 23 years prior to the election of this Labor Government, I was able to watch through my involvement in education just what the Liberal-Country Party coalition did with respect to education. [More…]

• Let us not forget that earlier this year the Opposition parties in order to force an unnecessary election were not afraid to reject supply in which money was appropriated for child care purposes. [More…]

• When will the Government implement the undertaking given 18 months ago at the opening of the Senate election campaign to establish pre-school child minding centres throughout Australia? [More…]

• After he had pointed out that the then Gov ernment subscribed to the great need for child care, 18 months after it had made a promise in an election campaign - not a couple of months later which is the position we are in now - the then Minister said: [More…]

• It was wandering around prior to the December 1972 election in an intellectual desert, seeing an occasional mirage and hoping an oasis would appear on the industrial horizon. [More…]

• He first brought it in as part of a compendious Bill in the full flush of excitement after the Labor Party won the 1972 election. [More…]

• In fact a telegram from the industry to the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) prior to the last election received the response from Senator Wriedt that his Party now stood for a viable dairying industry in each State. [More…]

• It is one that the Liberal-Country Party made in the 1972 election. [More…]

• This provision is very far reaching in the history of Australia in that it changes the constitutional responsibility of the different governments and reduces the ability of an elector to vote for a specific policy put forward at a State election, for such a policy can be negated by the deliberations of the Federal Minister for Transport or, as the Bills provide, even by a Commonwealth public servant. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, I rise on this occasion to make my maiden speech as the new member for Bradfield, the electorate which gave the present Government at the last election its lowest vote in Australia. [More…]

• I should like to congratulate, through you, the Speaker upon his re-election to the highest office that this House can confer upon a member. [More…]

• I have to remind the Opposition that there was an election a mere 10 weeks ago. [More…]

• The election was caused by a gross abuse of the theory of constitutional government, a violent breach of constitutional practice. [More…]

• Yet it has been abundantly clear ever since the election, and made particularly clear during this new session, that the Opposition refuses to accept the people’s verdict. [More…]

• Of course he did not lose the election; he just failed to win enough seats. [More…]

• All the elaborate program which was cooked up on the eve of the election has never been mentioned in the weeks of the new Parliament. [More…]

• Now, having been defeated at the election, having faced the moment of truth where a joint sitting will put the Bill through - it was not rejected by the Senate except for the technicality that the Senate vote was evenly divided, and therefore if people are voting evenly in the Senate a proposition is not carried; now it will go through - what do we find? [More…]

• There was the needless and wanton interruption of the election itself. [More…]

• The election and the need for this special session have delayed the Budget until September. [More…]

• We shall have to spend next week in a joint sitting to enact 6 Bills which were the grounds of the double dissolution and which were again put before the people at the election. [More…]

• It is remarkable because it has all the hallmarks of a speech by a Prime Minister who is visualising that we are about to have an election. [More…]

• With a change of a few votes circumstances might have been created for an election. [More…]

• He spoke trying to portray an enormous election victory in May. [More…]

• He has nothing really to feel satisfied or proud about as the result of the election. [More…]

• After the 1972 election I spoke to the Canberra Branch of the Royal Institute of Public Administration. [More…]

• It is easy for those of us in the Opposition to draw attention, I know, to the deception of the Labor Government at the last election, but I believe that the Australian community should now recognise who was telling the truth during the last election campaign, who tried to point out the true realities of the inflationary situation. [More…]

• We did this during the election campaign when we said that the Government should exercise some restraint, that there ought to be a convention of the Federal Government, State governments, employers and trade unions, to try to work out a national policy of restraint. [More…]

• The measures we proposed during the course of the election campaign are today being recognised by the Australian people as being correct. [More…]

• Child), I take the opportunity of extending to you, Mr Speaker, my congratulations on your re-election to the Speakership of this House. [More…]

• I believe there was a time when the general public, particularly members of local government and all those concerned with local government, believed the propaganda put out by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), who was then the Leader of the Opposition, prior to the December 1972 election. [More…]

• I again remind the Government of the hopes and aspirations of local government generated by the Prime Minister and others before the 1972 election. [More…]

• Although the plan has not yet ‘been put into operation the State Government has been allocating resources to both these roads, despite the lack of assistance from the previous Commonwealth Government, although I will concede that just prior to the 1972 election the State Government received an allocation of $2.5m from the Commonwealth Government to assist in construction of these roads. [More…]

• Their approaches were not successful until just prior to the 1972 election when an allocation of S2.5m was made to South Australia to enable the completion of the sealing of the Eyre Highway. [More…]

• I cite a most progressive document produced during the last election campaign and entitled ‘The Way Ahead with a Liberal-Country Party Government’. [More…]

• The Prime Minister’s policy speech for the election that took place not so long ago reads: [More…]

• I do not think they have, when one examines the way in which the election results turned out. [More…]

• It is true that Senator Marriott of Tasmania rang me before the elections and was told that stenographers from the pool would be allocated in order of priority of receipt of request and in consequence Senator Marriott did not qualify for the allocation of a stenographer at that time. [More…]

• I have merely heard it remarked that my Department must be regarded as scrupulously fair, since one of the stenographers in the pool in Tasmania was observed during the recent election handing out how to vote cards for a Liberal candidate. [More…]

• Those requests were subsequently withdrawn because the senator concerned proposed to retire and the electorate secretary of the honourable member concerned decided to remain at her post in view of the coming election. [More…]

• In the case of Senator Jessop the assistance was given from 6 May 1974 to 17 May 1974 and in the case of the honourable J. E. McLeay from 6 May 1974 to 24 May, that is, during the whole period of the election. [More…]

• In his election policy speech he said that the Labor Party’s child care program reflected the recommendations of the Australian Prc-schools Committee, the Australian Social Welfare Commission and the Priorities Review Staff. [More…]

• The Minister would be aware of the confusion that existed in the community during the recent election campaign following upon the alleged statements by the Leader of the Country Party in regard to world parity prices for oil. [More…]

• We are all aware of the implications of the policy that was announced by the Leader of the Country Party during the early stages of the election campaign in March and the effects that it would have had on inflation in Australia. [More…]

• The question that was asked the honourable mem’ber for Port Adelaide was directly as to what would have been the effect on the Australian economy and Qantas Airways Ltd if crude oil prices in Australia had been brought up to world parity as was advocated by the Australian Country Party in the recent election campaign. [More…]

• Yes, the Australian Labor Party did promise prior to the 1972 election that, if it were elected to government and if it were given the opportunity to put into effect its industrial relations policy by way of making certain amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, it could and would introduce a better industrial relations climate. [More…]

• The Hamer Government announced prior to the previous State election that it would prune back the amount of S2,2O0m to be spent on freeway construction. [More…]

• The extraordinary thing that results from this is that a political party in a State can have an election and it can say to the people: ‘Elect us and we will do this’, outlining road making plans. [More…]

• The honourable member referred to the waste of money by political parties in the course of election campaigns. [More…]

• In terms of productivity, this means a tremendous loss to our country and rather makes the expenditure on election campaigning pale into insignificance. [More…]

• I congratulate you, Mr Speaker, on your election to your high office and I would mention the great assistance I have had from the staff in Parliament House and from my colleagues. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, may I first add my congratulations to those of so many others upon your election to your high office. [More…]

• Witness the Coogee by-election in which one State Premier was called in to defeat another, using the argument that the people of Coogee were suffering because the State of New South Wales had not accepted tied Commonwealth grants. [More…]

• Their united voice will surely carry some weight so long as this Government cherishes any hopes of re-election at some future date. [More…]

• The period in which I am interested is the 3 weeks prior to the election. [More…]

• It has come about because despite two successive election victories by the Australian Labor Party, despite the clear endorsement by the Australian people at the elections only 1 1 weeks ago of the Party’s policies and of the specific measures now before us, the Senate and the Opposition are still resolved to obstruct the Government’s program and to frustrate the will of the people. [More…]

• The Constitution provides that if the Senate in certain circumstances twice rejects Bills passed by the House of Representatives, the GovernorGeneral may dissolve the Parliament and new elections may be held. [More…]

• The Constitution further provides that if, after a double dissolution and fresh elections, the Senate still obstructs such a Bill a joint sitting of both Houses may be held to consider it. [More…]

• The Committee feels constrained to say, however, that the one-fifth margin on either side of the quota Tor a State which the Act allows may disturb quite seriously a principle which the Committee believes to be beyond question in the election of members of the national Parliament of a federation, namely, that the votes of the electors should, as far as possible, be accorded equal value. [More…]

• Labor will be able to carry out a redistribution virtually before every election. [More…]

• The Labor Party is able to have this Joint Sitting because it was part of an overall election campaign; it was part of a total package. [More…]

• But did that election really give the Government any great mandate to push ahead and change the electoral laws of this country? [More…]

• Certainly the Labor Party won the election but not with a majority of the votes. [More…]

• In Britain, the mother of modern democracies, at the recent election, which was immediately after a redistribution, numbers ranged from 22,000 to 96,000, a difference of 400 per cent to 500 per cent. [More…]

• In Canada, where there has only recently been an election, the number of electors in electorates varies from 7,500 to 80,000. [More…]

• I ask why senators and members really want to change the present electoral laws when the Labor Party won the last election with 49.3 per cent of the vote and gained 52 per cent of the seats in the House of Representatives. [More…]

• The basis of the last election is contained in a number of statements made by leading political figures. [More…]

• The only way to determine that is by an election for the government of Australia. [More…]

• They were the words of the Leader of the Country Party in setting up the election. [More…]

• The Leader of the Liberal Party in the Senate, Senator Withers, in setting up the election, said: [More…]

• It is quite clear that the Opposition parties in both Houses of the Parliament set up the election as a test for the Government. [More…]

• Looking at my own State of South Australia I find that in 1968, which I believe was the time of the first election after the previous redistribution, the number of voters for the seat of Bonython was fixed at 49,000, for Kingston at 51,000 and for Wakefield at 46,000. [More…]

• In the election held on 10 March 1973, on this great electoral reformer’s boundaries the LCL could still win the seat of Frome with 8,296 electors but the seat of Mawson, which had been held since its inception by the Australian Labor Party, then had 24,639 electors, a ratio of 3 to 1. [More…]

• It should have won the 1954 election on it, but it fiddled the seats so much that it lost the election. [More…]

• As I said before, at the last general election the Australian Labor Party polled 49.3 per cent of the primary vote and obtained 51.96 per cent of the parliamentary seats. [More…]

• Members opposite will not even get that next time because the result in the Western Australian election was not good enough for them. [More…]

• What has happened to the Prime Minister’s boast during the election campaign that only Whitlam had reduced inflation by onethird? [More…]

• I ask honourable members and honourable senators to remember what else the Labor Party said before the general election. [More…]

• Dr Hughes, the Liberal Party candidate in the next Senate election and the candidate in the last election for the seat of Canberra, on behalf of the Liberal Party in Canberra made a submission for equality of electors in the 2 electorates in this district. [More…]

• He claimed that under the existing legislation the election results do not reflect the will of the majority either in individual constituencies or in fact on a national basis. [More…]

• There is no better refutation of that proposition than the results of the last Federal election. [More…]

• The 1974 general election achieved an equitable result using electoral boundaries based on a 6-year-old distribution. [More…]

• If this legislation had been enacted at the time of the 1968 redistribution it would have been necessary to have a further redistribution before the 1972 election. [More…]

• A further redistribution might then have been necessary before the recent election in order to accommodate the changes in electoral rolls arising from the lower voting age. [More…]

• But the adoption of this legislation would necessitate in all probability a redistribution prior to every general election. [More…]

• Much has been made this morning of the statement that the Australian Labor Party received only 49 per cent of the vote but 52 per cent of the seats in the last election. [More…]

• That is one of the reasons why there was trouble at the election. [More…]

• We all remember that throughout 1973 and until the federal election in May, the Prime Minister led the Labor Party onslaught on the Senate. [More…]

• During the election campaign he stomped from one end of Australia to the other emotionally appealing to voters to give Labor a majority in the Senate. [More…]

• Yet what happened in the election? [More…]

• Determined after the election of 1972, the Government has now become desperate. [More…]

• Without electorates drawn in its favour the Government has no chance of winning another election. [More…]

• We have had 6 redistributions between 1912 and 1968 covering 25 elections. [More…]

• Indeed, at the last election on 18 May I thought the Labor Government was pretty lucky because with less than 50 per cent of the vote it got about 52 per cent of the number of seats. [More…]

• The Government wants this Bill passed so that it can rush into a redistribution which it knows can be of value for only one election, with all the instability and problems that will bring upon us. [More…]

• Why distort the entire electoral map for just one short election? [More…]

• The Government won the last election and it was told to get on with the job of facing the really big issues that are concerning this country. [More…]

• The Australian electorate is not likely to forget, nor will it forget at the next election, a Government which was so determined to get legislation through to redraw boundaries in its own electoral favour. [More…]

• Today he put himself in almost the same classification as the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) in his hatred of those people whom he cannot beat in a genuine election. [More…]

• The point has been clearly made that the wishes of the people at an election should be reflected in the result of the election. [More…]

• When the results of the election were known the Labor Party found itself out of office because of that redistribution. [More…]

• Apart from that one redistribution, I think that in every other redistribution the election results have clearly carried the people’s will. [More…]

• There has been a change of government when there has been a swing against the government and the election results have been, indeed, very fair. [More…]

• On the present basis of distribution and the present system of arriving at that distribution, the ALP has won two of the last three elections. [More…]

• But I think the important point, as I believe has been made earlier in the day, is that the Government faces an election before that next redistribution would be through, and it wants to be able to redistribute to its own advantage before it has to face the electors again, because it knows what the situation is. [More…]

• How could anyone suffering inflation trust it when it won an election just a few months ago and promised everyone faithfully that only Whitlam and his Government would be able to save their employment, cure inflation and provide $130m for preschool care and education? [More…]

• I think there is still some doubt on the Opposition benches as to who won the election. [More…]

• It is, perhaps, remarkable that this statement could be made in the aftermath of an election which, regrettably, we lost. [More…]

• Opposition to admit that the Liberal and Country Parties lost the election. [More…]

• At the election in 1972 and again at the election in 1974 the Labor Party announced that there would be electoral reforms throughout Australia. [More…]

• Furthermore, if the Minister is successful in having this legislation approved by the Joint Sitting he will immediately look at the 1972 election results; he will look at the electorate of Bowman and at all of those other electorates which Labor is just holding by a whisker, and he will suddenly start bolstering those electorates which need attention so that when the onslaught comes from the Australian people at the next election those people who represent these electorates will have a greater chance of continuing in office. [More…]

• He will do to me what I did to him at the last election. [More…]

• At the election on 18 May the people of this country returned the Government to office. [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…]

• We have seen by the Government the expenditure of money for specific purposes which, if it had been expended by an individual during an election campaign, would have exposed him to the offence- the illegal practice- of treating. [More…]

• I have here a copy of the Melbourne ‘Age’ which was published during the election campaign and which has the headline: ‘Pledge gets Labor PS cash’. [More…]

• Under this system, these measures are then canvassed before the people in an election; they will be introduced again into the House of Representatives which would go right through the gamut of examination and debate; and then they would go to the Senate where they are again examined, debated and voted on. [More…]

• In addition, if there has been an election before that, these matters may have been debated before the people. [More…]

• Senator Withers said that the Opposition Parties in the Senate were determined to bring down the second Whitlam Ministry which, at that time, had been in office, following its election in December 1972, for some 15 months. [More…]

• Of course, the first Whitlam Ministry lasted for a month only while final election returns were obtained and Party elections held. [More…]

• The Opposition Parties in the Senateafter the election of the Labor Government began their course of obstruction which led finally to the calling of a double dissolution. [More…]

• It is our basic law- the Constitution- which insists that people go through this enormous time scale of effort and frustration and which provides the opportunity for people who have lost the election, who have put their points of view to the people and who have had them rejected, as a government in exile, so to speak, in the Senate to say: ‘We will not accept the will of the people. [More…]

• It was repealed by this Government and then in the Senate the repeal was disallowed by senators who refused to accept what the Government had said it would do and on what in part, at least in this city, it had fought an election and the people had voted. [More…]

• It is interesting, if one looks at the statistics of the probabilities of election, to see that that in fact is likely to be the case having regard to the present voting pattern both in the Australian Capital Territory and in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• What happened when this Bill was introduced after the election? [More…]

• Those arguments were proved invalid by the decisions of those who voted in the last election and returned the honourable member for the Northern Territory to this place as their representative. [More…]

• I remind the Government that only 2lh months ago at a referendum a question was put to the people of Australia which was designed to tie the elections of the Senate to elections of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• Yet by this measure the Government proposes to tie the election of the proposed senators for the 2 Territories to the election of members of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• All it does is to introduce 2 new elements into Australia’s present electoral procedures; that is to give 2 senators each to the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, and secondly, to give them a special term of office so that their election would coincide with the election for the House of Representatives and their period in office would coincide with that of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• The present ridiculous situation is that a House of Representatives election is held one year and an election for half of the Senate is held in the next year. [More…]

• That is bad for government and for the people who are conducting the elections. [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…]

• The other argument that I have located is that the election of Territory senators would be anomalous and that they would vote according to sectional and regional interests. [More…]

• We embarked on a course some 12 months ago-I am not trying to be provocative- to bring about the House of Representatives election. [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…]

• I listened this morning intently to the Prime Minister, when there was a squabble about the equal division of States into electorates so as to give either a gerrymander or a just election, complain in this chamber, the House of Representatives: ‘As if the House of the people should be obstructed by the Senate’. [More…]

• But so far from contenting himself with a basis upon which to hold by-elections, which is the appropriate constitutional provision for the Senate, he provides also that every time the resignation of a Territorial senator is procured a by-election shall be held. [More…]

• Of course, we have had some experience now of a by-election being achieved in the circumstances of sending Senator Gair to Ireland, thus achieving a political advantage for the Labor Party. [More…]

• 2 on the Liberal Party ticket at the last election. [More…]

• Tasmania that at the first Federal election 38,000 electors were enrolled in Tasmania. [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…]

• He brought it into the House, never having mentioned it before, despite the fact that it was in my election platform in 1966 and I had espoused it in my maiden speech in this House. [More…]

• Has he shown any interest since the May election? [More…]

• He was scheduled to open the Travelodge motel on the Esplanade on election day and he did not show up. [More…]

• The Minister has not been to the Northern Territory and has not consulted with members of the Council since the election. [More…]

• We believe that it is intolerable that any Australian, wherever he may live, whatever his ethnic origin or whatever his educational standard may be, should be deprived of the right to vote in the election of the Parliament of the Australian people. [More…]

• They are initially to introduce 2 Senate representatives for each of the Territories, to elect them at House of Representatives elections and, indeed, not to count them in determining the size of the House of Representatives. [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…]

• I thought the Government went to the people to seek a mandate for a constitutional reform at the last election to bring the House of Representatives and Senate elections always together compulsorily. [More…]

• It is to force the twinning of the elections for Territorial representatives and the House of Representatives. [More…]

• What has been put to the public has had an emphatic no- a no which has gone to the heart of these 2 Bills; a no to the methodology of the election of Senate territorial representatives. [More…]

• The fact is that during the last election the Opposition polled so badly in this seat of government, in this place where people saw how it behaved for 23 years, that it does not give itself a chance of winning a seat in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• With what nostalgic envy must members of the Labor Party look back to those heady days immediately after Labor’s election to power, when its confidence knew no bounds, when the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), inordinately pleased with himself and puffed up with the sense of his own importance, was confidently proclaiming himself to be the greatest Foreign Minister Australia had ever had. [More…]

• They even went to the extent just before the last election of drumming up rather hastily a rather vague proposition for restructuring the present system of hospital insurance. [More…]

• Liberals privately, in the secrecy of their committee meetings, have confessed this inequity because at page 9 of the original document which one of the Opposition members was kind enough to send to my office anonymously before the last election- the document on the Opposition’s health proposals- the following remarks were made: [More…]

• It did not start last year with the Green and White Papers or at the 1972 election in which the subject figured so prominently. [More…]

• If the Opposition will concede that we won the election, then new members, old members, and the Australian community should concede that this Government has a mandate to proceed with the Bills. [More…]

• During the last election campaign he said he supported the Liberal Party health scheme when, because of his membership of the General Practitioners Society, obviously he did not. [More…]

• Some of them were corrected in the hurriedly prepared Liberal Party health scheme produced just before the last election. [More…]

• So they hurriedly tried to correct their scheme before an election that was of their choosing. [More…]

• However, when the final draft came out, after pressures had been applied and after threats of the withdrawal of election funds, this suggestion was withdrawn from the Opposition’s scheme. [More…]

• Those are the things that have been speciously misrepresented around this country during the last 3 federal election campaigns and they are still being mouthed today by people who know that what they are saying is wrong. [More…]

• Having seen his performance on the television screen, I should imagine that at the next election the seat will be a Labor certainty. [More…]

• We have the specific mandate of the electors of Australia, who returned this Government to power, following a double dissolution election in which this legislation was a major issue. [More…]

• Having once pushed the Australian Government to an election by double dissolution, the opposition has immediately threatened to repeat its behavior. [More…]

• The Fitzgerald report disclosures of the paltry contributions by major overseas mineral companies to Australian tax revenues, utilising the excessively generous tax concessions our predecessors allowed, were greeted with stunned silence by the Opposition during the recent May election campaign. [More…]

• It is conspicuous that this consultation has not taken place under a government which, prior to the election, preached the virtues of consultation but which in government has been subject to an apparent manic preoccupation with confrontation to a divisive extent. [More…]

• It happened that, unbeknown to the Government, the report was ready when the last election came on. [More…]

• The Leader of the Country Party ( Mr Anthony) during the last election talked about an increase of $6 a barrel in the price of oil in this country. [More…]

• He said that it had been passed on all these occasions by the House of Representatives and had been rejected by the Senate- as indeed it was rejected again by the Senate after the election, and with very good reason. [More…]

• Whatever the result of the election on 18 May, whatever small majority the Government has in the House of Representatives after that election, it does not have the numbers in the Senate. [More…]

• He spent most of his time regurgitating the tired old Fitzgerald report which was conjured by the Minister for Minerals and Energy and leaked out to the Press in dribs and drabs at the beginning of the last election campaign. [More…]

• It can be seen from the way in which the report was leaked to the Press for days during the middle of the last election campaign how the Government tried to build up hate against investment of this type. [More…]

• During the last 2 elections one of the major issues was who owns Australia. [More…]

• That was particularly in evidence in the election on 1 8 May last. [More…]

• We have been forced into a Joint Sitting because of the stubbornness of the people on my left who decided that they did not lose the last election even if they did not win it. [More…]

• The Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) stood here today with crocodile tears coming from his eyes because he made that great bloomer during the election campaign when he virtually promised the oil companies: ‘Return our Parties and we will increase the price of oil per barrel as it comes from the wellhead.’ [More…]

• I am sure that I would be much better off financially I am quite amazed- despite aU the things I have heard of Senator Keeffe- that he is capable of devoting an entire address on an important occasion such as this to an attempt to absolutely mutilatewhat a futile operation that would be- the character of the Premier of the State which annihilated the Labor Party at the last election. [More…]

• If anyone says that what I was saying is untrue he should look at the results of the last Federal election. [More…]

• Until the election of the Australian Labor Government to the treasury bench in this Parliament there was precious little, if any, application of the community interest to policy making in this enormously important mining sphere. [More…]

• In this place, as I look at some of the temporary occupants of seats opposite, I think it would be a good idea to have an election, whenever it might be held, in order that they might disappear into the limbo of the forgotten. [More…]

• No wonder a former Prime Minister said that he lost the election because of the Country Party. [More…]

• But I take a bit of the blame off the Leader of the Country Party because the Liberal Party could have lost the election on its own without him. [More…]

• When the Trade Practices Bill was introduced into this chamber in the last session before the last Federal election, the Government said that the Bill had to be passed immediately. [More…]

• When the Government reintroduced the Trade Practices Bill after the last Federal election it brought in the Bill with 109 amendments to it. [More…]

• The honourable member for Shortland (Mr Morris) who is an alderman in the Newcastle City Council, at least for another couple of weeks until an election is held - [More…]

• This extension which was foreshadowed in the Prime Minister’s election policy speech, was brought about because of the Government’s decision to abolish conscription into the armed forces and to fulfil its stated aim of introducing conditions of service that will attract and retain regular service personnel in peacetime. [More…]

• The answer to the right honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2), (3) and (4) While no specific mention of the Social Welfare Committee was made in 1972, its principles are implicit in the Government’s pre- 1972 election statements on the need for a total community approach to welfare. [More…]

• I remind the House that the Government, which has undoubted rights and obligations to govern, nevertheless through its election of a Speaker and the conduct of affairs here has the obligation to allow Opposition members to speak and to ensure that rulings are fair and that the House is equitably run. [More…]

• Does the Prime Minister recall saying in his 1972 election policy speech that a Labor Government’s first help for regional development would be to implement the Victorian decentralisation committee’s recommendation that ‘centres nominated for accelerated development be recognised for telephone charging purposes as extensions of the metropolitan area whereby rentals would be equated and calls between these places and the capital charged as for local calls’? [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister whether he ever intended to implement this promise, or was it just an election gimmick? [More…]

• -The honourable gentleman accurately quoted from my policy speech for the election held on 2 December 1972. [More…]

• These were promises I made before the election in December 1972. [More…]

• The Budget was delayed for a month by the election forced by the Opposition, caused by the unprecedented refusal of Supply by the Senate. [More…]

• The Budget was delayed because of an election which the Opposition lost and in which the people of Australia once again confirmed their support for this Government’s program. [More…]

• Had it not been for that election the debate on the economy which the Leader of the Opposition wanted last month on 23 August would already have been in full swing. [More…]

• The Parliament and the nation have had the opportunity to know how empty he is, how vapid are his views and how phoney is the policy of the man who did not lose the last election. [More…]

• I suppose he does not mind some part of the direction of the funds, because some part of them went to the Labor Party for election purposes. [More…]

• Do they not realise that when the Leader of the Opposition said that they did not win the last election, it meant that they in fact lost it? [More…]

• The first one I wish to mention is the matter of elections and the second is the selection of candidates. [More…]

• When he stands for election as a member of Parliament, as part of the democratic process, this man can be blackguarded and pilloried by mean minded candidates who happen to be standing against him. [More…]

• These disadvantages would react against the democratic process and against the capacity of the democratic machine of all major political parties to nominate candidates for election to Parliament. [More…]

• I do not suppose he condemned that part of the direction of the money which put $5,000 into the election campaign funds of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• The fact is that a photograph was taken of the representative of the Seamen’s Union handing a cheque to the Australian Labor Party to be used for the last election campaign. [More…]

• How much more money went to the Labor Party election campaign? [More…]

• I rise to draw attention further to the tragic circumstances in Western Australia where legislation which has been sent from the Lower House to the Upper House proposes to take from Australian citizens their basic freedoms at law and to give to an elected government powers which were not mentioned during that government’s election manifesto. [More…]

• It is not impossible to think of political candidates at a forthcoming election finding themselves in prison for activities or statements of support for workers’ actions. [More…]

• Western Australians the opportunity to express their opinions on the matter by way of referendum or election. [More…]

• Clause 9 also provides that members of Parliament or candidates for election will not be entitled to any remuneration for holding a public office, that persons in the full-time service of Australia will not receive payment for holding a part time office except as prescribed, and that the holders of judicial offices in the States and other countries will not receive remuneration except as prescribed. [More…]

• But he is still in good company, because he was supported in 1971 by the then Leader of the Opposition, the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) who, it will be recalled, during the last election campaign had this to say: ‘I am the only man in Australia who can reduce inflation’. [More…]

• Let us look at the 1972 election. [More…]

• The action of the Senate in July with respect to these charges is typical of how the Opposition has behaved, particularly since the last election. [More…]

• If the LiberalCountry Party Government had remained in office following the 1972 election, those new charges would have been introduced in the 1973-74 Budget. [More…]

• The total cost of the child care program as promised in the election campaign of May last was almost equal to the loss anticipated to be incurred by the Australian Post Office. [More…]

• It was the present Government which after the election of 1972 established the commission of inquiry into the operations of the Post Office. [More…]

• I will be amazed if he expects to get their support the next time he fronts up for an election. [More…]

• While the Minister for Northern Development and Minister for the Northern Territory (Dr Patterson) said in his second reading speech that there was some delay because of the 18 May election, I think that it is equally true to say that it is unfortunate that there was not an opportunity for the measures to be debated in July and for wheatgrowers generally to be certain of the result. [More…]

• At the subsequent State election, a new Liberal Government was elected. [More…]

• This was in relation to the election in 1972. [More…]

• I am now able to inform you that upon receiving a complaint of a possible irregularity in postal voting procedures in connection with the 1972 Elections in the Lilley Division, the then Commonwealth Electoral Officer for Queensland notified the Superintendent of Commonwealth Police, Brisbane. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Police have been investigating the matter and have advised that the person responsible for including ‘Election Pamphlets’ with postal voting material addressed to a person m the Division has not yet been identified. [More…]

• By letter dated 14 March last, the Australian Electoral Officer informed us that the Commonwealth Police have been investigating the matter and have advised that the person responsible for including election pamphlets with postal voting material addressed to a person in the Division has not yet been identified. [More…]

• But about 9 or 10 days before the double dissolution election on 18 May a sergeant of the Commonwealth Police, whom I do not intend to name, acting on behalf of the Superintendent, telephoned me and indicated that the Commonwealth Police had no evidence whatsoever in relation to this matter. [More…]

• How many postal votes were cast in each electoral division in (a) the 1972 House of Representatives Election and (b) the 1 974 General Election. [More…]

• House of Representatives Election; [More…]

• Senate Election; and [More…]

• House of Representatives Election; [More…]

• Senate Election; and [More…]

• Did Senator Marriott complain to him, at least 2 weeks prior to the election date, and then to the Departmental officer, that in Tasmania the entire pool had been allocated to members of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• Unfortunately, this Government seems consistently to have pursued a vendetta which has been reflected not only in the political result of the last Federal election on 18 May but also in the degree to which there is feeling of gloom and despair right throughout rural Australia. [More…]

• Prior to the May 18 election he got up and very bravely and boldly said: ‘We will re-introduce those taxation concessions on soil conservation and water conservation’. [More…]

• If the Minister for Northern Development, in Britain in order to help the Labor Government there win its impending election, enters into a contractual arrangement with the British Government under which the price of sugar will be less than the Malaysian price- a rumour about which the sugar trade is most concerned- this will not be in Australia’s interest. [More…]

• This is why a sturdily independent Australian electorate will throw the Government out at the next election. [More…]

• Time has caught up with the honourable member for New England because during the elections he called it an act of vandalism which was being suppressed until after the election. [More…]

• The point was proved in the election on 18 May when the Australian Labor Party was overwhelmed in that State. [More…]

• We had an impassioned call by the Prime Minister in the course of the election held on 18 May: ‘Give me a fair go’. [More…]

• I remember only too well the Prime Ministerhe was then the Leader of the Oppositioncoming into my electorate in the city of Redcliffe prior to the 1972 election, and he had done his homework, I might assure members of the House. [More…]

• Then the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) acted very promptly, to follow up the election undertaking to which reference has been made by the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges). [More…]

• One would have thought that the problem had arisen during the last 20 months and the solution had preceded it under wise and far-seeing administration during the 23 years which preceded the election of the present Government. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman made some play on the use of the word ‘grants ‘ in the Prime Minister’s 1972 election policy speech. [More…]

• Talking of broken promises, which is something to which we are becoming conditioned in this country, I would like to make reference also to the pre-election speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam). [More…]

• For that reason I would like to record very briefly what the Opposition’s philosophy is as set out in a publication called ‘The Way Ahead’, which was produced just before the last election, which sets out LiberalCountry Party policies which will be expanded and improved as time goes on and which will be put to the people when an opportunity occurs before the next election. [More…]

• This Australian Labor Government, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) are to be commended for the speed with which they have moved to implement the promises made prior to the 1972 Federal election. [More…]

• In fact it was a rehash of the old stuff that he trotted out in the election campaign earlier this year. [More…]

• It was none other than the need to buy votes or to attempt to buy votes for the inevitable election at the end of 1972. [More…]

• The election of the Australian Labor Government brought change and new confidence. [More…]

• A Budget proposal that receives my instant support, not only because it was a matter of policy of the Opposition during the last election campaign but also because it is a necessary national responsibility, is the proposed introduction of a handicapped child’s allowance of $10 a week. [More…]

• In the 1972 election campaign, because I am a man who has no particular bias about where he places his advertising, I placed my radio advertising with 4KQ, the Labor controlled radio station in Brisbane. [More…]

• But in the last election campaign 4KQ, the Labor controlled radio station, refused to have anything to do with my advertising. [More…]

• It had imagination and the result of the voting in Griffith at the last election indicates that it had a great deal of appeal. [More…]

• The honourable member for Mackellar was anxious to say that there was a set of demands which was an election bait. [More…]

• It had nothing to do with the election at all. [More…]

• I objected to the fact that he said I had acted improperly to exclude officials from a meeting and that I had acted corruptly to offer an election bribe. [More…]

• Which seats, since the redistribution which took place in 1 937 up to that which took place for the last election, have departed from the quota by more than one-tenth, what was the percentage departure in each case, and how many seats had a smaller quota variation than one-tenth. [More…]

• The appended tables give the names of the divisions which departed by more than 10% from the quota of electors in each State and the percentage of the deviation in each division at the time of each distribution and at the time of the last elections held under that distribution. [More…]

• (The distributions which the honourable member refers to as taking place in1937 and for the last election applied to Western Australia alone. [More…]

• To review Senate election procedures and suggest ways to speed up the filling of vacancies. [More…]

• They have attacked the Wool Corporation and they have made it quite plain that they believed -one is a Minister; the other might not matterthe Corporation in trying to sustain a temporarily difficult market situation had gone beyond guidelines set by the Government, although there is information to suggest that the Corporation had discussed these guidelines with the Government shortly after the election and that the Corporation was acting in conformity with the guidelines, and from members and the Chairman of the Corporation I would have expected nothing else. [More…]

• We saw this demonstrated very lucidly and very starkly at the last Federal election. [More…]

• Perhaps when they move around the country electorates at election time they will remember it. [More…]

• The 1974-75 Budget is predicted on an assumption of 20 per cent inflation- a complete abrogation of the Prime Minister’s pre-election assurance, repeated in this Parliament, that inflation would be reduced to 8 per cent by the end of this year. [More…]

• During the May election campaign the Prime Minister told the Australian public that inflation had been reduced and was no longer a problem. [More…]

• I mention this because during the election campaign of 1972 statements made by the then Labor candidate in my electorate and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) gave the impression that all financial commitments for stage 2 of the dam’s construction would be met by the Federal Government. [More…]

• In its election campaign of 1972 the Labor Party made great play of its water conservation policies. [More…]

• It is interesting to look back on what the Labor Party said about water conservation in its policy speech for the 1972 election. [More…]

• All I can say is that if these are the priorities of the present Government it is no wonder that the former honourable member for Wide Bay was defeated at the last election. [More…]

• Did Senator Marriott complain to him, at least 2 weeks prior to the election date, and then to the Departmental officer, that in Tasmania the entire pool had been allocated to members of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• On that principle I could immediately put in an order, because Mr Bob Hawke has given notice that there will be an election next April. [More…]

• -In the course of the last election campaign, many of us on this side of the House expressed our very real concern at the degree to which, in the application of assistance to industries, this Government failed to recognise the implications of incentives to production. [More…]

• I am not too sure to what degree the intention to preserve the subsidy was genuine or whether it was motivatedfar be it from me to introduce politics in this place- by the desire of the Minister for Northern Development and Minister for the Northern Territory (Dr Patterson) to secure his re-election. [More…]

• In the field of superphosphate bounties the Government apparently decided that it had no earthly chance of holding its country based seats at the last election anyway, so there was no use in providing this sort of extension. [More…]

• This Bill is designed to enable public servants of the Northern Territory who resign in order to stand for election to the Legislative Assembly to be reinstated in the unhappy event- an event which none of us in this place wishes to contemplatethat they are unsuccessful. [More…]

• So one finds in section 4ka, for instance, of the Northern Territory (Administration) Act that a person is not qualified to be a candidate for election as a member of the Legislative Council if, at the date of nomination, he is employed in the Public Service of the Territory or of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Naturally enough that inhibits public servants from standing for election and from entering politics, which is something that none of us would want to inhibit them from doing. [More…]

• In 1960 the Liberal-Country Party Government moved to remedy this situation by inserting provisions in the Public Service Act- sections 47c and 82b- to ensure that a public servant who stands for election but who fails can be reinstated. [More…]

• The Bill now before the House makes similar provision in relation to members of the Australian and Northern Territory Public Service who wish to nominate for election. [More…]

• In recent times I can find no better enunciation of the basic principles on which the Opposition Parties are built than in a quotation from a speech delivered by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) when opening the joint Opposition campaign for the election in May this year. [More…]

• It is now more imperative than ever that the State governments be given, as the Liberal and Country Parties offered during the last election campaign, access to a percentage share of income tax revenue. [More…]

• Mr Snedden is on record from the last election as giving an assurance that growth of spending would be maintained in key areas such as health, education, urban improvement and social welfare. [More…]

• We reminded the Prime Minister of the promise he made in Hobart during the election campaigns in 1972 and 1974, when he said that he did not want to see Tasmania disadvantaged because of freight problems when compared with the tonmileage basis between Melbourne and Adelaide and Melbourne and Sydney. [More…]

• It is true that the dairy subsidy will be phased out at the end of next year but the Liberal-Country Party Government would not have retained it either had it been re-elected at the last general election. [More…]

• He explained that the matter to which I referred, which concerned a certain malpractice that took place during the 1972 federal election campaign in regard to the issue of postal vote ballot papers in Lilley, was something with which he had absolutely nothing to do and of which he had no knowledge. [More…]

• I apologise for my clear suggestion that in my opinion he was in some way- however distantly it might have been- associated with the affair that took place in the 1972 election campaign. [More…]

• This was established before the election. [More…]

• That is the solicitors employed by the honourable member for Lilley- that the Commonwealth Police have been investigating the matter and have advised that the person responsible for including election pamphlets with postal voting material addressed to a person in the Division has not yet been identified. [More…]

• I make it quite clear here and now that a statutory declaration signed by a woman in Zillmere had been produced and made available to officers of my Party prior to the House of Representatives election in 1972. [More…]

• He may be in a position to explain to us the malpractices that took place in the election in 1966 when, perhaps rightly or wrongly, he eventually became very well known in the House as the third man. [More…]

• Certain things happened during that election campaign in 1966. [More…]

• Australian Labor Party election campaign signs were destroyed and dumped into the Brisbane River. [More…]

• 1 ) Did the Minister state during the last election campaign that he would back the commercial judgment of the Australian Wool Corporation in the buying in of wool. [More…]

• At the time I was an articled clerk to a solicitor who finally sought and contested the seat of Wentworth but was defeated for the election by [More…]

• That is one of the memories I shall always have because of my interest in that election and the fact that I knew 2 men who I believe were among the great Liberals I have known in my parliamentary life. [More…]

• During the time I have been the member for Lowe and while he was in Parliament he opened every election campaign for me. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Services and Property aware of the recently released book ‘Looking at Liberals’ in which one of the authors alleges that the Central Intelligence Agency channelled funds to the Opposition during the recent Federal election campaign? [More…]

• I do not know whether there is substance in them, but it is true that the Liberal Party at the last election obtained up to $2m to $3m from unknown sources in an endeavour to defeat the democratically elected Government. [More…]

• In the great majority of cases the trade union and the branch of the Federal organisation are administered as though they were the same body with one set of assets, one system of banking, one set of books, one register of members, one set of officers, one election of officers for both bodies, and one system of meetings of a committee of management to handle the affairs of the trade union and the State branch of the organisation. [More…]

• If there have been invalidities in elections such as a failure properly to elect a returning officer . [More…]

• or a returning officer having been elected by people who have no right to have participated in the election of that person- I am adding that to what His Honour says; that is something I just thought of myself and it is very relevant, of course: . [More…]

• or in the conduct of an election such as the calling of nominations at the wrong time or the closing of the election at the wrong time or if persons not entitled to be admitted to membership or if entitled not properly admitted to membership, vote or are elected to office, there may be no validly constituted committee of management or officers. [More…]

• During the last election campaign I saw a deputation from those concerned with seeing the water scheme I have mentioned implemented. [More…]

• Notwithstanding a statement made by the Prime Minister, when asking the Tasmanians to vote for him, that he would make sea freight transport costs to and from Tasmania the same as mainland rail transport costs, there is the Minister for Transport, who is supposed to fulfil the policy undertaking, the election promise, saying the Government is not prepared to subsidise in any way. [More…]

• It was an election promise; it has not been honoured and there is no intention to honour it. [More…]

• Prior to the election in May I said that we would require a report within 3 months, even if it were an interim report. [More…]

• There are no Tasmanian representatives in this House at the moment but after the next election I expect that there will be no Labor members in this House. [More…]

• At the next election the people of Tasmania will redress the balance. [More…]

• The suggestion that Tasmania is being advantaged by the combined administration of 2 Labor governments at both Federal and State levels is an absurd proposition which the people of that State will certainly reject at the next Federal election. [More…]

• They have failed to have this Government apply effective and positive remedies and the sooner the people of Tasmania are aware of these facts the better will be the prospects of the Opposition at the next Federal election. [More…]

• The Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) is on record as saying, in his election policy speech in May, thatshould they have won- consideration would have been given to the restoration of taxation concessions for agricultural producers of the kind abolished by us. [More…]

• Perhaps there are clues to be found in the Liberal and Country Party election manifesto. [More…]

• This is what the Leader of the Opposition and the Leader of my Party, the Australian Country Party, said when they were campaigning in the recent election. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party, particularly during the last election campaign, was keen to quote Sir Robert Menzies. [More…]

• Let the Labor Party advertise that quotation and use those words of Sir Robert Menzies in its next election campaign. [More…]

• Of course, no Labor leader ever mentions that, particularly during an election campaign. [More…]

• Now let us look at what the Opposition did in regard to freight rates in August 1972, just before it was rolled in the election in December 1972 and at a time when it was in full flight as the government. [More…]

• That was not a bad sort of record for the then Country Party Minister for Shipping and Transport to have on the eve on an election. [More…]

• There happened to be an election as well which again was precipitated by the Opposition. [More…]

• The contracts which the Liberal-Country Party Government criminally signed 3 weeks before the election, at which it lost office, which had to be a graft situation of one sort or another, were for $5 - [More…]

• During the election campaign in May Mr Hooper, the State Minister for Transport, made much play in the Press in Brisbane about the fact that the Commonwealth was strong on words but not very strong on deeds. [More…]

• Prior to the 1949 election the late E. M. Hanlon, the Premier of Queensland, approached the then Prime Minister, Mr Chifley, for assistance for this work. [More…]

• This Budget did not keep faith with a campaign promise of the Labor Party in 2 elections. [More…]

• It was made as an election promise twice. [More…]

• If there was an election tomorrow the Government would promise to do so again. [More…]

• It is hardly our responsibility but during the election campaign in May we proposed a $600m tax cut. [More…]

• This is in conformity with the Prime Minister’s election promise to raise the basic pension to 25 per cent of the average wage, which it almost is now. [More…]

• I honestly and sincerely believe that that is not the view of the Opposition but is the result of the Opposition yielding to the pressures of the multinationals and gigantic mining companies who have subsidised its election expenses. [More…]

• Even in the last election campaign the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) in the Fitzroy Town Hall on 1 May 1974 said this: [More…]

• I rise to speak in this grievance debate of the 29th Parliament because of the number of letters and other communications I have received from constituents saying that they hope that this Parliament will continue, that sanity will prevail and that the Parliament will not be curtailed in mid-stream as the previous one was by an election which cost more in terms of manpower, money, and lost progressive time than any industrial dispute in the nation’s history. [More…]

• Indeed it was prepared to go again to the people soon after its election on its record to receive re-endorsement of its mandate. [More…]

• As honourable members will recall, 4 April was only a few days before the double dissolution, with the consequent election, and hence the whole issue was held up for the months it took for the election to be decided, for the Parliament to reassemble and so on. [More…]

• The 1972 Budget, aimed at winning the December election by pumping money indiscriminately into the economy; the huge inflow of foreign capital and available funds which enable anyone and everyone who wanted to take off on some speculative venture to do so without any consideration of the supply of goods, labour and materials that was available; and the international rise in prices of commodities such as wool, wheat, meat and so on and later oil caused a rapid rise in domestic inflation. [More…]

• I maintain that the Government has honoured its 1972 and 1974 election promises. [More…]

• I should have thought that in view of the promises made by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) during the election campaign of last May this Budget would certainly be directed at solving the problems of inflation and unemployment, but it is not. [More…]

• During the May election campaign the Prime Minister told the people he had inflation by the throat. [More…]

• He gave a pre-election promise that inflation would be reduced to 8 per cent by the end of this year. [More…]

• I congratulate you, Mr Speaker, on your election to the high office of Speaker of this House. [More…]

• It has also been the cry of the Opposition and those who run with it that inflation emerged as a problem in Australia only after the election of the Labor Government in December 1972. [More…]

• If the Liberal Party won an election tomorrow, we wouldn’t be able to reduce prices. [More…]

• It took an election on 1 8 May this year to persuade the Prime Minister that inflation was a real issue within the community. [More…]

• Having won that election by a reduced majority, the result of the election compelled the Prime Minister to acknowledge as a serious matter what he was only prepared before to flirt with in words. [More…]

• But having won the election, spoken to the people and acknowledged inflation the Prime Minister very promptly in this Budget abandoned the idea that inflation was a real problem. [More…]

• I wonder whether the people of Australia are more concerned about the election of Senator Willesee as president of the United Nations than they are about fighting inflation. [More…]

• One can recognise the unmistakable stance of a feline animal waiting to pounce when the next election comes and the Prime Minister loses his head. [More…]

• During the last election campaign in May he said that it was a document that would wreak political vandalism on the agricultural sector. [More…]

• It is revealed that if an election was held now we would come back with a majority of 37 seats. [More…]

• They have been subjected to a pre-election flirtation that was based on a serious miscalculationthat the average Australian can be brainwashed, can be bought. [More…]

• I would just like to comment very briefly on the result of the election for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• If members of the Labor Party and Ministers do not show evidence that they are opposed to the above measures and are genuinely working to counter them and other anti-rural measures many of which are still contained in the Coombs’ recommendation- that diabolical documentthey have abandoned their electorates, they have betrayed the people they supposedly represent and they should get out because, whether they like it or not, they will go out come the next election. [More…]

• Let us go back to the election of December 1972 when the people of Australia believed that they were electing a government for 3 years. [More…]

• If it had its way, because it has the numbers in the Senate, its arrogance and tactics of that sort would result in this country having to go through an election every 6 months or so. [More…]

• The Leader of the Country Party should have a red face after his gaffe during the last election campaign when he wanted the price of crude oil increased. [More…]

• The honourable member for Kooyong (Mr Peacock) is one of the slight changes in the cast, but since the last election the Leader of the Country Party has assumed full command to destroy Australia’s interests in and ownership of minerals and fuel in this country simply because every Country Party member in this Parliament had his campaign expenses paid at the last election by interests who today write the speeches in this Parliament of the Leader of the Australian Country Party. [More…]

• He is prepared to produce a speech at the drop of a hat in return for the money put in at the last election campaign by those foreign interests in an endeavour to defeat the Government party in this country. [More…]

• Every Country Party member, I am told, in the last election in Queensland got $25,000 cash from foreign mining interests in order to finance his campaign. [More…]

• The honourable member for Kooyong and others are singing for their supper because they seek an election in the not far distant future. [More…]

• Let me remind the Minister that prior to the 1972 election he promised low interest loans, depreciation allowances, and investment and taxation allowances to shipowners as well as a shipbuilding subsidy for construction in Australian shipyards. [More…]

• That these have been proven to be idle words is seen simply by the fact that those pre-election pledges have been broken. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), during the 1972 and 1974 election campaigns, promised that he would look at the freight disadvantage being experienced by the island State of Tasmania. [More…]

• It was very much before my notice when I first came into this House as a result of the 1966 election. [More…]

• After all, the Prime Minister in a very grandiose manner in Alice Springs in the weeks before the last election declared that there would be a dual carriageway from Alice Springs to Port Augusta. [More…]

• Policies which were espoused consistently by the Opposition were ignored and in the end we had to take a vital decision and so an election was forced in May of this year because the nation realised and the Opposition realised the dangerous trends that were occurring. [More…]

• In the May election we again saw false claims- deceitful claims- by the Prime Minister and his Ministers. [More…]

• Will the nation ever forget during the May election the Prime Minister saying: ‘It appears as if we are starting to get on top of our problems. [More…]

• He spoke about this matter before the last election. [More…]

• It would not matter to the Treasurer; it would not matter to the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), because he is aiming his strategy at the people in the suburbs and the cities and he is hoping against hope, I feel, that they may vote him back at a future election. [More…]

• To my way of dunking, their election of a government of duds for the duds has spelt the end of Britain’s era as a great nation. [More…]

• The state of the economy and the poor performance of the Ministry were the main planks of our platform for the election on 18 May but the Australian people were not then allowed to know the facts and they did not wake up to what was happening. [More…]

• I congratulate that section of the Press on the fact that it is now taking a more realistic view and that it is now presenting the facts that were not allowed to be made known prior to the election on 18 May. [More…]

• In supporting the amendment moved to the Budget by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden), which is virtually the blue print for throwing out the entire Budget, I would suggest that members of the Opposition cannot justifiably be painted by Government members as simply knockers, because we all know on this side of the House that Government members are going through stages of contortions and screaming loudly about certain aspects of the Budget and living in fear of what might happen to them at the next election. [More…]

• After the Labor Government was returned in the recent election Evans Deakin made the decision that it could no longer carry on. [More…]

• Regrettably a lot of people in Melbourne and Sydney at the last Federal election on 18 May did not see the writing on the wall. [More…]

• I feel confident that in the next election the representation of the party which presently forms the Government will virtually be halved as the people of Australia pass judgment on the performance of the present Government. [More…]

• There will be no election next May unless the Opposition is more foolish, more ignorant and more irresponsible than I gave it credit for. [More…]

• It is necessary to carry out our political commitments which were reaffirmed and accepted by the people in the Federal election earlier this year. [More…]

• He convinced me, if I ever needed any convincing, that the next election will be fought on ideology- but more of this in a moment. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition is now throwing out leads to see whether divine providence is going to tell him to deny Supply in the Senate to provoke an election before Christmas. [More…]

• I believe the New South Wales Liberal Party wants an election next April or May. [More…]

• One of the problems about politics in Australia today is that we have these overt threats now coming from the Opposition to a properly elected government that at any time in the term of a government the Opposition will force it to an election. [More…]

• He said that Mr Snedden will be Prime Minister soon and that soon we will have another election. [More…]

• The editorial is referring to the prospect of a double dissolution or an election and the Senate power to obstruct a duly elected government. [More…]

• He is signalling that he has not closed off the option of an election this year . [More…]

• What right has this discredited man to signal calling on an election this year? [More…]

• He persisted with this ruse for 3 months until, after a couple of months of votes and constant defeat of the Opposition in this Parliament, he finally decided he had actually lost the election. [More…]

• That was just a few months ago and now he is talking about when he will have another election. [More…]

• The Opposition parties will exploit this balance in the Australian electorate to force any elected government to an election at any time. [More…]

• With this uncertainty which arises from the possibility of an election, a change of power and a change of government in any one year, it is no wonder the business community of Australia does not really know what it is in for. [More…]

• In the early part of this year, after 18 months of the Labor Government’s being in office and taking correct economic decisions, revaluing the Australian dollar, cutting tariffs, increasing imports, supplementing our own lagging domestic production, to try to beat prices, holding referendums on price control and on wages control and having them defeated, using every constitutional power available in this Parliament to this Government in the economic arena, introducing legislation for which we were given a mandate in 1972 and religiously carrying out the document that the Prime Minister read in his policy speech, the Opposition parties forced this Government to an election. [More…]

• The Labor Party has achieved more than 50 per cent of the vote at successive elections and sometimes we have been unable to form a government. [More…]

• But this balance gives any Opposition with a majority in the Senate the opportunity of forcing the House of Representatives to an election at a time of its choosing without the Senate going to an election itself. [More…]

• He says that if in his opinion he gets the call he will force an election. [More…]

• But when the Liberal Party realised that the Australian electorate appreciated the fact that a major party researched policies, cared about policies and thought about them before they opportunistically offered policies at an election to try to buy votes it realised that it should have federal conferences to try to thrash out policies. [More…]

• I referred earlier to the changeability of Australian politics and the fact that governments can change easily when oppositions refuse supply and force governments to elections. [More…]

• Nor will the problem be cured by the Opposition trying to force this Government to an election because it thinks that it can beat us at any one point during our term of office. [More…]

• Today’s ‘Daily Mirror’ carries the heading: ‘December Election!’. [More…]

• I am rather interested to note in tonight’s ‘Daily Mirror’ that the Prime Minister is now starting to come the bluff and referring to calling an election. [More…]

• Yet the Prime Minister is threatening to call an election if the Senate rejects any part of the Budget. [More…]

• The Opposition parties firmly believe that they did not lose the 1 972 election. [More…]

• Their Leader is still maintaining that he did not lose the 1974 election. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party was re-elected to office, even though honourable members opposite may not believe that it won the election. [More…]

• I believe that if another election were forced by the Opposition within the term of the present Parliament the people would re-elect the Labor Party to office because, as is obvious from this debate, no alternative proposals have been put forward by the makeshift Opposition. [More…]

• In a very significant sense Labor cannot gain power at all simply by winning an election. [More…]

• Let us put on our next election poster that he agrees with it. [More…]

• No doubt the results of the last election determined that God should be dropped from the Liberal Party platform. [More…]

• Leilani has more chance of winning the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups than his Party has of winning the next Federal election. [More…]

• Tonight he used extravagant statements about the Government’s misdoings, but whatever those opposite say, we have won 2 elections in 18 months and they were lucky to win 2 elections in 6 years. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) during the last election campaign assured the Press that there would be no unemployment. [More…]

• During the election campaign the Prime Minister also said: ‘We have reduced inflation to 9 per cent and falling’. [More…]

• That was at the time of the last election. [More…]

• That statement too was made during the last election campaign. [More…]

• During the last election campaign the Minister for Overseas Trade said: ‘The situation is serious enough to warrant increased taxation on the rich’ and specified a mark of $14,000 a year- a bench mark that is rather familiar to members of Parliament. [More…]

• While we sat there waiting for question time Mr MacKellar to whom some of our members including myself and our other member who was with me had given solid election support in his fight against St John in the previous election . [More…]

• In answer to the honourable member for Farrer, there is one fourth certainty, and that is his political demise at the next election. [More…]

• In fact, during the May election campaign the Leader of the Opposition talked about reducing education expenditure by $260m. [More…]

• There is one other aspect of this melancholy business to which I would refer, and it is this: The Prime Minister, during the election campaign, said that taxation would not be increased. [More…]

• This is what the two of them reported the Prime Minister as having said at this meeting during the election campaign: [More…]

• But the Government had made up its mind, and the only thing that will rescue the Governmenta government of repudiation; that is the only description for it- is for it to be obliged to walk through the cleansing fire of an election. [More…]

• To most organisations the important factor in this legislation is the intention to validate any election or purported election, appointment or purported appointment, and the making or purported making or alteration or purported alteration of a rule. [More…]

• The basic problem, of which the case of Moore v. Doyle and other cases provide illustrations, arises from the fact that a State branch of a Federal union and a State union are often administered as if they were the same body, with one set of books, one register of members, one membership fee, one set of officers, one election of officers of both bodies and one system of meetings. [More…]

• In the great majority of cases the trade union and the branch of the federal organisation are administered as though they were the same body with one set of assets, one system of banking, one set of books, one register of members, one set of officers, one election of officers for both bodies, and one system of meetings of a committee of management to handle the affairs of the trade union and the State branch of the organisation. [More…]

• Despite differences in the constitution rule of the federal and the corresponding State body, members of one who are not eligible to be members of the other are often treated as members of both and often vote in elections of the body to which they are not entitled to belong. [More…]

• With regard to the election of the presiding officer of the House I believe that there is some room for improvement. [More…]

• I should like very much in the fullness of time to see the elections treated with the dignity and decorum that befits the high office of the presiding officer. [More…]

• I believe that the party system of election robs the Chair of the atmosphere of impartiality and independence which is so eminently desirable. [More…]

• I do not refer to election day; I mean weekly. [More…]

• I think the honourable member for Barton will agree that the last election made unprecedented demands on the staff of the Australian Electoral Office. [More…]

• First, there was an election for the Senate and in some cases the number of candidates was a record. [More…]

• In addition to that there were 4 referendum questions and an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• In fact the 20 years prior to the election of this Government was a period of neglect. [More…]

• What these Press articles are saying is that the only rights that members of the public have in electing members to Parliament- this applies equally to Opposition members- is that they shall vote on election day, that those they elect shall come to Canberra and vote for a leader and having chosen that leader for the next 3 years they will have no right to exercise any authority over that leader or members of the Cabinet. [More…]

• As I am reminded by the honourable member for Kennedy, Mr Menadue is a former private secretary to Mr Whitlam and a defeated Labor candidate at the 1966 Federal elections. [More…]

• I object on behalf of the electors of Darling Downs to the appointment of people like Mr Grassby to a plum job, newly created, with negligible responsibility and doubtful value, after he has been floored by the democratic count in an election campaign. [More…]

• The granting of this money is an example of how Labor delivers the goods and how we redeem our election promises. [More…]

• Obviously it was the intention of the Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) in attacking my colleague, the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder), in his absence to make a great splash on the eve of an election in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• On the eve of the election the Labor Party has approved a number of houses purely as an election gimmick. [More…]

• It is obvious to me, as Chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Northern Territory, that he has been campaigning throughout the Northern Territory in connection with the election there on Saturday next. [More…]

• I am grateful for the honourable member’s correction, but I allege that for the remainder of the week the honourable member for the Northern Territory has been campaigning in the Northern Territory in connection with the election on Saturday next. [More…]

• That is why he receives a lucrative salary, and his duties are in this Parliament, not campaigning in connection with a local election in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• How many candidates forfeited their deposits in (a) the last 2 elections for the House of Representatives and (b) the Senate election in May 1974. [More…]

• I might say that on taking office I was able to trace the history of rental increases for Housing Commission homes and I noticed that the increases coincided with post-election periods. [More…]

• There was a tendency to increase rents paid by Housing Commission tenants, including pensioners, after an election had concluded. [More…]

• The fact is- I would have thought that all honourable members knew it; certainly a spokesman for a major party on foreign affairs should know it- that the President of the United Nations is selected by the automatic election of the nominee of a particular geographic group of United Nations members, each group taking its turn year by year. [More…]

• The gallup polls reflect it, the Northern Territory election results demonstrate it and the media now reports it. [More…]

• This proposition was advanced by the Opposition during the May election campaign. [More…]

• Indeed if one likes to go back to the election of the Government on 2 December 1972 one can see a successive number of policy decisions, philosophic, economic and social, all of which have contributed directly to the circumstances in which we find ourselves today. [More…]

• Of course, the result is that if we are to adopt this path we need to be a government which never faces an election or at least faces elections very infrequently or possibly a government which is prepared to make unemployment more bearable. [More…]

• The Government’s rural policies and its method of implementation since the 1972 election have been disastrous. [More…]

• This increase was the result of the policies carried out over the previous 3 years when the Opposition, the then Government, was fearful of losing an election. [More…]

• They continuously threatened new elections right through 1973, climaxing in an election in May 1974 when they were defeated and found themselves with a very slight majority, with the assistance of a couple of independents, in another place; they have continuously since May 1974 threatened elections. [More…]

• They have either to tell the community that they want an election or they are going to allow the people to elect a government for 3 years. [More…]

• -From among the claptrap just put up by the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young), who has just resumed his seat- an adviser to the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) before the last election and a Government supporter who I suppose must be listened to with a little more than passing interest- emerged one or two points with which I would be associated. [More…]

• Honourable members will remember seeing not long ago during the election campaign those election pamphlets which the Prime Minister authorised saying: ‘Whitlam is the only man to reduce inflation by a third; Whitlam is the only man to reduce interest 3 per cent’. [More…]

• Perhaps he is foreshadowing an election which will put things right again. [More…]

• It was only an election gimmick. [More…]

• During the recent Legislative Assembly election campaign legal aid personnel were campaigning actively for the Labor Party. [More…]

• After he had been on an election tour for 7 days that car was towed 30 miles back into town. [More…]

• He spoke an awful lot of nonsense, but I am giving facts and figures about Government funds being used during an election campaign. [More…]

• He is supposed to be secretary of the CAAC which at Government expense during this election campaign circulated letters on the notepaper of the Congress recommending to Aborigines that they did not support a certain candidate and suggesting that he was an ex-policeman who was known to treat Aborigines badly and belonged to a racist party. [More…]

• The Government was fighting to survive in an election. [More…]

• Until there is an election that happens. [More…]

• The people are able to see in an election that the opposition has no answers, just as the Opposition in the Australian Parliament has no answers, on the matter of increased freight rates. [More…]

• People are able to see in an election that the opposition is worse than the incumbent government, with all the problems that there are to overcome. [More…]

• As to what the present Government has done for Tasmania, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) stated quite clearly during the 1972 election campaign that there was a problem of freight rates as far as Tasmania was concerned. [More…]

• As honourable members will very well remember, the election to the presidency of that body will be arranged by the bloc of the Western European and Other nations, and what we do inside that bloc to promote Senator Willesee does not very much prejudice the Australian interests in other respects. [More…]

• I am referring to a possible election which might not be confined to that bloc, and that is the possible election of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. [More…]

• Election to that office is determined not by the Western European and Other nations bloc; it is determined by the United Nations as a whole. [More…]

• I wonder whether these incidents add up to an attempt to further the prospects of the present Prime Minister in a possible election of Secretary of the United Nations. [More…]

• If the honourable member for Adelaide wants to hold his seat in the next election he would be well advised to run for cover and disassociate himself from this Government. [More…]

• He predicted the same thing in August and November 1972 when we were approaching an election. [More…]

• The promise of such a move was contained in the previous Government’s policy manifesto for the December 1972 election. [More…]

• It was not possible to introduce it before then, and of course we did not get the chance after that election. [More…]

• I should also add that it was a provision which I included in the Liberal-Country Party’s repatriation policy when I was shadow Minister for Repatriation and which would have been implemented by this time if the Liberal-Country Party coalition had won office at the last election. [More…]

• It is fair enough to make the comment that there were those in the community who were spokesmen for some of the ex-service leagues who were suggesting prior to the election in 1 972 that the Labor Party as a government would not have as much thought for ex-servicemen as perhaps the opposing political parties would. [More…]

• Election funds are more important than equity in that field and the Liberal and Country Parties have promised the mining industry $100m to $200m in benefits in the form of special tax concessions. [More…]

• We had this as a part of our policy for the election following the double dissolution. [More…]

• It is of interest that the Labor Government on election was fortunate in striking a conjunction of favourable seasons and favourable markets, and the products of positive government policies and programs which ensured the Government an opportunity to treat the farmers well. [More…]

• These economic measures which they were encouraged to take by the positive measures that were introduced and maintained by Liberal-Country Party Administrations were progressively removed by the steps of the Labor Government as a result of the report introduced by Dr Coombs soon after the election of the present Government. [More…]

• During the last election campaign I was approached by one multinational drug company which told me of an approach made to it by members of the staff of the Minister for Agriculture asserting that unless the company contributed a significant sum of money to the Labor Party campaign to enable the presentation of the Labor Party’s rural policy perhaps some ill might befall that company’s continued participation in the agricultural community. [More…]

• I suggest that the Government drag from the archives its promises of the 1972 election campaign in the rural credit fieldpromises that it has so conveniently shelved. [More…]

• I was told seriously by friends in Washington whilst I was there during the Australian election campaign that with so much at stake from the American viewpoint CIA funds were available to help defeat the Labor government in Australia. [More…]

• Anti-socialist political organisations contesting an Australian election under prevailing assessments of the international situation could not be permitted to fail .through a mere shortage of funds. [More…]

• To use an American expression, no one rooted more for Snedden and his anti-socialist forces in the election campaign than did Government men and top businessmen in the United States. [More…]

• She returned to Australia as the election campaign got started and offered to all thirteen members of the Liberal Parliamentary Executive a skilled secretary to work fulltime for each of them throughout the campaign free of charge. [More…]

• Will he advise the House, further, whether in pursuit of the resources policy which he advocated in his 1972 election campaign there has been consideration in the deliberations towards the conclusion of this agreement concerning the Governments of both countries laying down terms and conditions by which multi-commodities might be guaranteed access from Australia to Japan? [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Prime Minister been drawn to the fact that the Premier of Queensland yesterday announced that an election would be held in that State on 7 December and that amongst other things he said that Queenslanders could register their shock, apprehension and dismay concerning policies of the Federal Government. [More…]

• Will he encourage his Minister for Minerals and Energy to go to Queensland and spell out his policies if he has cleared them with the Cabinet by the time of the Queensland election? [More…]

• I believe if there were an election this Saturday or even in the next few months this Government would go. [More…]

• I am sure that the Government of Queensland will be returned with a resounding victory in the election in a few weeks time in spite of any comments that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) made this morning during question time. [More…]

• The Prime Minister and his socialist Government did not reveal to the Australian people what the true facts were when the election was held in May of this year. [More…]

• Three weeks after the elections the facts began to emerge- inflation was getting worse and unemployment was rising. [More…]

• The Labor Party promised during its 1972 election campaign to reduce interest rates from 7 per cent or 6Vi per cent to a lower figure. [More…]

• I might say that I have little reason to love the man because, prior to the 1972 election, he came out and condemned the policies of the then Liberal Government. [More…]

• Prior to the last election he came out and said, in a nutshell: ‘Well, I thought the Liberals were not too good; but, having seen the Labor Party for 16 months, I am forced to say that they are even worse. ‘ [More…]

• We got one additional one last election for the House of Representatives and we want a few more this time. [More…]

• Is the Government’s haste due to a fear to tell the people the true import of the Bill, or is it just being plain panicked into trying to drum up some superficially attractive measure in case there is an election this year or next year? [More…]

• One of the occasional regrets I have at the timing of my election to this Parliament is that it coincided- I might say clashed- with my efforts at the same time to complete a law degree. [More…]

• I wonder whether this device, this lolly or this sugarcoated pill is not a move to allow the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to go out at the next election, which Bob Hawke tells him he can expect in April, and say to the people that here is another instance of Senate obstructionism. [More…]

• Honourable members will recall that in April or May of this year, during the election campaign, a reference was made to the textiles authority, the first one - [More…]

• On the election of the Labor Party the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) of course called for the Australian Meat Board report on how to lower prices. [More…]

• After the election the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) called for the Australian Meat Board to report on how to lower prices. [More…]

• Before the last election the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Snedden, was advertising on radio, saying something like this: ‘Meat prices are very high. [More…]

• Sure enough, before the election a few days later the Leader of the Country Party (Mr Anthony) said: ‘We are all for freezing the price of commodities but, of course, this could not possibly apply to perishable goods. ‘ [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party did not win too much support in the rural areas at the last election and it believes that it will have to get by without the support of the rural areas. [More…]

• I charge the present Labor Government with completely reneging on the promise made by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) prior to the last election when he promised that his Government would introduce a variable repayment mortgage loans scheme in which the loan repayments would be lower in the early years of a loan and higher in its later years. [More…]

• This seems to indicate that it is prepared to promise the world prior to an election but when it is saddled with the responsibility it will not live up to expectations. [More…]

• I have no doubt that honourable members opposite would take some comfort from the results of the Assembly election held on 19 October. [More…]

• As honourable members know this report was completed prior to the recent election and the Opposition seemed to think that this was a political document. [More…]

• There was stunned silence in the recent election campaign. [More…]

• When the Prime Minister at the last election in May of this year said no alterations would be made to taxation in this country a lot of people believed him. [More…]

• One of these days he will and he may, if he survives the next election, be able to make a useful contribution. [More…]

• During the election campaign of 1972 they opposed our education program. [More…]

• During the election campaign of 1972 they opposed our education program. [More…]

• Prior to the previous Federal election the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) outlined the policy in respect of social welfare in the community. [More…]

• We have gone ahead with the reforms we promised in 2 election campaigns. [More…]

• A look at the standard rate of pension will show that there was a definite conspiracy from the election of a conservative government in 1949 until it was thrown out of office in 1972 to keep the standard rate of pension at about 20 per cent of average weekly earnings, as opposed to the Australian Labor Party’s policy, which has now been achieved, of 25 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]

• This is one of the major reasons why when next we go to an election the vast majority of people will reject the old, tired thinking and conservative viewpoint that honourable members opposite have had in mind for 23 years. [More…]

• On the question of the Australian Government wanting to build hospitals in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, I think the Prime Minister’s desire to score political points and to be ready for another election is overriding the practical problems of moving ahead with hospital construction. [More…]

• I think those two amounts which I have drawn out as examples show very clearly the way in which the Labor Government has moved very quickly since the election on 1 8 May to dismember and despatch the former Department of Immigration. [More…]

• In talking to the estimates of the Department of Environment and Conservation I think it is well to remember that this is a new department which was created just after the 1972 election. [More…]

• In the election campaign of May this year the Liberal-Country Party Opposition indicated, in what it thought would be a blandly accepted proposition, that if it was returned to Government it would abolish the Department of the Media. [More…]

• Before the last election, the Liberal Party put forward its rural policy which included the establishment of a national rural bank. [More…]

• In the Goulburn by-election held recently Sir Charles Cutler claimed that the State Government had spent $50m on the Hume Highway in 2 years. [More…]

• He never said that during the Goulburn by-election. [More…]

• The people in my electorate remember what was said during that by-election. [More…]

• If the Opposition had been thinking of an election before that ‘Monday Conference’ it must have put such ideas behind it now. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman also suggested that in the last election campaign we said we would not increase defence expenditure. [More…]

• I seem to recall that during the last election campaign the honourable member for Barker said that the Opposition might spend an extra $200m in this year’s Budget. [More…]

• The only action, taken with a rush by the Minister just before the election, was the purchase- after the cancellation of the DDLs and the breaking of a promise by the Minister that whatever was going to replace our destroyers would be made in Australia- of 2 patrol frigates and, as everyone knows, they are ships which were designed for a specific purpose in a large navy, the United States Navy, and were not designed to suit Australian conditions at all. [More…]

• If I could take the Committee back to some of the comments he made in his closing remarks, he said that the Government on the eve of an election announced an equipment program. [More…]

• It is a fact that the announcement was made on the eve of an election, but at the time that equipment program was announced the Government did not realise that it was the eve of an election; it was before the so-called Gair affair. [More…]

• The former Government sent a former Minister for Defence, Mr Athol Townley, who served under Sir Robert Menzies, to America to buy aircraft because it feared that criticism would be levelled at it in the forthcoming election in 1963 on the ground that the defence chiefs -had told the Government that the outmoded Canberra bomber was of no further use in modern warfare. [More…]

• Indeed during the last election campaign in May of this year both the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) and the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) stated unequivocally that they would not return to conscription. [More…]

• During the last election campaign in May, as has been pointed out earlier this afternoon, the honourable member for Barker said that the strength of the Army should be 36,000. [More…]

• I ask the honourable member for Shortland to forget about criticising the Queensland Government because the result which will eventuate on 7 December in the State election in Queensland will show this Labor Government and the Labor Opposition in Queensland just what an election is all about. [More…]

• I hope that by the time of the next election its population will be 50,000. [More…]

• There was the appointment of Mr Gordon Freeth, who had been defeated at an election, as Australia’s Ambassador to Japan. [More…]

• Mr Chaney was also defeated in the 1969 election. [More…]

• -The Minister for Services and Property would be aware that the senior partner of the Queensland coalition Government received 19 per cent of the votes in the last Queensland election. [More…]

• Could the Minister inform the House whether the same system, which denies both the Liberal Party and the Australian Labor Party a proper say in that State, will survive for the next elections? [More…]

• Any person who administers a system which allows a person to survive as Premier of a State on that basis undoubtedly would want a continuation of that state of affairs as well as another election. [More…]

• Can the Minister assure the House that in view of his emphatic endorsement of the principle of properly drawn electoral boundaries his Government will dissociate itself from the submission lodged with the New South Wales Electoral Commissioners by the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party and which if implemented would produce, on the basis of the 1 974 election results, 29 ALP seats out of 45 in New South Wales and, in percentage terms, 64 per cent of the seats in New South Wales although that Party in the May election polled a mere 52 per cent to 53 per cent of the primary votes? [More…]

• Compare this with the statement made on 21 April, before the last election, by the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Cameron. [More…]

• Yet one month after the election Mr Cameron was angering the Prime Minister by predicting rising unemployment. [More…]

• It just shows you how insincere it is at election time when it peddles emotive issues knowing full well that it is only living for the moment. [More…]

• I draw to the Minister’s attention and leave recorded in Hansard for ever the fact that during the last Federal election campaign the Australian Labor Party radio station in Brisbane, which by law is supposed to accept all forms of advertisements - [More…]

• Perhaps the Minister when he winds up the debate on this clause, will explain to me why the ALP radio station in Brisbane would not accept advertising from me in the last Federal election. [More…]

• If the honourable gentleman wants a further instance, I refer him to the so-called editorials that were telecast by Channel 9 in the period of the 1972 general election. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite do not want me to remind them of the election results in the Northern Territory, where 17 Liberal and Country Party candidates were elected to a Parliament of nineteen. [More…]

• In a democracy which is allowed to work, the people can pass judgment on political decisions at the general election. [More…]

• What was the proportion of formal votes cast for candidates of (a) the Australian Labor Party; (b) the Liberal Party of Australia; and (c) the Australian Country Party- (i) at polling booths within the electors’ subdivision; (ii) by absentee votes; and (iii) by postal votes in each State and Territory at the election for the House of Representatives held on 18 May 1974. [More…]

• However, I will supply the honourable member with copies of Election Form 62 for each House of Representatives division, relating to the 18 May 1974 election. [More…]

• Owing to the election in May brought on by the Opposition’s decision to refuse Supply, and the consequential late timing of the Budget, the normal mid-year survey of the economy by the Treasury was not prepared this year and the question of its publication does not therefore arise. [More…]

• That answer was given in response to a question I asked regarding the impact of the submissions made by the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Labor Party for redistribution purposes when read with the New South Wales results of the 1 8 May election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• Any person who assesses electoral results and applies them to one election only is on very weak ground. [More…]

• If one went back to two or three elections before the one the honourable member is talking about totally different results would be given. [More…]

• That is correct, but the results can be totally different if they are taken, say, from the 1966 election. [More…]

• I did not go into that suite during the election compaign as the office was being rebuilt and neither did Mr Whitlam. [More…]

• If the Opposition had been fortunate enough- that might be a debatable term- to be returned to power at the last general election it would have been wrestling with those issues, too. [More…]

• It also proposes consequential amendments of the Senate Elections Act 1903-1948, the Senate Elections Act 1966 and the Representation Act 1903-1973. [More…]

• Taken overall, these various proposals are intended to allow for, firstly, a speedier finalisation of federal election results; secondly, improved voting facilities for electors; thirdly, the introduction of some new or changed procedures; and, fourthly, the correction of some obvious defects in the existing electoral law. [More…]

• These include: optional preferential marking of ballot-paper; printing of party affiliations of candidates on ballot-papers; registration of political parties for purposes of identification and printing of affiliations on ballot-papers; introduction of mobile polling booths at hospitals and similar institutions; drawing for positions of candidates on House of Representatives ballot-papers; closing of the polls at 6 p.m. rather than 8 p.m.; requiring a candidate changing his name within 12 months prior to nominations to declare the change, and providing for the former name to be included on the ballotpaper; prevention of persons enrolling or nominating for election under changed names in certain circumstances; an earlier deadline for the return of postal votes and for the return of postal votes direct to respective returning officers; restricting postal vote application forms to be used at an election or referendum to those specified by notice in the Gazette; prohibiting the listing of names of persons who apply for postal votes, except in certain specified circumstances; providing postal voting facilities for prisoners who have retained their franchise entitlements; increasing the amount of deposit required with nomination and varying the conditions under which deposits may be saved; preservation of the voting entitlement of Australian citizens posted overseas in the service of the Crown, and retention on the roll of the name of an elector temporarily absent from his address; precluding nomination for election to the Australian Parliament of a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory or the Australian Capital Territory; prevention of a person from nominating as a candidate for more than one Federal election held on the same day; protection of candidates against the issue of misleading how-to-vote cards; change in qualifications for enrolment, voting and candidature from ‘British subject’ to ‘status of a British subject’; eliminating the need to state the address of author in the case of broadcasting or telecasting of political matters; the manner of announcing the name of an author of political matter on radio or television; responsibility for publication of matter or comment of a political nature in the Press between issue of the writ and the close of the poll; removal of the restriction on exhibition of electoral posters within a hall or room being used for political party meetings; provision of support staff for Distribution Commissioners; authority for alterations to the roll when a street is renamed or renumbered; lowering the permissible age of presiding officers or assisting presiding officers to 18 years; appointment of substitute assistant returning officer at places outside Australia in certain circumstances; increases in penalties for failure to enrol; the provision of fines as an alternative to imprisonment where relevant; amounts of monetary penalties to match imprisonment terms; amendment of questions to be put to voters by presiding officers; conversion of distances to metric measurements; use of ‘given names’ in lieu of ‘Christian names’; candidates making gifts, donations, etc., prior to an election; retitling of the Act. [More…]

• Several of the more significant proposals contained in this Bill are intended, either in whole or in part, to enable the final result of a Federal election to be known more speedily than has been possible hitherto. [More…]

• One such proposal relates to the introduction of optional preferential marking of ballot-papers, which will result in a speedier count for Senate elections in particular. [More…]

• Under the existing preferential system, each voter, irrespective of his individual wishes in the matter, is compelled to rank in order of preference all the candidates on the ballot paper, whether this requires the marking of only 2 squares or, as was the case in the most recent Senate election in New South Wales, not less than 73. [More…]

• As members will appreciate, the present system involves intolerable delays in finalising the election results. [More…]

• This practice presents many obstacles to any attempt to speed the count, especially for Senate elections. [More…]

• For instance, under the proportional representation system used for the Senate, the quota for an election cannot be determined, nor can the count commence, until the exact number of formal votes cast is known. [More…]

• At the recent Senate election, the precise number of formal votes was unknown until over 2 weeks after polling day. [More…]

• As the Government is particularly anxious, as I feel all honourable members are, to prevent unscrupulous persons taking advantage of aged or infirm electors, it is also proposed to prohibit the inspection of postal vote applications for the purpose of listing of names of persons who apply for postal votes at an election, except where such listing is genuinely required in connection with an inquiry into possible malpractices. [More…]

• Under a proposed provision, the only postal vote application forms which may be used at an election will be those specified or declared to be applicable by the Chief Australian Electoral Officer. [More…]

• This proposal is designed to curb the current dubious practice of having thousands of postal vote applications completed months in advance of the next ensuing election, then forwarding these to electors at or about the time of the issue of writs, without any precise knowledge as to whether the persons concerned are, in fact, entitled to vote by post. [More…]

• For the purpose of recognition as a political party under these amendments, it is proposed that a party must have candidates officially nominated for not less than one-fourth of the vacancies to be filled at the relevant election, except in the case of an election to fill a casual Senate vacancy or a by-election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• In these cases, a party must have had candidates officially nominated at the immediately preceding Senate or House of Representatives election, in accordance with the formula specified. [More…]

• In one case, a person successfully enrolled as ‘HBerrill (Surname) Stop Asian Immigration Now’ (other names) and was a candidate in that name at the recent Senate election. [More…]

• Under the provisions of the Bill a person may be nominated for election only in the name under which he is enrolled or, if he is not enrolled, in the name under which he is entitled to enrol. [More…]

• I now turn to another important area awaiting reform, one which has been highlighted by the most recent elections. [More…]

• It is hoped that the new deposit requirements will keep this proliferation of candidates within reasonable proportions, without going so far as to deprive serious intending candidates of their legitimate democratic rights to present themselves for election to public office. [More…]

• The earlier closing of the poll will permit an earlier indication on polling night of the possible result of an election and it will also ease the burden a little on the thousands of poll workers without, I believe, inconveniencing the electors. [More…]

• Therefore, just as it has been considered appropriate in the past for a member of a State legislature to be ineligible to stand for election to the Australian Parliament, so the Government considers that it should be made quite clear that a member of the legislature of an internal Territory is likewise ineligible to nominate. [More…]

• Provision is also made in this Bill to prevent a person from becoming a candidate for two or more federal elections held on the same day. [More…]

• At the 1969 elections, a person stood as a candidate for the Senate election in South Australia, as well as for the House of Representatives in the Division of Hindmarsh. [More…]

• Some concern has been expressed in the past at the possibility of a candidate assuming the name of, say, a sitting member, primarily for the purpose of gaining some political advantage at an election and thereby causing confusion in the minds of electors. [More…]

• However, due to unforeseen delays brought about by the election in May 1 974, the Bill has been held over until now. [More…]

• However, despite that fact, there is no question that the degree of animosity has increased sharply as a result of the election of a Federal Labor Government. [More…]

• During a recent election campaign which took place in the Northern Territory the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam)- he was purring at the timesaid: ‘We are the people who care. [More…]

• This matter is associated with the political situation in Queensland and has particular significance at this stage because of the elections that are to be held in Queensland on 7 December. [More…]

• Despite the fact that the Country Party rejects this percentage description as being a true indication of the support for the Party in Queensland, if it is examined on a seat by seat basis it will be seen that the coalition parties in Queensland with 42 per cent of the votes in the last State election got 47 seats in the Legislative Assembly, compared with the Labor Party which polled 48 per cent of the votes and got only 33 seats. [More…]

• It is as well at this time to impress on the people of Queensland that in this election, despite what the Premier wants them to believe, they will not be passing judgment on the Australian Government, they will simply be doing as people do in every State election- determining which political party will have responsibility for and authority over the State for the next 3 years. [More…]

• We well know what happened in that area during the last election campaign. [More…]

• Of course, we had the spectacle of a former member of this House, the former right honourable member for Fisher, supporting Mr Eric Butler on a platform during the recent Federal election campaign in Queensland. [More…]

• I congratulate the Government on taking this forthright stand to honour the election promise of 1972 on which this Government was elected and which was part of its progressive platform at that time. [More…]

• That shows what sort of tactics Labor Party members will resort to, particularly as the Queensland State election is to be held on 7 December. [More…]

• As a matter of fact it was a blackmail vote because during the campaign for the last Brisbane City Council election people were told that if they did not vote for the Australian Labor Party they would not get anything from Alderman Jones, because he is a dictator. [More…]

• We know that little Sir Echo Douglas has gone begging cap in hand to them for years for money for the Country Party’s election campaign funds. [More…]

• Why did not his Party support the propositions put up by this Government to expose and to detail every item of donations that are received by Parties during election campaigns. [More…]

• Mr Maudling’s expansionary Budget of 1963 was deliberately framed to persuade the TUC to accept a voluntary incomes policy- and the result was the famous 1964 payments deficit and Mr Heath’s election as Conservative leader. [More…]

• Election time [More…]

• Partly, of course, this is impossible to do without upsetting someone and when you’re an Opposition leader sitting it out to election time that’s the last thing you want to do. [More…]

• During the last election campaign- that is, the 1974 election campaign- the Opposition got itself into an unholy mess because it had no policies. [More…]

• That was what they stated before the last election. [More…]

• Since the election, they have constantly hinted at making cuts in taxation but they have never stopped talking about new areas of expenditure. [More…]

• Would not Mr Bjelke-Petersen love to hear that just before the State election? [More…]

• The fact is, however, that they will have to face the same situation as they did in the last election when day after day they saw their vote obviously drifting away as the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) and the Leader of the Country Party got into an unholy mess trying to work out which cuts could be made in expenditure. [More…]

• Members opposite will get into an awful mess in an election campaign trying to justify their views. [More…]

• There was rapidly growing inflation, substantial unemployment and a large credit squeeze which the Government was able to bide by deceit during the 1974 election. [More…]

• I think honourable members will recall that during the May election campaign this year the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) spoke of cuts in expenditure in the public sector. [More…]

• Do not forget that this is not an area that votes 70 per cent Liberal; it is an area that at the last election voted 55 per cent Labor. [More…]

• This was pan of its policy, although it denied this during the Federal election campaign in May. [More…]

• I do not accuse the Prime Minister of evil motives although I think he can perhaps be reprimanded for saying things in the May election campaign which he knew to be untrue. [More…]

• For the 6 months since the May election this Government has failed to take the economic decisions required to avoid the current crisis, the economic measures consistently pressed by the Opposition. [More…]

• Six months ago during the election campaign Australians were told that the Labor Government’s policies were working, that inflation was falling and would continue to fall. [More…]

• This could and should have been done immediately after the election. [More…]

• In that time, to use the quarter to quarter comparisons so dearly beloved of the Prime Minister during the election campaign, inflation has doubled. [More…]

• The LiberalCountry Party economic policy released prior to the May election stated: [More…]

• If the Government had displayed the common sense to adopt these proposals at the time of the last election Australia could have been spared the economic misfortune from which we are now suffering. [More…]

• In spite of all the election propaganda about the Labor Party’s concern for people, this Bill reveals that Labor cares nothing about preserving the rights of the individual. [More…]

• I should like to read very briefly some of the policy of the Country-Liberal Party which won the election on Saturday, 19 October, to the total exclusion of the Labor Party. [More…]

• I think that he was one of the first to get sufficient votes to ensure election. [More…]

• It was said by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitiam) that there would be an election and there would be a fully elected Legislative Assembly by the end of 1974. [More…]

• I am surprised also that the Government should proceed with a Bill of this nature, particularly in view of the fact that, under legislation which the Minister for Northern Development and Minister for the Northern Territory (Dr Patterson), who is at the table, was responsible for, we witnessed the conduct of an election in the Northern Territory to return 19 members to the new Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• We made that offer on 25 October 1972, not because we were nearing an election but because the time-table that it took to conduct the discussions fell within that period. [More…]

• There was an election, honourable members might remember, on 2 December and the then Government was defeated. [More…]

• Did he state before the 1972 election that he would keep expenditure at a similar level to the present Government; if so, what precisely did he intend. [More…]

• In particular, when may we expect the implementation of his 1972 election policy promise for local call telephone access from Albury to Melbourne and Sydney? [More…]

• As long ago as the last election campaign in April and May of this year, this Government was concerned about what was happening to certain aspects of manufacturing industry and in particular the textile industry. [More…]

• During the election campaign the Government sent a reference to the Textiles Authority on the subject. [More…]

• It was aided and abetted by the Budget of the previous Government in 1972 which had a deficit of $660m, as the then Government tried to bribe itself through the 1972 election. [More…]

• If honourable members opposite want me to remind them of the situation that applied before the general elections of 1972 they will remember how the then Government procrastinated and could not make up its mind about the recommendations of the Jess Committee. [More…]

• The introduction of this legislation was in keeping with the promise that we made during the 1972 election campaign when we said that we would introduce legislation to give effect to the Jess Committee’s recommendations as soon as possible. [More…]

• -Following the May election of this year the Government decided to abolish the Department of Immigration. [More…]

• If his inquiries lead him to that conclusion will the Prime Minister indicate to the person who has invited him that he will not attend and have his office used in this manner during a State election campaign? [More…]

• It affects the credibility of the Opposition rather than of the Government to make these constant suggestions that there will be a premature election. [More…]

• There is, first of all, the breaking of pairs in the Senate; secondly, the lies which were told about the date on which Senator Gair’s resignation was effective; thirdly, the Prime Minister’s statement in this House about the insignificance of communist penetration into the trade unions when he must have known that he was saying something which was untrue and that he was saying it with a deliberate intent to mislead the House and the country; fourthly, only a few days ago his denial of his own statements about the Government’s tariff policy, in relation to which he was proved to be wrong by the existence of a tape recording; fifthly, the major matter of deceiving not only the House but also attempting to deceive the country by the false things he said, knowing them to be false, in the election campaign of May; and sixthly- it is a small matter- the little meanness of an attack the Prime Minister made on some academics knowing that what he said was untrue. [More…]

• The honourable member mentioned also a series of untruths and deliberate untruths that was manifested and propogated during the election campaign and the very unnecessary and cruel denigration of a number of Australia’s leading academics and economists during the referendum campaign last year. [More…]

• Did the Prime Minister indicate during the last election campaign the kind of Australia which he was seeking to bring in? [More…]

• Bread winners have had denied to them the promise made during the last election campaign and the election campaign before that concerning employment and employment opportunities. [More…]

• But there was a repeat of that proposition, that promise, in April and in May of this year leading up to an election campaign. [More…]

• In recent weeks the Labor Government has decided to intrude in the Queensland election campaign, using the claim that the Queensland Government is jeopardising the opportunities of Queenslanders to receive funds from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• I must admit that I am wondering whether, if there had not been an election in Queensland soon, these Bills would have been given precedence over all the hotchpotch of proposed legislation which has flown out of the Labor Government’s maladministration of the Australian economy. [More…]

• I am not a betting man but if he would like to have a little wager on the side as to who will win the Queensland elections I will take him on. [More…]

• The result of the Queensland election to be held on 7 December will prove this point. [More…]

• Let us have an election now and see how honourable members opposite fare. [More…]

• They were able to hoodwink the people on 18 May, but three or four weeks later they could not have won an election. [More…]

• The honourable member for Bowman nearly went at the last election. [More…]

• It is a strange coincidence that these Bills should be going through the House 2 weeks before the Queensland election. [More…]

• It amazes me that the Labor Party in the Federal Parliament would be electioneering for a broken down party in Queensland. [More…]

• I would like to see the face of the honourable member for Bowman on 7 December when we have a resounding victory in the Queensland State election. [More…]

• We know that an election is pending. [More…]

• In particular, when may we expect the implementation of his 1972 election policy promise for local call telephone access from Albury to Melbourne and Sydney? [More…]

• The previous Liberal-Country Party Government, on the eve of the last election- I think it was one of the last pieces of legislation it put through- extended the agreement for another 5 years. [More…]

• It is possible that they are linked with the election. [More…]

• The decision of the Government to make an extra $8m available to the Queensland State housing authority was taken on 11 October, which was well before the date on which the election was announced. [More…]

• Constitution to ascertain whether there is any bar to any State government passing legislation to perpetuate itself in office without any form of election taking place? [More…]

• A referendum was put to the people at the Federal election in May which would have introduced the principle that there should be as nearly as practicable the same number of people in all electorates in this House and in each of the State parliaments. [More…]

• This comes up at Christmas for Mr Crean, which means that if he really wanted to he could resign then, giving scope for a new election to Cabinet and a reshuffle. [More…]

• These people deserve better than to be treated as a political football or to have the matters which concern them become a matter of political football kicking in a State election campaign. [More…]

• I refer especially to the Senate election and to the May 1974 election after the double dissolution of Parliament. [More…]

• The vote in the Senate election was nothing short of an international disgrace when we had to wait so long before we could tell the rest of the world which party would govern. [More…]

• People must be amused by the fact that a party in this country can win 2 elections in the House of government- the House of Representatives- and yet not be able to maintain a majority in the Senate. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that in the 1974 election- I think this was a most sophisticated attempt to manipulate the system- a group calling itself the Independent Political Research Organisation conducted a very serious and comprehensive survey on the effects of having large numbers of candidates standing for the Senate election. [More…]

• Honourable members should look at the results in New South Wales of the informal vote at the Senate election and see where the highest informal vote exists. [More…]

• There can be an informal vote of between 2 per cent and 3 per cent throughout Australia for the House of Representatives and between 10 per cent and 2 1 per cent at a Senate election. [More…]

• I find it difficult to understand why honourable members opposite try to justify such a system and why they are prepared to tell people in their electorates that the differential of 8 per cent, or 9 per cent, or 1 5 per cent of people who vote informally between the elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate can be justified by saying: ‘That is all right. [More…]

• In the electorate of Sydney, which has a 78 per cent preferred vote for the Australian Labor Party, there was a 20 per cent informal vote in the Senate election. [More…]

• Give us a list of those people who had a postal vote at the last House of Representatives election or the last Senate election. [More…]

• Under the present system we must wait 10 days after an election for postal votes to come in, so that we have speculation in the newspapers every day about which Party is going to govern Australia. [More…]

• In the May 1974 Senate election the government that the people got was the result of the number of candidates who stood in New South Wales, because 12 per cent of the voters in that State were disfranchised under the system which operates. [More…]

• I presume his remark that the people did not get the government that they voted for at the last election did not refer to the House of Representatives although one could perhaps carry on in this vein and say that perhaps the people of Australia did not deserve the government that they got at the last election. [More…]

• The honourable member for Port Adelaide thought it was an absurdity to wait for a postal vote registered by Australians in France, Britain or somewhere else to proceed in Australia before the result of an election could be determined. [More…]

• I understand that even in the recent election in Australia there were problems with batches of postal ballot papers posted inside [More…]

• electoral reform and report back to the Parliament early in the autumn session in plenty of time before any election. [More…]

• National elections are of tremendous importance to all Australians and one should not in the name of over-simplification create weaknesses and anomalies. [More…]

• First, it will reduce the real choice of the people by the range of parties which they are able to vote for at an election. [More…]

• The Government also introduced the argument concerning 73 candidates from New South Wales in the recent Senate elections. [More…]

• The higher deposits, which are in line with inflation, possibly would reduce dramatically the number of candidates seeking election to the Senate. [More…]

• I believe that if higher deposits are required the chances of reducing the number of candidates are so great that the scheme should be tested at a Senate election before any other changes to the method of voting for the Senate are attempted. [More…]

• After all, one does not know when some steps will be taken to force an election. [More…]

• It may be that they will have the death wish again very shortly and will seek to confront the Australian electorate with another election. [More…]

• The last election result was so long delayed that it was laughable. [More…]

• This is no reflection on the Electoral Office staff; this is a serious and a sad reflection on the system which this Parliament has laid down for the conduct of elections. [More…]

• In other words, if the honourable member and I were contesting an election all I would have to do would be to get three of my friends to contest the election with us and by giving the honourable member our fifth preference we would ensure that he finished on the bottom of the heap even though a majority of the people might have given him their No. [More…]

• There are many aged people in our community who found grave and serious difficulty in voting in order for 73 Senate candidates at the last election, and I ask honourable members on both sides of this House who come from electorates in New South Wales to think back just a few months and remember the old people in polling booths who could not cope with the list of 73 persons on a ballot paper, a ballot paper which was longer than the writing surface provided in a voting booth. [More…]

• They were informal because the ballot paper was beyond people’s capacity, due to the system and the number of candidates who were contesting that election. [More…]

• I believe also that reduction of the informal vote is desirable because it will significantly reduce the time taken in counting the ballot papers, in counting the votes, in determining the result of an election, and that is important in a democratic society. [More…]

• Are they a little worried that in the next election they will not be able to get enough of their supporters outside the polling booths handing out how-to-vote cards? [More…]

• I support a number of the other reforms relating to the broadcasting of election advertisements and so forth. [More…]

• I am sure it is also appropriate to remind honourable members opposite that while they like to criticise the optional preference provision which it is suggested should be incorporated as an amendment in the Act, and while they suggest that this provision is being used for political purposes by the Government, in the recent election in the Northern Territory when this provision was used for possibly the first time, honourable members opposite- particularly members of the Australian Country Party- loudly acclaimed the great advantages of the electoral system when so many of their candidates were successful. [More…]

• I should like to cite an incident in my electorate during the last election on 1 8 May. [More…]

• But let me assure honourable members that I could in fact name the individual who visited several nursing homes in my electorate before the last election on 1 8 May and told people in the homes: ‘You must vote for the Liberal candidate. [More…]

• It has changed to the extent that the Liberal Party in Griffith during the last election campaign was prepared to advertise in local newspapers and was prepared to solicit postal votes from people in the electorate of Griffith. [More…]

• You may obtain a postal vote for the election to be held on 18 May’. [More…]

• He may not even know about the postal vote application forms that are prepared many months prior to the election in order to be sent out on his behalf. [More…]

• In the House of Representatives election in 1969, when I was elected to this Parliament, the Liberal Party polled 42. [More…]

• But at that election the Liberal Party gained 47.14 per cent of the postal votes whereas the Labor Party gained only 44 per cent. [More…]

• The Act requires, in relation to an election for the House of Representatives, a candidate to gain 20 per cent or one-fifth of the total number of first preference votes polled by the successful candidate in order to avoid forfeiture of his deposit paid upon nomination. [More…]

• The proposal is to amend the Act so that the candidate retains his deposit if the total number of votes polled in his favour as first preference votes is more than 10 per cent of the total number of first preferences polled in the election. [More…]

• I know that in my own State in the last election the Communist Party drew No. [More…]

• If this principle applies to lower House elections I think the same should apply to Senate elections. [More…]

• I point out that the difficulty does not exist in House of Representatives elections; the difficulty quite patently exists in Senate elections. [More…]

• It seems quite absurd that people should be required to number 1 to 73 on a ballot paper in any Senate election at all. [More…]

• I wish to comment on a remark made by the honourable member about an election next year. [More…]

• He presupposes an election and I take it he supports the Senate’s blocking of Supply which, in fact, means that this House surrenders its powers of government and becomes subservient to the other House. [More…]

• In the last Senate election a deliberate nomination of candidates took place in New South Wales for the purpose of creating informal votes- in your electorate, Mr Speaker, 20 per cent of the votes cast for the Senate were informalto the advantage of a political party which suffers least from the casting of informal votes. [More…]

• -What I am saying-I think if you look at the statistics I will not need to say it too often- is that the order in which the seats rank in accordance with the percentage of Labor votes almost exactly relates to the order in the number of informal votes cast in the Senate election. [More…]

• What I am saying is that there are underprivileged people in this community who did not have the opportunity to go to a private college as the honourable member did, persons who have not had all the benefits of a big farm to live on and the advantage of plenty of time available to them, who are not quite capable of casting a vote and who went into the polling booths in the last election scared to death of casting an informal vote. [More…]

• Just before the last election I was speaking to people from the Ford Motor Company of Australia Ltd who said that the average error in numbering from 1 to 100 is 6 per cent and 2 per cent on the second try. [More…]

• Those same people were numbering the ballot paper for the Senate election in New South Wales under a situation of stress. [More…]

• In the existing situation, if a person voting in New South Wales at the last election had correctly numbered his Senate card from 1 to 7 1 and had repeated or left out one of the last three numberseven though it might have been for a candidate who had less than 100 votes in the State and would have been the first eliminated; therefore the order of preferences would have made no difference at all to his vote, it would not have been counted- that person’s vote was wiped out. [More…]

• There is no person in this House- I point mainly to those prefessing support for preferential voting- who can tell me or anyone else what the 73 candidates- I would include the Chief Electoral Officer in this- from New South Wales in the Senate election or the 46 candidates in Victoria stood for. [More…]

• I use the obvious example of the 2 parties which had substantial minority votes in the last election- the Australian Party and the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]

• Even if we must have howtovote cards there should be some more simple way of using them than giving out 60,000, 180,000 or 200,000 in each electorate on an election day. [More…]

• in the case of an election of a Member of the House of Representatives … a party qualifies in respect of an election only if- for a Division in a State to be held at a general election of Members of that Housethe number of candidates endorsed by the party in respect or elections Tor the Division in the State (including the first-mentioned election) is not less than one-quarter of the whole number of Divisions in that State: [More…]

• Precluding nomination for election to the Australian Parliament by a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory, I think, is a good amendment because it brings those members into line with the many other people who must resign from certain positions they hold if they wish to contest a Federal election. [More…]

• Prevention of a person from nominating as a candidate for more than one Federal election held on the same day, I think, would be fairly popular. [More…]

• Informal voting in House of Representatives elections has been relatively low. [More…]

• In Senate elections the proportion though higher is not only related to the number of candidates but also to the fact that more vacancies have to be filled at Senate elections. [More…]

• I believe that we should adopt a system which makes it as easy as possible for all voters to make their intentions known, but, in doing so, we should strive for a system that results in the election of those candidates who are both favoured or preferred by most of the electorate and not disapproved of by the majority. [More…]

• The number of preferences to be distributed would in a significant number of cases be distributable in accordance with the registered how-to-vote card, and these votes could be separately counted and their prospective destination brought into account in making assessments as to the result of the election. [More…]

• This simplified preferential system would be far more effective than optional preferential voting, not only in leading to the speedier finalisation of election results but also in simplifying voting procedures, assisting the convenience of electors and reducing the number of informal votes. [More…]

• Those having different shades of opinion and shades of thought as well as those with diametrically opposed points of view will be given an equal say in the outcome of elections where this system is used. [More…]

• These proposals would deprive may Australians of a say in our election. [More…]

• The speedier finalisation of election results is advanced as the reason for these changes. [More…]

• With increasing opportunities to travel both for business and pleasure, more and more people are away from home on election day. [More…]

• One can illustrate that by looking at some of the figures for the Federal elections in May last. [More…]

• In some States there were public holidays after the weekend on which the election was held and, as a consequence, there was a significant rise in absentee and postal votes. [More…]

• There could and would be no electoral malpractices if there were no elections. [More…]

• Those directly involved are anxious to know the result, but of course this is as true a week before the election as it is half way through the count on election night. [More…]

• There is no more difficulty for a government in office to administer the affairs of the nation until a count of votes is completed than there is for it to do so during the election campaign itself. [More…]

• If speed in the finalisation of election results involves a reduction in the opportunities of every elector to have his vote taken into account, it should be opposed. [More…]

• Under the present law a person who is interstate on the day of an election may vote by means of a postal vote at an interstate polling booth. [More…]

• His right to such a vote will be exercised only if he can get an application for a vote to his own divisional returning officer by 6 p.m. on the Thursday preceding the election. [More…]

• According to the Minister the proposals contained in the Bill are designed to allow for speedier finalisation of election results, to improve voting facilities, to introduce some new and changed facilities and to correct some obvious defects in the existing electoral machinery. [More…]

• Do honourable members say that the Northern Territory election was rigged for the Labor Party? [More…]

• Tonight we will pleasantly look at members of the Country Party, and every Opposition member who was here prior to the last election, vote against their own proposals simply because they have been introduced by a Labor Government. [More…]

• Why should not people state their change of name if the change has occurred up to 12 months prior to the election? [More…]

• Why should not postal votes be in on the night of the election? [More…]

• I can tell the people of this country that in the last election Labor lost a seat on postal votes because a lot of people voted after 8 o ‘clock on the night in question but signed that they had voted before that time. [More…]

• If a person wants a postal vote why should he not put it into the ballot box before the close of the poll at 8 p.m. on election night? [More…]

• I hope honourable members sitting opposite find at the next election that about 30 people have changed their names to theirs. [More…]

• In my speech on 30 July I pointed out that nowhere in Labor Party Policy right up to the election policy of December 1972 was there any mention of upgrading urban transport. [More…]

• The consequence was that the difference in the result of that election was a mere 5 seats, and in each of those S seats the Labor Party won by a very close margin. [More…]

• They were very close seats and if that election had gone differently the whole future of Australia since May would have been changed quite dramatically. [More…]

• He has been twisting and turning since the May election. [More…]

• Why, it was only last week that one of the commentators here, talking about the last election, said that it all played into Mr Whitlam ‘s hands for an election in May because he, Mr Whitlam, had been warned by the Treasury in April that things were going to be bad as 1974 went on and he, the clever tactician, allowed us to go on with the election, that he really wanted one himself, and he then moved into the double dissolution because of the action the Opposition took. [More…]

• The next election, whenever it may be held, will be a contest between socialism and centralism on the one hand and the burgeoning of the individual in free enterprise on the other. [More…]

• I understand that just before the last election Mr Lynch, the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, Mr Nixon, a senior member of the Country Party, and Senator Greenwood were anxious to see Mr Hawke but were not prepared to see him in the open. [More…]

• Because of insufficient time and the complexity of the inquiry, the Committee was not able to advise the Government on electoral matters in time for the conduct of the recent election for the Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• However, the Committee, after its own investigations, endorses the changes made by the Government for those elections. [More…]

• History has been made also- while we were in the Northern Territory we saw the candidates for the election- in that a full blood Aborigine has been elected to that Assembly. [More…]

• Our policy released prior to the May election referred to income tax in the following terms: [More…]

• I believe the first reduced by about $450m the tax that would have been received, and the second reduced it by $600m- and this from a government that poured such great scorn on the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) when he said during the election campaign of May last: ‘We think it is right that a tax cut should be made of the order of $600m’. [More…]

• However, the decision to introduce this tax deduction in no way compensates for the deferral of the pre-election promise to embark on a major pre-school and child care program estimated to cost $130m in 1974-75. [More…]

• This commitment formed an important plank in the election platform of the Labor Party in 1974. [More…]

• Failure to honour that promise represents yet another step in the trail of Labor’s broken election promises. [More…]

• That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘whilst not declining to give the Bill a second reading, the House is of the opinion that the provisions of the Bill which reduce the limit on deductions for education expenses from $400 to $ I SO seriously restrict the freedom of choice which now exists in the Australian education system, are a contravention of the Government’s election undertakings and will impose unwarranted burdens on parents with children attending both public and private schools and, further, that the Bill specifically: [More…]

• The present Australian Labor Party Government has now put into legislation the commitment which it made prior to the 1972 election. [More…]

• It never offers anything constructive, because it is an Opposition bereft of any ideas of its own, as exampled in the last Federal election campaign when suddenly it had to adopt Labor policy in the last fortnight before the campaign began in order to have even a policy of its own. [More…]

• It is another one of the election pledges given by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) during the 1972 Federal election campaign which has now been implemented. [More…]

• For these reasons I hope that these reforms will be recognised as very important and a further implementation of the policies announced by the Prime Minister during the 1972 and 1974 election campaigns. [More…]

• Its 2 per cent deduction housing scheme was shown to be a fraud and nonsense; so it dreamed up this proposal within weeks of the 1972 election. [More…]

• If my memory serves me correctly it poured a lot of cold water on this proposition during the 1972 election campaign. [More…]

• It is part of an election promise. [More…]

• The Labor Party, in its wisdom, adopted the plan in an election platform and we did not. [More…]

• I can only point out that if the Opposition parties had not brought about a double dissolution and forced this Government to an election, not only would these Bills have been debated much earlier but these funds would have been allocated much earlier to the States which desparately need this money to upgrade their public transport systems. [More…]

• Historically speaking, South Australia fought many years ago a rather famous election on the matter of quantity of water flowing into the State. [More…]

• An election was called on this issue- purely and simply on this one issue- because water is so vital to the State of South Australia. [More…]

• That was the issue on which an entire election was fought, and I have no hesitation in bringing it to the attention of the House tonight because it was not only Adelaide that was on the end of the supply line. [More…]

• Now, that election was lost, as is now a matter of history, by the government of that time. [More…]

• Following the election of this Government to office at the end of 1972, we embarked on a diversified legislative program directed to various aspects of our health insurance initiatives. [More…]

• The Government’s decision to adopt the major recommendations of the working party was first announced by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in his election policy speech on 29 April 1974. [More…]

• I think it is sufficient to say at this point that in keeping with our election commitment we intend to establish this service regionally throughout Australia. [More…]

• Let us face the position: We hope that the Labor Party will win this election on 7 December. [More…]

• They constitute the organisation in the Brisbane area which, during the election campaign for the last election on 18 May, campaigned and distributed on behalf of the National Party candidate in Bowman their own pamphlets together with his throughout my electorate, just as they have claimed in another issue of the publication ‘Queensland Calling’ that they have the organisation in Queensland to distribute this newspaper on behalf of the National Party in Queensland. [More…]

• The National Party, led by the Premier of Queensland, as I have explained to the House and to members of the Australian Country Party who still sit opposite in disbelief is almost certainly assured of victory in the forthcoming election because of the gerrymandered undemocratic electoral system that the Premier has devised and implemented in Queensland. [More…]

• Secondly, according to the map supplied to the Distribution Commissioners for the proposed Federal redistribution, it is proposed that the Australian Labor Party will get 62 per cent of the seats with 49.6 per cent of the votes, as in the May election. [More…]

• I did not support inside the Party the redistribution carried out by the Labor Party in Queensland before the 1950 State election. [More…]

• Even if the boundaries had been absolutely fair- I concede that they were not- there were 2 elections in that time when the Labor government would have been defeated. [More…]

• It is a fact that there are a number of nursing homes in the metropolitan area of Brisbane where the Liberal Party receives privileged access in terms of applying for postal votes or electoral visitor votes in the State election campaign and in distributing how-to-vote cards and pamphlets and in actually placing people on the roll. [More…]

• I am not referring now to a malpractice in a Federal election campaign, although malpractices existed in the last Federal election, not only in terms of intimidation of people and denying the Labor Party officials access to nursing homes, but also in terms of deliberate intimidation of some of the inmates of those nursing homes. [More…]

• But in the current election campaign in Queensland, everywhere that the Prime Minister goes there are people threatening personal violence and hitting his car with posters depicting the Queensland Premier. [More…]

• I very much deplore the injection of violence into the Queensland election campaign. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, at the last election I doubled my vote at one of their polling booths. [More…]

• For years I had been getting only 2 votes out of eighty-seven, and at the last election I got four. [More…]

• I for one was not pleased, during the election campaign in May, to find Australian Labor Party supporters running away from this problem and stating that they believed in a State by State approach to the dairying industry. [More…]

• It was difficult for the Minister to introduce a Bill at that time because of the then forthcoming election, but the House should recall that we last debated this matter in July. [More…]

• 1 can understand the election interrupting a program between 8 April and late July but it is straining the credulity of all when no attempt has been made to put into effect that marginal dairy farm legislation. [More…]

• It was the attitude of the dairy farmers at the last election which hit the Government the hardest because the dairy farmers responded very emotionally to the news that the subsidy was to be phased out over 2 years, which would take it to the end of 1975. [More…]

• The’ Minister too wanted a 4-year phase-out but the Cabinet decided on a period of 2 years, and the industry was very upset at the time of the last election. [More…]

• On 9 May, during the election campaign, the Minister for Agriculture (Senator Wriedt) spelt out the details of the free of interest loan to the dairy industry and it has taken quite a time to get it into legislative form because there is a tremendous amount of detail required in spelling out the principles. [More…]

• This was a policy decision of the Liberal-Country Party Government during the 1972 election campaign. [More…]

• At the same time, shortly after the election I was interested to note what the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Les Johnson) said, which I thought was priceless. [More…]

• The Minister for Agriculture (Senator Wriedt) in the 1974 election pamphlet ‘This Land- Labor’s Rural Programme’ stated: [More…]

• We understand that an interdepartmental committee is examining the matter, but it will be a broken election promise and a tragedy for the entire wool industry if the progressive and forward looking recommendations of the Australian Wool Corporation are passed over and no action is taken on them. [More…]

• I could also point to the selection of a Western Australian farmer to the National Rural Advisory Committee- a person who had played no great part in farmer organisations in Western Australia and who was apparently chosen on the basis of a 5-minute conversation with the Minister at Narrogin prior to an election rally. [More…]

• Certainly any change in the basis of election of those who are to be the representatives of the wool growers is totally unacceptable. [More…]

• Even the Minister for Agriculture might realise that he, as a member of the Senate, the other chamber of this Parliament, is subject to election. [More…]

• As the Minister for Agriculture he is subject to the same election procedures as is every other member of that other chamber. [More…]

• On what basis and with what right has one elected Minister a claim to change the basis of election of others who in another area, in this instance the Wool Corporation, are elected by those who own the clip and who produce the clip to represent them within that Corporation? [More…]

• We do not believe that any significant or substantial reason has been advanced for the change in the basis of election of members of the Wool Corporation to represent Australian wool growers. [More…]

• In doing this it is joining a long list of successful industries which have done this in the past: The wheat industry, the dairying industry, the tobacco industry, the dried fruits industry, the sugar industry, which goes so well that it returns my colleague, the honourable member for Leichhardt (Mr Fulton) every election without fail. [More…]

• I can remember quite well the great Stevens Knitting Mills suddenly appearing in my home town of Bathurst 3 weeks before an election. [More…]

• Six weeks after the election they left town with their tail between their legs and the Press did not say a word about it. [More…]

• My second quotation is from Major Peter Young who, the House will remember, was a Labor candidate for the seat of Lowe, I think, in the 1969 election and the senior adviser to the present Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) when he was shadow Minister for Defence while in Opposition. [More…]

• Let me take the minds of honourable members back to 24 April this year when a Federal election campaign was in progress. [More…]

• During the last Federal election campaign- such a short time ago- they would have given this matter no priority whatsoever. [More…]

• He gave me the rounds of the kitchen earlier for a clause of the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill which was practically lifted holus bolus from the States Grants (Schools) Bill which passed through the House before the Federal election of 1972 and received royal assent on 30 November 1972, almost a minute to midnight in the career of the late Government. [More…]

• I can understand his apprehension that during the next election campaign his Party has to follow behind the right honourable Leader of the Opposition and see him try to vie with the present Prime Minister on television, in the Press and at public meetings. [More…]

• He is such a failure that the Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party said: ‘Please do not send the Minister for Labor and Immigration to Queensland to campaign for the Queensland election. [More…]

• Today, 3 December 1974, is the day following the second anniversary of Labor’s election. [More…]

• The simple fact is that this Government, for all its political debates and harangues on the hustings during 2 Federal elections has failed to deliver to the Australian people and companies the real goods on this issue. [More…]

• This is an indictment of the Government’s capacity to get new legislation before the House and of the so-called principles for which it has loosely alleged it has stood during 2 election campaigns. [More…]

• I think the Australian people are entitled to say on this issue, as they have on so many others, that this is a government of double standards which is prepared to preach one thing during election campaigns but which, on so many other occasions, has not been prepared to produce the real action to back the words which it has put down. [More…]

• This does not seem to be keeping with the rhetoric of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) when he spoke in the election campaign of November 1972. [More…]

• There is no provision for the election of the contributors’ representatives to the governing council of the Fund. [More…]

• There has never been an opposed election. [More…]

• But only those people who hold those shares are able to vote in the election of the council. [More…]

• All I am prepared to say is this: I am sure that when election time comes along and this National Health Insurance Commission is established the Liberal and Country Parties, if they were returned to office, would be just the same as any other political party which gained office in this country. [More…]

• I will be interested to see what the Liberal Party’s policy is when an election comes along next time and when the National Health Insurance Commission is established. [More…]

• 1 repeat that it is a miserable performance for a Government that made so much of this issue during the run up to the December 1972 Federal election and since that time. [More…]

• It is absolutely unthinkable that two or three Bills relating to the Northern Territory which have been introduced into this House since the election of the Assembly- an assembly which was promised by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to be a fully elected assembly before 3 1 December this year- have not been referred to the Assembly. [More…]

• Prior to the 1972 elections the promises given were impressive. [More…]

• King Islanders remember only too well the telegram that the honourable member for Braddon (Mr Davies) sent prior to the 1972 election. [More…]

• If the Government were truly sincere in its written and spoken word prior to the 1972 election- it seemed to express a keenness to assist King Island and the State Government- a more suitable financing arrangement would have been at least a combination of loan and grant funds. [More…]

• Shipping officials said in Sydney last night that the Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, had tried to honour election promises concerning the King Island ferry service by instructing that the Australian National Line should take over the service. [More…]

• I am disappointed at the way the people of King Island treated him at the last election. [More…]

• I hope that the people of King Island will show more appreciation for what he has done at the next election than they did at the last. [More…]

• Although making eloquent statements on both sides of the House about a fundamental grass roots problem may make us feel better and may get us votes in the election, it will not solve the general problems of soil conservation. [More…]

• I remind honourable members that before the 1969 State election the Queensland Government promised the people of this area that a hospital would be erected. [More…]

• By 1972 when the next Queensland election was to be held, nothing had happened. [More…]

• Just prior to that State election, the Queensland Minister for Health, Mr Doug Tooth, made an announcement which was heralded in the Press by the headline: ‘New hospital for Mt Gravatt ‘. [More…]

• So much for the window dressing before the State election in 1972. [More…]

• They responded by voting overwhelmingly for the Australian Labor Party both at the election in 1972 and in May of this year. [More…]

• In this time of a Queensland election some curious statements have been made about health. [More…]

• An election is to be held in Queensland on Saturday. [More…]

• Less than 48 hours from that election we are debating another tax measure, the effects of which will be particularly hard on Queensland people. [More…]

• The facts of life are that this country has been devastated completely since the election of the Federal Labor Government. [More…]

• They forced an election by violating an established accepted constitutional principle. [More…]

• They formed the basis of the double dissolution in April and the election which followed. [More…]

• If any Party received money from the multinationals during the last election campaign it was the ALP. [More…]

• It is a complete reversal and a contradiction of all the Governmentt’s policy statements and the great emotion it built up during the election campaign. [More…]

• I guess that all of us who have been in this chamber for some time have known him in that role, be it in Opposition when he was spokesman for the Australian Labor Party on matters pertaining to the economy or since the election of the Labor Party when he has been the Treasurer. [More…]

• 1 ) What was the precise OECD source or sources which were used by him on television in making comparisons between Australia’s inflation and other OECD countries in the period immediately prior to the election of 1 8 May 1 974 [More…]

• In 1973 we sat for 34 days and last year, because of the election, for 16 days. [More…]

• If some of them have to go back to the lathe or the bench after the next election they will find that they will be working with inadequate equipment because there has been no investment in new plant or equipment. [More…]

• I should hate to think what the level of unemployment in Australia would be if the Opposition parties had won the last election. [More…]

• In particular, the deliberate use of the threat of refusing supply to a political party which, having gained a majority of the seats in the House of Representatives in a general election, has the right to form a Government under the Australian Constitution. [More…]

• Yet the consequences of an election this year will appal everyone and not the least those who are appalled by the record ofthe Labor Government. [More…]

• We are not yet even a year beyond the last election, cynically forced on the nation by denial of Supply. [More…]

• The inevitable consequences of the kind of self-fulfilling prophecy on which some Liberals have embarked are that Australia will face annual elections. [More…]

• To countenance another mid-term election, let alone to want to see it, is to place great strains on our democratic future. [More…]

• There should be an election. [More…]

• It is of no use for the Minister for Labor and Immigration to say that the Senate is the cause of this and that there is a threat of a possible double dissolution of the Parliament and another election. [More…]

• No government can plan effectively for a national economy of this kind with the threat of an election every 6 months. [More…]

• The record of this Government, now admitted by the Prime Minister to be the result of the Government’s own policies, also speaks for itself, and whenever there is an election there will be a change of government because people will not want to see the incompetence and mismanagement, the monumental bungling that has been the result of 2 years ‘ policies, continued for a day longer than absolutely necessary. [More…]

• One can take the cynical attitude to the Leader of the Opposition when he says: ‘Well, if there were an election held and some of the Labor people were defeated they would have to go back to the factories to work’. [More…]

• There has not been one week of one month in one of the 2 years in which we have been in government during which spokesmen from the other side have not threatened to hold an election. [More…]

• Mr Snedden says: ‘I do not know whether there is going to be an election. [More…]

• I do riot know whether there is going to be an election’. [More…]

• They do not know whether there is going to be an election in their own Party and they do not know whether they are going to try to force an election again on the people of Australia. [More…]

• They belong to a party which has caused us to fight 3 elections in 2lA years. [More…]

• I should like to take a couple of minutes to reply to the synthetic anger of the honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes) expressed by him on behalf of the people who put up the money for Liberal Party election propaganda - [More…]

• Elections for both Houses were held on 18 May. [More…]

• Under the Constitution the terms of service of present senators are taken to begin on 1 July preceding the day of their election, the places of half of them will become vacant at the expiration of 3 years from the beginning of their term and the election to fill their places shall be made within one year before the places are to become vacant. [More…]

• In brief, the next election for the Senate must take place at some time between July 1975 and June 1976. [More…]

• Under the Constitution, however, the House of Representatives shall continue for 3 years from the first meeting of the House, that is, the next election for this House need not take place until July 1977. [More…]

• The principle of the rotation of senators will be preserved at each House of Representatives election; be it at the normal 3-year interval or sooner, there will be an election for half the Senate. [More…]

• These are: Firstly, in the event of a double dissolution, the normal term of a senator can be cut short, as is the case now; secondly, the terms of existing senators will be changed to provide for short term senators, who would normally retire on 30 June 1976, to have their terms extended until the next House of Representatives election, which would normally be held in 1977, and long term senators, who would normally retire on 30 June 1979, to have their terms extended to the second House of Representatives election, which would normally be held in 1980. [More…]

• Thus existing senators, subject of course to there not being an earlier double dissolution or an earlier House of Representatives election, would have effective terms of approximately 3 years in the case of present short term senators and 6 years in the case of the existing long term senators. [More…]

• Before the Constitutional Review Committees recommended this reform there had only been 3 occasions on which an election had been held for one House alone- for the House of Representatives in 1929 and 1954 and for the Senate in 1953. [More…]

• Since the Committee’s final report there have been 9 national elections. [More…]

• Elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives were held simultaneously on only two of those occasions- in December 1961 and in May 1974. [More…]

• In between, there were four separate elections for the House of Representatives and three separate elections for the Senate. [More…]

• Australia may have had fewer governments than some other advanced countries but it certainly has had more elections than any. [More…]

• It has been estimated by the Chief Australian Electoral Officer that the holding of simultaneous elections for the House of Representatives and half the Senate could result in savings of up to approximately 90 per cent on the cost of a Senate election held separately. [More…]

• The intention of the men who drafted our Constitution and the expectation of those who voted for it was that every 3 years there should be an election for the House of Representatives and half the Senate. [More…]

• No supervening principle has emerged in favour of multiplying and separating elections for the Australian Parliament. [More…]

• There is only one way in which simultaneous elections of the Senate and the House of Representatives can be assured at all times and that is by the constitutional amendment that is proposed in this Bill. [More…]

• It had already been postponed for 6 months because of the action of the Opposition in refusing supply and forcing an election last May. [More…]

• They foolishly said that there ought to be free and democratic elections in South Vietnam, and to this day they are still fighting over the meaning of the words. [More…]

• If there were any real intention to solve the problems of South Vietnam a method of election could have been clearly established. [More…]

• It has come to my knowledge that huge amounts have now been donated, particularly to the opponents of the Australian Labor Party in an endeavour to defeat it at any election that might be held. [More…]

• As honourable members know, a candidate may spend $500 in a House of Representatives election campaign or $1,000 in a Senate election campaign. [More…]

• A Campbelltown solicitor plans a $40,000 campaign to win Macarthur for the Liberals at the next Federal election. [More…]

• So this candidate is saying that the campaign will cost $40,000, which is what the Liberal candidate in the last Federal election spent in an endeavour to defeat the sitting member- and he wasted his money. [More…]

• In addition to that, $14,500 will be spent on Press, radio and television and $3,000 will be spent on the publication of an election newspaper. [More…]

• Included in the Bill are provisions which- require the appointment of party agents by political parties and the registration thereof by the Chief Australian Electoral Officer; require the maintenance of a register of party agents by the Chief Australian Electoral Officer; require lists of all party agents and official agents to be kept in electoral offices in each State and Territory; require the filing of returns relating to electoral expenditure by registered party agents and official agents with the Chief Australian Electoral Officer within 12 weeks after an election; require returns to be open for public inspection; require the certification of returns by a registered company auditor; enable the reimbursement of auditor’s fees up to a limit of $200; prohibit electoral expenditure by any person except a registered party agent or official agent, without prior written authority of the respective agent; prohibit the making of gifts, including donations, to a party or candidate except with the written authority of the registered party agent or the official agent of the candidate; require the disclosure of particulars of all gifts, including all donations, made to political parties or candidates through or with the authority of the party agents or official agents; limit the campaign expenditure of a political party, including electoral expenditure by a party’s candidates in accordance with a specified formula. [More…]

• Under the formula the limit of expenditure of a political party in a House of Representatives election- held separately from a Senate election -would be based on 7.5c for every person enrolled for the division or divisions contested; that is to say, an amount of $593,740 on present enrolment for a party contesting all 127 electorates. [More…]

• In the case of a Senate election held alone, the permissible expenditure of a political party would be substantially less. [More…]

• It would be based on 1.5c for every person enrolled for the State or States contested by the party; that is to say, an amount of $ 1 16,578 on present enrolment for a party contesting the Senate election in all States. [More…]

• For the election of a senator the proposed limit is an amount of 0.2c for every elector enrolled for the State concerned, or $3,000, whichever is the greater. [More…]

• For an election of a member of the House of Representatives, the proposed limit is an amount equal to 5c for every elector enrolled for the division contested; that is to say, $3,250 in respect of a division comprising 65 000 electors, or $2,500 in respect of a division comprising 50 000 electors. [More…]

• As an indication of the kind of money that candidates are prepared to spend in an election campaign, let me quote from an article in the Illawarra Mercury’ dated 14 January 1975. [More…]

• A Campbelltown solicitor plans a $40,000 campaign to win Macarthur for the Liberals at the next Federal election. [More…]

• About $3,000 would be spent on publication of an election newspaper. [More…]

• The existing law stipulates that electoral expenditure by a candidate may not exceed $500 in a House of Representatives election or $ 1 ,000 in a Senate election. [More…]

• Under the U.S.A. Federal Election Campaign Act 1971, laws requiring strict financial reporting of sources of campaign funds took effect on and from 7 April 1972. [More…]

• The expenditure by political parties and candidates at the 1974 Senate and House of Representatives elections on broadcasting and televising time on commercial stations alone was in the nature of $ 1.5m and in this connection I quote from the Australian Broadcasting Control Board ‘s 26th annual report on its operations during the year ended 30 June 1974. [More…]

• The total time occupied by broadcasting of political matter on commercial broadcasting stations during the election period amounted to 683 hours 43 minutes and the charges for that time were $3 1 6,739. [More…]

• The total time occupied by telecasts of political matter on commercial television stations and charges during the election period amounted to 196 hours and $ 1 ,334,680 respectively. [More…]

• It arranged for an election to be held at the end of last year, and an election was held. [More…]

• The honourable member for Corio raised the question of the recent Queensland State election. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that the people of Australia are now having second thoughts about where they will cast their vote at the next election? [More…]

• Will he provide a table indicating the action that has been taken on each of the 15 specific programs for handicapped people that were announced by him prior to the last Federal election. [More…]

• Is the Mr Brendan Hansen appointed by him to assist in liaising with local government organisations and sporting, recreational and tourist groups on the planning of leisure facilities and assistance available for projects through his Department, the same Mr Brendan Hansen who was formerly the Member for Wide Bay and who was the unsuccessful ALF candidate in the 1 974 election. [More…]

• In an address to the Perth Press Club, Mr Anthony said that his comments before the last Federal election- which created some controversy- were right and they were proving more right ‘ every day. [More…]

• At that election the Australian people voted overwhelmingly for Labor candidates in the House of Representatives. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a table entitled ‘House of Representatives Elections- 18 May 1974’ and a table entitled ‘ Senate Elections- 1 8 May 1 974 ‘. [More…]

• At the next election- whether it had been for the House of Representatives or the Senate- his vacancy would have come before the people of Queensland. [More…]

• But it was the political concern that at the next election, because there would have been 3 vacancies on each side, in the normal circumstances the Labor Party would have filled 3 vacancies in Queensland. [More…]

• It depends upon their conviction, in 2-Party democracies such as our own, that when a Party wins an election and comes to office it will be allowed to put its policies into effect and that it will enjoy the protection not only of the letter of the Constitution but also of the great body of convention and tradition which has been accumulated in the parliaments of the English speaking world. [More…]

• The Minister in his second reading speech said, in effect: ‘We believe that all people should be equal in the matter of election contest’. [More…]

• Expenditure for or in connection with promoting or opposing, directly or indirectly, a party or the election of a candidate or candidates or of influencing, directly or indirectly, the voting at an election. [More…]

• What of the position of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) at election time? [More…]

• Not one trade union would be at liberty to wage any point of view on the outcome of an election or of a referendum. [More…]

• If that organisation places an advertisement in a newspaper which may either directly or indirectly affect the outcome of the election, too bad; a fine is imposed. [More…]

• If a Senate election is being held, the organisation is entitled to spend only 1.5c upon each person living in the State. [More…]

• But if a general election for the House of Representatives is being held each candidate in a division is entitled to spend 7.5c. [More…]

• If a Senate election and a House of Representatives election are being held together, one can still spend 1.5c per person living in the State on the Senate but one can spend only 6c in respect of the House of Representatives election. [More…]

• A candidate, official agent or registered party agent shall not incur or authorise any electoral expenditure in relation to an election, other than expenditure Tor or in connection with - [More…]

• In proposed section 152, it is provided that gifts shall not be made by a candidate for an election to or for the benefit of any club or other association within 3 months before the day next following the day fixed for the polling for the election. [More…]

• Let us take the last election which was held in May 1 974. [More…]

• The date when that election would be held was not known. [More…]

• One could say with some reasonableness that we live in some measure of uncertainty today with respect to elections. [More…]

• But the Minister who is in charge of electoral matters and who would have a hand in fixing the election date in such an instance may know that date. [More…]

• During the last federal election campaign an elderly lady- a pensioner- raffled one dozen fresh farm eggs and made $25. [More…]

• If a Party receives money from any organisation, any company or any individual away from an election it will have to pay that money into a separate account. [More…]

• It is very rarely that a party allocates a fixed sum for a particular election campaign. [More…]

• Indeed, there have been so many elections in recent times that most parties, with the notable exception of the Australian Labor Party, are impoverished. [More…]

• Under this provision, of course, that money must be paid into a separate account and if any of it is used for any other purpose- if it is used for an election- it will be an infringement of the legislation and the agent or person within the party who may be responsible for it could face the prospect of a fine. [More…]

• It is the right of any group of individuals to say: ‘We believe that there is a cause to fight and we believe that there is a cause to be argued and therefore we propose to contest the next election by putting forward candidates for either the House of Representatives or the Senate’. [More…]

• It might become quite an ephemeral body and disappear after the election campaign. [More…]

• So the legal entitlement to spend funds for election purposes has been increased 6 times. [More…]

• I would like to see the honourable member who insists on interjecting stand up and say here that he opposes this proposition because there were significant funds spent in his electorate which I would hope was without his authority, which I assume was without his authority, but which undoubtedly played a significant part in his election. [More…]

• Mention has been made of United Fruit in Guatamala in the 1950s, Union Miniere in Katanga in the 1960s and the ITT scandal in Chile in the 1970s where $ lm was spent, according to evidence given before the United States Congress, in order to influence an election. [More…]

• In the past, election expenditure has been too high. [More…]

• In fact, the high expenditure is denying the ordinary citizen the right to contest an election because he cannot stand up to the onslaught of power and wealth which is organised by political pressure groups. [More…]

• The charge against the Opposition- against the Liberal and Country Parties- that it has received money from multinationals falls pretty shabbily to the ground when it is well known that prior to the last election in May an attempt was made- and I think a successful attempt- by Ministers, ministerial staffs and other Labor stalwarts to obtain money for the purposes of their election campaign. [More…]

• The Bill says: electoral expenditure’ means expenditure for or in connexion with promoting or opposing, directly or indirectly, a party or the election of a candidate or candidates or of influencing, directly or indirectly, the voting at an election, but does not include- [More…]

• Let us not get away from the point about which honourable members opposite are sensitive, and that is that where an organisation or a group of people, having no connection with a political party, decides that its policy suits them best at an election time and they choose to insert an advertisement in a newspaper supporting that party, they are liable to a penalty unless they go cap in hand to that political party and obtain an authorisation from the agent. [More…]

• Under the existing Act, ostensibly a candidate is required to disclose his expenditures on an election, but it is now said that he should not be required to disclose where the funds to cover those expenditures came from. [More…]

• In the United States of America, whose Constitution enshrines the domocratic rights of the individual to an extent which is almost beyond belief in a modern society and which is the cause of some problems in that country, the rights of the individual are totally protected and there is no question that the Supreme Court of the United States would upset any attempt to take away from any individual his rights of secret ballot and his rights to participate properly in an election. [More…]

• That Act applies to a candidate for election to Congress or to a political party which seeks to influence any two or more States in an election for Federal office. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Electoral Act, as it now stands, contains a provision by which no person who has contested an election to this House in the last five or six elections and where any scale of competition for the seat has taken place can abide. [More…]

• The Act sets a maximum expenditure of $500 on the election campaign of any candidate for office in the Federal Parliament. [More…]

• I could not have printed and distributed how to vote cards, let alone any other form of election material, for that price at this time. [More…]

• I hope that the members of this House will have sufficient confidence in themselves and the Australian electorate to vote for a measure which will take away from elections in Australia, from governments in Australia, the continued innuendo which must follow if substantial contributions to election funds are reputed to be from sources which could receive substantial benefits in return. [More…]

• It should be reiterated that in this election, the trade union movement both financially and physically gave their best performance. [More…]

• This unit will be used by the Australian Labor Party come another election. [More…]

• The amount of expenditure prescribed by the Minister in the Bill would mean that in a Senate election in the Federal division of Griffith no more than $900 could be spent to promote the Senate team. [More…]

• During the last election I wrote to 1 3 000 people in my electorate. [More…]

• The day of this Government will come at the next election when it will lose access to aU these benefits. [More…]

• But the party which wins or loses each electorate, I believe, in a national election, is not determined by the campaign in the individual electorate. [More…]

• Very few local campaigns win or lose elections. [More…]

• An election is won or lost by the massive propaganda which is put across radio and television. [More…]

• But if one looks at the 26th Annual Report of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board it will be seen that wherever it was able the Board ascertained the time taken up in broadcasting political advertising on metropolitan and country radio for the 1974 elections. [More…]

• In television throughout Australia, the Labor Party supposedly spent $290,000 in the 1974 election campaign and our opponents $900,000. [More…]

• A person like John Singleton and all his mates can march up to a political party and say: ‘If you want to win this election this is the way to do it: Forget about telling someone for 10 minutes that you have a good policy on a peace zone in the Indian Ocean or that you support equal rights for women because that is not the way in which to win votes’. [More…]

• It may be that BHP will change its policy on political donations and support substantially the Liberal and Country Parties which, after the next election, undoubtedly will have a policy for the abolition of the PJT. [More…]

• He was defeated because the banks poured into the campaign the greatest amount of money that had ever been poured into one election campaign in order to get rid of the Labor Government. [More…]

• Does anyone suggest that optional preferential voting would not distort the result of a House of Representatives election? [More…]

• Another provision of the Bill limits expenditure, and here we have a host of arbitrary rules and figures which are going to be placed on parties and candidates- if there is a House of Representatives election, if there is a separate Senate election, if they are both held together, if there is a double dissolution, or indeed if there is a referendum. [More…]

• -The purpose of this BUI is to provide for the disclosure of financial support received by Australian political parties, not from their own members, not from the little people in our society, to use a term that the late Mr Chifley used to use, but from powerful business interests or others in this community who might from time to time, given one election or another or given the issues that come before the people at those elections, place substantial amounts of money behind a political party in order to give it an unfair advantage, in order to wield real economic power. [More…]

• Let me tell him that I have vivid recollections of an election campaign some time ago when the Labor Party in Queensland received a cheque for $20,000 which was made payable to the Liberal Party. [More…]

• In the 1972 election campaign National Party candidates in Queensland were given up to $20,000 in some cases towards their local campaigns. [More…]

• During the recent State election campaign I became aware of that the Country Party was plundering the Griffith electorate for funds. [More…]

• We raise our money by the sacrifices of the little people who make up the Labor Party, the ordinary people who not only pay their party dues but by various means, by a self-imposed levy or by running small social functions or the like, raise the money that is necessary to fight election campaigns. [More…]

• I respect the contribution which the honourable member for Port Adelaide made as a member of his Party’s organisation to the efforts of that Party during the 1972 election campaign, but I was absolutely astounded to hear a man of his political experience say that election campaigns are won and lost during the 3 weeks before the election according to the volume of media advertising which is conducted on a central basis. [More…]

• Surely a person of his political experience realises that if a candidate does not have an election won four or five weeks before the election day he is really uphill to win it. [More…]

• What is so really farcical, quite apart from the philosophical objection that can be mounted against this legislation, is the proposition that the expenditure of huge sums of money in an election campaign can change the result. [More…]

• What evidence has been demonstrated to show that elections are won or lost according to the volume of money that has been spent? [More…]

• My predecessor in the 1961 election campaign faced one of the most expensive efforts ever mounted on behalf of an individual member of the Australian Labor Party in the person of the former Lord Mayor of Sydney. [More…]

• So the proposition that elections are won or lost according to the quality of advertising or the amount of money spent on an election campaign is absolute nonsense. [More…]

• Under the legislation politicians are limited to spending no more than $500 on their election campaign. [More…]

• The United States House of Representatives on 1 1 August last year passed a Campaign Financing Reform Bill which is designed to halt fund raising abuses such as those which occurred in the 1972 presidential election. [More…]

• So I would remind the honourable member for Bennelong that, rather than preceding the debacle called Watergate and all its attendant impact on democratic elections, the restrictions followed the abuses and were a direct result of those abuses. [More…]

• The general election expenditures were set down at $20m. [More…]

• Now if an election were held tomorrow, heaven forbid, I would have to spend not more than $500 to campaign to 85 000 voters. [More…]

• In a book called ‘Looking at the Liberals’ launched by the former Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon), and edited by an ex-Press Gallery journalist, that journalist claimed that Central Intelligence Agency money was available to the Liberals to fight the last election campaign in May. [More…]

• Under the present Act, in accordance with the provisions laid down some years ago, a candidate is permitted to spend $500 in a campaign and he must put in a return within so many days after the election. [More…]

• Of course this Bill proposes to increase the amount according to the number of constituents within an electorate and specifies the amount that may be contributed by the candidate and by the Party, with different amounts according to whether the election is for the House of Representatives or for the Senate. [More…]

• Dear oh dear, the Minister would not even need to hand out a how-to-vote card in his electorate and he would still win the election handsomely because he holds a blue ribbon Labor seat. [More…]

• I might add that during the campaigns for the next election they will not want to spend a similar figure to what they spent during the last election campaign. [More…]

• I doubt that there is a member of this Parliament who has not spent many times that amount in election campaigns. [More…]

• The present electoral law says that a candidate for the House of Representatives can spend only $500 and a candidate for the Senate $ 1 , 000 on an election campaign but if some honourable members opposite did not spend fifty times the prescribed amount I will give 100 quid to the Liberal Party. [More…]

• The introduction of legislation to establish a commission such as the one provided for in the Bill was promised in the policy speech of the Australian Labor Party prior to the election in December 1972. [More…]

• In fact, he did it just before the last Federal election. [More…]

• At that time, in the May election, the Leader of the Opposition who had produced the election never gave any inkling that if he did not win he would not accept the verdict and would be pursuing the same disruptive and delaying tactics as he had before the election. [More…]

• When the attempt was made by my colleague, the Minister for Services and Property, to bring in more streamlined and contemporary electoral laws so that at any future election there should not be a 3-month gap in the life of the Australian Parliament, the Bill was tossed out. [More…]

• So that means that if there is another election brought about by the refusal of Supply, presumably Australia would once again be without a Parliament for 3 months and, accordingly, it would be impossible to have any of those discussions with the States or with various industries which have to take place before a Budget can be introduced. [More…]

• My honourable friend from Hunter says: ‘An election, too. ‘ [More…]

• In tracing the narrative of events, we then come to the double dissolution of Parliament of April of last year and the May election. [More…]

• Of the 4 referendums put to the people contemparaneous with the general election was one referendum described as one to alter the Constitution so as to ensure that Senate elections are held at the same time as House of Representatives elections. [More…]

• Bill is to encourage a sentiment of support because at first blush it appears as though there is very considerable merit to have an election for the House of Representatives and an election for the Senate held at the one and the same time. [More…]

• Now we are being asked to consider this Bill for a referendum- a referendum that was rejected at the election some 9 months ago. [More…]

• The Prime Minister says of the people of Queensland in the May election of 1974 that it was a substantial aberration of intellect that drove them to reject what he describes as meritorious proposals. [More…]

• By jove, would not the Government like to be able to say that it won 16 seats in Queensland at a general election? [More…]

• Single Senate elections are about nothing. [More…]

• Of the 60 members of the Senate 48 have been nominated by political parties and there was nothing the electors could do to prevent their election. [More…]

• That means that in any single election for half the Senate 24 positions in the Senate- it may vary by one but no more in any given election- are filled at the time of the close of nominations and the election is conducted for the position of one senator for each State. [More…]

• If there is nothing at stake other than the election of senators, the election is, as I said before, about nothing. [More…]

• It tends to be an inconsequential election. [More…]

• It is used as a by-election situation. [More…]

• We are talking about an amendment to the Constitution which will ensure that each time there is an election for the House of Representatives half the members of the Senate will retire. [More…]

• Is anyone in this House prepared to stand up and say that if the Houses came into line again as a result of an election for the House of Representatives between 1 July next and 1 July 1976 this would be a blow to the Senate, would create a situation in which the Senate’s independence would be destroyed or would prevent the Senate from functioning properly? [More…]

• That situation has occurred in the majority of elections for the 2 Houses in this country. [More…]

• Why does the Opposition wish to impose on the electorate an election in 2 years out of every 3 years which is what has been occurring in recent years in Australiaand I am talking about Federal elections only? [More…]

• No serious attempt was made to rationalise the reasons that the elections for one House of the Parliament should be held at a time different from the elections of the other. [More…]

• I do not know whether the Liberal Party still has a commitment to try to ensure the election of Democratic Labor Party senators to the Senate. [More…]

• The result of its passage will be that the elections for both Houses of this Parliament will be for evermore held at the same time and will not be conducted on the patchwork basis where sometimes simultaneous elections occur because of political accidents and at other times they do not. [More…]

• Notwithstanding the fact that he was floored for the political full count by the honourable Joh Bjelke-Petersen in the recent Queensland State elections- I liked the remarks of the honourable member for Corio when he said that they were democratic elections, and I thank him for that admission and for the accuracy of his political comment and that he was defeated by a majority of 3.75 million votes to 3.5 million votes on 18 May last, on his own admission, on the self same referendum issues he now seeks to introduce the proposal again. [More…]

• He claims a mandate for this and for that, but he never ever states that his Government is a minority government which attracted only 49.3 per cent of the vote at the last election, a decline of .3 per cent in 1 8 months and the loss of a number of seats. [More…]

• The intention of the men who drafted our Constitution and the expectation of those who voted for it was that every 3 years there should be an election of the House of Representatives and half the Senate. [More…]

• It seemed to me that he lost sight of what the Bill is all about and ignored the fact that the purpose of the Bill is to bring into line elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate and to ensure that that continues for evermore. [More…]

• I remind the honourable member that in fact the last Senate election in this country was a conjoint election. [More…]

• When he can show me that he has persuaded his colleagues that they should reject that attitude then I will be prepared to listen to any argument that he might care to put forward to the people of Australia that Senate elections and House of Representatives elections should not be held on the same day. [More…]

• How does the changing of the date for a Senate election, making it conjoint with the House of Representatives election, deny the Senate any rights whatsoever? [More…]

• How does it deny the Senate the opportunity to conduct its obstructionism, as it has done since the conjoint election and prior to that? [More…]

• It seems to me quite fallacious to advance an argument that elections ought to be held on separate days to elect half a parliament. [More…]

• I do not think that those people who drafted our Constitution, those people who debated it in the various State Parliaments, those people who eventually voted on it, ever envisaged that there would be an election to elect half the parliament. [More…]

• It seems to me that the concept must have been at all times that there was to be an election to elect the Parliament. [More…]

• What is being proposed is that the 2 elections should be held on the same day. [More…]

• It was stated in the document setting out the case for a No’ vote at the last referendum- with the greatest of respect to those who drafted it, a completely dishonest document- that it is easy to bring about a conjoint election. [More…]

• All that the Prime Minister has to do is to call an election for the House of Representatives on the day that the election for the Senate is due and you will have conjoint elections. [More…]

• I discount the argument about the saving of something like $9m required to hold an election. [More…]

• The fact that it might cost $100m to run an election is no good reason not to hold an election, but I would argue against spending $9m unjustifiably. [More…]

• Even my eloquent and learned friend, the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen), whom I usually listen to with great interest when he speaks on matters of law, and I hope I learn something from him, on this occasion disillusioned me, because even he, with his eloquence and with his knowledge of the Constitution and of constitutional law, could not show me a good reason why elections ought to be held on separate days, why one half of the Parliament ought to be treated differently from the other half. [More…]

• As I have already said, because of the proportional representation method that is used to elect senators in this country- and my colleague the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) has already pointed out that there are only ever 6 senators elected in a half senate election situation, the other 24 being in effect appointed by their various political parties- the Senate for ever more will be evenly balanced. [More…]

• It is that at the same time as there is an election for the House of Representatives there should be an election for the Senate. [More…]

• What it proposes to do is to destroy the fixed term of tenure of membership of the Senate now given by the Constitution and to put in its place a variable term that is dependent upon the whim of the Government of the day as to when the House of Representatives will be dissolved, because by this Bill the term of a senator shall be equal to 2 terms of the House of Representatives and by the Constitution, which will not be altered in this respect by this Bill, the House of Representatives may be dissolved at any time by the Governor-General within 3 years of the election most recently past. [More…]

• We have seen it operate as recently as the election in early 1 974 which was lost by the then Prime Minister, Edward Heath, and the election in October 1974 which was won by the now Prime Minister, Harold Wilson. [More…]

• Under the present Constitution, that is the only way in which the Govern.mernt can compel an election or, more particularly, a dissolution of both the Senate and the House of Representatives at the same time. [More…]

• Looking at the matter in practical terms, as has already been pointed out in this debate, there is a ready means by which this Government can bring about simultaneous elections by calling a House of Representatives election- that is, by calling that election, pursuant to the authority of section 28 of the Constitution, at the same time as the next Senate election which must be held before 30 June 1 976. [More…]

• This is precisely what Mr Menzies, as he then was, did in 1955 in order to bring back into line the House of Representatives and Senate elections. [More…]

• The Governor-General did that, and so we had simultaneous elections of the 2 Houses of the Parliament. [More…]

• If the Prime Minister were to do what Sir Robert Menzies did in 1955, he would bring about simultaneous elections of the 2 Houses of this Parliament in a practicable, sensible, efficient and less costly way. [More…]

• All of us, no matter on what side of the House we may sit, must at times have been told by constituents: Would it not be a marvellous thing if we could remove these separate Senate elections? [More…]

• Would it not be a marvellous thing if we did not have to have a Senate election within 18 months or so after a House of Representatives election?’ [More…]

• I doubt whether the supporters of the present Government said that at the time of the 1 967 Senate elections because it is a fact of political life in Australia that, for one reason or another, separate Senate elections tend to find more favour amongst opposition parties than they do amongst government parties. [More…]

• The next constitutional process is that that decision imposed upon the Houses of the Parliament in trust for the people of the State must be put before a general election of members of the House of Representatives or at the next election of senators for the State. [More…]

• Again- and I use this phrase which is one which the Prime Minister is so fond of using- the will of the people is expressed by the votes that they cast at that election at which the person chosen to fill the casual vacancy is put forward. [More…]

• I would have thought that it goes without saying that elections, in our concept of democracy, are the way in which people express their opinion. [More…]

• Firstly, the people at the next election at which that person must be put forward can accept or reject the person chosen by the Houses of the Parliament of the State and, further than that, the people may, at the next election of the members of Parliament of that State, cast their opinion as to the constitutional propriety or, if we Uke to put it in rather baser terms the political propriety of what the Houses of the Parliament of that State did. [More…]

• My own opinion is that, in view of the fact that proportional representation is now the method of election to the Senate, a member of the same Party nominated by the executive of the Party should be appointed when future vacancies arise through death or other causes. [More…]

• The Minister for Northern Development (Dr Patterson) who has just spoken has done the best he could to avoid the main substance of the debate and to avoid being turfed out of his own electorate whenever the next election is held, because he knows very well that if he speaks the truth about rural industries his electorate will not stand a bar of him for a minute. [More…]

• Just before the 1972 election the Australian Country Party proposed a rural bank. [More…]

• During the 1972 election campaign the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) proposed a price freeze on food. [More…]

• Before the 1974 election campaign the Leader of the Liberal Party stood for low petrol prices; the Country [More…]

• Country Parties winning seventeen of the nineteen seats in the election for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly and I do not want to talk about the other two being Independents. [More…]

• If we place the entire, or almost the entire, provision of health care on the shoulders of the Government of this country the people will be the losers in the long run, because a government - any government- on going to the people at an election will fail to find the money and will be unprepared to make the undertaking to find the money for the sort of open-ended arrangement in which we are involved when we move entirely to the provision of health care by the Government. [More…]

• This Bill seeks to facilitate the financial means of achieving what the Minister proposes and what, regrettably, was passed in the Joint Sitting of the Parliament after the 1974 Federal election. [More…]

• It was suggested that because in certain circumstances an election concerning an amalgamation could be held by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer it therefore had to be a secret postal ballot. [More…]

• I suggest again that the Minister ought to read his own legislation because the legislation, as he has introduced it, says quite plainly that if an election is conducted by the Registrar or an electoral officer then it must be conducted as far as practicable in conformity with union rules. [More…]

• 1 ) A person conducting an election, or taking a step in or in connection with an election, for an office in, or in a branch of, an organisation under section 165a or under the last preceding section, may, notwithstanding anything contained in the rules of the organisation or branch, take such action and give such directions as he considers necessary in order to ensure that no irregularities occur in or in connection with the election or to remedy any procedural defects in those rules which appear to him to exist. [More…]

• If I may digress for a moment, I point out that even in the election of members of this Parliament we have postal voting. [More…]

• I have not heard of any problems arising in relation to the postal voting system used for elections of the Parliament. [More…]

• Originally it was part of a much larger Bill, the first one of which was introduced by the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) when he occupied that portfolio after the election of the present Government in December 1972. [More…]

• Quite apart from the humbug on crude oil prices, there is the desire to get petrol dollars for a possible election campaign. [More…]

• This is typical of the Country Party which always takes the can around at election time. [More…]

• How the members are elected varies from State to State, but let me make it clear that in their election a great deal of communist influence is involved. [More…]

• We saw casualties in the last State election in Queensland. [More…]

• Lord knows how many of them will survive the next election. [More…]

• Even though we might not have done so well in the recent Queensland State election we still polled 36 per cent of the vote as compared with the National Party’s 28 per cent. [More…]

• With the election of the present Government came a new approach to Australia’s railway problems. [More…]

• This is not just the first Parliament after the election of the Labor Government, it is the second Parliament. [More…]

• He is the man who knocked the Prime Minister so insensible during the last Queensland State election campaign that I understand that if the Australian Labor Party in Queensland wished to field a cricket team it would have to obtain the services of the Prime Minister as the drink waiter. [More…]

• I had said that the Opposition’s view as to the election of chairmen would impart more sense to the role of chairmen. [More…]

• Our Prime Minister, if he has time to bother himself with the artistic community, will know by now that his, if they are his, selections of Board chairmen have not in all cases indicated any particular perspicacity on his or his advisers’ part. [More…]

• I do not necessarily disagree with some of the propositions he has put forward, but I think he is unaware of some of the decisions that we have made, particularly that on the question that worries him most and the question that worries the Opposition most- the question of the election of board Chairmen. [More…]

• I think it is only fair to say that whichever party had won the election in 1972 he would be debating a very similar piece of legislation. [More…]

• There is no doubt in my mind that one of the things which helped the present Government to win the 1972 election was the massive support it received from practitioners in many fields of the arts who wanted new recognition by government in this country. [More…]

• My recollection is that at the election of last May the Leader ofthe Opposition said that if he were returned to office the Prices Justification Tribunal would be maintained. [More…]

• The amount of money expendable in an election campaign by a member of the House of Representatives is $500 and by a senator $1000. [More…]

• Recently the Government sought to make public donations to political parties and also to increase to a reasonable amount expenditure allowed in an election campaign. [More…]

• Evidently there are people in this country who do not want the source of their campaign funds to be known or the amount of money allowed to be spent on an election campaign to be restricted. [More…]

• The fact that there is no restriction on the amount of money which political parties can spend in an election campaign is exemplified in an article in the ‘National Times’ of 24 February 1975 in these terms: [More…]

• It is no wonder that honourable members opposite want to hide from the people the source of their campaign funds and want no restriction on the amount of money that is allowed to be spent in an election campaign. [More…]

• It has the sanction of public opinion, because it has to face the people at election time. [More…]

• The ultimate sanction is the public’s opinion at an election. [More…]

• I think that the honourable member for Parramatta might have moved into his electorate since his election to office, although I am not sure. [More…]

• -At this stage I know of no new election for Speaker. [More…]

• Secondly, it is inappropriate to suggest that any ballot be held for the election of a Speaker because the Speaker of the House of Representatives is Mr James Cope. [More…]

• Like so many other Labor election promises, these have been broken. [More…]

• However, before any members of the Opposition criticise this proposal, it is worth reminding them that exactly the same criticism is valid of the similar proposal of the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon) in his 1972 election policy speech and of the home savings grants scheme introduced by the Menzies Government in the 1960s. [More…]

• The Liberal-Country Party Opposition in this Parliament will go down as the people who exercised the methods of obstruction frustration, delay and deferment in its cynical campaign for power and in its cynical method of approach while it tries to settle itself down and to overcome its bitter internal fighting in order to present itself to the Australian people at a future election. [More…]

• I have no wish to refer to the unfortunate circumstances that brought about this election. [More…]

• We know from experience the way in which Mr Scholes has performed his duties as Chairman of Committees in this House since the election of the Labor Government in 1972. [More…]

• This election of a successor to Speaker Cope then comes first to us as a tragedy in the manner of the destruction of a man who had the courage and ability to stand by those principles which we on this side of the Parliament hold dear. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, this is the first occasion on which I have had the opportunity to acknowledge publicly your election as Speaker and I do so I hope with generosity. [More…]

• It is for this reason that I suggest to the House that the calibre, background and experience of the honourable member for Lyne must be taken seriously into account when honourable members vote for the election of the Deputy Speaker. [More…]

• -First of all, Mr Speaker, I would like to congratulate you on your election as Speaker of this House. [More…]

• If the Prime Minister wants that, we will fight an election on that- let that be the issue- and the people will decide. [More…]

• The real barometer of the likelihood of an early election is the changing strength of the challenge to the Leader of the Opposition from week to week. [More…]

• It is not a case of this Government’s being forced into an early election but the Leader of the Opposition being forced into it for his own survival. [More…]

• Snap elections, of course, suit him fine because a snap election, he figures, will prevent his side from thrusting the knife into his back before the election takes place in the ordinary course and he hopes, will influence the people to have as Prime Minister the person that his own Party does not trust. [More…]

• The right honourable gentleman started off by talking about the Prime Minister’s alleged contempt for the Parliament, but then he spent most of his time talking about Medibank, a snap election, the transfer of the economic activity from the private sector to the public sector, and so on and so on, completely ignoring altogether the reason for last week’s disturbance. [More…]

• I want to remind the House of what the Leader of the Opposition said on 27 February 1973 when congratulating Mr Speaker Cope on his election to that office. [More…]

• Lewis should have broken the convention regarding the election of a senator to replace the senator who had left the other place? [More…]

• Is it obstructionism for us to talk about a BUI which Will if it is passed, alter the whole nature of the society in which we live and which will restructure society, as the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) said in his election speech? [More…]

• The Country Party is wanting to grasp any scheme at all to prevent a fair electoral distribution and it wants to have an election before the fair electoral distribution can come in and while the old distorted electorates still apply, lt is therefore making statements that money will be refused to finance Medibank, which is the law of the land. [More…]

• After the 1972 election a portfolio for the Australian Capital Territory was created and a new department, the Department of the Capital Territory was formed to undertake functions relating to the Australian Capital Territory previously managed by the Department ofthe Interior. [More…]

• The system of elections recommended in the report is similar to that adopted for the recent Legislative Assembly election. [More…]

• Is he frightened of being overwhelmed again on television as he was during the last election campaign? [More…]

• We defeated the Opposition at 2 Federal elections on the issue. [More…]

• In the 1969 election we campaigned on it. [More…]

• It was one of the reasons for the double dissolution in 1974 and it was a principal plank of our policy for the election that followed. [More…]

• One has to look only at the speeches of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) at the 1972 election and the 1974election. [More…]

• How can anybody say that there was a mandate for this particular proposal more than any other when it formed such a small part of the Government’s overall proposals and when at the last Federal election the Government’s vote dropped? [More…]

• How Government supporters can say that they have a mandate for anything after the vote dropping, especially when they made a bigger issue of this at the last election than at the election before, nobody in his right mind can understand. [More…]

• There is at least a 50 per cent chance that there will be an election before this scheme is implemented. [More…]

• There may be an election before its implementation. [More…]

• Certainly the newspapers are talking about the holding of an election as if there is quite a possibility that that will happen and one has to believe the newspapers to a certain extent. [More…]

• Whenever the next election is held the respective health schemes will be a part of the competing policies of the 2 sides of the Parliament. [More…]

• If an election is to be held I am sure that the Medibank scheme will not be the major part of that election campaign because the Government’s disastrous mishandling of the Australian economy must be the major issue. [More…]

• How, in 2 short years, the Government has turned a prosperous country with one of the lowest inflation rates and one of the lowest unemployment rates in the world into one with one of the highest on both counts is a national disaster which must be exposed and which must become the major part of any election campaign. [More…]

• The Government wants the private health funds destroyed because it lives m fear that if it loses the next election- and it cannot come quickly enough- a government formed from people now on this side of the House will tear down the Medibank system if it is under way by then. [More…]

• Because the Labor Party received about 50 per cent of the votes at the last election, the Minister thinks he has a mandate to carry out something that he can impose upon the whole of the Australian people. [More…]

• Our commitment was reiterated in the policy speech for the 1974 election and confirmed in the Governor-General’s Speech on 9 July 1974. [More…]

• To complete my explanation, I point out that I have made it clear that the Government can avoid precipitating an election over this matter by following the proper course of introducing a separate Bill to appropriate funds for Medibank. [More…]

• An election isn’t held on what happens inside the House, but I can’t say why it’s not doing very well in the House. [More…]

• In the 1 972 election speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) it was foreshadowed that moves would be made to license overseas and interstate travel agents operating in Australia. [More…]

• In his second reading speech the Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) made the point- I think this would be accepted by all those who have followed the discussion on this Bill in this House and prior to its presentation to this House- that with the election of the Labor Government in 1972 came a new approach to Australia’s railway problems. [More…]

• I understand that tonight the leaders of the Country Party and the Liberal Party have met to try to decide whether there should be a Federal election. [More…]

• The only reason that they would call for a Federal election at the moment, of course, would be to .save the skin of the present Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden), because there has been set in motion, which is the appropriate term to use. [More…]

• I suggest that in recent weeks there have been a few feeble bleats from the Government that there is such a thing as the private sector, which is no doubt a surreptitious move to allay some of that sector’s fear in the event of an early election. [More…]

• It is true that the Government has reversed many of its economic policies and has adopted a number of those proposed by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) which, incidentally, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) rubbished and ridiculed in his usual manner during the election campaign last May. [More…]

• I received all of Paul Hasluck ‘s propaganda during election campaigns. [More…]

• Following the signing of the Geneva Accords in 1 954, there was a chance for elections in North Vietnam and South Vietnam, but those elections were never held. [More…]

• The present President, who played a keen role in getting to that position, has not really been the subject of a contested election. [More…]

• We will see the end of these vicious, nasty, racist, immigration groups who took such a role in the last election campaign in the electorate of Riverina. [More…]

• Until probably four or five weeks ago there was a possibilitysome people believed there was even a likelihood- of an election being fought in the middle of this year, and the Liberal Party had given an undertaking that Medibank would not be perservered with if that Party won the election. [More…]

• Before the change in leadership, Mr Snedden gave an undertaking- and now the new leader, Mr Fraser, has done so- that there would be no interference with the Supply Bills and that therefore there would be no election in the middle of this year. [More…]

• The new Leader of the Opposition went further and quite correctly said what we have been saying for some time- that Medibank had been an issue in at least 2 elections, that it had certainly been an issue in the last election that there had been a double dissolution and a Joint Sitting of the 2 Houses of Parliament during which Medibank had been accepted, and that it is now law. [More…]

• After all, there will not be an election before Medibank comes into operation, so whatever scare stories they may be able to spread amongst the pensioners will not have any political effect at a time when political effects are worth while from their point of view. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Services and Property: Is there any restriction under the Electoral Act on the amount that may be collected for election campaign expenses by political parties, organisations or individuals? [More…]

• In conclusion I make this comment: Side by side with my colleagues in the House of Representatives and the Senate I have been receiving an enormous number of letters from various people and associations indicating that if I vote one way they will not be voting for me at the next election. [More…]

• Others have indicated that if I vote the other way they will not be voting for me at that election. [More…]

• Even in the general election campaign of May 1974 there were examples that could well have constituted a breach against a clause of that sort. [More…]

• In characteristic pig-headed style the Government chooses to ignore the telegrams of protest from the Aboriginal people, its shocking defeat in the Queensland State election and its very poor vote amongst Aboriginal communities. [More…]

• I refer to a former member for Henry who, if I remember correctly, was member for Henty in 1945, prior to the elections of 1946 and from that election to the end of the Twentyfirst Parliament in 1954. [More…]

• I have adjusted to the not so subtle pressures applied to local newspaper editors, particularly at election time. [More…]

• Since his election we have heard people saying that now there is a new Leader that they will have to be loyal Liberals and support their new Leader. [More…]

• The Liberal Party now expects that the views being expressed by their new Leader will, in some miraculous way, attract back to their fold the thousands and thousands of voters whom they need to win the next election. [More…]

• Members of the Liberal Party want compulsory voting in trade union elections but they throw their hands up in horror when there is any suggestion that there ought to be compulsory membership of unions. [More…]

• So we have the spectacle under their proposal of, on the one hand, a person who says that he will not join a trade union, who does not vote, who does not pay anything, who does not take any part in union affairs at all and who has committed no breach, and on the other hand, a person who joins a union on a voluntary basis, who attends every union meeting for a period of 5 years, who pays his union dues and plays an active part in the union but who, because he forgets to vote in a union election, can be fined under this ludicrous and stupid proposal. [More…]

• There is never any suggestion that there should be compulsory voting for the election of directors of companies. [More…]

• In fact I find it incredible that the Liberal Party in New South Wales in one breath says there shall not be compulsory voting in local government elections and in the next breath turns around and says that there shall be compulsory voting in trade union elections. [More…]

• They will recognise at an election that with the Leader of the Opposition at the helm of the Liberal Party as a government it would return to the politics of the 1 950s. [More…]

• I wish to take a few minutes to enlighten the public about the Opposition’s shadow cabinet and its method of election, which is most intriguing in itself, quite apart from the numbers involved. [More…]

• The election of the present Leader of the Opposition is a temporary expedient to solve the leadership problem of the Liberal Party until somebody else bobs up. [More…]

• But at the last election the same technique was used on me. [More…]

• I challenge the honourable member for McMillan to run at the next election without his party’s endorsement and see how he gets on. [More…]

• Why not allow the people who have been looking at this propaganda for the weeks, months and in some cases the year leading up to the election to have it before them in the polling booth in the form of a ballot paper which would give a display of not only the candidate but the political party to which he is attached? [More…]

• The point I am making in bringing this up is that confusion would be caused if a Party secured registration in close proximity to an election, there was a schism in the Party and there was the sort of result that occurred with the Labor Party in Victoria. [More…]

• The honourable member for Port Adelaide has made a number of contributions in this Parliament on the general subject of elections and election campaigns. [More…]

• One can hardly expect the percentage of informal votes to be less than they were at the last election. [More…]

• I have in front of me a schedule relating to elections. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, the result arising from that unique ballot paper showed that the public of New South Wales approached the election with a high degree of understanding. [More…]

• I remind the Committee that last year we had an election on 18 May. [More…]

• Under this legislation a party has to qualify in respect of an election. [More…]

• a party qualifies in respect of an election only if- [More…]

• in the case of an election of a Member of the House of Representatives … the number of candidates endorsed by the party . [More…]

• in the case of an election of Senators … the number of candidates endorsed by the party . [More…]

• in the case of a by-election of a Member of the House of Representatives … the party qualified under paragraph (a) . [More…]

• at the last preceding general election . [More…]

• in the case of an election of a Senator … to fill a casual vacancy or casual vacancies only … the party qualified under paragraph (b) in respect of the last preceding election of Senators …. [More…]

• To provide that New South Wales must have 12 seats in a House of Representatives election contested by a party before it can have its name on the ballot paper only goes to point up the difficulties that can arise and the unfairness of these provisions to small Parties. [More…]

• The Government seeks to have electoral reform whereby citizens of Australia in casting their votes will be able to do so with knowledge, with understanding, being able to identify clearly the persons who are offering themselves for election. [More…]

• How often have those of us who stand outside polling booths on election day seen the confusion that some people have? [More…]

• It will be most difficult to disagree with the concept that people should know what parties candidates who are standing for election to Parliament represent. [More…]

• There is a fundamental right- an inalienable right, I believe -for individuals in a community to be able to offer themselves for election to a Parliament. [More…]

• No barriers should be put in the way of people offering themselves for election or being associated with political parties. [More…]

• I think that we have arrived at a situation in which at best the majority of those who do offer themselves for election are serious in their intentions. [More…]

• We must accept that there can be no restriction on the rights of people to group together, to form parties and, having formed parties, to offer candidates for election by the Australian people. [More…]

• A basic freedom amongst Australians must be the ability for alternatives to be offered to the Australian people at elections. [More…]

• It will be determined either by a public servant or somebody who is involved in the election- a member, a Minister, a Prime Minister or a leader of a party. [More…]

• Is he not happy that a man as impartial as that gentleman presides over his elections? [More…]

• Irrespective of that snide interjection by that person who masquerades over there as an honourable gentleman and will not own up to having made it, the people who conduct the elections in this country are honest and impartial. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hume (Mr Lusher) talks about there being some attempt by the Labor Party to deny individuals the right to stand for an election because of the registration of parties. [More…]

• When the honourable member for Casey (Mr Mathews) stood for election another R. Mathews appeared on the ballot paper. [More…]

• The retention of democracy in our community means that the most information that can possibly be conveyed to people on election day should be conveyed to them. [More…]

• The one piece of paper that the person must touch on election day should have on it as much information as is necessary to enable the electors to cast a vote. [More…]

• If this provision goes through one can back it right in that at the next election there will be a host of parties whose initials are CP and LP but who in fact will be giving their preferences to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• The most obvious exercise that has ever been undertaken to ensure that many candidates contest a ballot in order to bemuddle the people was undertaken, of course, during the Senate selection that was conducted together with the House of Representatives election following the double dissolution in 1974 in relation to which a political research team discovered that the Australian Labor Party would lose 80 per cent of the additional informal votes for every candidate above the number of 40 who ran at that election. [More…]

• The people of Australia wanted to see reflected in the Senate election what happened in the House of Representatives election, that is a Labor majority. [More…]

• No election, apart from those at the height of the Australian Democratic Labor Party’s popularity when it split away from the Labor Party, has been determined by those events. [More…]

• The honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Bourchier) said that it will mean new parties will be running candidates for certain seats at the next election in order to obtain the right to distribute preferences. [More…]

• Proposed new section 58d ( 1) (a) states: … in the case of an election of a Member of the House of Representatives for a Division in a State to be held at a general election of Members of that House- the number of candidates endorsed by the party in respect of elections for the Divisions in the State (including the first-mentioned election) is not less than one-quarter of the whole number of Divisions in that State; [More…]

• I am advised that it is the view of the Government that, having regard to the high number of candidates who were nominated in the election of May last year and the need to restrict frivolous candidatures, it is proposed that the amount of the deposit be $2,000 in the case of a Senate election - [More…]

• The amounts proposed are $1,000 in the case of a Senate election and $500 in the case of a House of Representatives election. [More…]

• At present a candidate must lodge a $100 deposit for a House of Representatives election and it is proposed to increase that amount to $250. [More…]

• The Government has no wish to prevent people from standing for election to Parliament by imposing a high deposit, but I think it is generally accepted that some reasonable amount should be applied in this age of high prices, with money values changing, that will discourage what could be termed frivolous candidates. [More…]

• One of the facts of life is that in the recent elections in New South Wales certain people in the Bankstown district put up a number of candidates and increased the total number of candidates to 73. [More…]

• I have here a document written by a Mr Duncan and which is called ‘The Independent Political Research Organisation- a Special Report- Confidential’, and the subject is the Australian general elections, 18 May 1974. [More…]

• The document states that, if a great number of candidates can be nominated for Senate elections, this will cause so many informal votes that certain parties could be defeated. [More…]

• The basis of the document was that the Labor Party could lose the Senate election in New South Wales if enough candidates were presented. [More…]

• Therefore, tremendous cost can be caused to the Government- and that is the people- in the conduct of a Senate election. [More…]

• But if he were to examine the informal votes in the election we all have in mind- the Senate election for New South Wales in which there were 73 candidates- he would find that the informal percentage was not greatly different from the percentage in the election held in 1 96 1 . [More…]

• I remind him that it was brought in by a Labor government in 1948-49, and that the 1949 Senate election was the first election under the system. [More…]

• So, because there were 73 candidates in New South Wales in the elections in May 1974, I would not say that therefore we need to change the system or to frighten people off unduly. [More…]

• In any case, I must say that I am delighted to see that in fact it did not have the effect it was intended to have, and it really only shows the strength of our present Senate election system. [More…]

• by omitting from sub-section (2) the words ‘The application may be in the prescribed form and must-‘ and substituting the words ‘The application shall be on a form issued under the authority of the Chief Australian Electoral Officer and specified by him, by notice in the Gazette, as being the form to be used in relation to the election to which the application relates, and shall-‘; and [More…]

• Clause 27 also provides that a postal vote application should be issued under the authority of the Chief Australian Electoral Officer on a form specified by him, by notice in the Gazette, as being the form to be used for the particular election. [More…]

• That provision appears to involve a gazettal each election in order to meet, it is suggested, some abuses. [More…]

• It is suggested that the activity of political parties preparing lists of electors who used postal voting facilities at earlier elections can lead to some sort of abuse. [More…]

• It is said that from these lists a great number of postal vote application forms- sometimes it runs into thousands in an electoral division- are partially completed well in advance of the next ensuing election and forwarded to those electors at or about the time of the issue of the writs without a precise knowledge of whether the persons concerned are in fact entitled to vote by post. [More…]

• The first amendment which I have moved proposes that there be one notice in the Gazette which will provide for different coloured forms being used to prevent a different gazettal at each election. [More…]

• It is important to consider this because one vote can cause the defeat of a member, the defeat of a government or the election of a government. [More…]

• That becomes the colour of the application for that election. [More…]

• In a Senate election one cannot possibly commence to fix the quota until every postal vote is in. [More…]

• So this clause makes an attempt not to prevent people from voting but to see that all votes are in on the night the election is held. [More…]

• People know by half past 10 or 11 o’clock at night who has won the election because the votes are in the box. [More…]

• There is no reason at all why people who vote should not have their vote in on the night of the election. [More…]

• There can be no case or justification in this country for waiting so long after an election to decide who has won and who will govern Australia. [More…]

• We were ridiculed throughout the country in May and June of last year because we could not decide, because of our system of voting, who may or who may not have won the election. [More…]

• This system can be applied fairly.- There may be other measures which have to be looked at in the years ahead, such as elections being held every 4 or 5 years on a particular date so that snap elections cannot be called. [More…]

• In looking at the present system it seems to me that we have perhaps to be considerate of the people who may be involved in postal voting, to be considerate of the people who have put up with others going around canvassing in the hospitals and nursing homes and, as I say, be aware of the fact that candidates may be keeping forms from a previous election which they just post out hoping that the person concerned still needs a postal vote. [More…]

• I consider that what we are putting up in terms of having a new form and in terms of closing the poll on the night of the election is something reasonable and quite acceptable to the Australian community. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) whether under this clause he is considering closing the polls at 6 p.m. or 8 p.m. on the night of the election, bearing in mind that a great percentage of voters in the electorates of Kalgoorlie, the Northern Territory, Kennedy and in other remote places are often lucky to get their postal ballot paper on the day of the election and then technically, of course, they are not allowed to vote. [More…]

• Any person who falls sick on the eve of an election or within 36 hours of the beginning of the election day would be effectively debarred from voting. [More…]

• I am particularly appalled at the threat to the people who live outside the capital cities, who live within large conurbations of population and who have the misfortune to fall sick suddenly on the eve of an election- within 36 hours or more of the beginning of the election day. [More…]

• The Divisional Returning Officer is not empowered to register an elector or (except where the elector is deceased) cancel the registration of an elector under this section after 6 o’clock in the afternoon of the day of the issue of the writ, and before the close of the poll, for an election. [More…]

• An elector who is registered under this section is, by force of this section, but subject to Part VI and to the regulations, entitled to vote at an election in accordance with this Pan. [More…]

• As soon as practicable after the hour of nomination for an election the Divisional Returning Officer shall send a postal vote certificate and a postal ballotpaper or postal ballot-papers, as the case requires, to each elector who is registered on the register for the Division, other than an elector who has made an application under section 85.”. [More…]

• A little earlier I said that the thing we have to be more careful of than almost anything else in the campaigning period leading up to an election is the growth of postal voting which has occurred around Australia, obviously in breach of the present Australian electoral laws. [More…]

• It would mean that postal voters obviously could be canvassed between elections. [More…]

• This would mean that instead of Party workers descending upon the homes of the aged and the sick immediately the green light shines for an election as at present, the electoral officer would send out the application forms and the ballot papers. [More…]

• Members of the Labor Party in Queensland have suggested that I have indulged in an illegal practice, but they say this only before an election because they know that I work within the confines of the law. [More…]

• I have a dickey election coming up’. [More…]

• In Queensland a person can obtain a State roll and every person who had a postal vote at the previous State election, or Brisbane City Council election or local council election, has a little stamp marked next to his name indicating that he had a postal vote or what they call a caller’s vote. [More…]

• In the last election, the result in my electorate of Diamond Valley was close. [More…]

• The evidence is that the pattern of voting was completely different from any other pattern of voting in that electorate in that election. [More…]

• Parties on both sides of the House have won and lost elections under the existing method so the system cannot be too bad. [More…]

• After all, the present Labor Government was elected at the last election on 49 per cent of the votes. [More…]

• The Opposition’s basic attitude is that every citizen has the right to form a political party and every citizen has the right to contest an election. [More…]

• Any possible abuses can be avoided by requiring a different coloured form to be used from election to election. [More…]

• I refer also to the refusal of the opportunity to scrutineer a recount of the Western Australian Senate votes in spite of the fact that that count was carried over many days making it impracticable for any party to have it scrutineered- there were also many complaints from electoral officers that they were tired and working under difficult conditions- and in spite of the fact that a recount was allowed at an earlier Senate election for an objecting Australian Labor Party candidate, when the percentage difference was greater than was the case in the last Western Australian Senate election. [More…]

• The honourable member then made some scurrilous attack in regard to the most recent result in the electorate of Stirling He spent a few minutes of his time simply insulting and casting a slur on the electoral officers who conducted the election in that electorate. [More…]

• Clause 54 seeks to correct an anomaly whereby a candidate can unwittingly place his candidacy in jeopardy because an election is announced less than 3 months before it is, held. [More…]

• Had he made a gift or donation just prior to the announcement of such an election he would be guilty of an offence. [More…]

• This would be more relevant in a Senate election than a House of Representatives election where generally there are fewer candidates. [More…]

• However, in passing I mention the general election of 1 966 for the House of Representatives when at least one long-standing and highly regarded member of this House lost his seat because of a fairly high informal vote. [More…]

• I have fought my last election and so I can look at this matter, I believe, without prejudice. [More…]

• The amendments prevent a person enrolling or nominating under a changed name in certain circumstances and prevent a person nominating as a candidate for election in more than one Federal seat on the same day. [More…]

• If a candidate won both elections he could not take up a position as a member for both seats. [More…]

• There would have to be a by-election. [More…]

• I recall a by-election for the State seat of Albury. [More…]

• But on the postal votes, Padman, the LiberalCountry Party candidate, got up and narrowly won the election by 150 votes. [More…]

• But where there is a short election campaign period- the tendency is for the elections to become shorter and shorter and I think this is a good tendency because people get to know the issues relatively quickly- this would mean that 10 days before an election was held a person who was overseas would have to post his vote. [More…]

• So I am all in favour of a deposit that will be high enough to ensure that we do not get an enormous number of candidates, such as the 73 in the recent Senate election in New South Wales. [More…]

• On the other hand, I do not think anyone would want the amount to be so high that a person who had a reasonable chance of winning an election if he stood would be excluded from doing so. [More…]

• There is also the proposal to preclude nomination for election to the Australian Parliament of a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory or the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• Of course this is a problem when an election is called without much notice and a member of a State Parliament desires to stand. [More…]

• Imagine a person in, say, Fiji during the last election who got a ballot paper for the New South Wales Senate election with a list of 73 names. [More…]

• I remember when I was voting absentee in Queanbeyan in a State election on one occasion a Liberal from Sydney came out of the booth and said to me: ‘I do not know whether I voted for the Liberal candidate. [More…]

• Although one of them listed the name of the party on the voting papers there was only one party standing at the election. [More…]

• It contains, for the election in the constituencies, the names of the candidates and their party. [More…]

• The other provisions cover matters which were shown to be urgently in need of correction by the double dissolution election a year ago. [More…]

• This was largely due to delays in counting the votes cast at the election on 18 May and the complicated preferential system in use at that election, especially for the Senate. [More…]

• The ‘Sydney Morning Herald ‘ in an editorial on 2 May 1974, before that election, said: [More…]

• After the election, in an editorial on 25 May, the ‘Sydney Morning Herald ‘ said this: [More…]

• (For a half-Senate election, five or six should suffice). [More…]

• The process is at its most exasperating in the election of senators, although proportional representation produces, in theory, the most accurate reflection of the popular will within each State. [More…]

• The point at issue- and it has been demonstrated beyond dispute by the May 18 elections- is that the present electoral system is absurdly complicated. [More…]

• It is so complicated that even five weeks after the election we still do not know how many seats the Government has won in the Senate. [More…]

• I am certain that the Chief Electoral Officer would know of the confusion and the disadvantage to which people have been put and were put during the October Legislative Assembly elections in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• At that time there were only 1 8 days- I may be wrong, there might have been more- between the closing of nominations and election day. [More…]

• Senate elections where under the proportional respresentation system the quota for an election cannot be determined nor can the counting progress until the exact number of formal votes is known. [More…]

• The Government has indicated that at the last Senate election the quota was not known until more than 2 weeks after polling day and therefore senators could not be elected until 3 weeks after polling day. [More…]

• Earlier a supporter of the Government seemed to be indicating that he thought that the result of an election should be known within a matter of four or five hours after polling ceases. [More…]

• I think that the system in Australia, and in other countries in our situation in which government is handed over freely and constitutionally and in which the result of an election may not be known for some days, is one that can be easily accepted if one gets an accurate result, a true reflection of what the people want, and one makes reasonable provision for the people to vote. [More…]

• In the last election there were some, but that did not affect the functioning of the Government. [More…]

• Should an election be forced again this year in the quite undemocratic fashion in which it was forced in 1974, and should postal voting be conducted in the way in which it has been conducted in the past, one can just imagine the role that will be played by the majority of doctors throughout Australia, in the light of their attitude to Medibank in trying to refuse the benefits of Medibank not only to all Australians but specifically to the 1 250 000 people who are not at present covered by health insurance. [More…]

• One can understand the role that will be played by doctors in the forcing of postal votes at any future election that may be conducted. [More…]

• Nevertheless, there will not be an election before the introduction of Medibank, and Medibank will be well accepted when the next election is conducted. [More…]

• Sometimes the volume of postal voting may depend upon how much notice of the election is given. [More…]

• In 1972 a great deal of notice of the election was given. [More…]

• People knew within a week or two when the election was going to be conducted. [More…]

• But in the Northern Territory when very little notice was given of the 1974 election- no one could have considered that the Senate was going to be so stupid as to block a money Bill- the postal voting in the Northern Territory increased by more than 12 per cent. [More…]

• In printing the ballot-papers to be used in a House of Representatives election- [More…]

• -The Government proposes by clause 38 that in the House of Representatives election a draw be made by the divisional returning officer to determine the order in which the names of candidates are to be printed on the ballot papers. [More…]

• Such a draw would eliminate the deliberate selection of candidates whose surnames begin with a letter high in the alphabet so as to gain political advantage over the other candidates. [More…]

• I think the results of our elections show that people have enough intelligence to determine which candidates on the ballot paper they want. [More…]

• Another proposal in this clause relates to candidates who see fit to change their name shortly before an election and presumably use that name to give them some advantage or perhaps even to embody a slogan. [More…]

• For some unknown reason the candidate pulled out of the election the day after nominations closed and said that he was not a candidate. [More…]

• Despite the fact that he was not contesting the election he polled 150 votes because bis name was on the top of the ballot paper. [More…]

• This matter was raised by opponents of the honourable member for Phillip (Mr Riordan) during the last election. [More…]

• Because of daylight saving orthodox Jews are not able to vote in elections held in December because sundown then occurs at 8.30 to 9 p.m. [More…]

• I assumed that the honourable member for Curtin was repeating what had been raised in the last election campaign. [More…]

• Have you already voted either here or elsewhere in this election (or in these elections, as the case requires)? [More…]

• Every voter in an election under our present system has a say in that final decision. [More…]

• The Opposition opposes this clause which in effect establishes the optional preference system as a method for marking ballot papers for Senate elections and House of Representatives elections. [More…]

• In fact, the present Labor Government won the last election with 49 per cent of the votes of this country. [More…]

• What happened in the Senate at the last Federal election has been cited as though it will become a regular feature of elections. [More…]

• I refer to the fact that in New South Wales there were 73 candidates on the ballot paper for the last Senate election. [More…]

• I ask the honourable member for Port Adelaide whether the result of the election was any different from what he expected a few days before the election. [More…]

• I am sure that many honourable members have scrutineered election counts, not in elections at which they have been candidates but at other elections. [More…]

• As I said earlier, had their votes been formal or had the informal vote for the Senate election paralleled the informal vote for the House of Representatives election there can be no doubt that the Labor Party in New South Wales would have won 6 positions in the Senate. [More…]

• The electorate of Sydney, which has a high concentration of migrants, had a 20 per cent informal vote at the 1974 Senate election. [More…]

• At the next election if the Liberal Party promises to put up the price of oil it could expect a couple of million dollars from its development friends and mining companies. [More…]

• Honourable members will all be pleased to know that next March the election for the South Australian Upper House will be based on proportional representation and also on optional preferential voting. [More…]

• It seems to me that the members of the Government are being totally obsessed by the 73 Senate candidates in New South Wales in the double dissolution election campaign last May. [More…]

• I will go so far as to say that irrespective of whether this is passed by this Parliament, it ultimately will come in because not one person in the 2 750 000 voters in New South Wales at the time of the Senate election in May voted intelligently or knew the candidates for whom he was voting. [More…]

• The Liberal-Country Party Coalition Government introduced the optional preferential voting system of marking ballot papers for the Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council election in 1959. [More…]

• The same system is used for the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly elections, also introduced by the Liberal-Country Party Coalition. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite know as well as I do that optional preferential voting would not change the result of one election in 100 years. [More…]

• Does this huge discrepancy, far higher than normal, indicate that there are thousands of multiple registrations or that there has been a failure to clear the rolls by removing the names of people who have in fact been placed in jobs, or is the Minister inflating current unemployment figures above their true level so that, if he sees an election in the offing, he will be able to claim a substantial but fictitious reduction in unemployment? [More…]

• Of course I am not inflating the figures in order that I might deflate them later when there is an election, because we know from what the Leader of the Opposition has said that there will not be an election. [More…]

• -The matter that I would like to refer to tonight is the result of a by-election in Victoria that had rather significant aspects to it, and I would like to point out to honourable members the implications of that decisive win in the Brunswick East by-election. [More…]

• The Brunswick by-election was fought and won on Government policy, with a great deal of stress placed on the Medibank issue. [More…]

• They showed that at the polls last Saturday, and members on the other side of this House could expect the same result in whatever election was held, either now or in the future. [More…]

• ‘The decision, virtually hands McMillan to Labor on a platter, if there is a major election-time electoral ‘Mishap’which can easily happen. [More…]

• Might I also extend to him my sympathy because of his imminent defeat, no doubt, because at the last election he was elected with 26 per cent of the primary vote. [More…]

• If that were not bad enough, soldier settlers are probably the epitome of those who we, on this side of the House- and before the election many honourable members who are now in Government- asserted were the lifeblood of the rural sector for they are family farmers. [More…]

• I recall that before the last election the then honourable member for Riverina- we all know what happened to himmade great claims that if the Labor Party were returned to office the primary producers and soldier settlers would have available in the vicinity of $500m at 3 per cent interest. [More…]

• When we look at inflation, at the tides of hot money and at the way in which the gallup poll will affect the result of an election, the publication of collected information, even when the information is true and correct, tends to affect the process which it describes. [More…]

• If the Government is not prepared to accept that odium then it must face the people at election time and be judged on this along with the other issues of the day. [More…]

• Our commitment was reiterated in the Policy Speech for the 1974 election and confirmed in the Governor-General’s Speech on 9 July 1974. [More…]

• That applies to a senator as well- or respecting a vacancy in either House of the Parliament, and any question of a disputed election to either House, shall be determined by the House in which the question arises. [More…]

• It is true that the Government initiated a housing scheme for Tennant Creek 10 minutes before the election, thinking that it might hold that Labor stronghold. [More…]

• -On 20 November last year, the Minister for Minerals and Energy- that noted conservationist- wrote to that other noted conservationistthe Prime Minister- about election time in Queensland saying that he proposed to approve the application from D. M. Minerals for the right to seek export contracts. [More…]

• It was on this day that the Prime Minister, who was caught up in the Queensland State elections, wrote to the Minister for Minerals and Energy agreeing to export approval. [More…]

• We have heard the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt) outline the history of events dating back to the appearance on the scene of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) during the Queensland election, when he confirmed the declared attitude of the Government as being extremely interested in and responsible for the environment. [More…]

• I believe that this country needs the return of a Liberal-Country Party government at the next election. [More…]

• I do not want the country to be ruined while we wait for that election. [More…]

• The Government should make it clear to the Australian people that it is activated and motivated by their interests and from responsibility in government so that when the next election comes, which I will do all in my power to see we win, we will not be haggling over the carcass of an economy which has been stripped of its muscle and flesh. [More…]

• I say that the election of the present Leader of the Opposition has polarised the electorate in Australia in a way which has never previously been seen in the history of our country. [More…]

• I say that when the electors go to the polls at the next electionwith the present rich, wealthy and arrogant Leader of the Opposition- to decide whether they will elect a new Government they have to ask themselves some questions. [More…]

• Members of the Country Party are smiling over there at the thought of receiving another donation from the oil industry for the next election campaign. [More…]

• At the same time the Leader of the Opposition says that if ever we do anything unpopular we are going to be faced with a snap election and that we will not be given the chance to complete our 3 year term. [More…]

• Then he says: “The only guarantee we will give you is that we will not call for an election unless there are special circumstances’, whatever that means. [More…]

• There is now no threat of an election. [More…]

• In the normal course of events, it is still 2 years until there will be an election. [More…]

• Nobody will be convinced by Opposition members saying: ‘We do not have to be specific until we bring on an election’. [More…]

• Will they cut down on pension increases if they ever hold a leader long enough to regain office by winning an election? [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in the election campaign last year promised that inflation would be reduced. [More…]

• I thought that there might be an election and that, because of economic conditions, we might be defeated and the introduction of the Medibank scheme would be postponed. [More…]

• The candidates of the Labor Party were defeated utterly at the election for the Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• We have heard from the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony)- and honourable members should bear in mind all the money that was put into his Party’s campaign funds for the last elections by the multinationals, the oil companies and the like- about how there should be a 40 per cent increase in fuel charges, despite the effect that that would have on prices for the community as a whole. [More…]

• The Opposition is trying to protect its friends, the contributors to its election campaign funds. [More…]

• It was not enough for previous governments to try to insulate the 2-airline agreement against the election of a Labor Government. [More…]

• About one month before the last election the 2-airline agreement was extended from 1977 to 1982. [More…]

• The right honourable gentleman knew then that his government had had its day and that the election of a Labor government was inevitable. [More…]

• It was all very well for Sir Charles Cutler in the Goulburn by-election to stand up and claim that his Government had spent $53m on the Hume Highway over 2 years. [More…]

• It is great for Sir Charles Cutler to make such a claim on an election platform when it suits him to big-note his Government. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Maranoa said, he was the fellow to whom the honourable member for Griffith gave such a caning in the last federal election. [More…]

• In view of the fact that the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Alderman Jones, has announced his intention to retire after 14 years- this is the man whom the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) wanted so badly in Canberra in the 1974 federal elections- might I suggest that this dictator who has such vast experience in local government matters would be an excellent choice as the proposed new member of the Commission. [More…]

• The proposal that free elections could be held was a farce. [More…]

• Who would have been prepared to stand for election with the knowledge that if the other side won he would almost certainly be eliminated? [More…]

• In a couple of years’ time when there is an election and a change of government we hope to build on and to improve what the Minister has begun. [More…]

• I thank you very much for turning out in such numbers and being so attentive while I have been able to talk to you before this House of Representatives election at the biggest company, the biggest employer, the biggest works in Brisbane. [More…]

• I clearly recall an incident which occurred prior to the 1974 election when I was in the company of Sir Charles Court, the Premier of Western Australia. [More…]

• It will be remembered that in the course of the Federal election campaign in May last year there came to light a document which revealed that the Victorian Minister for Education, Mr Lindsay Thompson, had decided to construct an overwhelming majority of the primary school libraries in Victoria each a grade lower in size or standard than had been recommended by the Schools Commission committees. [More…]

• On the one hand, there is a desire on the part of the Victorian Government to make the Australian Government bear the full cost of implementing Premier Hamer’s election undertaking of 1 973 to build a library in every primary school of significant size. [More…]

• The Roy Morgan Research Centre in its survey found by a sample of 10 000 people- by this sampling method great accuracy can be obtained, as we know from the organisation’s surveying of election results- that only 224 000 people were out of work. [More…]

• Every time there was an election it dangled the counter bid in front of the electors of how much money was going to be handed out. [More…]

• If the Opposition has learnt nothing else in opposition but the fact that pensioners are not to be held to ransom every time there is an election and a carrot dangled in front of them to try to win their vote maybe its period in opposition has not been completely in vain. [More…]

• No longer do they have to wait for a Budget, as they did in the old days of the Liberal-Country Party coalition government, to find out that they would perhaps get a kiss if the government was between elections and popular or perhaps an increase of $1 if an election were imminent and the government unpopular. [More…]

• The only criterion for the increases under the Liberal-Country Party coalition Government was how popular the Government was or how close it was to an election. [More…]

• That latter aspect has been in the policy of the Australian Labor Party since the 1972 election. [More…]

• That is one of the choices Australians always make at election time, though no doubt the choice comes more clearly to attention during activist- that is, Labor Party- governments. [More…]

• That is saying nothing about the other controversial element that has been entered into this debate- whether we should phase out the 65 to 70 means test for all aged persons over a longer time than we contracted to do during the election campaign. [More…]

• I say this, believing that there would be little chance of contradiction: At the time at which this Government will go to an election the pension payable will not be equivalent to 25 per cent of the then average male weekly earnings. [More…]

• In almost every election campaign that I can recall, the proud boast of the Australian Labor Party has always been that it would be able to outbid all members of other political parties in their attempts to influence the Australian people and to induce them to believe that the Commonwealth of Australia will be able to provide for aU of them from the cradle to the grave simply if they vote for the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• However, the funding of day child care centres in Western Australia has been restricted in one sense by the election promise of the existing State Government to commence pre-school centres. [More…]

• It is hoped that out of a promise made during the fervour of an election a sound and sensible State child care system will evolve. [More…]

• -In the 1972 election which brought the Labor Party to office, there was a new emphasis in national policies, the merits and demerits of which have been debated ever since. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party in its policies for that election set out sweeping changes in the spending of the people’s money, which was entrusted to it. [More…]

• The priorities are continually being assessed in terms of need and not in terms of: ‘Will this Act bring us more votes at the next election?’. [More…]

• I do not want to be too critical of my opponents on the other side of the House but it is sad that such an important area of social concern should have been so belatedly dealt with in such a blanket way and so close to an election, when the hearts and minds of Australia would be called to a new beginning. [More…]

• Whereas the superficial purpose of that amendment was ‘to expand and improve the provision of educational services to young children in Western Australia’, in order to find the real reason for that amendment one has to go back to an extravagant election promise made by the then Leader of the Opposition, Sir Charles Court, prior to the 1974 State election. [More…]

• Why he was suprised by this criticism is difficult to imagine becuase I am sure that to the casual observer it would have been clear that the State Government was trying to honour a clumsy election promise to lower the age of primary school admission, and to do this it was using Australian Government funds which in every other State were being used for the legitimate purpose of expanding pre-school and child care services. [More…]

• Is it a fact that a number of countries have introduced legislation providing for the disclosure of the source of election campaign funds for political candidates and Parties? [More…]

• Is it not remarkable that they are all borderline seat holders and will not be here after the next election? [More…]

• Just before the last election a campaign was run, which cost I think $60,000, advertising the advantages of becoming an Australian citizen. [More…]

• In fact we gave a commitment in our election campaign to do just that. [More…]

• We said we would do it in our election campaign. [More…]

• There is a very good reason, from the Government’s point of view, and that is that the Labor Government holds 5 seats in Tasmania and looks like losing the five of them at the next election. [More…]

• Further, they are the people who could bring about a change in government at the next election, and I hope that they do. [More…]

• Do they desire the removal of the existing grant as proposed by the Labor Government under this legislation, or do they desire an - increase in this most vital grant to a realistic sum after a Liberal-Country Party Government is returned to office at the next election? [More…]

• How does the Minister equate the situation that exists now with the Prime Minister’s statements before the 1972 election? [More…]

• The Labor Party did not say that before the 1972 election. [More…]

• Yet, the Government, before it went to the people at the 1972 election, said: ‘We will encourage life assurance funds to re-enter the housing field’. [More…]

• The people of Australia, and the Australian Government in particular, have to realise therefore that in view of the fact that we have a limited amount of capital available- whether it is through the Government’s finance arrangements or through banks, building societies and so forth- the time probably is not far distant when consideration will have to be given to the proposal put forward by my Party at the last election, namely, that at the beginning of the period of loan repayments more emphasis should be given to the repayment of interest than to pay off capital. [More…]

• Can he or the honourable member for Boothby challenge me when I say that in the 10 months preceding the 1972 election the LiberalCountry Party Government increased the money supply by something like 26 per cent, thus forcing a great boom in the housing scene, thus providing a level of money that had no relationship to the availability of manpower and material? [More…]

• Parties at the time of the May 1974 election in which it was stated: [More…]

• Of those 19 polling booths, 15 of them at the last Federal election showed an increase in voters which brought the number to over 50. [More…]

• First on the list is Dalwood at which 51 people voted at the last election. [More…]

• At the last election 5 1 voters attended that booth, an increase of 10 per cent over previous years. [More…]

• Howes Valley had 43 voters at the last election. [More…]

• At Laguna 54 people voted at the last Federal election. [More…]

• At Killoe in the Merriwa area there were 55 votes cast at the last elections. [More…]

• Rouchel Brook in the Muswellbrook area had 38 voters at the last election. [More…]

• He will be put out at the next election. [More…]

• However, prior to the 1972 election the then Leader of the Opposition promised that no other tax would be substituted for the wine excise. [More…]

• -My heathen friend opposite with the beard who represents the seat of Kingston would not understand what we are talking about, but I am quite sure that come the next election he will no longer be a representative in this Parliament. [More…]

• We stated our intention at the time of the May 1974 election campaign, to refer the general matter for investigation and report to the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]

• I noticed the other day that the Chairman of the Australian Mutual Provident Society complained because so few people participated in the recent board election. [More…]

• The Labor Party and the Prime Minister did not come clean before the 1972 election. [More…]

• The Labor Party and the Prime Minister did not come clean before the 1974 election. [More…]

• I would hope that responsible members of the Australian Labor Party Government will vote for this amendment, probably for no other reason than that they hold marginal seats and want to save their skins at the next election. [More…]

• The measure is one of those that the Australian people have thought about and have had put before them, and not only at the election in May of last year. [More…]

• Elections have been held pretty frequently in Australia and I think they will be more frequent in the future than they have been in the past. [More…]

• Do not worry about it, the Government Will certainly not benefit directly from such a decision because those 400 people and others like them will ensure that this Government Will not be the Government following the next election. [More…]

• I wish to draw the attention of the House to an election in a trade union in Adelaide which will be taking place this week. [More…]

• I am referring to the election of office bearers of the Australian Government Workers Association. [More…]

• I understand that the ballot papers for the election are being posted out probably today or tomorrow. [More…]

• Once again, this union is having its election of office bearers. [More…]

• In April last year the Engineering and Water Supply Branch of the Australian Government Workers Association carried a resolution requesting that the election of an organiser be delayed until there be conducted, to quote the minutes of that meeting: … a thorough and exhaustive inquiry into the credentials of a candidate for the position of Organiser, namely George Young. [More…]

• If he is proved to be correct of course these facts should be known to all who are taking part in that election. [More…]

• We on the Opposition side of the House would submit that something as fundamental as redistribution, something going so much to the essence of electoral justice and something which will directly and literally determine which Party governs after the next election ought not go ahead if there is any shred of legal doubt regarding the constitutionality of those proposals. [More…]

• For as long as I live I will never understand why the Liberal Party puts up with the National Country Party standing over it, not only in relation to electoral reform but also in the despicable performance prior to the 1972 election in respect of revaluation and, quite recently, the National Country Party domination in the coalition attitude to the establishment of the Australian Government Insurance Corporation. [More…]

• If one were to look back at the 1972 election campaign when Norm Foster lost the seat to the honourable member, one could have applied the term crook’ to a number of things which were carried out in that electorate, including a lot of propaganda which was placed around doctors’ surgeries about people losing the right to have the choice of their own doctor. [More…]

• At the 1977 election Wakefield will have 45 000 electors. [More…]

• Of course, Angas was well under the quota which was established for all the electorates in that State, but the redistribution still gives the Liberal Country League a substantial majority of 7 per cent at the next election. [More…]

• Of course the Opposition will claim that that election result demonstrates the perfect fairness of the present boundaries. [More…]

• The 1974 election was the third election contested on the present boundaries. [More…]

• I have here a comparative table which shows the result of the first election held with these boundaries. [More…]

• Of course the argument which the Opposition continues to use changes from year to year or from election to election. [More…]

• Many people who were persuaded, for environmental reasons and for a host of other reasons, to vote for the Australian Labor Party at the last election have regretted doing so. [More…]

• The purpose, of holding an election surely must be to try to ensure that the result of it reflects the will of the electorate. [More…]

• The proper conclusion to draw from the election results of 1972 and 1974 is that the previous Parliament reflected and this Parliament reflects the will of the electorate. [More…]

• That Joint Sitting followed an election in 1974 during which the people were able to consider certain Bills which were the cause of a double dissolution. [More…]

• Not only will seats which were marginal at the last election be safe but also safe seats will be gilt edged. [More…]

• This is not a redistribution on a fair basis to try to provide this country with some sort of basic political organisation and a means of election which is equitable to all. [More…]

• This and the fact that Mr Stewart is rarely available to electors except at election time should be taken into account when voting at the next election. [More…]

• This is always hidden, of course, at election time. [More…]

• In particular, in New South Wales the honourable member for Farrer would be the last to suggest, if he were standing for election in the State seat of Murray, that he would abolish the New South Wales Government Insurance Office. [More…]

• If honourable members look at the policy speech of the former Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon) in December 1972 and echoed by the then Leader of the Australian Country Party in that election campaign they will recognise that we advocated a dairy reconstruction scheme which was an extension of the dairy farm build-up program introduced some 5 years earlier by my predecessor as Minister for Primary Industry. [More…]

• -The letter was written on 24 April 1974, that is, before the last Federal election. [More…]

• The Dairymen’s Organisation asked the then Australian Country Party what it would do with respect to certain things, such as the reconstruction scheme and the $10m special Commonwealth Grant which the Leader of the Australian Country Party promised to implement immediately after the election. [More…]

• Immediately after the election I asked the Prime Minister to implement our proposal . [More…]

• So the real concern is that it is aware of the political climate and that it will need to have many more things happen if it is to survive the next election. [More…]

• I can well see that at the next election I will be sitting in the Parliament with a majority of at least 25 000 votes. [More…]

• In an effort to try to wrest the seat off Mr Donald Cameron at the last election the Labor Government endorsed the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Alderman Jones. [More…]

• The honourable members for Brisbane (Mr Cross), Bowman (Mr Keogh) and Dawson (Dr Patterson) and even the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) are concerned- they have every right to be concernedbecause if we transpose the figures in the last State election to a Federal election the Labor Party would be lucky to hold more than one or two seats in Queensland. [More…]

• But once again the Liberal Party went along with the National Country Party and honourable members know what happened in the last State election. [More…]

• -Well, let us look at what happened in the last State election. [More…]

• On a more serious note, many people in Brisbane and throughout Queensland agree that if Clem Jones had won the seat of Griffith at the last Federal election the electorate of Griffith would remain. [More…]

• It proposes taking two-fifths of my electorate to put into the honourable member’s electorate and another two fifths to put into the electorate of the honourable member for Brisbane in order to bolster their chances of holding their seats at the next election. [More…]

• Surely the most disgraceful example that any honourable member has ever heard was to be heard when the honourable member said this afternoon in this House that if the Australian Labor Party’s candidate at the last election, Clem Jones, had won the seat of Griffith the result of this redistribution would have been different from what it has been. [More…]

• I remind the honourable member for Griffith, if he is not prepared to accept it already, that some more enlightened members of the Liberal Party in Queensland, including one recently elected to the State Parliament, warned the executive of the Liberal Party recently that a swing against the State Government in the next election could see the Liberal Party being the only party to lose seats. [More…]

• In fact, on the assessment that I have seen of the situation which would result from a transfer of the votes cast in the 1974 election to new boundaries, the Labor Party would hold 6 seats out of eighteen. [More…]

• Might I say that the marginal seats that the Labor Party held prior to the last election and that would be threatened by this redistribution were the seats of Lilley and Wide Bay. [More…]

• That seat is now represented by his colleague who knocked him off in the last preselection ballot in Petrie. [More…]

• On the other hand, based on the 1974 election results, on the proposed boundaries there would be no change in the political representation of Victoria. [More…]

• This may give it a slight advantage in the next election, but at the price of perpetuating an unfairly weighted electoral system and of protecting its often mischievous coalition partner against being cut down to a size more proportionate to its popular support. [More…]

• Of course they are magnificent fighters in the grass roots election campaigns around this country, in whatever State. [More…]

• It needs this electoral redistribution basically becase of its sheer incompetence and its socialist policies which mean that it would find it extremely difficult to win an election on existing boundaries. [More…]

• I do not believe that Labor could come within a bull ‘s roar of winning elections on the proposed boundaries, even these boundaries which nudge the electoral system Labor’s way. [More…]

• I must confess that one thing did rather tempt me to give perhaps cynical support to the Australia Labor Party’s boundaries, and this is simply that the last time the Labor Party drew the boundaries it lost the next election. [More…]

• Let us look at the position as at the last election. [More…]

• At the last election their vote was about 49 per cent. [More…]

• I am sure that at the next election the people will recognise this fact. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite are merely delaying these proposals because they hope against all odds that they will win the next election and then be in a position to bring in a gerrymander. [More…]

• If one wants 2 opinions about election figures one should ask one psephologist. [More…]

• I am glad to see that they have of late managed to shake off the Democratic Labor Party, but they are still very much subject to National Country Party pressure and most decisions that they make on issues and in regard to this redistribution have to fit in with National Country Party plans, sometimes to the embarrassment of the Liberal Party as we found during the last election when the Leader of the National Country Party (Mr Anthony) raised the issue of the price of petrol. [More…]

• He said that this redistribution is fair but that if the Opposition got in at the next election it would be a gerrymander. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Gippsland (Mr Nixon) clearly pointed out, if the Government is able to achieve success in respect of these proposed electoral boundaries, we will have in Australia a situation in which the Labor Government, with a 45 per cent share of the total votes as against the 49 per cent share that it achieved at the last election, will remain in power. [More…]

• I remind honourable members opposite that the variation of 10 per cent above or below the quota was endorsed by the Australian people at an election and was passed at a Joint Sitting of this Parliament. [More…]

• This is so in all those areas to a point that if there were to be another election on these new boundaries the Labor Party could win with a percentage vote substantially less than it had at the last election. [More…]

• We oppose it because it will cause severe and unnecessary disruption and inconvenience to many people and it will have to be carried out all over again after the next election. [More…]

• The Government is desperate to give itself a much better chance- an unfair chance- in the next election. [More…]

• It is interesting that this is the first time Australia has ever had a redistribution of boundaries intended to apply for only one election. [More…]

• I think it could well prove the case in future under the new rules that we will have a redistribution after, or for, every election. [More…]

• If we look at the results of the last election, which was fought on the present boundaries, it can be seen that the present distribution is a fair one. [More…]

• The Liberal and Country Parties in New South Wales have one before every election. [More…]

• In other words, before an election comes round they get hold of the gallup polls and take all the samplings to see how many they are short and whip through a new distribution. [More…]

• To suggest that there is anything wrong with the boundaries under which the last elections were fought is complete nonsense. [More…]

• After all, the Government has twice won an election on the existing boundaries. [More…]

• At the last election, in 1974, the Labor Party won a clear majority of seats in New South Wales. [More…]

• If we are to avoid the situation of having 100 000 voters in the electorate at the next election- if the mates of the honourable members opposite in the Senate knock this Bill off- the only possibility for the Distribution Commissioners to cut the numbers down is to remove some of the southern part of the electorate. [More…]

• If I have 100 000 voters there at the next election, that will suit me fine. [More…]

• If there is no election until 1977, I will have 100 000 electors by then. [More…]

• Perhaps a reason is that it would give an advantage to the sitting member for Darling in the event of an election. [More…]

• 7 ) Is it a fact that one of the Government ‘s election promises in 1 972 was ‘ open government ‘. [More…]

• At the recent election for the ACT Legislative Assembly, for example, only 2.63 per cent of the ballot-papers in the Division of Canberra and 6.19 per cent of the ballot-papers in the Division of Fraser, were excluded from the count as exhausted. [More…]

• At the recent election for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, only 4.50 per cent of the ballot papers were excluded from the count as being exhausted. [More…]

• The elections for the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory Legislative Assemblies have amply demonstrated that this procedure does not favour the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• Further conclusive proof, if it were needed, of the Opposition’s cynical attitude towards the present Bill is provided by its opposition to the drawing for positions on ballot papers at House of Representatives elections. [More…]

• This is the method currently used for Senate elections. [More…]

• Logically it should be extended to cover House of Representatives elections as well. [More…]

• At the 1974 election, for example, the Opposition Parties chose their candidates so as to gain maximum benefit from the exploitation of the alphabetical system in those divisions in which the result was likely to be close. [More…]

• At the 1974 House of Representatives election in 26 out of 37 of those divisions which could be said to be marginal- that is, where the winning margin, after allowing for either actual or notional distribution of preferences, was under 5 per cent- the candidates sponsored by the Opposition Parties were placed higher on the ballot paper than candidates sponsored by the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• At the 1972 House of Representatives election, candidates sponsored by the Opposition Parties were ranked ahead of the Australian Labor Party’s candidates on the ballot paper in 26 out of 32 such divisions. [More…]

• Table I- Order of candidates on ballot papers in marginal divisions at 1974 House of Representatives election. [More…]

• Table II- Order of candidates on ballot-papers in marginal divisions at 1972 House of Representatives election. [More…]

• A common form of abuse is for party workers to compile lists of electors who voted by post at the previous election and then forward to all such people semi-completed postal vote application forms in the hope of influencing voters to support a particular party. [More…]

• We have proposed to give the Chief Australian Electoral Officer power to vary the form of postal vote applications at each election to prevent the dubious practice of stockpiling partially completed forms. [More…]

• The Australian public was somewhat indignant, and rightly so, at the time taken to finalise the results of the House of Representatives and Senate elections held in May 1974. [More…]

• The Government therefore proposed to alter the provisions of the Act in relation to postal voting with a view to earlier finalisation of election results. [More…]

• Taken together, these proposals would have reduced the time taken for the processing of election results by some weeks. [More…]

• This measure would have enabled an earlier posting of progressive figures on polling night and would have increased the probability that, by the end of counting on that night, the result of the election would be fairly clear. [More…]

• We proposed only an arrangement that was already practised by the well known radical, Mr Joh BjelkePetersen, in the Queensland State elections. [More…]

• However it would be just one long, sad story, further detailing the cynical approach which the Opposition parties take to this important Bill- a Bill aimed at reducing malpractices, simplifying and clarifying the act of voting, and a speedier finalisation of election results. [More…]

• Of course, it was elected under those laws in the 1972 election and again in the 1974 election so the laws cannot be so very biased. [More…]

• In the last election the Australian Labor Party received 49 per cent of the vote and a small majority of five in this House. [More…]

• Why do we need changes in boundaries which, of course, would give the Australian Labor Party in most of the States a potential proportion of seats greatly in excess of the Party’s potential proportion of votes, if we base that on the figures at the last 2 elections in 1 972 and 1 974. [More…]

• Although he talked about right wing candidates and all that sort of emotive stuff, the fact of the matter is that the informal vote percentage on the last election was not greatly different from that in previous elections. [More…]

• He talked about the election result in the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory in respect of the optional preference system which, of course, is the Labor Party’s first step towards a first past the post system. [More…]

• In a close election it would mean a few per cent in the Labor Party’s favour, and that is all it is interested in. [More…]

• The Labor Party seeks what it calls reform in order to help itself at election time. [More…]

• The only contracts in the Northern Territory which my Government has sought to defer or to cancel have been those to which I made reference in successive election campaigns, namely, those contracts which touch upon deposits in Aboriginal reserves. [More…]

• I told the people in the 1972 election campaign and in the 1974 election campaign that the Australian Government, which has of course complete power within the Northern Territory in such matters- largely, I am happy to acknowledge, due to the legislation introduced by the Menzies Government over 20 years ago- will not allow mining, including mining for uranium, to take place on lands to which the Aboriginal people of Australia have a legitimate claim. [More…]

• The honourable members for Moreton (Mr Killen), Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh) and Bennelong (Mr Howard), who spoke for the Opposition on the Bill earlier this year, claimed that they opposed it because simultaneous elections would disturb the relationship between the 2 Houses, damage the independence of the Senate and alter its role. [More…]

• The independence of the Senate was not founded on elections being held for the 2 Houses at different times. [More…]

• It is clear that the framers of our Constitution did not regard separate elections in this sense as basic to the Senate’s role as an independent House. [More…]

• Indeed, before the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Review recommended this particular reform in 1958, and again in 1959, with only one member dissenting, there had been only 3 occasions on which an election had been held to elect members of one House only- those for the House of Representatives in 1929 and 1954 and that for the Senate in 1953. [More…]

• Since 1959, however, there have been no fewer than 9 national elections, 4 of them for this House alone, and 3 of them for the Senate alone. [More…]

• I think they will find out at the next election that a majority of people will agree with the statement I have just made. [More…]

• If we take these factors into account, point out the Government’s mistakes, the question of the credibility of the Government and ask the people to examine the state of the economy and the Government’s foreign affairs policy, there is no doubt that the Labor Party will be removed from office at the next election, whenever that is, and the Opposition will be returned to government with a greatly increased majority. [More…]

• Let us go back to 1964 when the then Victorian Premier, now Sir Henry Bolte, promised in his election speech that Dandenong would be made a base hospital. [More…]

• Where the spouse of a deceased eligible employee (being an eligible employee whose period of contributory service was less than 8 years) is entitled to lump sum benefit by virtue of sub-section 86 (2), the lump sum benefit payable in accordance with this sub-section is an amount equal to the lump sum benefit to which the deceased eligible employee would have been entitled under sub-section 74 (2) if he had not died, but had, on the day immediately following the date of his death, become entitled to invalidity benefit and made an election under section 74. [More…]

• In sub-clause (1), omit ‘and made an election under section 74’. [More…]

• The Government’s proposal is that the election as to how he will take his pension is for the contributor to make. [More…]

• The contributor may make an election to take part of his pension by way of lump sum payment, in which case adjustment to cater for inflation is a matter entirely to him. [More…]

• This was a very important plank of our platform at the elections of 1972 and of 1974. [More…]

• It was a particularly important topic in the election campaign of 1974 in which the 2 Australian Capital Territory seats of Fraser and Canberra were contested. [More…]

• So he must, of course, be very pleased at what is happening, especially in view of the Senate election next year. [More…]

• Even though the Liberal Party may have expelled him from the Party, he must still have a lot of friends in the Party, because at the very meeting at which it expelled him it decided to oppose this legislation to make quite sure that he will get into the Senate as a representative of the Australian Capital Territory at the next election. [More…]

• It certainly has not woken up to that fact yet, and no doubt it will not wake up to that fact until the next election. [More…]

• That is the kind of policy which the Opposition Parties have presented to the people already and will be presenting to the people at the next election, and it is that kind of policy based upon principle which will be acceptable to the people. [More…]

• We are anxious to avoid a return to the problems which we inherited after the election of the Labor Government in 1972. [More…]

• It was the voters in the cities of Sydney and Melbourne who helped us win the election in 1972. [More…]

• Because of the positive policies that our Government has taken not only in relation to land and sewerage programs but also to land use programs and urban public transport programs in these 2 cities, the Whitlam Government will be returned at the next election. [More…]

• 1 also have received information that in Western Australia alone in 1972 and 1974, both election years, the same company publicly presented at Country Party annual conferences cheques for substantial amounts of money. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has said consistently that he will not cut back expenditure on any of his 1972 or 1974 election campaign social programs. [More…]

• There were some wise people during the election campaign of 1972 who queried where the money would come from to achieve the promises that were made. [More…]

• The enrolments in these electorates- if I might make passing reference to them- are so malapportioned as to make the present basis of election undemocratic. [More…]

• They are now exercising a delaying tactic to prevent democratic elections throughout the length and breadth of Australia. [More…]

• It is afraid of the consequences of meeting the Australian community at an election based on ordinary electoral boundaries. [More…]

• We are more determined than ever that when the next election comes it will be fought on the electoral boundaries on which the last election was fought. [More…]

• It is quite clear that the Opposition parties in both Houses of the Parliament set up the election as a test for the Government. [More…]

• An election held on the present boundaries would be a travesty. [More…]

• That is the kind of variation that operated just after the last election. [More…]

• An election held in such circumstances would be a mockery. [More…]

• This illustrates the real consequences of failure to have a redistribution before the next election. [More…]

• The Committee feels constrained to say, however, that the one-fifth margin on either side of the quota for a State which the Act allows may disturb quite seriously a principle which the Committee believes to be beyond question in the election of members of the national Parliament of a Federation, namely, that the votes of the electors should, as far as possible, be accorded equal value. [More…]

• Let us ensure that the next election is held according to the law of the land. [More…]

• Let us ensure that the next election represents a full realisation of democracy. [More…]

• The Prime Minister said that by the next election, if this Parliament runs its course, the electorate of McPherson will have about 105 000 people. [More…]

• The Bill leading to the proposed redistribution was an election issue. [More…]

• The Leader of the House has tried again, during his little contribution on the South Australian redistribution proposals in the Committee stage, to use the tactic that he has adopted ever since he was given the responsibility for electoral matters by his Leader after the 1972 election, that is, to create mischief and discord between the 2 Opposition Parties. [More…]

• What we are debating here is whether the people of Australia and not the map-makers will determine who governs and whether, if there is a substantial shift of opinion at the next election against the Government, there will be a change of Government. [More…]

• I am a member who was defeated at the 1972 election and had the privilege of coming back. [More…]

• It was Disraeli who said in 1880, from the purest of intentions, having lost an election: There are a lot of reasons for losing an election, but I was badgered with 6 bad seasons one after another and all getting worse. [More…]

• Labor will argue that it is absurd to suggest that the present unequal boundaries should be used for the next election rather that the proposed equal ones. [More…]

• When this Bill comes into operation- that is, after some procedure has taken place in the unlikely event of the Government being returned at the next election- it will be proclaimed, it will come into force and it will govern the House of Representatives elections held after 21 May 1975. [More…]

• Apparently it means that we will have an election as a result of a double dissolution. [More…]

• After that, this over-optimistic Government thinks it will be returned to office, at which time it will proclaim this particular Bill to make the electoral divisions operative in relation to an election which has already taken place. [More…]

• If we wanted one vote one value in the strictest sense, we would have a census today, an electoral redistribution tomorrow and an election the next day. [More…]

• I conclude by issuing this warning: Last year when the Liberal Party thought it was going to win it took the Australian people to an election. [More…]

• Quite frankly, if the Prime Minister (Mr Whitiam) and the Labor Government believe that they can pull off an election now and win power in the House of Representatives and in the Senate I say: Let them go ahead. [More…]

• The Liberal Party is more interested in staying in power in conduction with the Country Party than in supporting the sort of principles that on the hustings of this country at election time and in other statements in this chamber it says it supports. [More…]

• It was conjured up by the Government to ensure that it would be returned without any doubt at the next general election. [More…]

• This point was brought out especially in the last election, when the Australian Labor Party won 52 per cent of the seats with 49.2 per cent of the votes. [More…]

• The last 2 elections were fair. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that so obsessed is the Minister for Services and Property with the existence of the National Country Party, so smitten is the Government by the defeat that was delivered to it by the National Country Party in Queensland at the end of last year that, not being able to defeat the National Country Party at the polls, it is running scared about its prospects at the next election. [More…]

• The Federal Secretariat has advised me that Liberal Party supporters in London have formed a group in order to help the Liberal Party at election time and in any other way possible. [More…]

• April, which was about 6 weeks ago, and decided then to do so only because of the change of leadership in the Opposition and the responsible statement of the Leader of the Opposition that Medibank would not be an issue on which he would seek to force an election. [More…]

• Those Bills were the subject of referenda put to the people at the double dissolution election of 18 May 1974. [More…]

• That is what the Government did with 6 Bills in July last year as a result of the double dissolution election which took place in May. [More…]

• The fact is that this proposal suits the Government as the largest Party in the country at the moment, because the proposal will act against the interests of small parties and individual candidates if a Senate election coincides with the House of Representatives election. [More…]

• This would make it almost impossible for those individuals or small party candidates to have their voices heard in the crush and electoral conflict which go on at the time of a general election. [More…]

• The question which was put to the people and which they rejected was: ‘Do you think that the elections for the Senate and the House of [More…]

• Let us analyse that statement and the election results. [More…]

• Under the constitution the Senate normally has an election for half of its members every three years. [More…]

• When a government loses confidence in this place it usually leads to an election. [More…]

• The only time it would not lead to an election would be when the party of the majority was able to find another leader that it would stand behind so that there would be no need for it to go to the people for an election to determine which party or parties should have the majority and indeed which leader should get a vote of confidence. [More…]

• I suggest to the Government that it may not be a complete joy to be gathering together more and more Bills to be put to the people at the next election. [More…]

• The Government might find that at election time it gets more opposition than might at present be perceived. [More…]

• The election for one-half of the Senate must occur between 1 July this year and 30 June next year. [More…]

• It is easy to see that this is not in conjunction with the House of Representatives election because this House is due to go to the people at any time around May 1977. [More…]

• So separate elections, by the attitude that the members of the Opposition adopted on the last occasion a similar Bill came before this House, will inevitably cost the people of Australia $2m. [More…]

• There are, to the Committee’s way of thinking, reasons why one-half the number of senators should retire at every general election of members of the House of Representatives which are sufficiently cogent to justify a constitutional amendment. [More…]

• -We have heard the honourable member for Curtin (Mr Garland), who led for the Opposition in this debate, say that this Bill is connected with the desire of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and a few other people to ensure that whenever there is an election for the House of Representatives there will be simultaneously an election for part or the whole of the Senate. [More…]

• It is not necessary to hold simultaneous elections. [More…]

• He must hold a Senate election before 30 June next year; it will have to be held well before that date if the people elected are to be ready to take their place in the Senate on 1 July. [More…]

• If he chooses, he can take out when he holds an election, the whole of the House and part of the Senate at the same time, but he will not do that because he knows very well that he is likely to lose government, and I think he likes the joys of office, being duchessed, and being able to enjoy the fleshpots if one happens to be an active Prime Minister and likes the entitlement of going overseas. [More…]

• I think the first reason is that he believes that if the people are confused at the time an election for the House is held, he is more likely to get his way than he would be if they were properly informed. [More…]

• It was referred to by Oakes and Solomon in their book ‘The Making of a Prime Minister’, published shortly after the 1972 election and in which they coined the philosophical approach that an all day sucker a day will keep the mug electors at bay. [More…]

• If he had shown himself to be capable he would have had the guts and the courage to pull on an election of the House of Representatives and, at first chance, an election of the Senate before 1 July next year. [More…]

• Why does he want to alter the Constitution so that senators must submit themselves for an election whenever there is a House of Representatives election? [More…]

• Prior to the 1972 election the Prime Minister indicated that the Labor Party, if returned to office, would take up the offer to take over the 2 State systems, but when the Labor Party was elected to office and the offer to take over the systems was made to the States we found that we did not get any response from the Liberal States. [More…]

• Of course, a State by-election was held in South Australia. [More…]

• I think that the best thing that has ever happened to the railway systems of Australia was the election of the Labor Government in 1972. [More…]

• No Opposition would want to go to Tasmania at election time and say that it opposed the Bill in this Parliament. [More…]

• -It is my intention to issue a writ tomorrow, Wednesday 4 June, for the election of a member to serve for the electoral division of Bass in the State of Tasmania in the place of the Honourable Lance Herbert Barnard, resigned. [More…]

• The dates in connection with the election will be as follows: [More…]

• I remind the House that the Government’s health insurance proposals have been put to the electorate as part of its election policy in the last 3 House of Representatives elections. [More…]

• Those proposals were endorsed by the electorate at the elections both in 1972 and 1974. [More…]

• I can guarantee him that in his borderline seat of Kingston the morality surrounding the sending out of a letter like that will be made well known to the constituents at the next election. [More…]

• For example, in case of the Hospitals Contribution Fund- which is the second biggest fund in New South Wales- I have previously pointed out that there is no provision at all for election to the council of the fund. [More…]

• -Thanks to the indulgence of the Chair we have been listening to the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) making a dummy run of the election speech which he will make for the by-election in Bass. [More…]

• It was the Opposition which put the Government into the position of having to have an election for the House. [More…]

• Secondly, and more unlikely, the result of that double dissolution has to be that the Labor Party wins the election in the lower House. [More…]

• Is it a tremendous help to the commentators on television on election night to be able to see the votes in front of them as being final? [More…]

• Or is it, as the Opposition believes, that the Labor Party is not favoured by late postal votes and that at election after election those Australians who use their right to vote by postal vote tend to favour the non-Labor parties and therefore the Government would like to cut them out? [More…]

• That system has the great advantage to which I have referred that everybody is given a say in an election in relation to choosing between the 2 most favoured candidates. [More…]

• But the uncertainty of those days has since the election of a Labor Government been replaced with a feeling of hopelessness. [More…]

• And at last on 27 October 1972, the day after the House of Representatives rose for the memorable election of that year, the last Liberal Attorney-General, Senator Greenwood, announced that the McMahon Government had reached the conclusion that the proposal to establish a Commonwealth superior court should not be proceeded with. [More…]

• I included the proposal in the policy speeches I delivered on behalf of the Australian Labor Party at the elections in 1972 and 1974. [More…]

• If that position remains unchanged the Government certainly will get the soundest thrashing a government has ever had, not only in the by-election that is shortly to come but also at the next election. [More…]

• That means that if there is an election between now and next year and the government then changes there will be a wool price support scheme. [More…]

• These statements were made immediately before the 1972 election. [More…]

• Since the election of this Labor Government in December 1972, the primary industries have borne the brunt of the change in priorities and the redistribution of the nation’s wealth. [More…]

• The Minister for Agriculture, (Senator Wriedt) deserves to be condemned because of the manner in which he removed stabilisation assistance and took 12 months before deciding that the reconstruction proposals which we first advocated during the election campaign of December 1972 should be applied. [More…]

• It is true that this Government has removed some of these subsidies but by and large what we are after are efficient industries, not industries that have to be patched up with a series of bandaids which come from measures implemented at election time just to save a few more votes in a few more seats. [More…]

• In case it should be thought that the Opposition is a latecomer so far as enthusiasm for the establishment of the Ombudsman is concerned, I would remind honourable gentlemen that the establishment of an ombudsman was part of the joint Opposition policy for the 1974 election. [More…]

• The , first event occurred on 19 October 1974 when an election for the first fully elected Legislative Assembly was held. [More…]

• When will the Government fulfil its election promises in regard to the provision of an adequate subsidy for nursing home patients. [More…]

• I have received a return to the writ that I issued on 4 June for the election of a member to serve for the electoral division of Bass in the State of Tasmania to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the Honourable Lance Herbert Barnard. [More…]

• Equally, there was no aspect of our program which received more support from the Australian people in 2 elections. [More…]

• In the 1974 election it was perhaps the decisive issue- the enemies of that policy know that the people support it. [More…]

• We have heard of those repeated phone calls to the Prime Minister saying: ‘No, I do not need you in this election campaign. [More…]

• It is a major issue on which the next Federal election will be fought, ignoring the smears and the sneers of an Opposition which has, to its eternal discredit, the current majority foreign ownership or control of Australia’s mineral and energy resources. [More…]

• What the Opposition does not like about the Minister for Minerals and Energy is that its wealthy friends cannot bribe him as they used to be able to bribe some of the Opposition’s party officials at election time. [More…]

• Its wealthy friends cannot bribe him in the way that they could bribe the Opposition’s party officials at election time. [More…]

• He was appointed Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Wildlife Conservation on his election to this Parliament. [More…]

• I refer to the last election of a Chairman of Committees when the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) said: . [More…]

• I think that perhaps the Labor Party has been wise in nominating one of the few of its members who is likely to retain his seat after the next general election. [More…]

• I should like to say again that we are pleased with the election of the honourable member although we are disappointed that our own nominee was not elected. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Services and Property studied the recent South Australian election for the Legislative Council which, for the first time, was elected on a system of optional preferential voting? [More…]

• Has there been any complaint about the system used or any suggestion by any political party that the system should be altered for future elections? [More…]

• Thanks to the optional preferential system real democracy prevails in South Australia as far as the election of members to the Upper House is concerned. [More…]

• It was opposed by the Opposition in another place, and here also, when we sought to introduce it for Senate elections, but in South Australia there has been no complaint by any section of the community or any political party about the result or the methods employed. [More…]

• He thought he had an election winner and that it would see the Government through because of the great number of Commonwealth employees concerned. [More…]

• Now, of course, they are not so sure that they are on an election winner and the tone is more muted. [More…]

• One would have thought that there were only two ballot boxes in that election- one in the Senate and one in the House of Representatives- and that even a Liberal Prime Minister, dedicated to electoral inequality as all Liberals are- all except my friend from Griffith- would have been able to add them together and say that the majority was in favour of Capital Hill. [More…]

• An Opposition that lost an election is able in the Senate to stop a Government that won an election from carrying out its policies. [More…]

• In the case of South Australia the State Legislative Council rejected the transfer legislation and a State election ensued. [More…]

• I am on the record as having stated the attitude of the Opposition to that package of proposals which would have made life far more favourable for the Labor Party at election time. [More…]

• Facilities can be made available at election times and several unions can get together and pay for an advertisement without the cash passing through any Labor Party account or that of an honourable member. [More…]

• There exists- I have a copy in my files- a letter which was sent out by the Prime Minister in the 1972 or 1974 elections to thousands of businesses asking for donations. [More…]

• I turn to another section of the Bill which calls for the creation of positions of Party agentsofficial agents- and which requires these persons to do a number of onerous things, including making returns after an election and dealing with donations that have been made in the flurry of the campaign and so on. [More…]

• References have been made in various speeches by supporters of the Government to the situation which pertains in the United States of America and, in particular, to the debates which have been carried on there- with considerable sophistication- about election methods. [More…]

• But I doubt very much whether anyone in Australia would believe that the 3 companies that I mentioned would dare put pen to paper to send cheques to the Australian Labor Party for election purposes. [More…]

• Those were the Ministers among the 9 members of the then Government who had forgotten or refused to fill in the necessary declaration or who had taken the stand as so many members before them of saying that the filling in of a declaration that they had each spent only $500 in the course of a House of Representatives election campaign was an absolute farce. [More…]

• Australia has a tradition that there should be some equality about the manner in which an election is approached. [More…]

• We should say that each political party according to its support at the previous election should be given that right by the laws relating to the media and that the funds required are supplied by the Government. [More…]

• To say that someone has to conduct a campaign for the House of Representatives with $500 only or for a Senate election with $1,000 only is an absolute farce and all honourablemembers opposite know it. [More…]

• They believe they must attack these measures before there is any future election. [More…]

• We do not go on radio and television and make a serious contribution to political debate about the questions that ought to be debated by the people of this country at election time. [More…]

• They run their own local parish pump election campaigns but do not know what is going on between the national leaders and the major contributors to party funds. [More…]

• At the last election our backers were almost half the people of Australia. [More…]

• Every supporter of the Government knows that and every honourable member on the Government side of the chamber is trembling about his prospects of retaining his seat at any future election. [More…]

• There are many people in the trade union movement who honestly wish to support the Australian Labor Party, but there is a large number of people in the trade union movement who, understandably and rightly, oppose the Australian Labor Party- they may even dislike and hate the Australian Labor Party- and who have to support with their dues a union machine whose efforts day in and day out- not just at election times and not just with a few hundred thousand dollars but with many millions of dollars every year- are primarily directed towards the support of a political party which those trade unionists themselves oppose. [More…]

• It is not just a case of payments which are made at election time. [More…]

• Do not let us run away with the idea that the Australian public is entirely unsophisticated and that it votes only on the election campaign. [More…]

• It forms opinions outside the election campaign and it votes on them. [More…]

• What about all the great businessmen who signed that full page advertisement that appeared in the newspapers before the 1972 election, who courageously declared that there should be a change, that there would be a new order, that we would see the business world suddenly brought to life! [More…]

• They know as well as we know, as well as all thinking Australians know, that without some kind of financial backing for campaign funds one cannot participate in an election campaign with some hope of success. [More…]

• The law that operates is a law that was brought into operation by the people that he would be supporting in an election campaign. [More…]

• The legislation was introduced, inadequate as it was, because the issue of economic nationalism was a growing and important issue, and it was an election yearthat was another consideration. [More…]

• If, in the 23 years of Liberal-Country Party Government that preceded the election of this Government to office, the same sort of sentiment had prevailed then we probably would have seen legislation enacted much earlier which would have prevented some of the major takeovers of the late 1950s and 1960s which means that those companies will never again belong to Australians. [More…]

• I think that one has to look at the history of how the original interim legislation- the 1972 legislation- was introduced in this House on the eve of an election. [More…]

• The election was on 2 December. [More…]

• The election was held on 2 December. [More…]

• The legislation received royal assent on 9 November 1972, less than a month before the election. [More…]

• On top of that we want to use the equipment that is being used on sealing the Eyre Highway to get under way with work on the Stuart Highway, which was part of the Prime Minister’s election policy and promises. [More…]

• -My Government sought election on the promise that it would enable local government to participate in the proceedings of the Loan Council and that it would allow local government to have access to the Grants Commission. [More…]

• Unfortunately it has not been possible to carry out the other undertaking upon which my Government sought election, that local government should have representation on the Loan Council. [More…]

• If there were to be an election, the government would look upon it as a time to give a substantial increase. [More…]

• During the last 2 election campaigns I became accustomed to going without sleep. [More…]

• The fourth referendum- the one concerning local governmentflowed from undertakings which I had made in the election campaign in 1972 and to local government representatives in Australia in January 1973. [More…]

• Honourable members will remember the leaflets that the Liberal Party put out during the 1966 election asking where we were going to stop the downward thrust of communism. [More…]

• When the agreement was written 12 or 13 years ago many of us held the view that no government was entitled to allow its writ to run for so much longer than the charter which comes with an election. [More…]

• What is more important is that within 6 months an election was held. [More…]

• At that election in 1963 the majority of the Government increased from a mere one- my honourable and learned friend from Moreton (Mr Killen) will well remember that we had a majority of one at that time- to a substantial majority. [More…]

• Following the election in that year, he was chosen as a member of Cabinet and was appointed Minister for Services and Property and Leader of the House. [More…]

• To answer the misrepresentation I point out that when nominations were called for ALP preselection for Scullin for the next election mine was the only nomination received. [More…]

• No requests were received from the local electorate organisation for preselection proceedings; so I am endorsed. [More…]

• But I would remind the honourable member- I think it does us all good to think back a little, it is not that long ago- that just before the 1972 election the then Opposition, the Australian Labor Party, told this nation that we could not live with the rate on inflation of 4.5 per cent or 4.7 per cent a year. [More…]

• During neither of the last 2 election campaigns after which Labor was returned to office did we undertake to abolish prescription fees in the first Parliament. [More…]

• The South Australian people went to an election on the issue and, in point of fact, the South Australian Government lost 3 country seats, if I am not mistaken. [More…]

• As the South Australian Parliament has had an election on the issue the Bill has the right to pass. [More…]

• As a result the Premier of South Australia decided to hold an election on this issue. [More…]

• As you would know, Mr Deputy Speaker, Labor lost 3 seats in the last election in South Australia, all of them in the country. [More…]

• The Prime Minister periodically assures us, as he did before the May 1974 election, that things are turning up- even though this remark is always followed by another downturn. [More…]

• I understand that a Mr Michael Baume, a company director and an endorsed Liberal Party candidate for the next election, joined Patrick Partners in 1969. [More…]

• Under the Act as it stands, he can be the candidate for Macarthur at the coming election. [More…]

• It is true that at the last election in Portugal the people showed at the ballot box that they wanted a democratic socialist government, such as there is in Scandinavia, Western Germany, the Netherlands, Britain, New Zealand and Australia. [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I present statistical returns for each State showing the voting within each subdivision in relation to the Senate election 1974 and the general election for the House of Representatives 1974. [More…]

• In the 1972 election campaign the Prime Minister Mr Whitlam) spelt out that when the Australian Labor Party became the Government it would take the appropriate action to ensure that Tasmania did not suffer any disadvantages in the transport of freight in comparison with the movement of freight between capital cities such as Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]

• Honourable members remember how many votes the Minister got in Newcastle- 38 554- but his Party will be lucky to get that many votes in the whole of Tasmania at the next election. [More…]

• It was done in the wake of an election in May 1974. [More…]

• During the campaign in the Bass by-election the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) claimed that there would be substantial freight rises. [More…]

• The only time there was an increase in the pension rate was when there was an election or a crisis in the Party. [More…]

• But it is impracticable in a general election campaign for political parties- especially those in Opposition, as Labor then was- to spell out in detail the precise way in which they will introduce their programs and assess the costs of their programs. [More…]

• -Anthony will be on the air at the next election as at the last election. [More…]

• There is one thing, of course, that the honourable member can be assured of, that is, whatever the benefits an Opposition may have with regard to criticising governments, if he is fortunate enough to be returned for the electorate of Prospect at the next election- I very much doubt that that will happen- he will certainly have the opportunity to sit in Opposition and do the things he is critising us for doing tonight. [More…]

• At the last election about 5000 votes prevented his being elected to the Senate. [More…]

• Coming along a little bit further in time, following the 1969 election the previous LiberalCountry Party Government in Canberra decided in its wisdom to appoint Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin as High Commissioner to New Zealand. [More…]

• But I recall with a sense of nostalgia the same statement being made by this Prime Minister during the course of an election campaign. [More…]

• We recall that in the May election campaign the Prime Minister described our policies as economic vandalism. [More…]

• The situation is that they were not prepared to fight an election on the Government’s Budget because the people of Australia, throughout the length and breadth of the country, know that it is a responsible Budget. [More…]

• As with the parent Electoral Laws Amendment Bill itself, the proposals contained in these 6 Bills, taken as a whole, are designed to implement improved voting facilities; to provide more realistic and less cumbersome voting procedures which will assist electors to exercise their franchise effectively by the recording of valid votes; to permit a speedier finalisation of election results and to reduce the scope for electoral malpractice in any guise. [More…]

• As honourable members are aware, under the existing preferential system, each voter, irrespective of his or her individual wish, is compelled to rank in order of preference all the candidates on a Senate ballot paper, even where this requires the sequential numbering of 73 squares, as was the case for the 1974 Senate election in New South Wales. [More…]

• At the last Senate elections on 18 May 1974, the informal vote, Australia-wide, averaged 10.77 per cent. [More…]

• I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard for the benefit of honourable members, a statement provided by the Chief Electoral Officer showing the percentage of informal votes recorded at the 1974 Senate election in each State and in each electoral division throughout Australia. [More…]

• Accordingly, supporters of any political party who wish to exchange preferences with the supporters of another political party contesting the election will be free to do so. [More…]

• Under the optional preferential system proposed by this Bill a voter at a House of Representatives election must indicate his first preference for one candidate and may indicate his further preference for some or all of the remaining candidates, as he so desires. [More…]

• To the extent that preferences beyond the first shown on the ballot papers are required to determine the result of the election, such preferences will be counted. [More…]

• It is true that if all voters deliberately refrained from expressing any preferences beyond the first preference, the result under optional preferential voting in an election for a member of the House of Representatives would be the same as in a first past the post system. [More…]

• However, this is a hypothetical proposition which has not eventuated in elections under the optional preferential system in Australia in the past, nor is it likely to eventuate in the future. [More…]

• The results of elections of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly and, more recently, the South Australian Legislative Council, indicate that a majority of electors voting under an optional preferential system will express preferences beyond the minimum number required to cast a formal vote. [More…]

• It can be said that the optional preferential procedure ensures that meaningful preferences are distributed whereas the present system can lead to the election of a candidate with a manufactured majority based on what may well be preferences randomly assigned by the voters. [More…]

• 2) 1975, this is a non-partisan reform which is designed to introduce a system of voting which provides for the maximum flexibility and democratic freedom of choice for the voters while maintaining the essential elements of a full preferential system, should the voters choose to indicate preferences for all candidates in the election. [More…]

• In general terms, to qualify, parties must endorse candidates for not less than one-quarter of the number of vacancies to be filled in the State at a Senate election or, in the case of a general election of members of the House of Representatives, onequarter of the number of divisions in the State. [More…]

• In respect of casual vacancies in the Senate, or byelections for the House of Representatives, the party must have met this test at the last preceding Senate election or general election of members of the House of Representatives, as is appropriate. [More…]

• The proposed variation in the conditions governing forfeiture of deposit at House of Representatives and Senate elections, and the new schedule of electoral offences and punishments, are matters which met with substantial agreement when the Electoral Laws Amendment Bill was before the House and I do not feel that there is a need for me to deal further with these aspects in respect of the present Bill. [More…]

• The essential purpose of the proposal to increase deposits is to reduce the number of persons who might be tempted or influenced to nominate for either Senate or House of Representatives elections for obstructive or frivolous reasons. [More…]

• This occurred in the 1974 Senate elections when an individual publicly admitted that he had sponsored a number of candidates in order to deliberately obstruct the Senate elections in New South Wales. [More…]

• It is anticipated that if changes of this kind are not made up to 250 candidates could contest the next Senate elections in New South Wales as a result of action which may be taken by people similarly intentioned. [More…]

• The 1974 Senate elections in New South Wales, when there were 73 candidates, and to a lesser extent the 1 974 Senate elections in certain other States, gave a clear indication of what might happen in the future unless a sufficient deterrent is introduced to operate against frivolous candidature or candidature designed to infringe upon, or obstruct, the democratic process of election. [More…]

• Another long overdue reform contained in this Bill relates to the drawing for positions on the ballot paper in House of Representatives elections. [More…]

• Drawing for positions already occurs in respect of Senate elections and is becoming increasingly commonplace for elections in organisations, political and otherwise. [More…]

• There is no logic in denying this commonsense proposal in respect of elections for this House. [More…]

• This situation, which becomes more significant in a closely contested election, would of course still obtain even where a draw was conducted to determine the order in which the candidates’ names appeared on the ballot paper. [More…]

• within 3 months of polling day; amending the provisions relating to misleading representation of a ballot paper; providing redress for candidates against misleading propaganda distributed to voters; limiting the provisions concerning the signing or authorisation of newspaper articles on the occasion of an election to the period ending with the close of the poll in lieu of the period ending with the return of the writ; requiring an announcement on a broadcasting or television station to be made in a clear and undistorted manner and removing the need for the address of the author to be broadcast or televised; changing to metric measurements the standard measurements in relation to size of electoral posters; enabling the posting up or exhibition within a hall used in connection with an election or referendum an electoral poster irrespective of size; changing to metric measurement the distance relating to canvassing near polling booths; limiting the application of the offence of disorderly behaviour at lawful public political meetings to meetings held on or after the date of the issue of the writ and before the close of the poll (in lieu of the date of the return of the writ). [More…]

• To turn to a further reform proposed in this Bill, the Government believes that, given the present ineligibility of members of State parliaments to stand for election to the Australian Parliament, it would be appropriate for a member of the legislature of the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory to be placed in the same category. [More…]

• Members will be aware that in the past candidates have changed their names just prior to an election for the specific purpose of having the name placed above other candidates on the ballot paper in order to gain some political advantage in the election. [More…]

• In the 1974 Senate election a number of persons enrolled under such names, including ‘White Australia’ and ‘StopAsianImmigrationNow’. [More…]

• This Bill, the last in the series of Bills incorporating proposals previously contained in the Electoral Laws Amendment BUI, provides for: A speedier finalisation of election results, by introducing an earlier deadline for the return of postal votes and by providing for the return of postal votes direct to the respective returning officer; prohibition on the listing of names of persons who apply for postal votes, except in certain specified circumstances; restriction of postal vote application forms to be used at an election or referendum to those specified by notice in the Australian Government Gazette; postal voting faculties for prisoners who have retained their franchise entitlements; discretion to appoint a licensed or registered surveyor as a Distribution Commissioner in lieu of the Surveyor-General of the State concerned; and other minor amendments to the existing electoral law. [More…]

• As honourable members are well aware, the present electoral system involves intolerable delays in finalising the election results, particularly when a large number of postal votes is admitted to the scrutiny as was the case in the 1974 House of Representatives elections when almost 5 per cent of the total votes recorded throughout Australia were postal votes. [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard details of the number of postal votes admitted to the scrutiny at the 1972 and 1974 House of Representatives elections. [More…]

• There is a growing tendency for party workers to take advantage of the existing provision which enables a person to examine the postal vote applications in the office of a divisional returning officer, to compile a list of electors who voted by post at the election and to use this list to forward postal vote applications to the persons concerned at the next election, without knowing whether those persons are still eligible to vote by post. [More…]

• It is also proposed to give the Chief Australian Electoral Officer power to vary the form of postal vote applications at each election, in order to prevent the dubious practice of stockpiling par.tially completed forms. [More…]

• Under this proposal the Chief Australian Electoral Officer will specify by a notice in the Gazette the postal vote applicanon forms which may be used at an election. [More…]

• I hope that those people who took part in Action for World Development during the 1 972 election campaign when the Liberal and Country Parties were in government Will take note. [More…]

• It has been pathetically incapable of maintaining industrial harmony, which was one of its election promises. [More…]

• I have often wondered why they have been so reluctant to call nominations for the Senate election which could be coming up next year. [More…]

• The Labor Party has 7 excellent candidates for preselection. [More…]

• We have not run out on election promises and scrapped programs. [More…]

• -We intended to, and we would have done it had we won the election in 1972. [More…]

• The people will have the chance to judge at the next election. [More…]

• It sought election with a series of policies promising government support for everything. [More…]

• Additional help was promised to enough favourite policies and projects to secure election to office. [More…]

• A few months after the 1 974 election Mr Valder, the Chairman of the Sydney Stock Exchange, threw away any claim he may have had for responsible business leadership with a speech on the threat of socialism. [More…]

• However he made no mention of the proposal put by his own leader at the last election that wellhead crude oil prices should be increased by 40 per cent to increase the profits of overseas corporations. [More…]

• We had a May election and the issue of that election was the management of the Australian economy. [More…]

• The 1974 election in my area was fought on just these issues. [More…]

• I make no secret of the fact that I would not have minded an election yesterday. [More…]

• I ask: Is it fair that after the next election we as the incoming government should have to stand by the principles of yesteryear under which the Public Service remained intact notwithstanding a change of government? [More…]

• No wonder the nation’s mood is ugly, as was reflected in the recent Bass by-election results and in public opinion polls. [More…]

• The nation is searching for stability and security as practised by the Liberal-Country Party governments over the years, which we will again translate into action after the next election. [More…]

• The Labor Party has been utterly decimated by the Queensland people at recent elections. [More…]

• The results Will be the same when we have another election. [More…]

• If a Labor government following the 1961 Federal election had decided to be malicious in such circumstances it could have tipped the political balance against the wishes of the people. [More…]

• It has been reported that some of Mr BjelkePetersen ‘s colleagues have been canvassing former members of the Australian Labor Party, defeated candidates from the last State election and the like in the hope of being able to get one of these people to accept nomination by the Queensland Parliament to come here as a senator. [More…]

• Senator Whiteside lost at the next election so I cannot imagine that there was any great concern as to the attitude - [More…]

• -Well, if people were concerned about the action of the Government one would have thought they would have supported Senator Whiteside at the next election. [More…]

• In fact he lost his seat in the Senate at the subsequent election. [More…]

• They are well aware that so successful have been the Liberal and National Country Parties in that State, that if the figures in the State election were transposed to a federal election they would not hold their seats and the Opposition would have four of the six senators at the next Senate election. [More…]

• To this end therefore, I should appreciate your advising me as soon as possible the names of 3 persons whom your Party would be prepared to nominate for the election of one of them by the Parliament to fill the present casual Senate vacancy. [More…]

• It must be clearly understood by aU honourable members before they vote on this issue today that, if they intend to stick by the principle that has been expounded by the Leader of the National Country Party (Mr Anthony), who suggested that the Queensland Premier wishes to send a Labor senator to replace the late Senator Milliner in this Parliament that can be done only by members in the State Parliament and by themselves here today supporting the election of Dr Mai Colston. [More…]

• That the Government can introduce these Bills without a blush indicates that it is willing to sacrifice principles, if it ever had any, for political expediency and that election platforms and policy speeches in the eyes of members of the Government do not constitute any sort of contract at all with the electors. [More…]

• One wonders at the enormous shock he must have received when he heard the results of the Bass by-election. [More…]

• I am sure the people of Tasmania remembered that when they voted in the Bass by-election. [More…]

• In fact, it is quite possible that the honourable member for Braddon might even contemplate stepping down and letting us try another by-election and see how we go in Braddon. [More…]

• But never mind, they will find out at the next election. [More…]

• Those who are voting in the next election should be under no illusions as to the philosophy for which they are voting. [More…]

• As the Age remarked in respect of the next election: [More…]

• Prior to the 1972 election, Australia’s rate of inflation was 4.5 per cent per annum. [More…]

• Prior to the election to office of a Labor Government in 1 972 many discrepancies existed throughout Australia’s social structure. [More…]

• During the 1972 election campaign the then Leader of the Opposition- if the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) had not made these remarks one could say that they were made by the present Leader of the Oppositionhad this to say: [More…]

• What a shameful spectacle State Parliament presented yesterday with its election of a new Senator for Queensland -an election without conscience, without honour. [More…]

• -Mr Speaker, I rise this morning in this debate to raise some questions which have become relevant as a result of actions, firstly, by the Senate, according to my own reading of events which took place in this Parliament years ago, and culrninating, secondly, in the events in the Queensland Parliament in the last couple of weeks which resulted in both the character assassination of Dr Malcolm Colston and the election to the Senate of a Mr Field, a person who was selected supposedly as a Labor Party member to represent the Labor Party in the Senate. [More…]

• He had to withstand being defeated by a few votes at the last Senate election and now he has to withstand the complete might of the privileges of the Queensland Parliament and to try to defend himself against it outside the Parliament- - something that is very difficult and perhaps impossible to do. [More…]

• In the lead-up to the 1972 election, one aged blind person wrote to Mr McMahon and to Mr Hayden. [More…]

• One can remember now Mr Whitlam ‘s promises for the 1972 election. [More…]

• I am assured that there are certain members of the Liberal Party who are only hanging on in anticipation that their Party may get into power at the next election. [More…]

• But, if we want a career Public Service, then the Government stands condemned for the actions it has taken since its election to office. [More…]

• In the 1972 election campaign the Prime Minister gave an assurance that he would set up the Inter-State Commission. [More…]

• I would like to reply to the general tenor of the speech just made by the honourable member for Franklin (Mr Sherry) and I pose this question to him: If the record of the Government in Tasmania is so good why was there a swing of over 17 per cent against it in the Bass by-election? [More…]

• The honourable member for Wilmot will have the chance to test his popularity in his electorate at the next election. [More…]

• However, the Opposition has opted for massive- and nowhere has it demonstrated they would be more effectualboosts to big corporate business and restoration of subsidies so as to satisfy their coalition partners and the hidden donors to their election funds. [More…]

• Their cuts in Government expenditure and their handouts to their hidden donors of election funds would cripple the community sector. [More…]

• He promised it in the main street in Alice Springs prior to the last election. [More…]

• In retrospect, it is completely clear that the statement by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) before the 1972 election, as Leader of the Opposition as he then was, that the Labor Party’s spending program would be financed out of government revenue without any increase in taxation carried with it the implicit understanding that inflation would be used as the financing measure. [More…]

• I would point out that the Prices Justification Tribunal was established over 2 years ago in redemption of an election undertaking by the Government. [More…]

• Mr Hawke, the President of the Australian Labor Party, said at a time when unemployment was less than half what it is now that he would rather see a new election than have the Government cause mass unemployment. [More…]

• It is nice to remember this because he will have something to go back to when he loses his seat at the next election. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite should be fair, honest and sincere and stop playing politics by trying to boost up the Warden of Clarence Council who is a Liberal candidate who will oppose Mr Ray Sherry, the Labor sitting member for Franklin, at the next general election. [More…]

• He has Buckley’s chance of ever getting into this place, because Ray Sherry the member will be here after the next election. [More…]

• For over 20 years the Senate has had the potential to be a highly negative and disruptive body and with the imminence of a general election and the likelihood of a Labor Government thereafter, that potential could be realised all too soon. [More…]

• Because of that voting system in the Senate we had one election 18 months ahead of time in May last year. [More…]

• There is now irrepressible speculation on a second premature election within the next 6 months. [More…]

• The alternative election system which I have proposed would encourage its survival, if only because the temptations to seize a chance opportunity for a Senate majority would be so greatly reduced. [More…]

• We know that in another place, because of the system of election for that place, there will always be a delicate balance of power. [More…]

• We know that in that place a majority of senators decided that in May 1974, before the 3 years required by the Constitution were up, they would take the people of Australia to another election. [More…]

• -The point to which I was coming is that because a democratic system does not operate in New South Wales we now have sitting in the other chamber of this Parliament a person who does not reflect the result of the voting pattern expressed by the people of New South Wales at the last Senate election. [More…]

• One of the points that I wish to make in this debate is that I believe there is a danger that the importance of elections is lessened as we continue to see separate elections held for the House of Representatives, the Senate and State legislatures. [More…]

• Having said that, I believe that for the safety and security of this country there are times when an election should be held. [More…]

• This must be done, as I say, for the sake of the safety and security of this country even when it means that an election is held at a time when the party elected to power has had a shorter period in office than the term for which it was elected. [More…]

• As mentioned by the Minister for Environment (Mr Berinson) this evening, we had one election before the required time because the Senate threatened to refuse Supply. [More…]

• Unfortunately, because of the expressed rights of the colonies at the time and because they felt there was a need to have a States House, which after federation rapidly became a Party House, the situation developed- and it exists at the present time- where the Senate in certain circumstances could refuse Supply and thus force the House of Representatives to an election without having to go to an election itself. [More…]

• We should think very seriously about this matter because we could reach a situation where a party or a number of parties with the majority in the Senate could continue to refuse Supply regardless of what happened in an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• No government can govern effectively if every 6 months when Supply Bills come before the Parliament that party elected to power at the preceding election has to go to the people. [More…]

• That is one reason why municipal councils always strike the rate immediately after the annual; election. [More…]

• He said: ‘We could; but everyone who was not there would probably lose his seat at the next election ‘. [More…]

• What did the people do at the last election for the Senate? [More…]

• What did the people do at the last Senate election? [More…]

• There is a slight dispute from the Government benches as to whether one of the senators elected from Tasmania came in as an Independent or as an independent Liberal, but since that election he has joined the Liberal Party. [More…]

• I refer to 2 statements attributed to the Prime Minister over the weekend: Firstly, his reference to the Premier of Queensland as a bible-bashing bastard and, secondly, his suggestion that the Australian Labor Party could win 5 extra seats in Victoria alone in any forthcoming election. [More…]

• It took the election of an Australian Labor Party Government to achieve positive action in this respect. [More…]

• I preface the remarks I will be able to make in the few minutes that I have available by saying that in December last year the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) was campaigning in the Queensland election. [More…]

• In campaigning in that election, he said that the Queensland Government was assured of a blank cheque for welfare housing for all those contracts that it could let. [More…]

• I will not take up much of the 10 minutes I have skirting those aspects of the Constitution which the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Crean) raised except perhaps to remind him that it was the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) before the last election who was very fond of describing the then members of the Senate as yesterday’s men and men elected for a certain number of years. [More…]

• Of course, at that election the people decided that the Aus.tralian Labor Party would not have a majority in the Senate. [More…]

• I took part in that election campaign in Bass. [More…]

• I can recall that, when I was on the staff of the Reserve Bank and prior to that in the exchange control department of the central banking division of the Commonwealth Bank, I came across some highly confidential and highly politically explosive information which could have brought about the downfall of the Menzies Government in the election of 1961- an election which that Government won by only 2 seats. [More…]

• However, I did not break my oath of secrecy, even though I was a candidate at that election- a successful candidate as it turned out. [More…]

• It is not a matter of whether the Budget pleases the Senate; the point is that the Senate has no right at all to force any elected government to the polls, not because it does not have a majority in this Chamber, not because it lacks a majority on the floor of the House of Representatives, not because it does not have the support of the people at an election but because it does not have the money to govern. [More…]

• There will not be any easy recourse like there was before the last election when the Prime Minister got permission for a double dissolution in the dinner adjournment and the Supply Bill was passed at 8 o’clock. [More…]

• All I can do is stress the alarm of members of the Aboriginal community that they are being used as a political football for the purposes of the election or re-election of people. [More…]

• Some of the major items of expenditure are: Salaries and payments in the nature of salaries; administrative expenses; other services, and this is where the greatest increase is; Aboriginal advancement or payment to the Aboriginal Advancement Trust; conferences, meetings and consultations- they were not consulted before; investigations and research; support of Aborigines on government settlements; assistance to missions- of course, the previous Government would know all about those areas of expenditure; repairs and maintenance of settlements; vocational training and adjustments; support for ecological projects; support for Aboriginal sporting activities; support for Aboriginal publication activities; the Royal Australian Institute of Architects; the housing panel contribution; Aboriginal enterprises for payment to the capital fund for Aboriginal enterprises; National Aboriginal Consultative Committee- again there was no voice for Aborigines before; salaries and allowances of members; meeting expenses; the provision of facilities for members; election expenses; incidental and other expenditure in that area; Aboriginal Loans Commission; Aboriginal enterprises for payment to the Aboriginal enterprises fund; and so I could go on. [More…]

• In the year or thereabouts since the last election it has earned the right to have a large degree of confidence placed in it- perhaps more confidence than has been apparent of late. [More…]

• I suggest to the honourable gentleman who interjected that the honourable member will not last very long in this place and that it is very likely that the seat that he holds- whatever it is called, the Australian Capital Territory or Canberra- -Will become one of our seats after the next election. [More…]

• Last year the Legislative Assembly was created with an election for 18 members. [More…]

• When they discovered that there was to be a change in the leadership of the Opposition- honourable members might remember that that happened in May, although with the rapid succession of changes of leadership which have taken place in that organisation in the last couple of years they may not remember who was leading that organisation then- and realised that as a result of this sudden change of leadership there was not going to be a snap election, those 2 non-Labor State governments, and others too, suddenly decided that the virtues of Medibank outweighed the political cussedness which they had been applying up to that point. [More…]

• Like all Aus.tralians let me make this perfectly clear, as I have made it clear from the day I offered myself for election in Kennedy- I want to see as much Australian ownership of our natural resources as possible. [More…]

• The mining and energy industries have been in a survival situation since 1972 and they are really in a holding pattern until the next election. [More…]

• It is true that the National Country Party generally regards the minerals industry as a milch-cow to provide it with election funds. [More…]

• The Party’s primary interest has been in finding sources of election funds. [More…]

• Three weeks before the new Parliament was elected in 1972 the former Minister for National Development in the Liberal-Country Party Government, Sir Reginald Swartz, let contracts to Japan to suit the companies that were obviously tipping into Liberal Party funds for that election. [More…]

• If, after the next Federal election, we were to have a Liberal government or a Liberal-National Country Party coalition government that is a little tardy in getting on with the job of resiling the airport terminal in Brisbane, I would be equally as strong in my condemnation, as I am sure the honourable member for Lilley will be. [More…]

• We had a double dissolution in May last year, not 2 years after the 1972 Federal election. [More…]

• The Opposition in this place and in the Senate and the Press are building up this story that there will be another election to a great crescendo. [More…]

• I say this to the Opposition: If you take Australia to another election, you deserve to be destroyed as political parties. [More…]

• That would mean that we would have had 3 elections in the space of less than 3 years, in each instance as the result of your machinations and political banditry. [More…]

• Another election in this year- that is 3 elections in less than 3 years- would be an outrageous misuse of democratic privileges. [More…]

• I hope that the sensible men in the Senate will make sure that there will be no election this year, and that there will be no election before the due time, that is, May 1977. [More…]

• The honourable member was siting up in the back of the chamber listening to the honourable member for Griffith talking about the next election and - [More…]

• We know that 3 weeks before each election the previous Liberal-Country Party Government flew planes over safe Labor seats to win borderline voters in seats such as St George. [More…]

• Let them deny that they were responsible for aircraft being flown over electorates represented by Labor members in the last 3 weeks prior to the 1 972 election to save seats held by Liberal candidates in other areas. [More…]

• I would like to know what has happened to the grandiose promise which the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) made when he spoke at Colacag Park at Alice Springs- just prior to an election, strangely enough- when he said that there would be a dual carriageway from Alice Springs to Port Augusta. [More…]

• Nothing has been done despite the Prime Minister’s great speech in the park, just before an election, when he promised the people that this road would be built and that there would be dual carriageway. [More…]

• I think he ought to have a talk to the honourable member for Kalgoorlie (Mr Collard), who came very close to losing his seat in the last election in May 1974. [More…]

• I can remember that prior to the 1974 election he condemned - [More…]

• Thank God the election in the electorate of Bass has brought recent changes. [More…]

• I remember the public brawl that took place before the 1973 New South Wales State election between the head of the New South Wales Housing Commission, Mr Bourke, and the then Premier, Mr Askin. [More…]

• They need a flexibility in such matters as establishment of the geographical base and membership of a corporation, the election of the governing executive for a community, the making of rules appropriate for that community and the control of that community’s funds and property. [More…]

• At home, business confidence is being kept at a low ebb by the continual irresponsible rumours from the Opposition about an early election. [More…]

• The fact that they are picking up shows that there is a pick-up in our general economy, and this is probably the reason why we are continually threatened with an election. [More…]

• In the 1974 election publication This LandLabor’s Rural Program the Minister for Agriculture (Senator Wriedt) said: [More…]

• That election statement clearly implies that the Labor Party had examined these matters and was ready to implement them very soon. [More…]

• Obviously the election statement was false, or the Government wanted to use the Industries Assistance Commission as a ‘too-hard basket’. [More…]

• I ask honourable members to contrast this with the positive policies on taxation and income fluctuations put forward by the Liberal and National Country Parties at the election in 1974. [More…]

• Despite the report, no action has been taken on it and the words of Senator Wriedt at the 1974 election now have a very hollow and insincere ring about them. [More…]

• The 1974 election policy of the joint Opposition parties promised a rural bank to cover areas of deficiency in the rural credit field. [More…]

• Again, there is a contrast between the realistic policies of the joint Opposition parties and the glowing promises in the rural credit field put out by the Labor Party in the 1 972 electionpromises not yet honoured and probably never to be honoured by this Government. [More…]

• For the past 5 or 6 months since the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) assumed that role and for the past 5 or 6 weeks since the Budget was introduced, there has been a neverending speculation about whether there would be another election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• No matter what the Leader of the Opposition says, and no matter what he claims he has or has not said, the facts are that his actions originating at his first Press interview have continued to add to the speculation that when the Appropriation Bills are introduced into the Senate he will attempt to have the Senate block those Bills and hopefully force an election. [More…]

• Thirdly, he may choose to have a half Senate election. [More…]

• Fourthly, he may have a half Senate and full House of Representatives election. [More…]

• They immediately started to plan how they could frustrate the will of the people and in April 1974 threatened to block Supply if the Prime Minister did not call an election. [More…]

• Since that interview there has hardly been a week passed without speculation about the Liberal-National Country parties trying to block the Budget or Supply and once again force an election in the House of Representatives. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition even had the gall to suggest that the continued speculation about an election was good for business. [More…]

• What they will have done is not simply wrecked the whole parliamentary system by creating a situation in which any Senate- Labor or Liberal controlled- can force the House of Representatives to an election every six months but also they will have effectively disfranchised approximately half the voters of Australia. [More…]

• So we face the fact that if defeated at an election in the near future the Australian Labor Party will go into Opposition with the prospect of working for the next 3, 6, or 9 years to win office only to find itself tossed out as soon as the Opposition believes it can win. [More…]

• When they ask us after the next election what they should do, what should we say to them? [More…]

• There is no restriction on the amount of money that can be collected by political parties or individuals for use in election campaigns. [More…]

• There is, however, a limit on expenditure by individuals with respect to elections. [More…]

• But elections are not won solely on election day - they are won by constant campaigning. [More…]

• No wonder they did not want us to know where’ the National Country Party will get $50,000 per member per electorate in Queensland at the next election. [More…]

• We need to be geared for an election at any time. [More…]

• It is clear that the result of the next election will decide whether Australia remains a genuine free enterprise economy in which the interests of each person is advanced or moves irretrievably towards the precipice of government control now faced by the United Kingdom. [More…]

• To stress again how important it is for Australia to have an equitable voting and electoral system, let me cite what happened at the 1974 House of Representatives election. [More…]

• They want to know why this is the only Upper House that can keep provoking elections before the time for an election is due. [More…]

• Government supporters think that somehow or other these 5 Bills constitute an issue on which they could win a double dissolution election campaign. [More…]

• If one looks at the proposals in detail in New South Wales one finds again and again that the seats which are critical in any election, the marginal seats, have been by and large strengthened in favour of the Government and strengthened, I might emphasise, to the distinct disadvantage of the Liberal Party. [More…]

• Of course, what the Leader of the House did not realise was that we also look at the impact of the redistribution proposals on other seats that we presently hold and on seats that we would win in the event of a Federal election. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party group was completely trounced at the last local government election, and the same thing will happen next time there is a federal election. [More…]

• The elections in Queensland and South Australia, the election in the Northern Territory, the Bass byelection and even local government elections have each resulted in support for the Labor Party being further eroded and depleted, each showing the Government’s mandate becoming more and more fragile to the point where now it is being withdrawn. [More…]

• While it is possible to get the sort of result which was achieved in 1974 in the Senate, which was in contradiction of the popular election of a Labor government in this Houseaggravated by the appointment of 2 independent people to the Senate in Senator Bunton and Senator Field- we are going to have to look outside the Parliament for someone to determine what democracy is all about. [More…]

• Let us look at what will happen in South Australia at the next election in 1 977. [More…]

• By 1977- the next election- the electorate of Bonython which is represented by my colleague, Mr Nicholls, will have 90 000 electors on the roll. [More…]

• The Leader of the National Country Party talked about the South Australian election coming as some sort of a shock to the Labor Party. [More…]

• In my electorate in South Australia in the last State elections, our vote went up. [More…]

• But there was no great disruption in the voting pattern in the city of Adelaide at the last State election. [More…]

• Don Dunstan has won his fourth election and I believe that if he wants to stand for another 10 elections he will win them. [More…]

• The thing that intrigued me most about the speech of the honourable member for Port Adelaide- particularly in view of the eloquent tributes to democracy paid by the Leader of the House (Mr Daly)- was his reference to the result of the last Senate election. [More…]

• I think we ought to take such a proposition very seriously because in effect, what the honourable member for Port Adelaide is saying is that the present method of electing senators at Senate elections is undemocratic and unacceptable to the Labor Government. [More…]

• So the honourable member for Port Adelaide and Government supporters cannot really blame the result of the last Senate election in May 1974 on anything other than an expression of will by the Australian people. [More…]

• One of the greatest untruths about the electoral situation in Australia at the moment is the story which has been peddled by the Labor Party that somehow or other the result of the Senate election last year was a fraud. [More…]

• Government supporters argue in that way only because they did not win the Senate election. [More…]

• He is quite right of course, but more people vote Labor each election than for any other party and they have done so in every election bar the one in 1966. [More…]

• It will lose the next election. [More…]

• It tried to make its own seats so safe that it cheated itself 5 years later in the 1954 elections. [More…]

• They will not even let us know where the $25,000 they each got during the last election in Queensland came from. [More…]

• Let me say this to the honourable member for Bowman (Mr Keogh): You come out to my electorate and electioneer next time. [More…]

• You know you are gone at the next election too. [More…]

• To give the honourable member some indication of how the population in areas such as the electorate I represent is growing, I state that rather than close polling booths, three more are being opened for the next election. [More…]

• They never liked elections, going back some centuries. [More…]

• Ever since it has been thrust upon them by the working class people that they should have elections, they have not liked that very much. [More…]

• But they found themselves in the position that they could not avoid elections. [More…]

• Ever since that time they have been devising their own little ways of holding the elections to conform with convention but making sure that the results of the elections did not tip them out of office. [More…]

• The philosophy of the conservatives is that to hold elections in this country only to determine how long they Will rule. [More…]

• They do not hold elections to decide who will rule; they hold elections to decide how long the conservatives will rule. [More…]

• Whenever the next election is held, we will have news for them again, and it will not be all good news. [More…]

• The Minister gave a list of the polling booths which are to be closed before the next election in each House of Representatives electoral division. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, I would remind the honourable member for Wilmot of what actually happened in the seat of Murray, I think it was, at the last election. [More…]

• Because of floods the election had to be postponed for a week. [More…]

• I would like them to repeat that sort of statement in the presence of the Liberal Party candidates for all the marginal seats in Melbourne that we will win at the next election. [More…]

• I would like them to repeat this statement in the presence of the Liberal Party candidates for the marginal seats in Sydney that we will win at the next election. [More…]

• The only possible way of achieving a one vote one value concept is to have a census today, a redistribution tomorrow and an election the next day. [More…]

• It has talked itself into an election. [More…]

• It has talked the people into an election and if it does not watch out it will talk us into an election. [More…]

• -I got 57.8 per cent and if your Party can achieve that percentage at the next election it will have done well. [More…]

• At the next Federal election, whenever it may be, any South Australian who votes for Mr Fraser’s policies will do so at his own peril. [More…]

• No doubt the fact that Australian Labor Party advertising agents will arrive here tonight will promote further speculation about an election. [More…]

• Who is concerned about an election? [More…]

• I think that the Government is talking itself and the people into an election. [More…]

• He obviously seems to be thinking that an election could be held this year and that he could be defeated. [More…]

• What I said to these people was that they would have to give the system a go, that we have been in Opposition for 23 years but the public mood was such that we are going to win the next election. [More…]

• I said that the only thing that could lose us that election was the sort of violence that would create an electoral backlash. [More…]

• When they come to us after the election and they sayMr Fisher- That is your worry. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Services and Property aware of a report that to make a good showing in marginal seats at any future election an adequate sum for campaign expenditure will be at least $20,000? [More…]

• Will he state whether this expenditure contravenes the Electoral Act, which limits the amount to be expended on behalf of candidates for House of Representatives elections to $500? [More…]

• I also advise the honourable member that it is true that under the provisions of section 145 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act a candidate for a House of Representatives election may not expend more than $500. [More…]

• At the last election there were 245 candidates for the Senate and 500 for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• It is also correct to say that some sitting members of this Parliament, on both sides, have infringed section 145, notably the honourable member for Sturt who- I speak from memory- documented in the Press expenditure totalling $22,000 at the 1972 elections. [More…]

• The answer to this problem is to increase the permissible expenditure on elections to a reasonable amount for individuals and political parties and to enforce the provisions of the Act. [More…]

• The reason why no charges were levelled against those who contravened the law at the last election was that there was legislation before the Parliament which the Government believed would remedy the situation. [More…]

• They should be aware that if they proceed to spend $500,000 per electorate, their election to either House will be open to challenge, and rightly so. [More…]

• The present Opposition gave the nation 23 years of non-government, but each successive government was allowed to rule for its full term after each election. [More…]

• However, following the extraordinary double dissolution in 1974 when, desperate again to regain government, the Liberal-Country Party forces pushed this country into another $4m election, Labor was again the choice of the people. [More…]

• No government when faced with the possibility of an election will bring down an unpopular Budget although governments at times do have to make unpopular decisions. [More…]

• If this happened the taxpayer would have to foot the bill for another $4m election- the third election in 3 years. [More…]

• It is irrelevant to them that this continual threat of election erodes not only the confidence of the investors and businessmen but also the confidence of the people of Australia. [More…]

• The Opposition is not concerned about the ethics or principles involved but whether it can win an election. [More…]

• I say loud and clear: There is no known way that the Leader of the Opposition will be able to keep himself free from the criticism of highly unethical behaviour if he succumbs to the temptation- I do not say pressure because I think it will be temptation- and ambition to push for an election either before Christmas or by next May. [More…]

• In 1972, just before the election when the pension was raised, it was about 20 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]

• I take this opportunity to say a few words about the school dental service because the great degree of progress that has been made in this scheme since the election of the Labor Government in December 1972 is not generally realised. [More…]

• Let me remind the Committee that when this Government went to the election in 1974 it pledged itself to no unemployment. [More…]

• I think the honourable member for Chifley is rather stretching the debate on the estimates for the Department of Services and Property by discussing, firstly, the Budget and secondly the factor in relation to an election because of the Budget. [More…]

• I suggest that if one followed the argument which the honourable member for Chifley has put forward to justify his comments, one could discuss the matter of an election in the sense in which he is discussing under almost any department or any estimates being considered. [More…]

• In times of wet weather the only way people will be able to cast a vote in a federal election from now on will be to walk, to go on horseback or by a 4-wheel drive vehicle. [More…]

• That the petition just read out by the Clerk which comes from certain citizens of Australia and which prays that the House will withdraw its confidence in the present Prime Minister in order that there may be a speedy election and that the people of Australia may be given their proper opportunity to pass judgment on the Government responsible for the present level of unemployment and other national losses should be printed. [More…]

• Returning to my comments about the cost of housing when the Opposition parties were in Government I want to refer back to 1972 when the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) made the promise in his election speeches to the people of this country that if elected to office he would reduce the cost of houses by between $2,000 and $6,000. [More…]

• The Opposition did not succeed in 1972 and in 1974 and it will not succeed whenever next there is an election, whenever that may be. [More…]

• There was an election coming on, of course, so those who sit opposite promised everything in the world - [More…]

• Just before the 1949 general election, as most of the elderly members would recall and as elderly persons outside would recall, Cyril Chambers had the unenviable task of putting the Army into the mines at the behest of the Government, which I fully supported as a member of the Australian Labor Party at the time. [More…]

• Will the Prime Minister assure the House and the nation that the Australian Government will press ahead with its antiinflation program despite the serious damage being done to public confidence and our system of constitutional government by election uncertainty? [More…]

• I quote from the introductory remarks to the policy speech of the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Gough Whitlam, during the 1 972 Federal election campaign. [More…]

• I suggest that it is worth repeating what the Prime Minister said when he was the Leader of the Opposition, when he was leading that great Party of his to the 1 972 election: [More…]

• During the 1972 election campaign, I promised to work for the transfer of the Antarctic Division to Hobart. [More…]

• I wonder what would happen should an election soon be at hand. [More…]

• It was basically designed to show what the Government had done in housing, but the Government could not resist the opportunity to present in that document a purely political stance by commenting on the Opposition’s attitude and making typically political electioneering statements in the brochure. [More…]

• My answer to that is that if this Government had given the defence of this country the priority thinking it should have given, if it had maintained its promise during the 1972 election campaign that the defence allocation would be nothing less than 3.5 per cent of the gross national product and if it had ensured that the Services were not scratching at the bottom of the bin for funds, I am positive that the recommendations that he states have been made would not have been made and our cadet system would have been maintained. [More…]

• The figures with respect to new equipment orders announced by the Minister in each of the financial years going back to 1969-70 are as follows: In 1969-70, $50.5m worth of new equipment was ordered; in 1970-71, that is after the 1969 election, $150.8m worth was ordered; in 1971-72 it dropped to $25m; in 1972-73 it dropped to $85m; in 1973-74 it was $95m; last year it was $330m; and this year it is $290m. [More…]

• I know for a fact that my opponent in the last election campaign got 90 per cent of his funds from the real estate developers, that they poured money into his coffers in a $25,000 to $30,000 campaign against me. [More…]

• The National Country Party regards minerals and energy companies as a milking horse for its own election funds. [More…]

• There were no exports of uranium until 3 weeks before the 1972 election when the then Minister for National Development, Sir Reginald Swartz, foolishly signed an agreement allowing the export of uranium to Japan because his Government apparently wanted for election purposes some quid pro quo with the companies involved. [More…]

• Three weeks before the election and after the writs had been issued that Government lifted the embargo which had lasted 14 years and it agreed to contracts. [More…]

• Let me remind the House that the contract for uranium which was let some 3 or 4 weeks before the election in 1972 was not a fair and honest proposition because it gave an opportunity for a speculative group to make a small fortune. [More…]

• It lost 2 elections on that very issue and the National Country Party is still carrying a torch for those speculative groups. [More…]

• It is due to the initiative by my Government- an undertaking which I made in anticipation of the election of my Government- that there is a Legislative Assembly in both Territories. [More…]

• I rather gathered from the way in which the Deputy Leader was speaking todaythis is an observation in passing- and from the comments that he has made on other occasions that it is his intention to campaign at any future election on the basis of the slogan: ‘Eliminating Government waste, no matter what that costs ‘. [More…]

• They know that without the proposals in these Bills which seek to change electoral boundaries in this country they have very little hope of retaining at the next election many of the seats now held by Labor supporters. [More…]

• The purpose of the Bill is to provide for optional preferential marking of ballot papers at Senate elections. [More…]

• Under the Government’s proposal a voter at a Senate election will be required to indicate on his or her ballot paper preference for at least the number of vacancies to be filled. [More…]

• What is intended in this Bill is to try to create a situation in which people are encouraged, if not at the first election then at a later election, not to go down the list of preferences and not to express a view about those candidates that to them are less favoured. [More…]

• For the Government to criticise an election in which there happened to be more candidates than before and to say that that is a bad thing and confusing and so on is only to say that it does not want the system to proceed as it is. [More…]

• To the benefit of the Government on this occasion, by the Opposition refusing a cognate debate on these Bills we are able to look specifically at the question of the Senate elections. [More…]

• The number of nominations received in New South Wales in 1974 was an indication of how Senate elections under the present system could be made inoperable. [More…]

• Can anyone here from New South Wales tell me how he voted at the last Senate election after the double dissolution in 1 974? [More…]

• 1 to whatever number of candidates there may be in a Senate election. [More…]

• At the last Senate election in New SouthWales there were about 40 party representatives and there were 30 additional candidates who nominated for the sole purpose of trying to manipulate the system because they worked out that the more candidates there were the more chance there was of defeating Labor candidates and that the informal vote would rise in the Labor-held electorates. [More…]

• Those extra 30 candidates in New South Wales, which made a total of seventy-three, contributed to giving Australia the highest informal vote we have ever had in a Senate election under the present system. [More…]

• As we are now going to speak on all these Bills individually it rests with me only to suggest that an optional preferential system for Senate elections is one of the most important amendments to be put before this House. [More…]

• It has been the tradition in this country that, apart from the 20 per cent or 25 per cent of the people in the middle who change their votes from election to election, people vote out of political persuasion; they vote for their political teams and not for individuals. [More…]

• The people of New South Wales will tell you that if in future Senate elections there is a ballot paper of twice the size as the one in 1974 the system will just not work and we will be forced from outside to change the present preferential system which applies to Senate elections. [More…]

• As all of us in this House appreciate, as far as a Senate election is concerned, you work on the principle of a quota. [More…]

• If that were the case and we were to elect, say, 5 senators it would be obvious that a number of people could vote for candidates who were not even in the final running for election. [More…]

• I do not know whether the honourable member for Port Adelaide had any justification in suggesting that a lot of migrants- I think that is what he saidcast informal votes at the last Senate election. [More…]

• 2) dealt with elections for the Senate and this Bill incorporates a similar principle for House of Representatives elections. [More…]

• This would apply also in an election to fill a single Senate casual vacancy, as outlined in Electoral Bill (No. [More…]

• He will ultimately have a say in the election of the last person and in particular between the 2 last and most favoured candidates. [More…]

• I suppose one would need to qualify that by saying that if a candidate has an absolute majority- that is 50 per cent of the votes plus one- the preferences are not necessary but in most elections they are necessary and in all elections they may be necessary. [More…]

• I have a list which shows the percentage of informal votes cast in elections in this country since 1949. [More…]

• They are 1.99 per cent, 1.9 per cent, 1.35 per cent, 2.88 per cent, 2.87 per cent, 2.56 per cent, 1.82 per cent, 3.1 per cent, 2.54 per cent, 2.17 per cent, and in the election last year, 1.92 per cent. [More…]

• Of course, the motive behind the whole package of the proposals being put to this Parliament now for the third time in under 12 months is that the legislation if passed would greatly help the Australian Labor Party get more votes, and in the present political climate preserve more of its members when we next go to an election. [More…]

• Is the Minister telling me that we are going to have a ballot paper with 70 names on it for a House of Representatives election? [More…]

• But I believe that the Australian people would be able to work it out as they did in respect of the ballot paper for New South Wales Senate candidates at the last election. [More…]

• But this has never happened before in respect of a House of Representatives election. [More…]

• The honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) earlier said: ‘Oh well, that cannot be right because after all in the last election for the House of Representatives Labor got a majority’. [More…]

• This is not a question of machinery and I believe that the saving, certainly in respect of the election of the members of this House, is not worth considering. [More…]

• Wales in the Senate election last year were effectively disfranchised; they were prevented from expressing their choice because of the complicated method of voting. [More…]

• In the last Senate election 13 per cent of voters there voted informally. [More…]

• More than twice as many country voters cast informal votes in the Senate election last year than were cast by city voters in the electorate of Berowra. [More…]

• Looking at the history of Australia we find that the optional preferential system was the form of voting used at Senate elections in the period 1919 to 1931. [More…]

• It is the same as the system now used by New South Wales in local government elections. [More…]

• I draw the attention of the House to the remark made in 1919 by the honourable member for Brisbane, Mr Finlayson, when a debate on an election Bill was before the House. [More…]

• 3) which, as honourable members will be aware, proposes the introduction of optional preferential voting for House of Representatives elections. [More…]

• I invite any subsequent speakers from the Government side in this debate to challenge that approach as being other than a reasonable approach to a democratic system of election in a single member constituency. [More…]

• The objection held to first past the post voting in this country is that it leads to the election of minority governments. [More…]

• It leads to the election of candidates, in single member seats, in respect of whom more than 50 per cent of people have cast adverse votes. [More…]

• I put it to the House that the Leader of the House should have further qualified those remarks by saying that if a sufficient number of voters in an optional preferential system refrained from expressing a preference, the result would be the same because the example I have given to the House shows precisely the same effect in that it leads to the election of a person who has received less than 50 per cent of the formal vote. [More…]

• The Leader of the House in his remarks went on to say that the proposition he put was purely hypothetical because it has not eventuated in elections under the optional preferential system in Australia in the past and that it was not likely to eventuate in the future. [More…]

• Fancy in the height of an election with all the pressure and the difficulties which exist the [More…]

• For instance, in the case of a general election for the House of Representatives the number of candidates endorsed by a party must not be less than onequarter of the number of divisions in the relevant State- that means the number of electorates in a State. [More…]

• In the case of a Senate election the number of candidates endorsed by a party is to be not less than one-quarter of the number of senators to be elected for that State. [More…]

• In other words, this proposal is weighted very heavily in favour of the status quo and that is clearly damaging to the right to which I referred of individuals to stand for election and to have a fair chance. [More…]

• After all, when such a person is elected it is usually for an important political reason and the consequences of such elections have been important ones in Australia’s history. [More…]

• This Bill seeks to do no more than to give voters assistance to make a free and unqualified choice as to who they wish to vote for at a particular election. [More…]

• To make it easier for a vote to be formal and counted in an election is apparently a plot by the Australian Labor Party to gain some advantage. [More…]

• The fact that we get something like six or eight times the number of informal votes when we have a large number of candiates as in the last Senate election in New South Wales as against the last House of Representatives election in New South Wales, apparently fades away into insignificance as far as the Opposition is concerned. [More…]

• having as one of its objects or activities the promotion of the election of a candidate or candidates endorsed by it or by a body or organisation of which it forms a part; [More…]

• For the purposes of paragraph (c) of subsection ( 1 ) of section 58c, a party qualifies in respect of an election only if- [More…]

• in the case of an election of a Member of the House of Representatives for a Division in a State to be held at a general election of Members of that House-the number of candidates endorsed by the party in respect of elections for the Divisions in the State (including the first-mentioned election) is not less than one-quarter of the whole number of Divisions in that State; [More…]

• This Bill refers to four particular items- the closing of polling booths at 6 p.m. instead of 8 p.m., the drawing for positions on the ballot paper by candidates for the House of Representatives, the increasing of deposits of candidates for nomination for election, and linked with that the changing of the formula relating to forfeiture of deposits. [More…]

• Previously an amendment was moved in the chamber but we think that cost should not be a prohibitive factor in any person deciding whether to stand for election for any House of Parliament. [More…]

• I quietly challenge the Minister to produce to me any evidence for that statement that anybody said they had deliberately set out to obstruct the Senate election in New South Wales. [More…]

• Are we trying to help the television commentators in giving more an accurate prediction of an election result 2 hours earlier. [More…]

• If an election is very close it is going to take days -or weeks before anyone can be sure of the result. [More…]

• To say that the electoral law ought to be changed so that someone will be able to know the result of an election 2 hours earlier is patently absurd. [More…]

• infamous days of the late 1950s and 1960s the Democratic Labor Party of Australia, when it was contesting elections, went out of its way at both Federal and State elections to have on ballot papers the names of people whose names began with either A, B or C. In a Federal election that lifted the Party’s percentage of the national vote to such an extent that it thought it was a decent, acceptable and some sort of major political party. [More…]

• We decided to move these amendments immediately after we saw the nominations that were put forward for the Senate elections in New South Wales. [More…]

• People deliberately set out to manipulate the system to increase the informal vote in Labor divisions and so prevent the election of Labor senators. [More…]

• The number of candidates from New South Wales and Victoria at any future Senate election may make the whole system completely inoperable. [More…]

• It is of interest to look at the statistical evidence for the 1969 House of Representatives election as it shows up the relationship between candidates who were placed first on the ballot papers and candidates who were elected. [More…]

• There is also something to be said for the support of canvassers and political party organisers who, after all, are present at all other booths in an election. [More…]

• If a Budget is rejected there is very likely to be an election of one sort or another. [More…]

• It secured such a majority in 1972; it again secured such a majority in 1974, and I have confidence that the next time there is an election for the House of Representatives it will again have that majority. [More…]

• I would remind honourable gentlemen that the writs for an election for the House of Representatives are issued by the GovernorGeneralinCouncil, in other words by the Government. [More…]

• The Government must advise the Governor-General to issue writs for a House of Representatives election no later than 3 years after the House first sat following the last election. [More…]

• Accordingly, it will be my duty to tender advice to the Governor-General to issue writs for -a House of Representatives election before 9 July 1977. [More…]

• Furthermore, I would recall to honourable gentlemen that the last election for the Senate, the date of which was determined by the Federal Government since it was a double dissolution, more votes were received by the Labor candidates than by the candidates of all other parties combined. [More…]

• Nowhere in the world would there be the idea that State governments could decide the date of an election for one of the Federal Houses. [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…]

• At any election for half the Senate, for the whole of the House of Representatives or for the whole of both Houses I have no doubt what the public will think when they are faced with a choice as Treasurer between Mr Hayden and Mr Lynch, when they are faced with a choice as Minister for Labor and Immigration between Senator James McClelland and the honourable member for Corangamite, and for Prime Minister between the present one and the aspirant. [More…]

• As there is talk of election in the air at the moment I want the people in receipt of social security pensions to recognise that this Government has done more for them in 3 years than previous governments did in 23 years. [More…]

• ‘(6) The Divisional Returning Officer is not empowered to register an elector or (except where the elector is deceased) cancel the registration of an elector under this section after 6 o’clock in the afternoon of the day of the issue of the writ, and before the close of the poll, for an election. [More…]

• ‘(7) An elector who is registered under this section is, by force of this section, but subject to Part VI and to the regulations, entitled to vote at an election in accordance with this Part. [More…]

• ‘(8) As soon as practicable after the hour of nomination for an election the Divisional Returning Officer shall send a postal vote certificate and a postal ballot-paper or postal ballot-papers, as the case requires, to each elector who is registered on the register for the Division, other than an elector who has made an application under section 85. [More…]

• We have heard in several debates that the Government wishes to facilitate the voting by people at election time, yet so many of its proposals are to restrict it in terms of time or postal votes generally- we will come to that matter when we deal with the next Bill- and in terms of that clause which we last debated providing some people who are living overseas with the right to vote. [More…]

• Of course with the Post Office as it is- I do not want to be too rude about its operations but it is common knowledge that some of its transportation of votes is a bit slow- and with the understandable congestion in an electoral office whilst an election is being conducted, I suppose it is not possible to process all of these applications and to sent out ballot papers the very next day. [More…]

• If all the postal votes had been received in time at the last election for the seat of Kalgoorlie, who could say whether its representative would have been the man who is sitting in this chamber today? [More…]

• Certainly in the last general election in May 1974, there were many hold-ups and many delays and complaints about insufficient staff and things of that sort which, in the heat of an election campaign, cannot be dealt with. [More…]

• It is advertised at every election. [More…]

• I can remember when I narrowly lost an election in 1969 because an extraordinary number of absentee votes came in from a place called Werris Creek which everybody knows is a little railway town in the north-west of New South Wales, not known as a place to which people from Bondi go for their annual holidays. [More…]

• We know that at any election there always is a number of errors on the roll. [More…]

• Let us face it, the slowness of mail deliveries is getting worse and worse so it has particular importance now as against earlier elections in which I suppose the smaller volume of mail, to put the most charitable interpretation upon it, ensured that people had a greater chance of getting their postal vote in before the time limit had expired. [More…]

• The position is getting worse and worse and I believe that the figures for the last election will show that to be the position. [More…]

• The Minister cited examples of instances at the 1974 Senate election where a number of persons enrolled under such names. [More…]

• To consider that we ought to isolate away a register of people who will accept that they will have a postal vote at each election seems to me to be building into our electoral system the suggestion that we can perhaps have separate rolls. [More…]

• The idea of having a register is an idea that ought to be rejected, particularly because one of the other suggestions put forward by the Government in the electoral Bills is that we should change the postal voting form at each election because we have also seen that system manipulated in the past by various candidates, again particularly those in marginal seats. [More…]

• I do not know, but perhaps he has had some experience in filling out postal voting forms well before the writs have been issued because he may know who applied for a postal vote at previous elections in his electorate. [More…]

• We want to change the postal voting form at each election so that the system cannot be manipulated. [More…]

• I am the first to admit that the nature of my electorate forces me to keep in my office a register of those who voted by postal vote in the previous Federal election. [More…]

• It is my view that permanent invalids and very aged persons should be given the option of having their names placed on a roll so that when a Federal election, whether it be a Senate or a House of Representatives election, is held, it is the duty of the various returning officers to forward to those persons a form that is almost completed, reminding the persons of their obligations and of their right to have a postal vote. [More…]

• My scrutineers noticed at the last election that the postal votes which were cast early, the ones that were organised in hospitals, for example, showed a much greater support for the Liberal Party than would be the case in any subdivision in the whole electorate. [More…]

• Why we should not pass a Bill which would allow mobile polling booths and which would allow elections to be conducted by properly authorised officers of the Australian Electoral Office I do not know. [More…]

• It is quite obvious to anybody who looks at the matter that names of candidates can be altered in such a way as to provide some sort of election slogan. [More…]

• Of course the package of proposals which were in the one Bill before and are in 6 Bills now are there, in the main, to aid the fortunes of the Australian Labor Party at election time. [More…]

• He put forward, I think as his major argument- at any rate, it was the first one- that the provisions of this Bill would result in speedier finalisation of election results. [More…]

• I notice from looking at election results that he seems to find at the time these votes are counted that he is very popular with the majority of people who vote in this manner. [More…]

• Let us be blunt about the mattersome people rather neglect to go on with their applications as soon as an election is called but they become aware of the situation in the last few days. [More…]

• Of course not a lot of election results depend on postal votes. [More…]

• If a potential political candidate reads it and approaches that person to vote at a subsequent election I do not see that that matters very much, because questions of harassment and other breaches of law involved are another matter and are covered by other legislation. [More…]

• His staff have to be dedicated to continue to work within the confines of what is the most complicated and intricate legislation in the world governing elections. [More…]

• I do not think the public really takes enough notice of the extent of work done by the staff of the Australian Electoral Office in providing facilities for 12 hours of voting on election day. [More…]

• I repeat that I do not think the public is aware of the very great effort those people make in trying- as the honourable member for Curtin (Mr Garland) said- to facilitate voting and provide convenience to the public on election day. [More…]

• I have only to turn to the electorate of Wimmera in Victoria- my friend the honourable member for Wimmera (Mr King) is not here at the moment- to find that the informal vote in the Senate election last year was 12.1 per cent. [More…]

• I do not think it is fair or responsible for anybody to continue to support a system whereby a nation can wait 6 weeks and not know the result of an election. [More…]

• A country cannot be governed and cannot plan or develop if it has to wait 6 weeks for a result after an election. [More…]

• The fact is that when an election is announced the nation is on notice that there is to be an election several weeks later. [More…]

• I do not accept that some people would not know, once an election has been announced, that an election is to be held. [More…]

• Coverage of an election is constant. [More…]

• It is reasonable to expect that, once an election is called, everybody within the nation who is entitled to vote has the same opportunity to vote. [More…]

• Immediately an election is announced an application form for a postal vote can be obtained. [More…]

• But if we examine the history of previous elections, we find that ample time is provided for postal voting. [More…]

• If the postal vote envelope that is eventually returned to him, that is delivered to him, carries a postmark in some cases 2 days or 3 days after the date on which the election was held, there is no way that the divisional returning officer can properly determine when that vote was cast. [More…]

• Up to some 18 years ago the situation used to be that the divisional returning officer was required to rule as invalid any postal vote envelopes that carried a postmark later than the date on which the election was held. [More…]

• The interesting point is this: As scrutineers, we had to challenge a considerable number of postal votes that carried postmarks dated several days after the date on which the election was held. [More…]

• When we look at the results in the 1972 election, we find that a similar situation emerges with respect to that abuse, as revealed by a comparison of the percentages of polling booth votes and postal votes. [More…]

• When we have a system that invites abuse, we come to a proposition such as the one put forward earlier by a spokesman for the Opposition that we ought now to make it easier for people who want to utilise the lurks and perks of the postal voting system and reduce expenditure on election campaigns for the Opposition by providing that the taxpayer finance the preparation of a roll showing those people who vote by post. [More…]

• I look forward to the next election campaign in the very near future. [More…]

• In Queensland after every State election the candidates are sent- or they can ask for one- a State roll which has stamped next to the name of every person who received a postal vote the words ‘Postal Vote’. [More…]

• Knowing that it has done wrong, knowing that it has harmed the Australian people, it is trying desperately by any unworthy manoeuvre to avoid an election. [More…]

• Some people would think that decision had something to do with a by-election but I can say quite definitely that it did not as the decision had been worked out before it was known that there would be an election and it had been kept in the pigeon-holes in this place. [More…]

• I think the facts would show that this proposal was well thought out prior to the by-election which came on very suddenly, and finished very suddenly too. [More…]

• We gave an undertaking in our policy at the 1974 election. [More…]

• Despite the clear need, it took a by-election finally to force the Government to make a move. [More…]

• Tasmanians recall with amusement that if it had not been for the Bass by-election Labor would never have chosen Tasmania for the site. [More…]

• That is why the honourable member for Bass (Mr Newman) got such an overwhelming vote in the by-election. [More…]

• It took a by-election, and a panic stricken Government, to remember Tasmania. [More…]

• Our early announcement to site the Maritime College in Tasmania months before the Government was forced into it by the Bass by-election is an instance of our genuine concern. [More…]

• The testimonies that he was giving himself for the appreciation in Tasmania for the Liberal Party, of course, sit very ill on the results of the election in 1972 following which the Liberal Party was without a Tasmanian seat in this Parliament. [More…]

• Does the Prime Minister acknowledge that if a half-Senate election is held those Bills which meet the requirements of section 57 of the Constitution lapse? [More…]

• Accordingly, it is right to await an opportunity so that all the pieces of legislation which the Government has put to the Parliament in keeping with its election promises, its undertakings to the people in 1972 and 1974, should come the requisite number of times before the Australian Senate. [More…]

• In no other parliamentary democracy has the elected government been subject to the artificial pressures and intolerable stress to which this Government has been subject by the unconstitutional threat of an election every 6 months. [More…]

• He said that the people of Australia had given his coalition a majority of senators at the last Senate election. [More…]

• The truth is of course that at the last Senate election the people not only recorded 200 000 more votes for the Australian Labor Party candidates- the Government- than for all other Parties represented in the Senate combined, but elected 29 Labor senators and 29 Opposition senators and 2 Independents. [More…]

• The political immorality of the Opposition is demonstrated further by the grossly improper incitement of non-Labor State governments to restrain the Governors of the States from exercising their duties under the Australian Constitution in relation to periodic Senate elections. [More…]

• On 24 occasions the Governor-General has suggested to the Governors of the States the date which they should set for elections of senators for their States. [More…]

• On four of those occasions- May 1953, December 1964, November 1967 and 1970- an election for the House of Representatives was not held. [More…]

• When there is a universal judgment around Australia that this Government stands condemned for its actions, especially over the last 12 months; when there is a universal call around Australia for this Government to go to the people for an election, this Government has to use its synthetic temporary majority in this House to try to claim that it has the confidence of the Australian people. [More…]

• There is a general move toward an election which this Prime Minister denies. [More…]

• It might be worth asking those who sit beside him and those who sit behind him: Do they want an election now when 300 000 are unemployed or an election in February when 500 000 will be unemployed? [More…]

• The unremitting efforts of members of the Opposition to manufacture issues to justify an election have merely been the mask to cover the ugliness and corruption of their ambitions at work. [More…]

• It is not credible for members of the Opposition to flog the so-called loans issue into another star as justification for an election. [More…]

• In a desperate effort to create an election situation the Opposition has mustered only a mild and forced protest at the stacking of the Senate; but it bears happily with the result. [More…]

• There have been crude attempts to stack the Senate; obstruction to the proper processes of government; constant intimidation from the hostility of the upper House; and unremitting efforts to manufacture a condition, any condition, on which an election might be sought. [More…]

• Stolen letters, purloined documents, suborned public servants and even the economic incomprehension of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) have all been brought to bear, more often clumsily and more often ruthlessly, in a desperate effort to fabricate the conditions for an election. [More…]

• It is also coincidentally a constitutional requirement that half the Senate should go to an election some time between now and 30 June 1976. [More…]

• He is trying to say that we are going to have an election for half the Senate. [More…]

• Have honourable members on the Government side thought of the consequences of that and of the consequences of dragging out the possibility of a House ofRepresentatives election till next year? [More…]

• If the Government does decide to have a half Senate election and the Prime Minister goes out to the GovernorGeneral the Governor-General will have some questions to ask, and rightly so because he has been misled on 2 occasions by the Prime Minister. [More…]

• When the Prime Minister goes out there and says: ‘I want a half Senate election’, the Governor-General must say: ‘What will you do if you do not get control of the Senate after a half Senate election? [More…]

• I think the Governor-General would have to say to himself: ‘I could not ask the people to vote again in a Senate election, so it will just be a House of Representatives election’. [More…]

• Where will the ordinary Labor members be then when they have to face the people in a House of Representatives election knowing that they have not got control of the Senate and that there can be no double dissolution? [More…]

• If there is going to be delay and double elections as a result of the Prime Minister refusing to face the Australian people then it is they, the members of the Labor Party, who will suffer. [More…]

• It is they who will see their finances drained away by election after election. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite would not expect us, as a democratic government, to say: ‘We will have an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• If there was a double dissolution because of the rejection of a taxation Bill, in the joint debate that may take place following the election, the senators could not take part in any amendment that was moved. [More…]

• The forthcoming Senate election is more than a party political contest; it is an election which will call upon the electorate to decide whether a government elected for a constitutional term of 3 years should or should not be allowed to complete its constitutional term. [More…]

• If an elected government is not to be permitted to govern for its full constitutional term, why have elections at all? [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition thinks that because he is getting millions of dollars from the foreign-owned multinational corporations that now have a stranglehold on Australia’s main industries and its mineral and energy resources that that will win him the election. [More…]

• This Senate election will not be won by the party that gets the most dollars from foreign racketeers who stand to gain so much from the election of a Fraser government. [More…]

• This election will be won by the party that gets the most votes from the sensible, decent Australians who value the system of democracy. [More…]

• The election will be a contest between foreign dollars and Australian votes, the votes of men and women who want to keep Australia Australian and who want parliamentary democracy to remain democratic. [More…]

• The Senate election now due to be held will determine the fate of the parliamentary system of government. [More…]

• That is what the Senate election is about. [More…]

• He further stated in his policy speech before the national election in December 1972 that a Labor government would legislate to give Aboriginals land rights, ‘not just because their case is beyond argument, but because all of us as Australians are diminished while the Aboriginals are denied their rightful place in this nation’. [More…]

• For months large sections of the media have been relentlessly brainwashing and bludgeoning the people of Australia into accepting the concept of another Federal election, the third in 3 years. [More…]

• Still not satisfied, still acting as if they are God’s chosen people born to rule, still smarting in Opposition, still refusing to accept the umpire’s decision, members of this miserable Opposition are again threatening to plunge Australia into another federal election by Christmas. [More…]

• If the Opposition succeeds with this banditry and gets its shabby, sordid way, it will mean 3 elections in 3 years at a cost of $7m in election costs alone. [More…]

• Imagine Labor trying to engineer an election in like circumstances. [More…]

• The Media would be writing about Labor’s irresponsibility for hitting the nation with an unnecessary election only 18 months after the last one, causing confusion and uncertainty and lack of confidence such as the Opposition is responsible for at this moment. [More…]

• The other newspapers have not a word, not a line of criticism about the waste of taxpayers’ money or about forcing the country into another election. [More…]

• If they force an election, a part election in the Senate, in these unprecedented and dangerous circumstances, the people of Australia should reject them like we reject banditry at any level anywhere. [More…]

• If they genuinely believed that there was any hope in the world of their winning an election there would not be one word of complaint. [More…]

• They know that the economic circumstances have created the environment in Australia which make it absolutely essential that there be an election. [More…]

• The array of pseudo-intellectuals who sit on the other side of the chamber, aided by the honourable member for North Sydney and some of his cohorts, are the individuals who never accepted the election results in 1972. [More…]

• If there is any indication that the electorate wishes to express a view, that wish can be satisfied at a half Senate election. [More…]

• If we have made a mistake, if the people do not want another say about the future of this country, surely come the next election, whether it be for half the Senate or for the House of Representatives, we on this side will pay the price if we have misjudged the mood of the nation. [More…]

• Honourable members are not so naive as to overlook the fact that if I were to do that in respect of the Bills which have already been rejected twice, after the election I would again have to go through the performance of bringing in those Bills which have been rejected only once. [More…]

• I am, however, quite optimistic, particularly in the light of events and responses in the last couple of days, that when there is an election for half the Senate- that is, half the senators from the States and for the first time senators from the 2 mainland Territories- the Government will have a majority in the Senate and that these Bills will be put through in the normal way in the lifetime of this Parliament. [More…]

• If, however, honourable gentlemen want to contemplate an election for the House of Representatives before the due date, sometime before 8 July 1977, then they should note that a double dissolution has to be held at least 6 months before that time. [More…]

• Accordingly, there could be an election for both Houses, a double dissolution, perhaps in December next year. [More…]

• I do not contemplate that there will be any election for the House of Representatives before December 1976 at the earliest. [More…]

• By that time there can be an election for both Houses. [More…]

• An election therefore would cause no disruption; the only thing that will cause disruption is the continuance of this Government’? [More…]

• There could not be an election after a double dissolution on this issue for at least 4 months. [More…]

• To seek a double dissolution now on other grounds, however sound in themselves, would simply concede the right of the Senate to send the House of Representatives to an election any time the Senate chose. [More…]

• This is the second time in eighteen months that you have tried to reject money Bills in the Senate to force an election. [More…]

• We now have the extraordinary spectacle of the Opposition, apparently recognising that it has failed to blackmail me into an election for the House of Representatives, seeking to bring reprehensible pressure to bear on the GovernorGeneral, the representative of the Queen of Australia, to achieve that very thing, and to do so by dismissing me as Prime Minister, a Prime Minister who twice in less than 3 years has been elected with a majority in the governing house and who continues to have a majority in that House. [More…]

• It began, as Senator Withers revealed, in April 1973, before an election could be held for half the Senate, before a double dissolution could be granted. [More…]

• I shall not advise the Governor-General to hold an election for the House of Representatives at the behest of the [More…]

• I shall tender no advice for an election for either House or both Houses until this constitutional issue is settled. [More…]

• Elections for the House of Representatives could be precipitated by the Senate twice a year. [More…]

• The mandate given by the people at a House of Representatives election would be subject to a virtual veto by the Senate. [More…]

• The frequency of elections and the uncertainty of the Government of whatever Party in pursuing its program would wound and weaken the administration of the nation’s affairs; in a situation of economic uncertainty this effect could be catastrophic. [More…]

• It is not in danger provided he holds a general election. [More…]

• They wanted a parliamentary system as long as the Labor Party never won an election but once we gained the treasury bench on 2 December 1972 they had to find some means, fair or foul, to try to overturn the Labor Government. [More…]

• Members opposite said: Ask 2000 people around Australia what they think about the present Government; ask how many of them will be upset if we call an election by rejecting the Budget. [More…]

• Many of the same market research people told the Opposition parties in 1974 that they would win an election. [More…]

• Let them stand for election to the Parliament; let them back their judgment in the Parliament and not act by giving the Opposition parties the advice that they have given. [More…]

• What is the reason for the rush to hold an election? [More…]

• Let us look at who is demanding the election. [More…]

• We have heard the Leader of the Opposition and his cohorts, including the Leader of the National Country Party (Mr Anthony), say that the people are demanding an election. [More…]

• We have asked repeatedly: ‘Will you tell us who is demanding an election?’ [More…]

• We know that those 4 families want an election. [More…]

• They have spent about $180,000 and no election campaign is on. [More…]

• Let us look at how we have reached the present situation, following the 1974 election, in which the Opposition says the Senate has the right to throw this Government out. [More…]

• Before I deal with that, let me refer first to what happened in that 1974 election. [More…]

• The people of New South Wales found that approximately 40 party candidates were fielded in the Senate election for that State. [More…]

• Approximately 200 000 more people throughout Australia voted for the Labor Party than voted for all the other political parties put together in that election. [More…]

• That was the result of the Senate election which was part of the double dissolution election on 18 May 1974. [More…]

• The next episode was his visit to the electorate of Bass, and that resulted in the greatest swing against a government that we have seen in any by-election for years. [More…]

• We are fighting more than an election issue. [More…]

• I have made my attitude quite clear, that refusal of Supply to force an election is not the Senate ‘s right. [More…]

• Australian Labor Party candidates at the last Senate election got more votes than candidates of all the other parties. [More…]

• In real anarchical style members of the Opposition are now advising the various State governments not to issue writs for a half Senate election. [More…]

• The Australian People do not want an election every time a Senate seems to be different from the Government of the day in the House of Representatives. [More…]

• They do not want an election every 6 months. [More…]

• The tame, docile members of the Liberal Party- I congratulate them- every time the National Country Party speaks, run like rabbits to their burrows because for some reason or other they are scared stiff of a selection of people who get 10 per cent of the votes and have 20 per cent of the power in this Parliament. [More…]

• Last year the Leader of the National Country Party took credit for the double dissolution election on 18 May. [More…]

• But when the result of the election finished up in mid-air and Labor was returned to power, he said: ‘Do not blame me’. [More…]

• They will find that they cannot snatch power in Australia and that the only way to gain election to the Government benches is to wait their turn and to submit themselves at the proper time for election by the Australian people. [More…]

• How could the country wait while the Parliament was dissolved and an election was held, which would take perhaps 3 months to determine? [More…]

• All that the honourable gentleman has to do is to seek to use his powers of persuasion upon his colleagues and to arrange for an election to be held. [More…]

• During their election campaigns Government supporters said there would be the same percentage of defence expenditure as under the previous Government. [More…]

• It claims to be a popular House because everyone casts a vote in a Senate election, but the act of casting a vote does not mean democracy. [More…]

• At the last Senate election 200 000 more people voted for the Australian Labor Party than for the other parties combined. [More…]

• We cannot have the House of Representatives in a permanent state of election. [More…]

• If an election were called on- a half Senate election or whatever kind of election in the next few days- it is most unlikely that that election could be held before the first Saturday in December. [More…]

• I was pointing out that if Supply runs out it will be some weeks before an election can be held and the people in this nation who will be inconvenienced can lay their complaints at the door of the Opposition. [More…]

• They cannot be paid because of a quite ruthless attempt by one person to become the Prime Minister and I think an equally ruthless attempt by a large number of people on the Opposition front bench who are supposed to be the leaders of the Opposition trying to better themselves very significantly by becoming Ministers and not being prepared to wait until the normal time to fight an election during the next 1 8 months or so. [More…]

• I suggest that if he were to appeal to his Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to name the date of the general election he would get the Budget through tomorrow. [More…]

• In this time we have fought 2 general elections successfully, but we are now confronted with the demand of the Opposition that there should be yet a third election. [More…]

• Not a full term of a normal Parliament has yet expired and we have 2 elections behind us and a third in prospect. [More…]

• I remind honourable members that every 6 months since this government has been in office- every 6 months- it has been confronted with the threat of a forced election. [More…]

• What the Treasurer has said of the September quarter figures reminds me very much of what the present Administration said of the March quarter figures in the election which took place last year. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) can be assured that they will not pass the Senate until he is prepared to agree to an election. [More…]

• it is not just time for the election of a government of Australia but for a parliament of Australia- an election of the whole Parliament of Australia. [More…]

• That ail words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘the House is of the opinion that the Bills should not be proceeded with until the Prime Minister sets an election date for the House of Representatives because he has misled the people and the Parliament’. [More…]

• It is trying to win in that place by asserting the right- the presumptive right, the impertinent right- that it can say: ‘We will only do what we ought to do if you have a House of Representatives election’. [More…]

• The Senate has no right to force a House of Representatives to an election without any penalty upon itself. [More…]

• We were pushed to an election again in 1974 and we won and then we did not take office, as a Parliament, until July of 1974. [More…]

• So are some State governments unpopular, but they do not have a body like the Senate that can say: ‘We will not give you the necessary finance for the responsibilities of government unless you have an election.’ [More…]

• There always has to be the right to have a dissolution if that is wanted but there should not be a right exercisable in another place to force another representative chamber to election. [More…]

• The Opposition has used the power given to it by the Constitution to delay the Appropriation Bills and the Bill we are now debating until such time as the Prime Minister sets an election date for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘the House is of the opinion that the Bill should not be proceeded with until the Prime Minister sets an election date for the House of Representatives because he has misled the people and the Parliament’. [More…]

• The vote of the people of Tasmania in a Senate election is nearly 10 times as great in value as the vote of the people of New South Wales. [More…]

• In each instance there was broken a convention which was laid down to ensure that the people’s voices as expressed in a Senate election would be reflected by maintaining the representation in the Senate. [More…]

• I cite the example that this Government in the last Senate election received 200 000 more votes than all the other political parties and groups put together; yet because of a quirk of the electoral system and because of the States representation the Government did not win a majority. [More…]

• It is using that majority with the object of refusing Supply to this Government and rejecting the Budget of this Government at a time when, if the Senate had been truly representative as it was at the last election, the resolutions that went through the Senate last week would not have been passed. [More…]

• I should have thought that the Opposition which is shortly to face a Senate election, would have enough political nouse to realise that when it attacks consumers or prevents people from defending consumers it is siding with those who would seek to cheat and deceive 99 per cent of the Australian electorate. [More…]

• They will postpone the Bill for a month, hoping that in the meantime there will be an election for the Senate and that the Bill will never reach finality. [More…]

• That in these circumstances the House should fulfill its traditional duty in accordance with the fundamental unwritten convention and carry a vote against the Government, thus bringing about the early election which is so much desired by the great majority of the citizens of Australia; [More…]

• That if members of this House refuse to do their manifest duty under present circumstances the Senate should consider what steps it may take to bring about an early election; [More…]

• That the Prime Minister has indicated that in his desperate efforts to avoid an election he is prepared to plunge Australia into chaos rather than follow the established convention and tender his resignation when he has no funds available; [More…]

• On 24 occasions writs have been issued by State Governors for an election of half the Senate. [More…]

• On every one of those 24 occasions the State Governors, with the advice or acquiescence of their Premiers, have fixed the date of the election as that proposed by the Governor-General. [More…]

• It is the conservatives, or some of them, who are proposing to rebuff the GovernorGeneral if he makes a request as to the Senate election date. [More…]

• If the half-Senate election was denied, and I’m not saying it’s going to be, if the half-Senate election, indeed it has not even been called you know, then of course it would mean if an election was held that the replacement half-Senate election was replaced, the replacements for Senator Bunton and Senator Field would immediately take their place in the Senate. [More…]

• Does this action and the Prime Minister’s refusal to answer questions wipe away the last vestige of open government promised by the Prime Minister in his election campaign? [More…]

• That is why they are so upset at the prospect of an election. [More…]

• This is not to mention the increase in the supporting mothers’ benefit which did not exist before the election of the Whitlam Government. [More…]

• To suggest that this should cause an election in this country right now, at a time when policies are beginning to work is an outrage- not just an outrage on the Australian Labor Government but an outrage on the people of this country. [More…]

• Should the Opposition seek to defeat the Bill by delay, that will be identified clearly in the election campaign. [More…]

• denounces the blatant attempt by the Senate to violate section 28 of the Constitution for political purposes by itself endeavouring to force an early election for the House of Representatives; [More…]

• It seeks to extort an election by blocking a Budget that it will not reject. [More…]

• In 1974 at the election for the Senate the Government candidates received more votesabout 165 000- than the candidates of all other parties in the Senate. [More…]

• It has always been thus and at every election the contending parties assert that proposition. [More…]

• On top of the 3 months clear between the first debate in the 2 Houses and the second debate in the 2 Houses there would have to be an election campaign. [More…]

• Last time there was an election on a double dissolution Australia was without a Parliament for 3 months. [More…]

• Despite every effort to have an early election and a prompt count we were unable to assemble the new Parliament until 9 July. [More…]

• To seek a double dissolution now on other grounds however sound in themselves would simply concede the right of the Senate to send the House of Representatives to an election any time the Senate chose. [More…]

• By that time, there can be an election for both Houses. [More…]

• An election therefore would cause no disruption. [More…]

• The obligation now lies with the Prime Minister to dissolve both Houses of Parliament and to set a date for a Federal election. [More…]

• calls on the Prime Minister to nominate a date for a general election forthwith. [More…]

• On such a statement as that we could have an election every month. [More…]

• Behind this action is a fear that there is to be a half Senate election. [More…]

• They have a pretty shrewd suspicion that they might not do very well in the elections for senators from the Territories. [More…]

• If the Opposition is so convinced that it has public opinion on its side, why are the Liberal and Country Party Premiers falling over themselves to say that if the constitutional half Senate election is held a bit early- it is quite a constitutional time to do so- they will not issue the writs? [More…]

• We think, purely tactically in terms of the election, that the noble Senate will pass the Budget so that we do not have the odium of obstructing the country while deciding when we think there should be an election.’ [More…]

• It has merely come to the conclusion that it has good timing for an election. [More…]

• It is very much afraid that if the majority is lost in the Senate- the majority would be lost in a half Senate election- there will be passed through this Parliament a redistribution Bill conforming to the principles of redistribution contained in the legislation which the High Court has recently upheld as valid- that is, that there may be a variation of 10 per cent above and below the quota. [More…]

• If the measures were rejected, with the irrational nature of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), the Prime Minister and this Government would leave those measures rejected until after an election with consequent harm to many thousands of people. [More…]

• While the measures are deferred it is within our power to resurrect those measures once it is known there is to be a House of Representatives election. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is the leader of the Party that gets the most seats in the election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• ) If so, is Mr Zangalis an official of the Communist Party of Australia, and did he stand as a candidate for that Party at an election for the Victorian State Electoral Division of East Brunswick in 1973. [More…]

• The curious election arrangements for the Senate are such that regardless of the size of a State in terms of population the same number of senators are elected for each State. [More…]

• In the last election this [More…]

• It is obvious that the Prime Minister is playing the last card in the pack; he is trying to get a halfSenate election. [More…]

• The GovernorGeneral must be aware that it is a long shot for the Prime Minister to be able to get control of the Senate by a half-Senate election. [More…]

• There is only one way in which this issue can be solved and that is by the legal constitutional and logical way- an election of this House. [More…]

• If the Prime Minister wants to do so, he could have a half-Senate election at the same time which I believe is normal and proper or, if he has the courage, he could have a double dissolution. [More…]

• We know that time and time again in the past he said that if a financial measure were to be rejected in the Senate there should be an election. [More…]

• Well, we are not going to allow the Prime Minister to have the pleasure of seeing us reject a financial measure and thus allow him to run the economy down while an election takes place. [More…]

• We have said quite clearly that as soon as the Prime Minister is prepared to announce the date of a general election the financial measures will go through. [More…]

• The Treasurer has used such arguments as the claim that if the Senate gets away with its present action we will have an election every 6 months. [More…]

• The passage of the Bill be deferred until a date for a general election be set as the Government has misled the Parliament and the people. [More…]

• Let every member of the Government be aware that we are quite prepared, because we have deferred the Budget, to reconstitute it the moment a date for a general election is set. [More…]

• But of course it was quite legitimate that the Minister should use those words because previously during the Queensland State election campaign- the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) campaigned there strongly but he did not do very well- the Prime Minister made some comments and the Minister supported him in his statement 6 months later. [More…]

• Twelve months before the 1972 election it had the celebrated scheme for a 2 per cent reduction in interest rates. [More…]

• Even if the Opposition were to be successful in forcing an election, the election would go well beyond November. [More…]

• One cannot conceive that they would honestly argue- I would not say that that would stop them from acting- that they would allow the Budget to pass, because the Leader of the Opposition has said that one of the major issues upon which an election would be fought and should be fought is the failure of the Budget- a Budget which he upheld a few weeks ago, a Budget which has not come into operation yet, a Budget which, in fact, if Appropriation is not passed in the Senate in the near future, will increasingly become irrelevant because of the disastrous effects which the behaviour of the Opposition in the Senate will have on the Australian economy. [More…]

• For example in Queensland, prior to the State election late last year and again early this year, hundreds of men employed on road projects were either sacked or threatened with lay-offs because the Queensland Government withheld funds for local government and arterial roads. [More…]

• He is now trying to frighten and blackmail the people by the threat of loss of jobs and services, in order to prevent an election. [More…]

• There is talk that the Prime Minister might seek a half Senate election as a device to avoid judgment on the House of Representatives. [More…]

• A half Senate election would be no solution. [More…]

• A half Senate election must be held between now and 30 June 1976. [More…]

• The primary purpose of that election is to determine the 30 new senators to take their place on 1 July 1976. [More…]

• In addition, such an election will determine the following senators to take their places immediately after that election: Two senators to fill the casual vacancies now held temporarily by Senators Bunton and Field of New South Wales and Queensland; two senators to be elected from the Northern Territory and two from the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• The important point to appreciate is that the Party strengths within the Senate immediately after a half Senate election are unlikely to reflect accurately the mood of the electors at that time. [More…]

• Whether or not the Whitlam Government could control the Senate substantially or wholly after that election would depend upon a number of factors. [More…]

• Finally I would say this, with unfeigned respect for the vice-regal office: I think it would be a singular piece of impertinence on the part of a Prime Minister to go to the Governor-General whose reputation is high and who understands these things very well and ask him for a premature half Senate election calculated and designed hopefully, because of the recent legislation about senators from the Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, to give the Government control of the Senate for a month or two, in which time of course all its legislation which now has been attacked in the Senate could be carried with permanent and, I think, damaging effects on the Australian political structure. [More…]

• The history of separate Senate elections is that the Government does worse at such elections than at a general poll. [More…]

• A Senate election allows a punishment vote without defeating the Government in the lower House. [More…]

• The current public opinion polls indicate that the Government would suffer defeat but probably would win the 2 casual vacancies at a half Senate election. [More…]

• The present situation is that Supply is being denied the Government pending a lower House election. [More…]

• This is a classic technique for bringing about an election. [More…]

• Supply will now run out, according to the Government, before a half-Senate election can be held. [More…]

• A minimum timetable for such an election might be: From writ to polling day, 30 days; counting period, 10 days; period for convening the Senate, 7 days; a total of 47 days or 7 weeks in all. [More…]

• A government could not reasonably ask for Supply to cover a half Senate election for the following cogent reasons: It would be asking an Opposition, which has properly used its constitutional powers to bring about a general election, to support it in its gamble to avert such an election. [More…]

• All evidence suggests that a half Senate election will not resolve the present crisis but will merely prolong it for a further 3 months pending a dissolution. [More…]

• He said: ‘Under no circumstances have a Senate election. [More…]

• We do not want a Senate election, because the 70 per cent who favour passing the Appropriation Bills will give us the result that we do not want’. [More…]

• He does not want a Senate election either. [More…]

• We have faced up to this position and have let the people realise that if the Senate is not stopped on this occasion under the domination of men such as those who sit opposite, the Leader of the Opposition and the right honourable Leader of the National Country Party (Mr Anthony), every three or four months in this country the people will face an election when we come for Supply. [More…]

• Those opposite know as well as I do that they do not want a Senate election under any circumstances. [More…]

• -Could the Minister for Administrative Services inform the House of the cost of conducting a general election in Australia? [More…]

• I am not in a position to give the honourable member accurate figures but I believe a Senate election would cost approximately $3m to $3.5m. [More…]

• The 73 candidates in New South Wales at the last election caused additional overtime and involved counting procedures were made necessary, and great additional costs were incurred. [More…]

• I cannot give the honourable member any more information than that but I will see that he is provided with detailed information regarding the costs of the last six or seven elections in order that he will see the tremendous cost involved particularly because of increased numbers of candidates. [More…]

• One of the proposals is, I gather, that I should seek an audience of His Excellency and advise him that in 6 months I intend to advise him to issue writs for an election of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• When I advise the Governor-General to issue writs for an election for the House of Representatives I shall do it at a time of my own choosing. [More…]

• It is in this House that such decisions are made, and the decisions as to when there will be elections for it are made by persons responsible to this House. [More…]

• Those elections can be held up to the third anniversary of its first meeting after an election. [More…]

• I gather that there is some proposition that the Leader of the Opposition, who on the most favourable issues at most can depend on the votes of half the senators, should himself give advice to the Governor-General as to when there should be elections for the House of Representatives a very novel proposition. [More…]

• When there will be an election for the Senate depends on various factors. [More…]

• I notice that honourable gentlemen opposite have become quite distraught at the prospect that there might be an election for the Senate at the usual time in November or December before the new senators take their places in July. [More…]

• I notice one of my distinguished predecessors said that it would be in effect unconscionable to have an election at that time. [More…]

• He was the right honourable gentleman who advised successive governors-general about the holding of Senate elections more often than any person who has held this position. [More…]

• On one occasion he advised the holding of a Senate election in April; on the other occasions in December, or more often in November and on one occasion in September previously. [More…]

• So it is quite clear that it would be in accordance with precedent for me to advise the Governor-General to request State governors to issue writs for a Senate election in this year. [More…]

• My own preference has always been that the election for senators should take place as close to the time when they take their places as possible. [More…]

• If there had not been a double dissolution there would have been an election for the Senate in May last year. [More…]

• My ordinary view is that elections should take place closer to the expiry time of the shorter term senators. [More…]

• Nevertheless, I am influenced by the advice of the editorials in the Age and the Australian Financial Review to consider an earlier Senate election- on a date such as Sir Robert Menzies and most of my predecessors would have advised. [More…]

• Their sense of outrage was exacerbated by the fact that a Country Party Premier, the Premier of Queensland, who I read is campaigning in the Northern Territory at the moment- one would almost think an election was coming up for the Territory- challenged in the High Court the right of citizens of the Northern Territory to have senators of their choice sitting in the Senate and voting for them. [More…]

• There is another aspect about a Senate election if it were held straight away. [More…]

• Any Premier may advise his Governor, so we now know, to issue writs for an election of senators in his State. [More…]

• As soon as any Governor were to issue writs for the election of senators to take office for his State as from 1 July next, automatically, under the legislation which the High Court has declared valid, there would be an election for the senators from the Territories to take office immediately. [More…]

• It is clear from the public opinion polls that the Australian Labor Party would get the first, third and fifth positions in New South Wales if there was an election. [More…]

• There are very many weighty matters for my consideration and I must ask honourable gentlemen to bear with me while I weigh them and tender my advice to His Excellency on when he should request the Governors to issue writs for an election for the Senate. [More…]

• He mentioned that at the last election the area voted about 80 per cent for Labor. [More…]

• That may have been the position in the last elections but it will not be the case in the next elections. [More…]

• How were the various objectives emphasised by the Australian Labor Party prior to the 1972 election, and shared by this side of the House, in the field of social welfare, in education, urban development and in assistance to the poor to be achieved? [More…]

• He said he did not really lose the election. [More…]

• We never really knew whether he came second but the weight of that comment is now coming clear as the Opposition cries for yet another election, the verdict of which it will not accept if it goes to this Government. [More…]

• Except in some synthetic sense, the election is not about the Budget, it is appropriate to current economic conditions. [More…]

• I assume it is because it still has in the back of its mind that there might be a half Senate election before Christmas. [More…]

• I can assure my honourable friend that he will never lead anything and after the next election he will be back from where he came, scrubbing the streets of his electorate with the heavy broom that the local council issued to him before he came into this place. [More…]

• The manner in which he has administered his portfolio is typical of the way the Government has approached most of the problems of this country and it is no wonder that the people of this nation cannot wait for the next election. [More…]

• Did he accept and in fact assert in 1970 that the proper consequence of the use of such power was the resignation of the government and a general election? [More…]

• What I said in 1970 would, I gather, justify the Senate in rejecting Supply and thus compelling the Government to hold an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• I alone will advise the Governor-General when writs should be issued for an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• The Registrar will determine the manner in which the election is to be conducted and he will explain to the Aborigines the manner in which the election is to be conducted. [More…]

• Strangely enough, in the area about which he was speaking- -Wattie Creek and Hooker Creek about 70 miles south from there- at a previous election a whole block of votes came in all marked with the same pencil and all marked with exactly the same preferences. [More…]

• After all, it is the main legislative body in the Territory in spite of the fact that this Government, more than 12 months after the election of the Assembly on 19 October last year has not given it the powers that were recommended by the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Northern Territory on 2 occasions and which were recommended by the previous Government in October 1972. [More…]

• b) denounces again the blatant attempt by the Senate to violate section 28 of the Constitution for political purposes by itself endeavouring to force an early election for the House of Representatives; [More…]

• The very purpose, openly acknowledged by the Opposition in the Senate, behind its action of delaying the passage of the Appropriation Bills is to force a dissolution of this House and a general election. [More…]

• The Opposition in the Senate does not want a periodic election for vacancies in that House even though one could quite properly be held right now. [More…]

• No, Opposition members have stated time and time again that they will be satisfied with nothing less than a general election for this House. [More…]

• It is clear that they are prepared to go to any lengths to prevent a half Senate election. [More…]

• We now find the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) offering a ‘compromise’that the Senate Opposition will allow the Budget Bills to pass if the Government agrees to a general election for this House to be held by the middle of next year. [More…]

• His new claim is that any Leader of the Opposition accidentally in control of half the senators can dictate the timing of a House of Representatives election. [More…]

• They are, therefore, now beginning to shift ground, but I repeat that they are still making the same unacceptable demand, namely, for a general election for this House. [More…]

• The Government is duty bound to reject the demand and to oppose the course the Senate is attempting to take; that is to say, to determine the timing of a general election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• Senate may hold up an Appropriation Bill until the duly elected Government formed in this House capitulates to the Senate’s demand for a general election of members of this House. [More…]

• Every 6 months a government would have to advise the GovernorGeneral to dissolve the House of Representatives and have an election if the Senate rejected or even, as it is doing at the moment, deferred debate on the Supply and the Budget Bills. [More…]

• They say that if I advise the Governor-General to dissolve the House of Representatives and have an election they will immediately pass this bad Budget. [More…]

• A fortnight ago at a Press conference he said that his proposals were now inoperative; that is, we are asked to have an election for the House of Representatives on the basis of a Budget to which the Opposition presents no alternative and for which they are prepared to vote immediately. [More…]

• It refers to the Senate, but at the last Senate election which was held at the same time as this House was elected the people of Australia, the same electors who elected members of this House, gave the Opposition Parties control of the Senate. [More…]

• deplores the failure of the Prime Minister to resign and set a date for a general election for the House of Representatives as well as the Senate. [More…]

• for the risk to democracy in the failure of the Government to call a general election in accordance with custom and convention. [More…]

• The Government since the election of 1972 has applied the closure of debate on an excessive number of occasions- 103 times in 1973, a total of 1 13 times in 1974 and a total of 148 times so far this year- giving a grand total of 364 occasions since the election of the Australian Labor Party to government; [More…]

• And the Government since the election of 1972 has ruthlessly and callously used the guillotine even though the Liberal and Country Parties in Opposition have said that they are prepared to debate matters out and will agree to extra sittings of this chamber; [More…]

• And the Government since the election of 1972 has applied the guillotine on 26 occasions covering 59 Bills while the Liberal and Country Party in a comparable period, 1970 to 1972, applied the guillotine on 4 occasions covering 25 Bills, and with regard to 17 of those Bills the Labor Party when in Opposition did not oppose the application of the guillotine because it supported the Bills; [More…]

• And the Government since the election of 1972 has reduced the average number of questions asked at question time to twelve compared to eighteen asked at question time in the 3 years preceding the present Government’s election. [More…]

• Attempting to cling to office and refusing to face the people at an election when the aforegoing clearly indicate the present Labor Government’s unfitness to govern. [More…]

• and to ask him for a premature ‘halfSenate’ election … To offer advice to the GovernorGeneral on the lines that have been hinted at would, I think, be both improper and insulting. [More…]

• I doubt whether he would want to contend that there should be a traditional nonAboriginal style of election prescribed in the legislation. [More…]

• Mention has been made of the process of the election of members of a council. [More…]

• for the risk to democracy in the failure of the Government to call a general election in accordance with custom and convention. [More…]

• I think it would be a singular piece of impertinence on the part of the Prime Minister to go to the Governor-General, whose reputation is high, and who understands these things very well, and ask him for a premature ‘half Senate’ election, calculated and designed, hopefully, because of the recent legislation about senators from the Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, to give the Government control of the Senate for a month or two, in which time, of course, all their legislation which now has been attacked in the Senate, could be carried, with permanent, (and I think damaging) effects on the Australian political structure. [More…]

• It is no point to suggest that that can happen merely by holding a half Senate election. [More…]

• The Senate is saying that every 6 months it has the power to require an election for this House, while its own term must remain inviolate under the Constitution. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, it is not just time for the election of a government of Australia but for a parliament of Australiaan election of the whole Parliament of Australia. [More…]

• I shall advise that he issue writs not only for an election of the House of Representatives on 1 8 May but also for the election of a new Senate on 18 May. [More…]

• To talk in terms of a half Senate election does not solve any problem. [More…]

• A half Senate election would lead only to further chaos in this country as moneys would not be available for the normal carrying on of Government services. [More…]

• I ask the questions: Why has the Opposition in the Senate delayed the Budget to force the Whitlam Government to face the people at an election? [More…]

• This is the man who in Opposition sought to force the Government to an election by rejecting Budget money Bills and, as I pointed out, he actually brought about a full election in this country last year because the Senate had threatened him with blocking Supply. [More…]

• It is only because of that that the Senate has been able to attach this presumptuous condition that it will do only what it ought to do- that is, pass Supply- if the Government firstly has a House of Representatives election. [More…]

• It cravenly says: ‘We will only do in the Senate what we ought to do if you first have a House of Representatives election’. [More…]

• My Government will act as a caretaker government and will make no appointments or dismissals or initiate new policies before a general election is held. [More…]

• There will be no royal commissions or inquiries into the activities of this Government throughout the period of the election campaign. [More…]

• Because of the principles of responsible government a Prime Minister who cannot obtain Supply, including money for carrying on the ordinary services of government, must either advise a general election or resign. [More…]

• But both here and in the United Kingdom the duty of the Prime Minister is the same in a most important respect- if he cannot get Supply he must resign or advise an election. [More…]

• There has been discussion of the possibility that a half-Senate election might be held under circumstances in which the Government has not obtained supply. [More…]

• If such advice were given to me I should feel constrained to reject it because a half-Senate election held whilst supply continued to be denied does not guarantee a prompt or sufficiently clear prospect of the deadlock being resolved in accordance with proper principles. [More…]

• If a Prime Minister refuses to resign or to advise an election, and this is the case with Mr Whitlam, my constitutional authority and duty require me to do what I have now done- to withdraw his Commission- and to invite the Leader of the Opposition to form a caretaker governmentthat is one that makes no appointments or dismissals and initiates no policies, until a general election is held. [More…]

• While the turn of political fortune may mean that he will cease to have the Speaker’s chair as a result of the election in this House there is nothing in his record that deserves defeat. [More…]

• I believe that the correspondence of the honourable member for Corio with the Governor-General, with the Queen and then with the Governor-General again will last in this country as significant documents beyond the chances and changes of any election because they are documents of the greatest significance and the principles incorporated in those documents are principles upon which proper parliamentary government in this country will have to proceed. [More…]

• However, knowing of course the composition of this Parliament and the likely election result I can only say that personally I very greatly regret that the Liberal Party did not choose a much more competent man as its nominee for Speaker and one in whom we would have much more confidence. [More…]

• The importance of this election is that we on the Government side of the House are confident that in the right honourable Bill Snedden we have a man who can and will act with the authority of this Parliament, who will act in accordance with the terms of the Australian Constitution. [More…]

• Mr E. G. WHITLAM (Werriwa-Leader of the Opposition)- Mr Speaker, I offer the sincere congratulations of the Opposition on your election to your high and ancient office. [More…]

• Having robbed the bank of integrity and obtained a majority in this House does not make the actions which preceded the election proper any more than the verdict of the Australian people in 1966 reflected what was proper and subsequently proved correct in those days. [More…]

• I have to report that, accompanied by honourable members, I this day proceeded to the Library of the Parliament and presented myself to His Excellency the Governor-General as the choice of the House, and that His Excellency was kind enough to congratulate me on my election as Speaker. [More…]

• I put this point- this is something that honourable members opposite might consider more deeply when we are facing up to the next Federal election- it may well be that this Parliament should start to consider alternation. [More…]

• -I would like to add my congratulations to those offered to the honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock) on his election as Chairman of Committees and as your Deputy, Mr Speaker. [More…]

• I congratulate you, Mr Speaker, on your election to office today. [More…]

• Each and every one of us must remember that the most vital and important functions that we have to fulfil in this place are our responsibility to the electorate, to the people who are our masters- that was said in the recent election- to the government of a democracy and to make sure that we do nothing to lower the standards of this House, the responsibility of this House and the progress of Australia. [More…]

• We said so during the election campaign of 1974; we said so during the election campaign of 1975. [More…]

• The action of the Government in breaking its election promise to support wage indexation. [More…]

• It is indeed ironic that a Government which proclaimed loudly and frequently throughout the recent election campaign that it would bring honesty into government should be publicly exposed as deceitful and dishonest only 7 weeks after it won the election. [More…]

• Its action in opposing the full 6.4 per cent increase in wages claimed by the unions in the recent national wage case was universally interpreted as a breach of an election promise. [More…]

• In statement after statement the Government gave that commitment in the pre-election period. [More…]

• This claim that the Government, in opposing full indexation, was abiding by its election promise simply does not stand up to analysis. [More…]

• Firstly, a report in the Melbourne Age of 28 November which related to the supplementary economic statement which was issued with the Prime Minister’s election policy speech, stated in respect of wage indexation: [More…]

• Furthermore, the Government could hardly now claim that it did not know in this election period what the economic circumstances were likely to be when the case came on. [More…]

• His answer was given before the election, on 9 December. [More…]

• The Opposition in this House has alleged that the Government has broken an election commitment by taking the stand which it did before the Commission. [More…]

• It is worth noting that immediately following that statement in our economic policy released just prior to the election is this second comment: [More…]

• -The matter that we are discussing today, namely, the action of the Government in breaking its election promises to support wage indexation, is essentially a discussion about credibility. [More…]

• Already in its short 3 months of office it has broken almost every election promise it made. [More…]

• Great play was made of words used by the previous Treasurer about indirect taxes and that the Government was standing firm to its pre-election promises. [More…]

• Prior to the election the Government took full page advertisements in the daily Press. [More…]

• -The motion moved by the Opposition makes the specious, hypocritical charge that this Government has broken an election promise. [More…]

• That record was brought out very forcibly in the last election campaign. [More…]

• I might say that during the election campaign I went to and worked in the electorates of both of them to see that they did not get here but apparently my efforts were not of any avail. [More…]

• I am not going to quibble with the result of the election on 13 December. [More…]

• The numbers are evidence enough of what the result of the election was. [More…]

• In the middle of our term we were forced to an election that we ought not to have needed. [More…]

• We won that election, but despite that the harassment continued in the Senate immediately we returned to office in July 1974 to try to carry on the work of government. [More…]

• Firstly, allow me to congratulate you, Mr Deputy Speaker, and to convey to both the Speaker and you my congratulations on your reelection and the election of the Right Honourable Member for Bruce (Mr Snedden) to the very high offices you both hold in this Parliament. [More…]

• Several of Australia’s leading journalists have tried to extract that assurance from Mr Fraser since the election. [More…]

• I now refer honourable members to a second advertisement that the Liberal Party used throughout Australia during the election campaign. [More…]

• The Thirtieth Parliament meets after an election caused by the dismissal of the Whitlam Government and the dissolution of the Twenty-Ninth Parliament by the arbitrary action of the Governor-General. [More…]

• Indeed fear will strike the breasts of many who know that at the next election the voters will wreak their revenge for the broken promises and blatant corruption of the Fraser Ministry. [More…]

• Members opposite will gloat and say: ‘But we won the election. [More…]

• In that period of uncertainty called an election campaign the present Prime Minister rode his trail bike or his horse, or something else, around the countryside offering all sorts of deals to try to re-establish his honour. [More…]

• Since the last election there have been a number of most important international events of which this House should be aware and which must be taken into account in the formulation of our foreign policy in the future. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Speaker, I first offer my congratulations to you on your election as the Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees in this chamber and ask you to pass on my congratulations to Mr Speaker. [More…]

• -The tragedy of the election of 1975 was that a number of reasonable men in the Labor Party lost their seats. [More…]

• A number of members probably deserved to lose their seats but did not, but that is the fault of the pre-selection system which the Opposition has. [More…]

• In my view the Opposition has a need to develop new policies to put forward to the Australian electorate at the next election. [More…]

• I think it is probably well worth going back to the election campaign before last when many people will recall the full page advertisements sponsored by the Australian Labor Party and showing photographs of its leader at that time, the man who is still the leader, and saying in very bold type: ‘Only Whitlam can reduce inflation by a third. ‘ [More…]

• This was the man who presided over the quadrupling of inflation in Australia, yet members of the Australian Labor Party come in here and talk about deceit by our coalition in the election campaign. [More…]

• The honourable member is sitting behind a Prime Minister who came out in the election campaign and promised to cure inflation and unemployment overnight. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, I congratulate you on your election to your office and I would be pleased if you would pass on to Mr Speaker my congratulations on his election. [More…]

• I remember some constituents coming into my office during the post-election period. [More…]

• I want to raise a matter that occurred in my electorate just prior to the 1975 election and I do so because of the publicity that has been given to the recent charge against one of the Government’s supporters who was formerly a Minister. [More…]

• About 3 weeks prior to the election date I received a visit in my office from the Deputy Shire President of the Gosford Shire Council, Councillor Don Leggett, who informed me that he was one of 4 nonmembers of the Liberal Party who had been approached to stand as Independents in an attempt to drag votes away from the Labor Party in the traditional Labor Party area of Woy Woy. [More…]

• During the course of the election campaign they were very active in sending me telegrams seeking my agreement to a proposed course of action in respect of its development. [More…]

• Has the Attorney-General completed and submitted to the Australian Electoral Officer, New South Wales, Form G (Return of Electoral Expenses) as required under section 152 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act for the 1975 election? [More…]

• Did he complete this form after the 1 974 election? [More…]

• Despite the valiant attempts to distort our intentions the Australian Labor Party’s free and open discussion of the concept together with the specific details given during the 1969 election campaign, gained a sympathetic response from the electorate. [More…]

• During the election campaign the Liberals offered their guarantee to cover medical expenses up to all but $5 of the medical bills. [More…]

• By the time of the 1972 election, despite the cat calls from the Liberal Party and the Country Party, the AMA and the very profitable so-called non-profit medical and hospital benefit funds- the medical business lobby I referred to earlier- we had amended out financial assessments upwards and we won the support of the Australian community. [More…]

• I know he has offered the rationalisation that his broken election promises should be seen as evidence of his flexibility in the light of better information. [More…]

• He has already changed direction on nearly everything on which he claimed he won the election. [More…]

• He certainly won the election. [More…]

• When Mr Fraser was elected Leader of the Opposition he said that he would not force an early election and he would not block Medibank. [More…]

• If one fears that the December 1975 approach might prevail- remember the promise to curb all the Labor Government’s extravagances and inefficiencies, of which Medibank was a part, in Liberal eyes, and this view has been reinforced by the move to set up a 3 -man inquiry very soon after the election, I suggest you toss a coin. [More…]

• It is symptomatic of Labor’s living in the past and its bitterness at the fact that it lost the election that its supporters have not bothered to check the Governor-General’s Speech made last Tuesday. [More…]

• When one considers the entry requirements into the scheme and the row that occurred in respect of the entry by New South Wales, which is the most important State in Australia so far as the scheme is concerned, and considers also the fact that no State in Australia was paid any of the money owing to it for the hospital side of Medibank before the December election, they will see that the Labor Government had given instructions that there was to be no payment to the States for the hospital side of Medibank until this new year. [More…]

• In his telegram of congratulations on the election result the Japanese Prime Minister expressed the wish for an early conclusion of the treaty of friendship and cooperation between Australia and Japan. [More…]

• The entire constitutional upheaval that this country witnessed, the personal bickering between families and friends, was simply the result of a greed for power that could not wait 1 8 months for a legitimate election. [More…]

• Our objection to what happened before the last election was that the then Leader of the Opposition the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), knew that the GovernorGeneral of Australia would only accept a double dissolution but the then Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, did not know. [More…]

• I can assure the previous speaker, the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating), that the issues in the last election were well and truly understood by the electors of St George and the electors of Australia. [More…]

• I do not think that this matter was an election issue or that it is an overtly popular issue. [More…]

• -Mr Speaker, may I take this opportunity of congratulating you on your election as Speaker. [More…]

• If it was fairly removed, what a great need there is for somebody, whoever it may be, in a speech deemed to be the Governor-General’s Speech, to refer to the fact that we cannot possibly continue to operate under these rules, because it means this: Whenever a Senate, whatever its political complexion, rejects Supply, we, the House of the people, must face an election. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Speaker, as I rise to speak for the first time in the House may I add my congratulations on your election as Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees to those honourable members who have preceded me. [More…]

• I also ask you to convey my congratulations to Mr Snedden on his election as Speaker. [More…]

• -Mr Speaker, firstly I congratulate the honourable member for Casey (Mr Falconer) on his maiden speech and you, Sir, on your election as Speaker. [More…]

• The Governor-General refused to grant a half Senate election. [More…]

• I was amused a few days after the election when I saw what was said by one of the tycoons of the business world, Mr Rod Carnegie, a man who is held in great respect, and I think by the general manager of Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd. Mr Carnegie said: ‘Mr Fraser will solve the economic problems of this country if the world economy improves. [More…]

• I have a lot of respect for Mr Carnegie, but I thought it was strange that he waited until the day after the elections to make those predictions. [More…]

• They are part of the build-up to the election from 1 1 November. [More…]

• The newspapers were giving a totally biased view of what was happening in the election campaign. [More…]

• Never in our history have we seen an election campaign in which a man was allowed to get away with so much. [More…]

• In almost every area what was said during the election campaign is being reversed now, reinterpreted now or has an escape clause now. [More…]

• I believe this side of the House represents a liberal view which the middle ground of Australia, having already turned to in desperation at the last election, will in fact see as its intellectual home. [More…]

• -Mr Speaker, may I follow the usual traditional courtesies and first of all congratulate you on your election to your high office. [More…]

• The pre-election document was primarily a strategy for recovery, the emphasis being on income tax cuts, the problems of companies, the Mathews recommendations and so on. [More…]

• For example, I have not seen one statement from the Government since the election on the problems of the corporate sector unless it was that its quarterly taxation payments adjustments have been deferred and, if I may say so, that is a very minimal allowance. [More…]

• It is a pretty rapid change over the 3 months in the attitude that was sold by the Liberals and their National Country Party colleagues prior to the election and the attitude that has been adopted since the election. [More…]

• Like other members who have spoken before me today and yesterday, I would like you to convey my congratulations to Mr Speaker on his election to such a high office and also my congratulations to the Chairman of Committees, the honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock). [More…]

• That being the case, it gives me much pleasure to congratulate him on his election to the Speakership. [More…]

• I thank the present honourable member for Barton for the tribute that he paid to Len Reynolds who voluntarily retired at the last election. [More…]

• The election of 13 December- preceded as it was by connivance, conspiracy and obstruction against the elected government- has thrown up the remarkable results which can now be seen in this chamber. [More…]

• Westinghouse Corporation, William Jentes of Kirkland and Ellis, Chicago, was able to predict and publish in Nucleonics Week of 6 November 1975 that there would be an election in Australia on 13 December- right to the day. [More…]

• Of course that was in connection with the incessant competition for energy resources in the United States and he was able to indicate that uranium would be available at bargain basement prices after the election which he predicted 5 weeks prior to it occurring. [More…]

• I put these matters not in a way which is designed to disparage the Governor-General because I have participated loyally in these processes since 1955 following my first election. [More…]

• What were the election issues? [More…]

• The election certainly was not just about the question of dole bludgers although many Australians could reasonably be expected to believe that was the case as a result of the indoctrinating processes that took place through the media in this country. [More…]

• The election was certainly not fought on the alleged improprieties concerned with the loans affair because Khemlani has been discredited with all his insinuation and innuendo. [More…]

• Yet I believe in effect the election was about the loans affair; it was about Labor’s bid to gain public equity of a substantial degree in Australia’s resources; it was about the world’s biggest supply of natural gas worth thousands of millions of dollars lying off the North- West Shelf of Australia of which people were demanding delivery. [More…]

• So the poor old Australian was mesmerised into thinking that the election was about dole bludgers. [More…]

• Disillusioned as the people of Australia must be now, the facts are that all the time this election was about the intention of a Labor Government to gain control over the equity in Australia’s natural resources. [More…]

• So we see the election issues have been distorted in the way they have been conveyed to the Australian people. [More…]

• When the former Government took over in 1973 the inflation rate was 5 per cent and when they lost the election on 13 December last the inflation rate was 17 per cent. [More…]

• You contrived an election 18 months ahead of time and you won.’ [More…]

• The Labor Party was defeated at the election on 13 December 1975 and it accepts the verdict of the people’. [More…]

• The people were led to believe that the decision to sack the Whitlam Government was based on an impartial and proper interpretation of the Constitution and therefore the constitutional powers of the Houses were not an issue at the election. [More…]

• Does anyone believe that this corrupt Government which came to office at a premature election founded on a grand conspiracy will do anything to update the constitution? [More…]

• Never before in Australian history- that is, until the last election campaign- has there been a strike by working journalists against the censorship activities and distortion of copy by media proprietors. [More…]

• I congratulate you, Mr Deputy Speaker, on your election and I ask you to convey to the Speaker the congratulations of all people in Tasmania. [More…]

• I think it is fair to say that whilst his election to office- the highest office that the Parliament can offer to any of its members- has been received with great enthusiasm right across the country, nowhere has it been received with more unbounded joy than in the state of Tasmania to which he paid so much attention and has displayed such loyalty over such a long period of time. [More…]

• As I said at the declaration of the poll, my only regret in being a member of this House is that my election was at his expense. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite apparently still have not got the message that they lost the election. [More…]

• It is the greatest thing going to see a federalism policy; not something that was dreamed up in the dark and hidden away but something which was made available to the public of Australia to look at for months and months before the election. [More…]

• The most critical question facing Tasmania and I believe the question upon which the Labor Government fell upon the rocks of ruin in our State was its failure to honour a simple, basic election pledge given in 1972 and repeated in 1 974, namely, to equalise freight rates between Tasmania and the mainland States. [More…]

• Mr Whitlam ‘s 1975 election present- he did not know that it was going to be an election present then- was a 40 per cent increase in Tasmanian freight rates. [More…]

• They are out of work because of economic mismanagement and bungling by a government which did not care, a government which did not come near us, except at election time, and which thought that it could come over to Tasmania and sell us a good story. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, the people of Swan when I spoke to them during the long election campaign were much more concerned about the long term effects of faulty economic policies than they were about the immediate effects of unemployment. [More…]

• I think the proof of that is in the election result. [More…]

• Victory at an election does not necessarily make any action right. [More…]

• He called on the new Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to clarify the election promise of amnesty for illegal immigrants. [More…]

• Prior to the South Australian State election Mr Dunstan was running away from any association with the Federal Labor Party. [More…]

• -Mr Lucock, Mr Deputy Speaker, I should like to join in congratulations to you on your election to your office, and to express my surprise at your being re-elected to Parliament. [More…]

• I should be pleased if you would convey to Mr Speaker my congratulations on his election to the Speakership. [More…]

• I ask you to convey my congratulations to the Speaker of the House for his election to the Speakership, with the high office and responsibility that he has in this Thirtieth Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]

• The only difference between late November 1975 and January, February or March 1976 is that in November an election was nigh. [More…]

• In 1976 no election is due for 3 years. [More…]

• Certainly the Prime Minister’s 75- minute sojourn into the electorate during the last election campaign hardly puts him in a good position to understand the constituent needs. [More…]

• If the Prime Minister thinks he got a rough reception from his opponents at Northcote Town Hall during the election campaign let him try to ignore the common man’s interests and he will see the wrath of the whole Labor movement against him. [More…]

• The idle waffling and deception of the election campaign are now well and truly over. [More…]

• Promises given at the election in December are nowhere to be found. [More…]

• And this from a Government which did all in its power, at whatever cost to parliamentary conventions, traditions and ordinary decencies, to force an election. [More…]

• A Minister is being prosecuted, election promises have been broken or side-stepped. [More…]

• Nothing can be forgiven a government which has forced an election by breaking all the rules and has come to power on a tide of nauseating moral fervour and self-righteousness. [More…]

• What flexibility is shown by dumping wage indexation 2 months after the election- a promise based on cost-of-living figures widely anticipated, indeed publicly forecast throughout the campaign by the Prime Minister himself? [More…]

• It was as clear and unqualified as an election promise can be. [More…]

• It was the showpiece of the Prime Minister’s election policy. [More…]

• The whole Liberal prospectus at the last election is revealed as a house of cards. [More…]

• The Government’s whole election program is now seen to depend on semantics and verbal legerdemain. [More…]

• Before the election all the talk was of recovery, of tax cuts, of the needs of companies, of the Mathews recommendations. [More…]

• This in itself is a breach of insistent pre-election guarantees that no system of double taxation was contemplated, but the matter of Liberal credibility is comparatively trivial. [More…]

• It means that the Senate can send the House of Representatives to an election twice a year without itself facing the people. [More…]

• It means that, in filling casual vacancies in the Senate, a State government can ignore the will of the voters at the previous election. [More…]

• It means that State governors may issue writs for a Senate election according to their own whim or that of their political advisers. [More…]

• There are more grounds for holding that it was a matter for the Governor-General’s personal discretion to submit to the people the Bill on which the 2 Houses had twice disagreed for a referendum for simultaneous elections of both Houses. [More…]

• It has never been explained why the Governor-General having ordained a dissolution and a general election, did not submit this referendum to the people. [More…]

• It should not be too much to hope that it will sponsor a referendum to end the system of separate elections for the 2 Houses which the Menzies Government introduced in 1953 and again in 1963; otherwise we may have separate elections again in 1978. [More…]

• It is true, as the last election showed, that the view of the old psalmist put in a secular sense ‘for here have we no continuing city’ is indeed a very real fact of life. [More…]

• I have no wish to injure my friend’s feelings but I tell him, on the basis of a very substantial friendship, that never before has a party been led with firmer assurance into the bleakness of the Opposition benches as was the Labor Party at the last election. [More…]

• I do not wish to try to bring my honourable friend out of the past, but I remind him of the fact that the election is over. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman, if he had had the courage, if he had had the sense of judgment, would have had at his disposal an opportunity to have secured a half Senate election. [More…]

• I join with other members in congratulating you, Mr Speaker, on your election to the high office of Speaker, and to the honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock) on his election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• All the reactionary forces combined with the Liberal Party of Australia, the National Country Party and the Press barons to organise the last election when the Government was unpopular. [More…]

• The Labor Government was under constant pressure for an election within 24 hours of being elected in 1972, and it was under that pressure that it endeavoured to operate during its 3 years of office. [More…]

• This was a period when the Labor Government was pushed to the people twice for an election. [More…]

• The vested interests of these few among us contrived to force this election. [More…]

• It is possible that under normal election circumstances the Liberal-Country parties would have been elected to Government. [More…]

• In the Liberal Party’s pOliCY speech of the 1 975 election Mr Fraser said that his government would stand by the Liberal Party’s commitment to abolish the means test for pensioners. [More…]

• At this time I would like to extend my congratulations to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, to the Speaker and to the Chairman of Committees upon your and their election to these high offices in this House. [More…]

• Mr Killen, who criticised the Senate for summoning a South Australian private citizen to the Bar today, said the Senate had no right to refuse Supply and force an election. [More…]

• He said there was no right to force an election by refusing Supply. [More…]

• The subject of the events leading up to 11 November has been canvassed and canvassed extremely well by those members of my Party who spoke earlier in this debate, but I feel that I have a duty- a duty to thousands of staunch Labor supporters in my electorate of Melbourne- to add my voice to the condemnation of the events that led to the election of last December. [More…]

• The vast majority of Australia’s journalists did a magnificent job during the election campaign only to see time and time again their stories rewritten or not appearing at all because they were squashed by the barons of the Press who think that they can run this country. [More…]

• As one of my constituents suggested to me only the other day, now that a Press council is going to be set up, why bother going to all the expense of having elections. [More…]

• Some erstwhile journalist by the name of Max Newton once said when interviewed on television over a matter in which journalists were very involved- a document they produced on a free Press- that when the election date is announced the individuals like Sir Philip Jones, Frank Packer and others who control the Press of this country will meet not to decide whom they will support but to decide how they will support the conservative elements and the blue-bloods of this country who think they have been born to rule. [More…]

• I offer my congratulations to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, on your election to your high office and, through you, to Mr Speaker on his election to his office. [More…]

• I look forward to prompt action being taken in carrying out the election promises made by the Government concerning the assistance required to ensure the survival of so many small businesses. [More…]

• I think it is worth nothing that the election which was held as recently as 2 months ago was fought largely on the basis of security of employment and the extreme hardship which has been caused by the highest levels of unemployment since the depression. [More…]

• I can recall some years ago being at Bowen in Queensland campaigning in connection with a State election. [More…]

• The honourable member probably had to make this speech tonight because of some financial donation that the abattoirs gave towards his election campaign. [More…]

• -It should be based on the percentage vote of each political party at the previous election. [More…]

• In the last election campaign I said several times that the Australian Labor Party was considering a package which was very similar. [More…]

• With all its huffing and puffing about opposing the legislation when we sought to introduce it in the first place, during the election campaign and since then the Liberal Party has indicated quite firmly that it intends to maintain Medibank. [More…]

• To be truthful, the previous Government was caught, at the time of an election, in an economic trough. [More…]

• It was defeated at that election because the principal weapon which governments have in this country was lost- the power of timing. [More…]

• That above all, is the reason for the people making their decision at the last election. [More…]

• I produce just one figure to illustrate the circumstances in which the election was held. [More…]

• I refer to the obligation of full employment during the term of the previous Government and in the month immediately after the election. [More…]

• That is what we are talking about and that is why during the last election we came, in a social sense, to a turning point in Australian life. [More…]

• On the night of the last election on 13 December I think that the honourable member for Lalor made a very clear point when he bitterly pointed out that historically the Labor movement had not found much success in Australia. [More…]

• At the election of 1 3 December last we witnessed the people of Australia remove from office a discredited Whitlam Labor Government and saw installed the present Liberal-National Country Party Government with the greatest majority that any Australian Government has enjoyed since Federation. [More…]

• In fact, he and his Party endeavoured to force a former Liberal-Country Party government to an election on these very grounds not so very long ago. [More…]

• In the weeks prior to 1 1 November the then Prime Minister realised that because of his Government’s blunders it would face certain defeat at an election. [More…]

• There was, he loudly proclaimed, no need to call a general election. [More…]

• The Labor Prime Minister had stated he would not call an election. [More…]

• He appointed a caretaker government and a caretaker Prime Minister charged with the sole duty of calling an election and allowing the people of Australia quite rightly to decide the issue once and for all and for themselves. [More…]

• It should be placed on record that had he not acted when he did an election would not have been possible before Christmas and many public servants and others would have remained unpaid. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Lalor bitterly pointed out on the night of the election, historically the Labor movement has not found much success in Australia. [More…]

• Mr Whitlam is the only Party official who would know all the details of secret donations offers at election time. [More…]

• I express my regret that at the election in 1975 I lost so many good friends and colleagues from my Party. [More…]

• Might I say that Mr Ray Thorburn is already on the track ready to recover the seat of Cook at the next election. [More…]

• The next subject I wish to raise is not one that I enjoy raising but I raise it because during the election campaign the Liberal Party’s slogan was ‘Turn on the Lights’. [More…]

• The latest in this saga of the election debt of my Liberal opponent in the amount of $868.50 is that on 17 February 1976 a letter setting out in chronological order the arrangements made for the catering was delivered to the Liberal candidate. [More…]

• I merely ask now: How many other Liberal candidates have outstanding election debts, and what is the supposedly high principled Liberal Party prepared to do about this amount which is owed to the proprietor of Mobile Kitchens? [More…]

• That is just one other Liberal Party election pledge that has been broken since 1 3 December. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Speaker, I rise to speak at this time because of a deep concern with the obvious large number of examples of sinister malpractice during the last federal election campaign. [More…]

• He claims that he was offered expenses to run for election, and it was he who claims that three others were approached. [More…]

• But now, Mr Deputy Speaker, my chief concern is the election campaign in Batman, my own electorate. [More…]

• Having had past experience as Leader of the Opposition, in which position the Prime Minister is unlikely to serve again, will he say whether he would have been able to find the time to engage in a social breakfast with people he had not met before and for no apparent reason, just 3 days before a Federal election? [More…]

• That would indeed have been very inflationary had it occurred, but following the election result on 13 December last year the rumours which had been circulating for some weeks that the Australian dollar would be devalued gathered momentum and were further heightened by the official leaking on 15 December of the capital movement figures which showed a large net outflow. [More…]

• I reject now, as I did during the course of the recent election campaign any suggestion that our policy could in any way be described as a credit squeeze. [More…]

• It claimed right through the period of the last Government and particularly during the 2 election campaigns that the Labor Government was responsible for the economic ills of this country and solely responsible for what was happening- solely responsible for the massive increase in inflation, which we admit occurred as it occurred everywhere else, and for the recession which followed that inflation. [More…]

• Already we find the Treasurer saying that it will take some time to bring about an economic recovery, it will be a difficult process, it will be a full 3-year program, and making all the cautionary comments that were never made when the Government was in Opposition or for the month before the last election when it was the caretaker Government. [More…]

• In recognition of the serious financial plight facing the industry the coalition parties undertook to implement this recommendation in their election policy program. [More…]

• During the last election campaign the Labor Government got itself into a bind in being severely anti-State, in having starved the States of funds and so on. [More…]

• Well before the last election the seed was germinating for this new idea within the Treasury Committee of my own Party. [More…]

• It was the only truly innovative policy espoused during the entire campaign of the last election. [More…]

• During the last election campaign whenever I had the chance to put this new federation POliCY to areas in my electorate, people of all political colours were tremendously attracted by it. [More…]

• I hope the Victorians who happen to be listening to this debate and for whom a State election is looming will not forget his words. [More…]

• There was only one in Queensland but we will round him up at the next election and give him the treatment that his Party’s handout mentality and money grows-on-trees attitude thoroughly deserves. [More…]

• For the Hansard record, the following election results tell the tale in Queensland and the Queenslanders response to the challenge that was thrown out to them by the good decent men in the Senate who set in motion the machinery which allowed Sir John Kerr to be enshrined in the annals of this country as a statesman and a person who refused to bow to what the Labor Party manipulators believed was an irresistible force. [More…]

• The election in 1969 indicated in Queensland, even at that time, a 0.4 per cent swing against the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that in the 1975 election the National Country Party obtained 37.8 per cent of the votes in the electorates it contested, a 4 per cent increase on the 1972 result, and obtained a grand total of 26.7 per cent of the total votes registered in that State. [More…]

• The election of democratically minded Labor men will make unions progressive and trustworthy again. [More…]

• They have to oppose such unions as the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, which led by Laurie Carmichael, will have a $10m fee income to spend on activities such as the gestapo tactics employed by certain trade unions in the last election, unions which stood over men demanding money and ordering them to leave their jobs to attend meetings addressed by the former Prime Minister. [More…]

• I have already congratulated you, Mr Deputy Speaker, and Mr Speaker, on your election to your offices. [More…]

• In speaking to the amendment, one cannot help referring to the circumstances of the last election. [More…]

• I shall not go into the detail of how that election was brought about. [More…]

• I can remember that in 1966, although I was not in the Federal Parliament then, the Party to which I belong suffered a crushing defeat in Federal elections. [More…]

• If that is so, that House must have financial preeminence, otherwise after each election when it came to the formation of a government the question would arise as to who can form a government. [More…]

• -Like many other honourable members, Mr Deputy Speaker, I wish to convey my congratulations to you and through you to the Speaker upon your election to your respective high offices. [More…]

• One honourable member made some brief remarks about the proposal that secret ballots should be introduced for the election of office bearers in trade unions. [More…]

• It is very enlightening, I would suggest, and very instructive to see what is said by those who are opposed to that principle of secret ballots for the election of union office bearers. [More…]

• Such people point to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and say that an organisation cannot be registered unless provision is made in its rules for the election of its office bearers by secret ballot. [More…]

• The election takes place in the union offices. [More…]

• I do not know much about the internal workings of the offices of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union but I think it would take a high degree of charity to regard them as anything like the implementation of a proper system of democratic elections. [More…]

• It is extremely unlikely that that union’s election of office bearers is conducted on any democratic principles at all. [More…]

• No doubt Mr Halfpenny and his colleagues would point again to the rules of their organisation which say that not only is the election of office bearers to be conducted by a secret ballot but also there is an enforcement provision; there is- to use that dreadful expression- a penal clause in the rules of that union to guarantee that the election is conducted properly. [More…]

• It states that if there is any attempt to intimidate people in the course of their voting or if there is any attempt to manipulate the election, a fine shall be imposed on the person responsible. [More…]

• One can imagine how the prospect of a fine of 25c or $2 would terrorise anyone in that union who might be tempted to exert any influence over the conduct of an election in that union. [More…]

• Until they have that say we cannot describe the election of those office bearers as a democratic process. [More…]

• The Governor-General’s Speech was notable for its failure to acknowledge the election promises of this Government. [More…]

• Or is this just another piece of window dressing for the purpose of the election campaign in Victoria? [More…]

• The Prime Minister and the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) talk of increasing confidence in the economy yet the Prime Minister reneged on his election promise on wage indexation. [More…]

• I beleve that some of the Labor policies, such as the Australian Assistance Plan, were moving in the right direction, but the election results must show conclusively that the people of Australia are now aware that schemes to ensure social justice must be coupled with sound economic management. [More…]

• During my election campaign I saw many residents of the Huon Valley, who are dependent on the timber industry for their livelihood. [More…]

• This is one of the reasons why an early election was forced by the misuse of the Senate, by the abuse of constitutional conventions. [More…]

• There are other reasons too why an early election was forced on the Australian community. [More…]

• In the election campaign itself there was a willingness by the coalition Parties to dissemble before the electorate about their policy proposals and there was a complicity among the Press in Australia in a villainous conspiracy to veil the defects and the impracticability of the coalition Parties’ proposals from the attention of the public. [More…]

• I move to the next point which I mentionedthe dissembling of the Liberal and National Country Parties in the course of the election campaign. [More…]

• Prior to the suspension of the sitting I was pointing out that the Government was able to dissemble before the Australian electorate in the last election campaign and through the comfortable accommodation of the Press- I distinguish here between the people who control the Press and the working journalists towards whom I direct no criticism in this respect- was never brought to account. [More…]

• On 24 February in his own newspaper he was reported as having said, inter aha that the media deserved criticism for its performance in the recent Federal election. [More…]

• I congratulate Mr Macdonald for making that exposition at this stage although I feel a little uneasy that he has decided that now the election is over and the Labor Government has been defeated and is safely out of the way, the time is appropriate for fair reporting. [More…]

• Presumably the time for fair reporting to end will be short of the next election campaign. [More…]

• For that reason the Government had as a major plank in its election program the introduction of tax indexation to force governments to be honest. [More…]

• -Mr Speaker, I extend to you and the Chairman of Committees, the honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock) my congratulations on your election. [More…]

• But I say to the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) that there has never been a greater swindle sheet perpetrated on this country than was perpetrated by the Liberal and National Country Parties during the last election. [More…]

• Over the last few months the newspapers of this country have taken the opportunity to criticise any Labor member who has questioned the events which led up to the last election. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Speaker, I congratulate you on your election to that office. [More…]

• Through you, I congratulate Mr Speaker on his election to the office of Speaker of the Thirtieth Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]

• While I am congratulating people, I congratulate also the honourable member for Grayndler ( Mr Antony Whitlam ) on his election to this Parliament. [More…]

• We heard it all during the 1975 election campaign. [More…]

• After the 1974 election the Liberal and National Country parties thought they could still prevent the introduction of Medibank because legislation had not been passed to provide for the financing of Medibank. [More…]

• We now know that since the election on 13 December the Liberal and National Country parties have been considering introducing a taxation levy to pay for Medibank. [More…]

• I think that any fair minded person who had a look at how the Labor Party was treated following its election to office in 1972 must agree that members of the Labor Party had every right to feel that they had been treated unjustly and that the umpire had certainly not been fair. [More…]

• But that election defeat was not the complete wipeout that one would be led to believe by what some people on the other side of the House have said. [More…]

• Because of what happened in the course of that election campaign, the membership of those sub-branches has doubled; they are much more solid and are working much harder. [More…]

• One of the first actions of the Labor Government on coming to office- and this possibly helped more Country Party candidates than other candidates in the election was the introduction of the isolated children’s scholarship. [More…]

• The people of Holt also would expect me on this occasion to thank Sir Robert Menzies for his courteous message to us after the election. [More…]

• A new Government was subsequently elected by what we call a democratic election. [More…]

• The CIA apparently feared that Pine Gap was under threat, particularly as the agreement with the United States of America came up for renewal on 10 December 1975 which, it is interesting to note, was 3 days before the forced election. [More…]

• The question which I ask the Government Parties is this: How much of that billion dollars did they receive for their election campaign? [More…]

• It is a great personal pleasure for me to join others in congratulating Mr Speaker on his election to such a high and important office and the honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock) on his restoration to his near traditional position of Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• I am sure the honourable member will remember the election campaign when the former Minister, Mr Uren, issued Press releases at the rate of something like two or three a day which floated this idea of regional office accommodation and the idea of forcing’dispersing’ is the word that was used in the Press releases but ‘forcing’ is really what was meantpublic servants to go and live in, say, AlburyWodonga, or in the places the honourable member mentioned tonight, such as Blacktown and Campbelltown, Broadmeadow and Watsoniaplaces that I understand are as far as 30 or 40 miles out of Melbourne. [More…]

• I did not meet Mr Reuben F. Scarf at any time during 1972 and certainly not about the time of the election. [More…]

• This Bill is the latest in the procession of repudiated promises of this corrupt conservative Government, which is rapidly creating new records of unemployment and inflation and has in its short term established an all time record of repudiated election promises. [More…]

• The conservative parties, in their election policy on civil aviation, stated that they would defer further implementation of the 80 per cent cost recovery plan of air navigation charges until proper studies and comparisons of cost recovery with other forms of transport were made. [More…]

• However, on 6 February this year the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon), in a neat side step of his Government’s election campaign promise not to increase air navigation charges, claimed that by increasing air navigation charges by 15 per cent, retrospective to 1 December, the Government has confirmed its election promise. [More…]

• -It is very difficult to understand the logic of the honourable member for Shortland (Mr Morris) when he asserts that this Government has reneged on its promise in relation to civil aviation made during the election campaign. [More…]

• But I feel it is important to point out that, had there not been an election last year, on the proposals of the previous Government we would have been facing much higher increases in general aviation charges and air navigation charges than those which are to be imposed by the present Government. [More…]

• He will take as much as he can get and by God, Liberal-Country Party governments have really doled it out for him in return for the election payments he gives them, the sums he puts into their campaign funds. [More…]

• -Why does not the honourable member support the legislation, if he has the guts to do so, to permit a full inquiry into election contributions? [More…]

• We will be in it but your mob will not because you are not game to let the people of this country know from where you get your election funds. [More…]

• That situation was changed after the election of December 1972. [More…]

• I remind him that had his Party not polled so lamentably in the last election it might have been able to provide more speakers. [More…]

• This is in line with the policy we laid down prior to the election when I gave the commitment publicly that we would have a look at the total recovery program to see whether it was based fairly and properly. [More…]

• We in fact followed closely the proposals we had made during the course of the election campaign. [More…]

• Because there was an election on and the Government had to pussyfoot because it depended on the support of the National Country Party. [More…]

• In doing so I take the opportunity of extending to you my congratulations and asking you to convey to Mr Speaker, a fellow Western Australian, my congratulations on his election to that high office of this House. [More…]

• This was an increase of four and one respectively compared with the 1974 election. [More…]

• We who took part in the recent election know that the people of Australia judged the Governor-General’s action to be not only heroic but also crucial and right; and the proof of their judgment is before us all. [More…]

• Any government will go out on its ear if the Governor-General is going to be given the right to sack the Prime Minister of the day half way through his term and appoint his opponent in his place as the caretaker Prime Minister until an election is held. [More…]

• We will recall that it was in that month that this country was once again thrown into an election in mid-term, with the opposing parties taking opposite viewpoints on the question of wage indexation. [More…]

• It was a perfectly democratic system of election. [More…]

• The election was to be conducted by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer. [More…]

• This has been the bleat by people opposite since they were elected and during the course of the election campaign. [More…]

• In a half Senate election there are 5 senators to be elected in each of the States. [More…]

• I do not think it could be denied by anybody that in a half Senate election the 2 principal political partiesthat is, the coalition and the Australian Labor Party- each nominates 2 people from each State to sit in that chamber. [More…]

• They should realise that more people voted for the Labor Party in the last election than voted for the Liberal Party. [More…]

• If honourable members opposite are sincere about ensuring that crisis does not arise again, will they agree to support a proposition that there be a joint sitting of the Houses prior to an election. [More…]

• I also extend my congratulations to the Chairman of Committees and to the Speaker of the House on his election to his high office, an ancient office which in itself embellishes the parliamentary system which we in Australia are so privileged to enjoy. [More…]

• I take this opportunity to thank the electors of Bowman for their support and confidence in me at the recent election and to affirm allegiance to the Crown of my electors. [More…]

• It may be that sometime in the future- perhaps at the next election or the election following the next Senate election or the House of Representatives election and the next Senate election- the Houses will be in balance again. [More…]

• I would be pleased, Mr Deputy Speaker, if you would pass on to Mr Speaker my congratulations on his election to his high office and also my congratulations to the honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock) on his election to the position of Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• I congratulate the Speaker on his election to his high office and I certainly congratulate the new honourable members of this House on the excellent speeches already made. [More…]

• -My recollection is that during the election campaign of 1974 I addressed a meeting of members of the Arab community in Sydney, as I addressed meetings of members of the Jewish community, explaining the Liberal Party’s policy on the Middle East. [More…]

• This meeting occurred during the election campaign of 1974 and not of 1975. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that, although it was an open meeting and although the Press was there- that is, the ethnic Press at least- I was not invited back in 1975 to explain that policy at all, though I was invited by members of the Jewish community to explain during the election campaign of 1975 our policy on the Middle East. [More…]

• For example, why would the Federal Secretary of the Australian Labor Party, Mr David Combe, ask him 3 days before the end of a critical election period to have breakfast with 2 people whom presumably he had not met before? [More…]

• I suggest that that editor is too young to know that the only potential governments that have to produce programs when seeking election are Labor Party governments. [More…]

• When we were the Opposition at election time we were always faced with this question: ‘Where is the money to come from?’ [More…]

• I said during the course of the election campaign that Australia is not alone in the Western world in having inflation higher than it would like or unemployment greater than it would prefer to see. [More…]

• The Bill fulfills an election promise that my Government made in November. [More…]

• Prior to the election we made it quite clear that we favoured the introduction of a means test on NEAT to ensure that those persons who were most in need received most assistance. [More…]

• On 25 February, acting on instructions from the Government, Commonwealth Police impounded the diaries of police officers who accompanied me during the election campaign. [More…]

• Mr E. G. WHITLAM What would have been thought if, after the 1974 election, I had instigated a search of the diaries of the police who protected you, Mr Speaker, during the campaign? [More…]

• A police officer went to the advertising agency employed by the Australian Labor Party during the election campaign and, according to Senator Withers, had a very pleasant conversation. [More…]

• It is of equal importance that we should note that the chamber which took the action to refuse to consider a request for funds from this House was not in fact, as has been repeatedly claimed, the chamber which was election in 1974. [More…]

• Police who were outside of the door of the present Prime Minister during the course of the election campaign in order that we might examine his comings and going during that period. [More…]

• In the period since the election I have had talks with some people about my having the opportunity to sit in this House. [More…]

• My purpose in standing at the election was to ensure that not only the people of Wilmot but also the people of Australia could look forward with assurance to freedom in this great country. [More…]

• But I believe that with the results of the election on 13 December there is now a resurgence of confidence in the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that these were most significant elections because with the election of those gentlemen to the high offices that they hold we will once again see some sense of dignity and decorum returned to this House. [More…]

• I believe that with the election of those 2 gentlemen to the high offices that they hold a start has been made and we can look to more rational debate coming from this House. [More…]

• But I think that it goes further than just the election of those 2 gentlemen to their offices. [More…]

• This trend has now been reversed as a result of the December election and we are seeing a government which is accepting its responsibilities rather than trying to pass the buck. [More…]

• I believe that during the election campaign the people of Wilmot very clearly recognised the issues that were being faced by Australia. [More…]

• A lot of publicity was given to policy issues by the Parties on both sides of this House, but I believe that those people living in country areas were able to identify with far greater clarity, much better than honourable gentleman opposite, the key issues of the election. [More…]

• I believe very firmly that the election of 13 December was fought on the basis of freedom. [More…]

• We heard an awful lot about the Constitution too, but that was not the key issue on which the election was fought. [More…]

• I should like firstly to ask you, Mr Deputy Speaker, to convey my congratulations to the Speaker on his election and myself to congratulate the honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock) on his election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• The Liberal Party of Australia so admired Mr Daly that during the recent election it placed large printed advertisements lauding his popularity, an extraordinary if truly touching gesture. [More…]

• The election of 13 December 1975 may have given the conservative coalition parties government, but the events of 1 1 November 1975 in which they participated and which procured that election deny any sense of legitimacy to this new regime in our eyes. [More…]

• The suggestion that the so-called deadlock last year between this House and the Senate on the issue of Supply necessitated ‘the dissolution of the Parliament and an election for both Houses’ is wrong. [More…]

• They cannot state that the results of the election on 13 December 1975, which should never have been held, determine the propriety of the actions of 1 1 November 1975 and at the same time come in here, one after the other, spouting the most fantastically bad law and political theory in supposed justification and amplification of the GovernorGeneral’s statement and of the Chief Justice’s letter. [More…]

• In these circumstances I cannot understand how the new Administration can pretend that the election results solved a problem. [More…]

• May I ask you, Sir, to extend to the Speaker, the right honourable member for Bruce (Mr Snedden), my congratulations upon his election to that high office. [More…]

• In my mind the election result was an illustration that the people trust him fully. [More…]

• I have vivid recollections of how in the election before last the defeated member for Riverina carried on. [More…]

• No doubt, some of these faces that we have in the chamber today may not be with us beyond the next election, possibly in 3 years’ time. [More…]

• -Mr Speaker, before supporting the motion for the adoption of the Address-in-Reply, I should like to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to your high office. [More…]

• I should also like to congratulate the honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock) on his re-election to the position of Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• I am pleased that the Government made it clear in its pre-election policy speech that it supported the establishment of the Australian Heritage Commission and that only last week the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) stated that consideration is now being given to the appointment of an adequate staff to enable the Commission to start its initial work. [More…]

• Although we have only 28 per cent of the seats in this House we nevertheless represent 43 per cent of the voters at the last election. [More…]

• How many times do honourable members .opposite think they can frustrate, inhibit and hamstring Labor governments or breach the conventional rules of behaviour to the point where they force Labor governments to premature elections or oppose fair and reasonable electoral reform that puts the parties on an even footing without damaging the faith in the parliamentary system of those people in this country who want to achieve reform? [More…]

• -Mr Speaker, I would like, to add my name to the long list of congratulations you have received on your election to the office of Speaker. [More…]

• New South Wales election this year. [More…]

• -In rising to address this House for the first time since my election to the Parliament I add my congratulations to those already offered to you by many honourable members who have spoken in this [More…]

• I believe the experience over the last 3 weeks since your election to the Chair indicates that the deliberations of this chamber will be enhanced by your occupancy of it. [More…]

• I would also like to thank the electors of Kingston for the confidence which they showed in me at the election on 13 December. [More…]

• Since the election of 13 December Senator Cotton and officers of the Department of Industry and Commerce have been examining the industry and its problems in some detail. [More…]

• Since his election to this House the honourable gentleman has shown a very keen interest in the small business community. [More…]

• I refer to recent legal proceedings in the Australian Capital Territory relating to the Senate election and the alleged breach of the Electoral Act whereby an amount of $500 in $50 notes is now in the possession of the police. [More…]

• I think the honourable member for Macarthur had a wonderful example this afternoon from the honourable member for Adelaide whose mixed socialism idea is regularly floated in the air and just as monotonously falls to the ground at each election, and frequently in between. [More…]

• This is how our present Liberal Prime Minister described what goes on here in a Victorian election broadcast which was then taken up by other media. [More…]

• I quote from the Prime Minister’s election broadcast transcript He said: [More…]

• The last sentence of this false and misleading election broadcast of the Prime Minister, and I have quoted already from the Prime Minister’s efforts at the weekend, mentioned Labor exercising central control over local government. [More…]

• We all talk about what we call a co-operative federalism and this seemed to be part of the issues at the recent election. [More…]

• Until the last election the Division had been represented by only one member, the honourable David Eric Fairbairn, DFC, an outstanding Australian who served his nation with distinction in war and in peace. [More…]

• An office was opened at 38 Parliament Street, London SW1, and an extensive advertising campaign was launched, publicising the need for Australians to register for postal votes for the forthcoming Australian general election. [More…]

• Shortly after I opened the office Sir Malcolm Ritchie, the then Federal President of the Australian Liberal Party arrived in London and worked with me until after the election on 28 April 1951. [More…]

• It is his Party that coerces unionists who in the last election voted for the Fraser Government by the hordes. [More…]

• They know that it was paid in the course of the Senate election campaign last December. [More…]

• I address my question to the Treasurer and I remind him of his generous offer prior to the last federal election to meet with leaders of the wine and brandy industry after the new year primarily to discuss the subject of section 3 1 A stock valuations. [More…]

• I can say to the honourable member for Angas that the discussions with the industry which I guaranteed would take place in the early days after the election of the new LiberalNational Country Party coalition government have taken place. [More…]

• We made it quite plain before the election and since that the decision to support the marketing of the wool clip at the present price will apply not only for this season but also for next season. [More…]

• In future elections the people of Australia will treat them in the same way as they did on 13 December last. [More…]

• Long may this great Leader of the Opposition survive because the longer he survives the fewer the numbers of the Opposition will be election after election. [More…]

• Naturally enough, he spent a great proportion of his speech dealing with the problems of Geelong, and well he might in view of the result that he achieved in the recent federal election for his own seat. [More…]

• I guess it is merely coincidence that he has raised this matter shortly before the Victorian State elections later this month. [More…]

• It is a strange set of priorities for a government to be able to find $ 1 1 m- and that was in its election campaign policy- to restore the school cadet service but seek to make a petty reduction in expenditure by eliminating the road safety standards authority at the expense of human life. [More…]

• It took a long time- from 1967 to 1972- before things started to move but after the 1972 election the Labor Government accepted in terms of that referendum decision that it had in fact paramount responsibility, and for the first time in the history of this nation a Department of Aboriginal Affairs was established. [More…]

• Not only will those on the other side who occupy their seats now, temporarily until the next election, regret it but also those who follow them will regret it. [More…]

• This has become a big rip-off for medical practitioners: I do not expect the Minister to do anything about it because probably they put in a fair bit towards his election expenses. [More…]

• It is for these reasons, among many others, quite apart from the proud and fine record of the Victorian Government, that I am quite certain that in the State election the Premier will have a resounding victory. [More…]

• That so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent the House dealing forthwith with a motion condemning the action of the Premier of Queensland in calling together the Parliament of Queensland during an election period in order to make, under parliamentary privilege, false charges against members of this Parliament. [More…]

• So, after an event such as this, forgetting the fact that it was an election time, and on a matter such as this it is important to all members of this Parliament, on whichever side they sit and in whichever House they sit, that we should deter, that we should identify and deter such allegations made against members of the Parliament and that we should not mince matters in expressing our views about them when they are found to be false. [More…]

• The matter is no different in kind- it may be different in degree because it took place during an election campaign- and at a special session of a State parliament called during a Federal election campaign, but I put it to honourable members that this can happen about anybody who is a member of parliament. [More…]

• The session was held during a Federal election campaign. [More…]

• It is within the compass of any parliament in the Commonwealth to be called together for a special session to deal with or to hear matter which could be extraordinarily damaging to members of another parliament, especially during an election period. [More…]

• I say with respect that it would be possible for a State parliament or this Parliament to be called together, although I believe that this Parliament’s integrity is such that it would not happen, or for a House of a parliament to be called together to entertain a statement which had no basis in fact against a leader of a party or a member of a party in order to affect the result of an election in another State or for another Parliament. [More…]

• The urgency of the matter is that I believe it should be dealt with by this House immediately and unquestionably it should be the expression of this House to condemn the making of false charges during an election period. [More…]

• I do not consider it a legitimate pursuit of the duties of members of parliament to lay false charges in order to affect the result of an election. [More…]

• I hasten to say that I do not think the charges made by the Premier of Queensland did alter the result of the election. [More…]

• It would then be carried immediately by the Press and certainly would have an influence on the result of an election that might be held 2 days later. [More…]

• It is no excuse simply to assert, as the Minister did, that the coalition policy before the last election was to introduce a means test on NEAT and that it is now simply carrying out that policy. [More…]

• Where and when did the coalition parties say before the election that they would change the form of NEAT allowances? [More…]

• It certainly was not in the employment and industrial relations policy as published before the election, though that document had much to say about the desirability of training schemes; nor was it in the election speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• But, even if a policy commitment was made before the election, it certainly was not made in terms that suggested that many trainees would lose a large part of their allowance. [More…]

• Yet this is the Government that boasted at the last election that it would bring integrity and honour back into government. [More…]

• One the other hand, we are doing exactly what we said we would do prior to the election. [More…]

• For months prior to the last election we made it clear that the totally inequitable situation which applied then, while apparently being quite acceptable to the Labor Parry, was certainly not acceptable to us. [More…]

• This compromise solution provided the basis of the election commitment subsequently given by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to the Council of Australian Government [More…]

• Prior to the last election the electors were presented by the Liberal Party and National Country Party with promises of return to the stable days of the 1950s and 1960s. [More…]

• This is an example of another election promise which the Fraser Government found it impractical to keep; without any perceptible twinge of conscience, the promise was broken. [More…]

• I suppose that is all summed up in the glib phrase that was used during the election campaign, that is, that the Australian economy was on its knees. [More…]

• If we are to have much greater expenditure cuts, as seems almost certain to happen under the present policy, there will be much more in the way of breaching of election promises to various groups in this community. [More…]

• The Government is preparing to take it off before the State election. [More…]

• In the 1972 election the Labor Party, particularly its spokesman on agriculture, Dr Rex Patterson, said in the House during the debate on the Bill that Labor would ease the means test on the tree-pull scheme to make it easier for people to remove fruit trees. [More…]

• In fact, in my electorate, because of the concentration of Labor support and its promises of easing the means test, the 1972 election became known as the rotten fruit election. [More…]

• It reneged on its promise made in the 1972 election. [More…]

• I can, however, assure the honourable gentleman that the question of the rationalisation of the operation of Part V of the Trade Practices Act and State consumer protection legislation was specifically covered in the coalition parties election policy statement on consumer protection. [More…]

• If the employment situation continues to decline, or if there is no marked improvement in the near future, can the Minister inform the House whether the Government will establish relief work projects, as promised in its employment and industrial relations policy, as a means of relieving unemployment, or is that another election promise that the Government does not intend to keep? [More…]

• by leave- The House will recall that during the election campaign last year the Government emphasised the importance it attached to the need to eliminate widespread abuse of the unemployment benefit system. [More…]

• There can be ho doubt that the Government has embarked on a vendetta against the national broadcasting service for which no warning was given before the election by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) or by any shadow Minister or caretaker Minister with responsibility in this area. [More…]

• The Government has already reduced the Hayden Budget’s allocation for the ABC by more than $ 1 m. In addition, the ABC has received none of the additional $7.3m sought in its mid-year supplementary estimates to cover additional costs, some of the costs, for instance, being for the election, which could not have been foretold at the time of the Budget. [More…]

• During the election campaign the present Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) publicly attacked the ABC. [More…]

• Thirdly, the motivation is to repay commercial radio and television interests- the Murdochs, the Packers and the Fairfaxes- for their support prior to, at the time of and since the last election campaign. [More…]

• Finally he said that all this is going to come about because we want to repay the commercial radio interests for the support given to the present government during the last election campaign. [More…]

• That is a fascinating conspiracy theory, because I did not hear any of these sorts of statements being made following the 1972 election campaign during which a great proportion of public affairs commentators taking part in sessions on commercial radio in fact supported the Labor Party. [More…]

• They were all jolly good fellows during the 1972 election campaign! [More…]

• Suddenly, as a result of the Australian Labor Party’s being defeated, and defeated so decisively at the last election, they have all become wicked, and we are the most wicked of all; we are trying to muzzle the ABC. [More…]

• The recent seizure of the diaries of police guarding Mr Whitlam during last year’s election, and officially inspired speculation that he could be charged with sedition for his criticism of the Governor-General, both seem to be dangerous precedents incompatible with free political debate. [More…]

• I would also like to extend my congratulations to the honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock) on his election to the position of Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• I mention these points for it is well to recall again and again why the Labor Party was beaten at the last election. [More…]

• I would like to talk for a great length of time but before I sit down I take this opportunity to congratulate you, Mr Speaker, on your election to that position. [More…]

• They should not keep on and on trying to score points by criticising the Governor-General and wailing and howling about what happened at the election. [More…]

• There was an election for a fully elected Legislative Assembly in the Northern Territory, at which the Australian Labor Party was wiped out as a political entity in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) stated that as an aim during the election campaign. [More…]

• It was a remarkable mental switch to suggest in the recent election campaign that the Northern Territory was promised statehood, which of course would guarantee it 10 senators. [More…]

• However, firstly I would like to congratulate you, Mr Deputy Speaker, on your election and I would like you to convey my congratulations to Mr Speaker. [More…]

• In my opinion, the essence of the last election can be summed up in one word- incentive. [More…]

• During the election campaign I was confronted by employees who said: ‘Why should we work when our taxes are going to pay those who do not want to work?’ [More…]

• It is worth remembering that just under onethird of the electors at the last election were under 30 years of age. [More…]

• Between the 1974 election and the election on 13 December 1975, in one sub-division- a new housing development area- there were approximately 1000 new voters and the vote for my Party increased in the sub-division by the same figure. [More…]

• I should like to see how many of them will resign their places in this House and stand for the Senate at the next election. [More…]

• This House is having this debate on the Governor-General’s Speech because there was an election in December 1975 at which the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) led the Australian Labor Party to another disastrous defeat. [More…]

• He got home with a majority of nine after the 1972 election. [More…]

• In the elections for the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly Labor suffered a severe setback. [More…]

• In Queensland where the Australian Labor Party held 33 seats before the last election, after the election it held 1 1 seats. [More…]

• The Bass by-election was another great example of the leadership of this great politician, this great statesman. [More…]

• There was a massive 17 per cent swing in the Bass by-election. [More…]

• Then finally there was the 1975 Federal election at which the Party was all but eliminated. [More…]

• The Senate’s action in rejecting this legislation started a chain of events which led to the annihilation of the Labor Government at a democratic election. [More…]

• I want to quote from a television interview with Senator James McClelland which was recorded on 13 November just before the election. [More…]

• That quote was from a transcript of a television interview recorded just before the last election. [More…]

• Look elsewhere at the socialist-communist election tactics. [More…]

• In a last desperate attempt to cover up the bungling and try to evade the real issues the then Prime Minister attempted to confuse the country with the pretence that holding a democratic election represented a threat to democracy. [More…]

• Let us face it: What can be more democratic than having an election for both Houses of Parliament? [More…]

• He stood as a candidate at the last election. [More…]

• Obviously the Government thinks that by using this technique it will be able to prevent an election being forced on it in the future by appropriation being refused. [More…]

• In a way this is good because the scheme as we had it indicated to us at election time lacked a great deal of principle. [More…]

• In every way the Liberal-Country Party coalition in the period preceding the election of a Labor Government inflated the building industry and put it in very dire straits. [More…]

• In fact, that Agreement represented one of the earliest major achievements of the Labor Government following its success in the 1972 election. [More…]

• We deplore the tactics and antics of the Government that was in office prior to the last election. [More…]

• As I said to another member earlier tonight, that report featured in the last Federal election campaign because one of its recommendations, I believe, incurred the wrath of the people of Australia. [More…]

• Over the last 3 months since the election I have received over 97 applications for assistance from people wishing to get homes. [More…]

• Despite undertakings given by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) during election campaigns and at various forums that education would continue to receive the high priority that it received under the Labor Government, it is very obvious that spending on education will get the chop in the coming Budget. [More…]

• This question was a fundamental policy issue in the election of 1972, just as it was in the election of 1974. [More…]

• There was no inference from the present Government, in the later stage of its period in Opposition- just before the last electionthat it would destroy this very important reform in the field of education. [More…]

• Moneys that were made available to it out of the 1975-76 Budget have been reduced in addition to the extra responsibilities imposed, as has been pointed out in this Parliament, by virtue of the calling of the election of December 1975. [More…]

• That would have been enough to get the Australian Labor Party out of its election funds problem. [More…]

• When will he say definitely whether tax indexation will be introduced or whether another election promise will be broken? [More…]

• During the election campaign the Minister for Primary Industry said in unequivocal terms that the Government would continue the subsidy at its present level indefinitely. [More…]

• This Bill honours one of the Government’s election pledges which in the short term, and that is what we are talking about, it is pleased to be able to introduce into this House. [More…]

• It is the first and only election promise the Government has honoured to the letter. [More…]

• The bounty was a central issue of contention in the election campaign and throughout the whole of 1975 and most of 1974. [More…]

• The Government’s haste on this matter contrasts with its tardiness and evasion on other election promises. [More…]

• This man had the audacity to come into the House and tell us that the $30m, which is honouring an election promise, is a grotesque sense of social justice, that it represents moral bankruptcy and distorted priorities and that it is a waste and an extravagance. [More…]

• I thank the many hundreds of people who worked so hard for my Party at the December election. [More…]

• I conclude by extending my congratulations to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, and through you, to Mr Speaker on your election to your respective offices. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Speaker, I, together with other honourable members, would like to congratulate you on your election to this position again. [More…]

• In the weeks leading up to the actual election, that man decided that his sacking was wrong. [More…]

• Before coming to that, I feel that I should comment briefly on the local result of the recent State election in Victoria. [More…]

• The Liberal Party members and candidates for all State seats within the Henty electorate had magnificent wins in the elections for both the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council. [More…]

• It was these factors that caused the coalition Parties to place so much emphasis on the revival of small business during the Federal election campaign in November and December 1975. [More…]

• The result of the election clearly indicates that the electorate is of the mind that a murder has not been done. [More…]

• The Nimmo Commission was established by the previous Government on its election to office, following its extravagant promises prior to 1972 to solve the Tasmanian transport problems. [More…]

• We announced a policy of freight equalisation during the course of the election campaign. [More…]

• For its part, the Government maintains its position as stated in its election policy statement on immigration and ethnic affairs: [More…]

• The campaign of denigration continued and became an issue in the 1974 election, with the Opposition alleging the existence of vast numbers of dole cheats. [More…]

• It therefore says much for the power of the Press that its build-up had been such that at the 1975 election one of the important issues of the campaign was the supposed existence of droves of so-called dole bludgers, despite the fact that there were at that time, 185 000 people on unemployment benefit but only 28 000 registered job vacancies. [More…]

• By the time of the last election many people must have had the impression that under Labor obtaining unemployment benefit was like taking candy from a baby. [More…]

• I believe that in the last election they were a significant factor in the swing to the Liberal and National Country Parties. [More…]

• It may not be important to him because he thinks he will be in this place for the rest of his life, but he will find his status changed after the next election and then he will find that change of status is important. [More…]

• In the heady days when we were being bashed by the present Government in an election campaign, under circumstances that would not bear repeating, the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) promised that there would be no Gold Coast holidays on the family earnings of Australians, no Gold Coast holidays for anyone. [More…]

• At least 43 per cent of the population of Australia voiced their protest firmly at the last election. [More…]

• The matter was much ventilated before the federal election in December and plenty of opportunity existed to take action against the man if he had acted illegally. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) made his dismissal by the Governor-General a central issue at the elections, and he failed. [More…]

• I also congratulate my State colleague on his election as Deputy Whip in the Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• The election on 13 December demonstrated beyond question the contempt and revulsion that middle Australia felt for the abuse of power which was convulsing this lucky country. [More…]

• During the recent election campaign an honourable member who was a Minister of the previous Government allowed the use of the official pre-paid envelope for the circulation of election propaganda. [More…]

• The letters were used for promoting the Australian Labor Party in the last election campaign, and in fact were used to attempt to gain votes for that former Minister. [More…]

• Mr Fraser must give a clear statement on his Government’s intentions immediately, particularly in view of an assurance given before the 1975 election by the then caretaker Minister for Construction and Housing, Senator Carrick- he is supposed to be very influential in the Government- that the project would go ahead. [More…]

• This is another example of the Fraser Government breaking a firm election undertaking given by one of its most senior spokesmen. [More…]

• No doubt at the next election we will remove them. [More…]

• He did not understand the impact of his statements on crude oil pricing during the 1974 election campaign and he does not understand today the potentially far greater significance of his statements in respect of our trading partners ‘ intentions. [More…]

• He wants to use them as election fodder. [More…]

• I can well understand that the outgoing Government did not have time to consider the matter because its supporters were at that time in disarray and in confusion and in the political turmoil that led to the election. [More…]

• It was an election strategy which was quite clearly stated at the time and which was acceptable to the electorate. [More…]

• by leave- In this statement I announce to the Parliament the Government’s proposals for the implementation of its election promise to introduce a restructured home savings grant scheme. [More…]

• Not only will this announcement fully implement an election commitment, it will also provide clear evidence of our determination to ensure that every Australian shall have a meaningful opportunity, if he or she chooses to avail himself of it, to own his own home. [More…]

• But the fact of the matter is that this legislation does precisely what the Labor Party would have done if it had won the last election. [More…]

• During the election campaign the Labor Party said that it would increase pensions every six months in accordance with movements in the consumer price index and that it would make the month of the first increase November. [More…]

• Having said that, I say that 1 support these Bills because I believe that they implement at least partially the policy that I had the privilege of announcing on behalf of the Liberal and National Country Parties during the election campaign. [More…]

• The whole thrust and philosophy of the LiberalCountry Party policy during the election campaign was to avoid debates like we are having tonight. [More…]

• But I would say this, and I say it without it sounding a threat, as rancour or whatever, that if pensions are not instantly and automatically tied to an index by November the emotion I will be expressing in this place will be more than disappointment because it is a promise on which we fought the election campaign. [More…]

• I regard that as a very important election undertaking also. [More…]

• I particularly agree with his remarks about the introduction of what we proposed as a policy in the last election campaign; that is, the abolition of a separate assessment for assets in some of the means tests. [More…]

• My understanding is that when Labor came into office it broke its election promise that it would not change anything in relation to the blind so that we have the new situation, I think, of there being no means test for blind people up to 65 years of age, there being a means test for blind people between 65 and 70 years of age, and there being no means test again for people older than 70 years. [More…]

• The major issue being dealt with in these Bills is the fulfilment of an election promise given by the Government in the election campaign preceding 13 December. [More…]

• The Government, as a significant plank in its election platform, promised to the nation’s pensioners that their pensions would be automatically increased. [More…]

• Late in 1972, prior to the election of the Labor Government, the Liberal-Country Party Government decided to phase out the high local content plan by the end of 1974 and to introduce in its stead a reduced local content plan. [More…]

• That was at the end of 1972, before the election of the Whitlam Labor Government. [More…]

• I will be at the opening of the election campaign by Sir Eric Willis, as will my colleague the Treasurer and, I would hope, other members of the coalition. [More…]

• I think that the Leader of the Opposition ought to be required to stay in Australia, at least for the period of the election campaign, so that he can participate, even if indirectly, in the defeat of Mr Wran. [More…]

• I do not think the Deputy Leader of the Opposition said that but rather a former honourable member who lost his seat at the last election, a former Minister for Housing. [More…]

• The Committee has been established as the result of secret promises given in smoke-filled rooms over port and cigars to the select captains of industry during the last election campaign. [More…]

• The reason for the doubts and uncertainties can be traced back to just prior to the election. [More…]

• I am told it was the then Prime Minister himself who in particular wanted to hold out in the belief that if we went into an election with a conflict of this kind it would result in more support for the Labor Party. [More…]

• So we went through the election and here today we have a scheme which is a fair one put to this House. [More…]

• The sooner both sides of the House and the life assurance industry in particular realise that the more we will avoid the sterile sort of debate and activity that took place in the last election in which life assurance clerks were mobilised as Liberal ticket holders and pushers on the day of the elections. [More…]

• This 40 per cent investment allowance is a clear example of a political party- or, in this case, 2 parties, the Liberal Party and the National Country Party- promising something foolish in an election campaign with the result that we now have the measure hanging around our necks like an albatross. [More…]

• This view cuts across the line taken by the Government during the election, that economic recovery could and should be ‘investment led’. [More…]

• However, the whole picture is a confused one because the measure was illconceived and was brought in as an election promise far too hastily. [More…]

• After the following election the Liberal and National Country Parties assumed the mantle of Government. [More…]

• During the last election campaign and what led up to it the Government and its supporters put out spurious propaganda to push their own cause and now they stand indicted. [More…]

• There are many honourable members in the Government ranks who came in on that quite significant swing in the last election. [More…]

• Many of them will be going out at the next election, no matter what they do. [More…]

• You put them up at election times and when you can pick a little hole in a Bill, something which none of” us likes - [More…]

• It is not doing it as a result of an election promise. [More…]

• We have listened to the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) and the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes), both of whom narrowly scraped home at the last Federal election, trying to present themselves as champions for the cause of the pensioners. [More…]

• As one pensioner came into my own office a few weeks ago before the State election in Victoria and said: ‘Pass this on to the Labor Party; it is $5. [More…]

• At that time I was making a point about the promise by the then Prime Minister, Mr E. G. Whitlam, in his 1972 election campaign that the Australian Labor Party would reduce the cost of housing by between $2,000 and $6,000. [More…]

• I should like to draw the attention of honourable members, especially those on the Government side, to the speech by the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) last Wednesday when he repeated in this House the undertaking that he had given during the election campaign on behalf of the now Government that there would be instant and automatic adjustments in social service and repatriation payments according to the cost of living index. [More…]

• During the recent election campaign this piece of legislation was a major issue in the Australian Capital Territory and we spent a lot of time explaining our proposals to the electorate. [More…]

• Today a sensible and practical scheme has been presented to the people as part of an election undertaking given by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations and the Administrative and Clerical Officers’ Association. [More…]

• That a joint parliamentary committee be established to inquire into and report upon the provision of proportionate subsidies by the Australian government to political parties and candidates in federal election campaigns and the disclosure of the amount and nature of assistance by corporations and individuals to these parties and candidates. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations heard the view attributed to the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions that he is satisfied with the present system of election of trade union leaders? [More…]

• If the leader of the ACTU says that he is satisfied with the way in which all union elections are now conducted, it is quite clear that thousands of union members are not. [More…]

• They have said that they strongly support the Government’s intention that in due course, after legislation has been discussed with the parties and introduced into this Parliament, elections for all officers in industrial organisations, whether of employers or employees, should be under the control of the Commonwealth Electoral Office. [More…]

• No single issue was more widely discussed or debated during the recent election campaign, and it received the overwhelming endorsement of the electorate. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman referred to the percentage of votes cast in certain elections. [More…]

• My information is that at the last election for the leadership of the union to which I think the honourable member referred- the AMWU, which has some 170 000 members- the leadership was elected on a vote of approximately 1.8 per cent of the membership of the union. [More…]

• It was a policy which I advocated during my own election campaign in the electorate of Kingston. [More…]

• The adoption of this policy by the present Government also makes a mockery of the scare tactics which the honourable member for Kingsford -Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen) and the former honourable member for Kingston used during the election campaign when they indicated that our side of politics was hostile to the 85 per cent content plan. [More…]

• But the honourable member for Kingston (Mr Chapman) has done me the doubtful distinction of raising the matter of my contribution to the recent Federal election campaign in his electorate. [More…]

• The speeches made at the time of the recent election, particularly those made in the electorate of Kingston, flowed directly from what was said by the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) as to how he favoured the plan of the Ford Motor Company of Australia Ltd in Geelong. [More…]

• I think the concept of this program needs to be put in the context of Liberal-National Country Party policy and the proposals that were put by our spokesmen before the election and in fact tied in to the Liberal-National Country Party’s policy on housing. [More…]

• It is one more breach of the Fraser Government’s election promises. [More…]

• The Government made few concrete undertakings in campaigning for election, but one of its promises was to retain the interest deductibility scheme on mortgage payments which had been introduced by my Government In a statement on housing issued jointly by the coalition parties during the campaign a specific promise was made. [More…]

• Now from the wreckage of another of the Prime Minister’s election promises we have a policy which will retard both these objectives. [More…]

• We are honouring an election pledge and an election commitment. [More…]

• I think it ill becomes the ex-Prime Minister of this country to stand up in this national forum and challenge the credibility of the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) because in his statements prior to the election and since that time he has given full assurances that we would maintain the home savings grant scheme, and we have done this. [More…]

• I trust that his sincerity will be carried through and, rather than adopting a violent antiSoviet position, as he seems to be adopting, he will, over the next period available to him in this House, which I understand will be before the next general election, treat us to his knowledge on the undemocratic practices in all countries. [More…]

• But it is quite plain that, as a result of that breakfast, the Leader of the Opposition in New South Wales, Mr Wran, does not want the honourable gentleman in his own home State during the election. [More…]

• But apparently unasked, uninvited, the Leader of the Opposition here is going to take part in that particular election. [More…]

• That was Mr Dunstan last year during the period of his State election. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, the point of the queston of course, was to indicate that these coalition Parties will be supporting the New South Wales Government very strongly in the forthcoming election. [More…]

• I think the kindest thing that can be said about Mr Wran’s election policy promises on transport is that they are a fiddle, and, what is worse, they are a fiddle that involves Commonwealth money. [More…]

• The Bill requires the filing of returns relating to electoral expenditure by registered party agents and official agents with the Chief Australian Electoral Officer within 12 weeks after an election. [More…]

• Under the formula the limit of the expenditure by a political party on a House of Representatives election held separately from a Senate election would be based on the amount of 7.5c for every person enrolled for the division or divisions contested- that is to say, approximately $600,000 would be available to a party today contesting all 127 electorates. [More…]

• In the case of a Senate election that is held alone the permissible expenditure of a political party would be substantially less. [More…]

• It would be based on the amount of 1.5 cents for every person enrolled for the State or States contested by that partythat is to say, an amount of about $125,000 on present enrolments for a party contesting the Senate election in all States. [More…]

• For the election of a senator the proposed limit is an amount of 0.2c for every elector enrolled for the State concerned or $3,000, whichever is the greater. [More…]

• For the election of a member of the House of Representatives the proposed limit is an amount equal to 5c for every elector enrolled for the division contested- that is to say, $3,250 in respect of a division comprising 65 000 electors, or $2,500 in respect of a division comprising 50 000 electors. [More…]

• It soon found its way to the Commons Standing Committee on Privileges and Elections. [More…]

• Governments through their publications, their facilities such as aircraft, automobiles, advertising and public service personnel could give useful help to election candidates. [More…]

• As we are all aware, the use, usually surreptitiously and indirectly, by the Party in power of such readily available weaponry can provide a significant and unfair advantage during an election campaign. [More…]

• Present regulations provide for national support to parties that participated in the most recent parliamentary election and succeeded in winning seats. [More…]

• In addition to the above forms of support, certain contributions from public funds are made to the young people’s and student associations run by the various political parties and, during election years, to defray ballot costs. [More…]

• Staff support now provided by the national government shall be supplemented by a basic support amounting to 1.5m SKr annually to each political party represented in parliament that has captured 4 per cent of the votes cast in the latest election. [More…]

• National support shall be provided for political parties not represented in parliament on the basis of the percentage of votes captured by the party in question in the most recent election. [More…]

• When a party gains or loses seats in an election, the consequent change in support amounts will be gradual, not abrupt, in order to facilitate activity planning within the parties and ensure employee security. [More…]

• Everybody in Australia believes that the major companies in this country contribute regularly, at every election, to the conservative forces; and, until such time as a register is made available for everybody in this country to look at, people will go on believing it. [More…]

• The Bill which the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) has introduced is designed to bring clarity, honesty and a measure of elementary justice to the vexed question of the funding of election campaigns. [More…]

• Section 1 5 1 of the Electoral Act, as all of us know, requires honourable members to make a return- Form G- of election expenses incurred by them or by persons with their knowledge or their authority. [More…]

• In 1970 the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) elicited the information that in the House of Representatives election in 1969 Liberal Attorney-General Hughes and former Liberal Attorneys-General Snedden and Bowen and the other Liberal lawyers in the Ministry who are now the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) and the Minister for Defence did not complete and file Form G. [More…]

• There ought to be a limitation, but it ought to be a realistic and a contemporary limitation on the amount that can be spent in contesting a House of Representatives election. [More…]

• The honourable member for Prospect has since elicited that the present Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) did not complete Form G for his first election in 1974, but did so for the election last December. [More…]

• Many companies tell political Parties that they can charge certain sums for election advertising to their advertising accounts with specified agencies. [More…]

• The Bill that the honourable member for Port Adelaide has introduced would make proper provision for limiting election campaigns and a proper provision for disclosing contributions. [More…]

• Only 3 weeks ago a statutory declaration was produced in this House from a man employed by Sir Robert Menzies and Sir Frank Packer to raise money, $lm at present values, for the Liberals from British companies for the election in 1951. [More…]

• Honourable members will recall that a letter was sent by the Leader of the National Country Party (Mr Anthony) to foreign mining companies before the 1974 election. [More…]

• Under this Bill if it were enacted into law and became part of the Electoral Act, no person could make a gift of over $ 100 to a political party at election time unless the money was given to an agent and there was a disclosure. [More…]

• I invite the honourable gentleman to go back to the election of 1972 when many people supported his Party, probably for the first time. [More…]

• Under proposed new section 145 in the definition section of the Bill we find the following provision: ‘Electoral expenditure’ means expenditure for or in connexion with promotion or opposing, directly or indirectly, a party or the election of a candidate or candidates or of influencing, directly or indirectly, the voting at an election, but does not include- [More…]

• One could well take the example that at other than election time a party may seek to use running expenses to cultivate public sentiment in a fashion that would in terms of an election outcome be substantial. [More…]

• The honourable member for Port Adelaide, in his Bill, has a provision that in the case of a Senate election a party may spend 1.5c by the relevant State factor. [More…]

• The amount to be spent at a House of Representatives election is 7.5c by the relevant division factor. [More…]

• I hope all honourable members clearly understand that no money can be spent at an election unless the money is first of all given to the agent authorised by a person. [More…]

• If 3 months before the election date an honourable member gives anything to a club- a cup to a football club or a donation to a charity- that is an offence. [More…]

• How is it to be known when an election is to be held? [More…]

• What would be the case if an organisation such as the Institute of Public Affairs or a trade union such as the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia placed advertisements in newspapers or on television away from election time? [More…]

• During the last election campaign the Government stated its view that the capacity of Parliament, and particularly of this House, to scrutinise the estimates of expenditure should be improved. [More…]

• As much as the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) may wish to say that these amendments are subverting the pattern of the Jones legislation, as much as he would like to present that train of thought to the Parliament, I would like to throw back to him that the fact is that the people of Australia wish that type of legislation to be changed, and they indicated that at the election in December. [More…]

• I felt that in the Leader of the Opposition’s speech he was in some way endeavouring to enter into part of the discussion of the New South Wales election without actually having been invited to do so. [More…]

• Being a resident of New South Wales, it is interesting to note that that State is in the process of an election at the moment. [More…]

• Thank God, for the sake of politics and parliaments, that he decided to retire at the last election. [More…]

• He laid off thousands of men at the time of the 1974 State election there and said that it was as a result of not receiving sufficient money from the Australian Government for roads. [More…]

• I think that, on looking at the results of the last election, we might pass that warning back to the honourable member and to his Party and warn them to see that the policies that they instituted over the last 3 years, which the honourable member so proudly mentioned tonight, are changed to enable them to have a little more strength in this House so that we will have some sort of an Opposition. [More…]

• The Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the honourable member for Reid, like the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) when he spoke earlier, spent a lot of time explaining why the Labor Party lost the last election. [More…]

• If the garden is so lovely, if the State Transport Ministers are so happy about everything, can the Minister explain why within a few days of the announcement of the New South Wales election, which has ranked pretty strongly in the discussion tonight, the New South Wales Minister for Transport endeavoured to call off the scheduled Australian Transport Advisory Council meeting on 2 1 April? [More…]

• We know that the New South Wales Government wanted to defer it because of the approaching election, because of the bad tidings and because of the cutbacks that are coming. [More…]

• The Minister for Transport in New South Wales sent telegrams to all State Ministers and to me, as the Federal Minister, suggesting that the meeting be postponed because he took the view, quite properly in my opinion, that it would be improper for him as a State Minister going into an election within a week to be at an ATAC meeting at which responsible decisions affecting his State had to be taken. [More…]

• I am quite satisfied that the team led by the Premier, Sir Eric Willis, will win quite handsomely at the State election. [More…]

• It seems rather incredible that it requires a State election for such an event to take place. [More…]

• There is a view that the imposition of any particular form of election by legislation is in itself some interference with the democratic process. [More…]

• I can only think that the honourable gentleman has been referring back to occasions when his own Party was in power in the Commonwealth when he would have wished to tender certain advice of a different quality, and when Mr Dunstan was certainly tendered certain advice to have an election before time. [More…]

• During the election campaign of 1975 a euphoria was created by the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who said that the advent of a Liberal Government would bring about prosperity for the building and construction industry and an end to unemployment over all Australia but specifically in that area. [More…]

• I received quite a caning about unemployment from my opponent during the election campaign. [More…]

• In 4Vi months since the election of a Liberal Government unemployment has risen in my area to 3855. [More…]

• I can remember prior to the 1972 election the Leader of the Labor Party, the honourable member for Werriwa (Mr E. G. Whitlam) promising in his policy speech to reduce interest rates. [More…]

• There is very little doubt about the fact that the election date in New South Wales was set in consideration of several matters. [More…]

• One was that the election had to take place before the next federal Budget was brought down and another was that it had to take place before the secret report on the construction industry became public. [More…]

• There is no question that if that report were released before next Saturday’s election in New South Wales it would have a very significant effect upon the result of the election. [More…]

• The Opposition has raised the matter again on this day, I suspect, purely because an election is to be held shortly in New South Wales. [More…]

• That democratic right will be demonstrated in the forthcoming election in New South Wales, when the Willis Government will be returned with an outstanding majority. [More…]

• Is there any reason to assume that in the cold real world of intense special interest lobbying this promise of the Government will not go the way of many election promises it has been found inconvenient to keep? [More…]

• The list of broken election promises grows each day, each week in this Parliament. [More…]

• He made it to a Japanese audience in Japan- the first detailed statement of the Australian Labor Party’s foreign investment policy after its election in 1972- and he made it only after a delay of 11 months. [More…]

• It was passed by the McMahon Government in a great hurry a matter of a few months before an election and was a makeshift piece of legislation which we were not really able to amend until almost the end of the Labor Government’s period of officenot that there was no intention to alter it but the parliamentary program and the resistance in the [More…]

• Quite miraculously it came to light 10 day s after the election. [More…]

• Australians had to wait until the election of a [More…]

• The Liberals said nothing about their intentions during the election campaign. [More…]

• It is therefore rather strange that in this election campaign which is occurring in New South Wales at present, great efforts are being made to keep the present honourable member for Werriwa, (Mr E. G. Whitlam), the Leader of the Australian Labor Party in this House, out of the State of New South Wales. [More…]

• What was reprehensible about that deal as shown by the description of it by the honourable member for Werriwa was not just that he was negotiating to take money from Arab terrorist sources; what was much more reprehensible was the implication that the price of that money was to be the selling out of Australia to Arab terrorists if by any chance the Leader of the Opposition had obtained power at the last federal elections. [More…]

• If he had been elected at the last federal election he would have been in a position to carry out his part of the bargain. [More…]

• This really is the reason why the New South Wales Leader of the Labor Party, Mr Wran, is so very reluctant to allow the honourable member for Werriwa to appear in the election campaign in New South Wales. [More…]

• But, be that as it may, I would like to discuss the subject of the New South Wales election. [More…]

• There are to be no fewer than 4 protests in a week four months after the election and honourable members opposite ask the working people- the wage and salary earners- of New South Wales to trust the combination of the New South Wales and federal governments. [More…]

• Unfortunately last night when the honourable member for St George sought, very naturally I thought, to raise the similarities between some of the matters which the Leader of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales seeks to assert in his election campaign and those that were presented by the - [More…]

• I suspect that this is one of the reasons he lost the last election. [More…]

• It has taken a State election to force the truth from the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Liberal Premiers. [More…]

• The Prime Minister imagines that because he was able to evade questions and avoid answers in the Federal election campaign, he can do the same in any other election. [More…]

• This debate today is not about double taxation, it is about which Party is going to win the New South Wales State election. [More…]

• They do not happen to be on the visitors’ list for the New South Wales State election. [More…]

• The election of a Labor Government in New South Wales would mean that the residents of that State would have unwarranted financial penalties imposed upon them. [More…]

• They represent nothing more than a mixture of old-fashioned, discredited centralism and the dragging in of red herrings for crude electioneering purposes. [More…]

• As I said at the outset of this debate, it is not really about double taxation; it is about who is going to win the next State election in New South Wales. [More…]

• The holding of the New South Wales election this week instead of when they were due later this year is yet another Fraser Government confidence trick. [More…]

• There are 2 vital reasons why those elections have been brought forward. [More…]

• It is clear that the Liberal-Country Party Government could not win an election in New South Wales after August. [More…]

• Indeed, the real message is got across by Saturday, I do not believe that the LiberalCountry Party Government will win the election in New South Wales then. [More…]

• Secondly, the elections have been brought on prematurely because by August the harsh realities of the so-called new federalism policies will be known. [More…]

• The New South Wales State election has at least put into focus the danger of the Fraser Government revenue sharing proposal. [More…]

• Under the guise of asking this House to talk about an alleged double income tax arrangement which simply is not going to exist the Opposition gives us the opportunity to talk about the New South Wales election. [More…]

• I can assure the members of the Opposition that those on this side of the House, particularly those of us who come from New South Wales, are only too delighted to talk about the sorts of issues that will be involved in the election in New South Wales next Saturday. [More…]

• What an extraordinary contrast this election presents to the picture that we had in 1973. [More…]

• Let us go back to the New South Wales election in 1973, to those halcyon days when it was believed by the Labor Party that the honourable member for Werriwa (Mr E. G. Whitlam) was a vote winner, when it was believed by the Labor Party throughout Australia, whether one was a Federal member of Parliament or a State member of Parliament, that the way to success, the way to the voter’s heart was to associate yourself with the Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party- the then Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]

• Surely he would have got the message by now that he is not wanted in New South Wales, and the gratuitous interventions by him in the election campaign in New South Wales will only do his colleagues in that State damage. [More…]

• Here we are now, when the proceedings are not being broadcast, dealing with a matter which is supposed to be in the interests of the Labor Party in New South Wales where the State election will be held this week. [More…]

• The honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) came forward and said that he was going to make some mention of the election in New South Wales. [More…]

• An election campaign is in progress in New South Wales and the fact that the misguided Leader of the Opposition thinks he may be able to gain some advantage by creating scare tactics in telling the people of the States- of New South Wales in particular- that they will be taxed to a greater extent and more frequently is nothing more than propaganda designed to break down confidence. [More…]

• It is, of course, not to be overlooked that when we embarked on our policy of restraint following the election in December expenditures in this financial year were already largely predetermined. [More…]

• No member opposite referred to the situation in New South Wales where the Transport Workers Union has a ban, part of which has been temporarily suspended for the purposes of the State election, on the supply of cheap petrol. [More…]

• At the last Federal election a plank of the present Government’s platform was to do away with the Tribunal. [More…]

• Also, as this is the first opportunity I have had since assuming responsibility for the Trade Practices Act to speak on a substantive measure involving the operation of that Act I should like to make it clear so far as this Government is concerned, that whilst we are having a review of the Act’s operation as indicated in our pre-election policy statement, it is our intention to retain the Trade Practices Act. [More…]

• I remind the honourable member for Port Adelaide that it was made plain in black and white- or if one likes, blue and white- in the pre-election policy statement of the coalition parties. [More…]

• The Liberal and National Country Parties made it very plain before the election- we put it down in writing- that we intended to carry out a review of the Trade Practices Act. [More…]

• We gave an undertaking prior to the election that that discretionary power would be removed. [More…]

• No Bill was presented to the House before it rose for the 1972 election. [More…]

• He can serve on it by right, not by election. [More…]

• I refer especially to the proposal concerning the election of the chairman, the proposal which seeks to give the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee or his nominee the right to serve on the committee and the proposal in respect to the nomination of members. [More…]

• It is appropriate at this time to examine certain basic fundamentals of the Australian Labor Party in view of the election in New South Wales next Saturday. [More…]

• This was shown at the last Federal election when the trade unionists cast a massive vote against it. [More…]

• Some people say that when there is an election it is for a 3-year period and that something dies between elections. [More…]

• As I have said, I believe that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition came into the chamber at the stage at which he did and protested against the charge that had been laid against him by my colleague the honourable member for St George because of the election that is coming up in New South Wales on Saturday. [More…]

• That is the reason that many militant unions in New South Wales have been told to hold off until after Saturday’s election- to help the Labor Party in the election in New South Wales. [More…]

• 1 remind the Minister of the election policy statement of the Liberal and National Country Parties that we would provide a higher priority for medical research than Labor did. [More…]

• Those people have been written to on parliamentary letterheads and have been asked for support in the election. [More…]

• The next example of election snooping was the case of the erstwhile member for Georges River in the New South Wales Parliament, one Frank Walker. [More…]

• Like the succession of repudiated election promises of the Prime Minister and his Government, the motion is another repudiation of an undertaking given by the Prime Minister. [More…]

• This Government capitulated not because of the provisions in paragraph 1(c) of the motion which relates to costs and benefits but because the New South Wales election is on next Saturday and because a couple of the Prime Minister’s cronies from Tasmania who were crying on his sleeve apparently capitulated completely and said: ‘All right, we will put our hands up now ‘. [More…]

• At the initiative of the Government when we assembled here in February after the recess following the election on 13 December the Joint Committee was re-established. [More…]

• This is one of those smelly arguments that the Prime Minister comes up with, and Government members will learn their lesson because quite a number of them will be here only until the next election. [More…]

• Honourable members will be aware that recently I wrote to the Chairman of the IAC drawing his attention to the policy which had been enunciated by the coalition parties prior to the election campaign. [More…]

• Those guidelines that were enunciated in the election policy speech of the coalition parties and which were repeated in the letter addressed to the IAC are a statement of some of the objectives of this Government in this area. [More…]

• I should just say that we would like to see the Government honour its election promise to implement all the recommendations of the Industries Assistance Commission relating to the beef industry, particularly recommendations concerning the long-term problems of the industry, and not just the rather minor and least costly recommendations which the Government is implementing in these Bills. [More…]

• With him, I look forward to a satisfactory result in an election this Saturday in a State sphere which covers part of his electorate. [More…]

• With your concurrence, Mr Speaker, I want the Minister, by the time question time comes next Tuesday, to tell the House what steps he has taken to ensure that all candidates in this election are given equal rights to canvass the voters who will be deciding the result of the election. [More…]

• If the electoral officer does not change his ruling quickly, it will mean that only one side to the election will know who is entitled to vote and the other side will have no opportunity to reach the voters. [More…]

• It was about a strange right wing organisation known first as the United Australia Movement and then as the New Guinea Party, which fielded candidates in the Federal election in 1963. [More…]

• The ALP was put in substantial financial difficulties after the last election campaign by reason of the nonreceipt of all expected moneys from whatever sources. [More…]

• Can he say whether he intends to take part in the next New South Wales election? [More…]

• -I would not have thought that the honourable gentleman could get a great deal of consolation out of the events of last Saturday, because he was told by the Leader of his Party m that State- the verdict in this election is by no means certain yet- that he must stay out of the election campaign and out of New South Wales. [More…]

• I ask: What progress has been made in establishing a rural bank as outlined in the joint election policy of the Liberal and National Country parties? [More…]

• I now ask the Minister Is it a fact that in the Federated Clerks Union elections in Victoria in previous years, conducted by the Industrial Registrar, the candidates for office were supplied with copies of the electoral roll? [More…]

• If this is a fact, what steps does the Minister intend taking to ensure that the practices of previous years are complied with in the forthcoming election? [More…]

• Section 170a (1) states: a person conducting an election . [More…]

• the election. [More…]

• Such a person- in this instance the Australian Electoral Officer in Victoria- is in sole charge of the election and there is no way that I or any other person can take any action to intrude into that person’s conduct of the election under section 170 of the Act. [More…]

• I understand that the original request was made- I am not sure whether it was made verbally- certainly in an informal manner before the rolls for the election were fully prepared. [More…]

• I am informed that the rolls for the election are now prepared and that if a formal request is made they will be made available. [More…]

• If I remember correctly, it was the policy of the then Opposition prior to the 1974 election that, in government, we would abolish the Department, as it was the policy of the Opposition prior to the last election. [More…]

• Whilst we believe that these proposals are interesting and deserve further study there would be a need to ensure that the election of a People’s Assembly or Parliament was conducted in such a manner as would allow the people of East Timor freely to express their views. [More…]

• It is a matter of sadness to me that in the decade which has passed since my election to that House in 1966 I have seen the fruit industry in Tasmania decline very drastically. [More…]

• I spoke at a public meeting in Huonville a few weeks after my election and I was prepared to admit at that point in time that what I knew about the fruit industry could be written on the back of a postage stamp. [More…]

• The fruit growing industry in Tasmania, which once comprised 1100 growers as at the time of my election in May 1966, has now dwindled to below 500 growers. [More…]

• The Government gave a pledge prior to the election that it would put into effect the report of the Industries Assistance Commission and to some extent perhaps bound itself, I would like to have seen greater assistance to the fruit industry both in the amount allocated per box and in the quantity of fruit to be covered. [More…]

• At the last election the people of this country summed them up as not being interested in decentralisation in any shape or form. [More…]

• The Senate of this Parliament, by refusing to grant Supply, forced an election of the House of Representatives against the will of the House of Representatives, thus breaking a convention which had stood for 75 years and a convention which applies in every other comparable Parliament in the world, including those of federations. [More…]

• Whatever the rights and wrongs of the decision itself, namely the forcing of an election by the Head of State- I do not go into the constitutional details but I concede the point that that could well have been an inevitable outcomethere is no visible excuse for the way it was done. [More…]

• One or two aeroplane crashes can turn Senate majorities into Senate minorities and the results in the New South Wales State election show how quickly popularity in the community can wilt away. [More…]

• This has happened in less than 5 months since the last Federal election and less than 6 months since the infamous coup d’etat day of 1 1 November. [More…]

• I refer, of course, to the New South Wales election. [More…]

• They knew that if they could defeat the then Government they would have the power to get their own way and to prevent the rank and file of their unions from having a direct say in the election of office holders. [More…]

• Why are they afraid to let the rank and file of their unions have a direct vote for the election of the office holders of their union? [More…]

• They cannot argue that the conducting of these extra elections will cost the small unions money that they cannot afford to pay because, I repeat, my 1973 Bill provided that all officially conducted ballots would be paid for completely by the Government. [More…]

• I know that it paid off because I met people on the factory floor who said that they were attracted by the Prime Minister’s promise to allow the rank and file to have a direct voice in the election of their office holders. [More…]

• The Miscellaneous Workers Union, the Electrical Trades Union and the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, to name but three of the largest unions but by no means the only ones who had previously been using the collegiate system for the election of office holders, complied with the requirements of the Act and are now in the position that the officials will be stuck with the rank and file system of electing officers unless they are able to persuade the rank and file to give up their right to directly elect their officers. [More…]

• I propose that we remove the requirements inserted in 1973 providing for the direct election of all fulltime office holders. [More…]

• Nothing that the Government says again at an election will ever be believed by those people who on this occasion were silly enough to believe that when the Government said it believed in democratic control of trade unions it did believe in it, because the reintroduction of the collegiate system proves beyond all doubt that it does not believe in union democracy. [More…]

• I would like to say that during the election campaign, not as the shadow Minister for Social Security but as the Minister for Social Security or the caretaker Minister for Social Security, I was authorised by the Cabinet itself to issue on 22 November a statement which committed this Government if elected to retain and maintain the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• The present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) used glorious phrases during the general election about the Australian economy being on its knees. [More…]

• Before his election to this House he was busy claiming to have persuaded the Labor Government to hold a hearing in Hobart. [More…]

• Tonight I should like to discuss the New South Wales State election which we know was held on Saturday last, 1 May. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was involved in the election with the Premier of the State of New South Wales, Sir Eric Willis. [More…]

• The result of the election has been to the satisfaction of the little people, the members who worked last Saturday on the polling booths and who have worked on them over the years because they have believed in the party of battlers. [More…]

• The figures for the New South Wales State election reveal that for every seat won by the Labor Party, approximately 25 333 votes were cast, but for every seat won by the Liberal-Country Party coalition, approximately 21 833 votes were cast. [More…]

• This coalition government extreme in gerrymandering which has been achieved by 3 Liberal distributions of the electorates of New South Wales has meant a 7 per cent swing to Labor which has over 50 per cent of the vote but which is still fighting to win the State election. [More…]

• I refer to Pat Hills, M.L.A., who is the honourable member for Phillip, Roger Degen, M.L.A., who is the member for Balmain and Laurie Brereton, M.L.A., the member for Heffron, and all other candidates successful and unsuccessful who worked for the Labor Party at the State election on Saturday. [More…]

• Paul Whelan was elected to office with a swing of over 6500 votes from the result of the last election. [More…]

• On this basis if a Federal election were held next or tomorrow week there would be a Labor victory in Evans as well as in many other electorates of New South Wales and elsewhere in Australia. [More…]

• The honourable member for Sydney (Mr Les McMahon) sought to derive some glee from the preliminary figures for the New South Wales State election. [More…]

• Thirdly, in the last State election the Labor Party did not contest a number of seats. [More…]

• Party candidates contested the last election, knows better than I do what is the true situation and knows himself the extent to which he has misled the House. [More…]

• If honourable members look at the figures for St George they will see that it has been a very close election. [More…]

• On the other side, consistent with our election undertakings to support the home loan interest tax deduction scheme, this scheme will be kept in being but in a way that we consider looks better to the realities of the situation. [More…]

• We gave careful thought to the producers’ position in the months preceding the election and said that, on being returned to office, we would review the taxation arrangements that apply to wine and brandy stocks. [More…]

• During the election campaign, when the Australian Labor Party pointed out that there could not be an investment led recovery in the economic circumstances then confronting the country and that it had to be consumption led, we were ridiculed. [More…]

• I wish at this point in my speech to thank my constituents from all over Braddon who gave me wonderful support in the last election and who have given me the opportunity and the responsibility I now carry. [More…]

• I am reminded of the comment of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), as he now is, in my electorate during the last election campaign, when he said: [More…]

• During the election campaign we heard all sorts of promises from the Liberal Party and National Country Party coalition about a new deal for ethnic groups. [More…]

• But we must ask how it happened that in the middle of an election campaign the Premier of Queensland convened the Queensland Parliament for one day to make these malicious allegations across the length and breadth of the nation. [More…]

• I hope Mr Burns, the Labor Leader, can bring this to the fore in any forthcoming Queensland election. [More…]

• Fancy, in the last week of an election campaign, convening a Parliament for one day. [More…]

• We found on examination of the letters that the authority was issued by the Premier of Queensland on 14 November, 3 days after the general election campaign had begun. [More…]

• That is Mr Fraser- were working through Mr Bjelke-Petersen because you had a gentleman s agreement with the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, not to pursue the Whitlam situation until after the general election on December 1 3. [More…]

• This is the sort of relationship that the AgentGeneral of the Queensland Government had with an American banker involved in political muck-raking during the election campaign. [More…]

• We find that the movements of Mr Khemlani, who appeared fortuitously during the election campaign and in the time leading up to the dismissal of the Government on 11 November, were financed from the slush funds by the present Treasurer, Mr Lynch. [More…]

• These people who did not have a majority in the House of Representatives, these people who lost the previous election and were masquerading as the Government of Australia could not even abide by the agreement they had given to the Governor-General even though they were suggesting that the Governor-General was acting with completely propriety. [More…]

• When the then Opposition finally got into a situation where it could not hide behind parliamentary privilege, when the House of Representatives had risen for the election campaign, when the caretaker Government had given an undertaking to the Governor-General that it would not continue muckraking in the disgraceful way that it had been doing, what did it then do? [More…]

• When Labor was elected in 1972 we were happy about our election, but this crowd look as if they have stolen the Crown jewels. [More…]

• They were prepared to see the social fabric of this country ripped in half because they would not wait 1 8 months for an election. [More…]

• That is the real issue; they would not wait 1 8 months for an election. [More…]

• At those discussions I outlined proposals that the Government had in mind, including proposals for the election of officers to organisations. [More…]

• It concerns the petition filed last February in the High Court of Australia, sitting as a Court of Disputed Returns, by a person who claims to have lodged a valid nomination for last December’s election of senators for Tasmania but whose name was omitted from the ballot-paper. [More…]

• Since the petition asks that the election of the present 10 Tasmanians who sit in the Senate be declared absolutely void, is it open for the Minister to ask the Court to settle the issue as early as possible, and in that case will he do so? [More…]

• He will remember that the honourable member for Parramatta and I hae asked on notice for the names of the Ministers who lodged returns of their election expenses after the last 3 elections and that he has passed on to us the written replies that ‘every return is open to public inspection upon payment of the prescribed fee of 50c’ and that ‘it is not proposed to make information from the returns otherwise available’. [More…]

• The Government’s failure to honour its election commitments on Medibank. [More…]

• This is one more breach- and the worst so far- of Liberal election promises. [More…]

• During the election campaign the Prime Minister gave repeated undertakings that Medibank would be preserved. [More…]

• The Prime Minister not only said this throughout the election campaign right up to the concluding days of the election campaign but he also repeated it after the election was over. [More…]

• It was first put to the voters in the 1969 election, when it was the central issue. [More…]

• It was endorsed again in the 1975 election when both sides in the Parliament undertook to preserve Medibank. [More…]

• The attack on Medibank was concealed during the Liberal election campaign. [More…]

• When these became the basis of a double dissolution in 1974 the people voted for Medibank in the subsequent election. [More…]

• This was the subterfuge used in the election campaign when he conned people into believing that Medibank would remain. [More…]

• Before the election he said very clearly in his policy statement: [More…]

• The Government’s failure to honour its election commitments on Medibank. [More…]

• I want to refer to the central point of this debate raised by the Opposition- its claim that the Government has failed to honour its election commitment. [More…]

• If one reads through all the statements made by the Prime Minister, both before the election last December and since, one cannot say that he has been anything else but remarkably consistent in the attitude he has taken- that Medibank will be retained but there will be changes. [More…]

• He will be responsible for the Opposition’s main economic speeches and statements of policy during these next several years prior to the next general election. [More…]

• I am hoping that the honourable member for Adelaide will go back to his history teacher, the Leader of the Opposition, and ask him to be painstaking, to be serious in his revelation of his knowledge of history and to tell him of the last occasion when what is called a coup d’etat in the French language was followed within a period of 4 weeks by a general election. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) during his election campaign and when refusing Supply last year talked about wasteful expenditure by the previous Government. [More…]

• I am amazed to read the extraordinary comments in the Press to the effect that the result of the New South Wales election was in some way affected by the federalism policy. [More…]

• I think the truth must be known that the New South Wales election was fought basically on local issues together with one other matter raised in this House by the back bench supporters of the Government, namely the $40 funeral benefit for pensioners. [More…]

• Thirdly, I want to commend the Government on the speed with which it is proceeding to honour a sacred election commitment, namely to bring in a freight equalisation scheme for Tasmania. [More…]

• But that is not the end of the election. [More…]

• The present Prime Minister of this country said, in the lead up to the December election: ‘I support, my Government will support and we will continue to support full indexation’. [More…]

• No one comes out and says: ‘We will not have an ombudsman’, but that is what has happened under this Government This is something that Government supporters were beating their chests about in the December election campaign. [More…]

• Obviously at the next Senate election we will see the voting figures of 13 December completely reversed and we will have more Labor senators in the upper House to express the views and disappointments of those people who voted for this Government. [More…]

• During the recent election campaign the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) frequently referred to the economy as being on its knees. [More…]

• It is obvious why Sir Eric Willis called on the election some 6 months earlier than he need have. [More…]

• In the minute I have left I repeat the policy of the Liberal-National Country Parties, as enunciated prior to the last election, in relation to the private courier service, and to draw to the attention of the House the fact that we are contravening our own promise in allowing this to continue. [More…]

• 1 ) Can he say in what countries election campaigns are financed in whole or part from government funds. [More…]

• The Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments of 1974 provided for optional public financing of presidential general election campaigns and nominating conventions and established federal matching grants to cover up to 45 per cent of the cost of presidential primary campaigns, as follows: [More…]

• Minor parties are eligible for lesser amounts based on their proportion of votes received in a past or current election. [More…]

• Only private gifts raised after 1 January 1975 may qualify for matching funds in respect of the 1976 election. [More…]

• (All federal money for public funding of campaigns comes from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund. [More…]

• Under the Election Expenses Act of 1974 candidates who are elected or who have received 1 5 per cent or more of the popular vote, and who have provided all information required by the Act are entitled to reimbursement as follows- [More…]

• Originally, subsidy was fixed at 2.50 DM per voter for all parties who polled at least 2.5 per cent of total vote in the previous Federal election. [More…]

• The subsidy is distributed among parties according to the number of votes polled, and is distributed at the rate of 10 per cent in the first year after the election, IS per cent in the second year, 35 per cent in the third year and the remaining 40 per cent immediately after the general elections. [More…]

• That this House censures the Government, the Prime Minister and senior Cabinet Ministers for their involvement in loan inquiries by State Ministers and representatives in breach of their undertaking that there would be no inquiries during the election campaign into the activities of the previous Government. [More…]

• That this House censures the Government, the Prime Minister and senior Cabinet Ministers for their involvement in loan inquiries by State Ministers and representatives in breach of their undertaking that there would be no inquiries during the election campaign into the activities of the previous Government. [More…]

• There will be no royal commissions or inquiries into the activities of this Government throughout the period of the election campaign. [More…]

• He knew who the sole beneficiaries of the inquiry would be- his own Party, the Federal Opposition, newly installed in power and about to fight an election. [More…]

• Any such statement during an election would have been damaging to the coalition parties. [More…]

• Mr Fancher stated that you had a gentlemen’s agreement with Governor-General Sir John Kerr not to pursue the Whitlam situation until after the general election on 13 December 1973. [More…]

• The Prime Minister’s concern for the proprieties of this world does not extend, apparently, to answering correspondence from people who have worked for his election. [More…]

• In the election campaign he promised release of documentary evidence of economic mismanagement by the Labor Government, evidence which he said it had suppressed. [More…]

• He called the Queensland Parliament together on the eve of the last double dissolution election of the Federal Parliament as an opportunity to dramatise outrageous allegations which he knew, on the eve of the Federal elections, would only be disablingly harmful to the Labor Party at the polls. [More…]

• Some 3 months later- when redemption could help little at an election held 3 months earlierthe Attorney-General reported to the House that, as a result of inquiries: … the Government is completely satisfied that there is no substance in the suggestion that either the official or the 2 Ministers were involved in the wrongful conduct alleged. [More…]

• Was he saying that between each 3- yearly democratic election we should gather in little groups or big groups, that we should go into the streets, that we should preach violence and revolution, and that we should white-ant - [More…]

• ‘He is hinting that university students and industrial workers take over capital city centres at the next election, but he did not have the guts to say it before the December election.’ [More…]

• If the ALP continued not to recognise the fact that it had lost the election, continued to attack the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, and Lady Kerr, and persisted with its slogan of ‘Shame, Fraser, shame’, it would lose more seats and votes. [More…]

• ‘Until the ALP gets back on the rails and puts forward positive and sincere policies, it will not win an election,’ Mr Wood said. [More…]

• Many times during the election campaign I’d hear comments from young people that showed much greater maturity and understanding of what’s really going on, than I heard from some of my colleagues in the ALP. [More…]

• For example during the last Federal Election; if we were to fight elections on the sacking of the Labor Government, if we were to keep the people’s attention to the real issue, we should have had at least one or two national stoppages. [More…]

• I explained that I did not think it would have changed the result of the elections, as no government in the western world at this period of history could survive when the Opposition is able to choose the time for an election. [More…]

• After there is an election in this country there is a change from one side of the House to the other. [More…]

• That happens not because the police come in and throw out certain people; it happens because offices have been vacated as a result of an election. [More…]

• Honourable members on this side of the House will know that the aim of the Government, and a clear commitment in our election policy announcements, is to bring the Northern Territory to ultimate statehood. [More…]

• It is tangible evidence of the Government’s determination to give effect to its election undertakings on the constitutional development of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• the legislation involves the breaking of election promises with the removal for many of home mortgage interest deductions and the inadequate alterations to winemakers’ tax liability, and [More…]

• For window-dressing, for hoodwinking reasons at a time of an election, they have merely increased the payment of deferred taxes period from 7 years to 8 years. [More…]

• In short, on this section of the investment allowance and double depreciation, the Labor Opposition deplores the promises that were made during the election campaign, during their grab for power. [More…]

• Nowhere in the election platform of the Liberal and National Country parties is there any hint that when those parties spoke of supporting the home interest loans scheme they would be doing so in the way in which they have done in this Bill. [More…]

• There is no consistency at all between what is being done here and what was said during the election campaign. [More…]

• The measures in clauses 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 give effect to the Government’s vague election commitment to business to do something about convertible notes. [More…]

• I note that the first part of the amendment moved by the Opposition refers to this Government allegedly breaking an election promise in relation to home mortgage interest deduction. [More…]

• On the one hand it honours an election commitment and on the other hand it is just one more breach of the Liberal-National Country Party’s election promises. [More…]

• The promised and vaunted investment allowance is the election commitment that it did not break. [More…]

• This is only one more breach of the Liberal Party’s election promises. [More…]

• The Fraser Government’s policy before the December elections stated unequivocally that it would continue to support the tax deductibility scheme. [More…]

• the legislation involves the breaking of election promises with the removal for many of home mortgage interest deductions - [More…]

• Never before has a government in such a short period broken so many of the undertakings that it gave during the election campaign. [More…]

• The people in these industries believed that they would receive great assistance if they weighed in the money to the slush funds of the present Government’s election campaign. [More…]

• The present Prime Minister and Government gave a firm undertaking during the last election campaign that under no circumstances would they dismantle the home interest deductibility scheme. [More…]

• The Government gave an undertaking in the election campaign that it would not interfere with wage indexation. [More…]

• The people appointed to the Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission have been carrying out their functions all this time, as they were before the election last year. [More…]

• In view of the fact that later today the Minister’s colleague, the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, will introduce legislation dealing with the election of trade union officials, has he considered the urgent need to introduce legislation to enable contributor members of so-called non-profit voluntary health insurance organisations, such as the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia and the Hospitals Contribution Fund to elect their office bearers, let alone do so by secret ballots? [More…]

• Is he aware that neither of these organisations which are registered under Federal legislation has any provision for elections by contributor members to their governing bodies or any other method of participating in the decision making? [More…]

• We believe that your election pledge to restore business and cut unemployment can be implemented in Newcastle if new ship orders and a Graving Dock are granted. [More…]

• In our election platform on Environment and Conservation Policy we stated ‘we will examine with each State Government the need for and cost of monitoring air, water and noise pollution standards and where necessary criteria for measurement of standards . [More…]

• Some are new initiatives by the Government to confirm in legislation promises made by the Liberal and National Country Parties during the election campaign. [More…]

• Since our election in December there has been close consultation with industry representatives. [More…]

• -The proposal on the investment allowance in the Bills before the House is aimed at fulfilling a quite illconceived election promise made by the Government which was based on an equally faulty diagnosis of the economic problems at that time- problems which persist today. [More…]

• I believe that the winemakers of Australia were misled during the last Federal election into believing that section 31a of the Principal Act would be reintroduced by way of amendment to the taxation legislation before the House. [More…]

• I have been advised that one of the large private winemakers in Australia went so far as to suggest to its workers during the last Federal election campaign-I am referring to McWilliam ‘s Wines Pry Ltd and I believe it is in its interest that I bring this matter into the openthat they would be sacked if a Liberal and National Country Party Government was not returned to office because the coalition parties were making promises relating to section 31a. [More…]

• McWilliam ‘s was not making those threats during the election campaign then I believe it is in McWilliam ‘s interest to make a statement to that effect so that their sales of wine are not affected. [More…]

• This was an election gimmick pledge by former Prime Minister Whitlam to the South Australian electorate at the time of the South Australian election. [More…]

• I found out that no move had been made to honour those promises given at the time of the South Australian election. [More…]

• In justice to the honourable member for Adelaide, let us look at what the Whitlam Government offered at the time of the South Australian election. [More…]

• But no, the Government, in its mulishness and pigheadedness, wants to proceed with what it chooses to class as an election promise. [More…]

• I suspect that very senior people in the Opposition who brought this scheme in as a last minute election promise in 1972 also realised the inadequacy of the scheme. [More…]

• The people do not yet know what is intended because they were lulled into a state of false security at election time and on many other occasions. [More…]

• The same undertakings were made during the election campaign. [More…]

• During my discussions with the unions they expressed very strong opposition to the proposal that the Electoral Office should conduct all elections. [More…]

• For example, in the last election of a Commonwealth Chairman of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, less than 2 per cent of the total membership exercised its prerogative to vote. [More…]

• The AMWU had had similar experiences with elections for other office holders. [More…]

• What it therefore proposes is that all organisations, whether of employers or workers, will be required to have elections conducted by secret postal ballot, and that these arrangements should have the opportunity of a 2-year trial. [More…]

• There may in special circumstances be other methods of election in which all members would have an adequate opportunity to vote, the ballot would be conducted without intimidation, and it would result in a greater participation of members. [More…]

• Where an organisation’s rules do not provide for postal voting, its rules may not be appropriate for the conduct of elections by postal ballot. [More…]

• Clauses 3, 12 and 13 of the Bill give effect to the proposals on election ballots. [More…]

• It will, of course, still be open to organisations to use the present facility to have election ballots conducted on their behalf by the Industrial Registrar or the Commonwealth Electoral Officer at Government expense. [More…]

• The election policy speech delivered by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on 27 November included the following passages: [More…]

• We began immediately after the Government’s election. [More…]

• The Government undertook at the last election to introduce personal tax indexation within its current term of office. [More…]

• This is an odd circumstance, since already the Premier of New South Wales, Mr Wran, seems to have come to the understanding that it is beyond his capacity to pay for his election promises. [More…]

• Since the election, conservative ideology has distorted policy and retarded recovery. [More…]

• If we are successful we will look for some sort of stability and profit in the second year, it will not be done quickly, in the last election campaign we said to the people of Australia: ‘The position is bad. [More…]

• During the election campaign the threat to all these programs was concealed in the usual wad of Liberal verbiage. [More…]

• You will remember those comments were made in the context of the last election campaign and in the context of what was going to happen immediately thereafter. [More…]

• People were deceived during the election but they are deceived no longer. [More…]

• The New South Wales State election showed how keenly people feel on this subject. [More…]

• ) Does the Government intend to take action to require political parties to declare the sources of their election funds in order to clear the doubts of people in regard to CIA activity in elections in Australia. [More…]

• The people whom the Liberal Party of Australia and the National Country Party of Australia humiliated throughout the last 2 years and throughout the election campaign by calling them dole bludgers are now suffering from a policy of planned unemployment. [More…]

• The so-called investment led recovery- the rubbish we heard last year and the rubbish we heard constantly during the election campaignnow, apparently in the Government’s view, has failed. [More…]

• So we can take it that any promise he makes during an election campaign will last only a day, a week, a month- who knows?- but certainly only in the ‘immediate term’. [More…]

• I believe that the volatility of Australian politics is such that the Government and the Prime Minister will be flat out to be returned to office at the next election. [More…]

• Inflation was one of the central issues of the last election campaign, an election campaign which gave the Liberal and National Country parties an overwhelming mandate to tackle the economic management of this country and to try to bring about recovery to eliminate the recession and unemployment that had been imposed upon this country. [More…]

• It would appear that the States will be required by some magical formula to raise additional funds- at the moment it is not a State tax but during the New South Wales election campaign the Government parties clearly indicated that it would not be an additional tax- in order to meet the requirements which the community has and which the Commonwealth previously met in areas out of which it has now moved. [More…]

• In spite of the continuing chaos in public transport in Sydney and in Melbourne, in spite of the demands by the people of New South Wales for improved public transport as endorsed in the recent New South Wales election and in spite of the hopeless position of the State railways systems with their massive losses, their ever deteriorating debt position and their antiquated rolling stock, this Government has decided to add a further statistic to its claim for a slot in the Guinness Book of Records. [More…]

• I further asked the Minister whether in fact he gave the South Australian Minister of Transport, as the Prime Minister did shortly after the election last December, an unqualified assurance that the agreement in fact would be implemented. [More…]

• It is also worth saying that, immediately following the election of this Government last December, the Premier of South Australia, in discussion with the Prime Minister, referred to various agreements, including the standard rail gauge agreement, and received from the Prime Minister an unqualified assurance that the Fraser Government would honour every agreement- I repeat ‘every agreement’- which had been entered into between the South Australian Government and the former Labor Government. [More…]

• This is supposed to be a magnificent gesture which will convince the trade union movement that it must accept the Government’s proposals to vary the wage indexation guidelines with which the Government promised at the last election campaign it would not interfere. [More…]

• They will need to be careful if they are to retain their seats at the next election. [More…]

• There has been a complete abrogation of the undertaking and promise given during the last election campaign not to interfere with the home mortgage interest tax deductibility scheme. [More…]

• Of course, it is banking on the argument that there will not be an election for 2Vi years and by then the people will have forgotten. [More…]

• -Even a casual reader of the newspapers could not have failed to see over recent days statements by the Premier of New South Wales concerning the difficulty he is already finding in implementing his election commitments. [More…]

• He has known quite well that his election promises would have to be paid out of resources that he knew would be available to the Government of New South Wales. [More…]

• Will he take urgent action to ensure continuity of employment for the men concerned in accordance with his election pledge of last November to assist the States to modernise and rationalise their rail systems? [More…]

• by leave-Mr Speaker, honourable members will recall that the Government undertook during last year’s election campaign to reintroduce schemes for the training of Army, Navy and Air cadets which our predecessors decided to disband. [More…]

• Although in some cases mining will not take place under that agreement until 1982, the Bill was hastened through the Queensland Parliament in the hurly burly of the Federal election campaign. [More…]

• So proficient were the doctors at the public hospital at which I had that operation that within a month I was fighting a successful election campaign. [More…]

• For political reasons I hope that it does because if this Government does reintroduce television and radio listeners licences, then the Labor Party will tell the people at the next election that the election of a Labor government will mean the abolition of those licences again. [More…]

• We will let every one of the 3 ‘A million television viewers know that a vote for the Labor Party at the next election will mean $40 or $70 extra in their pockets each year. [More…]

• An election would be held and the Australian Labor Party or the Liberal Party- whichever was in Opposition -would say: ‘We will come up with a better offer; we will cover medical expenses at a higher level than was the case before the pressure was put on.’ [More…]

• In other words, the present council of the Medical Benefits Fund decides which doctors should be entitled to have a vote in the next election for the council. [More…]

• It is not surprising that there has been no opposition in any of the elections. [More…]

• The important thing is that the only people who can nominate for election and the only people who can vote are those medical contributors. [More…]

• I carried out what I thought was an honest exercise in politics by comparing the 2 major statements of the Liberal and National Country Partiesthe one that they made as the lead-up to the election of 13 December and the one that has just been made in respect of economic policy. [More…]

• I do not know how anyone in Australia is going to be inspired into a new confidence when they can read into these 2 documents the gigantic fraud that has taken place in Australian politics in terms of what the people were told when their votes were up for grabs and what they are being told not 2Vi years before the next election. [More…]

• The Prime Minister when being interviewed on the television program Monday Conference last Monday said that the promises that were made before the elections in December last year had to be seen in the election context. [More…]

• It means, of course, that when one goes to an election one can say anything so long as one can get the votes. [More…]

• It means that one does not have to worry about what one says because after the election there is a completely new set of circumstances and the promises that have been made can easily be gone back on. [More…]

• That was the story prior to the election. [More…]

• The Government did not say: ‘Let us wait until we see what happens after the elections; we are going to have another look at Medibank’. [More…]

• So not only has the Government gone back on its word and the promises that it made leading up to the election in 1975 but also it has caused a grave breakdown in industrial relations. [More…]

• Again, as he said on Monday Conference: ‘You have to see it in the election context’. [More…]

• I do not know what seeing things in the election context means unless it means that you are able to tell lies, unless you are able to say to say to the people of Australia: ‘Here are all the things we are going to do. [More…]

• We want you to vote on these, but as soon as the election is over at midnight on 13 December, forget about it, because then you have a different ball game. [More…]

• The strategy expressed through these measures has been stated by the coalition Parties on many occasions -in Opposition, during the election campaign and in government. [More…]

• We have had the whole gammit put before us from the election campaign up to the present time. [More…]

• This was further emphasised in our election policy speech in which we made this point: [More…]

• Never before has any government within weeks of its election got down to the job of solving the problems of the Australian economy with such determination- problems not of our making but certainly ones which the Australian people elected us to solve. [More…]

• During the election campaign the Government, no doubt for the purpose of a financial handout, promised the private insurance institutions that once it got into power it would look after their interests. [More…]

• At the next election they will be tipped out of power, disgraced and dishonoured as people who supported wealth and privilege and not the true aspect of Australian thinking and idealism. [More…]

• I just wonder why the honourable member for Evans (Mr Abel) did not read the Bible prior to the New South Wales election. [More…]

• The Prime Minister of Australia today has said that during the election campaign the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) stole papers from the Treasury. [More…]

• Does the Prime Minister recall, stating in his policy speech prior to the last general election, that the Government would not give assistance to overseas countries involved in terrorist activities? [More…]

• I am well aware of the statements made on earlier occasions before the last general election which indicated that we would make quite certain that no aid provided by this Government would end up in the hands of terrorist groups. [More…]

• I discovered that at the 1975 election the honourable member for Grayndler represented 57 081 voters while I, in my electorate, represented 61 266 voters, over 4000 voters more than the honourable member for Grayndler at the last election. [More…]

• This Bill follows our election promise that we would introduce such legislation. [More…]

• They believed that the Senate could not force the House of Representatives to an election twice a year while not itself facing the people. [More…]

• They believed that, in filling casual vacancies in the Senate, State governments should obey the will of the people expressed at the previous election. [More…]

• They believed that in issuing the writs for Federal elections, State governments and State governors should respond to the wishes of the Australian Government. [More…]

• That would seem to have been recognised in the last parliamentary election in Australia on the first day of this month because the party that won the New South Wales elections proposed to modernise and restructure local government; the party which lost government at that election had no proposals for local government. [More…]

• This is a sham, and was recognised as such by the people of New South Wales in the recent State election. [More…]

• The Government of course has blatantly broken its election promise to support wage indexation by arguing that the Commission should award only about half the 6.4 percent. [More…]

• Another important aspect of this legislation is the proposed requirement for the election of union officials and, supposedly, officials of em- ployer organisations, to be by secret postal ballots. [More…]

• This union was the focus of the Government’s attention in the election campaign. [More…]

• Indeed even in his second reading speech on this Bill the Minister referred again to the AMWU as a prime example of the low participation rate by union members in elections for officials. [More…]

• It was essentially an election gimmick by which the Government succeeded in leading people to believe that trade union leaders, particularly the militant ones, were dominating their members, were unrepresentative of them and were able to remain in office by undemocratic election procedures. [More…]

• The Conciliation and Arbitration Act currently provides, and has provided since 1951, that union rules must make provision for election of officials by secret ballot with provision for absentee voting. [More…]

• Furthermore, the Act provides that if any member of a union believes that the officials are not following the union rules, including the rules regarding elections, he may take the matter to the Industrial Court and obtain an order requiring the union management to observe the rules of the organisation. [More…]

• In the 25 years from 1949 to 1974 only 45 election cases were brought to the Industrial Court. [More…]

• There is little evidence of election malpractice. [More…]

• The Act, as it stands, provides that a union member who believes that there has been an irregularity in an election can lodge an application for an inquiry by the Industrial Court into the matter. [More…]

• Mr De Vyver pointed out in his article that in these cases, even though an irregularity has been proved to exist, the case is often dismissed when it is shown that the election results would not have been affected. [More…]

• Apart from those substantial protections against election irregularities, the Act currently provides that the union management or a group of members- that is, 250 or 5 per cent of the membership, whichever is the smaller- can obtain a government-controlled ballot simply by requesting one. [More…]

• However, it is the union managements that have mainly sought this type of election. [More…]

• There has been an increasing trend for unions to seek such elections in recent years. [More…]

• In the period from 1950 to now the total number of elections held under the auspices of the Industrial Registrar, at the request of union members, is only 1 18, despite the fact that it is not difficult to get such elections. [More…]

• On the other hand, the number of such elections held at the request of union management between 1950 and now is 724- six times the number held at the request of union members. [More…]

• Of those 724 elections, 402 were held in the 1970s. [More…]

• So it is beyond doubt that there is increasing usage of this form of election by unions over recent years. [More…]

• They have made many unions consider holding such elections through the Industrial Registrar because in this type of election the Government pays the cost of holding the election. [More…]

• In our view the current Act provides a very substantial protection against election irregularities. [More…]

• We suggest that the record of the past quarter century displays no evidence of malpractice in union elections. [More…]

• In fact Australian union members and union leaders who genuinely want honest election of officers have ample provisions in the Arbitration law. [More…]

• Only member apathy makes possible major infractions of the rules or irregularities in an election. [More…]

• The Government’s proposal that all union elections be by secret ballot would not overcome apathy. [More…]

• The Government’s original proposal, as outlined on many occasions, was that all elections for union officials would be by secret postal ballot of all eligible members conducted by the Australian Electoral Office. [More…]

• The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations claimed that a benefit of this would be a higher election participation rate because every member eligible to vote would receive a ballot paper. [More…]

• They may have their elections conducted by the Commonwealth Electoral Office free of charge. [More…]

• Alternatively, they may run their own elections, but in that event the costs will have to be met by their members. [More…]

• Let me refer to some of the costs involved in conducting union elections. [More…]

• In 1975 some 31 elections conducted by the Electoral Office, which required postal ballots or expenditure by the Office, cost an estimated $144,727.68. [More…]

• Elections involving the Australian Railways Union were estimated to cost $40,248, elections involving the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation were estimated to cost $34,643, and elections involving the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union were estimated to cost $22,195. [More…]

• It also would be clearly to the members’ benefit if resources presently being spent on elections can be used henceforth for legitimate industrial purposes. [More…]

• It should be emphasised also that the Conciliation and Arbitration Act already provides for the Australian Industrial Court to hear a challenge from any member of an industrial organisation who believes that there has been any irregularity in an election. [More…]

• Where an irregularity is proved, the Court may order a courtcontrolled election where it is considered to be warranted. [More…]

• Further measures are planned by the Government to ensure the fullest possible participation by members of unions and employer organisations in the election of their office bearers. [More…]

• The ballot would still have to be secret, but there are certain ways in which a union can have an election by other than a postal ballot. [More…]

• exempt the organisation, in respect of an election, from the application of this section if he is satisfied that the conduct of the election in accordance with those rules- [More…]

• I must say that on my first approach to the problem I did think that a system of direct voting for all members for the election of all office bearers of a union would provide the maximum participation by the rank and file membership. [More…]

• One can see that a candidate standing for election in that sort of system could face the problem of having to run a campaign costing $20,000, $30,000, $50,000 and perhaps more in order just to get his name across, in some superficial sense, to every member of the union. [More…]

• It could well be the case that a better system in such a union would be to have an election for office bearers at a regional or State level where the campaign would not be so costly. [More…]

• It would be more likely that the average rank and file unionist would want to offer himself for election, and where it would be possible for him to become known and for members of the union to express a meaningful vote. [More…]

• That is the view I am coming to on this matter of whether there ought to be direct or collegiate systems of voting in union elections. [More…]

• Clause 12 (a) proposes that a new paragraph be inserted in section 133(1) to require an association applying for registration to provide by its rules that every election for an office of a kind referred to in paragraphs (a), (aa), (b) and (c) of the definition of office in section 4(1) shall be by postal ballot. [More…]

• Clause 13 provides that elections for the specified offices in organisations, that is employer or employee associations registered under the Acts, shall be by secret postal ballot. [More…]

• In relation to registered organisations, every election for an office specified in sub-section ( 1 ) of proposed section 133 AA must be by postal ballot which complies with the definition. [More…]

• The Bill would have totally failed to bring about that which this Government has been telling the country since the last election campaign that it was going to introduce. [More…]

• All honourable members will recall that during the last election campaign the Government said time and time again that it proposed to legislate, upon regaining the Government benches, to provide that all union members would have a postal vote, or the ability to have a postal vote, in union elections. [More…]

• I make the point that in the original Bill clause 3 defined ‘direct voting system’ as an election of a kind referred to in section 133 (1) (a) of the Act. [More…]

• In summary section 133(1) (a) provides that the rules of the association or organisation shall provide for the election of the holder of each office within the association or organisation at an election at which all financial members are eligible to vote. [More…]

• Every election by a direct voting system . [More…]

• The Bill says that for the election of officeholders the rules must provide that all financial members are eligible to vote and that the vote shall be by secret postal ballot. [More…]

• I believe that the cost of secret ballot by post in some of the larger unions would be probably $150,000 to $200,000 per election. [More…]

• I believe that the cost of secret postal ballots will become prohibitive for unions and that eventually, rather than by coercion, by cooperation we will have reached a position in which the unions will have asked the Court to take control of their elections. [More…]

• I put as a natural extension of the federalist philosophy which I adopt the argument that, in my opinion at any rate, if the collegiate system is taken away the smaller States can say goodbye to any chance of having an effective role to play in the election of federal office bearers of their unions. [More…]

• The legislation makes it clear that unions that had the collegiate system then had the right to continue the collegiate system ad infinitum except that those federal positions within the union that were full time jobs and the holder of which was a member of the management committee of the organisation, had to go to the rank and file for election. [More…]

• But the election of all the other federal positions which were elected by the collegiate system as at that time- the positions of Federal President, Federal Vice-President, Federal Trustees and Federal Returning Officerand which were not full time positions could continue to be filled by the collegiate system of election. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the only unions of which I know that are pressing for the abolition of right of the rank and file to have a direct voice in the election of their full time federal positions are the Federated Clerks Unions of Australia, the Shop Assistants - [More…]

• -I was most interested a moment ago to hear the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) compare the position in the trade unions with the election of members of Parliament. [More…]

• In that kind of electorate which is so disseminated one cannot really have a rank and file election. [More…]

• It is very nice to talk about the rank and file, grass roots democracy and things like that but we have the same kind of situation as we have in the election of the Senate, something which my honourable friends on the other side are so keen on condemning as not really being the House of the people at all. [More…]

• I pointed out- the honourable member for Hindmarsh has not contradicted me- that if this Bill goes through and no further legislation on this subject is introduced into this Parliament, as of the middle of November this year the collegiate system of voting for the election of full time union office bearers in Australia will expire. [More…]

• Even after the people of America cast their votes, the formal election of the President of the United States, the highest elected position in the world, will be decided by a college. [More…]

• Prior to the last election a Labor Party committee suggested that the then Government would entertain the idea of adding the annual rental value of a home to the taxable income of a home owner. [More…]

• They are just as likely to be wrong about American opinion today, especially if we base our assumptions about American policy on campaign rhetoric in an election year. [More…]

• The Government has irresponsibly exploited statements made by American leaders for domestic electioneering purposes in support of an alarmist policy completely out of keeping with the real politik in which the highly sensitive relationship between the United States, the Soviet Union and China is based. [More…]

• What must be recognised is that the questioning of detente needs to be looked at in the perspective of the American presidential election campaign, and continuing efforts by the Department of Defence, particularly the navy section, to present a case for a substantial increase in expenditures. [More…]

• The effect of this proposed amendment is to provide that where the election is not under the control of the court- not a court controlled ballotthe Commonwealth Electoral Officer should have the right to appoint scrutineers. [More…]

• In one election for one particular office the number of candidates could run into double figures. [More…]

• But, of course, an election can be conducted anywhere in Australia and, indeed, in very many widely dispersed areas of Australia for the one election. [More…]

• The fact is that if one looks back at cases which have been taken under section 141 or section 159 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, both of which sections give a single member who feels that there has been any untoward activity- fraud or corruptionin a union election a chance to take it to the Industrial Court, one will find that it works out to about 2 cases a year, and not all of those were by any means cases which were the result of fraud or corruption. [More…]

• In the last few years there has been an increasing tendency for trade unions to adopt court controlled ballots for reasons which I think have much to do with the increasing cost of conducting elections themselves. [More…]

• The unions can please themselves whether they have the election conducted by the Australian Electoral Office or do it themselves. [More…]

• The point is that this kind of election was increasingly the kind of election which unions were adopting anyway. [More…]

• In fact, in the last year or so unions which intended to conduct elections in this way decided not to do so because they did not want to look as though they were being forced into doing so by the Government. [More…]

• Clause 13 proposes 2 things: It indicates that the election shall be by secret postal ballot and that where certain other conditions are specified, exceptions will apply in respect of those ballots. [More…]

• Of all the promises made during the election campaign, this is the third promise the Government has kept. [More…]

• I hope they will be prepared to stand for election under legislation including secret ballots. [More…]

• The regulations may make provision for and in relation to the conduct of an election in accordance with the requirements of this section in the case of an election in respect of which the rules of the organization do not provide for a secret postal ballot. [More…]

• He made the point that, as 3 years is not an unusual term of office, therefore approximately 50 unions a year are involved in elections. [More…]

• So, even though the term of office may be 3 years, certain offices of a union can come up for election each year. [More…]

• Nevertheless, I will make inquiries to find out what percentage of unions holding elections in that year asked for them to be conducted under section 170. [More…]

• Last Friday the Minister who was then acting gave me a written answer that no payments had been made against nearly 90 recreation projects for which the Minister for Tourism and Recreation announced grants in the week after the election and that no formal contracts had been signed for over 40 of these projects. [More…]

• No matter how hard the Prime Minister tries to pretend he is Australia’s George Washington, the Australian voters will remember his growing list of repudiated election promises and Australian road users will recall the folly of this Bill. [More…]

• It is a further demonstration of its willingness to dishonour election promises. [More…]

• It was a firm commitment frequently undertaken by the now Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) during the course of the last election that Medibank would be preserved. [More…]

• The Prime Minister gave a firm undertaking in the election campaign to keep Medibank. [More…]

• It is clear evidence that the Government does not have a genuine faith with the electorate, following its promise in the last election campaign to preserve Medibank. [More…]

• I think they are about to wake up to it and that will be reflected in future elections. [More…]

• It was reflected in the last New South Wales election in which there was a swing of about 8 per cent or 9 per cent against the National Country Party. [More…]

• It was confirmed by the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Snedden, now our Speaker, in March 1975 and it was confirmed again in the most forthright terms by the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in the Bass by-election in 1975. [More…]

• It was confirmed again during the election in December. [More…]

• Prior to the election in December last year organisations involved in sport, recreation and national fitness and the affairs of youth were given all sorts of assurances by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and other Ministers in this present Government which was then the caretaker Government. [More…]

• This Government, prior to and even after the election, made all sorts of promises. [More…]

• I can sympathise with the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Howard) for his task of trying to conform to the unqualified election campaign promise of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to implement the recommendations of every Industries Assistance Commission report. [More…]

• I think it ought to be said in this debate in response to those, both inside and outside this House, who have said that the Government has been silent on the question of general tariff policy that the Government has implemented all those sections of its pre-election policy statement on tariffs. [More…]

• Its pre-election policy statement on manufacturing industry and industrial policy contained a number of criteria and, as the honourable member for Port Adelaide and other honourable members opposite know, those criteria were the subject of a request sent by me to the Chairman of the Industries Assistance Commission some weeks ago. [More…]

• That request contained all the principles which had been enunciated in the Government’s pre-election policy statement on tariffs. [More…]

• It found wide acceptance throughout industry prior to the election. [More…]

• We have honoured that pre-election undertaking by giving those instructions and making that request to the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]

• Statements to this effect were also made by me during the election campaign. [More…]

• The extravagant promises of statehood by the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) during the election campaign were a death-bed repentance for 23 years of Liberal Party and National Country Party inaction in the Territory. [More…]

• In the crucial early days of the 1975 election campaign the coalition was prepared to offer anything to keep its grip on the Northern Territory seat in the House of Representatives despite the fact that its promise was inconsistent with its past performance. [More…]

• I admit that the Labor Government did institute an election for a fully elected Legislative Assembly but then it sat down and did nothing during the next 12 months. [More…]

• The LiberalCountry Party Administration that preceded the election of a Labor Government in 1972 had failed to grasp the opportunity and encouragement given it by the people in the 1967 referendum when, with an overwhelming voice, the people gave an imprimatur to the Australian Government to get on with the job of overcoming years and years of neglect and indifference. [More…]

• Such an attitude can only involve a blatant breach of faith in that the Liberal-National Country Party spokesman for Aboriginal Affairs during the last election, the present AttorneyGeneral telegraphed all Aboriginal communities with the unequivocal assurance that there would be no cuts in the Aboriginal affairs budget or in the Aboriginal affairs program if a LiberalNational Country Party government was elected to office. [More…]

• Aboriginal people who have shown support for the role of the NACC by the high incidence of voluntary voting in the election of its members will relish its dismemberment or relegation no more than the Opposition does. [More…]

• Even the new proposal, the $2,000 gimmick that was put at election time, will not be available to people until 1 January 1979. [More…]

• It was an election gimmick designed to trap a small number of people into voting for the Liberal Party. [More…]

• This particular legislation is designed mainly as an election sop. [More…]

• Were all Aboriginal communities telegrammed by the present Attorney-General during the last election campaign with an unqualified assurance that a Liberal-National Country Party Government would not cut expenditure on Aboriginal affairs? [More…]

• -The Attorney-General did send out a telegram during the election campaign. [More…]

• Has his Government or the Department finally decided whether it will honour the commitment that the Liberal Party made to Old Sydney Town prior to the last election? [More…]

• Obviously there have been great side benefits for home ownership as a result of the election on 13 December last year. [More…]

• The Government is honouring a pre-election pledge. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) said that he believed that the scheme was an election gimmick, designed to trap a small number of voters who might be encouraged to use it, going right back to the days of Sir Robert Menzies. [More…]

• That is hardly an election gimmick. [More…]

• Probably the honourable member for Phillip would not agree with me because he may have to go back to the criminal Bar to continue his profession after the next election, and I do not say that to him offensively. [More…]

• How many of the ABC’s staff were employed at the national tally room to receive the results of the last election. [More…]

• Is the reduction in the number of apprenticeships in the telecommunications industry granted to school leavers consistent with the Government s stated objective during the last election campaign of providing increased employment opportunities for school leavers. [More…]

• In 1949, in that vital election for Australia’s future, Lord Casey returned to active politics as the representative for the seat of La Trobe. [More…]

• In 2 tasks which he undertook following the 1949 election he showed again the importance he placed on looking to the future and his concern that Australia should develop into a strong outward looking and tolerant nation. [More…]

• Immediately after the election he became Minister for Works and Housing and continued his involvement with the CSIRO, being Minister in charge from 1950 to 1960. [More…]

• He nominated me for preselection by the National Country Party for the seat of Riverina. [More…]

• He was my campaign manager during the recent December 1975 election. [More…]

• 36 (Hansard, 25 March 1976, page 1087) relating to the occasions on which, and in what capacities the present Prime Minister had visited Singapore since his election to Parliament, that the Department of Foreign Affairs does not maintain a register of overseas visits undertaken by Members of Parliament [More…]

• During the election only the right honourable member for Bruce- Mr Speakerwas honest in declaring the Fraser Government ‘s intentions. [More…]

• We now know that the moment the election was over the Prime Minister set about doing exactly what Mr Speaker had suggested- exactly what the Prime Minister said he would not do. [More…]

• Honourable members will remember, as the public does not forget, that in the election campaign the now Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) gave a firm guarantee that Medibank in its existing form would be preserved. [More…]

• Medibank is being dismantled and the honourable member is paying the price for being honest during the course of the election campaign. [More…]

• -The House will remember that the question of secret postal ballots for the election of all officers of industrial organisations, both of employers and employees, was given considerable publicity during the last election campaign. [More…]

• I want to draw the attention of the Parliament to the words of Senator Cotton, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, before the last election when he said: [More…]

• I believe in the right of the rank and file to have a direct vote in the election of their executive officers. [More…]

• It is a measure of the hypocrisy of the opponents of labour who have so much to say about rank and file control that they are the ones who are now advocating the collegiate system for union elections which will deny to the rank and file a direct vote in the election of their full time officials. [More…]

• I am by no means convinced that those forces would have accepted an Australian Labor Party victory at the last election. [More…]

• The treatment of Aboriginals is first of all a breach of election undertakings. [More…]

• The Prime Minister’s view of women was given during the election campaign when he expressed the view that they might brighten up the Parliament. [More…]

• The new era for primary producers promised during the election has yet to dawn. [More…]

• Finally, it is designed to continue the Government’s program and election commitment of social reform. [More…]

• Members of the Opposition must have been quite shattered last Tuesday evening- I am quite sure they still have not recovered- when they realised that all their verbal garbage during recent months, particularly during the last election campaign, about cuts that the Liberals would make in pensions, education and social welfare- (Quorum formed). [More…]

• -There may be a boom in the next election year in order to get the honourable member re-elected. [More…]

• It is ironical that the present Government, in a joint policy statement on transport issued prior to the 1975 election, maintained that it supported the maintenance of what it called ‘our relatively small but vital industry’. [More…]

• So we certainly have seen a bit of change in policy since prior to the last election. [More…]

• I had a Tetter today from a pensioner who, I am sure, did not vote for me at the last election. [More…]

• Though Mr Wran managed to win an election by wrongly convincing the New South Wales electorate that federalism was centralism in another form, this Budget puts the lie to that claim. [More…]

• One of the most specious suggestions that is continually put forward by Opposition members in this Parliament has been that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) broke alleged election undertakings with respect to Medibank. [More…]

• I think it is time to put into the Hansard record- where the people of Australia can read it- what the Prime Minister said in the election campaign prior to the election of this Parliament. [More…]

• All that this Government has ever done is to place extra money into the pockets of the people who strongly supported it and paid for its election campaigns over the years, including the one in 1975. [More…]

• The Government stated during the election campaign, and the Treasurer stated again in his Budget Speech, as reported on page 1 3 of Hansard of 17 August, that money is best in people’s pockets and that people should make their own decisions on how the money should be spent. [More…]

• The mothers will remember this in the next election. [More…]

• What many people on the other side do not realise but the people outside this chamber do realise is that prior to the election of 1972 this country had one of the lowest inflation rates in the Western world. [More…]

• Since our election to government, we certainly have made considerable political and ministerial endeavours to overcome this problem. [More…]

• I note that the residents of my electorate are overjoyed at the election result, particularly having regard to the remarks by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition about the textile industry. [More…]

• Yet, not only were the people at the last Federal election misled into believing that the people who are now in control would manage our economy better, but in speeches such as the one to which we have just had the misfortune to listen to in this House tonight, they are still seeking to mislead the Australian people in the same way. [More…]

• The coalition Parties at election time claimed- we now see it was a false claim- to be good economic managers. [More…]

• The Prime Minister apparently recognised at least the need for an economic growth target at the time of his election policy speech last year for he said then that a growth rate of 6 per cent to 7 per cent was quite feasible. [More…]

• It is another example of a deception perpetrated on the Australian people at the last election. [More…]

• As we all know, the Liberal Party promised during the election campaign to retain indexation and then broke this promise as soon as it took office. [More…]

• The bludgeoning LiberalNational Country Party Government approach to wages and the unions is consistent with the manner in which the Prime Minister obtained leadership of his Party and the style he used to force an election. [More…]

• Rather than turning on the lights, as the Liberal Party’s election slogan offered, this Budget dims the lights- in fact, it smashes many light globes- which were guiding the way to economic recovery and it shuts off the light of hope for humane government. [More…]

• It would be difficult to sum up everything that he said, but it seems to me that if we neglect the semantics, of which there was a fairly large quantity, he tried to make the same point as was made during the election campaign by the Opposition over and over again, and that is that the high rate of inflation in Australia today is due entirely to world conditions- in short, that inflation has been imported to Australia. [More…]

• It was quite plain to me when I went around the doors during the election campaign- and I have been around a few times since then- that people understood that they cannot get things for nothing. [More…]

• I am pleased about this because so many of these things were discussed at the door during my election campaign. [More…]

• However, he is a personable fellow and I look forward to enjoying his company here until the next election. [More…]

• He will suffer his demise at that election only because he is politically misguided. [More…]

• Sir Garfield’s statement may be pregnant with meaning because it so happens that it was in September, the month in which Sir Garfield said he would have sacked the then Prime Minister, that Opposition spokesmen began publicly calling for an election. [More…]

• The then Leader of the Opposition said that the Prime Minister would have the bounden duty to seek an election. [More…]

• Then, I think we have to concede, with an exceptional insight into the thoughts of the Chief Justice, he said that if the then Prime Minister did not seek an election ‘it could establish the circumstances where the Governor-General under section 61 of the Constitution would feel impelled to withdraw the Prime Minister’s commission’. [More…]

• In the case of the dissolution of the retiring half of the Senate the Prime Minister had been authorised by a meeting of the Cabinet, fully summoned, and the Caucus of the ruling Party had authorised him to advise the GovernorGeneral to call an election for the retiring half of the Senate. [More…]

• I can say this, that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) accurately divined the Prime Minister’s shortcomings when he told colleagues that his arrogance would beat him at the election. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition was also right last year when he said that a key part of Labor’s election campaign would be to alienate the then caretaker Prime Minister from the city voters by portraying him as an elitist, which of course he is. [More…]

• In spite of its all time record of repudiated election promises, this Government and those who sit opposite, including all the oncers who hope to be twicers- they can all smile; it Will be a little different later- have been consistent in the one thing that they did not put to the community last year, and that is their absolute determination to reduce living standards, to cut real wages and to expand unemployment. [More…]

• Think about the bus loads of NCP and League of Rights supporters who travelled around Queensland during the last election campaign breaking up public meetings. [More…]

• In fact it was the worst incident since the unruly Northcote demonstration in the electorate of Batman prior to last December’s election which won the Liberal Party tens of thousands of votes. [More…]

• To be allowed to cast a vote whenever those who manipulate the levers of power find it convenient to spring an election seems little more than a sop. [More…]

• Before the election this Government gave the full impression to everyone that it would support wage indexation. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said in his election speech: [More…]

• That is totally contrary to what the Prime Minister told this country before the election was the wages policy of the Liberal and Country Parties. [More…]

• Finally he went to the full extent of saying in his election speech that the Government will support wage indexation. [More…]

• During the election campaign this Government committed itself to the support of wage indexation and the wage indexation principles of the Commission. [More…]

• It is the policy speech made by the present Prime Minister before the last election. [More…]

• It is the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who in his election policy speech- and I quote it again even though speakers from this side of the House used the quotation earlier in the debate- said: [More…]

• It is the Government which broke this election promise straight after taking office by arguing for a reduction in real wages before the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]

• There was widespread community criticism of and the unions were naturally antagonised by, the Government’s failure to honour the election promise of support for wage indexation. [More…]

• This is a deplorable situation and contrasts vividly with the Government’s announced policy before the last election to ‘strengthen retraining’. [More…]

• Their reintroduction and/or continuation will only be assured by the return of a Labor government at the next election. [More…]

• I just cannot swallow the repeated assertions that all the troubles in our economy are a direct result of the election of a Labor government in December 1972. [More…]

• Many people thought that the election of a LiberalNational Country Party Government would, in some miraculous way, almost overnight bring these difficulties to an end. [More…]

• During the last election campaign the coalition parties undertook to revive the petroleum and mining industries in this country. [More…]

• Since the election of December 1975 many people in my electorate of Eden-Monaro have told me, and told me earnestly, that it is so important that the Government not lose its nerve at this juncture. [More…]

• This is one of the very big reasons that the electorate voted so confidently for the Liberal and National Country Parties last election. [More…]

• It is of course the fulfilment of the Government’s election promise. [More…]

• We in New South Wales realise, of course, that by far the greatest proportion of death duties is collected by the State Government, and we expect the Premier of New South Wales in his forthcoming Budget to honour his recent election promise to eliminate death duties between surviving spouses. [More…]

• The present Government promised to honour and abide by that compact in its last election pledges. [More…]

• On election it determinedly set about destroying income indexation. [More…]

• That is what we meant during the election campaign by our undertaking to put a stop to the personal income tax rip off. [More…]

• Prior to the amalgamation of the departments following the 1974 election, officers of the Department of Immigration serviced the Geelong area on a regular basis- I think for 5 half days a week. [More…]

• His supervision of export contracts has been so lax that the mining industry, the one industry that did so much in support of his election last year, is now expressing reservations about his administrative capacity. [More…]

• We must remember that the Government’s chopping and changing over the health insurance plans followed an election undertaking promising to leave Medibank basically unchanged. [More…]

• The steps taken so far have done nothing towards bringing to fruition the theory of the policy which sounded so magnificent during the election campaign. [More…]

• It has nothing to do with an election. [More…]

• Is it just by chance that an election is coming up in Western Australia? [More…]

• Rather we should have been able to bring that to his notice during his pre-election campaign. [More…]

• In fact, it is somewhat ironic that many of those States that are complaining bitterly now are the ones which during the recent election campaign made wild statements as to their financial position. [More…]

• The Prime Minister’s failure to honour his election mandate. [More…]

• There is scarcely a promise in the Liberal policy speeches and documents at the last election that has not been broken or set aside. [More…]

• In any normal election people make a realistic assessment of a Government’s promises. [More…]

• But what are people to think when a government forces an election at an abnormal time in unprecedented circumstances? [More…]

• If people are told that the circumstances justify any breach of rules or convention to bring about an election, they expect that promises made at such an election will be even more solemn and binding on the Party which makes them. [More…]

• Yet 7 weeks after the election the commitment to wage indexation was abandoned. [More…]

• So far from our attitude on wages being a breach of an election undertaking, as the Leader of the Opposition charged, he, as well as every honourable member on this side of the House, knows that the indexation guidelines proclaimed by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, permit any party which goes to the Commission to argue that the full effects of the consumer price index increase should not be carried forward. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition talks about election promises. [More…]

• He ought to be sensitive about election promises. [More…]

• Honourable members should remember that marvellous election promise he made at Blacktown in 1972. [More…]

• This Bill fulfils the Government’s election undertaking. [More…]

• That is, half the Government’s people realise that their positions in the Parliament are in jeopardy, that they could be unemployed come the next Federal election. [More…]

• I have heard, and I think it is quite well known, that that is the company which paid Khemlani’s expenses and which weighed in very heavily for the election expenses of both the National Country Party and the Liberal Party. [More…]

• What a golden handshake- $35m to $40m- for having weighed in to the coffers of the Government parties during the election and for having paid Khemlani’s expenses. [More…]

• Let us examine just a few quotations from the election policy of the Liberal and Country Parties in November. [More…]

• During the election campaign it said: [More…]

• The people of this country realised after the election what the Government had done. [More…]

• If the oncers who sit opposite are not worried, I ask them to compare the New South Wales election results with the last Federal election results. [More…]

• During the election campaign the Government said: [More…]

• Another election promise was this: [More…]

• The Treasurer has stated in his Budget Speech that when the people of Australia voted at the election held on 13 December 1975 the national economy was suffering from inflation, stagnation and unemployment, that Australia was locked into its most serious postwar recession, and that at that time there were people who were pondering whether we were facing historical developments that would be seen to be similar to the fearful economic circumstances of the 1930s. [More…]

• I can well remember a former honourable member for Barton, the late Dr H. V. Evatt, during the election campaigns in 1954 and 1955 talking about the need for Australians to spend vast sums of money on social welfare and decrying the standards of education in the community. [More…]

• He seems to have forgotten that in the period prior to the election in 1975 his leader and certainly the honourable member for Oxley were making comments which indicated that they understood that three-quarters of all the employment in Australia is provided by private enterprise. [More…]

• If those with a sense of history think back to the early 1950s they will recall that following the 1949 election the then Prime Minister, Bob Menzies, said his Government would put value back into the pound. [More…]

• The Liberal and Country Parties are now trying to do away with the indexation proposals and this is despite the promise which was made prior to the election that it would maintain indexation. [More…]

• This raises the question of whether it is possible to trust this Government because prior to the election the then Leader of the Opposition said his Party would support indexation. [More…]

• Again, it is a fact that prior to the election the then Leader of the Opposition said that in office his Government would not touch Medibank, but we have seen Medibank emasculated. [More…]

• When we look at what was said by the previous shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs just prior to the election, we wonder how this happened. [More…]

• Senator Bonner said the Federal Government had broken a promise before the December election that Aboriginal welfare spending would be maintained. [More…]

• I interpret the result of last December as a one-off verdict flowing from 2 factors: One, the election took place half-way through our term. [More…]

• It boasted continuously both before and during the election period of how it would soon set the economy to rights. [More…]

• Let me quote a couple of statements made by the leader of the LiberalNational Country Party coalition- the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser)- during the election campaign in November and [More…]

• Those were the kind of boasts that were being made during the election campaign. [More…]

• Of course this Government will then castigate the unions for not abiding by orderly wage fixing procedures, as indeed it did earlier this week; but it will be the Government that will be primarily responsible for having destroyed the orderly procedure of full wage indexation, which procedure was working well until the Government broke its election promise to support it and advocated instead a totally different concept of partial indexation. [More…]

• I am certain that if this Government were put to an election today there would be a change of personnel in this place. [More…]

• We all recall the manner in which the Labor Party was subjected to Press vilification in relation to unemployment and the increase in inflation in the year or 2 years prior to the general election and prior to the take-over by the Governor-General and the people who now form the Government. [More…]

• The policy announced by the Fraser Government at the last election of restoring employment and reducing unemployment was phoney. [More…]

• It is another of its broken election promises. [More…]

• That is a very big improvement on last year’s deficit of almost $3,600m and a deficit that was heading towards $5,000m had we not won the election on 13 December and saved Australia from a very desperate situation. [More…]

• A significant factor in this recovery has been the existence, both during the election campaign and since, of a definite Government economic strategy- a carefully considered and rigidly adhered to plan to combat the problems besetting the economy. [More…]

• -In no area more than Aboriginal affairs has this Government demonstrated to the Australian people the sheer hypocrisy of its election promises. [More…]

• It was sent in good faith at a time when we did not believe the Treasury of the nation to be in as bad shape as we found it when we so devastatingly won the election. [More…]

• Not content with a sojourn into the game of ‘Guess The Deficit’, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) came into the fray with his election assertion that every man, woman and child owed the Government $500 because of the deficit. [More…]

• Hopefully his statement on this subject was treated with the same scepticism with which his election promises will be treated in the future. [More…]

• Despite pre-election assurances that funds for aged persons’ accommodation was not to be reduced by a Liberal-National Country Party Government, the Government reduces funds for those programs by 45 per cent in real terms. [More…]

• What election promises are ignored in the Budget as far as primary industry is concerned? [More…]

• During last year’s election campaign major promises included a national rural bank, a scheme to lease farms to young farmers, long term loans to fishermen, the appointment of more Agricultural Attaches, tax incentives to farmers and animal quarantine stations. [More…]

• He just survived the 1961 Federal election when 100,000 Australians were out of work. [More…]

• If federal elections were to take place next year or in 1 978, there would certainly be a Labor government again. [More…]

• The Australian people were misled by the Liberal-Country Party coalition prior to the election. [More…]

• The Federal Government is taking the callous, cynical approach of waiting until 1977-78, nearer to an election year, before taking action to stimulate real employment. [More…]

• As we went down the line we could see the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Uren), who was recently defeated in an election for appointment to the most important of all the Labor committees, looking more like Rasputin than I have ever seen any portrait of Rasputin himself. [More…]

• So what the Government is saying is that while the Prime Minister said during the general election campaign that he agreed with wage indexation, he broke his promise after he came into power. [More…]

• The simple election of the Fraser Government did not provide the magical formula for a return to confidence. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said before the elections that it would take 3 years to right the economy. [More…]

• When this is achieved- it will be achieved- it will be to the lasting credit of this Government, which has applied itself to a most difficult task in a positive and creditable manner since its election to office on 13 December, just 9 months ago. [More…]

• But wage indexation is clearly in jeopardy, despite election campaign promises to the contrary by the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• This Government also promised in its election propaganda to reduce the tax grab, yet it bases its Budget strategy partly on a record 25 per cent increase in income tax receipts expected this year. [More…]

• This Government in its election propaganda promised an investment-led recovery for Australia, yet nowhere in the Budget is there any manifestation of this desire. [More…]

• In his election policy speech in November, Mr Fraser said of the prospects for economic recovery in Australia: [More…]

• After 23 years of tough anti-Labor rule, many people in Australia felt freer after the election of a Labor government in 1972. [More…]

• That was said before the election on every election platform. [More…]

• It is another little bit of Liberal Party patchwork, another little bit of back bench sensitivity to the fact that twenty, thirty or forty of them might lose their seats in the election in 2 years’ time. [More…]

• As the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) said in his speech earlier, in 1 972 when the Liberal-Country Party Government was defeated at the general election 136 000 people were unemployed. [More…]

• Look at what happened in the textile industries and what happened during the following by-election when those policies of the Australian Labor Party and the unemployment that resulted became known to the people who relied on those industries. [More…]

• They should think about what they can do concerning that increase and how much pressure they can exert on governments faced in one year with an election. [More…]

• I would suggest to such people that they can exert much more pressure on governments one year before an election than they will be able to exert on health funds which are going broke. [More…]

• He keeps telling us that the little people- those little people, incidently that deserted the Australian Labor Party in droves at the December election- in actual fact are subsidising the person who pays for shared hospital accommodation. [More…]

• By the grace of God and by the grace of the voters in Riverina he will not be here after the next general election. [More…]

• The Government made it clear in its election policy prior to 13 December 1975 that both State and local government would have permanent access to Commonwealth revenue raised through personal income tax. [More…]

• To do so I need to analyse for a short time how the private or so-called voluntary health insurance system worked before the Labor Party’s election in 1972. [More…]

• In his 1972 election policy speech at Blacktown in New South Wales the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr E. G. Whitlam, failed to mention the word ‘levy’ when he was putting to the Australian electorate his view of the form national health insurance should take. [More…]

• He went into that election and many Australians voted for his party. [More…]

• What hypocrisy it is for them to put such a proposition to the Parliament at this stage in view of the fact that they were the architects of a Medibank levy, although they went to an election in 1972 with not one mention of the word ‘levy’. [More…]

• It was a concept which attracted every one of the members opposite at the last general election. [More…]

• I. dare say that that was a sentiment that he expressed in very soft tones around his constituency at the last election. [More…]

• It is plunging the health insurance business into chaos and uncertainty and is forcing up the total cost of health care in Australia simply so that at the next election the Government can say that it has reduced the deficit by so much. [More…]

• It should be understood that the Government, in breaking its election undertaking last November not to meddle with Medibank, is dismantling Medibank, not to make health insurance more efficient but so that it can fiddle the national accounts around a little, move some figures sideways and some other figures out altogether, and make it look as if it has saved Australia a lot of money by handing health insurance substantially back to the discredited private funds. [More…]

• So highly did Labor politicians think of the Australian Labor Party’s national health scheme that seventeen out of the 36 members of the ALP who remained as members in this place after the election continued also as members of private health funds. [More…]

• It should well be remembered that Salvador Allende, a man elected to office with only 36 per cent of the popular vote, proceeded, upon his election, on a deliberate program to disrupt, overturn and destroy Chile’s traditional institutions and resorted to illegal methods in violation of that country’s constitution. [More…]

• A committee of officials has been examining the Press statement containing the draft guidelines, which was issued before the election last year. [More…]

• It should be remembered that since the election there, New South Wales, which has only 36 per cent of the Australian labour force, has accounted for 64 per cent of the increase in Australia ‘s unemployment. [More…]

• However, it bears repeating this week that, as every wage and salary earner in Australia struggles with the ridiculously complicated forms foisted upon them by this Government, they should know that this inconvenience and the extra cost to which they will be put after 1 October is a result of the Government’s inadequate performance in health insurance and the breaking of a specific election promise to maintain Medibank. [More…]

• Unless they are in one of the favoured sections such as coal mining, most businesses realise that the Government has cynically connived at a strategy of business recovery in 1978, an election year. [More…]

• Just as the union executives in the Medibank strike were out of touch with their members, so it was clearly shown at the last election that the Labor Party was out of touch with its electors. [More…]

• -Before the suspension of the sitting I was urging union members to take an active role in the election of officers in their own unions. [More…]

• The other quite remarkable thing about it is that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) and all those who were the loud voices prior to the election made one thing perfectly clear, that the Budget strategy- the planning- to mend this nation would take the term of 3 years. [More…]

• If one of its by-products should turn out to be the loss of Government at the next election and the reinstatement of a Labor Party- a Party politically, socially and internationally disastrous- then indeed Australia would lose on all fronts. [More…]

• The rot was started by the Labor Government and I hope that people never forget it and that it is not forgotten, particularly, when the next general election comes along. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite arc not the ones who will decide who will govern this country after the next election. [More…]

• I want to remind the House that at the last election the Government gave a clear undertaking that the compulsory transfer out of Canberra proposed by the previous Whitlam Government would not proceed. [More…]

• So you can see, Mr Chairman, how the situation has seriously and rapidly deteriorated in recent years, because in 1974 when the Labor Government was in office and it put its Supply legislation before the Senate, as it is obliged to do pursuant to the Constitution, Senator Withers said in the Senate: ‘I do not intend to deal with this matter until such time as you, the House of Representatives, submit yourself to an election ‘. [More…]

• It was only a year or so before the 1972 election that the Leader of the Australian Labor Party in this House and the Leader of the Australian Labor Party in the Senate both threatened to use all their powers to do exactly that. [More…]

• They said that this was the right thing to do, that they had a right to use the powers of the Senate to bring down a government and cause an election. [More…]

• There is nothing undemocratic in any way in calling for an election when one of the Houses of Parliament, properly and in accordance with the Constitution, believes that the Government should obtain a new mandate for what it is doing. [More…]

• The previous Senate Opposition had forced an election in May 1974. [More…]

• Then, out of the blue, one man- a man who was not elected to his position and who, as far as I know, has never run in an election in his life; if he has run in any, he has not won any- made a decision to dismiss the duly elected Government of Australia which had faced the people in December 1972 and May 1974. [More…]

• -After listening to the honourable member for Lang (Mr Stewart) I am reminded of an occasion a few years ago when a candidate stood for election to an upper House and his policy was to do away with that section of the Parliament. [More…]

• If I cannot count beyond seven, no doubt after the next election I will not need to count to seven because there will be very few of those members left. [More…]

• The danger is not that which was claimed by the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen)- that the result would be a lot more elections. [More…]

• Elections are forced by an upper House only if the Government is completely discredited, as the Labor Government was in 1975. [More…]

• It is that governments, knowing the threat of an imminent election or believing there was a threat of an imminent election, would always be reluctant to take hard but necessary measures which are the secret of good government. [More…]

• It can force the lower House to an election, whereas the lower House cannot force the Senate to an election unless there are grounds for a double dissolution; and that does not make the Senate the equal of the House of Representatives as the Constitution intends it to be. [More…]

• One of the great difficulties that I felt the Labor Party had in the last election was that it was trying to explain how in some way it was undemocratic to have an election. [More…]

• We all know that there are times when governments are unpopular and that if governments could be forced to face the people at such a time they might lose the election. [More…]

• Let us not forget the Gair affair when the now Opposition was half smart, when it sent Senator Gair off to Dublin in an effort to gain another vacancy in a Senate election in Queensland. [More…]

• Frankly, we do not have a hope of this being instituted under this conservative Government which we are all suffering at the present time; but the Australian Labor Party is offering this to Australia at the next national election. [More…]

• I trust that at the end of our term of office, when we come to the next general election, the people of Australia will say: ‘At least we have had a government in power which was prepared to give practical effect to the Constitution of this country and to give back to the States and local government the right and the power to make decisions which strictly should be made in their own areas ‘. [More…]

• I believe, as I have stated in this House before, that a register should be kept of those persons who are aged and infirm and that at the time of every federal election it should be obligatory upon the Electoral Office to send them application forms that require simply a signature and that remind those persons that if they make a false declaration they may be confronted with a penalty. [More…]

• Upon reading the explanatory notes on the estimates for the Department of Administrative Services I found that the Liberal Party has in fact carried out another election promise which was not mentioned in the document that was produced by it and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) the other day. [More…]

• That provision for the expenditure of an additional $5 17,000 on electricity is what the Liberal Party has done in fulfilment of one of its election promises. [More…]

• In other words, it does not apply to people who were defeated in the last election. [More…]

• In the 1975 House of Representatives election the Liberal Party won 3 248 000 votes, or 42 per cent of the total. [More…]

• This is the system which the National Country Party is pledged to uphold and to which it seeks to revert for the purpose of the next general election. [More…]

• Who can justify that in the Queensland seat of McPherson, for example, the number of eligible voters at the last election stood at 102 175, while in the Queensland seat of Maranoa enrolments stood at 46 433? [More…]

• In Victoria, while the Prime Minister’s electorate of Wannon has increased its number of voters by only 6655 since 1968- that is the date of the last redistributionto 54 583, the electorate of Diamond Valley has grown by 41 151 voters to 91 818 enrolments at the time of the last election. [More…]

• At the date of the last election enrolments in the New South Wales seat of Mitchell stood at 87 326, while the enrolments for the New South Wales seat of Darling stood at 47 979. [More…]

• At the State election last year the Labor Party gained office with less than 50 per cent of the vote while the Liberal Party had more than 50 per cent of the vote. [More…]

• Under this new redistribution the Liberal Party will have to attain 54 per cent of the votes to obtain office in South Australia at the next State election. [More…]

• Despite the fact that the Liberal Party needs 54 per cent of the vote, it will attain 54 per cent at the next election and will throw the Labor Party out of office. [More…]

• One can only assume, as my colleague the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) said yesterday, that the Government has been stalling the statutory distribution because it wants to restore the old variation from the quota, the old margin of one-fifth in place of the one-tenth margin which the people made plain that they wanted at the double dissolution election in May 1974 and which became law as part of one of the very few Acts which has been enacted at a joint sitting. [More…]

• I bring to the memory of people that the Labor Government won the election in December 1972 because members of the public in Australia thought at that time that unemployment was higher than it ought to be. [More…]

• Advances in social welfare usually arise because during election campaigns politicians decide that it might be a good thing for the purpose of winning votes to make this, that or the other promise in terms of social welfare. [More…]

• I think the people of most nations, particularly we people in the South East Asian area, appreciate the fact that there could be some change in international relations as a result of the Presidential election in the United States. [More…]

• I think that we who have the responsibility to examine these matters perhaps a little more closely than other people might do and to analyse the situation- I speak as chairman of the Government parties’ foreign affairs committeerather feel that there will not be a very significant difference in international relations whatever the result of the Presidential election. [More…]

• I say this although it has been reported that Jimmy Carter has indicated that if he wins the election the allocations for overseas aid, if I may call it that although I would prefer to call it United States overseas involvement, will possibly be reduced by some billions of dollars. [More…]

• By that I do not mean so much Australia itself, because I rather feel that all the indications suggest that our relationship with the United States, our understanding with the United States and- let us face it, let us not beat about the bush- our dependence on the United States, will not be affected greatly, no matter who wins the Presidential election. [More…]

• This dated from the election of the first House of Assembly in 1964, through various stages of increased local responsibility, until the final granting of independence in late 1975. [More…]

• The Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister did not follow up my letter when they took office, and it was several months after the election before they showed any concern about what had happened to the Australian representatives. [More…]

• for Ivanhoe, and Councillor Jean Baker, who was the endorsed Liberal candidate for Bundoora in the last State election. [More…]

• The Government believes at this stage that the electors of the Northern Territory seem to have voted very decisively on the issue of Statehood for the Northern Territory at 2 electionsthe Legislative Assembly election and the Federal election. [More…]

• The people and the Parliament can now see the justification for the slashing of expenditure on Aboriginal welfare of $33m in the Budget and the abrogation of the election commitment given by the Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) in December last year. [More…]

• As has been pointed out since the Budget, the undertaking given by the Attorney-General, who was the spokesman on Aboriginal affairs at the time of the last election, to maintain existing programs, has been breached. [More…]

• They are deceitful because no mention was made of them prior to the 1975 election. [More…]

• This Government, as was its stated intention during the election campaign in December of last year, is out to destroy the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]

• He started off criticising the Government for what he alleged to be deceit prior to the general election. [More…]

• He said that in effect the Government’s standard stood indicted because we had pursued policies in the wages and prices area which we had totally disguised prior to the general election. [More…]

• He said that we had pursued policies which will provoke industrial unrest and industrial confrontation and that in so doing we had broken undertakings that were given prior to the election. [More…]

• Then towards the end of his address, he castigated the Government for what he said was its policy as promised before the election of dismantling the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]

• He finds it uncomfortable that prior to the last general election, tax indexation was adopted as a policy of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]

• The 2 matters about which the Government has been consistent since it came to office and which it did not put to the people at the last election are its deliberate policy of increasing unemployment and its determination to reduce living standards and real wages. [More…]

• It took just 7 weeks after the election for the Government to begin its attack on wage and salary earners. [More…]

• Looking at the area of unemployment, during the last election campaign the Prime Minister promised that there would be jobs for all those who wanted them. [More…]

• The Minister demonstrated very ably this afternoon that the Government is keeping its election promise to support Aboriginal enterprises and make available funds to genuine and capable Aboriginal businesses, housing associations and other groups needing finance. [More…]

• Even the election came under consistent attack. [More…]

• Ellicott, prior to the last election in which Aboriginals were told they had nothing to fear from a Liberal government; that there would be no cuts. [More…]

• At the last election the coalition parties ‘ policy was perfectly straightforward. [More…]

• We did honour our election promises. [More…]

• The election results of 13 December last clearly vindicated Sir John Kerr’s actions in pulling the political plug on the worst government since Federation. [More…]

• Did the defendants include the former President, Yun Po Sun, aged 79, and Kim Dae Jung, aged 51, who nearly beat Park in the country’s last free election 5 years ago? [More…]

• Let me make this charge now: There will be no further increase in student allowances until the next election year which will be 1978. [More…]

• It is no wonder that the people of Canberra turned to them at the last election. [More…]

• There is no doubt in my mind that they will both be returned at the next election, whenever that might be. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wills also tried to blame the electoral system for the debacle which occurred in the Northern Territory at the last Legislative Assembly election and for the lack of membership of the Australian Labor Party in the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• At the last election we got precious little thanks from the point of view of trying to prop up these industries. [More…]

• -Prior to the 1975 election the then Liberal-National Country Party Opposition made great play about its tourism policy. [More…]

• There is no need for me to remind you, Mr Deputy Chairman, that come the election at which the Labor Party Government was defeated, Senator Rae was sacked as shadow Minister for Tourism and the Department of Tourism and Recreation ceased to exist. [More…]

• To recap what happened prior to the 1975 election, Senator Rae went around the country saying what the Liberal and National Country Parties would do for tourism if they became the government. [More…]

• After the election all mention of tourism by this Government was taken out of ministerial portfolios and virtually from the Australian Government Directory. [More…]

• I cannot say that I have a great deal of sympathy for the Australian National Travel Association because prior to the 1975 election the executive of the Association published a Press release saying that the Liberal and National Country Parties policy on tourism was better than that offered by the Labor Party Government at that time. [More…]

• Since the election in December 1975 the Government has introduced a number of measures which will assist the tourist industry. [More…]

• Prior to the 1975 election the present Government said that it would do better for the travel-tourist industry than the Labor Government had done between 1972 and 1975. [More…]

• This seminar was actually held in The Hills electorate where a State by-election is to be conducted on Saturday. [More…]

• Of course, I am quite sure that Councillor Caterson, the Liberal Party candidate for The Hills by-election, will be rather upset about the matter. [More…]

• I point out to the people in The Hills electorate who face an election on Saturday that they should be aware of what the Liberal Party Federal Government is doing in relation to this matter. [More…]

• Does he recall that the transport policy put forward by the Liberal and National Country Parties at the last election stated that the Australian shipbuilding industry was important to this country and that it promised specifically that a coalition government would ensure the continuing viability of the shipbuilding and ship repair industries? [More…]

• Will the Minister now give the House an assurance that in determining its attitude to the Industries Assistance Commission report on the shipbuilding industry the Government will adhere to its election promise? [More…]

• We have heard about the destruction of the Government of Thailand which was elected as a result of a reasonably free election in April 1 976 following an election in 1 975. [More…]

• At the only election where the policy was specifically an issue, the people of New South Wales rejected it last May. [More…]

• In October 1973 I met the Premiers and put to them a proposition I had put in my Party’s election campaign a year before- that aldermen and councillors from each State should choose a representative to speak and vote on their behalf at the Loan Council. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition claimed that the result of the New South Wales State election was a defeat for federalism. [More…]

• The federalism policy had not even been fully announced at the time of that election. [More…]

• As my colleague, the honourable member for Sturt, mentioned earlier, many of the vital decisions were not taken until the June Premiers Conference which was several weeks after the New South Wales State election. [More…]

• I believe that honourable members from New South Wales who are honest will concede that, in the election, issues such as the New South Wales transport system, the question of milk zones, the nurses’ strike and even funeral benefits all ranked in greater priority than federalism. [More…]

• Mr John Ryan, a most distinguished American who is visiting Australia briefly in conjunction with the United States presidential election, visited Canberra today. [More…]

• Why do they stand for Parliament at election time unless they are prepared to come out with specific policies about how this country ought to be governed and about what is an appropriate function? [More…]

• Local Government Associations will dictate to each State the method of election of the representatives of local government in that State to serve on the Advisory Council for Intergovernment Relations. [More…]

• -The heavy hand of a centralist directive as to the method of election of representatives. [More…]

• In another State it may be decided that an election should be held. [More…]

• If I am making a centralist suggestion in saying that this Council should choose the method of election in each State, how much more centralist the Fraser Government is being in saying that this body shall make the choice, for all the States, of members of the Advisory Council. [More…]

• Obviously in this amendment I am not suggesting that the Federal Government should, by regulations under the Act, prescribe the method of election of the local government representative in each State. [More…]

• I have suggested a local government body representing the whole of Australia as the body which should lay down the method of election. [More…]

• My amendment proposes that the Council should have the right to suggest the method of election of the local government person in each State by the aldermen and councillors in that State. [More…]

• During the last election the Australian farmers were told that the Labor Government had virtually ruined agriculture. [More…]

• We were led to believe that the election of a Liberal-Country Party Government would see the dawning of a new era. [More…]

• Of course we can now see how worthless this election propaganda was. [More…]

• Let me recount just a couple of items which were fundamental promises by the former Opposition, now the Government, during the election campaign. [More…]

• Again that was forgotten in the flurry of the election campaign. [More…]

• But for his own part he has used the plight of dairy farmers only to try to win votes in the forthcoming State election. [More…]

• He achieved nothing with his futile visit to President Ford in July, except to offend him in election year by ringing up Governor Carter. [More…]

• Mr Hawke, who I understand still has aspirations to be in this Parliament before the next general election if one can believe The Australian of a few days ago, said of Mr Whitlam: [More…]

• I do not wish to go through the promises word for word but for the benefit of honourable members I should like to refer briefly to the Liberal Party and National Country Party so-called primary industry policy which was circulated throughout Australia prior to the general election on 13 December 1975. [More…]

• What has happened to the great election promise about the Rural Bank? [More…]

• -The honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) makes much of the commitment to the rural sector made by this Government prior to the 1975 Federal election. [More…]

• They both drew attention to the fact that certain promises were made by honourable members opposite prior to the last election. [More…]

• On the basis of the record of honourable members opposite then we cannot expect their record in the primary industry field to be as good as the promises that they made during the election campaign. [More…]

• I point out that the policy speech of the National Country Party of Australia, issued for the last election, indicated that it believed in the establishment of a maximum security laboratory for research into exotic diseases. [More…]

• They provided that the broadcasting of political speeches should not be made after the Wednesday prior to an election. [More…]

• It is ridiculous that, during the course of a by-election, a State election in another State or whatever it may be, 48-hours before the time of that election there is no radio or television broadcast of electoral material. [More…]

• It is ridiculous that last week political material emanating from the nation’s capital of Canberra for broadcast in New South Wales had to be sieved by the Press Gallery because there was a by-election in The Hills. [More…]

• There is to be a by-election in Brisbane and there can be no political comment. [More…]

• I suggest here and now that the Government take urgent steps to amend section 1 16 of the Act so that political news and commentary, including a full range of election material, may be televised or broadcast until midnight on the day preceding the polling day- that is, midnight of the Friday preceding the election. [More…]

• Although the Act as it now stands is supposed to provide exemption for political news and that commentary not connected with the particular election can continue, the fact is that the system does not work. [More…]

• Surely, no one in this House- indeed I would not suggest anyone outside it- would have the gall to suggest that Australia’s electors might be confused or unfairly swayed in an election if this ridiculous ban were removed. [More…]

• In August 1971 I appointed him Attorney-General and he continued in that office until my Government was defeated at the election in 1972. [More…]

• From the time of his election as a Victorian senator we in Tasmania felt that he adopted us. [More…]

• Senior Labor members admitted frankly they considered Mr Menzies’ legislation providing for secret ballots for the election of trade union officials, and on strike action, had been rushed down for electioneering purposes. [More…]

• The Liberal Opposition Leader in South Australia ‘s Legislative Council, Mr Degaris, yesterday threatened to block supply to the Dunstan Government and force an election. [More…]

• Mr Dunstan last night warned the Opposition he would not hesitate to call an election. [More…]

• carry out its election promise to legislate for immediate and automatic increases in pensions and benefits in line with the Consumer Price Index; [More…]

• Another point that concerns me is the failure of the Government to carry out its election promise to legislate for immediate and automatic increases in pensions and benefits in line with the consumer price index. [More…]

• I draw the attention of honourable members to a statement made on this topic in December last year at the time of the federal election campaign. [More…]

• Never again can the matter of pension increases become a bargaining point to win votes from the electors during a pre-election Budget or at election time, a procedure which I believe reduces the dignity of the pensioner quite callously and unnecessarily. [More…]

• carry out its election promise to legislate for immediate and automatic increases in pensions and benefits in line with the Consumer Price index; [More…]

• For example, the honourable member and another member of the National Country Party could lose their seats after the next election. [More…]

• There are probably VA million to 1% million pensioners who will be the victims of this sleight of hand, of this failure on the part of this Government to honour its election promise. [More…]

• All pensioners will recall the election policy speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on 27 November last when he said: [More…]

• The honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) spoke about a broken election promise. [More…]

• This is another election promise of our Government which has been rapidly carried out. [More…]

• It makes provision for the implementation of automatic adjustments of standard and married rate pensions, and so on, in May and November of each year, and that honours the election promise made by the Liberal and National Country parties. [More…]

• In the last election, the Liberal and National Country Parties’ election promise was quite explicit. [More…]

• They know that the Government is not performing on its election promise in this area. [More…]

• They ought to acknowledge especially that, even if for some narrow economic reason, for Budget stringency or whatever it might be, they cannot live up to their election promises. [More…]

• But do not pretend that you are trying to perform on your election promises, because clearly you are not. [More…]

• We believe that honourable members opposite ought to perform on their election promises on the basis that some few people may have been tricked by them and they ought to act as a matter of justice. [More…]

• One relates to this question of the the actual promise of the Government before the last general election which must be looked at carefully. [More…]

• I shall quote the words of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) when he was running for election in 1 972. [More…]

• This was promised by the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr William McMahon) in his election policy speech in 1972. [More…]

• It was reiterated by the then Leader of the Opposition in the federal election campaign of 1974. [More…]

• carry out its election promise to legislate for immediate and automatic increases in pensions and benefits in line with the Consumer Price Index; [More…]

• Clearly, the Government is carrying out its election promise to introduce automatic increases in pensions and benefits in line with the consumer price index. [More…]

• The Government does not accept this amendment because it believes that it is completely out of line with our election policy. [More…]

• It promised this at the last election. [More…]

• Therefore this Government has broken an election promise by not introducing a job creation program. [More…]

• This present Government promised at the last election that it would vigorously implement retraining programs. [More…]

• That this House is of the opinion that, when the Senate fails to pass the Budget, there should be a double dissolution and an immediate election for both Houses; and that financial provisions should be made to enable the Government to be carried on pending such election. [More…]

• Believing therefore that such a fortunate historical accident may not always occur, this house considers that the people should be asked at a constitutional referendum to approve the principle that, when the Senate refuses to pass the Budget, there should forthwith be a dissolution of both Houses and an immediate election, and that, in the meantime, provision should be made for finance to carry on the administration of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• I instance the fall in metal prices and the concern in markets around the world about the United States election. [More…]

• He need turn no further than the Government’s policy on science and technology released before the last election. [More…]

• We know that the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) tends to regard election promises as promises to be made rather than to be kept but it is hoped that this promise is honoured. [More…]

• In April 1974 during the election campaign the then Prime Minister, Mr E. G. Whitlam, when he spoke in Hoban reiterated the commitment and congratulated the then honourable member for Denison, Mr Coates, on putting forward the suggestion which his Government had accepted. [More…]

• The events of 1 1 November intervened, there was a general election, and the Fraser Government was elected. [More…]

• Mr Guilfoyle said the notice was served because Efftee had broken the terms of the agreement by allowing paid ALP advertisements to be broadcast before the last Federal election. [More…]

• Mr Guilfoyle said the notice was served because Efftee had broken the terms of the agreement by allowing paid ALP advertisements to be broacast before the last Federal election. [More…]

• If the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith were to tell me that the withholding of Supply was not mentioned at the Australian Labor Party meetings during the last election campaign perhaps I would take some notice of him. [More…]

• Any of the major political parties in this country can win an election if it can choose the time to go to the polls. [More…]

• The monarch has the right to grant or refuse a Prime Minister’s request for a dissolution of Parliament which involves a general election. [More…]

• We certainly hope that the Government does so and we hope that it will look at its own election policy. [More…]

• Prior to the last election the Government Parties included in their election policy issued to the Australian people the following statement: [More…]

• It was made clear by President Thieu that he did not agree with the concept and it was uncertain whether there was to be a presidential election or a provincial election, and the basic details as to what sort of democracy was to be established were never discussed. [More…]

• Of course there is a tendency to believe that because certain things happened as a result of the election on 13 December, somehow that vindicated the action taken on 11 November. [More…]

• When it is known that the Australian Labor Party, preceding the 1975 general election, had failed in its clandestine attempt to get Iraqi dollars over breakfast one morning in Sydney, is it any wonder that the executives of 3XY take the view that it was not necessary to put their shareholders’ funds at risk by dealing with debtors who cannot meet their repayments? [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I present the election statistics for each State showing the voting within each subdivision in relation to the Senate election 1975 and the general election of members of the House of Representatives 1975. [More…]

• I point out to the honourable member for Eden-Monaro that he will find out after the next Federal election that the people of Eden-Monaro have treated him in the same way as they have treated previous representatives of the Liberal Party of Australia from that area. [More…]

• If he is still a member of this Parliament after the next election I think that he will have the same experience as I have had. [More…]

• In 1973, the then Minister for Labour, the honourable Clyde Cameron, introduced amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which had the effect of requiring the election of the holder of each office in an organisation by direct vote of the appropriate section of the membership. [More…]

• An exception from this requirement was permitted in relation to those offices of a part-time nature on an organisation’s federal committee of management where the rules of the organisation provided, before the commencement of the amendment, a form of election other than by direct vote. [More…]

• The fact is, however, that direct election is not, in all situations, a guarantee of proper democratic control. [More…]

• Since the amendment of the Act in 1973, there has been widespread public discussion and the development of active lobbies for and against direct elections. [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 Government believes that either direct election or a one-tier collegiate electoral system proposed for full-time offices will reduce the chances of this occurring and is, at the same time, consistent with the principle of fullest participation by members. [More…]

• In both cases, there is a directness, or nexus, between the exercise of the individual member’s vote and the election of full-time officers, to make effective participation by individual members a reality. [More…]

• At the same time the arrangements which organisations choose for the election of part-time officers will still be subject to review by the Industrial Court upon application by an aggrieved member. [More…]

• The Bill also proposes that the Act be amended to delete from the definition of ‘Office’ in section 4 of the Act those positions the duties of which are substantially similar to positions for which elections are required to be conducted, and positions which have duties substantially similar to offices for which elections were required to be conducted under rules in force prior to the 1973 amendments to the Act. [More…]

• The effect of the amendments will be to restore the situation prior to the 1973 amendments of the Act; that is, organisations will be able to appoint persons to them without the necessity of providing for their election. [More…]

• One of the underlying reasons for that situation is that a State election is coming up in Western Australia. [More…]

• They are extremely grateful that they were assisted to survive in the difficult period that followed the flooding of the market with money by the Liberal-National Country Party Government in the period that preceded the election of the Labor Government. [More…]

• That was why his Party was defeated in the last election. [More…]

• Look at how Fraser has broken the promises he made in the election campaign last year and at what has happened in the short period since the election of 13 December last year. [More…]

• When the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr William McMahon) was Prime Minister he made a promise on urban public transport in his election speech. [More…]

• -I rise to support the Estate Duty Assessment Amendment Bill which fulfils yet another of the election promises of the Liberal and National Country parties. [More…]

• Those opposite won the last election; I am not arguing that fact. [More…]

• On the question of pension changes, in legislating for the awarding of consumer price index rises to pensioners the Government has watered down its election undertaking. [More…]

• The increases will be given in May and November each year, whereas during the election campaign both the caretaker Minister for Social Security, the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp), and the caretaker Prime Minister were on record as promising increases immediately after the announcement of consumer price index figures. [More…]

• I presume that that is what was meant by ‘turning on the lights’ in the Liberal Party’s propaganda in the last election, what enlightened Liberal legislation means. [More…]

• The opening speech of the 1974 Federal election by the then Leader of the Opposition, now Mr Speaker, contained this statement: [More…]

• I hope that this Bill is an earnest of the Government’s determination to implement its election undertaking by introducing an extensive export incentive scheme. [More…]

• With great promises during the election campaign, which fostered high expectations for the growers in this industry, the Government has produced just an extension of a patch and fill scheme which will end at the end of this year. [More…]

• In the 1972 election, which was known in my electorate as the rotten fruit election, the spokesmen for the Labor Party at that stage- the then honourable member for Dawson and the then honourable member for Riverina- made lavish promises about what the Labor Party would do with regard to the tree-pull scheme if it were in office. [More…]

• The means test was eased on 2 occasions before the December 1972 election by the then Minister for Primary Industry, the present Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair). [More…]

• I am sure it is quite obvious to all of us, even those on the other side of the House, that this is a payoff for the large amount of money that was either donated directly by the Bank of New South Wales or indirectly raised by such people as Russell Prowse of the Bank of New South Wales for Liberal Party electioneering at the last election and the previous election in 1974. [More…]

• Election of Officers in Employee Organisations (Question No. [More…]

• What are the names of employee organisations registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1976 whose registered rules (a) permit the election of full-time executive officers by the ‘collegiate’ system of voting, (b) require that the election of full-time executive officers shall be by direct vote of the rank and file of the organisation and (c) were altered since 1 973 to comply with the requirements of section 133 of the Act [More…]

• -The Bill now before the House seeks to amend the Conciliation and Arbitration Act in respect of the method of election of officers of registered organisations; that is, trade unions and employer organisations. [More…]

• The Act as it now stands provides that the election of officers of an organisation shall be by direct ballot of members eligible to vote, except for part-time officers of organisations whose rules provided for their election by a one-tier collegiate system at the time that the direct voting requirement was introduced. [More…]

• The change proposed by the Government is, in broad terms, to restore the collegiate system for the election of officers of organisations as an alternative to the direct vote of the total membership. [More…]

• In neither the House of Representatives nor the Senate was any criticism made by the then Opposition of the change in the method of election of union officials. [More…]

• This implied acceptance by the Liberal Party and the National Country Party of the direct voting method of election of union officials was confirmed by the fact that in both Houses of the Parliament the relevant clause of the Bill was agreed to in Committee without debate. [More…]

• Everyone in this House will recall that in last year’s election campaign one of the issues played up most strongly by the coalition parties was-I quote from the Prime Minister’s policy speech- the supposed need ‘to give the Australian worker the opportunity to control his own union’. [More…]

• The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony), for instance, was reported in the Melbourne Sun of 24 November last year as saying that the coalition would do what left wing and communist officials feared most; that is, they would introduce secret postal ballots for union elections. [More…]

• Of course, he then made the ritual mention of the election of the president of the AMWU and gave that as an example of the sort of injustice that a coalition government would stamp out. [More…]

• On obtaining government the Liberal Party and the National Country Party eventually did move to provide that union elections must be by secret postal ballot. [More…]

• But they almost made a mess of that by introducing a Bill earlier this year which failed to define a postal ballot and this would have required little alteration of election procedures by such unions as the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union despite the fact that the election of the AMWU president was once again trotted out as justification for the action being taken. [More…]

• However, the Government realised its omission before it was too late and so, in a stumbling fashion, it fulfilled its election promise. [More…]

• Some of the unions most left wing had for years employed a system of compulsory voting by all members at union elections. [More…]

• Some large right wing unions were aghast at the prospect of having an election by the whole rank and file for their full time officials. [More…]

• So too were the employer organisations who presumably did not mind the Dick Scotts of this world having to face an election by the whole membership but were not too anxious for his employer counterparts to suffer the same experience. [More…]

• To me it is crystal clear that this Government has ‘done a deal’ with the Santamaria/National Civic Council group and has ‘sold-out’ thousands of Australian unionists who saw, in the pre-election industrial promises of this Government, an opportunity to place their own acceptance or rejection on whom would be the Federal Officials of a number of Australian trade unions. [More…]

• The Taxation Officers’ Branch which is ‘politically free’ has a membership of 4500 and elects only two Councillors and South Australia with a membership of 7500 elects three non-NCC Councillors and there are four Federal Officials who never have faced a rank and file ballot for Federal Office but are self-perpetuating and vote for their own election by the utilisation of a collegiate system which many responsible unionists (and LiberalParty members) hoped had been banished for all time from the industrial scene. [More…]

• Secondly, in so doing it has reneged on its stated pre-election intention of ensuring that union officials were elected by their members. [More…]

• Indeed, the 1973 legislation was designed to prevent such appointments by providing that henceforth they must face election by the rank and file. [More…]

• What a contrast this creates with the Government’s assertions during last year’s election campaign that it would provide for the democratic control of unions. [More…]

• Not only is the Government denying unionists the right directly to elect their officials and providing for manipulation of officials by minority groups through continuation of the collegiate system, but it is also allowing for some persons to undertake union duties of an official nature without having to face an election. [More…]

• In summary, then, the Opposition rejects this legislation because it considers that the collegiate system which the legislation will allow deprives union members of the right to have a direct say in the election of union officials and is capable of being used, and is in fact used, to enable minority groups in unions to control those unions. [More…]

• The Government has been revealed as being much more concerned about protecting ultra right wing groups in key unions and saving employer organisations the embarrassment of direct voting for their officials than it has been about ensuring that democracy prevails in the election of officers of organisations. [More…]

• In so doing, the Government has revealed that one of its major planks at the last election was nothing more than a device to obtain electoral support. [More…]

• Those amendments allowed for the direct election of union officials by all of the rank and file members of a trade union. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Gellibrand pointed out in his speech, only 2000 union members out of a total membership of roughly 185 000 of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union voted at the last federal election for office bearers of that union. [More…]

• The Bill has been introduced to take away from the rank and file member his right to have a direct say in the election of his officials. [More…]

• The fact is, however, that direct election is not, in all situations, a guarantee of proper democratic control. [More…]

• Does he think that people are elected as officials of unions simply because they stand for election? [More…]

• That union has a 99 per cent turnout on election day. [More…]

• The contents of this Bill revolve purely and simply around the whole question of whether there is to be democratic election of people in trade unions. [More…]

• Imagine the problem faced by a moderate member of a union who wants simply to offer himself for election to office in a union with about 100 000 members. [More…]

• He will be involved in expenditure to organise people, transport and all the sorts of things that go with an election campaign. [More…]

• In a national union with a membership spread throughout the length and breadth of 6 States and the Territories of Australia it is enormously difficult for any union member to become known in order to offer himself for election. [More…]

• A collegiate system with adequate safeguards contained in it would allow such unions to have a more democratic system of election of union officials than would a direct system. [More…]

• If a union seeks to implement union rules, governing the election of union officials, which do not accord with the general principles laid down in the Act, whether it be a direct system of election or a collegiate system union members can always challenge those rules in the Industrial Court. [More…]

• For the purposes of the application of the definition of “collegiate electoral system” in sub-section ( 1 ) in relation to an election for an office in an organisation, an electoral system that otherwise complies with that definition shall be deemed to comply with that definition notwithstanding that the persons comprising a body of persons by and from whom persons are elected at any stage subsequent to the first stage include persons (not exceeding in number 15 per centum of the total number of the body) who are the holders of offices entitling the holders to membership of that body (which may include the office to which the election relates) but are not members of that body by virtue of an election in accordance with that definition, being persons each of whom has held such an office (whether the one office or not) at all times since being elected to such an office under a collegiate electoral system, or a direct voting system, as defined in sub-section (1)’”. [More…]

• For example, where a Federal secretary has to rely on election as a branch delegate as a prerequisite to retaining his position as Federal secretary, his energies might for understandable reasons be directed to seeing to the requirements of that branch, to the detriment of the organisation as a whole. [More…]

• As a result of allowing this amendment through, the 4 officers of a union will be allowed to be added to the elected members of the college and by that means to form a college for their re-election. [More…]

• This can go on and on, with the officers never ever having to face an election. [More…]

• This application says 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 purposes of forming an electoral college for the election of the officers, in fact are oppressive, unreasonable and unjust. [More…]

• So it is quite open to a union to decide on a number of different types of elections that it will have. [More…]

• The only reservation about the legislation that I have is that there may be circumstances in which persons who have been elected by what I consider a sensible and reasonable compromise system all round, may not have their removal equated to the same criteria as their election. [More…]

• I trunk that as a principle it is important that if a person comes to the end of his term and wants another run in office he should submit himself to whatever system was used previously for his election. [More…]

• He wants to remain the member for Corangamite because he likes being a Minister; but that will pertain only until the next election. [More…]

• As it is set out in clause 4 of the Bill, proposed new sub-section 133(3) allows an organisation whose rules provide for election to a full-time office by a collegiate system other than a one-tier collegiate system, as defined, 2 years to alter its rules to provide for a one-tier system for that office. [More…]

• What has happened between the promises being made at the election in 1975 and again in early 1976 and now when we have reached the debate of this matter in the House? [More…]

• He left the Democratic Labor Party 6 months before the last election. [More…]

• Let us look at the situation regarding the regulation of union elections, which is a subject about which the preponderance of the honourable members opposite who have spoken know nothing. [More…]

• Its whole approach to union elections reflects its simplemindedness. [More…]

• On top of this, union members who objected to the way in which any election was conducted could appeal to the Electoral Office and, if they had a case, be granted a court-controlled ballot. [More…]

• The only aspect of union elections that it has affected is that of direct democracy. [More…]

• Under the former Minister for Labor, Mr Clyde Cameron, new regulations were introduced for the direct election of union officials, such as the president, vice-president and secretary, by the rank and file membership of the union. [More…]

• a scheme to be approved under this section will involve provision for an election for an office in the organisation concerned; and [More…]

• a direct voting system, or a voting system which, although it is not a “direct voting system” as deined in section 4, is of a similar nature, the Court shall not, in proceedings under this section, where sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) applies, approve a scheme that provides for an election for that office otherwise than under a collegiate electoral system or, where sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (b) applies, approve a scheme that provides for an election for that office otherwise than under a direct voting system, or in either case a scheme that departs from the provisions of those rules to a greater extent than the Court is satisfied is necessary having regard to the requirements of this Act. [More…]

• The purpose of the amendment is to ensure that a scheme approved by the Australian Industrial Court for the reconstitution of an invalidly constituted organisation will not unnecessarily alter the rules of the association and in particular the rules concerning elections. [More…]

• In effect the proposed sub-section requires the Court to maintain a collegiate election system where the organisation’s rules so provide and a direct voting system where the rules provide for that. [More…]

• The Court can order new elections to be held and it can decide what form those elections for officials can take. [More…]

• It can provide, as the law currently stands, that in reconstituting a branch which is found to be invalid, elections for officials may be conducted via a collegiate system or a rank and file ballot. [More…]

• In reconstituting a union the court no longer will be able to change the form of election of union officials from what it was in the rules of the organisation before the invalidities were found to exist. [More…]

• I presume that, as this promise was not made during an election, the Premiers are expected to believe it and to put greater faith in it. [More…]

• So many promises have gone completely down the drain, the excuse being that they were promises made at election time, and we need not take any notice of Liberal promises made at election time. [More…]

• The honourable member for Denison may be referring to the fact that perhaps Carter has not won the election. [More…]

• The Association was vocal during the last national election campaign in Australia when proprietors were directing journalists to frame stories in the direction of their own political bias. [More…]

• Unions have on many occasions remained silent while their membership has churned out heavily biased material designed to jeopardise the advancement of organised labour goals, particularly during the crucial days of some election campaigns. [More…]

• Between now and the next meeting of the Grants Commission to deal with the allocation of money to local government there will be an election in the State of Tasmania and I do not have the slightest doubt that that election will lead to the return of a Liberal government in Tasmania. [More…]

• It was only when the Labor Government came to office as a result of the 1972 election, followed by the 1974 election, that the conservative parties realised that they had to take into account the voice of local government. [More…]

• In 1 974 when the previous legislation was introduced and again last year during the election campaign, the Australian Labor Party came in for quite a lot of criticism. [More…]

• Perhaps the main thing at which we could look is a Press release put out by the Country Party prior to the 1974 election. [More…]

• I know that the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) has again backpedalled on one of the Government’s election policies. [More…]

• They are also aware of the referenda which were run in conjunction with the presidential election and of how unsuccessful the anti-nuclear lobby has been in the United States. [More…]

• The Government has no intention of qualifying the essential thrust of the economic policies which it has pursued since coming to power and which we clearly foreshadowed during the course of the election campaign. [More…]

• There can be only one interpretation of the Fraser Government’s incompetent economic management decisions as they unfold from day to day and that is that this conservative coalition is deliberately postponing economic recovery so that improvements will come only when the next federal election is due. [More…]

• It promised, at election time, to abolish quarterly company tax payments. [More…]

• They are a reflection of the policies rejected by the people of this country at the last election, as they continue to be rejected today. [More…]

• In the last election campaign I said several times that the Labor Government was considering a package that was very similar. [More…]

• We are told by the honourable member for Adelaide that what this Government is doing in its economic strategy is attempting to delay economic recovery until the next election. [More…]

• That seems to me an interesting process because we .have been told on the other hand by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) that we are about to call an early election. [More…]

• Well, if we are trying to delay the election until 1978, 1 do not see how we can be trying to call an early election. [More…]

• -The honourable member said we were trying to delay until the next election. [More…]

• After all of its extravagant election talk and all of the massive claims and promises throughout the election campaign the Government has finally got down to extending an existing Australian Labor Party scheme that was initiated in 1974. [More…]

• It might be worth while at this point to quote the words of the present Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) during those irresponsible days of the election campaign of last year and before it I refer firstly to an article in the Australian of 18 August of last year headed ‘Sinclair puts plan to save beef industry’, which reads: [More…]

• I refer now to an article in the Canberra Times of 1 1 October of last year, which was just before the election, headed ‘Beef industry dying ‘. [More…]

• As I said earlier, after all its extravagant election promises it has quietly slipped into the House this amendment to a piece of Labor Party legislation which provides for the provision of $ 15m to the beef industry. [More…]

• The Government- particularly the Country Party section of it- has failed to honour its election promises and bring to fruition the promise it gave to the industry in those heady days during the election campaign. [More…]

• President Ford subsequently lost the election in the United States. [More…]

• The mining companies are there to contribute to election slush funds and that is where the interest of the National Country Party is to be found. [More…]

• But we will do this and this as we promised during the election campaign’. [More…]

• It is time that this Government put its money where its mouth was and is, particularly where its mouth was during the election campaign, and showed the Australian beef producer that this is not the cynical display of politics which the producers are beginning to believe it is. [More…]

• But on second thoughts, that may not be necessary because I am quite confident that at the next election the Labor member, who does not have a vested interest in the meat companies, will be returned in Macarthur. [More…]

• At present we are suffering as a result of* the presidential election in the United States. [More…]

• I am quite confident, with the American presidential election behind us and in spite of the uncertainties of the agricultural policies of the Carter regime, and following the Japanese election on 4 December, that there is a reasonable prospect that Australian beef producers can again look forward to something like reasonable access to export markets. [More…]

• Our 1972 election policy proved this, as did our actions in government. [More…]

• I think everyone in this Parliament knows and, by this time, nearly everyone in Tasmania knows that Mr Neilson came to Canberra yesterday in part to lay the groundwork and to do what he can for a State election. [More…]

• It has been made quite plain that what he is involved in is the preparations for an election and the people of Tasmania should well understand that. [More…]

• During the election campaign last year the present Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) publicly attacked the ABC and demanded the appointment of a censor to monitor its current affairs programs. [More…]

• After all, honourable members will recall that he was appointed a Minister in the first Fraser Ministry but because of some activities of his during the election campaign he had to step down from that position. [More…]

• We look with interest at the record and the record shows that honourable members opposite have supported the principle that the Senate has the power to refuse Supply and that if it does that an election should follow. [More…]

• We faced another election; we won it. [More…]

• It is a parody of democracy to assert that a govenment must be responsible to a chamber elected on a grossly unequal system of representation; a chamber whose numbers can be varied, and have indeed been varied, by State Premiers without regard to the electors’ will; whose members at some times have been chosen 3 years or 6 years before the members of this House, and who can bring about an election for the House of Representatives without having to face an election themselves. [More…]

• It is a Government that has broken its election promises as it broke the rules. [More…]

• Ever since 1 1 November 1975 Australia has endured a barrage of inflammatory statements concerning the events of that day which lead to the election of 13 December last year. [More…]

• The fictitous legal theory has prevailed that the election on 13 December in this country was fought on the question of Supply. [More…]

• If we could have fought an election on the question of supply, the result would have been different. [More…]

• In New Zealand, an election was held in 1 975. [More…]

• The contents of the first report for 1974-1976 include the election of officers, the Chairman’s report, activities such as the family support program, housing, planning and community structures, and reports from South Sydney, the City of Sydney, Leichhardt, the staff, the treasurer and a financial statement. [More…]

• Notwithstanding his inability to obtain parliamentary approval of the Supply Bill, Prime Minister Whitlam made it clear to the GovernorGeneral firstly, that he would never resign; secondly, that he would never advise an election of the House of Representatives or a double dissolution; and, thirdly, that the only way such an election could be held was by his dismissal by the Governor-General. [More…]

• If this were so a government fearful of the judgment of the people could refuse to advise that an election be held and remain in office longer than the maximum period for which the House of Representatives is elected. [More…]

• In view of that statement, will he explain to the House why the Government has amended the Conciliation and Arbitration Act in regard to the election of union officials so that rank and file ballots for the election of union officials are no longer compulsory. [More…]

• This would fit in with the strongly held theory that the aim is to postpone recovery until just before the next election. [More…]

• What also needs to be considered is the Liberal Party and National Country Party election policy of last year which states: [More…]

• In the 1974 election campaign he said that they should be increased by 40 per cent. [More…]

• Probably it is necessary for me to go even further and to remind the honourable member what the economic circumstances were then and, I might say, which still existed in December 1975 when the previous Government was swept out of office at the national election. [More…]

• Prior to the general election in December 1975 we argued that economic recovery would take a full 3-year term. [More…]

• I put it to the House that if he was fighting that same election campaign now, he would not be here after an election. [More…]

• Let me mention the specific breaches of promise that were made by the previous candidate in the last election and supported by the then Liberal shadow Minister and the alternative Prime Minister- the janitor at the time- who is the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• He said that we were trying to sneak it through before an election. [More…]

• If the honourable member for the Northern Territory reflects he will recall that the late Labor Government assumed that having been elected in May 1974, the next election would be in May 1977. [More…]

• I recall that some months ago I sent him a telegram concerning an article about the first Caucus meeting after the election. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Prime Minister and I remind him that in his election policy speech he claimed that only under a Liberal-National Country Party government would there be a return to business confidence. [More…]

• I paid particular attention to statements made in the run up to the election in the United States by President-elect Carter as to economic measures which he may or may not be taking. [More…]

• Some of the issues even become issues at election time. [More…]

• It is no little wonder that a State such as Tasmania, with its important rural sector, has said that it does not require Mr Whitlam ‘s presence in the run-up to the coming State election. [More…]

• Something which seems to have passed unnoticed by the recipients themselves, if one takes any notice of their election voting habits, is that the Labor Government gave the servicemen of Australia a completely new deal. [More…]

• It will be recalled that the former Treasurer, the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden), predicted during the last election campaign that a LiberalNational Country Party Government would devalue the dollar, if confirmed in office at the election. [More…]

• The Government has no intention of qualifying the essential thrust of the economic policies which it has pursued since coming to power and which we clearly preshadowed during the election campaign. [More…]

• He remembers the close call he had at the next election. [More…]

• In its election policy it promised to support indexation; then in the first quarterly national wage case after the election, it broke its promise and opposed it. [More…]

• The Journal also says Mr Fraser now faces the fact that many people, remembering what he promised to achieve at last year’s election, will see his move to devalue by such a large amount as an admission that his Government has failed to deliver what it promised- sound, economic management. [More…]

• This is clearly what the Prime Minister and the Treasurer were stupidly advocating when they spoke in their election campaign speeches of the need for an investment-led recovery strategy. [More…]

• During the election campaign last year he made the statement that devaluation would occur if the Liberal-National Country Party Government were returned. [More…]

• In the Christmas and new year speculation following the election, Australia lost in excess of $600m in reserves. [More…]

• On the night of the Federal election last year, on 13 December, I said that we were determined to be a Government for all Australians. [More…]

• Both the Treasurer and the Prime Minister, no doubt as a well known tactic, have misrepresented comments which I made in the course of a television debate with the Treasurer during the last election campaign. [More…]

• This reminds me that yesterday I was talking to a lady who was a little stunned like most of the community by the devaluation and its implications and she said to me: ‘Mr Fraser told me before the last election that if I voted Labor I would be voting for more unemployment, more inflation, more business failures and a worsening of the recession’. [More…]

• I should like to relate to the House the letter written by Mr Southey, the Federal President of the Liberal Party, prior to the 1972 general election to the then Prime Minister. [More…]

• While I can be thankful that Mr Neilson has also welcomed it as good news for Tasmania, I cannot altogether wish him well when his election day comes because I believe the State could be much better governed by a different administration. [More…]

• Just imagine if the Government bad been honest for a change, if the Government had been faithful to its objectives contained in its statements about its purpose at the last election, if it had said that it was its intention to increase taxes by 17.6 per cent instead of claiming to reduce taxes, or if it had said that it was its intention to dismantle Medibank on a massive scale instead of pledging to retain the integrity of the Medibank program. [More…]

• I also pay due respect to the unwanted member of the Cabinet- as he was after the election last yearSenator Peter Rae because of the work he has contributed to the tourist industry of Australia. [More…]

• He would know that in the course of the last 3 elections for the Legislative Assembly and its predecessor, the Northern Territory Legislative Council, one of the platforms on which the Country-Liberal Party stood related to the Aboriginal control of entry on to their land, that is, reserves. [More…]

• In elections for the former Legislative Council, that proposition from the Labor Party was defeated. [More…]

• In the election following the creation of the Legislative Assembly in the Northern Territory, no Labor candidates were returned to that body. [More…]

• They have been on notice for a long time- since the 1967 referendum and certainly since the election of the Labor Government in 1972 when the then Prime Minister clearly indicated the intention of the then Government to give effect to these recommendations. [More…]

• Joe Riordan, who lost the seat of Phillip at the last election and who will regain it at the next election, is fully aware of that. [More…]

• The editorial reminded me of an article which appeared in Newsweek, the overseas magazine, about 6 weeks ago which emphasised the point that Malcolm Fraser, the Prime Minister, at the last election made dole bludgers a key issue. [More…]

• When the election time comes around for each trade union leader he will be able to say in respect of fewer matters to his union members: [More…]

• Honourable members opposite are only looking after the interests of those people who put funds into their election coffers. [More…]

• Now we see that amendments are brought in to try, in some way, to have the representatives of the trade unions and the white collar organisations believe that the Government has not gone back on its word, following the election, not to abolish the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]

• That was the promise given to supporters of the Liberal and National Country Parties during the election campaign. [More…]

• Immediately after the election the Prime Minister found it convenient to bargain and barter with the Australian Council of Trade Unions on the basis that wage indexation would survive and that the Prices Justification Tribunal would survive. [More…]

• They were the people who required the Prime Minister to pledge the abolition of the PJT in return for their financial support for the coalition in last year’s election campaign. [More…]

• The speech was obviously written by someone who was not aware that the Government, after the election in December, decided to retain the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]

• It was part of our election program in 1972 that just as wages have to be justified in the arbitration mechanism, equally there should be some justification on the part of those who fixed the prices of the goods and services that the wage earner was supposed to buy. [More…]

• Nevertheless, the Government has acknowledged, and acknowledges again, that in reviewing the pre-election undertaking it made about the Prices Justification Tribunal it had very much in mind the industrial relations context. [More…]

• In the light of that, for the honourable member for Port Adelaide to say that we are being provocative in regard to industrial relations by changing the role ofthe PJT, when we had committed ourselves prior to the election to its abolition and then in the light of industrial relations considerations we reviewed that undertaking, is, I think, being totally unreasonable. [More…]

• Before Labor came into office in 1972, the McMahon Government proposed a number of improvements to the furlough provisions, although the timing of it made it suspiciously look like an election gimmick. [More…]

• On 26 October 1 972- only a week before the issuing of the writs for the Federal election that year, the then Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, issued a Press release which, in part, read: [More…]

• The legislation for both sectors honours promises made by the Liberal and National Country Parties during the recent election campaign and, with respect to the Public Service, in 1972 by the McMahon Government. [More…]

• He was defeated at a subsequent election and returned to his service at the bottom of the list. [More…]

• Subsequently, just before I was elected to this Parliament, the Act was changed- as a matter of fact it was a good piece of behaviour by a Liberal government- so that people elected to the Australian Parliament would be able to return to their jobs up to a period of 9 years after their election with all their rights reserved. [More…]

• As everybody knows there are not only hurdles at elections; there are redistributions, pre-selections and matters such as that that lay in wait for the unwary member of this Parliament. [More…]

• My information is that the growers adopted this method of collecting levies based on the product because of a very rash and irresponsible promise that was made by a member of the present Government during the last election. [More…]

• This very unsatisfactory method of collection has now been imposed on the industry because of an irresponsible election promise. [More…]

• Everybody else gets only one month Perhaps this was an election promise also. [More…]

• Generally, I think this is a commendable piece of legislation which, because of the unfortunate and irresponsible promise made during an election campaign, will now be much more costly and difficult to administer because of the abandonment of the original idea of the levy being on an acreage or hectare basis. [More…]

• I hope that the Tasmanian apple growers are listening to me tonight and will remember my words at the next Tasmanian State election. [More…]

• It was not an election promise but it was a logical argument and it was accepted by the Government. [More…]

• I hope that the Tasmanian growers are listening to what I have to say and I hope they will remember this during the current election campaign in that State. [More…]

• The policy of the Liberal-National Country Party coalition before the 1975 election- at the time when it was the caretaker Government- was to provide full employment and to reduce the rate of inflation. [More…]

• If we had an election on 13 November how many new faces would be in the Parliament? [More…]

• The Government, having provided for compulsory secret postal ballots for the election of union officials, found that that legislation had endangered the tenure of office of some ultra right wing officials. [More…]

• The Liberal and National Country Parties stated prior to the 1975 election that the activities of the Australian Housing Corporation would be critically examined. [More…]

• Then the dissolution of the Parliament occurred, we had an election and this Government was returned to power. [More…]

• To conclude, I once again congratulate the Minister and the leadership of the Pharmacy Guild for the faith which they developed in each other that the policy announced and ennunciated by the Liberal-National Country Parties at the previous election campaign would be honoured. [More…]

• Not only will this announcement fully implement an election commitment; it will also provide clear evidence of our determination to ensure that all Australians shall have a meaningful opportunity, if they choose to avail themselves of it, to own their own homes. [More…]

• There was an election promise. [More…]

• In other words, he was simply commenting on the stupidity which characterised the LiberalNational Country Party Government’s approach in the period preceding the 1972 election. [More…]

• This was a election gimmick. [More…]

• Johnson) and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Uren) who said that the last home savings grants scheme-and now this one- was merely an election gimmick and a way to win votes. [More…]

• I mention next the Housing Loans Insurance Corporation, We are looking closely at the Corporation, as we promised in the last election campaign we would, to see whether we cannot find ways and means of improving the operations of the HLIC as they affect not only the home purchase market but also the home renting market. [More…]

• Since its election last December the Government has been committed to a continuous process of tax reform. [More…]

• On 10 October 1975, when reporting the election of Mr Marius Webb to the Commission, Mr Laurie Oakes of the Melbourne Sun wrote that it was a good result for rock and roll. [More…]

• More than 50 per cent of the ABC staff voted in that election. [More…]

• The size of each program committee and the method of its election should be left to each ethnic community to determine for itself and to organise. [More…]

• I imagine that when the next election comes around the Opposition will pull some magnificent looking rabbits out of the hat. [More…]

• However, on that occasion the Government was returned to office following the election. [More…]

• -I must confess at the outset that I am somewhat amazed to learn that the two airlines agreement has become an issue in the Tasmanian election and that it has been made an issue on the initiative of the Tasmanian Premier. [More…]

• I view with very serious concern the fact that in the dying hours of the election campaign, he now wants to make the two airlines agreement an issue, concurrent with the story that money is being made available to the Australian Labor Party in Tasmania to fight the campaign and also apparently to assist a fight against the two airlines agreement at some time after the election. [More…]

• The general policy of the Government Parties, which was announced before the last election, is that there would not be tariff reductions of the kind that were made across the board by the previous Administration, which began the great damage, amongst other policies, to manufacturing industries. [More…]

• Presumably, for their own skins, they will not want an election so they must put a stop to the ad hockery and to the inconsistency. [More…]

• Mr Fraser stated in the 1975 election that it could take a full 3 years to restore the economy after the Whitlam years. [More…]

• Bash the unions, pressure organised labour and hold down wages, in desperation, to save themselves at the next election. [More…]

• I forget whether it was the honourable member for Maribyrnong (Dr Cass) or his predecessor as Minister for the Media who proposed that the ABC staff should have an election to nominate a Commissioner. [More…]

• That illustrates the intense interest that was taken in that election. [More…]

• At the election 3649 staff members voted, which is more than half of the total staff. [More…]

• From what I have heard from honourable members opposite, they would say that this was unheard of participation for a union-type election in Australia. [More…]

• There is clear evidence to suggest that by the fragmentation of votes from a multiplicity of candidates for such an election it is possible that the successful candidate would not represent the staff fully. [More…]

• All the rubbish that was contained in the Liberal and National Country Parties’ propaganda leading up to the election of 1 975 led people up the garden path. [More…]

• Did he, and other Ministers, repeatedly claim during and after the 1975 election campaign that recruitment to, and re-enlistment in, the Defence Services would increase if a Liberal-Country Party Government was returned. [More…]

• What action has been taken to implement the Prime Minister’s election promise that gifts in excess of $ 100 must be paid for by the recipient. [More…]

• and (5) The Prime Minister’s election promise was implemented by the payment to the receiver of Public Moneys of $150 for the Blohm and Voss gift, and $1,230 for the Gotaverken gift. [More…]

• In that context the Government made it very clear in the election campaign that it would move to make significant amendments in this area. [More…]

• It was an election promise of this Government to establish a reconstruction scheme for the fishing industry similar to the present rural reconstruction scheme. [More…]

• When we went to the polls at the 1975 election, we made it perfectly clear that the activities of the Australian Housing Corporation would be critically examined. [More…]

• Mr Whitlam ‘s supporters hit back with rebukes against Dr Cairns and Mr Cameron, the 2 sacked Ministers who criticised Mr Whitlam ‘s leadership after the election debacle. [More…]

• He has witnessed 16 elections. [More…]

• I think there is not a member of the House who has been directly concerned with that number of elections. [More…]

• He has seen the Parliament assemble in our tradition after each election without a Speaker in the Chair with the Clerk sitting at the table to conduct the election of Speaker with absolutely no power whatsoever to discipline unruly members. [More…]

• At least then everyone would have a chance of getting a high position on the ballot paper, which is desirable in a tight election and in a marginal seat. [More…]

• It is accepted de facto in Senate elections where groupings are used. [More…]

• It is a strange thing that, whilst we do not recognise that a candidate is a candidate for a particular political party, we require the political party to provide returns on expenditure and other matters in relation to election campaigns. [More…]

• I should think that senators would want to examine their own electoral laws as far as the election of senators is concerned. [More…]

• I hope that they will do so fairly quickly because the level of informal votes which is taking place in Senate elections is destroying any claim that the Senate is a representative House. [More…]

• However, I make the point that in future the problems involved in conducting election campaigns in Australia are going to grow. [More…]

• In the last general election, if I may make the point, it took just on 3 weeks to settle the final seat in the House of Representativesmy seat. [More…]

• If the election result had been close we would not have known who was going to govern the country until that period had elapsed. [More…]

• It should be possible for us to get beyond the horse and buggy stage whereby 10 or 12 days after an election people are not able to say even how many votes there are still to be counted, let alone when they are likely to arrive. [More…]

• In fact, as late as the day of the distribution of preferences in the last general election, 20-odd votes turned up. [More…]

• The other matter, which is going to be one of the big issues in the future, is that of financing election campaigns. [More…]

• If we do not do something about this matter in the future- and it is not a popular subject- we will reach the situation which, I believe, obtains in some countries already, in which the members of the Parliament are agents of those who finance election campaigns rather than representatives of the people who elect them. [More…]

• Elections cannot be conducted without money. [More…]

• The position in Australia is becoming quite frightening considering the amounts of money that are required for respective elections. [More…]

• It is not just for one election that comes along occasionally. [More…]

• Whilst we separate elections of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the amount of money required by each of the candidates and by all parties in each of the States, taking into account the State elections as well, is becoming enormous. [More…]

• As I have said previously in debates concerning this matter, the only way that we can perhaps get some idea of the amount of money being raised is through the annual report of the Broadcasting Control Board when that annual report covers the period of an election. [More…]

• In 1975, as a result of having witnessed the campaign by the LiberalNational Country Parties, it would be no exaggeration to say that they had millions of dollars available to conduct their election campaigns. [More…]

• People are entitled to know what amount of money is being spent on elections in Australia and they are entitled to know where that money comes from. [More…]

• They have recommended that these moneys be based on the percentage vote which parties received at the previous one or two elections. [More…]

• We have all witnessed the mammoth corruption of the American system in a couple of election periods, not too long ago. [More…]

• He is probably spending in the vicinity of $15,000 or $20,000 every election just in the electorate of Griffith. [More…]

• If that amount is multiplied by the eighty or ninety seats that are hard fought, the amount of money spent by the candidates themselves, ignoring the amount that is being spent by the head offices of the political parties, shows that the conduct of elections is a multi-million dollar affair. [More…]

• If that were known it might be concluded again that it would be in the best interests of Australia if the funds to conduct elections came out of general revenue. [More…]

• The committee may present interim reports and final reports with the result that future elections may be conducted by a new process. [More…]

• Millions of dollars will be spent in the elections of 1978, 1981 and 1984. [More…]

• If the honourable member for Griffith and the honourable member for Parramatta (Mr Ruddock) are each spending $ 1 5,000 or $20,000 on each election now in 6 years’ time they will want $30,000 or $40,000. [More…]

• In recent memory is the escapade at breakfast time of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) seeking half a million dollars of Iraqi money to finance the debts incurred by the Labor Party in the last Federal election. [More…]

• Proposals can always be put forward to fix the order on a ballot paper by ballot or by the alphabet or to change the closing time of polling booths on election day. [More…]

• The Government has also accepted the royal commission’s recommendations that a practice should be established permitting the Leader of the Opposition, before a general election, to confer with the Public Service Board and the Secretary to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and permitting shadow Ministers to confer with the heads of relevant departments. [More…]

• Guidelines for Pre-election Consultation with the Opposition [More…]

• The pre-election period is to date from three months prior to the expiry of the House of Representatives or the date of announcement of the House of Representatives election, whichever date comes first. [More…]

• It does not apply in respect of Senate elections only. [More…]

• By doing this the Government fulfilled, in the space of 6 months, an election commitment that was to be met over a period of 3 years. [More…]

• At the time of the last election the Government also promised to reduce the burden of income tax on firms and companies which, because of inflation, have had to find increasing amounts of working capital to maintain business activity. [More…]

• Yet 7 weeks after the election the commitment to wage indexation was abandoned. [More…]

• That was the target I promised on behalf of the Labor Party at the 1972 election. [More…]

• I certainly hope that, despite our differences, with the passage of time the initiatives which were instituted as a result of the election pledge of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) when he was leading the Labor Party into the 1 972 election, to give land rights to Aboriginals, will come to fruition. [More…]

• In the weeks immediately following the election in 1975, several hundred million dollars of private capital flowed out of Australia mainly due to a widespread belief that the Australian exchange rate was overvalued. [More…]

• We are going to keep the honourable member for Lang where he is until he retires from this Parliament or until we take his seat in the next election. [More…]

• I know that they do not want an election to be held right now. [More…]

• In fact the Opposition would challenge the Government to an election but the Government would not agree to hold one. [More…]

• When will the Government be introducing legislation to give effect to its election policy of removing the discretion conferred on the Minister relating to mergers under subsection 90 (9) of the Trade Practices Act, the elimination of which has been recommended in paragraph 8.50 et al of the Swanson Committee Report. [More…]

• When does he intend to keep the promise made by the Prime Minister in the policy speech of the Liberal Party for the 1975 election that the ‘tax np-off would be stopped. [More…]

• In bis policy speech for the 1975 election the Prime Minister stated that ‘We will put an end to Labor’s tax rip-off. [More…]

• 1 ) In what unions and branches of unions has the Registrar received a request, under Section 1 70 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, that a union election be conducted by the Registrar or the Commonwealth Electoral Office with a view to preventing irregularities in each year since January 1955 to January 1976. [More…]

• In which of those requests granted by the Registrar was the election actually conducted by (a) the Commonwealth Electoral Officer and (b) the Registrar. [More…]

• Large numbers of the members of the Labor Party went over the cliff at the last election. [More…]

• It is for this reason that the CPI figures for this quarter have already been delayed 3 weeks and they will be delayed another week until after the Western Australian election. [More…]

• Is the Government frightened to come clean because it fears to reveal another broken promise, another breach of its undertakings at the last election? [More…]

• Now the situation is so bad that the Government is deliberately delaying the release of the December consumer price index figures until after the Western Australian election next Saturday. [More…]

• All the more remarkable is that they have been introduced in the short period of 12 months, despite the fact that the Liberal and National Country Parties in their 1975 election platform said that the implementation of these programs would take 3 years. [More…]

• I think that would have reminded everyone in the chamber of the election slogan of the Liberal-National Country parties at the last election, namely, to turn the lights on. [More…]

• Government supporters have spurned those programs despite the fact that they promised them in their employment policy before the last general election. [More…]

• Maybe that is the reason, but I would think that anyone else who looks at the Government’s policy would think that its supporters were breaking their election promises by not introducing job creation programs. [More…]

• The idea was spelt out in embryo in the policy speech presented by the Prime Minister prior to the December 1975 election. [More…]

• Subsequent to the election the Treasurer and I met with representatives of the banks and had some preliminary discussions. [More…]

• It was relatively simple for an election to be held; the Liberal and National Country Parties were returned; the same public servants were employed, and there was continuity. [More…]

• My honourable friend, the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson), referred to the unfortunate fact that this legislation was a consequence of the sloganeering indulged in by honourable members opposite during the last election campaign. [More…]

• Senators whose terms are due to expire in June 1978 wil hold office until the first House of Representatives election after the amendments take effect; [More…]

• Senators whose terms are due to expire in June 1981 will hold office until the second House of Representatives election after the amendments take effect. [More…]

• This doubt will be removed by the present proposal because under the new provisions a senator’s term of service will commence on the day of his election, rather than on the first day of July after the election as is at present provided in section 13 of the Constitution. [More…]

• The 10 day limit within which writs for Senate elections must be issued will be extended to 14 days to permit greater flexibility without unduly delaying the election; [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…]

• In accordance with the resolution passed at the Hoban meeting a person appointed as a replacement senator will hold office under the proposed amendment for the balance of the original senator’s term, instead of until the next House of Representatives or Senate election as at present. [More…]

• I refer to those friends of the Government who quietly pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into the Liberal Party and National Country Party coffers at every election. [More…]

• The situation will be similar in all States, including Western Australia, where an election will be held on Saturday. [More…]

• He took a letter, which was written by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) to State Premiers, as the basis of discussion for a new agreement, out of context and has attempted, for blatant political purposes connected with the Western Australian election, to totally misrepresent the Commonwealth Government’s position. [More…]

• A constructive approach ought to be adopted, not this political approach of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition who is seeking to make some capital before the next election. [More…]

• Let me mention the words of 3 State Labor members while they were campaigning in the last State election in New South Wales. [More…]

• He said that the election would be decided not on the political colour of candidates but on pledges to protect the area. [More…]

• I wonder whether the Western Australian election has anything to do with the Australian Labor Party’s interest in housing. [More…]

• The proposal was relevant when made by the Constitutional Review Committee in 1958 in the aftermath of the double dissolution in 1951, which produced separate elections for the Senate in 1953 and for the House of Representatives in 1954. [More…]

• After the Committee made its report the matter was given renewed relevance by the premature House of Representatives election in 1963. [More…]

• If this referendum is carried, instead of having 2 elections for this Parliament every 3 years there will be, as was originally intended, only one election for this Parliament every 3 years. [More…]

• The Constitution provides that the writs for a Senate election in each State shall be issued by the Governor of that State. [More…]

• Until 1974 Governors of the States had always issued writs for Senate elections in their States on a date requested of them by the Governor-General on the advice of the Prime Minister. [More…]

• There was every justification and every precedent for an election for half the Senate at the end of 1975. [More…]

• This was an instruction to non-Labor Premiers to advise their State Governors not to issue writs for an election of half the Senate if they were requested by the Governor-General to do so. [More…]

• From the time of the first Senate election State governments of every political complexion had automatically issued Senate writs as and when requested by the Federal government. [More…]

• Prime Minister Menzies called separate elections for half the Senate in 1953 and 1964. [More…]

• Those elections were held at a time chosen by the Federal government of the day. [More…]

• It is quite clear that it is possibleit has always been clear that it has been possible- for State governments to advise their Governors to issue writs for a Senate election at a time when the State governments see fit, irrespective of the views of the Federal government. [More…]

• The Constitution says that elections for the Senate can be held at any time within 12 months before the elected senators take office. [More…]

• To take the current situation, under the Constitution Senate elections could be held on any Saturday this July or at any time up to the end of June next year. [More…]

• The elections could be held on different Saturdays in every State. [More…]

• A State government may feel that the candidates of its party may not fare as well on the date proposed for a Senate election by the Federal Government via the Governor-General and the State Governor as they would fare on a later date and may therefore advise the State Governor to issue the writs for a later date. [More…]

• A State government may even feel that its party’s candidates may not secure a majority at any election before the time when the terms of retiring senators expire and may therefore not issue the writs at all and thus, as the Constitution permits, leave the positions vacant. [More…]

• The second Bill, the Constitution Alteration (Senate Casual Vacancies) Bill, is designed to write into the Constitution the principle that a casual Senate vacancy should be filled by a member of the same political party as the one to which the former senator belonged at the time of his election and for the balance of the term of the former senator. [More…]

• Here again this proposition was accepted by all seven governments in Australia as far back as 195 1 on the first occasion a casual vacancy occurred after proportional voting was introduced in the election of the Senate. [More…]

• It is also presented because, as I see it, there were matters which happened in 1975 which, if viewed in their context and if there had been no double dissolution Bills before the Houses of Parliament at that time, might well have put the Senate in a position where it could have forced the House of Representatives to an election without itself being required to do so. [More…]

• In other words, the simultaneous elections question which is now going to the people will ensure not that the powers of the Senate will be reduced in any way, but that they will be enhanced. [More…]

• Let me deal with some of the issues involved in simultaneous elections. [More…]

• I had the distinction at the Hoban Convention of moving a motion that there be simultaneous elections. [More…]

• It clearly shows that the Australian people are bedevilled by frequent elections. [More…]

• If this referendum is not passed we will have 4 elections within the next 5 years. [More…]

• It would cost some $4m or $5m per election with the people themselves well divided on that issue. [More…]

• Again, in a cynical fashion, one wonders whether this would be a primary concern of the Government at this stage if it was not aware of the fact that unless this is done it will face a halfSenate election in May 1978, some 6 months before it was due to go to the polls. [More…]

• The motivation of the people when they cast their votes for the election for a House of Representatives election in accordance with the policies expressed by political parties would also flow to the Senate candidates being elected at the same time. [More…]

• The Constitution, the law and Parliamentary practice each Prime Minister to have a House of Representatives election on the same day as any Senate election. [More…]

• Under section 13, if one wanted to get elections back into kilter one could put forward a phoney proposition to a tame and friendly Senate, which would reject it, and then one could ask for a double dissolution around the end of June and organise an election for the House of Representatives some time in July. [More…]

• At least by virtue of the referendum proposals we are now bringing before the Australian people they will know that if they elect a Liberal senator or a Labor senator at an election and that senator ceases to hold office for any purpose whatsoever during the ensuing period of his term of office, he will be replaced by a Liberal senator or a Labor senator as the case may be. [More…]

• I said to the Attorney-General earlier- I have considered the matter carefully and have reviewed the view that I previously took- that it was a pity, as I then thought, that the right of State Governors to fix the time for a Senate election was being taken from them. [More…]

• But it has been correctly pointed out to me that that in fact has to be done to give efficacy to the amendment and that, in any event, in respect of double dissolutions it will be the Governor-General of Australia and not the State Governors who will declare the time and the date for the appropriate Senate election in conjunction with that for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• That this Convention affirms the principle that a casual vacancy in the Senate, 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. [More…]

• The new senator supported the Government on some vital issues, such as the passage of Supply, but he voted against the Government on other important issues such as the redistribution for which given the results of the double dissolution election of 18 May 1974 the Government had a clear mandate. [More…]

• Let us take the example of a Party which splits some time after an election. [More…]

• A political party may choose to nominate as a candidate for appointment to the Senate someone whom it would not be prepared to put on its party ticket at an election because that party might know that the person whom they were nominating would not have public appeal and might in fact lose it votes if he had to face an election. [More…]

• The proposal concerning simultaneous elections is once again something that is eminently reasonable. [More…]

• The occasions when I get least enthusiasm from my own Party supporters- I am sure this is the experience of honourable members opposite- is when they have to get out and campaign for a Senate election only and not for their local member in the House of Representatives. [More…]

• For many years my Party has advocated simultaneous elections. [More…]

• It is wishing to avoid the necessity of facing an election for the retiring half of the Senate either later this year or early next year. [More…]

• The Government wants to avoid that like the plague because it knows that when that election is held, either late this year or early next year, it will be soundly defeated at the polls. [More…]

• If it has a half Senate election early in the period permitted for this type of election- that is, between July and December- it knows that it will be badly beaten. [More…]

• If the Government postpones the election until later in the first half of next year, which is the latest possible date on which it can hold an election for the retiring half of the Senate, the date for the half Senate election will be brought so close to the date when the House of Representatives is due to go to the electorate that, by virtue of the stupidity of not doing so before, it would be forced to have the House of Representatives go to the electorate at the same time. [More…]

• This would mean that a House of Representatives election would be held before June next year. [More…]

• The result of that election would be absolutely disastrous for the Government. [More…]

• I think that almost any person could lead the Labor Party to victory at the next election. [More…]

• I believe that much more important than simultaneous elections is the power of the Senate to refuse Supply or to reject money Bills. [More…]

• If that power were taken away there would not be the same need or urgency as there now is for simultaneous elections. [More…]

• In respect of the filling of vacancies, the Government is acting in the way it is now acting for the sole purpose of trying to prevent the election of Senator Brown at the next half Senate election because, as the Constitution now stands, it would be necessary for Victoria to elect 6 senators instead of five. [More…]

• One thing about the change concerning simultaneous elections that I like is that it will have a disciplinary effect on the Senate. [More…]

• The Senate will be in a position of knowing that, each time it refuses Supply or whenever it behaves in a way that causes the Government of the day to deem it proper to have an election, the retiring half of the Senate will have to face an election as well. [More…]

• If not, would the Parliament of Tasmania have the right to appoint as a successor to Senator Townley a representative from the party which had the largest number of votes at the election at which Senator Townley was elected? [More…]

• He spoke about the elections next year. [More…]

• It would not matter at all if the Government called for a half Senate election in May next year followed by a House of Representatives election in December. [More…]

• Moving on to the question of simultaneous elections, the reasons that elections should be held simultaneously are fairly obvious. [More…]

• People tend to become apathetic and if we have too many elections too often there is a tendency for the value of an election in the public mind to become somewhat debased through apathy. [More…]

• Originally it appears on a fair reading of the historical position that the elections were designed to be synchronised in any case. [More…]

• Although I understand the concern of persons who consider that it may be a derogation in some way of the power of the Senate the fact is that it was only a political accident in the early 1960s that removed the synchronisation and prevented simultaneous elections from proceeding as they had for quite some years before the early 1960s. [More…]

• I do not think that these rumblings will be seen by the people as substantial and I do not think there can be any really substantial argument advanced against the proposal to hold simultaneous elections. [More…]

• One effect of the present proposal will be that there will not be a situation in which one House can force another House to go to an election without the former itself having to face the people. [More…]

• I would go one step further: I think there is much to be said for federal elections taking place every 4 years in Australia. [More…]

• In England the normal period is 5 years but often an election is called on before that time has expired. [More…]

• The American federal experience of 4 years with mid-term 2-year elections seems to work reasonably well. [More…]

• Indeed, for the American presidential elections there is a specified day every 4 years upon which the election must be held. [More…]

• If we are to get long range planning into this country ‘s affairs, regardless of political matter, in my opinion it would be satisfactory to extend the period of elections to 4 years so that governments are not tempted to indulge in political activity for much of their term of office or act within the constraints of political circumstances most of their time but are able to devote more of their term to those functions of government which would produce a longer range benefit to the Australian community. [More…]

• That would also avoid the costs involved in holding various elections. [More…]

• It is obvious that these 3 Labor members who have spoken today are making a last ditch stand in a vain attempt to influence the State election in Western Australia. [More…]

• We all know that in a general election the question before the people is who will govern the country for the next period of years. [More…]

• Those of us who have participated in elections are also aware that in a Senate election people generally, say: Why the hell do we have to go out and vote on Saturday? [More…]

• I think that the argumentit is put usually by a minority, but a vocal minoritythat simultaneous elections diminish the power of the Senate, on the one hand is based on opportunism and, on the other, shows an inferiority complex. [More…]

• In almost all cases very few political leaders have shown any enthusiasm for single Senate elections at which people have been asked to vote for senators and which do not involve the election of a government. [More…]

• The result has been- the recent Senate election indicates this quite clearly- that people tend to vote for those people who put forward a point of view which is attractive but which would not attract their votes if the choice of a government depended on their decision. [More…]

• Single Senate elections are very much a by-election situation. [More…]

• In one recent Senate election an independent senator was elected from Western Australia on a platform to abolish estate duties. [More…]

• In Victoria a candidate received 20 per cent of the vote but his Party in a general election was able to achieve only between 9 per cent and 12 per cent of the vote. [More…]

• Another important reason should be advanced in favour of the referendum, namely, that this Parliament has been subject to a continual succession of elections over the years for the Senate and the House of Representatives to the extent that in the last 10 years there has hardly been a year in which some form of election for this Parliament has not taken place. [More…]

• It creates the unfortunate situation in which governments have to plan on a relatively short term basis those policies which may be unpopular because at the end of every year in recent times there has been an election or an election due early in the following year. [More…]

• If there were an election the vacancy would be filled on a single vacancy basis or would add to the number of vacancies which would normally occur and therefore distort the result of the election. [More…]

• It would not appoint the man who had run in the previous Senate election and who was nominated by the Party, but a senator from the Labor Party nominated by the Labor Party was ultimately appointed. [More…]

• He was subsequently subject to a single vacancy election at the next election. [More…]

• The Labor Party would normally win two out of the five seats in that State in a single vacancy election because it is in a minority. [More…]

• An election took place within about 6 months. [More…]

• It acts to the disadvantage of the Labor Party in this instance because in Victoria at an election due 6 senators would be elected, four of whom would be from the Liberal and National Country Parties. [More…]

• -Before the suspension of the sitting I was referring to the election between Senators Brown and Greenwood for a single Senate vacancy. [More…]

• Arising out of that and out of the death of Senator Cohen during that election, Senator Brown subsequently contested the election for senators at which six were elected. [More…]

• The person who finished behind him took the seat to which he had been appointed for 6 months, and he was out of the Parliament for a little over 6 months because he did well in the election. [More…]

• I do not think that there can be any doubt that the simultaneous elections proposition should be carried. [More…]

• I suggest that there is no evidence at all, and I hope that the present senators would support me, that they are m any way inferior or constitute in total an inferior Senate than those senators who were elected at single Senate elections in 1964, 1967 and 1970. [More…]

• As I said earlier, it is an opportunist argument, an argument designed to inflate egos and in some cases to advantage minorities, not to bring about a proper rational election of members to both Houses of this Parliament when the responsibilities of government and choosing government are upon the electors. [More…]

• Therefore, I shall say at the outset that I completely support the Bill to alter the Constitution so as to ensure that Senate elections are held at the same time as House of Representatives elections. [More…]

• For example, in the case of a Labor Party senator changing his Party affiliations, as did many Labor Party members in previous years who joined other parties such as the Democratic Labor Party, we would be courting a dangerous situation if we had to ensure that a casual vacancy was filled by a person of the Party to which the departing senator belonged at the time of the election. [More…]

• They were able to vote in the election of the then 6 South Australian senators. [More…]

• It is also the date of the first election held in 1947 in the Territory following the establishment at that time of the Northern Territory Legislative Council which, as all honourable members are aware, is still in existence today. [More…]

• If that proposal were adopted he would very smartly in the next general election rid himself of three of his colleagues. [More…]

• One should not oppose a change now because there is a little to be gained by forcing the Government to a Senate election next May or by being assured of a third Labor senator from Victoria. [More…]

• The cost of having Senate elections every 3 years would be way in excess of the $3m cited by Mr Knox. [More…]

• The cost of continuing separate Senate elections would go on ad infinitum. [More…]

• I do not know the cost of a Senate election but it would be at least as much as a referendum plus of course the many millions of dollars spent by political parties. [More…]

• One of the main matters raised by members is the fact that the Government, when in Opposition, opposed the simultaneous elections referendum. [More…]

• Honourable members will remember that in May 1974 those referenda were put to the people at a general election. [More…]

• The simultaneous elections referendum was part of a number of referenda. [More…]

• Two of the better referenda, namely, that relating to simultaneous elections and that relating to electors of the Territories being able to vote on referenda, were mixed up with others. [More…]

• Therefore, in an election atmosphere there was little chance of being able to put matters to the electorate, in a way that would have enabled it to appreciate properly the various referenda. [More…]

• I would suggest that the right time in which to hold a referendum is not at the time of a general election. [More…]

• These questions will be put in an atmosphere which is isolated from the heat of political battle that inevitably surrounds an election. [More…]

• I think also that the events of 1975 support the desirability of the simultaneous election proposal. [More…]

• Another matter that makes the simultaneous election proposal much more significant now is the fact that it was discussed and approved at the Australian Constitutional Convention in Hobart. [More…]

• I would like now to draw attention to an argument I put forward in my second reading speech, namely as to the savings that will be made if simultaneous elections are held. [More…]

• At current costs a half Senate election would cost $5. [More…]

• 5m and a House of Representatives election would cost $5m. [More…]

• A joint election for the House of Representatives and half of the Senate would cost $6m. [More…]

• Bearing in mind that we can anticipate at least 4 elections between 1978 and 198 1, obviously simultaneous elections would lead to a great deal of saving in public expenditure as well as in convenience to the public. [More…]

• I believe that in State elections people to a very large extent make judgments on the basis of State results, although I know from time to time that politicians sometimes seek to claim, when the result goes a certain way, that the election was fought on Federal or other issues. [More…]

• Basically I think the people of Australia can distinguish between a State election and a Federal election. [More…]

• The much vaunted claim of skill as economic managers of these people who were bom to rule has proved to be as empty as their election promises on so many issues. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), undeterred by an election promise to maintain Medibank, let his obsession with dismantling Labor’s programs run away with him. [More…]

• It appears to us in Government to be an exercise in posturing, with the honourable member for Adelaide, the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden), the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young), and the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating) jockeying for the position of Deputy Leader of the Opposition when it comes up for election in the next few months. [More…]

• In relation to introducing secret ballots for the election of union officials, Sir John Egerton says that it is no good having a secret ballot because Mr [More…]

• It was a matter of great debate during the previous general election. [More…]

• I believe that about SO per cent of trade unionists voted for us at the last election. [More…]

• The Government promised them at the last election. [More…]

• In its effort to win government at the next election the Australian Labor Party has adopted a policy that guarantees full employment at all levels. [More…]

• We know from the way they voted at the polls at the last general election that they are responsible people. [More…]

• I will be telling my constituents about it no matter which way they voted at the last election because one of the questions that I have been asked by people so often in my electorate in the past year is: ‘Why do you not somehow stop the unions prejudicing our jobs?’ [More…]

• Honourable members opposite are still infatuated with the result of the election of December 1975. [More…]

• Do we expect the trade union movement to interpret the Government’s reneging on its election promises in respect of Medibank as being conciliation? [More…]

• Can we expect the work force to interpret the Government’s reneging on its election promises on wage indexation as being other than an act of confrontation? [More…]

• The Court’s view was that this means that the number of members to be chosen in the several States must be determined in time for each ordinary general election and that such elections must be held in accordance with the entitlements so determined. [More…]

• However, the Court recognised that this mandatory principle would not apply in the case of elections other than ordinary general elections. [More…]

• However- and this is a most important point to note- in the case of an ordinary general election, if a State has not been divided into the appropriate number of divisions which accords with the determined representation entitlement, that ordinary general election will be conducted ‘at large ‘ for that State. [More…]

• The Representation Amendment Bill also provides that a determination of the representation entitlement of the several States will be made within 30 days of the Bill receiving Royal Assent and further that the next general election for the House of Representatives will be conducted on the basis of the representation entitlement as disclosed by that determination. [More…]

• Yet all that has come to fruition after all the promises of the halcyon days of the 1975 election campaign, when the Leader and the Deputy Leader of the National Country Party were running all over Australia making wild promises, is a States Grants (Beef Industry) Bill which provides $ 15m in carry-on loans. [More…]

• I think we should just recall for a moment what the Minister for Primary Industry said during the election campaign. [More…]

• As Minister for Primary Industry he went outside this country and put his own beef industry in to the Canadian officials who very quickly took the cue, as did the United States Department of Agriculture in an election year, and shoved the quotas back on. [More…]

• Later in the year the Prime Minister had the temerity, because the National Country Party was kicking at him, to write a dirty letter to Ford in the middle of an election year and asked Ford to go back on the quota decision, after Fraser had asked Ford to include in the communique that they had discussed beef when in fact they had not. [More…]

• Following the last election, it was my privilege to move from one small compact electoral division, the division of Wentworth, on the basis that it was less than well represented, into another small compact division, the division of Grayndler, there to give representation to the electors. [More…]

• If it were drafted to obtain an election at large to wipe out the National Country Party the Attorney-General could do so with the full support of honourable members who sit on this side of the House. [More…]

• We all know that if the general election in 1978 merely returns representation to normal, 20 Liberal members are going to leave this chamber. [More…]

• It is true that in this Bill we can no longer saythe High Court has made it plain that we cannot say- that there should be at the end of a full Parliament an election for a number of divisions which is not sanctioned by the provisions of the Constitution. [More…]

• The figures which I was given permission to incorporate in Hansard set out the enrolment in every division at the time of the first general election on the present distribution, that is, in October 1968. [More…]

• After the next election it will have five even better representatives. [More…]

• It was known that the population within that division was going to increase rather dramatically so they were able to place it some thousands of voters below the quota, knowing that even by the time of the next election, which was some year and a half later, the division would very nearly be back to the quota. [More…]

• Electoral boundaries, electoral redistributions and elections should give the people the opportunity to change government where they wish to have a change. [More…]

• A redistribution retains the illusion, whilst creating situations where the wishes of the people cannot be reflected in the results of an election. [More…]

• I am not sure that that would satisfy the Country Party and I think we would even have the threat of an election at large. [More…]

• -I am not sure of the number, but rules for an ‘at large’ election do not exist. [More…]

• I would hope there could be no situation in which such an election could take place because, no matter how it was conducted, it would be a distortion of the process by which this House is normally elected or expected to be elected. [More…]

• I do not believe it is proper that a redistribution should depend on it being acceptable to the party with the majority of votes at any given election. [More…]

• Following the McKinlay and McKellar cases, a new provision has been inserted in this legislation, and again I wish to quote the Minister’s words: if a State has not been divided into the appropriate number of divisions which accords with the determined representation entitlement, that ordinary general election Wu be conducted ‘at large’ for that State. [More…]

• What happens if there should be an autocratic, authoritarian government which decides that it will lose the next election, whips through a redistribution and stops what we call the democratic process. [More…]

• It won an overwhelming majority at the last election in 1976. [More…]

• At the last double dissolution election everyone said that the Labor Party had to achieve a 5:5 result. [More…]

• What could be done is simply to divide the States into electorates for the purpose of Senate elections. [More…]

• Finally I want to express my concern to the Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) about this question of the election at large. [More…]

• I understand that the Chief Australian Electoral Officer does not know what he would do if there were an election at large. [More…]

• I am also concerned at the possibility of an unscrupulous government at some stage or other deliberately deciding that it will not carry out a redistribution and have an election at large because it may benefit from it Let me give an example. [More…]

• Let us assume that we had narrowly missed out on achieving office and that the present Government was in power and it decided that if an election at large were held it could be assured, under proportional representationthis is what I assume an election at large would be because I cannot see any other way of doing it- of about 42 per cent to 45 per cent of the vote. [More…]

• So a government could decide not to carry out a redistribution in a particular State because it was assured of picking up 4 or 5 seats in an election at large. [More…]

• In the 2 High Court decisions to which I have referred, and after consideration of section 24 of the Constitution, the Court expressed the view that the words ‘whenever necessary’ which appear in section 24 mean that the number of members to be chosen in the several States must be determined in time for each ordinary general election and that such election must be held in accordance with the entitlements so determined. [More…]

• It is proper that the determining of electoral redistribution should be done in time for the next ordinary general election. [More…]

• I will face the electors of Denison at the next election on whatever boundaries are fixed. [More…]

• While the Government may justly claim a responsibility to legislate to cover the former, neither the High Court’s decisions nor the Government’s election rhetoric justify the latter. [More…]

• In the first of the two recently decided cases, Western Australia against the Commonwealth- it is known as McKinlay’s case and was decided in December in 1975- the High Court held that section 24 of the Constitution intended the calculations used for ascertaining the number of members must be made before each general election and therefore held that this required the latest statistics of the Commonwealth to be used. [More…]

• Let me make brief reference to an analysis of the last election figures. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that Labor actually won 64 868 more votes than the Liberal Party in the last election. [More…]

• The Opposition is also greatly concerned about the operation of clause 1 1 which adds a new section to take effect if a redistribution is not undertaken in accordance with the Commonwealth Electoral Act and provides for an election to be held at large. [More…]

• This clause does not provide any machinery under which such an election would be held. [More…]

• It is as plain as a pikestaff that if we have to reach that situation where an election at large is held we will see a first-class shemozzle in this country which will make a mockery of the democratic processes. [More…]

• If writs were written for an election of the House of Representatives before the Governor-General proclaimed divisions under proposed section 24, the election would have commenced as defined in 1905 by the High Court and it would seem that the new divisions could not be used. [More…]

• If the redistribution had occurred as a result of a change in the number of seats for a State, it would appear that an election at large for the State would be required for an ordinary general election, while in the case of a snap election the old boundaries would be used. [More…]

• Hopefully it will be always the practice that the GovernorGeneral makes the proclamation under proposed section 24 before the writs are issued if a redistribution has been approved by the Parliament prior to this election. [More…]

• The Opposition acknowledges the progress that has been made but it assures the people that electoral justice will only be completely accomplished when the Labor Government takes office after the next federal election. [More…]

• One has to move house to contest an election or even to seek preselection. [More…]

• We should look at Britain, where in the election following the redistribution in 1974 their constituencies ranged from 22 000 to 96 000 people, a differential of between 400 per cent and 500 per cent. [More…]

• Think of the House of Commons and the long battle to get decent elections for that place. [More…]

• I thought that as we were dealing with the Country Party and the system it likes to foster in political elections it might be worth while reminding its members that they are not the first people in history to indulge in trickery. [More…]

• An election was being held. [More…]

• The sheriff’s county court opened at the castle in Norwich, the customary place, on 7 March at about seven o’clock in the morning with about three thousand freeholders assembled for the election, most of them supporters of Rich. [More…]

• The high sheriff, who was already at Swaffham, proceeded to hold the election there in the presence of a few freeholders assembled for the purpose. [More…]

• Perhaps the extension of the 12 months provision for the new census figures to be issued should be complimented by a provision that the boundaries shall be redrawn 12 months before every election is due. [More…]

• He is a notably slow learner and we will be able to put him on our Hansard list after the next election. [More…]

• I hope that what has been fought by the National Country Party today is a rearguard action, that the concession made by the Liberal Party is a rearguard concession and that we will eventually come to the stage, not too far off, where Australian elections will be an example to the rest of the world as were the general principles of establishment of manhood suffrage, secret ballot and votes for women some three-quarters of a century ago. [More…]

• Nothing is dictated by the Constitution in relation to this but, at the same time, by the time an election is held after a redistribution it may well be found that the precise numbers upon which electorates have been divided up have changed because of population changes. [More…]

• But just to make it clear, despite the fact that the Executive can call for an earner redistribution if it wishes, the amendment is aimed to give stability and to make sure that people grow accustomed to their member and get to know him; that they are not confused by change at every election. [More…]

• The other provision that has been referred to is the addition of sections 25a to the Act, which relates to elections at large. [More…]

• Senator Withers, the Minister for Administrative Services in the other place, indicated that he was concerned about this matter and thought that the Electoral Act ought to contain specific provisions in order to deal with elections at large. [More…]

• In due course the Minister will bring forward measures to govern the provisions of proposed new section 25a, relating to elections at large. [More…]

• That is to deal with the unlikely event of such an election occurring. [More…]

• If it does occur in the meantime, it would seem that under the Constitution such an election would have to be held in a way which added up to the description ‘members directly chosen by the people of the Commonwealth’, as contained in section 24 of the Act. [More…]

• No doubt that election, which could be subject to State laws which might to some extent be applicable, would be prescribed by the Executive. [More…]

• Section 25a, one hopes, will be supplemented in the near future by provisions which will govern an election at large. [More…]

• Of course, the thought of an election at large is not something which fills any of us with any joy. [More…]

• This is nonsense about5000 square kilometres or an election at large if we cannot agree upon boundaries. [More…]

• I stand here and smile at the Liberal Party members who will be going back to their former occupations after the next election because they have subjected themselves to the whims of the National Country Party. [More…]

• Is the Government still committed to establishing the Productivity Commission and Productivity Study Centre which it undertook to establish during the last election campaign? [More…]

• That this House is of the opinion that the following question should be put to the citizens of Australia in a poll on the occasion of the next election for the House of Representatives: [More…]

• That a joint committee be established to inquire into and report upon the provision of proportionate subsidies by the Australian Government to political parties and candidates in Federal election campaigns and the disclosure of the amount and nature of assistance by corporations and individuals to these parties and candidates. [More…]

• -I thank the honourable member for Franklin for the question because he has been very vocal since his election to this House in expressing to the full knowledge of every one of us the plight that many of his constituents face in the fairly serious circumstances of the Tasmanian apple industry. [More…]

• If it had been put forward at the last election honourable members opposite would not have got within a cooee of being elected as a government. [More…]

• I sincerely trust that in seconding the Address-in-Reply in 1 977 1 am not destined for the electoral demise that my namesake experienced at the subsequent election. [More…]

• Assume that after an election the Government retains power in the House of Representatives but still faces a hostile Senate. [More…]

• The election has left my Government with a substantially larger majority in the House of Representatives but with a Senate in which the Government will by July not have a majority. [More…]

• Indeed, in the last election the coalition parties successfully ridiculed claims by the Labor Party that external factors had been a major contributing cause to the high level of inflation. [More…]

• Despite a good record in managing Australia’s post-war development, the Liberal and National Country Parties appeared to have stagnated after so long in office, and in the 1972 election they were not able to counter the appeal of a dynamic Labor leader, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam). [More…]

• During the election campaign the Labor Party had argued that its trade union links would enable it to negotiate more effectively with militant unions, but in Mr Whitlam ‘s first year strikes proliferated and 2 634 000 working days were lost- a 3 1 per cent increase over the previous year. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that the actions of 1975, over a period of some 6 or 7 weeks before the election date, were discussed in the Press, on the radio and on television and the people of Australia had their opportunity in December 1975, as the greatest tribunal in the nation, to make their judgment. [More…]

• This Government has now made it clear that it has no policy whatsoever and that it intends to bluff its way through to the next election with an attack upon the work force on the wages front as the only basis of its political survival. [More…]

• During the election period the main plank of the Government’s platform was to reduce inflation and unemployment. [More…]

• This was because the Fraser Government has been shown to be unable to honour the commitments that it made during that general election campaign. [More…]

• Take the rate of inflation as an example because this was a single solitary policy plank harped on by the Fraser Government during the general election campaign. [More…]

• If he wants to refer to the Medibank blip, it is a consequence of the wilful policy of the Prime Minister who, on an ideological basis, broke another specific election promise, upset the Medibank arrangements and imposed this cost upon the community. [More…]

• This will be the Government’s policy approach which it believes will carry it through successfully to the next general election. [More…]

• It will be very interesting to see the response of Canberra people in a few months time when the election for the local Legislative Assembly will be held. [More…]

• In all of them- in the election policy speech, in the Governor-General’s Speech a year ago, in the Budget Speech of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) 7 months ago and now in the Speech given to the Queen- we have had the same empty phrases, the same litany of specious promises and the same Liberal mixture of sloth, complacency and deceit. [More…]

• It would be unreal to expect a government which has broken all of its election pledges and promises to enter into a social contract. [More…]

• I think he was making his speech for a forthcoming election which he may have to contest. [More…]

• I think it is also fair to say that some of the talk that has been floated around about an early election is most likely designed to protect the back of a person who would feel insecure and who would not mind getting rid of a few back benchers who are likely to cause him problems. [More…]

• It came to office claiming that the election of a LiberalNational Country Party coalition would eliminate inflation and unemployment. [More…]

• In the election campaign the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), aided and abetted by a sycophantic media was able to get away with one of the most dishonest and deceitful campaigns in history. [More…]

• There has been something rather sad and a little pathetic about the speeches from Government supporters opposite in this AddressinReply debate, particularly the speeches by the fresh faced, identi-kit types who turned up in droves after the last election. [More…]

• Because of the way in which the present Government campaigned, telling the people of Australia that it alone had the answer to Australia’s economic problems- it raised the hopes of the majority of these people that its election to office would immediately start to put things right- it is now reaping the rewards of its dishonesty. [More…]

• It would be fair to say that nobody expected the Government to solve problems in 3 months or 6 months or even 9 months but people did expect some sign of improvement by the end of the year and no one, not even the Opposition, thought with the signs of an improvement in the world economic situation that things could get worse, even when one examined the outrageous contradictions that were evident in what the Prime Minister was saying in the election campaign. [More…]

• Contrary to the Government’s election pledge, payments to the States for roads were reduced by 12 per cent in real terms in 1976-77. [More…]

• Whitlam), seeking to run for re-election in his own Party, seeking to say anything that comes to the top of his head, to defame any person he can, to twist the truth in any way he can to justify his grasp at the straw in the hope that his former Government will be returned. [More…]

• It is absolutely vital that this Government, having won the next election as it will do, builds on the platform thereafter to develop this country again into the finest nation on earth. [More…]

• This is part of an approach which we have taken as a government to assist local government authorities, as part of the espoused policy of the Government, the federalist policy announced by the Prime Minister in the election campaign. [More…]

• The reason for this, as I pointed out before the election last year, is that it is important for us to have a United States government and a United States Congress in accord on foreign policy aims, broadly speaking. [More…]

• When I was in Israel I was able to meet and have talks with the communist mayor of Nazareth- a man who was elected in free elections but who is opposed to many of the things Israel has done, and he says so. [More…]

• The mayor of Nablus is a pro-PLO mayor elected in free elections. [More…]

• Israel allows the free election of people who oppose the government and people who say that they will destroy Israel. [More…]

• I think that one of the great pluses of the Whitlam era during the period leading up to the election of the Labor Government in 1972 and during the period of its term of office from 1972 to 1 975 was that we were able to get rid of the isolation of China. [More…]

• Of course upon the election of a Labor Government in 1972 there was recognition of China by Australia, and not that long after the admission of China to the United Nations, to the councils of the world. [More…]

• Might I say that as an Australian I was delighted at the election of President Carter and that in some small way we may have rendered some assistance to his election in that we were honoured to have in this country a few months ago a most distinguished American, Mr John Ryan, who was the overseas campaign director for President Carter. [More…]

• Before anybody jumps in and asks what Australians were doing becoming involved in the internal affairs of another country, let me say that I as an Australian, see nothing wrong in playing a pan, even if it is a small part, in one of the great exercises of democracy in the world- namely, the United States presidential election. [More…]

• Then you will not be a member after the next election. [More…]

• That principle is that the head of state must be able to dismiss a bad government and order an election. [More…]

• This power to dismiss a bad government and to call for elections is a major guarantee against dictatorship or one party government. [More…]

• There can be only one answer: Let the Government bring in a comprehensive plan for the rationalisation of the industry or this year let it agree to the Opposition’s proposal of $3 a box for apples and $1.40 a case for pears so that the growers will not be left on the poverty line, as the National Country Party and the Liberal Party would wish- subservient people, in their view, happy to take what is modestly handed out from Canberra in the hope that they will vote for those parties at the ensuing election. [More…]

• This time the growers can see that they are being treated in the same way this year as they were last year and that all the election promises made throughout 1975 will not be fulfilled. [More…]

• In his election policy speech on 27 November 1975 the Prime Minister said that the principal objectives of overriding concern to the Liberal-National Country Party Government would be to create new jobs and control inflation. [More…]

• The Prime Minister said in his election policy speech: [More…]

• That is what it is 14 or 15 months after the election of a Liberal-National Country Party Government. [More…]

• What do they do if they know they cannot win an election? [More…]

• There is no guarantee of the right of a majority to prevail at an election. [More…]

• I point out that under the redistribution which was implemented by the Liberal and Country Parties in 1968 the Labor Party went to the polls in 1972 and won the election with 49 per cent of the vote. [More…]

• that this House deplores the hypocritical attempts by the Opposition to make cheap political capital out of the problems facing those engaged in the apple and pear export industry and recalls that the Opposition, when in Government, betrayed the fruit growers of Australia by failing to give the industry the support and assistance which it had pledged in the election campaign prior to December 1 972. [More…]

• I saw the fruit growers of the Huon go to the polling booths in December 1 972 and vote for the Labor Party because they believed that the Labor Party would do something for them, but within 12 months they were betrayed and every conceivable promise put forward on behalf of the Labor Party in that election campaign was dishonoured. [More…]

• The point is that the King acted upon advice from his Government and imposed his view that this would be done only if the Lords were still resistant after a second general election returned the Liberal Government. [More…]

• At the following election in 1935, the number of Labour Party members was reduced from 258 to 52. [More…]

• I will defend in normal circumstances the right of any government of the day to dictate the date of an election, but in our case a deadlock existed. [More…]

• It was our Constitution which forced the Governor-General to take the decision he took- to allow every free man and woman of sane mind an opportunity to decide that issue by way of a democratic election. [More…]

• One cannot blame the present Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) for holding out in the hope that the then Opposition senators would abandon their stand, but in retrospect even the most politically biased must admit his proposal for a half-Senate election would have simply served to prolong the national crisis and agony. [More…]

• In the French Republic the President, crowned by popular election and no doubt expecting deference, enjoys the normal prerogatives of a head of State. [More…]

• It seems to me that we come into this chamberhonourable members may disagree- and rather than conduct a reasoned give and take debate we tend to play at party games which we think will enhance the position of our party for the forthcoming election. [More…]

• If the Government’s overall economic strategy is for economic stagnation, then that is a truthful statement, but the Government has not yet admitted that its strategy is to maintain stagnation in this country for all of 1977 as well as 1976 and as well as part of 1978 in order to time the turnaround for the next Federal election. [More…]

• It took the election of a Labor government to discover Asia. [More…]

• Is it because this old boy network are those who finance the conservative parties’ election funds? [More…]

• Information as to the provisions in the rules of the four Western Australian Health benefits organisations concerning election rights of contributors was available from Departmental sources. [More…]

• and (4) Information relating to election provisions in the remaining 79 organisations throughout Australia is, in the main, available from Departmental sources (i.e. [More…]

• In view of his address to the Victorian State Council of the Liberal Party in which he foreshadowed further reductions in expenditure on health and welfare services in this year’s Budget, I ask: Will he assure the House that the Government will not restore the means test on pensions for persons over the age of 70 years or reintroduce university fees and loans in breach of the 1975 election commitments? [More…]

• 1 gave a reply yesterday on the regulations, now gazetted, relating to notification to the Industrial Registrar of forward election dates. [More…]

• As I indicated yesterday, the Industrial Registrar must be notified by 1 September of elections which will be held in the succeeding calendar year, that is, from 1 January in the next year. [More…]

• If the union rules provide for elections to be held, for example, between September and December, those elections will not comply with the regulations as gazetted. [More…]

• lt is my understanding that in circumstances like this the legislation provides enough discretion to the Registrar to enable him to advise a union that, if its rules state that the financial membership starts at a certain date and that nominations for elections must be on a certain date, the relevant elections would have to be held in the first half of the succeeding year. [More…]

• The policy prior to the last election was that we would retain but modify Medibank. [More…]

• It is interesting in this context to note that the Liberal and National Country Parties’ joint platform for the last election included a proposal on foreign policy to attempt to tie even aid given through the Asian Development Bank to interests of this country. [More…]

• When the people of Australia at an election brought on by a great Australian, Sir John Kerr, passed judgment on the Labor Party in 1975 and floored it for the full count after 3 short years, unemployment was 328 000 or 5.4 per cent of the work force. [More…]

• It was promised in the 1975 election campaign. [More…]

• The people know, as the gallup polls show, that this Government has failed to live up to its promises to turn on the lights- that well known phrase which it exploited during the last election. [More…]

• They can do something in the short period of time that they have left in this House as members of Parliament because I am afraid that most of them will not be here after the next election. [More…]

• Prior to the election this Government said that it would not interfere with indexation. [More…]

• Prior to the election in 1975 the present Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) who was then the shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs sent telegrams to the various Aboriginal communities throughout Australia saying that they had nothing to worry about if a Liberal Government were elected to power. [More…]

• There was a storm of protest, firstly when the legislation was introduced by the Labor Party in great haste prior to the 1975 Federal election and later during the framing of the legislation, as in part passed, and more recently when the complementary legislation was introduced by the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• I am hearing from one of the prime examples of the flotsam that came in at the last election, who is spouting again the slogans on which they were elected. [More…]

• It will be of no satisfaction to anybody on this side of the House to know that many of them will disappear after the next election but that will not be good enough. [More…]

• It naturally follows that I shall not be presenting myself as a candidate for the Liberal Party of Australia in the division of Hotham at the next House of Representatives election. [More…]

• The honourable member for Berowra mentioned proudly that the Government had not mutilated the Prices Justification Tribunal in spite of the promises in its election program to do so. [More…]

• The Committee was reconstituted as the Tenth Committee, following that election. [More…]

• Following the election in December 1975 the Committee was reconstituted as the Eleventh Committee. [More…]

• The Labor Government threw fear into them before the 1975 election. [More…]

• Since I addressed your last conference a year ago we have seen the election of a Labor Government in New South Wales and a steady decline in the standing and support of the Fraser Government in Canberra. [More…]

• Few people were giving us much chance of an early recovery; fewer still would have given us any chance at all of winning the next federal election. [More…]

• On the support of women and the efforts of women in the party depends the outcome of the next election. [More…]

• I see it as protecting the wishes of the electors of a particular State as they were expressed at the previous election or on a previous occasion. [More…]

• How are we to know to what exalted position he will be elevated by a Prime Minister intent on finding jobs for his boys before the next election or the next coup in the party room of the Liberal Party? [More…]

• So there again we have an expression of what is essential to human beings in the sense of having representation in a democracy by way of election to the Houses of Parliament. [More…]

• If those challenges are successful, irrespective of what the decision of the Australian people is on 2 1 May- we would hope it would be a decision giving the people of the Territories a right to vote in future referendums- it would be null and void for the very reason that section 128 only gives to the electors in the States- we seek to interpose there the words ‘and the Territories’- the right to vote in a referendum in the same context as they would have the right to vote for the election of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• In his 1963 election speech the then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, foreshadowed the establishment of an independent national roads authority. [More…]

• The Fraser Government has done nothing to honour the promises given before December 1975 during the election campaign. [More…]

• Has the honourable gentleman seen a report that a law lecturer in Western Australia is of the opinion that the complement of the New South Wales and South Australian members to this House was unconstitutionally elected at the general election and that he is proposing to ask the High Court to declare those members’ election void and to order new elections in those States in elections to be held at large? [More…]

• This Government made an election promise not to destroy Medibank. [More…]

• The thing that I learnt was that after the next general election, whenever it may be, there will be another doctor in the [More…]

• I think one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century is that this incompetent Government is seeking excuses for its unwillingness or inability to carry out the pre-election promises it made in 1975. [More…]

• It only made sense to review the matter when the Government came into office because, although an earlier decision had been made by the previous Administration, no attempt had been made to process that decision or refer the matter to the Public Works Committee up to the time of the 1975 election. [More…]

• An election interrupted the procedures. [More…]

• The coalition’s policy statement on international development assistance, issued before the last election, contained this promise: [More…]

• In the foreign policy statement of the Liberal and National Country Parties prior to the 1975 election it was stated that a Liberal-National Country Party government ‘would encourage direct investment by the Australian private sector preferably on a joint venture basis’ as part of its aid program. [More…]

• The Government’s employment and industrial relations policy was put before the Australian people prior to the election in 1975. [More…]

• In a similar way, the Bureau will be used in the preliminary stages of enquiries into irregularities in election ballots. [More…]

• At the time of the election in December 1975 the conscience of the people of Australia had been pricked by the situation in the developing countries. [More…]

• When one looks at the figures on overseas aid, it is important to look back a little before 1 972, when we became a government, to see the extent to which one can place any credence on the words the Government expressed during the election campaign in December 1975. [More…]

• The decision to abolish the aid agency was taken within a few months of the election of the current Government. [More…]

• Soon after the 1975 election, a small and highly qualified advisory group was formed to advise me on the role of a permanent science and technology council. [More…]

• Did not the Liberal and National Country parties fight and win an election only 16 months ago on a policy of terminating the life of the Prices Justification Tribunal? [More…]

• Indeed, the general secretary of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party, Mr Jim Carlton, in an article in the Sydney Morning Herald of 18 April last, denied the Sunday newspaper report that money had disappeared from the Party’s election campaign fund for the Phillip electorate. [More…]

• Under the regime of Sir Thomas Playford it was impossible for the Labor Party to win an election. [More…]

• Today the whole State of South Australia comprises the electorate which, at each State election, elects 1 1 members of the Legislative Council. [More…]

• But as I said earlier, what the Opposition is really attacking is the whole concept of federalism, a concept which was a major plank in the 1975 election campaign when the Liberal and National Country parties won an overwhelming verdict of support from the Australian people. [More…]

• My reason for rising is really based upon the Indian election results. [More…]

• I do not intend to comment on whether the group of parties that won the election is any better than the Congress Party that was in power before the election. [More…]

• The only thing that I think is important about the Indian election result as far as we in this Parliament are concerned is that for some reason or other many people claim that the citizens in the poorer countries- in the undeveloped nationsare interested only in food and not in freedom. [More…]

• The Indian elections have quite clearly shown that people who are given the choice are interested in freedom. [More…]

• If honourable members were to look at the particular electorate represented by the Minister of Justice in the previous Government, who introduced the legislation which restricted freedom under the previous Government, although admittedly only temporarily, they would find that he was defeated by a lawyer in exile, who was unable to campaign, who had to leave the country but yet received an overwhelming majority in the election. [More…]

• Obviously India also did so, even under the previous Government when it called an election. [More…]

• It has refused to carry out its own election promise to introduce work relief programs such as previous Liberal-Country Party governments introduced in periods of much lower unemployment. [More…]

• In footwear there was an increase in employment from 12 800 to 14 800, which reflected a mark of confidence in the election of the Government of which I am a supporter. [More…]

• That is what was said about tax indexation in the Liberal Party policy speech for the last election. [More…]

• A lot of promises seem to be made at election time, but once the Government has won the people’s problems are dismissed out of hand. [More…]

• Labor also needs funds to enable it to play an effective part in a democratic two-party system, at election time and between elections. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, relates to the recent general election in India. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: With the defeat of the ruling Congress Party at the recent general election in India, does the Government anticipate an improved relationship with that country? [More…]

• -The impressive demonstration in the recent election in India of that country’s firm commitment to democracy has been widely and favourably commented upon in [More…]

• We believe very strongly that the proper democratic forum- that is, the election of people at elections- is the way in which to see who ought to govern and the nature of the opposition itself. [More…]

• When he pretends to act as President of the ACTU as opposed to acting as the President of the Labor Party, this Government is justified in believing that he is acting as the President of the Labor Party, committed to the political destruction of this Government; that he is ignoring the interests of the trade union movement whose interests are not the interests of the parliamentary Opposition in this Parliament; that he is ignoring the interests of 40 per cent of trade union members who vote Liberal Party or National Country Party at elections and who certainly did so at the last election. [More…]

• However, one of the greatest organised objections to the Australian Labor Party in the last election was on the part of employees of insurance companies. [More…]

• In its education platform at the last election the Government said that it would have a close look at that and that it felt there was a lot of merit in the distinctive programs of each of the commissions. [More…]

• I believe that the bulk of the people of this country will recognise that fact and that it Will be demonstrated at the next Federal election. [More…]

• Discussions have been initiated with the producer bodies as to the manner in which the election of those producer representatives should take place. [More…]

• I should have thought that members of the Opposition had learned that lesson only too well in the December 1975 election. [More…]

• There will be no royal commissions or inquiries into the activities of the previous Government throughout the period of the election campaign. [More…]

• Since my election a large number of new settlers have made various complaints to me regarding the purchase of homes on terms contracts. [More…]

• The subject summonses are in breach of the announcement of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to this House on 11 November 1975 of an undertaking required by the GovernorGeneral that there would be no inquiry into the affairs of the former Administration during the election campaign. [More…]

• The remainder of the community’s rights are restricted to voting once every 3 years or as often as an election occurs. [More…]

• He said that it has always been the view of his Government and the Government Parties that democratic opposition must operate within the parliamentary forum in the proper democratic manner, that his Government does not believe that politics ought to be taken to the streets, as do quite a number of people on the Opposition benches of the House and as they practised on a previous occasion, and that the Government believes very strongly that the proper democratic forum- that is, the election of people at elections- is the way in which to see who ought to govern and the nature of the opposition itself. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has led along those who support him in this place because of the overwhelming majority that he received in this place, not on votes, in the last general election. [More…]

• A number of his supporters are now in such a delicate position that one of these days they will have to make a decision as to whether they can win an election with him or without him. [More…]

• Some of those areas were fairly clearly undertaken to be continued by the present Government during the period leading up to the 1975 election and during the election campaign. [More…]

• I suppose the next great policy, apart from moving away from support of full indexation which the Government promised at the last election, was the revamping of Medibank. [More…]

• Thus if the Liberal Party wins in a general election, he will become Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• In order to win a general election, it was sufficient to have only three per cent. [More…]

• The Opposition parties wanted to force an early general election this year (November, 1975) or next year. [More…]

• He personally, along with John Malcolm Fraser, (candidate for PM) really wanted to see the three-year term fulfilled, not to force a general election by rejecting the Supply Bill in the Senate but he felt his Party would be forced to agree to bringing on a general election because pressure was already strong enough (nine out of eleven members of the Shadow Cabinet agreed with the bringing on of an election ). [More…]

• PM Whitlam will not agree to a double dissolution or to hold a general election, but also does not want to work. [More…]

• What can happen is: John Malcolm Fraser is appointed PM, a minute later he asks the Governor-General to dissolve Parliament and the Senate, following which a general election is to be held. [More…]

• This was one area in which, after an initial reluctance to change a policy during the period of the caretaker government, we nevertheless determined to do so even before the election. [More…]

• We voted against Indonesia in the Fourth Committee of the General Assembly before election day. [More…]

• In the 1972 election campaign, Prime Minister McMahon gave a commitment that there would be an immediate expenditure of $lm for 1973-74 if the Government was returned to office. [More…]

• During the course of the Election campaign, they - including the honourable member for Lilley- [More…]

• They made all kinds of promises and undertakings in the 1975 election campaign. [More…]

• That is a very grave portent for the Government side of the House if an election comes along by 1978 and the figures are still rising. [More…]

• Perhaps what the Prime Minister wants to see- I believe he wants to see it- is a confrontation with the unions leading to strikes and demonstrations, thus allowing him to seek reelection on a law and order platform rather than his Government’s economic mismanagement and self-interest. [More…]

• There have been reports over the weekend- I think there could be some truth in them- that if the Government is unsuccessful in its referendum proposal seeking a change in the constitution to provide for simultaneous elections it might rush into an election and defer the Budget, in effect putting its finger in the water. [More…]

• Prior to that the Treasurer had sent shudders of shock and horror through most Australians with announcements of the abandonment of programmed cutbacks in funds and a reversal of election promises. [More…]

• We can all recall the declared objectives of the Fraser Opposition at the time of the last election. [More…]

• Ever)’ one of these significant promises made at election time Ibr the purpose of inveigling the Liberal-National Country Parties into office has been broken. [More…]

• The people should recall that if they get the opportunity to vote in an early Senate election. [More…]

• When this failed, the Prime Minister exhorted the nation to spend forgetting that the reversal of his election pledge to support wage indexation had meant that most Australians could not longer keep up with cost increases, let alone spend more. [More…]

• In the period of an election we had the circumstance of 2 strange characters coming here from Iraq, going to meetings with the present Leader of the Opposition at Blues Point Towers on- what was it- one occasion or 2 occasions; Mr David Coombe also being involved; these people staying in strange places in Sydney; and undercover arrangements being made to collect funds amounting to- what was it meant to be- half a million dollars. [More…]

• Dougherty, which is tantamount to election in the AWU. [More…]

• I would like to deal with some of the points made, apparently seriously, by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) who seems to lurch from absurdity to absurdity in his desperate search for left wing votes for the forthcoming Labor Party leadership election. [More…]

• There have been changes since the last election. [More…]

• I would submit that it is a significant measure of company tax reform- a major measure, introduced in accordance with the Government’s election undertaking to offset the impact of inflation on the taxation of company profits. [More…]

• This Government is not ignoring those recommendations; hence this trading stock valuation adjustment in clause 8 of the Income Tax Assessment Amendment Bill which gives effect to the first stage of implementing the recommendations of the Mathews Committee and the election undertaking, in this respect, of this Government. [More…]

• The increase in inflation in my electorate alone has been almost 30 per cent since the date of the last election- all caused by the policies of this Government. [More…]

• They have not decreased unemployment and have had no effect upon inflation itself; in other words, they have not enabled the Government to succeed in implementing the policies with regard to 2 major promises which it made at the last general election. [More…]

• Despite all its election promises the Government has succeeded in doing the following: Firstly, closing down the North Australian Railway; secondly, setting a course to reduce substantially the operations of the Tasmanian railway system; thirdly, frozen construction of the Adelaide-Crystal Brook standardisation project; fourthly, slowed the rate of construction of the Tarcoola-Alice Springs rail link by reducing the funds sought by the Commission for construction this year; fifthly, cancelled the second rolling stock program of 800 wagons which would have given a much needed lift to rolling stock manufacturers and the heavy engineering industry as a whole as well as providing much needed rail wagons. [More…]

• Will he consider either appointing a joint select committee of this Parliament to report to this Parliament on the desirability of introducing legislation to require political parties to declare to the Parliament each year donations over a certain amount, or alternatively appointing a high level committee outside the Parliament to report to the Parliament on the desirability of legislation being introduced for the election expenses of all parties to be limited to a certain amount and for those amounts to be appropriated by the Parliament, as is done in the United States of America? [More…]

• There is no contest as to the validity of his election but there is contest whether he is entitled to remain here. [More…]

• Until the Parliament otherwise provides, any question respecting the qualification of a Senator or of a member of the House of Representatives, or respecting a vacancy in either House of the Parliament, and any question of a disputed election to either House, shall be determined by the House in which the question arises. [More…]

• That this House is of the opinion that the following question should be put to the citizens of Australia in a poll on the occasion of the next election for the House of Representatives: ‘Do you approve of industrial action by way of strikes or work bans being carried out by certain sections of the [More…]

• An election for the House of Representatives is due to be held in 1978 or 1979. [More…]

• At the same time as the next election for the House of Representatives a referendum should be held on the question. [More…]

• They think that by winning a popularity poll at election time it leaves them with the sole responsibility of managing this country. [More…]

• It is notorious for the last polls it took in 1972, the last of which showed that the coalition partnersthe Liberal Party and the Country Partywere going to win the election that was due to be held. [More…]

• The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation has been blamed for a Watergate-style break-in at the Labor Party ‘s national headquarters in Canberra just after the 1 975 election. [More…]

• The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation has been blamed for a Watergate-style break-in at the Labor Party’s national headquarters in Canberra just after the 1 975 election. [More…]

• I watched and admired Governor Carter throughout his presidential campaign and I told Mr Cyrus Vance in the Australian Ambassador’s New York residence of my fervent hope that he would win that election. [More…]

• One of those proposals, for the filling of casual vacancies in the Senate, is a vitally important and far-reaching proposal which I believe will serve well this Parliament, the Senate and also the electors in States, because for all time now the wishes of people as expressed in a State will be protected until they alter their view at some subsequent Senate election. [More…]

• He was one of the few men who had the good sense or political nous to detect the very fine trend in American public opinion which eventually resulted in the election of President Carter. [More…]

• Not only did our Minister for Foreign Affairs accurately predict the outcome of the presidential election but also he had the acute good sense to invite to the Australian Ambassador’s residence for an official dinner the man he predicted would become the Secretary of State to the new President. [More…]

• -I take the opportunity on the presentation of this report of congratulating the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) on his election, which I might say has received all too little recognition in this country. [More…]

• In keeping with the policy statement made by the coalition parties at the last election, the HLIC will be able to underwrite a higher percentage of a mortgage. [More…]

• The homes savings grant scheme, for instance, was a commitment at the last election. [More…]

• It was a shot in the dark by the Government in pursuance of its policy stated at the 1975 election and it would have presented more problems for the Commission than the Government realised. [More…]

• The danger with a short term for this House is that governments will be reluctant to put forward long term policies that they know to be right, because of the imminence of an election. [More…]

• The situation is made much worse if the already too short interval between elections is further shortened by a separate intermediate Senate election. [More…]

• The suggestion that under the present system elections could be kept in line by shortening the term of the House begs the question, for it offers the problem as a solution. [More…]

• Perhaps even more serious is the fact that, under the Constitution as it stands, the Senate by blocking Supply can force this House into an election without itself facing the electors, unless the Senate has separately given grounds for a double dissolution. [More…]

• Secondly, if the Senate, by blocking Supply, forced an election on this House, only half the Senate would have to face the electors. [More…]

• All that is needed is to have a constitutional provision that if a government cannot be formed in the House there should be an election. [More…]

• Examples of this deliberate and severe provocation of the trade union movement by the Fraser Government, such as in relation to section 45d of the Trade Practices Act, since its election to office in 1975 are prolific. [More…]

• Other examples of union provocation have been: The Fraser Government’s assault on the trade union training scheme; its interference with union elections; and its contemptible disregard for the ever increasing number of unemployed. [More…]

• Regulation 146AQ provides that each candidate for election may appoint to be a scrutineer a person who is eligible under the rules of the organisation to be a scrutineer. [More…]

• Finally, can the Treasurer say how Australia is to achieve an economic recovery in employment creating industries if the Government’s failure to implement election promises both on tax indexation and wage indexation has the effect of reducing real incomes? [More…]

• Stung by the public’s outrage at this breach of election promises to Aborigines, the Government resorted to a diversionary tactic. [More…]

• Politicians, including myself, during election campaigns give a fair bit of lip service and plenty of promises. [More…]

• Before the last election the coalition parties released an election manifesto entitled ‘Immigration and Ethnic Affairs Policy’ which stated that an understanding of the language, presumably English, was the most serious prob.em to face many migrants. [More…]

• So, this great document was a facade in the deception of the community, in particular the migrants, prior to the last election. [More…]

• He says it has nothing to do with him but it is spelt out chapter and verse in the document which was used to pull the wool over migrants’ eyes in the election campaign. [More…]

• We saw further evidence of the dispute between Western Australia and this Government last Saturday when, as a result of the efforts of Sir Charles Court, the Prime Minister was denied his most desperate need- an extra 6 months before the next Senate election must be held. [More…]

• The colleagues of honourable members opposite are seeking election and re-election at the State level on the grounds that they will try for special grants from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• Some delegates at the conference vote as a bloc and prevent expression of alternative moderate views, even if some moderates have been successful in achieving election as delegates. [More…]

• According to the rules it lived by in Opposition, it should be ready now to face the people at an election. [More…]

• In May 1974 Labor was forced to an election because the conservative Parties judged its economic performance to be inadequate. [More…]

• In December 1975, 18 months later, Labor was again forced to an election- again half way through a normal parliamentary term. [More…]

• Let it face an election on them. [More…]

• Government should be forced to an election. [More…]

• I can imagine the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) entering the next election campaign and telling the electors: ‘My Government has been unable to solve the problem of inflation, we have caused unemployment to rise substantially but you must vote for us because we have cut public expenditure and we have cut the deficit’. [More…]

• His election campaign speech contained an assurance that the deficit would be reduced by achieving high levels of economic growth. [More…]

• That is clearly borne out in a number of legal decisions, particularly the Federated Ironworkers Association case where provisions relating to the election of office bearers were challenged. [More…]

• I do not know for the life of me why the Government wants the Bureau to be independent unless the Government intends to appoint someone who through his independence will be able to continue to follow Liberal Party philosophy after the Liberal Party loses the next election. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite should not laugh because they will lose the next election and it is important to us that the activities of the Arbitration Inspectorate, which will be taken over by the Bureau, will be subject to the policy decisions of the new Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]

• The Government’s credibility has been shattered time and again since its election to office. [More…]

• They have to keep certain records of union elections. [More…]

• Ballot papers have to be retained for a year after an election has been held. [More…]

• Membership of the NAC will be open to any Aboriginal over the age of 18 years who has been a permanent resident of the area in which he stands for election for a period of more than six months. [More…]

• Casual vacancies arising from action taken under paragraph 15 or from death of a member, will be filled by election or other means approved by the Minister after consultation with the relevant State Branch. [More…]

• The definition of NAC areas for the purposes of conducting an election will be as approved by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and any amendments to area boundaries will also require the approval of the Minister. [More…]

• I left untouched the rule which gave the women, as well as the men, a vote in the annual election of the Chief Magistrate. [More…]

• One after another, election promises have fluttered to the ground like withered leaves. [More…]

• We need to recall how the nation was forced to an unnecessary election in April 1974 by the unprecedented deferral of the passage of the Supply Bills at that time by the conservative majority in the Senate. [More…]

• They are asking the Government only to adopt its own 1975 election policy promises. [More…]

• When he returns to civilian life at the next election in 1978 he will be a far better barrister than he has been a politician. [More…]

• In the Opposition’s view, it is simply another device which the Government has introduced and which reneges on an election promise. [More…]

• That was a great pity, because that promise contained virtually the only piece of rationality about the deficit mentioned by the conservatives in that election campaign. [More…]

• This was not a vague election promise. [More…]

• The Government, I assert, has deceived not only the Australian people at election time and subsequently, but also the Bench on that occasion. [More…]

• The Opposition was going to oppose this Bill on the grounds that it involved the breaking of an election promise and that it would militate against economic recovery. [More…]

• It was only after the election, when the coalition Parties were put on the government benches, that on 10 February 1976 the Government announced restoration of the bounty. [More…]

• Prevarication and procastination have marked the Government’s approach to primary industry matters since its election. [More…]

• No wonder beef farmers are predicting that the Government could lose 13 seats in rural areas at the next election. [More…]

• I suggest to the dairy industry that once the new arrangement is working satisfactorily it should look at the direct election and accountability mechanisms in the consultative committees which will be there to support the new Meat and Live-stock Corporation; in other words, a further degree of accountability back to the 2 major sectors of the dairy industry- the producers and the manufacturers. [More…]

• This gives a further lie to the election promises made by the National Country Party in November 1975 when it said a system of meat classification would be introduced after consultation with the Australian Meat Board and the industry. [More…]

• Although the Government in its election policy promised the introduction of a classification scheme, it has not publicly urged the Board to proceed with more speed. [More…]

• The latter two organisations obviously oppose election because they would be outnumbered by representatives from the other organisations. [More…]

• The Opposition seeks a clear statement from the Minister on whether he proposes that election to the producer groups will be along the same lines as current elections of members to the Australian Wool Industry Conference or by direct election by livestock producers. [More…]

• If the Minister proposes direct election by producers, we seek a statement on the proposed sheep, lamb, cattle, goat equivalent for the purpose of determining a common basis on which to determine an eligibility qualification. [More…]

• The intention is to hold an election in all States and the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Whether he showed good judgment or not we will be able to tell at the next election. [More…]

• We remember that before the last election the Australian Labor Party was inserting a similar blanket clause in so many Acts relating to so many fields of endeavour in Australia because of its aim to gain more power. [More…]

• If he proposes to have direct election from producers, what does he propose for the sheep, cattle and goat equivalent which should form the common basis in determining voting qualifications? [More…]

• If he proposes direct election, would voting be on a one man, one vote basis or on a multiple voting basis? [More…]

• If the Minister decides against direct election by producers and appoints members of the group nominated by existing organisations, from which organisations will he make selections? [More…]

• There is certainly some division of view as to the best manner of appointment or election. [More…]

• We will see who was right when the election is held. [More…]

• Under an amendment made in clause 6 of the Bill as passed by this house, such an election may be made only where the market value of the trading stock is greater than the cost or replacement price adopted by the former owner or owners in their income tax returns. [More…]

• The amendments to the Bill made by the Senate on the motion of the Government will preclude an election being made under the section in respect of transfers of interests in trading stock comprising company shares and securities or other choses in action. [More…]

• The amendments will not, however, withdraw any rights to lodge elections under section 36A in relation to transfers of interests in such property if it is established that the transfers took place before 24 May 1977, the day on which the amendments were foreshadowed in the Senate. [More…]

• Whether you are an idividual, a company, a trust you can still benefit by belonging to a partnership using a section 36a election. [More…]

• Election Statistics- Senate Election and General Election of Members of the House of Representatives, 13 December 1975: Australian Capital Territory/Northern Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia ( 10 copies). [More…]

• I stress, at the outset, that the legislation I now introduce fulfils a fundamental policy commitment put by the Liberal and National Country Parties to the Australian community and overwhelmingly endorsed at the December 1975 election. [More…]

• Yet here is the Labor Party’s 1975 election policy. [More…]

• 1 ) How much time was made available to broadcast election speeches or political advertisements in respect of each political party on each radio broadcasting station and television station in connection with the State elections in Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania in 1976 and in Western Australia in 1 977. [More…]

• Did he say in answer to a question on 26 April 1977 that it has always been the view of his Government and of the Government Parties that democratic opposition must operate within the parliamentary forum in the proper democratic manner, that his Government does not believe that politics ought to be taken to the streets, as do quite a number of people on the Opposition benches of the House and as they practised on a previous occasion, and that the Government believes very strongly that the proper democratic forum- that is, the election of people at elections-is the way in which to see who ought to govern and the nature of the opposition itself. [More…]

• Union bashing may be all very well for election purposes but its real danger is that it thoroughly confuses the reality of industrial relations in this country and contributes to disharmony and lost production. [More…]

• Have any organisations conducted an election or ballot for any office since the date upon which the Industrial Registrar made his decision with respect to each application; if so, what organisations, and for what offices. [More…]

• In view of the speculation about an early election, can the Prime Minister inform the House whether he has had any discussions with the Governor-General about an election? [More…]

• If the election of the new Israeli Government means that there has been a move to the Right in that country, reflecting the fears of people in Israel, and if those fears are not seen in some way as a possible expression of belligerence, then the situation may be misjudged. [More…]

• He has seen the results of the redistribution, as I have, and he knows that he cannot retain the seat of Denison any longer than the next election. [More…]

• -I am sure that Mr Coates, if he happens to be the opponent of the honourable member at the next election, is not concerned about 5,000 votes. [More…]

• I am putting to him that Mr Coates will be the honourable member for Denison after the next elections. [More…]

• -One might expect the Premier of South Australia to make that kind of statement because we know that he has been looking for a reason for an election for quite a while. [More…]

• This Government, which claimed during the last election that it supported a viable shipbuilding industry, is going to allow this industry to die slowly. [More…]

• Let us have an election. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite are looking for an election. [More…]

• This will be the issue for an election. [More…]

• Let us have an election on the basis of how much better qualified are honourable members opposite to pass judgment on their fellow men. [More…]

• This is one of the things on which this Government and the parties that constitute it went to the electors at the last general election campaign. [More…]

• I can assure the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) that they will remember them when the next election is held too. [More…]

• The back benchers in particular have claimed clearly that there might not be much in the Bill but there is 8 per cent in it in an election campaign, and that is the whole resolve of the individual who has just sat down and of his grouper mates on the back bench. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite told us before the election in 1975, and they have told us since, that an industrial dispute should take place not by direction of the elected officials of a union but after a poll or ballot has been taken among those who are affected by the dispute. [More…]

• The Government wants to have a House of Representatives election before 30 June 1978. [More…]

• If it has only a half Senate election, which it is bound to have before 30 June, it will get the daylights licked out of it. [More…]

• Apart from my old friend the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron), who is presently sitting on the other side of the chamber, nobody on the other side of the chamber would come back after such an election. [More…]

• They would not be able to win an election on the promises that they made in 1975 when they confused the Australian people. [More…]

• They knew that they could not win an election on economic issues so they thought that they would give the unions a bit of a roughing up and a bash. [More…]

• Not only will he lose his seat but also 20 or 25 honourable members on the Government side could lose their seats without the Labor Party going out into the streets to get the people’s vote if the election is held in December this year. [More…]

• If they want an election they should say so and not hum and haw. [More…]

• I am not worried about an election, nor is anybody on this side of the House. [More…]

• If it wants this legislation as an election gimmick, it should say so. [More…]

• They do not want to offend those people back in their electorates from whom they need support in the next election. [More…]

• He won the seat of Cunningham at the 1963 general election and retained it until his death in Canberra yesterday. [More…]

• His position was vindicated completely when the Caucus met after the 1975 general election and re-elected him to the shadow Cabinet. [More…]

• This Budget which purports to set Australia’s economic course for 1978 is almost certainly the last effective, regular Budget before the next elections, whenever they be held. [More…]

• In that sense and only in that sense, it deserves the description of an election Budget. [More…]

• Further, this Government can, if it chooses, enjoy two and a half years without the need for another national election, either for half the Senate, or the House of Representatives, or the House of Representatives and half the Senate together. [More…]

• It has to be emphasised that what we have had in the past 21 months is not an economic program for recovery but a political program geared to an election timetable. [More…]

• After the longest period without political disruption since 1969, with the opportunity for the longest period without a national election since 1963, this has happened to the Australian economy under those who make special claims to be superior economic managers: Unemployment higher, inflation running higher, growth lower, the dollar weaker. [More…]

• There have been even more recent and more solemn undertakings made not under the pressure of an election but by Ministers formally and specifically- made in writing or made to Parliament. [More…]

• It secured a better distribution of the total resources and won this party an election in May 1 974. [More…]

• We went to the people at the last election promising a government for all Australians, regardless of where they live, regardless of their income, regardless of any other factors. [More…]

• No wonder the Government is backing away from an election. [More…]

• A fair guess is that interest rates will come down by Government edict before the election, whenever it is held, but speculators would be wide- [More…]

• In other words, the Government if it is looking for an election in December will reduce the interest rate on Commonwealth borrowings in October knowing that after the election the pressure of monetary forces will then force interest rates up again. [More…]

• I quite agree- what election? [More…]

• If on the other hand an election were held in May- and since the redistribution of boundaries I realise that the Government is getting a little concerned about holding an election and is beginning to change its mind, particularly the National Country Party component of the Government which will find itself rather decimated after this election- the Government strategy is still clear. [More…]

• It intends to reduce arbitrarily interest rates prior to an election and then allow them to increase immediately the election is over. [More…]

• What has happened to those principles since the Opposition lost the 1 975 election? [More…]

• One cannot help but feel that these controversial tax changes which give so little real benefit to the ordinary people in the community will further dampen any possibility of economic recovery and are possibly there with an eye to an early election. [More…]

• Certainly, at election time the right exists to buy time in the three areas of the media- radio, television and the newspapers. [More…]

• It was thought that the Budget would be an election winner. [More…]

• I am sure that was done with the sole intention of trying to take people’s minds off the Budget in case the Government decides to go to an election in December. [More…]

• The key to the Fraser Government’s uranium policy is haste- haste to sell it to the Americans, haste to sell it to Europe in exchange, hopefully, for more beef exports to the European market and haste to fulfil Mr Fraser ‘s election promises to the mining companies that his Government would fill their coffers once again. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wentworth also had the Commonwealth Police report on my movements during the last election campaign. [More…]

• The undertaking was that there would be no royal commissions or inquiries into the activities of the Government- meaning my Governmentthroughout the period of the election campaign. [More…]

• The subject summonses are in breach of the announcement of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to this House on 1 1 November 1975 of an undertaking required by the Governor-General that there would be no inquiry into the affairs of the former Administration during the election campaign. [More…]

• Yet, the present Opposition has criticised the effective approach made by this Government which in the short time since the last election has been successful in virtually doubling sales in many of these difficult areas. [More…]

• If the Government has in mind an election next May the new tax scheme is perfectly suited to its purposes. [More…]

• It will give maximum benefits during the period of the election- in other words, in that period from 1 February until the end of Junebut the real bump will come on 1 July. [More…]

• The honourable member who preceded me in this debate- I have forgotten the name of his electorate and I hope that after the next election he will not be here- spoke about my desire for changes in economic policy. [More…]

• Exactly 20 months from the date of this Government’s election to office with the greatest majority any government has had since Federation its reputation is finally in tatters. [More…]

• Initially, the reaction that night amongst members in the House and journalists was that the Government was being extraordinarily generous and that clearly the Government was setting its sights on an early election. [More…]

• Within months of our election defeat I started a study of one scheme with which I had become closely involved during our period in government, namely, the Regional Employment Development scheme. [More…]

• I became the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs upon the election and return of the Labor Government. [More…]

• That was the intention prior to the 1 972 election. [More…]

• That has, in fact, become the subject of an election campaign in that country- . [More…]

• It is worth noting that during recent times, when Mr Clancy has been trying to get a mandatory re-election procedure for the Council’s congress, I think every 6 years, the President of the Council has vigorously opposed it. [More…]

• I presume he wants the circumstance in which he will never have to stand for re-election. [More…]

• He has opposed those moves for a mandatory election every 6 years. [More…]

• If he thinks a referendum in relation to uranium is a good way of resolving an issue, one would think such an election procedure would be a good way of making sure that the union movement gets the right President at reasonably regular intervals. [More…]

• I believe that there is an election campaign in South Australia. [More…]

• Now that the Premier is running scared in an election campaign he has no doubt directed his colleagues from that State to try to put a case in this House. [More…]

• How do the National Country Party and members of the Government explain away the election issue on uranium in Sweden? [More…]

• Uranium and the development of nuclear power stations was an issue at that election. [More…]

• Where was the left wing influence, the smearing that is advanced in place of sensible argument, on the result of that election? [More…]

• The Government is in such bad shape economically and cannot straighten out the mess into which it has got the country that it feels it must have some sort of issue on which to have an early election. [More…]

• The Government is building up this fallacy as another election gimmick leading up to a general election in May next year. [More…]

• It was patently obvious to everybody in Australia that it would be defeated at the next election. [More…]

• So the Prime Minister of the day suddenly thought ‘Here is an issue on which we can run and win an election ‘. [More…]

• The public opinion polls show that it would lose an election if one were held tomorrow. [More…]

• Of course, there is also the love of making a quid for some of the friends who contribute to the election campaign funds of honourable members opposite. [More…]

• But when the people of Australia see what is an obvious phoney- they see a government being destroyed by its incapacity to handle the economy, and suddenly it switches the issue to the question of uranium, knowing what the reaction of sections of the trade union will be and knowing that it can create a climate of union bashing- they will see the hypocrisy and the absurdity of this as a major election issue. [More…]

• Collectively, we in this Parliament are elected to represent all the people of Australia, not just the people who happened to vote for us in the December 1975 election. [More…]

• It would not permit another election for the present number. [More…]

• If a distribution is not accepted on the basis of fewer divisions and more equal enrolment the next election will be for the State of New South Wales at large. [More…]

• It would be unlawful to hold an election before there is a redistribution. [More…]

• Let me say at the outset that during the last election the Government announced its policy on immigration with the famous line: [More…]

• Let us look at the famous atmosphere that was developed in the climate of the last election as to who would come here and who would be allowed to stay. [More…]

• -This little tinpot solicitor from Eden-Monaro, who would not get a feed in the small debts court and will not be here after the next election, yaps on the back bench. [More…]

• The Prime Minister and his advisers were contemplating a snap election. [More…]

• I think that over the next two months the Prime Minister will be saying less about an election. [More…]

• Rather than being seen as an economic document, the Budget had the immediate impact on the media of increasing speculation about an early election. [More…]

• With the so-called revolutionary changes in the tax structure, the absence of increased duties on cigarettes and alcohol and a staggering increase in the price of petrol which is due to come into effect in the middle of next year, it was thought that the Government was preparing for an early election in order to avoid the reaction of the electorate to next year’s massive increase in unemployment, continuing double figure inflation and a further deterioration of the economy. [More…]

• Budget was totally discredited as a worthy election Budget, and so the chances of an early Federal election disappeared. [More…]

• If it is not an election Budget, what is it? [More…]

• We are waiting for the next election. [More…]

• We were told during the election campaign that the mere return of a Liberal-National Country Party government would provide such a boost to business confidence that economic recovery would occur automatically, but it did not. [More…]

• 2 of the Fraser Government, with the prospect of a third if the Government is prepared to risk a half Senate election, we are told that three years is not long enough. [More…]

• On the eve of an election they come out with the idea of tax cuts. [More…]

• I had the good fortune to work in Leslie Haylen ‘s first election campaign and subsequent campaigns, and I hold as mementoes his letter of thanks and his early political pamphlets. [More…]

• So, rather than there being any inconsistency or confusion, we can say that the policy commitment we made in the 1975 election campaign to restore incentive to individuals and corporations, to reform the taxation system and to place more money in the pockets of individuals has been honoured - [More…]

• Frankly, when one examines the problems the Commission has in following the Prime Minister’s instruction and when one looks at the time at which this reference was made, one must be cynical and convey the suspicion which has arisen in my mind, namely, that the Prime Minister’s original commitment to make this change had something to do with the Tasmanian State election which was taking place at the time. [More…]

• This is part of its program for the State election. [More…]

• Will local government authorities divest themselves of the ‘old boy ‘ network which in some instances ensures the election on a rotation basis by ward or riding of the position of shire president or mayor? [More…]

• Expenditure of that size had never been contemplated in the 23 years that preceded the election of a Labor government. [More…]

• Of course, the political consequence for Labor was its thrashing in the 1975 election. [More…]

• As I recall vividly, in the run-up to the 1975 election honourable members opposite said that they would maintain the standard of education and expenditure that we fixed from 1972 to 1975. [More…]

• Following the election for the Legislative Assembly held on 13 August 1977 there were significant changes in the composition of the Executive and I considered it appropriate to obtain a reaction from the new Executive on the proposals. [More…]

• I think the Minister would agree that these are the facts: There was an election recently in the Northern Territory and all seats have not been declared. [More…]

• I am very mindful of the fact that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in a sense of exuberance on IS August following the election in the Northern Territory on 13 August issued a Press statement indicating the splendid results that had been achieved by the National Country Party and congratulating Dr Letts, the Leader of the Country Party in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Of course, he was defeated in the election. [More…]

• The point I make on bealf of the Australian Labor Party is that there was a substantial expression of public opinion at that election. [More…]

• It was as a result of that political environment and in that context that at the last election in the Northern Territory the National Country Party did not do so well. [More…]

• It is not much good the Minister coming into the Parliament and saying that there has been discussion with the Executive in the Northern Territory because that Executive was defeated at the last election. [More…]

• So we had a somewhat historic election campaign at that time on the issue of whether Dartmouth Dam should be built. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, you will excuse me for not being political as there is to be an election in South Australia this weekend. [More…]

• One of the issues in the present election is water. [More…]

• The chairman of the Uranium Producers’ Forum, Mr George Mackay, yesterday flew to Canberra to offer the Liberal Party assistance in any forthcoming election campaign in which the future of uranium mining was at stake. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that the subject under discussion now, the Government’s policy on the mining and sale of uranium, is being used by the Government as a stooge in an endeavour to stir up division in this country and create the environment for a law and order election which it can pull on at a minute’s notice. [More…]

• When I read the papers this morning I felt that one of the most important and most scandalous features in any of those newspapers was the report of the visit of Mr McKay to the head- quarters of the Liberal Party of Australia to do a eai about donations to the Liberal Party for the next election if uranium should be an issue. [More…]

• There can be no doubt that in any election in the next quarter of a century uranium will be an issue. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite ought to look closely at this practice which has developed in Australia and take notice of the fact that in evidence given recently before the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal it was shown that in national election campaigns in Australia we are now spending more money per head of population than is being spent in the United States of [More…]

• There will be an expose of corruption such as this country has never seen because of deals which are being done by the Liberal and National Country Parties with the uranium forum, the oil companies and the mining companies to try to make sure that they hold their position of power, to make sure they are able to give greater exposure to their policies at the election campaigns, both State and Federal, throughout Australia. [More…]

• Last June I announced that the next Assembly election, scheduled for September 1977, would be deferred. [More…]

• The exact date of the election will be announced later. [More…]

• The objective is to have the matter settled before the next Assembly election. [More…]

• I do not regret that and we will keep paying this money until the next election. [More…]

• I do not agree with the deferment of the election of the Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• I can understand why the Liberal members of the Legislative Assembly would not want the election to be held. [More…]

• Instead of positive action, the Government feeds speculation about an early election. [More…]

• The amazing thing is that people have been trumpeting this Budget as an election winner. [More…]

• The Country Party does not give a damn about the young people out of jobs in country areas, Because of this and other issues which are emerging in the countryside, there will be wholesale revolt at the next election, not only in the suburbs of the cities but also in country areas because those areas are being badly represented. [More…]

• The reason why the Labor Party condemns the system so often is that it is endeavouring to create an atmosphere of disbelief and concern so that if there is an early election the people will not readily recognise that this Government has given back a lot. [More…]

• Forty-three per cent of them do not contribute to a fighting fund; they do not attend a stop work meeting or a union meeting; they do not vote in a union election; a number of those 43 per cent claim that industrial action is useless; they talk of their union being communist controlled, undemocratic or inefficiently managed, yet they complain about their rates of pay and conditions of employment. [More…]

• Double taxation was a major issue in the New South Wales election and when voters grasped the full import of what the conservatives who are running the Commonwealth at the present time were trying to do, they rejected the Commonwealth’s counterpart in the State. [More…]

• Since he came into the Parliament, temporarily as a oncer, there has been a State election in Tasmania and the people of Tasmania have overwhelmingly rejected double taxation as they will overwhelmingly reject him at the next opportunity. [More…]

• Only today the Prime Minister has fuelled speculation of an election this year. [More…]

• There is only one interpretation of that eventuality, and that is that the Government is frightened of an election next year which is the proper time that such an election is due. [More…]

• It is becoming increasingly clear to the people of this country that the poor state of the economy, which was accepted to be the case in December 1975, at the time of the election, was due not to policies of the Labor Government but to the world economic crisis which had overtaken all the developed and under-developed nations. [More…]

• I say these things because they relate particularly to the local government elections which are to be held in Sydney on Saturday. [More…]

• Some Labor candidates are standing for office at those elections. [More…]

• Every Labor Party candidate at the local government elections on Saturday is bound to support this plan. [More…]

• He may say otherwise in his election speech or he may think otherwise but he will very soon find he is not allowed to think otherwise. [More…]

• I am thinking particularly of the elections for the city of Sydney. [More…]

• I speak also of the elections for the ManlyWarringah area which is my own area. [More…]

• I know that there will be Labor candidates in the election for this area which is to be held on Saturday. [More…]

• At the beginning of his speech, when he was criticising the previous speaker, he pointed out that we were not facing an election in Victoria. [More…]

• I would not do it in a Federal election either. [More…]

• He came here in the euphoria of the last election, as part of the greatest majority ever to be elected in the history of this country. [More…]

• It was saved for a rainy day or perhaps an early election. [More…]

• On Saturday there will be an election in the municipality of Warringah. [More…]

• He has put aside this money so that when he wants to call an election early next year he will be able to bring it out and say: ‘Look what I have got! ‘ [More…]

• I believe that in the very near future as elections occur at various levels around this country- not just local government elections but, for example, the South Australian State election- people in the community who are starting to feel the accumulated effect of this Government’s ill-advised policies will react. [More…]

• Section 133 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act requires that the rules of a registered organisation shall provide for the manner in which persons may become candidates for election. [More…]

• 187, prescribes that a request by an organisation or a branch of an organisation under section 170 (1) of the Concilation and Arbitration Act for the conduct of an election shall be made not less than 2 months or more than 6 months before the last day on which persons may become candidates at the electionthat is, the closing date of nominations. [More…]

• I am advised that, in many instances, requests were not made until the period prescribed by regulation 139 (2) had almost expired and that as a consequence the Industrial Registrar and the Chief Australian Electoral Officer at times encountered serious difficulties in the conduct of the election, requiring, for example, the postponement of certain steps in theelection. [More…]

• 33) which require industrial organisations to notify by 1 September in each year information as to the dates of nominations for elections due in the forthcoming 12 month period. [More…]

• Members of organisations will thus have an opportunity to decide whether to request an election under section 170, and be able to do so well within the prescribed time limits. [More…]

• In practice, in the case of an organisation conducting an election in accordance with the secret postal ballot regulations, and requesting the conduct of that election under section 1 70 (i), the requirements of the Regulations would apply without conflict. [More…]

• It ought to be noted that before the election it was stated very clearly that our purpose would be to bring reality back into government expenditure and into the finances of Australia, and to achieve a transfer of resources from direct Government spending on its own account to the private sector. [More…]

• Does he share the concern of the honourable member for Tangney that the Government has failed to honour its election promises and that tax indexation in the Budget did not go far enough? [More…]

• Does he intend to emulate the example of the honourable member and retire at the next general election? [More…]

• He said that he is disillusioned because the Government has failed to honour its election promises. [More…]

• We understand that there is to be an election in December because the Government wants to have an election as quickly as possible. [More…]

• I refer to the election policy speech of the Government. [More…]

• We wonder what Mr Bjelke-Petersen will say in the coming weeks when, during the Queensland election campaign, he announces whether he is in favour of Stage two of the federalism policy. [More…]

• The electoral strategy mirrors the economic strategy: The chopping and changing in a desperate search for some economic solutions; the kite flying, the rumour mongering, the inspired speculation, the threats of confrontation- all in a desperate search for an election issue. [More…]

• And well may this Government be desperate for a diversion, a distraction, a phoney election issue. [More…]

• In Western Australia the honourable member for Tangney (Dr Richardson) announces he is leaving the sinking ship because, according to bis research officer, ‘the Government has broken its election promises’. [More…]

• Once it is established the election policy of having a young farmer establishment scheme must be developed so that we have a scheme similar to those already operating in New Zealand and Canada. [More…]

• As was mentioned this afternoon by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam), the honourable member for Tangney (Dr Richardson) has given as one of the reasons for his not returning to this House after the next election- apart from the likelihood of his seat being won by the Australian Labor Party- or as one of the reasons for his not nominating for the seat, that he realises that the taxation measures of this Government have not done the sorts of things that the Government claims for them. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has been talking about an election. [More…]

• He has been trying to create the impression of a forthcoming election. [More…]

• Let us have an election. [More…]

• So the sooner we have an election, the better. [More…]

• This Government has always stressed, during the 1975 election and at other times, that it will be a long and arduous job getting things back onto the right footing. [More…]

• Let us have an election, let us put it out of office and replace it with a Labor Government. [More…]

• Since the election of the Fraser Government in 1975 we have not deviated from the major promise of our policy speech, namely, to attack inflation and to restrain government expenditure so that the deficit that Labor created will be reduced. [More…]

• We stand by our election commitment to look after those people who are genuinely dependent on Government support. [More…]

• It has been estimated that the Association spent $100,000 on the local government election campaign. [More…]

• I did not refer to the result of the South Australian election because I did not want to rub it in so heavily. [More…]

• I think other speakers will refer to the result of the South Australian election. [More…]

• There have been some whispers in the alleyways and in Kings Hall that there could be an election on 10 December. [More…]

• I listened to it on a little transistor while I was going around the electorate with my friends, telling them that we had to be ready for an early election. [More…]

• They said: ‘We are ready now, after that great win in New South Wales, after the win in South Australia and after the wins in the local government elections in New South Wales. [More…]

• He said that the people should vote Liberal in the election. [More…]

• We have been able to reduce the deficit by half a billion dollars for the second successive year and have fulfilled to a major extent our election commitment to achieve a transfer of real resources from the public sector to the private sector. [More…]

• He would be aware of certain undertakings given during the 1975 election campaign to nurses in the Australian Capital Territory concerning the composition of the Capital Territory Health Commission. [More…]

• Are the Liberal and National Country parties ashamed or afraid to admit that they are to get funds from the Uranium Producers Forum to fight the next election? [More…]

• We have seen since the 1975 election campaign the enormous escalation of spending in this area. [More…]

• Throughout the Western world, in Sweden, Germany, Great Britain and the United States of America, laws are being reformed in relation to the election of candidates to the various houses of parliament and in the case of the United States to the Congress. [More…]

• There was a new term used during that campaign which undoubtedly people in Australia could adopt, and that was the ‘laundry of election donations’. [More…]

• Let us consider how they pleaded when they were exposed for the donations that they had made to the various political parties in that country so that we can understand simply why President Carter is moving so quickly in 1977 to bring about the necessary reform before the next presidential election. [More…]

• We should not forget that the last presidential election had very strict laws on expenditure and there have been investigations in the United States into the amount of donations made and the amount of money spent in the campaign. [More…]

• We saw at the last election in 1975 millions of dollars being paid into the Liberal Party. [More…]

• The money, $2m, was raised- I do not think the honourable member for Port Adelaide was around at the time- for the specific purpose of running an election campaign. [More…]

• I want to thank you very much for this generous help, but I am afraid that due to election pressures I must now leave because I have an appointment with the television station and I am only sorry that I cannot talk to you more. [More…]

• Some time ago, after the honourable member for Port Adelaide introduced a Bill concerning the limiting of funds for election campaigns, after he had talked about imposing a ceiling on funding for political parties, after saying that there should not be any secrecy and that industries should not provide funds for political parties, the honourable member’s Party sent throughout the country a letter seeking funds from corporations. [More…]

• In fact, we made three attempts, by way of a new piece of legislation, to provide for the declaration of contributions to campaign funds for major political parties and for a limitation of election expenses so that, the whole election campaign and political process in Australia did not get out of hand, as we have seen happening in the United States of America. [More…]

• The Government supporters are not prepared now to disclose the source of their campaign funds in 1974 and 1975 or in a future election. [More…]

• Is anyone on the opposite side of the House suggesting that that company will not respond in kind to the coffers of the LiberalNational Country Parties during an election campaign? [More…]

• Mr Mackay, the Chairman of the Uranium Producers Forum, had the gall to suggest to a journalist at lunch at The Lobby opposite this House that he was going to meet the Secretary of the Liberal Party to see in what way his organisation could offer the Liberal Party and the National Country Party assistance during an election campaign. [More…]

• We are having fun trying to get the money we require to run an election. [More…]

• It seems that the Labor Party is totally ignoring the provision already in the Commonwealth Electoral Act which requires candidates, political parties, bodies such as trade unions, associations and persons who have expended sums in connection with an election to file a return on expenditure. [More…]

• The policy put forward by the Liberal and National Country Parties at the 1975 election in respect of public transport stated: [More…]

• Honourable members will remember that during the 1972 general election the present Minister for Transport was screaming that the present Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) should be imprisoned because he had a copy of the report of that study. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has said that the promises made at the 1975 election were valid only in the context in which they were made- that is, they were invalid the day after the election. [More…]

• It is obviously part of the election campaign and he feels that he will be able to win the seat of Prospect at the next election. [More…]

• He made a big issue of the fact that he was a Liberal candidate, that he intended contesting Liberal Party preselection for the new seat of Lawson, and that he is a very popular man. [More…]

• At the election last Saturday he received 636 votes out of 11,000 votes cast, which is just under 6 per cent of the votes cast. [More…]

• As I have said, he has nominated for preselection for the seat of Lawson and he will stand against the present honourable member for Macquarie (Mr Gillard) whose own area of Lithgow will not be included in the new seat of Lawson. [More…]

• I say to the honourable member for Sydney that he had best work a little bit harder in the next election because he was not successful and he may not be successful in the future. [More…]

• the methods of election of office bearers of trade unions registered or recognised under any law of the Commonwealth, and [More…]

• b ) the operation of these methods of election during the last five years, with particular but not exclusive reference to- [More…]

• It took Mr Eggleton a week to deny that he held any discussion with Mr Mackay about donations from the Uranium Producers Forum to the Liberal Party for the next election. [More…]

• It is Mr Eggleton ‘s job to conduct election campaigns; it is his job to raise the funds. [More…]

• After hearing this statement I am certain of one thing: Whenever the next Federal election is held it certainly wil not be fought on defence. [More…]

• This was in spite of protestations by the domestic Japanese industry in a then election fever in an effort to reduce that quota level. [More…]

• The Fairfaxes, the Murdochs and the Ansetts are very substantial subscribers to the election campaign funds of the Liberal and National Country parties. [More…]

• It is obvious that this is all part of the Government’s election campaign. [More…]

• If honourable members opposite are happy with the Dunstan result, we are delighted, and we will be happy to have an election. [More…]

• We, on taking office, assured Japan that we would honour contracts entered into right to within a couple of months of the election despite the fact that the contracts were made at excessively low prices. [More…]

• If there is an election soon, honourable members opposite will be smothered. [More…]

• Only two parties campaigned at the last Swedish election for the termination of nuclear development- the Centre Party, formerly known as the Agrarian Party, and the Communist Party. [More…]

• What is all this talk about an early election? [More…]

• Whether an election is held early or whether an election is held late, it will be a long, long time before the present Opposition ever leaves the Opposition benches. [More…]

• Even supporters of the Government are well aware why the Prime Minister wants to hold an early election. [More…]

• That is another reason why an early election is desired by the Government. [More…]

• Frankly, we are deriving some glee from the fact that he might call an election at any time. [More…]

• It would probably be more practical, bearing in mind accommodation problems in Canberra and the considerable changes that a large redistribution would entail, to increase die number of senators by two at each subsequent Senate election whether it be a half-Senate election or a full Senate election. [More…]

• There is no question in my mind of what the election in 1975 was about. [More…]

• A former speaker made a comment about the issues in the 1975 election. [More…]

• I believe that the levy was partly responsible for the result of that election. [More…]

• Quite plainly it takes some time, as we said before the election, for imbalances in an economy to work themselves out. [More…]

• The economic uncertainty caused by the comments of the Prime Minister about the economy and an early election. [More…]

• More than the number of members required by the Standing Orders having risen in their placesMi HAYDEN (Oxley) (3.53)-In the past few weeks the nation has been subjected to almost unrelieved speculation as to whether or not there is to be an early election. [More…]

• They have all indicated clearly enough that it is their belief that there should be an early election. [More…]

• Business recognises, first of all, that at a time of election the administration of the affairs of a country tend to be left somewhat in suspense. [More…]

• Furthermore, in a situation such as that which we are experiencing with the national economy at the moment and with the predictions which have been published as coming from the authoritative economic advisers of the Government who have indicated a much tougher year ahead, suggestions of an early election create the gravest uncertainty imaginable, especially amongst the business community. [More…]

• We have noted for some time the scene-setting for an early election. [More…]

• What all this boils down to is that if the Government is genuinely scrabbling about for an early election it is conceding failure. [More…]

• People recognise that a government with a majority as large as this one has- it has the highest majority on record in this place and has a most generous majority in the Senate- with a considerable amount of its parliamentary term yet to run and yet is seeking an election in spite of that, is clearly unsure, has lost its confidence, has lost its will, is no longer certain. [More…]

• When a Prime Minister comes to power declaring that he needs three years to get the economy into shape- and then calls an election after only two-thirds of that time- he cannot complain if voters interpret his move as an act of desperation or an admission of failure. [More…]

• If the Government seeks to manipulate them in some sort of marginal and meaningless way by a reduction of one-quarter of one per cent as suggested by some sources close to the Prime Minister as he likes to have it put, that is merely a cosmetic action because it is considering an early election. [More…]

• The report from the Reserve Bank makes it clear that if that is done and if the Government retains its monetary policies this year, those interest rates will have to be adjusted upwards soon after any such election. [More…]

• The Government recognises that the political climate at the moment and for the rest of this calendar year is and will be bad for an election. [More…]

• For them it is better to hold the election when the political environment is bad rather than waiting for it to get terrible. [More…]

• It acknowledges this tacitly by seeking to exercise the option of an early election. [More…]

• In this discussion on a matter of public importance the honourable member for Oxley tried to link the comments of the Prime Minister about the economy with the possibility of an early election. [More…]

• The honourable member and the Labor Party continue to speculate on an early election. [More…]

• The Prime Minister will not be goaded into speculation about an early election. [More…]

• I have nothing to add to speculation on an early election. [More…]

• Now everybody in the community is concerned that the Government is seeking to run away from that responsibility by bringing on an election to distract attention from its miserable performance. [More…]

• The Acting Treasurer was at pains to point out that he has not indulged in any speculation about an early election. [More…]

• I hold here in my hand the editorial of the Sydney Morning Herald of 29 September which says that the Prime Minister is behaving irresponsibly and that he should now in the interests of good government put to rest any suggestion that, in the present circumstances, there will be an early election at this time. [More…]

• This newspaper is a member of the organisation which writes editorials in support of the Government parties and which, whenever the next election is held, can be fairly anticipated to do so again. [More…]

• If we are to talk about the speculation about an early election being raised by other senior Ministers I can think of no more irresponsible example than that indulged in recently by the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon), a very senior member of the National Country Party, in his address to that Party in Melbourne the other day when he again fanned the flames of industrial confrontation in this country. [More…]

• It was a theme to which the Prime Minister himself returned with great delight at question time today, not in any endeavour to improve industrial relations in this country but in the hope and the expectation that massive dislocation will occur and will give him the pretext that he wants for an early election and to divert attention from the sad and sorry economic performance of this Government. [More…]

• It wants to have an election on an issue that would be completely irrelevant so that the attention of voters is diverted from the condition of the economy to which this Government has reduced it consistently over the last two years. [More…]

• When Opposition members speak of uncertainty- the matter of public importance relates to uncertainty about the economic situation and an election- they speak with a certain degree of experience. [More…]

• Let us look at the election situation. [More…]

• How many times have I heard challenges from the Opposition for us to go to an election on the uranium issue or on anything? [More…]

• The Australian Council of Trade Unions has led to speculation about an election by calling for a moratorium and laying down a time by which we are to give a definite answer as to whether we will call a referendum on the uranium issue. [More…]

• The referendum concerning simultaneous elections held earlier this year now gives the Prime Minister additional options. [More…]

• But I am bound to point out that this is the sort of irresponsibility which was taking place two years ago and which led up to the premature election of December 1975. [More…]

• The history of the scheme is that back in 1969- there was another election coming up- it was introduced for the Australian Capital Territory and, I think, the Northern Territory. [More…]

• This policy has been frequently restated by the coalition parties and was restated in the 1975 election campaign. [More…]

• The allocation of funds for education purposes after the election of a Labor government trebled. [More…]

• The concern of educationists in Australia at present is to the effect that the Government has failed to honour its election undertaking that it would maintain a one per cent growth factor in education. [More…]

• I suggest to the honourable member that the recklessness which is abroad at this pre-election time which jettisons the concept of good housekeeping will have its sequel and its consequence. [More…]

• It must be remembered that sometime in the future- be it this year, next year or whenever- there will automatically be a reduction in the expenditure incurred by the Department because after the next Federal election there will be three fewer members in this chamber. [More…]

• He was due to retire as a director in 1977 and therefore had to stand for re-election. [More…]

• A person, whose name I will not use, was due in 1977 to retire as a director of the New South Wales Permanent Building Society and therefore had to stand for re-election. [More…]

• -He will not be here after the next general election. [More…]

• -Tonight I shall deal with a visit by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to my electorate on 23 September as part of his election campaign. [More…]

• other candidates at the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly election on 13 August 1977. [More…]

• The votes and percentage of total formal votes polled at the election of members of the Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory on 13 August 1977 were as follows: [More…]

• Is this an effort to soften up critics in the ethnic Press in preparation for a premature election, which the Federal President of his party revealed in a letter to the Australian Financial Review today the honourable gentleman has been discussing with the federal executive of his Party? [More…]

• Instead it is diverting attention from this overriding problem by feeding speculation about an early election. [More…]

• So much for the present Government’s pre-election promise to reduce unemployment to 1.5 per cent. [More…]

• If there is to be an election, the figures will be delayed until after the election so that they will not embarrass the Government. [More…]

• The peace accords were drawn up on the basis that there would be full, free, democratic and independent elections in Vietnam. [More…]

• It was because President Thieu was not prepared to agree to hold an election which did not provide for a president and which did not allow for him to remain. [More…]

• Devaluation speculation by responsible members of this House, election speculation by those folk who operate above us in the Press Gallery, industrial anarchy and speculation as practised by the left wingers in the trade union movement, all contribute to the feeling of uncertainty which must be overcome if we are to see a healthy consumer-based recovery in the Australian economy. [More…]

• What it is seeking to do, obviously, is to artificially restrain the balance of payments deficits problem to present, I expect, some monthly figures which it can release publicly, should there be an early election, and then claim that there has been a substantial turnaround in the situation, that it is bringing it back under control, and that it is only a matter of time before it is corrected. [More…]

• In the circumstances, it would not be proper, I believe, for me to put myself forward for preselection, or to retain the Liberal label while I remain in this chamber. [More…]

• I have it in mind, however, to stand as a candidate in New South Wales at the next half Senate election, whenever that may occur. [More…]

• The Queensland Government is strongly backing Utah, seemingly to promote an election issue over militant unions. [More…]

• If the Government had not interfered with wage indexation and if the Government had adhered to its election policy - [More…]

• Fifty-four per cent of the people will vote Labor at the next Federal election. [More…]

• There is no doubt that on balance, based on the results of the 1975 election, the redistribution favours the Labor Party. [More…]

• Despite the way that the boundaries are drawn the five Liberal Party members of this chamber from Tasmania will have an extremely good chance of retaining their seats at the next election. [More…]

• I might say that, based on my own statistics, if we poll as badly at the next election as we did in 1975 on the distributions that have been made we will win only 33 seats. [More…]

• He lost his seat in the Assembly election. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is intent on maintaining an unholy alliance with the Premier of Queensland, an alliance designed to divert the Premier from engaging in his favourite sport prior to a premature Federal election- Canberra bashing. [More…]

• At the election for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly Aborigines were among the first Australians to pass judgment on the Fraser Government. [More…]

• In a very short time he became a Minister in the Whitlam Government as a result of what might be called a by-election for a Cabinet position. [More…]

• He will be returned at the next election as the honourable member for Phillip and I believe he will stay here for another 20 years. [More…]

• -In reply to the remarks of the honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage) who has just spoken, it is true as I said at the 1975 election that Joe Riordan is a very fine fellow. [More…]

• Everyone can recall those difficult days in 1972 immediately following the election of the Labor Government when it was impossible to get tradesmen at reasonable prices, when bricks, timber and white metals were in short supply and when houses were taking longer to build. [More…]

• Soon after our election in 1972 we provided $6.6m to take up the slack. [More…]

• Last year completions of government owned houses decreased by 29 per cent, but this year there happens to be an election in Queensland and what does that wily Premier of Queensland, the crookedest crook of all the Premiers of Australia, do? [More…]

• Over the last three or four years, but particularly since the first election was held for membership of what is now called the National Aboriginal Conference in late 1973, 1 have heard it said that the National Aboriginal Conference, or national congress, whatever name it was called for the time being, has been a failure. [More…]

• I see from division 120.3.05 that $475,000 has been appropriated for election expenses for this body. [More…]

• That is part of a total of $978,000 which will be provided to run the National Aboriginal Conference election later this year and also to run the new concept- the National Aboriginal Conference- for the rest of the year. [More…]

• What I have said is in very sharp contrast to the commitments made on 28 November 1975 in the course of the election campaign. [More…]

• I must say I hope there will be no election for about a year and that I will still be around for a while to make some contribution. [More…]

• I issued a statement tonight in which I said that after careful consideration I had decided not to contest the next election. [More…]

• But to all of the people on the other side of the House, some of whom may not be here if an election is held very shortly, I say that it is nice to have had 26 years in this place and there is something to be said for choosing a good safe seat. [More…]

• This is not my resignation speech; it is simply my assignation tonight to say that I am not going to be the member for Melbourne Ports after the next election. [More…]

• The Fraser Government hopes to use any industrial confrontation resulting from the shipment of uranium yellowcake as an excuse for calling an election. [More…]

• The honourable member for Tangney (Dr Richardson) has decided not to contest his seat at the next election because of the Government’s failure to honour its election promises. [More…]

• The honourable members for Franklin, Wilmot (Mr Burr), and Lowe (Sir William McMahon) have expressed their opposition to an early election. [More…]

• During the last election campaign the coalition parties published a fivepoint program which would help restore the small business sector to economic health. [More…]

• These are not my judgments or assertions; they are the statements of former Liberals- former Ministers and honourable members opposite- who do not intend to stand for election in the next general election. [More…]

• Even the Government senator, Senator Knight, who has to get only a third of the vote, is concerned now about his prospects of re-election; he is greatly concerned that he will not get a third of the vote. [More…]

• There is a real prospect that the Labor Party will win two Australian Capital Territory Senate seats in the next Senate election. [More…]

• After he was elected at the great con election of 1975, he discovered the migrant communities. [More…]

• That is what is hitting their finances and that is what they will remember at the next election, and not window dressing statements such as this one. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that today’s statement shows quite clearly that this Government has been consistent in the way it has abided by the promises it made during the federal election campaign of November and December 1975. [More…]

• That was the promise which we made to small business during the November-December campaign which led up to the last general election. [More…]

• I suggest that after he loses his seat at the next election he might try his hand at business instead of getting onto the taxpayers’ backs as he did for many years. [More…]

• They are bitterly disappointed by the free enterprise slogans of the Liberal and Country parties which have provided them with nothing for the return they traditionally give at election time. [More…]

• The Government has provided small businessmen with nothing for the return which they gave at election time. [More…]

• The honourable member for Henty will be the second one out but the honourable member for Canberra is absolutely certain to lose his seat at the next election. [More…]

• There are very few who do not realise how dishonest were the vague promises made during the 1975 election campaign, that the return of a LiberalNational Country Party Government would ensure a return to the halcyon days of 1971 and 1973. [More…]

• We know of the recent High Court ruling which determined the number of members of this chamber will be reduced after the next election. [More…]

• It was at the time of the municipal council elections. [More…]

• After the members present had taken the opportunity to present trophies to young children whose ages ranged from five or six years through to 13 or 14 years, a Labor candidate, a young man who stood against me at the last election, was invited by the State Labor member to come forward. [More…]

• He talked about a Labor candidate in local government elections attending a children’s event and injecting politics into it. [More…]

• It is precisely because honourable members opposite regard migrants as children that they will be rejected by them at the next election. [More…]

• As we have heard on a number of occasions from the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) the continuance of this plan was an undertaking given by the Government during the last election campaign but it was not honoured. [More…]

• The only thing on which I would like to congratulate the Government is the fact that it has ensured that the Labor Party will win back the seat of Canberra at the next election. [More…]

• The person who was on the directorship was a senior member of the Liberal Party of New South Wales and was due to retire as a director in 1977 and therefore had to stand for re-election. [More…]

• In order to ensure his re-election and, therefore, to suppress information about his indiscretions the former senior member of the Liberal Party - [More…]

• In order to ensure his re-election and therefore to suppress information about his indiscretion, the leading member of the Liberal Party enlisted the support of many right wing members of the New South Wales Liberal Party. [More…]

• This showed clearly the effort being made by this person’s supporters in the Liberal Party to ensure their eligibility to vote at the election for the final vacant directorship on 9 September. [More…]

• -As we all know, quite recently there was a State election in South Australia in which the Labor Government was returned with a vastly increased majority. [More…]

• I am afraid that if this Government decides to hold an election the two honourable members from the Government side who spoke tonight will get the same treatment as quite a lot of Liberal candidates got in South Australia. [More…]

• One thing which was noticeable in the State election was the extremely high vote for the Labor Party in the City of Whyalla. [More…]

• So, when we look at Whyalla we can see why the Liberal Party obtained such a poor vote in the recent State election. [More…]

• I am sure that that is why they polled so badly in the State election, and why they will again poll badly in future Federal elections. [More…]

• -After listening to the Opposition tonight one could only assume from the hysteria engendered that perhaps the nation is supposed to be gearing up for an election. [More…]

• The selection it has chosen is almost exclusively from afternoon newspapers. [More…]

• Nevertheless it has chosen the evening newspapers in the belief that if they can read the writing-believe me, it is small enough- sufficient people will be stupid enough to fund the next election campaign of the Labor Party. [More…]

• This advertisement was also authorised by David Combe, the General Secretary of the Labor Party as I understand it, who on 23 April last year declared that the Australian newspapers had committed a fraud on the Australian people during the 1975 election campaign. [More…]

• There is speculation about an election, with all the damage that that is doing. [More…]

• In spite of the National Country Party deciding to send its leader to the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to tell him to announce that there will be no early election, the Prime Minister continues to act like some sort of puppeteer in that he considers it a good thing for Australia to continue in this area of speculation about a future national election. [More…]

• -An election for the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly will be held by the end of 1978. [More…]

• As for a precise election date, it is not the practice of those responsible for making these decisions to announce dates before the time. [More…]

• So I simply say that there certainly will be an election before the end of 1 978. [More…]

• Mr Acting Speaker, education has joined the long list of broken promises by the Fraser Government, but unlike the broken pledges about employment, Medibank, hospitals, wage indexation, growth centres, water projects, Aborigines, legal aid, migrant welfare, urban transport, which were given under the pressures of the last election campaign, education has suffered a double breach of undertaking. [More…]

• Certainly the Government has broken clear election commitments. [More…]

• He seeks a return not just to things as they were before the 1972 election but as they were before the war- before uniform taxation and before successive governments, Liberal and Labor, accepted some measure of responsibility for education. [More…]

• -The discussion on the estimates for these departments takes on a new dimension in view of the speculation which exists throughout the national capital of an early election, because it would seem that in making our comments on the estimates and the running of the departments it is far more important on this occasion, seeing that the holding of an election is almost certain, that members of the Public Service are cognisant of the comments of members of the Opposition because it is highly likely that we will be their Ministers in a few weeks’ time. [More…]

• During the election campaign two years ago, and indeed since, Government supporters were always anxious to set out before select audiences the tremendous cost of these bureaucracies. [More…]

• We will hold those five seats at the next election because we are a united team determined to do something for Tasmania and in particular to restore our State from the damage caused to it during the Whitlam years of 1972-75. [More…]

• I am afraid that the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman) and all the oncers from Tasmania will not be here after the next election - [More…]

• In the United States of America a ceiling was put on the amount that presidential candidates could spend at the election last year. [More…]

• -I ask the Prime Minister whether in his election broadcast of 11 September he indicated that the proposed rural bank would be a statutory organisation and whether Senator Cotton in another place repeated that statement last week. [More…]

• He destroyed the political future of the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) within the Liberal Party; he dumped Senator Tom Drake-Brockman, a loyal and trusted servant; he hounded the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Ellicott) from the Cabinet; he has destroyed the faith of the honourable member for Tangney (Dr Richardson) in the Government and the Prime Minister by dishonouring election undertakings; and he has driven the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) out of the Liberal Party. [More…]

• Shortly after the Whitlam Government received the political count from the Australian people exercising their democratic rights at a free election, the Fraser-Anthony Government, in an honest endeavour to repair what in many cases was irreparable damage to Australian primary producers, as a matter of urgency extended the subsidy at the rate of $78.74 per tonne nitrogen in order to allow a close examination of the whole area. [More…]

• I have no doubt that on the eve of an election little handouts such as a nitrogenous fertiliser subsidy are being made in an endeavour to win back people who have been alienated from the National Country Party. [More…]

• As we know, they are in a mess, and that is what rural voters will say at the next election. [More…]

• With an election possibly coming up very soon, it can look to many of its rural seats only with a great deal of trepidation following the confusion and mishandling of the rural sector. [More…]

• The measures it contains give effect to the Government Parties’ industrial relations policy which was overwhelmingly endorsed at the last election. [More…]

• It is important that elections in organisations be conducted in a manner which will achieve the fullest possible participation by members and be free of practices likely to lead to irregularities. [More…]

• Under the existing requirements for secret postal ballots, an organisation which does not have rules providing for a ‘secret postal ballot’ as defined must conduct the election in accordance with the Conciliation and Arbitration regulations unless an exemption is granted by the Industrial Registrar. [More…]

• These regulations provide a comprehensive code of practice for the conduct of elections to office. [More…]

• I was talking about provisions relating to secret postal ballots for union elections. [More…]

• To reinforce these provisions, it will be open to the Federal Court, in proceedings under section 1 4 1 of 1 7 1 C of the Act, to declare void an election not conducted in accordance with the secret postal ballots regulations, and direct that a fresh election be conducted. [More…]

• For two years, since the last election, the Government has been peddling the idea of a rural bank. [More…]

• We are still living in this Disneyland of politics where everything now is being done to suit the election that will be called in the first or second week of December. [More…]

• It may suit the Government to go to the polls in the first or second week in December, a year before an election is due. [More…]

• We continue to live with the political decisions associated with an early election. [More…]

• One can expect that in the next two weeks decisions will be made which conveniently will suit the election and will show a sense of propriety about the unemployed people. [More…]

• -The honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) is very concerned about the strength of the back bench after the next election, whenever that may be. [More…]

• What right have they deliberately to cause members of the public of Victoria to have to suffer the privations that they are suffering just to make it possible for them to win another election? [More…]

• Has the attention of the Prime Minister been drawn to the views expressed in editorials in every major newspaper in the country that increasing speculation about a premature election is destroying the economic and political fabric of Australia? [More…]

• In particular, nas he, as has been reported, sought the advice of the GovernorGeneral about an early election? [More…]

• Will he now act responsibly and end speculation about an early election? [More…]

• The Labor Party must have erased that clause suddenly because it was there during the course of the 1975 election campaign. [More…]

• The Prime Minister’s dishonouring of his election promises. [More…]

• It is not an insignificant piece of legislation and it is certainly not a piece of legislation that should be introduced and debated in this Parliament on the basis of setting the scene for an election by developing industrial confrontation or by some other device which the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) may seek to use. [More…]

• I would have thought that there is an obligation on a government to ensure that there is a legislative framework to ensure that there is a proper and fair ballot for the election of office bearers of an organisation. [More…]

• I seek to establish beyond all reasonable doubt that the Bill is phoney, that it is an attempt to create a situation that will produce a political climate that the Government hopes will enable it to hold the next election in a spirit of division and dissension. [More…]

• He will ignore the rising public opinion against the mining and export of uranium because he hopes to be able to force an election now on false issues and to be able to have another three years after the end of this year in order to defy public opinion and to treat the public with utter contempt. [More…]

• Then, in this atmosphere of division that the Prime Minister has deliberately created, the Prime Minister will call for an election to let the people decide. [More…]

• What new powers will another election give to the Government that it does not already have? [More…]

• If the Government cannot point to some new power that an election will give to it, why does it not use the powers it already has to cure the problem we are talking about. [More…]

• However, the paranoic desire of the Prime Minister to divide the community and establish grounds for an election keep coming to the fore. [More…]

• The exception, I think, is the Waterside Workers Federation which has an election day to elect its officials in the same way as the people of Australia elect their governments. [More…]

• This Government finds nothing nicer when it believes an election is looming than to stir up the community, to divide it and to raise this specious law and order issue. [More…]

• This legislation has been introduced as a cheap political gimmick that has been planned for months and months to develop a climate in which an election can be held. [More…]

• It wants to pour petrol on the flames to ensure that there is a dispute so that on 3 December or 10 December it can hold an election on a law and order issue which is a complete and utter phoney. [More…]

• Workers’ wages have been eroded by the phoney proposition that was put to the electorate prior to the election that this Government would support wage indexation. [More…]

• He spoke perhaps as though he believed that there might be an election in the offing. [More…]

• -An election in the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union is coming up. [More…]

• That this House censures the Prime Minister because of the instability and divisiveness he is causing in the community by promoting speculation on a premature election for both Houses of the Parliament. [More…]

• That, since it is likely that this House will be dissolved before such a committee could complete its work, this House now requests the Senate, which preserves continuity despite any election, to set up a select committee with full powers to investigate these matters effectively and, without prejudice to their generality, to report upon: [More…]

• -I ask the Prime Minister a question about one of the few subjects on which he and I are in total agreement- that speculation about election dates is damaging the economy and halting economic recovery. [More…]

• I ask: Will the Prime Minister stop playing games with the Australian people and now state the date of the next election? [More…]

• -The honourable gentleman could take some pride in the fact that he, quite falsely and knowingly, was one of the first to indicate that I had a preference for an election date although I had not spoken to him about the subject and I still to this stage have not indicated a view one way or another. [More…]

• Yesterday it was necessary to indicate, because there was widespread misunderstanding on these matters, that unless there are to be two elections held in the next 12 months there needs to be some move to ensure that there will be simultaneous elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives. [More…]

• I indicated that there were options between December and April-May for an election. [More…]

• I think they’re already known by the public, but in a year’s time, which I think would be about the earliest that there could be an election, although quite a likely time for the electionit would be perfectly reasonable time to have a half Senate election and one could have the whole of the House of Representatives at the same time to synchronise the elections. [More…]

• Is it not a fact that if an election were to be held for both Houses in, say, December, the existing Senate would continue right to the end of June and that the new senators elected could not take their places till next July? [More…]

• Will the right honourable gentleman also acknowledge that since the simultaneous elections referendum received overwhelming support from the electors in the whole of Australia last May but majority support from the electors in only half the States I have constantly said that the way to implement the people’s wish to have simultaneous elections but a contemporary Parliament is to have elections for both Houses as close to the end of June as will permit the Senate votes to be counted? [More…]

• Then he went on to say: in a year’s time, which I think would be about the earliest that there could be an election, although quite a likely time for the election- it would be a perfectly reasonable time to have a half Senate election and one could have the whole of the House of Representatives at the same time to synchronise the elections. [More…]

• I refer to his quite categorical statement that there will be joint elections in either December of this year or AprilMay of next year. [More…]

• In view of the fact that a joint election cannot be held until the House of Representatives has been dissolved before its term expires- only the Governor-General can do that- and in view of the fact that the incoming Governor-General cannot dissolve the House of Representatives before he takes office on 8 December, will the Prime Minister state whether he has already talked with the present GovernorGeneral about a dissolution of the House of Representatives? [More…]

• Firstly the electoral margin given for the seat of St George at the last election is wrong. [More…]

• Secondly the article states that I moved into the electorate after the election. [More…]

• I purchased a house after pre-selection some four or five months prior to the election. [More…]

• Sixthly, there is a heading that members referred to in the article, including myself, live in fear of an election. [More…]

• What I said was that I was ready for an election whenever it was called by the Prime Minister and that the Liberal Party would retain the seat of St George. [More…]

• He asked me firstly whether I was worried about an early election. [More…]

• He suggested that unemployment was the main electoral issue of an early election. [More…]

• I do, in an article which appeared in this week’s National Times dated 24-29 October 1977 under the heading ‘The Men Who Live in Fear of an Early Election’. [More…]

• That article attributes certain remarks to me in the context of speculation about the timing of an election and also my prospects of holding the seat of Kingston. [More…]

• The comment which I made to the author of that article on inflation as an election issue was made in the context of the Government’s success in overcoming that problem. [More…]

• There were also comments in relation to the timing of an election. [More…]

• I prefaced those comments by stating clearly that it was the Prime Minister’s prerogative to call an election when he thought the electorate should pass judgment on his Government’s performance. [More…]

• I expressed no strong preference for any election timing. [More…]

• The final misrepresentation of course was the heading of the article which stated ‘The Men Who Live in Fear of an Early Election’. [More…]

• We have seen the abuse of union power abetted by the Labor Party, and we have seen the Government’s continuing success on the economic front which makes me well prepared for any election. [More…]

• The Prime Minister’s dishonouring of his election promises. [More…]

• In my 1975 election speech I made 5 1 specific promises. [More…]

• On 3 1 January last year, six weeks after the election, the Government announced its opposition to full indexation. [More…]

• That promise has not been quite fulfilled, but a fairness in election for all unions has been introduced by this Government so that those people who make up the silent majority have an opportunity now of having a voice in the affairs of trade unions. [More…]

• It gave in detail some of the Government’s commitments during the election campaign. [More…]

• It is no news to anybody that the Fraser Administration could treat so lightly the promises it made leading up to the election in 1975. [More…]

• It could be no surprise to anyone that it would treat industrial relations as the springboard in trying to be returned to office at the election which is to be held in Australia on 10 December this year. [More…]

• So, during the forthcoming election’ campaign, let honourable members opposite go out and make the same promise, but this time let them be decent enough to tell those who are searching for work that it is not part of the Government’s policies for 1977-78 to put people back to work. [More…]

• It is still the same old party as we knew previously and which will be facing any election, whenever it may be held. [More…]

• It is very significant that the allocation is being rushed through at this stage because obviously an election is in the offing. [More…]

• Whilst we welcome the statement we deplore the fact that it has been made as an election gimmick. [More…]

• Does the Government intend that this scheme will continue at this level and higher for the rest of the financial year, or will it after the election chop out the scheme and not have to increase its funding? [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party has adopted a policy which means that after it wins the next election it will be looking to introduce such a scheme because without it we will not train anything like the total number of tradesmen needed in this country. [More…]

• On behalf of the electors of Cunningham, I urge the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Government to cease speculating about an early election, to cease promoting industrial troubles as an issue on which to hang an early election and to get down to the job of resuscitating the Australian economy. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party welcomes an election whenever it is to be held because I believe that we will form the next government of this country. [More…]

• Whenever the forthcoming election is held, they will reap the harvest. [More…]

• Perhaps that is the sort of motive that would be in its mind if it were facing an election. [More…]

• I ask him: Did Mr Leake at any time raise any election funds for him or on his behalf? [More…]

• One can tell, from listening to the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam), that an election is on at least in Queensland. [More…]

• One would have thought that if a government were not trusted it would not be re-elected each election with an increased majority. [More…]

• One would have expected that the Leader of the Opposition and the Opposition economic spokesman would have wanted to contribute in a way which caused greater stability, not simply to try to use the forms of the House as part of a Queensland election campaign. [More…]

• I do not think it is helpful to have a debate such as this which the Leader of the Opposition is obviously using as part of the Queensland election campaign. [More…]

• Perhaps the fact that there will be an election in Queensland soon has prompted the Opposition to bring this matter forward. [More…]

• It is time the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) stopped playing his parlour games and told us when the next election is to be so that the people of Australia can elect a decent government. [More…]

• I am not blaming the Commission because I think it is deliberate Government action, as we saw in the case of the State Electricity Commission workers strike in Victoria in which that State was brought to the point of collapse because this Government wanted an election on the issue of industrial problems. [More…]

• I was saying that the Opposition is concerned about the industrial problems that exist today in the Minister’s Department which have been brought about and provoked because the Government desires to have an election on the issue of industrial problems throughout the country. [More…]

• One of the motives is that the Government hopes to get the recommendation of the Broadcasting Tribunal through before the election so that the Minister can grant the licence. [More…]

• Every election up until the last five or six years has been fought on Australia’s incapacity to defend itself- on the hordes swirling down from the north while we are helpless. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, in moving this motion, I draw attention to the most serious matter which is standing in front of this country because an election is pending. [More…]

• There is nothing to mdicate that an election is imminent. [More…]

• by leave- Mr Speaker, I wish to inform the House that the Government has recommended to His Excellency the GovernorGeneral that the House of Representatives be dissolved on 10 November next and that a general election for the members of the House of Representatives be held on Saturday, 10 [More…]

• If their places are to be filled by 1 July 1978, an election to fill them must be held no later than May. [More…]

• Under the second paragraph of section 13 of the Constitution an election to fill vacant Senate places may be held within one year before the places become vacant. [More…]

• It was the general practice prior to 1963 to hold elections for the House of Representatives and for half the Senate at the same time. [More…]

• Indeed, in 1955 the Governor-General, Sir William Slim, on the advice of the then Prime Minister, dissolved the House of Representatives much earlier than its three-year term to synchronise the elections for the two Houses. [More…]

• In that case the election for both Houses was held some 18 months after the previous election for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• In May this year the Government put to the people a referendum proposal which was intended to ensure that elections for both Houses would have to be held simultaneously. [More…]

• It is the view of the Government that at the next election for half the Senate an election should also be held for the House of Representatives. [More…]

• Indeed, on a Monday Conference interview on 1 November 1976 the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) thought that it would be entirely appropriate to have a combined half Senate and House of Representatives election at the end of 1977. [More…]

• In a year’s time, which I would think would be about the earliest that there could be an election, although quite a likely time for the election, it would be a perfectly reasonable time to have a half Senate election and one could have the whole of the House of Representatives at the same time to synchronise the elections. [More…]

• If the elections are not held together it will mean that there must be an election for half the Senate at least by May 1978, an election for the House of Representatives before April 1979, another election for half the Senate before July 1981 and so on- a major Federal election every one or two years. [More…]

• A situation in which a government is constantly concerned with the holding of elections is not conducive to sound government and hence is not in the public interest. [More…]

• If the elections for both Houses are to be synchronised, the question arises as to when they should be held. [More…]

• The Government has come to the conclusion that the elections for both Houses should be held in December 1977, and I have recommended accordingly to His Excellency. [More…]

• Since that election the Government has pursued policies designed to correct the situation. [More…]

• While uncertainty as to an election persists, investment is likely to be held back, confidence could be eroded, and a significant growth in employment opportunities is unlikely. [More…]

• An election in December will provide an early opportunity to end election speculation and the resulting uncertainty as to the policies that will be followed after that election. [More…]

• Let me also make it clear that an election in December would be in keeping with the pattern over many years for elections to be held for half the Senate in the latter months of the calendar year. [More…]

• In fact, December would be the usual time for a Senate election to take place. [More…]

• Since 1949, and leaving aside double dissolutions, elections for half the Senate have been held in November or December on seven occasions and in May on only one occasion. [More…]

• For the reasons I have stated, there is ample justification for both elections to be held together at this time. [More…]

• Since August, when the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) told the editor of the Australian that he might ‘spring an election’- interpreted by that gentleman as a Spring electionthe Australian economy and the Australian political system have been needlessly subjected to the stresses and uncertainty deliberately created by the Prime Minister. [More…]

• As a result we have had this week the ultimate refinement in election rumour mongering. [More…]

• There has been speculation not just on the election date but speculation on the date the election date would be announced. [More…]

• When all the confusion created by the Prime Minister is swept aside, it becomes clear that there is one reason and one reason only for wanting an election now rather than at the proper time- nearer the term which the Prime Minister demanded from the Australian people less than two years ago. [More…]

• The desire for a premature election is the most complete and open admission there could possibly be that the Government has failed and that it knows it has failed. [More…]

• The justification for a December election rather than a May election given by the Prime Minister now and hinted for some weeks past is that he is heeding the call by the majority of the Australian people last May for simultaneous elections. [More…]

• Last May 62 per cent of Australian electors supported the proposal that whenever there was an election for the House of Representatives there should also be an election for half the Senate. [More…]

• This great majority showed that the electors wanted not only the elections for both Federal Houses to be held at the same time, but also the terms of both Houses to commence at the same time. [More…]

• The only proper time for an election which would give expression to the people’s demand for both simultaneous elections and a contemporary Parliament is May next. [More…]

• The people will clearly see why the Prime Minister is flouting their wish for the Houses as well as the elections to be synchronised. [More…]

• As a result of this decision Australia is to have its fourth House of Representatives election in five years. [More…]

• I can see no reason for this chamber to refuse to allow a person who is recognised as the leader of his own political party the right to speak on the subject of an election which is being called 12 months before it is due. [More…]

• Obviously, the issues on which the election will be fought are of significance to the Australian Democrats as well as to the Liberal and National Country Parties and to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• One of the reasons, of course, that an election has been called for the House of Representatives and half the Senate is that an attempt is being made to silence the Australian Democrats. [More…]

• That is the whole purpose of this early election. [More…]

• The election has been called so that Mr Fraser can conclude the coup of getting rid of the clique which perhaps was opposed to his coming to the leadership of the Liberal Party. [More…]

• Now that we are to have an election in just over six weeks, will the Government do a somersault and announce soon increased government spending including spending on job creation programs? [More…]

• -The honourable gentleman is getting the jitters because of the election campaign. [More…]

• Australian Labor Party in its election policies. [More…]

• Mr Joe Davis, Chairman of the Flinders Area Finance Committee, said that the finances of election campaigns of the Liberal Party in Flinders have, as is the case of the Liberal Party generally, been wholly the responsibility of the Area Finance Committee (originally the Electorate Committee operating in conjunction with a sub-finance committee) and certainly not the responsibility of the endorsed candidate or the member. [More…]

• In other words, this Government has honoured its election promise. [More…]

• He is more interested in discussing with an honourable member who will not be here after the election something that is probably irrelevant to what we are talking about now. [More…]

• If they were to enrol, as they may, before the writs are issued for the forthcoming election, the Kalgoorlie electorate would be out of all proportion to what would be deemed fair and reasonable. [More…]

• Not only did the people at the election of 1974 say that there should be no greater than a 10 per cent variation from the average numbers in an electorate for the States - [More…]

• Evidence given in the Western Australian Court of Disputed Returns last month on an appeal in relation to the electorate of Kimberley in the State election in February puts that beyond doubt. [More…]

• If this is not done I would anticipate that by the next election there could be in the order of 3,000 to 4,000 Aborigines on the roll and under such circumstances the Liberal Party would be doomed to failure. [More…]

• The 1975 election was an easy one for sitting Liberal and National Party members. [More…]

• I suggest- after the next election I will work towards this goal- that the Commonwealth Electoral Act should be altered. [More…]

• He did this before the 1975 election quite adequately when he was seen once with the Vietnamese orphans. [More…]

• The election date, 10 December, is the finest example of this. [More…]

• I believe it is possible to draw up the electoral boundaries so that on the day they are drawn they contain almost equal numbers of electors, I believe that perhaps we should redraw the electoral boundaries after every election at some fixed time before the next election. [More…]

• It will be announced in the forthcoming election campaignit is most important- that we want to encourage a people’s convention, which would be held we think in 1978 or 1979, to determine a new constitution for Australia. [More…]

• I might add that at the forthcoming election the Australian Labor Party will be proposing a people’s convention to draw a new Constitution. [More…]

• His action was vindicated in the subsequent election by an overwhelming majority of Australians, and that support spoke for itself. [More…]

• Accordingly, nothing can be done by way of intermediary relief until after the writs are returned following the election. [More…]

• Parliamentarians are in the throes of preparing themselves for an election on 10 December next. [More…]

• Despite the ovemhehning amount of money that is anticipated will be spent by the opponents of Labor, the Labor Party feels that it will win the confidence of the people of Austraha which will enable it to take over the treasury bench of the nation after that election. [More…]

• The National Times of 17 October last set out on page 28 the amount of money spent by the Liberal and National Country Parties on television and radio advertising during the 1975 elections. [More…]

• My party advisers inform me that in the Hunter electorate, which is one of the truest Labor electorates in Austraha and which is the electorate that I have the honour to represent, the National Country Party of Australia spent $5,000 during the 1975 election campaign. [More…]

• Quite clearly in the forthcoming election campaign he cannot speak with any authority on economic matters, because his leader has publicly indicated that if Labor came to power the honourable member for Oxley would not be permitted to hold an economic post. [More…]

• apparent discrepancies between his own protestations and the account given at a Press briefingby Mr Hawke in relation to alleged negotiations between certin Irakis and the ALP for the receipt of election moneys by that Party; and [More…]

• Proposed the next House of Representatives and half Senate election should be held on Saturday, 10 December 1977, I undertook to confirm details of the timetable when replies had been received from the States. [More…]

• That so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would preclude the Leader of the Opposition speaking in this House, at a time of his own choosing, for a period not exceeding 30 minutes in order to explain (a) apparent discrepancies between his own protestations and the account given at a Press briefing by Mr Hawke in relation to alleged negotiations between certain Irakis and the Australian Labor Party for the receipt of election moneys by that party and (b) matters relating to the foregoing. [More…]

• If the Labor Party wants to disown a contract that this Government might enter into with the United Kingdom to help it maintain its economic stability, it is up to the Labor Party to tell the Australian people during the election campaign that it will disown such a contract. [More…]

• The Minister will recall that on the Australian Broadcasting Commission news this morning he stated that laws banning the broadcasting of election material on television and radio for two days before a Federal election were outdated and outmoded. [More…]

• Quite frankly, the perspective of men like these, men who need no lectures from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition on Labor principles, is light years away from that of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition who tries to reduce uranium merely to an election issue. [More…]

• They demonstrate the honourable gentleman’s intention of mounting an election campaign based on falsehood and outright misrepresentation. [More…]

• So all round the prospects for substantial increases in aluminium production are attractive but, I suppose, the final decisions will depend on the outcome of the election on 10 December. [More…]

• It is probably one of those things that ties in with the nervousness of some people in the Opposition who are facing an election. [More…]

• They are back to their old tactics which have proved to be so hopeless in the past and which will again prove to be so when election day comes round. [More…]

• It might be that it has to have something to hang an early election on before those 170,000-odd people leave school next year and add to the ranks of the unemployed. [More…]

• The prime motivation for the introduction of the deductibility of the sale of mining ore rights, of course, has something to do with an election, particularly in the electorate of Kalgoorlie. [More…]

• I have a fairly clear idea that the Government is sorry about the promise it made in relation to the investment allowance two years ago during an election campaign because it realises that the investment allowance has, if anything, caused a decrease in employment rather than an increase in employment. [More…]

• Some observers have been churlish enough to suggest that the Commissioner of Taxation actually has further legislation ready, that the Government has held it back until after the election, the Government’s thinking probably being that those such legislation is likely to effect would be found more readily among the ranks of its own supporters. [More…]

• I have no doubt that one of the promises that will be tossed up in this election by honourable members opposite will be that the Government, as from 10 December, has decided to index family allowances. [More…]

• This was an undertaking given by the Government prior to the 1975 election that it is now honouring. [More…]

• 1 make it quite clear that this was a policy undertaking and is not something that has been thought of quickly or brought on in a rush prior to another election. [More…]

• Alternatively I would regard this as a better course of action- the Government here and now should say that before the Parliament rises for the election, family allowances should be adjusted in line with the change in prices. [More…]

• On Wednesday week the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) said that the measures gave effect to the coalition’s industrial relations policy, which was overwhelmingly endorsed at the last election. [More…]

• His last hurrah will be his last election after 10 December, when presumably he will be beaten by somebody else for the leadership. [More…]

• We are very close to an election and everybody has behaved himself ever so nicely recently. [More…]

• Those wordsthe pledge of the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in his 1975 election policy speech- will be the epitaph of the Fraser Government after 10 December. [More…]

• The clearest of all indicators is the fact of the election itself. [More…]

• Yet all these indicators do not speak as powerfully and reveal as much as the decision to rush to an election before the consequences of this Government’s economic policies make their impact next year. [More…]

• There is one reason, and one reason only, for this election- to have it before unemployment tops half a million, as it will early next year. [More…]

• Honourable members will recall the 1974 election when the Leader of the Opposition was walking around the country saying: ‘Only Whitlam can reduce unemployment by one third’. [More…]

• I will admit that at the time of the 1974 election unemployment had been reduced. [More…]

• Here is one of the economic advisers to the Opposition who is saying that interest rates will be put up after the election. [More…]

• I think it is unfortunate that the matter which is listed for tomorrow in the name of the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young), namely, that we discuss the requirements for election purposes and the financing or political parties, cannot be debated. [More…]

• I realise the tight timetable because of the announced election date. [More…]

• I would not be so unkind as to suggest that the Rockhampton proposal is window dressing for an election campaign. [More…]

• My word, the Labor Government had an election oh its hands and it deferred the project again in 1975. [More…]

• That since the last election, there has been no action by the Government towards the abolition of the means test [More…]

• The people rejected the Australian Labor Party in December 1974 in the State election, and they repeated their action in December 197S in the Federal election. [More…]

• They will do it on 12 November in the State election and again on 10 December in the Federal election. [More…]

• They know what they are doing, and that will be reflected in their vote in the two forthcoming elections. [More…]

• The honourable member can come and campaign for a candidate any day of the week and every day of the week between now and the Federal election. [More…]

• Oxley campaigned for the election and got well away from the Bill. [More…]

• What is sad about this is that the Government makes a move only a couple of weeks before the election and leaves the money outstanding only until next June. [More…]

• I remember that prior to the last election Government supporters went into the Cobar area and told the Cobar people what kind of assistance this Government would give them. [More…]

• My advice to any member of the Government is to keep as far away as possible from Cobar during the election campaign unless something similar to the assistance contained in this Bill is introduced for the Cobar people. [More…]

• What provision does the State or Commonwealth law or the rules of each private fund, have for the election of the governing board of contributors to the fund. [More…]

• That might be a good slogan for him in the election campaign. [More…]

• Does the Prime Minister concede that the Federal Treasurer of his party was making appeals for campaign funds at a time when he was denying that there would be a Federal election? [More…]

• -During the period after which an election has been announced the business of government must proceed. [More…]

• The business cannot be impeded because of an election campaign. [More…]

• It suddenly does not become improper to work on a matter that has been worked on for many months just because an election date has been announced. [More…]

• I think the honourable gentleman would accept that it does not make a great deal of sense to have the Senate elections and the House of Representatives elections held separately. [More…]

• If the elections for both Houses are to be brought together, obviously the options for election dates are somewhat reduced. [More…]

• In November 1975 the Leader of the Opposition proposed to resolve the Supply crisis by having a half Senate election. [More…]

• After such an election he could not have got Supply through the Senate. [More…]

• That being so, how the honourable gentleman could suggest that the proposal for a half Senate election could alter the circumstances at all or resolve that situation I utterly fail to understand. [More…]

• Because of the calling of an early election it has not been possible for the Committee to conduct all the hearings it had planned or to present a final report. [More…]

• When you get tossed out on election day on 10 December I will give you your job back again with Channel 0.I congratulate him on doing his job faithfully in this place on behalf of Sir Reg. [More…]

• The Government is putting broadcasting and television firmly in the hands of the Government and of the Minister who will be susceptible to pressures exercised by the Government’s benefactors, the financiers of the Liberal and Country parties at election time. [More…]

• Incidentally, the Government is afraid to bring in legislation which will require the Liberal and Country parties to disclose that it is the Ansetts, the Murdochs and these people who are financing those parties at election time. [More…]

• It was the policy of this Government during the 1975 election campaign. [More…]

• As I have said on numerous occasions during this debate, this is another example of the Government paying off its financial supporters, the people who keep it going, the people who provide it with the wherewithal to fight elections. [More…]

• In 1975, because of these people, the Liberal and National Country Parties had so much money to wage the election campaign that they did not know where or how to spend it. [More…]

• Regulations are not necessarily made when Parliament is sitting but can be made after a Parliament has risen, possibly for a considerable period before an election. [More…]

• The present Government, in its policy speech prior to the last election, said that it would set up a statutory permanent authority to look after ethnic broadcasting. [More…]

• If that were the case it would mean that the citizens in Western Australia were entitled to go to an election on the basis of the electoral distribution which was carried out in 1974. [More…]

• We want to know why we are having an election as early as we are. [More…]

• Again it would follow that unless this legislation is passed, any citizen could promptly go to the High Court and say: ‘Look, the election is taking place on redistributions which are not in accordance with fact’. [More…]

• There would have to be an election at large in every State. [More…]

• A very superficial look at the figures that appear in the report of the Distribution Commissioners which was tabled in the House about a fortnight ago, compared with the election statistics for 1975, shows quite clearly what has happened. [More…]

• I think the figure was approximately 70 per cent at the 1975 election which I think all honourable members would agree was somewhat unusual from the Labor Party’s point of view. [More…]

• At the last Federal election in 1975, in the subdivision of Swansea, Labor received 70.6 per cent of the vote and the Liberal Party received 27.6 per cent. [More…]

• Commissioners because they were pushed to work very quickly so that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) could have an election on 10 December. [More…]

• The legislation is required now because in the absence of a further appointment, which as the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith has just said would be in breach of the long standing convention when an election is pending, and the Government is not intending to make such an appointment at this stage, the number of members after 30 November would be one below the permissible minimum number of four members. [More…]

• In order to give effect to its pre-election policies, the Government in 1976 and in 1977 convened Premiers Conferences for the purposes of defining relevant aspects of its policy proposals for financial assistance to the States and local government authorities. [More…]

• What has happened now, in fact, is that the Government feels, because of the calling of the early election, it has not been able to come to a decision on the recommendation of the so-called Bailey report- the report of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Health and Welfare- in which it is suggested that there be a much wider homeless persons assistance program incorporated in what is called a sheltered accommodation program and some re-organisation, with the help of the State governments. [More…]

• That this House requests the Senate which has continuity over the period of the coming election to set up a select committee with full powers to inquire into and report upon: . [More…]

• The Tribunal viewed the program yesterday and decided that it did not have the power to act on Mr Combe ‘s demand for equal time for the Opposition as it is not yet the election period for the Federal election. [More…]

• Whilst I have no doubt that Mr Kennon is a most competent and effective General Manager for your station he was, nevertheless, closely associated with the formulation and production of the now infamous television commercials produced by Mr John Singleton at the 1974 election, and must therefore be assumed to have close association with our political opponents. [More…]

• You will be aware that I brought to the Tribunal evidence showing that some stations in Australia had been most unfair and inequitable in their treatment of political parties in non election periods. [More…]

• The proposed one hour long documentary, as it was filmed at a time when the Prime Minister was clearly seen to be engaged in an election campaign, can be viewed by us only as a gift of an hour of prime time to the Government parties. [More…]

• I am sure that not even the most ignorant Australian would argue that at the time the documentary was filmed there was not a better than reasonable prospect of a general election in 1977. [More…]

• (Need I remind you that as long ago as early March I was able to forecast that such an election would take place). [More…]

• I am sure you will agree that we can be forgiven for thinking that the decision to replace that program with the hourlong documentary on Prime Minister Fraser was indeed an emergency one prompted by anticipation of that gentleman’s announcement of a general election on 10 December 1977. [More…]

• If he was not aware of it and it was a moment’s mental aberration, really it is a stance claim for him to make while he is trying to lead a political party into an election, which I suppose his supporters are hoping he will lose. [More…]

• This House censures the Leader of the Opposition for his persistently misleading and untruthful statements to the Australian people regarding the effects of the economic policy of his Government between 1972 and 1975 and the impact of the economic policy of the present Government since its election in 1975 as exemplified in recent weeks by his statements to the following effect: [More…]

• It is sitting at a time when an election has been called. [More…]

• In recent days the Government has sought on every possible occasion to prevent debate on matters of substance relating to the election. [More…]

• That this House censures the Leader of the Opposition for his persistently misleading and untruthful statements to the Australian people regarding the effect of the economic policies of his Government between 1972 and 1975 and the impact of the economic policies of the present Government since its election in 1975 as exemplified in recent weeks by his statements to the following effect- [More…]

• Whether he will stay after he is defeated at the election, as he undoubtedly will be, .is another interesting matter of contention. [More…]

• The message of the ANZ survey is repeated in every other indicator published since the Prime Minister announced his panic election. [More…]

• This was the rate of inflation in this country when the last election was held. [More…]

• Why is it seeking an election when the opinion polls show so convincingly that it would be very lucky indeed to win government? [More…]

• That is why the Government is seeking a Senate election some seven months ahead of the normal time and a House of Representatives election more than a year ahead of the normal time. [More…]

• The Treasurer’s suggestion yesterday, which was reported in the media this morning, that there is expected to be a substantial reduction in inflation in the course of this financial year is nothing but cheap pie in the sky served up as election fare. [More…]

• That is the sort of result we are getting and that is why the Government has decided to call an election earlier than later. [More…]

• That is why the Government is seeking an early election - [More…]

• One would have thought that a parliamentary opposition, six weeks before an election, an election which it says it has a chance of winning, would have organised itself at Question Time and would have endeavoured to probe the policies and the performance of the Government But no, do we see any sign of organisation? [More…]

• More interesting even than that is that those actions are a commentary on the Labor Party’s own assessment of its chances of winning this election. [More…]

• Is there any sign that he has learnt a lesson from the fact that as a result of the last election not one single Labor member in this House represents a genuinely rural area of Australia? [More…]

• An election for the Legislative Assembly will take place in 1978 at which issues of future constitutional development for the Territory will be widely canvassed. [More…]

• The role that the Legislative Assembly should plan in planning and development is a central point in this Inquiry and will be an important consideration in the debate proceeding that election. [More…]

• I would therefore emphasise this Committee’s view that the re-appointment of the Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory after the election, and the referral of this matter to it again, should be a matter of priority. [More…]

• We announced some time ago that this was part of the Australian Labor Party’s policy for the forthcoming election. [More…]

• I assume that it was a combination of these factors, the fact that there is an election coming on and the fact that the Government expects unemployment to get much worse next year- I suppose those two go together- which finally convinced the Government overnight to bring in this legislation which had been foreshadowed by the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• I hope that the Government at least will give instructions to the departmental officers to deal with applicants in a sensitive way and not to treat them in the way that this Government normally treats these people, since it no longer will be facing an election on 10 December. [More…]

• Otherwise I will be quoted during the election campaign as saying that I was advocating that. [More…]

• I will write to the honourable member from here after the election. [More…]

• They are committed to it specifically by the words of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in his policy speech prior to the last election. [More…]

• To those who will be leaving us as soon as the election is declared, I say that even if they feel that their contribution to the Parliament has all been very minimal, it has been for the nation, and that is a much bigger contribution than painting the back fence of the kindergarten on Saturday afternoon in a working bee. [More…]

• After the announcement about the election, we get the tearjerker that the honourable member for Franklin is responsible for getting this benefit for the lone fathers. [More…]

• However, it seems pretty obvious that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is determined that he will embarrass the Australian Labor Party throughout the election campaign by being absolutely adamant that it does not matter whether contracts are breached, whether relationships with other countries are strained or how he embarrasses the British Labour Government or anybody else. [More…]

• Do these long delays mean that many migrants will not be eligible to vote at the Federal election on 10 December because of the closing of the rolls on 10 November? [More…]

• Is this action being deliberately taken by you as Minister to prevent eligible migrants from voting at this election? [More…]

• Should we interpret some recent rather tentative relaxation of economic restrictions not as election bait but rather as an implicit recognition that past policy was wrong and should be changed? [More…]

• The choice of the December election date appears to us to have eliminated the risk of that happening.’ [More…]

• Australia- given re-election of the Fraser Government- is likely to be pursuing economic strategy akin to the US under Dr Arthur Bums in his hey-day (1974 to 1976). [More…]

• -by leave-In what is a remarkable display of cynicism on the day before the House rises for a general election, the Government has now introduced what it terms its energy policy statement. [More…]

• The Government does not want to enter the election campaign saying that it has done nothing about an energy policy. [More…]

• They are now in an election campaign and it is all sweet reason. [More…]

• Now they are being stolen holus bolus by the Government in order to save its skin at election time. [More…]

• All the surveys, indices and statistics published since the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) announced his panic election give the same message: The Australian economy is in serious decline. [More…]

• We welcome the fact that in the election on 10 December education again will be a major issue. [More…]

• I must say that, watching my colleagues now facing an election and its attendant stress which I am not facing, I am reminded of Disraeli’s statement as to his feelings in being a member of the House of Lords after having been a member of the House of Commons. [More…]

• But what is it now that honourable members opposite think will breech this fundamental deficiency by the production on the eve of an election of something that they call this Australian Rural Bank? [More…]

• I see the Australian Rural Bank in this form as completely identical with the undertaking given by us in our rural policy speech prior to the 1975 election. [More…]

• So much for the contention in the motion of the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) that in some way this legislation dishonours the 1975 election promise. [More…]

• I wish to quote from the policy document of the Liberal and National Country parties brought out prior to the last election. [More…]

• The Liberal and National Country parties made it quite clear before the last election what they had in mind in relation to their proposal to set up the Rural Bank. [More…]

• Is it a fact, as reported in the Press, that it was the Premier of Queensland himself who requested the Minister and the Prime Minister to stop the program because two Aboriginal liaison officers with the field teams had encouraged Aboriginals to enrol for the State election? [More…]

• If so, why could not the program continue uninterrupted since the rolls for the State election closed several days ago? [More…]

• -The ballot for the Australian Workers Union election in the State of Queensland is currently proceeding, as the honourable gentleman has said, and I am informed that it will close in early December. [More…]

• I ask: Was their complaint, as reported, that the field workers had encouraged Aboriginals to enrol for the State election? [More…]

• The broad complaint that has come to my notice is that the people involved with the program are unacceptable to Queensland authorities because they are political activists and are unacceptable when an election campaign is being conducted. [More…]

• That was done within a matter of days of election to government. [More…]

• Did he and the Prime Minister forecast in the last national election campaign two years ago a growth rate in the following year of 6 per cent to 7 per cent and ‘jobs for all who want to work’, to mention just two economic indicators and two broken promises? [More…]

• Is it not a fact that he and his party were wrong in every economic forecast they made during that election campaign? [More…]

• The Public Service Board has indicated that it is currently urgently examining the report and, on the resumption of Parliament after the election, I will table a further statement giving details of action taken. [More…]

• I think that on election to government we would restore that clause, in the interests of consumers. [More…]

• It is only in the current State election campaign in Queensland- and I suspect in the Federal election campaign that has now developed herethat there has been urgency finally to make a decision in response to the wishes of the people of north Queensland. [More…]

• In the current election campaign in Queensland a concerted effort has been mounted by candidates in the northern sections of Queensland to press the Queensland Parliament to legislate so that the ANL can operate into those Queensland ports on an intrastate basis. [More…]

• There is a fair risk that there will be a substantial change to the two-airline agreement after the election is over, if this Government unfortunately is returned. [More…]

• Because freight rates to Tasmania had not been increased in even and frequent steps prior to the election in 1972 there was a build up of pressure for a price increase to try to recover losses being incurred. [More…]

• Instead of that, the Premier of Queensland is using the Seamen’s Union and the other five maritime unions to try to create a political issue out of this matter for the State election. [More…]

• He is assuming that Labor will win the election. [More…]

• So I feel that he was just politicking because of the Queensland election which is to be held at the end of this week. [More…]

• Whilst the north-eastern residents will have the luxury of a full transport program established on the basis of detailed research, the residents of the south will be left lamenting with a few cosmetic changes which were hastily introduced before the last State election. [More…]

• The industry’s disenchantment with government stems from the failure of the Minister to implement the promises he made in the 197S election campaign. [More…]

• The Government promised in its election policy on environment and conservation a public inquiry on the wood chip industry. [More…]

• I wish all my parliamentary opponents a vigorous fight in the forthcoming election. [More…]

• Finally, some of our colleagues have already signified their intention not to stand again for election to this House. [More…]

• Four honourable gentlemen are retiring to seek election to greener pastures, in the Senate. [More…]

• I had some qualms recently when you went to South Korea because the last Speaker who took time off to go there did not survive the ensuing election. [More…]

• It did nothing for those on this side of the House who believe in the parliamentary institution, and it was poor testament to three people who maintained their principles when they got the chance which they won at election to administer the poliCies of this nation that it was denied to them. [More…]

• Without boasting may I say that the worst vote I ever received was on my first election, my best vote percentagewise ever recorded was on my last election. [More…]

• Haloes have a habit of getting battered in election campaigns; so if I have one it W111 not be battered over the next few weeks. [More…]

• You, Mr Speaker, did yourself less than justice when you said last night that I had administered a father of a hiding to you in an election in which we were opponents. [More…]

• You actually reduced my majority enormously in the election of 1949. [More…]

• Unlike the honourable member for Wimmera (Mr King), who said that he had his lowest vote when he first came into Parliament and his highest at his last election, I had my highest vote at the second election in which I participated and my lowest vote at the last election, in December 1975. [More…]

• I hope that all honourable members who are going to the election campaign will be able to battle well and to keep to the real issues. [More…]

• Bernard Shaw once said that an election was a moral horror like a war, only without the bloodshed. [More…]

• I do not think it is necessary for an election to be fought that way. [More…]

• I believe that their numbers will be augmented greatly in this election. [More…]

• Mr Speaker and members of the chamber, I wish you aU the best of luck in the forthcoming election, but more importantly I wish you all the best of health in the coming years. [More…]

• Last night in a fair fight I lost Liberal Party preselection for the new seat of Lowe, which now contains 41 per cent of the electors from my old seat of Evans that was, as I have just said, recently abolished. [More…]

• Sir William McMahon, the right honourable member for Lowe who won the pre-selection, has my total support as the endorsed Liberal candidate for that seat. [More…]

• I wish him every success in the election on 10 December so that our policies and our legislative program may continue to have community acceptance. [More…]

• I mention only some of them: The honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr Brown), the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil), the honourable member for Bradfield (Mr Connolly), the honourable member for Parramatta (Mr Ruddock), the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Baillieu), the honourable member for Eden-Monaro (Mr Sainsbury), the honourable member for Berowra (Dr Edwards), the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman), the honourable member for Murray (Mr Lloyd) and the honourable member for Angas (Mr Giles) who, I think, will be defeated in the pre-selection for Wakefield by Bert Kelly. [More…]

• If there had been an election for Cabinet by the democratic means which the Labor Party follows in the selection of Cabinet, most of them would have been in the Cabinet and some of the no-hopers who are front benchers now would be back where they belong. [More…]

• Can he bring up to date the answer he gave me on 1 8 May 1976 (Hansard, page 2174) on (a) the countries in which limits are imposed on election expenditure by candidates or organisations and (b) the methods for enforcing those limits. [More…]

• Can he bring up to date the answer he gave me on 18 May 1976 (Hansard, page 2173) on (a) the countries in which election campaigns are financed in whole or in part from Government funds and (b) the formulae for this funding. [More…]

• He has been a member of this House continuously since his first election in 1955. [More…]

• The election of Speaker in a parliamentary democracy is no empty ceremony. [More…]

• Mr HAYDEN (Oxley-Leader of the Opposition) Mr Clerk, one looks back over the years with fascination, especially at the election of a Speaker in the Parliament. [More…]

• Looking over the years is fascinating because we have discovered the importance of providing a choice in the election of Speaker for this institution. [More…]

• On behalf of myself and the Government I would like to offer to you, Mr Speaker, congratulations on your overwhelming victory in the election for the position of Speaker of the House. [More…]

• I again offer my warmest congratulations to you upon your election to the office of Speaker. [More…]

• I, too, would like to congratulate you on your election to this high and important office. [More…]

• -As the longest serving member of the Australian Labor Party in the Parliament I have taken the unusual course of joining the leaders and the defeated candidate in rising to congratulate you, Mr Speaker, upon your election. [More…]

• They have died down since the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) won with a fairly good majority at the last election, but there was a time last year when he was starting to look sick politically, when people on your side were saying to me confidentially that they felt the time had come when they had to go back to Billy Snedden and ask him to lead the party again. [More…]

• Although he was defeated at the 1946 election, he regained his seat as a senator in the next election and represented South Australia as a Liberal Party senator from 1950 to 1968. [More…]

• He 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…]

• I came to know him in the time leading up to my election and the advice and assistance he was able to give me at that time and subsequent to my election to this place were invaluable to me. [More…]

• In that election Ian Pettitt received a record majority in Hume. [More…]

• It is regrettable that, despite the election night call by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) for consensus and a new spirit of unity, we find now that the National Country Party has drawn out the long knives and that strife and dissension are the order of the day. [More…]

• The result of the election was somewhat closer than anticipated. [More…]

• Mr CHARLES JONES ( Newcastle )-I should like to take the opportunity of congratulating the honourable member for Wide Bay (Mr Millar) on his election in a very close contest. [More…]

• As the honourable gentleman has made very clear, the Government in its election campaign indicated that it would extend the charter of the Commonwealth Development Bank to allow the Bank to cope with all forms of lending through to all forms of business. [More…]

• The major areas of difference are with respect to the involvement of trade unions and the election of workers directors. [More…]

• The advertisement was authorised by Mr J. Zeleznikow of 16 Virginia Circuit, South Caulfield, and it invited support at the election on 10 December last year for Labor Party candidates Mrs Child, Mr Steele, Mr Ross and Mr Holding. [More…]

• The Government, of course, will seek to denigrate this statement, to dismiss it with the same arrogant disregard for the truth as the Prime Minister displayed during the recent election campaign when he told the Australian people that he could see no reason why health insurance contributions should be increased. [More…]

• In his election policy speech, the Prime Minister promised that Australia was ‘ready to go’ with $6,000m in development programs. [More…]

• During the election campaign he was a principal party to a policy which would have taken away the taxation reductions that are now available to all Australian taxpayers. [More…]

• Some honourable members may have expected that Labor Party members, having suffered an overwhelming defeat at the election, would be probably a little bent and not looking forward to the debates which will take place in the Parliament. [More…]

• The Prime Minister seems to save them up for election campaigns. [More…]

• In the last election campaign it was: ‘As from February unemployment will start to drop’. [More…]

• We are no longer in a position where we can embark on a long stage program and hope that we can get the figure of 445,000 down to 250,000 in time for the next election. [More…]

• Last year 164 Bills were dealt with, the sitting time being truncated by the election. [More…]

• Firstly I congratulate you, Mr Speaker, on your re-election as Speaker- for the Thirty-first Parliament. [More…]

• I also congratulate the honourable member for Wide Bay (Mr Millar) on his election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• Before speaking to the motion though, I would like to take this opportunity, as did the mover, of extending to you personally, Mr Speaker, my sincerest congratulations on your new year knighthood and on your re-election as Speaker of this House. [More…]

• Further I thank all Party members and supporters, as well as my very close State parliamentary colleagues in the area, for the tireless work and effort that they put into the election campaign to ensure that I could stand in this place today. [More…]

• I believe it is an issue which goes beyond policy, and the mandate that can be found for that policy in election results. [More…]

• -Mr Speaker, may I add my congratulations to you upon receipt of your Imperial honour and also upon your re-election to the high office of Speaker. [More…]

• I shall be grateful if you will convey my congratulations to the Chairman of Committees, your deputy, on his election to his high office. [More…]

• I wish also to congratulate the Speaker, the right honourable member for Bruce (Sir Billy Snedden), on his reelection to his high office and on the knighthood which has been bestowed on him by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. [More…]

• Both his knighthood and his re-election as Speaker are well deserved honours. [More…]

• But it is worth noting in passing that Caesar was knifed in the back; Gough Whitlam stood down as leader of his own free will and with what I believe to be considerable grace following the defeat of his Party at the recent election. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, first of all I would like to congratulate you upon your election to the position of Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• They are not opposed in the House of Commons after an election and they are not even opposed by the Government or the opposition parties on the hustings during a general election. [More…]

• I hope at a later date to speak in some detail on the new special settlement scheme in New Zealand, which is its equivalent to the young farmer establishment scheme which we promised in our 1975 election policy to introduce and in relation to which a considerable amount of work has been done in the Rural Committee and in the departments. [More…]

• I hope that, before this Parliament is dissolved, our election promise of 1975 will come to fruition so that a young farmer establishment scheme will be operating in this country. [More…]

• Both major parties adopted a similar policy at the last election. [More…]

• It is a remarkable feature of the last general election- indeed the results were overwhelming- that the private members of Parliament who spoke out sensibly and who worked sensibly achieved some quite incredible results. [More…]

• I would say that overwhelmingly in the last election the electorate made a judgment about a fango in respect of taxation. [More…]

• Therefore, if I can be so bold, I want to look at some of the practices and proposals that were put forward in the last election. [More…]

• 1 want to read into Hansard some of the transfers of resources that were proposed in the last election. [More…]

• To he who hath shall be given is never acceptable and in the last election it was made crystal clear it was not acceptable in the last months of 1 977. [More…]

• The Party opposite tried that at the last election and failed. [More…]

• According to the report of the Remuneration Tribunal other benefits or resources at the disposal of honourable members are restored to them after their re-election. [More…]

• His reply went like this: ‘In response to your telegram, the Chairman of the Tribunal has advised me that it was to be implied that the travel rights of members would be restored upon their reelection to the Parliament’. [More…]

• In other words, either on the declaration of the poll or on the night of the election, when in Wills I had what might be called a handy lead, it would be said that a member was in business again and his rights would be restored. [More…]

• Before getting on to the decision which may or may not have been made by the Liberal and National Country Parties, let me say that the 1977 election was, as the Opposition predicted, a showplace for vast sums of money to be spent, especially by the Government Parties, from unrevealed sources to buy favours of which we are unaware in this Parliament and which will lead to a further degeneration in respect for the national Parliament of this country. [More…]

• There can be no doubt that the amount spent on the 1977 election was the largest single amount ever spent on any election in the history of this country. [More…]

• If we can judge by the Victorian experience after the last State election, the Government parties probably have finished with surplus money after the election. [More…]

• During the recent election campaign and immediately following it considerable discussion arose because of unfortunate discoveries in Australia of a virus of the bluetongue disease. [More…]

• During the two years- the Minister for Primary Industry acknowledged this during the election campaign- the Government kept deferring the matter on the ground that it did not consider it had high enough priority to warrant an allocation of funds. [More…]

• This attempt was in the changes that were proposed by the Labor Government in New South Wales to the method of election of members to the upper House in that State. [More…]

• It was a system that was not used even by the Labor Party in its own elections. [More…]

• The proposal by the honourable member for Port Adelaide is an attempt to ossify the existing political structures so that the only way one would be financed at taxpayers’ expense would be through the existing political parties on the basis of the votes received at a previous election. [More…]

• One source said that it was felt that Mr Clyde Cameron’s public statements critical of Mr Whitlam had not helped Labor’s credibility in the election. [More…]

• This Government lied during the recent election campaign and any remnants of the Prime Minister’s credibility have disappeared since then. [More…]

• I claimed during the election campaign that the health funds would increase their charges. [More…]

• Let me quote from the transcript of the Australian Broadcasting Commission program P.M. of 28 November during the last election campaign. [More…]

• HUW EVANS: The Opposition spokesman Dr Dick Klugman has claimed that the Government has been delaying any announcement on increases in health fund contributions until after the election and that the Government will raise the 2.5 per cent levy for standard Medibank. [More…]

• Throughout the months of a fee rise application by the Hospitals Contribution Fund of NSW, its rejection, the election campaign and the subsequent appeal the Government has been caught out in a series of evasions, half truths and severe compromises in accepted Liberal-NCP policies. [More…]

• I thank all the supporters of the Government in the last election and the people of St George for returning me to this place. [More…]

• Before doing so, I congratulate you, Mr Deputy Speaker, on your election to the position of Chairman of Committees and Deputy Speaker and hope that your term in office will be a successful one. [More…]

• Furthermore, in his absence from the chamber today, I congratulate the Speaker on his reelection to that office. [More…]

• I congratulate you also, Mr Deputy Speaker, on your election to the office of Chairman of Committees, which I believe you will serve with distinction and ability. [More…]

• I believe it is hypocritical for the Government, through its Leader on election night and again in this Speech from the throne, to talk about all Australians ‘uniting in common purpose in making Australia a great nation’ and ‘increasing the sense of national identity’. [More…]

• They were the words on election night. [More…]

• I, and my Labor colleagues outside and inside this Parliament, will be consulting widely during this year in particular and then testing our policies in the succeeding period leading up to the next election. [More…]

• Yes, it was rejected at the last election. [More…]

• Initially I wish to congratulate you, Mr Speaker, on your re-election to the position of Speaker. [More…]

• Probably a greater mixture of Ministers visited the electorate of Fadden during the election campaign than visited any other seat. [More…]

• I sought permission earlier from an Opposition front bencher to have incorporated in Hansard some figures relating to the results of the election. [More…]

• Let me turn to the results of the election. [More…]

• We are disappointed to think that this House has never been given the reason why we had an early election last December. [More…]

• Let us look at the last election speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• Our election to the Human Rights Commission in May of this year gives us an additional reason Tor doing so. [More…]

• The words of the Governor-General very largely were taken from a statement made by our Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) immediately after the recent election. [More…]

• I was particularly pleased that this Speech mentioned the promise that was given by the Government during the election as a commitment for this Parliament in relation to handicapped persons. [More…]

• I think that everyone has the right to stand for election to any position and that every credit is due to the elected person. [More…]

• However, I do think that the abolition of my old seat of Darling by the Distribution Commissioners in the recent redistribution before the last election was a little rough. [More…]

• During the election campaign the then member for Riverina intimated that a second office would be opened at Broken Hill if he were successful in the election. [More…]

• As an aside I simply point out to all those people who rush along to listen to the Opposition speakers during election campaigns- I am speaking to the migrant people of this countrythat they should remember that one of the reasons why their brothers and sisters have not been allowed into this country yet is that those people who perhaps they are supporting do not really have their hearts in the job of migration. [More…]

• We in the Australian Labor Party must be careful not to create an oversimplified economic demonology and suggest that the election of a Labor government will itself automatically and instantly restore full employment. [More…]

• Economic debates have had a primitive, not to say Neanderthal, quality about them, especially at election time. [More…]

• Prior to the last election campaign, and during it, we estimated that by the end of February 1978 unemployment would be near the 450,000 mark. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Speaker, I would like to extend my congratulations to the right honourable member for Bruce (Sir Billy Snedden) on his election once again as Speaker of this House and to the honourable member for Wide Bay (Mr Millar) on his election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• More importantly I wish to add my congratulations to the Government on its re-election and on the astuteness of the electors of Australia in returning this Government for a further period of three years. [More…]

• I congratulate them on their election and look forward to working closely with them. [More…]

• Three of the nine subdivisions which existed in 1975 now rests in the hands of the new member for Griffith (Mr Humphreys), and I congratulate him on his election. [More…]

• In know that the honourable member for Bowman (Mr Jull) who stood for election and was very narrowly defeated in 1 974 knew of some classic examples of that and he conveyed them to the Australian people at the time. [More…]

• -In the traditional way, I have congratulated the Speaker on his election. [More…]

• One matter on which we should reflect is that the 1977 election was held very shortly after the introduction of redistributed boundaries. [More…]

• It is always difficult to address oneself to an Address-in-Reply debate after a general election. [More…]

• It is particularly difficult when one is in opposition because one has just been through the process of a general election, during which the parties have put their policies and arguments and the electors have made a decision. [More…]

• The television service extension program approved by the Government about a month prior to the election was most encouraging. [More…]

• Our election to the UN Human Rights Commission in May of this year gives us an additional reason for doing so. [More…]

• A very critical overview of the whole of the circumstances of production within the industry was taken following the last election. [More…]

• More recently, his acquiescence to the Prime Minister’s demand for an unnecessary election a full year before it was due similarly created widespread controversy. [More…]

• Apart from the fact that such a remark is outrageously provocative when applied in the circumstances, the Prime Minister carefully avoids saying why, if he really expects the public to accept such an untruth, he did not announce the appointment before rather than after the general election. [More…]

• He waited until after he had secured his early election and had been returned to office. [More…]

• The timing of the publication of his memoirs will be interestingperhaps it will be a short time before the 1980 election. [More…]

• It includes the reserve and discretionary power of the Prime Minister which seems to be almost boundless; his power, which we saw quite recently, to authorise the declaration of a state of emergency which can be limitless; and, of course, his authority to allow an election to take place quite out of phase with the normal parliamentary period of office, which was used in 1977. [More…]

• The country should not be forced to an early election merely to help leaders solve internal party questions but only when it is necessary to deal with a situation which Parliament itself cannot solve. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman sought to find something wrong in the holding of an early election at the end of last year. [More…]

• Maybe if an election were held now the Labor Party would lose another 10 or 15 seats, I do not know. [More…]

• Sir William Slim on a previous occasion gave authority for an early election in circumstances not dissimilar. [More…]

• If the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom got an early election some time before his Government’s present 5-year term ended because he judged it proper and expedient, and it gave him an advantage over the Conservative Opposition, would the present Leader of the Opposition say that it was improper of the British Prime Minister? [More…]

• He know quite well that in the total practice of the British system an independent initiative is left to Prime Ministers here and in Britain to determine the timing of an election. [More…]

• The Prime Minister was proposing a half Senate election as a means of breaking the deadlock. [More…]

• Whatever happened at the half Senate election would not have altered the situation. [More…]

• The solution of the then Prime Minister to hold a half Senate election was no solution at all. [More…]

• We need to remember, quite distinct and different from that rabble, the authentic voice of the people of Australia when they had the opportunity to vote at the election. [More…]

• In fact, had the Bill not passed this House or had it been repealed by this House after we found that this gentleman had been appointed Prime Minister, there could have been no Supply to hold the election. [More…]

• It does not matter whether it is an election promise, a reply to questions asked in the Parliament or a statement of government intentions, this man will distort ad infinitum. [More…]

• During the election campaign Paul Kelly of the National Times asked the [More…]

• We find now, just after the election, that he has been given a sinecure. [More…]

• He cannot tell the truth to Parliament, to the electorate in election campaign promises - [More…]

• Yet that was the nonsense we heard right through the 1975 election campaign. [More…]

• Labor Party felt that this was an emotional issue of the moment it certainly did not display itself in the result of the 1977 election when the people again had the right to vote and again supported the actions of this Government. [More…]

• This Government is making the mistake of reading into the recent election results deep seated support for its policies and for this institution. [More…]

• However, the results of the last two elections stemmed directly from carefully manufactured incidents of political turmoil. [More…]

• The Fraser Government was elected in December 1975 after forcing an election with tactics which destroyed effectively, perhaps for all time, the convention that a government that continues to have a majority in the lower House has a right to expect to govern. [More…]

• I take this opportunity to extend personally to Mr Speaker my sincere congratulations on his New Year knighthood and on his re-election as Speaker of this House. [More…]

• To you, Mr Millar, I extend my congratulations on your election to the most important position that you hold. [More…]

• -Firstly, I congratulate Mr Speaker on his election to serve a second period as Speaker of this House and the Chairman of Committees on his election to serve his first term in that position. [More…]

• The second stream of thought which represents the concept of worker participation is the appointment or election of worker directors to boards of companies and public enterprises. [More…]

• To you, Mr Deputy Speaker, I offer my congratulations on your election and to the Speaker my congratulations on his re-election to offices which are vital to the good functioning of this House. [More…]

• The election of 1 977 needs to be placed in the context of contemporary Australian politics. [More…]

• Since 1972 this country has had four national elections- a series of unnecessary and premature elections unparalleled in Australia’s history. [More…]

• The reason Mr Fraser wants an election is that he feels he can get himself another three years by going now. [More…]

• an attempt to grab any issue to force an election before unemployment really starts to bite in the school leaver onslaught of next year. [More…]

• The unfortunate opening paragraphs of this election policy were the worst collection of half truths and distortions I can remember in a Prime Minister ‘s policy speech. [More…]

• And what today of the election pledge that the Government had no information which would justify an increase in health insurance contributions? [More…]

• The 1977 election campaign provides many examples of this prime ministerial technique. [More…]

• To this deceit in the election campaign were added the crudest appeals to human greed. [More…]

• The Government can win an election by offering a quick buck to the employed and forgetting the unemployed, but it does so at enormous individual and, ultimately, social cost. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Speaker, on behalf of my constituents I should like, firstly, to extend to you most sincere congratulations on your election to the position of Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• I would ask you to extend to Mr Speaker our congratulations on his re-election and indeed on his elevation. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, I would be pleased if you would pass on my congratulations to Mr Speaker on his reelection to his office and his elevation to the knighthood, and to the Chairman of Committees on his election to that position. [More…]

• He, as much as anybody, was a victim of the redistribution which came into force prior to the last election. [More…]

• I would like at the outset to congratulate through you, Mr Deputy Speaker, the Speaker on his re-election to that high office. [More…]

• I would like also to offer my congratulations to the honourable member for Wide Bay (Mr Millar) on his election to the office of Chairman of Committees and at the same time to express my appreciation and thanks to the honourable member for Lyne, Mr Philip Lucock, for the manner in which he has carried out his duties during the five years in which I have been a member of this chamber. [More…]

• No matter how the Prime Minister was able to present, inaccurately, to the electorate prior to the last election the impact of tax changes his Government has introduced, the truth is that the tax burden has been redistributed down the scale. [More…]

• Despite the Prime Minister’s promises during the election campaign that those charges would not be increased, there is no doubt that they will be increased. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Speaker, in opening my speech in this debate, I ask you to convey to the Speaker and to the Chairman of Committees my congratulations and good wishes on their election to their high offices. [More…]

• That came about as a result of the administrative arrangements made following the most recent election. [More…]

• But during the election campaign the coalition parties promised $ 1.5m to upgrade the Gin Gin channel of the Bundaberg irrigation scheme in Queensland and the additional $1.5m is reflected in this legislation bringing the total maximum appropriation to $2. [More…]

• Of course that would not have been offered but for the fact that during the election campaign the coalition wanted to pull a few rabbits out of the hat. [More…]

• It has mysteriously crept in after the election campaign. [More…]

• Admittedly, there was the election gimmick of $200m to be made available for a national water resources program, but that proposal is not contained anywhere in the Bill before the House. [More…]

• I think the saddest thing of all is the fact that Mr Orton received a letter dated 28 October from Mr C. G. Edwards, secretary of the Senate Standing Committee on National Resources, which says that because of the dissolution of Parliament and the forthcoming Federal election, the Committee’s inquiry into Commonwealth involvement in water resources stood suspended until such time as the Committee was reconstituted and new members had been appointed at the beginning of the next Parliament. [More…]

• In fact I go so far as to say that in addition to tax cuts and certain other measures, this particular announcement was one of the highlights of the election speech. [More…]

• -I think the only advice I can give to the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Baillieu) is that while he is not quite sure which party in government in Victoria would do the most for him he should make sure a Labor government is returned at the next election. [More…]

• In 1973, during a State election campaign, the question of the filtration of the Adelaide water supply became a strong election issue. [More…]

• The details of the Adelaide filtration scheme were submitted to the Federal Government following the election in 1973. [More…]

• Mr Corcoran, the Minister of Works in South Australia, made a statement following the announcement by the Prime Minister during the Federal election campaign that a sum of $200m would be made available for water resources programs. [More…]

• Do not forget that this is the same man who during the recent election campaign in Queensland was not averse to going into electorates and saying blatantly to people- he has never apologised; he is proud of it- ‘If you do not vote for my Country Party candidate in this area you can forget about any more assistance from the Queensland Government.’ [More…]

• After that, we will, as we have committed ourselves in our policy speeches in the last election, be taking steps to take real action to solve the River Murray salinity problem. [More…]

• By stripping our rank and file politicians of continuing responsibility in Parliament, particularly in the House of Representatives, the proceedings have degenerated into a continuous and elementary election campaign. [More…]

• The $4m that helped to finance the Government’s election campaign came from the corporate sector. [More…]

• -That is true, but one needs true grit to win an election. [More…]

• There was not such a great margin in the election result, but one vote would have been enough. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, will you convey my congratulations to the Speaker on his re-election to the office of Speaker in the Thirty-first Parliament. [More…]

• Will you convey also my congratulations to the honourable member for Wide Bay (Mr Millar) on his election as Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• Members of the Australian Labor Party worked hard for me in the last election. [More…]

• Election time is the only time my wife and I come close to divorce. [More…]

• I have experi enced two elections in two years but I mil pleased to say, on the subject that the honourable member for Swan mentioned, that everything is right at home and I have no worries about divorce. [More…]

• I thank the people in those areas who supported me prior to the last election and who supported the Australian Labor Party at the last election. [More…]

• Labor Party members, having suffered an overwhelming defeat at the election, would be probably a little bent and not looking forward to the debates which will take place in the Parliament. [More…]

• -May I express through you, Mr Deputy Speaker Drummond, my congratulations to the Speaker on his reelection to that important position and also to the honourable member for Wide Bay (Mr Millar) on his election to the position of Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• A promise was made to this effect prior to the last election and I am confident that some action will be taken on this matter in the next few days. [More…]

• -Firstly, Mr Deputy Speaker, may I congratulate you on your recent election to the offices of Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• Having just won an election on a campaign replete with untruths and misrepresentations, the Government apparently believes that the Australian people will swallow anything. [More…]

• During the recent election campaign the Opposition, and particularly its now Leader, the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden), knowing it to be wrong, constantly asserted that the rate of inflation was greater than 13 per cent. [More…]

• I arrived back here after the election to find that I was allotted a place- that is all I can call it. [More…]

• We saw a classic case of this late last year when the Prime Minister encouraged speculation about an early election. [More…]

• Then, when it suited him, he moved in and said that because of this speculation, because of the need to end that speculation, he would have to call an early election. [More…]

• I ask you, Mr Deputy Speaker, to pass on my congratulations to Mr Speaker and to the Chairman of Committees upon their election to their high offices. [More…]

• I remember that name because shortly after he won the seat from Labor in 1 93 1 , just to exhibit his belief in the unemployment problem on which he had been contesting the election in the time of the Scullin Government, he managed to sack my father. [More…]

• Many other benefits accrued because of the election of a Labor government. [More…]

• Upon its election the Fraser Government refused to proceed with this great project. [More…]

• -Mr Speaker, may I take this opportunity to congratulate you on your re-election as Speaker of this House and also on the knighthood that was bestowed on you by Her Majesty in the New Year’s Honours. [More…]

• May I also congratulate the honourable member for Wide Bay (Mr Millar) on his election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• -During this debate I wish to touch on several matters, some of which cropped up during the election campaign of 1977 and others which are relevant to the terms of this debate. [More…]

• Nor are we going to take the course that some of us may have been lulled into taking following the 1975 general election and in any election held after that period that everything would have to be better for us and that we would continue to win additional divisions for this Federal Parliament. [More…]

• It is not the intention of the Labor Party to go to sleep until 1980 and then hope that by default we will pick up a few additional members in the onslaught we might have in the 1983 general election. [More…]

• I wish to touch on a range of matters but I shall deal first with the question of election funding. [More…]

• If, in the case of IBM Australia Ltd- the complaining company- there is a receipt made out by it to the Liberal Party for any major political donation at the last election or previous elections, no one in Australia will be convinced that there is not some relationship between that donation and the decision made by the Prime Minister to end the contract with the Japanese company. [More…]

• It will continue to be their thinking whilst we try to hide behind laws such as that applying to political donations for some narrow advantage at election time. [More…]

• Such aid will be based on the percentage vote received by the political parties at the previous election or according to the number of candidates elected. [More…]

• The interesting point about the 1977 election is that in a number of letters which the Labor Party received from sections of private enterprise the sentiment was expressed that they wanted the laws in Australia to be changed. [More…]

• at local level, a limited reimbursement of the election expenses of Parliamentary and local government candidates. [More…]

• In order to qualify for a grant a party must at the previous general election have either: [More…]

• The amount of the annual grant payable to each of the qualifying parties shall be calculated on the basis of 5p for each vote cast for its candidates at the previous general election. [More…]

• The scheme for the limited reimbursement of candidates’ election expenses should apply to all Parliamentary elections, and to all elections for county and district councils in England and Wales, regional, island and district councils in Scotland, and the Greater London Council and London borough councils. [More…]

• Reimbursement should be restricted to those candidates who poll at least one-eighth of the votes cast, and the amount to be reimbursed should be the candidates’ actual election expenses up to a limit of half his legally permitted maximum expenditure. [More…]

• It is recommended that the first payment of the proposed annual grants payable to the parties should be on 1 April 1977, and that the scheme for the limited reimbursement of candidates’ election expenses should operate for all Parliamentary and relevant local government elections held on or after 1 April 1977. [More…]

• Of this, the annual grants to the parties would comprise about 1 ,440,000 and the reimbursement of candidates’ election expenses approximately 860,000 a year (including 360,000 in respect of Parliamentary candidates and 500,000 for local government candidates). [More…]

• It seems to me that the Commission was looking more at the election result of last December than at the submissions that were put before it by all the people representing the trade union movement and some State governments. [More…]

• I want to make some comment about the controversy over the Industries Assistance Commission and perhaps on the commitments of the major political parties and the extent to which that had a bearing on the last federal election. [More…]

• It was my experience that some unpleasantness was expressed about the attitude of the Australian Labor Party in relation to three major industries, textiles, clothing and footwear, during that election. [More…]

• During the 1 977 election campaign, at a time when I was visiting Western Australia, statements were made by industry leaders of the apparel manufacturers that they had word from the Australian Labor Party that Labor had committed itself to be a free trade party. [More…]

• When, finally, I contacted the industry close to the election day after this matter had received maximum publicity and the damage had been done I received an apology from their spokesman who said that normally during the two-year period they would have contacted me as the spokesman for the Labor Party but that during the height of the election they were unable to do so and that they were extremely sorry. [More…]

• The Government was very stupid when it made the commitment in the election campaign that it would save all the jobs. [More…]

• It is foolhardy to believe that by some manipulation of legislation- amendment of the Industries Assistance Commission Act- we are going to, have a healthier economy or that in some way by amending the Industries Assistance Commission Act we will be able to protect all the jobs that were promised during the last election campaign would be protected. [More…]

• It is incredible how many reasons honourable gentlemen opposite can find for being decimated at the last election. [More…]

• In 1978 it is important that we take account of some of the attitudes of the Opposition, particularly those expressed in the last election campaign. [More…]

• I believe that any representative of the textile industry or any other industry, at an election time or any other time, like any trade union official or any political lobbyist, is entitled to put pressure upon any political party or upon the government of the day in order to maximise whatever benefits may be achieved for those people in the industry which that person represents. [More…]

• It is also interesting to note that during the last election campaign the then Deputy Leader of the Opposition, when confronted by the then Treasurer on the television program Monday Conference, said- [More…]

• Our cynical Prime Minister sprang the trap for Sir John in two ways: Firstly by inducing him to repudiate his own declaration that a GovernorGeneral should not grant an early election for partisan advantage where the Parliament is workable; and, secondly, by appointing him to a job which he had personally declared redundant, had abolished and resurrected only to suit Sir John’s convenience. [More…]

• They were thrashed in the 1975 general election, much to their great surprise. [More…]

• They were thrashed also in the 1 977 general election. [More…]

• As we all know, Supply was never dependent on the outcome of a House of Representatives election but merely on the granting of that election. [More…]

• While the Labor Party has been tearing itself apart trying to work out whose fault it was that it lost the last election it has in fact thrown a Christian to the lions. [More…]

• They say that the disastrous results of the previous election were the fault of Sir John Kerr. [More…]

• Does the Prime Minister recall also that in one of the more flamboyant passages in his 1975 election speech he said: [More…]

• It would appear from the effects of Government policy that the Government strategy is to strive for economic uplift by increasing the immiseration of the community ‘Salvation by prolonged stagnation’, as the former honourable member for MacKellar was wont to claim in this Parliament up until the last election. [More…]

• During the Federal election campaign the Government commenced by suggesting that the average income earner would be some $6 a week better off because of this policy decision. [More…]

• Even though the speech of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Haydon) may have represented the dragging out from some old closet many of the old catch-cries we heard during the election campaign, I think it demonstrated that there is a recognisable difference between the policies of the coalition parties and the Labor Party on which the people of Australia made a choice only last December. [More…]

• These tax cuts were outlined in the August Budget and were a significant part of the Government’s election campaign. [More…]

• This was disclosed in the Australian Labor Party’s election policy when it suggested a very miserable proposition for the restoration of employment in this nation. [More…]

• Since it was an important policy matter, in accordance with traditional practice they agreed that the matter be held over for consideration after the election when the matter could be determined by a committee of Ministers without further reference to Cabinet. [More…]

• It has received a very harsh election result. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, I congratulate you on your re-election as Speaker to this, the Thirty-first Parliament. [More…]

• During the last election it became obvious that people had little time and not much respect for politicians or Parliament. [More…]

• I particularly want to congratulate the honourable member for Fadden (Mr Donald Cameron) on his election and to thank him and the electoral distribution commissioners who, with help from a member of the front bench opposite, all contributed to creating a more politically aware seat of Griffith. [More…]

• For days and days during the slow build-up to the State election, newspapers and television stations carried details. [More…]

• This Parliament has also seen the election of several new parliamentary representatives. [More…]

• An indication of the support he received and the respect in which he was held is best gauged by the fact that his worst vote was received during the first election he contested and the best vote he received was at the last election he contested in 1975. [More…]

• I am proud to say that I played an active role in urging the Liberal Party to make a firm commitment that upon election to office it would reverse that decision- and in fact we did so within three days of the election of December 10, 1975. [More…]

• Since my election to this honourable Parliament I have been out-spoken in the defence of human rights whenever they have been violated, be it behind the Iron Curtain, in Cambodia, Laos and Vietman: in Uganda and other parts of Africa- indeed wherever it has arisen throughout the world. [More…]

• The magnitude of the election victory has stunned the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) like a formalin dart. [More…]

• Finally, in the last election campaign we had the fifth economic strategy. [More…]

• We heard during the election campaign how uranium mining was going to save Australia’s economic bacon; that there was to be a $ 15,000m mineral project recovery. [More…]

• As we saw from the OECD during the course of the election campaign, economies comparable with Australia have shown positive movements in all of their economic indicators far beyond anything which Australia has even hoped to achieve. [More…]

• The magnitude of the election victory has convinced Government supporters that they are right. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Transport whether he is aware of a statement released in Alice Springs by his colleague the Minister for Primary Industry during the recent election campaign in reference to the Stuart Highway, which read: [More…]

• The honourable gentleman will know, as will all honourable members, of the fuel price equalisation proposals which were part of our last general election program. [More…]

• Honourable members will recall that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), in the course of the last election campaign, stated that prompt steps would be taken after the election to implement a scheme which would subsidise freight differentials involved in transporting eligible petroleum products from refining ports and seaboard terminals to country sale points. [More…]

• That is the principal reason why the Oppositions ‘s payroll tax proposition in the last election campaign was dreadfully wrong and unfair. [More…]

• The principle involved in supporting the IAC’s decision to recommend a bounty is the same principle as was used to reject the payroll tax proposition of the Opposition and its imagined effect on employment in the last election campaign. [More…]

• I extend to the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) and the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen) my congratulations on their election to their respective positions of Leader and Deputy Leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party. [More…]

• Both gentlemen have heavy tasks ahead of them if they are to remould the Labor Party into an effective opposition again after two disastrous election defeats. [More…]

• The general election of last year was held because the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was told by his economic advisers, when it looked as if he would be forced to have an election in May of this year, that things would be worse than ever and that he would have great difficulty in convincing the Australian electorate that his economic policies were working. [More…]

• Since the election, we have seen the Press wage a campaign aimed at talking up the economy. [More…]

• It is interesting to note the about-face by the media which, during the election campaign, headlined the Prime Minister’s claims that a man on $200 a week with a wife and two children would gain $6 a week and which, a few weeks ago when the tax cuts came into effect, provided printed tables showing that the gains would be $3 a week. [More…]

• At the time of the 1975 election a then shadow Minister for the Liberal Party, Senator Rae, promised that the Liberals, if elected, would do better. [More…]

• I believe that the restoration of these things is far more likely than it could ever have been had the Labor Government continued in office or had this Government’s term been cut short at the last election. [More…]

• Therefore, for the 1977 election I took over 69 per cent of electors that were new to me. [More…]

• It was with some trepidation that I faced election for the twelfth time. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Speaker, firstly I ask you to convey my congratulations to Mr Speaker on his re-election to that high office. [More…]

• I also congratulate you on your election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• Despite the fact that there was a very large election campaign in which money seemed to be no object to both the Liberal Party of Australia candidate and the National Country Party candidate, I was successful. [More…]

• We have to go back only to the promises made during the 1975 general election campaign and to events since then to find out how many promises were broken subsequently. [More…]

• About a fortnight before the general election, I was informed that the Government had released its program concerning the extension of television services to country areas. [More…]

• Ten days prior to the election there was an announcement that a mistake had been made. [More…]

• That is how the situation finished up, as was demonstrated on election day. [More…]

• It has won seven successive elections. [More…]

• The 1977 election results were overwhelming. [More…]

• The election was called 18 months earlier by Prime Minister Vomer at a time when both internal and external criticism of the apartheid policy was on the ascendancy. [More…]

• One proposal which was an election issue sought constitutional change to give added status to the coloureds and Indians of South Africa. [More…]

• I hope you will remember this when the next election comes around’. [More…]

• The same sort of inhibitions that applied to the Labor Party when it said it did not want an open election by the people of Australia in November 1975 in order to resolve fundamental differences as to how this country should be governed apply today in determining whether tenders should be free and open and available to all parties. [More…]

• The Act presently does not allow a member or the spouse of a deceased member to alter an election for a particular form of benefit once it as been made. [More…]

• The Commissioner for Superannuation has received requests from time to time to reverse an election made to take a lump sum in lieu of the contributor-financed pension. [More…]

• cancel such elections, for example where it is apparent that at the time of the election all relevant information was not available. [More…]

• The Bill provides that in deciding whether or not an election may be cancelled the Commissioner shall have regard to any matters that are prescribed in regulations and to such other matters as he considers relevant. [More…]

• It is customary in this debate that members from both sides of the House extend their congratulations to the Speaker and the Chairman of Committees on their election. [More…]

• Whilst making reference to their election I should like to draw attention to the concluding paragraph of Mr Speaker’s expression of appreciation to the House for having elected him as Speaker. [More…]

• The other thing that concerned me about the election campaign was the manner in which the Prime Minister misled the people of this country by saying that people on incomes of about $180 to $ 1 90 a week would receive a $6 a week reduction in taxation. [More…]

• The honourable member has been trying for five elections to get rid of the honourable member for Paterson, and he has failed to do so on each occasion. [More…]

• Indeed, he has failed to such an extent that the majority of the honourable member for Paterson has been increased at every election. [More…]

• At the outset I ask you, Mr Deputy Speaker, to pass on to the right honourable member for Bruce, Sir Billy Snedden, my congratulations on his re-election as Speaker of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• I extend congratulations also to the honourable member for Wide Bay, Mr Millar, on his election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• I take this opportunity formally to thank each and every person who worked for me in Isaacs during the election campaign. [More…]

• I refer firstly to the claims that the Government, of which I am immensely proud to be a member, secured office by indulging in contemptible misrepresentation at the recent general election. [More…]

• -May I firstly add my own warmest congratulations and good wishes to the Speaker of this House on his receiving a knighthood and on his election to the Chair of the House. [More…]

• I also congratulate the Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees on his election to those positions. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Speaker, I join other honourable members who have participated in the Address-in-Reply debate to the Governor-General’s Speech in offering my congratulations, through you, to Mr Speaker on his re-election to that high position and also to the honourable member for Wide Bay (Mr Millar) on his election as Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• The most recent election saw it for the first time returned to Liberal hands at two elections in succession. [More…]

• On two election polling days- 13 December 1975 and 10 December 1977- the Australian people have indicated clearly that they wish a free enterprise form of government. [More…]

• The voting in those elections indicates to me that the average Australian would prefer to give of his effort than to receive. [More…]

• In the period following the proroguing of” the 30th Parliament and the election we saw the threat to our security through northern Australia in the form of Taiwanese boats which put refugees into Darwin and areas on the north coast. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Speaker, in supporting the AddressinReply to the Governor-General’s Speech I ask that you congratulate the Speaker on his elevation to the knighthood in the New Year’s Honours and also on his re-election to the Chair of this House. [More…]

• I believe his re-election is a due reward for the effective way in which he presided over this House during the last two years. [More…]

• I ask also that you congratulate the new Chairman of Committees on his election to that position. [More…]

• I also congratulate the Government on its return to office in the election of 10 December. [More…]

• I would like to thank personally the supporters and members of the Liberal Party, particularly the members of my campaign executive, who worked so hard during the recent election campaign to communicate the Government ‘s policies to the electors of Kingston. [More…]

• However, that support also was evident during the recent election campaign, particularly the support of my father who was actively involved, virtually as a Man Friday, in the campaign. [More…]

• The electorate of Kingston has experienced some changes in its boundaries as a result of redistribution which took place prior to the last election. [More…]

• The return of the Fraser Government in the 1975 general election halted the economic decline which began under competent but complacent Liberal governments prior to 1972 and which accelerated with disastrous consequences under Labor during 1972 to 1975. [More…]

• But just as Edith Cavell said: ‘Patriotism is not enough’, we may say that sometimes a bare majority of votes at an election is ‘not enough’. [More…]

• It is obvious from the election results that most women are quite prepared to accept the Liberal Party position in relation to them. [More…]

• I am also here because those people applied themselves with dedication seldom seen before in any election campaign to support the cause for which I stood. [More…]

• He was subsequently released about 10 days before the last election after having been held for seven weeks at Midway Hostel. [More…]

• It was reiterated in our policy statements during the last election. [More…]

• I have told the House that during the election campaign in November and December we made it clear that we had a clear objective to develop an energy policy in this country. [More…]

• Again I am quite happy to tell the House that the Government, in its election promises and in the Governor-General ‘s Speech, said that it would create a body that could coordinate and look at the priorities that we should have in this country on research and development projects over the whole range of energy matters, such as coal and solar energy. [More…]

• We can see already the enormous political muscle of the uranium miners and the way they weighed in with advertising and funds to the Liberal Party during the recent election. [More…]

• I congratulate also the honourable member for Wide Bay (Mr Millar) on his election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• I am sure that we will hear a lot more of the men from both sides of the House who came into the Parliament following the election in 1977. [More…]

• Prior to the last election, I was invited to tell the people in those areas that this project was very close to being undertaken. [More…]

• But following the election, after a little more investigation of the planning and progress of television services in the remoter areas of Australia, such as this area, I am a little afraid that this development may be further away than I was led to believe. [More…]

• I was delighted to see in the GovernorGeneral’s Speech on the occasion of the opening of the Thirty-first Parliament that the Government was honouring its election commitment to hold a public inquiry into whales and whaling. [More…]

• I am proud to belong to a government that, in an election campaign, did not go around trying to buy votes but which, when returned to office and having the confidence of the vast majority of the Australian people, put into legislative form what it had promised. [More…]

• I instance the case of George Negus who was not given another substantial political interview with the ABC after interviewing the Prime Minister before the last election. [More…]

• The year 1975 was when the hypothetical loans issue, loans which were never made and the order for which was revoked, was successfully used by the Prime Minister to give him advantage in the December election in an attempt to justify the actions of blocking Supply. [More…]

• -I congratulate Mr Speaker on his re-election and his knighthood and the honourable member for Wide Bay (Mr Millar) on his election to the position of Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• In the 1975 election campaign we were assured by the parties now in government that they intended to implement Federal policy on Aboriginal affairs, to implement Federal policy on land rights and to implement the recommendations of the Woodward Commission and the Ranger Committee of Inquiry. [More…]

• Yet a record vote- probably the highest percentage vote ever recorded in any kind of election or referendum in Australiagave to the Federal Government the power to control and to legislate on Aboriginal affairs and the power for that legislation to override all State legislation. [More…]

• In the 1975 election campaign the parties now in government assured us that they would pursue this matter and would take it up with the Premier, Mr Bjelke-Petersen. [More…]

• After that election all sorts of mollifying noises were made. [More…]

• Obviously a significant number of them became aware of the dishonesty of the Government in relation to the issue with which I was concerned, namely, increased health levies and contribution rates following the election. [More…]

• I ask you to pass on to the Speaker my congratulations on both his elevation to the Knighthood in the New Year’s Honours List and his re-election as Speaker. [More…]

• Similarly, I should be pleased if you would pass on my congratulations to the new Chairman of Committees and Deputy Speaker, the honourable member for Wide Bay (Mr Millar), on his election to those positions. [More…]

• Liberal Party members of my electorate worked untiringly during the course of the last Parliament but especially so during the general election and it was only with their assistance that the result in Barker was such an outstanding one. [More…]

• Last week a Bill was introduced as the first part of the fuel freight equalisation, as promised by the Government at the last election. [More…]

• Some were contained in our policy enunciated during the last election campaign. [More…]

• They were also enunciated in the August election campaign for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• Yet at the last election for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, in August, the Labor Party platform was against the proposal for the introduction of selfgovernment for the Northern Territory. [More…]

• For instance, the Tiwis from Bathurst and Melville islands were promised by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) prior to the election- I think it was in November or December- that they would have their own separate land council. [More…]

• You are a real smart Alec and you will not be here after the next election. [More…]

• It would learn how they have fared in the few months it has been in office since the last election. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Speaker, I ask you to extend my congratulations to Mr Speaker on his election to his very important and high office and also to the honourable member for Wide Bay (Mr Millar) on his election to the almost equally important position of Chairman of Committees. [More…]

• I am sure that taxpayers would agree that this Government- I go back to the results of the 1 975 election- has shown some concern for how money is expended. [More…]

• It was binding on the State of Queensland but it has not been enforced, even though during the election campaign at the end of 1975 the parties now in power assured us that it would be enforced in Queensland. [More…]

• During the recent election campaign the Minister for Transport sought to distort the effects of the transfer to the national Government of State railway systems and to present the objective as an extravagance. [More…]

• It is a matter of profound regret to me and to other honourable members from Tasmania that barely weeks before the commencement date of the agreement, namely 1 July 1975, when assets and liabilities were transferred to the Commonwealth, the Tasmanian State Labor Government, in clear breach of a solemn election promise, terminated the Hobart suburban passenger rail service. [More…]

• This takeover was initiated following the election of the Labor Government in December 1972. [More…]

• Following an election for the House of Assembly and the Legislative Council in that State it was passed through both Houses. [More…]

• We will ask them at the next State election. [More…]

• As I mentioned a moment ago, the South Australian people will pass their judgment on that aspect of the State Government’s administration at the next State election. [More…]

• ( 1 ) If, when a claim for compensation in relation to an injury sustained on or after 1 March 1978 by a transferred South Australian employee is served on the Commissioner by or on behalf of a person under section 54 of the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1971, there is also served on the Commissioner an election, in accordance with a form prescribed by regulations made under that Act, by or on behalf of the person to have the claim dealt with in accordance with the applied South Australian provisions, that Act applies to and in relation to the claim, subject to this section, as if the applied South Australian provisions were substituted for the provisions of Part III of that Act. [More…]

• if an election was made under sub-section ( 1 ) in relation to that previous injury (whether or not an election is made in relation to the subsequent injury)- as if the applied South Australian provisions were substituted for Part III of that Act; or [More…]

• d ) if no election was made under sub-section ( 1 ) in relation to the previous injury but an election is made under that sub-section in relation to the subsequent injury- as if that last-mentioned election were of no force or effect. [More…]

• But before I sit down I wish to correct a statement I made earlier, when referring to the entitlement to the right of election under the workers compensation scheme. [More…]

• Under the terms of the Bill the right of election is a continuing right. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Speaker, in common with all other members of the House of Representatives, I would be grateful if you would convey my congratulations to Mr Speaker on his election once again to his high office and the recognition from Her Majesty the Queen of his great service to Australia and his high office. [More…]

• But the 1975 and 1977 general election results were without parallel in the political history of this country. [More…]

• I extend congratulations to Mr Speaker and to the Chairman of Committees on their election to those offices. [More…]

• Election to this chamber is not a matter to be treated lightly. [More…]

• Since the Federal election an enormous amount of effort has been expended by the Government in preparing a record program of legislation covering economic issues, the drug problem and trade negotiations, which are so essential. [More…]

• I think that the support accorded to that party equates with the real worth of the criticism its members offered in that election campaign. [More…]

• It is interesting to reflect that at the time of the election the media predictions were that the result would be close. [More…]

• The Government was determined that there would be an early election in 1977 for one reason alone: It believed that it could win, and it feared the people’s verdict once the disastrous consequence of its economic strategy became apparent to all Australians. [More…]

• I appreciate very much that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has been a very busy man since the last election. [More…]

• Even during that election campaign we found that his time was somewhat taken up in investigating family trusts. [More…]

• After the election he then spent a good deal of his time in finding a sinecure for his ex-friend, the ex-Governor-General of Australia. [More…]

• I have forwarded each of those to the Prime Minister with a personally signed covering letter asking for his comment on the complaint made by this organisation that is used by the Government at every election in order to vilify the Australian Labor Party policies. [More…]

• They ranged from failed election rhetoric to the unproven aspirations of the socialists’ dream. [More…]

• 1 can recollect it being opened on the eve of the 1969 election. [More…]

• It is nearly four months since the election. [More…]

• The Australian Government signalled its continuing determination after the 1977 election by establishing the Ministry of the Special Trade Representative. [More…]

• In the last few weeks, in my role as Minister for Special Trade Negotiations, I have visited the Commission of the EEC and several member States- Denmark, Italy, the Federal Republic of Germany and the United Kingdom, the timing of the election making it preferable to visit France later. [More…]

• This legislation is a consequence of a promise made by the coalition parties during the last election campaign. [More…]

• Immediately after the election the Government will take action to equalise the price of petroleum products between city and country, without adding to city prices. [More…]

• The point is that the Prime Minister has broken another election promise. [More…]

• This man, who is now famous for wilfully and wantonly breaking election promises, has broken an important election promise to rural Australians- a promise to equalise city and country prices within a limit of 4c a gallon. [More…]

• We did not hear the Prime Minister during the election campaign trumpeting the fact that petrol costs will rise by 50c a gallon throughout Australia. [More…]

• So shame on the Prime Minister and the Government for such a blatant deception and for breaking yet another clear election promise. [More…]

• Before the last election the Government rushed in with a 10-year extension of the agreement with the United States of America communication bases and before the 1972 election the then Government rushed in with a 7 -year extension of the two-airline policy. [More…]

• implement the election promise of the Government “to equalise the price of petroleum products between city and country”, and [More…]

• The Government has now introduced a Bill which is a clear abrogation of an election promise to make the differential between city and country petrol prices no more than 4c. [More…]

• In that sense the Government has failed to implement what was a clear election promise. [More…]

• I commend to the House the Opposition’s amendment and I urge Government supporters at least to be honest enough to admit that the scheme is not a reflection of the promise thenparties made at the last election; it is an abrogation of a clear election promise. [More…]

• So much for election promises! [More…]

• -This piece of legislation brings to the House the fulfilment of a promise made by the Government during the last election campaign. [More…]

• The amendment states that the legislation ‘fails to implement the election promise of the Government to equalise the price of petroleum products between city and country’. [More…]

• Following the abolition of the scheme, it will be recalled that the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) during the last election campaign promised that after the election steps would be taken to reintroduce the scheme which would subsidise freight differentials involved in transporting eligible petroleum products from refining ports and seaboard terminals to the country sales points. [More…]

• During the general election campaign, the word ‘equalisation’ was thrown around quite often. [More…]

• The Government had promised television reception in those areas within 12 months but of course when the election was over that was found to be an empty promise. [More…]

• Let me read the actual words of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on 21 November 1977 leading up to the December election. [More…]

• Honourable members will recall that the Prime Minister, in the course of the last election campaign, stated that prompt steps would be taken after the election to implement a scheme which would subsidise freight differentials involved in transporting eligible petroleum products from refining ports and seaboard terminals to country sale points. [More…]

• That is a far cry from the promise which was held out to country voters prior to the election last year. [More…]

• To put it into the old fashioned vernacular used in the second reading speech, people in country areas will be paying 25c per gallon more as a result of this scheme which purports to be a fuel equalisation scheme- or at least it purported to be a fuel equalisation scheme at the time of the last election. [More…]

• He promised the people of Australia that immediately after the election the Government would take action to equalise the price of petroleum products between city and country without adding to city prices. [More…]

• It is only one small part of the picture and it is very significant that the Government has taken this step which was part of its election promises. [More…]

• The fuel subsidy scheme, as announced in the election policy speech in 1977, is today being implemented. [More…]

• It does not in any way implement the clear undertaking given by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) during the last election campaign. [More…]

• Let us recall the words of the Prime Minister just prior to the election when speaking in respect of petrol prices. [More…]

• Immediately after the election the Government will take action to equalise the price of petroleum products between city and country without adding to city prices. [More…]

• We all know of the substantial funds which have flowed from those companies to those who sit opposite election after election. [More…]

• He has recognised that he has a Prime Minister whose word cannot be trusted at election time or at any other time. [More…]

• implement the election promise of the Government “to equalise the price of petroleum products between city and country”, and [More…]

• The Government made it quite clear in its election promise that, step by step, it would reduce the price of fuel to country people. [More…]

• Let me remind the House what the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said in his policy speech just before the election last year. [More…]

• Immediately after the election the Government will take action to equalise the price of petroleum products between city and country, without adding to city prices. [More…]

• Implement the election promise of the Government ‘to equalise the price of petroleum products between city and country’ and, [More…]

• They are interested in Tasmania only at election time. [More…]

• This legislation represents the fulfilment of an election undertaking given by the Prime Minister. [More…]

• Two undertakings were given by the Government during the last election campaign. [More…]

• That undertaking has also been fulfilled because the first session of that conference was held the week after the election. [More…]

• Minister, had the hide to go to Tasmania at the last election and say, in an attempt to get votes, that Tasmania would be a great place for a patrol vessel base. [More…]

• One concerns the extension of the permissible period for election as to the form of benefit that the employee or dependant desires to take. [More…]

• The extension of the period in which to make this important decision from one month to three months is commendable and should make it less likely that people will make their election without having considered thoroughly which option is most suitable to their particular circumstances. [More…]

• In respect of such elections, the Bill provides for the possibility of the cancellation of an election if the Commissioner deems it appropriate so to do. [More…]

• Such a provision certainly represents an improvement because a contributor or dependant could make an election on wrong advice, and to provide that he must simply put up with a decision reached in such circumstances for the rest of his days, as the current legislation does, is harsh indeed. [More…]

• The Bill changes that, but it is decidedly vague as to what criteria the Commissioner shall take into account in deciding whether to cancel an election. [More…]

• This is not a trivial point because many people may feel that the example quoted in the second reading speech of the Minister for Finance (Mr Eric Robinson), that is, where all relevant information was not available at the time of the election, may well apply to them. [More…]

• Obviously what happened was that the back bench believed the propaganda during the election campaign that all our troubles and the high cost of health care were caused by Medibank. [More…]

• I believe that Australians now remember the propaganda of the Liberal-National Country Party caretaker government in the 1975 election campaign. [More…]

• 1 suggest to the people of Australia that they should compare those concessions and deductions with the cuts that the Government waved around at the last election and which came into effect last February. [More…]

• -Does the Minister for Home Affairs recall that during the last Federal election campaign the Government undertook to establish a permanent women’s advisory body? [More…]

• It is true that during the election campaign the Government promised to establish a permanent women’s advisory body. [More…]

• I am very happy to announce to honourable members that the Government has decided to honour that election promise and to establish a National Women’s Advisory Council. [More…]

• For these reasons the Government announced during the last election campaign that it would introduce a new incentive scheme to encourage and assist exports. [More…]

• It is significant that although the embassy was opened well before the last general election, the Minister did not find his way clear to make a statement on the matter until well after the election, nearly four weeks later. [More…]

• I was interested to hear that because he was returned to the State Parliament in a re-run just after our Federal election. [More…]

• 1 ) Yes- all contributors are eligible to be directors and to attend and vote in the election of directors at the annual general meeting. [More…]

• If these taxation provisions were considered inequitable why did he fail to amend them on taking office following the 1975 General Election. [More…]

• In terms solely of enrolment special arrangements were made prior to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly election to ensure that enrolment claim cards were freely available in the Northern Territory to Aboriginals who wished to enrol. [More…]

• These programs will aim at supplementing the specific election programs outlined above. [More…]

• One of the most disturbing features of the last election campaign was the increasingly punitive attitude that many people, especially older people, took towards the unemployed. [More…]

• The BDI, which honours our election policy commitment, will provide $300m to the States over the five years commencing 1 July 1978, by way of non-repayable grants, to upgrade urban public transport. [More…]

• Some of it was on the Federal Government’s side, and it was due to the election. [More…]

• It is quite clear that the question is simply a continuation of the smear tactics which the Opposition sought to use against me and the Government during the last election campaign. [More…]

• The Opposition must be in a desperate situation in seeking to rake over all these matters which I seem to recall were some talking point in the last election campaign. [More…]

• I think the results of that election speak for themselves and for the judgment which the people of this country made upon that issue. [More…]

• Queensland Parliament and things were said then under privilege about people engaged in a federal election campaign. [More…]

• With the election behind me, and the worry of harming innocent colleagues well and truly disposed of, I made a speech referring to this matter at the declaration of the Fadden poll on 2 1 December. [More…]

• Have made no public post election comment on this matter because may have only been misconstrued as being a case of sour grapes. [More…]

• He informed me that on 1 December 1977 he had a discussion with a Mr Coleman about the National Aboriginal Conference election which was held a week after the State election. [More…]

• When representatives of the Land Fund Commission went to the auction to buy Glenore station in November they did so without first having advised me that they would bid at auctionin fact the letter from the Chairman was dated 8 December, two days before the election. [More…]

• After the election I returned to find that this property had been purchased at auction but of course it had to run the gamut of the absolute discretion of the State Minister for Lands to consent to the purchase. [More…]

• During the election and since we have said that from February onwards there would be a consistent fall in the level of unemployment and we have seen that occur. [More…]

• At least the Government is achieving what it set out to do, and the people of Australia know that; they demonstrated this in the last general election. [More…]

• Just before the general election last year and after last year’s Budget, the Opposition offered a whole range of government expenditure programs. [More…]

• Some of these were reiterated during the lead-up to the elections. [More…]

• In my area the 1972 election was called the ‘rotten fruit election’. [More…]

• In fact I would even go so far as to point out to members of the Opposition who are singing like a lot of canaries at the moment that the matter raised by the honorable member for Melbourne Ports was a substantial element in the last election campaign. [More…]

• I can recall going around the electorate of La Trobe during the 1977 election campaign and seeing posters put up on windows and other obscure places alluding to the particular matter that the honourable member seeks to raise in this House. [More…]

• This matter was an extremely important element in the Labor Party’s campaign during the December election. [More…]

• It is also a fact that the Opposition got the greatest mother and father of a hiding it has ever had in a Federal election save the one in 1975. [More…]

• Of course, his attitude is typical of the attitude of the Australian Labor Party to Tasmania, that is, do not give a damn about Tasmania except at election time and do not give a damn about how many Tasmanians lose their jobs. [More…]

• That attitude is the reason the Labor Party lost five Tasmanian seats in 1975, five Tasmanian seats in 1977 and will lose five Tasmanian seats at every election until the year 2000. [More…]

• If it were to be tested at the ballot box we would have an election not every 18 months, as we have been having in the last five years in Australia, but every week. [More…]

• The point is that between election times the Westminster system suggests that whether a government deserves to govern is, normally speaking, except when a Labor government is in, left to the determination of the lower House of the Parliament. [More…]

• I note that when the right honourable Minister, then the Treasurer, was forced to walk the plank by his loving leader during the course of the Federal election the Prime Minister wrote to him in these words: [More…]

• In a quieter non-election atmosphere I believe these matters can be properly resolved to meet this objective in a manner satisfactory to me as Prime Minister and to my commitment to the Australian public and which will enable your return to the Ministry as Treasurer. [More…]

• During the course of the election campaign what was promised by the former Treasurer and what was indicated to the people of Australia was that on the first available opportunity outside the heat of an election campaign a full statement on this matter, a full and detailed account, would be given to the people and by presumption to the Parliament. [More…]

• We had the view that Labor would win the election in December 1972 and Phil Lynch would become an Opposition back bencher. [More…]

• Let us consider what was said by the Prime Minister in the course of the election campaign last year. [More…]

• In a quieter non-election atmosphere I believe these mattersthat is, the accusation of financial impropriety- can be properly resolved to meet this objective in a manner satisfactory to me as Prime Minister and to my commitment to the Australian public and which will enable your return to the Ministry as Treasurer. [More…]

• Those to whom he referred were Ministers in the Labor days and were members of an organisation within the then Government which obviously and demonstrably- and the result of the public election indicated that it was not approved of by the people of Australia- acted irresponsibly in their public duties. [More…]

• This, I believe, was the significant cause for their defeat in the 1975 elections. [More…]

• Immediately after the election of this Government on 13 January 1976 the Prime Minister, in order to exercise the very responsibility which this motion suggests he has not exercised, wrote to each of the Ministers in the Government requesting them to put before him matters within their private interests that he believed might in some way conflict with their public duties. [More…]

• We then go to the circumstances following the election and the time when there was then a full examination of the affairs by the accountants, Messrs Irish, Young and Outhwaite. [More…]

• In his policy speech for last year’s election, the Prime Minister excelled himself. [More…]

• At the last election we presented a proposal which would have wiped out any real wage overhang through the abolition of payroll tax and the Government would not have a bar of it. [More…]

• The Government undertook to establish such a corporation during 1978 as pan of its policy outlined at the last election. [More…]

• I appeal to the House to turn its mind back on this subject with some of the vigour it showed when we were in government and during the run-up to the 1972 election. [More…]

• After the 1975 election, the interim ASTEC was re-established, with some modifications to its membership and functions. [More…]

• I have no doubt that subsequent events will show that the needs and priorities of conservative State governments will prove to be greatest in election years. [More…]

• It fulfils the promise of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in his 1977 election policy speech of the provision of a new assistance program for urban public transport, through non-repayable grants to the States, amounting to $60m a year for five years. [More…]

• Of course, that will not wash with the public, and that was shown very clearly in the result in that State at the last Federal election. [More…]

• Attendances were so significant that Mr Virgo was prompted to promise improved facilities, but since the State election last year these promises have remained unfulfilled. [More…]

• It is interesting to recall that in the 1972 election both the McMahon-Anthony Government and the Opposition advocated an urban transport policy. [More…]

• Let us say that both sides in the 1972 election campaign had urban transport very high in their priorities. [More…]

• There is a difference between myself and the Commission over the nature and extent of the Government’s commitment made at the last election where the Commission believed that the promise to extend the free line plant entitlement from 12 kilometres to 16 kilometres should be with respect only to those areas which are programmed for conversion to automatic within two years or where there is already an automatic exchange. [More…]

• For 1 3 years- after the next election it will be 16 years- the Dunstan Government has given South Australians a lifestyle which I believe is superior to the lifestyle of people in any other part of Australia, especially those who have to live under the regime in Queensland. [More…]

• There will not be much of an excuse when the Government comes to the reckoning table, say, on the eve of the next Federal election. [More…]

• I congratulate the Treasurer (Mr Howard) for bringing this legislation before the House so soon after the recent election. [More…]

• I repeat that he is to be congratulated on bringing in this legislation so quickly after the recent election. [More…]

• It was promised during the election campaign. [More…]

• We promised in the recent election campaign to phase out estate and gift duty. [More…]

• Under section 74 of the Income Tax Assessment Act candidates for State and Federal elections can claim election campaign expenses as allowable deductions for income tax purposes. [More…]

• The cost of running a campaign must also deter many people, who would otherwise be able to make a positive contribution to local government, from standing for election. [More…]

• However, there are many people who, if given the opportunity, have experience which would benefit their communities and the country at large but who cannot afford the out-of-pocket expenses and the cost of running an election campaign. [More…]

• I urge the Government as part of the next Budget, if not sooner, to legislate to make tax deductible campaign expenses incurred by candidates for local government, just as they are for candidates who stand for election to federal and State parliaments. [More…]

• 1 ) Was an Australian national group established in 1 960 for the purpose of nominating candidates for election by the General Assembly and by the Security Council of the United Nations to fill vacancies in the International Court of Justice. [More…]

• I am advised that before each election the Government has consulted with the Group to ensure that the Group is aware of the foreign policy implications of any decision it may make in regard to the nomination of candidates. [More…]

• I am advised that since his appointment to the Australian National Group in 1964, the Chief Justice has participated fully in the Group’s deliberations before each triennial election. [More…]

• Finally, would the Prime Minister care for me to catalogue at greater leisure the vast range of not only wrong forecasts but also totally false assertions which he has made, especially at election time, in an effort to try quite dishonestly to obtain votes? [More…]

• We had an election on this matter. [More…]

• How then can this Government, in the words of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) during last year’s election campaign, ‘guarantee that Australian uranium will not end up in nuclear weapons’. [More…]

• This was in direct contrast to the understanding I had held, and I know the honourable member for Franklin had held, since our election to Federal Parliament in 1975. [More…]

• Fifthly in view of the findings of the court of disputed returns regarding the Kimberley electoratethis followed the 1977 election in Western Australia- it is important that we conduct this review. [More…]

• Although I intend in a few moments to refer to the circumstances of the Kimberley election, I do not want to inject an excess of passion into this debate. [More…]

• Just before the Kimberley by-election in December last year, we saw a hastily organised education campaign funded by the Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) in an attempt to take attention away from the Liberal Party’s practices in the earlier election. [More…]

• The only disappointment is that that education program, now that the by-election is out of the way, has fizzled into nothing. [More…]

• I think this was one of the very important aspects of the first National Aboriginal Consultative Committee because it was not based on appointments; it was based on direct elections. [More…]

• It was based on people having to enrol and to participate in elections in a more or less normal way. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that Aboriginals have a right to vote in Federal elections. [More…]

• It is also a fact that in recent experience in the Northern Territory, in both Federal and Territory elections, it has been shown that the existing procedures are adequate and that there is a very high degree of awareness amongst members of the Aboriginal population of their voting rights. [More…]

• Not only have special courses been run but also has there been a development of the National Aboriginal Conference and its election procedures in which Aboriginals participate. [More…]

• I think that this familiarises them in the way in which they can participate to an even greater degree in the ordinary elections that take place for Federal, State and Territory parliaments and assemblies. [More…]

• Mr Justice Smith overturned the election result and ordered a fresh election. [More…]

• That was done in this case, and a fresh election was ordered. [More…]

• -The fact is that a fresh election was ordered. [More…]

• There was a fresh election, about which I have not heard complaints. [More…]

• The course run by the State Education Department ‘s Adult Aboriginal Education Section in Western Australia before the by-election in that State is a good example of the Government’s concern. [More…]

• In the subsequent election which occurred throughout Australia some 80 per cent of them did vote. [More…]

• I believe that is the way in which we should face up to all federal, State and municipal elections. [More…]

• Politics in elections is the very heart of the social process. [More…]

• If the opposite were true, elections could not be held in India and in many other countries of the world. [More…]

• 1 refer to the election of the National Aboriginal [More…]

• If honourable members want a demonstration of the capacity to organise and administer an operation properly, they should consider the numbers of voters who in 1973 took part in the first election of the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee and those who took part in the last election. [More…]

• ELECTION OF NATIONAL ABORIGINAL CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL [More…]

• They came together to discuss, mainly, the election of a truly representative, fully Aboriginal, Consultative Council. [More…]

• That the respective States and Territories restrict their electorates to a ceiling number of 6 and that each State use its discretion in realistically setting up its electorates; that this number of six be in effect only until the first election is complete, after which the decision of how many electorates there should be will be decided by the elected members. [More…]

• That the minimum age for voting and election to the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee be 18 years and that the Commonwealth definition of an Aboriginal bc utilised for eligibility. [More…]

• That the single member constituency electoral system be adopted for the first election of the proposed National Aboriginal body. [More…]

• That a combination of polling/postal/roving and absentee methods of voting be adopted for the first election of the proposed National Aboriginal body. [More…]

• Timetable for election: [More…]

• That Polling Officials at the first election of the proposed National Aboriginal Consultative Council include both Aboriginal and Islander officials and officials from the Commonwealth Electoral Office. [More…]

• Bruce McGuinness moved “That the Steering Committee paragraph “Methods of Voting” be adopted, that is “That a combination of polling/postal/roving and absentee methods of voting be adopted for the first election of the proposed National Aboriginal body” ‘. [More…]

• Bruce McGuinness moved ‘That the first two sentences of the Steering Committee paragraph “Timetable for Election” be accepted, that is “That the date fixed for the nomination of candidates shall not be less than 7 days nor more than 28 days after the date of closing of the Rolls. [More…]

• 1 ) to set a date for the election, [More…]

• Bruce McGuinness- Can we hear from the Secretary some tentative dates put forward for the election. [More…]

• John Moriarty- We had proposed that 30 June be the election date but it may be a little premature. [More…]

• In the National Aboriginal Conference elections there is optional voting but in the Federal elections there is a full preferential system. [More…]

• The Aborigines are confused by having optional voting in their own elections and then having a preferential system. [More…]

• They should not be confused in that way but should be educated for Federal and Northern Territory elections to use the preferential voting system at every election. [More…]

• At the last N AC election several members were elected whom the overall Aboriginal community did not want, and that happened because of the optional voting system. [More…]

• With regard to the exceptions, section 158P provides for inquiries into alleged irregularities in amalgamation ballots under the Act and Part IX for inquiries into alleged irregularities in elections in organisations. [More…]

• The exclusion of appeals does not extend to convictions for offences in connection with amalgamation ballots or inquiries into election irregularities which will be subject to appeal to a full court. [More…]

• It is a disgrace, considering the import of its policy and its statements at the last election and at the 1975 election. [More…]

• It is an abrogation of another election promise. [More…]

• If my judgment of what is right and what is wrong is not correct and if the judgment of the Government is not correct, the Government and I expect to be judged by the people every three years when an election takes place. [More…]

• The representations followed the announcement on 27 October 1977 of arrangements for the dissolution of Parliament and a general election. [More…]

• I presented the Government’s election policies which clarified the Government’s views on most of the matters raised in the letter. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Health whether he can advise the House when the Government will be able to introduce legislation giving effect to our election commitment to broaden the terms of the domiciliary nursing care benefit to include all eligible people over 1 6 years of age. [More…]

• The benefit currently applies only to those patients 65 years and over but, as the honourable member for Mallee indicated, the Prime Minister announced during the election campaign last year that the Government would move to reduce the age limit from 65 years to 16 years so that the program would provide cover for paraplegics and other people who receive intensive care in either a nursing home or an institution but who also receive care with assistance from their parents or relatives in their own homes. [More…]

• -I think it is fair to say that the investment allowance that was introduced by the present Government shortly after its election to office in 1975 has very much achieved its objective which was to give a boost in the area of investment. [More…]

• Because of that the Labor Party will lose every seat it contests at the next election. [More…]

• I also point out that at the last Federal election - [More…]

• I also want to defend the Government against the despicable suggestion that I have heard- and I refute it entirely- that the delay had anything to do with the possibility of an early election last year. [More…]

• Both of these gentlemen acknoledged during the last election campaign that they have family trusts; so we have right at the top of the political tree in this country people, including also the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch), who have family trusts which exist to avoid income tax and estate duty. [More…]

• When the Government proposes to abolish estate duties and gift duties over a certain period, it is extremely difficult to take criticism from a party which, in the last general election, proposed to impose a taxation burden upon every income taxpayer in the nation. [More…]

• Before his election to the Senate, Denham Henty had a long and distinguished service in local government, having been a Launceston alderman from 1943, and subsequently mayor of that city in 1948 and 1949. [More…]

• Thus, on his election to the Senate in 1949, Senator Henty was well equipped to represent his State, and particularly the northern part of it. [More…]

• I am sure that the Government’s decision and the Government’s speed in fulfilling its election undertaking will be welcomed. [More…]

• The presence of these Bills before the House represents the unequivocal honouring by this Government of a specific election promise made by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) during the last election campaign. [More…]

• It is important to note that by including grandparents and grandchildren the actual provisions of the Bill exceed the terms of the election promise. [More…]

• We recall the words of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) during the last election campaign. [More…]

• It was stated in a document released before the 1975 Federal election that one of the first objectives of the Liberal Party was to restore federalism to this country and we are well on the way to achieving that objective. [More…]

• It masqueraded to the people in the last New South Wales election that our federalism policy involved double taxation. [More…]

• Far to the contrary, it was one of the major issues upon which Mr Wran fought the New South Wales State election. [More…]

• The Premier went on to advocate increased government capital expenditure in much the same way as the Labor Party was advocating it before the last Federal election. [More…]

• I should point out also that the Government at the last election made a commitment that the cost of off-peak calls would be reduced substantially. [More…]

• However, progress towards self-government was then halted when, at the Territory elections, the Labor Party was completely annihilated. [More…]

• On assuming office and in pursuance of the policy of this Government as announced during the election policy speeches of 1975, I had the privilege in 1976 of bringing before the Parliament a Bill which set the stage for the conferral of executive responsibility on the Territory through the creation of Executive Members of the Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• Assembly will be extended from 3 years to 4 years from the date the Assembly first meets after a general election. [More…]

• The efficient operation of an organisation requires that questions in relation to elections be finalised as quickly as possible. [More…]

• The provisions of an appeal would provide additional scope for faction fights, which would necessarily further delay the finalisation of elections. [More…]

• This approach is reinforced by the provisions requiring that an application for an inquiry under Part IX be lodged with the Industrial Registrar, who is required to refer it to the court only when he is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for an inquiry into the question whether there has been an irregularity in the election which may affect the result, and that the circumstances justify an inquiry by the court. [More…]

• Perhaps there is a very strong case to remove these qualifications altogether and to adopt the idea which the Australian Labor Party put forward during the last election campaign of subsidising new employment only as long as there is a continuing net increase in an employer’s labour force. [More…]

• The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) went through an exercise just before the last election. [More…]

• This matter has been of great concern to the Australian nation and was the subject of keen discussion during the last election. [More…]

• Immediately upon his election to Federal Parliament, Sir Robert was appointed Attorney-General and Minister for Industry, portfolios he held until 1939. [More…]

• In that year -just five years after his election the the House of Representatives- he became Prime Minister. [More…]

• When I entered this Parliament after the 1961 election the late Sir Robert Menzies was then close to the end of a long and significant career. [More…]

• He had just survived a remarkably close election. [More…]

• It was not only the time of my first election to this House but also the occasion of the rather novel experience of discovering, on the good advice of the then right honourable member for Kooyong, that the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) was ‘magnificent’. [More…]

• Following the 1975 election, approval to continue the operation of the Committee was given by the Minister for Social Security in April 1976. [More…]

• In respect of the declarations required under section 1 5 1 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act, will the Minister supply the following information concerning each Minister of the present Government: (a) what sum did each Minister receive in donations during the 1977 election campaign, (b) what sum did each Minister spend on his campaign in his electoral division, or, in the case of senators, in his State, (c) does any Minister know of any sum spent by his political party or by any person on his behalf during the 1977 campaign; if so, what were the amounts, (d) did each Minister spend any sum on (i) newspaper, (ii) radio and (iii) television advertisements; if so, what are the details, (e) what was the cost of printing each Minister’s how-to-vote cards and (f) what was the cost of the printing and distribution of other literature on the Minister’s behalf throughout his electoral division, or in the case of senators, his State, during the campaign. [More…]

• 1 ) How much time was made available to broadcast election speeches or political advertisements in respect of each political party on each radio broadcasting station and television station in connection with the State election in Queensland on 12 November 1977. [More…]

• 1 ) Election speeches and political advertisements. [More…]

• These tables show details of radio and television broadcasts of election speeches and political advertisements for the period 10 October 1977 (date of issue of writs) to 9 November 1977. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wide Bay might recall that the Prime Minister announced in his election speech last year that there would be an extension of the provisions of the domiciliary nursing care benefit to people below 65 years of age- indeed, to those 16 years and over- who were properly approved by a medical practitioner to be eligible for the equivalent of nursing attention. [More…]

• In spite of the fact that the Prime Minister had given a firm undertaking that he would preserve that concept as it applied at the time of the 1975 election, he then sought to destroy it soon after entering office. [More…]

• The dogs may bark on the other side of the House but the caravan of the New South Wales Government will go on in prosperity to another successful election. [More…]

• There is no way that they will defeat him at the next election or in subsequent elections. [More…]

• We have also known him in the role of writing misleading letters to miners in his electorate at election time. [More…]

• Following each election the majority Party elects its leadership and following the accepted processes, the Ministry is sworn in. [More…]

• The details on how the Labor Party decided to present its economic policy at the last election, I am assured by expert commentators, show in fact that the bulk of the Labor Party had no idea of the eccentric payroll tax, shoot from the hip suggestion that the then leader imposed upon the Party at the last minute before the Federal election. [More…]

• I wish it to be noted on the record also that it is my wish to nominate at appropriate times proxies, particularly from some of the senators who will be arriving after 1 July next and who were not eligible for election under our Caucus rules to this delegation to the Convention, as they would not be, up to the point of 1 July, members of the Caucus. [More…]

• By contrast, Labor, after its election in late 1972, undertook a full and independent review of Australian science, and also sought to encourage informed comment on the nature and role of appropriate science policy advisory machinery. [More…]

• Firstly, it changes the name given to the bank established at the end of last year just before the election, the Australian Rural Bank. [More…]

• During last year’s Federal election campaign, the Government made two key promises about the Australian Rural Bank. [More…]

• Prior to the suspension of the sitting I was discussing the election promises of the Government parties in respect of the Australian Rural Bank. [More…]

• If that is to be the case, it means that the Government has broken its election promise, because it promised long term loans at concessional interest rates. [More…]

• When they become fully aware of what the Government intends, the high expectations that they have for this Bankexpectations which were fanned by the Government parties at the last election- will be shattered. [More…]

• Here we saw the Prime Minister act with great determination, not to resolve the case but to get it firmly out of sight on the eve of an election campaign. [More…]

• In 1977 an election was held 12 months before its due time, with no reasons ever given. [More…]

• If the Opposition wants an election on that basis, we could have one and remove a few of the Labor members from this Parliament- and that would be doing a public service to this nation. [More…]

• The result will be the same at the end of the three year term when the next election is due. [More…]

• The first point is that in some cases in Victoria the form of election given to an applicant for a housing commission home does not clearly state whether that person will be a rental applicant or an ultimate purchaser. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) referred earlier to the results of a recent gall up poll which showed that since the December election support for the Government had increased and support for the Opposition had decreased quite dramatically. [More…]

• I refer the Minister to the Government’s election promise, which is of particular interest to people living in rural areas, that there will be an extension of the limit for the provision of free telephone line plant from 12 kilometres to 16 kilometres. [More…]

• One has to bear in mind that there is the prospect of a State election in New South Wales and therefore maximum mileage is being given to this trade mission to Saudi Arabia. [More…]

• There was no response by the Opposition in the election campaign to that Press release by the Minister. [More…]

• The increase in outlays is due to previous election promises, principally concerning the beef producers, the removal of the expenditure limitations on such programs as the National Employment and [More…]

• Confidence rose around the time of the last election. [More…]

• The Commonwealth has, of course, already honoured its election promise to reduce personal income tax. [More…]

• The late Sir Robert Menzies won the 1963 election on the refusal of Labor’s ‘36 faceless men’ to approve the original North West Cape radio station. [More…]

• The facts are these: Mr Justice Sweeney, as he now is, was promised the presidency of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission before the 1972 election. [More…]

• After the election Mr Sweeney, QC, was appointed as a judge of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission with the promise that he would get the presidency if and when it should become vacant. [More…]

• The honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) on television just prior to the last Federal election also made a similar comment and admitted that the 25 per cent tariff cut was imposed because of over-full employment. [More…]

• I noted with some interest the final paragraph of the second reading speech by the Minister for Special Trade Representations (Mr Garland), on behalf of the Treasurer (Mr Howard) in which he commended the Bill to the House and drew our attention to the desirability of early approval of the Bill in order to enable the Treasurer to exercise the proposed increased voting rights for AustraUa at the next regular election of executive directors of the Fund and the Bank in September. [More…]

• There is a need to amalgamate smaller craft unions and multiple industry unions into single industry organisations and a need to make all union officials completely responsible to their own rank and file, both by election and during their term of office. [More…]

• It was only when I was prepared to offer the trade union movement complete control of the organisation and said ‘we will fund it and you can have complete control over the curricula and the syllabus and the election and appointment of the people who will do the job’ that the movement was finally prepared to come in and become part of it. [More…]

• Honourable members will recall that towards the end of last year the Prime Minister announced that after the election a conference of all sections of the oil industry would be called to discuss certain disagreements, particularly in relation to alleged price discrimination within the industry. [More…]

• When he retired from State Parliament to contest the last Federal election Mr Holding received a lump-sum payout of $215,000. [More…]

• The present Government- the Wran Governmentwas elected in May 1976, and if one reads those of the Press who wish to look into the crystal ball there is reason to believe that another State election is not very far away. [More…]

• Last year the Sub-Committee commenced to receive evidence and submissions, the work being recommenced after the election and the reconstitution of the main Committee on 7 March 1978. [More…]

• Is it to be yet another election promise, another clear abrogation of a specific undertaking to be broken by this Government? [More…]

• If I heard the honourable member Blaxland correctly, he was accusing the Government of making an election promise that a resource tax would be introduced, or having said in relation to the Budget that a resource tax would be introduced. [More…]

• The Schedules to the Administrative Changes (Consequential Provisions) Bill specify some 550 separate amendments of some 180 Acts which need to be made because of the ministerial and departmental changes made following the election last year. [More…]

• This realistic example demonstrates the possible impact of this legislation and points particularly to the hollowness of the Government’s election promises about tax cuts. [More…]

• Tax cuts were a major part of this Government’s election campaign. [More…]

• Honourable members will all remember how, in the New South Wales election of 1976, Premier Wran successfully sold to the people of New South Wales the fear of double taxation. [More…]

• It was an election policy promise of this Government to increase that figure of 1.52 per cent to 2 per cent over a period of three years. [More…]

• The suggestion which has been made today and at various times of election that the federalism policy means double taxation is absolute hogwash. [More…]

• He had won his election on false pretences, on a scare campaign of double taxation. [More…]

• Of course if these people are not to be made worse off, it means that other people at incomes in this range, which is from $ 127 a week to $134 a week, certainly do not get much benefit out of the much vaunted tax cuts and half tax indexation arrangements which were so important at the last election. [More…]

• The reality is that the economic recovery promised to the Australian people at the last election campaign by every member of the Liberal and National Country parties is just not happening. [More…]

• It seems from the results of the last Federal election that the people who said that the issue most concerning them was unemployment were in fact more concerned about ‘dole bludgers’ than providing jobs. [More…]

• The matter of self-government and responsibility was the main issue of the last two Northern Territory Legislative Assembly elections- certainly the last one. [More…]

• The Labor Party fought that election on a platform of no self-government for the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The people of the Northern Territory would certainly wish to have a very strong say in their own affairs, and they have given expression to that at those two elections. [More…]

• Where a casual vacancy occurs in the office of a member of the Legislative Assembly less than 2 years and 9 months after the first meeting of the Assembly following the last preceding general election, an election shall be held for the purpose of filling the vacant office for the remainder of the term of office of the member who last held that office [More…]

• 1 ) A person is not qualified to be a candidate for election as a member of the Legislative Assembly if, at the date of nomination- [More…]

• was not a duly elected member by reason of his not having been qualified for election or of any other defect in his election; or [More…]

• After the general election of members of the Legislative Assembly, the Administrator shall, by notice published in the Government Gazette of the Territory, appoint a time, being not later than 30 days after the day appointed for the return of the writs relating to that election, for holding a session of the Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• In regard to the method of election, I would like to comment on the size of the electorates and the fact that they are to be single-member electorates. [More…]

• The first is that it is quite obvious that, with a State election in New South Wales in the breeze, Mr Wran is endeavouring once again to revive the bogy-man of double taxation. [More…]

• Mr Wran knows that and he ought to be honest enough, in possibly the lead up to a New South Wales election campaign, to admit that from the outset. [More…]

• In 1972, just before the election campaign, Prime Minister McMahon was asked by Time magazine what future he saw for Australia. [More…]

• In addition, where such persons exercise the right of promotion appeal in relation to a Public Service vacancy, that action will constitute an election to be covered by the new scheme. [More…]

• But I know that during the period of the Government appointed by Sir John Kerr- before the 1975 general election- they committed themselves, as they did to many other things, to certain principles to ensure that traditional Aboriginal owners gained inalienable title to their lands. [More…]

• Our Government reversed that decision on 16 December 1975, three days after the Federal election. [More…]

• Yet the Acting Prime Minister was telling growers during last year’s election campaign: [More…]

• During the 1 975 election campaign, the present Prime Minister expended a lot of hot air in his self-righteous denunciation of the size of the Whitlam Ministry. [More…]

• After the elections, he did in fact reduce the numbers by three to a Ministry of 24. [More…]

• Some use was made of them in the conduct of the NAC election in 1977 and further use of such tapes in other areas is under consideration. [More…]

• What were the first preference voting figures for each candidate, together with the informal and total vote, in the 1 977 Senate election in (a) the Electoral Division of St George and ( b ) each sub-division within that electoral division. [More…]

• What were the first preference voting figures for each candidate, together with the informal and total vote, in each election since 1960 in the following subdivisions of the Electoral Division of St George: (a) Moorefield (b) Hurstville West, (c) Lakemba, (d) Belmore and (e) Campsie. [More…]

• First preference voting figures for each candidate together with informal and total votes in each subdivision for elections of the House of Representatives and the Senate in the period 1960 to 1975 are contained in the publication Election Statistics (formerly Statistical Returns) for New South Wales published by the Electoral Office after each election. [More…]

• The publication Election Statistics for the December 1977 elections will be issued within the next few months but the information sought is available from copies of Election Form 62 sent to honourable members recently. [More…]

• On my calculations it is 178 days since the last election. [More…]

• I take it that most members of the Parliament, like myself, feel at this stage that we have been meeting every day since the election but we still have not done as much as we would have liked to have done. [More…]

• We need to do some practical things about that and one of the ways which has appealed to the Labor Party- we proposed this in our last election campaign manifesto- was that there should be a major, high level, comprehensive inquiry into the capital market in this country. [More…]

• New legislation will shortly be introduced to give effect to the Government’s election commitment to establish a human rights commission relating to Commonwealth laws. [More…]

• After being imprisoned in 1968-69 under the military regime of Field Marshal Ayub Kahn, Bhutto’s party won the elections of 1970. [More…]

• In 1977 he won another general election which his opponents claimed was rigged and in July 1977 a bloodless army coup overthrew the Bhutto Government. [More…]

• The constitutional provisions presuppose that before a person ventures to seek election to the office of the Chief Executive of the Federation, he would order his own life in accordance with the law, injunctions and teachings of Holy Qur’an and Sunnah. [More…]

• Then there is Dr Letts, who lost his seat at the last Territory election, but who spent a great deal of time fighting for this cause, regardless of the local politics of the situation. [More…]

• Health care will undoubtedly be a key issue once again at the next election. [More…]

• The present Minister had it included in the joint government policy for the last election. [More…]

• They opposed it hotly during the 1969 and 1 972 elections. [More…]

• In the years following the 1972 election the Liberal and National Country parties were divided on the issue. [More…]

• In its election policy statement the Government foreshadowed various measures which will assist Australian manufacturing industries to take advantage of these opportunities. [More…]

• But you never know; this may be the beginning of a new spirit in which there is understanding that righteousness and infallibility do not always lie with the members that happen to win the majority of votes placed in the ballot box at an election. [More…]

• This matter was first brought to light in the heat of the 1974 Bass by-election when both of the major Parties made a promise that the Maritime College would be sited at Launceston. [More…]

• Since his election to this place the honourable member for Bass has worked very enthusiastically to ensure that the Government honoured its promise. [More…]

• -In the very near future Botany Bay in Sydney will become a battleground as a by-election takes place following the retirement of Sir Eric Willis. [More…]

• As a Federal member from that region with an electorate bordering on Botany Bay, I want to sound to honourable members who are listening in the House tonight and to whoever might read the Hansard record of the debate just a word of counsel and warning about the very grave consequences which are at stake in this election campaign. [More…]

• This is the real issue which is at stake in the State election which is to take place there in the very near future. [More…]

• I call on them to remember them at union election time. [More…]

• -I want to speak tonight on an election promise which has not been honoured by the Government. [More…]

• I quote from the election speech by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on 21 November 1977. [More…]

• There is a difference between myself and the Commission over the nature and extent of the Government’s commitment made at the last election where the Commission believed that the promise to extend the free line plant entitlement from 12 kilometres to 16 kilometres should be with respect only to those areas which are programmed for conversion to automatic within two years or where there is already an automatic exchange. [More…]

• To assist analysis of the election results, the Australian Electoral Office estimated the percentage of the formal votes which each political party would have obtained in every division had the 1975 elections been conducted on the basis of the new boundaries created by the 1977 redistribution. [More…]

• I have this day issued a writ for the election of a member to service the electoral division of Werriwa in the State of New South Wales to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the honourable gentleman. [More…]

• The dates in connection with the election were fixed as follows: Date of nomination, Friday, 1 September 1978; date of polling, Saturday, 23 September 1978, date of return of writ, on or before Friday, 27 October 1978. [More…]

• Of course this has a very marked effect on the prices paid by American consumers and, in an election year in that country, one would hope that members of the Congress would be concerned to listen not only to the American cattlemen but also to the American consumers. [More…]

• No breach of a law of the Commonwealth or impropriety occurred in the course of the redistribution in 1977 of the State of Queensland into Electoral Divisions for the election of Members of the House of Representatives, including the change of the name of a proposed division from ‘Gold Coast ‘ to ‘ McPherson ‘ by reason of [More…]

• It was very upset that Mr Small, the Country Party candidate, had been opposed and defeated in the election. [More…]

• 1 ) How much time was made available to broadcast election speeches of political advertisements in respect of each political party on each radio broadcasting station and television station in connection with the Federal elections on 10 December 1977. [More…]

• 34 Squadron aircraft during election periods solely at his discretion. [More…]

• 34 Squadron during election periods. [More…]

• It has been the practice for the Prime Minister to make available an aircraft to the Leader of the Opposition for the election period. [More…]

• The honourable member and other members of this House will be aware that early this year, as a result of an undertaking given by the Prime Minister prior to the last election, I convened an oil industry conference which was attended by a large number of people from all sections of the oil industry, and particularly by service station proprietors who have been hard hit in recent times by marketing conditions within the industry. [More…]

• Does the Prime Minister recall that prior to the last election he made a statement that unemployment would start to fall in February and continue to fall? [More…]

• I point out that the prediction I made before the last election has to this point proved to be completely and absolutely accurate. [More…]

• I think it is worth noting that since the last election we have received additional information concerning the movements of wages and prices. [More…]

• One would have expected this in view of the Prime Minister’s incessant carping criticisms of Mr Whitlam during his period as Prime Minister and the statement in his 1975 election policy speech that: [More…]

• It adds to the impost of the income tax surcharge that was brought in by a government which won an election on a promise to reduce taxes. [More…]

• It fulfils yet another promise made by the Fraser Government during the 1977 election campaign. [More…]

• These people are political activists who, if they put their names on a ballot paper, would lose their deposits at every election. [More…]

• This Bill represents the belated honouring of an election commitment made in 1977 by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• Therefore the Government undertook to establish such a corporation during 1978 as part of its policy, and of course this undertaking was outlined very considerably in November 1977 during the last Federal election campaign. [More…]

• Prior to the 1975 general election, the Prime Minister came to Geelong and told the car workers how he would protect their jobs. [More…]

• I do not mind if people want to criticise the policies that are pursued by the Government and, justly in their view, to offer constructive comments about the nature of the Government of this country, but it is another matter, at a time when there is not an election campaign under way, to undertake the organisation of mass rallies, to harangue crowds and to set about to undermine people ‘s confidence in established institutions and law and order and to undermine their attitude to someone else ‘s property and person. [More…]

• We had a good bellyfull of their rules in 1975, with the conspiracy that went on to block the Budget and with the arrangements that were made so that the Government of that day was forced to go to an election at a time which was most beneficial to the Liberal and Country parties. [More…]

• It is being reviewed because of the rallies and because people went out and frightened the back benchers on the Government side about what was going to happen at the next election. [More…]

• Not only is there nothing in the hand but there is less in the hand than there was before the election. [More…]

• Let him go a little distance from his electorate to the harshly hit areas in the western suburbs of Sydney or to the electorate of Werriwa to campaign in the by-election and tell the people there that he does not want them to discuss the Budget. [More…]

• Australia has been praised as a country in which, according to the leaders of the governments of Germany and other industrial nations, a democratically elected government, with massive majority support at the last election, has been able to invoke an austerity program in the long term interests of this nation. [More…]

• The New South Wales people had an inkling last year before the Federal election when the New South Wales Premier came to Hurstville and told the greatest pack of lies about the Sydney airport than anyone could possibly envisage. [More…]

• It did not make one whit of difference to the result of the election because the honourable member for Barton (Mr Bradfield) and I with the assistance of the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) had been able to explain the issue to the people. [More…]

• He promised to maintain wage indexation, yet the Government has opposed it at every wage case since its election in 1975. [More…]

• In an election campaign last year, this Government and this Prime Minister were promising fistfuls of money. [More…]

• Last year, in his election policy speech, the Prime Minister promised that the daily rate would be increased and the age limit reduced from 65 to 16. [More…]

• There is indeed a curious contrast between a Prime Minister who regards an election promise as sacrosanct and a government that cannot be trusted to keep its word about any of its promises. [More…]

• It was no doubt because of his economic failures, not his moral traits, that the Prime Minister had to remove the previous Treasurer during last year’s election campaign. [More…]

• It is going to use the money for electioneering purposes; it will make handouts at election time. [More…]

• It was one of the many election promises which I believe gave the Australian Labor Party its victory in 1972. [More…]

• -Oh, he now says that he would have introduced a capital gains tax at the time of the general election. [More…]

• In other words, it would have been part of his election policy, but he was not going to tell the people of Australia. [More…]

• Is it not a fact that the resource tax which I mentioned last night was a firm undertaking in the policy speech of the Australian Labor Party at the last election and, accordingly, could apply for the duration of this year and would have been implemented from the beginning of this calendar year at least? [More…]

• Is it not a fact that, because the Government reneged on its promise at the last election to reduce personal taxes and, in consequence, has substantially increased them, it is not unreasonable for an Opposition to propose in an alternative Budget at this stage some alternative source of revenue which would avoid the imposition of substantial increases in personal tax on income earners in the community and that, accordingly, the introduction of a capital gains tax is entirely appropriate? [More…]

• I am dwelling on this subject because it became apparent when I was there that whilst this proposal was put forward and welcomed by the people of the north, it was not spelt out in discussions at the Paris Peace Accords except in the ambiguous statement that there should be full, free and democratic elections in Vietnam. [More…]

• They wanted President Thieu to remain and not to be subjected to any election. [More…]

• We do not want to commit ourselves to something that is only deemed to be an impartial election process. [More…]

• The second example relates to the tax cutsthose promised in the last Budget and which were such a feature of the last election campaign in December 1977. [More…]

• I remind honourable members of the attitude expressed by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) during the election campaign last year on the release of the report of the Royal Commission into Human Relationships. [More…]

• The Government is living up to the promise it gave in the election campaign to provide universal health care cover, but we are leaving it to the individual to decide what type of coverage he wants for himself and his family. [More…]

• The very core of the conspiracy concerns the Prime Minister’s determination to have an early election last December. [More…]

• It was the motive for insisting that a redistribution of electoral boundaries had to be completed in time for an election before Christmas. [More…]

• It was decided that all the allegations would be ignored, and that the maps would be got through Parliament with the greatest expedition, so that the Government could have a December election option if it wished. [More…]

• Senator Withers even named the precise election date. [More…]

• So a December election was more than just an option for the Prime Minister. [More…]

• Clearly he had decided on 10 December as the election date and already had introduced an utterly dishonest Budget promising temporary tax cuts the following February as electoral bait. [More…]

• Now he wanted nothing to prevent the new electoral boundaries from coming into law in time to meet his election deadline. [More…]

• An election 12 months early was needed for the simple reason that the Government’s policies of economic attrition were not working. [More…]

• It was clear that the Government’s electoral fortunes would decline rapidly if the election was delayed until its due time this year. [More…]

• The alarming unemployment rate and the draconian Budget just handed down- about which Australians were told nothing during the election campaign- emphasise the political opportunism of holding an election last December. [More…]

• He was prepared to destroy one of his own back benchers in his desperate effort to have him silenced so that he could get the electoral boundaries through as quickly as possible and rig an election which was unnecessary except for the fact that the Government was in economic trouble. [More…]

• The maps had to be rushed through the Parliament; there could not be any further delay; the election had to take place in December. [More…]

• The issue is that the Prime Minister would have known that there had to be an election and there was going to be no interference with that sort of conduct. [More…]

• I hear that Don Cameron said to the Prime Minister after the election: ‘What about considering me for a position in the Ministry?’ [More…]

• We saw how the Australian public reacted in the last general election when the private affairs of the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch) were brought to the attention of the Australian public. [More…]

• The third matter of concern is that part of the election policy of this Government which was to extend and improve the domiciliary care benefit scheme which, once again, is administered federally by the Department of Health and which provides domiciliary services in this area. [More…]

• Following a working party on homeless men and women set up in February 1973 by the Leader of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Bill Hayden, which reported later in the year on the feasibility of the program to assist them, legislation was foreshadowed by the then Prime Minister in the 1974 election campaign and was introduced by Bill Hayden in November 1974. [More…]

• Just nine months ago, the Liberal-Country Party coalition spent a fortune in the election campaign to tell the Australian voters how the Labor Party would take away the tax cuts they had promised would operate early in 1978. [More…]

• Rule 47 of the registered rules of the Australian Workers’ Union provides that ballots for the election of Federal officers are to be conducted ‘at the same time and places and in the same manner as the ballots for theelection of Branch officers’. [More…]

• Rule 69 provides that a Branch Executive shall decide upon the date when ballots for the election of Branch officers shall commence. [More…]

• The rules do not require elections in all Branches to be conducted simultaneously. [More…]

• Pursuant to rules 45 and 68, nominations for each Federal and Branch office close ‘not later than the 21st day of June immediately preceding the election’ for that office. [More…]

• I am informed that for some time elections in the union for Federal and Branch offices have been conducted by the Australian Electoral Office and that at the last election for the Federal offices of President, General Secretary and VicePresidents, the opening and closing dates for nominations were advertised by the Returning Officer in the union journal,’The Worker’ of 29 April 1977. [More…]

• As previously mentioned, the closing date for nominations for each Federal office is fixed by rule 45 as the 2 1st day of June immediately preceding the election for the position concerned. [More…]

• The latest figures issued by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development- a body, incidentally, which the Leader of the Opposition was not loth to cite during the last election campaignindicate that for the six months ended 30 June 1 978 the average increase in consumer prices for OECD countries was 9.6, whereas those same figures indicate that the increase in Australia in consumer prices during that six-month period was only 6.9. [More…]

• In seasonally adjusted terms, in Australia at the end of August there were 418,000 people out of work-68,000 more than in July 1977, just prior to the last Federal election. [More…]

• Day by day Mr Hamer comes closer to an election in his own State. [More…]

• During the 1975 election campaign we put forward the proposition that we had to regenerate profit into industries so that they would be more capable of employing more people. [More…]

• The Australian people should be aware that if, following the next election, through some misfortune honourable members opposite were again on the treasury bench it would have the disastrous effect of simply pushing more and more people onto the list of unemployed. [More…]

• Why has this Government which, in the words of the Prime Minister before the last election, was pledged to give us all a fistful of fivers, is now just giving us the fist? [More…]

• The people of Australia are entitled to know why this callous and indifferent Governmentthe Prime Minister, also before the last election, promised that we would see a steady and sustained drop in unemployment this year- is presently presiding over record unemployment and making not the slightest gesture of relief or even sympathy for the unemployed. [More…]

• Give people hell now and before the next election throw them a scrap- some more breakable promises- and they will think that they have never had it so good. [More…]

• If Labor does not gain office next election then by 1983, when we could next hope to gain office, we would face a mammoth task in rebuilding the public sector- and maybe an equally mammoth task in convincing the electorate that it should pay a higher level of tax to enable us to do so. [More…]

• The election which normally would have been held some time this year was held 12 months ago. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), for some reason best known to him, wanted an early election. [More…]

• It appears very clear now that the early election was directly related to the economic management of the Government. [More…]

• It happens to be the first year following an election. [More…]

• There was a very temporary tax relief to get votes at the last election. [More…]

• They will be able to do it in a by-election. [More…]

• They will also be able to do it in forthcoming State elections. [More…]

• I would go a step further, as a corollary to that proposition, to say that there should be a condition precedent that a Budget commenced in an election year will be completed in order that there shall not be disruption to the forward planning which has already taken place. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition blurted out that Labor would have tried to introduce the capital gains tax at the time of the last general election. [More…]

• Well, Labor certainly did not tell the people of Australia that during the election campaign. [More…]

• If there is any promise that the Australian people recall at the last election it was that a Fraser government, if re-elected, would introduce substantial tax cuts. [More…]

• It was certainly an issue at the election. [More…]

• It is mean-spirited and full of broken election promises while safeguarding a few sacred cows of the establishment forces. [More…]

• The Government’s election promise that unemployment would keep falling is another broken promise. [More…]

• All the election promises referred to by my colleagues in this Budget debate have torn asunder the hypocrisy with which the Government fought the last election campaign. [More…]

• When will the Government introduce its legislation to amend sections 47c and 82b of the Public Service Act to make it mandatory rather than a matter of discretion for the Board to reinstate an officer who, having resigned to contest a parliamentary election, fails to be elected. [More…]

• 1 ) Did the Government make an electoral commitment prior to the 1 973 election to abolish the means test. [More…]

• During the election campaign the National Times asked the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Mr Lionel Bowen, and many other people the following questions: ‘Do you have family trusts?’ [More…]

• The election was held a year before its time, and for the first time ever the reasons of the Governor-General have never been published. [More…]

• If Labor does not gain office next election then by 1983 … we would face a mammoth task in rebuilding the public sector- and maybe an equally mammoth task in convincing the electorate that it should pay a higher level of tax to enable us to do so. [More…]

• In recognition of the fact that the age limit excludes many deserving cases, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in his policy speech for the 1977 Federal election campaign announced the Government’s intention to reduce the qualifying age limit from 65 to 16 years of age. [More…]

• It is very interesting that on 1 5 December 1975, two days after the Federal election, the two Frasers resigned as directors of the company and a solicitor by the name of Frank Lewis Birch was appointed on 15 December 1975. [More…]

• The Liberal Party, prior to coming to government in 1975, made clear certain points in its pre-election campaign of that year. [More…]

• Apart from the broken election promise to reduce taxation, the broken election promise to maintain Medibank, the broken election promise to phase out the means test on pensioners, the Budget places an intolerable burden on the family unit. [More…]

• Speaker after speaker has supported this vicious and unfair Budget, bluffing it out in the true Nixon style, regardless of the harm to the family unit, regardless of its hidden recessionary measures, and regardless of the broken election promises. [More…]

• Because of another broken election promise, farmers will still be forking out around $20m in Federal death duties in 1978-79, despite the Government’s pledge to do away with them. [More…]

• He will not have the Leader of the Opposition near him during the State election. [More…]

• Hopefully, as far as the Liberal-National Country Party Government is concerned, it will be just before the next general election. [More…]

• The election of a government should not be a popularity contest. [More…]

• During the 1977 election campaign both promised funding for Aboriginal health programs costing $7m in 1978-79. [More…]

• This Government cannot afford to break election promises in such a sensitive area, especially in light of the fact that Aboriginal infant mortality in Australia is as high as 98 per thousand in some areas. [More…]

• But the Government was not content with simply breaking an election promise. [More…]

• Let me start with the promise that Medibank would be retained, and this promise goes back to the 1975 election. [More…]

• The promise made during the 1975 election campaign that the Government would retain Medibank has been broken. [More…]

• In regard to taxation, I remember the election advertisement last December showing someone holding up a fistful of $5 notes and setting out what the Fraser Government would do if it was returned. [More…]

• Election promises have no validity when uttered by the present Prime Minister. [More…]

• Taxes did come down, for a few months until the election was over. [More…]

• The Government’s cavalier disregard for the truth extends not only to its hollow election promises but also to the very mathematics of the Budget figures. [More…]

• They were answered fully subsequently after the Federal election and, as the House is very much aware, the answer at that time was subject to independent examination by senior counsel after the matter had been carefully analysed and reported publicly by Irish, Young and Outhwaite and also by Mallesons. [More…]

• I refer to the use of the expression ‘double taxation’ which had its genesis in the New South Wales election of 1 976. [More…]

• Of course, it is wilfully and wrongfully used in the advertisements which are now being run in New South Wales in connection with the forthcoming State election. [More…]

• What I think this House must recognise in the context of this debate is that the great piece of deception about federalism, about the new arrangements between the Commonwealth and the States, is the proposition which came in the first instance from the Premier of New South Wales, which was left dormant over the last 2lA years but which, believe it or not, has been raised again by the Leader of the Opposition in this place today and has been raised again in advertisements which are now being used by the Labor Party in connection with the New South Wales election campaign. [More…]

• Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) as today is the twenty-first anniversary of his election to this chamber. [More…]

• Enormous promises were made about taxation prior to the last election less than a year ago, which tended to persuade the Australian community to vote for the Liberal and National Country parties. [More…]

• That referendum is to be held on the same day as the Legislative Assembly election although the powers of the Assembly have not been designated. [More…]

• In addition, candidates are being asked to stand for election to a Legislative Assembly which has no powers. [More…]

• Its powers will be dependent on the results of a referendum which will not be known at the time the election is being held. [More…]

• A convenient way might be to run through some of the points covered in the policy speech I delivered on behalf of my Party and the Government during the last election campaign. [More…]

• These are some of the things the Government has done in fulfilment of the promises it made before the last election. [More…]

• Of course, the things just mentioned related only to specific areas and to matters brought forward at the last election. [More…]

• I hope that those honourable members on whose behalf the statement I referred to earlier was made by their then spokesman on primary industry will show enough integrity in this House to vote in accordance with the undertakings they gave to the electorate when they were seeking election to this place. [More…]

• The Bill will also reduce a benefit, contrary to the Government’s undertakings when seeking election. [More…]

• The Government’s election mandate ought to be something for which honourable members opposite accept responsibility. [More…]

• As far as his remarks about this Bill being contrary to an election platform or policy are concerned, I am unaware of whether that is so. [More…]

• Mr FitzPATRICK (Riverina) (8.48)- I think that firstly we should clear up the doubt that the honourable member for Dawson (Mr Braithwaite) has in his mind regarding the statement that the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) made concerning the election promise made by the honourable member for New England (Mr Sinclair) to the effect that the National Country Party would continue the nitrogenous fertiliser subsidy if it was in government. [More…]

• 1 think that members of the National Country Party would know the date of the election in that year. [More…]

• Regardless of the change of direction of the National Country Party and the Liberal Party, and regardless of the broken election promise, this decision could not have come at a worse time for primary producers. [More…]

• At that stage, from memory, there was an election and the current Government said that it would retain the bounty on superphosphate for a period of years- I have forgotten how many. [More…]

• With regard to self-government, I was surprised that the shadow Minister for the Capital Territory, the honourable member for Melbourne, was unaware of the efforts that have been made over the last week or so to ensure that what was probably an unfortunate Government decision to hold a referendum and an election for the Legislative Assembly at the same time was reversed. [More…]

• I compliment the Minister for the Capital Territory on being flexible enough to see that there was a groundswell of opinion in both the Liberal Party and the Labor Party locally and also in the parties that are not represented in this Parliament by people from the Australian Capital Territory- the National Country Party and the Australian Democrats- to have the referendum held before Christmas and the election next year. [More…]

• The honourable member for Melbourne did not even know that this morning I announced that the referendum and the election in the Australian Capital Territory will be held on different dates. [More…]

• It so happens that a New South Wales State election is to be held. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the New South Wales Premier, Mr Wran, is talking of opening this highway as part of his present election campaign? [More…]

• As I pointed out a moment ago, there seems to be a New South Wales State election on. [More…]

• The whole performance of the New South Wales Government in this election will want to be watched by the people of New South Wales. [More…]

• If so, when does the Minister intend to arrange for an election to be conducted so that the ABC staff members can select a replacement on the Commission? [More…]

• Why would the Government make this statement eight or nine months after the last election? [More…]

• On 6 December 1977, at the height of the election campaign, the Prime Minister had this to say: [More…]

• The Prime Minister during the election campaign also said: [More…]

• In the 1977 election campaign we as an Opposition did our best to persuade the Australian people to see beyond the convenient and hollow promises of the Prime Minister made in that infamous policy speech, now revealed as a litany of empty rhetoric and base deception. [More…]

• The Werriwa by-election on Saturday will be a measure of the feelings of the people in this area. [More…]

• If honourable members opposite feel that the Australian people are stupid enough to listen to the sort of stupid inane criticism which has been bandied around the House today and if they think that they can win votes by making remarks such as the ones that we have heard today, I am sorry to point out to them that it will be proved again at the next election that Labor is just not on. [More…]

• This amendment places the onus squarely upon those members from Tasmania, remembering of course, that the Government currently holds all the seats in Tasmania, though I am sure that is a position which will be changed at the next general election, to act on this matter. [More…]

• Great promises were made by the Labor Party in the 1972 election campaign about the tree pull scheme which was introduced by us when we were previously in office. [More…]

• Honourable members may recall that, at the last election, in the Huon I gained a higher vote than I had at the previous election. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has used the same tradition as a justification for removing his Treasurer during the election campaign and then refusing to give the public the information to which it was entitled after the election. [More…]

• That would seem to be quite unrealistic due to the fact that there was an election during the course of the 1977-78 year, and the amount appropriated for the administrative expenses this year is $58,000. [More…]

• I am advised by my colleague, the honourable member for Dundas, that because of the election there was less expense than would have normally been the situation. [More…]

• The facts are that the Government will honour its commitment made before the last election to extend television into the areas promised at that time. [More…]

• That would, of course, mean that we would be providing not only what we promised for remote areas at the last election but also a better service than that which we undertook to provide at that time. [More…]

• Mr Ryan was a former Progress Party candidate for Tiwi in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly election. [More…]

• -The facts are these: In November 1977 during the election campaign the Minister was forced - [More…]

• -In November 1 977 during the election campaign the Minister was forced by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to resign as Treasurer. [More…]

• I refer to the Werriwa by-election to be held next Saturday which would bring into operation section 1 16 of the Broadcasting and Television Act, which prevents the use for broadcasting or television purposes of any election matter. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen advertisements in today’s newspapers indicating that there will be television programs and radio programs this evening advertising the Liberal Party’s State election policy speech by Mr Coleman? [More…]

• In view of the Werriwa by-election, has the Minister or the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal notified all radio and television stations that to broadcast comment or material from that policy speech before next Saturday night would be in contravention of sub-section 4 of section 1 16 of the Broadcasting and Television Act? [More…]

• Why has he ignored this valuable report except for picking out a few lines and trivializing them for election purposes? [More…]

• From his records, on Thursday, 7 July 1977, he did attend for a while a meeting in my office with other Ministers to discuss possible options for the holding of the next general election in 1977 or 1978. [More…]

• Of course honourable members will know that options in relation to this year were put aside because the election has already been held. [More…]

• To the best of Mr Pearson’s memory and to the best of his records that he has been able to check during Question Time, that was the only occasion on which he met with me during last year to discuss options for an election during 1 977 or 1 978. [More…]

• The cabinet document, originally prepared in October but abruptly dropped during the election campaign, has its roots in an uncompromising stand by the Bureau of Mineral Resources under Deputy Prime Minister, Doug Anthony. [More…]

• Perhaps in his reply he will say that these statements are totally untrue, that there is no foundation for our fears; but I am sure he will concede that there has been considerable rumour about this matter over a long period of time, dating back many years but specifically to just prior to the last election. [More…]

• The minute it won the election with the appeal of more money in people’s pockets it reversed its decision and reimposed the tax. [More…]

• It envisages a five-year transitional period during which Israeli military forces will be withdrawn to garrisons in specified locations, and the election of a selfgoverning authority with full autonomy. [More…]

• Finally, of course the Government has failed to fulfil many of its election promises in all directions. [More…]

• This is a Government which, by the way, gained less than 41 per cent of the primary votes at the Territory election last year. [More…]

• They claim that Mr Renshaw and Mr Gordon will delay any announcement until after the State election. [More…]

• They are there by virtue of the dismissal by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) of the Minister as Treasurer during the election campaign and the unsatisfactory public explanation of his affairs. [More…]

• I refer to South Africa’s decision to proceed with its own election in Namibia. [More…]

• Did he or any other Minister, except the former Minister for Administrative Services, raise or discuss in any way with the Chief Electoral Officer in July last year the likelihood of an early election? [More…]

• This report stated that the discussion related to options in relation to an election in 1977 or 1978. [More…]

• As the honourable gentleman will know, there was in front of us in relation to that redistribution an electoral situation which meant plainly that a redistribution should go forward before an election could be held. [More…]

• On Sunday, 27 November 1977, during the last Federal election campaign I made a full and true disclosure of my family finances. [More…]

• Before the last election late last year several Ministers were talking about billions of dollars worth of investment being imminent. [More…]

• Of the 20 projects which the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs was prepared to nominate before the election, the Minister for Trade and Resources could give me information on only seven. [More…]

• On only seven of those 20 preelection projects was the Minister able to give any estimate of the level of investment or the extent of the work force. [More…]

• What this Government promises depends very much on what time of the year it is and the proximity of the next election. [More…]

• Before the suspension of the sitting I was saying that this chamber is the last bastion of male chauvinism and I called upon the political parties to change their attitudes and have women preselected to contest the next election. [More…]

• I note with interest that the Australian Labor Party has selected a woman candidate, Mrs Ros Kelly, as its candidate for the seat of Canberra at the next election. [More…]

• I want to talk now about the Estimates and to point out that during the last election campaign, this Government made a commitment to equal opportunity for women. [More…]

• It was during the election campaign of 1975 that we in the Liberal Party developed as part of our party policy a blueprint for moving the Australian Capital Territory towards selfgovernment. [More…]

• At a time when New South Wales, the State which surrounds the Capital Territory is to have an election, I think it is wise that the New South Wales residents know that most of the people in the Capital Territory think that the present administration is doing a very workmanlike job in this city. [More…]

• Before the last election I never hid the fact that I had a family trust. [More…]

• I would point out that the Government’s election commitment was to introduce significant reductions in off-peak calling rates. [More…]

• I think that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who already has bruised shins over the by-election in Werriwa last Saturday, would do well to read the results of the election. [More…]

• Not only has the general community a lack of confidence in this Government to do things right- I pointed out that it cannot even draft a Bill properly- but also it knows that the Government is having another side swipe at military personnel who last Saturday in a byelection indicated quite clearly that they are fed up to the back teeth with this Government. [More…]

• I have received a return to the writ which Mr Speaker issued on 1 5 August for the election of a member to serve for the electoral division of Werriwa in the State of New South Wales to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the Honourable Edward Gough Whitlam. [More…]

• I want to say at this time of the problem of election and voting, Christ ‘s your man. [More…]

• size of the Australian Labor Party vote in the recent by-election is the greatest evidence of that grievance that I could possibly bring forward. [More…]

• In the by-election in Werriwa there was no need for us to tell antiTamie Fraser jokes. [More…]

• The people of Werriwa do not trust Mr Fraser, and they gave ample evidence of that in the by-election. [More…]

• -Well, of course Mr Hamer has allocated some money for the unemployed in Ballarat, strangely enough, because a by-election is coming up there. [More…]

• This Government, with a majority of 55 members, had to run to the Governor-General to get an extra early election. [More…]

• However, the Prime Minister recommended the abolition of bulk billing because he was under pressure from the AMA which, after all, had contributed large amounts of money towards his election campaign. [More…]

• After the election, if he is successful, reasons will be found for bringing forward a new State Budget. [More…]

• He was well aware of this because he knew that he was going to call a State election. [More…]

• -The honourable member for Bradfield (Mr Connolly) has obviously been stirred up, having heard the new member for Werriwa (Mr Kerin) relate the exceptional swing to the Australian Labor Party that was in evidence in the Werriwa by-election. [More…]

• That of course is going to manifest itself throughout New South Wales in the forthcoming election. [More…]

• In common with many other honourable members, I welcome back the honourable member for Werriwa (Mr Kerin), a man whom I have had the pleasure of defeating at two previous elections. [More…]

• I should say that in those election campaigns the honourable member for Werriwa conducted himself with dignity and with integrity. [More…]

• Liberal Parties in providing crisis accommodation was one of the major issues in the State election to be held on 7 October. [More…]

• All I am saying to the Government is that it is high time that it got down to looking at the problem from a slightly more long term view rather than arguing as to what a particular government department said last year just before the election. [More…]

• Sometimes members are accused of being disloyal to their party; but I think that, in a situation such as this, because of our responsibility to our electorates we have to stick firmly by what we said during difficult election campaigns. [More…]

• When we say something to somebody during an election campaign we cannot go back on what we say. [More…]

• In the course of the campaign for the coming State election the Australian Labor Party has been saying that the whole issue as to whether there will be a nursing home in Earlwood depends upon federal finance. [More…]

• We know the promises that were made by the Prime Minister and the honourable member for St George during the election campaign, and we know the way such promises have been broken in this Budget. [More…]

• Indeed, the result of the Werriwa by-election demonstrated to the Government quite clearly that the decisions taken in the Budget were unsupported by the people. [More…]

• The economic downturn- affecting the Aboriginal population far more than other groups- has been used to justify the cutting of expenditures and the breaking of election promises. [More…]

• In 1977-78 election promises were made which Ministers subsequently thought nothing of breaking in the 1978-79 Budget. [More…]

• During the 1977 election campaign, both the Prime Minister and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs promised additional funding of $7m in the 1978-79 financial year for Aboriginal health programs. [More…]

• There were a number of remarkable things about this election, apart from the Premier’s own performance, in that in a number of important respects he sought to embrace the policies of the Federal Government and to support those policies. [More…]

• If there is one pan of the election last year which would stick in the mind of each person in this country it would be that the Government parties went to the polls in 1977 saying to the Australian people: ‘If you elect us you will get substantial tax cuts’. [More…]

• No Government spokesman spoke without mentioning that in the course of the election campaign. [More…]

• This was a very important issue in the last election. [More…]

• This Government has decided totally to repudiate its promise to the Australian people, a promise which was the key point in its election policy last year, by imposing an income tax surcharge which will totally wipe out the tax cuts for the majority of taxpayers, particularly those taxpayers who are lower middle income earners, and substantially reduce the tax cuts for the rest. [More…]

• It is a tremendously important step that this Government is taking, a step which not only repudiates its number one election promise but also represents, in respect of many taxpayers, a substantial impost on their tax liability. [More…]

• It is an utter repudiation of promises made in the last Budget and, most particularly, at the last election. [More…]

• We have seen example after example of broken promises from this Government following the elections of 1975 and 1977, but the surcharge is the most blatant and most cynical of all those broken promises. [More…]

• Then, as soon as the election was over, the tax cuts were reimposed on the people in this Budget. [More…]

• I intend to refer to a few examples of this but before I do so I will mention some of the other promises made by the Prime Minister during the last election and the election prior to it which have been broken, as instanced by this legislation. [More…]

• In the election campaign of 1 975 the Prime Minister gave a firm promise and undertaking that it would not be affected; that under no circumstances would it be touched. [More…]

• After the election the first thing he did was to emasculate it and to make it available only to those who were buying their first home. [More…]

• Added to that, the proposal is dishonest because the Government gave a firm undertaking at the last election that it would reduce taxation in accordance with the 1 February tax cuts. [More…]

• Now, as soon as the election is over, a surcharge has been introduced and taxes have risen. [More…]

• I believe that this Government, even though it comes under criticism from some honourable members opposite, including my friend the honourable member for Hughes, has something to be proud of because it has in fact reduced taxation every year since the 1975 election. [More…]

• The honourable member for Chifley can yaffle and waffle as much as he likes, but the fact of the matter is that the Government has made a commitment, and I believe that commitment will not be broken, that this is a temporary surcharge against the general thrust of the tax reductions that we have implemented since our election to government in 1975. [More…]

• At the time of the last election I well remember the attitude of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• The then appointed Prime Minister of Australia, as he was prior to the December 1975 election, and my memory is very clear on this, indicated that at no stage would there be an increase in the income tax rate then applying in Australia. [More…]

• They showed it, first of all, in the Werriwa by-election when there was a marked swing against the Government. [More…]

• There was a very marked swing in the Werriwa by-election which resulted in the entry into this Parliament of an extremely good man who was previously a member of this Parliament. [More…]

• There was at least a 10 per cent swing against the Government in the Werriwa by-election. [More…]

• Even though Wran was the man in New South Wales, I feel that the result of the New South Wales State election was a demonstration by the people of New South Wales that they were dissatisfied with the performance of this Government, in particular with the Budget it brought down and more particularly with the matters which we are discussing at the present time. [More…]

• They have to borrow another $2,000 because the Treasurer cannot meet the obligation which was given in the 1975 election campaign with regard to homes savings grants, which are not contained in this legislation but in respect of which the Government’s actions are comparable in taking away the home interest deductibility scheme. [More…]

• Such people have to borrow an additional $2,000 which the Goverment promised them as an election promise and made a lot of fuss about. [More…]

• I am unlikely to be able to share your company after the next election. [More…]

• It had all the trappings of a campaign organised by trained political activists and I am sure that it will serve as valuable experience for a similar campaign which, I understand, is to be run just before the Federal election to be held in 1980 but with a different purpose in view. [More…]

• That is a very interesting interjection from a man who would not be a member of this place if we achieved in a Federal election the same result as was recorded in the New South Wales elections. [More…]

• This was a fascinating election because never before in the history of Australian politics has any political party been annihilated the way that the Liberal Party was annihilated in New South Wales. [More…]

• If the honourable member can produce an election result which shows that Askin got 63 per cent I will dance naked through Parliament House. [More…]

• If the results in New South Wales on Saturday were recorded in a Federal election there would have been an annihilation on the other side of the House. [More…]

• The same thing that happened in the Werriwa by-election has happened in the New South Wales elections. [More…]

• Look at the result of the elections. [More…]

• Unless honourable members opposite wake up to themselves none of them will be here after the next election for this place, which almost happened in New South Wales. [More…]

• Of course the results in New South Wales are only a follow-on from what happened in the Werriwa by-election,, following which the brilliant young member, Mr Kerin, was returned to this House, although representing a different electorate from that which he had previously represented. [More…]

• I conclude by saying that the election result is a warning to this Government to shape up. [More…]

• -Until the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen) spoke I had no idea that he had made such a substantial contribution to the recent New South Wales election. [More…]

• At that election a political party was actually struggling to field a cricket team. [More…]

• Let me say as one who campaigned in one seat which I believe we have held- I refer to the seat of Bligh- that this is the second New South Wales election that I can bring to mind that has been won on false pretences. [More…]

• The election in 1976 was won on the false pretence that, if the Liberal [More…]

• We did not have any Party standing for election; we had Mr Wran and his Government. [More…]

• Neville Wran must take the prize for winning an election. [More…]

• In fact I think he will go down in history as the only Labor leader who won an election by pretending to be a Liberal. [More…]

• Mr Muller said that the Labor Party is going pretty well at the moment- in its eyes- and that there will be an election in 18 months and if negotiations can be strung out over those 18 months there will be a Labor government and, of course, it would not allow uranium mining to continue. [More…]

• Clearly that is the inference to be drawn from the New South Wales State election and, two weeks earlier, the Werriwa by-election. [More…]

• All of this ‘grand design of social welfare reform’- that is placed in inverted commas to indicate the clear sarcasm- comes from the same man, Fraser, the man who promised tax cuts at an election eight months ago and this week introduced substantial tax increases in their place. [More…]

• I accept that a pan of the vote in the recent New South Wales State election was attributable to Federal matters, but it was only a relatively small proportion of the vote. [More…]

• The State election was clearly fought on State issues. [More…]

• Before the 1975 election the Government campaigned on the basis of the removal of the means test for persons over 65 years of age. [More…]

• Just before election time it came out and found royal commission reports, et cetera, which allegedly were supported by the Labor Party and which may have had some adverse effect on the family. [More…]

• It believes that it can con the pensioners every election time into believing that it is genuinely concerned for them. [More…]

• It is something of which we can be very proud, and that legislation was in pursuance of the pledge given during the December 1975 Federal election campaign. [More…]

• Of course, many of these changes represent the reverse of what the Government had promised in previous election speeches. [More…]

• One must underline again that whatever might be the rationality of this policy it is not what the Government went to an election on. [More…]

• To renege on that promise within a matter of months of an election represents dishonesty and treachery on the part of the Government when we relate the situation to that section of the population. [More…]

• Let us have a real look at the equity in the taxation system and see which of the parties can win an election on that issue. [More…]

• We are not recreant to the trust that was placed in us and we have lived up to our promises which were part and parcel of promises given in the various election campaigns. [More…]

• I have been thrown out of a job as Health Minister and Parliamentarian in 1975 by a Governor-General and an election and so I guess I know the sort of feeling this could bring about. [More…]

• I’m sure I’m doing better work and happier with it as a result of the break, and I believe if I’d missed on re-election I would still feel that way in some other job. [More…]

• Perhaps if I were in a higher position in the Liberal Party to enable me to do that, that too might have been better and we would have won the last election by a bigger majority than we did. [More…]

• -After the last Federal election, in which the Labor Party was resoundingly rejected by the Australian people, it set up a committee of inquiry to guide it on its future plans and policies. [More…]

• This issue will haunt them at the next election and in future elections because it is the major domestic issue facing this nation. [More…]

• The point is that this discussion paper arose from a committee of inquiry established by the Labor Party after its last election defeat. [More…]

• Firstly, he stated, in effect, that I had made public comment on that report prior to the last State election. [More…]

• I made no public comment on that report prior to the last State election. [More…]

• Secondly, it would clearly flout the pledges made by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and others during the election campaigns of 1975 and 1977. [More…]

• Secondly, there is no need at this stage in the debate to quote statements by the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), by the Prime Minister himself or innumerable Liberal speakers during the 1975 and 1977 election campaigns concerning their commitment to twiceyearly adjustments. [More…]

• Mr McMahon, Mr Snedden and Mr Fraser, when Leaders of the Opposition, pledged in each election twiceyearly adjustments, again without reference to inflation. [More…]

• Having listened to the remarks of the honourable member, I say that it is no wonder that the pensioners, the mothers of children who earn income and the unemployed in New South Wales registered a vote against the Federal Government at last Saturday’s State election. [More…]

• The reality is that in an election situation the Prime Minister and his responsible Ministers committed every honourable member opposite clearly and unequivocally to the view that if this Government were to be re-elected every pensioner in Australia, no matter what was the level of the pension or the nature of it, would not have his situation made worse. [More…]

• What we have been talking about and what we have been trying to suggest is that the people in the electorate of Batman, a large number of whom have low incomes, a considerable number of whom are social service beneficiaries and many of whom are migrants with families that are divided between Australia and countries thousands of miles away, are not now to receive, under the terms of this Budget, the treatment which was promised by this Government prior to the election. [More…]

• These people should know with some certainty that when a Party goes to an election- an election which it has brought on itself- with firm policies and gives firm assurances on what it plans as a government, assurances such as it gave to Mrs Wilson of the Preston Combined Pensioners Association when it told her that she and the members of that Association could expect to have their pensions indexed twice yearly and that there would not be a means test introduced for people over the age of 70 - [More…]

• The point that I have been endeavouring to make is that people in the electorate of Batman who will be required to supply that information in accordance with the provisions laid down are having a condition placed on them in a context different from that which they had expected, given the promises of the Government in the previous election campaign. [More…]

• When the Government enters into a contract with people, such as I think is indicated in this clause, then the people ought to be able to expect that that contract should be within the framework of the Government’s election promises. [More…]

• Clause 8 is important insofar as it at least points to the fact that the Government is now requiring of the people something which is radically different from that which they could have expected in view of what was said in the election campaign just a few months ago. [More…]

• Why did he renege on yet another election promise? [More…]

• I hope that their constituents in their electorates note that before the last election and before the election in 1975 they published leaflets promising certain things but now were prepared to vote for the change from six monthly indexation to yearly indexation, the re-introduction of the means test, the abolition of the maternity benefit and the reduction in the unemployment benefit. [More…]

• I hope that when their constituents see how they have behaved they will take appropriate action with them at the next election. [More…]

• Now, one election (and two years before the next) later, not only has the proposal been revived; it is also being implemented even before the necessary legislation has been introduced to Parliament and passed. [More…]

• It has been in power since 1975 and during the 1975 election campaign the Liberal and National Country parties made a clear commitment to maintain Medibank. [More…]

• Remember how in 1975 Labor kept its election pledge to provide a basic, cheap, workable system of universal health insurance? [More…]

• In the December 1975 election campaign-after the disgraceful coup, I might add- the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) promised not to interfere with Medibank. [More…]

• During the 1975 general election campaign, the then caretaker Prime Minister derided the Trade Practices Commission, established under the terms of the Act, as one of the octopi that had been created by the Labor Government to strangle business. [More…]

• It is my pleasant task now to compliment the Government on the implementation of this election promise. [More…]

• -As the honourable member for La Trobe says, there would there be a massive deficit of $4,500m unless the Leader of the Opposition’s taxation proposals were made retrospective to the date of the last Federal election. [More…]

• A few short hours ago a puff of white smoke signalled the election of the 264th successor to St Peter. [More…]

• Minutes later a quarter of a million people crammed into St Peter’s Square and heard Cardinal Felice proclaim the traditional words ‘Habemus Papam’ announcing the election of Pope John Paul II. [More…]

• In view of the Government’s election promise that this bank would provide long term loans at concessional rates of interest, will the Treasurer explain why such a high rate of interest has been set when 37.5 per cent of the Bank’s funds are to be supplied from income equalisation deposits at only 5 per cent interest? [More…]

• Let those people in the Liberal and National Country parties opposite who said in their campaign for the 1975 Federal election that they would abolish the PJT have the courage of their convictions. [More…]

• Government has been significantly, if not spectacularly, unsuccessful in achieving the reductions in interest rates that it undertook would come about as a result of its policies at the time of the last election. [More…]

• The Government has sought to rig the market just to get it through the election.’ [More…]

• I repeat: ‘The Government has sought to rig the market just to get it through the election.’ [More…]

• Therefore, we should take with a fairly large grain of salt some of the remarks that have been made, both before the last election and when interest rates fell earlier this year, by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• During the course of the election campaign the Prime Minister did, of course, make predictions regarding movements in interest rates. [More…]

• This was made a promise during the 1977 election campaign. [More…]

• It is one thing in politics to make promises which one has no intention of keeping- the kind of situation we had after the 1975 election when the Prime Minister said that his election promises were inoperable. [More…]

• The level of income tax since the last Federal election - [More…]

• An election was coming up. [More…]

• It will then lapse and the Congress will have the opportunity if it so chooses to pass the legislation after it has safely navigated the election on Melbourne Cup day. [More…]

• Its proposed establishment has been included in our policy for many years and it has been in the joint party policy at least since the 1975 election policy speech. [More…]

• The whole matter was projected in the 1975 election campaign. [More…]

• But just prior to the 1977 election, legislation to establish the Bank was introduced. [More…]

• At last year’s election $70m was promised by the Government over a period of five years to upgrade mainline railways. [More…]

• Without being too cynical, we should recall that only recently there was a State election, and I suggest that the New South Wales Minister might have found it rather embarrassing to put forward his priorities. [More…]

• -The area of urban public transport can be added to the long list of broken promises that characterise this Budget, the first since the election which the Government won last December. [More…]

• The matter has a long history but somewhat surprisingly appears to raise its head mainly during election campaigns. [More…]

• As the House may be aware, there is to be a very important State Government by-election in my electorate on 28 October. [More…]

• Let all Australians take heart from the New South Wales election and remember that the people are not the fools that this Government paints them. [More…]

• If such a person would care to send half the money he saves to the Australian Labor Party’s election fund, we would certainly appreciate it. [More…]

• When they lost the election they turned against the findings of the inquiry. [More…]

• In the 1974 Federal election Queensland was the only State not to elect five Labor senators. [More…]

• In the 1974 State election the ALP was reduced to a rump party. [More…]

• In the 1975 Federal election only the Leader of the Opposition could scramble back to hold his seat, out of the 1 8 House of Representatives seats in Queensland. [More…]

• In the 1977 State election the ALP received only 43 per cent of the vote. [More…]

• In the 1977 Federal election the ALP in Queensland polled fewer primary votes than in 1975. [More…]

• Instead of a fifty-fifty structure between trade unions and members for election of delegates to the State Conference and quarterly State Council meetings, it has been recommended that representation will be 60 per cent trade unionists and 40 per cent branch members. [More…]

• Furthermore, it is still possible for trade unionists who are not signed-up members of the Party to participate in the selection of candidates. [More…]

• This is perhaps understandable in the light of the Government’s early election promises of export incentives. [More…]

• So it is merely fulfilling an election promise without really looking at the problem. [More…]

• That telex was sent to the Mayor of Alice Springs just prior to the last election. [More…]

• The Minister was virtually saying that the programs which were being carried out in that area should be stopped so that money could be diverted to the Stuart Highway instead of a special allocation being made to South Australia to complete the road as was promised in the election campaign. [More…]

• I thought it might be useful, over a period, just to draw the attention of people to the things that he might say because by the time we get round to holding another election, an edition of the various undertakings made by him might be of some interest to the voters of this nation. [More…]

• The result of an election can because of the differing electorates and methods of election, result in a different result in each House, despite an exactly similar actual vote i.e. [More…]

• Proportional representation has removed the possibility of a complete or substantial change at a single election. [More…]

• Not since 1937 has a Government been defeated by a vote of elected Members of any Australian Parliament where that Government enjoyed majority support at the time of election in its own right. [More…]

• -Mr Speaker, before the last election I made it perfectly plain that important interest rates could move down by up to 2 per cent over the course of this year. [More…]

• This is the same Minister who, in the middle of the last election campaign when I raised these issues, put out a Press statement saying: ‘Mr Anthony details $14 billion worth of new projects’. [More…]

• If we already have a serious overcapacity situation, how then does he reconcile that view with his view in the election campaign that we ought to have more capacity built into the Australian iron ore and coal industry? [More…]

• How are they going to dispose of 20 million tonnes from existing mines, plus the tonnage from all of the new projects the Minister talked about during the election campaign? [More…]

• It was all good stuff in an election campaign but it was not to be believed later. [More…]

• It is nice to hear a frank admission but what about some frank admissions during an election campaign, instead of the kind of deceitful material which has emanated constantly from Government Ministers? [More…]

• There was no action of any type from the New South Wales Government, which endeavoured to keep this matter quiet until the State election was over. [More…]

• But the election is over and there is still no action. [More…]

• What efforts have been made by his Government to redeploy staff from Medibank, particularly in view of his election promises of 1975 and 1977 with respect to Medibank? [More…]

• It could not care less about its responsibilities in this area and it will be held to judgment at the next election regarding its promise in this regard. [More…]

• The establishment of the Bank and the provision of considerable government assistance enabling long-term borrowing with interest rates below those that would apply under commercial conditions brings to fruition the coalition parties’ election commitments in this area. [More…]

• -There is no need for me to tell the Committee that the most important event that has happened since this legislation was passed by the House of Representatives is the New South Wales election. [More…]

• A swing of about 25 per cent to the Labor Party occurred at that State election on 7 October this year compared with the figures at the Federal election at the end of 1977. [More…]

• Then, in 1 972, came the election of the Whitlam Labor Government. [More…]

• Despite what has been done in the past, just prior to the last general election we did receive a Press statement on this matter from the present Minister’s predecessor- and there is a pretty long story about that Press statement too- in which it was mentioned that translator or repeater stations would be established in six areas in South Australia up until 1981. [More…]

• Prior to the election, a certain South Australian senator and the Liberal candidate who was opposing me came out with a statement that I was being a bit mischievous in this matter, that the then Minister for Post and Telecommunications had promised that television would be provided in the area within 12 months. [More…]

• After the election was over I spoke to the present Minister for Post and Telecommunications and he gave me some sort of an idea about the future plans for the area. [More…]

• the election last year. [More…]

• So we are looking at whether we cannot do even better than we promised at the last election. [More…]

• Far from backing off from our promise, it is my hope, if technical tests make it possible, that we will be able to provide an infinitely better national television service in these remote areas of Australia, which, I certainly admit, we promised to do in the last election campaign. [More…]

• We are hoping to do as we did with regard to reductions in long distance telephone rates, where we exceeded the promise that we made at the last election- an almost unbelievable circumstance. [More…]

• He referred to the call that was made by some churchmen in New South Wales before the New South Wales elections. [More…]

• I am not entering into the merits of the argument and the nature of the call that was made, but I do not think it was appropriate then for Judge Kirby to say in respect of that call that this test before an election of the conscience of a politician and the conscience of the electorate when voting for members of parliament represented an undue pressure on politicians. [More…]

• In particular, in recent weeks during the New South Wales election campaign all sorts of claims were made that money was coming from the New South Wales Government when, in fact, it was provided through the generosity of this Federal Government. [More…]

• Mr Morris said that I had promised the people that a Council election would be held before the end of this year. [More…]

• When I met with councillors in Canberra- it would be a couple of months ago now or thereabouts- I explained to them the statutory timetable which would have to be followed by the Administrator in order to enable an election to be held. [More…]

• Following those two periods the election is held. [More…]

• I said to them that quite obviously those statutory procedures had to be followed before the election could be held. [More…]

• Honourable members would be interested to know that it is intended to amend the Act to allow for an election before the statutory date for local government elections in Queensland; that is, before March 1979. [More…]

• I know from my own discussions with the Administrator and from advice given to me by my Department that the Administrator, together with the Community Council, is actively having the rolls completed to enable the election to be held as early as possible. [More…]

• Soon after it was elected in December 1975, the Fraser Government discarded its unequivocal election promise to support wage indexation and since then has argued that real wages should be slashed and even that money wages should be frozen, that wage indexation should be totally abandoned and that we should revert to the system of annual national wage cases with no prima facie presumption that wages should then be increased in line with price movements or indeed with any other specific criteria. [More…]

• I can assume only- I do not want to be political about thisthat it had something to do with the New South Wales State election. [More…]

• Suffice it to say that, in November of last year when I was at the Mount Lyell site, I said that we would maintain the operation of Mount Lyell if we were to be the government after the last election. [More…]

• That is what the Werriwa byelection was all about. [More…]

• It is obviously what the by-election in Ballarat was all about. [More…]

• In the Hamer election in a few months time the people of Victoria will reject the national lie and the coalition parties. [More…]

• Because the words are not parliamentary, I cannot quote them to honourable members, but I would love to be able to tell them what Mr Coleman had to say after the Earlwood by-election about the Prime Minister’s great contributions to Mr Coleman’s efforts in that by-election. [More…]

• I think that they do because, latterly, election results in two States have indicated that they are awake. [More…]

• To promote his candidature in the forthcoming State election, Mr Shatin has been posting out to the voters of his electorate mail which can be described only as party political campaign material. [More…]

• Depleted pay packets tell the story of how much reliance can be placed on this Government’s election promises. [More…]

• Substantial tax rises from 1 November compare with the election promise of tax cuts. [More…]

• I remind the House that that election promise was one of which great political capital was made by the* Government at the time of the last election. [More…]

• Let me Consider, momentarily, the breach of the election promise. [More…]

• Nothing the Government can say can alter the fact that the income tax surcharge is a repudiation of a fundamental election promise that the Fraser Government would cut income taxes for all. [More…]

• Payasyouearn taxpayers will be able to measure directly the extent of this Government’s breach of its election promise to them by examining their pay packets this week and noting the additional amount of tax which has been taken out. [More…]

• If Labor does not gain office next election, then by 1983 we would face a mammoth task in rebuilding the public sector and maybe an equally mammoth task in convincing the electorate that it should pay a higher level of tax to enable us to do so. [More…]

• I am sure the House would allow me to remind it of that still famous statement of the former Prime Minister in his election policy speech in Blacktown in 1972. [More…]

• We all remember the confusion about indexation in the 1977 election campaign when Mr Whitlam said: ‘Maybe’; the honourable member for Gellibrand said: ‘I will have to find out’; and the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) said: ‘I have only read the Cairns Post’. [More…]

• As honourable members will recall, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) announced in his election policy speech last November that the Commonwealth would initiate a new program for urban public transport. [More…]

• The States Grants (Urban Public Transport) Act 1978 honoured our election policy commitment. [More…]

• In regard to the Stuart Highway in South Australia, the switch of the adjustment amount in this Bill from national commerce roads to national highways so as to enable $ 1 m to be spent on the highway in 1 978-79 is a rather transparent attempt to cover up the repudiation of the Government’s specific election promise made in Alice Springs on 25 November last year that specific funds in addition to the funds provided to the South Australian Government as part of the national program would be made available for the Stuart Highway. [More…]

• In the policy statement of the Victorian Premier for the 1976 election reference was made to road safety, but that dealt with legal, police and education matters. [More…]

• I have no doubt that before the next election- in fact I can guarantee it- a number of new initiatives will be undertaken by the Victorian Government which will answer many of the allegations made by the honourable member for Batman about what he sees as deficiencies in some of the more exciting innovations in Victoria. [More…]

• That was despite the fact that, prior to the last general election, a telex relating to the Stuart Highway was sent by the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) to the Mayor of Alice Springs, which read as follows: [More…]

• It should find additional money in line with the promise it made to the people of Alice Springs prior to the last election that additional money would be found so that this work could be carried on. [More…]

• As recently as the last election the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) reiterated that point when he said: [More…]

• The Liberal Party in 1975, being aware of this and in its normal cynical fashion, produced in its election policy speech a promise to establish a rural bank. [More…]

• Two years later in November 1977, just before the then pending election, the Government introduced, again for electoral purposes, and passed the Australian Rural Bank Act which authorised the establishment of a banking corporation. [More…]

• Of course, the rural bank was just another one of the broken promises of that election campaign. [More…]

• On 7 June the Treasurer repudiated- without acknowledging the fact, I might add- the Prime Minister’s 1977 election promise for funds at concessional rates of interest when he said that interest rates would be set at approximately the same level as for overdraft accommodation on similar amounts of money. [More…]

• There are sound arguments against providing finance for agriculture at concessional rates of interest, even from the farmers ‘ own viewpoint; but there can be no justification for deceiving farmers with cynical, dishonest election promises. [More…]

• It is an ad hoc shoot-from-the-hip election promise- ill-conceived and, to all intents and purposes, still-born. [More…]

• The concessional rates promised in the Prime Minister’s election speech do not exist. [More…]

• This Government has propped itself up with empty election promises and now shows some sort of duplicity in its moves to prove that those promises were genuine. [More…]

• With one exception, farmer organisations realised months ago that the Government had tricked them and that the Prime Minister had no intention of honouring his election promise. [More…]

• Banks contributed heavily to election-time funds that helped return the Fraser Government to power in 1975. [More…]

• That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘whilst not opposing the Bill, the House is of the opinion that the Bill takes no account of the Prime Minister’s 1977 election promise to provide through the Primary Industry Bank long term credit at concessional interest rates’. [More…]

• Therefore the Government has lived up to its election promises. [More…]

• Did that appear to be the case at the last State elections when the Labor Party had a wonderful victory in New South Wales. [More…]

• On through its performance its approval will continue at the next elections, Federal or State. [More…]

• I expect the honourable gentleman from Parramatta will lose his seat when the next election occurs. [More…]

• There is no avoiding the fact that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said in his November 1977 election speech about his 1975 election speech promise that the Primary Industry Bank would provide long-term loans for up to 30 years at concessional rates of interest. [More…]

• He said that the undertaking, the election promise, was only to lengthen the terms of loans. [More…]

• If not hypocrisy, that was a lie or a dishonest election bribe. [More…]

• It is totally superfluous and was created only as an election bribe. [More…]

• The National Country Party, the Liberal Party, the Prime Minister and the Minister for Primary Industry made a promise in the 1975 election campaign knowing full well that the promise did not mean what the farmers liked to think. [More…]

• In summary, what I am saying is that the real thing we are opposed to in this debate is the fact that the Government has broken another election promise. [More…]

• What it has brought in is an unnecessary bank which is less than what it promised during the election campaign to the rural sector. [More…]

• Contrary to what has been said by Opposition spokesmen, the Primary Industry Bank of Australia fulfils one of the Government’s important 1975 election promises, which was elaborated on in the 1977 election campaign by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• The 1975 election promise- that is when the promise was first made- was that the Liberal and National Country parties would provide medium and long term credit to rural producers through a specialist rural producers’ bank. [More…]

• From the time of the Prime Minister’s announcement during the election campaign of 1975 the bank has had a long history extending over 18 months or more of very detailed discussions and considerations between the Government, members of the Government parties and representatives of the rural sector, particularly the major rural organisations. [More…]

• If the honourable member reads the 1977 general election statement by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) he will find that the Prime Minister spoke about a refinancing institution. [More…]

• Our amendment seeks to point out to the House and to the nation that the 1977 election promise of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was to provide through the Primary Industry Bank of Australia long term credit at concessional interest rates. [More…]

• Surely, the legislation before us is not the fruition of the great promise that the Liberal and National Country Parties made to solve the liquidity problems of primary producers, the great promise that was shouted from the hilltops by the Liberal and National Country Parties during the last two election campaigns. [More…]

• The Bill before the House is much more than a broken election promise of the Fraser Government. [More…]

• Indeed, it was one of the National Country Party’s major election promises of 1975. [More…]

• This conflicts dramatically with statements by coalition members during the last Federal election. [More…]

• But I am afraid that it was only an election promise. [More…]

• I cannot recall it being part of any of the Opposition’s election policies in 1975 or 1977 that it would give any help whatsover to the rural industry. [More…]

• The Opposition was very keen in the last election to spend $500m or $700m on rebating payroll tax. [More…]

• If we go back two members in the members for the electorate of Riverina, we recall that in 1972 the then honourable member for Riverina, Mr Grassby, made an election promise that $500m would be given to the primary industries at a concessional rate of interest of 4 per cent. [More…]

• Will he make a prompt public statement of any firm undertaking given by the Queensland authorities bearing on the proposed election date. [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to assertions in that document that (a) the economic downturn has been used to justify the cutting of expenditure and the breaking of election promises, (b) land rights are an urgent issue of national justice, (c) mining in Arnhem Land could be as destructive of societies and produce the same long-term effects as the dispossession in the rest of the continent, (d) even more threatened are communities in Western Australia and Queensland who have neither land rights nor the Northern Territory Act’s protection, (e) if contracting parties are too unequal, consent does not guarantee justice and the rule of free agreement remains subservient to natural law, (f) traditional owners are opposed to Ranger mining but feel oppositon is futile, (g) many government institutions apply assimilationist pressures, and (h) predators grant liquor licences against the objections of community leaders and Councils. [More…]

• That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘whilst not opposing the Bill, the House is of the opinion that the Bill takes no account of the Prime Minister’s 1977 election promise to provide through the Primary Industry Bank long term credit at concessional interest rates’. [More…]

• Prior to the 1975 election the Prime Minister stated that he would introduce a rural industry bank. [More…]

• Legislation was pushed through this Parliament just prior to the 1977 election in which a lot of fs were not crossed and i’s not dotted. [More…]

• Incidentally, prior to that election the Prime Minister said that finance would be provided to rural producers at concessional rates of interest. [More…]

• Concessional rates of interest were definitely promised prior to the 1977 election. [More…]

• People put out all sorts of furphies, as the Labor Party did in the Northern Territory during the last election campaign. [More…]

• I simply say to the Labor Party and to the interjector who supports the misinformation which the Leader of the Labor Party in the Northern Territory seemed to purvey during the last election campaign that the matter was based on misinformation. [More…]

• This Government is so morally corrupt and so cynical that it would not surprise me if its callous indifference to the plight of the pensioners were based on the belief that they will be dead and buried by the time of the next general election in two years. [More…]

• Since the election of the Fraser [More…]

• The purpose of the third and final amendment is to protect the position of a member of or candidate for election to State or Federal Parliament who accepts an office on a council or the Executive Board of TUTA. [More…]

• Given the penchant of the present Government to have elections every 12 or 18 months, I would not deny that it has had a heavy workload. [More…]

• Secondly, the cost of $250,000 to hold the election has been suggested as a reason why it has not been held. [More…]

• -We have just heard the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil) who is shaking in his little boots following the State election results in New South Wales. [More…]

• I hope that the next time he speaks he will let us know at how many polling booths, if any, the people of his electorate gave the Liberal candidate a majority at the election which was held on 7 October. [More…]

• -I am prepared to make an offer that I will resign the seat of Prospect for a by-election if the honourable member for St George will do the same in his seat. [More…]

• He is always after a little bit of extra money so that they will kick in some money for the next election campaign. [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I present the election statistics for the Senate election and general election of members of the House of Representatives held on 10 December 1977, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Administrative Services outlining the information and electoral education services which the Australian Electoral Office has been developing over the last two years. [More…]

• the provision of proportionate subsidies by the Australian Government to political parties and candidates in federal election campaigns and the disclosure of the amount and nature of assistance by corporations and individuals to these parties and candidates, and [More…]

• the possibility of establishing fixed election dates subject to a government retaining the confidence of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• The second matter, which again was subject to a great deal of debate prior to the 1977 general election- it resulted from the 1977 redistribution- is the final report of the commissioners. [More…]

• The Act says that a State member cannot be a candidate at a federal election. [More…]

• We have introduced, both in government and in opposition, Bills that would have set a certain ceiling on expenditure, depending on whether a House of Representatives election, a separate Senate election or a joint election was being held. [More…]

• This would have enabled some common sense to prevail in regard to the expenditure on elections in this country. [More…]

• I notice that under the part of the Act dealing with electoral offences and punishments a person who wagers on an election result is liable to a fine of $100. [More…]

• at local level, a limited reimbursement of the election expenses of Parliamentary and local government candidates. [More…]

• In order to qualify for a grant a party must at the previous general election have either. [More…]

• People a lot smarter than us have adopted the system in favour of consolidating the role of political parties, not just at the parliamentary level, not just for the purpose of issuing propaganda and making announcements at election times, but to establish proper research and work in the electorate from the local level right through to the national level that we serve in the Parliament. [More…]

• The provision of proportionate subsidies by the Australian Government to political parties and candidates in federal election campaigns . [More…]

• We could pass laws within a week providing for a strong and effective method of having elections on the basis that political parties could get a subsidy, clear and open and above board, to assist them in the course of the election, and guaranteeing that any subscription would be disclosed and, I suggest, audited by the Auditor-General. [More…]

• It refers to the possibility of establishing a fixed election date for Federal elections, subject to the Government having the confidence of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• It is very significant that between 1969 and 1977 we had six elections and this has affected the democratic fabric. [More…]

• In my view, we cannot have a stable democracy if we are going to have elections as frequently as that. [More…]

• The election held last December was held for reasons which were clear to everyone. [More…]

• The Fraser Government was worried, there were jittery back benchers, and so there was an early election because the Prime Minister wanted it. [More…]

• A fixed election date would overcome all three problems. [More…]

• We could overcome those problems by guaranteeing the synchronisation of elections. [More…]

• Certainly we could reduce the term of senators to four years and elect all senators at one election. [More…]

• If that occurred, the Governor-General would have a discretion, subject to accepted principles, to determine whether there should be an election or whether an alternative government was possible without an election being held. [More…]

• It would mean that governments would be unable to call elections when it most suited them and that oppositions would be unable to force elections in the Senate. [More…]

• There is no reason why fixed election dates, such as apply in the United States for [More…]

• In fact, if one looks at the reasons advanced in this House by the Prime Minister on 27 October of last year as justification for holding of an early election, the inescapable conclusion is that the right honourable gentleman should be an ardent supporter of this proposition. [More…]

• The 19SS election was held in December, which clearly negatives any suggestion that it was held to make the elections for both Houses simultaneous because to achieve that it should have been held in May 1936 . [More…]

• The fact that the Governor-General granted the 19SS election was a perfectly proper example of the paramount principle that the Governor-General acts on the advice of his responsible Ministers. [More…]

• In seeking an early election, the Prime Minister will be once more breaching convention. [More…]

• He said that an election was necessary to kill speculation about an election. [More…]

• In view of the fact that some government members have indicated their support for the proposition of fixed election dates, it is desirable that this matter be considered by a joint committee of this Parliament. [More…]

• The right of a Prime Minister to seek an early election for reasons of political advantage would be removed. [More…]

• The only circumstance by which an early election could be held would be if the Government lost a vote of confidence in the House of Representatives. [More…]

• The synchronisation of elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives is part of this proposal. [More…]

• I admitted at the time of the last election that I have a family trust, and there is no reason why that should not stand. [More…]

• Before the last election I never hid the fact that I had a family trust. [More…]

• I think that represented a tax grab of $570m, breaking all the promises that were made at election time. [More…]

• The Labor Party hurried the Bill into this House, as we know, to try to get votes for the Labor Party in the 1975 election. [More…]

• We had a circumstance in 1972 when the Labor Party tried to pose as a responsible, sane and sober party, but it was not responsible, sane or sober for very long once the election was over and it did stop development dead in its tracks. [More…]

• This was an election promise, but in truth it was an election gimmick. [More…]

• He obviously condones the action of this man- who incidentally was a Liberal Party candidate in an election, a man named Gorman from Seymour- in taking out an action under section 45D. [More…]

• At the last election this Government received a great deal of support from the rank and file of working people in this country. [More…]

• It is less than a year since the general election which extended the life of this Government. [More…]

• A month later in the election policy speech, bullishness knew no bounds, if one can excuse the term in the light of recent events at Nareen. [More…]

• This organisation supports Government policy and even believes it will hold until election year 1980, But AIDA warns the Government that on present trends unemployment will become steadily worse. [More…]

• The last election policy speech on behalf of the Government made on 2 1 November 1977 opened with these magnificent lines: [More…]

• Taxation reform was the Government’s promise in the last election speech which stated: [More…]

• It should be borne in mind that, luckily for the Australian people, the Government will face an election within another 50 parliamentary weeks- about 150 parliamentary days. [More…]

• We had an election coming. [More…]

• How did Senator Withers know that we had an election coming? [More…]

• At that stage the GovernorGeneral had not announced that there was going to be an election. [More…]

• But Senator Withers was able to tell the Commissioner that he knew, well before anybody else was able to say so, that an election was coming. [More…]

• The Governor-General alone has the discretion to decide when an election will be called. [More…]

• Yet Senator Withers was able to tell the Commissioner that the Government knew well before July 1977 that an election was going to be called. [More…]

• would be ignored, and that the maps would be got through the parliament with the greatest expedition so that the government could have a December election option if it wished. [More…]

• We know the proprieties involved in the calling of an election. [More…]

• It is not a matter of an early election being called because a government wishes that to happen; it is a matter of an election being called at the discretion of the Governor-General. [More…]

• When we asked the Prime Minister, as I did last November, whether he would table a copy of the advice he gave to the GovernorGeneral on that occasion and whether he also would table a copy of the Governor-General’s reasons for calling an early election, the Prime Minister said that he would consider the matter. [More…]

• It is a useless exercise for the distinguished former occupant of the chair of Governor-General to be writing articles for newspapers for a very handsome fee if he will not tell us what were the reasons for calling such an early election. [More…]

• Early elections have been called on previous occasions, but for every occasion there have been precedents. [More…]

• The documents relating to the election in 1974 were tabled. [More…]

• The documents relating to the 1951 double dissolution, the 1929 and 1931 general elections, and the 1914 double dissolution were all tabled. [More…]

• The first point to be made in this debate is that this motion which the Opposition has moved is not about the economic competence or otherwise of the Government; it is not about the Government’s policies relating to unemployment; it is not about election promises; it is not about an alleged succession of scandals involving Ministers; it is not about areas of social responsibility. [More…]

• In the 1975 election campaign, I was in Mossman in Queensland. [More…]

• Is that a defence in the breaking of this election commitment? [More…]

• Speaker, during the election of the Speaker. [More…]

• I intended to say that, if, in fact, your union rules now ensure full democracy, i.e., that right of every rank and filer to have a direct vote in the election for the position you now hold, then they have me to thank for it; because I amended the Act to make that requirement compulsory and you opposed those amendments. [More…]

• that right of every rank and filer to have a direct vote in the election for the position you now hold, then they have me to thank for it; because I amended the Act to make that requirement compulsory and you opposed those amendments. [More…]

• He went on to defend the collegiate system for the election of union officials and condemned direct rank and file elections on the ground that they would ‘ultimately hand moderate unions over to the Communist-extreme-left coalition, behind the camouflage of an ALP ticket’. [More…]

• Your members wanted the right to have a direct vote on the election of their General Secretary- a right which you said would cause ‘concern’ to ‘this union’, meaning you. [More…]

• Following the last election I was rather disgusted to read that a Tasmanian Labor senator advocated the legalisation of pot. [More…]

• Its most recent transport policy which was adopted at the ALP Perth Conference in 1977, prior to the last election, made absolutely no reference at all to aviation, let alone to international air policy or specifically a case for lowering air fares. [More…]

• Provisions for qualifications for election, filling of casual vacancies, dates for elections, meetings, procedures, election of a President and Deputy President, minutes of proceedings and the making of standing rules and orders are included in this Part. [More…]

• There are transitional provisions under Part IX for the first general election of the Assembly, existing appointments of Administrator, Acting Administrator and Deputy Administrator, certain proposed ordinances and regulations, laying of ordinances before Parliament, the validity of existing ordinances, preservation of existing contracts and the transfer to the administration of the Public Account of Norfolk Island. [More…]

• Of course, these practices would not have been developed if the Government had honoured its election promise to maintain Medibank as it was introduced by the Labor Government. [More…]

• The Government’s 1975 policy on Aboriginal affairs was a hurried attempt before an election to improve its old policy and bring it more into line with the achievements and policies of the Labor Government. [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister a question concerning his recent denial that he promised a reduction in interest rates of 2 per cent over a 12-month period during the 1977 election campaign. [More…]

• Does the Prime Minister recall his undertaking given in his 1975 election policy speech- I nearly said ‘screech’- that ‘The real value of pensions will be preserved’? [More…]

• -Does the Prime Minister recall his 1975 election promise to provide jobs for all who want to work and his 1977 election forecast that unemployment would fall after February 1 978 and keep on falling? [More…]

• More recently in an effort to head off the United Nations’ initiative in this regard the South African Government organised an election in Namibia- a bogus election. [More…]

• So that it could control the outcome of the election it established a purely bogus political party, the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance. [More…]

• It is not surprising that the DTA would have won the election in the event the South West Africa People’s Organisation did not participate and in the circumstances quite sensibly. [More…]

• Having failed in its effort to have imposed on Namibia a bogus election result it is seeking to bring about, if it possibly can, a situation in which it will heavily influence through its control and influence on the DTA, so that in the final upshot it will still be able to drain off a great deal of wealth which is generated from that very wealthy area of Africa. [More…]

• What do people outside think about a Prime Minister who in his first election campaign as the Prime Minister of this country in 1975 made the following promise: [More…]

• In 1977 at another election period he had the following to say: [More…]

• During the 1977 general election campaign the Minister for Transport promised to provide $70m over five years for main line railway upgrading. [More…]

• It certainly will not give them any confidence at all that this Government is likely to honour its election commitments. [More…]

• I support the Bill because, firstly, the legislation is in pursuance of and effectively honouring our 1977 Federal election policy speech commitment to provide $300m over a five-year period to assist the States with the upgrading of their urban public transport systems. [More…]

• Our 1977 Federal election policy speech commitment represented an increase in Commonwealth funding of more than 50 per cent over the amount of Commonwealth funding in the previous five-year period. [More…]

• That decision was taken in direct breach of a pledge given before the 1972 State election that the Hobart passenger suburban rail service would be maintained. [More…]

• Within 18 months of that election the Labor Government of Tasmania closed down the service. [More…]

• It gave effect to the promise of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in his 1977 election policy speech for a new assistance program for urban public transport through nonrepayable grants to the States amounting to $300m over 5 years. [More…]

• Therefore, it will be an important issue in the forthcoming Norwood by-election. [More…]

• The entry of the Federal Government into this area occurred as a result of a promise by the then Government and the then Opposition prior to the 1972 election campaign. [More…]

• Unfortunately for Australia, the free enterprise parties were defeated and we saw the Labor Government- true to its election promise- initiate the necessary legislation. [More…]

• The Prime Minister wrote to all the State Premiers on 6 February 1978- soon after the election campaignindicating the format of the next State Grants (Urban Public Transport) Bill. [More…]

• It should not be forgotten that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), by deferring payments to the States for public transport, is breaking a specific 1977 election promise to provide $60m annually over five years for urban public transport in all States. [More…]

• It is because we have these broken promises, as I have mentioned, including the firm election commitment of the Prime Minister to additional funds for public transport. [More…]

• It will pick up the existing members of the Interim Advisory Council, and there will be a provision that there has to be an election, I think, within a period of six to twelve weeks. [More…]

• So there will be fresh elections and a fresh council of seven which then will have the task of governing the community. [More…]

• 64 of 1976, the Act required the rules of an organisation to provide that elections for offices in an organisation be by direct vote of the rank and file membership, with a limited exception in relation to these offices of a part-time nature on the committee of management of the organisation where the rules provided for a one-tier collegiate system of election for those offices. [More…]

• 64 of 1976, the relevant sections of which were proclaimed on 9 August 1976, the Government introduced an amendment to require all elections by a direct voting system for offices with policy or management functions to be by secret postal ballot. [More…]

• Provision was made for the Industrial Registrar to exempt an organisation from that requirement upon being satisfied that the rules as they stood at the time of the amendment provided for the conduct of an election by a secret ballot other than a secret postal ballot, and the conduct of the election in accordance with those rules would be likely to result in a fuller participation by members of the organisation than would result from a postal ballot and that it would afford to members an adequate opportunity of voting without intimidation. [More…]

• I hope that constituents around Australia remember the promises contained in the 1975 and 1977 Liberal Party election leaflets. [More…]

• One does not have a great deal of difficulty finding the words in terms of what this Government has said and what its spokesmen have said from the very beginning when the Liberal and National Country Parties went to the election of 1975 through to the Budget that we have just seen passed and even now after the Budget we have the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) saying quite clearly that the Government’s commitment to the indexation of pensions was unconditional. [More…]

• We on this side of the House since the last election have never seen the Government so much in disarray as this evening. [More…]

• The truth is that the Government parties have broken another major election promise. [More…]

• He is another Minister who made a clear commitment in the last election campaign that there would be twice-yearly indexation of pensions. [More…]

• This is an advertisement which she gave in the election of December 1977, and I quote her words: [More…]

• He went on to say that he did not believe that that impression had been changed in the 1978 election. [More…]

• Again, there was much boasting about what you had achieved in inflation during the 1977 election. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the pledges given by leaders of the Liberal Party in the 1977 Federal election campaign have been broken by the Government’s decision. [More…]

• Therefore, if they are honourable men they will insist on the maintenance of the pledges that they followed in the election. [More…]

• Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]

• That was an election promise by the Prime Minister. [More…]

• carry out its election promise to legislate for immediate and automatic increases in pensions and benefits in line with the Consumer Price Index; [More…]

• During the last election campaign I said that Australia was ready to go with $6,0D0m worth of investment. [More…]

• The Prime Minister, as much as anyone on the back bench of the Government, is worried about the consistently low rating of the Government in public opinion polls and the devastating setbacks it has had in every election in this country, whether by-election or State election. [More…]

• Of the three guided missile destroyers mentioned, two were announced by Labor and one in haste by the Prime Minister before the last election. [More…]

• In a policy speech during the 1977 election campaign he said: [More…]

• The last five pages of this statement look like an apology for past misdeeds and a suggestion that perhaps the economic efforts made by the Fraser Government entitle it to be re-elected at an election which of course we know will not be held until the end of 1980. [More…]

• In the election campaign in December 1977 he said that in 1978 interest rates would fall by 2 per cent. [More…]

• There is not so much difference in that, but in the election campaign the Prime Minister talked about $6,000m and the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) talked about $ 14,000m worth of mineral projects. [More…]

• I will not have time to do that by any means, but let me mention some of the classical quotes of the 1975 election campaign like ‘we will maintain Medibank’, ‘the Government will support wage indexation’ and ‘we will work positively in cooperation with the trade unions’. [More…]

• Let me quote from the Prime Minister’s 1977 election campaign policy speech when he said: [More…]

• The Government also stated that it would reduce interest rates by two per cent in twelve months from the time of the last election. [More…]

• There was also the fundamental promise at the last election to reduce taxes. [More…]

• Before the election we said that it would take a full three year term. [More…]

• I thought his last election campaign was waged on a statement of confidencegrowing confidence, great confidence, continuing confidence. [More…]

• It so happens that at the last general election some 735 people voted at the Amberley polling booth and my honourable friend managed to get only 2 1 8 of the votes. [More…]

• A further initiative of the present Government, which some Labor spokesmen during the 1977 election campaign said would be abolished, is the Decentralisation Advisory Board and the loans available from that source. [More…]

• In the 1977 election campaign, he gave undertakings relating to taxation, pensions and interest rates- all very significant to most Australians. [More…]

• Despite his equivocation now, the Party which he led during that election campaign had no equivocation about what the Prime Minister was saying and what he meant. [More…]

• Hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers’ money was appropriated to the Liberal Party’s campaign in the 1977 election in order to fund the answering of telephone inquiries to taxation officials on the request of Liberal Party television advertisements which said: ‘Ring this number and we will tell you how much your tax reduction will be’. [More…]

• A person who stands for election on promises which are not met and which he does nothing to meet is as bad as the person who originally makes the false promises. [More…]

• Every honourable member opposite on every occasion during his election campaign repeated the policies of his Party, especially the most attractive parts, the parts which have now been repudiated by the Government. [More…]

• I did not seek election on a false promise. [More…]

• In the 1975 election campaign, it was stated that the Government would take pensions out of politics. [More…]

• In 1976 that election promise was fulfilled. [More…]

• It was legislated for and in the 1977 election campaign the promise was repeated. [More…]

• Pensioners did not get much when they were not needed for an election but they got a lot when there was an election coming up. [More…]

• In 1976 the then Minister for Post and Telecommunications resigned after being charged with bribery during the 1975 election campaign. [More…]

• Since his election to office, the Prime Minister has seriously damaged the Liberal Party and cast aside the stability and the sense of direction of earlier times. [More…]

• Not one of its members would want an election now. [More…]

• As this Government perceived in its policy to the Australian people at the time of the 1975 election, whether we like it or not South East Asia could be the Balkans of the 1980s. [More…]

• That was the amount promised by the Labor Party in its election promise before the 1972 election, presumably on advice that it received before that election. [More…]

• That is written in the policy announced before that election. [More…]

• Yet that was what the 1966 election campaign was fought on. [More…]

• I was a candidate at that election, one of the people who had to try to explain that the Chinese not only were not coming to Australia but also were militarily incapable of doing so. [More…]

• An honourable member on the Opposition side mentioned a while ago how the 1966 election campaign was fought with pamphlets showing arrows coming down from the Red Chinese, as it was put. [More…]

• What is even worse, in Victoria, with an election on 5 May, the Victorian Government cannot be examined because the Parliament is not going to meet this financial year. [More…]

• These bully tactics and threats are nothing more than the sort of pre-election huffing and puffing’ that we in Queensland have come to expect from our State Government. [More…]

• If the State insists on applying unseemly pressures on the Council and intruding into the municipal election, its record of assistance to Brisbane public transport ought to be revealed to Brisbane rate payers for their scrutiny. [More…]

• I wish to draw the attention of the House to a remarkable article on the 1977 Federal election campaign. [More…]

• And if someone asks you what the key issue in an election is, you are more likely to attest to your virtue by tut-tutting “unemployment” than by confessing your avarice with a vote for tax cuts.’ [More…]

• I interpolate that he will be the gentleman who will be directing the Liberal Party campaign in the State election in Victoria for his friend Mr Hamer- outlines how the Liberals’ campaign appealed directly to the hip pocket nerve’ and how the Liberals were ‘merchandised’ through the establishment of an answering service pandering to the electorate ‘s greed for tax concessions. [More…]

• In the Masius booklet, titled ‘The anatomy of a political merchandising idea’, Mr Reason says the agency’s major problem was overcoming the boredom of the uncommitted voter faced with yet another election. [More…]

• Almost the only aspect of the Liberals’ campaign which remained set throughout the entire election period was its deliberate lack of sophistication Mr Reason says. [More…]

• I hope that the same success that was achieved in 1977 will not be achieved in the Victorian election on 5 May. [More…]

• I do not wish to speak about the Victorian campaign tonight, other than to say that I would agree with the honourable member for Lalor (Mr Barry Jones) that the Australian Labor Party in Victoria has its best chance for quite a few years of winning an election for no other reason than that it is no longer burdened by the present honourable member for Lalor, a former Victorian State member, and more importantly by the present honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Holding), who is also a former State member. [More…]

• His assertions on capital gains tax might be questionable because last year following the proposal of the alternative Budget he said that if Labor had won the 1977 election it would have introduced a capital gains tax. [More…]

• But unfortunately Labor did not tell the people of Australia before the election that it would have introduced a capital gains tax. [More…]

• Before the last election I never hid the fact that I had a family trust. [More…]

• I admitted at the time of the last election that I have a family trust, and there is no reason why that should not stand. [More…]

• Capital punishment, of course, is defeat at the election ballot. [More…]

• The problems in the Shellharbour branch are now being followed by the sacking of the Dapto branch secretaryDapto is also in my electorate- who has also pulled out of the Labor preselection battle to become the unsuccessful candidate for Macarthur at the next Federal election. [More…]

• This is the Government that followed up that promise in 1977, when Malcolm Fraser, the architect of high unemployment, told the people of Australia during an election campaign- a period during which he will say anything- that unemployment would drop as from February 1978 and would continue to drop. [More…]

• Of course, there are fewer of us on this side at the moment but we will change that after the next election. [More…]

• Sir Arthur George went on to criticise quite violently, for a man of his standing, the lack of funds that had been provided by the Australian Government- this present Australian Government- since its election at the end of 1975. [More…]

• Almost immediately after the election there was an an=nouncement by the Government that the Department of Tourism and Recreation was to be abolished and that most of the Department’s initiatives in that field that had been introduced by Labor were to be cancelled. [More…]

• In the 1975 election campaign Mr Fraser promised that ‘only under Liberals will there be jobs for everyone who wants to work’. [More…]

• In the 1977 election campaign Mr Fraser said: ‘Our consistent economic strategy is getting Australia back to work’. [More…]

• Another promise in the 1977 election campaign was that the Australian people will not accept a return to high taxes and a Fraser Government will bring them down further, not increase them. [More…]

• In fact it is not possible, in the system as we have it today, for the Speaker to do so, simply because the Speaker, from whatever party, will be opposed by the other party at the next election. [More…]

• The immediate aim of the exercise is to attempt to affect the outcome of the Victorian State election on 5 May. [More…]

• Facing a State election, it is obviously getting desperate. [More…]

• Hopefully he will be looking for work in the legal system again after the next election. [More…]

• Firstly, there is never a break of longer than three months, except during election periods. [More…]

• It is now nearly 450 days since the last election and the Notice Paper shows that we are now meeting for the 83rd time. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to provide the legislative framework within which the Commonwealth will meet its 1977 election policy commitment to a joint Commonwealth-State program for upgrading State railways which are part of the mainline network. [More…]

• What Australia must be aware of is the simple fact that all the analyses made, both before Carter became President of the United States and subsequent to his election, especially since the China accord of late last year, have ignored Australia. [More…]

• That is, the United States Government- faced re-election every four years. [More…]

• In other words the glory and reward for successful avoidance of disaster or for providing a better way of life cannot be obtained during the politically relevant period, that is before the next election. [More…]

• But those tax cuts, which had featured so much in the 1977 election, did not last very long anyway. [More…]

• If Labor does not gain office next election - [More…]

• It was introduced in the first year of the Fraser Government notwithstanding that the election commitment in 1975 was to introduce tax indexation during the lifetime of the first Parliament. [More…]

• The honourable member says that we will not win the next election, he says that we will find out. [More…]

• They cannot agree on economic policy and they cannot even agree on whether they will win the election, and they will not. [More…]

• It may well be that since that time the Premier of South Australia, because of a State by-election, has tried to get the tax removed in this particular case. [More…]

• The Government is, on the one hand, doing something which has proven to be quite rare and foreign to its nature- that is, it is honouring an election promise. [More…]

• For the life of me I do not know why the Government has not abandoned the PJT as was promised in one of the election campaigns. [More…]

• An election is pending in the State of Victoria. [More…]

• The fact is that pensioners and old people, who are desperate to get the money on which they need to live and who have been betrayed by people who stood for election on false promises, are clutching at straws and are being offered hope that cannot be realised. [More…]

• The position of the Government at this time is that it is certainly not convinced that the taxpayers ought to be paying the election expenses of the Labor Party, the National Country Party, the Liberal Party or any other party. [More…]

• Lest there should be any honourable members in this chamber who are concerned with the retention of votes in a forthcoming election, I draw attention to the results of a Morgan gallup poll of 1 974. [More…]

• Let me go on to state where I and the Liberal Party stood in the election campaign of 1972. [More…]

• They are in for a sad shock when they see the voting at the next election. [More…]

• Premier Hamer knows very well where the big battalions are on election day. [More…]

• The organised minority is going to fail in this campaign just as it failed in its campaign against divorce reform, just as it failed in its campaign against the laws relating to homosexuality and just as the militant minority failed in its campaign against clean union elections. [More…]

• The only thing that I have seen the pro-abortionists do so far to show their appreciation of what politics is all about- I have not received many letters from those in favour of abortion- is their announced intention this morning to flood the electorate during next year’s general election with the voting list from Hansard to show how each honourable member voted on the Lusher motion. [More…]

• I believe I am right in saying that many honourable members will be sadly disillusioned at the next election for the positions which they now hold when they find that the way they voted on this issue has become an issue in the election. [More…]

• We made an election pledge that when we came into office that export levy would be removed. [More…]

• The Victorian election provides voters with the clearest choice for many years: Forward to a prosperous and stable future under the Hamer Government or backwards to a negative, socialist jungle. [More…]

• It has pushed out some of its more moderate members of parliament from safe seats for this election and is putting up some of the most extreme left wingers. [More…]

• This is a vital election for Victoria- backward with Labor or forward with the Hamer Liberal Government. [More…]

• It is on the basis of these fine achievements and upon the State platform and policies now being circulated in Victoria that the Hamer Government faces this election. [More…]

• If a strong body of opinion which objects to abortion has been unable to convince the State parliaments; if it is not the majority view in the various States; if, at no stage, it has effectively been able to raise this as an election issue; and if there has at no stage been any expression of public view on this matter by way of referendum, then there is no justification whatsoever for this vocal, well meaning, honest and decent minority to endeavour to use the back door- by way of this Parliament- to impose its view on the community. [More…]

• I find it personally unfortunate that only recently there was a State election in New South Wales where none of the candidates were subjected to any of the pressures to which I have been subjected in the last month or so. [More…]

• I am disappointed that the present campaigners who sought not to play a major part in the recent New South Wales election have been involved in what can only be regarded as threats to me in terms of electoral support at the next election, when, in fact I have no proper legislative capacity in this matter whatsoever. [More…]

• It is my opinion that the members of the Australian public are too sophisticated and too intelligent to be beguiled into venting their spleen upon any member of this House at election time because of the way he votes in relation to this Bill. [More…]

• I do not believe it would be a consideration in their minds at a general election. [More…]

• In March 1 976, because an election had taken place and the Fraser Government was deemed to be safely ensconced in power, it decided then to oppose a similar application for Australian Postal Commission employees. [More…]

• So we have the ridiculous situation of within a matter of three months the Fraser Government saying to one group of employees: ‘Yes, by consent you can have a 36%-hour week’ and then after an election has taken place the Government comes back to the next lot of employees and says that it will not grant their application. [More…]

• It worries the honourable member for Dundas because if an election were held tomorrow his own seat would be in jeopardy. [More…]

• One can only hope that this Saturday in the local government election the Australian Labor Party Brisbane City Council will be thrown out of power, that the Liberals will be returned and that some decent management strategy will come back into the operation of the Brisbane City Council. [More…]

• The Premier of New South Wales, Mr Wran, just prior to the election, saw some wisdom in making good the expected contribution from New South Wales. [More…]

• If Labor does not gain office next election then by 1983, when we could next hope to gain office, we would face a mammoth task in re-building the public sector- and maybe an equally mammoth task in convincing the electorate that it should pay a higher level of tax to enable us to do so. [More…]

• Of course this was a 10-point plan unveiled in the middle of an election campaign. [More…]

• Their attitude is: ‘Do not look at what we say after the election campaign, believe it only during the course of it’. [More…]

• It is worth noting that during the time of the last election the Opposition said it would abolish these reforms so that at the same time it could abolish payroll tax. [More…]

• It makes promises at election time and it withdraws them immediately an election is out of the way. [More…]

• We all recall that during the 1977 elections the major focus of the Government’s election policy was that it would bring in substantial income tax cuts. [More…]

• The reality is that this Government has, since that time, had to reverse substantially its original ideas in regard to taxation and break its fundamental pledge made to the Australian people in respect of income tax at the 1977 elections. [More…]

• We will not allow the economic spokesman for the Opposition, the honourable member for Gellibrand, to run away from the speech he made to a conference of Labor economists when, in a burst of realism, he acknowledged that the Labor Party would not regain office at the next election and that its first opportunity might be in 1983. [More…]

• If Labor does not gain office next election then by 1983, when we could next hope to gain office, we would face a mammoth task in rebuilding the public sector and maybe an equally mammoth task in convincing the electorate that it should pay a higher level of tax to enable us to do so. [More…]

• Before the election of 197S taxation galloped upwards every year. [More…]

• Those people well know and remembered it at the 1977 election. [More…]

• In the 22 countries that I refer to as democratic I even include countries which are run something akin to the way in which Queensland is being run where, under the electoral system my Party could not win an election in a million years. [More…]

• Let me give notice, in conclusion, that the need for the Prices Justification Tribunal will be an election issue. [More…]

• It is happy to appeal to them to get their votes at election time, to put on a fake anti-communist or anti-Russian attitude and talk big about helping them to reconquer the Baltic states. [More…]

• As Sultan, His Majesty took an active interest in the advancement of his State and his wide experience ably equipped him for election to the office of Paramount Ruler. [More…]

• Not only in this House but also in the election campaign, I stated that, providing the same policies were followed in subsequent years, the Government would ease the taxation scales and hoped to do so by 10 per cent each 2 years. [More…]

• Analyses in the past have contained statistical tables showing the percentage of the vote which would have been won by each political party in each proposed division at the preceding election had it been conducted on the proposed boundaries. [More…]

• It is public knowledge that an election is to take place in Victoria and that the Hamer Government, caught in a web of corruption and maladministration that goes right to the whole structure of government, is so desperate that it will not even allow the Parliament of Victoria to meet. [More…]

• The Ministerial statement presented by the Minister for Industrial Relations (Mr Street) is the most significant statement he has delivered since the general election in 1975. [More…]

• At the 1977 election campaign, the Australian Labor Party and major coalition parties each advocated support for the provision of financial assistance to the States for the upgrading of their mainline railway networks. [More…]

• However, the Opposition believes that the sum of $3m made available to the States this year is totally inadequate and that the provision of financial assistance by way of section 96 interest bearing grants is a repudiation of the Government’s 1977 election promise. [More…]

• 1 ) the provision of financial assistance by section 96 interest bearing repayable grants is a repudiation of the Government’s 1 977 Election promise to contribute to the cost of upgrading mainline rail links in the light of the clear impression then given that assistance would be by way of non-repayable grants, and [More…]

• -In this Bill the Government honours yet another 1977 election policy commitment, an election policy commitment which, along with many others, swept the Fraser Government, back into power with the largest majority in the history of this country since Federation. [More…]

• In the State election in Tasmania of 1974- this is most relevant- a clear commitment was given by the then Premier of Tasmania, Mr Reece, that not only would the railway system be upgraded but also that the Hobart suburban railway passenger service would be maintained. [More…]

• The Bill itself is confirmation, yet again, of this Government’s failure to stand by the terms of its acknowledged commitments and election promises. [More…]

• The terms of the payment clearly make a mockery of the 1 977 election promises of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• The Prime Minister is never as full of hot air as when he is caught in the heat of an election campaign, and the graveyard of broken promises has taught us to view future election speeches by this Prime Minister with a mixture of derision and suspicion. [More…]

• The only program schedule to which the Minister refers is this Government’s program for elections. [More…]

• Need I remind honourable members that 1980 is an election year? [More…]

• A national rail program was first enunciated in a policy commitment made by the present Government before the general election of 1977. [More…]

• In its amendment, it alleges that financial assistance under this Bill is not within the spirit of the commitment given at the last election. [More…]

• 1 ) the provision of financial assistance by section 96 interest bearing repayable grants is a repudiation of the Government’s 1977 Election promise to contribute to the cost of upgrading mainline rail links in the light of the clear impression then given that assistance would be by way of non-repayable grants, and [More…]

• The Bill provides the legislative framework within which the Commonwealth will fulfil its 1977 election policy commitment. [More…]

• Bill the Commonwealth will fulfil its 1977 election policy commitment to a joint Commonwealth-State program to upgrade State railways which are part of the main line network. [More…]

• We are promised in the current election campaign that that line will be completed shortly. [More…]

• Morris), in leading for the Opposition, and the honourable member for Newcastle (Mr Charles Jones) raised the question ofthe provision of assistance by way of section 96 interest bearing repayable grants as being a repudiation of the Government’s 1977 election promise. [More…]

• The fart is that the Government’s election policy statements gave no assurance on the form the assistance provided under the program would take. [More…]

• If it were suggested by me that the GovernorGeneral should decide the date of Australian elections, both sides of this House would rise up in uproar. [More…]

• But the Administrator is to choose election dates on the island. [More…]

• Another paragraph opens a loophole whereby normally ineligible people can stand for election as President or Deputy President of the Assembly. [More…]

• I think it ought to be fundamental to our political system that anybody who is the subject of Australian law has the right to take a part in the election of the law makers. [More…]

• It was a contract which was based substantially on providing a quick construction of a building in order to look good in an election. [More…]

• It had that amount after the two most expensive elections ever conducted in the State of Victoria by any political party. [More…]

• An amount of $1.3m of surplus funds immediately after an election is a lot of money. [More…]

• The increase has been held off in an attempt to save Mr Hamer at the coming State election. [More…]

• I must give him full marks for trying because, after all, he will fight a State election on 5 May and he knows that his only possible hope of success must lie in his being able to fool the electorate into thinking that he is no longer controlled by the extreme left wing of the Labor movement as he has been ever since he became State leader of his party and as were his predecessors. [More…]

• As one commentator put it, all that happened at the Conference was that forces within the socialist Left were realigned so that public splits in the ranks could be avoided until after the State election. [More…]

• In passing I would like to comment how interesting it is that both members of the Opposition and Government supporters are of one mind to use the grievance debate to talk about the Victorian election. [More…]

• By the time the election is held the Parliament will not have met for over six months. [More…]

• Another was Mr Lui, who is no longer a representative of the Torres Strait Islanders and failed in any election to gain representation for them. [More…]

• I take some credit for the fact that the Labor Party’s platform during the 1972 election campaign contained a very strong tourist policy. [More…]

• It is going to be done by way of television, film and radio programs to carry the message to the people in the last six months before the election injune 1980. [More…]

• Consequently, a system of proportional representation for the election of the nine members of the proposed Legislative Assembly is recommended by my Party with a quota of 10 per cent having to be gained to ensure election. [More…]

• For the 1977 Northern Territory Legislative Assembly elections and the last Federal general election some of the specific activities included: [More…]

• In the case of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly election the Australian Electoral Office believes that it is significant that there was a reduction in the informal vote from S.08 per cent of the total vote in 1974 to 3.18 per cent of the total vote in 1977. [More…]

• Specific pre-election information/education activities such as these will be continued in the future. [More…]

• So far as the suggestion in the last part of the question is concerned, that in some way something has been delayed because of the Victorian election, I reject that completely. [More…]

• Just as this Government was not prepared to delay other announcements in the interest rate area on account of the Victorian election, we do not intend to accelerate unduly announcements just because there is a Victorian election. [More…]

• It has been suggested in some quarters, in the context of the Victorian election, that the handling by the Victorian Government of this increased financial flexibility from the Federal Government has been less than satisfactory. [More…]

• As soon as I took over the portfolio of trade and resources after the 1975 general election, I acted to get rid of the heavy-handed, autocratic doctrinaire system that had operated under Labor. [More…]

• Tax indexation to be fully introduced from 1 July 1979, to which the Government is committed by the previous Treasurer in the 1 977 Budget Speech and by the Prime Minister in the 1977 election, will also cost in the order of $400m. [More…]

• The House will recall that at the last election the Prime Minister made a thoroughly irresponsible promise to reduce interest rates by 2 per cent in 12 months. [More…]

• Firstly, because it was tremendously embarrassing given the Prime Minister’s promise and, secondly, because of an election in Victoria where the Liberal Government is clearly under enormous challenge. [More…]

• It is much more likely, as I have mentioned already, that the Victorian election was a factor in that because an increase in the official bond rate by 0.7 per cent or one per cent would have meant a lot of alarm about general increases in interest rates. [More…]

• A stack of paper work on this matter simply flowed when the general election was being held. [More…]

• But as soon as the election was over, we discovered that nothing further would be done about the matter. [More…]

• -Does the Treasurer recall the Prime Minister’s specific statement during the 1977 election campaign that a reduction of 2 per cent in interest rates in the following 12 months was a target that could and would be achieved and the Deputy Prime Minister’s promise to eat his hat if that reduction did not occur? [More…]

• I am aware of the statements made by the Prime Minister and by the Deputy Prime Minister during the 1977 election campaign. [More…]

• On 21 February 1978, immediately after this House resumed after the last election, I gave notice of a general business motion which stated: [More…]

• One needs to think back only to last year’s extraordinary lobbying procedures for the election of directors to the board of the New South Wales Permanent Building Society to realise that shareholders have little say with regard to the composition of the board. [More…]

• I will suggest a reason which seems to be self-evident: A State election is to be held in Victoria next Saturday. [More…]

• It is evident that it would be a matter of political moment in Victoria if immediately before the State election the New South Wales Premier were seen to be vigorously and violently supporting the proposition that such a commission should be located in his State. [More…]

• I imagine that the Victorian Labor Party and Mr Wilkes in particular would be infuriated by such a campaign in the couple of weeks running up to the Victorian election. [More…]

• Nor do I need to point out the political and judicial reality of illegal actions by the Western Australian Liberal Party to deny an equal voice to Aborigines in an election for the seat of the Kimberleys. [More…]

• Yes, after the Victorian election. [More…]

• Prior to the Victorian election last week two members of the broadcasting industry defied the Broadcasting and Television Act and broadcast political material within the 48-hour blackout period prior to an election. [More…]

• One wonders why this has not happened before, with one of the most ridiculous orders on the statute books that the electronic media cannot make any political comment 48 hours prior to an election. [More…]

• Any newspaper in Australia can print any story it likes prior to 48 hours of an election. [More…]

• It is also an established fact that newspapers can be manipulated by political parties, if they so desire, to get their stories printed at the last moment prior to an election. [More…]

• It does not matter whether it is the Liberal Party or the Australian Labor Party in government, it is impossible to get that right of reply through a newspaper prior to an election. [More…]

• That political censorship applies to the rules preventing comment on electoral matters by television and radio stations in the two days prior to an election while newspapers are allowed to proceed. [More…]

• I can remember that just before an election in 1949 the late Jack Lang attacked very violently the integrity, surprisingly enough, of the late J. [More…]

• There can be serious and damaging allegations in the run-up period to an election. [More…]

• We have to put up with the disadvantages if we want an effective system of government, and there is no doubt that one of the disadvantages is that people have the opportunity to misbehave in election campaigns. [More…]

• It will surprise many honourable members of this House to know that some people actually tell fibs in election campaigns. [More…]

• There is a continual history of people making untrue claims in run-up periods to elections. [More…]

• I cannot see why any person who regards himself as a true democrat would prevent discussion of political issues in the period coming up to an election. [More…]

• I think that it is totally improper for any government to exercise the sort of political censorship which prevents members of the media making proper comment and reporting properly on election news. [More…]

• Let us face it: Elections are the actual exercise of a democratic process and should not be interfered with by this kind of paternalism. [More…]

• It is my intention to issue a writ on Tuesday, 15 May, for the election of a member to serve for the electoral division of Grayndler in the State of New South Wales in place of the Hon. [More…]

• The dates in connection with the election will be fixed as follows: date of nomination, Friday, 1 June 1979; date of polling, Saturday, 23 June 1979; date of return of writ, on or before Friday, 27 July 1979. [More…]

• -Does the Minister representing the Minister for Social Security recall the election promises in 1975 and 1977 that the real value of pensions will be preserved ‘ and that ‘the politics have been taken out of pension increases by linking them automatically with the consumer price index’? [More…]

• -I ask the Treasurer whether he recalls this promise made by the Prime Minister in the 1975 election policy speech: [More…]

• -If that will not do, because he has some political taint, and the honourable member for LaTrobe (Mr Baillieu) is not prepared to accord objectivity to anyone outside his own narrow field, let me quote from the Advertiser, a fine newspaper which has not failed, in any election, to support the Liberals. [More…]

• This was attempted in order to create an atmosphere for the election campaign in Victoria. [More…]

• He will come a cropper at the next election. [More…]

• He will be totally and completely rejected by the people of Australia at the next election and the first kick will come in the Grayndler by-election. [More…]

• This is being done to close off avenues that may otherwise be available to scheme promoters to exploit the election provisions of section 36A so as to frustrate the intention to widen the scope of the antiavoidance provision of section 36. [More…]

• This amendment to section 36A, along with another more technical change concerning items that in legal terms are described as choses in action, will apply in relation to a notice of an election under the section given after today, unless it can be established that the change in ownership or interests occurred on or before today. [More…]

• The recent drastic swings away from the parties of honourable members opposite in every election they contested gives testimony to that. [More…]

• In the 1975 election campaign the Prime Minister said: [More…]

• I will welcome at any time between now and the next election and during the next election the opportunity to debate the question of taxation with the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• This, particularly in 1977, was one of the major issues of the election. [More…]

• But when one looks at the facts, at what was said in the various election campaigns and the things that have been preserved, one sees that broken promises do not come too freely these days and that this present Government has a resolve to keep that very important promise that it made, namely, to put Australia in an economic position in which ordinary Australians can go about their normal work, make a profit, invest and have enough left over to spend on their children. [More…]

• Our first step was to introduce one of the very solemn promises of the 1975 election campaign, and that was tax indexation. [More…]

• I hope that the type of capital gains tax that the Labor Party wants to introduce, as is shown by its record, will be well known to the Australian people by the time of the next election. [More…]

• I draw attention to correspondence dated 25 November 1977 from Malcolm ‘say anything at election time’ Fraser to the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations outlining his attitude on a wide variety of issues concerning the future of Commonwealth public servants. [More…]

• When this Prime Minister goes to an election, he is capable of saying anything to anybody in the hope that he will survive as Prime Minister of this country. [More…]

• Let me reiterate so that everybody in this country understands that Malcolm Fraser, the Prime Minister of this country, will say anything to anybody at election time. [More…]

• But half way through his term, as we are now, and as far away from the last election as he is from the next election, he is about to break another promise to the people who work for this Government. [More…]

• The Prime Minister, since his election, has set up some 80 inquiries at enormous expense to the Australian taxpayer. [More…]

• If the Government wants to test that assertion then let us have an election and find out. [More…]

• -My expectations, my friend, will be justified at the next election. [More…]

• A Nigerian High Commission news release of 3 May 1979, issued in the Australian Capital Territory and entitled ‘Nigeria Government Statement on the April 20th Election in Zimbabwe’ came into my possession. [More…]

• It bears very little relationship to the facts and it is issued by the high commission of a government that has not held an election for at least 13 or 14 years. [More…]

• Its people would not know what an election was. [More…]

• I wish Nigeria well in its proposed elections in October of this year, but I hope that the Nigerian High Commission will understand what I am saying. [More…]

• On what occasion did the Government, pursuant to its election policy on consultation with employee interest, actually invite comment from employee organisations on proposals under consideration before arriving at decisions affecting these groups. [More…]

• Has Government legislation relating to the election of union office bearers had any noticeable positive effect in improving democracy in recent ballots for union leaderships? [More…]

• Boonah is situated in my electorate of Fadden and is a place where, I think, the Minister campaigned during the 1977 election campaign. [More…]

• Let it be remembered that only a few years ago, for the price of a few Iraqi dollars, there was a proposal to influence an Australian election and to influence an important political party in an Australian election. [More…]

• We should remember that there are common people involved in both the election and the Iraqi dollars incident of a few years ago and in the Federal Conference of the Australian Labor Party to be held later this year. [More…]

• The Prime Minister in his election policy speeches in 1975 and 1977 promised: [More…]

• It is extraordinary to recall the Prime Minister’s saying in his 1975 election policy speech: [More…]

• The Liberal Party has virtually abandoned any prospect of going into the 1 980 election with a totally new philosophy. [More…]

• I will be here after the next election and you will not. [More…]

• If Labor does not gain office next election then, by 1983, when we could next hope to gain office, we would face a mammoth task in rebuilding the public sector- and maybe an equally mammoth task in convincing the electorate that it should pay a higher level of tax to enable us to do so. [More…]

• It would not go to the people; it would not have an election. [More…]

• It is worth noting that a most distinguished jurist, Lord Hailsham, has indicated that the then Leader of the Party got off very lightly- he had only been rejected by his Party, after being rejected by the people of Australia in two elections- for an earlier English monarch who pursued exactly the same course lost his head. [More…]

• If Labor does not gain office next election then by 1983, when we could next hope to gain office, we would face a mammoth task in rebuilding the public sector and it may be an equally mammoth task in convincing the electorate that it should pay a higher level of tax to enable us to do so. [More…]

• The recent election of the Parliamentary Librarian, Mr Harold Weir, to the Parliamentary Library’s Section of the International Federation of Library Associations, is an indication of the high regard in which this Parliamentary Library is held by information scientists, research specialists and librarians overseas. [More…]

• If the gaps are so severe, a government that tries to act responsibly might not get popular support at the next election. [More…]

• Of course, there were specific promises in the 1975 election campaign that related to my then electorate of Macarthur. [More…]

• So in the 1977 election campaign there were more lies, more distortions and more promises were made that the Government knew it could not keep. [More…]

• It will be a national tragedy if private investment decisions on petrochemical plants, such as the decision taken during the recent Victorian State election campaign, result in Cooper Basin liquids being flared while $200m worth of feed stocks are unnecessarily imported from overseas every year. [More…]

• Government stands condemned by the people of this nation as dishonest because it made all those promises about fists full of dollars and tax cuts at the last election. [More…]

• I say to the Parliament and the Australian people that the central and overriding election promise and commitment of this Government is to restore the Australian economy- to beat inflation and to get the economy on the path of economic growth with stability. [More…]

• Let us look at the election speech of 27 November 1 975. [More…]

• This Prime Minister, as the Minister for Defence so dearly likes to call him, will say anything at election time. [More…]

• In the 1977 election campaign the Liberal-National Country Parties spent $lm on an advertisement stating: ‘Ring this number in any capital city and we will tell you how much tax you will save’. [More…]

• Within three months of that 1977 election, tax reform went straight out the window. [More…]

• I only hope that this Prime Minister will do what he did in 1975 and give us an election a year early. [More…]

• It proceeded to honour the undertakings it had given in the 1 972 election campaign. [More…]

• If this Government were to go to an election next week it would be defeated and defeated soundly. [More…]

• Those honourable members who take part in election campaigns, as we on this side do, would know as well as you do, Mr Deputy Speaker, that in Victoria the question in the building industry is: ‘Where is the next job after this one?’ [More…]

• Bear in mind that the Government sought an early election. [More…]

• It went to the GovernorGeneral and said that it needed an election ahead of time because it wanted to get economic stability from the programs it had operating. [More…]

• If that was the reason why the Government got an early election in 1977- the reasons have now been disclosed- why does it not go back to the people and say that it acted on a false pretence? [More…]

• If the Government’s economic policy was so stable, so well known and so identifiable in 1 977 that it could get an early election, why should it not still obtain? [More…]

• During the 1972 election campaign we undertook to give pensioners 25 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]

• In New South Wales alone the Australian Labor Party will win at the next election the seats of Barton, St George, Phillip, Macarthur, Macquarie, Cook, EdenMonaro, Lowe and Calare. [More…]

• The people who will be voting in the next Bendigo election will be removing the honourable member who is there at the moment, Mr Bourchier, and they will be electing a Labor Party member because they know that the Australian Labor Party traditionally has been concerned about full employment. [More…]

• It has failed to honour its election promises to the people of Australia. [More…]

• House would know, the organisation concerned can elect to have the election conducted by the Commonwealth Electoral Office or the Industrial Registrar at no expense to that organisation or to conduct it itself. [More…]

• A recent election within the AMWSU for the position of national organiser has really put fear into the hearts of the left wing unions, the communist-led unions and Labor Party supporters of the Left. [More…]

• A communist organiser, Mr Baird, who had held the position for some years was seeking re-election. [More…]

• Mr Miller, in the opening line of his election material for the position, stated: [More…]

• If we reflect on the election of the. [More…]

• They know full well that under the policies that have been brought in by this Government to allow for free and open election of office bearers within unions, if there is an overwhelming participation by union members the communist-led organisers and officials in those unions will be tossed out of office. [More…]

• Why do they not say that at the next election if that is what they believe? [More…]

• If they think that let them say so on the election platform when they are appealing to the people for support. [More…]

• Maybe we will find out at the next election. [More…]

• The election promises of 1975 are promises that we should remember. [More…]

• There should be something sacrosanct about election promises. [More…]

• Every government in the course of its stay in power will make statements which it sometimes has to repudiate but I am sure that the Australian people think that election promises require reverence. [More…]

• When honourable members opposite go to an election, as they will do shortly in the division of Grayndler, they will find the pensioners of that area letting them know quite clearly what they think of the Government’s record. [More…]

• I recall to mind the election of 1977 and the way in which the Government appealed to the basest of all human failingsgreed. [More…]

• The Labor Party’s alternative policy in that election was an alternative that asked the people to forgo their tax cuts in order to provide employment opportunities for others in the community who were not as well off. [More…]

• But when the next election comes along I am sure that that will not be the case. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite knew quite well that when the election was on in 1 977 the future for Australia was that inflation would continue to grow and unemployment would continue to expand. [More…]

• That is exactly why the Government got a compromising GovernorGeneral to grant it an early election. [More…]

• The Australian public will show him that when he goes to the polls in the Grayndler by-election in a couple of weeks. [More…]

• In reply, I say to the honourable member for Petrie that if, as a result of that sort of thinking, three-quarters of the Government back benchers are tossed out at the next election, the honourable member for Petrie included, then so be it. [More…]

• As is known, the programs which were suggested received wide public approval and the promise by Labor to implement those proposals was a factor in the election of a Labor Government in 1972. [More…]

• 1 remind the House that two days after the election the Interim Schools Commission was appointed, with Professor Karmel as the Chairman. [More…]

• I hope that at the next election it will be written on every ballot paper exactly how deficient the Government has been in connection with these matters and that the Government will hand the job to the people who will get on with it and will pass into history. [More…]

• Next Saturday we have an election in Canberra for the House of Assembly. [More…]

• I am sure that when he leaves this House after the next election he will be able to do a course at some tertiary institution where people earning incomes at a level similar to his own are happily received without having to pay fees and are subsidised in the process of getting better jobs. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) said during the 1977 election campaign- a lot was said during that campaignthat she did not believe there was more abuse of unemployment benefits than any other category of social security benefits. [More…]

• It is likely, with a presidential election coming up, that some counter-cyclical legislation could be introduced which would completely reverse the situation. [More…]

• In 1977 the Government decided that it needed an early election. [More…]

• I think it can be clearly and honestly said that in many ways the Government raced that scheme through because it was an election bribe. [More…]

• If it were an election bribe we can say that the Government panicked. [More…]

• Then the Government suddenly found another election on its hands. [More…]

• It wanted an election so this beef incentive payments scheme was raced through. [More…]

• So the Opposition cannot accuse this Government of doing nothing for the beef industry but it took the election of 1 977 to provoke it. [More…]

• I would have to qualify this statement to the extent that I understand the Victorian Government will probably bring in a half inspection charge in line with its recent election commitment. [More…]

• As he said when the results of the election were made known: [More…]

• This motion to disallow the Poker Machine Control (Amendment) Ordinance is worthy of debate and consideration by the House this day, taking on perhaps a greater importance following the election results in the Australian Capital Territory at the weekend. [More…]

• It is heartening to know that following Saturday’s Assembly election the Labor Party will now be the majority party. [More…]

• The challenge is there following the result in Saturday’s House of Assembly election. [More…]

• The obligation is now on the Minister to refer this matter back to the House of Assembly for further consideration and recommendation in the light of the decision of the people of Canberra in Saturday’s House of Assembly election. [More…]

• In my view the election should have taken place three years after the representatives were first elected as was originally conceived. [More…]

• Of course, if they believe that their aim is to try .to attack the Minister for the Capital Territory as a prelude to the next Federal election, not much love will be lost between the Assembly and the Minister. [More…]

• The final destruction of Medibank brought about in this Bill has ensured that health will certainly be a major issue in the 1979-80 election campaign. [More…]

• I welcome the claim made by Opposition speakers that health will be an election issue at the next federal election. [More…]

• But I am surprised quite frankly that Opposition members want to make an election issue of it. [More…]

• It is no good arguing like that or saying that health will be an election issue, unless you have a policy. [More…]

• If the Opposition wants to make health an election issue the Government welcomes it because we have the policy and the improvements to the original Medibank program. [More…]

• The Australian people voted for a comprehensive national health insurance scheme in 1969, 1972, 1974 and, because it was then part of this Government’s election manifesto, also in 1975. [More…]

• In this regard I mention a transcript read to me over the telephone tonight of an interview held in 1977, prior to the State election, between Mr McEwin, a reporter in Adelaide and Mr Dunstan the then Premier of South Australia. [More…]

• This has been an issue raised twice at election time. [More…]

• If the Labor Party wants this to be another major issue at the next election in 1980, let it come forward. [More…]

• I would have thought it had learnt its lesson in the previous two elections. [More…]

• For example, the Prime Minister in his policy speech may announce cuts in telephone charges prior to an election or the Minister for Post and Telecommunications prior to the Budget may advance a proposition to put some icing on the cake as to what people can expect in the next month or two. [More…]

• In the last Victorian Government election policy speech, for example, a commitment was made to move from 20 per cent to 25 per cent of the costs of education in government schools to be paid on account of children in independent schools. [More…]

• When the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) was talking a few weeks ago, two days before the election in Victoria, the Government moved to suppress the whole debate to silence him. [More…]

• The Bill provides for commencement on 2 June 1979, the date of the election for the House of Assembly. [More…]

• They are expressed to come into operation at the same time, namely 2 June 1979, the date on which the election for the House of Assembly was held. [More…]

• The appointment to the office was made in various ways, and often by election. [More…]

• I am reminded of the pledge that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who now sits at the table, made to the people of this nation when he was victorious in the 1975 Federal election. [More…]

• I think that, in the run-up to the election, there was the opportunity for free campaigning, as far as one could determine. [More…]

• The election, as my friend from Higgins said, was technically as clean as an election could be. [More…]

• I think it was much closer to being a democratic election than an election in Queensland. [More…]

• The elections were fair, efficiently run and, in my opinion, they were honest. [More…]

• I think that is perhaps the most we can expect from any election anywhere in the world. [More…]

• We went and saw these elections and came back impressed. [More…]

• But more importantly, despite the struggle that this country has had for a long time, one can only hope from the efficiency with which their election was run- observed not only by ourselves but also by other observersthat the Muzorewa Government will receive encouragement, which is what it badly needs from now on. [More…]

• That clearly seems to be the sentiment of the people of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia who voted in that election and who had been approached by other sources who reported on their findings. [More…]

• In weighing up the general situation in southern Africa and the problems of ZimbabweRhodesia, I would not have thought that all those objectives would have been achieved by the results of the election. [More…]

• In that sense I think what we have to say in a qualified way is that the elections are significant, and one would hope that they are a step in the direction towards achieving the objectives enumerated by those many voters who were asked why they were voting. [More…]

• At this point it is hard to accept that peace will have been achieved as a result of this election. [More…]

• The dissident group from the Patriotic Front have made it clear that they find the election processes, and the result, unacceptable. [More…]

• For instance, the censorship which applied for several months before the election must be seen as some sort of restraint to how free and open the conduct of the election could be. [More…]

• For instance, I find it inconceivable that Julius Nyerere of Tanzania would be able to live comfortably if a decision were made to recognise the election processes which have taken place in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and to eliminate the sanctions, and to do this quickly and completely. [More…]

• the Government’s 1975 Election commitment to give financial and moral support to the future of the growth centre; [More…]

• If so, what percentage of the electorate voted and was there a genuine choice of candidates from differing political parties at each election. [More…]

• 1 ) No general elections have taken place in the Republic of Uganda since its establishment as an independent country within the Commonwealth of Nations in October 1962. [More…]

• (There was a general election earlier in 1962 prior to independence which saw Dr Milton Obote ‘s Uganda People’s Congress/Kabaka Yekka alliance elected to power. [More…]

• Three parties contested this election ). [More…]

• I have received a return to the writ which I issued on 1 5 May for the election of a member to serve for the electoral division of Grayndler in the State of New South Wales to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the Honourable Francis Eugene Stewart. [More…]

• Promises made by the Prime Minister in a number of election campaigns have been broken quite unashamedly. [More…]

• The Government is thinking about going into an election campaign with a leader the public does not believe. [More…]

• But if it does so it will not be done against the backdrop of election promises. [More…]

• It will put up two obscure back bench members, who will not be here after the next election, to answer the case. [More…]

• I almost feel sorry for the honourable member for Kalgoorlie (Mr Cotter); not only is he staring defeat right in the face in the forthcoming general election, but as somebody has suggested, he apparently drew the short straw and has had to stand up in this chamber and defend a policy that the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman) will not defend because it is totally indefensible. [More…]

• The people of Australia would have no hope of having that election promise of a tax cut honoured. [More…]

• One persistent theme has dominated this Government’s conduct of economic policy since its election in 1975. [More…]

• In view of certain dire predictions circulating in Tasmania a few weeks ago, is the Prime Minister now free to confirm that each and every one of last night’s Budget measures for Tasmania was decided and indeed locked up weeks before Mr Lowe called his recent phoney snap election? [More…]

• In his election policy speech in November 1977, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) announced that the share of net personal income tax collections allocated to local government would be increased to 2 per cent by 1 980-8 1 . [More…]

• It has been part of policies and has been mentioned in election statements. [More…]

• I think that the most significant thing that has happened to Canberra following the election of a new House of Assembly has been the announcement that the financial affairs of the Capital Territory are to be examined by the Commonwealth Grants Commission. [More…]

• When the Labor Party is returned to office after the next election, whether it be at the end of 1979 or 1980, we will do the same thing for other growth centres like Albury-Wodonga and Bathurst-Orange. [More…]

• What would be the result if a State election were held next Saturday? [More…]

• In the light of predictions made several weeks ago Mr Batt, the Deputy Premier, was asked whether he would indicate what decisions were not locked up in the Budget weeks ago before the State election. [More…]

• The short point is that he and the Premier have been exposed for having had a phoney, fraudulent election on false pretences which the people of Tasmania will not forget. [More…]

• We kept that initiative right up to the election in 1972. [More…]

• One has to look only at the policies it decided and as soon as these policies are understood by the Australian people, what the Labor Party fears most will happen, namely, the present Government will be returned at the next election with a substantial majority probably equalling its record majorities of 1975 and 1977. [More…]

• It has been an unfortunate political aspect during the last couple of elections that the people of Australia have not taken the question of unemployment seriously enough. [More…]

• I think that the election is fast approaching when the people of Australia will single out unemployment, job security, care, welfare and the opportunities that Australia should be giving to all its citizens. [More…]

• The Government will find out between now and the next election, whether it be December this year or December next year, that many more Australians are aware of the problems of unemployment. [More…]

• The Conservative Government has to understand that at the next election people will not be voting on Labor’s record in 1974. [More…]

• After all, in 1975 when an election was in the offing, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) had no doubt about the fact that there were going to be jobs in Australia for all who wanted to work. [More…]

• His statement was not just a flash in the pan, because on 3 April 1979 in the teeth of an election before the then Labour Government went out of office Mr Healey, when making a financial statement in the House of Commons, had this to say: [More…]

• I point out that while the Petrov royal commission was not established until April 1954, on the eve of the 1 954 election, the security services were gearing up to it considerably before. [More…]

• He did that in an election policy speech. [More…]

• A journalist asked him at the National Press Club lunch, four days before the 1975 elections, whether he would sacrifice his promises if, when in government, he was advised that they would be impossible to carry out. [More…]

• Three months after that 1977 Budget, and three months before the tax cut was to come into operation, the Prime Minister called an unwarranted election and offered his tax promise as an electoral bribe. [More…]

• Then, in the following Budget, with the election out of the way and the public gulled, this Government decided that the ‘yoke of taxation’ was not such a bad thing after all, and slapped it back on in the form of the surcharge. [More…]

• For 55 per cent of all taxpayers, all those on the bottom end of the scale, the surcharge wiped out all benefit they had gained from the Prime Minister’s election bribe. [More…]

• The completion of this election promise is obviously the first priority in providing some justice for country people. [More…]

• Apparently, it was another grab-bag in the 1972 election campaign, when the conservative parties in which the honourable member for Lilley was a senior Minister, were desperate to try to buy their way back into office. [More…]

• No pensioner will gain anything from the twice-yearly indexation until May 1980, that is, until the election year. [More…]

• We have a Budget which provides benefits towards election time but the costs must be paid immediately and in full as from now. [More…]

• This Budget breaks the promise of tax indexation but also presages another mini-Budget next year particularly if the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) wishes to indulge his passionate desire for yet another early election. [More…]

• Again in 1977 the Prime Minister in his election campaign proclaimed: [More…]

• In 1977 the Government did introduce the tax cuts- cuts that heavily favoured the better offwhich were the Prime Minister’s central plank in the 1977 election campaign. [More…]

• If the honourable members opposite who represent those seats believe that unemployment is not a political issue, I invite them to wage another dole bludger campaign, as their party did in 1975, in the next election and to see how correct their political perception is. [More…]

• I am not referring to next year’s Federal election contest for Denison which will make Denison the glamour electorate of Australia. [More…]

• I stood in this House a week ago and in a question to the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) I asked whether Mr Lowe, the Premier of Tasmania, knew that the Federal Budget was going to be so good that he decided to call a snap election and get it out of the way before the Budget came down? [More…]

• The article refers to the forthcoming South Australian election. [More…]

• We have to return to what was said in the 1 977 election campaign. [More…]

• In election campaigns we are used to local misrepresentation on all sorts of issues and that occurred again in 1977. [More…]

• That was to be Liberal propaganda in a State election campaign. [More…]

• That defeat was repeated in a second election and it will be repeated in the same way next time. [More…]

• This Government will be removed at the next election because people in electorates across Australia have had enough. [More…]

• At first glance one would believe that in effect Telecom was an independent authority, but when we hear the General Manager of Telecom suggest that he was influenced by some individual to extend the areas covered by certain telephone charges to include areas within some of the seats which may swing in a future election we know that he was not influenced by Margaret Thatcher or Zazu Pitts. [More…]

• No statistics or voting percentages for Mozambique for the Portuguese elections of 1965, 1969 and 1973, or for the 1977 election, are available. [More…]

• If so, what percentage of the electorate voted and was there a genuine choice of candidates from differing political parties at each election. [More…]

• If so, what percentage of the electorate voted and was there a genuine choice of candidates from differing political parties at each election. [More…]

• The election to the European Parliament held_in June 1 979 was the first such election and therefore no specific provisions were made to subsidise electoral expenses and control electoral donations in these elections. [More…]

• Before I leave the topic of unemployment I remind honourable members of what the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said on 27 November 1975 in his election policy speech. [More…]

• It will not last six months unless the coalition believes it is possible to go into an election campaign in 1980 with a stagnant economy and an unprecedented level of unemployment. [More…]

• One of the main reasons for the election of a Labor government in 1972 was this neglect and the impact it had on the daily lives of the [More…]

• Once the election is over, we will start to move to the consummation of a 2 per cent reduction in interest rates- and that means about $500 a year for someone on an average home loan. [More…]

• As we all know, there is an election going on in South Australia. [More…]

• One of the ploys that has been used perhaps to divert attention from the serious economic slump in which we find ourselves has been to suggest the possibility of another early election. [More…]

• The Prime Minister refuses to deny that there may be an early election. [More…]

• The only reason for an early election would be that the Prime Minister’s own position is in jeopardy. [More…]

• If enough of his back bench is prepared to move him, the way to avoid that is to have an early election. [More…]

• We can understand that, but why does he not say that there is no chance of an early election; that his Government will run for the full term and that he hopes to remain Prime Minister. [More…]

• But when the Prime Minister sought a dissolution of the House of Representatives on 10 November 1977, a year before its time, he put before His Excellency the Governor-General the proposition that there always ought to be simultaneous elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate. [More…]

• In a nutshell, on that premise, there can be no election until July next year. [More…]

• There cannot be an election before next year unless he is again going to put the Senate out of kilter and not have simultaneous elections. [More…]

• You told me that you wanted that early election to end speculation’. [More…]

• That is on record, so let us not have any more nonsense about the question: Is there going to be an early election and what are the problems of a Prime Minister in that regard? [More…]

• Is it any wonder it is going to be defeated at the next election because of the promises it made? [More…]

• The tragedy for the nation is that we are still talking about whether we are going to have an early election. [More…]

• Now let me quote the most infamous statement of them all in that monstrous document of lies and deception, the Fraser election speech of 1 975. [More…]

• This Government and the taxpayers at the last election have shown that they do not wish to pay the money out of their pockets- because that is where it must come from- to provide this sort of work. [More…]

• The year after an election pensioners would receive an increase of $1; the second year nothing or 50c; and then before an election, $2. [More…]

• I drafted the policy used by Gough Whitlam at the 1 972 election and was delighted that the late Frank Stewart was able to make the first real advances in gaining recognition for the tourist industry by the quite significant increase in funds injected into tourism. [More…]

• After the following election exactly the reverse happened, with funds being slashed to their lowest level in years. [More…]

• The French conduct their national elections over 2 weekends. [More…]

• In the first election they allow voters to express their preference for candidates and parties. [More…]

• I should like for the moment to examine the impact of this Budget in Queensland, especially in light of recent promises made by the Queensland Premier in the heat of a by-election campaign. [More…]

• Of course, one of the promises that now severely embarrasses the Prime Minister is his unequivocal 1977 election policy speech commitment that unemployment would keep on falling through 1978 and 1979. [More…]

• I have no doubt, Mr Deputy Speaker, that you remember, as I do, that prior to the last election the polls gave us a majority of five or seven and it even went up to 12; but we came back with a majority of 55. [More…]

• For that reason, if for no other, this Government stands condemned for the Budget it produced for the people of Australia last Tuesday night, a Budget that will stand condemned until you are thrown out of office in the election of 1980. [More…]

• Mr Hayden did not deliver an economic policy last night, he outlined an election strategy. [More…]

• If that is Labor’s election strategy, that of a high tax party, I wish that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) would think more seriously than I believe he is thinking about the prospect of an early election because I would like to fight an election any time on Labor’s policies and proposals for higher taxation and ours for reduced taxation. [More…]

• At least 30 members of the Government will not be here after the next election. [More…]

• One persistent theme has dominated this Government’s conduct of economic policy since its election in 1 975. [More…]

• -As we all know, there is to be an election in South Australia on 1 5 September and I suppose it is fair game to try to use this House to play the game of politics. [More…]

• Government in an election week. [More…]

• In the election campaign the Labor Party is being led - [More…]

• Many South Australians are asking themselves whether he is really the leader of the Labor Party in that State who, if the election - [More…]

• I give this warning: It will do no good for this Prime Minister to go to the next election campaign with promises. [More…]

• It will be no good saying at the next election campaign: ‘Unemployment will drop, inflation will drop and interest rates will drop by 2 per cent over the next year’. [More…]

• -I give notice of my intention to present at the next sitting a Bill for an Act to prevent the use of public moneys to subsidise political parties and election candidates. [More…]

• Misleading statements at election time are not unknown but their use by Liberals and Liberal fronts at this time leading up to a South Australian State election next Saturday is more blatant than usual. [More…]

• So his sycophantic editor in South Australia runs this vendetta against Labor at this election time, bowing meekly to his boss’s wishes and at the same time degrading the so-called independence of the Press, if ever we had it. [More…]

• Let me immediately exclude the Adelaide Advertiser and its coverage of this election from the charges that I make. [More…]

• But what is important is that all the investment that can be made in Roxby is being made and will be made between now and 1 982, when the next State election in South Australia is expected. [More…]

• No further decisions can be taken before the next State election in 1982. [More…]

• It is most intriguing that the Opposition should dare to introduce this motion on the eve of the South Australian State election. [More…]

• Since the last election in South Australia in 1977, the number employed in the private section, which is where real jobs are created- permanent, lasting, productive jobshas fallen by 5,800 people. [More…]

• The temerity of the honourable member for Adelaide in moving such a matter for debate in relation to the South Australian election amazes me. [More…]

• It is not the Prime Minister, Liberal parliamentarians, State or Federal, or their supporters, who have made misleading statements about South Australia in the context of the current election. [More…]

• The Labor Premier, Mr Corcoran, and the Australian Labor Party are the only source of misleading statements in relation to the State election. [More…]

• From the very announcement of the election right through the campaign, blatant dishonesty has been the hallmark of the Labor Party’s approach. [More…]

• This dishonesty began with the very reason given by the Premier for calling the election. [More…]

• The real reasons behind this election are twofold. [More…]

• Firstly, Labor had its campaign advertising prepared well before the announcement of the election in anticipation that an unpopular Federal Budget could be used as an excuse for an early State election. [More…]

• So the Labor Party decided it would spend $lm of taxpayers’ money to hold an unnecessary State election so that its own previously committed campaign expenditure would not be wasted. [More…]

• The second reason for this election is that the left wing extremists who now control the party in South Australia cannot wait to get control of the Legislative Council. [More…]

• They believed, mistakenly as the campaign is turning out, that the current support for the Labor Party in South Australia would give them enough votes in an election to win control of the Council. [More…]

• These are the two real reasons for the election and not Corcoran ‘s need for a personal mandate. [More…]

• As the erstwhile Premier told us in announcing the election, his decision followed some late night pillow talk with his wife. [More…]

• Perhaps Mr Corcoran thought his wife said: ‘Dear, if you want to know that you are loved you need an election’. [More…]

• By the time he realised he had misunderstood her, the election had been called and it was too late. [More…]

• This initial dishonesty in calling the election by the Labor Party has been compounded in its campaign. [More…]

• Corcoran has made up his mind to conduct a Canberra-bashing, blame-Fraser and the feds election campaign. [More…]

• In particular they make a mockery of claims in Labor’s election advertisements of the success of Labor’s job creation programs in that State. [More…]

• That destruction will continue if Labor is returned in the election on Saturday, particularly if it has a majority in the Legislative Council. [More…]

• They will not be diverted by the dishonesty of the Labor Party’s election campaign nor by the remarks of the two members from South Australia on the Labor side during the debate on this matter of public importance today. [More…]

• If Labor does not gain office next election then by 1983, when we could next hope to gain office, we would face a mammoth task in rebuilding the public sector- and maybe an equally mammoth task in convincing the electorate that it should pay a higher level of tax to enable us to do so. [More…]

• If the Government wants to stand on its record we will be very happy to accommodate an election at any time, but it wants only to stand on other people’s records. [More…]

• We all remember the slogan of the Prime Minister during the December 1975 election campaign. [More…]

• When the next election is held, this Government will be removed from office and deservedly so. [More…]

• -The sum of $ 10m of taxpayers’ funds should be made available out of general revenue and distributed to parties in proportion to the number of votes received at the previous election. [More…]

• Taking the last election as the base, the amount of taxpayers’ money which would be appropriated to the Labor Party for public funding at elections would be just under $4m. [More…]

• At the last election we made a commitment to increase the percentage share of revenue to local government throughout Australia to 2 per cent. [More…]

• South Australian election off the front page. [More…]

• The honourable member for Bonython criticised certain advertising that has been used in the election campaign. [More…]

• The Premier of South Australia called the election the day after the Federal Budget. [More…]

• He did so because he had made up his mind that he wanted to hold an election campaign in which he would bash and criticise the Fraser Government. [More…]

• On Saturday the South Australian people will have the opportunity to make up their minds and to ensure that they have a change of direction by the election of a Liberal Government. [More…]

• When Premier Corcoran called the election he endeavoured to criticise Canberra by saying that $7 out of $8 of taxes are collected by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• The McMahon Government could not save itself, but it could manipulate this Parliament to look after the business interests of its major contributor to Liberal Party finances and election campaign funds. [More…]

• They did not indicate an economic policy at all; they simply took certain election positions and hoped that certain emotional points they made might be remembered. [More…]

• It is indeed unfortunate to be elected to the Parliament at a by-election caused by the death of a good man. [More…]

• I mention my good friend, John Ducker, who recently retired from the position of President of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party; Barry Unsworth, who is standing for election soon to the position of Secretary of the Labor Council of New South Wales; John Johnson, the President of the Legislative Council of New South Wales; my good friend, Graham Richardson, who is the State Secretary of our Party; and the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating), sitting on the front bench, who has been an old friend of mine since we were both young men active in the ALP even though he led me down the wrong aisle when I first came into this place some weeks ago. [More…]

• The assistance of the people in my electorate in the byelection will remain in my mind for many years. [More…]

• I was particularly interested in his comment that since his election he had discovered the tribulations of being a member of parliament. [More…]

• It is just a few lines of rhetoric designed to cloud the issues until the next election. [More…]

• It is the first statement on industrial relations since the 1977 elections. [More…]

• What it does see as being important is its hope that it can continue to provoke and confront the trade union movement of this country in order to give it some sort of political advantage at any forthcoming election. [More…]

• If the Government can reach a crisis point or a flash-point in industrial relations, our good friend the Prime Minister may have sufficient reason to call another Federal election. [More…]

• Any trade union official in this country who asked his members to accept the Government’s offer would be defeated in the next election in which he stood, and so he should be, because he would be selling his members down the drain. [More…]

• Prior to the election the Government said: ‘We will abide by indexation’. [More…]

• If this is not a political statement or perhaps even an election campaign speech, I have never heard one. [More…]

• They will not be in power after the next election and they know it. [More…]

• -In view of the Prime Minister’s refusal once again yesterday in a Press conference to kill speculation about an early election, and in view of his previous comments about keeping options open, will he now take the opportunity to reiterate his commitment to the principle of simultaneous elections stated in 1977? [More…]

• I have been advised that the Leader of the Opposition’s office over the last three or four months has been trying to promote speculation about an early election. [More…]

• I would have thought that the Opposition, at the moment, had had enough of elections. [More…]

• I am not surprised at the election result. [More…]

• If he shirks it, it is up to the members of the public to show their response when the next election takes place. [More…]

• It lies with the media as was demonstrated by the recent South Australian election results which were determined by the media. [More…]

• Everyone should read with great interest the words of the honourable member for Reid, and everyone should remember those words when the next election comes around. [More…]

• Can he claim that a majority of people won the South Australian election for the Liberal Party? [More…]

• With the election of 1975 came the Fraser Government, with its growing recognition that there were many potential votes in migrant communities. [More…]

• Despite the vicissitudes of South Australia last week- that does not matter; I can use the case hypothetically- if the boot is on the other foot and we are sitting on the Government side after the next federal election, I would take exactly the same position. [More…]

• If so, what percentage of the electorate voted and was there a genuine choice of candidates from differing political parties at each election. [More…]

• If so, what percentage of the electorate voted and was there a genuine choice of candidates from differing political parties at each election. [More…]

• If so, what percentage of the electorate voted and was there a genuine choice of candidates from differing political parties at each election. [More…]

• 1 ) How much time was made available to broadcast election speeches or political advertisements in respect of each political parry on each radio broadcasting station and television station in connection with the 1979 Victorian State election. [More…]

• It is saying that it is not so concerned with this objective because it wants to win an election. [More…]

• Perhaps the Ministers at the table had better agree to that now so that when they are on this side of the House again- they would both be in serious danger at an election- they will be able to take part in Estimates committees instead of being on the outer. [More…]

• They are related to the circumstances surrounding the next Senate election for that State. [More…]

• I also share the concern of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) at the consequences of actions proposed with respect to Senate elections. [More…]

• Some claim, for example, that recent by-elections in Queensland give the green light for any action whatsoever. [More…]

• The Redcliffe by-election, on any serious analysis, certainly does not. [More…]

• If that is the situation which honourable members opposite who have spoken in this adjournment debate are suggesting should apply, one wonders why the Liberal Party should bother even to run in an election in that State. [More…]

• ls current expenditure inadequate and are more families being inadequately housed each year contrary to the recommendations of every Government investigation into Aboriginal housing and all related problems and in breach of election undertakings of the Government. [More…]

• Firstly, about half would be applied towards the cost of election campaigns. [More…]

• The same thing will happen at the next Federal election. [More…]

• If we want any real evidence of that, let us look at the situation in South Australia where there was a massive election campaign a few weeks ago with emphasis by the Labor Party on unemployment and by other sections of the community on the very elements of this Budgetwhat it was doing and what it could do- and the need for State administrations to complement the approach being made by the Federal Government. [More…]

• I suspect that when the next election takes place the Government will make it clear to those in Opposition that they had better look around their benches and get used to them because after that election they will be on that side of the Parliament again. [More…]

• 1) moved by the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) condemning the policies of the Fraser Government since its election in 1975. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite will try to dismiss this inglorious defeat on the grounds that the election was fought on State issues. [More…]

• The South Australian economy was going backwards before the election last Saturday week. [More…]

• We will pay the taxpayers’ dollars to those who are standing for election, whether it be in terms of parties or persons’? [More…]

• On top of that, the Liberal Government election Budget of August 1972 reinforced the expansion. [More…]

• What chance did the Labor Government have in 1 973 and 1974, before a forced election, when it was left a legacy of absolute monetary irresponsibility? [More…]

• Since the Budget inevitably leads to further unemployment there has been understandable conjecture that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) might want another early Federal election before this Budget takes effect. [More…]

• Perhaps the Prime Minister has been deterred by the recent fairly obvious vote of disaffection with early elections and perhaps he needs more time to intervene in order to patch up the coalition’s squabbles in Queensland. [More…]

• This year there was a mini-Budget of broken promises and perhaps next year we shall have a mini-Budget of election carrots. [More…]

• Perhaps we can expect either full or half tax indexation to be paid in retrospect next year, instead of right now, as a means of effecting recovery and increasing demand to create jobs; and perhaps this will happen next year just before the Federal election. [More…]

• The result of the elections in South Australia recently was a direct protest by the people of that State against the stand taken by the former Labor Government there in refusing to allow development of three major mining contracts in that State which would have created 7,000 extra jobs within the State of South Australia and would have brought in $4,500m within 5 years. [More…]

• The policy of the Leader of the Opposition and his left wing union colleagues is completely out of step with community feeling, as the South Australian election showed. [More…]

• The myth-makers are falsely postulating that Labor’s defeat was a result of angry reaction to an unnecessary early election and hence the consequence of a mere error of political judgment on the part of former Premier Corcoran. [More…]

• Certainly, the early election was detrimental to Labor, but only in a minor way. [More…]

• The AdvertiserSouth Australian Institute of Technology surveys- which accurately predicted the election results, indicated that the early election was a major issue for only 2 per cent of the electors. [More…]

• But the very fact that the business community campaigned in a way unprecedented in previous State elections demonstrates the depth of its concern this time about the future of South Australia under a continuation of Labor Party policies. [More…]

• More and more people became aware of this over a time, climaxing in Saturday’s election result. [More…]

• So let the myths about this election be destroyed and let the realities stand firm. [More…]

• The real issues in the election last Saturday week will remain a continuing product of Labor’s socialist ideology. [More…]

• I am quite certain that the Tasmanian Government would not want an election now. [More…]

• No doubt it will pursue any course to avoid a subsequent election as a means of rectifying what probably is a serious situtaion. [More…]

• Against that background, how are we to judge the statements that Mr Lowe made during the election campaign about the terrible effects of what was done at the last Loan Council meeting? [More…]

• It stated that at the next election: . [More…]

• If we were fortunate enough to see another election in that State the result would be very much different. [More…]

• Since that election it has become well known that Mr Lowe has appointed a number of left wing ALP sympathisers to senior positions in his own Government. [More…]

• I certainly knew that he was an active member of the Labor Party because I have seen him handing out ‘how to vote’ cards at polling booths in the St George electorate at times when the Labor Party has been thrashed in an election. [More…]

• We retained him right up to the time that writs were issued for the election for the New South Wales Legislative Council. [More…]

• The Prime Minister fixed the standards for ministerial behaviour when he said during the 1965 election campaign that certain standards would be met by his Government in terms of the propriety by Ministers. [More…]

• Prime Minister Fraser has run out on a clear commitment, made to the Australian public in the 1975 election campaign, to observe standards of ministerial propriety. [More…]

• We had not even had the election results before the poor Minister for Special Trade Representations (Mr Garland) was in the Queanbeyan court answering a prima facie case of having bribed a candidate. [More…]

• I remind honourable members of the actions of the Prime Minister during the elections of 1977 when he made his off-the-cuff comments about the Royal Commission into Human Relationships. [More…]

• What will the Government tell the people next time it holds an election? [More…]

• They related to alleged bribery of a candidate during the 1975 general election. [More…]

• The Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch) was forced to resign as Treasurer under threat of dismissal in the run-up to the 1977 general election. [More…]

• Apart from being totally lacking in economic responsibility, this approach is not what the people of Australia want, as the last two federal election results have clearly demonstrated and as was demonstrated recently in the South Australian election results. [More…]

• With the election of a Liberal Government there is already renewed confidence in that State. [More…]

• Election [More…]

• Re-election [More…]

• All members of the Committee shall be eligible for re-election. [More…]

• I refer to the election which took place in South Australia. [More…]

• I am confident that the Government ‘s support will continue to increase until it is returned with another very substantial majority at the next general election. [More…]

• I want to deal specifically with the part of the statement made by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) immediately after the election in 1975 when he said: [More…]

• The explicit undertaking of the Prime Minister, which he gave over and over in the early stages of the 1975 election campaign, was that that would not happen. [More…]

• He really lampooned about integrity in the election campaign in 1 975. [More…]

• During the recent South Australian election we were inundated with advertisements telling us how much the Liberals were concerned with the unemployment problem in South Australia. [More…]

• This is a big election and I understand that some 40,000 ballot papers have been sent out. [More…]

• Of course, when Mr Wran has not been close to an election he has quite often supported the broad thrust of the economic policies of this Government, and he has in fact roundly criticised the hotch-potch of policies emanating from the Australian Labor Party and the Adelaide conference. [More…]

• We see the legislation as very sinister and perhaps the ultimate linchpin to be used by this Government in calling any future snap Federal election because it has all the provisos necessary for the Government to interfere totally with the operations of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, in complete ignorance of what is best for industrial relations in this country, and so bring about a confrontation from which the Government would hope to benefit politically at any given election. [More…]

• That is why I say that this is the linchpin for an election. [More…]

• He believes that the Government is doing this in order to win an election. [More…]

• I remind honourable members opposite that this Government does not have to introduce industrial legislation in order to win an election. [More…]

• It is a lay-down misere that this Government will win the next election, whenever it is held. [More…]

• That in itself is totally irrelevant because there is no dispute that when the next election comes around the people of Australia will respond and re-elect this Government. [More…]

• It is worth looking back over history for a moment to recall that in the years before the 1972 election when the Labor Party came to power, there was the National Labour Advisory Council. [More…]

• The honourable member for Port Adelaide was involved in a television interview on the result of the South Australian election. [More…]

• It was a pretty disappointed person that appeared on television and one would think that some of the lessons of that election may have got through. [More…]

• It was during that election campaign that we saw some of the bus strikers in action. [More…]

• If ever a community has made a judgment on the sort of activity it wants to see in relation to the union movement, I believe that South Australians at that election clearly did so. [More…]

• If honourable members opposite take any notice of election figures they will see that they just do not agree with them. [More…]

• If one looks at the track record of this Government in industrial relations one finds that in October 1977 the amendments to the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act, otherwise known as the Industrial Relations Bureau legislation, introduced measures providing for the deregistration of a union, the seizing of union property and funds, fines on officers and rank and file trade unionists, suspension from office of union officers and the debarring of members of unions from standing for election to any position, full or part time. [More…]

• The wives and the families of these men are the people who will judge the ALP at the next election. [More…]

• They can also order that a particular employee, and they can name him individually, or a group of employees- that is, nobody in South Australia, for instance- shall be permitted to vote in a union election, shall be permitted to nominate for any union office or shall be permitted to attend a union meeting. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wilmot (Mr Burr) boasted that the Government will be reelected whenever the next election is held. [More…]

• If that is what the Government believes it can do, let me remind the Minister for Industrial Relations (Mr Street) or perhaps, appropriately, let me remind the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) of the fate of the Heath Government when it sought to win an election on the misery which followed in the wake of Britain’s crippling miners strike when everybody was forced to accept two days work a week and the lights went out almost half and hour after nightfall. [More…]

• If so, what percentage ofthe electorate voted and was there a genuine choice of candidates from differing political parties at each election. [More…]

• If so, what percentage of the electorate voted and was there a genuine choice of candidates from differing political parties at each election. [More…]

• Mr Lowe said that the whole financial package was a catastrophe, but of course we know that he wanted to hold an election on that issue. [More…]

• We also know that he would not be game to have an election today. [More…]

• I believe it is especially important that they become involved with the election of union office bearers through secret ballots. [More…]

• Under this Bill, once a certificate is issued by the Conciliation Commission to the effect that there is a stoppage of work in a particular union which affects the welfare of the community, the Minister will have the right to declare that particular members of that union shall not be eligible to continue to hold office, or that particular members of the union shall not be eligible to contest a ballot for office, or that particular members of a union may not be eligible to record a vote in an election for union officials, or that a particular member or members shall be prohibited from attending a union meeting, voting at a union meeting or attending a meeting of workers on a particular job. [More…]

• Whilst the Government would have the temporary right to do all of these evil things, it would be only a temporary right, because as soon as it exercised its right in that way it would lose the next election. [More…]

• I would like to see elections fought on bread and butter issues. [More…]

• The trouble with elections today is that they are fought on abstract issues such as foreign affairs and all kinds of other issues that do not directly affect the hip pocket nerve. [More…]

• Prior to the recent South Australian election the then State Premier, Mr Corcoran, made a commitment that the South Australian Department of Engineering and Water Supply would initiate plans to establish somewhere in the northern area of South Australia a water filtration plant that would clean up the water so that it could be made usable. [More…]

• It is rather strange that the priorities have been changed so that the people on the Spencer Gulf in the northern part of the State who voted solidly for Labor on election day will now not have their water filtration plant. [More…]

• The mayors of the three major towns- Port Augusta, Whyalla and Port Pirie- have all expressed concern that the promise that was given by the Labor Government prior to the last election will not be honoured by the present Liberal Government. [More…]

• We know that an election is coming up in Western Australia. [More…]

• The Labor Party will be judged on this issue amongst others at the next election and will be totally and completely rejected by the Australian people. [More…]

• The background of the Bill is that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) promised in his 1977 election speech to lift the share of personal income tax collections provided to local government authorities from 1 .52 per cent to 2 per cent within three years. [More…]

• One wonders whether this undertaking was going the way of other innumerable election promises. [More…]

• The Fraser Government at the time of the 1977 election made a solemn pledge to increase local government funding to a 2 per cent share of personal income tax collections in the life of the Parliament. [More…]

• What about the Government’s election promise of 2 per cent? [More…]

• As my friend the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges) comments, it is a further stage in honouring the Government’s 1977 election commitment in which it said quite unequivocally that we would allocate 2 per cent of personal income tax revenue to local government during the course of this Parliament. [More…]

• The hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money that were squandered during that period on the RED scheme did not buy the Labor Party one vote in the1975 election. [More…]

• It was not part of Labor Party policy in the 1977 election to reintroduce the RED scheme. [More…]

• These are the sorts of issues that the electors of this country look at when they come to casting a vote in a federal election. [More…]

• Members on the other side of the House should carefully consider what I am about to say because one can remember all the promises they made when they were in Oppositionpromises easily made then and forgotten on the day of the election. [More…]

• In respect of veterans of allied countries, this Bill honours an election promise of the Government made in 1977. [More…]

• This was the measure that was intended to allow a softer main Budget in case the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) decided to call an early election. [More…]

• The Opposition opposes the Bill and applauds the cynicism of the Government in reneging on its election promises. [More…]

• Of course, the Government says one thing at election time and another afterwards, when it has the election nicely in the background and is not looking to face the people again for a good while. [More…]

• But, prior to the 1 975 election, strange to relate, when the coalition parties were making their unholy grab for office, they promised the world to the farmer. [More…]

• Shortly after coming to office- surprise, surprise- the Government honoured an election promise. [More…]

• With the election safely behind him and the future his, the farmers’ friend, the squatter of Nareen, suffered a convenient lapse of memorysomething that we have come to find is quite a repetitive process with him. [More…]

• Notwithstanding his very recent election promise, he cut back the nitrogenous fertiliser bounty. [More…]

• Was it just coincidental that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was hatching another election a month or two later, or is that too cynical a suggestion for even the honourable member for Herbert? [More…]

• His subsidy was saved by the Government’s need to be loved at election time. [More…]

• There was no election in sight, so we know what happened and we know why. [More…]

• Promise the farmer anything he wants at election time and, when that is out of the way, sock it to him. [More…]

• Again, we get back to my point about the cynical abuse of the democratic process, of promising something to win an election and then conveniently discovering that circumstances will not allow its implementation ‘at this point of time’, to use one of the phrases the Prime Minister uses so cynically and so often. [More…]

• I am sure that those members will pay heavily when it comes to an election, particularly the honourable member for Dawson. [More…]

• His contempt for democratic processes is very evident in the current public brawl with the Queensland Liberal Party over the issue of the next Senate elections. [More…]

• There are two retiring NCP senators up for election and only one Liberal. [More…]

• If three tickets were offered by the major parties at the next Senate election it is clear that Labor would top the poll on primaries and elect two or possibly even three senators. [More…]

• At the forefront of that demonstration was an endorsed Labor candidate in the recent State election, a man who has been elected to the Parliament but who has not yet taken his seat because of a court challenge. [More…]

• The only difference is that unlike them he has to face an election every three years. [More…]

• In between elections he exercises just as much personal power, dictatorial power over everybody in the Cabinet as did any dictator. [More…]

• Councillor Jean Downing, who incidentally stood as the Australian Labor Party candidate for the federal seat of Diamond Valley at the last federal election, and more recently as the ALP candidate for the State seat of Doncaster, has publicly advocated a rate increase this year of at least 13 te per cent rather than the 10 per cent which has been decided. [More…]

• Therefore, I ask the leave of the House to incorporate in Hansard two tables setting out the results of the recent Japanese election showing not only the number of seats won but also the percentage of votes compared with those at the previous election. [More…]

• It is depressing that the Australian Press has given no information whatever on the election results in Japan, one of the very few countries with a democratic constitution and democratic behaviour. [More…]

• Well may the honourable member for Hume (Mr Lusher) be judged by the people of Cootamundra; come the next election, he no doubt will be. [More…]

• To say that what somebody did in the past is binding upon honourable members who were elected to this House at the last election is constitutional nonsense also. [More…]

• It is the increase in the price of petrol and other similar increases which have been imposed by this Government and which make it possible for this Government to have large amounts of money available, probably for election bribes next year, which have caused inflation in this country. [More…]

• In his election speech in 1972 Mr Whitlam promised to abolish the means test within three years. [More…]

• Again, during the election in December 1977, the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) said in an advertisement publicised throughout this country: [More…]

• The second reason was simply that 1980 is an election year- and this decision on twice-yearly indexation produces no effective increase until May 1980. [More…]

• Nothing so concentrates this Government’s mind as the thought of an election. [More…]

• We are thus returning to the quite opportunistic days prior to the Whitlam Government, when it was only in an election year that pensioners could expect an increase in their pensions. [More…]

• If such proposals are included, does the Australian Government stand ready to provide observers for such an election? [More…]

• Honourable members will be aware that this accords fully with the Lusaka agreement, which provided for Commonwealth observers to witness the election of the government which would take Zimbabwe into independence. [More…]

• The matter was talked to death before the general election in 1975. [More…]

• -Almost two years ago the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in a statement to this House announcing his decision to hold an early election proclaimed: [More…]

• Of course, it was the earlier realisation of the truth of those words by the people of Tasmania at the election which was held in, I think, July, that led to an overwhelming Labor Party victory in that State. [More…]

• The last two elections have demonstrated that point. [More…]

• I dare say that the election at the end of next year will reinforce it. [More…]

• It was a rhetoric suitable for an election campaign in 1975. [More…]

• Otherwise the Parliament should run its time before there is an election. [More…]

• All the egg is on the honourable member’s face and and that will be more so after the next election. [More…]

• But one remembers the rather hysterical campaign that the organisation ran when the referendum was held in New South Wales to consider whether there should be a democratic election of the New South Wales Upper House. [More…]

• Being a rather secret organisation, it was not all that interested in having democratic elections in the New South Wales Upper House. [More…]

• Having regard to the above, it is realistic to say that contributors, who may or may not have voting rights in the election of boards of management, can be regarded as the owners’ of the registered benefits organisations, to the extent of their benefit entitlements under the rules of the particular organisation and the fact that under the provisions of the National Health Act dealing with the winding up of a medical and/or hospital fund, the Federal Court is required to make such order as it considers to be most advantageous for the’ interests of the contributors ‘. [More…]

• The fact is that it was this Government that sought and obtained election to the Human Rights Commission, and that those who sit opposite who proclaimed their interest in these matters at no time when in government sought or obtained election to that body. [More…]

• It is a record on which we will go to an election, and we will invite the Australian Labor Party to contest that record with us at an election. [More…]

• We are proud of them and we will be going to an election, telling the people of Australia about them. [More…]

• I make the point that in the Labor States of New South Wales 19 Ministers have 22 Press secretaries; in the former South Australian Government which was defeated just recently in an election there were 13 Ministers and 14 Press secretaries; and in the Tasmanian Government at the moment there are 10 Ministers and eight Press secretaries. [More…]

• I make the point that in the letter which the Deputy Leader of the Opposition mentioned that the Prime Minister had written, the Prime Minister referred to shadow Ministers, but he also went on to say that in line with the long-standing practice in relation to Ministers during election campaigns the travelling allowance of a shadow Minister will cease from the date on which the Leader of the Opposition delivers the Opposition policy speech. [More…]

• If the areas in the western suburbs of Sydney or the western suburbs of Melbourne happen to be represented by the Labor Party, part of the penalty the people pay for voting for the party that loses the election is that they will not receive the quality of services that will bring them up to the standards that are commonplace and which are generally expected in the eastern suburbs. [More…]

• Then he went on to say “There is no good relying on the Commonwealth Government because they won’t be in power after the next election and they know it, there is no negotiations going on between the Queensland State Government and the Commonwealth Government about Yarrabah’. [More…]

• For instance, prior to the 1972 election campaign the Labor Party, particularly its spokesman on agriculture, Dr Patterson, said in this House in a debate on the fruit growing industry that Labor would ease the means test on the tree pull scheme to make it easier for people to remove fruit trees. [More…]

• It reneged on that promise made prior to the 1 972 election. [More…]

• The Bill lapsed when the South Australian Parliament was dissolved for the recent election. [More…]

• 1 ) Is he able to say whether the Prime Minister promised in the 1977 election campaign to provide a government guarantee for savings in permanent building societies. [More…]

• In his election policy speech of 21 November 1977 the Prime Minister stated that “We will co-operate with the States and financial institutions to set up an insurance scheme, protecting savings deposited with building societies”. [More…]

• In Luxembourg the delegation was received by M. Carlo Meintz, Vice-President of the European Parliament on the eve of the first European general election and delegates were informed of the exciting prospects and problems which face the new European Parliament. [More…]

• Following a working party on homeless men and women set up by Bill Hayden in February 1973, which reported later in the year on the feasibility of a program to assist them, legislation was foreshadowed by the then Prime Minister in the 1974 election campaign and introduced by Mr Hayden in November 1974. [More…]

• I can only assume it is made because this is going to be a vital part of the cheap set of policies, if I may say so, that are going to be introduced by the Labor Party in an attempt to convince people that they should vote Labor at the next election at the end of next year. [More…]

• The honourable member for Adelaide apparently wants us to have a false price for petrol in Australia in order to buy votes at the next election. [More…]

• The British plan envisages a two to three month period of direct rule by a governor despatched from England pending new elections. [More…]

• But I am left with the suspicion that the Patriotic Front, by wanting a longer period, in fact does not wish to contest the elections at all. [More…]

• Similarly the Patriotic Front would not have fared very well at an election at that time because it was fighting a war and the people were utterly sick of that war. [More…]

• For four years the Australian Labor Party has been very reluctant to announce its health insurance policy because of political considerations and the way in which a Medibank-type scheme will lock the Labor Party into an irresponsible economic policy at election time. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition, Mr Hayden, served notice yesterday that the ALP would make health a major issue at the next Federal election. [More…]

• They will reject the Australian Labor Party if it fights an election on this issue. [More…]

• define members of the Institute their method of election, and their duties and powers as members of the Institute.’ [More…]

• What will be the method of their election? [More…]

• in direct violation of the Government’s election promises, are imposing an increasing income tax burden on the Australian taxpayer, [More…]

• If this Government is remembered for anything it will be for this wonderful litany of broken promises which were espoused by our esteemed Prime Minister (Mr Malcom Fraser) in his election speech of 1977. [More…]

• I foreshadow that in May next year the Treasurer will come in here with a sweetner because that is election year. [More…]

• History reveals that election years have funny effects on Treasurers. [More…]

• It may well be that people will remember, if the Government does introduce some form of tax indexation as an election sweetener, where the money came from. [More…]

• When we go to an election the people of Australia will certainly indicate their intelligence because if the present poll continues the Government will be sitting over on this side of the House and the real government of Australia- the party that represents the great bulk of the people of Australia- will be squatting over there whence it never should have left. [More…]

• In the February 1 978 tax scalesthe ones that followed the election of 1 977- there was the promise about the tax cuts and the great handfuls of money. [More…]

• We have met for 136 days since the election was held a couple of years ago. [More…]

• The significance of that is simply that in 16 months’ time the next election will be safely out of the way. [More…]

• It is very significant that while the Australian people were in turmoil- the Government had been dismissed from office on 11 November and they were heading towards the December electionsmassive military aggression was being carried out by the Indonesians in East Timor. [More…]

• The Government had been installed by the Governor-General, and it was facing an election. [More…]

• Yesterday’s Press report of a document that was leaked from the Liberal Party regarding its preparation for an election makes very interesting reading. [More…]

• The first comment I wish to make is that it was not prepared for next year’s election; it was obviously prepared for this year’s election. [More…]

• Together with all the other announcements that have been made by the Government, there is no doubt that had there not been a Sinclair affair this year we would have been faced with another election. [More…]

• Thanks to the right honourable member for New England (Mr Sinclair) we have avoided a Federal election this year. [More…]

• I have a suggestion for the director of the Liberal Party when he is running next year’s election campaign. [More…]

• He had better do a bit more market research on some of the dummies he has on the front bench and the way they are handling this country before he lays down instructions how the Government is going to be sold at the next election. [More…]

• There is no way the Government will be given the mercy of not discussing these issues in the lead-up to the 1980 election. [More…]

• I hope that when the Opposition is considering what tactics will be used by the Government at the next election campaign it keeps in mind that the Government will be stressing such positive achievements as this 176 per cent increase in money to councils which they can use exactly as they like for the benefit of their ratepayers. [More…]

• Without the International Sugar Agreement, world prices would be substantially lower It is interesting to point out that during the 1977 election campaign, the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) said that the International Sugar Agreement would increase prices to $2 10 per tonne. [More…]

• In the 1977 election campaign it guaranteed that the nitrogenous fertiliser bounty would not be touched. [More…]

• As late as about four months before the 1977 election the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) was saying that the Federal Government would not be putting money into water resources programs; that that was a matter for the States. [More…]

• Let me refer again-to a promise made by the Leader of the National Country Party in the 1977 election campaign when he said that the great achievement of the International Sugar Agreement would be that it would shortly increase the price of sugar to the target floor price of $2 10 a tonne. [More…]

• It is not surprising that members of the National Country Party are a little nervous about what the sugar farmers might do to them come the next election. [More…]

• Now, if some coalition faithfuls- we have the beekeeper again- still need to be persuaded that the Government has indeed aborted general education in Australia, let me go further than 1976 to make a comparison between this Government and the record of the Labor Government on education- a record on which we shall be proud to campaign in the next election. [More…]

• The way in which the term ‘orderly’ is used sometimes reminds me of some states that have never held an election in their history yet manage to use the word ‘democratic’. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hughes will give more details about the crisis situation, of housing costs in the electorate of Cook and about how this scheme is completely irrelevant to the constituents of someone like the honourable member for Cook who will be struggling to survive at the next election. [More…]

• When I first went on the Committee after the Federal election in May 1974, he had been a member of the Committee. [More…]

• In the period leading up to the election in 1972 the Labor Party was all the time offering all sorts of things to the Northern Territory and shadow Ministers were making statements about the package which had been introduced by the then Government, which virtually gave to the Northern Territory legislature a lot of the responsibilities which it inherited in the first phase of the implementation of the report which was subsequently brought down. [More…]

• Yet the doctrine of ministerial responsibility is as foreign to this Government ‘s conduct of this nation ‘s affairs as honesty is to the election promises of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• When Labor got into a position in which it had to face up to responsible decisions involving the recognition that something in the past had not been good enough and action should be taken to compensate those people who had suffered during that period, it come to the conclusion that it was more than apparent that the McMahon Government was about to reach just before that December election of 1972. [More…]

• In fact, I am firmly of the judgment that if that election had not been due until the end of the year 1973 the Jess Committee report would not have been accepted by the Government. [More…]

• Indeed, Hansard records going back into the late 1 960s, shortly after my election to Parliament, contain questions that I directed at the time to Ministers relating to subjects such as telephone tapping, tape recording of conversations and other matters. [More…]

• And their numbers will be joined after the next election by honourable members on the Government side who are interjecting. [More…]

• I can assume only that the honourable gentleman is trying to get up his desperate profile because in fact that has been recommended to him by the members of the front bench of the Australian Labor Party in the recent Australian Labor Party notes for the next election. [More…]

• My brief acquaintance with Mr Neville Walsh began as follows: I was introduced to him early in the 1975 Federal election campaign as a Cairns businessman who was offering to help. [More…]

• The Labor Party in its policy speeches before the 1972 election began to tell people that there was a large cake and that the wages policy would have to change. [More…]

• The majority decision of the Court was that the term ‘whenever necessary’ meant each general election occurring towards the end of a three year term. [More…]

• This organisation went a little bit further and said that a senior officer in the Health Department told it not only that the Federal Government would scrap this particular program but that in fact the Federal Government is planning to have an election in July of next year and intends to use $ 1 m in this program in Tasmania as election bait. [More…]

• The Senate (Representation of Territories) Act 1974 was passed by the Parliament giving the Northern Territory two Senators in the next election. [More…]

• I draw the attention of honourable members to some obvious and major similarities in the typing presentation of this document, Tactics for Election Year’ signed ‘Tony E and the bogus document prepared by the Liberals and distributed by the Liberals- Baudino, that contemptible little squirt, as Sir Robert Menzies would have called him, the Prime Minister and the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs. [More…]

• Look at its background: An allegation that goes to the court of attempted bribery of an election opponent, involving a Minister; electorate rigging, involving two Ministers; fixing computer tenders, involving the Prime Minister; widespread tax avoidance, involving numerous Ministers; malfeasance, involving a private company on the part of a former Minister; and rigging land deals on the part of a former Treasurer. [More…]

• The campaign strategy points to the hypocrisy of the Labor Parliamentarians- while they are professing their concern about the unemployed, their Party’s campaign ‘blueprint’ virtually ignores unemployment as an election issue. [More…]

• Australian contingent- and also of the Australian election observers in Rhodesia, to whom I shall refer in a moment- is a matter of particular concern to the Australian Government. [More…]

• The anticipated duration of the assignment is governed by the length of the transitional period leading up to the elections. [More…]

• Allowing time for the announcement of election results and the installation of the new Government, and travel between Australia and Rhodesia, the Australian contingent could be expected to be outside Australia for a maximum of Vh months. [More…]

• The second area in which Australia has been asked to assist is the sending of election observers. [More…]

• The Lusaka agreement provided for Commonwealth observers to be present during the elections. [More…]

• The British Government has now invited Australia to send a group of such observers to Rhodesia for the pre-election period and the elections. [More…]

• The main task of the group will be to report to the Australian Government and Parliament on the conduct of the elections. [More…]

• It will maintain liaison with and provide political advice to the ceasefire monitoring contingent and assist the Australian election observers. [More…]

• The issue involves freedom, free elections and equal suffrage. [More…]

• It embraces the past conflict, the agreement, the British being able to re-establish their authority by way of a governor, the difficulties that Kaunda has experienced in Zambia, the use of a monitoring force, a transition period, election observers, sanctions and what is called a final phase. [More…]

• But it can’t be quite as simple as that In the run-up to elections there will certainly be a great deal of intimidation on all sides, if only because the outcome of the election, in which many parties may be competing, is itself so uncertain. [More…]

• If AUS is thought to be unrepresentative, the answer is to make it more representative, to get more of our 250,000 university students to participate, to run for election, to vote, to argue, and to propose new policies. [More…]

• cases the fault lies with the failure of the general student body to participate in the election of office bearers and in the general critical comment of the actions of the office bearers throughout the year. [More…]

• To give a political analogy, it is as though the Fraser Government decided that it could not win a free election in 1980 against the Australian Labor Party and that the best way to secure its political future would be to pass legislation prohibiting trade unions from making financial contributions to the Labor Party, but by exclusion encouraging trade unions to provide political sustenance to other smaller left wing parties to the extreme. [More…]

• When the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), in the election campaign in 1977, indicated that the airport project would get under way, very sadly the then Deputy Leader of the Opposition- I have not quoted this in the House before- on behalf of the Opposition said: [More…]

• We both won seats from the Labor Party in an election when the Liberal and Country parties lost government. [More…]

• ) Is it a fact that the letter seeks material from each Minister in preparation for the Liberal Party’s campaign for the next Federal election. [More…]

• Does Commonwealth legislation require the resignation of an official of Aboriginal Hostels Ltd before that person can contest an election for (a) the Federal or (b) any State Parliament. [More…]

• I ask: In drafting the legislation which he has forecast to this House will he include a provision prohibiting the participation of multi-national corporations in Commonwealth politics either as agents for political parties in election campaigns or as agents for underground public relations activities between such campaigns? [More…]

• Has not the recent election presented an opportunity for new members to put their arguments on these matters which constituted one of the reasons why the election was held? [More…]

• What is the justification for this expensive proposal to defer publication of unemployment figures prior to a premature election? [More…]

• Mr Howard sought to put a brave face on the outcome of his talks, though his failure to take home any substantive concessions from Europe can hardly help his Government in its forthcoming election campaign. [More…]

• I ask: What progress, if any, has been made towards the implementation of the Government’s election promise to provide an ethnic television service? [More…]