election - senate - 1970

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

I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Health, ls it not clear that the Government’s proposals for improvements in the health scheme are going to cost about twice what the Government said in the election campaign would be the cost? [More…]
The Labor Party presented these issues to the people in the general election campaign last year, and as a result was very narrowly defeated by this Government. [More…]
Will he also assure us that there has been no change in the Government’s promise, made 6 weeks after the last federal election, that it would be a case of one out all out and that we would withdraw all our troops rather than withdraw one battalion? [More…]
Knowing the Minister’s willingness to encourage conciliation and arbitration in the settlement of differences of opinion between persons, I ask: Will the Minister whose knowledge and support of the state aid for education policy are well known, use his best efforts to settle the cleavage of pre-Victorian State election opinion said to exist between our Victorian senatorial colleagues, Senators Brown and Poyser, on the question of state aid? [More…]
Is it a fact that the stated policy of this Government prior to the last election was that it would investigate the making of special financial assistance grants to rural municipalities? [More…]
Will the Government also give an assurance that such incredible open ended contracts as that signed to cover the purchase of the Fil ls will never again be entered into and that major defence issues will never again be used as election bait? [More…]
Did the Prime Minister, in his policy speech for the 1’969 election, promise to reduce taxation for lower and middle income earners? [More…]
Will the Prime Minister honour his election promise to provide over 3 years, beginning with the 1970 Budget, tax relief to the extent of $200m on personal incomes? [More…]
Will the Minister refute suggestions that the Prime Minister does not now propose to honour his election undertaking to give such relief to lower and middle income earners? [More…]
Surely one can put only one interpretation on this: The debate was initiated in an attempt to hurt the Government on the eve of a Senate election. [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for External Affairs noted the results of the Senate election in South Vietnam as reported in today’s Press? [More…]
Is not the fact that 4 major parties each polled approximately 1 million votes the truest possible indication of the existence of free elections? [More…]
When I hear such comments made by way of interjection I feel that I must again direct attention to what happened when the enemies of South Vietnam tried in all ways, including bombing orphanages and other places, to frustrate the conduct of a proper democratic election. [More…]
Does the Minister not think it rather illogical that he should ask the Opposition to co-operate with the Government in respect of the order of business when the Prime Minister .refuses to disclose the proposed date of the Senate election? [More…]
If I may be permitted to do so, I should like to point out that nobody will be surprised about the date of the election; it will be either late in November or some time next year. [More…]
The only people who will be inconvenienced will be those of us in the Senate who are expected to co-operate with the Government in these circumstances, knowing that at any time we may be given 3 weeks’ notice that an election is to be held. [More…]
It is traditional and normal for the Prime Minister to announce when proposed elections are to be held and I do not see that the circumstances are any different on this occasion. [More…]
This practice has continued for the whole time that elections have been held for the national Parliament. [More…]
AH I would say to the honourable senator is that I am sure that the Prime Minister will announce the date of the Senate election at the appropriate time. [More…]
Firstly, we welcome the announcement thai the Senate election will be held on 21st November. [More…]
by leave - The Senate 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 Governor-General to communicate with the State Governors proposing that the Senate election be held on Saturday, 21st November 1970. [More…]
When replies have been received from the States I shall inform the Senate of the full timetable proposed for the election. [More…]
Let me say, in response to the first question, that honourable senators will recall that in my statement I said that when replies had been received from the States following the invitation issued to His Excellency the GovernorGeneral to act on the matter, a full timetable proposed for the election would be prepared. [More…]
I am very alive to the need and I have it clearly in my sights that when we come back on the Tuesday after this break we will have to face up to our timetable and all matters relating to the time between then and when we rise for the election. [More…]
I, too, welcome the announcement of the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) of the date for the forthcoming Senate election. [More…]
1 welcome the announcement of the election date because to have imposed the receipts tax, particularly on the Queensland taxpayers, would have been most unfair. [More…]
I inform you, Mr President, and all other honourable senators that the action of the Government in introducing these savage increases is going to be a great issue at the forthcoming Senate election. [More…]
When can senators expect to see a preview of a film aimed at educating voters to avoid informal votes in the forthcoming Senate election, the commentary for which is to be given by Bill Peach who spearheaded the successful ‘This Day Tonight’ programme? [More…]
Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate seen a Press report that Mr Whitlam and Mr Hawke, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, spoke from the same platform to open the Senate election campaign last night? [More…]
With Mr Whitlam and Mr Hawke speaking from the same platform to open the same Senate election campaign, does this not align Mr Whitlam and the Australian Labor Party with Mr Hawke and his policy of a 35-hour working week and the militant use of costly and disruptive strikes if necessary? [More…]
Has the Minister approved any proposals to ensure that as far as practicable a minimum of informal votes will be registered at the forthcoming Senate election? [More…]
I ask further: With the Senate election to be held on 21st November, can the Leader of the Government convey any information as to the outcome of the serious division in Labor ranks, in Victoria at least, as noted by the very large Labor meeting which expressed- (Opposition senators interjecting) - [More…]
Setting aside election pledges I wish to refer to the letter written by Senator Bishop which he quoted a few minutes ago. [More…]
I inform the Senate that I have received certificates of the choice at the election held on 2 1st November 1970 of senators to. [More…]
The Clerk then laid on the table (he certificates of election of John Thomas Kane for the State of New South Wales and George Conrad Hannan for the State of Victoria. [More…]
Will the Leader of the Government in the Senate give some explanation of the unprecedented events which have occurred in the last week, by which a Prime Minister who waselected by the people of Australia has been replaced as Prime Minister by a person whom the Liberal and Country parties were not prepared to put forward to the people at the last Federal election as the prospective Prime Minister? [More…]
I preface my question which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science by informing the Minister that students of the Tweed River High School publish a school newspaper and that during a recent election campaign they invited both Labor and Liberal candidates to contribute an article. [More…]
J ask: In view of the fact that the then Prime Minister gave an election undertaking in 1969 that, this gap would be maintained “at 80c for a surgery visit and $1.20 for a home visit, will the Minister now give an assurance that this promise will be honoured and the gap will nol be widened during the term of this Government? [More…]
Mr President, as Leader of the Government in the Senate I offer, on behalf of all honourable senators in the first instance, my congratulations to Senator Prowse on his election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
On behalf of the Australian Country Party I offer congratulations to you, Mr President, on your election to the presidency of the Senate and extend to you our very best wishes for a long and rewarding term. [More…]
Following my election to the position of President of the Senate, I have to Inform youthat I wish to withdraw from the Senate Select Committee on Securities and Exchange. [More…]
The Clerk then laid on the table the certificate of election of Neville Thomas Bonner. [More…]
I have to report that, accompanied by honourable senators, I have presented myself to His Excellency the Governor-General as the choice of the Senate, and His Excellency was pleased to congratulate me on my election. [More…]
I congratulate you, Mr President, on your election to the office of President of the Senate, an office which is one of the highest in the land. [More…]
All I wish to add by way of underlining the facts is that it is a very idle use of question time for the Opposition in the Senate to talk about the candidates for a Vietnam election when elections, as we know them, have no vestige of existence in the Communist parties which are opposing the establishment of democracy in Vietnam. [More…]
While Senator Sim was speaking this evening I interjected and stated that the then Prime Minister of Australia had said that if a free election were held in Vietnam the Communists would win it, or words to that effect. [More…]
We must, therefore, not overlook the possibility that a free election may be an election which establishes a Communist administration in the whole of Vietnam. [More…]
Whether or not there could be a free election, the then Prime Minister was of the belief that if there were a free election the Communists would win it. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators, I present the statistical returns from each of the 6 States showing the voting within each subdivision in relation to the Senate election on 21st November 1970. [More…]
Senator McManus was absent on 17th August when the certificates of election of honourable senators to serve in the Senate on 1st July 1971 were tabled in the Senate and senators were then sworn in. [More…]
1 ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: What action is being taken to implement the indication by a former Prime Minister that the franchise would be extended to 18-year-olds before the next Federal election? [More…]
In particular, what is proposed to be done about those 18-year-olds who are already entitled to vote in the elections which take place in South Australia and Western Australia? [More…]
These line young Australians are being forced into the courts not because they are criminals and not because they are common lawbreakers but because they are opposed to an unjust law which has been put on the statute book by a government and its supporters, all of whom are renowned for conducting election campaigns on the fear complex and on the policy of there being a Red under every bed. [More…]
I appeal to Senator Cotton to convey to the Government that at this time of the year, before we make the home run to the election, an announcement that the Commonwealth Electoral Act is to be amended is overdue, as is discussion on that issue. [More…]
We should not wait until the Budget session for that debate, just before the election. [More…]
It is only a small matter but a growing number of Australians - largely professional people, some working with the United Nations and others with hospitals in Europe - are writing back here about their election rights only to find that they have been disfranchised. [More…]
As soon as election dates are known the Electoral Office prints leaflets explaining the voting procedures to be followed by persons travelling overseas at or about the same time as an election. [More…]
Persons travelling overseas before election dates are known and at other times in between elections are not informed of their electoral responsibilities. [More…]
Voting is compulsory and the onus really rests with an elector who may be abroad at the time of an election to acquaint himself with the voting procedures. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn also to the recent election advertisements of the ALP in Tasmania which carry the message Teamwork’s the Thing - and Labor’s Got it’? [More…]
Will the Commonwealth Government conduct a referendum in Tasmania, in conjunction with the next Federal election, concerning the proposed flooding of Lake Pedder. [More…]
Is the Treasurer aware that a Magistrate’s Court at Brisbane on 13th and 14th March 1972 for the purpose of taking evidence into the alleged disappearance of Queensland drought aid funds was transferred from a public court to a conference room in the Brisbane Treasury Building with an allegedly inadequate period of notice to the public and has now been adjourned until a date after the State election? [More…]
The Prime Minister has the right to announce when the election will be held when he thinks the time is right to make that announcement. [More…]
Has the Minister any further information on my plea for finalint;on of the amendments to the Commonwealth Electoral Act to enable universal absentee voting in the forthcoming general election? [More…]
In that statement will the Minister give any information on the position of Senator Benigno Aquino who would have been the chief contender for the presidency when that election was held? [More…]
That the Honey Industry (Election of Board) Regulations as contained in Statutory Rules 1972, No. [More…]
If the Government does not do it, we will do it, whichever party is in government after the general election. [More…]
-I again ask the Minister for Air (Senator Drake-Brockman) - as far as I am aware he has not answered the question, which I asked last night - whether he will give an assurance that the Government will not act in haste and appoint the heads of the proposed Australian Wool Corporation prior to the Federal election on 2nd December. [More…]
If the determination is disallowed and there is not within 24* hours a measure before the Parliament in this or another place to ensure that the promises of the Prime Minister during the election campaign are carried into effect, we are prepared’ to take that step. [More…]
The last time an election was held for the Senate was 3 years ago, so the mandate given to honourable senators opposite is becoming old and rusty. [More…]
If you continue on the course you are following, when you face the electors at (he next Senate election and give an account of your stewardship, as commonsense thinking people they will do the same thing on that occasion as they did on 2nd December.’ [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Because of the obvious necessity for the community to have clear knowledge of the Government’s policy, will the honourable gentleman clarify a statement by Prime Minister Whitlam that the Australian Labor Party federal authorities - the Executive and the Conference - can be expected not to alter policy on which the Government was elected, at least until after the next general election? [More…]
Can this assurance that Government policy is frozen and that the ALP Federal Executive and Conference will not be interfering with it prior to the next election be taken as authoritative? [More…]
Was he the prime mover behind a letter from 16 prominent persons published on 23rd November 1972, just before the Federal election, calling for a change of Government. [More…]
Labor’s policy, as stated in the Prime Minister’s election policy speech, is that rural financing will be carried out effectively through the present banking system and by an expansion of the functions of the Development Bank. [More…]
I understand that a similar amendment dealing with the election of the Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory will be moved. [More…]
1 do not know what assurances were given prior to the election. [More…]
In view of the resounding victory ofthe Liberal Party Government in the Victorian Slate elections, will he concede that, in the light of the Prime Minister’s promise which he put forward prior to the election in regard to judging the result, the people of Victoria have endorsed the action of the Opposition in the Senate during the present session? [More…]
1 ask him, as Minister representing the Prime Minister: Is it a fact, as stated by the Labor Premier of South Australia, that subsequent to the Federal election on 2 December 1972 he received an assurance from the Prime Minister that there would be consultation between the Commonwealth and State governments with respect to the legislative authority and sovereignty over the seas and seabed around Australia? [More…]
During the course of the last Federal election campaign the Leader of the Australian Labor Party - the present Prime Minister - gave an undertaking that upon election to office a Labor Government would establish a schools commission to inquire into the needs of all sections of schools in the community. [More…]
Has the Government, as the union alleges, breached an election undertaking, subsequently repudiated after the election, to grant equal pay to women members of the Federated Clerks Union? [More…]
For the information of honourable senators,I present the statistical returns from each of the 6 States showing the voting within each subdivision in relation to the general elections tor the House of Representatives, 1972, and the statistical returns from Queensland showing the voting within each sub-division in relation to the Senate election, 1972. [More…]
The appointment or election of a member is noi invalid by reason only of a defect or irregularity in connection with his appointment or election. [More…]
In view of Senator Townley’s continued criticism of travel costs incurred by Federal Members of Parliament, will the Minister inform the Senate whether Senator Townley has set an example by travelling economy class at all times since his election to the Senate. [More…]
Is it not also a fact that prior to his election last year the Prime Minister indicated that he would not engage in secrecy and that he would take the people of Australia into his confidence with regard to all decisions he was making? [More…]
There is no election promise to honour. [More…]
Does the Minister realise the severity of the increase and the crippling effect it will have on the industry; if so, will immediate consideration be given to rectifying the position and honouring the election promise. [More…]
It has accused the Government of not honouring election promises and of misleading the Australian people. [More…]
1 ) In my election policy speech I stated that rates of taxation need not be increased at any level to implement a Labor Government ‘s program. [More…]
380 on 18 September 1973, how is he able to reconcile the Government’s action in phasing out the duty differential on brandy with a letter dated 1 9 October 1 972 which the Premier of South Australia, the Honourable O. Dunstan, in his capacity of Chairman of the Australian Labor Party’s Federal Election Finance Committee, sent to wine and brandy makers in that State which stated, inter alia, that ‘The future of the wine industry has become an issue at the forthcoming Federal Elections. [More…]
I seek your financial support for the ALP Campaign for the Federal Elections. [More…]
You have already spent many tens of thousands of dollars on the wine tax and on collecting the information required by the Customs and Excise Department The election of a Federal Labor Government will save you these costs in the future’. [More…]
Did one such company contribute to the payment of an account for the cost of Labor election campaign publicity. [More…]
Is the Minister confident that the Government will fulfil an election promise to increase the standard rate of pension to 25 per cent of average weekly earnings during the term of this Government? [More…]
They deal with referenda that are proposed to be put to the people in conjunction with the Senate election. [More…]
Is the Government still committed to its election promise to abolish the means test during the present life of this Parliament? [More…]
by leave- The Senate will be aware that to fulfil the requirements of the Constitution the next Senate election must be held before 30 June 1974. [More…]
Accordingly, the Government has advised His Excellency, the Governor-General, to communicate with the State Governors proposing that the next Senate election be held on Saturday, 18 May 1 974. [More…]
When replies have been received from the States, I shall inform the Senate of the full timetable proposed for the election. [More…]
I also inform the Senate that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) has advised the GovernorGeneral that in respect of the following proposed laws: Constitution Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) 1974, Constitution Alteration (Mode of Altering the Constitution) 1974, Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) 1974 and Constitution Alteration (Local Government Bodies) 1974, the conditions in the second paragraph of section 128 of the Constitution have been complied with. [More…]
It is intended that the referendums be held concurrently with the Senate election. [More…]
Is the reason for applying to the High Court to ensure that 6 senators are elected in Queensland at the next Senate election or to ensure that Senator Gair goes to Ireland as ambassador? [More…]
As this chamber is just as much involved with the coming election as another place, surely it is a reasonable proposition that we should know all the factors concerning it, such as the issue of writs and everything else that Senator Wright enumerated. [More…]
Furthermore, it was only a day or two ago that it was stated in the Press that there was division in the Ministry over whether or not the election should be held a week sooner than 1 8 May. [More…]
It refers to people standing for elections who purport to represent a particular Party and who, upon being elected, repudiate that Party and claim to represent some other Party, as National Alliance candidates in Western Australia have done. [More…]
Can any action be taken under the existing Commonwealth Electoral Act to prevent candidates from wearing false political labels when contesting an election? [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is giving effect to its election policy of making $1.50 per week pension increases each Autumn and Spring such actions have been completely nullified by the stated rate of inflation. [More…]
Would the Minister agree that this move represents a final repudiation by the Government of its promise before the election of 1972 not to impose further taxation on this industry? [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…]
After 23 years of non-action the simple fact is that very shortly after the Federal election in December 1972 the Nimmo commission was appointed to deal with every issue of freight rates to Tasmania. [More…]
It may be accidental or coincidental that his concern occurs at the same time as there is talk in the community of an election. [More…]
If his attention and his Party’s attention to Tasmania is preceding an early election, I suspect and I would expect that his pronouncements about Tasmanian transport would be something that he would fulfil or would try to fulfil if his Party were elected to office. [More…]
In many instances people on reserves have not had an election for years. [More…]
It is because white management does not allow them to have an election. [More…]
Did the Minister for Services and Property state in a press release on 19 September 1974 that proposed changes in the Senate voting system would not affect the result of one Senate election in 100 years, as compared with the present system; if so, will the Minister for Services and Property arrange to have tabled in the Senate the advice, given to him by the [More…]
Which persons appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of the Labor Government. [More…]
1) Which persons appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Services to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister “s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of the Labor Government. [More…]
Which person appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility arc members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of the Labor Government. [More…]
1 ) Which persons appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of the Labor Government. [More…]
prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return ofthe Labor Government. [More…]
In view of what is so often said about the present electoral system one thing which continually seems to be overlooked is that our present system has returned to government the party or parties which have obtained a majority of the vote at any election. [More…]
-I will add briefly to what Senator Cavanagh had to say because I had a similar experience brought to my notice during the recent Federal election campaign when the Premier of Queensland sent a telegram to the chairman of the various councils on the islands in Torres Strait directing them how to vote in the Federal election.’ [More…]
Which persons appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to the position of Ambassador are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of a Labor Government. [More…]
Which persons appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of a Labor Government. [More…]
1 ) Which persons appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, puplicly advocated the return of the Labor Government. [More…]
1 ) Have any prosecutions occurred in respect of alleged offences committed during the election campaign preceding the double dissolution election on 1 8 May 1 974. [More…]
Are any prosecutions pending in respect of any offences committed during the election campaign preceding the double dissolution election held on 1 8 May 1 974. [More…]
Which persons appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of a Labor Government. [More…]
I inform the Senate that I have received a letter from Senator James McClelland resigning as a member of the Council of the Australian National University consequent upon his election to the Ministry. [More…]
The Clerk then laid on the table the certificate of election of Cleaver Ernest Bunton. [More…]
1 ) Which persons appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of a Labor Government? [More…]
The Opposition amendment proposes that instead of the form of application for a postal vote to be used at an election being in accordance with a form issued under the authority of the Chief Electoral Officer and specified by him by notice in the Gazette, there should be a form of a colour specified by him by notice in the Gazette. [More…]
This does not prevent the Chief Australian Electoral Officer from specifying a colour but the proposal in the Bill is more flexible in that it allows him to identify the form by some other means, for example, by the words ‘1977 Election’. [More…]
But the Opposition puts to the Government that the method by which the Government intends to do it, which is by way of a new form for each election, is not the right method of doing it. [More…]
The Government is suggesting basically that there should be a different type of form for each election. [More…]
There would be a standard form for every election but before each election the Commonwealth Electoral Office would promulgate that for the next election the colour would be, I say, green. [More…]
It is for that reason that we have moved that there ought to be different colours and not different forms for each election. [More…]
The Opposition’s amendment numbered 43 on the list proposes to leave out of the proposed Senate ballot paper, Form E, the directions to the voter which are appropriate to optional preferential voting for a Senate election and to reinsert directions for full preferential marking. [More…]
This is in line with the Opposition’s objection to the optional preferential system which, for reasons already enunciated, the Government desires to introduce for both Senate and House of Representatives elections. [More…]
Clause 51 (Return of writ for election of Senators). [More…]
As we opposed clause 30 of the Bill we will have to oppose clauses 50, 51 and 52 which relate to scrutiny prior to receipt of absent voters’ ballot papers, the return of writs for the election of senators and the return of writs for the election of members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
Have you already voted either here or elsewhere in this election (or in these elections, as the case requires)? [More…]
I should like to advise Senator Missen that in South Australia the Electoral Act has been altered to provide for the list system for the election of members of the upper House. [More…]
That system will apply at the next South Australian State elections in about March of next year. [More…]
Did the Australian Electoral Office computer on 18 May 1974 ascertain the aggregate votes for the House of Representatives election for Australia as a whole and also separate aggregates for each of the States; if so, will the Minister provide the seven tables showing the voting position for at least the following times, viz. [More…]
Depending on the success of the Opposition’s general amendment in relation to the retiring age, there is an amendment which provides for an election to remain in the present scheme. [More…]
In view of the Minister’s remarks about the circumstances surrounding the election of the Olympic Gold Medallist, Miss M. Wylie, of Sydney to the International Hall of Fame, what are the names of individual sportsmen and sportswomen who have received direct Government assistance since December 1972. [More…]
He led the team in the campaign that resulted in his and my election to this chamber. [More…]
It is only an assumption that he wanted it for an election campaign. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Police and Customs: Is it not a fact that the information which he has used about persons who received superphosphate bounty some years ago was obtained by direction of former Senator Murphy during the election campaign in 1 974? [More…]
Has the Minister for Foreign Affairs detected any improved prospects in the quest for a just settlement in Cyprus in the light of recent developments in Turkey following the election of a new government? [More…]
1 ) The Government Election Policy Speech made no specific reference to blind people as such. [More…]
1 ) Did the Minister or his predecessor make any commitments prior to the 1972 General Election promising that a Labor Government would not take away any benefits already enjoyed by blind people. [More…]
Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate noted the decision of the Liberal Party Federal Council to direct Liberal State governments to instruct their Governors not to issue writs following a legitimate request of the Australian Government to hold a normal Senate election? [More…]
If he can confirm that position, is not an election inevitable if the Senate delays or defeats the Appropriation Bills? [More…]
I refer to the statement attributed to the Prime Minister yesterday wherein he said that if there were a half Senate election and the Government failed to win a majority, this would not mean that he would agree to an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
To depart from its 1972 election promise that basic pensions would be related to average weekly earnings and never be allowed to fall below 25 per cent thereof, and [More…]
The humble Petition of the undersigned Citizens of Australia respectfully shows that we protest at the Opposition’s campaign to force a General Election by their decision to prevent the passage of Supply Bills. [More…]
Your Petitioners humbly pray that the Opposition will allow the passage of the Supply Bills and cease their campaign for a General Election forthwith. [More…]
The humble Petition of the undersigned Citizens of Australia respectfully shows that we protest at the Opposition’s campaign to force a General Election by their decision to prevent the passage of Supply Bills. [More…]
Your Petitioners humbly pray that the Opposition will allow the passage of the Supply Bills and cease their campaign for a General Election forthwith. [More…]
It is the Australian Labor Party which fears an election, it is the Australian Labor Party which is opposing an election. [More…]
-I direct to the Minister representing the Attorney-General a question relating to the fact that the Commonwealth Police are still interviewing independent candidates in the Australian Capital Territory for the last Senate election, with the exception of Mr Michael Cavanough. [More…]
Was the conference on the question of declaring a state of emergency, whereby the election held on 13 December 1975 would be postponed, the closing or restricting the publication of newspapers, radio and television stations to permit the caretaker Government to continue to govern without an election being held. [More…]
and (2) The returns to be made by newspaper proprietors or publishers pursuant to Section 153 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act must be filed with the Australian Electoral Officer for the State in which the newspaper is published, within 12 weeks after the result of the election has been declared. [More…]
The cost of the recount of the Senate ballot-papers in New South Wales is not available as a separate item of election expenditure, since that recount was conducted concurrently with other election-related tasks. [More…]
What was the estimated cost of the recount in respect of the Senate election held in New South Wales on 13 December 1975. [More…]
I point out to the Senate, as I have had to do on numerous occasions because of statements by Senator Webster, that during the 1970 election campaign I gave an undertaking to the electors of South Australia that if I were elected to the Senate I would open an electorate office in Murray Bridge and continue to live in Murray Bridge. [More…]
Did the Government promise during the 1975 Federal Election Campaign to establish a Rural Bank; if so, when is it intended that the necessary legislation will be introduced into the Parliament. [More…]
Will the Minister give early consideration to clarify section 156 (b) of the Act so as to ensure that, in future, political personalities who have moneys to give to opponents in an election will know their lawful rights. [More…]
What was the total cost of each of the 1974 and 1975 double dissolution elections and what was the cost of each election in each State and each Territory. [More…]
In his own State only one Labor member was returned to the House of Representatives at the last election, and that member was lucky to hold his seat, too. [More…]
1 ) Does the Government intend introducing secret ballots for the election of all officials of industrial organisations in Australia. [More…]
It is the intention to bring them all into line for election every 4 years. [More…]
I lay on the table a copy of the reasons for judgment of His Honour the Chief Justice of Australia refusing an application by Bruce Noel Hill relating to the election of senators from the State of Tasmania, held on 13 December 1975. [More…]
Essentially, this Bill arises out of the administrative orders of the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) when he was commissioned to form a government after the election on 13 December. [More…]
1 ) Will the Minister explain why the Government has withdrawn its direct grant to the Northern Territory Environmental Council, in view of the Prime Minister’s election promise to continue urban programs. [More…]
After their election, they will be nominated by the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives. [More…]
We believe that in a complete democracy there should be this method of election carried through to the ultimate. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present the election statistics for each State showing the voting within each subdivision in relation to the Senate election in 1975 and the general election of members of the House of Representatives in 1975. [More…]
the Government’s failure 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…]
What provision does any State, or Commonwealth law, or ‘.he rules of each private health fund, have for (a) the election of the board of management by contributors to the Fund, and (b) the publication of annual balance sheets of the Funds. [More…]
Can the Minister provide the number of organisations registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which comply with those provisions of that Act which refer to the election of officers, and the membership of those organisations? [More…]
in reply- The Senate is debating the Homes Savings Grant Bill 1976 which seeks to implement the Government’s stated election policy. [More…]
The Clerk then laid on the table and read the certificate of election of Austin William Russell Lewis for the State of Victoria. [More…]
That, although we accept the verdict of the Australian people in the 1975 election, we do not accept the right of a Governor-General to dismiss a Prime Minister who maintains the confidence of the House of Representatives. [More…]
-I refer to clause 3 of the Bill, the definition or interpretation clause, and the definition of ‘ordinary general election*. [More…]
The clause states: ordinary general election’ means a general election of members of the House of Representatives next following a House of Representatives that expired or was dissolved at or towards the end of the period of 3 years from the first meeting of that House; [More…]
We were engaged in a general election at that time in which the Tasmanian Labor Party, of which I was a member, returned 5 seats in the [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Parliament whether the facts are that the election for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly will take place this year; that a redistribution of electorates will be carried out before the election; that only approximately 500 unused electoral enrolment cards are available in the Northern Territory; and that no more enrolment cards will be printed for many weeks? [More…]
Will the Minister further inform the Parliament whether the lack of enrolment cards and the inability of the Department to have enrolment cards readily available is part of an overall strategy by certain people in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly to prevent enrolments, in order to consolidate the position of certain sitting members when the election is eventually held? [More…]
In supporting the amendment that has been moved by my colleague from New South Wales, Senator Mulvihill, I firstly cast the minds of honourable senators back to the NovemberDecember 1975 period when the election promises of this reactionary, conservative Government were being mouthed. [More…]
‘We will supply the jobs Australians need’ said the present Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, in glib pre and post election promises. [More…]
1 ) Did the Minister state in an answer to a question asked by Senator Wriedt on 28 April 1977 relating to the need to co-ordinate solar energy research in Australia: ‘ I feel that it is no responsibility of mine to determine what type of research should be carried out in any university in Australia’; if so, does this mean that the Government no longer feels obligated to implement its various energy election promises, where it was indicated that various aspects and sources of energy research would receive priority from the Government. [More…]
Does the Minister recall his Government’s 1975 election policy statement on minerals and energy that ‘Solar energy will receive a high priority in our energy program ‘. [More…]
If this election promise has not been implemented, why not. [More…]
1 ) Does the Minister recall his Government’s 1975 election policy statement on minerals and energy that ‘We will encourage the manufacture and installation of cheap and readily available solar units for hot water and domestic office heating and cooling’. [More…]
I ) Does the Minister recall his Government’s 1975 election policy statement on minerals and energy that ‘The Liberal and National Country Parties will place a high priority on research into the development of solar energy units for industrial applications’. [More…]
If this election promise has not been implemented, why not. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Prime Minister used the loans affair to achieve government and in view of the statement apparently made by the former AttorneyGeneral that the Prime Minister wanted the Sankey case to be taken over so as to terminate it, would the Minister not consider that it would be the general public’s thinking that it is rather odd, in view of the Prime Minister’s previous views before the election, that he does not want the matter to be prosecuted to the full, and that if there is nothing wrong this case should proceed in order to prove that the men charged are innocent or to prove that they are guilty if they are guilty? [More…]
Is it a fact that some of the ministers of religion who now hypocritically state that they are not demonstrating for political purposes did issue a statement during the double dissolution election campaign asking people to vote for the Whitlam Labor Government. [More…]
) Does the Minister recall his Government’s 1975 election policy statement on national resources that ‘We will investigate further possibilities for generating hydro-electric power, including tidal power’. [More…]
If the Federal Government has not carried out this election promise, why not, and when is it likely to. [More…]
1 ) The Bill dishonours the Prime Minister’s November 1975 election promise, repeated as late as 1 1 September 1977, to establish a Rural Bank under a statutory corporation; [More…]
On behalf of my colleagues in the National Country Party of Australia, I extend to all those who are going out to the election our very best wishes. [More…]
A number in my party are facing the election in uncommon circumstances and there are difficulties ahead. [More…]
To all honourable senators, but particularly to my supporters in the National Country Party, I wish the very best as they go out to the 1 977 election. [More…]
I lay on the table the certificates for the election of senators for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, elected at the General Election held on 10 December 1977, as follows: [More…]
In its 1977 election policy speech the Government gave an undertaking that a public inquiry into the protection and conservation of whales would be made. [More…]
I thank it also for affording me the honour of being the leader of that team at the December 10 election. [More…]
I intend to say a little more about how that quick selection came about on four occasions, not through the fault of the Australian Labor Party, but because of the very undemocratic actions taken by the people who now sit opposite, in collusion with that person who is now known, I suppose, as ‘The Phantom of Paris’. [More…]
Is it likely that a consequential redistribution will take place in Western Australia before the general election in 1980. [More…]
As I recall, in the last period of sittings of the Parliament before the general election some amendments were made to the Act to which the honourable senator referred. [More…]
-Can the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations say how many builders labourers voted in the recent election for the position of Secretary of the Builders Labourers Federation? [More…]
They arise from changes in administrative arrangements made by the present Government following the election of 1975, and they are self-explanatory. [More…]
The provision of these additional funds was foreshadowed in the Prime Minister’s election policy statement. [More…]
We are talking about the serving of the terms and not the election for those terms. [More…]
We could have a situation in which a senator was elected in 1974 for a six-year term, being number one on the ballot paper and was elected again at the 1975 election for another sixyear term and at the end of the second six-year term had completed only seven years. [More…]
-The Australian Democrats congratulate Senator Scott on his election to the position of Chairman of Committees. [More…]
I take this, the first opportunity that has been available to me, to congratulate you, Mr Chairman, on your election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
Electoral Officer to proceed with an election, by all ABC staff, of a new commissioner, and your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray. [More…]
The overriding consideration that has come to me is that if we did vote for the second reading of this Bill we would be dishonouring our undertaking to the electorate during the election campaign that one of our functions would be to keep the Government honest to its promises. [More…]
Did an article in the Sunday Sun, 1 October 1978, assert that Dr Win Fowles has been told that he would be taken to court unless he paid a $2 penalty for failing to cast his vote at the last election; if so, what action is now being taken in relation to Dr Fowles and his failure to cast a vote at the last Federal election: [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 New South Wales on 1 May 1976. [More…]
The last point is significant because Mr Fraser and his two Treasurers, ever since his election in December 1975, have bestowed upon the deficit an air of holiness and its reduction has become a matter of faith rather than dealing with the whole issue as a rational element of economic policy. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Because of one of the vagaries of our system I entered the Senate following the election at which he left. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
As Sultan of Kelantan, 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…]
The basis of it is a unique situation which existed at the commencement of the last national election campaign. [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…]
These tables show details of radio and television broadcasts of election speeches and political advertisements for the period 12 September 1 978 (date of issue of writs) to 4 October 1 979. [More…]
1 ) Election speeches and political advertisements. [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 New South Wales on 7 October 1 978. [More…]
-If Senator McLaren means to ask whether we will be interested in the election results and will comport ourselves so that we doubly ensure that we win the next Federal election, honourable senators can be assured that we will do so and that we will keep Australia under very good government indeed. [More…]
I think it should also be remembered that in 1974 the government ofthe day was under threat that if it did not go to an election the then Opposition would not grant us Supply. [More…]
We were blackmailed into going to an election in 1974, and of course we won that election. [More…]
I think the people ought to be reminded that, during the Labor Government’s three years in office, it had to face two elections because the people who sit in government now went on strike in this Parliament. [More…]
When Labor won that election it had to face the same thing again in relation to its Budget Supply Papers in 1975. [More…]
I understand that, as expected, the South Australian Government has today resigned its term of office, making way for a Liberal victory at next month’s State election. [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…]
He was agreeable to that when there was no election being held. [More…]
Because an election is to be held now this specimen of humanity comes along here without consideration for anything but winning a few votes for a motley crew of politicians so as to save their jobs in South Australia. [More…]
Is the fact that a man is insisting on some safety provisions a reason to vote against him in an election? [More…]
1 ) Information supplied to the Tribunal by commercial radio and television stations and the ABC indicates that the following stations in NSW broadcast or televised the policy speech of the Leader of the Liberal Party in connection with the NSW State election held on 7 October 1 978: [More…]
Of the stations mentioned in connection with part ( 1 ) of the question, the following stations were not granted an exemption under section 1 16 (4a) of the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942, by the Tribunal in respect of the Werriwa by-election for the period midnight 20 September to close (8.00 p.m.) of poll, 23 September 1978: [More…]
That the Senate requests the Government to re-examine the requirement, contained in Public Service Board General Order 3/D/4, that an officer or employee of the Public Service who wishes to nominate for election to a House of Parliament must resign ‘before nomination’, on the ground that the wording and effect of that provision may be contrary to the provision of section 44 (iv) of the Constitution, which provides that any such person, holding an office of profit under the Crown, shall be incapable of being ‘chosen or of sitting’ as a senator or member of the House of Representatives, in relation to which a conditional resignation, contingent upon being chosen, might be regarded as sufficient. [More…]
I remember- my memory was jogged by Senator Evans during his speech- that one of the most inhuman, unchristian and rotten things to have been done in this country in recent years against human rights was done by Mr Bjelke-Petersen at the last federal election when, for political purposes or reasons, he denied to helpless and harmless Aboriginal people the receiving of eye treatment. [More…]
I am very pleased that he is the shadow Minister for Primary Industry because the farmers of this country will reject him and his policy whenever the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) decides to have an election. [More…]
The longer he remains in the portfolio of the shadow Minister for Primary Industry, the more rural seats this Government will win at any election. [More…]
I address a question to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, ls there any truth in the statement that the new health benefits scheme, originally estimated in the election policy speech of the Prime Minister to cost $16m, is now estimated to cost an extra $S8m? [More…]
Could not this election promise be regarded as a blatant political falsehood by the Liberal Party to win votes at the last election? [More…]
Following upon an election for the House of Representatives and the filling of two vacancies in the Senate the Governed was returned to Office with a greatly reduced majority. [More…]
I believe that the Prime Minister can be reasonably satisfied with the election result. [More…]
Another factor influencing the election result was the outward appearance of unity that emanated from the Opposition during the election campaign. [More…]
In view of these factors, and taking into account the relevant problems associated with them, I believe that the result of the election from the point of view- [More…]
Yes, I was referring to the Leader of the Opposition in the other place, the Leader who took the Opposition to the people in the last election. [More…]
In view of these factors, and taking into account the relevant problems associated with people in country areas compared with their city brothers, I believe that the result in the last House of Representatives election from the point of view of the Australian Country Party was most gratifying. [More…]
When there is some change over in industry it creates rather a sombre thought and it is not always news value, lt is one of the many things in this report which is virtually a vindication of what the Australian Labor Party has said, and particularly in various speeches which were made last year in the election campaign, the result of which gave this Government a tremendous shock. [More…]
I believe that on this occasion, which occurred during the last election campaign, Senator Georges was with me. [More…]
My theme is that the Government is virtually endorsing what the Labor Party said during and prior to the last election campaign. [More…]
I can remember the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) saying with considerable eloquence during the election campaign that a Labor government would do certain things in regard to foreign policy which would make it most dangerous to elect such a government. [More…]
The Prime Minister in his election campaign said this: ‘We shall not sign the Treaty until we are sure that it is an effective treaty, that it provides protection to its signatories and that Australia’s security in the future is not endangered’. [More…]
1 do not think one will hear much more about that, as a result of the last election. [More…]
1 do nol want to be led away, but Senator Cavanagh has asked this interesting question: Why would wc not permit a free election? [More…]
T shall give Senator Cavanagh one reason- there are many others - why one would not agree to a free election. [More…]
Would Senator Cavanagh guarantee, or could he guarantee, that there could have been free elections in North Vietnam in 1956? [More…]
Yet we hear from Senator Cavanagh that we should have permitted free elections. [More…]
Would Ho Chi Minh have allowed free elections? [More…]
Indeed, 1 think this was spelt out by my own leader in his policy speech at the last election. [More…]
It is essential at the present time to point out that on vital issues the Government must take a different attitude from that which it took in pre-election days. [More…]
While the ALP has from the commencement of the Vietnam campaign opposed in some strength Australian participation in that area, it has found it difficult to overcome the argument that the Government’s decision to place troops in Vietnam was endorsed by the public as shown by previous election results. [More…]
When we look at the last election campaign and try to hold post-mortems on why there was a collapse on the part of the Government, I would direct honourable senators’ attention to my Budget speech made on 10th September last, before the election. [More…]
In that speech the results of the election were anticipated and put on record. [More…]
At that election the ALP polled 46.97% of the votes throughout Australia; the Liberal Party polled 34.78%; the Australian Country Party polled 8.54%; the DLP polled 6.02%; the Australia Party polled .87% - I do not know whether that is the reason for the resignation of its leader; and the Communist Party polled 08%, with other groups polling 2.73%. [More…]
The election results do not endorse the Government’s policy of involvement in Vietnam. [More…]
Vietnam was one of ihe issues on which the election was fought. [More…]
A study of the election results shows that the seats which give the present Government its majority were seats won by candidates whose names were higher on the alphabetical list than the name of their Labor Party opponents. [More…]
Its legislation cannot be judged again on what the people decided at the last election. [More…]
We have a direction, supported by public opinion, as shown by the election results. [More…]
Whereas prior to the recent election the Government may have been able to claim justification for being in Vietnam it cannot do so now. [More…]
For the first time for many years we are able to envisage, from what we have been told and from the number of Bills which have been introduced in another place and which will be ready shortly for debate in this chamber - Bills of vital importance for the development of this country - that we will be able to honour the promises given by the Government prior to the election last year. [More…]
In about 1925-26 the Australian wool growers held an election to determine whether to continue with this so-called reserve price system or go back to the free auction system without a reserve price. [More…]
Prior to the last: election I supported such a plan and I still support a reserve price plan. [More…]
The cost of the Government’s election promises regarding health was approximately $16m, but now 1 am led to believe that the figure is in the vicinity of $32m. [More…]
It was pointed out in the last election campaign the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) put forward a proposal for a subsidy to reduce by 2% the interest paid by newly weds in their first 10 years of marriage. [More…]
I have never known of an election except those in 1943 and 1946 when the likes of the honourable senator have not put a smear on members who stood for the Australian Labor Party, and I have had enough of it. [More…]
Now, let me refer to the last election campaign. [More…]
I listened to the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr McEwen) when he, and no doubt others, thought in the last week before the election that the position was not so secure. [More…]
We all know what happened at the 1931 election. [More…]
Every time honourable senators opposite take part in an election campaign their first thought is to say that those people who carry the banner of the Australian Labor Party are Communists, are mixed up with the Communists or are fellow travellers. [More…]
I have no doubt that as British citizens they would be able to stand for election to the Senate. [More…]
The act of placing his name on the electoral roll entitles him to nominate for election to the Senate, subject to the nomination being signed by ten or more people. [More…]
I assume that in due course the Government will attempt to translate it into Bill form to implement the promises given either during the last Federal election campaign of the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) or which appear in this document. [More…]
I assure the Government and the people of Australia that we recognise the confidence that has been placed in us as a result of the election of 25th October 1969. [More…]
One could go on to 1954 and read the agreements which we drew up, such as the Geneva Accords of 1954, which we breached because we were not prepared to hold elections in Vietnam because, as President Eisenhower said clearly: If you hold an election in Vietnam at this time the country will choose a Communist Government’. [More…]
Now, after pressure has been brought to bear and after the results of the last election, the Government has decided, firstly, to allow deductions from the salaries of Commonwealth public servants - which is a great service to credit unions - and, secondly, to allow the savings of credit unions to be recognised under conditions which are rather startling. [More…]
But these are the people who supported the Government at the last election. [More…]
They have this Government in the position that it had to hang back until the election was over before it dared to put even ils signature on the Treaty. [More…]
We have seen the Government’s initial bungling compounded by all sorts of evasions, putting things off from election to election, and the plain fact is that there has been a lack of that defence equipment. [More…]
I recall to mind the television scenes of the late Prime Minister coming out through the crowds after election meetings when Labor supporters, Communists and others tried to frighten him and howl him down. [More…]
At the following election the people re-elected him. [More…]
That was bad enough, but 1 then went into the Parliamentary Library and read in a Maxwell Newton publication that I am regarded as a right wing candidate for election to the Senate. [More…]
These have acquired a new status and a greater value in the Parliament of Australia and indeed, if I may put it this way, within the public life of Australia because they provide opportunities for senators, in particular, to apply themselves in addition to parliamentary duties to various areas - either those in which they are interested or those to which they are assigned by the Parliament in the course of their election to the various committees. [More…]
Mr Freeth was defeated at the last general election and has now been appointed as our Ambassador to Japan. [More…]
We fought the election on the health policies of each Party. [More…]
During the election campaign the Labor Party’s scheme received a lot of attention. [More…]
We know that the main reason for the support we got in the election was the proposals contained in our health scheme. [More…]
It is a function which in its discharge is receiving the approval of the Australian people and it will continue to receive it by the confirmation of the presence of our retiring senators in this place at the Senate election later this year. [More…]
All I am saying is that the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) survived the last general election and has come back with renewed strength. [More…]
This is an election year for the Senate, and possibly two members of the DLP will conclude their terms in this Parliament on 30th June 1971. [More…]
On this occasion it does not suit the DLP’s plans to feed off its favourite host, the Liberal Party, and it felt that because this is an election year for the Senate it would change and have a bit of a suck at the Labor Party. [More…]
The members of the DLP were shown up in their true colours when they made a lot of fuss and bother about Mr Gordon Freeth’s statement on Russian presence in the Indian Ocean, but when election time came their preferences went to their old hosts, their good friends. [More…]
It is an evasion by the Government of its responsibility and it was said to give some credence to what the people were told during the election campaign. [More…]
They put up all the excuses in the world until just after the election. [More…]
They were not prepared to go before their judges at election time and speak in favour of signing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. [More…]
But as soon as they got the election over and done with they realised very well that they were only becoming foolish in the eyes of other people throughout the world by not signing the Treaty. [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…]
I say that there would have been fewer Country Party members returned to this Parliament at the last election had the announcement about the quotas not been held back until after the election day. [More…]
In my State of Western Australia - everyone will admit this - there was the greatest racket in the world to keep the quota announcement back and post it on the day of the election so that the farmers received (heir quotas on the Monday following the Saturday election. [More…]
The State Government connived with the Australian Country ia, tv candidates t:i withhold the quotas until after the election. [More…]
Prior to the last election, when the Opposition was desperate, the Australian Labor Party declared in wheat growing areas in Victoria that it would fight to the last ditch any attempt to impose quotas. [More…]
As the scheme will cost the taxpayers twice as much as the figure given by the Prime Minister during the election campaign, what will the Government do now to ensure that the scheme will not collapse completely? [More…]
Provided that if candidates do not offer for election, or if for any reason an election cannot be held, all members of the Council may be appointed by the Director. [More…]
I would challenge the Minister to state when the last free elections were held at the 8 or 10 council areas in Queensland. [More…]
I know that at one time on one reserve an attempt was made by interested people on that reserve to have an election. [More…]
In our proposals and policy put forward during the recent election campaign we made quite clear exactly what we would do in circumstances of this nature. [More…]
As Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin suggested in her second reading speech the proposal carries out, in part in my view, the promise made by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) during the election campaign that the Government would pay pensions at the standard rate instead of at the married rate to aged couples who, by reason of failing health, lose the economies of living together. [More…]
We appreciate that if the separation was for a week or a fortnight it probably would be impracticable to carry out the general philosophy that is contained in the Prime Minister’s election statement and in the Bill itself, but we would like further information as to the precise grounds on which the Director-General will be satisfied - whether it will be medical opinion or whether a time factor will come into it. [More…]
They are putting into legislative form part of the policy enunciated by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) during the recent election campaign for the House of Representatives. [More…]
The Government is putting into effect a policy announced in the election campaign. [More…]
This was exemplified not only in his funeral, which I understand was the biggest the national capital has ever seen, but also in the tremendous record majority that he obtained at the last election. [More…]
With this Bill we will see the implementation of the proposal, outlined by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) in his policy speech before the last election, to make available a subsidy of $1 for each ten meals served by organisations engaged in the Meals on Wheels activities. [More…]
Prior to the last Senate election we had the Fill episode. [More…]
Prior to the last general election we had the scandals which were exposed in the Department of Customs and Excise. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that on a number of occasions, particularly during the last general election campaign, the Leader of my Party said that plans were afoot for the complete abolition of the War Service Homes Division of the Department of Housing. [More…]
I certainly shall name them during the whole of the Senate election campaign later this year. [More…]
He knows that I am the leader of the Tasmanian Labor Party team at the next Senate election. [More…]
He knows that I am coming up for re-election. [More…]
As 74 ordinary votes were recorded at Elton Hills at the last election, the retention of this booth appears to be warranted. [More…]
Voters and scrutineers are entitled by law to attend at duly appointed polling places for the purpose of carrying out their duties in connection with an election. [More…]
This matter is left in the hands of the Presiding Officer who is responsible for the proper conduct of the election in his area. [More…]
But after all, we had the dissolution of the Parliament; we had an election on 25th October; we had a 1-day sitting in November and we had a period of delay. [More…]
The Minister mentioned in a general sense the Intervention of a general election. [More…]
As the general election intervened in 1969 the Committee, not having completed its deliberations, put before the Foreign Affairs Committee an interim report. [More…]
As I said before and as I have stressed again, it is nearly 7 months since the election and there has been no meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee. [More…]
We are politicians and we know that the Government has a particular interest in protecting the situation which it must talk about at election time and which the Minister for External Affairs, whoever he may be, must bring before the Parliament from time to time with some degree of candour while withholding certain information relating to external affairs. [More…]
Mr Whitlam has been telling indigenous leaders in talks over the past 2 days that they would receive internal self-government in a year if Labor won the next election in 1972. [More…]
I ask: Has the attention of the Attorney-General been drawn to the report of a decision of a Melbourne metropolitan magistrate to the effect that a person who fails to vote at a general election but who claims that he has no preference to exercise is not guilty of failing to cast a vote? [More…]
It should be remembered that during the last State election campaign in South Australia Mr Hall said that the Chowilla project would be completed. [More…]
The present situation is far different from the cry which the Hall Government made in South Australia during the last State election campaign. [More…]
The Premier of South Australia has placed the mailer of a dam at Dartmouth very firmly on the line by summoning the South Australian Parliament and saying that if certain events lake place the Dartmouth project will be the subject of a State election. [More…]
If there is to be an election in South Australia let the people decide whether they want more and better water and, what is more, whether they want it quickly. [More…]
It is true that 1 State Government may have to conduct an election to find out what the people of that State think about this question. [More…]
During his campaign for election he said: ‘We do not want a wider war. [More…]
I am saying that a challenge faces President Nixon to be able to justify the claims he made during the American presidential campaign, including the claim that he would withdraw American troops from Vietnam, which helped to gain his election. [More…]
It is pretty easy to see that an election is coming up. [More…]
In my State of Victoria at the end of May there is to be an election and the Australian Labor Party is claiming that because of the unpopularity of the Government it has the best opportunity for years of winning the election. [More…]
But 3 weeks before the election members of the Labor Party propose to have it pinned on them that they have taken a major part in staging this Moratorium. [More…]
Members of the Australian Labor Party will proceed to the election, be defeated as usual and then blame the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
1 noticed for years that the Communist Party used to call strikes 3 weeks before an election for the purpose of destroying the Labor Party’s chances. [More…]
The result was that in those days no-one could ever pin on the ALP in Victoria any association with the Communist Party and it did nol do the Party any damage at elections. [More…]
But how can the Labor Party possibly justify its association with this motley collection of no-hopers who have assembled to establish or set on foot this Moratorium, which is a miserable imitation of what has been already organised in the United States of America, and, having damaged its reputation, proceed to an election and ask the people to vote for it. [More…]
The Government can justify and accept responsibility for legislation only if it is in keeping with popular will or for the benefit of the community we represent, it has been demonstrated by gallup polls andIthink by the last Federal election that the National Service Act has no support in Australia. [More…]
I, wish to quote an article which appeared in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ on 29th December 1966, concerning Brigadier Oliver David Jackson, who returned shortly after the 1966 election after having served in Vietnam. [More…]
In the course of the general election campaign in 1966 the Government used an old technique which had proved successful over the years and again was successful. [More…]
Mr Harriman led the US delegation in Paris from its inception in early 1968 through the changeover of administrations following President Nixon’s election that year. [More…]
Mr Harriman said this was not the desire of the people of South Vietnam ‘who voted overwhelmingly for peace candidates’ in the election won by President Thieu. [More…]
I do not know whether they have been directly communicated to the President, but if in the light of all this the President will not think I am discourteous I might indicate that the Opposition has selected its members by election, the members being Senator Georges. [More…]
The election campaign in 1966 was fought on the issues which the Labor Party is seeking to perpetuate to this day. [More…]
In that election the people of Australia, by a resounding majority, rejected the Labor Party’s view. [More…]
Members of the Labor Party were not very concerned to fight the 1969 Federal election on this campaign, but it was an issue in that election and again the Australian people, by a resounding majority, rejected the Labor Party’s view on this point. [More…]
I recall the election before the Labor split when, as the officer who had the job of posting Labor speakers to various areas, 1 posted Dr Evatt to speak in Geelong. [More…]
He talks about our willingness to promote a free election. [More…]
He forgets the Geneva Accords of 1952 which provided for a free election in Vietnam. [More…]
He forgets the fact that President Eisenhower in his book Mandate for Change’ said that if an election were held in Vietnam on that occasion in 1962 as was required by the Geneva Accords, Ho Chi Minh would win it. [More…]
That is what the last election rewarded us for doing. [More…]
That is what the next election - the Senate election this year - will reward us, in terms of victory, for doing. [More…]
When the Senate made its decision the Government announced, obviously with one eye on the forthcoming House of Representatives election, that consideration of the matter would be postponed. [More…]
If it is an unfair statement, why was it that when I and others before the election last year repeatedly asked the Government about its intentions so that the question of the embargo could be considered in the course of the election campaign, we were met with evasive action on every occasion? [More…]
The Government made it clear that wild horses would not drag from it prior lo the election a declaration of its intention on this issue. [More…]
After the election was over the Government announced its intention, but that announcement was made prior to the sittings of the Parliament. [More…]
Instead, having evaded the issue before the election, the Government took action before Parliament met and indicated that in this particular case the Executive proposed to arrogate to itself a power which 1 believe it has no right to possess. [More…]
deferring any lifting of the ban until after the election. [More…]
Urging that the embargo question should not be allowed to become an election issue, Mr McEwen promised that the Government would not act to remove the embargo until an adequate opportunity was given to opponents of the move to place their views before the Australian Wool Industry Conference. [More…]
I remember what Mr McEwen said after the Gwydir by-election last year. [More…]
He waited until the general election was over. [More…]
Then Mr Anthony, his Deputy Leader and the Minister for Primary Industry, decided that the time was ripe to lift the embargo as another 3 years would elapse before the next general election would be held. [More…]
All the amendments so far referred to will apply to young people whose prescribed dates were on or after 27th October 1969, the first day of business after the recent general election. [More…]
How could we have any confidence in anybody who could stand in this place heralding Chowilla and even fight an election on this great issue and the great benefits to South Australia to result from the building of Chowilla and who could now 7 years later say that Chowilla is no good at all unless we have a dam upstream and that when we do we will consider the rest. [More…]
A consequence of such an election will, however, be that the shares will be valued on an assets backing basis for all duty purposes, including the valuation of the property in the estate and the assessment of duty in accordance with this valuation. [More…]
In requiring that shares which are the subject of an election be valued by reference to their assets backing value, the objective of the Bill is to place estates of shareholders in family companies in a position that broadly corresponds with the situation which would have existed if the property represented by the shares had been owned by the deceased persons themselves instead of by their companies. [More…]
An election was held in 1968 and although Labor received a majority of votes it did not form the Government and the Hall Government reversed the instructions given to South Australia’s representative on the River Murray Commission and agreed to the proposal for the building of the Dartmouth Dam. [More…]
It is obvious that this question will be debated in the South Austraiian Parliament next week and, from what we know, it is very likely that an election will follow closely upon the parliamentary debate. [More…]
I can well recall the electoral campaign for the seat of Denison in Hobart, in which I was the campaign director for the Australian Labor Party candidate, Neil Batt, and during the course of the 14 months prior to that election I knocked on no fewer than 3,500 doors. [More…]
If the Labor Party cannot win an election it claims that the election is crooked and the electorate has been gerrymandered. [More…]
In my opinion, some of the features of the Bill are included only because the Government is giving lip service to a promise it made prior to the last election. [More…]
We well recall that in October last year the Prime Minister, on his election tour, promised that the price of the home in respect of which a grant is paid would be. [More…]
But on this occasion, because the Moratorium is to take place and 2 State elections and a Federal by-election are pending the whole question of foreign policy is thrown into the political arena. [More…]
1 hope that honourable senators opposite will not call him a Communist, because he was once a Liberal Party candidate for election. [More…]
In the South African general election held two weeks ago, a number of supporters of apartheid, members of the Nationalist Party, were defeated. [More…]
He was elected to the South African Parliament to represent a seat which had been held by the Nationalists until that election. [More…]
He commenced by saying: ‘In 3 weeks time there is to be an election in Canberra’. [More…]
When other methods have failed, an election campaign, unless it is fought on that issue, is not a basis for deciding whether the people have given a mandate on that 1 issue. [More…]
Many other items are included in an election policy. [More…]
The Government should not be encouraged by the knowledge that it owes its position to, and is in power today only by virtue of, the fact that in sufficient marginal seats to give it a majority at the last election it was fortunate in having candidates whose names appeared higher on the alphabetical list than did those of Labor Party candidates. [More…]
The present Government of South Vietnam claims to have been elected, but in the elections that were conducted Communists and neutralists were not allowed to stand for election or to enter into debate. [More…]
If Government supporters had the intestinal fortitude to face the people of this country in an election tomorrow the Government would be defeated on this one issue alone because Australians are completely fed up with the Government’s attitude. [More…]
I make no apology for observing that the idea of a homes savings grant was taken from an undertaking made by the Australian Labor Party at the time of an election to assist young people to purchase land and erect homes. [More…]
Both of these matters on the notice paper are in our name and it surely should be a matter of election subject to giving notice. [More…]
SoI do not altogether agree with the basis upon which Senator Byrne put it, namely, that the DLP should have an election as to which matter should proceed in the sense that if he were to put on a dozen matters tomorrow the DLP would monopolise the General Business period for the time necessary to discuss them. [More…]
I do not know what comments he is prepared to make, in the midst of the Victorian election campaign, about the Commonwealth’s recent action in increasing interest rates, but if his argument was sound in February of this year., when he and the other 6 Premiers put before the Commonwealth what they considered to be an unanswerable case regarding the financial state into which they had fallen, then it is sound today. [More…]
We have to realise that a Senate election will be held and must be held at any time from OctoberNovember to the end of May next year. [More…]
Within 12 months we will have had a Senate election. [More…]
As at all such elections, some of our members, of their own free will, will not seek re-election and will not return. [More…]
I have talked about Senate elections. [More…]
We know that almost every year now this Commonwealth Parliament is either facing with fear and trepidation an election or is suffering the results of an election, and we know that once the Parliament is dissolved to go to an election the committees of the Parliament under the law cease activity. [More…]
As 1 understand the position, Dr Cairns was one of the people who put themselves forward as contenders for the leadership of the Labor Party prior to the last election. [More…]
I do not think the United States ever wanted to see that agreement work so that there would be an election, within 2 years. [More…]
At that time President Eisenhower of the United States said that if an election were to be held within 2 years 80% of Ho Chi Minh’s supporters would vote for unification and would vote for a government suitable to them. [More…]
We saw the withdrawal of President Johnson to Texas, the subsequent Presidential election and then the propaganda machine which said: ‘We will not widen this war. [More…]
If I were the public relations officer for the Liberal Party and Country Party, if I could not put this talk from the Labor Party to our advantage so that we would win an election I would eat my hat. [More…]
Only about 3 months ago when it was last thought that 1 was being written off I was again endorsed for the forthcoming Senate election as No. [More…]
As one who has some political nouse and is able to tell how elections generally will go, let me say to honourable senators opposite that they are the best people in the world to keep themselves out of office. [More…]
Does the Senate remember the election when John Kennedy was shot? [More…]
Consider the next election when the Labor Party had an opportunity of getting into office. [More…]
The Labor Party did well at the last election, not because of the Labor Party but because of silly business in our own Party. [More…]
The average Australian has strength of character and loyalty, and if he feels that any Party or any group will shoot our own boys in the back - whether by disloyal actions or the attitudes which have been expressed in recent times - he wilt ensure that that Party will be given the right answer at the next election. [More…]
Shortly after the last election I took up with the Minister for Shipping and Transport (Mr Sinclair) a matter concerning problems which fishermen on the north coast of New South Wales were facing, with the destruction of valuable nets and equipment by trading vessels hugging the coast in their movements. [More…]
The Government itself has talked at election time and under pressure about a reduction in taxation in different areas for the living - not necessarily for the dead. [More…]
After what happened on 7 th May, if the Australian Labor Party has not dug its grave so far as any chance of winning an election in this country in the near future is concerned then there is something wrong with the Australian people. [More…]
In his policy speech during the last election campaign the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) again referred to the necessity for a rescheduling of the taxation scale to reduce the income tax burden on the lower and middle income groups. [More…]
Indeed, I suggest that the Bill now before the Senate will play a prominent part at any forthcoming election in the defeat of the present Government. [More…]
That was presented in September 1969, about a month before the last Federal election. [More…]
The Commonwealth, in fact, is carrying the burden of insurance of these low income people, very much in conformity with the policy enunciated by the Labor movement at the last federal election, namely, the policy of universal coverage. [More…]
We say that the time is ripe for this Government to look at the proposal of universality which was so adequately put forward by the Labor movement at the last federal election. [More…]
The Government said in October last during the general election campaign that its proposals in relation to national health would cost some S16m. [More…]
During the last election campaign I saw the figures which were produced by the Leader of the Opposition in another place, Mr Whitlam - [More…]
It will be recalled that this gentleman was referred to extensively by my leader, Mr Whitlam, and by my leader in this House, Senator Murphy, during the last election campaign. [More…]
On other Bills of minor importance we have 20 speakers when we are on the air, but today no-one on the Government side wants to speak because the Government wants to rush the Bill through and get it settled before some election or other. [More…]
It is the only electoral promise given during the last election campaign that the Government can fulfil. [More…]
In the policy speech of our Prime Minister, Mr John Gorton, during the last election campaign for the House of Representatives it was announced that there would be a new approach towards widening and improving the national health scheme. [More…]
But, of course, this scheme was conceived in panic when it was put to the Australian people during the election campaign. [More…]
The Government, of course, made one other promise during the election campaign last year. [More…]
During the election campaign in 1969 a clear cut issue was placed before the people. [More…]
I believe it is a very important occasion when we debate it in this chamber for this legislation is to carry out the promise made by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) in his policy speech before the last election. [More…]
I want to speak much more fully to the amendment moved by the Democratic Labor Party but in these last 2 minutes I want to stress that I believe that in this Bill we have legislation which is of the utmost benefit to the people of Australia, legislation which is carrying out one more promise made by the Prime Minister during the last election campaign. [More…]
Instructions were given in May 1969, with reminders going to the draftsmen in August and again in October - during, our Budget session, I remind honourable senator - and it proved impossible for the draftsmen to formulate the regulations before we rose last year, earlier than usual, for the election. [More…]
The cost io the patient will be at least double the maximum promised by the Prime Minister in his election speeches. [More…]
Here we are depriving the patients of ophthalmologists of a rightful entitlement, especially having regard to the promises made by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) in the election campaign when he said that no medical service would cost the patient any more than $5. [More…]
Frankly, the attitude of the Government in this matter is a repudiation of the undertakings given to the people prior to the last election. [More…]
During or just prior to the 1963 election a document of high political content was circulated by some of the health funds. [More…]
But assume that such a document were published again by one of the health funds just prior to an election, as the Opposition sees it the phrase ‘relating to health’ would enable the Minister to say that the document related to health and that therefore he intended to use the taxpayers’ money to inform people that the Government supported the document which had been issued by the health fund. [More…]
When I first became the Assistant Secretary of the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party and endeavoured to clean up the Party’s store room I found 50,000 copies of a pamphlet by Mr Chifley, the then Prime Minister - this was in 1949 just prior to an election - which proved conclusively that it was impossible to lift petrol rationing. [More…]
Of course, part of Labor’s scheme announced during die last election campaign was that taxes would be increased to pay for the health scheme. [More…]
Has the PostmasterGeneral ascertained the circumstances whereby a telecast prepared by the Premier of Victoria for telecasting on the Wednesday night prior to the recent Victorian State election was not telecast? [More…]
Has the Government noted the results of the general election in Ceylon wherein the United Front under the leadership of Mrs Bandaranaike was returned to office with an overwhelming majority? [More…]
Does the Government not recognise that the results of the Ceylon elections indicate a mass movement amongst the Asian people in opposition to the prolongation of the war in Vietnam and Cambodia by the United States and Australia? [More…]
Mr Joshua was elected to the House of Representatives for Ballaarat in 1951 and 1954 and was defeated in the general election in 1955. [More…]
Mr Joshua has stood as the Democratic Labor Party candidate for the electorate of Ballaarat at every House of Representatives election which has been held since 1955. and he always secured a strong vote in a seat the result of which on each and every occasion has been determined by DLP preferences. [More…]
I remember some 3 or 4 election, campaigns ago - which is about 9 or 10 years ago - the Government was saying that the Japanese did not want this. [More…]
In our policy speech prior to the last general election we made it abundantly clear that we would do this and more. [More…]
We will become the government after the next election, whenever it is held. [More…]
Whenever the election is, I am confident that the Australian people will elect an Australian Labor Party government. [More…]
In a moment of panic preceding an election, the Australian Government placed an order overseas for a concept in somebody’s mind. [More…]
On the eve of a general election the Australian Government decided to place an order overseas for a concept in somebody’s mind. [More…]
It shows great political impartiality on the part of Senator Keeffe because the chairman of the rugby organisation responsible is a Mr McAuliffe who will be a Labor Senate candidate in the coming Senate election. [More…]
Senator Branson did this only because there is to be a Senate election at the end of this year. [More…]
Might I say that the $80m allocated for the Gladstone Power Station, as has been pointed out earlier by Senator Milliner, is the result of an election gimmick, a promise made during the last federal election campaign. [More…]
We do not mind if we are given a loan or a grant - preferably a grant - even if it is an election gimmick by a government struggling to retain its electoral support. [More…]
More significantly, a national election is coming up in which Mr Vorster fears a drift of voles from his party to Mr Hertzog’s arch-racist rebels. [More…]
It has been brought about by redistribution of boundaries before the last general election. [More…]
For instance, what is meant by the ‘day of election* is defined. [More…]
Another minor amendment relates to members of the House of Representatives who stand for reelection and are unsuccessful. [More…]
Their appointment ceases with the election of their successor. [More…]
During the last federal election campaign the present Prime Minister saw fit to propose the establishment of the Institute of Marine Science. [More…]
The grant of $3m to set up an interim organisation associated with the Institute of Marine Science at the Townsville University is one of the political windfalls that we gol when the date of the 1969 election was set. [More…]
Thai reply was given 5 weeks, give or take a day, before the general election of 1969. [More…]
Will grants such as that of $3m authorised by this measure be made only when an election is in the offing, or should we expect that sums of money will regularly be made available so that a proper continuity of scientific research will be maintained with adequate equipment? [More…]
It is a matter which has been investigated not just immediately before the election. [More…]
The Labor Party says it is Socialist and then before every election promises that, if elected, it will not do anything socialistic. [More…]
In 1 969, as you, Mr Deputy President, will recall, my notice of motion that the Senate considers there should be an inquiry into and report upon the problems of mentally and physically handicapped persons in Australia lapsed when the Parliament was prorogued for the election. [More…]
As exemplified by the recent by-election for the electorate of the Australian Capital Territory, this action would ensure a much speedier election result being obtained. [More…]
The proposal concerning the Monduran Dam and the Bundaberg irrigation scheme generally was one of the things that came off the top of the head of the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) when an election was imminent. [More…]
As 1 said in this chamber only a few days ago when speaking to another Bill, Queensland is not averse to accepting grants or loans from the Commonwealth, even if they are thrown up as election gimmicks or promises. [More…]
The request for the construction of such a water conservation scheme in the Bundaberg area was ignored by the Government of the day and it continued to be ignored until just prior to the last general election. [More…]
Yet, in the current general election campaign, every political party is supporting Britain’s entry. [More…]
But I repeat that although every political party contesting the United Kingdom general election on Thursday is in favour of Britain’s entry into the Common Market, gallup polls indicate substantial opposition to such a move. [More…]
Tomorrow is election day in Britain. [More…]
1 want to pay my personal tribute to him because, as one who has conducted many election campaigns on behalf of Labor candidates in various areas of New South Wales, I always appreciated his co-operation and the excellent and powerful speeches that he made in every Federal, State or municipal election campaign in which he was engaged. [More…]
They were part of the reason for the early election last year. [More…]
The Government did not want the quotas issued before the election took place. [More…]
There is no question that, had the quotas come out the day before the election instead of being sent out on the day of the election and being received by the farmers on the Monday following the election, the Australian Labor Party would have won 2 more seats in Western Australia and the Coutry Party would have been eliminated in that State. [More…]
The quotas were held back in order that the farmers would not know what their fate was until after the election. [More…]
The results of the recent Victorian election expose the disaffection that exists between the Country Party and rural voters. [More…]
1 suggest to this Government and to the Australian people that those difficulties will only and can only be overcome by the election of a Labor government which is pledged to establish in Australia and for Australia a national water resources development authority to plan and to co-ordinate the development of surface and sub-surface water resources throughout Australia on a Federal, a State and a regional level. [More…]
If the place of a senator becomes vacant before the expiration of his term of service, the Houses of Parliament of the State for which he was chosen shall, sitting and voting together, choose a person to hold the place until the expiration of the term, or until the election of a successor as hereinafter provided, whichever first happens. [More…]
But if the Houses of Parliament of the State are not in session at the time when the vacancy is notified, the Governor of the State, with the advice of the Executive Council thereof, may appoint a person to hold the place until the expiration of fourteen days after the beginning of the next session of the Parliament of the State, or until the election of a successor, whichever first happens. [More…]
Until the receipt of the statutory notification, that cannot be dune; hence a delay in the notification would delay a choice by me Stale legislature or an appointment by the State Executive lo fill the place until the election of a successor, lt is a principle of the Constitution thai the representation of States in the Senate should be maintained, as far as possible, wilh unbroken continuity, and that no State should be, for any time longer than absolutely necessary, short in ils representation and consequently deficient in ils political strength in the Council of Stales. [More…]
The case of an election to the Senate is not quite analogous. [More…]
J entirely agree with what he has said, lt seems to me that New South Wales could have taken the course, even on the interpretation which it has undoubtedly proceeded upon under section 15 of the Constitution, of either calling together the Houses of Parliament and proceeding to the election of a senator to fill the vacancy or of proroguing the Parliament and achieving the same result, at least until the meeting of Parliament as a result of action by the Executive Council, lt is extremely disturbing that the State can be deprived of its representation in this way. [More…]
I recall that on the occasion when Senator Hannaford died his place was to be filled by an election conducted by the 2 Houses of Parliament in South Australia. [More…]
lt is the proposal of the Australian Labor Party that when it comes to office after the next election - I hope the next election is nol very far around the corner - it will engage the necessary expertise to draw up this plan and do this job. [More…]
I have read in the newspapers that 1 am alleged to have won an election campaign 2 years ago because 1 campaigned on this question. [More…]
In Victoria the State Premier decided, most unwisely from his point of view, on the eve of a by-election for a province of the Upper House iti which he had a majority of I, that he would make a proposal for Stale income tax. [More…]
When this measure was first initiated the Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition said: ‘We challenge you to an election’. [More…]
It is on legislation of this nature, if honourable senators opposite really believe in it, that an election ought to be fought. [More…]
If the Government is defeated in this place tonight it ought to go to an election. [More…]
In the Press conference given by the Prime Minister today on television one could see him quaking wilh fear as he said: ‘There will be no election’. [More…]
The challenge that we issued to the Government was that if it felt sincerely enough on this measure it should go to an election now. [More…]
I suppose it is illegal to bet in the Senate but if anyone wants to lay any money I will cover it, because the Government will not go to an election. [More…]
They are the people who say to him: ‘Let us have no election, boss; let us have no election because I am going to lose my seat’. [More…]
The Prime Minister in his policy speech at the last House of Representatives election said that he intended to carry out a complete taxation review so that middle and lower income groups would not feel the effects of taxation so much. [More…]
Indeed, in 1929 the essence of the arbitration system was so much a matter on which the Labor Party fought an election that it preserved that system and overthrew a Nationalist Party government. [More…]
I note that the Government assisted members of the Australian Democratic Labor Party when they appealed to the Court of Disputed Returns against the election of Senator McClelland to this chamber, but the Government did not see fit to assist the Tramway Association when it had to go to the High Court to defend the decision of those whom the Commonwealth itself has appointed to the Commission. [More…]
We have seen this Government, after narrowly surviving the election which was held last year, call Parliament together to sit for1 day only last year after which we were passed into the hands of Divine Providence. [More…]
I do not say he was elected by the members of the Union because, as I understand the position, a fraction of the members of certain unions vote in the election of office bearers. [More…]
The Government should endeavour to achieve something like compulsory voting in union elections. [More…]
I do not wish to be offensive or provocative, but the fact is that after an election there may be a change in the number of senators in the second nongovernment party in the Senate. [More…]
It could happen that the committees would have a membership in the proportion of 6 to I, or 5 to 2, or in the event of an election, there would be changes in that proportion. [More…]
He held that seat until his resignation in 1949 to contest the Federal election. [More…]
A right of election to spread the following receipts or profits over five income years: [More…]
lt is all fight for getting votes at election time. [More…]
We hear many of these promises on the eve of an election. [More…]
But he forgets that, whether it be despite those statements or because of them, at the last Federal election the Labor movement won a considerable number of seats from the present Government. [More…]
Let the Minister answer this question: To whom have the farmers come with their problems since the last Federal election? [More…]
It is convenient to say it now but I challenge them to come out in the Senate election and say what they are going to do for the primary industries. [More…]
But the people who look after their interests, who provide money with which to fight election campaigns, may be affected by such a policy, and as a consequence honourable senators opposite will not introduce the policy. [More…]
It might be said that a Senate election is pending and that other matters are being attended to. [More…]
Whether a Senate election is pending or whether we are in recess, all these things can be begun. [More…]
This cry was kept up for 2 long years until about 3 weeks before the 1963 Federal election when the Government undertook that if it were re-elected it would make money available to the States for flood mitigation work. [More…]
In the course of his remarks Senator Byrne read to us the 1967 Senate election policy speech of his Party wherein, from recollection, he said it was proposed that a secretariat- [More…]
The second fundamental that I lay down for myself in this matter is this: If the House of Government, which is the House of Representatives, has obtained an electoral mandate as a result of an election, it is entitled to send legislation based on its electoral mandate into the Senate. [More…]
He pointed out that during the previous election campaign the Democratic Labor Party had suggested that there should be a national organisation dealing with this subject. [More…]
That is what he said in the 1967 Senate election campaign. [More…]
Their promise did not matter because the election was over. [More…]
We come along here now when there is to be another election at the end of the year and it is very embarrassing for them because here is a proposal to have an inquiry by the Senate into the same subject matter. [More…]
I hope the honourable senator will go out and tell those primary producers that during the campaign prior to the Senate election. [More…]
This is a convenient time to have an election. [More…]
An election now for the House of Representatives, even with only the normal half of the Senate due for election before July next, would bring the 2 Houses back into a gear and avoid the burden of so many Federal elections. [More…]
I remind the Senate that both the Leader of the Opposition in this place and the Leader of the Opposition in another place have used the word ‘election’ very much in their replies to the Budget, and therefore the moment of Budget reply must be for them a high moment of opportunity. [More…]
Such a reduction has, therefore, more than made good the Government’s election promise to deal promptly and effectively with this matter. [More…]
The Government promised at the last election that it would reduce the burden of income tax on the middle and lower income groups. [More…]
1 have said many times in this place that the Australian public should never start to put pressures on this Government at election time, because when the Government makes election promises in the heat and the atmosphere of an election they invariably have tragic results. [More…]
The decision to purchase the Fill aircraft was not a defence proposal but an election gimmick. [More…]
His promise first saw the light of day in his policy speech in an election atmosphere. [More…]
The genius of the Liberal Party - if one looks back over nearly 21 years of this - is that it can go out on the election platform and talk about great prosperity and the affluent society in which we live, but it can also intervene in the national wage case every year and keep wages down to a shameful level. [More…]
From the comments which one hears everywhere one turns, 1 think that the Government would learn a lesson from the people, from its masters, if it were to go to an election on this question. [More…]
I challenge it to go to an election, but I bet that it will not do so. [More…]
Senator Devitt entirely overlooked the fact that a lot less than 12 months ago we went through the very expensive procedure of an election. [More…]
Regardless of the time that normally expires between elections, the cost of an election, and the disruption in the administration of the country which an election brings because of the engagement of people in election matters rather than in running the country, he blithely says: ‘Let us have an election.’ [More…]
The proposition that the new arrangement will not come into operation until October indicates to me that we will have very little experience of it before the Senate rises for the Senate election. [More…]
I agree with Senator Sir Magnus Cormack that prior to the forthcoming election it will be necessary to sit on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday- and Friday of one week and then sit on the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of the following week. [More…]
They have nothing to do with election campaigns. [More…]
We challenge the Government to an election on the Budget. [More…]
A very important issue raised just after the last Federal election was held was that of health reform. [More…]
How often since the last election has there been an interim award - for want of a better term - so that doctors can classify another complaint as being in the intermediate class? [More…]
Another point which I made earlier that 1 wish to repeat is that whatever the Government may feel about the policy that the Australian Labor Party espoused at the last general election of a flat li per cent tax on incomes to provide a health coverage from the cradle to the grave it is a better proposal than the intermittent scheme which the Government has introduced. [More…]
There is no doubt that the Government will be censured severely by the people of Australia at the next Senate election. [More…]
It is quite obvious that Senator Greenwood has a very short memory because a matter of 500 or 600 votes in a few seats - no more than A - throughout Australia on the occasion of the last House of Representatives election determined whether the Labor Party would govern in its own right or the coalition would be returned. [More…]
The ordinary man in the street - the ordinary wage earner - will not benefit as the Government promised in its policy speech before the last general election. [More…]
The Treasurer’s airy statement that the Government has made more than good its promise to the Australian community before the last general election means nothing. [More…]
1 believe that the message contained in the Prime Minister’s words prior to the last Federal election should be followed - and 1 believe that this Government is attempting to do this - and that is that those people who of their own accord attempt to provide for themselves will be the ones within the community who are encouraged. [More…]
I ask him: Does he think that the Government is enhancing Australia’s prestige by stopping one person from coming here, irrespective of whether this person wants to speak at a meeting which is being held to protest against the declared policy of the Government and which has the support, one may say from the votes cast in the last general election, of practically half the population of Australia. [More…]
It seems likely that the Australian C0at of arms, in addition to having the kangaroo and the emu on it, will have a cricket bat added to it if the Government is successful in the Senate election, or in a general election if one is held. [More…]
With reference to the 1970 Budget, this meeting of Queensland teachers deplores the callous disregard of the needs of education at the pretertiary level and the failure to acknowledge in the Budget the undertaking given by the Prime Minister in his election policy that this Government would give consideration to the survey of the needs of State education over the next 5 years, made by the Australian Education Council. [More…]
Despite reduced taxes on ‘lower and middle incomes’ in accordance with the Government’s pre-election promise and even before the application of such reductions, it has imposed such severe indirect taxation that the alleged benefits are reduced to nothing; [More…]
I should want to go no further without mentioning with great regret the circumstances which led to my election to this House. [More…]
The Government allowed this nation’s health scheme to get completely out of hand until the weight of numbers in the ballot box at the last general election forced it to stop proclaiming to the nation and to the world that Australia had the best health service in the world. [More…]
We have seen statements that in relation to those Bills the Australian Labor Party will take action to defeat the Budget and that this will necessitate the holding of an election. [More…]
It attempts to force an election because in the view of its veteran former leader, members of the Labor Party have been overcome by the starry eyed glittering of the ministerial benches which face them on the other side of the chamber. [More…]
It is suggested that the Australian Democratic Labor Party should be conned or compelled - whatever term one likes to use - into supporting the Australian Labor Party in order to force an election on the issue of the Budget. [More…]
When they pass me they are so mute and pale that I wonder whether the shock of the proposition calling for a House of Representatives election or a double dissolution has proved too much for them.. [More…]
If there is a proposition, what is to be the situation regarding the issues which the DLP has always said are most vital in any Australian election, those of defence and security? [More…]
I take his place as number one in the Labor Parly team for the forthcoming election and I only hope that I can carry out my job as well as Jim Toohey carried out his. [More…]
It was quite clear from remarks made in the Budget debate last night that LiberalCountry Party back benchers are forcing the Government to make law and order the main issue of the forthcoming Senate election. [More…]
I hope that the election will be fought on the issue of law and order. [More…]
lt is said that the refusal to grant an entry permit to Gregory is the first positive blow in a law and order campaign for the Senate election which is to be held later this year. [More…]
I would be very pleased to take part in an election on the issue of law and order in this country. [More…]
To me this appears to be the first blow that the Government has attempted to strike in its law and order campaign for the coming Senate election. [More…]
I challenge the Government to enforce the law as part of its law and order campaign for the Senate election. [More…]
The Government thought up this phoney law and order campaign for the Senate election. [More…]
They have thought up this law and order campaign for the Senate election. [More…]
The only thing that worries me is that Government supporters are prepared to belittle the name of Australia in the councils abroad for the sake of creating an atmosphere for the forthcoming election. [More…]
But for some reason, perhaps because there seems to be an election in the offing and because the Government has nothing else in its own mind that will secure its position it wants to wave a flag and persuade the people that if this person comes here law and order will be destroyed. [More…]
Having said that, I know that Senator Douglas Scott expects me to say that the Australian Labor Party will be trying to take his seat away from him at the next Senate election. [More…]
Government supporters are talking now about law and order as they seem to do on the eve of an election. [More…]
House of Representatives, the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns), who immediately prior to the last Federal election said: ‘I have no confidence in the Prime Minister of Australia’. [More…]
During an election campaign the parties put forward their proposals for the following 3 years. [More…]
At the last Federal election an overwhelming number of voters endorsed the proposals put forward by the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
That policy is brought out only as a carrot offered to the people at election time. [More…]
On the previous occasion an election was coming up and the Government said: ‘Now we have a tapered means test*. [More…]
I believe that such a defeat would have meant a general election with perhaps a double dissolution of the Parliament. [More…]
If I must be sidetracked momentarily bv honourable senators opposite, Mr Acting Deputy President, I would say that I believe the time is near when every ballot for the election of a union official and particularly every vote as to whether to go on strike will have to be conducted by officials in secret. [More…]
For the benefit of Senator Rae I might say that Mr Leedman, the leader of the Liberal Party whose team was so soundly defeated in the Advisory Council election only a few days ago, said that one of the main reasons for the defeat was that the Government and the Minister were worried about the appearance of Canberra and not worried about the people. [More…]
There has been no child endowment increase since 1967 - prior to the last Senate election - and the previous increase was in 1964, which also was a Senate election year. [More…]
This year being a Senate election year, I hope that we will again see an increase in child endowment payments. [More…]
But it is a pretty poor show if the only time they are increased is when there is an election. [More…]
This system is so obnoxious that it must be humiliating to the recipients of social service benefits to have their income debated from the hustings every election time and a bidding process engaged in, with one candidate saying: ff we are elected we will give you so much’ and the other fellow saying: ‘If we are elected we will give you more.’ [More…]
It does not matter if there is an election every week; the principle does not change. [More…]
In October 1969 the Government fought an election on the clear promise that, over a period of 3 years, it would give taxation relief in an amount of $200m. [More…]
Only in the last election Mr Whitlam was saying that he too would offer tax relief and people could be assured that the Labor Party would be more generous with its tax relief than the Government would be. [More…]
We know that in the last election campaign and beyond there was a great campaign centred upon the expression ‘Federal aid for state schools’. [More…]
He was trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the electors for the purpose of seeing through the time until the coming Senate election. [More…]
The time of the Senate election. [More…]
has been of great concern to the Democratic Labor Party, particularly as we all know during the House of Representatives election campaign last year, namely, the suggested welcomed accommodation to the Russian naval presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Prior to the Commonwealth election last year the Committee was somewhat concerned about the growing menace of oil spillage. [More…]
As my colleague Senator Poyser said, the election of a chairman did not matter anyway because a meeting in the Government party room had it cut and dried. [More…]
The Scullin Government was defeated in the election which followed. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party’s proposal to bring an end to poverty was outlined by its Leader in his policy speech during the last election campaign. [More…]
The election of a Labor government will ensure the introduction of a contributory national superannuation system and the elimination of the means lest, as is proposed in my amendment. [More…]
At its recent Federal conference the Australian Labor Party adopted a new national health and national superannuation scheme, involving abolition of the means test on age pensions, to put to the people of Australia at the next Federal elections. [More…]
When an election was pending - I referred to this the other night - in came the tapered means test. [More…]
How does the honourable senator know it is an election year? [More…]
The Government has not indicated, to my knowledge anyhow, whether the election will be this year or any other year. [More…]
The position is not the same for a Senate election as it would be for a general election. [More…]
Soon after my election to the Senate I moved a similar amendment on 30th September 1965. [More…]
Such an approach condemns pensioners to perpetual acceptance of the crumbs handed out at Budget or election time by governments, irrespective of their political colour. [More…]
Sometimes I feel that both the major political parties want to retain pensions in the political field as a means of attracting support at election time, when they might use them as a carrot for the less thinking section of our people, particularly the aged and the sick who are desperately in need of additional funds and will vote irrespective of what other policy items might be on the platform or in the policy speeches of the respective leaders. [More…]
This is a matter in relation to which the people should have the opportunity to exercise their will over the Parliament, and they have that opportunity through the ballot box at an election. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Postmaster-General ascertain from the Australian Broadcasting Commission why Mr Whitlam was permitted, in effect, to open his Party’s Senate election campaign in the weekend of 19th-20th September on the programme Four Corners’? [More…]
Does this piece of political bias herald discrimination against the DLP similar to that which occurred at the last House of Representatives election when 4 leaders of opposing parlies were invited by the ABC to take part in a ‘Four Corners’ broadcast just before the election to attack the DLP, and the DLP was given no opportunity to reply? [More…]
I will read Senator Cole’s amendment, because we hear a lot about this around election time, and these things get turned about a fair bit.I know that the accusation is always made: ‘The Labor Party and the Liberal Party voted against an increase in pensions or automatic adjustment’. [More…]
Senator Marriott touched on this aspect when he said that we had seen carried out a promise - I believe made recklessly during an election campaign- - by the Prime Minister to reduce taxation. [More…]
I invite the honourable senator to see what sort of rise in pensions is given on the eve of the next Federal election for the House of Representatives and to compare it with the rise given in this Budget. [More…]
If we give away our right tonight as easily as it appears it will be given away I can see a procedure being adopted in this place until the Senate election, if there is one this year, whereby no more general business sessions will be held because while we are sitting as a series of committees and not as the Senate we will always be faced with this urgency of legislation coming from another place. [More…]
It is significant that the Senate election will be held this year. [More…]
But it has not used ils last election bait to the degree of compensating those who probably are not greatly affected, because many of them, generally speaking, would be able to continue in fairly normal employment. [More…]
We indicated that we opposed the Budget and we challenged the Government to have an election on Budget issues. [More…]
Will the Minister for Air tell us whether it is intended in the ordinary application of the rules relating to the use of VIP aircraft that Senate Ministers should be able to use VIP aircraft during the coming Senate election campaign, and that that right would be denied to the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, as well as to the Leader of the Australian Democratic Labor Party and perhaps his Deputy Leader? [More…]
Will he also tell us where the rationale lies in an approach that the Government should authorise a set of rules permitting that course to bc followed for its own Ministers in election campaigning while refusing equal rights to the Opposition? [More…]
Recently an election was held in Britain in about 600 electorates. [More…]
They are the result of an election promise by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) to grant taxation concessions to certain sections of the community. [More…]
We would like to see the Government go to an election on it. [More…]
We want an election on it if the Government wants to take us to an election. [More…]
by leave - In the short break that we will have I wonder whether the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) will ascertain whether the rather early date on which the Senate election is to be held, namely 21st November, will affect in any way the sittings of the Parliament As is known, the House of Representatives, which dominates us a fair bit as to our sitting days, will rise on 13th November. [More…]
Firstly, I am disappointed that we go to yet another election without the voting age in Australia having been lowered. [More…]
Apparently we cannot see something which is obvious and we allow the present system to continue for yet another election. [More…]
The other thing which disappoints me is that this Government has failed to take its courage into its hands and bring together again the elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate. [More…]
It is not good for any government to have to shape its policies towards an election, and it is not good for the Australian people to be going to the polling booths just about every second Saturday afternoon to vote in one election or another. [More…]
I hope that the next time an announcement is made about an election both the question of giving the vote to our youth, and the question of bringing the elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives together again, will be in the forefront of the Government’s mind. [More…]
We would not like to see it left incomplete in view of the date of the Senate election. [More…]
Now that the date of the Senate election has been announced will the Minister ask the Broadcasting Control Board to regard this matter as one of urgency and arrange to have the new standards presented to the Parliament before it adjourns for the Senate election - preferably before the estimates for the PostmasterGeneral’s Department are debated in this place? [More…]
by leave - When I informed the Senate 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…]
In view of the general cause for alarm, will he make a ministerial statement on these very vital matters, for the benefit of home owners in the area, so that it can be debated before the forthcoming Senate election? [More…]
I ask: Is there any truth in the report which appeared in last weekend’s ‘Sunday Telegraph’ that the new or second international airport planned for Sydney may be scrapped and that the Government may keep secret a report which has been prepared on a proposed second international airport until after the Senate election? [More…]
Further, will the Minister assure the Parliament that the contents of this report will be announced before the Senate rises for the forthcoming Senate election? [More…]
We hope that you will have an even easier opportunity of considering matters after the next election. [More…]
However, another group of questions is designed merely to cause trouble and to provide election campaign cannon fodder. [More…]
He was here just before the Senate election in 1967, and I think he was one of those who voted to pass the off-shore petroleum legislation which gave away resources of the people, which were in the custody of the Commonwealth Government, which amounted, according to estimates which have never been denied - in fact, they have been confirmed - to hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars. [More…]
The sense of social injustice was so great that the Government was moved before an election to promise some decreases in the rate of income tax. [More…]
We are moving now in the shadow land of pre-election. [More…]
I want to tell the Opposition this: We are going to fight this election as I think the Australian people expect it to be fought, both in relation to the Government and to the Opposition, and that is on the question of the acceptance and discharge of public and parliamentary responsibility. [More…]
That is to cost about $3 1m a year, but $50m can be grabbed out of the air at any time to try lo buy an election. [More…]
If it achieves nothing more than bringing the election of the Senate and the House of Representatives together it will have achieved something indeed, lt will put the policies of all parties completely to the test at the right time; that is at a time when so much dissatisfaction is found in the community. [More…]
I will say so for the next 5 weeks until the Senate election campaign is over and I will continue to say it afterwards. [More…]
I think that anybody who is trying to produce a situation in which there is a lower informal vote in a Senate election is doing something very useful for the Australian people, the Senate and the Parliament. [More…]
People who have built up an industry from nothing, who have had to fight to gain recognition not only in this country but throughout the world, are being hampered by the actions of a government which made a promise in the election campaign to decrease income tax and which has had to find a way out. [More…]
1 ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether it is a fact that in Government policy speeches prior to the last House of Representatives election it was stated by Government leaders that it would be an objective of the Government to assist rural municipalities financially. [More…]
Further will the Minister give an assurance that after the Senate election no credit squeeze will be brought about by the banks or by the introduction of a supplementary budget because the economy has been affected by the loss of the $90m? [More…]
At election time they endeavour to stimulate a fear of China by issuing maps with red arrows coming down towards Australia and by speaking of the occupation of Australia by the Chinese. [More…]
I am certain that the farmers will deal with the Country Party as it richly deserves to be treated at the Senate election and the House of Representatives election following that. [More…]
I do not know whether crocodile tears are being shed or whether the nearness of the election sponsored this proposal, but I am amazed that the Australian Labor Party, after declaring that it proposed to help the Government to kill the Democratic Labor Party’s proposal for a survey into the whole rural field, now states that because that proposal was not carried we ought to adopt some kind of alternative. [More…]
The idea is that it will not come on before the Senate rises for the Senate election and the Country Party and the Democratic Labor Party will be able to hide away, dumping the rural industries as usual, not allowing this matter to be debated. [More…]
Senate standing committee - one of the new committees - is merely a means at this stage of political time, on the eve of an election, to steal the thunder of the Democratic Labor Party and to try to capitalise on the heat which has been generated by the resentment of primary producers at the inactivity in respect of legislation and administration in this field. [More…]
I suggest thai to add to the labours of one committee of the Senate an inquiry into the problems of the dairying industry and the wool industry - a device which apparently commends itself to the Australian Labor Party - would be to put these problems into cold storage in order that au election can be held on purely political matters. [More…]
We are coming to a Senate election and to a long parliamentary delay without a decision having been made. [More…]
We are on the eve of an election. [More…]
It means in effect that we will go to the Senate election and will wait until next February before anything whatever is done for the rural industries, either by way of debate or by way of action, which is far more important. [More…]
The delay that is sought by Government supporters is not until tomorrow, as they would wish us to believe, but until after the Senate election. [More…]
I hope he will forgive me for saying that the proposal which was put forward by the Labor Party today was put forward with the imminent Senate election in mind. [More…]
At least the Democratic Labor Party can say that its proposition was put forward long before it was known that an election was to be held. [More…]
Why, their Leader in this chamber went to Victoria during the recent State election and committed himself to the people who are now on the outer in his Party. [More…]
A House of Representatives election was held in 1969. [More…]
There is to be an election shortly. [More…]
Where is the substantial relief, to use the Treasurer’s term, that the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) undertook in his policy speech before the last election to give to the people? [More…]
Ministers of this Government have not shown very great interest in this or any other debate since the Senate election date was announced. [More…]
In his policy speech last year during a House of Representatives election the Prime Minister agreed to reduce taxation by $200m over a period of 3 years. [More…]
We are prepared to come back next week, which was not arranged, so that the Government can carry out its business and so that we can go to the country for the election. [More…]
Recognising the amount of Government business which is before the Senate and the the pressure on the Senate to complete this business in time to conduct a Senate election campaign, my colleagues and I on the Government side of the chamber have worked on the basis that we will not speak in a debate unless there is a need to speak. [More…]
Perhaps at this stage I could indicate that the ordinance arose out of a statement made by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) on 13th May last at Canberra during the course of an election campaign for a seat in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
The statement was made, as I understand it, at an election meeting at which the Liberal Party candidate on that occasion was in attendance. [More…]
As we now know, and as history records, the candidate who would have been espousing that policy was not successful in the election. [More…]
I wonder even whether the sudden concern could be of a somewhat fleeting character and perhaps could be prompted by concern with the forthcoming Senate election. [More…]
Last year it was increased by 50 per cent, and that was not a Senate election year. [More…]
Obviously the heat is building up as we get closer to the election. [More…]
Because of the farmers’ problems today 1 know that the Labor Party thinks it may be able to pick up a few votes at the Senate election next month. [More…]
As my colleague, Senator Drake-Brockman, has informed me, no election was to be held then. [More…]
Because an election is to be held this year the Australian Labor Party is showing a new-found interest in the problems of the rural industries of Australia. [More…]
For 6 years we have been muddling and waffling along with this project trying to cover up for the great mistake which was made by buying a pig in a poke for election purposes in 1964. [More…]
In speaking on the Budget papers I expressed the view that I believed that the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton), in giving effect to promises he made prior to the House of Representatives election 12 months ago, and in response to the campaign carried out by many big unions for tax reduction on the lower and middle range of incomes, had exceeded what I would have expected in his taxation remissions. [More…]
I had not intended to intervene at this stage, but I would like to point out that one of the main reasons why the Australian Labor Party sought to do exactly what Senator Gair has said - reject the Budget - was because we wanted to have an election based on the Budget. [More…]
The Government is seeking to take something out of the pint pot, because this Bill is to carry out more in toto than was promised as taxation concessions by the Prime’ Minister (Mr Gorton) during the last election campaign.I was at a loss for a while to understand why more is to be given tothe Australian taxpayers than the Prime Minister indicated. [More…]
During the debate on the Budget I and several of my colleagues pointed out that one of the worst forms of promise is one made during the course of an election campaign. [More…]
Very clearly Treasury had not been consulted at the time of the election campaign. [More…]
An election promise was made without any research. [More…]
The whole of this regressive system of taxation has been exposed and highlighted through the combination of a hasty deci sion made during an election campaign and a system of taxation which operates so that the people who are best off in the community will receive the greatest taxation concessions. [More…]
I have no doubts that had this amelioration of taxation come about in the normal manner the Government would have done precisely what was in the mind of the Prime Minister when he made his election campaign promise. [More…]
It might even cost less, because it might be possible to get back to the figure originally suggested by the Prime Minister during the last election campaign. [More…]
This measure will serve as a warning to the people of Australia to distrust promises made during election campaigns, lt is not possible to do business like that any more in Australia. [More…]
Senator Willesee issued to us the useful warning that we must be careful of promises made during election campaigns. [More…]
He hoped that would produce a greater level of support for the Libera] Party candidate at the then forthcoming election. [More…]
This is not an easy matter and I cannot deal with it until after the coming Senate election because it will take up a lot of time. [More…]
Will the Minister representing the Postmaster-General find out and inform the Senate whether, if the leader of a Federal parliamentary party delivers his opening election speech on an evening when Parliament is sitting, the broadcast of that speech by the Australian Broadcasting Commission will interfere with the broadcasting of the proceedings of the Parliament? [More…]
I now ask the Minister whether the delay in replying to my question has been caused by the fact that senior officers of the Department of Trade and Industry have been directed to carry out research for the Government’s Senate election campaign, or whether it is a fact that no figures are kept of trade between Australia and mainland China? [More…]
I suppose all of us have shed political tears at times for those engaged in the wool industry in the hope of getting votes for our own Senate team at election time. [More…]
I do not think it would hurt those candidates who are standing for re-election. [More…]
He - not the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate - has decided to start the Senate election campaign tomorrow night. [More…]
The Senate election campaign is being officially started tomorrow night when the Senate is in session. [More…]
There is no requirement for the Senate election campaign to start then and cause people to be absent from their place in Parliament while the Senate is in session. [More…]
The gun has been fired, as it were, for this election campaign, lt is getting close to hypocrisy for the Australian Labor Party to say to honourable senators on this side of the House that we are trying to stifle debate, to cut down on the sitting hours and times of this Parliament and to hurry through legislation. [More…]
I believe, firstly, because we have not said we will not sit next week and, secondly, because the Leader of the Opposition in another place (Mr Whitlam) is starting the Senate election campaign tomorrow that we should support this motion, get on with the business and hope that we can finish properly and decently within the hours set out or return to work next week. [More…]
His Party cannot win anything in this chamber and it will be non-existent after the election. [More…]
The fact of life is that an election campaign will begin tomorrow night. [More…]
If this were to happen then all of us would go to the barrier for the election on a fair and even basis. [More…]
If you believe in the principle of minorities then you cannot make selections. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh piously said that he believes in the principle of parties going to the barrier for an election campaign on an even basis. [More…]
If there is a proposition to the effect that Parliament will continue to sit once the election campaign begins and that the four parliamentary representatives of my Party will be required to sit here while members of the Government parties and the Opposition, both here and in the other place, are released from attendance through the granting of pairs, my Party will give serious consideration to this hypocritical discussion. [More…]
1 have received impetus from the rumours circulating that the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) proposes to include in his campaign speech for the forthcoming Senate election a statement that certain concessions will be granted in the field of social services. [More…]
I suppose that one could probably describe the document as advance propaganda for the Senate election. [More…]
Advertisements appear in Australian news papers today stating that a parliamentary Party leader will have his Senate election campaign policy speech broadcast over all Australian Broadcasting Commission stations tonight. [More…]
For a moment I almost thought he was a candidate for the next Senate election. [More…]
This motion would have had a lot more validity, if it had any at all, if it were not introduced in the atmosphere of a coming Senate election and if the Senate were not 3 or 4 days away from the time of lifting, perhaps - who knows - but 12 months ago. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party has used, obviously for election purposes, a vehicle by which it can give vent to a number of thoughts which have been plaguing it for the last few weeks. [More…]
At the election held last June, I think, in Great Britain the Labour Government which had advocated a prices and income policy was destroyed by the trade union movement because it refused to accept that policy, in spite of the pleadings of Mr Harold Wilson. [More…]
The Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Anthony) - the Deputy Prime Minister elect, if I may put it that way; I suggest he will be the Deputy Prime Minister if Australia is unfortunate enough to have another LiberalCountry Party Government after the next election - has been telling the dairying industry that it has to cut back production. [More…]
He has already made the statement that after the Senate election he will start a campaign, supported if necessary by militant methods, to have a 35-hour working week introduced in Australia. [More…]
It would not happen under ordinary circumstances, apart from the fact that a Senate election is almost on our doorstep, because the Whip of the Australian Democratic Labor Party said the other night: Oh, you are not going to bring them all back in here, are you?’ [More…]
The Opposition believes that it is here to do a job and it is prepared to stay here until Friday of next week if necessary to do this job or, if it is absolutely essential, until the day before the Senate election. [More…]
One of the things that concerns me is that this year we are having a very short Budget session because of the approaching Senate election. [More…]
Next year we will have a clear run, without elections. [More…]
The following year the Budget session will again be short because a House of Representatives election will be conducted in that year if the Government survives for that length of time. [More…]
The difficulty will arise again in 1973 because another Senate election will be held in that year. [More…]
We all are conscious of the fact that a Senate election is to be held on 21st November. [More…]
Personally I feel that if we have not disposed of the business of the Senate by Friday night the Senate should adjourn until after the election. [More…]
If we have not completed it by Friday night, I submit that the Senate should adjourn until after the election. [More…]
Whether we meet next week or whether we follow Senator Gair’s suggestion and meet after the Senate election lies with the Government which has the right to submit to the Senate the times of meeting. [More…]
I think we should at least follow it up by deciding immediately whether we will meet after the Senate election. [More…]
I say to Senator Gair that the Government now wants to take away certain of our rights, lt fixed 21st November as the date of the election, lt could easily have fixed 5th December or 1. [More…]
In past years elections have been held on those dates. [More…]
The election could be held next April, as the honourable senator said. [More…]
The writs do not have to be returned until the end of next June, lt is.no excuse to say that, because an election has been fixed for a certain date, our rights must be taken away. [More…]
The people who are now wanting to take away our rights -were those who fixed the date of the election as 21st November. [More…]
I arn wondering .whether we are making a serious attempt to conclude the sitting of the Senate for the election campaign because, even though we are all in favour of measures such as the Loan (Housing) Bill, honourable senators talk about completely unrelated matters which happen to be in a field similar to that in which the Bill operates. [More…]
Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate seen Press reports that Mr Whitlam did not raise the question of a 35-hour week when delivering the Australian Labor Party policy speech for the Senate election. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to give effect to the election policy of the Government to increase the amount of Commonwealth assistance to educational research in Australia. [More…]
It is only because there is a Senate election in the offing that the Government comes in with some measure of support for the wool industry. [More…]
The sands of time are running out for Vietnam and Australia’s external affairs policy; another election issue has to be found. [More…]
It delayed action until the eve of the completion of .h:s session of the Parliament and just prior to a Senate election. [More…]
At a time when the industry has reached such a critical state, when the price of wool is lower than it has been at any time in the last 25 years, when costs and prices are at a record level, when the employment situation in rural areas is in a severe position and after a series of protest meetings have been held throughout many rural areas in Australia, particularly in New South Wales, after the farmers have marched in Adelaide and in Melbourne, and in the dying hours of this session of the Parliament and, perhaps more importantly from the Government’s point of view just prior to a Senate election being held, the Government has decided to introduce legislation to establish the Australian Wool Commission, which will consist of a chairman, 2 members representing the wool growers, 1 member representing the Commonwealth Government and 3 other members, all of whom shall be appointed by the Minister. [More…]
He mentioned that there should be a statutory authority with a majority of wool grower control, but he did not say whether big and small growers would have an equal say in the election of growers’ representatives. [More…]
When we hear this tripe being talked today about various sections, including the Government, passing the buck for so long, we know that the comment is entirely wrong and that it is purely a political comment made at a time of a Senate election when certain people in a Party are looking for political mileage. [More…]
There has been much criticism to the effect that the Government has rushed in this legislation because we are to have a Senate election. [More…]
So let us not start talking this nonsense about these things being thought of only in the last week and having suddenly come into the Parliament today just before the Senate election. [More…]
I do not say the Government rushed this measure in because there is to be a Senate election. [More…]
The point we have been making all along is that the government has waited until the last possible moment before a Senate election to introduce this legislation, whereas it could have done so at any time during the period since 1959, when recommendations were made. [More…]
The Government has been blamed for doing nothing until this time, lt was suggested that it has taken this action only because a Senate election is to be held in the near future. [More…]
Today we have been told that we have introduced this legislation because a Senate election is imminent. [More…]
The Government’s decision, together with the Crawford report, was considered and accepted by the Wool Industry Conference on 14th October, and last Tuesday this Bill was introduced into the Parliament That is the background to this Bill which the Opposition claims the Government has introduced in a hurry in an attempt to gain some votes at the Senate election. [More…]
Can the Minister guarantee that a reply will be furnished before the Senate goes into recess for the Senate election campaign? [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Treasurer aware that the Government is endeavouring to make the 35-hour week a Senate election issue? [More…]
Anyway, he will not be successful at the forthcoming Senate election. [More…]
Well, after the election, we will be in such great number on the benches opposite that perhaps the need will not arise to use these 4 seats. [More…]
If the honorable senator believes in such a proposal he should go out and advocate it at the election, but that is another story and I do not want to be provocative. [More…]
As to the machinations and problems of the Australian Labor Party, well, I do not wish lo reflect upon those beyond saying that people are entitled to draw their own inference from the fact that the day after the forthcoming Senate election has been picked for the decision on a certain matter. [More…]
Once the Senate rises and the election is over one will obviously get more time to deal with the administration of the Department of Civil Aviation and I shall be taking it up again. [More…]
Is the Government going to go on from year to year, from election to election, doling out some kind of electoral bribe that it thinks will satisfy this section or that section of the community? [More…]
Between January 1969, the first time that the committee sat, and the end of last October - everyone will remember that that was the time of the Federal election - the committee had met on only 3 occasions. [More…]
The Government received a jolt at the general election some 12 months ago and apparently the committee got down to work. [More…]
For instance, rumour has it that Towra Point, which the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) said in April 1969 - some 4 or 5 months before the last Federal election - was out of consideration by the airport siting committee has now come back into the area of possibility. [More…]
I pledge that the Australian Labor Party when elected to office - which will be at the next Federal election - led by Mr Whitlam will repeal the excise on the wine industry. [More…]
It is reasonable to have suspicion that this may be an attempt to preserve a young Minister facing his first Estimates debate in that capacity, who has the important responsibility of control of the Army estimates and who has to present himself to the public in a fortnight’s time to contest the election in a doubtful situation. [More…]
changed their minds because of what has happened in the campaign for the forthcoming Senate election. [More…]
I urge the Government to take heed of my remarks and, certainly before the Senate election, to bring down recommendations regarding Australian content in television programmes because I believe that Australians engaged in this vital communications industry have not been given a fair go to date by this Government. [More…]
Any assisted Aborigine who has been convicted of an offence against the Act, Regulations or By-Laws in the previous two years is not eligible to stand for election (R.33). [More…]
The scope of the powers allotted to the manager give him a considerable degree of control over such convictions and thus over who is eligible to stand for election. [More…]
I suppose that if a degree was given to anyone for knowing how to pick the pulse of the people and knowing what he had to do to win an election, the Rt. [More…]
The purpose of these amendments will be to give to the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education the same sort of status as is at present given to the Council of the Australian National University by allowing for representation of both Houses of the national Parliament, on the governing body of the College: to make provision for the representation of the citizens of Canberra, by election, on the Council of the College; and also to make some minor provisions relating to the prescribing of regulations by the Governor-General. [More…]
He knew there had been Federal Cabinet discussion on the matter and that the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) had made ‘a good deal of remarks’ on what had happened at the election 3 weeks before. [More…]
It may be that the South Australian case suffered because the election has meant a change of horses at the last stage of the presentation of our case.” [More…]
Perhaps a reason could be that South Australia had the audacity to elect a Labor Party Government in May this year, or perhaps, because the Federal members from the Government parties were annihilated at the Commonwealth election held last year, the Gorton Government is going to take it out on South Australia and deprive our State of this vital industry. [More…]
The Leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party, Mr Whitlam, is making our policy perfectly clear in the current Senate election campaign. [More…]
In that address, preparatory for a Senate election, the Prime Minister dealt extensively with rural industries - I thought rather ineffectively because in my opinion he did not offer any worthwhile suggestions or remedies for the difficulties the rural industries face. [More…]
It is in our area of influence but it is being allowed to drift away from us because of a political gimmick that this Government produced for the people at the time of an election. [More…]
I offer my very best wishes to those honourable senators who will be candidates for election on 21st November. [More…]
I am sure that 1 am developing mastoids from the earbashing that I have had, on many innocuous matters, from people who have been practising for the election campaign or who have introduced political propaganda into a session the primary purpose of which is to dispose of Bills that have come here from the House of Representatives. [More…]
He was elected in the general election of 1957 to fill a periodical vacancy, taking his place on 1st July 1959. [More…]
He was again elected in the Senate election of 1 964, for the normal term. [More…]
Later we contested the Senate election and were returned to the Senate. [More…]
I refer to statements made by the Prime Minister and other Government speakers during the recent Senate election campaign in respect of the proposal to set up a rural industries board as a first step towards rendering urgent assistance to Australia’s primary industries. [More…]
Note (3) - Sweden - Under the Swedish Parliamentary Elections Act and the Municipal Elections Act a person entitled to vote who. [More…]
Kingdom, or for other reason is prevented from voting on election day at the polling station for the electoral district in which be is entered in the electoral register, may vote at a post officewithin the Kingdom, at a Swedish diplomatic or consular mission or on a Swedish vessel in foreign trade. [More…]
In’ the case of a person eligible to vole who is’ within the Kingdom but outside the electoral district for which he is enrolled, vot ing may take place at a post office during the 30 days preceding and including election day. [More…]
Temporary post offices can be set up in hospitals, old peoples homes, prisons or other similar institutions but voting at such tempor ary post offices may take place only during the 7 days preceding and including election day. [More…]
A Swedish citizen who has moved abroad and who is no longer registered for census purposes in Sweden may, on application, be recorded on the electoral register which entitles him to take part in elections if he (a) complies with the Riksdag Act and (b) has had his name entered in a parish register in Sweden at any time during the 5 calendar years preceding the year in which the electoral register is compiled. [More…]
For persons thus eligible voting may sake place at Swedish diplomatic and consularmissions as from the 30th day, and on a Swedish vessel as from the 45th day prior to the date of the election until the date on which voles shall be dispatehcd to the National Board of Civic Registration and Tax Collection. [More…]
Is it a fact that in Government policy speeches made prior to the last general election of the House of Representatives it was stated by leaders that it would be an objective of Government to financially assist rural municiplaities. [More…]
The answer to the honourable senator’s question is as follows: fi) On 9th October 1969 the Minister foi Trade and Industry, in his election policy speech as leader of the Australian Country Party, said: it is now a policy objective of the Country Party that Commonwealth funds should be made available, through the State Governments, as a contribution to the costs in the smaller centres of population, of such amenities as swimming pools, child-care centres, civic centres and showgrounds, playing fields and the like.’ [More…]
That changed position is due, of course, to an increase in the number of DLP senators since the recent Senate election. [More…]
Anyone who cares to peruse or read the speeches I have made since my election to the Senate and those of my colleagues will observe the continuing interest and concern that we have had for pensioners and those unable 10 obtain a pension because of the iniquitous means test. [More…]
Last year, in connection with the Senate election, I read with interest what Senator Gair was reported as saying. [More…]
It would not be a bad idea if the tremendous mineral resources of this country were utilised for the benefit of the people, as has been done in other countries such as Italy and Libya where they are making a great deal out of those resources, instead of their being handed over for a pittance, as ours were by this Government, in the legis lation which was raced through just before the Senate election before last. [More…]
The DLP should not criticise measures for which it voted, ft not only voted for the measures but also supported the Government at the election by means of its preferences. [More…]
This rebate was granted because of a rash election promise which the Government wanted to honour quickly It did not give the Taxation Office time to work out a proper curve and the 10 per cent flat rate of rebate was introduced. [More…]
This is why the rebate granted totalled more than what the Government had promised prior to the election. [More…]
The people seem to do so very intelligently as election after election takes place. [More…]
Has it been clearly and finally decided that this Parliament, when it permits the broadcasting of its proceedings, is not in contravention of an Act of the Parliament which prohibits the televising and broadcasting of political matter after midnight on the Wednesday preceding a Federal or State election to be held on a Saturday? [More…]
Generally we are aware that the provision is that during the currency of an election campaign political matters shall nol be broadcast after midnight on the Wednesday preceding a Saturday on which an election is held. [More…]
The interpretation of that provision depends upon the election and what political matter is concerned. [More…]
What is the method of election of the trustees? [More…]
The same situation applies to pensions, T believe they should be tied to the inflationary situation so that increases are automatic instead of the pensioners having to go to the Government which may be either looking towards an election, coping with a lime of depression or simply trying to avoid the problem for some other reason that is best known to itself. [More…]
I believe that the worst election result was that of the 1 948 prices referendum. [More…]
In the meantime there was an election. [More…]
Until the election was over nothing was done to meet the wishes of those in the industry who. [More…]
Immediately the election .. was over the Government took action by way of regulation. [More…]
However, an election promise by Labor in 1929 lo stop these exports caused some panic buying. [More…]
Eleven years ago - on 31st May 1960-1 had the privilege of moving an amendment In this chamber to the Broadcasting and Television Bill that was designed to provide a qualified privilege to commercial licensees during an election period in respect of the broadcasting of political matter. [More…]
It provides that if a licensee sells time on his commercial station to one political party he must supply the same amount of time at the same price to any other political party which is represented in the Parliament for which the election is being held. [More…]
Senator Hannan early in his speech made the interesting statement that if a radio station broadcasts election material for one Party it is required to give equal time to anybody else who requests it. [More…]
My reading of the Act suggests that all radio stations which broadcast election material must give reasonable time to the other parties represented in the House. [More…]
This Government merely exists, as I have said from time to time, not because of its virtues or the strength of its policies but .because of the support that it receives at every election from the Democratic Labor Party although it sneers at thai Parly from lime to time. [More…]
Excuse me, Mr Acting Deputy President, but I must make this point: If our preferences had been given to the Australia Party in New South Wales the result of that election would have been exactly the same. [More…]
If I were one of the great vested interests in this country which was determined not to see the Australian Labor Party in power and I were faced with the decision of where to make a donation to a political party prior to the Senate election I would not make it to the Australian Country Party because it was so discredited. [More…]
came out of the last election or the previous election with any credit. [More…]
They should not expect to come out of the election which is likely to be held next year with any credit. [More…]
this chamber last night was obtained by bini in the course of a job that he was given because he was defeated in an election. [More…]
As one of my colleagues says, under oath, lt seems that Senator Hannan will go to any lengths to submit a case, as long as he thinks it will please those nice young ladies or elderly ladies who have the right to select the first second and third Government candidates for the next Senate election. [More…]
If further definition is wanted I suggest that it will be in the minds of the students of the University to whom the right of election is given because they have the authority to elect the person from among their number. [More…]
They are as follows: The management, good government and discipline of the University; the use and custody of the common seal; ‘the method of any election, other than of a senator or member of the House of Representatives, provided for by the Act; the persons who are to be regarded as members of the academic staff for the purpose of the election under section 11; the manner and time of convening meetings; the resignation of members of the Council or of tiny Board established by the Act and of the Chancellor or Vice-Chancellor: and the tenure of office of the Vice-Chancellor. [More…]
It has nothing to do with the Murray by-election. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that during the Senate election campaign in November 1970 the Minister for External Territories stated at a public meeting on the Gold Coast, Queensland, that he was not perturbed at the loss of the Chinese market for Australian wheat as in any case we were disposing of only our inferior wheat to that country? [More…]
I was in the process of getting ready to do thai when it announced its State election. [More…]
Therefore I hope that during future election campaigns my young friend from Victoria will not go about asking political questions when he knows full well that the person he asks them of - I say this with respect - does not know the facts. [More…]
Honourable senators will be aware that we presented this proposition during the recent Senate election campaign, particularly in Victoria and Queensland where we gained very big numbers of votes. [More…]
wants urgent action is the promise made during the last Senate election campaign by the then Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) to do something about the availability of hospital benefits to persons who are chronically ill and who are forced to remain in aged persons homes or private nursing homes. [More…]
The visit by the delegation had been arranged earlier but a general election disorganised those arrangements. [More…]
used in connection with … an election for an office are preserved and kept … For a period of one year after the completion of the election. [More…]
obstruct or hinder a person … in the performance of his functions in relation to an election or in the taking of any action under the last preceding subsection. [More…]
Is there any similarity between the rejection of votes for the electorate of Campbelltown in the New South Wales Slate election, where a number of ballot-papers were ruled informal because they were initialled by the Returning Officer on the front instead of the back, and’ the ruling given under the Commonwealth Electoral Act in the 1969 House of Representatives election in respect of absentee votes which recorded a first preference for Mr W. Morrison, M.P., but which were deemed informal because of the omission, by the Returning Officer at the absentee booth, of the name of one of the other contestants from the ballot-paper. [More…]
Will action be taken to ensure that errors by polling booth staff do not disfranchise voters who record a clear preference for candidates in an election. [More…]
At the 1969 House of Representatives election in the Division of St George, a recount of the ballot-papers was effected pursuant to a request made by Mr L. L. Bosman who was one of the candidates. [More…]
Accordingly, there is no similarity between the rejection of voters in the Electorate of Campbelltown at the recent New South Wales State election, where a number of ballot-papers was ruled informal because they were initialled by the Returning Officer on the front instead of the back, and the rejection of votes in the Division of St George at the 1969 House of Representatives election. [More…]
The Commonwealth Electoral Act provides in pan that no election shall be avoided on account of the absence or error of, or omission by, any officer which did not affect the result of the election. [More…]
1 can suggest no way of ensuring that a fair proportion of the Commonwealth’s revenue is devoted to social service and other benefits than for pensions to bc fixed other than by the responsible government which has to raise the money bringing forward to the Parliament the proposals embodying what it believes it should and can do and then allowing the Parliament, which is composed of people who face the public at election time, to make the decisions. [More…]
I will go on to quote the policy of the Labor Party, which will be the policy under which the Department of Social Services will be administered after the next general election, whether it is held in a month’s time or in 1972. [More…]
This small increase in pensions is an election sop. [More…]
Prior to the Senate election I advocated that there should be a moratorium. [More…]
Recent elections have shown that State Labor governments will increase in number. [More…]
In New South Wales at the recent election there was a big increase in the Labor vote, but it was not sufficient for Labor to form a government. [More…]
Is political censorship carried out, at the Minister’s direction, in respect of school student newspapers such as the Tweed River High School publication, which, during a recent election campaign, published an article by the Australian Labor Party candidate that was subsequently censored? [More…]
In view of the evidence of continuing inflation provided by the consumer price index figures for the March quarter and of the Prime Minister’s failure to enunciate any policies to cope with the problem, does the Minister agree that we are entitled to assume either that the Prime Minister intends to inflate his way through an early election or that his reputation as a Treasurer was grossly inflated? [More…]
Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONAll T can say to the honourable senator in relation to the political side of his question - it is clearly political - is that if the Prime Minister chooses to have an early election the consequences for the Labor Party will be disastrous, particularly against the background of the situation today when the Labor Party no longer has the control of the great trade union movement which has been the backbone of its political life for the last 50 years. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party has claimed at election times to be a Party of responsibility. [More…]
Yet the people on my left, who talk so glibly at the present time about what they want to see done, proudly claim that they were the people who were responsible for Labor’s defeat at that election. [More…]
That is the policy on which we stand and will stand at the next general election. [More…]
We have stood for that at every election over a period of time in which the Democratic Labor Party has been responsible for keeping Labor out of government and robbing the people of the benefits about which it is talking so glibly at the moment. [More…]
On innumerable occasions the Australian Labor Party has put forward proposals to increase child endowment, but the DLP has supported the Liberal Party and the Country Party at election times and has thus denied to the Australian Labor Party an opportunity to give effect to what the DLP now says should be done. [More…]
The parents of Australian children should be made aware of the Government’s lack of interest in this direction and should realise that if, unhappily, the Government is returned at the next general election, whether it is in 1971 or 1972, it will be the fate of child endowment payments to remain at their present stagnated level. [More…]
I hope that the Government will learn of this dissatisfaction at the next general election. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Prime Minister advise the Senate or secure information on the requirement for an employee of a Commonwealth department, the Commonwealth Bank or a Commonwealth instrumentality when he or she receives endorsement as a political candidate for a Federal or State election? [More…]
Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONI understand that under the Public Service Act the practice is for staff to resign at least 1 month before the date on which nominations for the election close. [More…]
On resignation the person ceases to be a public servant but, if he is not elected, he may within 2 months after the declaration of the result of the election apply for reinstatement. [More…]
In view of the agreement decided upon at the National Labour Advisory Council meeting last week on the payment of union fines under outdated legislation, and subsequently supported by the Chairman of ARC Industries Ltd, will the Ministers involved announce their acceptance of this agreement and not continue with an attitude which could provoke a national strike to secure a political advantage and which could create the atmosphere for an early election before the Government may or will have to introduce more stringent credit restrictions and controls? [More…]
The matter was brought to a head by a decision of the Government which was reported on 5th May 1970 as a consequence of an election meeting which was held to fill the vacant seat in the Australian Capita] Territory. [More…]
It was only in the course of an address at an election campaign that the Prime Minister said that as from 1st January 1971 the basis of the land tenure system of the Australian Capital Territory would be altered. [More…]
Principally those problems arose because of the ineffectiveness of the Government in meeting a situation which did not arise in 1970 during a by-election campaign for the seat of Canberra but which have existed in this system for years. [More…]
I suggest that when the idea of changing the land tenure system was first raised, on 5th May 1970 during a by-election campaign, the people of the ACT said, at the ensuing by-election, what they felt about it. [More…]
The Liberal Party candidate was soundly defeated at the byelection. [More…]
The Government cannot in any circumstance claim that a mandate was given to it at that election to change the land tenure system. [More…]
Is it not a reasonable proposition that, though relatively small in the total situation, $25m is a figure which Australia can ill afford to lose, especially when it was committed as a result of a political gimmick on the eve of an election 8 years ago, for equipment which has not yet passed the standard necessary for acceptability? [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) cannot make up his mind whether .to go on with the legislative programme or whether to hold an early election in an endeavour to get a mandate for himself to govern this country. [More…]
Mr Askin, the Premier of New South .Wales, said that they were going to run elections in that State on the question of law and order.. [More…]
In fact they fought a by-election in the State seat. [More…]
This is the Government which about a year ago wanted .to fight an election on this issue. [More…]
Senator Wheeldon suggested that we could take the result of a State election for Georges River in New South Wales as an indication of the people’s attitude to this kind of measure. [More…]
That election was won narrowly by the Australian Labor Parry, but it has been pointed out to me that in that same election the Democratic Labor Party very strongly fought the issue on the question of law and order and, although its vote was not large, it was double what it had been previously. [More…]
I want to point out that in the Senate election which was held last year the Democratic Labor Party put law and order in the forefront of its policies and received the highest vote that it had ever received in its history. [More…]
My Party is never afraid to fight an election upon the question of law and order and I challenge the Australian Labor Party to defend in an election the kind of action by demonstrators that has resulted in this kind of legislation being introduced. [More…]
It think it is significant that this was a very small part of the policy of his organisation in the election to which he reffered Then the honourable senator complained about some youngsters who misused his telephone, read one of bis pri vate letters - probably one of his bills - sat on the floor of his office and, he alleges, kicked a policeman in the shins. [More…]
I know that these are questions to be raised at the Committee stage, but I mention them now as an indication of the matters which will be raised at that stage and to show that it is the desire of the Government to lake away the liberty of individuals and to justify its action for election purposes by creating a fear. [More…]
Going right back to 1926, I remember a Federal election that was fought on law and order. [More…]
There was one other election in my lifetime fought on the same issue but I forget when it was. [More…]
The election was fought on law and order. [More…]
I do not want to recount the results of the election. [More…]
Then one other election -I cannot recall when it was - was fought on the same issue. [More…]
Was it brought in for the purpose of another election campaign? [More…]
Now that this measure cannot be used to the Government’s benefit in the next election campaign because the suggestion is that the next election will not be as soon as some honourable senators opposite may like it to be, I suggest that the Government would be unwise to proceed with the legislation. [More…]
It has always been against conservative governments until a fortnight before an election, at which time it has always, throughout its whole life, found some reason to say that people had still better vote for that government. [More…]
After abusing the government for years, at election time it comes out in support of the government. [More…]
That is the Askin Government - burned its fingers with the law-and-order issue in a by-election last year. [More…]
Proof of this fact is found if one reads the ultra-right-wing newspapers, published at the time when the Government lost the Corio by-election. [More…]
A person whom they thought was leading them on some lost cause would get a rude awakening at the next union election. [More…]
However, during an election campaign the overwhelming bulk of the time devoted to radio and television political programmes favours the establishment and is strongly directed to the negative side of people and to fear. [More…]
They want to know what the future holds for them, but at election time the proposition put most frequently to them is that preservation of the status quo is desirable and that a change could bring about all sorts of fearful situations. [More…]
Our young people hear from the DLP in election campaigns that we are likely to be invaded by China. [More…]
When an election is over no more is said about imminent invasion by China and the daily, or almost hourly, onslaught by television of the terrible things that could happen ceases. [More…]
Yes, the health insurance report was presented by the Commonwealth Committee of inquiry in March 1969, but the final report of the Senate Committee was presented in June 1970, after the presentation to the Senate of an interim report by the Committee in September 1969, which was immediately prior to the holding of the latest federal general election. [More…]
The additional works on the Ord River were an election gimmick in 1968. [More…]
A House of Representatives election was held in 1969-70 and a Senate election was held in 1970-71. [More…]
We are not aware of any further election to be held this year yet almost $400,000 more is sought this year than we expended on this item in 1969-70 when a House of Representatives election was conducted. [More…]
The Department was aware when its estimates were prepared for the Budget last year that a Senate election would be held during this fiscal year and the appropriation would have been calculated accordingly. [More…]
During 1969-70 when a House of Representatives election was held the Department expended only $530,000 on this item. [More…]
Why is it that in the fiscal year in which a Senate election is conducted over $940,000 is to be expended? [More…]
The Electoral Branch is seeking an additional $155,000 for Commonwealth elections and referenda. [More…]
A Senate election was conducted this financial year, but the item refers to elections and referenda. [More…]
What referenda were held during 1970-71 that warranted an appropriation of $1.6m, the amount appropriated in the Estimates for Commonwealth elections and referenda? [More…]
The additional appropriation of $84,000 is required to meet the expenditure associated with the following new commitments: Provision of additional assistance in regional offices for 3 months to update rolls to take into account information obtained from a habitation review, $100,000; purchase of ballot boxes and padlocks, $22,000; purchase of yellow system board, $7,000; provision of subdivision rolls of Midlands by-election, $1,200; reprint of Northern Territory rolls, $2,000; supplemental rolls for Victorian State election, $6,222; provision of subdivision rolls for Victorian State by-election, province of Melbourne West, $700; printing of maps of redistribution of electorates in Western Australia, $1,804; initial conversion of rolls to computer in Queensland and Western Australia, $66,150; and reprint of rolls for New South Wales State election, $40,000. [More…]
Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council election, $890. [More…]
Other items for which an additional provision is sought include the payment of increased rates to polling officials for the 1970 Senate election, $145,000; increased postage charges, $22,000; and the Murray by-election, $10,000. [More…]
It was a campaign by which the Government thought it could stir up public opinion to win an election. [More…]
Equally I would think that it is one of our lawful rights and privileges to be able to go to an election meeting and to address that meeting. [More…]
Yet we know that not so very long ago there were concerted attempts made to prevent the late Mr Holt from addressing his election meeting. [More…]
It was tried in a State election. [More…]
It was going to be tried in Federal election. [More…]
As everyone knows, it was brought in by the Government because it thought there would be an old style law and order election as there was in the days when Senator McManus and 1 stood together against it. [More…]
When Mr Askin lost an election on law and order in New South Wales there was no Federal election. [More…]
It was a by-election in New South Wales. [More…]
As the Government missed the bus in regard to this Bill in that an election was not held, I ask: Why clutter up the statute book? [More…]
Having created that fear, before an election the Government will threaten to use this legislation. [More…]
The Government will use it at election time. [More…]
It is not now going to have an election soon. [More…]
The Government should contest any election which it holds on the question of basic priciples and not on law and order. [More…]
Does the definition of ‘election matter’ in section 116(6) of the Broadcasting and Television Act preclude the Australian Broadcasting Commission and commercial licensees from including in their various news sessions broadcast or televised between the end of an election period and the close of the poll on the day on which election is held material which is considered to be news and which relates to the election. [More…]
However, it does not necessarily follow that all material relating to an election would fall within the definition of ‘election matter’ as defined and, in such event, the restriction would not be applicable. [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…]
The note I have here says that in 1970, following a report by the consultants, Maunsell and Partners, the previous South Australian Government and the Commonwealth Government agreed to the project, but after the election of the present South Australian Government some alternative ideas were suggested’. [More…]
I saw one recently which indicated that if an election were held now the Government would belt the ears off the Opposition. [More…]
I interpreted the result of the election as a mandate for him to give effect to his promise. [More…]
Senator Albion Hendrickson entered the Senate in 1947 as an Australian Labor Party senator for Victoria following the 1946 general election. [More…]
Senator the Honourable Patrick John Kennelly was elected as an Australian Labor Party senator for Victoria in the Senate election of 1953. [More…]
Senator Kennelly entered the Victorian Legislative Council for Melbourne West in a by-election in May 1938 and retired in June 1953. [More…]
Senator James Philip Toohey was elected as an Australian Labor Party Senator for South Australia in the Senate election of 1953. [More…]
Senator George Howard Branson was elected as Liberal Party senator for Western Australia at the general election in 1958. [More…]
Senator Clement Frank Ridley was elected as an ALP senator for South Australia at the general election in 1958. [More…]
He first entered the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1950 and was Deputy Leader of the State Parliamentary Labor Party at the time of his defeat at the 1957 State election. [More…]
Since his election to the Senate, Senator Dittmer has represented the Commonwealth Parliament as a member of the Australian Delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations at New York in 1962 and the Parliamentary Dele gation to South America in 1965 and to South East Asia in 1967. [More…]
1 feel that I must show my appreciation to Senator Jim Toohey, because I feel that it was because of his popularity, the high esteem in which he was held in South Australia and the workthat he had done for the Australian Labor Party that enabled me to be elected as the fifth candidate at that election. [More…]
I 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…]
Only last week in another place the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) indicated that for austerity reasons the Government did not intend now to proceed with a promise given at the last Senate election to the people of Australia to establish child minding centres. [More…]
We cannot help but come to the conclusion that this Bill was conceived in the mind of the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) after his very narrow election to the leadership of the Liberal Party, because until his election there was no inkling at all that the Government proposed to embark upon this course of action. [More…]
Following that Budget session we had the Senate elections. [More…]
The Government which had perpetrated the injustices, which I think were felt by the whole community to be injustices, did not do very well in the Senate election, but it was able to survive in some kind of fashion because of the support that it received from other quarters. [More…]
The only way to ensure that we will get justice for these people and the only way we will shock the Government into a realisation that it may be forced to an election upon this topic is to pass now the amendment I have moved. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party supports the Government at Budget time and it supports the Government at the time of an election and then it comes into this chamber and moves urgency motions, seeks discussions on matters of public importance and says it is sorry for the poor pensioners. [More…]
Last year’s senate election changed all that. [More…]
The election of the Party’s Federal Secretary, Jack Kane, to fill the sixth Senate spot in N.S.W., meant that the DLP finally had a parliamentary strength of five - enough to allow it under standing orders, to introduce its own urgency motions and interrupt the business of the House. [More…]
This, I am sure, will react badly on the ALP in the coming Senate election.’ [More…]
If you knock out only one or two of the supporting Bills to the Budget, the Budget is defeated and there has to be an election. [More…]
I note that the Post and Telegraph Rates Bill received a lot of prominence in Queensland during the last election campaign, and Senator Gair dealt with it at length in this chamber today. [More…]
At the last election Senator Gair never adverted to this at any time. [More…]
It is dishonest for him to go throughout Queensland during an election campaign and claim that he voted against the increases in postal charges, because I have given the facts. [More…]
There was an increase in pension rates in 1966, but this was done only as a matter of political expediency because an election was imminent. [More…]
There was an increase in pension rates in 1968 because there was a fear that there would be an early election. [More…]
There was another increase in pension rates in 1969 because another election was held in that year. [More…]
Perhaps one would feel rather happier in welcoming this Bill - even though the amounts promised by way of State grants for the training of pre-school teachers are rather small - were it not for the fact that the Government before the last Senate election undertook to establish pre-school centres throughout Australia. [More…]
One is the position in relation to the F111 purchase, which was a political gimmick in 1963 when the then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, in order to win an election decided that Australia needed new aircraft. [More…]
Apart altogether from the mishandling by the Government of these aircraft projects, the Opposition is of the opinion, as it has expressed in the Parliament and outside the Parliament, that the acceptance by the Government of the F111 was a political gimmick adopted in 1963 in the face of a pending election. [More…]
It is common knowledge, as Senator Bishop said, that the original agreement to enter into the purchase of the Fill aircraft in 1963 was a political stunt prior to the 1963 Federal election when the Government was desperately thrashing around for an issue on which to save itself. [More…]
In the month of July 1971, a General Election will take place throughout Indonesia, the preparations of which are now in progress. [More…]
To ensure the smooth performance of the General Election, the Government has to maintain an orderly situation of tranquillity and security during the preparations for election day and thereafter. [More…]
It appears likely therefore, that the circular was issued because of concern at the possibility of foreign diplomats from some countries seeking to take advantage of the period of heightened political activity prior to the elections, rather than from any desire on the part of the Indonesian authorities to restrict opportunities for the outside world to observe the election campaign. [More…]
legislation be pigeonholed and forgotten until the Australian Council of Trade Unions takes action to force the Government into doing something about its election backers who are making a profit out of the consuming public? [More…]
for the provision of science laboratories by private schools as compared to State schools has been doubled in the years since 1963 when this proposal was first made by the Government, along with the decision to buy Fill aircraft, as part of its election gimmickry. [More…]
Senator Poyser, who led for the Opposition, said that he thought this Bill was an election gimmick. [More…]
This shortcoming in the Bill is compounded by the fact that an injured employee has no right of election in this matter. [More…]
Indeed, some years ago because of a recount in an election in Queensland, a man who was known to me was debarred from receiving the benefits of a parliamentary retirement fund, although he had served for a period in both the Commonwealth and the State parliaments. [More…]
This man appeared to have won a vital seat in an election, and if he had taken his seat in the parliament he would have served the necessary period to become eligible to receive the benefits of the parliamentary retirement fund. [More…]
Where a person makes an election under section one hundred and nineteen u of this Act and - [More…]
in any other case - those deferred benefits cease to be applicable in respect of him but this Act has effect in relation to him as if the election by him under section one hundred and nineteen v of this Act had not been made. [More…]
after the payment was made, the person makes an election under section one hundred and nineteen u of this Act, the election does not have any effect unless an amount equal to the amount of the payment is paid to the Fund or to the Provident Account, as the case may be, within seven days after the date of the election or within such further period as the Board in special circumstances allows. [More…]
Where a person (other than a person who, at the time when he ceased to be a contri- butor to the Fund or to the Provident Account, had completed twenty years’ eligible employment) who has made an election under section one hundred and nineteen u of this Act (not being an election that the person became entitled to make by reason of the operation of sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of sub-section (1.) [More…]
Where a person makes an election under section eighty-two z of this Act and - [More…]
of this section, dien, those deferred benefits cease to be applicable in respect of him but this Act has effect in relation to him as if the election by him under section eighty-two z of this Act had not been made. [More…]
Where a person (other than a person who, at the time when he ceased to be a member, hud completed twenty years’ eligible employment) who has made an election under section eighty-two z of this Act is not employed in public employment at the expiration of the period that is the prescribed period in relation to him, then, unless - [More…]
We all welcome your election to that position. [More…]
I invite Senator Drake-Brockman and Senator Murphy to act as scrutineers for the election of Chairman of Committees. [More…]
I am certain that I am speaking on behalf of the honourable senators in this corner of the chamber when I say that we wish to extend our congratulations to Senator Prowse on his election to a position carrying very onerous duties. [More…]
The same remarks as I made on your election, Mr President, apply to the election of Senator Prowse. [More…]
This was followed by a number of routine matters, including the election of yourself, Mr President, and a meeting with the Governor-General. [More…]
With great respect I suggest that if this sort of situation is going to continue the sooner the Government decides to have an election the better off we are all going to be. [More…]
I am seriously suggesting that if the Government continues with this attitude through this Budget session then it ought to call it off and have an election so that some form of democracy can be returned to Australia. [More…]
The continuation of the study, dealing with the effect of the 2 media on the vote of the sample in the 1969 Federal Election is peripheral to the Board’s main interest and will not be published by the Board. [More…]
We have great associations of workers which under the laws of the Commonwealth are conducted in an extremely democratic manner, in which the members must have control of their committees of management, and in which there are all sorts of provisions for secret ballots and election of members. [More…]
At election time its members go through the pretence of asking the people to vote for them, giving electors the misguided idea that in the Parliament and through the Government they would determine the political decisions to be made. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite cannot do so because they are wedded to a system which will permit the use of industrial power to thwart the wishes of the Government elected by the people of Australia and claiming the electoral authority which comes from having a mandate given at ah election. [More…]
When the happy day comes and there is an election, the people will reaffirm what they have reaffirmed every time since 1949, namely, that our way of government in a democracy is a better way than the system advocated by the Opposition, and it will give stability to the people of Australia. [More…]
We are writing standing orders that I hope we do not have to go over again after the next election or at some other time. [More…]
It was because it was just before a Senate election that these matters were brought before the Senate and the closure of the debate was moved in order to get a decision. [More…]
Because, by some freak of election, the Democratic Labor Party numbers have been raised to five. [More…]
How does the Government justify the vast expenditure of lives and money and the vast amount of misery in Vietnam to achieve the farcical situation where only one man, President Thieu, is likely to contend the elections? [More…]
If VicePresident Ky after being forced out of the election by President Thieu’s manoeuvres decides to stage a coup, which side will Australia support military and economically? [More…]
In view of the Australian Labor Party’s great concern to ensure that parliamentary elections are held in the countries of South East Asia, especially South Vietnam, I ask the Minister: What was the date on which the election was held which resulted in the appointment of Chou En-lai as Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
Can the Minister advise how many candidates contested the election? [More…]
Because the supposed vacancy had arisen out of a general election, the ultimate wash-up was that both the Senate Standing Committee on Disputed Returns and Qualifications and ultimately the High Court held that there should be a general election and not an appointment under the provisions of the Constitution. [More…]
I refer to his reply to my question yesterday on the Vietnam election when he said, as part of his reply: [More…]
I ask him again: Has the Australian Government protested about the undemocratic election to be held in South Vietnam where President Thieu has effectively ensured that the election will be a travesty of democracy? [More…]
A subsequent question was posed by Senator Sim, I think, who pointed out that in some nations, which members of the Australian Labor Party seem to be in a hurry to visit, there are circumstances in which only one candidate stands for election and, what is more, there is no Leader of the Opposition, and that is a pretty serious matter. [More…]
That a government could actively strive for such a result, with all its attendant financial and human misery, is an indictment which will gravely affect this Government at the next election. [More…]
This occurred in Australia in 1969 when, with demand moving strongly, but with a Federal election coming up after the Budget, the Government was aware of the electoral dangers in bringing in a Budget to control inflation. [More…]
25 for pensioners was still their biggest cash rise in years, no doubt because the Prime Minister was contemplating an early election until his Party disintegrated about him. [More…]
The Prime Minister of the day made a promise during the 1969 election campaign that he would relieve the taxpayers by so much over a period of 3 years. [More…]
He was questioned as to his prospects at the forthcoming election. [More…]
Recipients of social service benefits are humiliated at every election to find that their income is the subject of bargaining from the hustings, one political party offering this and another party offering something else. [More…]
This was prior to the Senate election. [More…]
I regard it as being of more importance as the date of an election approaches. [More…]
Election times can be valuable, apart from providing the opportunity of banging one another over the head. [More…]
Whatever the results on election night, if we have brought something to the public’s notice, if we have had a good debate on it, if we have brought out the various points of view and if we have caused the whole nation to think along the lines we suggested, we have achieved something. [More…]
They man the polling booths, distribute literature and give many other services during election campaigns. [More…]
The trade union movement played a sterling part in pre-selection procedures and during the election campaign. [More…]
I am grateful to them for my ultimate election to the Senate. [More…]
I offer my thanks also to the officials of the Commonwealth Electoral Office - the presiding officers, the poll clerks and all the other officials who give such efficient and impartial service and play an important part in the conduct of an election. [More…]
By his administrative ability and impartiality he has won the respect and confidence of all political parties in the conduct of elections. [More…]
The whole of these proceedings took place before the Senate as it was constituted prior to and up to 30th June this year when, following the periodic election for half of the Senate, the personnel of the Senate changed, a number of honourable senators having retired and a number of new honourable senators having joined this chamber and subsequently been sworn in. [More…]
The Senate itself persists, subject to periodic elections, and it goes on therefore in an unbroken stream discharging its duties as an integral part of the legislature and of the legislative process. [More…]
Does the Leader of the Government in the Senate remember that during the 1970 Senate election campaign, 10 months ago, the then Prime Minister promised to establish child care centres for working mothers and suggested that between 500 and 750 centres were contemplated? [More…]
Does the Government consider that child care centres are still necessary or has it repudiated the election promise? [More…]
The Government found education sufficiently important to promise concerted action on a national survey before the last election. [More…]
This situation has resulted from an election in 1949 when a Leader of the [More…]
Basically he won the election on the promise to bring value back into the 1. [More…]
In 1969 Mr Gorton, when Prime Minister, made certain promises in his election policy speech. [More…]
During last year’s Senate election campaign Mr Gorton made a similar promise. [More…]
This promise came out of an election campaign. [More…]
And what about the election promise of child minding centres? [More…]
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…]
The promises made by Mr Gorton in the 1969 federal election for alleviating taxes on low and middle income groups have faded like tired memories. [More…]
Of course, it is up to the Australian people to make the decision at the next federal election. [More…]
As you were not here when I commenced my speech, Mr President, I would like in conclusion to congratulate you on your election as President of this Senate. [More…]
It has been said that the Budget has been made a soft one in case this Government, which is tottering at the knees at all stages, is forced to go to an election this year. [More…]
We know that there are substantial handouts at times of strife in the Party and particularly at election times from the people I have referred to. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party has got so far in front of the Government in its statesmanlike attitude to matters that the Government would be afraid to have an election tomorrow because it would not last long enough to count its deposits, if they were returned to its candidates. [More…]
I take this opportunity to thank the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party for giving me the honour of leading the Labor Senate team in that State at the 1970 Senate elections. [More…]
I thank the hundreds of supporters who distributed election literature prior to polling day and assisted in the distribution of how-to-vote cards at the polling booths. [More…]
I take the opportunity to congratulate Senator Sir Magnus Cormack on being elected to the very high office of President of the Senate and also to congratulate Senator Prowse on his election as Chairman of committees. [More…]
As hundreds of Australian conscripts have been killed in South Vietnam while allegedly fighting to preserve democracy and as Air Vice-Marshal Ky was until recently held in high regard by the Australian Government, why has this Government done nothing about his allegations of a lack of democracy in the South Vietnam presidential election? [More…]
Did this Liberal journal state that it was time the Government realised that it has only a slim chance of winning the next federal election and that the Liberal Party of Australia urgently needs some initiative at the helm? [More…]
During the period I was out of office, from the day before the last Senate election until 1st July this year, I was engaged by the store to act as a public relations officer, as one commissioned to speak to groups within the community and to detail to them the facts concerning the ACTU acquisition of this store. [More…]
In making my first speech as a senator for Victoria may I say that I am very conscious of the honour which has been given to me by my State in my election as one of its senators. [More…]
I acknowledge also the unselfish help which has been given to me by the women of my own Party and I have been very conscious of the interest of the women of Australia in my election as a senator. [More…]
Now, Mr President, I share the delight of the Victorian Division of the Liberal Party at your election to the high office of President of the Senate. [More…]
The only reward that they ever seek is to assist in the election of a Labor government which will quickly take the necessary steps to ensure that the gross inequities existing in Australia today are replaced by a humane policy of compassion and understanding, so that the one million citizens at present struggling to exist below the poverty line can lift up their heads and live a life of dignity, free from the fear of want, sickness and old age. [More…]
Yet the DLP has put this Government in power in the past and, without any doubt, it will support the Government at the next election in an endeavour, this time we believe unsuccessfully, to help it to keep on carrying out policies such as those which are condemned in its amendment. [More…]
At election times the DLP helps the Government by directing its preferences to the Government. [More…]
During the new Parliament we will further investigate this complicated problem with “ a view to presenting to you at the election in 1952 a scheme for your approval. [More…]
The first undertaking - a famous one - was to put value back into the ?1, and the second was to introduce and present at the 1952 election for the approval of the people a national superannuation scheme. [More…]
Our Leader, Mr Whitlam, when electioneering during the 1969 general election campaign made the promise that when Labor was returned to government it would see that the percentage relationship between the average weekly earnings and the pension payments would remain static at 25 per cent. [More…]
I point out with emphasis that this service has found the approval and the appreciation of the Australian community because it has returned this Government year after year at election after election. [More…]
I suggest, also, in all sincerity that if it had not been for the fear of an early general election 12 months before it was due, plus the fact that pressure would have been applied by the Opposition in this Parliament, the $1.25 and $1 respectively would not have been granted to pensioners on this occasion. [More…]
B. Chifley survived the 1949 election national contributory insurance would have come into being and - as in the case of the Dominion of New Zealand - the means test would not still adorn the Commonwealth statute book. [More…]
At the time of the last Senate election, the former Prime Minister the Right Honourable John Gorton made a speech to the Australian people in which he stated that child minding centres would be established throughout the country. [More…]
At every election time and every Budget time the income of the poor old pensioner is thrown into the field of discussion. [More…]
I repeat that recipients of these benefits are humiliated at every election to find that their income is subject to public political bargaining. [More…]
Apparently the Australian Labor Party would prefer the present system to remain in force so that that Party can gain political capital at an election out of any increase. [More…]
Under that system he will be free from the humiliation which he suffers every time his income is discussed at election time or in Parliament. [More…]
i notice that in the 1969 election campaign the Leader of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Whitlam, suggested - 1 think Senator McAuliffe referred to this in the course of his remarks - that the pension payments should be one-quarter of average weekly earnings. [More…]
I will not deal with it, any more than I will deal with national superannuation, other than to say that governments in the past have been committed in election policy speeches to the introduction of a national insurance scheme. [More…]
Indeed, Robert Gordon Menzies is reported to have resigned from the Lyons Government because the Lyons Government could not see its way clear to give effect to an election promise. [More…]
Is it because the Government and the Opposition like pensions to be in a political arena to be used as a football, or as a bribe to -get votes at election time? [More…]
1 recall that in the early 1950s, when 1 was campaign director for Mr Whitlam and he succeeded in gaining entry into the national Parliament, the Returned Services League submitted a 9-point pension plan to all candidates in that election seeking their support for policies for which the RSL is still pressing some 20 years later. [More…]
1 think I should bring to the attention of honourable senators that the Democratic Labor Party, and particularly Senator Gair, campaigned in Queensland during the last Senate election campaign and made as a particular point their opposition to increased post and telegraph charges, but when the issue came down to a vote they did not oppose the increase. [More…]
I think the Minister is aware that we make our policy known following our Federal or State conferences, as the case may be, and during election campaigns. [More…]
Does the Government consider that its carrying on of an undeclared war in Vietnam in supposed support of democratic government can still be justified after the 90 per cent vote in favour of President Thieu in a one man election? [More…]
The second point 1 make is that it is not unique to have one candidate at an election getting 95 per cent of the vote. [More…]
In elections in those countries there is only one candidate. [More…]
1 do not want to hurt anybody’s feelings, but I must say that I have been Leader of the Government in the Senate for a long time now and I never have questions directed to me to elicit criticism of elections held in Mainland China or Russia, behind the Iron Curtain. [More…]
South Vietnam is a country in which people have chosen to nominate for election and then of their own volition have withdrawn. [More…]
Secondly, has he also noted that a leading Victorian trade union official is reported to have issued the warning that if Mr Clyde Cameron’s views were made mandatory Victorian trade unions would not provide finance for the Australian Labor Party at the next Federal election? [More…]
lt is fascinating that I have never heard the Opposition query the method of election in North Vietnam. [More…]
Following the agreement an election was to be held to decide on a sovereign government for Vietnam. [More…]
But South Vietnam would not continue with the elections in 1962. [More…]
Of course, Senator Keeffe does not represent a threat to anyone, certainly not to the Government parties as was evidenced at the last Senate election. [More…]
During the Senate election campaign in 1964 I and other candidates forecast that conscription was being introduced only for the purpose of bolstering the illegal commitment in Vietnam. [More…]
Nobody in the world - be it a free country or otherwise - is prepared to believe that this was a democratic election. [More…]
Senator Webster’s leader, the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony), said the other day that we are likely to have an election because things are crook. [More…]
I invite honourable senators to consider the Hursey case in which a man and his son, waterside workers, refused to pay a levy to the Waterside Workers Federation at election time, because half of it would go to the Communist Party. [More…]
I have a good ally in that because after the 1969 election no other than Mrs Whitlam advocated the conscription of the young womanhood of Australia for the defence of this country. [More…]
The United States and South Vietnam dissociated themselves from it because they did not believe that conditions would exist for a free election. [More…]
I must say that that did not indicate that he wished to take the risk of having a free election which he might not win. [More…]
I have never heard any argument that the agreement regarding the division of Germany, which was to have been settled by free elections, has been breached by one side or the other. [More…]
It is obvious that East Germany with 15 million people would not take the risk of losing a free election because in a unified Germany they would have no say. [More…]
I would have hoped that they had a policy that they were able to demonstrate to the people at a forthcoming election was in the best interests of the country. [More…]
Should an election be held on this issue, they certainly would not win and occupy the Government benches. [More…]
not overlook the possibility- not that the Communists would win, as Senator Cavanagh said - that a free election may- again a qualification - be an election which establishes a Communist administration in the whole of Vietnam. [More…]
Can the Minister for Health advise the Senate whether legislation will be introduced, and if so at what date, to implement the election promises of the previous Prime Minister at the 1969 general election and the 1970 Senate election that the aged chronically ill who are confined to nursing homes will receive health insurance benefits beyond the period of 3 months now operative? [More…]
On this occasion I think it is opportune to remind the Government of some of the things its supporters said when it introduced this barbaric policy for reasons of election gimmickry. [More…]
As Senator James McClelland tells me, an election has taken place there. [More…]
What is the situation with this election? [More…]
The situation in this election is that there is only one candidate. [More…]
Two of the most eminent South Vietnamese, General Minh and Air ViceMarshal Ky - not so long ago feted on his visit to this country - have condemned the actions of President Thieu and the Saigon Government for the undemocratic manner in which they have conducted this election. [More…]
Sometimes, one hears from various people the specious argument: ‘There are not free elections in North Vietnam. [More…]
There are not free elections in China. [More…]
How many candidates are there for the Prime Ministership of the Soviet Union’?, as if this is some devastating, knock-down argument for use against anybody who asks: ‘What is the situation in regard to the elections in South Vietnam’? [More…]
The test came, among other things, with the conduct of the presidential election which was held on the Sunday. [More…]
I left Australia on last Friday week to attend as an observer at the presidential election. [More…]
However, I had the opportunity - the only opportunity of anyone from this Parliament and perhaps from Australia - of observing just how the election was conducted and to what extend it did comply with democratic forms. [More…]
I think it is my duty tonight in this very short time available to me as far as I can to report faithfully, accurately, and, J trust, objectively what were the results of my observations and to what extent I thought the election complied with the ordinary democratic forms of the electoral process. [More…]
I did not opt for such a trip because I thought that in the economy of time of an election that commenced at 7 o’clock in the morning and concluded at 5 o’clock in the evening it was only fair that I should attempt to observe the election in the capital city, Saigon, as well as, and as far as possible, the operation of the election in one of the provincial areas. [More…]
To have gone to Da Nang or Hue may have deprived me of any opportunity of observing the election in Saigon. [More…]
The elections were conducted under the presidential law. [More…]
The important thing was, first of all, that the elections should be held in pursuance of that law. [More…]
I have a copy of the presidential election law here, which perhaps 1 might be wise to table at the end of my speech. [More…]
Under the presidential election law the whole of the procedures which are to be followed in the election of a president are laid down. [More…]
They are most comprehensive in that they specify the date of the election, the nature of the polling, the selection of candidates, the operations of parties, moneys provided, even by the Government, to parties to conduct their campaigns, and things of that nature. [More…]
The election had to be operated under that law. [More…]
On my objective assessment - I am myself a lawyer - I found that the election was conducted explicitly in terms of their own law. [More…]
More particularly, if I table it, you may have access to this document to see whether you think it does in all ways comply with the ordinary principles that you would expect a free election to comply with. [More…]
The second question was that if the election complied with the presidential election law, was that election law a law in terms of the ordinarily accepted canons of democratic free elections? [More…]
What would be the principles which one would apply to determine whether an election was conducted according to the canons which we would want to apply to determine whether an election was free and democratic? [More…]
In Saigon in the morning the voters were present in great numbers, as you would find them in an Australian election. [More…]
Therefore they have - and it is prescribed in the presidential election law - a slate. [More…]
1 was told that at the election which was held a week or a fortnight before that at one place there were 81 candidates for 5 electoral positions. [More…]
In this case, the presidential election, he was presented with one slip because there was only one group. [More…]
For example, it could be the B coupon because the A coupon had been used for the previous election. [More…]
The count and the conduct of the election appeared to be in the hands of schoolteachers just as we have schoolteachers as our presiding officers. [More…]
The envelopes were counted in the public view and were tallied just as we might tally an election if we went in and acted as scrutineers as we have done so often at elections. [More…]
If something is not done to rope those people into the scheme, it certainly will become a noose around the Government’s neck at the next election. [More…]
And this is the sentiment which the ordinary man, who has to pay taxes, is coming to feel for both political parties, who promise ‘something for everyone’, with the object of winning the next election. [More…]
If any government in England dared to interfere with the British national health scheme it would suffer annihilation at any election. [More…]
Senator DOUGLAS McCLELLANDWhat happened when the British Government introduced that before the last election? [More…]
I believe that if this Government continues acting in this way in regard to health it will be defeated at the next election. [More…]
Under the regulation making power of what one might call the principal apple and pear industry legislation, that is, the Apple and Pear Organisation Act, certain regulations have been made which deal with the election of the Australian Apple and Pear Board. [More…]
I refer lo the Apple and Pear Organisation (Election of Board) Regulations. [More…]
Those regulations actually purported to confer jurisdiction on the High Court of Australia as the court of disputed returns for elections to that Board. [More…]
Is the Minister aware also that the former Prime Minister, Mr Gorton, before the 1969 election, promised that all discriminatory laws against Aborigines would be abolished in the life of the present Parliament, and that the then Minister-in-Charge of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
In view of the serious irregularities in the electoral rolls, as disclosed by the Northern Territory Legislative Council election on Saturday, 23rd [More…]
Further, will the Minister take the necessary action^ in conformity with the Electoral Act, to ensure that all eligible persons in the Northern Territory are correctly enrolled before the next election? [More…]
Last year, immediately before a Senate election was held, because the matter was becoming of great national importance, the Government and the Australian Broadcasting Control Board yielded to pressure and increased the Australian drama content requirement. [More…]
Does this indicate that the Australian Government approved of the method of the election of President Thieu, which excluded all other candidates? [More…]
If so, why has there been a change of attitude on the part of the Government which previously did not approve of the election and did not send observers? [More…]
As one who came into this place following the retirement of the late Mr Heatley after the Senate election in 1967 and as one who knew him, his wife and his family personally, I pay my small tribute of regard and express my sorrow at his unfortunate and premature passing. [More…]
Will the Government give an unqualified guarantee that these advisers are not the advance guard of another major commitment to an Indo-Chinese war, with the announcement perhaps ready to be made if the Government manages, by some remote chance, to hold office after the next election? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that Mr Eric Robinson, a prominent member of the Liberal Party, has been selected by his Party to contest the next election for the Federal division of Mcpherson, a seat currently held by a member of the Australian Country Party? [More…]
Only this morning on the radio I heard an interview with Senator McGovern, who is a possible Democratic Party nominee for the United States presidential election next year, in which he advocated that the United States withdraw from the ANZUS Pact. [More…]
This statement in itself would be quite acceptable were it not a complete reversal of everything that the Government has been saying for the past 20 years, a reversal of the points it has made consistently in support of its election programmes for the past 20 years, lt seems to me only the other day - it cannot be very much longer - that we were being shown maps with red arrows leading from China to Australia. [More…]
The Government defence policy and the question of Soviet influence in the Indian Ocean area a’re rapidly emerging as key issues in the election campaign. [More…]
1 would not kid myself too much, Senator Little-by-little, because 1 do not think the DLP, with its policies, won the election. [More…]
T ask the mover of the motion when the last free election was held in Taiwan and how many people have been imprisoned there for expressing trade union views. [More…]
If the second motion moved by the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) is agreed to, the opportunity for Senator Negus to present that matter for discussion will disappear for the remainder of this year, lt may be revived next year if the honourable senator is able to bring it before the Senate and have it considered prior to the next federal election. [More…]
1 know that during the Senate election campaign last year it was bandied around that the Commonwealth Government was providing $100,n for the reconstruction of the wool industry. [More…]
Yet the story coming out all the lime in support of Government candidates during the Senate election pointed out how generous the Government was in giving $10Om [More…]
This scheme was rushed through just before the Senate election in the same way as the Bill establishing the Australian Wool Commission was rushed through earlier last year. [More…]
The first sale following this action was held in Brisbane on the Monday before the Senate election. [More…]
Despite the wool aid emergency scheme about which we heard so much 2 years ago, despite the establishment of the Australian Wool Commission about which we heard so much 12 months ago, just before the last Senate election, and despite the introduction of legislation of the type we are debating today, the simple fact is that the wool growers of this country are in a parlous situation. [More…]
This reminds me that that proposal was submitted by the former Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) during the Senate election campaign last year. [More…]
We proposed during the Senate election campaign and we reiterate now that the only body capable of providing the finance to meet the needs of the rural people today is the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
Coupled with the Country Party’s fading power as its rural chickens come home to roost, could this move be construed as a final desperate attempt to hold the Party together long enough to secure a few votes at the next Federal election, or is it perhaps an indication that Mr Anthony- [More…]
Apparently it was put to the people by the then Prime Minister before an election. [More…]
When will the Government implement the promises made by the former Prime Minister, Mr Gorton, which were contained in 2 successive election policy speeches, that aged persons who became chronically ill would be able to receive some benefits from health insurance organisations or medical benefit societies of which, in many cases, they had been members for most of their lives? [More…]
Is the Government holding back on the implementation of this most urgent reform so that it can be used again as an election gimmick for the general election which is to be held in 1972? [More…]
I do not suggest for one moment that the Party to which I belong deals in election gimmicks. [More…]
I shall not make any prognostication as to the part of the year in which the election will be held. [More…]
Election bv Burmah to allow its NorthWest interests to remain fallow at am stage could disappoint shareholders and cause their shares to come on the market, where, if it. [More…]
Every now and again a great deal of hysteria is whipped up not only by honourable senators opposite for obvious election purposes, but also by the Press. [More…]
The policy included in the Government election programme in 1969 included a promise to reduce personal income tax on middle and lower incomes over 3 years by $200m. [More…]
This proposal arose initially in 1963 when the Labor Party indicated in the course of the preparation of its policy for the 1964 Federal election that this proposition would be supported financially. [More…]
Then, as Senator Devitt said, a very small number of the faithful were able to get the idea written into the Australian Labor Party Federal policy - not State policy - for the 1964 election campaign. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party did not win that election so nothing was done about that. [More…]
It said before the election that one of the first things it would do if elected to government would be to conduct a proper investigation into the feasibility and desirability of the Bell Bay rail link. [More…]
The determination of what that jurisdiction should be was a most time consuming task and it was not completed when the Parliament was prorogued for the election which took place in 1969. [More…]
But they do not quote his subsequent remarks made prior to the last election in which he gave an entirely different impression. [More…]
What was the source of an invitation to a Senator of the Australian Democratic Labor Party to observe the recent Presidential election in South Vietnam, and why were representatives of the Australian Liberal, Labor and Country Parties not invited. [More…]
I understand that the Government of the Republic of Vietnam extended personal invitations to at least 2 members of the Australian Parliament to observe the Presidential election in the Republic of Vietnam. [More…]
The question of extending invitations to observe elections in any country is a matter entirely within the domestic jurisdiction of the Government of that country. [More…]
In respect of the Presidential election in the Republic of Vietnam, President Thieu on several occasions issued a general invitation to foreign political and Press figures who were interested in the elections to go to Vietnam to observe them. [More…]
Will Commonwealth Electoral Office staff man polling booths at Gove for the 1972 House of Representatives election, or will Nabalco managerial staff be seconded for this purpose. [More…]
The polling place appointed to serve electors at Gove for the next House of Representatives election will be staffed by persons selected by the Returning Officer for the Northern Territory. [More…]
I speak as one who has studied this matter closely and as one who was Chairman of 2 committees over a period of18 months.I do not wish on any member of the Senate the job of chairing 2 public inquiries or of working hard on 2 committees of inquiry at the same time as that honourable senator is taking part in the debates and procedings of this chamber and also representing and spending some time in his State, particularly during a year in which he is facing a Senate election. [More…]
It should be remembered that, as the Parliament is constituted at present, we are in the throes of a Federal election or a threatened Federal election nearly every year. [More…]
In considering this question honourable senators should have in mind how much time is available forcommittee work - I refer not just to the hours of meeting of committees; how much time is available in the Senate - and we come here for at least 26 weeks in a year to attend sittings of the Senate; and how much time there is for the electorate and for elections. [More…]
In throwing into relief the Government’s lack of real interest in enforcing the National Service Act, the guerilla tactics of draft resistance groups in Melbourne and Sydney are beginningto pose an election issue of major importance. [More…]
The Government knows that the Act is not popular with the people and that it cannot put large numbers of people into gaol before an election. [More…]
I regard it as an iniquitous Act, an Act brought down not for any honourable purpose but as part of an election gimmick by men of military age. [More…]
In order to cure the economy the Government deliberately set out to create unemployment, just as it is setting out to create unemployment today, lt is not doing it on such a large scale as in 1960-61 because it was nearly defeated in the 1961 election. [More…]
A similar statement was used by Sir David Brand and Mr Charles Court iti the Ascot by-election, but it did not get them anywhere. [More…]
I am concerned firstly by the political implications of legislation which applies over an election period. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh drew an inference as to what could happen in an election period, as he described it. [More…]
Although 3 months after the election we would have the right to veto that regulation, the election would have been won and the money paid. [More…]
Many mysterious things happen al election time, things which are hard to explain. [More…]
For instance, prior to and during the last election campaign he said: ‘Abolish the Senate’. [More…]
If you believe in it why were you throwing off sheets of perspiration for fear that you would not be re-endorsed by the Labor Party at the last election? [More…]
I challenge Senator Keeffe to take his Party to the polls and fight an election upon a platform of opening the flood gates of this country to people from anywhere in the world. [More…]
Let us in this national Parliament have in our minds a degree of Australian sentiment - to the extent and intensity that whatever we do is in the best interests of this country and is nol something that we would say just because we think it might win votes at an election, but something which will be of real benefit to this country. [More…]
I challenge Senator Keeffe and the Labor Party to go to the polls and fight an election on a campaign to open the doors of this country to allow black, white and bridle people to come in their numbers, us they want. [More…]
As one - who has at least some political nous about how elections are won, I challenge them. [More…]
The genius of the Liberal Party - which you are displaying - is to be able to squib at every election time the result of its last 3 years in government. [More…]
It knows that that is not the situation, but it knows that the best way to win elections is to avoid standing up to its stewardship by trying to put the blame and the fear onto other people. [More…]
The usual plea will be made for cooperation but from now to election day in every consultation with a Minister we will have to say: ‘Do 1 go this far or do I try to trap him?’ [More…]
We are looking forward with relish lo the next election. [More…]
1 concede that there was an Achilles heel in that instance but had we chosen to do so we could have sought to capitalise on the incident as an election issue. [More…]
In directing a question to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, I refer to the statement made on televisionlast night by the Prime Minister that the state of the economy would not be an issue in the next Federal election. [More…]
When it is time for the next general election, the result will be an overwhelming victory for the Government. [More…]
So far, the steps taken are that last year during the election campaign it was announced by the then Prime Minister that steps would be taken in relation to the environment. [More…]
In October 1970, the previous Prime Minister, Mr Gorton, in his policy speech for the Senate election, announced that the Commonwealth Government would establish an Office of the Environment. [More…]
I make this point: In December, less than 2 months after the Government had been returned at the Senate election, the then Prime Minister wrote to the Premiers of the States inviting their co-operation in coming together to discuss the environment. [More…]
Incorporated, to help it fight the next Federal election? [More…]
one of the factors to blame for the state of the Northern Territory rolls for the recent Legislative Council election. [More…]
Mr Bourke, who was called to the Territory during the election owing to the illness of the Electoral . [More…]
I know that promises have been made that the electoral rolls will be updated before the 1972 election. [More…]
During the Northern Territory election campaign I was at Katherine and Tennant Creek. [More…]
The number who voted at the election gives distorted figures of population in the Northern Territory. [More…]
In it we see, as we have seen so many times in the past, that the price of wool bottomed in late October of last year, just prior to the Senate election, and it peaked virtually on the day thai poll was conducted. [More…]
Then immediately after the election the price of wool slumps again. [More…]
Therefore it should be the right of a State to be able to exercise its own political judgment on the basis of its election to government by the people of the State. [More…]
Honourable senators will note that the Opposition’s amendment adopts the precedent that is set out in one of the subclauses of clause 10 for the election of the Deputy Chairman in the House of [More…]
I suggest that the reasoon why this has suddenly become a matter of great anxiety to the gentlemen opposite is that they have lost one of their great stocksintrade with which they have been accustomed to giving the Australian people nightmares, especially in election years. [More…]
It was perhaps the first and only party in Australia to put forward a definite proposition on this matter for adoption by the people of Australia at a general election. [More…]
I suppose the greatest national disaster which could befall us would be the election of a Labor government. [More…]
An election was pending and the Government made a gesture in the area that Senator Douglas McClelland knows a lot better than I do. [More…]
I say to honourable senators opposite that if they want to make an election issue of this matter we will welcome it. [More…]
It is obvious to me that if things keep going as they are, another election will be held before I get the chance to talk on my motion on this subject. [More…]
I can understand his feelings because he has just been endorsed as a Country Party candidate for the next election. [More…]
candidate will conduct his election campaign underground. [More…]
One has only to go back to the election of about 1952 when Mr Menzies, as he then was, said that Australia had 3 years to prepare itself against a possible conflict. [More…]
We must come to the conclusion that the Government, having lost the yellow hordes of Asia as an issue, is looking for an election issue. [More…]
The Government will try to convince the Australian people that this presence constitutes a great menace to us and will try to engender a feeling of fear about it in an attempt to win the 1972 election. [More…]
The Prime Ministers of these countries - as distinct from our own Prime Minister whom 1 will admit, to my knowledge, has not made a pronouncement on the matter but will during the coming general election - came to the same conclusion as Mr Friedheim, again of the United States, who in Washington on 10th January when he was discussing the Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean had something to say which is in accordance with the standpoint of most of the nations in the Indian Ocean region. [More…]
1 remind those optimistic members of the Australian Labor Parly who feel that they have more cause to be optimistic now than they have had for many years that in February 1963 - a memorable election year - ‘the unemployment figures were higher, in terms of percentages, than they are now. [More…]
Has the Leader seen a copy of the McKinsley report, commissioned by the Victorian Liberal Party, which indicates that if an election were held now the coalition would lose heavily? [More…]
Does this indicate that if an election were held now a Labor government would be returned to office? [More…]
If so, can this demarcation dispute be resolved by the election of a Labor Government which would amalgamate all 3 branches of the defence forces into one efficient department? [More…]
Up until the Evatt amendment of 1947 one had to resign from the Public Service in order to stand for Parliament and pray that one either did not lose or, if one lost, got back into the Public Service after the election. [More…]
The motion suggests that the Senate, the political master, be invited to conduct an inquiry into the servant, the Public Service in an election year. [More…]
I have often suspected that the Opposition had no sense of humour, but the thought that in an election year there could be anything approaching an objective inquiry into the Public Service surely is a joke. [More…]
I remind the Senate that under our quaint system of elections almost every year is an election year. [More…]
As Senator Willesee said, this would affect such interesting things as the wages policy of the Public Service in an election year. [More…]
If people object to the National Service Act and want to have it repealed, as I understand is the policy of the Australian Labor Party, there is a legitimate means by which that ultimate objective may be pursued - that is, by making it an issue at the coming election. [More…]
It is very easy to say that all wrongs can be rectified at a general election. [More…]
A previous election would have rectified that situation. [More…]
All wrongs cannot be rectified at any particular general election. [More…]
Because of other principles in the Opposition’s policy for the coming election, we may see the end of the National Service Act. [More…]
It is wrong to say that the suffering of a person as a result of the passing of oppressive legislation introduced by a government, despite the great support that person may have and despite the unanimous or majority opinion of electors on that particular issue, can be rectified at a general election. [More…]
While it can be said that there was some mandate by majority at the last election, minorities have to be given some recognition. [More…]
I suppose that when he is required to stand for election the Opposition will not oppose his re-election! [More…]
Because it is an election year these political procedures are being revealed in the machinery of government and the machinery of opposition. [More…]
Without giving too much emphasis to it, let me mention that we all know it is true that the Labor Party has a selected candidate for a seat in the State of Victoria for a pending Federal election. [More…]
He has of course, referred to the relationship be: ween the Opposition and a person who is one of its candidates for an election which is lo be held. [More…]
For the, Australian Labor Party, having some pretention to persuading the people to give it power after the next election, to use a man like Mr Johnston as a carcass around which to generate a public campaign is a despicable performance for any organisation. [More…]
The Labor Party has endorsed Barry Johnston as a candidate for the forthcoming House of Representatives election. [More…]
Because the Labor Party has endorsed this man, who has not committeed a crime at this stage, as a candidate for an election it is the subject of condemnation by honourable senators on the other side of the chamber. [More…]
As Senator Byrne has said, the matter on which the Attorney-General commented very properly in carrying out his official duty was the extraordinary and deplorable behaviour of a candidate who has been endorsed by the ALP to stand for election to this Parliament and who has thumbed his nose at the due process of law. [More…]
When Mr Johnston, who is to be the Australian Labor Party candidate for Hotham at the forthcoming Federal election, attended a meeting of the Australian Labor Party as an endorsed Labor candidate, Senator Greenwood not only prejudged his guilt, as was so ably proved this afternoon by Senator Murphy, but also tried to gain cheap political capital - but achieved notoriety and, 1 suppose, infamy - by launching an attack not only on Mr Johnston but also on the Labor leader, the Leader of the Opposition in another place (Mr Whitlam), the President of the Victorian branch of the Labor movement, Mr Crawford, and on every member of the Labor movement throughout Australia. [More…]
Although you have not been tried for an offence, because the Attorney-General has said that you are guilty you should not come to a Labor conference as the endorsed Labor candidate for Hotham, offering yourself for election and asking the people to give you a mandate to represent them in the Parliament. [More…]
And we have been prepared to put that issue to the people election after election. [More…]
He is a man who now, as a member of the Australian Labor Party and that Party’s endorsed Labor candidate for the next election, has been served with a notice to attend for call-up. [More…]
is on the verge of an election victory. [More…]
Australia faces no discernible threat, in the words of the Liberal’s ex-Prime Minister, Mr Gorton, for at least the next 10 years and an election is to be held in the next few months as a result of which a government will be elected which is pledged to repeal the law under which Mr Johnston has been charged. [More…]
In these circumstances I do not believe that Mr Hughes would have recommended the prosecution of a candidate of one of the major political parties who was alleged to he calling in question by his own conduct a law which will be a major issue in the election in which he is a candidate. [More…]
If the Labor Parly insists on sticking to this lack, to placate its left wingers, it may so disenchant the electorate that it commits the equal absurdity of throwing away an election which up to now has looked already won. [More…]
He has indicated also that after the next Federal election there will not be a draft. [More…]
But I believe that the Labor Party will reverse that policy before the next election is held. [More…]
They believe that they can use the Australian Democratic Labor Party or any other means during an election campaign to gain power and that the power thus granted to them allows them to embark on anything to any limits. [More…]
But it has been the philosophy of this Government that if it can deceive the people at election time it can protect the status quo by any methods at all, particularly deception. [More…]
He has made that abundantly clear tonight by saying in effect: ‘If you go on like this it will not help you in an election.’ [More…]
The great bulk of the money that is made available is being expended in the hope that it will keep the various motoring organisations happy, particularly prior to a federal election. [More…]
Will the Government introduce legislation before the next Federal election to require the publication in a public register of all substantial financial contributions directly or indirectly to any political party or organisation which supports candidates for election to the Federal Parliament? [More…]
This is an interesting question because in recent weeks when Labor Party leaders have risen to give a dissertation on what their policies are to be for the election I have been reminded of a Walter Mitty test pilot in action because each day they take up a new kind of aircraft, test it, see whether it will fly with the wind but invariably it crashes. [More…]
I would like to quote something which was quoted in 3 or papers, and which was analysed as such and not denied, of what Mr Whitlam said in opening the Labor Parly’s Federal election campaign in Victoria. [More…]
If we refused to increase prices in election years would it not be said that it was through the pressure of fear? [More…]
They know - those of them who are listening tonight can judge me when I next come up for election - that every wage increase they receive which is not matched by an increase in productivity takes from them the standard of living that they want to enjoy, and that every advantage they gain, in terms of increased leave, which is not matched by an expansion of the economy and an expansion of production only makes it more difficult for the pensioners and superannuitants on their fixed incomes to survive in our community as it is today. [More…]
As the current agreement extends until 1977, is it a fact that the Government intends to extend the agreement before the next Federal election? [More…]
He was elected to the Senate at the general elections of 1949 and 1951, the Senate election in 1953 and the general election in 1958. [More…]
I have an idea that an election is to be held in Tasmania shortly and I have heard some of the elements of this matter referred to. [More…]
But I say again to the business community and the manufacturing community: If you expect to have your interests reasonably regarded, it is necessary for you to provide a quota from your area for the Parliament, rather than think, perhaps, that because you make a donation at election time your interests will be safeguarded. [More…]
Immediately after his election, the new Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, flew to Brisbane and conversed with Mr BjelkePetersen, the Premier of that State. [More…]
Senator Bonner did not deny that this happened but he used the occasion to make an attack on Senator Gair who may face election at the same time as he does. [More…]
Has he read the reported statement by the Leader of the Opposition in another place, Mr Whitlam, when in Ade laide attending the unusually quiet Australian Labor Party Federal Executive meeting, that Labor would try very hard - I believe this is significant enough to repeat - labor would try very hard - to raise a volunteer army and do away with conscription if it won the Federal election? [More…]
I believe that if the Australian Labor Party won an election on this basis action would be taken by the Federal body, which is the boss, to ensure that its own real views of intense antagonism to the independent schools would be put into effect. [More…]
1 shall conclude by setting out 6 points of principle on which I oppose entirely this proposition for an independent schools commission which Mr Whitlam says is one of the big issues on which he will fight the November election. [More…]
I would like to fight the election against him on that basis. [More…]
We know that Senator Young has preselection problems which have been complicated further by the possibility of Mr Hall seeking a berth on the Senate ticket for the next election. [More…]
Senator Young finds himself in a somewhat similar position and seeks to use the Australian Labor Party as a whipping horse to bolster his chance of pre-selection. [More…]
The Federal Government at every opportunity is raising the suggestion that law and order is at stake and is apparently intending to create a bogey to bolster its chances of winning the next Federal election. [More…]
Il is also evident in the action by the Attorney-General in .stepping up prosecutions against national service objectors in this the election year while some of these prosecutions may well have been effected two years ago. [More…]
The danger of law and order myth as even a semblance of an issue lies in the re-election of a Government which could then claim a mandate for more and more repressive laws as did the Nazi Party in Germany. [More…]
Labor Party or any other party - will allow itself to be run by propaganda, even on the eve of an election. [More…]
The State Ministers for Agriculture agreed that the best solution to the problem should be to provide for the election of producer representatives to the Board in lieu of the existing provisions. [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 poposal is not acceptable as it is considered that as provision is being made for the election of producer members it should be left to the producers to decide by a majority vote whether a beekeeper with packer interests should be elected. [More…]
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…]
In order to qualify as a candidate for election or for the right to vote for a candidate for election to the Honey Board an apiarist must have 200 hives. [More…]
For that reason I am in full agreement with the provision that a person should have 200 hives in order to be eligible to become a candidate for election or to vote at the election. [More…]
There is provision in this Bill for packers to be appointed quite apart from the election of honey producers. [More…]
Australia in the case of the election some 3 years ago of a member of the Egg Board. [More…]
Up to 5 people on one farm were allowed to vote for the election of a member to the Egg Board because of the wording of the relevant Act. [More…]
They fear that the same thing may occur in the case of election of members to the Honey Board. [More…]
If these dates were to be used as the criteria for determining who was to be qualified to vote at this first election for the Honey Board it would give an unfair advantage to some people. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Primary Industry to have a consultation with the State Ministers for Agriculture at some future date - I know it cannot be done before this election - to see whether something can be done to bring about a uniform registration date in all States. [More…]
Each State would then have the same registration date for the purpose of future elections of the Honey Board. [More…]
I understand that the Minister for Air (Senator Drake-Brockman) who in this chamber represents the Minister for Primary Industry may be able to tell us why, at this time, a uniform registration date cannot be introduced for this election. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill - this is why it should be fully commended by the Senate - is to change this unsatisfactory method of appointment of producer members and to provide for a reasonable form of democratic election by the producers themselves of their representatives on the Board. [More…]
Incidentally, on this point of the election of representatives of honey producers to the Honey Board, the eligibility qualification of 200 hives does embrace the major honey producers of Australia. [More…]
Although, as I have said, 1 believe that this change in the method of the election of representatives of honey producers to the Board will go a long way towards removing the dissatisfaction that obviously exists among certain producers in the honey industry, it is my opinion that a good deal of dissatisfaction will continue to be felt because a referendum of honey producers to seek their views on whether or not this Board is required has never been held. [More…]
We believe that the general set-up of the new board and the method of election of members will be better than the method that has been adopted in the past. [More…]
I think we can safely leave the election of representatives in the hands of the people who are eligible to elect representatives on the Board. [More…]
If the Bill is passed there will be a poll of producers at least for the election of producer representatives on the Board. [More…]
According to the Minister’s second reading speech, the amending Bill lays down that there will be a poll for the election to the Honey Board and that eligibility to vote will be restricted to those producers of honey having 200 or more hives. [More…]
to extend the terms of office of the present industry members of the Board to 30th June 1972 or such later date as may be specified by the Minister to enable the election to be held. [More…]
The situation was that the South Australian Apiarists Association requested that eligibility to vote or eligibility to stand as a candidate for election to the Australian Honey Board should be based on the ownership of 200 hives at the last date of registration instead of the time of voting as provided in the Bill. [More…]
figure of 200 hives was arrived at as the number which would give as many people as possible the right to vote and to stand for election to the Board. [More…]
As I understand it, that includes the election of the representatives as well as other matters which might be considered. [More…]
I have already raised in this chamber the issue in relation to a decision of the High Court of Australia in the case of Willocks and Anderson in which the High Court invalidated regulations which purported to confer jurisdiction upon the High Court to act as a court of disputed returns over the mere matter of a disputed election for the membership of the Apple and Pear Board, I think it was. [More…]
the Dried Fruits Export Control (Election of Board) Regulations and the Dairy Produce Export Control (Election of Board) Regulations are also invalid in part. [More…]
Quite rightly Mr Stubbs, in a Press statement, said that Senator Greenwood was raising the issue to draw attention away from Federal Liberal problems in an election year. [More…]
1 think that the last Senate election in Queensland indicated that I had the support of a very great group of Aborigines who had voting facilities. [More…]
He is getting into a bigger panic these days because he is only a few weeks away from a State election. [More…]
There is every indication that it will not survive until election time this year. [More…]
There is no doubt in my mind that prior to the election the Minister will initiate actions against unions by standing down their members. [More…]
Anybody who has any doubt about that need wait only until the next general election is held to find out that I was right in what I said. [More…]
The Senate will recall that we debated this matter prior to Senator Guilfoyle’s election to the Senate. [More…]
Does the Minister representing the -Minister for Foreign Affairs agree that election motivated protests by Mr Whitlam and other senior Australian Labor Party leaders about the resolution on Vietnam last week by the Victorian Branch of the ALP are entirely illogical? [More…]
It is doubtful that their function is to use children as a means of trying to impose their will on the authorities of the day, when the will of the people at election time is the right will to be imposed upon governments. [More…]
Mr Farran says the DLP misrepresented Freeth’* speech, then claimed the credit when the then Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) ‘whittled- the speech away as the election drew nearer. [More…]
Therefore, in the event or possibility of a dispute involving public servants an election may be made whether to go to the Arbitration Commission orto the Public Service Arbitrator. [More…]
But I have seen politicians do things out of character with their personality - things which normally they would not do - in order to make their job secure for 6 years and to gain re-election for a second 6 year period in this place. [More…]
I have seen things happen in political parties which I did not think would happen and which normally would not have happened had the people concerned not been seeking re-election. [More…]
I invite Government supporters to tell me why the Government has brought in this special legislation affecting this section of employees, other than to create disputes for election propaganda purposes, when already the Government has redress under existing legislation containing penal provisions. [More…]
I was the secretary of his committee in the year in which he was defeated in the Senate election. [More…]
In every policy speech which he has made at election time for quite a few years he has set out the strong view of the Democratic Labor Party that Australia must have its own aircraft industry. [More…]
I am prompted by Senator Maunsell to recall that, whether we like it or not, a famous Commonwealth election was held in 1938 during which a future Labor Prime Minister argued about the supremacy of the air arm. [More…]
With the evidence of what happened in Victoria over the weekend who knows but that by the next election the Opposition again may be a rabble and the DLP, with its small numbers, will have to do the Opposition’s job as it has been doing for a considerable period. [More…]
The Government in the general election of 1969 and the Senate election of 1970 said that it would negotiate with the health insurance funds regarding the payment of increased benefits for nursing home patients who have been regular contributors to health insurance funds. [More…]
No doubt the Leader of the Government in the Senate is aware of the result of last Saturday’s State election for the Tasmanian House of Assembly at which the Australian Labor Party won a handsome majority in every electorate, and also that the Leader of the Liberal Party resigned his leadership. [More…]
Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONYes, I suppose it is fair to say that I read the newspapers and saw the result of the election. [More…]
The honeymoon is now on because of the projected result of the election but we will not know the implications of the result until the honeymoon is over. [More…]
I refer to growing reports that the Prime Minister is still stalling because he fears that the cost of at least $300m could be a major vote loser at the next election. [More…]
Will the Government guarantee that any recommended scheme will be placed before the public well before the election so that its advantages and disadvantages, in relation particularly to the economic factors involved, can be debated at length? [More…]
In order to secure these policy objectives, there were 5 desirable objectives in the October 1969 Federal election, (a) prevention of the ALP victory which would have destroyed national service, the ‘forward defence’ policy and the pesence in Vietnam; (b) reduction of the Government’s majority to a still comfortable 6-7 seats, to ensure that the Government could not claim any popular mandate for its defence or ‘Russian’ policies [More…]
The election of John Gorton as Prime Minister, with the associated defence policies, was an anathema to PWF’s objectives. [More…]
It claimed that in order to implement its policy, 5 objectives were desirable in the October federal election. [More…]
The allegation is that during this period these people discussed various steps that they should take relating to the Federal election in 1969, one of their goals being a substantia! [More…]
The result is never known on the Saturday night of the election. [More…]
Perhaps other honourable senators have not thought of this but I realise that this is an election year. [More…]
I think a give-away Budget will be presented in August and that the utmost advantage will be taken to publicise that Budget in order to prepare the people for a possible election in November. [More…]
It will be recalled that at a recent Senate inquiry in the United States it was revealed that this giant conglomerate first of all set out to try to prevent the election of the Allende Government in Chile. [More…]
Let me remind honourable senators that, first of all, ITT attempted to prevent the election of the Allende Government - although we do not like that type of government, nevertheless it was democratically elected - and, having failed to prevent that Government’s election ITT set out then to destroy the Chilean economy as a means of destroying that Government. [More…]
At every election that has taken place since the DLP came into existence in 1955, the DLP has boasted proudly that it has propped up in office this Government which has committed itself to this policy. [More…]
I well recall in the 1966 election - the Vietnam election, the khaki election - a DLP spokesman saying that Australia could not afford to do anything about overseas capital or to impose restraints upon overseas capital at that time because such action could place in jeopardy the interest that the United States of America might take in the defence of Australia. [More…]
Already the announcement has been made that at the next Federal election the DLP again will be giving its preferences to the present Government- [More…]
What I am saying is that already the announcement has been made that at the next Federal election the DLP again will be giving its preferences to the present Government which has not as yet introduced any legislative or administrative proposals to stop this carnivorous eating of Australia’s national assets. [More…]
We believe that if this Government does not do something about the matter between now and the next election it will go under. [More…]
Certainly, when a Labor government is elected to office in the next federal election it will take action to stop this flood of capital coming into this country. [More…]
But what do we see on each occasion an election is held? [More…]
The danger in this respect - again, Senator Kane hinted at this - is: How far will such a company interfere in a country’s Internal operations at election time? [More…]
Instead of squabbling about what is going on in the country and speculating on who will win the next election and on how it will be won, the Government must realise that this important legislation requires amendment at the earliest opportunity. [More…]
He campaigned for election on the one issue of abolition of a certain type of tax. [More…]
The importance of the election of Senator Negus should figure prominently in the minds of the Government. [More…]
I join my colleagues on this side of the Senate in expressing disappointment that the report, of the Senate Select Committee on Off-shore Petroleum Resources, which deliberated for 2 to 3 years, should receive such scant recognition by the Senate only a few weeks prior to the winter recess, with a busy Budget session ahead and with an election in November. [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 members of the Labor Party know that election time is near they look over their shoulders and turn to pillars of salt, as people did in earlier days. [More…]
There are no ex-officio members and any person who has achieved distinction in the social sciences is eligible for election. [More…]
While a Press statement which was released states that no decision has yet been taken, I again ask the Minister whether the Government will guarantee that the details of any recommended scheme will be put up for public discussion before the Federal election or whether the giving of such a guarantee will be refused because of the divisions in the coalition Government about that scheme. [More…]
Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONIt is an election period there at the present time. [More…]
A completely different picture now has developed in this country as a result of the recent election campaign and the conclusions reached by the people and the political parties which took part in it. [More…]
Whilst I was at Mount Hagen in the week before the opening of the House, a person who had been deeply concerned with that area for 20 years said, when I asked him for his view of the understanding of the people of the election, that approximately 80 per cent of the individ uals entitled to vote would have voted. [More…]
He believed that of that number 30 per cent fully understood what the election was about. [More…]
I am conscious that some members of the Committee said that it would be impossible to report before the election. [More…]
I would like to see an inquiry commenced even if it is on the understanding that the Committee could not possibly report before the election. [More…]
The Aborigines have indicate publicly on more than one occasion that they are prepared to move out after the election. [More…]
This is not the criticism of a political party seeking to gain electoral advantage in the pending State election in Queensland. [More…]
In the last election campaign in Queensland 3 years ago it was only natural that the Country Party Premier of Queensland and his Cabinet Ministers, on their tours of the State, would come in for some criticism in country areas regarding the inequality of freight charges. [More…]
The Queensland Government appointed a firm of management consultants by the name of Beckingsale Management Services Pty Ltd. Now, 3 years later and on the eve of another election, the Country Party is silent about the results of the inquiry. [More…]
I challenge him l.o do so before election day, 27th May. [More…]
Although I have been throughout the length and breadth of the State recently in connection with the State election campaign and have directed questions to members of the Country Party in the various areas I have visited, I have received no reply. [More…]
J believe that with the help of many of his colleagues he made a very good election speech. [More…]
Prior to the last State election in Queensland, the Premier said: ‘We have no intention whatsoever of interfering with the liquor laws of Queensland’. [More…]
One could be excused for wondering whether there was an election around the corner somewhere in the next week or two because of the remarks which have come from the other side of the chamber. [More…]
Before entering this field of the election - after all I have to reply to some of the unfair criticism which has been levelled against the Government - I think that I should speak to the Bill and the reason for it. [More…]
It is of no use for that Government to cry out about other issues such as law and order, and to bring all kinds of extraneous issues into the election campaign. [More…]
I would prefer to support a proportional method of election for all places, rather than the method that the Queensland Government is imposing upon the people. [More…]
The Queensland Government - one might well say that it will be the Government for many years to come, perhaps even for decades, despite the rather fine political speeches heard tonight; I might even term them part of the election campaigning that has been carried on tonight by some Opposition senators from Queensland - applied to the Commonwealth Grants Commission for special assistance. [More…]
I have not pointed out these things merely because a State election is being held in Queensland this month, although it seems to me to be strange that members of the Opposition said quite a lot in this debate in condemnation of the Queensland Government. [More…]
I do not intend to make an election speech here. [More…]
A while ago I heard Senator Bonner say that the State election will be held next month - that will be June. [More…]
By amendment of the Bill in the House, we have provided that an action under section 141 of the Act in relation to an election for office in an organisation must be taken within 12 months of the completion of the election. [More…]
By virtue of a further amendment in the House, we have made a like provision in relation to application for an inquiry into a court-controlled’ ballot for election to office in an organisation except that the period for instituting proceedings is 6 and not 12 months. [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…]
Reference is made to development works about which we hear each election time but about which the Queensland Government, especially the Country Party component of it, has failed to do anything. [More…]
At that point, the election meeting was brought down with laughter. [More…]
We have heard a series of speeches relating not to this Queensland Grant Bill at all but to the Queensland State election. [More…]
That is for you, Senator Georges, as a Queensland senator claiming to represent your State, to make a judgment upon in your own State during the election campaign, but hardly in the Commonwealth Senate when it is dealing with a Commonwealth Grants Commission Bill designed to give $9m to the people of your State in order to lift living standards there. [More…]
If he thinks that, he should stand for election as a member of the Queensland State Parliament. [More…]
They are conducting a State election campaign in the Commonwealth Senate. [More…]
It bore a lot of relation to the pending State election in Queensland. [More…]
He made an extraordinary statement when he said that the Opposition turned the debate into an election campaign and that at no time did the Commonwealth Grants Commission make the criticisms that the Opposition claimed it had made. [More…]
They are not, as he claimed, the accusations of the Australian Labor Party seeking to make political capital at a time when a State election is pending in Queensland. [More…]
On the second score, I do not know how he will explain why the Queensland Premier in 1969 gave an assurance to the people of Queensland, prior to the previous State election, that he would order an inquiry into the freight anomalies in Queensland. [More…]
lt was a very poor show that he should take the opportunity in winding up the debate - that is what the situation amounted to because our intention was not to enter into a major debate on the third reading of the Bill - to be facetiously provocative and to accuse the Opposition of turning the debate into a forum for an election campaign. [More…]
For the Minister’s benefit, I inform him that the $9m that Mr Johannes Bjelke-Petersen is getting under this legislation will be paying for part of his election campaign. [More…]
This is a hardy perennial which is raised every time there is an election campaign in Queensland. [More…]
It was said that there was an electioneering aspect about it. [More…]
The debate from the other side of the chamber did have an election flair to it and 1 am quite confident that if the Queensland elections were not to be held on 27th May we would not have had the outburst that we have had. [More…]
Senator Wood is the one who mentioned the election. [More…]
He is the one who claimed that we were electioneering. [More…]
We know that the Queensland State election will be held on Saturday week, and it is patently obvious that the question asked by the honourable senator, which bears absolutely no relationship to any matter of Commonwealth responsibility, is but one way in which some cheap publicity might be secured for a party which cannot get any other publicity that is likely to assist it. [More…]
Whether or not I know what the Queensland Police Union is doing; whether or not I believe what it is doing reflects confidence or otherwise in a government, obviously are only questions which could be designed to ensure that this Senate becomes a forum for the State election in Queensland. [More…]
I think that my Party at one time, under certain leadership, had the odd impression that it could win elections by the number of matters of urgency that it put on the notice paper for discussion. [More…]
Then there came the time when the Democratic Labor Party, following the election of Senator Kane, had sufficient numbers to stand in this place in justification of the raising of matters of urgency. [More…]
I also ask the Minister: As any such scheme would vitally affect the aircraft industry, its skilled workers and the future role of the Government Aircraft Factories in the national scheme, does he consider it necessary that a decision be made before the Federal election is held? [More…]
He will be the Minister for Labour after the next election, and in that case he will revert the whole thinking on legislation back to conciliation, where it should be based. [More…]
I think we must accept that the Minister was the member of a political party which, popular opinion polls showed, was out of favour with the people and would never see the light of day in a subsequent election. [More…]
His Party intended to fight the forthcoming election on lawlessness in industry. [More…]
Is the Minister aware thai a magistrate’s court held at Brisbane on 13th and 14th March 1972 for the purpose of taking evidence into the alleged disappearance of drought aid funds was transferred from a public court to a conference room in the Brisbane Treasury Building with an allegedly inadequate period of notice to the public and has now been adjourned until a date after the State election? [More…]
I have had occasion to say before that it is an unobservant person who would not realise that there is a State election about to take place in Queensland. [More…]
One may reasonably accurately forecast the approximate date of the Federal election by calculating the likely date of passage of the ensuing legislation. [More…]
I only regret that the Queensland State election has produced the result that this forum is available for the purpose of debating Queensland State issues which have absolutely no relevance to any issue concerning this Senate. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite think that they can influence the Queensland election by going there tomorrow, one day before the election is held, they amaze me. [More…]
There are means by which the election of their own representatives is taken out of their hands. [More…]
I remind him that 53.7 per cent of the members voted in the last election conducted by the Federated Clerks Union of Australia in 1970; that in 1964, 59.4 per cent of the members voted; and that in 1961, 68.6 per cent of the members voted. [More…]
Let me remind honourable senators of the voting pattern in elections conducted by that union in recent years. [More…]
For instance, in the 1967 ballot for the election of officials the Port Kembla branch showed a return of 55.23 per cent and the Victorian branch showed a return of 56.04 per cent. [More…]
Generally it was making statements in debate here and in other places to the effect that the Government was doomed in the forthcoming election. [More…]
Democratic Labor Party, preferences will be recommended io Liberal and Country Party candidates, as a general rule, at this year’s Federal election. [More…]
He is the son of a former Democratic Labor Party candidate in a parliamentary election. [More…]
shall be eligible for election as medical members of the Association. [More…]
I repeat that there is no doubt in my mind, as I know there is no doubt in the minds of anyone on this side of the chamber or in the minds of honourable senators on the other side that this Bill is a political stunt to try to save the Government’s hide at the next election. [More…]
Party, as was shown conclusively in the Federal election in 1961 when the fate of the then Prime Minister, Robert Gordon Menzies, was hanging in the balance. [More…]
This has been a deliberate act by the Government in seeking an election issue or to build up its lost prestige. [More…]
The Bill has been presented in order to confront the trade union movement with the pernicious clauses it contains for the purpose of fighting an election on the issue of law and order. [More…]
The Government thought at one stage that the big election issue would be apartheid. [More…]
It is an election issue. [More…]
At one election Petrov was used as the big issue. [More…]
The Government has kicked the communist can as often as possible in recent election periods until the people have become sick and tired of it and it can no longer be used as an issue. [More…]
In one election the Government used the Vietnam war as an issue and on that occasion it was successful. [More…]
Their policy, at least in Victoria for many years, has been one of freedom to vote, particularly in municipal elections. [More…]
It is true that some municipalities in Victoria by their own decision have made voting compulsory, but the vast majority of local government elections in Victoria are held on the basis that a person eligible to vote may do so or may decline to do so. [More…]
I venture to say that only 25 per cent to 30 per cent of eligible ratepayers have voted in the majority of local government elections in Victoria, at least in cities, towns and shires outside the metropolitan area of Melbourne. [More…]
If the Government is so concerned about this great democratic method of election it should move quickly to that end, with the co-operation of State parliaments, to ensure that this system of so-called democracy is available to all. [More…]
It is strange to note that each year prior to an election the Government introduces a Conciliation and Arbitration Bill. [More…]
That was an election year. [More…]
We find again this year that prior to a general election we are debating another Conciliation and Arbitration Bill. [More…]
There are only 5 or 6 altogether in this Bill which is so important that it has to be rushed through on the eve of an election. [More…]
That was the legislation which this Government put through the Parliament in the dying stages of the 1970 autumn session and prior to the 1970 Senate election. [More…]
In 1967 there was a ballot for the election of delegates to the Australian Workers Union annual convention. [More…]
A similar pattern was disclosed at the 1968 elections, at which there was a ballot for similar-, positions. [More…]
Surely they have the right to decide their own form of election. [More…]
I am not going to give Bob Hawke all the credit for being personally responsible, following his election as president of the ACTU, for the trade union movement at last getting some semblance of recognition for the work that its members performed. [More…]
It has introduced other measures in an endeavour to get some support from the public on the eve of an election. [More…]
Apparently the Government now thinks - as it did in 1970 - that the best weapon it has to fool the people on the eve of an election is legislation to alter the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Apparently it did not pay much attention to the figures of the 1970 election when the Government’s numbers in this chamber were reduced. [More…]
It is obvious that the same thing will happen at the next election. [More…]
What is more important - and this is the assurance that we give to the Australian people - upon our election at the end of this year we shall repeal this legislation. [More…]
Was that section written into the Act by the Chifley Labor Government as a result of the ‘John Austral’ series of radio broadcasts which were dramatisations of political matters deliberately connected with an election and deliberately designed to influence the results of a Federal election? [More…]
Is the programme Our Man in Canberra’ a comedy or a satirical programme designed for entertainment purposes and not designed for the purpose of deliberately influencing the result of an election? [More…]
We believe that there should be appropriate procedures which will enable the advantages and the disadvantages of amalgamation to be made known to the various members of the organisations, that the members of the organisations will have the opportunity to vote, not in accordance with the rules of the organisations but in accordance with the way in which a court conducted ballot will ensure that the election is conducted fairly and so that there should be an effective membership decision as to whether or not the amalgamation is to proceed. [More…]
Here we see the alignment of the 2 forces who are facing an election which will be fought on a platform set against the activities of the trade unions. [More…]
If those people not only want to preserve the little existing protection that they have but also get greater protection for their right to work in their own profession in their own country, they should not only vote this Government out of office but actively come out and support Australian Labor Party candidates at the forthcoming Federal election. [More…]
The Government has indicated its lethargy and inaction and I warn all those who are engaged in the television industry - actors, writers, producers and technicians - that if this Government is returned to office the very little protection that they now have can well be dissipated after the next election. [More…]
The other matter I want to raise relates to the Department of the Interior and the unsatisfactory state of the electoral rolls at the previous Northern Territory Legislative Council elections held in October last. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he will ensure that support will be given to the new Northern Territory electoral officer in every way possible, both physically and financially, to enable him to carry out his task of putting in order the Northern Territory electoral rolls for the forthcoming Federal election. [More…]
I do not need to remind honourable senators of the state the rolls were in during the last local council elections. [More…]
I understand that the Commonwealth electoral rolls are used for local government elections. [More…]
I again ask the Government and the Minister responsible to do everything humanly possible to see that the Northern Territory rolls are brought up to date in time for this year’s Federal election. [More…]
just before the 1966 election. [More…]
In the past 1 2 months the British Tobacco Company’s public relations staff has been augmented by the appointment of Mr W. Bridges-Maxwell, who lost his Liberal seat of Robertson in New South Wales at the 1969 election. [More…]
I had that long wait between the election and taking my seat. [More…]
I am aware of the situation which has developed in Victoria concerning the difficulty of the Commonwealth Police in apprehending Mr Johnston and of the fact that he is to be a candidate at an election and that certain responsible persons or persons who hold high office in the Australian Labor Party are prepared to conduct a campaign on his behalf. [More…]
But this is a question which 1 am sure has absolutely no foundation in the sense that only a period of 5 days has elapsed since the Queensland election and the question imputes, on the part of a government which has been returned, action which no responsible government in this country would undertake. [More…]
This distortion is part of a thoroughly dishonest campaign which will be carried out during the forthcoming election campaign. [More…]
I warn Senator Carrick that if he wants to run an election campaign by making accusations of this kind we will be ready for him. [More…]
The proposal was announced first in October 1969 - perhaps honourable senators will recall that this was just prior to the last Federal general election - as a political gimmick. [More…]
It has been revived just prior to another Federal election almost 3 years later. [More…]
The matter was left to lie without a great deal of activity until the Government, which is again approaching political annihilation in another Federal election, increased the original vote of $3m to $8m. [More…]
It should not be made a political plaything of the Liberal-Country Party coalition Government every time there is an impending election. [More…]
Should this country be unfortunate enough to see the present Government returned to office in October or November this year, 1 could almost bet my last dollar, without any increase in Parliamentary salary, that the question of the Institute of Marine Science will again go into limbo and be raised only at the next Senate election. [More…]
Is it because after the election, if the Government is successful, it will cut down the vote and take away money from the Institute? [More…]
Can the Minister indicate whether Amalgamated Co-operative Marketers (Australia) Ltd’s action in nominating the General Manager, Mr K. R. Kent, and campaigning for his election to the Australian Dairy Produce Board as the representative of Victorian co-operative butter and cheese factories, is being done in the interests of the industry generally or is being motivated by commercial self-interest as has been alleged. [More…]
Are there any factors which would prevent a company from mounting a campaign for election of a candidate to the Australian Dairy Produce Board. [More…]
There is nothing in the relevant Act or regulations to say that a person who has been nominated as a candidate, or his company, shall not spend money to campaign for his election. [More…]
But each of us in the next few months will be called on to put an intensive effort into the election of our members of parliament. [More…]
Whether there be a return of the Government or fulfilment of the hopes of the Opposition at the forthcoming election it will be many months before honourable senators are free to devote their time to the work proposed. [More…]
(a) All legally qualified medical practitioners registered in any State of the Commonwealth of Australia or the Australian Capital Territory and practising or resident within any such State or the Australian Capital Territory are eligible for election as medical members of the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia Limited. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for the Interior whether voting facilities can be provided for the recording of absentee votes in any polling booth throughout Australia at the next Commonwealth election without the need for amendments to the existing Commonwealth Electoral Act? [More…]
If the report is not true, will the Attorney-General state categorically that the new legislation, including that dealing with the monopolies commission, will be brought into the Parliament before the Federal election? [More…]
Let there be no mistake about it: This is a Budget designed to try to save the Government’s fortunes at the coming general election. [More…]
The Treasurer was anxious, perhaps as an election slogan, to give a brief portrayal of the Budget as he saw it. [More…]
In practice, this means bigger rises in election years and smaller rises at other times. [More…]
If the past performance of this Government is any guide, orders for expensive and flashy defence hardware, placed immediately prior to an election, can lead to an extended financial hangover which persists long after the electoral purpose of the orders has been completed. [More…]
Expedience is concerned with short term measures and the short term in this case is the 3-month period - less, I hope - between now and the Federal election. [More…]
I think that the people of Australia should beware of Treasurers so ostentatiously bearing gifts immediately prior to an election. [More…]
In other words, enjoy the Treasurer’s gifts today for who knows what the Liberal Government might do tomorrow - that is, after the election. [More…]
What I suggest is that many Australians might dwell on it before election night. [More…]
We are being asked to make the Budget an election issue. [More…]
Election after election saw the return of Mr Menzies, as he then was, as Prime Minister, and thereafter his 3 successors. [More…]
We all remember the famous cry of previous elections, particularly in 1963: Where is the money coming from?’ [More…]
Our 1963 election proposals were costed at 170m over a period of 3 years. [More…]
Mr Whitlam had ‘made a botch’ of estimating his election promises. [More…]
I would suggest that, if it is said that at election time a Liberal style of government would normally use some of its influence to encourage business, there is very little encouragement in this Budget for the business community generally. [More…]
This was a period of post-war rehabilitation during which there were acute shortages of goods in Australia, and any government that won election in 1949 was assured .of being returned because it was basking in the glory and the efficiency of a buoyant economy. [More…]
This state continued until 1961 - an election year when there were 135,000 unemployed in Australia. [More…]
It was a Budget designed to restore the economy and solve the unemployment position and to win an election. [More…]
I do not think anyone disputes the fact that the general public believes that it is a Budget designed to win an election. [More…]
In order to win an election there have been handouts to every section of the community. [More…]
We must remember that possibly less than 10 per cent of the electors decide an election. [More…]
Turning to the question of the Budget winning votes, if the unemployment position was markedly reduced by the time of the election some people might accept the fact that the Government knew what it was doing. [More…]
As our Leader, Mr. Whitlam, said last night: ‘Do not think’ that the Labor Party is inconvenienced by the prospect of an early election’. [More…]
The sooner the election is held, the sooner the electors of Australia will express their judgment on the Budget. [More…]
In view of the imminence of the Federal election at which members of the House of Representative and a Senator will spend and have spent on their behalf considerable sums of money exceeding the statutory limit of $500 as prescribed by the Electoral Act, and in view of the necessity to make a statutory declaration which, according to the Electoral Act, is false if the sum spent on behalf of members and candidates exceeds $500, when can the Government be expected to bring in legislation amending the Electoral Act which will remove this embarrassing ambiguity and thus clear candidates from the obvious charge of perjury? [More…]
Will the Minister representing for the Interior disclose whether, in the House of Representatives election of 1969 and the Senate election of 1970 there were any known breaches of section 147 and the associated schedules of the Commonwealth Electoral Act which require the furnishing of statutory returns of electoral expenses with respect to the following: disclosure of excess expenditure above the figure prescribed by law; detecting of understatement of moneys expended by candidates, parties or organisations in the interests of candidates; failure to submit returns as required by law? [More…]
Will the Minister make available a schedule of returns submitted in relation to the aforementioned elections, giving details of the contents of returns submitted by all candidates; by parties or organisations which have expended money in the interests of candidates within the definition of 147 of the Act; and by newspapers? [More…]
Nevertheless should any Minister take that to heart he has time to resign his portfolio between today and election day, which will probably be Christmas Eve - the same day of the year as that on which the last cyclone struck north Queensland. [More…]
After all, the Government has been in power for 2 decades and it is only when it faces the crisis of a declining vote in a national election that it has suddenly been able to find money for a number of things. [More…]
The Government will do nothing positive between now and the election date to implement the plans. [More…]
Come election day it still will not be amended if the current rate of progress is maintained. [More…]
We know that in any set of circumstances which could possibly confront the Government between now and election day it is unlikely to improve its position. [More…]
There was no need to have a snap election before they wake up. [More…]
If the Government takes my advice it will go as long as it can before calling an election in the hope that something will turn up. [More…]
Last year - 1971 - when the election campaign was being held the Butler group would write letters. [More…]
Would you read them please and let me know before the Senate election if you agree or if not why. [More…]
Perhaps if I had had a battery of Liberal senators with me, who knows, with an election coming on we might have won the day. [More…]
Whom do honourable senators think supported the United Party at the recent election? [More…]
Whom do honourable senators think found the funds for it to fight ah election? [More…]
Or is it because of a certain election which is just around the corner? [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that in the last Senate election campaign the Government mentioned its endeavours to set up a rural insurance corporation. [More…]
I ask: Quite apart from the serious consequences of revaluation to the primary, mining and secondary industries and unemployment, is it not an act of surpreme irresponsibility and reckless ill judgment for a party leader, a few months prior to an election, to foreshadow the possibility of a currency revaluation? [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 an election year. [More…]
The Budget will solve nothing, despite the attempts of its framers to ease somewhat the taxation problems facing the average man, despite attempts to increase pensions, despite endeavours to provide subsidies to those in need, despite attempts to improve the lot of students in secondary and tertiary establishments and despite many of the other gimmicks which are characteristics of this election Budget. [More…]
Can anyone imagine that any leader of a party - an aspiring Prime Minister - would come out on the eve of an election with a proposition on a controversial subject on which he did not have the support of his party? [More…]
We have heard about it being time; that things should have been done years ago and that they will be done after the next election. [More…]
I did not know that overseas buyers ever considered the fact that a federal election was to be held in Australia when they paid for wool. [More…]
I trust that at the forthcoming election the people of Australia will recognise the benefits of the Budget. [More…]
I would say that since 1949 right up to the time at which this Budget was presented - as it will do until the next general election which, I anticipate will be in November - this Government has ruled by political expediency. [More…]
It is very interesting to take note of the fact that in 1969 the present Government, when the Australian Labor Party included the abolition of the means test in its election speeches said that it could not finance the abolition of the means test. [More…]
In 1972 - an election year, mark you - the Government has said that it could do it in 3 years. [More…]
At least it is rather significant that in election years some very good promises are always made by the existing government. [More…]
I would suggest that many of the pensioners say: Thank God for election years’. [More…]
When one goes back and examines the election promises that are made and what is done in relation to budgets in non-election years one can see quite well that the only time the people in the lower income bracket receive anything from the Government is in an election year. [More…]
The Government kicks them in the teeth for 2 years and gives them a hand out at election time. [More…]
I agree with Senator Cavanagh, I do not think they have accepted it on this occasion and that is one reason why I said a few moments ago that I believe the election will not be held until November. [More…]
I say merely that the Prime Minister has no intention, in my opinion, of holding an election before November because there is an event coming off on which he wants to make history. [More…]
It would be unrealistic to expect Mr Whitlam in his Budget speech not to look towards the election. [More…]
If recommendations cannot be made before the election, what guarantee have the people of Australia that the recommendations by Professor Henderson will be carried out? [More…]
Will the Government give a firm assurance now that the recommendations made by Professor Henderson will be implemented, and that this long-needed inquiry will not be used as an election gimmick by a desperate government on the eve of dismissal? [More…]
I understand from the answer the Minister gave to my earlier question about the inquiry into poverty that he believes that no report can be expected until after the election. [More…]
Will the Minister explain how the Prime Minister was able to say on the ‘AM’ programme this morning that an interim report on the basic issues of poverty was expected before the election? [More…]
Prior to my election to the Senate I was urging on various committees 2 things. [More…]
It will be interesting to see after the next election how Western Australia starts to get on the move once again. [More…]
When Western Australia returns to good government, as it will after the next State election, we will then have the same type of situation that we had in 1959 where in a period of 12 months Western Australia went from a State on the verge of bankruptcy and a State that had made no progress whatever to a situation which resulted in the greatest progress in any period of its history. [More…]
From the Opposition’s point of view this is obviously an election Budget. [More…]
A great deal has been said to the effect that the Budget is good merely because this is an election year. [More…]
We would not have much appreciation or much regard for a government that did not have enough sense to bring in a good Budget in an election year. [More…]
We are grateful that, even if this is an election year, a number of people has been given something of which they are in need and which they will appreciate. [More…]
I believe that this Budget will gain considerable public support for the Government when the election is held. [More…]
Perhaps the Government can remedy this serious Budget omission by making a firm commitment in its election programme to increase substantially in the next budget child endowment payments. [More…]
We hope that the failure to increase child endowment will be remedied before the coming election. [More…]
If, as I would assume, we are successful at the forthcoming election I would not be at all surprised to see the means test go by the board very smartly. [More…]
It is rather significant that in this election year Senator Hannan and other Liberal senators, including Senator Greenwood, have concentrated their attack on the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
In commenting on the issues of the election, because these arc election issues, I would say that most people in the community realise that the Budget which has been brought down by this Government is an election Budget. [More…]
In the years that have preceded this election the Government has generally put the brakes on the economy. [More…]
If it believes in the sorts of things it is putting up at this election such as social welfare, the need to control overseas investment and the need to plan the economy, why has it not done these things during those 23 years? [More…]
As one who is proud to be a member of the Government earn and as one who I firmly believe will be contesting an election in the next few months,I proudly support the measures that have been promised and that I know most surely will be implemented in a short space of time. [More…]
These are facts which cannot be disputed, and I am quite sure they will be revealed further during the coming Federal election campaign in my State as well as perhaps throughout the nation. [More…]
Members of the Australian Labor Party have said that they consider that this is an election Budget. [More…]
As an Independent I think the Labor Party would like to be in the same position, if this is an election Budget, and produce a similar one because in my opinion it is a very good Budget. [More…]
It would be unrealistic to expect Mr Whitlam in his Budget speech not to look towards the election. [More…]
That arises from Gough’s election van which, having for a year or so careered recklessly all over the community without Ralph Nader’s approval, like the second hand car in the television advertisement, distributing election promises right and left is now falling to pieces as the sheer weight of public opinion focuses upon the stream of policies which now have no legs with which to run, and as the force of the alternative budget and the value of our promises leave it for dead. [More…]
Those issues are divided into one of 2 classes, either those that it knows are right and yet are opposed in its own platform and therefore should be opposed - in an election year it will not oppose them but will remain silent - and those that it would want to commend but will not because it is an election year. [More…]
Therefore I made the remarks that I made, lt would be utter nonsense to suggest that for this Senate or for any political party at election time- [More…]
The fact of the matter is that this Senate committee may well go on past the time of the election. [More…]
Are its policies going to be sub judice now and after the election if we hold matters in relation to the Senate committee on ice? [More…]
Today we have been engaged in a debate on the Budget and we are facing an election in the near future at a lime when the threat to the Government is the greatest it has ever been. [More…]
of I he Broadcasting and Television Act written into the Act, in the first instance, by the Chifley Government as a result of the John Austral series of radio broadcasts which were radio dramatisations of political events connected with an election and deliberately designed to influence the results of a Federal election. [More…]
Is the television programme ‘Our Man in Canberra’ a comedy or satirical programme designed for general entertainment and nol designed to deliberately influence the result of an election. [More…]
Will the Minister further tell us: Is there no limit to the efforts by this Government to traduce the trade union movement in this country, which has a legitimate place under law, just because it thinks it can obtain some advantage from this in the few weeks preceding a general election? [More…]
It may have some relevance, when the election comes around, to know precisely the view of the Australian Labor Party on this matter. [More…]
It raises the very real question - it may be in the election con tex to which Senator Georges and other Labor Party senators have referred - of how much credence can be placed upon what Mr Whitlam says and his ability to persuade the governing bodies of his own organisation to give effect to what he says, because this is one clear example of his being out of step with his own Party. [More…]
In no more than 2 months, I suppose, we will go to the election hustings. [More…]
His remark reminds me of a statement made some years ago by a former senior Minister when it was alleged at an election time that there was a nest of traitors in the Department of Foreign Affairs, but as soon as the election was over we heard nothing more about it. [More…]
Why is there this sudden attack 2$ or perhaps 3 months before an election? [More…]
The simple fact is that the Government has woken up to the tremendous influence the programme has had, is having and is likely to have on the Australian people during the course of the election campaign. [More…]
The Australian people will be looking to the programme, bearing in mind the tightness of control of the mass media generally, for an independent assessment of the political complexities and arguments that will arise during the course of the forthcoming election campaign. [More…]
So, out of the Government’s ‘resubmit at election time’ file we heard yesterday about an article in the Communist Party newspaper ‘Tribune’ of 3rd June 1 970- -something that was written more than 2i years ago and which no-one in the Senate bothered to mention until a mere 2i months before the election. [More…]
These things were trotted out of the Government’s ‘smear at election time’ file. [More…]
With reference to the 1969 election campaign, I asked the PostmasterGeneral: . [More…]
This attack which has been launched against members of the current affairs programme This Day Tonight’ is designed deliberately to destroy in the minds of the Australian people the credibility of the ABC a mere 2 months before an election. [More…]
We all know that it has done so because an election is soon to be held and never before has the Government been led by such a disaster as its present Prime Minister (Mr McMahon). [More…]
I do not want to make a prediction, but from talks I have had with supporters of the Liberal Party throughout Australia I would not be surprised if, should the present Liberal-Country Party Government be returned to office at the next election, which is a possibility, Mr McMahon were to be Prime Minister for only another year before being kicked upstairs to the position of Governor-General. [More…]
It is not prepared to put its foot down about anything because it thinks that its action might affect votes at the next election. [More…]
It is nonsensical that members of the Australian Country Party and those who hold seats in electorates verging on country areas are so scared about the possibility of not retaining their seats at the next election that they are prepared to sell their souls. [More…]
I say straight away that this is almost certain to occur after the general election. [More…]
I wish to add my personal regret that, owing to an election, the Republic of Singapore was not able to send delegates and, 1 8827/72- iS- [26] for other reasons, delegates from the British Solomon Islands were unable to attend. [More…]
It is a clear commitment by the Government, and when the Government is returned at the election it will be in a position to give some indication of the date on which the legislation to give effect to that objective can be brought in. [More…]
I arn aware that a Mr Barry Johnston is reported to have been endorsed by the Australian Labor Party as one of its candidates at the forthcoming federal election. [More…]
It was closed in order to store up something so that when the Budget came along in this election year - of course, this is good politics but it does not keep people in work and it did not keep pensioners with food in their larders - the Government was able to take off the locks with this Budget and come up with something which it hoped would appeal to the electors at large. [More…]
We will see about that when the election results are known. [More…]
I heard one of the leading aspirants for Cabinet rank if the Government is returned at the next election– [More…]
With an election probably hingeing on public reaction to the document which the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) delivered last night, the Government has placed all its eggs in two baskets: income taxes and pensions. [More…]
What’s the value of a politician’s word in an election year? [More…]
Because it is election year. [More…]
Is it being saved to be used as another election gimmick so that the Government can come along, like Santa Claus, in the policy speech and say: “Yes, we are going to abolish the wine tax”?’ [More…]
I well remember that at the height of the Vietnam war in 1969 Senator Jessop and a couple of his colleagues in the other place lost their seats at the election because of their policy on defence. [More…]
Had the present Commonwealth Government not been using the communist bogey as an election issue year after year and created bad relations with Communist China, as it termed that country in those days- [More…]
When we become the government and as soon as the election has been held this will be one of the first things that we will look to, because we believe in getting the people out of the cities to where they can have a decent living without having to travel for li hours each day in order to get to work. [More…]
I thank the honourable senator for reminding me because I now want to tell the Senate that immediately on the election of a federal Labor government we are going to release all pol itical prisoners who have committed a breach of the so-called National Service Act. [More…]
Nothing would please me more and nothing would please the Australian Labor Party more than for the election to be held forthwith. [More…]
Nothing would please the people of Australia more than to have a quick election and nothing would serve the nation better than a change of government, which will be the inevitable result of an election. [More…]
But there is now some doubt that there will be an early election. [More…]
So the Prime Minister is now dilly-dallying He has refused to declare when an election will be held. [More…]
I fear that the election will be postponed until the latest possible moment because no time is suitable for the Government to hold an election and no time is suitable for the Prime Minister to face the people. [More…]
I am merely stating that the sooner an election is held the better. [More…]
The sooner an election is held the better. [More…]
There only rests the hope of Government members for a successful result in this coming election. [More…]
Their only chance in this coming election rests with a maximising of the. [More…]
coming election there will be a change of government. [More…]
The DLP in this coming election will be negated. [More…]
But these are arrangements which have been made by a Government which faces an election in complete disarray. [More…]
the forthcoming election or it is worried . [More…]
We are witnessing one of the great historical occasions in this country at a time when honourable senators opposite are afraid of some political implications at the election. [More…]
I do not think that this is going to affect the election one way or the other. [More…]
This is not a matter on which the election will turn. [More…]
All these things combine to make them eminently capable of understanding what is involved in casting a vote at a Federal election. [More…]
Apart from those facts, it is quite absurd to have 18, 19 and 20-year-olds voting at some elections and not at others. [More…]
He said that the Council fully supported the action proposed at the time by the Australian Labor Party and the Australia Party in seeking to take legal action to force the vote for 18-year-olds in this year’s Federal election. [More…]
On the eve of the 1969 Federal election the former Prime Minister, Mr Gorton, said that he believed that 18-year-olds would be able to vote at this year’s poll. [More…]
Nevertheless, on the eve of an election he indicated his expectation. [More…]
Yet these people are barred from sharing in the election of those who will make the decisions that affect their lives in nearly every way. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party firmly believes that we ought to do in this country what has been done in the United States of America and the United Kingdom and allow our people to vote at 18 years of age as the citizens of Papua New Guinea voted at 18 in the election held earlier this year. [More…]
I hope that those who have indicated their support for this principle - members of the Government parties in this chamber and of the Australian Democratic Labor Party, if it adheres to its conference decision of several years ago - will support this measure.I hope that the legislation will be given a speedy passage and that it will be introduced before the election. [More…]
No-one has been told when the’ election is likely to be held. [More…]
This Parliament is entitled to know and not to be treated to some kind of cat and mouse game arising out of weakness and inability to state firmly when the election will be held, so that the 2 Houses of the Parliament may act in a responsible and sensible way to determine the programming of their business and to see to it that the matters which ought properly to be dealt with are dealt with and that legislation is prop erly dealt with. [More…]
How long will it be before the Prime Minister will make up his mind and tell the people of Australia in a responsible way that the election will he held on a certain date? [More…]
That all words after ‘period of sittings’ be deleted and that the following words be inserted: be considered after the Prime Minister h:is announced the election date for the election of the House of Representatives.’ [More…]
That, unless otherwise ordered, the days and times of meeting of the Senate for the remainder of the present period of sittings be considered after the Prime Minister has announced the election date for the election of the House of Representatives. [More…]
My own feeling is there is not any urgency to hold an election. [More…]
The longer we take in getting to the election date the better it will be for the Government. [More…]
Because of the good aspects of the Budget and because people are more satisfied in their minds about the situation in Australia a later election must all be to the benefit of the Government. [More…]
He wants to know the date of the election. [More…]
Honourable senators have a right to be told when it is disclosed by the person whose prerogative it is to determine the date of the election. [More…]
I was a Premier of a State and it was my own prerogative as it is the undisputable right of the leader of a government, to determine the date of an election and to disclose it when he believes the time is propitious and in the best interests of the workings of Parliament. [More…]
After all, in the ordinary circumstances and following history, elections have been held here in the first week of December; they have also been held in the month of November. [More…]
The strongest argument for what the Acting Leader of the Government in the Senate is putting forward tonight is that he is desirous of dealing with the business of the Senate as expeditiously as possible in the event of the date of the election being announced which would terminate this session earlier than would normally be the case. [More…]
Leave out all words after ‘period of sittings’, insert ‘be considered after the Prime Minister has announced the election date for the election of the House of Representatives’. [More…]
I think the Acting Leader of the Government is showing some vision, foresight and precaution in trying to get additional working time in which to dispose of all the business which is ahead of us before the election. [More…]
We all know that there is to be an election at the end of this year or at about that time. [More…]
There is an additional reason this year, because pf a pending election, to sit extra hours. [More…]
None of us can dispute the right of the Prime Minister to determine the date of the election. [More…]
It is his right and his right alone to determine the date of an election, and in making that decision he will consult those whom he believes he should consult in deciding on the time when the Government should submit itself to its masters at an election. [More…]
Those who have been associated with politics will know how frequently in the past we have been able to point to Prime Ministers who have kept secret and close to their hearts the date of a pending election. [More…]
How frequently has the date that has been announced been unexpected, and how frequently have elections been held prematurely when the average person in the community has not expected an election for at least another 12 months. [More…]
I hate mentioning this, but as a former Premier of a State I know that we would decide the date of an election and would have regard to many factors in arriving at a date which we believed would be convenient for the public. [More…]
We would avoid having an election on a Saturday preceding a Monday that was a holiday. [More…]
We would try to hold an election on a date when we had available to us the services of schoolteachers and others as presiding officers, poll clerks and other personnel who are indispensable to the proper conduct of an election. [More…]
Let us support the proposal advanced by the Acting Leader of the Government, get our heads down to work and clear the sheets of the business paper as much as possible so that we will be ready in the event of an election being called. [More…]
The Opposition has proposed an amendment in the terms read out by Senator Gair suggesting that a decision on extended sitting hours be postponed until after the date of the election has been announced. [More…]
Generally speaking we have about 7 or 8 weeks notice of an election and that period allows some ambit into which we would be able to fit the business that we are required to deal with. [More…]
With all due respect to Senator Gair, arguing the point about seeking the date of the election is secondary to dealing with the backlog. [More…]
Just because there is an election in the offing is not an excuse for any Minister to delay a long overdue deputation or a long overdue reply. [More…]
No matter when election day is, 1 would like to believe that when we are here the parliamentary machine is churning out decisions or that as a committee we can interrogate top departmental officials. [More…]
1 take Senator Gair up on one point - that it is the righof the leader of a government to set the date of an election. [More…]
There should be a set time for a general election, unless the government is defeated on the floor of the House. [More…]
I think that the matter could be resolved conveniently by determining that the election shall be held at a particular time so that all organisational matters in relation to the election can be attended to properly. [More…]
I assure him and Senator Gair that if they were to determine that the election should be held in 3 weeks’ time we would be prepared to sit each day of the week each week for as many hours as arc required to finish the business of the Senate. [More…]
The proposition that the alteration of sitting hours should be postponed until we know more definitely when the election is likely to be is a reasonable one and I think it should be considered. [More…]
As Senator Gair said, in the event of a decision being made that the election should be held before the 12-week sitting period has elapsed, we would avoid that sort of thing. [More…]
Surely those men and women who have comprised the standing committees and who have worked so hard, compiled reports and presented them to the Senate do not want the Senate to rise and an election to be held without some discussion having taken place on those reports. [More…]
I would go further than that and say that I could not see Premier Tonkin, Premier Dunstan or Premier Reece telling the world 6 months, 4 months or even 2 months beforehand when they were to hold an election. [More…]
They are enlightening, and < I think the people of Australia will show at the forthcoming election the result of this enlightenment. [More…]
They are being dealt with in this way because of some panic, some hysterical reaction which I believe is not helping this Government, even in its party political interests or in its election prospects. [More…]
But it is consistent with what the Government has been doing for a long time, and that is one of the reasons why the Government will be destroyed at the next election. [More…]
Maybe this is because a general election is in the offing. [More…]
I may be wrong, but I think the approach which the Labor Party adopted in less impassioned days when an election was far more distant was a far more reasonable approach to adopt than its present approach. [More…]
If honourable senators divorce themselves from the present situation and the fact that a general election is to be held, I think that they would be proud to have this amendment adopted. [More…]
Either the Minister is completely irresponsible and does not want the information to be exposed to the public, or the amount of taxpayers’ money expended is so great that he does not want it known before election day. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Australian Labor Party and the Government use 100 per cent foreign controlled advertising agencies for their election campaigns, so giving them business worth millions of dollars? [More…]
When Joe Chandler of the Building Workers Industrial Union sent a donation to the Party’s election funds, we sent it back. [More…]
Whatever disagreements we have in this place, we are faced with a situation now which should be taken right out of the pre-election jitters which some people have and right out of the issue whether one side or other of the Yugoslav community is right. [More…]
I appreciate that on an election eve he might want to score in this regard for purposes of the election and I forgive him for that, but I repeat that this issue will endure past the election and is far more important to Australia than his getting votes from it. [More…]
Thank heavens, even though it has taken 23 years and we are on the eve of an election, the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) has brought down some new methods regarding both education and screening of migrants, and I agree with those methods. [More…]
With regard to this motion, I suppose that a cynic could dismiss the whole motion by saying: ‘This is an election year. [More…]
I am not interested in the coming election. [More…]
I am not standing for re-election and I could not care less. [More…]
I will go one step further and say that if it is humanly possible to do so, an interim inquiry should be brought down prior to the election so that there will be no kind of shelving. [More…]
One was held in Sydney on the eve of a State election in which Mr Askin, the Premier of New South Wales, sooled on the police. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the ex-Prime Minister’s criticisms of the President of the Queensland branch of the Liberal Party in which Mr Gorton claims that this gentleman, Mr Eric Robinson, is unfit to be a candidate for election to the Commonwealth Parliament? [More…]
Will the Minister investigate this claim made by Mr Gorton to find out whether such accusations warrant determination of whether the President of the Queensland branch of the Liberal Party is a fit and proper person to be a candidate for election to the Commonwealth Parliament? [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for the Interior whether he is aware that members of the Australian base in Antarctica are seldom given the opportunity to vote in the Australian elections? [More…]
Will the Minister take immediate appropriate measures to ensure that provision is made for all persons stationed in Antarctica to cast a vote in the forthcoming federal election? [More…]
It had hoped to be able to keep this 25 square miles - or is it 35 square miles, or only 10 square miles - as one of its big juicy plums for the election policy announcement, but it was all blown up before it could be used for some sort of political advantage. [More…]
When the election is held in November of this year there will be a different attitude to the whole Aboriginal problem. [More…]
I do not want to use the debate on this Bill as a means of scoring off the Government on the eve of the election, nor do I want purposely to expose the. [More…]
Over the years people stationed at these bases have almost always been precluded from casting a vote for State and local government elections. [More…]
Frequently they have been precluded from casting a vote for Federal elections. [More…]
I ask that on this occasion this be changed and that every person at each base be given assistance in casting a vote in the forthcoming Federal election. [More…]
It is unlikely that we will be able to do anything for him between now and election day. [More…]
We all know of the indecision about the date of election, but let us not have a snap decision on the election date and neglect people who are working for this country in isolated areas. [More…]
election date might be extended to November, or even to December as seems to be favoured by some sections of the Liberal Parly, or to January as is favoured by another section - after all Santa Claus might bring votes at Christmas and the Government may be able to afford to postpone the election until January - but under the Constitution the date cannot be extended beyond 20th January. [More…]
Surely we are entitled to determine whether the Government in fact is giving the concessions that it claims to be giving in this election Budget. [More…]
I point out that the Senate is being asked to support this proposition and this Budget which has been described as an election Budget. [More…]
Let me warn the people of Australia to take note that, if this is all the care that, the Labor Party, has for the aged and needy people in our community, it does not deserve to become the Government following the election to be held this year. [More…]
The editorial states: lt 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…]
Last election year it was seven thousand million before that it was a bit over five thousand million. [More…]
Australia have endorsed the editor of the United Farmers and Graziers journal to contest the next Senate election as the Country Party candidate. [More…]
In every election since I have lived in South Australia - and I went there in 1950 - the Labor Party has polled more than 50 per cent of the votes cast. [More…]
But because of the gerrymander which existed in that State for many years, we were not able to form a government until Mr Steele Hall, who believes in electoral justice, introduced an electoral redistribution after the 1968 elections. [More…]
I want to put on record that after the redistribution took place in South Australia the Labor Party received less votes at the 1970 election than it received at the 1968 election when it could not win the government. [More…]
Although we received between 52 per cent and 53 per cent of the votes in an election for the lower House, we can get only 4 members out of 20 members elected to the upper House. [More…]
Senator Jessop went on to say that the Australian people would be very sorry if they elected a Labor government at the next election. [More…]
We have brought these things to their attention and I hope that after the election we will move to the other side of the chamber and that honourable senators opposite will move to this side of the chamber. [More…]
At one State election the Labor Party did not have as much money as the Liberal Party. [More…]
He was denied the right, which election by his colleagues in Tasmania accorded him, of attending a Federal Executive meeting of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
In view of the fact that teaching staff, school committees and parents associations throughout Australia are desirous of making firm arrangements for the end of year school functions and that these arrangements necessitate the booking in advance of halls and in many cases school buildings, which will be required for use as polling booths, will the Minister request the Prime Minister to make an early announcement of the election date so that the people and organisations I have mentioned can complete their arrangements? [More…]
Is it a fact that the present escalating prices being received for wool are conditioned hy a shortage of wool in world pipelines, a swing away from synthetics to some extent and back to wool, manipulators and futures marketeers on the world wool buying scene and the impending Federal election? [More…]
I do not accept the honourable senator’s remarks about the election. [More…]
At the time of commencement of the operations of the Commission back in 1970, prices increased during October and November but decreased after the election. [More…]
Everyone said this happened because the Government was holding an election. [More…]
Supply and demand on the world market determines the price of wool and I cannot see that an election would have any effect on wool prices. [More…]
The 1949 election was fought on a number of issues. [More…]
The leader of the newly formed Liberal Party that was successful in that election, Mr Menzies, obviously still had a social conscience because he promised on that occasion that his Government would abolish the means test. [More…]
As that was part of the social services policy of the Government elected at that election one would have thought that there would have been considerable movement towards abolition of the means test or towards establishing a national superannuation .scheme by the enactment of a national insurance bill as a matter of conscience. [More…]
Of course, we are aware that subsequent elections were fought on the issue of the abolition of the means test. [More…]
Then the apostles of doom came on the scene and have been on the scene at every election subsequently when the Labor Party has endeavoured to do what the Liberal Party said it would do when it stated its platform in 1946, 1947, 1948 and those early years. [More…]
Mr Malcolm Fraser and the Prime Minister have both seen fit to criticise the Labor Party in some of its election policy matters which it is already prepared to place before the electorate within the next month or two. [More…]
Then of the eve of an election when, it must surely be admitted by Government spokesmen and defenders of Government policy, the tide is running very heavily against the Government - if we are to take cognisance of public opinion polls - a rabbit is pulled out of the hat. [More…]
Prior to the suspension of the sitting I was commenting on the policy speech of Mr Menzies, as he then was, when he was contesting the general election of 1949. [More…]
It has not been until the Government has been hard pressed in respect to contesting the 1972 general election that it has seen fit to take any meaningful steps towards recognising the unfairness of the means test to aged and invalid persons. [More…]
No longer can we fight political campaigns on the basis that there is never enough money to carry out the programmes on which political parties seek election. [More…]
Australian Democratic Labor Party campaigned strongly for the abolition of the means test, and we have persisted in that campaign election after election. [More…]
On this occasion the Government has cast in the direction of repatriation pensioners a few crumbs which are very slightly bigger than last year because this happens to be an election year. [More…]
All I can say at this juncture is: Thank God that this is an election year, because there is no way in the world that this Government would have paid any of these benefits in some oases, and there is no way in the world that it would have paid more than 25 per cent in those fields where it could not dodge responsibility. [More…]
Can voting facilities be provided for the recording of absentee votes in any polling booth throughout Australia at the next Commonwealth election without the necessity of amending the Commonwealth Electoral Act. [More…]
He said that it does this at every election with as much representation and as great a concern to preserve an inadequate system which maximises doctors’ incomes as it displays currently. [More…]
The Opposition believes that the steps that are being taken now, oe the eve of a Federal election, are ones that should have been taken many years ago. [More…]
They were part of a programme which was presented to the people of the United Kingdom when the present Government was campaigning for election. [More…]
One cannot help thinking that on the eve of an election it is an attempt to make political capital from an incident that has occurred and that if this situation had not arisen we would not have heard anything of the matters contained in the Labor Party’s resolution. [More…]
It will not be a rushed action designed to gain a few lousy votes in an election by condemning the Government over something which it has not yet had time to consider. [More…]
That is what the Australian people are looking for and that is why they will turn to the Australian Labor Party at the election in November. [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…]
The Chief Electoral Officer has advised the Government that there is not now sufficient time to give effect to a redistribution of any State before the forthcoming House of Representatives election. [More…]
Does it not seem, therefore, that Western Australia is entitled to have 10 members elected, as a constitutional right, at the forthcoming election? [More…]
Where, under the Constitution, a State is entitled to more representatives than are provided for under the divisions which have taken place - those divisions being applicable at present - we should know what should be done in respect of the election in order that that State may have its full entitlement in the House of Representatives. [More…]
There could well be a close division in the political representation in another Parliament as occurred after the 1961 and 1969 elections. [More…]
-Why has noindication been given by the Government as to when the election is to be held? [More…]
Surely this childish approach to the programming of Parliament has gone on long enough and the Parliament is entitled to be told when the election will be held and what the programme is for the Parliament. [More…]
One would expect that in Australia, as well as in other countries, it would be the only intelligent approach to such an affair of state, instead of this behaviour which I have described as infantile, this cat and mouse behaviour with regard to the election date. [More…]
However, I suggest, in view of his motion, that it is time this nonsense was stopped and the Parliament and people were told the projected date of the election so that we may determine a proper programme for the conduct of the Parliament. [More…]
Senator Murphy’s argument is based on pure supposition that there may be an early election. [More…]
It would seem to be a rather curious procedure for such a Bill to be introduced into the Senate within a matter of weeks of the rolls closing for a general election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
It should be borne in mind that we are involved in an election only for that House. [More…]
The logical approach would be to proceed with caution and to take into consideration questions which need to be taken into account rather than to impose upon young people a responsibility just prior to a general election. [More…]
As honourable senators know, section 41 of the Constitution provides that no adult person who has or acquires a right to vote at elections for the more numerous House of the Parliament of a State shall, while the right continues, be prevented by any law of the Commonwealth from voting at elections for either of the Houses of the Parliament of the Commonwealth. [More…]
In any event, lowering of the franchise age would increase considerably the number of potential electors in each electoral division throughout the Commonwealth and I am sure it would be quite obvious to honourable senators that even if this Bill became law very little, if any, time at all would be available for the newly enfranchised persons to secure enrolment for the coming House of Representatives election. [More…]
Honourable senators would well know, with all their experience, that the rolls close at 6 p.m. on the day of the issue of the writs and only those persons whose claims are received by the electoral registrar up to that time may be enrolled for the purpose of the election. [More…]
Thus it would seem to be that in practice we would have virtually a voluntary enrolment situation for 18 to 20 year olds for the coming House of Representatives election lt could not be compulsory; it would have to be voluntary. [More…]
It is important to realise that a change to give 18 year olds a voce at the coming election would, if there was a large influx of claims for enrolment immediately prior to the close of the rolls, impose very great extra pressure upon the electoral administration in expeditiously producing the final rolls made up to the issue of the writs. [More…]
That has to be considered if one wants to have a transmission of a voter’s intent into a situation of reality in a parliamentary election scene. [More…]
While the extension of the franchise to young people of the age of 18 years and under 21 years will provide for a more accurate reflection of the relevant opinion of electors the most accurate and democratic means of ensuring the equitable Parliamentary representation in the House of Representatives of substantial bodies of political opinion in the community is by the electoral system of proportional representation voting for election to that House; [More…]
the deposit of a candidate for election to either House should be reduced to $30 or alternatively the voting percentage requirement for the return of a deposit to an unsuccessful candidate should be lowered’. [More…]
If that is so, then it is realistic that such young people if they exhibit these qualities and accept these responsibilities should be given the greater responsibility - perhaps the greater duty - of participating in the government of their country by the use of the electoral process, by the exercise of the franchise in the election of governments and, therefore, in the control of the national destiny. [More…]
There is no definitive opinion on this and there cannot be until they are actually tested at an election. [More…]
Only recently we have found the Australia Party, in areas where it has put up a candidate at an election, obtaining a rather significant fraction of the vote. [More…]
At the Senate general election on 22nd November 1958 the Democratic Labor Party received 387,792 votes. [More…]
As a result of that tremendous vote the DLP returned one member to the Senate, although it had polled 8.41 per cent of the aggregate vote at that Senate election. [More…]
In that Senate election the Liberal-Country Party received 2 million votes or 44 per cent of the vote and its candidates were successful in winning 15 scats. [More…]
The figures 1 have in front of me are for the Senate general election in 1961. [More…]
Let us have a look at what happened in the Senate election in 1964. [More…]
In the Senate election of 1967 the DLP received 540,000 votes or 9.77 per cent of the vote and obtained 2 seats. [More…]
That is the history of the Senate elections. [More…]
Perhaps the figures more illustrative of the proposition I am putting are those for House of Representatives elections. [More…]
At the House of Representatives general election on 30th November 1963 the Democratic Labor Party received 407,416 votes or 7.4 per cent of the total and obtained no seats at all. [More…]
At the same election - I repeat that I am not being critical of it - the Country Party received 489,000 votes or about 82,000 votes more than the Democratic Labor Party and obtained 20 seats. [More…]
In the House of Representatives election of 1966 the Country Party received 561,000 votes and obtained 21 seats; the Democratic Labor Party received 417,411 votes but obtained no seats. [More…]
In the last House of Representatives election, which was held in 1969, the DLP received 367,977 votes and obtained no seats at all, whereas the Country Party had the usual record in relation to its vote. [More…]
the most accurate and democratic means of ensuring the equitable Parliamentary representation in the House of Representatives of substantial bodies of political opinion in the community is by the electoral system of proportional representation voting for election to that House. [More…]
The way this amendment is framed does not, to my mind, suggest an alteration of the Electoral Act for a House of Representatives election. [More…]
In my opinion the Senate cannot wisely pass this Bill at this stage when it knows, even if Senator Murphy did not listen to the late news tonight, that the date of the election is to be announced some time next week or the week after next. [More…]
Therefore we know that the election will be held in November or December. [More…]
This Bill could not come into operation in time to be effective for the coming House of Representatives election. [More…]
I bad the privilege of voting at the age of 18 in the 1.943 election. [More…]
Nobody can tell me that the House of Commons between 1945 and 1950 represented the primary vote of the 1945 election. [More…]
Senator Murphy is at liberty to bring these matters in whenever he so desires, but to expect support from this side of the chamber for what is obviously a phoney election stunt is far too much for anybody to swallow. [More…]
The general election for the House of Representatives will be held on Saturday, 2nd December 1972. [More…]
I think the Senate is entitled to know what is, in the opinion of the legal advisers of the Commonwealth, the constitutional position in relation to the representation of Western Australia and whether, in fact, one more representative should be elected at large from that State or whether some other method needs to be adopted in order that the requirements of the Constitution can be met in relation to this election. [More…]
In the event that there are inescapable reasons why the Senate should not continue to operate even in a nonlegislative role pending the calling of the newly elected House of Representatives, will you ascertain whether it is the will of the Senate that Parliament should be called as soon as practicable after the return of the writs for election to the House of Representatives so that the Senate committees can proceed with their processes of investigation and report? [More…]
In view of the approaching termination of the session, which will be followed by a general election, can the Minister give an assurance that a greater effort will be made to provide answers to the many important questions which have been on the notice paper in my case for almost 2 months and in other cases going back to December 1971, especially since procuring these answers would not appear to involve a great amount of effort or research in many instances? [More…]
When the election is over I look forward to being able to invite honourable members of the Standing Orders Committee to attend on the Senate area for at least a week to see whether they can make some recommendations to the Senate. [More…]
I will bring down a definite statement on this in clear and coherent terms before the Senate rises for the election. [More…]
Why does this niggling stupidity appear before an election? [More…]
Cannot people be rational when an election is to be held? [More…]
Elections are always with us, either for the House of Representatives, the Senate or for a State government. [More…]
When an election is on, honourable senators opposite suffer from the same fever, the same disease. [More…]
We are faced with a general election. [More…]
Will the proposed consortium be finalised before the next federal election for Members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
As Senator O’Byrne refers to officials, it should be known that this man was a Labor candidate in the Tasmanian State election last year and, following that campaign, was reinstated as the producer of this current affairs programme in Tasmania. [More…]
In fact, I said that I would be able to sit on Friday but other Committee members from both sides of the Parliament probably have commitments because the date of the election has been announced. [More…]
An issue is at stake in this legislation but it is not an immediate issue; even if it is agreed to the vote cannot be granted until after the election on 2nd December. [More…]
If 4 candidates were standing for election it would be mathematically possible for a candidate to be elected to Parliament on 25.1 per cent of the vote. [More…]
Those who made the application suggested that because they had the right to vole in a State election in South Australia they should be entitled to a vote in the House of Representatives election. [More…]
Although an asterisk is used to denote those who are under 21 years of age, there is a great problem associated with the preparation of rolls in the States in which 18-year-olds have the right to vote in State elections. [More…]
The fact that the Government does not intend that the franchise will be lowered before the forthcoming election cannot be construed as opposition in principle to a lowered franchise age; rather the Government takes the view that the time and the circumstances are not appropriate to bring about such a major change. [More…]
I do not know However, in bygone days a person had to have a university education or own certain land or property to be able to stand for the Legislative Council in the State of Victoria or to vote for those seeking election. [More…]
When Senator Murphy’s suggestion was introduced in England, I know that Labor people here and in London said that the Labor Party would win the election because of the 18-year-old voters. [More…]
To that motion Senator Byrne has moved an amendment which, without detailing it in full, purports to express an opinion on behalf of the Senate that election to the House of Representatives should be under the system of proportional representation. [More…]
We did have a system different from proportional representation as the method of electing senators prior to the 1949 election and it produced some odious results. [More…]
I am quite sure that Senator Little will accord with that view because his Party, the Democratic Labor Party, is represented in the Senate whereas although the percentage of votes it gains at each election would normally entitle it to some representation in the House of Representatives if that chamber were a truly representative assembly, it has no representation there. [More…]
The French have 2 elections to ensure that in each electorate there is one person who can be said to have received the majority of the votes at the election. [More…]
The first is the timing of the Bill and its impact on the forthcoming general election. [More…]
As we know, a general election is to be held on 2nd December. [More…]
We would have, presumably, the situation where some people between the ages of 18 and 21 years, if they were speedy in their actions, would have the right to vote at the election, but there would be no obligation upon every person between the ages of 18 and 21 years to enrol because the Electoral Act at present provides for a period of 3 months within which a person, after attaining the age of 21 years, may enrol before he commits the offence of failing to enrol. [More…]
But, as I recall the figures quoted by Senator Cotton when this Bill was last before the chamber and the ones 1 have seen elsewhere, approximately 9,000 out of a total of 55,000 eligible 18 to 20- year-olds in South Australia have enrolled for the purpose of voting in elections in that State. [More…]
1 was indicating that if the Bill were to become law the anomalous situation would exist - just because of the practicalities of the situation - where there would be conferred upon some people aged between 18 and 21 years a right to vote at the forthcoming general election. [More…]
Therefore I believe, simply because of the timing of this Bill and the impact it would have on the forthcoming election, that it is undesirable that the Senate should give it a second reading. [More…]
But somewhere between 90 per cent and 98 per cent of all those eligible to vote at an election always vote. [More…]
There are many people over the age of 21 years who in terms of comprehension of what our voting system is concerned with, and in terms of ability and intelligence to make the type of judgment that we would like to see people make at election time, are not equipped to make that sort of judgment. [More…]
In view of the forthcoming Federal election, will the Government remove 2 irritating restrictions upon radio broadcasting and television imposed upon these media many ages ago by a dying Labor administration? [More…]
If the Minister will not go as far as that, does he realise that half way through the Federal election campaign a blanket of silence on Federal matters will descend upon the media in Australia’s most densely populated areas because of a State by-election in New South Wales? [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Senate whether arrangements have been made and whether all Australians on the bases will be able to cast a vote at the general election to be held on 2nd December 1972? [More…]
Will the Government give an undertaking that the Commission shall be completely unbridled in the presentation of all current affairs programming during the course of the forthcoming election compaign? [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for the Interior whether he is now in a position to indicate to the Senate that it can anticipate amendments to the Commonwealth Electoral Act to enlarge absentee voting facilities for the pending national election. [More…]
However, this will not be possible due to the need to dissolve the House of Representatives in the near future as a prelude to the forthcoming Federal election, although the Committee would hope to make its report to the Senate very early in the new Parliament. [More…]
I also indicated that, after the general election, I proposed calling the Standing Orders Committee together to examine these and related matters over a period of at least a week for the purpose of making some recommendations to the Senate. [More…]
We have made our position clear to the Parliament, and the Senate has made its position clear to the Government, and we trust that the Government, will make its position clear to the people who will vote at the forthcoming election. [More…]
I suggest to the honourable senator that the position will be changed radically upon the election of a government of another complexion. [More…]
I know that it has implemented a lot of new ideas and propositions on the eve of an election but there has been no indication whatever - apart from the lowering of the threshold for the payment of estate duty, probate duty, death duty and gift duty - that the Government is disposed to accept the resolution which was passed by this chamber. [More…]
1 suppose that people who happen to be listening to this debate will not be under any illusion that an election is coming on shortly and that what they have been listening to tonight have been the preliminaries of the election campaign. [More…]
For this reason Opposition senators are in a rather invidious position tonight when, for electioneering purposes, they are posing as the friends of those who may suffer from estate duty. [More…]
In normal circumstances we could do that, if we had plenty of time ahead of us, but the sittings of the Senate will end next week or the week after for the election. [More…]
He gets the opportunity once in 6 years to stand for election to represent his completely insignificant party in Victoria. [More…]
First of all he said that this is an electioneering matter. [More…]
Senator Negus is not standing for election. [More…]
But because this is an election year, because Sir William Big Ears and all of the people behind him are struggling, they decided there was some political mileage in this and they crossed the Senate floor. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite thought that they had the election in the bag. [More…]
If I were advising the Attorney-General on how to conduct his campaign in the forthcoming election, I would suggest to him that the less he says about law and order the better it will be for his Party, because we have seen something of the record of this Government on law and order. [More…]
I prophesy to you, Mr President, that this election will have come and gone and there will have been no prosecution of persons responsible for the bombing outrages in Sydney; there will have been no statement by the Attorney-General; there will have been no effort to mobilise the forces of the Commonwealth to see that these people are prosecuted and to see that this sort of thing is prevented from happening in the future.I make that prediction now. [More…]
Australia has to be very concerned if Senator Greenwood continues after the next federal election to occupy the exalted position that he presently occupies. [More…]
After Senator Primmer and Senator Poyser had spoken, his opening remark on this matter was that it was not surprising that members of the Australian Labor Party who had a candidate running for a scat in Victoria at the forthcoming Federal election who was In defiance of the National Service Act should be raising this matter. [More…]
I would have thought that this evening Senator Greenwood would have done the same in regard to Mrs McLean rather than say cheaply and nastily that she has gone to gaol not only to give the ALP a voice in the Parliament against the National Service Act but also so that the whole question of the American alliance, the ANZUS Pact, Vietnam and things of this nature can be raised in the Parliament just prior to the holding of a Federal election. [More…]
Johnson for the courage of his convictions is that it is being realised by this Government that if it had to fight an election on the issue of conscription alone it would be annihilated overwhelmingly at the polls. [More…]
We know full well that there is to be an election on 2nd December and that there will be a dissolution of the House of Representatives on 2nd November, which necessitates an earlier closure of the Senate than normally would be the case. [More…]
This too is a waste of time and whether or not the Government adjourns taking a vote on it until after the election, the vote still has to be taken. [More…]
This is being done on the eve of a federal election in a manner similar to the agreement which was entered into between this Government and Ansett Airlines of Australia. [More…]
This gives one more year after the election for adjustments to be made within the respective schools and systems and for the Australian schools commission to be established. [More…]
Whatever the outcome of the election in December - it will not matter which party is in office after then - the Government will have to balance health, education, defence and many other issues. [More…]
We should not have to let things drift on for 5 or 10 years until maybe 3 months before an election. [More…]
Not enough is done about physical education and no matter what happens after the election in December, more money must be spent to make this a healthier nation. [More…]
It is a crisis which has grown up over 23 years of this Government and now, on the eve of an election, something is being done about it. [More…]
I suppose it is natural on the eve of an election and with a dual system of education and because of the events that have gone before. [More…]
In view of these comments can the Minister tell us whether it is his view that the doctors intend to increase fees substantially straight after the election? [More…]
We all know that an election is to be held on 2nd December. [More…]
It was thought that it wished to reveal successful negotiations with Vesteys over property for the Gurindjis as part of the forthcoming federal election campaign. [More…]
As we approach the forthcoming general election we are confident and we are satisfied that the issue of social services will not be a vital one dividing the nation. [More…]
I might say that when the Minister is forced out of this chamber at the next Senate election and has to go back to his legal practice he may be looking for some of this work to sustain him. [More…]
A few extra dollars and cents have been thrown in because this happens to be a Federal election year. [More…]
For the uninitiated I point out that an election will be held an 2nd December. [More…]
In October 1972, 10 months afterwards and a mere 4 or 5 weeks before an election, the Minister announced that the award had gone to these 2 Sydney journalists, both of whom are employed by the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’, and he said that the successful journalists had been selected by independent assessors. [More…]
A lot of very fine people who support the League worked for me in the last election. [More…]
Are members of the Australian bases in the Antarctic seldom given the opportunity to vote in Australian elections; if so, will the Minister take immediate action to institute appropriate measures to ensure that provisions are made for all eligible persons stationed in the forthcoming Federal Election for Members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
Kattercut Why was the decision taken to spend such a large amount of public money on what appears to be an election gimmick? [More…]
But when attempt is made to use question time to get some propaganda across before an election it is time to complain. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh is right in saying that it is not merely a matter of politics on the eve of an election, that it is not merely a matter of the Government’s trying to gain some little political advantage. [More…]
What is the purpose of it except as some kind of election gimmick, some kind of deathbed repentance in order for the Government to be able to say: ‘Here is what we would have done had we had time to do it’. [More…]
He promised it again during the subsequent Senate election campaign. [More…]
Now we find this important legislation, om of the most important reforms that is required in the structure of our welfare in the Commonwealth, being held back for the purpose of winning an election. [More…]
It should have been introduced within 6 months, at the latest, of the election of the Gorton Government. [More…]
I was noi present during the second reading debate on this Bil] because I wanted to speak at length on it, but 1 would like the Minister to give the Committee an assurance, if he can, that prior to the forthcoming election the Government will not just go ahead and appoint the commissioners or the other people at the top of this Corporation and so tie the hands of a future government after 2nd December. [More…]
I have had representations from very big wool growers who are very concerned about the appointment of the members of this Corporation on the eve of a Federal election. [More…]
I hope that if the Minister for Primary Industry decides to appoint these members before the election of a new government, the Governor-General will intervenue and say that this is not the democratic way to do it. [More…]
I am wondering whether the Bill is not a little lukewarm, whether it is a way of making a half promise to members of the Country Party on the eve of an election to keep them quiet. [More…]
I desire to have the attention of the Senate for a short time in order to refer to a misleading advertisement which appeared in today’s issue of the ‘Canberra Times’ and which was authorised by the Liberal Party for its election campaign. [More…]
I think this should awaken the electors of Australia to what they can expect as the Campaign gets under way; that is, that small portions of statements by Labor members will be used to bolster up the Budget on which this Government hopes to win the election. [More…]
In debates over the last 12 or 15 months and in questions I have suggested that the price of wool tends to peak just prior to a federal election. [More…]
The purpose of the exercise was to prove or disprove my theory that wool prices tended to peak just prior to a federal election. [More…]
I have in front of me a table which combines an index of wool prices since 1951. with the corresponding dates of Australian federal elections. [More…]
The graph shows that, with the exception of the House of Representatives election in 1969, the price of wool comparatively speaking either peaked just prior to an election or was on the way up at the time of an election. [More…]
Where a member, or a deputy of a member, of the Corporation or of the Authority, or a member of a committee established under this Act, is also a member of, or is a candidate for election to, the Parliament of the Commonwealth or of a State, he shall not be paid any remuneration or allowances provided for by this Act, but shall be reimbursed such expenses as he reasonably incurs as a member, or as the deputy of a member, of the Corporation or of the Authority or as a member of the committee, as the case may be. [More…]
The opinion I was expressing was the opinion of the industry itself that the Minister may appoint these members before the 1972 general election and then, should there be a change of government, there would be no way except by expiration of time - in one instance, 5 years; and in another, 3 years - by which those members could be replaced by the new government. [More…]
If it were not for the hard, cold fact that this Senate must adjourn by some time late on Wednesday night because of a general election which no-one can stop I could take my whole hour of allotted time to refute some of the well meant but false arguments put by Senator Milliner. [More…]
I pledge that the Australian Labor Party when elected to office - which will be at the next Federal election– [More…]
He madeit clear that there were two major reasons for his visit - one based on his desire to support Mr Giles in seeking re-election and the other to discuss matters of national importance. [More…]
Mr President, there is shortly to be a Federal election. [More…]
Shortly after that the Country Party published the first of its election campaign pamphlets. [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 of election to ensure that by participating he would not be disadvantaged. [More…]
I think this aspect may be discussed further when we return after the recess and election. [More…]
The Bill lapsed when the House was dissolved in 1969 for the genera) election held in that year. [More…]
I suggest to Senator Greenwood, who is in charge of the estimates now before the Committee, that if the report has not been presented to the Parliament - I am practically certain that it has not been - steps should be immediately taken to ensure that that report is presented to the Senate before the Senate adjourns for the forthcoming election. [More…]
So the right of election to the Commonwealth Advertising Council is restricted, in the first instance, to those who have done work for and on behalf of the Commonwealth in the preceding 2 years. [More…]
Election to it is restricted to those who have done work for the Commonwealth. [More…]
First, I notice that the Bill seeks to amend the National Health Act which would, in normal circumstances, provide to the Senate a very wide ambit for discussing the whole ramifications of the Government’s health scheme and the proposals that will be submitted to the people by the Australian Labor Party in the forthcoming election. [More…]
On special occasions such as election campaigns, the selection of Press representatives is generally determined by the capacity of the aircraft and the VIP’s nomination, having regard to the number of news services desiring representation. [More…]
I am unable to say what the Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board has said regarding the Charlestown by-election, butI would have thought that it is absolutely clear that as far as the Charlestown by-election is concerned, which will occur on18th November, the provisions of the Broadcasting and Television Act would prevent the broadcasting of any election matter relating to that election between midnight on Wednesday, 15th November, and the close of the poll on the following Saturday. [More…]
The Senate will recall that in 1969 an amendment was passed to the relevant section of the Broadcasting and Television Act which indicated that the Board had a function whereby it could exempt from the generality of the provisions those broadcasting and television stations whose programmes would not be received in the area where an election was being held. [More…]
1 issue for the forthcoming election. [More…]
Did the Government in 1969 insert into the Act section 116 (4a) which provides for exemptions for stations that do not transmit into an area which is the subject of a particular election? [More…]
Did the PostmasterGeneral on 12th October 1970 advise the Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasters that despite numerous representations made to him the Government had decided at that time not to pursue any amendment to section 1 1 6 which would completely lift the restriction on the broadcasting of electoral matter from midnight on the Wednesday preceding an election until after the poll closed? [More…]
Whether the PostmasterGeneral made a statement about the matter on 12th October 1970 is unknown to me, but the Government’s policy is that the period between midnight on the Wednesday preceding the polling day and the close of the poll on the Saturday under our law is a period in which no election matter may be broadcast. [More…]
Undoubtedly when the history of our country is written it will be recalled that the 1949 election was a disaster so far as Australia was concerned. [More…]
One of the most significant things the Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, could do to ensure his re-election later this year would be to make it clear he appreciates the problem of the ‘cities’. [More…]
The State Parliament had not met for 9 months and as a State election was imminent the matter had to be raised somewhere. [More…]
Then he made some general observations interlarded with the comment that at the end of the year, after the election has taken place, there will be a new type of government. [More…]
He has this promise from me that if his Party wins the election I will buy him a dinner with a limit of S15 that he can eat his way through. [More…]
I am sure it was the realisation of this that prompted Mr Gorton in the 1970 Senate election campaign to say on 4th November - almost 2 years ago - at the Malvern Town Hall: 1 now announce a new objective to which we give very high priority. [More…]
It is therefore somewhat surprising that at the end of the parliamentary session, in one of the last dozen Bills to be passed through this House - it was one of the last Bills to be passed through the House of Representatives - we should be seeking to bring into effect a promise that was made during the 1970 Senate election campaign. [More…]
It is clear that this Bill is but another piece of pre-election propaganda such as we have seen in recent times. [More…]
This Government’s initiative - hardly the right word - is designed as nothing more than a vote catcher in the coming election. [More…]
Judging by the provisions of the Bill the shortage will last for many years if this Government is returned at the election at the end of this year. [More…]
We might find an election by many Australian women - who work purely for economic reasons - to stay in the home if a home care allowance were provided for them. [More…]
Irrespective of whether it is the Government’s fault or not that this mess has occurred which prevents the Leader of the Country Party from having his election policy speech broadcast in metropolitan areas, surely the democratic process ought to permit him to do this. [More…]
Alternatively, will the Government consider the possibility of introducing into this place legislation which will operate from a period prior to the commencement of the general election with the understanding from all sides that such legislation would be enacted in both Houses, if required, after the elections and that it would have retrospective effect in order that we may find a common sense approach and permit the democratic process to operate as it should? [More…]
The scheme represents the fulfilment of a Government pledge during the Senate election campaign in 1970 that legislation of this character would be introduced. [More…]
I would not for a moment suggest that these amendments are brought in here purely to give an airing to the policy of the ALP in relation to this matter for the next election, seeing that our proceedings are being broadcast today. [More…]
However much I respect Senator Bishop and perhaps a few other members of his Party, I say that there are many people in his Party at present making statements about an enormous number of matters which have political consequences because an election is in the offing. [More…]
It announced its own comprehensive Bill, which is now Labor Party policy, and the facts are that if the Labor Party wins the general election, as has been announced by the shadow Minister for Labour and National Service the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron), that Bill will be the basis for future legislation. [More…]
I repeat what the shadow Minister for Labour has said: In the event that Labor wins the election, such amendments as I have moved would be put into legislative form at an early stage. [More…]
The question which was asked was: Are we prepared to deprive workers of the increased benefits contained in this Bill until such time as Parliament resumes after the election? [More…]
Despite the fact that we are on the eve of an election, which the ALP almost certainly will win- [More…]
I think we have to thank God for the forthcoming election on 2nd December, because that is the only reason why these amendments are before the Senate tonight. [More…]
I am now challenging the Minister to come up with the goods or to resign before the election. [More…]
If this is the way in which the Government is to introduce amendments into the Act, it is nothing but a hollow political sham and window dressing for the coming Federal election. [More…]
This adjournment is very significant in the sense that we are all rising until summoned to return and we will not be summoned until after the general election. [More…]
There may even be exigencies in regard to the will of the people on the day of the election which would preclude this. [More…]
Only one of our number in this chamber is required to face his masters at the forthcoming Federal election and that is Senator Bonner. [More…]
I hope the result of the election will be in the best interests of Australia, because after all that is the only thing that matters - what is best for Australia. [More…]
That the notice of motion standing in the name of Senator Devitt on the notice paper for 31st October 1972 relating to the disallowance of the Honey industry (Election of Board) Regulations, as contained in Statutory Rules 1972, No. [More…]
In addition, they were able to gain endorsement as President in their own right by their own election. [More…]
Both Harry S. Truman and Lyndon Johnson were thrust into the presidency of their country, and both men were able to win election in their own right. [More…]
During the course of the recent federal election campaign the Prime Minister gave an undertaking that should a Labor government be elected, a royal commission would be established to inquire into all facets of the Australian Post Office. [More…]
I understand that when a former premier of Queensland was defeated at an election he was employed in one of the government departments. [More…]
Are Professor Downing and Mrs Wright-McKinney the people who signed a public letter prior to the last general election calling for a change of government? [More…]
Senator DOUGLAS MCCLELLANDDuring the recent Federal election campaign the Prime Minister indicated that the Government’s policy on the introduction of colour television would be the same as that of the outgoing Government. [More…]
At the last State election the Democratic Labor Party candidate for the State electorate of Cook was Mr Ben Nona, a Torres Strait Islander and a lugger captain. [More…]
He campaigned substantially on this issue during the State election campaign because the suggestion was already then current. [More…]
I was up there before the last Federal election and this matter was an issue then. [More…]
In the period leading up to the recent election and even as late as today, the general theme of Opposition speakers in relation to industrial relations has been that trade union demands are excessive and that people like my colleague, Senator Cavanagh. [More…]
I was amazed to read in the Press during the period since the last election that a judo team from Taiwan which had been invited to participate in an international tournament in Sydney had been told by the Australian Government that its members could compete as individuals but that they could not compete as a team. [More…]
1 am glad that the concern that was expressed by the Prime Minister during his general election campaign policy speech a few months ago is shared by the honourable senator. [More…]
Does this fact explain so much of the euphoric reporting during last year’s Federal election? [More…]
I remind the Senate also that the Australian Labor Party gave an unqualified undertaking that as soon as the election was over the shipping service to King Island would be reinstated. [More…]
Were 18 merino rams shipped from Australia to Bombay after the recent election, with the full authority of the Labor Government, to the order of the leading Indian textile combine, the J.K. organisation? [More…]
The Standing Committee had not completed its consideration of the Evidence Bil] before the election last year. [More…]
The first purpose is to reveal to the Senate and to the Australian public that an election promise which was made by the Australian Labor Parly is not being honoured in the fullness of the terms in which it was made. [More…]
It was an issue in the election campaign. [More…]
It is important that we recognise that the Government has departed from its pre-election promise and is seeking to limit to some a benefit which it promised to all. [More…]
Through the combined effect of the determinations made by the Public Service Arbitrator and a Public Service application of those determinations, the Government is implementing a policy which is inconsistent with its stated election promise. [More…]
Yesterday the Prime Minister was asked whether he proposed to implement the election promise. [More…]
If the Labor Party had the courage of what it is now doing it would have been prepared to tell the Australian people during the election campaign it was proposing to introduce this measure. [More…]
I feel that if it were done that way it would accord with the somewhat rash promise of the Labor Party to abide by openness in government, and it would also ensure that we keep the Labor Party honest and in accordance with its election promise. [More…]
We know that at the last election a number of unions committed very substantial funds to support the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Until I had heard the cass put by the Minister for Repatriation (Senator Bishop) and the interjections of his supporters I had believed that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) virtually was in favour of the idea contained in Senator Greenwood’s proposition; that is that no restriction should be placed on an individual’s receiving the benefits of the promises made by the Prims Minister in his election campaign because of an ancillary matter relating to membership of trade unions. [More…]
If the determination is disallowed and there is not within 24 hours a measure before the Parliament in this or another place to ensure that the promises of the Prime Minister during the election campaign are carried into effect, we are prepared to take that step. [More…]
At least he was trying to carry out the promise that he made during the election campaign. [More…]
A particular party made a promise as part of the election campaign and it won the campaign. [More…]
A promise was made during the election campaign and the people voted for the party which made it. [More…]
The Parliament is now meeting and it is possible to extend to all people in the Public Service, by legislation, as has always been the case before, the promise made during the election campaign. [More…]
The Government should give everybody in industry the advantage of the promise it has made, lt should put to one side introduction of those things that were not contained in the promises made by the Prime Minister during the last election campaign. [More…]
I have no doubt that the Government would be able to get its proposition on leave through the other chamber because of the change that has occurred since the election. [More…]
Somebody, I think it was Senator Little, complained and asked why the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) did not apply an instant interpretation and say: ‘Well, if you were not in a union before election day you will not receive anything.’ [More…]
Now that the election is over I can say that I am surprised that such an astute political genera] like Senator Carrick did not use this in the last campaign. [More…]
I make it perfectly clear - in moving this motion I think Senator Greenwood made it perfectly clear - that the object of the motion is to get rid of a highly offensive and discriminatory decision and to point the way in which the election promise of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) of 4 weeks annual leave for all Commonwealth employees should be implemented. [More…]
Whatever views we might have in regard to the principle of 4 weeks annual leave - I believe that this is something which should be determined by the industrial tribunals of this country, and I am opposed to pace setting which is practised by governments in regard to their own employees - nevertheless, we on this side of the chamber recognise that the Prime Minister made a. clear election promise in this regard and that he and his Government has a clear mandate to introduce the principle of 4 weeks annual leave for Commonwealth employees. [More…]
There-, fore this motion and this debate are not meant to prevent the implementation of- 4 weeks annual leave but to ensure that the election promise is properly carried out and applied to all Commonwealth employees, as the Prime Minister so clearly promised when he went to the election. [More…]
Within, I think, three or four days of the election the then Minister for Labour apparent or presumptive or whatever one might call him at that stage, Mr Clyde Cameron, made it quite clear that this promise would be carried out only in relation to members of Public Service organisations and unions and would not be applied generally. [More…]
That statement was made three or four days after the election and after the people had given the Labor Government a clear mandate on a specific and unambiguous promise made by the Prime Minister of 4 weeks annual leave to all Commonwealth employees. [More…]
It is obvious from the steps that have been taken and from the public statements that have been made by Mr Clyde Cameron since the election that the- whole purpose of this exercise is to restrict the benefit of 4 weeks annual leave to members- of Public Service unions and organisations. [More…]
But here we have the most naked and blatant piece of division created by the Prime Minister within days of the election. [More…]
dealt with it already but I wish to summarise it again - is that it is in blatant contradiction of the Prime Minister’s solemn election promise in unambiguous terms - nobody on the Government side of this Senate’ can get away from the clear and unambiguous words the Prime Minister used - that all Commonwealth employees will be given 4 weeks annual leave. [More…]
Yet not only do we have this major change in the law and the implementation of this major promise of the Prime Minister made during the election campaign carried out by regulation but also we have had many other examples of this kind of thing since 2nd. [More…]
Why is: it that now when inflation is worse than it Was .prior to the election we do not hear much about it, whereas before the election Labor spokesmen were forecasting the collapse of the economy? [More…]
Has the Minister any comments to make on reports that since the federal election more than 200 terrorists have left Australia to carry on their activities elsewhere? [More…]
general election, was that costs., in these funds were increasing considerably and the then Government, realising that an election was pending and not wanting to increase the medical and hospital fund contributions, did nut do so. [More…]
I am not sure whether, as a consequence of his Party’s defeat in the last House of Representatives election, Senator Greenwood - I regret that he has left the chamber - has been chastened, which I doubt; but it is interesting to note that he now claims that he is concerned about personal freedom and freedom of the individual to make decisions. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party supported the former government, which constantly and right up till the last general election, opposed every attempt to secure 4 weeks annual leave not only by public servants but also by all other organised workers in Australia before various tribunals. [More…]
So did the statement made by the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) 3 days after the election. [More…]
I sympathise with the Labor Party’s dilemma because of its massive Bacchanalian over expenditure to honour promises made in the last election campaign, but I look at it with some envy. [More…]
That is the plea from white collar workers who in the main, until the last election, supported the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
At the present time it is particularly noteworthy “that within 2 or 3 months of the election of 2nd December the Senate takes the stand that the subordinate legislation that is authorised by the various Acts of this Parliament shall be scrutinised and, according to our judgment, will stand or be cancelled. [More…]
They want a few more members’ fees so that in the pool of public service union revenues there will be a greater scum or cream to come off into the political kitty for the next election. [More…]
1 would think that when we recall that the Prime Minister conducted the general election campaign with duplicity, taking into account this arbitration coupled with his electoral speeches, we should highlight the Senate’s performance of a most useful role to ensure not only that unionists in the Public Service receive the benefit of the extra week’s annual leave but also that those public servants who, for their own reasons refuse to join a union, should also receive it. [More…]
Yet not only do we have this major change in the law and the implementation of this major promise of the Prime Minister made during the election campaign carried out by regulation but also we have had many other examples of this kind of thing since 2nd December. [More…]
As has been pointed out before, the Opposition parties do not deny the right of the Labor Government to implement its election promise that all Commonwealth employees would be granted 4 weeks annual leave. [More…]
The main argument in this debate is that whatever happens to be Labor’s policy, Senator Bishop will say that one must read the Prime Minister’s pre-election policy speech as embracing the whole of the Labor Party’s policy and that whatever is granted by this Government must be read in relation to every facet of it. [More…]
At page 26 of his policy speech before the election Mr Whitlam stated: [More…]
Has the Government received new approaches from the South Australian Labor Government since the election in December last requesting that urgent action be taken to improve the quality of River Murray water, particularly of that part of the Murray which flows through South Australia? [More…]
However, I will comment that the appointments to the Corporation by the previous administration immediately prior to the last election were, I believe, a most indiscreet act. [More…]
It was quite obvious that the proper course would have been to await the outcome of the election. [More…]
Why was Mr Mick Young, Federal Secretary and campaign organiser for the Australian Labor Party, permitted to use VIP transport, for travel on the electoral duties of his Party during the recent election campaign? [More…]
Despite the economics of the question, a determination was made prior to the election last year to use timber sleepers. [More…]
In view of the urgency to report upon an acquisition scheme, as indicated in Australian Labor Party amendments which were moved to the previous Government’s wool Bills, is his present attitude inconsistent with Labor priorities before the election? [More…]
I repeat that the action taken by the previous Government in appointing such an important body should not have been taken on the eve of an election. [More…]
He lost his seat to Mrs Maurice Blackburn and won the seat back at the following election. [More…]
Mr Dunstan’s Party does not have to worry about the Democratic Labor Party because the DLP is not fielding candidates in the election - so that is one obstacle out of the way. [More…]
All sorts of half-baked statements have come forward, but no definitive statement has been made, if the Government intends to introduce a Bill, as is reported, to give 4 weeks annual leave to all public servants in accordance with Mr Whitlam’s election promise, then there can be no further argument. [More…]
I can also understand the disappointment of the Opposition at not thinking of including a promise to grant 4 weeks annual leave to Commonwealth public servants in its election policy speech. [More…]
It has been said in this chamber that the decision to grant 4 weeks annual leave did not come about by negotiation but that it was a handout by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in his election policy speech. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in his policy speech before the election promised that he would give 4 weeks annual leave to every public servant instead of the present 3 weeks. [More…]
The remarkable situation which has been arrived at is that the Opposition is trying to get the Government to carry out the promise made by its leader in order to win the election and the Australian Labor Party Government is fiercely resisting the efforts of the Opposition to carry out the Prime Minister’s promise. [More…]
It was only after the election, on 6th December, that Mr Clyde Cameron, who is now the Minister for Labour, confirmed that 4 weeks annual leave would be granted to public servants but added that it would apply only to those public servants who were members of given organisations or unions. [More…]
It is surprising that now, after the election, we see the Opposition and the Australian Democratic Labor Party supporting the concept of 4 weeks annual leave. [More…]
Prior to the election not one of the political parties opposite mentioned that it would support or introduce any proposal to increase annual leave. [More…]
I believe that Government’ supporters who have spoken in opposition to the motion moved by Senator Greenwood have proved conclusively that the policy of the Government was very clearly spelt out prior to the election. [More…]
The fundamental issue which concerned the Opposition in relation to this matter was that an election promise had been stated in general and unqualified terms that all public servants were to have 4 weeks annual leave but when the Government decided to implement that promise it retreated and said that the additional leave would be available only to those who were members of unions. [More…]
The Government today, belatedly, gave an assurance that it would honour the election promise it gave, and it retreated from the position it adopted within a fortnight after it took office that it would limit this benefit to some unionists and not grant it to others. [More…]
The first was that it was not prepared to sit by idly and do nothing when there had been a blatant repudiation by the Labor Party Government of one of its election promises. [More…]
I refer the Special Minister of State, who represents the Treasurer in this chamber, to the premature announcement by the Premier of South Australia during the course of his current State election campaign that a $300m petro-chemical industry will be established by an American owned company at Redcliffs in the north of the Spencer Gulf area of South Australia. [More…]
I am not aware of the details of what is going on in the South Australian election campaign. [More…]
The Government feels that the fact that its Ministers met quite quickly after the election and its quick action in proposing certain aid to the States have resulted in improvements which have been reflected in the employment figures. [More…]
I think it is appropriate that I should draw the attention of honourable senators to what has been happening during the recess and since the election. [More…]
by leave - Mr President, the Senate notice paper contains a notice of motion for the disallowance of the Honey Industry (Election of Board) Regulations. [More…]
by leave - Mr President, the Honey Industry (Election of Board) Regulations were introduced during the previous administration as Statutory Rules 1972, No. [More…]
These regulations contain provisions relating to the entitlement of honey producers to enrolment as electors in elections for the Honey Board. [More…]
As a consequence of doubts which arose concerning enrolment as an elector and therefore eligibility to vote at an election and the possibility that this would depend upon the discretion of returning officers, I gave notice on 12th October 1972 for disallowance of these regulations. [More…]
It is worth noting that in the last election campaign the then Prime Minister made no specific proposal to increase pensions. [More…]
1 pointed out that I was not fired by any party political persuasion on the eve of a State election but was merely quoting the valued opinion of high Treasury officials. [More…]
Three years ago, as a result of agitation by Country Party people throughout Queensland regarding the inequality in freight rates and to pacify them on the eve of the election held 3 years before the last election, the Premier of Queensland brought in a firm of management consultants named Beckingsale Management Services Pty Ltd. That firm was commissioned to make an inquiry into freight rates operating in Queensland. [More…]
Does it mean that the ALP believes it is in power because of the program it put forward in its policy speech at the last election, or is its mandate based on the ALP Conference proposals? [More…]
Adverting to the interjection which was just made, I am well aware that our colleague, Senator Bonner, in whose election in his own right we all rejoice, received an overwhelming mandate from his Queensland electors to come into the Senate and oppose all that was contained in the Government’s policy speech. [More…]
The simple fact is that the last election with all its alleged defects gave the Government 54 per cent of the seats, although it obtained only 49.6 per cent of the primary vote. [More…]
The simple fact is that over the vast majority of elections since 1949, more people have preferred to vote for the Liberal Party, the Australian Country Party and the Australian Democratic Labor Party than for the Labor Party. [More…]
Apparently there was some undertaking given to the Federal Conference of the Labor Party and once again the Labor Government sees its responsibility to its union base and Labor Party supporters - not to all the public servants and others in the work force who may have helped in their election, but only to unionists. [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…]
in defiance of its election policy, it attempted to introduce compulsory unionism for Commonwealth public servants; [More…]
In the 6 months prior to the election many of us said quite definitely that under our federal system, to which I do not object, there was a parallel between the imminent era of Mr Whitlam, in his anticipated role of Prime Minister, and that of the great American President Franklin D. Roosevelt. [More…]
Having gone around many electorates at large before and since the last election, I am more than ever convinced that the people are clamouring for a better deal on national health. [More…]
I am sure that when we come back for the first session next year it will be found that most of our election promises have been carried out. [More…]
The proposals which the Prime Minister outlined in his address prior to the election are complimentary to him. [More…]
That is not really an argument on political philosophies but it was the highlight of the election campaign and something which had not come to Australia before - a fully mounted costly publicity campaign. [More…]
I would not like to see Australian elections following the pattern which we see- in America and which is something I abhor, but I foresee that we will become involved in this type of campaign in the future. [More…]
I regret that the La’bor Party approached the election in that way, but having taken the lead in this matter over all other parties, it has gained success. [More…]
I hope that honourable senators opposite will bear in mind that at future elections they will be posed with this same situation, so that in attempting to regain government in the future monetary contributions probably will be the most important factor. [More…]
The main aims that Labor has pronounced, not only in the Prime ‘Minister’s pre-election speeches hut also in the Governor-General’s Speech, are complimentary. [More…]
As was pointed out to the Senate by the Leader of the Opposition, under the electoral system the Labor Party can come to office without the first preference support of 50 per cent of the Australian people and yet acquire 54 per cent of the seats at the election. [More…]
Here we have the Queen’s Opposition, which claims that it was defeated unfairly in the election and which is competing with us for the management of this country on the basis that it is better able to run this country than the Labor Party is, debating a very important national issue, namely, United States bases in Australia; and the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate says: 1 must admit that Dr Forbes, in leading for the Opposition in the other place, had the intention of flushing out the differences between the left and right wings of the Labor Party’. [More…]
Prior to the election Mr Barnard made the Australian Labor Party’s position very clear. [More…]
He won a State election in Queensland by an overwhelming and record majority. [More…]
As ;i matter of fact, in the time since the new Parliament met the Opposition has been quoting the policy speech which Mr Whitlam presented before the election and which was the blueprint of victory. [More…]
If no increase is to be granted, it may be that many people voted at the last general election upon the basis of misunderstanding. [More…]
The full benefits flowing from the former Government’s 1972 Budget and its sound economic planning have showed up completely the falsity of the assertions which were made at the time of the election, that there would be 200,000 unemployed in Australia. [More…]
We were going to have disastrous unemployment, according to those who put forward the Labor Party’s case before the last election. [More…]
The Bill also provides that the increases will be retrospective to the first full pay period after 2nd December last - again keeping an election promise. [More…]
When they were in office we used to hear, on the eve of an election, reference to a 50c a week rise in pensions. [More…]
Its policy was to increase pensions by a max imum of 50c a week and such increases were always dangled as a political carrot before electors on the eve of an election in an endeavour to win votes for themselves. [More…]
They must stand condemned in the eyes of the people of Australia as members of a political party that has completely repudiated its election promises of 1949. [More…]
The Bill also honours another election promise of the Labor Party in that the class B and class C widow pensions will be brought into line with the pension payable to class A widows, namely, $21.50. [More…]
Before I conclude let me refer to an election promise that was made by the then Prime Minister, Mr McMahon. [More…]
He claimed that the present Prime Minister - the Leader of the Australian Labor Party - dishonoured an election promise. [More…]
Tt is the result of the recent election campaign and embodies some new philosophies in the field of social services. [More…]
The rate has been plucked out of the air by a political party in the course of an election campaign in which promises were made to the people. [More…]
This excellent Bill fulfils an election promise but the Government has shown some restraint. [More…]
While the Minister may have admitted that his Government might have to review the question of the rate at which the pension shall be increased to achieve the target of 25 per cent of the average of the weekly male earnings, I think I must point out again that one of the important planks which the Labor Party put down in the election campaign was its desire to have a pension rate which, to quote the Prime Minister again, ‘will no longer be tied to financial and political considerations of annual Budgets’. [More…]
If this is so, can the Minister state the reasons why the Government rushed in to give premature recognition to North Vietnam before the ink on the ceasefire agreement was really dry and the fighting had stopped, particularly in Cambodia, when straight after the Federal election it virtually exported or deported the Taiwanese officials from this country? [More…]
Is it a fact that Mr Phillip Adams was one of the publicity officers of the Australian Labor Party who directed its publicity campaign for the last Federal election? [More…]
Even if this money was made available before the election, can the Minister explain the break with tradition that any producer must, in normal circumstances, put up portion of the front money so that the entire cost of his production is not financed by the Australian taxpayer? [More…]
Finally, is it a fact that the taxpayers’ money was being used to support this biased assistance even before the election? [More…]
I might also point out to the honourable senator that I know that Mr Phillip Adams was approached by the former Prime Minister to work for him during the course of the last election campaign. [More…]
Shortly after the election of the Labor Government it was discussed, among other matters connected with immigration, and the Labor Government decided to adopt it as its policy. [More…]
During the election campaign, when I made a statement that the new Government would seek to alter the voting system, the Prime Minister gave his personal word that the next House of Representatives election would be contested according to the preferential voting system as at present used. [More…]
In view of the fact that last night the Prime Minister said that it could be contested on a new system - optional preferential - I ask: Does this mean that the Prime Minister has repudiated one more election promise? [More…]
My understanding is that the issue which arose shortly prior to the last federal election was whether, if the Australian Labor Party were elected to govern^ ment, it would introduce legislation for first past the post voting in place of the preferential system. [More…]
The Premier of South Australia said during his election policy speech that he would make land available at Port Noarlunga for an ACTU scheme to build homes for workers at a cost, it now eventuates, of $10,000. [More…]
The increase of $1.50 in the base pension rate which was alluded to by the honourable the Prime Minister in his recent Federal election policy speech, to be introduced in each autumn and spring session of Parliament until the base rate amounted to 25 per cent of average weekly earnings, was granted. [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…]
At present, the Commonwealth Electoral Act provides that persons who are not under the age of 21 years are entitled to have their names placed on the roll and, when enrolled, to vote at elections for senators and for members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
However, under a special provision, a member of the defence force serving in a war zone outside Australia, who is under 21 years of age, is entitled to vote at a Federal election. [More…]
In South Australia the 18-year-old franchise has been operative for State elections since June last year. [More…]
As honourable senators 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 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 amendments of the [More…]
Did the decision result in the resignation from the new body of 2 eminent Australian artists and protests from Australians eminent in the field of art, who claimed that the Government had ignored its election promises to them. [More…]
The fact is, of course, that a balanced doctrine - for want of a better term I adopt the term used by the honourable senator - is embodied in the Broadcasting and Television Act insofar as it relates to political advertising during an election campaign. [More…]
The electoral officer in Victoria has contacted the Chief Electoral Officer in Canberra and has pointed out that an election will be held in Victoria shortly and that he has fixed 21st March as the date for compilation of the Victorian roll. [More…]
I believe that they do have an interest in politics and in what happens in this country, and that they will cast their votes according to their judgment of the political parties and the candidates at the time of the election. [More…]
I commend the Government for introducing the measure, which will give the 18-year-olds of Australia the right to vote in federal elections. [More…]
I vividly recall that on each of the last 9 sitting days of the Senate prior to the last federal election the then Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and present Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Murphy, moved for the suspension of the Standing Orders to enable him to bring forward a Bill to give 18-year- olds the right to vote at that election. [More…]
The government parties of the day, supported by the Australian Democratic Labor Party, saw fit to deny 18-year-olds the right to vote at the last federal election. [More…]
Senator Little would know that enrolment for State elections in South Australia is still voluntary, even if one is over the age of 21 years. [More…]
Enrolment is not compulsory for State elections, but it is compulsory in Commonwealth elections. [More…]
The reason for this was very easy to see in the election for the Lower House on Saturday last. [More…]
Undoubtedly the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) was able to say that the actions that he and the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Barnard) took were purely in line with the Labor Party’s election promises and, as has been emphasised on many occasions, that the Labor Government had a mandate to take just those actions. [More…]
The other important aspect for Australia following the election of this new Labor Government is the likely effect on our domestic financial policies. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and Mr Barnard, whilst saying that they will adhere to a promise given prior to the election that the Australian troops would be withdrawn, are interpreting that as suggesting that it is still legitimate for them, within the terms of their promise, to leave a number of troops, variously stated to be perhaps 600 or 700, in Singapore after the departure of the battalion. [More…]
No such proposal was included in the Government’s election program. [More…]
Is Mr Kennedy the same person who unsuccessfully contested the Queensland State election in the seat of Mount Gravatt for the Australian Labor Party in 1969. [More…]
The Life President, Dr Banda, in declaring Conference open dealt rather extensively with the parliamentary system of government in Malawi and the village type of election which had been adapted to the Westminster concept. [More…]
Those rules, made in great haste in the early weeks after an election, were brought in, I think, to operate from 1st February. [More…]
In December 1971, Mr Justice Kerr proposed that the salary should be $13,000 and that there should be a further review soon after the next general election. [More…]
This is a matter which my Department has been watching and which was being watched prior to the election of the Labor Government. [More…]
But I wonder whether that is not a pious hope that is designed to accommodate present abilities to earlier election promises and whether, by the end of this year, a situation will not have arisen in the Australian Capital Territory whereby any effective selfgovernment will be limited to areas so few in number that the persons who have been concerned to promote the cause of selfgovernment may feel that there is not very much merit in what would then be available. [More…]
Firstly, when we offered ourselves for election or re-election each of us knew the conditions of service. [More…]
Any increases should apply only after the next election. [More…]
When Senator Townley accepted the payment which was prescribed by law when he stood for election, surely he was enough of a man of the world to know that it could be altered at some time, as it has been altered from time to time since federation. [More…]
If we were to follow Senator Townley’s suggestion and wait until 1975, the year of the next election, this would mean that these increases not only would not be fixed today but that there would be n gap between 1968 and 1975 before salaries were again examined. [More…]
It ought to be one of the experiences in which we rejoice that there has been introduced into this place a system of election that has given to this place in the representation of the people a variety of political opinion that is not capable of being expressed elsewhere. [More…]
This Committee is drawing up recommendations for the future election or choice of representatives. [More…]
The Labor Party asked people to support it at the last election, which they did. [More…]
Were 18 merino rams shipped from Australia to Bombay after the recent election, with the full authority of the Labor Government, to the order of the leading Indian textile combine, the J.K. organisation? [More…]
I say this to the Opposition: Notwithstanding the events which have occurred, the plain fact of the matter is that the discrimination in the Crimes Act and the previous Government’s failure to provide portability of pensions were 2 of the reasons why the Labor Party obtained the major ethnic vote of the major groups at the last election. [More…]
The issue before us for discussion is that on 2nd December last, within a fortnight after the general election, Senator Murphy inherited a position of trust in the office of Attorney-General. [More…]
On 18th October 1972 - and this was not so close to the election that the former AttorneyGeneral could not act on it - the Assistant Director of the Special Reports Branch of the Department of Immigration made certain statements. [More…]
Opposition senators are kicking the Communist can hoping that this may result in a revival for them and that they will not be roundly defeated at the next Senate election. [More…]
I will not be in the Senate after the next election. [More…]
I am just saying his Party will not have any power after the next Senate election. [More…]
In my policy speech at the last election I said - and I say it again - that the greatest problem which this Government or any other government could have at present is racing inflation. [More…]
increased at a faster rate than that since the December election and I feel that what the people want from this Government is positive action to correct this racing inflation. [More…]
I repeat what I said in my policy speech during the last federal election campaign: The greatest problem that the incoming government faces in the control of the affairs of Australia is to correct inflation. [More…]
As far as 1 am aware - I may well be wrong - the only time that this matter has been subjected to a vote of the people was during the Presidential election in the United States last year when the people of California voted in a referendum on the subject. [More…]
I refer to what occurred in the State of California in the United States of America during the last presidential election when there was a poll in that State to determine whether or not the death penalty should be restored. [More…]
The honourable senator should be aware that in accordance with its undertaking to the Australian people at the general election the Government has taken up directly with the French Government the question of the legality of French atmospheric tests in the Pacific. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government: Is it not traditional in the Australian Parliament that, following a general election for the House of Representatives, there is a debate entitled the AddressinReply debate which gives all honourable senators the opportunity to address the Senate on any subject desired? [More…]
I am very happy to be able to stand in this chamber tonight and say that the abolition of the wine excise was one of the policies enunciated by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) during his election policy speech. [More…]
He said that immediately on election to government the Australian Labor Party would abolish this tax. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party has been accused of using the abolition of the wine tax as a political issue during recent election campaigns. [More…]
I pledge that the Australian Labor Party when elected to office - which will be at the next Federal election - led by Mr Whitlam will repeal the excise on the wine industry. [More…]
During the Federal election campaign they said from the hustings we were putting up this proposition only as political bait. [More…]
But it took the election of a Labor Government to put in a position where they could vote against the wine excise these members of the Liberal Party who tell the electors they are men of free choice. [More…]
The figures of the last Federal election show that Mr Giles has got himself into a bit of a political knot and is writing statements to the Press. [More…]
At the last election, for the first time in the history of the division of Angas, Mr Giles had to go to preferences to retain his seat. [More…]
If at the next Federal election the Labor Party decides for some reason or other not to run a candidate, Mr Giles is gone because the Country Party is an emerging force in South Australia. [More…]
The Country Party won the seat of Flinders at the State election on 10th March last and went very close to winning Rocky River. [More…]
Senator Young will have problems for he is number 2 on the ticket for the next Senate election and faces the advent of Mr Hall running as an LM candidate. [More…]
Because of the good vote he got his Party ran candidates in the State election and won seats. [More…]
Firstly, I should like to endorse what Senator McLaren has said about Reg Curran, the member for Chaffey who was defeated in a recent State election in South Australia. [More…]
The promise at election time was that the Labor Party would grant it to all public servants. [More…]
Great liberty was given to Senator McLaren when he referred to what had been said by various South Australian senators about the South Australian election. [More…]
We also said in the course of that debate that if the Government were to introduce a Bill providing for 4 weeks annual leave for public servants in accordance with its election promise, which was to do so without qualification or strings of any kind, the Liberal Party section of the Opposition in this chamber would not oppose it. [More…]
Tonight, that Bill having been presented in this chamber we, unlike the Government which did not abide by its election undertaking in this regard, are abiding by the undertaking we gave to the Senate in that debate. [More…]
Nevertheless we recognise that this policy was clearly enunciated in the election promises of the Australian Labor Party and obviously it gained a clear mandate for that. [More…]
If he has not already done so will the Minister give consideration to taking early legislative action to amend the Broadcasting and Television Act in relation to the ban on the broadcasting of political matter within 48 hours of an election? [More…]
I am sure he will agree that in the past ithas been found impossible to put this ban into practice, particularly in relation to State elections and especially if they are held when the Australian Parliament is in session. [More…]
AsI understand the position to date, the general interpretation of the existing section has been to exclude news broadcasts relating to political speeches and events within the 3-day period from midnight on the Wednesday preceding the rate of the election. [More…]
I must say in further replying to the honourable senator that if the situation is to be eased it will be necessary for solid assurances to be given by the licensees so that if a particular station chooses to indulge in partisan and biased reporting on the eve of an election the parties discriminated against can be confident that they will have an opportunity to reply. [More…]
In the campaign preceding the election of the new Government, at each place the Minister visited he made on the spot checks of the mounting problems. [More…]
This seems strange when we look at the figures for the last Senate election in Queensland. [More…]
This record shows that the first action occurred on 7th December which was pretty quick since the election was held on 2nd December. [More…]
But there is to be a Senate election either towards the end of this year or early next year. [More…]
It could well be that the Government will have the numbers in the Senate after the next Senate election. [More…]
During the last general election campaign there was a surprising and perhaps historic agreement among all parties represented in this Parliament that decentralisation had become a pressing national issue. [More…]
The Senate is in a position to give full expression to all those promises made during the general election campaign about spending capital in country areas to make them attractive for Australians to live in. [More…]
The Labor Party made an unconditional election promise, if the honourable senator wants to play politics. [More…]
It was prepared to carry out its election promise, but there was a request by the Tasmanian Government to operate the service. [More…]
Since the Federal election we have done everything possible to provide the service. [More…]
Opposition senators decried it when I suggested that a pre-selection campaign was going on in Tasmania. [More…]
I hope he achieves election to this place. [More…]
In the remaining weeks of Parliament before the election, no final decision was made on this matter, as far as I am aware. [More…]
The Opposition did not mention those principles in the election campaign last year. [More…]
I have noticed that newspapers such as the ‘Australian’, which are no friends of us or anybody on this side of the Senate and which, in the course of the last election campaign, by their support assisted in the election of the present Government, have said definitely that there ought to be a judicial inquiry to determine the truth. [More…]
But that did not’ prevent Artie Fadden winning the Darling Downs seat as the Country Parry candidate and-Tie told very many amusing stories about his campaigning in that election. [More…]
1 remember what he said to me at a party that was held in Brisbane on the night when my election to the Senate was declared. [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…]
Prior to the last election a series of matters was put forward by the member for the Northern Territory as responsibilities which should go directly to the Legislative Council. [More…]
Can he advise when legislation will be prepared so that home buyers will be able to claim interest on mortgages as a tax deduc tion as was promised by the Labor Party during the election campaign? [More…]
As to the suggestions about Australian Labor Party policies, I point out that already the new Government has done a great deal to carry out the policies that were announced during the last election campaign. [More…]
I wonder whether the Government would like to fight an election on that issue? [More…]
Apparently the Opposition wants to re-fight the Vietnam war - an issue which was put to the Australian people at the election which was held last December, which gave the Australian people the opportunity to show that they supported overwhelmingly the. [More…]
One of the great achievements of the Labor Government upon its election was immediately to abolish conscription and withdraw all forces from South Vietnam. [More…]
The Australian people knew before the election that we would be recognising that Government. [More…]
Therefore, on the election of the Labor Government, it was the will of the Australian people that this should happen. [More…]
I cite, as the example, the Labor Party policy and the statements made shortly after the election by Mr Whitlam that what Australia was concerned about was simply to secure peace in Vietnam. [More…]
We well recall that Dr J. F. Cairns was not at ali noticeable during the period prior to the elections and, indeed, the communist unions were quiet at the time flowing on to the December election. [More…]
It is a matter of then election. [More…]
It will be recalled that our spokesman on Health and Welfare during the 1972 election campaign, now the Minister for Social Security, indicated that the benefit of proposed new rates of subsidy would amount to $22m per year for Queensland. [More…]
The proposed prices justification tribunal has been widely advertised and it was part of the Australian Labor Party’s election platform which was put before the people. [More…]
Prior to the election the Prime Minister announced that a Commonwealth Labor Government would be prepared to take over the State railways. [More…]
From then on the Committee nominates, and handles its election in the prescribed manner. [More…]
In this case the application differs because anyone from the House of Representatives would have been excluded from possible election as Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
When we fight such an election, we would fight it on our grounds and not on the defensive. [More…]
I would be happy to fight such an election on the right issue. [More…]
An election was he!d and Senator Milliner was chosen. [More…]
In fact, I recall that on a number of occasions, I think during the last Senate election campaign, the Prime Minister stated that the then Opposition would support the establishment of further select committees in the Senate. [More…]
Those newspapers encouraged their readers to get cracking during the last election campaign, to badger every parliamentarian and every aspirant wishing to become a representative in Canberra and to hammer them about what they wanted. [More…]
The effective way in which ethnic groups carried out their campaign during the last election campaign was a healthy political activity. [More…]
One of the reasons why the previous Government was voted out of office was that at the time of the election there was high inflation and very high unemployment as a direct result of the budgetary policies it pursued. [More…]
the Prime Minister’s election policy speech undertaking that pensioners receiving age and invalid pensions - [More…]
It has not been fixed and so the situation bas gone on from month to month, from the time just before the election when the Labor Party assured the people of King Island that if it were elected it would immediately reintroduce that ship and it would be operated by the ANL. [More…]
1 have here a letter dated 3rd November 1972, less than a month before the Federal election. [More…]
I think we can say that the Labor Party which made a promise before the last general election that they would reintroduce the ‘Straitsman’ service immediately probably meant it at the time. [More…]
It is dated 10th October 1972, which was at a period when an election was in the air and people were seeking votes. [More…]
One would think that this was an election year for senators! [More…]
A peculiar position exists in the Senate today because of what happened at the last Federal election. [More…]
Each member of it knows his political existence is threatened by the success of the Labor Party at the last election. [More…]
I am informed by my colleague the Minister for Education that the establishment of a fourth university in Victoria has been contemplated for a number of years and that at the time of the Victorian State election in 1970 both major political parties - that is, the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal Party of Australia - announced their intention to establish a fourth university, if elected. [More…]
As I recall, part of the program put to the people at the last election by the Australian Labor Party was that we would proceed with that legislation. [More…]
Is he aware that it was only a few years ago that a State Labor Party candidate whose family had given long and faithful service to the ALP had to resign from contesting a State election because he was told by his Party to toe the Party line on the matter of abortion. [More…]
I do not know how that can be used as an election gimmick. [More…]
There is a paramount reason for rejecting the proposal put by him now, and all the other proposals, because in the policy speech of the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), made before the 1972 election and since circulated, these words were used- [More…]
Whatever might be said by the honourable senator opposite - he is entitled to put his view - I am entitled to put the view that this is a measure introduced by the Government in pursuance of an undertaking made to the people in most specific terms before the last election, I point out to the Senate that included in the Australian Labor Party policy speech were these words: [More…]
I think we are entitled to say that whatever might be the views and the judgments of persons on the measure - it is clear that a number do have judgments which accord with ours - rat the election for the House of Representatives where the people’s views were sought the people returned this Government with a mandate to introduce precisely the same measure which was passed by the Senate in March 1972. [More…]
In a clear democratic process the Government was elected by the people for the House of Representatives at the last Federal election held in December 1972. [More…]
Senator Murphy stated that this matter was mentioned as part of a policy speech delivered by a Party which was successful in winning the election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
It is true, of course, that the AttorneyGeneral has supervision of the law, but I worry greatly when a politician has to make a decision in ne atmosphere and pressures of an election, wilh the media beating up a melodramatic and emotional campaign. [More…]
That magistrate eventually retired, and when he stood for election to the city council his vote was always near the top of the poll. [More…]
I noted during the course of the last election campaign that the Prime Minister indicated that when a Labor government was elected it would be Government policy to implement the general principles embodied in the recommendations contained in the report dealing with the problems of mentally and physically handicapped persons. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Does this reflect the Government’s complete disregard for the rural sector, which was evident in the policy speech delivered before the election and the decisions that have been made since the election on 2nd’ December? [More…]
My understanding is that according to the Opposition the alleged grandiose promises made before the election have not been fulfilled. [More…]
It is becoming quite obvious that the sooner a Federal election is forced for both Houses of Parliament by the Government the better it will be for everyone because the Government’s legislative program in the Senate has been delayed for far too long by the combined Opposition engaging on a weekly basis and, when Senate is on the air, on a daily basis in a witch hunt of the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Murphy). [More…]
It is rather interesting that we are getting all these challenges to go to an election. [More…]
I am not afraid of an election. [More…]
We are not afraid of an election. [More…]
The people will know, both now and when the election is held, the reason why the action has been taken. [More…]
I remind the Senate of what Senator Townley has said tonight because it seems to me to clarify the issues now before the Senate and what have been the issues since we came back after the election. [More…]
Up till now it is true that a number of important Bills have passed through the Senate but I remind honourable senators of what has taken place since we came back after the election. [More…]
Amost immediately after the election the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) reported upon his investigations into the threats on the life of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and his own life. [More…]
However, on every occasion after the election, this minority group of 3 people - it is not a party, there are only 3 involved- [More…]
What we have had today is a continuation of what was started when this Parliament first sat after the election - a combination of minority parties which do not have the support of the people of Australia wanting to decide what the Senate shall do and wanting to take out of the hands of the Government in the Senate its power to introduce the legislation which it has been authorised by mandate of the Australian people to introduce. [More…]
I emphasise :th.at .it was during the Christmas period: - after the Federal election. [More…]
In the policy speech which Mr Whitlam delivered on behalf of the Australian Labor Party at the last Federal election, he made particular reference to the policies of a Labor government in relation to prices. [More…]
I challenge Senator Carrick to stand for election as an independent. [More…]
Senator Townley will admit that he stood for election as an Independent Liberal. [More…]
Under the constitution of the Liberal Party in Tasmania he is allowed to stand for election against the Liberals and to retain his membership. [More…]
If that is so, obviously Senator Townley will have a say in the election of the chairman. [More…]
In its election promise the State Government said that it was going to make 300 acress available adjacent to the Noarlunga regional centre to enable 1,200 homes to be built for sale at about $10,000 to $11,000 each. [More…]
He has not yet tumbled to the fact that he no longer occupies one of the power bastions in Canberra and in this chamber, that there has been a change of Government and that the Australian people have voted out his Party and have given the Australian Labor Party a mandate to carry out the program that it announced in the course of the last election campaign. [More…]
It is about time that some of these people exerted some influence in their Party room to see that the norms that did exist in the Senate prior to the election of 2 December are reestablished on a decent basis. [More…]
It came with the election of the Labor Party to office. [More…]
The undertaking given by the Prime Minister in his election campaign speech was to provide finance to primary producers at the lowest possible rates. [More…]
Our policies were stated and explained in the 18 months preceding the elections, in the Parliament and at seminars and conferences throughout the Commonwealth. [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…]
In 1968 Mr Daly’s electorate was 14 per cent above the quota but by the time of the 1972 election it was 8 per cent below the quota. [More…]
In 1968, at the time of redistribution, the electorate was 16 per cent above the quota and at the 1972 election it was 1 per cent below the quota. [More…]
That election was fought on boundaries drawn up under a Labor government. [More…]
It was the Labor Party’s own fault because that election was fought on boundaries drawn up by a government of the same political complexion as that which the honourable senator supports. [More…]
In the last election we had a situation in the 2 electorates of Chifley and Gwydir where Chifley had approximately 65,000 people and Gwydir had approximately 46,000 people recording votes. [More…]
It was evident from going among the young voters at the last election that people were sick and tired of the little dodges that were used previously to justify the changes to electoral boundaries that were being talked about. [More…]
But will anybody deny that the nonGovernment parties suffered a terrible blow when the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby) proved with his dynamic approach that he could survive or when Mr Whan won Eden-Monaro, although everybody had been told before the election that Eden-Monaro was like a ripe apple to be picked from the tree? [More…]
Goodness knows that in the election campaign the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Whitlam, Senator Murphy, members and senators generally were openly critical of the electoral boundaries. [More…]
In the last election in Britain, the Western Isles had an electoral enrolment of only 22.040 and the largest electoral district, Antrim South, had an enrolment of 113,645. [More…]
All honourable senators well, know that long before the election date a redistribution in Western Australia was necessary. [More…]
As a result of the election there has been a change of government. [More…]
This question of electoral reform was an issue at the last Federal election. [More…]
Of course, the fact of the matter is that the ALP is like any other political party in that if it can fix things to stay in office it will do so.The DLP made clear to the public during the Federal election campaign what would happen. [More…]
The decision is that optional preferential voting will be introduced at the first available moment’.I was foolish enough, wise enough or rash enough to mention this before the last Federal election. [More…]
The fact was that before the election, although Mr Whitlam kept it dark and everybody was sworn to secrecy, I was not sworn to secrecy and was told by people in the know that the Committee had decided to recommend optional preferential voting because it was nearly as good as first past the post but did not sound so bad to the public. [More…]
Unfortunately the Democratic Labor Party knew beforethe election that it was all fixed and that at the first available moment the new Government would bring in optional preferential voting. [More…]
Before the election I made a big Press statement that was featured in all the Australian Press. [More…]
He lost his seat at the next election. [More…]
The other day I was reading a statement by a South Australian, politician - this will appeal to the Minister for Works (Senator Cavanagh) in which he pointed out that in the recent election in that State the Labor Party received SI per cent of the votes and won 57 per cent of the seats. [More…]
I looked at the list of candidates for the Federal election on 2nd December. [More…]
that the Swedish Social Democrats could not have held Government continually for 40 years without a break, but for the fact that they had a fair and honest system of election. [More…]
And there is great temptation for a party in office to have dishonest systems of elections - [More…]
Only the quota-preferential method comes anywhere near satisfying the criterion of justice to all electors, whereunder their right can be realised to cast a useful vote that takes part in the election of a Parliament. [More…]
The fact is that the Labor Party holds the 2 largest seats in the Commonwealth and its members do not complain that the work is too heavy, because they are able to do it, they are willing to do it and they do it, and they are re-elected election after election to these 2 largest seats in Australia. [More…]
The figures that I will give represent the number of electors enrolled for the State election to be held in Victoria on Saturday next, when a new Victorian Government will be elected. [More…]
The situation was reached with respect to Kara Kara that at the last election, despite the completely gerrymandered nature of the electorate, the handful of voters - fewer than 18,000 - elected the Labor Party candidate. [More…]
This fact was demonstrated in the voting figures at the last Queensland State election. [More…]
As a result of that redistribution, the Labor Party lost the Federal election. [More…]
The Labor Party and other people prior to the last Federal election were talking about taking legal action to compel the then Government to arrange for a redistribution in Western Australia. [More…]
At the previous election a Western Australian vote was worth less than a vote in any other State. [More…]
It is clear that the closer you get to this ideal of equal representation and equal numbers, the closer you are to getting a change that would sweep one party or the other completely out of the Parliament at an election in which a swing occurred one way or the other. [More…]
As everyone is aware, a casual vacancy in the Senate is filled by the Houses of the Parliament of the State in question sitting and voting together to choose a person to hold that place until the expiration of the term or until the election of a successor, whichever first happens. [More…]
In the last election the Country Party won 9.44 per cent of the votes but it ho ds 16 per cent of the seats in the Mouse of Representatives; it holds 20 seats. [More…]
It would be like conducting an election before any of the parties had a chance to outline their policies. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Is it a fact that an election is to be held on 11th August in which only Aboriginal voters will be eligible to cast their votes for .’ [More…]
Is it a fact that Aboriginal members of the National Steering Committee have been instructed to keep any information regarding the proposed elections a tight secret until these matters have been discussed at the State conferences of the National Steering Committee to be held about mid-June? [More…]
During the course of the recent Federal election campaign the Prime Minister said that in the carrying out of this section of the Australian Labor Party policy we would seek the utmost co-operation of all commercial television and radio licencees. [More…]
Every person who believes in the right of minority groups or minority individuals in this country to have the right of election, should look to the threat that is inherent.in this foreshadowed legislation. [More…]
In the period between 19’68, when the redistribution occurred, and the next election the population of a number of seats had grown so fast that they were already out of kilter. [More…]
In France, at the last election, constituencies ranged from 25,000 to 150,000 electors. [More…]
As I say, if we were to remove the electorate of Darling from New South Wales and leave in the electorate of Eden-Monaro - it would take 2 days to drive around its 122 polling places - one country vote at the last general election was equal to 1.04 extra metropolitan votes. [More…]
If the State Labor Government, which was defeated in 1965, had been responsible for a bodgie redistribution, which has been suggested by some Opposition speakers,’ - it seems that the State Government made a pretty bad fix because it was defeated- at the 1965 election. [More…]
In the 1959 State election - one could go back to each election prior to that and find somewhat the same result - the ruling Liberal Country League received 37 per cent of the vote as against the Labor Party’s 49.5 per cent of the vote. [More…]
It was taken purely and simply to enhance the fading electoral prospects of the Liberal-Country Party in the election to be held in New South Wales next year. [More…]
I can understand Senator Webster’s concern because he is involved in the big squeeze that will take place in the next election. [More…]
election. [More…]
I quote these figures , only because, they are comparable to those, of all the other elections. [More…]
We know that more than 80 per cent of the people live in the cities and that it was in the cities where the voting changes took place at the last election. [More…]
It is interesting to note that now that the Australian Democratic Labor Party faces the prospect of having its number of representatives reduced from 5 to 2 in a Senate election, it is putting pressure on the Victorian Liberal Party and possibly on the Victorian Country Party to change the voting system in that State in order to provide for proportional representation, or whatever other name Senator McManus calls this new voting procedure. [More…]
According to the number of these new electors in each electorate, the enrolments are pretty slow and this could upset the redistribution to some extent and a sudden spate of applications for enrolment just before the election could change the quotas very much. [More…]
However, as election time nears that position will probably change. [More…]
We heard from Senator Carrick the scare tactic used by the Australian Democratic Labor Party prior to the election on 2nd December. [More…]
The example set by Senator Gair, who is now Leader of the Australian Democratic Labor Party, was promptly followed by the Country Party in Queensland led by Mr Bjelke-Petersen, whose efforts at gerrymandering have exceeded the efforts of Senator Gair, as was shown by the election results outlined by Senator Ron McAuliffe last night, that is, that the Party with the minority of support is in power because of the electoral system operating in Queensland. [More…]
What is more, it depends on something that the Opposition abhors - the first past the post method of election. [More…]
They have predetermined their attitude just as they predetermined their preferences at election time. [More…]
We need a simple form of election. [More…]
As Lloyd George used to say, at every election his Party used to be tripped by the triangle. [More…]
In this place last year I heard the story about a union election. [More…]
At the last election we received the overwhelming number of votes and for the first time, thank goodness, despite the gerrymander of the honourable senator’s Party in 1965, the electoral weight of the people was so much against the then Government that they threw it out of office and now we are trying to bring parliamentary democracy back into the Australian electorate by reducing the 20 per cent disparity to what was normal custom, practice and tradition until 1965. [More…]
Before the last election my Party warned that a Whitlam Government- [More…]
So we have his word for it that a full scale review is proposed and that he hopes the amendments will be passed into law before the next election for the House of Representatives and the Senate. [More…]
It will be recalled that during the last election campaign the Prime Minister said, when finally smoked out by the advertising campaign of the Democratic Labor Party, that he did not intend to alter the Act to a first past the post voting system until after the next election. [More…]
I saw his performance in a Party election in New South Wales. [More…]
In the party to which I once belonged there was an election for the executive. [More…]
There were 2 sets of candidates offering for election - the group to which I belonged and the group to which Senator Mulvihill belonged. [More…]
However, I do want to say that the Prime Minister, having promised on the election eve not to introduce first past the post voting until after the next election, did talk about a system of optional preferential voting. [More…]
He completely disregarded the promise he made on the eve of the election, which shows just how dubious the Prime Minister’s promises are. [More…]
The election results since 1958 show that the Labor Party failed to win office whenever the people wanted out. [More…]
We should not disguise the fact that this Government has never won the support of the majority of the Australian electors, that it has never won 50 per cent plus one of the votes in any election held from 1958 up to and including 1972. [More…]
The Party falsely claiming to be the Party of the workers depends for election on the whims of a millionaire and his hobby. [More…]
The fact that the ALP now governs with a minority - it has done so since the 1972 election - is an example of this, and it certainly is an argument in support of and not against the present system. [More…]
The threat in Western Australia was that there could be a challenge to the validity of the election held in December 1972 because the Government had failed to carry out its responsibilities in relation to the Commonwealth Electoral Act. [More…]
The obvious reason for a tolerance is to ensure that it is not necessary to have an electoral redistribution after every election or maybe twice within the life of a Parliament. [More…]
The situation could arise in any election in this country in which, say, 2 parties were vying for votes and where one party got 51 per cent of the votes in every electorate and the other party got 49 per cent. [More…]
10 to $1.20, which the previous Government had indicated prior to the election it would not do. [More…]
As everyone knows in the 1972 election the present Government got the numbers and also the number of seats. [More…]
On the election of a Labor government next year immediate steps will be taken to redraft the Electoral Act to meet the changing needs of our time . [More…]
That is, the present Government - proposes these 3 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…]
was defeated by Labor In 1965 and elected a new ‘young-image’ leader, Steele Hall, possibly to counter Labor’s expected election of Don Dunstan. [More…]
An analysis of electoral apportionment and election results 1944-1968 shows: [More…]
But the importance of this Bill is such that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and his Government have said that if this Bill is rejected a situation will be created in which the Government will be pleased to take the issue to the people of Australia and to hold an election for the House of Representatives and the Senate which will be dissolved at the same time. [More…]
But the Government certainly will not take the House of Representatives to an election. [More…]
I think that in the very near future the Government may hold a Senate election. [More…]
The result of that election will be quite interesting. [More…]
He made it clear he would regard Saturday’s Victorian State election as a judgment on whether the Senate Opposition’s actions had the backing of the electorate. [More…]
I predict to the Labor Party that the antisocialists in Victoria will have a very handsome win in that coming State election. [More…]
If the Prime Minister states that he will take the judgment of the people of Victoria on the Federal Government by their vote in that State election, I will be very pleased to learn of their reaction next Saturday. [More…]
I certainly withdraw the remark if Senator McLaren assures me that he has made no purchase in Canberra since his election to the Senate. [More…]
At the moment nobody in the Government can tell me that the vote of a person who has the necessary finance to put money into the election campaign fund of a party has the same strength as the vote of a poor citizen who has not the necessary finance. [More…]
I can recall one prominent businessman being proud of the fact that he poured $50,000 into the Labor Party’s election campaign fund. [More…]
Let us have a look at the situation in the outer areas of Melbourne, which is where the Australian Labor Party won the last election. [More…]
When people in their wisdom at the last election constituted this chamber they gave an Opposition numerically exceeding Government members. [More…]
Possibly the High Court would then order - there is precedent for this - the appointment of an additional representative by means of an election involving the whole State. [More…]
So it was introduced on its own so that 18-year-olds would have the right to vote should an emergency by-election be held at any time. [More…]
We cannot compare a Senate election with an election of the House of the people. [More…]
The only electorates in the 1948 election which had a number of electors either in excess of 10 per cent of the quota or below 10 per cent of the quota were one in New South Wales, 3 in Victoria, 5 in Queensland and 6 in Western Australia. [More…]
The point is that we cannot allow another election to be held while such a situation obtains. [More…]
The proposal to increase House of Representative’s representation in the Australian Capital Territory to 2 members will be authorised on the basis of section 122 of the Constitution as will the election of 2 Senators for the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
A definite assurance has been given by the Prime Minister to the effect that the system of voting to elect the House of Representatives will not be altered to the first past the post method before the next House of Representatives election. [More…]
In the course of the last House of Representatives election campaign and in answer to a question on 15th March he gave that assurance. [More…]
A voter is given the option to decide for how many candidates seeking election for a division he will cast a vote. [More…]
As an example, 14 candidates may seek election for a division. [More…]
in defiance of its election policy, it attempted to introduce compulsory unionism for Commonwealth public servants; [More…]
fair to presume that the Prime Minister is trying to create an atmosphere of his being frustrated by this chamber, so much so that in Melbourne in connection with the State election campaign he has used some very despicable words to describe honourable senators. [More…]
During the election campaign Mr Whitlam spoke about open government. [More…]
The purpose of that was that while the political complexion of the other House might change completely this chamber would have a carry-over from the previous election of senators so there would not be a sudden change and there would be a continuity of thought. [More…]
If so, is this not a departure from election promises to make funds available at low interest rates? [More…]
Did the Government pledge itself before the last election to make the total and permanent incapacity pension not less than the minimum wage? [More…]
We follow the principles laid down in the platform and resolutions of the Australian 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…]
In accordance with that platform, the Federal Leader of the Party, Mr Whitlam, put this policy forward quite clearly and explicitly at the campaign for the House of Representatives election which took place on 2 December last. [More…]
While Senator Wheeldon pointed to the policy speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) delivered before the last election as granting him a mandate from the Australian people, it must also be said that there are major sections within the Australian Labor Party and the leaders of the State Parties in a number of States who really do not accept that as a decision of the people, and apparently they do not accept it as the policy of the Party. [More…]
the fact is - 1 have said it previously and I reiterate it tonight - that there was constant agitation as part of election issues for the removal of these discriminatory clauses. [More…]
Is the Minister able to say whether pensioners are now effectively better off than they were’ prior to the election of this Government? [More…]
Whether that tune was changed by the results of the Victorian election I do not know, but to me it seems ridiculous to believe that a Minister can give conscious decision on a Bill and then readily agree to 18 amendments lock, stock and barrel which were moved by the Opposition in order to confine the advancement of government enterprise. [More…]
During the State election campaign, I put forward that policy for the establishment of such an authority to whom the people could appeal. [More…]
There was some government mediation to a very minor degree before the election; and what Mr Connor has done since has put this in bold relief. [More…]
I permit myself the comment that the Labor Party before the election set out so strongly and forcefully to have everything planned and knew what it was going to do, but this Pipeline Authority Bill, because of the way in which it has been developed, makes a mockery of all those assertions. [More…]
There seems to be an idea that there is some cloak and dagger operation whereby we did not declare ourselves as to our intentions prior to the election. [More…]
In the ‘Bulletin’ of 26 May reference is made to the close association between Mr Crebbin of Marrickville Margarine Pty Ltd and Mr Mick Young during the previous election campaign. [More…]
The article contains an allegation that during the election campaign the refrigerator in an Australian Labor Party campaigner’s Sydney flat was1 stocked with Marrickville products. [More…]
Did the Government promise prior to the last election to make long term low interest loans available to the rural sector? [More…]
Prior to the last election the then Opposition gave no such undertaking. [More…]
The present Government’s policy was spelled out clearly in the now Prime Minister’s election speech in December in which he said that rural finance would be made available at the lowest possible interest rates. [More…]
It is true that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) mentioned the matter on a number of occasions during the Federal election campaign and it is reasonable to assume that the Australian Labor Party has a mandate to bring in a Bill called the Prices Justification Bill. [More…]
The former Leader of the Opposition, Mr Whitlam, when asked in a television interview before the election what would happen to strikes in Australia, what would happen to industrial unrest, admitted that they had caused the increase in inflation in the last two or three years and said: ‘They will not occur under Labor because we know how to get along with each other’. [More…]
The election was held on 2 December 1972. [More…]
The second Bill, which I introduced on 1 May, gave effect to another of our 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 operation of their reciprocal pension portability scheme to 4 countries only. [More…]
The legislation implements a firm undertaking which the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) gave on behalf of the Austrian Labor Party at the last election. [More…]
Mr N. H. Bowen also said in relation to the Bill 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…]
A large manufacturing company, Marrickville Margarine Pty Ltd, is known to be a financier of the Labor Party’s mid-term election campaign. [More…]
I can only regret that the Government, notwithstanding the flush of its election victory and knowing what its platform and policy stated, should have directed the work of the Committee in that way because 1 feel that we undoubtedly would have gained more from the natural evolution of this Committee’s work along the lines of the original terms of reference which had been sent to it if it had been able to come forward with what it felt was the most appropriate remedy in the circumstances as it found them. [More…]
I suggest that what has played a big role in making up the minds of Senator Withers, the mover of this motion, and those who are supporting it is a euphoric misreading of the results of the Victorian election. [More…]
Then the Victorian election occurred. [More…]
I suggest that in the light of the Victorian election results honourable senators on the Opposition side were carried away and felt that they could draw some comfort from the results and, in fact, that they should try to goad us on this side into a double dissolution. [More…]
We are not in any way put out by the Victorian election result. [More…]
I have given one of the reasons, namely, that it got carried away and misread the results of the Victorian election. [More…]
In other words, because it has the numbers here, because some of its members are infantile enough to read into the adventitious result of an election in one State a notion that Mr Snedden, as he put it himself, will soon be Prime Minister, they think that they should twist our tail and provoke us if they can. [More…]
I would ask the honourable gentleman opposite who got carried away with the result of the Victorian election to ponder this one: When it does come to a double dissolution and when it comes to a conflict on the hustings, do honourable senators opposite know who the combatants will be? [More…]
If Senator Webster who will not be with us much longer anyway, can draw any comfort from that interjection, I suggest to him that he give some serious thought to the contestants in the next election which will not be very far off. [More…]
We notice that even the idea of having an ombudsman, which we put up 18 years ago during our first election campaign, ultimately has been adopted by the Labor Party. [More…]
I doubt whether a more responsible member of his Party would make such threats, but he made them and he drew attention to the line-up of candidates in the election that would result. [More…]
Those Premiers are lined up behind Mr Snedden, whose Party stated where it stood on this issue, both before and after the election, but then we have coming in to add weight to the team the Premier of Western Australia, Mr Tonkin, the Premier of South Australia, Mr Dunstan, and the Premier of Tasmania, Mr Reece. [More…]
We hear the argument that Mr Whitlam made a specific statement in an election campaign and, because he won the Federal election by half a length - it was not quite a photo finish, but it was getting pretty close to it - he has a complete mandate. [More…]
Therefore one can draw the conclusion that an amendment which seeks to defer debate on the Bill to a later stage is nothing more than a cheap political trick which is designed to overcome certain difficulties which exist among members of the Opposition Parties who are seeking preselection for the forthcoming Senate election. [More…]
They are saying: ‘We will exercise what influence we can on the Party affiliations within the Senate by bringing pressure to bear on those who want to be renominated in order to contest the next election for their Party’. [More…]
He gave an unusual interpretation of the result of the Victorian election. [More…]
I have heard it stated that the attitude of my Leader, Senator Withers, is promoted by political considerations arising out of the Victorian election and political considerations involving the endorsement of some of my colleagues for election to the Senate. [More…]
Since the House of Representatives election, circumstances have changed with respect to Townsville and the Government seems to have gone cold on its plans to develop that region. [More…]
I think I could sum up by saying that some of the bad points of the concept of the Bill are: That the land is to be made available on a leasehold basis; land prices are to be frozen, which does not occur in other parts of Australia; there is to be a certain amount of loss of freedom to do as one likes with one’s land; there is to be a certain amount of regimentation by some control body; and probably the people who live in the area will have no say in the election of that body, and probably there will be no authority at a local level. [More…]
I would like to put on record the statement made by Dr Eastick when speaking at Murray Bridge in support of the Liberal Country League candidate prior to the South Australian election, f have a copy of a cutting from the ‘Murray Valley Standard’ of 8 March. [More…]
On the other hand, Dr Eastick endeavoured, perhaps for propaganda purposes during the South Australian election campaign, to discredit the Labor Party by throwing a lot of cold water on the concept of Monarto. [More…]
In our short time in office - I think mainly because it was an election promise - we have made a commitment to develop the Albury-Wodonga area. [More…]
The Government fought an election over, and promised the development of, AlburyWodonga. [More…]
When does the Government propose to take remedial action, promised prior to the last election, relating to the mentally and physically handicapped persons in Australia whose serious plight was illustrated by the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, which made 85 recommendations for assisting such people. [More…]
Does the Prime Minister regard the preparation of policy material used by the Victorian Labor Party in a State election as a proper function for the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
Is it a fact that during the Federal election campaign last November leaders of the Australian Labor Party promised Tasmanian electors that early steps would be taken to recreate the Inter-State Commission with the objective, inter aiia, of assisting to overcome Tasmania’s transport disabilities? [More…]
It is quite obvious what is taking place in the Senate, and I do not intend to deal with a situation which I trust will be corrected at the next election when the numbers in this place will be changed and no longer will the Government be able to be trampled by the weight of numbers of the Opposition which has succeeded in breaking down all the conventions and the proper operation of the Senate and the respect which the previous Opposition had for the operation of the Senate. [More…]
Does the Minister for Primary Industry recall a statement by the then shadow Minister for Primary Industry, Dr Rex Patterson, when outlining the Australian Labor Party’s rural policy prior to the last election? [More…]
In view of the disadvantages caused to these industries by the revaluation of the Australian dollar in December, the realignment with the American dollar in February and the galloping inflation which is pushing up costs to these industries, what does the Government propose to do to honour this election promise by the responsible Labor Party spokesman on rural matters during the last election campaign? [More…]
I stated then, and I state again now, that the Government’s policy was laid out quite clearly in Mr Whitlam’s policy speech and also in the rural booklet which was published specifically for the election campaign. [More…]
The Minister for the Media will recall that before the last Federal election the Prime Minister indicated that he would initiate an investigation into the viability and the practicability of the introduction of frequency modulation broadcasts. [More…]
Senator DOUGLAS McCLELLANDTrue it is that during the course of the last Federal election campaign the Prime Minister said, amongst other things, that when a Labor Government was elected to office it would adhere to the timetable for the introduction of colour television as laid down by the previous Government and that it would endeavour to expedite the introduction of frequency modulation radio broadcasts in Australia. [More…]
Minister for Primary Industry: Is it a fact that the Minister for Immigration in an election advertisement last year stated that $500m provided to farmers at 3 per cent interest would cost the Government only $15m to subsidise the interest rate? [More…]
Was this consistent in principle with pre-election statements made by some other Labor candidates in rural areas? [More…]
If there had not been an election, or even if we had not been returned as the Government, I am sure that what is now the Opposition would have realised that our work force policy would have had to be kept under review. [More…]
The election of the Federal Government came too late to do anything about Lake Pedder even if it had been discovered that it was more desirous to keep the. [More…]
There has just been an election in Victoria in which the people of that State made it very clear which party they would prefer to have in government in Victoria, a State in which one of the important aspects of the policy put by the Victorian Government to the people was homeownership. [More…]
I think the results of the last Victorian election indicate that the people vitally concerned in housing were prepared to support the policies of the Victorian Liberal Government and not the policies of the Labor Party in this place. [More…]
If Senator McLaren looks at the figures instead of listening to his colleagues he will ascertain that not only did the Liberal Party win the election in Victoria with an increase of 8 per cent in the vote, but there was also a drop in the Labor Party’s figures of between 5 per cent and 6 per cent on what it achieved last December. [More…]
To state that the Australian Labor Party polled more votes than the Liberal Party at the last State election in Victoria is completely untrue. [More…]
I mentioned the Victorian election only because Mr Johnson, the Federal Minister for Housing, when a difference arose between the States and himself earlier this year, stated - I quote what appears in the Sun-Pictorial’ of Melbourne, 18 January. [More…]
We know that in the Victorian election these competing policies in regard to housing were raised for the Victorian electorate. [More…]
Never let it be thought that Mr Whitlam himself was not prepared before the election to let the electorate of Victoria pass judgment on what he had been doing for 5 months. [More…]
Therefore, it is no surprise that as Mr Hamer was able to indicate during the last State election campaign, 80 per cent of Victorian houses are owned or are being purchased by those who live in them. [More…]
We, for our part, will fight any election at any time and any place on the right of the Australian citizen who wants to buy his own home to be able to buy his own home. [More…]
There is a $200 deposit, and in our policy speech for the forthcoming election we will drop it to $100. [More…]
On this issue, which was one of the election issues in Victoria, the Labor Party suffered an enormous drop in its percentage, and the Liberal Party’s percentage has never been higher in some 25 years. [More…]
Under an arrangement between the Governor-General and the Governors of the States of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, the Australian Electoral Office is responsible for maintaining joint electoral rolls and these rolls are used for both Federal and State elections. [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…]
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 was 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, 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 does exist about the matter, the Government considers the wisest course is to defer the election of the additional member until the next general elections for the House of Representatives, particularly as separate legislation is being introduced to provide for 2 senators for the Australian Capital Territory to be elected before that time. [More…]
The 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…]
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 was an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
The Committee believed that this would cut down the number of elections and so minimize the distraction of elections and the difference between the two 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 election 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…]
The Labor Government undertook on election to abolish conscription forthwith. [More…]
Arrangements which the Department of Labour and National Service had brought into effect on the Monday morning following the election were also confirmed. [More…]
I understand that the election was to choose a president. [More…]
On 16 May I asked the Minister a question concerning the election by Aborigines of 80 representatives from all States and the Northern Territory to the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee. [More…]
If so, would this not mean that the proposed interest rates of 7 per cent to 8 per cent represent a substantial increase and negate various statements made by Labor spokesmen prior to the election? [More…]
When the Airlines Agreement Bill was debated in the House of Representatives on 25 October 1972, Mr Charles Jones, the present Minister for Civil Aviation, as reported at page 3147 of Hansard, stated very clearly that he would restore the superannuation fund to what it was before if Labor won the next election and this in fact is what has happened. [More…]
Their final meeting was 4 days before the election. [More…]
Prior to the election and since the election this Government promised to subsidise shipping services to King Island. [More…]
Honourable senators may seek comfort from this: I think it was last Saturday week that there was a Legislative Council election in Tasmania in respect of 3 divisions. [More…]
Those elections are no longer. [More…]
In that election Labor fared badly. [More…]
I tell the honourable senator that if that same Labor Government had done some of the things in Tasmania which the Federal Government has done - for example, had it sponsored such a thing as the New ZealandAustralia Free Trade Agreement - it would not have survived the next election. [More…]
As we approach a Senate election at the end of this year I think it is highly salutary that the people of Australia can see precisely what this chamber would be subjected to if the Labor Party were ever to have the numbers in this place. [More…]
public interest, an election promise of the Australian Labor Party to grant 4 weeks annual leave to all public servants would have been limited by the deliberate choice of the Government to union members only. [More…]
election, at any time, on the premise that legislation (or the prevention and settlement- of industrial disputes is enacted for the benefit and protection of the public. [More…]
Stated on an election platform, that has quite a superficial appeal. [More…]
I did not see anything in the policy speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) which mentioned actions for tort Having sighted it in the platform and the policy of the Australian Labor Party I have mentioned it all over Queensland but Australian Labor Party candidates for election have denied that the Government would ever introduce such legislation. [More…]
I say here and now without any fear of hesitation that the committee will be nothing more than a device to remove the thorny problem of industrial relations from the scene until after the next election. [More…]
The proof of that is to be found in a speech made by Senator Gair to the National Press Club in Canberra prior to the last election in which he produced the minutes of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, which showed quite clearly that it was not until Mr Whitlam gave a clear undertaking as to what the Bill would provide - the abolition of the penal provisions from the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and so forth - that it agreed to hand over $25,000. [More…]
It was only after Mr Carmichaels union had extracted the promise from Mr Whitlam that the Australian Labor Party would abolish all the penal provisions from the present legislation if it were elected to office that it was prepared to, and in fact did, hand over $25,000 to the Labor Party for its election campaign. [More…]
The case of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, which was so keen to contribute $25,000 to the Austraiian Labor Party election campaign, funds, ‘was one amalgamation which was brought about by stealth. [More…]
The inquiry was intended for no other purpose than to give Senator Wright and possibly Senator Rae publicity in Tasmania solely because an election is impending. [More…]
This is another example of an endeavour by the Opposition to overcome the will of the people as expressed at the recent election. [More…]
Prior to the election the present Government stated that this Ordinance would be repealed if it were elected to office. [More…]
That gave effect to the promise that the Government made before the election that the Ordinance would be repealed. [More…]
I go around and talk to people and during the course of the last election campaign I questioned people on points contained in the policies put before them. [More…]
The Bills also provide that the first election of Territory senators shall be held at the same time as the next Senate elections in the several States or at the same time as the next general election for members of the House of Representatives if it is held before or in conjunction with the next Senate elections. [More…]
The legislation also provides 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 and that after the first election for Territory senators, elections shall be held at the same time as the general election for members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
The legislation also provides that after the first election of Territory senators the terms of Territory senators shall be the period between each House of Representatives election. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that earlier I made the point that the election of Territory senators is to take place at the same time as elections for the House of Representatives. [More…]
It is an attempt to intrude non-State representatives into the Senate with terms of service the same as the terms of members of the House of Representatives, with elections to be held at the same time as general elections for the House of Representatives, and with any vacancies of such representatives being filled at an election as though it were a by-election for a vacancy in the House of Representatives. [More…]
This Bill, as already mentioned, requires the proposed representatives to be taken to election at each House of Representatives election. [More…]
Such a proposal would make destitute the system of proportional representation instituted by a former Labor Government for Senate elections, which system has provided in the Senate a true reflection of the political feeling in the States. [More…]
We know full well Prime Minister Whitlam’s burning desire to take half the Senate out at each House of Representatives election - or is it his intention to take all the Senate to election with the lower House and so completely destroy the Senate by making it a replica of the House of Representatives? [More…]
In the course of the State election campaign in Victoria recently, the Prime Minister asked the people of that State to vote Labor to indicate their opposition to the actions of the Senate. [More…]
Our Party put to the people in the last election campaign that if elected to government we would allow the representation of these 2 territories in the Parliament in the way which is proposed by this Bill. [More…]
The proposed legislation, which will be introduced during the current sittings, will provide for the electionof two Senators for each of the two Territories at the same time as the next Senate elections in the several States. [More…]
Thereafter, both Senators for each Territory will be elected at each General Election of Members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
It is proposed that the term of the first elected Territory Senators will be from the date oftheir election until the date of the next expiry or dissolution of the House of Representatives. [More…]
The term of Territory Senators elected subsequently will be the period between each General Election of Membersof the House of Representatives. [More…]
Casual vacancies will be filled by the holding of by-elections. [More…]
It will be recalled that one of the early actions of the committee of two that ruled Australia after the election on 2 December last was to take administrative action to cancel all forms of national service. [More…]
However, during the course of the election campaign the. [More…]
While I do not agree with suggestions that the Government can claim a mandate for everything in its election policy, it made the repeal of the National Service Act such a prominent feature of its policy that it can claim to have a mandate in that regard. [More…]
I think it was because the Labor Party did not solve this water supply problem that Senator Jessop was successful in winning the seat of Grey in the 1966 election on the promise of providing a water supply for the important area of Kimba. [More…]
However that supply was not forthcoming and he was beaten in the 1969 election. [More…]
I would like to remind Senator Cavanagh that in the 1969 election the rural sector in the electorate of Grey showed an improvement in favour of the Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
When will legislation be prepared and introduced which will enable home buyers to claim interest on mortgages as a tax deduction, as promised by the Australian Labor Party during the 1972 election campaign. [More…]
Although those of us who worked closely with him in the parliamentary Labor Party regret his passing it is pleasing to know that he remained with us long enough to see the election of the first Labor Government since the one in which he served in the 1940s. [More…]
I rise to speak only because I feel that we should pause a moment to think about what would have happened if the few communist votes that went to the Liberal Party in the 1961 election had not been cast in that way. [More…]
Does the Prime Minister regard himself as bound by election pledges? [More…]
It was announced as part of the election policy. [More…]
After the election the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) set up the Karmel Committee, as it has been known. [More…]
Let me read the Labor Party’s policy speech, as it related to education, for the last election. [More…]
Mr Whitlam, as the Labor Leader prior to the election of a Labor Government said: [More…]
The Prime Minister, during the election campaign and in his policy speech, did not promise a basic grant equal to the grants of 1972. [More…]
Our attitude since becoming the Government has been completely consistent with the attitude we adopted in respect of that legislation and the attitude that was adopted, announced and enunciated by the Labor leader at the time of the last election when he made his policy speech on behalf of the Labor movement. [More…]
One of the main points of issue so far as the Opposition is concerned is that during those months prior to the election education was of particular importance. [More…]
The Prime Minister has reneged on a promise which he gave the Australian people and which was intended to gather in votes prior to a Federal election. [More…]
So we do not have to rely only on the words in the recording of Mr Whitlam’s speech on 2 May 1972 which, I remind the Senate, was a period approaching a Federal election. [More…]
The case which the Opposition attempts to make against us today is that we have dishonoured an election promise by discontinuing the current grants to the category A schools this year. [More…]
The then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Whitlam, said as an election pledge: [More…]
I point out that the present Minister for Education OM, Beazley) was also electioneering. [More…]
In the course of his electioneering, the present Minister for Education said that his policy was that the Commonwealth should have identity with the education of every child. [More…]
He toured a number of areas in the course of the election campaign and, in search of votes, he published a document called ‘Priorities in Education’. [More…]
At page 2 of that document he made this pledge, this election promise: [More…]
This increase was made not on the basis of a grant of 5m which Senator Rae’s Party made available when it was in Government and was looking for votes - when it bought votes with 5m in order to win an election - but on the basis of a deeply considered and deeply studied analysis of the education system of this country by a very responsible committee. [More…]
They are honouring their election promises in the areas of education, social services and all these other matters’. [More…]
As Sentaor McManus cogently reminded us, during the election campaign those who are now the Prime Minister and Ministers of this Government assured the public that it need fear no reduction in any per capita grants which were then available to pupils at non-government schools. [More…]
What does the Government intend todo to allay the widespread dissatisfaction of persons interested in the Arts, who allege they have been doublecrossed on pre-election promises of a new deal for the Arts, by the appointment of Dr Coombs to a dictatorship in this field. [More…]
Government action since the election relating to administration of the arts corresponds exactly to the proposals outlined in my policy speech of November 1972. [More…]
Does the Minister recall that during the last election campaign the Australian Labor Party promised not to reduce defence spending below 3.5 per cent of the gross national product? [More…]
How many further election promises does the Government propose to break? [More…]
As to the first part of the question in which he talks about scaling down income tax, we have said continually - we said it before the election - that 23 years of ineptitude of the previous Government could not be overcome in one year. [More…]
Does the Minister for Repatriation, who is also the minister assisting the Minister for Defence, recall election assurances that a Labor Government would provide greatly expanded work for Australian defence industries? [More…]
That was the Labor Party’s policy when election fever was on, and Mr Davies, the local member, was assiduous to get the service restored. [More…]
Prior to the election and since the election this Government promised to subsidise shipping services to King Island. [More…]
We have honoured an election campaign obligation to subsidise shipping to King Island. [More…]
Honourable senators will recognise the difference between the approach of the new Labor Government in keeping with its election promise and the approach of the previous Government which let the island go 6 months without a vessel. [More…]
If the members who insisted on the Committee for propaganda purposes would join with the Government for the purpose of getting some satisfactory commercial transport to King Island I think they would be doing a better service to King Island than by seeking to protect their own hides for re-election or for pre-selection. [More…]
He suggested that every member of this chamber should vote for the proposition as it stood merely because - he quoted from the political arguments of his own Party during the Federal election campaign - of what his Party had said. [More…]
Senator Murphy had suggested to this chamber that virtually nobody had the right to suggest amendments or to propose any alteration to the Bill because the Government had obtained a mandate from the people by winning the election and that the people of this country had given an instruction that the Bills should be passed in exactly the form that had been argued in the Senate and carried by the Senate on the previous occasions. [More…]
I was drawing attention to the fact that that did not mean that senators sitting in this chamber representing different States were not even bound to present the point of view that seemed to be paramount in the State which each represented, whatever may have been the result of the Federal election campaign. [More…]
Indeed, to substantiate my argument in that area, since this matter was adjourned an election has been held in Victoria, the State which I represent here. [More…]
But the party that was in favour of the retention of the death penalty at that time - it may be in the process of changing its attitude now, but in the course of the election campaign it had a clear policy which it had enunciated and fought for on the platform at that election and at every State election for the last 15 years - won that election in Victoria by an overwhelming majority. [More…]
One feature of the performance of this Government since its election has been that it has interested itself more than any other Australian Government in other people’s business. [More…]
Since the election he has been on the move. [More…]
But when the election came they voted for the stolid, serious man who never laughed but who. [More…]
There will be an election one day. [More…]
When it came to the election after he attained power, with all his posturing, all his fun, all his sneers and all his quips, they preferred the man whom they thought would do a serious job of work. [More…]
But more significant was the fact that a State election was held on the issue whether South Australia would have the Chowilla Dam or the proposed and recommended Dartmouth Dam. [More…]
This is in accordance with Labor Party policy as enunciated at the last election, when .the proposed national health scheme was one of the main planks on which the Government was elected. [More…]
Will immediate consideration be given to rectifying the position and honouring an election promise which was given? [More…]
There has been no breach of any election promise. [More…]
We said before the election that direct taxes would not be increased and that promise was carried out. [More…]
One of the major planks of our election platform, and the chief reason for the 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…]
It should be noted also that there was only one occasion on which this did not apply, and that was in 1954 when the election was fought on boundaries drawn up in 1948 under a Labor administration. [More…]
I believe the Government is merely attempting to secure itself in office and that its arguments that electoral boundaries should be changed before the 1975 general election are mere subterfuge. [More…]
Generally under the Companies Act and elsewhere these provisions are aimed not to prevent the proper operation of a body because there may be some invalidity in the election or appointment of a person. [More…]
Generally they provide in substance that the acts of a conference, board, commission or other body are valid notwithstanding that there might be some defect in the election or appointment of a member. [More…]
Here the provision is that the appointment or election of a member is not invalid by reason only of a defect or irregularity in connection with that appointment or election. [More…]
As to an election itself, the general principle is rather that the validity of the acts of the person and the body are protected and generally there is some provision for inquiry into the election. [More…]
It seems to me to protect a person’s appointment or election even though there may be some defect or irregularity. [More…]
I suppose it means that one could move to prevent the appointment or election if there were some defect. [More…]
But once the appointment or election had been made - unless I can find something else which qualifies this - it seems that the appointment or election cannot be attacked. [More…]
Probably there ought to be some kind of disputed elections mechanism, perhaps by the Superior Court or some other body which could deal with the election. [More…]
On the Tuesday evening before the last Federal election, Mr Barry Everingham went to the office of the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Whitlam, to give some personal information to a staff member, Miss Lorraine Hoare. [More…]
On Tuesday, 28 November 1972, 4 days before the holding of a general election, when the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Whitlam, was not in this Parliament but out on the hustings, a journalist was found in the locked room of the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
How can any honourable member of this Parliament - be he or she a member of the House of Representatives or of this Senate - excuse a person from being in the locked room of a prominent member of this Parliament - the then Leader of the Opposition - 4 days before a general election is held? [More…]
When those events happened 4 days before a general election is held, I say frankly that if they be the facts - let us face the fact that the Speaker of the House of Representatives and you, Mr President, have examined all the files and all the facts and have heard Mr Everingham’s explanation - and if they be not proved otherwise, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and you, Sir, would have been recreant to the trust imposed in you bv this Parliament in protecting the rights and traditions of the Parliament and of its members. [More…]
When we bear in mind that this transpired 4 days before a general election, when the then Leader of the Opposition was not in this Parliament building but was out on the hustings far away from this place, we must ask what excuse could any person who was not a member of that honourable gentleman’s staff have for being in his room even it was unlocked? [More…]
Is it a fact that the ‘This Day Tonight’ program which has been telecast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Hobart since the last Tasmanian State election has been under the control of a producer called Mr Holgate who was a defeated Australian Labor Party candidate at that election? [More…]
Looking at the Labor Party’s first Federal Budget in 23 years, one cannot blame the cynicism of the average Australian, who says that he takes the promises of political parties with a grain of salt and who thinks that no matter what a party may promise at election time it will do much as it pleases once it is in power. [More…]
It claims a mandate because these schemes were announced as Labor Party policy during the election campaign. [More…]
We have not broken any election promises. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite can distort things in any way they like, but we have not broken any election promises. [More…]
But the Senate is of the opinion that the Government has failed to honour its election promises in respect of defence, per capita grants to independent schools, pensioners, company taxation, the revision of taxation burdens, the home owner, its claim to come to government with malice towards none and its subsequent unfair discrimination against the rural community and its disregard of inflationary pressures and that this budget therefore deserves condemnation in the Senate as the budget of a government that has exposed itself as a government of double standards. [More…]
Mr Whitlam made promises to win an election, without regard to the possible effect on the country’s economy. [More…]
To show the difference between what Mr Crean would have liked and what was forced on him by his Leader’s pre-election promises, let us look at the question of income tax. [More…]
I have dealt with this elsewhere and I do not propose to spend much time on it except to say that when one considers the millions of dollars that are being lavished in other directions it would not have taken much for the Government tb have decided it would carry out Mr Whitlam’s promise that no aid being given before the election would be ended. [More…]
Thousands and thousands of dollars were collected prior to the last House of Representatives election from manufacturers in my State of Victoria by a senior representative of the Australian Labor Party, who told them that if Labor got into office it would safeguard the tariff system. [More…]
It will be of no use for the Labor Party at the next election to seek the votes of the East European migrants. [More…]
I think it is worth reiterating that he drew attention to the fact that the Government was implementing energetically many of its election undertakings. [More…]
In that sense what the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) said in his election policy was that he was going to establish a much firmer and stronger public sector and put it in a primary position. [More…]
I hold in my hand the ‘Age’ newspaper of 17 November of last year - a few days before the election. [More…]
That was his promise in the teeth of the election campaign. [More…]
The question which he directed to me on Tuesday was whether the advertising agency which did the ‘Its Time’ publicity campaign for the Australian Labor Party at the last Federal election was the advertising agency which carried out the health advertising on behalf of the Australian Government. [More…]
Finally, is it proposed to ignore the statements by all conservation authorities - although the Minister is not prepared to listen now he was willing to capitalise on this before the election - that the Galston area must be preserved in its natural state? [More…]
There was a gap of about 6 months in our sittings between September last year and April this year due to the intervention of an election and the rather belated reconstitution of the Committee. [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…]
This is vitally important because an election for the Legislative Council of the Northern Territory will be held in about October next year. [More…]
Of course, one of the first matters the Committee will consider is the constitution as it stands and it’ will endeavour to bring down a recommendation to this Parliament that it should give the people of the Northern Territory a fully elected Legislative Council at the next election. [More…]
Traditionally the Budget would reflect not only the philosophy of the government of the day but essentially the policies which it brought to the people either at election time or from the public platform afterwards. [More…]
No budget which has appeared before this Parliament in its history has contained such a string of broken promises and on no previous occasion has there been such a failure to implement election undertakings. [More…]
I will have something to say now about this matter because of the wilful misrepresentation of this Government when seeking election. [More…]
in defiance of its election policy, it attempted to introduce compulsory unionism for Commonwealth public servants; [More…]
The Government was held to its election promise to give 4 weeks leave to all public servants, not only to those who were prepared to join unions. [More…]
The particular person I had in mind was a Labor Party candidate at the last State election who went on television to justify and sustain what she was doing. [More…]
As the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) has stated, this Bill has 2 purposes- to apply to regular servicemen the rehabilitation and retraining benefits which have applied in the past to national servicemen, and to put into legislative form Labor’s preelection promise to pay a re-engagement bonus of $1,000 after 6 years of service on the basis of a further 3 years of service. [More…]
It is of great wonder to me that this double-dealing Government, after slashing the Defence vote from its promised 3.5 per cent to 3.2 per cent of the gross national product, to 2.9 per cent, effectively removing the teeth from our defence forces, has the gall to grandstand on this Bill that it is honouring an election promise by providing these benefits. [More…]
It was desperate just prior to the last election to eliminate unemployment in the Australian community, unemployment that it had created by its fiscal policies. [More…]
It pumped large sums of money into circulation in the last half of 1972, before the election, to try to stem the tide. [More…]
We had at the time of the election unemployment and inflation. [More…]
Of course, honourable senators opposite would have the people who are listening to the broadcast of these proceedings and honourable senators in the chamber believe that inflation has been manufactured by the Australian Labor Party and that its rate of acceleration has been caused by the fact that the Australian Labor Party won the last election. [More…]
It was talked about by the Labor Party before the election and it was certainly one of the reasons which gained us a lot of support- and now we are carrying out that policy. [More…]
Mr Whitlam, the Leader of this Government, said when seeking election that what the Labor Party would do would be to hold a conference of Federal and State governments, industry and trade unions. [More…]
What a comparison with what Mr Lynch said before the election. [More…]
Within a few days of the election a 2-man Ministry was constituted. [More…]
At the time of the election there was no mention by the Government, which presented itself as a centralist government, of any need to cooperate with the States or of any necessity that the Commonwealth would have to call others in aid in order to handle the economy. [More…]
It is a matter of very great seriousness that so soon after a general election- in the first Budgetthe Government is now vulnerable to these charges. [More…]
I hope that the Australian people, adverting to this Budget, to the election promises and to the parliamentary protestations about the program and performance of the Government, will very quickly gain an acute awareness of the Government in Canberra today and that when the opportunity arises they will seize that opportunity and, in view of the Government’s performance, dismiss the Government as it deserves to be dismissed. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that an election is to be held on 1 1 August in which only Aboriginal voters will be eligible to cast their votes for the purposes of electing 80 representatives from all States and the Northern Territory to the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee. [More…]
1 ) The meeting of the interim National Aboriginal Consultative Committee, held on 3 and 4 May, recommended that an election be held in early August. [More…]
It has proved impossible, however, to make the necessary arrangements by this time and it is expected that the election will be held later in 1 973. [More…]
Only Aboriginal adults will be entitled to vote in the election, from which 4 1 reprepresentatives will be elected. [More…]
Information regarding the proposed election has been freely discussed within Aboriginal communities and in the press. [More…]
I think his basic thought about the economy was sound but I do not suppose we could expect a party to win an election and become the government on that platform. [More…]
During the last election Labor’s approach to the people was on the basis of stopping handouts being given to political friends throughout the community, and we have been criticised for doing this. [More…]
We have that obligation because that is what we said in our election policy speech. [More…]
At end of motion add, ‘but the Senate is of the opinion that the Government has failed to honour its election promises in respect of defence, per capita grants to independent schools, pensioners, company taxation, the revision of taxation burdens, the home owner, its claim to come to government with malice towards none and its subsequent unfair discrimination against the rural community and its disregard of inflationary pressures and that this budget therefore deserves condemnation in the Senate as the budget of a government that has exposed itself as a government of double standards*. [More…]
All this represents a remarkable commencement to our plan to put into operation the whole of Labor’s election policy. [More…]
But the Senate is of the opinion that the Government has failed to honour its election promises in respect of defence, per capita grants to independent schools, pensioners, company taxation, the revision of taxation burdens, the home owner, its claim to come to government with malice towards none and its subsequent unfair discrimination against the rural community and its disregard of inflationary pressures and that this Budget therefore deserves condemnation in the Senate as the Budget of a government that has exposed itself as a government of double standards’. [More…]
This is a convenient time to have an election. [More…]
An election now for the House of Representatives, even with only the normal half of the Senate due for election before July next, would bring the 2 Houses back into gear and avoid the burden of so many Federal elections. [More…]
What the Budget did was to give effect to some- I repeat some- of Labor’s pre-election promises. [More…]
The Minister’s announcement of a cut in defence expenditure in terms of its relationship to the gross national product blatantly broke a pre-election promise and placed the security of Australia in jeopardy. [More…]
The Labor Party has been crowing from one end of Australia to the other that its election victory last December gave it a mandate to do just about everything one can conceive. [More…]
Labor made a crystal clear promise during the election that it would maintain defence expenditure at between 3.2 per cent and 3.5 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]
That happened just before the 1963 election and the decision was no more than an election gimmick. [More…]
I would be the first to concede that the rain did not come as a result of the election of this Government. [More…]
This is in the face of the Labor election promise that this would not happen, that it would not be necessary, because of growth in Government revenue on a regressive taxation system with inflation. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite protest that they are interested in seeing the galloping rate of inflation brought to a stop, but the candidate they are supporting for the Parramatta by-election has said that inflation is just a big joke. [More…]
I hope that the Leader of the Opposition in this place and the Leader of the Opposition in the other place keep their positions for many years to come because neither of them has shown any ability to lead his Party successfully in an election. [More…]
It feels confident enough to know that when it has to go to an election it will stand on its own feet. [More…]
At the subsequent Gold Coast City Council election Alderman O’Donnell was defeated by Alderman Gibbs who is the present alderman for the area and also the chairman of the Health Committee. [More…]
The actual realisation of anticipated spending in the Australian economy fell to its third lowest level in 30 years and that surely indicates that the confidence that was displayed by investors shortly after the election has been tempered by caution completely inconsistent with market conditions. [More…]
But the Senate is of the opinion that the Government has failed to honour its election promises in respect of defence, per capita grants to independent schools - [More…]
Senator Withers is very worried that the coming Senate election and the Parramatta by-election will develop into a 2-man contest. [More…]
So Senator Withers is very much afraid that both the Parramatta byelection and the coming Senate election will develop into a contest between the Prime Minister, Mr Gough Whitlam, and the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Snedden. [More…]
I kept hammering in the Parliament until just prior to the last election when a Senate attendant came to me and said: ‘Senator, here is that report that you have been after. [More…]
I look forward to the day when Steele Hall and I lock horns in the Senate after the next Senate election. [More…]
One of the major planks of our election platform, and the chief reason for the Labor Party winning the last election, was our commitment to the improvement of the quality of life and standards of service in existing dues. [More…]
In a report in the Murray Bridge ‘Standard ‘ of 8 March this year of an election speech by the Leader of the Opposition, Dr Eastick, in the Murray Bridge Town Hall in which he too got on the band wagon and tried to frighten the people, the headline was: ‘ “Economic Sink” Warning On New Town ‘. [More…]
They try to mislead the electors of Australia and it is time the electors of Australia woke up to them, particularly in the States of New South Wales and Victoria, as they did at the Federal election in December 1972. [More…]
However we have proved ourselves and have proved to the people that we are capable of winning an election in our own right. [More…]
We have heard a lot of boasting about the result of the Victorian election and the wonderful victory that the Liberal Party had there. [More…]
I look forward to seeing Senator Wright sitting opposite for a few years to come but I am afraid that although I would like to see Senator Young sitting there, because of political consequences in the world in which we live I might not see him there for too much longer because he has to battle it out with Steele Hall at the next Senate election for his place in the Senate. [More…]
The Government has seen red ever since its election and it is even printing the Budget in the red. [More…]
By means of his amendment, Senator Withers wants the Senate to add these words at the end of Senator Willesee ‘s motion: but the Senate is of the opinion that the Government has failed to honour its election promises in respect of defence, per capita grants to independent schools, pensioners . [More…]
I will deal, firstly, with the Government’s alleged failure to carry out its election promises regarding per capita grants to independent schools. [More…]
Not one of the Opposition senators has tried to show where any Labor member of Parliament said prior to the election that a Labor government would continue per capita grants to independent schools indefinitely. [More…]
But there is no doubt at all about what was said by the Prime Minister in the sensational election speech delivered at the Blacktown Civic Centre on 13 November 1972. [More…]
For the information of Opposition senators and so that when a vote is taken on this issue they will vote either for the truth of what was said in the election speech delivered by the Prime Minister or for what is alleged by Senator McManus to have been said, I shall read to the Senate what the Prime Minister said. [More…]
Summing up the points he had made on this subject in his election speech, the Prime Minister said: [More…]
-This is the election policy speech of the present Prime Minister delivered in November of last year. [More…]
The Labor Government has completely honoured its election policy regarding education. [More…]
The other matter which Senator Withers mentioned was the Government’s failure to carry out its election promises in respect of pensioners. [More…]
Prior to the last election the Prime Minister told the Australian people that if a Labor Government were elected he would give an immediate increase of $1.50 a week to pensioners and then would give an increase of $1.50 a week every spring and autumn until the pension rate reached at least 25 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
If we look through this table it is not very hard to determine in which year a general election was held. [More…]
The table shows that in the year in which an election was held the rate of pension was increased and also that in the year before and the year after that election an increase was not made. [More…]
For example, in 1966 the rate of pension was increased by 75c but in 1965 and 1967- the years before and after the election- there was nothing. [More…]
The same applied in other elections. [More…]
In 1962, the year following the election year of 1 96 1 in which there was an increase of 50c, nothing was given in the way of a pension increase. [More…]
So there is a very sinister reflection through the table showing that the previous Government gave increases only in election years as a political gimmick. [More…]
The figures that I have quoted prove beyond all doubt that the Government has honoured its election pledge in regard to pensions. [More…]
I think that the figures I have given, particularly those showing the improvement and increases in pensions that have flowed since the Labor Government took office in December last year, show conclusively that the promises made prior to the election have been completely honoured; and the policy speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) shows, I believe, that prior to the election no undertaking was given by either the Prime Minister or the present Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) that a Labor Government, if elected, would continue the per capita grants to independent schools. [More…]
I do not propose to deal with what he said except to refer to one statement he made to the effect that the Government has honoured all its promises since the last election. [More…]
The election of a new Government and the implementation of its policies have involved administrative reorganisation and a rise in the demands on the Australian Information Service. [More…]
I think that even before the election our proposals to introduce the rule of law into economic affairs were put in a fairly great deal of detail. [More…]
I think that the appropriate approach is to recognise what the Australian Labor Party said before it was elected to government and what it highlighted in its election propaganda. [More…]
I do not look at the host of promises which were made at election time and the way in which they are being dishonoured. [More…]
The Opposition has been criticising the Government because of inflation, but when it was in government for 23 years it did nothing about inflation except, as Senator Greenwood pointed out this afternoon, on the eve of an election in 1972 when it decided to pour money into the economy because the economy needed a boost. [More…]
It was only coincidental that the hot breath of the Australian people was on its neck and it was facing an election in a few months time. [More…]
As I said before, the Liberal-Country Party coalition Government did one thing in 23 years- it poured some money into the economy on the eve of an election. [More…]
The effect of the money which the previous Government poured into the economy to try to win the election is what this Government is facing up to at this very moment. [More…]
The situation was aggravated by the last minute desperate measures of the Government in pouring money into the economy to try to build up support for its election campaign. [More…]
Then it tried to get out of the situation on the eve of an election by pouring money into the economy as fast as it could. [More…]
If an election had not been pending it would have allowed well over 2 per cent unemployed at that time. [More…]
I believe that the troubles we are experiencing at the present time have been brought about by the present Government in its outbidding of the previous Government to win an election. [More…]
One has only to look at what was said by some of the members of the Labor Party who are now Ministers during that election. [More…]
The Labor Party made this promise during the last election campaign in an endeavour to outbid the previous Government, and this is why it is in trouble now. [More…]
The Labor Pary, before taking office, made an election promise that it would increase the benefits provided under the Commonwealth employees compensation scheme. [More…]
I admit that if it was an election promise, this Government would want further to bump up the benefits, and I have no objection to that. [More…]
I remind honourable senators that the Government in an endeavour to honour the promises which it made in an attempt to outbid the previous Government during the last election campaign, found itself in difficulties in framing the present Budget. [More…]
Has it been just because there has been a change of government or has it been as a consequence of the fact that during the course of the general election the Australian Labor Party announced as part of its policy speech that it intended to deal with inflation and that it intimated precisely what it intended to do? [More…]
By its very promises made before its election this Government induced a higher rate of inflation at the moment the people entrusted it with government, because people expected prices to go up. [More…]
I was rather amazed by a statement made recently by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in which he treated the problem in such a flippant way that one of the papers which was a strong supporter of his prior to the election took him to task for the flippancy with which he dealt with this very serious problem. [More…]
It was only a few days after Mr Crean said this that the ‘Australian’ newspaper, which for some strange reason that I can never account for advocated the cause of the Labor Party prior to the last election, had this to say: [More…]
The whole point is that honourable senators on the opposite side are probably responsible in the main for the tremendous inflationary spiral which is now occurring as a result of the desperation on the part of the then Government 4 months before the last election to try to do something to stop the political tide running against it. [More…]
Because he could not stop that growing swell of unemployment, 4 months before the last election he brought down another Budget in a desperate attempt to push money into the economy. [More…]
He roped in every section of the economy in an attempt to score political capital merely for the Parramatta by-election. [More…]
A year later a Federal election was held an unfortunately the Liberal and Country Parties won it. [More…]
But the very issue on which the won the election was the promise of the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Menzies, to put value back into the pound. [More…]
There was an economic recession in 1961 when at a general election they were re-elected with a mere majority of 240 votes in one seat. [More…]
In a desperate attempt to plug the crack, 4 months before the last election, last year the previous Government pumped dollar after dollar into the community by spending money here, there and everywhere as if it was bidding at an auction sale. [More…]
It lost the election, and in its desperate attempts to retrieve the political situation it would exacerbate the problem of inflation. [More…]
After all, one of the things I have noted about the Labor Party in recent years is that it is always socialist except before an election. [More…]
The first Saturday after that date- a Saturday is the usual day for an election or a referendumwould be 24 November. [More…]
It seemed quite ironical to me that the Government, claiming to have the confidence of the people following last year’s election should now be admitting that its course of action has created absolute chaos in the economy. [More…]
It has used inflation to implement its extravagant policies which were promised during the election campaign last year. [More…]
The present Government must have been well aware, not because of the long history of inflation but because of statements made since it gained office and in particular in the fortnight before it sought election that one of its great problems would be to control the economy of the nation. [More…]
The Government also abolished national service in fulfilment of an election promise. [More…]
The Government also increased the level of pensions and social service payments in accordance with another election promise. [More…]
ls it the Government that was elected in the last election? [More…]
Cheaper houses was one of the main slogans of the Australian Labor Party at the time of the last election. [More…]
Neither in the years before it sought power and came to power, nor in its policy speech, nor in its election announcements, nor in the 9 and a half months since its election has it ever mentioned its lack of power to control inflation or its need to seek a further power by referendum. [More…]
It is trying to establish an alibi for the Parramatta by-election. [More…]
It is trying to establish an alibi against the fact that in the not too far distant future it has to meet its masters, at least in a Senate election campaign. [More…]
It knows that if it goes on with its reckless and irresponsible mismanagement of the economy it may well have to meet the electors of Australia in a lower House election. [More…]
I repeat that the fact is that this was not foreshadowed prior to the election in any statement by the Leader of the Australian Labor Party or any of his people. [More…]
I ask honourable senators to bear in mind that one of the great arguments of the election campaign was the centralisation or abuse of powers or the decentralisation of powers. [More…]
I invite Labor senators to answer this: Is it not true that at no time prior to the election did they say they wanted centralised price control? [More…]
The Labor Party sought no mandate or power, either before or after the election, in relation to this matter. [More…]
I preface my question to the Minister for Repatriation, who represents the Minister for Labour in this chamber, by saying that prior to the last election members of the Australian Labor Party were saying that under a Whitlam Government there would be less industrial unrest because Labor knew more about the way unions worked. [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…]
I would like to congratulate the Minister for Social Security, Mr Bill Hayden, and the Government for honouring the election promises and also for giving top priority to this social service legislation. [More…]
These are 2 promises that the Government made during its election campaign and it has already placed very high on its order of priorities means of fulfilling them. [More…]
I respectfully remind Senator Webster that the Parramatta by-election is over. [More…]
I can remember when Senator Townley came into this chamber a few days after the election of this Government. [More…]
1 on the Senate team ticket at the next Senate election, we always find him over with the Liberal Party. [More…]
As Senator Keeffe said, as soon as we got into office our first piece of legislation dealt with social welfare pensions and repatriation payments which were made retrospective to the date of the election. [More…]
He makes the point in his letter to me that there was no mandate, as far as he can see, for this, that it was not mentioned during the election campaign and that while there might be an argument for action in certain limited cases there are other cases under the special compensation allowance for which he believes it could have been continued. [More…]
He said the RSL congratulated the Government on the introduction of long overdue measures which were in line with promises the Prime Minister had made during the election campaign. [More…]
I understood from the Labor Party’s election propaganda that that was the Government’s responsibility. [More…]
All that the Labor Party said during the election was that it needed no more powers. [More…]
Despite the boasting of the Labor Party prior to the election that it could handle the trade unions, industrial unrest is at an all time high. [More…]
The Senate will be aware that the Government decided, and announced in the last election campaign, that steps would be taken to release persons who had been imprisoned under the National Service Act, that it would not proceed with the various prosecutions which were in hand and that fines which had been paid would be remitted. [More…]
-If the Leader of ..the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy) thinks that the Government can repeat the December general election result, he should have his Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) go over to Yarralumla and ask the Governor-General for a double dissolution of the Parliament. [More…]
Then we will have another general election with the referendum on 15 December, if the Government wants it. [More…]
result of the Parramatta by-election will not be repeated. [More…]
The Parramatta by-election has shown that the people of Australia have had the Government up to the neck. [More…]
It is rather interesting to recall that last Saturday an election took place in the middle of all the debate and publicity that has been going on in connection with the prices referendum; but apparently it did not win any votes for the Government. [More…]
The Parramatta by-election proved that. [More…]
They were chalked up before the Australian electors knew what tricks the Labor Party had up its sleeve as opposed to the tricks it pulled out of the hat on the election platform. [More…]
Let it take a double dissolution and call a general election at the same time as the referendum in December. [More…]
In the period from 1955 to 1961, when the DLP was first operating, we always made it a principle of our election speeches to insist that the item of most importance to Australia was Australia’s defences and security. [More…]
We formed that conclusion, and we made it the first item of our election policy because of the kind of world in which we were living. [More…]
During the 1961 election campaign about the only thing on which the Liberal Party and the Australian Labor Party agreed - they disagreed on practically everything- was that the defence vote could continue to be pegged and that there was no necessity for Australia to improve its defences. [More…]
Those of us who look back through history will recall that prior to Hitler’s war and the war in which we were involved with Japan, Mr Baldwin, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, held an election and at that time he hardly mentioned defence. [More…]
I believe that all the Parties on this side of the chamber paid the penalty at the last election when they allowed themselves to be conned into the idea that defence would not be a good issue. [More…]
I believe that it will be an issue at the next election. [More…]
If I were to take a text for this debate, I would take the words used by Mr Barnard, the Minister for Defence, in a major election address to the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre of the Australian National University in March of last year. [More…]
The Committee brought down its findings and I assure honourable senators that we had been given an assurance before we went to the last election that once the Treasury and the Department of Defence had investigated the recommendations - [More…]
Following that inquiry, a proceeding was taken under part 15 of the Customs Act at the election of Sir John Pagan. [More…]
Mr Davies, the member for Braddon, and I, as a candidate in the Senate election at that time, also attended. [More…]
This implements the promises made by the Government at the last general election. [More…]
The second Bill provided for the continued payment of age, invalid and widows pensions to Australian pensioners proceeding overseas, as promised in the Prime Minister’s (Mr Whitlam) election speech. [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 election or at the next general election of members of the House of Representatives if such takes place sooner that the next Senate election. [More…]
In June I celebrated the 41st anniversary of my election to the Queensland Parliament. [More…]
Did the Premier of South Australia remind the Minister of the undertaking he gave to the wine industry of South Australia as State Chairman of the Australian Labor Party Federal Election Finance Committee that the election of a Labor Government would save increased excise costs in the future? [More…]
provision will be made to further strengthen the democratic processes in relation to union elections by providing that all full-time federal officers in an organisation must be elected by direct election of the members of the organisation and that the only officers who can be elected by the collegiate system shall be parttime officers of an organisation’s federal management committee. [More…]
Other Opposition amendments accepted by the Government include provision for the fresh conduct of an election for a office in an organisation where a candidate dies during the conduct of the ballot. [More…]
A returning officer for an election or ballot is required to make available information reasonably sought by a member of an organisation for the purpose of determining whether an irregularity has occurred in the conduct of the election or ballot. [More…]
A State election is coming up in New South Wales, and the New South Wales Government, if it wanted to do so, could do a lot more to settle that dispute. [More…]
The New South Wales Government seems to think that that will help it in the election. [More…]
The members of the Labor Party in New South Wales, and in particular the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Hills, want to end that dispute, irrespective of the forthcoming election and the politics involved. [More…]
In connection with the functions of the Commission, honourable senators will recall that the need for social planning at the regional level was recognised in a major election proposal, the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
I ask: In view of the importance of ascertaining and publishing the true facts for proper assessment by the Parliament and by the Australian people, will the Federal Government produce as a matter of some urgency a White Paper or a considered statement in particular, clarifying the repeated allegations that the Allende Government in the latter part of its period of office had abandoned democratic processes, the basis of its election, and was imposing dictatorial and totalitarian methods upon the Chilean people? [More…]
Notwithstanding what was said in the Labor Party’s election program, there has been an increase in industrial disputation and the losses caused thereby in the period that the present Government has been in office. [More…]
Last November, before the December election, Mr Whitlam promised that there would be an effecting of the aims of Labor’s industrial policy, which were to reduce government interference and intervention in industrial matters; to put conciliation back into arbitration; to abolish the penal clauses which made strikes in Australia, alone in the English speaking world, a criminal offence. [More…]
The fact is that the Bill dealing with restrictive practices which has been introduced is of the same character as was indicated by me throughout the country on a number of ocasions last year before the election and in a number of published articles and as has been indicated during this year even prior to the Bill coming in. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite were in office prior to the election on 2 December last. [More…]
Since the election, with the parties now sitting on different sides of the chamber, certain Government supporters in another place- I am not saying that it occurred in this chamber- have commenced to make allegations that the Senate is obstructive and unco-operative. [More…]
This is why senators were elected and why they sought election. [More…]
On the election of the new Government the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission was established. [More…]
Before the election my Party said that it would do a number of things. [More…]
However, before the last election the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) who was speaking in Tasmania with the authority of the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) said that if a Labor government gained office it was his view that he would be the Minister for Environment and Conservation, and he gave an assurance to the people of Tasmania that a feasibility study would be carried out on the restoration of Lake Pedder. [More…]
I have said that after the last election I indicated on a number of occasions, orally and in writing, the general outlines of the new legislation. [More…]
Is he also aware of the fact that one Country Party member of the State Parliament has been informed that his re-endorsement for the next election is in jeopardy unless he bows his knee to the outside directions of his Party? [More…]
I remember that just prior to the last election a decision was made to use timber sleepers. [More…]
Upon the election of this Government in December, alternative tenders for both types of sleepers were called and the tenders received were submitted to the Bureau of Transport Economics for evaluation. [More…]
I think that what happened here last week and what is happening at the moment on the lawns in front of Parliament House is an indication that the present Government is certainly bungling some of the promises that it made in its election campaign so far as Aborigines are concerned. [More…]
I do not know whether they brought up any issue that will swing the electors at the next election. [More…]
Where fines had been paid before 2 December, the date of the election, I think they were not repaid. [More…]
I was interested to note that last year during the election campaign the problem of Tasmania was recognised by the now Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) who as the then Leader of the Opposition said that a Labor government would work to make freight and passenger service rates across Bass Strait as cheap per mile as interstate railway freights. [More…]
The people were told before the last election what the policy of the Australian Labor Party was. [More…]
Before I retail to the listening audience what has transpired in this debate I want to remind the Senate and the Australian community that in the policy speech of my leader preceding the election of the Labor Government on 2 December 1972 we gave a commitment in respect of prices in these terms: [More…]
One of the issues for the people in New South Wales who are facing a State election on 17 November is consumer protection. [More…]
It is exactly defined in the policy speech made by the now Prime Minister before he won the last election. [More…]
-We see that the answer from the Attorney-General is not that the publicity was wrong, that this company was one of the Government’s greatest contributors or that the American multi-national advertising agency that the Labor Party engaged to do its publicity work during the election campaign when in fact - [More…]
I am looking for the statement that was made on this matter at the time of the last election. [More…]
I will refer to this matter again when I can turn up what was said in the election policy speech. [More…]
One honourable senator is saying ‘the next Budget’ and another one is saying ‘the next election’. [More…]
I do not think that there is anything magical about a Budget and I do not think that there is anything magical about an election. [More…]
There is nothing very magical about 30 June, a Budget or an election date. [More…]
When the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee is finally established with the election of 41 representatives, do the positions of Aboriginal State co-ordinators then become redundant? [More…]
In other words, it has been able to say to him: ‘We will give you $25,000 for the election campaign but you have to promise that there will be no prosecutions under the penal clauses’. [More…]
Most of the wealthy organisations of this country were beguiled into supporting the Australian Labor Party at the last election. [More…]
The purpose of officially conducted ballots is to prevent irregularities that occur in elections. [More…]
If it is possible to challenge the conduct of an election by an independent returning officer who is responsible for conducting all stages of an election, the whole purpose of officially conducted ballots is undermined and their conduct is subject to uncertainty. [More…]
While the Minister would have the right to refer anything to the industrial court we do acknowledge that as the Bill now stands the Attorney-General is the man responsible for the election of judges. [More…]
The Government will not accept the amendment to section 168, the provisions of which provide that the Attorney-General may authorise payment by the Commonwealth of the expenses involved in an officially conducted election ordered by the Court after its inquiry into irregularities alleged in connection with the conduct of an election. [More…]
Sub-section (4) would be unnecessary because under the Bill the expenses of all officially conducted elections are to be borne by the Australian Government. [More…]
The Liberal Party and the Country Party- as well as the Democratic Labor Party- have a vested interest in creating and maintaining industrial turmoil in Australia for the very reason that their re-election as a government could depend greatly upon there being chaos in industrial affairs. [More…]
We see this happening in New South Wales today because a State election is to be held. [More…]
Although preliminary work on the prices reference was carried out before the election of the new Government last December, the Committee decided to defer any further action in this field in order to see what would be done by the Government in terms of its declared policy. [More…]
The second thing is that so many people are scared of being defeated at the next election that the bed - [More…]
If the Opposition wishes to fight another election in which it uses the ‘little red arrows’ technique, those arrows should come down not from China but from Japan, as that country will come down here again. [More…]
It was one of the debates which took place in particular during the election campaign. [More…]
This question was one of the very important and foremost matters put by the present Government during that election campaign. [More…]
Pre-school education is a matter that was referred to in both of the policy speeches before the last House of Representatives election. [More…]
The first thing that I believe has to be said- this has to be repeated- is that the policy which has been put forward in the Schools Commission Bill 1973 is Australian Labor Party policy which was well known and clearly presented to the Australian people before they voted in the election on 2 December 1972. [More…]
The argument advanced against the proposition that the Schools Commission should be a type of delegate or representative body- I was one of those who sucessfully argued for the policy which was adopted at the Labor Party conferencewas that in having a schools commission which consisted of a certain number of delegates from private schools, a certain number from state schools and all the other possible permutations and combinations that one could think of, we would not have a quasi-judicial body looking over all the needs of education without somebody being responsible to someone else and being responsible for election or nomination to some organisation or interest group. [More…]
It is certainly introducing something totally different from what has been proposed in the Bill which is something on which the Australian Labor Party was elected at the last election. [More…]
The present Government, when its members occupied the opposition benches last year, gave notice of its intention, should it win the election, to bring down legislation for a permanent Schools Commission. [More…]
We all know that soon after its election the Government appointed an Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission charged with the responsibility of identifying deficiencies in government and nongovernment schools and to suggest how these should be overcome. [More…]
It was highlighted in the election speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and it was something about which the Labor Party, while in Opposition, talked for many years. [More…]
Before the election I heard the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) at the West Melbourne Stadium. [More…]
That statement was echoed by the shadow Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, on more than one occasion during the election campaign. [More…]
In my comments later I said that the honourable thing for the Government to do was to maintain the level of aid which had been given to all students prior to the election and then to implement in the future the needs provision for which the Australian Labor Party believed it had a mandate. [More…]
We do not want to be regarded as people who make election promises and then flout them or break them. [More…]
I believe it is most important because, of all the principal parties that contested the Federal election in 1972, the Australian Labor Party was the only party which gave sufficient attention to this matter to warrant the consideration of the people of Australia. [More…]
Let me read the policy of the Country Party at the 1972 election. [More…]
That was the policy of the Country Party which was put to the people of Australia at the election of 1 972. [More…]
That is the policy that the Country Party put before the people of Australia at the 1972 Federal election. [More…]
This is the magnificent policy which the Liberal Party put to the people of Australia in the 1972 Federal election. [More…]
But it was not until the Government came to an election that it realised that that was the problem and consequently it said: ‘We need better schools’ and so on. [More…]
But you came to an election and you said you were going to give $400 for each child. [More…]
Having said that, I acknowledge also that the promise to establish an Australian Schools Commission was made by the Australian Labor Party last year both to a great extent in the pre-election campaign and in its policy speech. [More…]
My own filing system is full of such requests; in fact, I had many such delegations put the proposition to me both before and after the election. [More…]
I go further and say that if the Labor Government of the day rejects these amendments proposed by the Opposition it will be doing so not only in petulance but also in defiance of its pre-election indications. [More…]
Representations were made to the Karmel Committee so it must be understood that these amendments proposed by the Opposition now are not in any way a frustration of the election policies of the Government or of the requests of the education bodies but are in fact an earnest of their fulfilment. [More…]
If the Government rejects them, it rejects its election policies and the representations by the various teacher bodies, parent bodies and special handicapped children’s organisations. [More…]
I repeat that our amendments relating to the structure of the Schools Commision foreshadow the promise given by the Labor Party before the election to have a specifically structured commission representing particular educational interests. [More…]
In the amendments put forward by the Opposition we are not only reflecting the election policies of the Labor Party and the pre-election and post-election requests of educational interests, but also we are reflecting the recommendations and decisions of the Karmel Committee because throughout its report these recommendations run like a uniform thread. [More…]
The honourable senator will be aware that in the policy speech of the Prime Minister delivered before the last election the Labor Party undertook to increase pensions at the rate of $1.50 in each sessional period of the Parliament until the value of pensions had reached 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings. [More…]
Is it a fact that the time would be given according to the percentage of votes won by parties at the previous election and further that once the limit for each party was reached in relation to the time factor that party would be unable to continue advertising regardless of any money that it may have to spend? [More…]
It may be reasonable for political advertisements to have some authorisation even apart from that required during any election campaign, but we have not yet felt the necessity for this. [More…]
Why have candidates for the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee election on 24 November not been informed whether their nominations have been accepted? [More…]
Let me say that I had a pretty unhappy experience as a member on the Joint Select Committee on the New and Permanent Parliament House to the extent that I was elected to that Committee in 1966; I sat at one meeting of the Committee which decided to ask all the parliamentary departments what accommodation space they required in the proposed house; and while those letters of inquiry went out to those departments we had an election, and my Party did not see fit to reappoint me to the Committee. [More…]
We have had none of the elections and double dissolutions that would justify a joint sitting of the House passing any resolution which, in the terms of the final part of section 57, once resolved shall be taken to be duly passed by both Houses of the Parliament and shall be presented to the Queen. [More…]
There is nothing that applies to any situation other than that of a double dissolution followed by an election followed by a joint sitting under section 57. [More…]
The matter was left on the notice paper over in the other place for a long time but it was removed before Parliament was prorogued before the last election. [More…]
If we have a Senate election next April, or whenever it might be, perhaps 30 people now in this place will not be here after it. [More…]
Prior to the 1969 election and as recently as the last 2 weeks, he has made representations to all Ministers concerned for completion of the Bundaberg irrigation scheme. [More…]
Is it a fact that Mr Chaney, when defeated at the 1969 election, was appointed by the previous Government as Administrator of the Northern Territory? [More…]
Is it a fact that Mr Bill Arthur, who was defeated at the 1969 election, was immediately appointed to the then Prime Minister’s staff? [More…]
Is it a fact that Mr Gordon Freeth, a former Minister for Foreign Affairs, was appointed by the previous Government as Ambassador to Japan following his defeat in the 1 969 election? [More…]
-I ask the Minister for the Media whether the increased level of interest about Australia in the United States of America, which was very evident around the time of the election last year from the amount of space devoted to this country in American magazines, is being maintained. [More…]
Senator DOUGLAS McCLELLANDFirstly, since the election of the Labor Government the Prime Minister has visited the United States of America and as a result of that visit there was tremendous publicity for Australia in that country. [More…]
What the Opposition is doing by way of its amendments is twofold: It is translating in the amendment form for adoption by the Senate those propositions put forward by parent and teacher bodies which prior to the election were acknowledged and supported by Labor Party members who therefore tacitly indicated that these propositions would be part of Labor policy. [More…]
This is a Bill which arises out of election policies and out of the Interim Committee for the Australian [More…]
As to structure what we propose by way of amendments is wholly in line with election promises and undertakings and with submissions by education bodies. [More…]
There was no evidence of this support, of course, during the 1972 Federal election campaign. [More…]
Nonetheless, there was no evidence of that support during the course of the 1 972 election campaign when it was the foremost plank of the Labor Party that when we got into government we would establish a schools commission. [More…]
Nine days after the election was held the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) established an interim committee to consider the establishment of a schools commission. [More…]
Our 1972 election proposal on education was to establish a schools commission along the lines of the commissions for universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
While the points to which 1 have alluded cover a great number of particular matters, as we see it the significance of the proposed Opposition amendments to the functions of the Commission and to the matters to be taken into account in the exercise of those functions as set out in clause 13 of the Bill is to vary the intention of the Government as endorsed by the electorate at the last general election. [More…]
Its policy as enunciated by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) during the course of the last Federal election has shown this concern as have the actions since taken by this Government from its very first establishment and its legislative program. [More…]
This scheme was sold to the people at election time on a primary basis which was: ‘We the Labor Party will be able to handle the doctors. [More…]
How does the Treasurer justify this request having regard to (a) the election promises of the Government to assist the home buyer; (b) the failure to honour the election promise to make mortgage interest payments tax deductible; and (c) the abolition of the Home Savings Grant Scheme. [More…]
In view of the Government’s election promise, will he explain the reason for secrecy? [More…]
I think I told him that it was Government policy, in accordance with an election undertaking given by the Prime Minister, that in each session of the Parliament the Australian Government would increase the subvention payable to pensioners by $ 1 .50 a week until the pension reached 25 per cent of the average weekly male earnings. [More…]
One of the things that people forget, particularly the juvenile Press that we have about the country today, is that this Senate derives its constitution from the people of this country and it derives its election from the votes of the people of this country- the same people who elect members to the other chamber. [More…]
We may say the painting is no good or that too much has been paid for it but we will deal with that at an election. [More…]
I would think that there is a strong possibility at the next election that the people of Canberra will have 2 members of the Liberal Party representing them, judging from what I have heard about the present member for the Australian Capital Territory who sits in another place. [More…]
The Bill proposes that such senators will have the same powers, immunities and privileges as State senators and that both senators for each Territory will be elected under a system of proportional representation at the time of each general election of members of the House of Representatives, provided that the first election of the Territory senators will be held at the time of the next election of State senators if such is held prior to a general election of the House of Representatives. [More…]
Secondly, the 60 State senators would be elected for a period of 3 years instead of the present 6 years to tie in with elections for the House of Representatives. [More…]
I say that because this Bill proposes that the election of Territory senators take place at the same time as elections for the House of Representatives. [More…]
This puts the Country Party’s policy for the State election to be held in New South Wales this week. [More…]
I hope that they will take this country to an election, but I feel confident in my own mind that they lack the necessary intestinal fortitude. [More…]
When he comes up for election in Victoria in the next 6 or 8 months he will have to find some 300,000 first preference votes before he is elected. [More…]
I believe it is his view that they should be referred at the time of the Senate election. [More…]
The first is that the Senate and the House of Representatives should always go to an election jointly. [More…]
The suggestion that there should not be elections every 18 months or so, one for the Senate and one for the House of Representatives, must appeal to the public. [More…]
As the people of Australia threw out the referendum conducted by the previous Government to break the nexus, I sincerely hope that they will throw out this referendum which will attempt to have elections for the 2 Houses put into line. [More…]
That in itself is another proposition designed by this Government to weaken the Senate and to see that the Senate does not stand out as a House of importance when Federal elections are held. [More…]
It is not the election date for the Senate that needs to be brought back into kilter with the election date for the House of Representatives. [More…]
A previous Prime Minister called an election for the House of Representatives half way through a Senate term. [More…]
It is the House of Representatives election date that needs to be put back into kilter with the Senate election date. [More…]
If those proud members of the Labor Party were to rise- they now have the opportunityand ask for an election of the House of Representatives next May, at the same time as the Senate election is held, they would save the people a great deal of bother and money and would save putting a great deal of strain on the economy. [More…]
The kernel of the Senate (Representation of Territories) Bill, which my illustrious leader has submitted to the Senate, provides for the election of 2 senators each for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory and for such senators to have the same powers, immunities and privileges as senators who represent the States. [More…]
I feel that the States would consider that the election of senators to represent the Territories would in certain ways weaken their strength in the Senate. [More…]
In the last election campaign I was most interested to hear the approbation which came from people about the work of the Senate, its committees and so on. [More…]
For sure at the next election. [More…]
-The Government not only increased the pension by $ 1.50 in the Budget session but also, as I said yesterday, by $ 1 .50 in the first session of this Parliament after the election of a Labor Government. [More…]
If I remember rightly, this Government at the last election said that it was keen on the tourist industry. [More…]
They hope that if they repeat often enough their claim that we are penalising the poor widows and the poor outback man somebody may believe them enough to cast a vote for them at the next election. [More…]
This implements the promises made by the Government at the last general election. [More…]
The period before an election is preserved by laws from abuse so far as television stations are concerned. [More…]
Right on the eve of the election for the New South Wales Parliament the honourable senator has taken advantage of privilege, for prearranged publication in the Press, of this sort of ex parte accusation 2 days before an election, which will prevent the person accused not merely from having the right to reply in this place but from having any real opportunity to reply in the Press. [More…]
I think that a senator who so abuses the privilege of the Federal Parliament, without notice to a man who has submitted his whole reputation on this very matter to the scrutiny of the Supreme Court of New South Wales within the last fortnight, and expects the Press of the country to be so depraved in principle as to print prominent accusations of this sort a day before an election, so timed as to prevent the person accused having any real right of reply, is acting in an abysmally depraved manner. [More…]
This false allegation was based in anonymity and uttered in malice under parliamentary privilege to try to help his New South Wales Labor colleagues in Saturday’s election. [More…]
We have seen Senator Gietzelt speaking in relation to pistol licences, Senator Wheeldon making allegations of bribery, and Senator Mulvihill making accusations against Mr McCaw, all at question time in the week before an election in New South Wales. [More…]
But if it be that this is an accusation made by design with malice for electioneering purposes, irrespective of the harm it does to individuals, it is the basest and most contemptible sort of actions that individuals can engage in. [More…]
I thought it might be relevant if I drew attention to the fact that an election is to take place in New South Wales, strangely enough, within a couple of days. [More…]
I am reminded of the fact that the last time similar tactics were engaged in in this chamber was immediately prior to the State election in Queensland. [More…]
I simply point to the fact that the 2 occasions on which this Senate has been treated as it has this evening have been in the few days before an election in a State. [More…]
One was in relation to an election in Queensland and now it is an election in relation to New South Wales. [More…]
But honourable senators, after admitting that they were serious accusations, said that they were raised for the purpose of some publicity on the eve of an election. [More…]
Are we to let corruption go on because there is a State election? [More…]
When we obtain knowledge of those serious accusations, and knowledge that someone is doing something underhand which is not his public duty, should we let him continue without exposing him because there is an election pending? [More…]
Should there be a free and open go on crookedness just because an election is pending somewhere? [More…]
If there is a desire to use this information for an election purpose, is there not a responsibility on a member to make this plain before voters innocently decide how to cast their vote as to who their representative will be without knowing of the activities of a certain candidate? [More…]
Is there not a responsibility, if it is on the eve of an election, to show this? [More…]
But if Senator Gietzelt has succeeded and there is some malpractice on the pan of an individual who is a candidate for an election, what is wrong? [More…]
It was suggested that there should not be this investigation because something might come out before the election. [More…]
These are plain points which should receive wide publicity, even if it is for the purpose of an election, because we should not support corruption getting into our Australian Parliaments. [More…]
To say ‘You should not bring it up because it is so near an election ‘ is simply rubbish. [More…]
I must also now include in that category Senator Rae because he made some reference that a similar matter was introduced on the eve of the Queensland elections. [More…]
I can recall speaking some months ago- true, it was on the eve of the Queensland elections, but that was coincidentaland I spoke to the subject on which I did speak because the Standing Orders of the Parliament provided me with that opportunity when the States Grants Bill was before this House. [More…]
They challenged me and made all sorts of accusations that I was using it for political purposes on the eve of a State election, that I had produced no proof to the Senate and that I was not able to document the evidence and place it before the chamber as proof of what I was saying. [More…]
Will he make inquiries, and advise the Senate when the information is available, as to whether it is true, as indicated in the Launceston ‘Examiner’ of Monday, 19 November, that the Prime Minister travelled, presumably by Royal Australian Air Force VIP aircraft, on Saturday, 1 7 November, from Adelaide to Sydney to record his vote at the State election and continued to Launceston, arriving one hour late for his appointment at an agricultural show? [More…]
I introduce a Bill to alter the Constitution so as to ensure that Senate elections are held at the same time as elections for the House of Representatives. [More…]
This is one of 5 measures which the Government intends to put before the people by way of referendum at the time of the next Seriate elections. [More…]
In the national Parliament in the 1 1 year period December 1961 to December 1972 we have had 8 national elections. [More…]
Only one of these electionsthat in December 1961- was an election for the Senate and the House of Representatives simultaneously. [More…]
But we 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 will also 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. [More…]
It 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…]
This is a logical consequence of bringing elections for both Houses of the Australian Parliament together. [More…]
They should be dealt with in such a way that if there were a rejection the constitutional processes could operate so that the Government could then bring them into the House of Representatives again in ample time before the Senate election. [More…]
Honourable senators may recall that in 1 968 in the Senate, in my capacity then as Leader of the Opposition in this House, I initiated legislation to provide for the establishment of electorates within each State in which the number of people is, 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 the 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 undertakings and one of the first to be honoured. [More…]
We accept that the Government has a mandate to carry out the general policy which was put forward at the time of the last election. [More…]
In my speech during the second reading stage I drew attention to the fact that not only did the Government in its policy speech indicate that it would set up a commission that was so structured as to have representation of various bodies but also throughout the election campaign it received representations from parent and teacher associations seeking their direct representation on such a body. [More…]
I have pointed out that the Government is confronted with an amendment which is in line with its specific election promise- no matter what kind of wording it may seek to use nowwhich is in line with its specific promise based on a policy platform at election time and which is in line with the various parent and teacher organisations’ representations. [More…]
It discharges the promise made at election time. [More…]
So what we are suggesting is quite in line with the policy speech of the Prime Minister delivered before the general election in December last year. [More…]
I want to refer to the principle of this amendment which concerns the method of selection. [More…]
In the 1969 elections and in the elections up to 1972-1 do not say this in a disparaging way- I am certain that she was identified with the Democratic Labor Party, and she had every right to be. [More…]
As a matter of fact, during the election in which Senator Kane was successful I was cruising in my car around the electorate of Lowe and she was handing out Democratic Labor Party how-to-vote cards. [More…]
The government is a government which has been elected in a democratic election and it is entitled to make such decisions. [More…]
Despite Senator Rae’s positive assertion the amendments, as we see them, are not in line with the policy objectives of the Government as set out by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) during the course of the last election campaign. [More…]
Why have candidates for the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee election on 24 November not been informed whether their nominations have been accepted? [More…]
The need to advise candidates in the forthcoming National Aboriginal Consultative Committee elections that their nominations have been accepted was overlooked. [More…]
1 93 candidates are standing for election. [More…]
The election will begin on Saturday 17 November with roving ballot boxes. [More…]
Static polling booths will be open on Saturday 24 November and the election will end on Saturday 1 December. [More…]
I believe that the Australian people are grateful for that and I agree with one point made by Dr J. F. Cairns on Sunday, that is, that if there was an election the Government would not win. [More…]
If the Prime Minister and his Ministers persist in their claims that the Senate is frustrating, obstructing, filibustering and delaying their vital legislation, there is only one honourable path for the Government to tread, that is, the path to an election. [More…]
The Prime Minister has had the power to call for a half Senate election since 1 July 1973. [More…]
It was rebutted in the Victorian State election, knocked down in the Balcatta by-election in Western Australia, jumped on in the Greensborough byelection in Victoria, kicked in the head in the Parramatta by-election and finally buried last Saturday in the New South Wales election. [More…]
Under the existing system of the Senate election and the House of Representatives election being held separately and not synchronised, that situation would face any government at all that did not have a majority in the Senate. [More…]
If a new government came in, whatever may be its political colour, should the Senate Opposition be able to say: ‘We will knock out your major measures and then your only recourse is to abandon your legislative program which has been endorsed by the people and have another election’? [More…]
No government which has been elected by the people to carry out a legislative program should be confronted by an Opposition which has not gone to that election but which happens to have a majority. [More…]
Although the situation in the Senate has not changed, the Opposition can set about defeating the Government’s program and can say to the Government: ‘Your only recourse is to abandon what you are doing, break off your legislative program, and have another election’. [More…]
The Opposition says to the Government: ‘Abandon your legislative program and have another election’. [More…]
The Opposition is anxious to ensure that the Schools Commission is realistically constructed and that it operates with the powers and functions which were suggested for it by the then Opposition, now the Government, prior to the election and for which the Government claims that it has a mandate to legislate, if it has a mandate at all, and which were promised so very clearly by the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) when speaking on the general subject on 20 June 1 972 in an address to the Catholic Luncheon Club of Melbourne. [More…]
I suggest that their approach now is completely different from the attitude they adopted during the election campaign last year when this matter became one of the major planks, if not the major plank, of the platform for election of a Labor Government. [More…]
In the Australian Labor Party speech for the last election we said that we would embark upon the establishment of a Schools Commission along the same lines as the conservative governments had embarked upon the establishment of the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
As I said earlier, we say that this is yet another attempt by the Opposition to water down- I think I used the term ‘maul’ earlier- the national initiative of the Government in improving education throughout Australia which certainly was put to the electorate by the Labor Leader, Mr Whitlam, during the course of the last election campaign and which certainly was endorsed by the electorate last December. [More…]
If one refers to the Labor Party’s policies at the last Federal election one finds that we referred not only to the needs of schools but also to the needs of students and that concept. [More…]
As enunciated by the Labor leader at the last election, which probably was the main part of the Labor Party’s platform at the last election, which was certainly highlighted and certainly opposed by the Opposition at that election, the Government now endeavours to implement in this legislation which the Opposition seeks to amend and has amended or emasculated or mauled. [More…]
Mr Whitlam said at the last election: [More…]
Therefore I suggest that nobody who has read the Government’s policy statements, especially the policy statement of the Prime Minister at the last election, in association with the report of the Interim Schools Committeethe Karmel Committee report- can suggest for one moment that the action which the Government is taking to assist schools will not be of direct benefit to students. [More…]
I hark back to the policy speech of the Labour Party at the last election, which states: [More…]
I do not think that that is what the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) campaigned for at the last general election. [More…]
The results of elections show that people who have campaigned on the basis of this kind of division have received a contemptuous vote. [More…]
Let me now refer to the statement by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) before the last Federal election in relation to schools. [More…]
The Government believes that the purpose of these amendments is to water down the needs concept which is basic to the Government’s approach that was enunciated by the Prime Minister before the last Federal election and which was endorsed by the electorate. [More…]
The honourable senator will appreciate, when I remind him, what Mr Whitlam said on behalf of the Labor movement in the last election campaign. [More…]
Even if Aboriginal people do want such a committee (and this has not been established) the time allocated for preparing this election is far too short- no State or Federal elections are run in such a short time with so little preparation. [More…]
Certainly it is a shorter period, but we ran a State election in New South Wales which terminated last Saturday, I think, after about a 3-week campaign. [More…]
It came together to discuss, mainly, the election of a truly representative, fully Aboriginal consultative council. [More…]
There are 56 people in the State of Queensland who do not agree with Senator Bonner who has nominated for this election. [More…]
We are not desirous of having an election for which the Labor Party takes all the credit. [More…]
I say that the Government has nothing to hide and nothing to apologise for in relation to the election which is about to take place. [More…]
Is the Minister for the Media aware that on the night of Friday, 16 November- that is, the day before the New South Wales State election- Channel 9 in Sydney on more than one occasion televised a short film showing a ballot box and a flag with the word ‘Liberal’ clearly marked on it and also showing the Premier, Sir Robert Askin, dropping a ballot paper into the ballot box while a voice reminded viewers to vote on the following day? [More…]
I understand that what is known as a promo, a promotional advertisement, was shown by Channel 9 on Friday, 16 November, advertising the election coverage of the station on the evening of the election on Saturday, 17 November. [More…]
I understand that it had a background voice reminding people that the next day was election day and urging viewers to watch Channel 9 for the election coverage. [More…]
If there is no chance for people to vote in an election how do they change their government? [More…]
I am prompted by Senator Greenwood ‘s reference to the previous Prime Minister to recall that about 3 months before the last election I asked a question about Mr McMahon conferring with Mr Heath. [More…]
Except in the very exceptional case to solve deadlocks after an election in section 57, the Senate and House of Representatives operate separately in their constitutional functions of the Parliament. [More…]
He was elected to the House of Representatives for the Division of Corio in the by-election in 1940 and he became Minister for War Organisation of Industry in 1941, Minister for Post-war Reconstruction in 1945 and Minister for Defence in 1946. [More…]
He was defeated in the general swing against the Government in the 1 949 general election. [More…]
We spoke often of old times and it was one of my pleasures to vote for him on every occasion when he stood for the Council of the Australian National University and I was always delighted when he achieved election on those occasions. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs the following question: Owing to the utter confusion in relation to the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee election last Saturday and in view of the lack of training of Aboriginal enrollers and co-ordinators and the limited time allocated for the setting up of the necessary mechanics, will the Government accept the responsibility for the outcome rather than passing the blame on to the employed Aborigines? [More…]
We are very proud to accept the responsibility for the election, which was well conducted and in which there was great interest in most areas, shown by the numbers of Aborigines who voted. [More…]
If we look at the notice paper we see the Bills of a fundamental character which the Government has seen fit to introduce in terms of its interpretation of the mandate given to it at the last election. [More…]
The vacancy left by Professor Strehlow ‘s resignation can be filled by election, in accordance with the Rules of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, at the next general meeting of members to be held in 1974. [More…]
A week or two ago Caucus made a last desperate bid to prevent the electorate of Kalgoorlie from being lost by the Labor Party in the next election. [More…]
I appreciate the wonderful effort which the Australian Labor Party made before the last election to conciliate people interested in the arts. [More…]
Before the last election the Prime Minister spoke at a meeting in the Melbourne Festival Hall at which I was present. [More…]
-But Senator McLaren’s Party does not put its true policies at election time. [More…]
He was surprised because he would not be able to use it as a weapon against the Labor Party in the coming Senate election. [More…]
Last year during the Federal election campaign the Premier of South Australia campaigned for the Federal Labor Party to win office in Canberra. [More…]
The truth of the story is that they have not realised even yet that an election was held on 2 [More…]
Opposition senators have convenient memories, because 2 December when the people were asked to vote at an election was not so long ago. [More…]
It will be recalled that prior to the election the Australian newspapers, which traditionally have been anti-Labor for a long period of years, were advocating on their pages a change in government. [More…]
Big business which also has been traditionally anti-Labor and which has financed the election campaigns of Liberal-Country Party governments for a long period of years was also advocating that it was time for a change. [More…]
We do not need to be reminded of the position of the economy on the eve of the election. [More…]
They are the hallmark of a Government that has shown initiative and sincerity in purpose, a Government that has shown a keen desire to honour the pledges that it gave when it was campaigning for the 1972 election. [More…]
I heard Senator Maunsell from Queensland criticising this Government for implementing its election promises. [More…]
It was said earlier, by interjection, that the Australian Labor Party and the Prime Minister did not keep an election pledge regarding education. [More…]
If honourable senators look at the speeches that Senator Little made when he was seeking election, they will see that he hammered this idea of recognition of the deployment of people away from the big cities, including Melbourne. [More…]
During the course of the election campaign the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) made it quite clear that we would take action in this area if we were elected to government. [More…]
Would the Minister for the Media have an investigation made into the reasons why radio and television stations, including those of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, gave wide publicity on the night of the New South Wales election to reports that according to their computer calculations there was a 10 per cent to 11 per cent swing against the Australian Labor Party and that it would lose up to 9 seats? [More…]
Has the Minister seen the latest results which show that the Australian Labor Party will be returned with the same number of seats as it held prior to the elections despite the cynical gerrymander of New South Wales electorates by the Askin Government? [More…]
Senator DOUGLAS McCLELLANDFirstly, I am aware that the Labor Party in New South Wales will be returned, as I understand it, with the same number of seats in the new Parliament as it had in the previous Parliament as a result of Mr Don Day being returned as the State member for Casino at the election that was held on 1 7 November. [More…]
Apparently the reason for the slowness of the receipt of the figures by comparison with the rate of receipt at Federal elections is that for Federal elections full-time electoral officers are engaged in counting the votes whereas for the New South Wales State elections part-time electoral officers are engaged. [More…]
Yet we hear a lot of this sort of thing from a government which is reputed to have hired a multi-national public relations business situated in New York to conduct the advertising for its last election campaign. [More…]
We hear a lot of nonsense about what won the election for the Labor Party, how it was swept in and so on. [More…]
If both Houses of the Parliament went to an election I think it could be a very interesting election campaign, because under the education policies of this Government certain schools are not being provided with assistance. [More…]
If the Labor Party would like a double dissolution on this issue I think a very interesting election campaign would ensue in relation to the discrimination between one church school as opposed to others. [More…]
Indeed it should be listed that prior to the last election the now Prime Minister asserted that within the existing Constitution his government could govern effectively and with completeness. [More…]
However, as the Prime Minister said in his election policy speech: ‘We cannot expect to clear away that backlog in three months or even three years. ‘ [More…]
The Government decided that the cheapest way of honouring the election promise of the Prime Minister was for it to work through such legal aid services. [More…]
Let me remind him also that at no time did he or any other Labor spokesman on primary industry indicate in their election policies a hardening in policies in regard to wheat producers. [More…]
I ask: In view of the importance of ascertaining and publishing the true facts for proper assessment by the Parliament and by the Australian people, will the Federal Government produce as a matter of some urgency a White Paper or a considered statement in particular, clarifying the repeated allegations that the Allende Government in the latter part of its period of office had abandoned democratic processes, the basis of its election, and was imposing dictatorial and totalitarian methods upon the Chilean people. [More…]
There is no need for a constitutional referendum to ensure that simultaneous elections are held. [More…]
Firstly, we can have simultaneous elections at any time that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) likes to go and see the Governor-General because in section 57 of the Constitution there is provision for a double dissolution if there is a disagreement between the 2 Houses. [More…]
A double dissolution would bring about simultaneous elections of the whole of this chamber and of the House of Representatives. [More…]
But, Mr President, it is not even necessary to hold a double dissolution to bring the elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives back to the same date. [More…]
The Government could, if it wished to do so and if it had the courage to do so, take out the House of Representatives at the next Senate election- that is, when those honourable senators who are due to retire at 30 June 1974 have to face their electors. [More…]
-This Bill has as its objective the coordination of elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives. [More…]
I point out that it is possible for the Government to co-ordinate the election of both houses without a referendum and without constitutional change. [More…]
What more ideal moment could there be than the present moment when the Government states that it is being obstructed by the Senate, when the Government has announced that if the Senate attempts to make the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) carry out his promise to preserve basic grants for all schools the Government will deprive the children of Australia of hundreds of thousands of dollars of educational aid and when the Government says that it believes that this issue is so vital that it wants to hold an election? [More…]
What more ideal moment than the present to co-ordinate the election of the 2 Houses by a double dissolution and an election within the next two or three weeks? [More…]
Instead it proposes to spend hundreds and thousands of dollars on an election and on a referendum when there is no real need for it. [More…]
There could have been an election if we had defeated the Appropriation Bill only last week. [More…]
Does the Prime Minister seriously ask the people of Australia to believe that cost saving is one reason why his Government wants to hold Senate and House of Representatives elections at the same time? [More…]
We know that Labor has a warped sense of proportion and priority where expense is concerned, but a Government which contributes heavily and unashamedly to the rate of inflation through the totality of its own expenditure is most unlikely seriously to consider austerity in the form of reduced election costs. [More…]
Today Mr Heath, Mr Whitlam and Mr Trudeau are sniffing the wind not for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is an issue worthy of an election but for the purpose of ascertaining whether the breeze is blowing favourably and whether it would be propitious to go to the country. [More…]
Hence Mr Whitlam ‘s nervousness and, in a sense, hesitation in the aura of the recent election in New South Wales. [More…]
Irrespective of whether he had another 3 months or 2 years of his 3-year term to run he would, if he thought it was favourable for party political purposes to do so, force an election. [More…]
In an era in which such a system has been developed it is doubly important to maintain the importance of a fixed term of election for the House which has to oppose a government which has a majority. [More…]
If we should fall victim to the myopia that seems to be clouding the outlook of the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and vote for a Bill that is designed to make the Senate the echo of a government party on the hustings every time an election is held for the House of Representatives, it would mean, I think, that we would be doing less than our duty. [More…]
Half of the Senate is to go to an election next year. [More…]
If we were a Party of a government that might very well create in Caucus tomorrow morning such a situation that there would be an election which would take the other House to the people. [More…]
We have before us now this proposal dealing with simultaneous elections. [More…]
As Senator McManus has pointed out so clearly, if bringing the elections of this Parliament into gear is the desideratum of those who are concerned about the expenditure of $2m in order to consult the people in the election of the Senate, is that mere waste or gross extravagance in relation to the purchase of ‘Blue Poles’- blue, black or brindle; I do not care what it is called- which is a bit of duco stuck on canvass and for which the agent’s fee was $100,000? [More…]
The opportunity faces the Government now, if it has the courage to go to the country and so bring the elections for the Houses together. [More…]
Yet it wants to avoid a Senate election because that will cost $2m. [More…]
As has been pointed out, the need for the synchronisation of elections has not been brought about by the Senate. [More…]
I do not think it is a very good move at all to change the Constitution to enable this place to be taken to an election every time the House of Representatives decides to go to an election. [More…]
It is quite possible that in the other place situations may develop from time to time which may bring about more elections than are being held now because of the elections for the Houses being out of tune with each other. [More…]
From the Senate’s point of view, having a Senate election apart from the House of Representatives election focusses attention on the Senate much more than when the 2 Houses go to the polls together. [More…]
The present Government, through the Prime Minister, before the last election put in the policy statement to the people: [More…]
In our view, the people are entitled to voice their opinion on the question whether there should be synchronisation of elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives. [More…]
It is difficult enough to alter it now, but when the House of Representatives proposes an alteration which was previously put to the people at election, one would think that in all decency it ought to be put to the people. [More…]
There are too many elections. [More…]
Elections of the House of Representatives and the Senate ought to be synchronised conveniently, either by this method or by having some fixed term for both Housesfor example, a 6-year term for the Senate, as it is, and a 3-year term for the House of Representatives. [More…]
Therefore, it appeared to the Government that the convenient way of synchronising elections of the 2 Houses was to alter the Constitution so that when there was an election for the House of Representatives there was one for the Senate also. [More…]
They are not prepared to say: ‘Here is a proposal that was put to the people by the Prime Minister at the last election. [More…]
We are prepared to accept the verdict of the people at the next Senate election’. [More…]
Instead, we will have the Senate election. [More…]
We say that if the Opposition votes for the amendment or votes against putting the matter to the people it is denying the people the right to say whether the elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives should be synchronised. [More…]
If the present proposal had applied at the time of the 1969 election, one vote in the electorate of Sydney would have been worth 1.7 votes in the electorate of Robertson, and one vote in the electorate of Melbourne would have been worth 1.77 votes in the electorate of Diamond Valley. [More…]
This issue was raised prior to the last election. [More…]
But he laughed at them and said that the sort of political advertising that he had seen in the Australian election was cream puff advertising. [More…]
He said: ‘I would be sorry to see British elections conducted on these lines. [More…]
If members of the Australian Labor Party really believed in the principle of one vote one value they would advocate the system of election which gives the nearest approximation to the principle of one vote one value, that is, the HareClark system. [More…]
In a recent address to the Proportional Representation Society in South Australia, Mr Clyde Cameron said that in his opinion the only system of election which could be calculated to give electoral justice to all parties was the Hare-Clark proportional representation system. [More…]
The committee sat down and produced an excellent report which indicated that the fairest system of election and the system which gave the nearest thing to electoral justice was the Hare-Clark proportional representation system. [More…]
Just before 2 December- in the week before 2 December- there was an election in New Zealand. [More…]
There were various contentions as to what effect it would have on the subsequent election in this country. [More…]
While I was in New Zealand I got hold of some Press cuttings on the election results. [More…]
It should be remembered that in New Zealand elections are assessed on a population basis and that New Zealand is pretty meticulous in this respect. [More…]
The policy speech, which was presented by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) immediately before the election of 2 December 1972, expressed a determination to make local government a genuine partner in the Federal system. [More…]
Minister for Social Security in this place, that we backdated pension increases to the date of the election. [More…]
The policy speech of the Australian Labor Party delivered by the Prime Minister during the last Federal election campaign stated that we would establish a Schools Commission along the same lines as the Universities Commission and the Advanced Education Commission. [More…]
Clearly the Prime Minister was saying that this is one of the principal matters, if not the principal matter, in our election policy. [More…]
It is an increase recommended by the Karmel Committee which was set up by the new Government shortly after its election last year. [More…]
But the Schedule will have the effect of dishonouring a solemn promise given by the Government on many occasions in the period leading up to the election last year and reaffirmed by it on a number of occasions since it became the Government in what I think would be regarded by anyone as the clearest terms. [More…]
They were made by the Government prior to the last election- made by the present Government. [More…]
He made a show of saying that he was going to be at certain places on 23 November and other places on 24 November, before the elections. [More…]
In his election advertisement, which was headed ‘Go Forward with Grassby’, he had a message. [More…]
Just before the election Al Grassby said that he and his colleagues were ‘pledged to that new deal which will immediately give another IS per cent on top of existing grants and aids.’ [More…]
In a letter to Mr J. Dixon, Chairman of the National Council of Independent Schools, written by Mr Whitlam as Prime Minister after the election, he said: [More…]
That letter is a direct repudiation of the promises made repeatedly by the Labor Party prior to the election. [More…]
To this day it remains not prepared to honor the obligations which it assumed when it made the promises before the election, and not prepared to honour the obligations which it assumed when, as a government, it repeated them after the election. [More…]
There is only one aspect to which I wish to return and that is if, in direct repudiation of the promises made many times by all those people to whom I have referred and many more, this Government intends to pursue this matter to an election, it will find itself having to face a situation in which the matter on which it has refused to act- a request by the Senate- is a matter on which it has refused to honour the promises made not once, not twice but many times before and after the election. [More…]
Notwithstanding the fact that the parents of those 53 children who attend this small school in a suburb of Melbourne were promised by a very eminent member of the Labor Party Cabinet just before the last election that if they voted Labor they would get much more money- they were told they would get nearly double- the school has been placed in category A and gets nothing because of the absurdity of the basis upon which the categorisation takes place. [More…]
We should lay to rest for all time the accusation which has come from the other side of the chamber that there has been a repudiation of an undertaking given by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) at the time of the election. [More…]
Minister at the time of the election. [More…]
A motion was moved in the House of Representatives on 26 September of last year, which was about 2 months before the election, in these terms: [More…]
So on 26 September 1972, 2 months before the Federal election in which the Australian Labor Party was elected to office, a motion was passed in those terms. [More…]
How, in the face of that, could the Prime Minister get up on the hustings during the election campaign and make some other statement which would be contrary to the provisions of the amendment moved in the House of Representatives last year? [More…]
We have heard Senator Rae quoting the exact words which were not only said by the Minister but also were printed and distributed in a number of private schools before the election. [More…]
Mr Beazley, within 5 weeks of the election, as the prospective Minister for Education, said that the Labor Government would continue the basic per capita payments to all schools as at present. [More…]
That is the nonsense which has been manufactured by the Government to provide what it believes will be a good election issue. [More…]
All we have said is that when the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education promise people before an election that they will continue to give at least basic aid to all schools, they should keep their promise. [More…]
That would be our policy, and before the election it was the policy of the Whitlam Labor Party which made it its policy at that election. [More…]
We are asking them to do now what they told the people of this country, when they were trying to win an election, that they would do. [More…]
This article also states that there is nothing in Labor’s policy speech for the last election to indicate that grants are to be withdrawn. [More…]
The paid propagandists have been put to work to manufacture this into an election issue. [More…]
This promise was made by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education before the last election. [More…]
All we ask of the Government is this: Having made a promise before the election and received thousands of votes because of that promise, it should keep its promise and give to the small number of A class schools that are left the basic per capita grants which Mr Whitlam and Mr Beazley pledged themselves as honourable men to give. [More…]
This has been so evident that Senator McManus began his contribution to the debate by saying that the issue now before the Senate had developed into an issue of the credibility of the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education to honour their pre-election promises in regard to education. [More…]
Both Senator Devitt and Senator James McClelland went to great lengths to try to show the people of Australia that the Government was carrying out its repeated pre-election promises that any form of education benefit already existing would be maintained and, therefore, any aid would be additional to that existing in the field of education. [More…]
During his election campaign his campaign director, I take it, put in the newspapers Mr Grassby ‘s itinerary for 23 and 24 November last year. [More…]
It is the States Grants (Schools) Bill which, if and when enacted, will enable us as a Government to provide to the people of this country the funds that are required to carry out the principal election platform of the Labor Party which was to make education the prime responsibility of a Labor government. [More…]
I would have thought that in addition to the novelty, if I might use Senator Rae ‘s expression, of the Bill appropriating the largest amount ever expended by a government on education, which is what this Government is doing, there is wrapped up in the whole of this legislation the element of the principle of needs which was urged by the Labor Party not only at the last election but also at a time when we were in opposition. [More…]
The whole basis of our election policy was wrapped up in those 2 paragraphs and is embodied in this legislation that we are now seeking to have passed through the Parliament. [More…]
A lot has been said about what the Prime Minister had to say in the middle of last year- 6 months before the election campaign. [More…]
In fact it was debated in this chamber a mere 12 days before this House rose for the election campaign. [More…]
-That was on 19 October 1972-12 days before this Parliament rose for the election campaign. [More…]
The Opposition is now proposing that all schools, and in particular the category A schools, be guaranteed during 1974 and 1975 recurrent grants at per capita rates of $62 for primary schools and $104 for secondary schools; that is, the rates that have applied this year- 1973- in accordance with our policy as enunicated at the last election that ‘a Federal Labor Government will continue all grants under Commonwealth legislation throughout 1973’. [More…]
The Government’s commitments are those that I mentioned earlier, namely, the statements made during the debate on the 1972 legislation and in the election policy speech. [More…]
But what we, as a Senate, can do is to say that certainly if the people of Australia were made a solemn promise before the last election they are entitled to have this chamber keep the Government honest. [More…]
But let me to refer to one more promise in case there is any doubt that just before the election the present Government had a change of heart. [More…]
This is a letter which was written just before the election. [More…]
We cannot support it because, for a start, it is opposed completely to the political ideology of the Government, the espoused policy of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Labor Party at the last Federal election, and the manner in which the Karmel Committee reported to the Government. [More…]
The Labor Party, then in Opposition, 6 weeks before the Federal election, moved that at the end of the motion ‘That the Bill be now read a second time ‘ the following words be added: but the Senate, while not refusing a second reading to the Bill, is ofthe opinion that it should provide for the establishment of an Australian Schools Commission to examine and determine the needs of students in government and non-government primary, secondary and technical schools, and recommend grants which the Commonwealth should make to the States to assist in meeting the requirements of all school age children on the basis of needs and priorities- [More…]
That happened 12 days before this House rose and 6 weeks before the election. [More…]
We say that our policy was put in precise terms to the people at the 1972 election. [More…]
Senator Rae has quoted several times tonight the repeated statements which were made during the last election campaign that no grants for nongovernment schools would be reduced by the Labor Government if it came to office. [More…]
All we ask is that the Government carry out the promise made by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, before the election, namely, that if the Labor Party were elected to office it would at least maintain the basic per capita grants given to every school. [More…]
When the Government says to us that it will fight an election on the issue, I tell it that we will welcome an election on the issue of whether the promises that the Government made when it wanted votes to win an election can be believed. [More…]
I also tell the Government that if it fights an election on this issue, Mr Whitlam will not be Prime Minister when the election is over. [More…]
I do not believe that the Australian electorate will accept a situation in which, for the sake of $8m, this Government says that it is prepared if necessary to plunge the country into an election. [More…]
It will fight that election on the question of whether in future the word of the Prime Minister can be accepted. [More…]
If the Government wants to do the honourable thing, when this amendment goes to the House of Representatives the Government will say that it will continue the present system, at least until there is an election and the people can decide. [More…]
My Party is not deterred by the suggestion that we may lose in our numbers as a result of an election. [More…]
Yet the Government, which purports to represent the less affluent members of our society, has chosen to dishonour a promise made before and since the election with regard to persistent per capita grants for this type of school. [More…]
But we are adamant that the Labor Party should honour its pre-election and post-election promises that no student in Australia will be disadvantaged as a result of its education policy. [More…]
The second basis upon which the Opposition’s amendment rests is-that the Government is running away from-a promise which it made prior to the election and upon which many people would have believed that the Labor Party’s conduct in Government would be different from what it has turned out to be. [More…]
There were statements made by Mr Beazley and letters written to numerous people before and after the election indicating his attitude. [More…]
Mr Whitlam himself after the election wrote to the Chairman of the National Council of Independent Schools on 13 December 1972, the day on which he appointed the Karmel Committee, and his words are instructive. [More…]
The constant attitude of the Australian Labor Party in the period leading up to the election of last year and in the months immediately after it cannot be challenged. [More…]
It is a principle on which we are prepared to challenge the Government to have an election, if the Government wants to have an election. [More…]
But we run the risk that if we take a particular course of action it may involve the whole Senate in being put before the people at an election. [More…]
It is a voice which was submerged and subdued in the period leading up to the election because Mr Whitlam wanted to have his way and to present his case and Mr Beazley wanted to have his way and to present his case. [More…]
But after the election the forces demonstrated their power and, of course, Mr Beazley was overridden. [More…]
So strong was their criticism when poor Mr Holding attempted to say at the State election before last that he favoured a reasonable quantum of State aid he was disciplined by Hartley and Crawford and the rug was pulled out from under him, and of course he had no prospect whatever of forming a government. [More…]
Because Mr Whitlam told him before the election: ‘You can tell the brandy characters that under Labor this impost will go ‘. [More…]
But so that I cannot be accused of further deception I now seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard the schools policy of the Labor Party at the 1972 Federal election as enunciated by the Prime Minister. [More…]
Again I reiterate that the policy of the Labor Government was put in precise terms to the people at the 1972 election. [More…]
I have marked this statutory declaration in various places which gives the he to the point that was made in this Senate 2 days before the New South Wales State election. [More…]
I would now like to refer again to what I said earlier about Senator Webster using this forum here tonight as a Senate election platform. [More…]
He listened avidly a fortnight ago to the expression of Senator Gietzelt ‘s malice in taking the occasion the night before the election to make, under the privilege of this Parliament. [More…]
Bearing in mind the 2 increases of $1.50 a week that the Government has already made to pensions- incidentally, the first one was backdated to February from the first pension payment date after the holding of the election in December of last year- I would think that the figures cited by Senator Cameron are correct. [More…]
Does the Minister feel that if this is a wise and correct procedure action should be taken to lift the prohibition now placed on the broadcasting of election propaganda after 48 hours prior to polling day thus bringing the broadcasting and television media into line with newspapers? [More…]
Legal advice given to me is that referendum broadcasting material does not come within the definition of election matter presently appearing in the Broadcasting and Television Act. [More…]
That was said by Mr Kim E. Beazley, Minister for Education, in a letter dated 8 February 1973- long after the election and long after the promises that were made last year. [More…]
If there is to be a double dissolution on this issue and an election fought on it the people of Australia will have the opportunity of hearing the truth. [More…]
I have to say again, as I have said before, that the Government has not been honest in meeting the election undertakings it has given. [More…]
In the debate yesterday on the States Grants (Schools) Bill reference was made to the per capita grants which were promised prior to the election and after the election and which have not been forthcoming. [More…]
Before the last election Mr Dunstan, as Chairman of the Australian Labor Party’s Federal Election Finance Committee, was authorised to make certain promises to wine makers. [More…]
I seek your financial support for the ALP Campaign for the federal elections. [More…]
The election of a Federal Labor Government will save you these costs in the future. [More…]
Senator Laucke also asked whether the withdrawal of the concessional basis of valuation of end of year wine stocks directly contradicts undertakings given by the Government before the election last year not to replace the wine excise by sales tax or any other impost. [More…]
The honourable senator’s interpretation of the election undertaking implies that he considers that the unjustifiably privileged taxation status of the wine makers is inviolate and should be preserved at all costs and for all time. [More…]
In his Election Policy Speech of 13 November 1972, the Prime Minister undertook the National Superannuation would be established in Australia after a thorough enquiry into overseas examples and Australian proposals for such a scheme and he indicated that a Committee would be appointed to recommend a scheme of National Superannuation. [More…]
Does the Minster agree that voters should not be tormented or their attention distracted by the introduction of spurious referendums at either a Senate or House of Representatives election? [More…]
It was part of the Australian Labor Party’s POliCy before the last election, amendments to similar effect had been moved by the Government when in Opposition, and the Government’s employees were fully aware of and justifiably expected the original proposals to be implemented. [More…]
I believe that this is a negation of the popular mandate that was given to the Australian Labor Party at the election a year ago. [More…]
For the last 23 years the parties which formed the previous Government made great play after each general election of the fact that they had received a clear mandate to carry out any proposal included in their policy statements. [More…]
Yet we are now faced with a situation in which they defiantly reject significant pieces of the Government’s legislative program which were spelt out in the Government’s pre-election policy statement. [More…]
He went on to say: 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…]
I put it to honourable senators that in our policy speech and in the speech of the GovernorGeneral at the opening of the Parliament there were laid down the fundamental cornerstones of the Labor Party program which was placed before the electors at the 1972 Federal election. [More…]
They know what happened in the Balcatta by-election in Western Australia. [More…]
They know what happened in the Victorian State election. [More…]
They know what happened in the Parramatta by-election. [More…]
They know what happened in the Greensborough by-election in Victoria. [More…]
They know what happened in the New South Wales general election. [More…]
Nobody goes to vote for a candidate at an election in any electorate saying: I will vote No. [More…]
They admit that they cannot remember all the points in the policy which was put forward at the last election. [More…]
Our local government system has grown up over a very long period, and the people will not take too kindly to not having any say in the election of the people who tax them for ordinary city development purposes. [More…]
I remember the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts in the previous government, Mr Howson, saying that the fact that he lost his seat at the last Federal election was due very much to the organisation of the Lake Pedder action group. [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…]
Will he make inquiries, and advise the Senate when the information is available, as to whether it is true, as indicated in the Launceston ‘Examiner’ of Monday, 19 November, that the Prime Minister travelled, presumably by Royal Australian Air Force V.I.P aircraft, on Saturday, 17 November, from Adelaide to Sydney to record his vote at the State election and continued to Launceston, arriving one hour late for his appointment at an agricultural show? [More…]
Before the date of the New South Wales election was announced I had accepted many invitations. [More…]
After the New South Wales election was announced for 1 7 November I arranged to travel that day from Adelaide to Sydney and thence to Launceston. [More…]
Like most honourable members I regard it as my obligation to vote in person and to visit polling places at elections in my own electorate. [More…]
There will be an election within the next 2 years. [More…]
All I, as the representative of the Government, need to say is that my colleagues join me in appreciating that the Australian people will now not be deprived of the Australian Schools Commission which, prior to the last Federal election, the Labor movement undertook to establish if and when we were elected to office. [More…]
One of the things which we have to remember is that the Australian Labor Party promised that it would do something about overcrowded cities, and the election was won in the outer areas of Sydney and Melbourne, where people were quite concerned about the position and voted accordingly so that they could get something done about the matter. [More…]
Following that, there was an election in 1969 when the then Leader of the Opposition, the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), campaigned throughout this country that the socalled national health scheme was not good enough. [More…]
He gained a tremendous number of seats in that election, and in December of last year he attained the Prime Ministership. [More…]
As a result the Parliament was deadlocked 86 votes to 86 votes and this forced a general election. [More…]
I support the suggestion made by Mr Snedden, the Leader of the Liberal Party in the other House, who said that we would welcome a double dissolution and an election fought on this issue. [More…]
I say, firstly, that in fulfilment of the Labor Party’s undertaking given by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) at the last election this legislation was introduced into the House of Representatives, and was introduced into the Senate last night. [More…]
At page 10 of the Australian Labor Party’s policy speech, as delivered by the Prime Minister at the last Federal election, Mr Whitlam had this to say: [More…]
It is in fulfilment of a clear mandate given by the people to the Labor movement on 2 December 1972, after these issues had been hotly debated during the Federal election campaign, that this legislation, having been introduced by way of public discussion - (Opposition senators interjecting)- [More…]
The Australian Labor Party went to the people at the last election with the clear policy that it would, if elected to office, establish a National Health Insurance Commission. [More…]
When the Labor movement was in opposition in this Parliament last year we made our position quite clear both when the then Government’s State Grants (Schools) Bill 1972 was debated in the Senate on 19 October of last year and again in Mr Whitlam’s election policy speech. [More…]
When we are elected to government as soon as the present Government is prepared to hold an election, which it is showing a marked reluctance to do- it is making big noises but taking little action- we will immediately re-introduce the base per capita grant. [More…]
Before the last election the Australian Labor Party had spoken of the proposed Corporation having its grower representation elected by the growers. [More…]
elected representation of growers to the Corporation as promised by its spokesmen prior to the last election. ‘ [More…]
elected representation of growers to the Corporation as promised by its spokesmen prior to the last election.’ [More…]
I point out that before the last election the Parry now in power stated that grants would be made towards eliminating the sewerage backlog in Australia. [More…]
I hope that in the next year we might all get along together, at least until the Senate election or the double dissolution approaches when the people once more will have their say as to which of us will return here and which of us will not. [More…]
-I thank the Senate for the honour conferred on me by my election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
Honourable senators would wish me, I hope, on the occasion of the election of a new Chairman of Committees to make some observations on the retirement of Senator Prowse, who resigned his place as a senator on 3 1 December last year. [More…]
We had a close association which became closer on his election to this place where the two of us for nearly 12 years represented Western Australia as the 2 Country Party senators from that State. [More…]
by leave- On behalf of the Liberal senators in this place I congratulate Senator Webster on his election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
I cannot wish him a long tenure of office because that would mean that after June 30 my own colleague Senator Little would be eliminated, there being an election to be held in May, as most of us know. [More…]
As a fellow Queenslander, as one who campaigned with him in his first election and as one who had a very high regard for him personally and as a member of the House of Representatives, on behalf of the Liberal senators I join with the Leader of the Government in expressing very sincere sympathy to Donald Cameron’s wife and his family. [More…]
The British Labour Party at a dinner to Khruschev protested so strongly at the denial of human rights in the Soviet implemented by the KGB that Khruschev said that if he had a vote in a British election he would vote Conservative. [More…]
It follows from the policies that were established by the Labor Party before it was elected on 2 December of last year and which it has carried out since its election. [More…]
For that reason, despite many years of opposition by the conservative parties in Australia, one of the first actions which we took upon election was to establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
This Government, immediately after its election, withdrew Australian armed forces and military support for the war of aggression against the Vietnamese people. [More…]
But it is a most remarkable achievement that Israel, in the height of the present serious troubles in which it finds itself, was able to hold free democratic elections, or at least as free and democratic as any elections can be; that all parties were able to contest that election and that the group from the Israeli Communist Party which is very largely sympathetic with the Arabs won 4 seats in the Israeli Parliament. [More…]
Let us examine the election of December 1972 State by State. [More…]
And even in South Australia, where he holds 7 out of 12 seats, he lost a seat in the 1972 elections. [More…]
That will be the policy that the Government will be taking to the people at the next Senate election. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s plethora of referenda, which we are told will be put to the people on the same day as the Senate election, contains a few more barbs aimed in this direction. [More…]
I would indict the then Minister for Defence, now Athol Townley, who went overseas to do a job on the eve of an election. [More…]
Before the last election honourable senators opposite- not all of them- were going to make a great deal about racism. [More…]
Its supporters know of the approaching Senate election and one argument they propose to use is that the Senate is obstructing the legislation of the Government. [More…]
In the past week the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) has said in Tasmania and Victoria that one of the objects of the Government in the Senate election must be to destroy the small parties, and in particular the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
I am sure that he will not be able to get control of the Senate in the next election. [More…]
It is typical phoney propaganda for election purposes. [More…]
I want to come now to what will be, after all, the main issue of this Senate election. [More…]
I read recently in propaganda about the British election that Mr Wilson declared publicly on the platform and through the media that Mr Heath must be removed as Prime Minister of Britain because food and clothing prices had gone up by 20 per cent. [More…]
He said that one is to ensure democratic elections in the House of Representatives, but the Government presumes to alter the Constitution to provide the rules for the election of members of the State Houses of Parliament. [More…]
He said that there was no need to pass the matter by referendum or to alter the Constitution because Mr Whitlam has every right to go to the people now to have a double dissolution, and then he could synchronise the elections for the two Houses. [More…]
That is all very well for this next election, but it would not necessarily synchronise any other elections. [More…]
As the Liberal Party well knows, when it suited it it disregarded the tie between the elections for the 2 Houses and changed the times. [More…]
The transfer of power involved is a transfer of power to the people- that there will be democratic elections for each of the Houses of Parliament of the States, that there will be a democratic election for the House of Representatives, that there will not be the possibility of gerrymander, that the oversight - [More…]
The Government of this country wants to put this measure to the people at the time of the Senate election. [More…]
It is desirable in the public interest that it be put to the people at the Senate election. [More…]
It is obvious that if these tactics were to succeed it would mean there would have to be some referendum separate from the Senate election, which would cost the people almost $3m extra and cause great public inconvenience. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers) has made clear that the Opposition rejects the Bill, that it rejects the whole concept of democratic elections by the people for the House of Representatives and for the upper and lower Houses in the States. [More…]
In accordance with the provisions of section 128 of the Constitution in respect of Constitution Alteration Bills passed in one House- in this instance, the House of Representatives- by an absolute majority on 2 occasions and which already have been rejected, have failed to pass or have been unacceptably amended in the Senate, the Government re-introduces the Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill in the Senate so that it can proceed towards a referendum on the matter, a referendum that the Government intends be held concurrently with the next Senate election. [More…]
1 commend to the Senate the Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill 1974. [More…]
We on this side are not saying that this Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill ought to be delayed indefinitely. [More…]
If the Prime Minister is talking about running to a timetable in order to have a Senate election some time in May, coupled with a referendum, he ought to be able to meet the date. [More…]
All that the Government is doing is endeavouring to enable the people of Australia at the next Senate election to have a say also on whether they want to alter their own Constitution to provide for democratic elections to be overseen in the ultimate by the High Court of Australia. [More…]
Let us send it off to a committee or do some trickery or use some device so that we can prevent the people having their say on these constitutional questions at the next Senate election. [More…]
They are going to send it off to a committee for examination or adjourn further debate on it in order to fracture the timetable which has to be met if this matter is to be put to the people at the time of the Senate election. [More…]
From the arguments which have been advanced in the debate on the first Constitution Alteration Bill today, I appreciate that a great deal of point taking is being engaged in prior to a Senate election. [More…]
For some reason the Government is determined to have an election on 4, 1 1 or 1 8 May, or so we are led to believe. [More…]
Why should not the Government be prepared to allow the Senate time for consideration and the presentation of its argument for public consumption, and have the Senate election at any time before 29 June? [More…]
There is to be an election in May this year. [More…]
There has to be time after the election and before 30 June to enable votes to be counted and matters to be sorted out. [More…]
Let us see what Opposition senators can think up and let us hear their rationalisations as they justify their endeavours to prevent the matter being put to the people at the next Senate election, which is the most convenient and most inexpensive way of allowing the people of Australia to execise their democratic rights. [More…]
That is the reason why the public has supported us and has sent us here in growing numbers after each successive election to carry out that particular task. [More…]
The Government was not too sure that it would help its chances in the Senate election campaign. [More…]
But what are members of the Opposition doing in this Senate election year when we have been promised or threatened with a heavy concentration of legislation? [More…]
Let us have a straightout Senate election. [More…]
It wants to put it to the people at the time of a Senate election. [More…]
I think that promise was given during the last election campaign. [More…]
The relevant Bills were passed by the chamber which the people elected at that election but were thrown out by this chamber in a contemptuous fashion on 4 December without even being given an second reading. [More…]
This situation will soon be corrected at the next Senate election. [More…]
In the period of 14 months or so that we have been in government, they have allowed certain measures through, but any legislation which was of importance or which affected their policies has been rejected, notwithstanding that the Government had a mandate for its action as it had put these matters to the people at the last election. [More…]
It wishes to save the expense of a separate referendum and for many reasons it is convenient to have it held concurrently with the Senate election. [More…]
Of course, the Government will not tell us when the Senate election is to be held. [More…]
We know that under the Constitution the Senate election can be held as late as Saturday, 29 June. [More…]
If the Government would take us into its confidence by saying ‘We have been advised by our advisers that the last possible date on which the election can be held is such and such because of various reasons’, we could test the reasons. [More…]
If the Government would take us into its confidence by saying ‘We have certain printing problems; we have certain problems in relation to time for the preparation for the election’ - [More…]
It will announce the election date at the latest possible time in order to try to catch us by surprise. [More…]
Despite all that, we have now reached the stage that we do not even know when the Senate election will be held. [More…]
Surely those honourable senators who are coming up for re-election should know when this election will be held. [More…]
One can recall the Leader of the then Opposition saying in this place that the Government should indicate to the people of Australia when there would be a House of Representatives election in 1972. [More…]
He was saying that 6 months before the election was even due to take place. [More…]
It has been the practice in the past to hold a Senate election at the end of the year before the year in which the 6-year term of an honourable senator expires. [More…]
Yet no one has been told when the election is to be held. [More…]
Senator Murphy has pleaded most eloquently for action to be taken so that the Government can put its referundum proposals to the people on the day of the election. [More…]
It is all very well for well informed people like Senator McAuliffe, Senator Mulvihill and others to be quite happy about this matter but how am I, when so frequently I am not even informed of these matters of high public moment, to know how to vote or of the way in which we should act in order to fall in with Senator Murphy’s requirements as to time when he knows the date of the election and I do not? [More…]
We have to get things to fit in just right for the date of the Senate election.’ [More…]
But I have been interested to see in the Press that at least 2 branches of the Australian Labor Party have implored Mr Whitlam not to have the referenda on the day of the Senate election. [More…]
Perhaps I should not say this from the point of view of tactics: But if I were in the Australian Labor Party I would not complicate the Senate election by holding referenda with it. [More…]
I cannot imagine how a leader can ask his Party to go to a Senate election and complicate the position at the same time with a number of measures which can be interpreted as an attack upon the Senate as a States House, an attack upon State rights and an attempt to interfere with the electoral system. [More…]
But at least I am entitled to say that I agree with some of the most knowledgeable members in your Party who were put on a pedestal for their assistance in winning the Federal election in 1972. [More…]
They are the people who do not want Mr Whitlam to complicate the election. [More…]
I learned a lot and I can only say to the members of the Australian Labor Party, as I have said before: If you hold this referendum on the same day as the Senate election it will blow up in your faces. [More…]
For the Government to achieve its purposethat is, to present this matter to the people for decision sometime in May or June, whenever the Senate election is held- there must be an initial presentation to both Houses and a rejection by the second House and subsequently, after an interval of 3 months, a further presentation of the Bill to both Houses of the Parliament. [More…]
They were violently opposed to the 2 elections being brought together. [More…]
Do they want to adopt one policy for an election of the House of Representatives and another policy for an election to the Senate, or do they want an elected government to be supervised by a Senate, or half of a Senate, that was elected 3 years earlier, not on the issues that were current at the time the Government was elected? [More…]
The simple fact is that the Opposition Parties do not want the elections brought together because it does not advantage them. [More…]
It does not advantage them to contest an election on the basis of a national policy. [More…]
When we have the elections divided they can say anything they like because when they are asking for senators to be elected they know that they have no responsibility for government. [More…]
After 30 June we will hear again the wise words that we heard after a previous Senate election when Senator Cole announced that he would be the leader of the Democratic Labor Party, Senator McManus would be the Deputy Leader, and the Whip was yet to come. [More…]
In discussions some people in the Liberal Party have talked about double dissolutions to bring the 2 elections together again and all these sorts of things. [More…]
It is true that the Government could at any time bring the elections together. [More…]
When a Senate election is due it could decide at that time to dissolve the House of Representatives and take half the Senate out with it. [More…]
I personally am not satisfied, and the media will not convince me, that the Labor Party could not win a House of Representatives election if it went out on the hustings tomorrow. [More…]
I do not see any reason why the Constitution should not be amended to bring the 2 Houses into line and for half the Senate to retire at the time of each House of Representatives election. [More…]
Continuity of the Senate would be destroyed because, every time there is a House of Representatives election, 30 senators would go out of office for about 3 months while an election took place. [More…]
If the Senate loses 30 senators for 3 months every time there is a House of Representatives election, the Senate’s committee activity could not continue during that period. [More…]
The Bill would destroy this reserve power because it is proposed that 30 senators be sent to the polls every time there is a House of Representatives election. [More…]
If it is desired to bring the elections for the 2 Houses together, a simple solution is for the House of Representatives to shorten its own term and go to the polls at the next Senate election, due to be held before 30 June 1974.’ [More…]
At the time of the Senate election, the Government proposes to intrude into that election a proposal for a constitutional alteration. [More…]
It could hold the election consequent upon that double dissolution at the time that it is proposed to hold the election for half of the Senate. [More…]
The Government has the power to bring about simultaneous elections now, and it wants to put the people to the expense and trouble of a referendum in order to get the power to do something that it already has the power to do. [More…]
Senator Cant said that if the House of Representatives and Senate elections were held simultaneously it would probably get rid of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
But the Democratic Labor Party will face up to elections, whether they are for both Houses or for one House. [More…]
The Government is not game to go to a double dissolution because if a House of Representatives election were held in 6 weeks or 2 months time the Government would be out of office. [More…]
It is hard to find anybody who is prepared to admit that he voted Labor at the last election. [More…]
Does Senator McManus seriously suggest that the federal structure will be weakened if we have simultaneous elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate? [More…]
When you have a Senate election at a different time to a House of Representatives election the Senate election takes on the character of a by-election. [More…]
It is notorious that, no matter what government is in office, whether a Labor government or a LiberalCountry Party coalition government propped up by the Democratic Labor Party, when there is a by-election for the House of Representatives the people take the opportunity to be critical of whatever government is in office. [More…]
We can examine the records with which we have been supplied by the psephologists which show that there is no exception to this rule that when an election is held separately to a general election the electors take the opportunity to give the government of the day a rap over the knuckles. [More…]
I believe that a vote cast in the atmosphere of a by-election is not a vote which is cast as sensibly as one with which the people elect a government. [More…]
One of the bonuses that we will get out of the next Senate election will be that we will be relieved of the presence of Senator Little in this place. [More…]
Yes, but the senator’s term is reduced independently of his election and independently of what ever period for which the people may have elected him. [More…]
I have had quite a lot of experience in my time with elections. [More…]
Another election was held in 1 95 1 , so my term of office was 5 years of a normal 6-year period. [More…]
I contested other elections in 1953, 1958, 1964 and 1970, so I have contested 6 elections and my term of office should have lasted for 36 years but that period has been reduced to 27 years. [More…]
Continuity of the Senate would be destroyed because, every time there is a House of Representatives election, 30 senators would go out of office for about 3 months while an election took place. [More…]
People who have been elected to the Senate at a democratic election do not take their seats until the following July. [More…]
As a result there are often quite a number of lame dogs who sit in the Senate for the period of time after they are defeated at an election until their term of office expires. [More…]
If the Senate loses 30 senators for 3 months every time there is a House of Representatives election, the Senate’s committee activity could not continue during that period. [More…]
Every time there is a Senate election campaign the whole of the parliamentary procedure is disturbed. [More…]
All sorts of grandstanding goes on for months before, during and often after each election. [More…]
As was pointed out to Senator Lawrie earlier, the Opposition is afraid to let the Government go through the democratic process of asking the people to decide upon these matters at a time when it is most economical to do so, namely, at the time of a general election or the equivalent of a general election. [More…]
Every elector is obliged to vote at such an election. [More…]
The electoral rolls are brought up to date for such an election. [More…]
The necessary polling facilities are provided for such an election. [More…]
If it is desired to bring the elections for the 2 Houses together, a simple solution is for the House of Representatives to shorten its own term and go to the polls at the next Senate election, due to be held before 30 June 1 974. [More…]
I feel certain that the Governor-General will see through the Opposition, as the Government has seen through it, and that the people will be given an opportunity to adjudicate on these matters at the time of the next Senate election. [More…]
He talked about the days when the elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives were held at the same time. [More…]
Along with Senator Wright, 1 have been a member of this chamber since 1949, and I am sure that Senator Wright would agree with me when I say that over the years when the elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives were held at the same time the Senate was considered in a minor key. [More…]
Only when the elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives have been held at different times has the Senate come much more into the public mind at election time. [More…]
I clearly remember the days when the elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives were held at the same time. [More…]
The Prime Minister came from the House of Representatives and the election policy was focused very sharply on the House of Representatives. [More…]
With the change from the pattern of holding elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives at the same time, with the actions that have been taken and the development that has occurred in the Senate over some years now, and despite what the Australian National Opinion Poll and others might say, in the minds of thinking people in this country the Senate rates higher now than at any time in its history. [More…]
I think Her Majesty realised that most of the things contained in that Speech which she made to this Parliament were also contained in the Prime Minister’s policy speech to this nation at the time of the last election- a policy speech which was accepted by a majority of the Queen’s Australian subjects on 2 December 1972. [More…]
Although we are taunted by the Democratic Labor Party senators and Senator Withers who say that the Prime Minister ought to make the short trip to Government House and call for a double dissolution, they know in their own hearts who will win if the facts have to be put before the people at an election and if the Prime Minister goes on the hustings and on television in opposition to the Liberal Leader, Mr Snedden. [More…]
I am hopeful that after the Senate election people in this chamber will no longer be able to say: ‘You do not have a mandate for it’. [More…]
Shortly after the last election great play was made of this when the Party said: Yes, we are quite happy to follow the policy of the Australian Labor Party in electing a shadow Cabinet or a Cabinet. [More…]
It will be proven in South Australia at the next Senate election when each of the candidates from the Opposition parties are shown on separate Senate tickets. [More…]
They were united at the last Senate election because the candidates were shown on the one ticket. [More…]
If we look back through the history in regard to pension increases we find that the only time the poor old pensioner received any decent pension increases of a little more than 50c- I think that the highest increase was $1.25- was during an election year. [More…]
All it can do is request that the procedures that would enable the Bill to be passed and put to the people in conjunction with the forthcoming Senate election be used. [More…]
The Government proposes that this Bill, along with several other proposals for constitutional amendments already submitted to this Parliament, will be put to the people by referendum at the time of the forthcoming Senate election. [More…]
I hope the Senate will pass it speedily, so that it can be submitted to the people at the time of the Senate election. [More…]
It is quite clear that not only is nothing precipitate ever going to be done but, as far as the Opposition is concerned, if it can help it nothing will be done by the Senate to assist the Government in its program of putting to the people at the next Senate election certain proposals for altering the Constitution. [More…]
I am not sure how much of the debates of the Convention and other matters have been presented to the Parliament, but I know that Opposition senators are determined to see to it that the announced program of the Government to put the proposals for an alteration to the Constitution to the people for their decision at the time of the Senate election is spragged. [More…]
One cannot do anything about it until after the next Senate election. [More…]
A Prime Minister who seeks to remove from this country all the signs of monarchy- the anthem, the flag and the insignia of the monarchynevertheless sees in it in an election year a charisma which will help his purpose. [More…]
If a mid-term Senate election serves any purpose- and it does; it serves a very valuable purpose- it serves the purpose of judging the government of the day on what it has done. [More…]
Nothing was done- except that we have been given some belated promise now because there is to be a Senate election- to adjust the tax schedules. [More…]
The Labor Party, in its pre-election campaign stated to local government bodies: ‘Put us in and we will give you full and equal status with State and Federal government, full and equal rights to go to the Loan Council and to go to the Grants Commission’. [More…]
By that I do not mean the disaster of the election of a Labor Government; I mean the disaster of the floods in Queensland and northern New South Wales. [More…]
He recognised before the election that there had been a breakdown in the economic viability of many rural areas. [More…]
Today we had an interesting debate on simultaneous elections. [More…]
Let me make this point quite clear: It is thoroughly understandable why the Labor Party, against the views of the founding fathers and against the views of those with long sight, wishes to bring together the elections for the 2 Houses. [More…]
If in retrospect this situation had applied and had existed today, there would be no Senate election in 2 months time and no chance for the Australian people to judge this Government in mid-term. [More…]
I believe that the people of Australia will see at the next election that we have their interests at heart. [More…]
When I looked at what had happened since this Government came to power I found that some of the promises which it made during electioneering certainly had not been carried out. [More…]
I find that the Government certainly has not carried out its election promises in that field or, as I mentioned earlier, in the field of education. [More…]
I would think that if an election for the House of Representatives were held now the figures would show a majority of 30 to 40 in favour of the Liberal and Country Parties. [More…]
This is in Labor Party policy but it was not put forward in the December 1972 election campaign. [More…]
Two years before the election the Prime Minister in a telecast made it plain that his Government when in office would not have an immigration policy that would benefit Australia. [More…]
Majesty’s gracious Speech as one which sets the pattern for the Senate election. [More…]
If that be true then I say that a mid-term parliamentary Senate election is a good thing because it will provide the people with the opportunity to make a judgment and to give an adequate response to the Government’s program. [More…]
But it is interesting to note that the main election promises and the ones which the public took notice of are the very ones that honourable senators opposite have not implemented. [More…]
We have heard that one of the election promises was to reduce interest rates. [More…]
I am sure that when the Senate election takes place- in May, we hope; we do not know when it will be held; some of us will be told at some time- we will know then who has the mandate, whether the Government has a mandate to continue or whether the Senate has a mandate to throw it out. [More…]
There was no mention of that in the preelection policy speech. [More…]
I hope that the people of this country will consider these proposed constitutional alterations, which we understand will be presented at the next Senate election, and give them the same kind of treatment as was meted out to the prices and incomes referenda last December. [More…]
Another great election promise was that Labor would do something abour rural industries and make sure that it looked after the labour force in rural areas. [More…]
Mr Deputy President, I congratulate you personally on your election to that office and also as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
That is what the Prime Minister said prior to the election on 2 December 1972. [More…]
In view of the impending Senate election which will doubtless bring new senators into this chamber and against the risk that some new senator, having done his homework on the Standing Orders, could on the ringing of the bells come streaking into the Senate and rise uncovered and address you, will you, Mr President, have the Standing Orders Committee look at the standing order to which I have referred? [More…]
In view of the Whitlam Government’s election promise to establish clear ground rules, why has not the Government done so? [More…]
Honourable senators know full well that the Government proposes that these referendums be held on the same day as the Senate election. [More…]
This Bill is not all about whether the 2 Houses ought to come together for election on polling day. [More…]
A double dissolution would bring about simultaneous elections of the whole of this chamber and of the House of Representatives. [More…]
It is not even necessary to hold a double dissolution to bring the elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives back to the same date. [More…]
The Government could, if it wished to do so and if it had the courage to do so, take out the House of Representatives at the next Senate election- that is, when those honourable senators who are due to retire at 30 June 1974 have to face their electors. [More…]
In 1963, as the Senate will recall, Sir Robert Menzies called an election for November or December that year, although the House of Representatives need not have gone to the polls until about that date in 1964. [More…]
Is it possible, in the time available between now and the date of the Senate election, for this proposition and, I understand, four others, if the Government has its will, to be placed before the people and for an explanation to be given to the people at large about precisely what they are votting on? [More…]
Is it the will of the Government that the parties should have no time to campaign for the return of their senators, or does the Government believe that in a fortnight’s campaign 5 propositions to alter the Constitution can be seriously debated for the understanding of the public, most of whom have not read the Constitution or understood what it means, and at the same time the functions which politicians have a responsibility to fulfil- that is, in an election campaign to place before the people their ideas, their programs and what they stand for- can be fulfilled? [More…]
But this Government says that in the space of perhaps a fortnight, which it proposes to allow for a Senate election campaign, the whole ramifications of these proposals shall be discussed and fully explained to the people who will be expected to give an intelligent decision on the Government’s propositions. [More…]
The Government says: ‘Expense will be saved if the referenda are held at the same time as the Senate election’. [More…]
If the Government had wanted to save money it could well have held a Senate election in conjunction with the prices referenda. [More…]
The prices referenda were held at about the usual time that a Senate election is conducted. [More…]
It has been rumoured that in the month of May there will be a Senate election in conjunction with 5 referenda questions. [More…]
I want to remind the Government of what the Constitution says about Senate elections. [More…]
It states that the election to fill vacant places shall be made within one year before the places are to become vacant. [More…]
The Government has had a whole year in which to hold an election but is going to wait until less than 2 months before the positions become vacant before it allows the decisions to be made that will ensure the continuity of the Senate. [More…]
If that election had taken place only 6 weeks before the expiration of the terms of service of the sitting senators the State of Victoria could have been without 5 of its representatives until such time as the Constitution was legally interpreted on this question. [More…]
The Constitution says more than that the election to fill the vacant places shall be made within one year before the places are to become vacant; it goes on to say that the term of service of a senator so appointed shall be taken to begin on the first day of July following the day of his election. [More…]
What would be the position if an election were held only 6 weeks before the expiration of the terms of service of senators and if the writs have not been returned by the first day of July because of a recount? [More…]
According to the Constitution the term of service of a senator who is elected at such an election cannot begin until the first day of July of the following year. [More…]
One could not interpret 1 July 1974 as being the first day of July following their election if their election does not in fact take place until 2, 3 or 4 July. [More…]
It should be remembered that I am now quoting from a document which the Government is going to ask the people to alter in 5 different ways and that it is going to ask them to do so during the period of a fortnight while it is conducting an election campaign. [More…]
If Senator McAuliffe can put any other interpretation on the words ‘the first day of July following the day of his election’ than a date that follows the date of a senator’s election he is a genius because no one else in the world could put such an interpretation on such a provision in the Constitution. [More…]
Because of its political cowardice the Government has not already got the election out of the way. [More…]
It could well have got the election out of the way, but it has postponed holding it until almost the last minute. [More…]
With most Senate elections it takes 2.5 months before the final conclusions are reached, but this time the Government will be allowing only 6 weeks. [More…]
Despite that he says that the words ‘the election to fill vacant places shall be made within 1 year before the places are to become vacant’ means as long as the election itself is conducted before then. [More…]
The voting procedure is only a small part of an election. [More…]
An election is the actual election of the person concerned. [More…]
Will the political parties that are charged with the responsibility of performing this task have an opportunity to do so at the same time as they place before the people the campaigns for the election of their candidates? [More…]
I have heard that it has been proposed that the election campaign should go on at the same time as the Parliament is sitting. [More…]
One can agree with the stature in physical terms of the Prime Minister but from the attitudes that he has adopted from the time the election speech was delivered prior to December 1972 until today one can see that the Prime Minister has ranged over a great variety of subjects and put forward a great front but that, in fact, in many instances his actions have underlined the fact that achievement of the things that he wishes to do is impossible. [More…]
Senator Carrick in his speech on the AddressinReply debate- and I hope the public will read that speech- brought out 25 promises that the Prime Minister in his election speech said a Labor Government would fulfil for the public of Australia. [More…]
Senator Murphy says that this Bill represents another election promise. [More…]
This Bill that we are debating proposes that the Constitution be altered to ensure that, in future, elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate will be held at the same time. [More…]
In moving around the State of Victoria which I represent in the Senate, it is always notable at Federal election time that a great deal of expense is associated with an election. [More…]
We were given an indication that in the vicinity of $2m would be spent on the election. [More…]
But if, after such an election were held, the House of Representatives was placed in a very delicately balanced state and that House had to go to another election in 3 months time, would the Prime Minister say again that the Senate, under this proposal, would come out for election again? [More…]
There should be a House of review in which half the senators go to the people for election every 3 years and in which there was that continuing base of knowledge. [More…]
The proposition is often advanced that the election of senators involves a complicated system of voting, which it does, under the proportional representation system. [More…]
But attempting to impose on the people 5 referendum subjects will make it a most complicated election. [More…]
If an election is held in May this year the average citizen in Victoria, for example, will be asked to look at the names of fifteen or sixteen Senate candidates and at the same time cast a responsible vote on another five or six constitutional matters. [More…]
But the Prime Minister was not reticent last December in drawing the whole of the Australian community into an election on 2 referendum points. [More…]
His arguments that there should be simultaneous elections for both Houses of the Parliament do not hold water. [More…]
This proposal is that in all cases hereafter when the House of Representatives goes to the people for election there should be held a Senate election simultaneously, irrespective of the circumstances that have brought on the election and irrespective of the essential elements of the constitution of the Senate. [More…]
It was one of the few upper houses in European democracies that recruited its members by direct election from the people. [More…]
If the government of the day wished to be democratic and, on questions upon which the 2 Houses are divided, to take the verdict of the people it is competent for the Government to ask the Governor-General to dissolve the House of Representatives and the Senate and to have an election for the entire membership of both Houses. [More…]
The proposition that Mr Whitlam whimsically puts forward in a display of his passion for constitutional alteration is that on each occasion when a casual dissolution takes place in the House of Representatives there is to be a dissolution of half of the Senate, and that half should go to election just so that the elections of the 2 chambers can be synchonised. [More…]
Not only because there were spirits of independence in the government parties who were prepared not to echo the Government at every stage but also because there grew up on election by the people minority parties and independent senators. [More…]
1 in the Labor team for the New South Wales Senate election, joins the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in saying: ‘You have never had it so good’. [More…]
If this power that Senator Murphy’s Government is now seeking were at present in the Constitution no Senate election would be held in 2 months’ time. [More…]
In fact, if no Senate election were to be held in 2 months’ time the Government could drift on from agony to agony for approximately a further 2 years. [More…]
Of course the Government wants this power; it does not want mid-term elections; it does not want the people of Australia to sit in judgment. [More…]
We are being asked to write into the Constitution a power which would, in future, prevent any kind of mid-term elections. [More…]
This would prevent a Senate election being held between elections for the House of Representatives. [More…]
The aim of the Government, in introducing this legislation, is to bring elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives permanently into a parallel relationship, so that a separate Senate election can never be held. [More…]
Basically, they wrote into the Constitution the idea of the need for continuity in the Senate over a period of 6 years, recognising that in the popular or lower House there could be convulsion, that the term of office might be shortened, that a Prime Minister might well choose to hold an election for the House of Representatives before the 3 years laid down in the Constitution had expired. [More…]
The founding fathers said: ‘Yes in the lower House a Prime Minister may seek to dissolve that lower House after one year or two years of office if he wished and therefore cause elections for that House to get out of line with elections for the Senate. [More…]
The Government, if it wants to, can dissolve the lower House in the weeks immediately ahead, and bring about a twinning system by having a lower House election and an election for the half membership of the Senate due to retire . [More…]
Elections for two Houses would them be brought together in the normal way. [More…]
It is stated frequently that we should not have separate Senate elections, that they are too costly and that they are annoying to the people. [More…]
What a strange thing it is for the Whitlam Government, with its Rabelaisian tastes, a Government which will spend millions of dollars to race around the world in chartered aircraft, taking 70, 80 or 90 people along, including family, relatives, and loads of champagne, to suddenly say that we must not have elections because they cost money. [More…]
We can have all sorts of jaunts and junkets around the world, and we can spend tens and hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive public relations and propaganda campaigns for this Whitlam Government, but it is wrong to spend money on an election which would ask the people what they think of the Whitlam Government. [More…]
It is all right to buy a couple of Boeing 707s from Qantas Airways Ltd to carry the Prime Minister and his staff around the world, but it is not all right to have an election in mid-term because that costs money. [More…]
To say that the people are annoyed and irritated with elections is really to argue for a dictatorship. [More…]
If you do not have elections, you do not have democracy. [More…]
Let us throw aside this idea that cost or the irritation involved in an election is the thing to be considered. [More…]
We would not be having a Senate election in 2 months time if the power sought in this Bill were now written into the Constitution. [More…]
We could not have a mid-term election. [More…]
This is the whole idea of trying to bring elections for the 2 Houses together. [More…]
The people of Australia who find it hard to understand the complexities of the election of the Senate, the upper House, should keep in their minds that in every country where there is a democratic system, whether the Westminster system or the Congressional system, in almost every Parliament there are 2 Houses of Parliament. [More…]
For some years the elections for the 2 Houses of this Parliament have been out of gear with each other. [More…]
It is easy for people to say: ‘Why should the Senate have a separate election?’ [More…]
Elections for the 2 Houses, through a set of circumstances, parted. [More…]
For some years Senate elections have been at different times to House of Representatives elections. [More…]
Looking back now over the period, I feel that the Senate elections being at different times to the House of Representatives elections is for the betterment of the Senate and of the people of Australia. [More…]
I believe sincerely that a separate election for the Senate means that the purpose and the rights of the Senate are more clearly brought forth in the minds of the electors, which is important because they decide who represents them in this chamber and in the other place. [More…]
When the elections for the 2 Houses were held simultaneously, the practice was for the Prime Minister to deliver his policy speech, and the whole focus was upon the House of Representatives. [More…]
The election for the Senate appeared to be an appendage to the election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
As time has gone on, with the elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives not being held at the same time, I think that the Senate has been given more prominence in the public mind, and the public has a clearer assessment of the Senate, its working and its people. [More…]
Understanding something about public reactions, I believe that separate elections for the 2 Houses is for the betterment of the Senate and for senators. [More…]
As a consequence we emerge as personalities and we get much more publicity and much more focus in public than we did when the Senate election was an appendage to the House of Representatives election. [More…]
I am one who believes that we should have elections each time an election can determine an issue or can determine who shall govern the country. [More…]
One year there is a House of Representatives election, another year there is a Senate election, and in between there is an election for possibly both Houses of a State Parliament. [More…]
But if one examines that, why should there not be those elections? [More…]
If one reflects upon why those elections are held, why ought not the justification to be readily expressed and readily accepted and why ought we not to say that this is the means by which we govern ourselves. [More…]
The Prime Minister, as I have indicated, has used the argument that there are too many elections as the sole justification for this proposal. [More…]
He believes that we should bring into line the elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate. [More…]
He postulates as a sound principle that every 3 years there should be a House of Representatives election and that at the same time- at the same election- there should be an election for that half of the Senate for which an election is required at that time. [More…]
As Senator Carrick said and as other speakers said before him, it would be the easiest thing in the world for the Prime Minister to have a House of Representatives election at the same time as the coming Senate election. [More…]
If, at some stage in the future, it should be the desire of the Prime Minister of the day to have a House of Representatives election at some time other than when the half Senate election would be held he would be able to do so. [More…]
If the election is unnecessary, what are the dangers attending the holding of a referendum and what are the problems which may arise if it is passed? [More…]
I appreciate that in putting forward this argument it may seem to ring somewhat hollowly against the proposition that if we were to have the elections together, as the Prime Minister may bring them together, it would be difficult to see what particular independent role of the Senate may survive. [More…]
I appreciate that only half the senators come out at any given time, but that will be the position irrespective of whether a referendum proposal, which requires that the synchronisation of elections should be a constitutional requirement, is carried or whether half the Senate comes out at the time that the House of Representatives election is held, which has been the general but not universal pattern of the elections which have been held since we have had a federation. [More…]
My simple proposition is that if the practice can be departed from and if there is from time to time a separate Senate election the ability to have a separate Senate election is worth preserving. [More…]
If, for example, the Australian Labor Party, having been elected to power in 1972, were to be elected to power a second time in 1 975 and there were to be a half Senate election on the occasion of each election one would imagine that the Senate, at the end of the 1 975 election, would represent the view of the Labor Party as expressed at each election. [More…]
It did happen some 30 to 40 years ago that the House of Representatives went to an election only 7 months after an election had been held. [More…]
If the pattern were to be that senators were to have a term of office equal to only two House of Representative terms, one could find half the Senate being required to submit to an election whenever the House of Representatives was called to an election. [More…]
As Senator Wright indicated, the reasons why half the Senate would be called to an election would not be based upon the Senate’s performance or on any sound or established constitutional criteria, but simply as a reaction to, an inevitable result of, what was happening internally within the House of Representatives. [More…]
It has permitted a pause- and when the next Senate election takes place there will be an indication for the Australian people as to whether of not they want the changes to be permanent. [More…]
He has not sought to have that double dissolution and one can only draw the conclusion that the socalled obstructionism, impairment and frustration which he is experiencing is not of such a character that he must face an election because of it [More…]
-Before the suspension of the sitting I was concluding what I had to say upon this Bill which the Government has introduced seeking a referendum to ensure that under all circumstances, notwithstanding what the situation might be, quite inflexibly, when an election of the House of Representatives takes place there should always be an election of half the members of the Senate. [More…]
After all, it reflects the promise which the Government made to put to the people the proposition: ‘Let us have no more separate elections of the House of Representatives and the Senate. [More…]
The elected Government undertook to the people at the last election that it would put this proposal to them. [More…]
Following the elections of 1972, the new Government of Australia moved to give effect to an election undertaking related to the Commission’s activities, namely that local government authorities should have direct access to the Grants Commission to enable them to apply for special grants of financial assistance, in much the same way as States have access to the Commission for the past forty years. [More…]
We are asking you at the same time that we are having a Senate election, so we can minimise the costs involved in holding the referenda. [More…]
We are honouring our promise by putting this matter to the people on the first possible occasion after the 1972 election. [More…]
At the forthcoming Senate election we wish to put it to them. [More…]
Before the 1972 election the then Opposition made great play about local government. [More…]
I have only to ask honourable senators to recall the election policies that have been put forward by the Country Party from time to time in regard to the helping of local government authorities with the provision of Federal finances. [More…]
They relate to promises which were given in the policy speech by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in the election campaign of 1972 when he was Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party. [More…]
So we are asking the Senate to consummate the promise he made during the election campaign of 1972. [More…]
Just as honourable senators opposite were behind the times in 1971 and 1972, when their attitude caused them to lose the election, they are behind the times on this issue. [More…]
I ask honourable senators to listen to the deep interest that the Country Party displayed in its policy speech for the election in 1972.I challenge any honourable senator to ask me- I hope someone will- to table this document because it is very enlightening. [More…]
The document titled ‘Australian Country Party, Policy Speech, Federal Election 1972’ was prepared for the Press. [More…]
I say to Senator Greenwood and to other Opposition senators that we have proof positive that before the election this very proposal was discussed at a meeting in Brisbane with all local authority representatives throughout Queensland. [More…]
I invite Senator McLaren to go out and proclaim that to the people of his State of South Australia during the forthcoming Senate election campaign. [More…]
I also invite my Labor Party colleagues from Western Australia to stand up during the forthcoming Senate election campaign and proclaim the true objectives of the Labor Party. [More…]
If an Australian Government elected by the people wishes to put a proposition to the people to vote to change their Constitution, will any person in this Parliament deny the right of the Australian Government to go to its own people and say: ‘We ask you to change your own Constitution and we want you to vote in a free and regular election on whether you choose to change your own Constitution’? [More…]
I anticipate that there will be a Senate election before 30 June, with the date depending on whether one relies on the judgment of Mr Whitlam, Q.C., or that of the High Court. [More…]
I assume that the Senate will rise for the Senate election even though the other place may not. [More…]
It appears that, during this period of sitting, with the forthcoming Senate election, the Senate will not be sitting the number of hours that it sat last autumn session- it is a matter of straight mathematics- unless it is the Government’s intention not to have recess weeks. [More…]
Then are set out those provisions which governed the election of the first Parliament. [More…]
In no shape or form can it be called a Democratic Elections Bill because it contains nothing to define a democratic election precisely. [More…]
Countries all over the world are described as democracies, but whether they hold democratic elections in the true sense of that expression is very much an arguable point. [More…]
Merely to call a measure a Democratic Elections Bill does not mean that it attains that very high ideal. [More…]
It is an attempt by the Commonwealth to arrogate power to interfere in the domestic affairs of the States by informing them of the opinion of the Commonwealth and then seeking to make that opinion binding upon them in respect of what constitutes a democratic election. [More…]
If one studies the results of the recent British election and if one keeps in mind the very clear enunciation of principle only a few days ago from the Government sponsoring this Bill in the Senate- the Government said it would fight to install a 2-party system of government in this country because it is the only proper way to get an efficient government- one sees the clash between the democratic ideals which the Government has placed in the name of the Bill and the Government’s intentions. [More…]
In the recent election the Liberal Party made enormous gains, but it gained no extra seats in the House. [More…]
Some commentators will state that Labour will be there only for a short period before there will have to be another election. [More…]
What purpose is to be served by placing before the people a referendum which merely enunciates that election shall be by a democratic system of voting, when the system is not spelt out so that the people can judge for themselves whether the ideal which is contained in the name of the Bill will be attained? [More…]
I suppose the most democratic form of election is the proportional representation system which ensures that the representation in the parliament will reflect completely the will of all the people who are entitled to vote and which will give the minorities as well as the majorities the right to have voices in the parliament. [More…]
It is bound to create enormous hostility among the States, which have come together as a cohesive whole for the benefit of the whole nation and which would never have come together if it had been suggested at the time of Federation that the Commonwealth would take unto itself the power to say to the States what it considers to be a democratic system of election. [More…]
It is impossible to argue this case before the people properly because of the manner in which the Government suggests that it should be done, and that is, to conduct a Senate election- to place before the people the intricacies of democratic elections, the various systems which could be argued for and against- and a referendum campaign in a mere matter of a fortnight. [More…]
The figures I received from an official in the Library show that at the last election Labor with 49 per cent of the votes, got 53 per cent of the seats. [More…]
One of the factors that leaps to the eye is that in the last election the Liberal Party won 19 per cent of the votes and gained 2 per cent of the seats. [More…]
This document I have, which was put out by the Department of Foreign Affairs in Canberra, had this to say about the recent election in the United Kingdom: [More…]
The election result indicates an erratic correlation of popular support and parliamentary representation. [More…]
-During the election speech of the Prime Minister it was announced that for the first time in Australian history we would be introducing a system under which interest payments on house mortgages would be a concessional taxation deduction and that the concession was to cut out at $ 14,000. [More…]
This proposal is merely intended to carry out an election promise. [More…]
I pointed out then that this is the honouring of an election promise which was specifically put in Mr Whitlam ‘s policy speech. [More…]
They know that the referenda are to be dealt with at the May 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…]
The Opposition is scared to allow this matter to go before the people in conjunction with the forthcoming Senate election because it does not want to be in a position where it is opposed to four of the questions that will be asked in the referenda or, if it is preferred, referendums, and in support of the fifth. [More…]
There was one thing which the Labor Party did not choose to make clear to the public at the last election. [More…]
A promise was given prior to the last election that taxes would not be increased. [More…]
We have seen this great socialist philosophy in the Government’s policies in the last year but it was never mentioned when Labor was putting its policies forward prior to the election. [More…]
He should read his own Prime Minister’s policy speech announced at the last election. [More…]
It seems that on the Authority we will have at least a couple of public servants, a couple of part time people and a chairman who I hope will be an authority and not a member of the Australian Labor Party who will be defeated at the next election. [More…]
It is sure that it will win in this Senate election as it has won in the last 3 Senate elections, in spite of the stories from the Australian Labor Party that it was withering on the vine. [More…]
We are not on the air today and I do not want to discuss the election which is about to take place. [More…]
I call upon the Government as a matter of urgency to do something about implementing the promise which the Prime Minister gave at the election and to take note of the fact that there are a large number of people today who are concerned about, who are affected and hurt by, the imposition by this Government of the highest rate of inflation that we have had in the last 74 years. [More…]
I do not think that he took any real part in the actions leading to an increase in interest rates, but I believe that the Prime Minister primarily understood what the Labor Party was quite deliberately doing, particularly to people with whom Labor had entered into a contract in the last election campaign in order to win their votes. [More…]
Because one Party- the Australian Labor Party- recieved a very small surplus of seats and votes at the last election, that does not mean that that Party should have a completely open go. [More…]
I expect that at the next Senate election we will see quite a swing against the Government. [More…]
I feel that Mr Whitlam is quite crazy having the referenda questions at the same time as the Senate election. [More…]
I recall that prior to the last election when his Party became the Government, Mr Whitlam made a statement that he had to admit that there was a vein of authoritarianism inside the Labor Party. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education, is related to the Government’s election policy speech in 1972 and the Prime Minister’s commitment to establish a pre-schools commission as part of the program of national enrichment. [More…]
Will the Government introduce this session legislation to establish a pre-schools commission to fulfil the election policy commitment and thus avoid further delay in a national responsibility to provide adequate educational opportunities? [More…]
An interesting point that I note is that the Chairman of the organisation known as AUSTAC, Mr Cummings, who is now critical of the Government in this regard, is one of 2 people whom I actually appointed to the Council after he was unsuccessful in a ballot for election to it. [More…]
The first is how these dates will fit in with the date of the Senate election. [More…]
The second is whether it is suggested that a Senate election could be held and senators would not be permitted, because of the Government’s desire that the Senate should be sitting, to move around their electorates and to campaign for that Senate election. [More…]
The first matter to which those questions give rise is the date of the Senate election. [More…]
I think it is time we were told what the date of that Senate election will be. [More…]
Why has no indication been given by the Government as to when the election is to be held? [More…]
Surely this childish approach to the programming of Parliament has gone on long enough and the Parliament is entitled to be told when the election will be held and what the program is for the Parliament. [More…]
I think that statement was made about 2 months before the 1 972 election. [More…]
From my recollection, and I do speak from recollection, almost immediately thereafter I do not say it was cause and effect- the date of the election was announced. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) is playing a cat and mouse game, which is a silly and childish game, in not stating when the Senate election is to be held. [More…]
The second aspect, of course, is to obtain some indication of what the Government’s intentions are with regard to the sittings of the Senate- possibly the sittings of both Houses of the Parliament- during the Senate election campaign. [More…]
Is it the view of the Leader of the Government in the Senate that the Senate should not rise to enable senators to campaign for the Senate election? [More…]
Is it his view that we should be sitting throughout the period of the Senate election campaign? [More…]
The election to which Senator Greenwood referred by quoting Senator Murphy was a House of Representatives election. [More…]
This election which we are approaching is a Senate election. [More…]
The Senate has an undoubted right to know what legislation the Government will ask it to consider and to pass or to reject before the time which it is reasonable to give for a Senate election campaign. [More…]
The Opposition parties ought to indicate that we will require a period of 3 weeks in which to campaign, and we will cater for a program of legislation that can be properly considered and passed so as to leave a period of 3 weeks before the date on which the Senate election is held. [More…]
The date of the election is a secret. [More…]
’, the reply that we get is ‘We are not going to let you fellows know the date of the election ‘. [More…]
I think it is rather mean and contemptible of the Government to be holding out on this question of the date of the election. [More…]
These days you cannot go to a television or radio company and say: ‘I want to book some time for the election’, for when they say ‘When is the election coming on’ and you say ‘I do not know’, they laugh you out of the place. [More…]
It knows the date of the election. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) is so far out of the country when he ought to be here supervising the passage of the country’s business through the Parliament that when I was in Western Australia for an election campaign the other day, one of the pleas being made by people in the community was for Australia to have a resident Prime Minister. [More…]
The Government knows when the election will be held, lt is organising its campaign and seizing every possible advantage for itself, and it thinks that there is something shrewdly tactical in denying knowledge to the rest of the Parliament, which any honourable, decent and courageous government would give to us right away. [More…]
If it had had the numbers it would never have given to the Government in power the co-operation that this Government has received; it would have jacked up immediately and said: ‘We refuse to go on unless you come into the open and tell us exactly how the business is to be organised and essential matters such as the date of the Senate election’. [More…]
Their then leader as Prime Minister at the last election said that pensions, if his Government at that time had been returned, would ‘be increased in line with increases in the consumer price index’. [More…]
A 1 3 per cent increase in that $20 would mean that today, the third occasion on which, if a Liberal-Country Party government had been reelected, it would have increased the pension rate since the 1972 election, the pension would stand at $22.64 for the standard rate pension. [More…]
Indeed, he leads the Labor socialist Senate team in Victoria at the forthcoming election. [More…]
It is very difficult always to enumerate the reason why political followings of various parties fluctuate at any election. [More…]
It surprises me that the colleagues of the Country Party senator from Western Australia allied themselves with the Democratic Labor Party in what may be described as the national disaster alliance and lost votes much more effectively than any other party in the whole of the election. [More…]
I think it is extremely unfortunate that the things that we have done for Western Australian primary producers were not reflected in the election result. [More…]
In fact, a Bill was introduced in 1 968, but it was taken off the notice paper at the 1969 election. [More…]
It was promised by the Labor Party in its election policy. [More…]
I would like to remind the honourable senator that in the election held in Great Britain recently in which the Labour Party secured a majority of seats, even if it had to form a minority government, Labour used as planks in its platform the nationalisation or greater government control of the off-shore petroleum resources in the North Sea and renegotiation of the European Common Market agreement. [More…]
I want to revert to what I was saying before I was interrupted and to refer to the dishonesty of the State Premier of South Australia when he announced the establishment of a petro-chemical works at Redcliff during the course of an election campaign a year or so ago. [More…]
It was further fortified in 1 972 by the introduction of 2 Bills which were never passed because of the imminence of the election, but they were Bills to which the Liberal and Country Parties were committed. [More…]
Which were not buried but which were not debated because of the onset of the election. [More…]
This man was sacked because he was a member of the Australian Labor Party and because he had accepted endorsement as the Labor Party candidate for the seat of Mallee at the House of Representatives election. [More…]
This was not a kickback to a political party as is the case with the Country Party whereby it is getting enough money annually out of this one insurance company to finance every election that it wants to contest in Victoria. [More…]
But I know that one very big department store marched out $50,000 for the Labor Party at the last Federal election. [More…]
He did not mean to butt in about the margarine industry, because one of the big leaders in the industry found it convenient to throw a party valued at $10,000 for the Australian Labor Party after it won the last House of Representatives election. [More…]
If I were Senator Reid I would have another look at the Western Australian election figures before I laughed because I think that any laughing he will be doing after 18 May will be done a long way from Canberra. [More…]
One photograph shows the early part of the demonstration as being peaceful and orderly, with women with children in pushers quietly going about their normal procedures- a normal scene at election rallies. [More…]
At Saturday’s election it was 63.86 per cent. [More…]
I am pointing out the error on the part of people like Senator Reid, well meaning as they may be, but misunderstanding the situation as I believe them to be, who suggest that a speaker would make the trip to Western Australia from the eastern States in order to antagonise a marvellous meeting, the best that has ever been held in Western Australia as far as numbers are concerned, instead of trying to win an election. [More…]
In view of the manoeuvres of another Government which endeavoured to prevent the people from having a say in the election of a successor to Senator Gair the position has been looked into closely. [More…]
-The matter becomes important only because of the midnight manoeuvres of the Government of Queensland to endeavour to prevent an election by the people of Queensland for the successor to Senator Gair. [More…]
As I have indicated already to the Senate, I suppose that if it had not been for some endeavour by the Queensland Government to slip in and prevent the ordinary procedures applying- that is, an election by the people of Queensland- the Senate would have been informed in some regular way. [More…]
Unfortunately because, as I said, of the manoeuvres of the Queensland Government in endeavouring to prevent an election the matter has to be looked at in the light of exactly what events have taken place. [More…]
This ‘Barnardisation’ of the Services, this defence run down which is destroying the morale and effectiveness of all 3 Services, is being presided over by that same Mr Barnard who in a major pre-election address said: [More…]
After all, on a fairly simple matter such as how many senators will be elected from each State at the forthcoming Senate election, the number varies from day to day. [More…]
As recently as a week ago, the Minister for Defence, in a futile pre-election trip to Western [More…]
With only a 6 Battalion Army, with a fighting force of less than 6,000 men, there is little likelihood of a battalion being stationed in the west, or, despite pre-election statements, facilities being developed for the use of such a force. [More…]
Before each election the menace of communism, of China and the Soviet Union was trotted out. [More…]
I suggest that the motion moved by the Opposition Leader in the Senate is simply a tactic, before the Senate election, to alarm the people about matters which are at present in good hands. [More…]
So we can expect that before the Senate rises for the Senate election, Senator Withers will be moving a similar motion relating to the defence Services. [More…]
I suggest that the Senate should take note that Senator Withers is simply playing the old political game of trying to float some scare propaganda before the Senate election in the same way as his leaders before him, including the great Sir Robert Menzies, who referred to the great Red perils. [More…]
It seems that we are getting close to an election and the old fear bogy is starting to raise its head. [More…]
For many years, at election after election, the Australian people have been brainwashed by the propaganda of fear that was put out by the opponents of Labor. [More…]
Consequently the 1969 election was fought on domestic issues, and the government of the day almost fell. [More…]
After the so-called dangerous and realistic pre-election acknowledgement of the fact that Australia was one of the most secure nations in the world, the Red and yellow peril campaign could only be made credible if supported by heavy expenditure on defence. [More…]
In every election from the time our Party was established we have said that the defence and security of the country ought to be a primary issue. [More…]
In the last election, regrettably, the attitude was taken up by people not only on the side of the Australian Labor Party but also by some people who previously were sitting on the then Government side that Australia could look forward to 10 years during which she need not do anything about defence. [More…]
The attitude was then taken up in the election that defence was not an issue. [More…]
The election was a fair one and Labor won it for the first time in 23 years. [More…]
The program was opposed by the Liberal Party, the Australian Country Party and the Australian Democratic Labor Party, and they were defeated at the election. [More…]
The Opposition parties, which had been defeated at the election, refused to allow the Government even to have this legislation considered or voted upon. [More…]
We invite the Government to take the issue to the people and to have either a House of Representatives election or a double dissolution, because in that way the people will decide. [More…]
We as an Opposition were committed to the Bills which we introduced prior to the election in 1972 and which we would have passed, as we said we would have done, if we had won that election. [More…]
Has the Government received new approaches from the South Australian Labor Government since the election in December last requesting that urgent action be taken to improve the quality of River Murray water, particularly of that part of the Murray which flows through South Australia? [More…]
Will the Attorney-General inform the Senate on what date the Government advised His Excellency, the Governor-General, to communicate with the State Governors proposing that the next Senate election be held on 18 May, as announced in both Houses of Parliament on 2 1 March last? [More…]
Until the Parliament otherwise provides, any question respecting the qualifications 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…]
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…]
Part XVIII of the Commonwealth Electoral Act deals with the Court of Disputed Returns and states under division 1 which refers to disputed elections and returns: 183.- ( 1.) [More…]
The validity of any election or return may be disputed by petition addressed to the Court of Disputed Returns and not otherwise. [More…]
The choice of a person to hold the place of a Senator by the Houses of Parliament of a State or the appointment of a person to hold the place of a Senator by the Governor of a State under section fifteen of the Constitution shall be deemed to be an election within the meaning of this section, and the provisions of this Division shall, so far as applicable, have effect as if that choice or appointment were an election within the meaning of this Division. [More…]
On this basis I am of opinion that on some date before 2 April 1974, that being the date upon which writs were issued for the election of Senators from the State of Queensland, most probably on 2 1 March 1974 but possibly on 14 March 1974, Senator Gair ceased to be qualified to be a Senator. [More…]
It would receive material and opinions, hear submissions and come to a proper decision in a way which is expected of a body concerned with the rights of persons and which is especially concerned with the right to vote- something which affects every person who is entitled to vote in Queensland, candidates who might wish to stand for election and in general the people of Australia. [More…]
that, following the issue of a writ by the Governor of Queensland for an election to fill 5 vacancies in the Senate, in compliance with a request from the Prime Minister, the Government’s attempt to assert that Senator Gair had vacated his seat under section 44 or 45 of the Constitution on either 1 4 or 2 1 March 1 974, and did not now need to resign as originally intended, deserves the gravest censure and the Government should resign.’ [More…]
The replacement is made at the first federal election after the occurrence of the casual vacancy in the Senate. [More…]
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…]
But, of course, there are other provisions under section 185 etc., which make it possible for an individual then to lodge a petition and to challenge the result of an election after the election has taken place. [More…]
Is it not much better to clear up any doubt which may exist before the election takes place? [More…]
The Parliament did provide a method- a neat, tidy and eminently fair method when read along with the other sections in this Part of the Act- whereby questions of this nature might be resolved in advance of the election taking place. [More…]
I am interested in this office of strategy and election tactics which has been set up by Mr Whitlam and which is being paid ibr by the Commonwealth. [More…]
I appreciate that this is an extraordinary kind of operation, but the attitude appears to be that this office of strategy and election tactics was justified in the last election when it nobbled an eminent ecclesiastic and that it is justified by its organisation of libel cases against the propaganda of the Democratic Labor Party at election times. [More…]
A document was sent out at the wish of the Government on about 21 March or so, or later for all I know, asking the States to prepare for the election of senators. [More…]
Upon being asked to nominate and appoint a successor, the Australian Labor Party nominated a person who had run third on the Australian Labor Party ticket at the previous election. [More…]
On this basis I am of opinion that on some date before 2 April 1974, that being the date upon which writs were issued for the election of senators from the State of Queensland, most probably on 2 1 March 1 974, but possibly on 14 March 1 974, Senator Gair ceased to be qualified to be a senator. [More…]
But rarely did you get such impudent indiscretion on the part ofthe Crown and its advisers, who today are Ministers, or attempts so brashly made on the eve of an election for the purpose of traducing a member of the legislature and procuring a vacation of his seat for electoral advantage so transparently corrupt as this. [More…]
A handful of Liberal Senators could block the Opposition plan to force a general election. [More…]
Because of the criticism of the Minister for Defence that the recent decision about procurement was for political purposes, I ask: Have the decisions on defence procurement been rushed forward as an election ploy? [More…]
The honourable senator tries to hang the matter around our necks as a smear at election time in an effort to produce an impression in the community which is not true. [More…]
We are putting this Bill once more before the Senate 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…]
Then events took place in Queensland that preceded that resignation and commenced an election as from the night of 2 April. [More…]
What we are debating is the attempt of the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) to counteract the effect of that by antedating that proclamation of the commencement of the election in Queensland and claiming that a casual vacancy occurred in this Senate on either 14 March or 21 March. [More…]
It certainly is impossible to accept the afterthought of Senator Murphy who has just conjured up this contrived forfeiture for the purpose of counteracting the astute move by the Premier of Queensland to commence the election before an anticipated resignation. [More…]
When Parliament was dealing with disputed elections it provided in section 183 that the validity of any election may be disputed by petition addressed to the Court of Disputed Returns and not otherwise. [More…]
This is a clear and specific direction that any question as to a disputed election has to go before the High Court. [More…]
But when it came to a question of vacancy other than under a disputed election, Parliament carefully used the word ‘may’ without saying that it should not be determined otherwise. [More…]
Where, as under the Commonwealth Electoral Act, section 203 … the House has a discretion to refer such questions to the elections court, there can be no doubt that the House still retains power to determine whether a member duly returned has, subsequent to election, become disqualified or for some other cause has vacated his seat. [More…]
The idea is that a secret vacancy, contrived by forfeiture 20 days before it was announced to the public, can have any effect upon the duties of the Governor of Queensland with regard to the election. [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…]
After the election took place Senator Gair came up to me and said ‘I voted for you as Chairman of Committees’, and he proceeded to tell me what a bunch of drongoes were in his Party, including Senator Little who had voted for Senator Webster, and thus voted against his own interests. [More…]
This culminated on the evening of 2 April in an action taken in the Queensland Parliament, through the Governor of Queenslandvery properly under the powers vested in him and in his Government under section 1 5 of the Commonwealth Constitution- to issue a writ for the coming Senate election. [More…]
The Prime Minister had written to each of the State Governors telling them of his intention to hold an election on 18 May and giving them the clear belief that they were to issue writs for that election for 5 Senate vacancies. [More…]
Accordingly, under section 1 5 of the Constitution, the Governor of Queensland issued a writ and an election is now in process for the election of 5 senators in Queensland, the election date being 1 8 May. [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…]
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…]
This court shall be either the High Court, or the Supreme Court of the State (in which the election is held) if the matter is referred to it by the High Court. [More…]
The Court of Disputed Returns has the jurisdiction to decide the validity of an election or return. [More…]
It has various powers, including the power to compel attendance of witnesses, to declare an election void, and to declare any person duly elected who was not returned as elected. [More…]
If any election is declared absolutely void, a new election shall be held. [More…]
As to other questions, viz, questions concerning vacancies or qualifications of a member (Le., which do not involve the validity of an election or a return), the House in which the question arises may refer the matter to the Court of Disputed Returns. [More…]
The court has similar powers to those which may be exercised by it when determining a disputed election, and in addition, the power to declare that any person was not capable of being chosen on sitting as a Senator or member of the House, and to declare that a vacancy exists. [More…]
The Senate has been set up so that half its membership comes up for election every 3 years. [More…]
Normally 5 senators from each State come up for election, but in this case it would have meant that 6 senators would have been elected to represent Queensland. [More…]
It was just a matter of letting the Premier of Queensland know that in this way the usual process of election of the Senate would be altered. [More…]
The vacation by the former honourable senator- whether he resigned or forfeited his seat; however it came about- was prior to the issue of the writs and there should be an election for 6 honourable senators in [More…]
That simply means an election by the people. [More…]
The people will be deprived of a vote in the election. [More…]
The constitutional consequence is that if the seat were vacated before the election in Queensland there should be. [More…]
The Government has not brought these Bills up because it is interested in the health of the people; it brought them up purely as a little window-dressing for the coming election. [More…]
If it wants to go to the election on the now discredited health proposals of the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden), that is the risk it takes. [More…]
We know that, if the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) can only get up enough courage, with luck the people will have a double dissolution and there will be an election on 18 May. [More…]
What we are talking about is nothing but a piece of Government propaganda which is being produced in both Houses of the Parliament for electioneering propaganda purposes. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that, notwithstanding this state of unpreparedness, a number of statements made by the leaders of the Liberal and Country parties claim that they have large sums of money available to fight an election? [More…]
In addition to the last requirement referred to by the honourable senator in his question which, incidentally, was a condition imposed by the Australian Broadcasting Control Board last year on commercial broadcasting stations following the election of a Labor Government, there is also a statutory requirement in the Broadcasting and Television Act for all stations to devote 5 per cent of the total time of music broadcast by those stations to Australian compositions. [More…]
If so, what actions can the Australian Government take if it is established that this organisation and other similar multi-national organisations interfere in the forthcoming election? [More…]
Before the last general election was held the previous Government announced that timber sleepers would be used, as their use had some political implications in New South Wales. [More…]
The policy speech delivered by the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in November of 1972, during the election campaign, referred to pre-schools. [More…]
I compare the unfulfilled promises and the unfulfilled expectations with the promise that was made by the Liberal Party as part of the same election campaign. [More…]
It is simply that as it is no longer if but when a double dissolution is to take placethere is to be an election for both Houses of Parliament on 18 May- it is not possible, as the Act at present stands, for 2 members to be elected from the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Having made those comments, we wish the Bill a speedy passage and look forward on 1 8 May to the election of 2 Liberal members for the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
I am glad that we all agree that the Australian Capital Territory has come of age to the point that we are treating it in a somewhat similar way to that applicable to the States and giving the people in the Territory 2 elected members of the House of Representatives after the next election. [More…]
I do not agree with his forecast that after the election there will be 2 Liberal Party members for the Australian Capital Territory in the House of Representatives. [More…]
I know that the last person who forgot to nominate as a candidate for an election was not a member of our Party, but we are not infallible and some members of our Party may follow in those footsteps. [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…]
The Minister, quite rightly, goes on to say that if the elections had been held at their normal time and we did not have an election until 1975 both of these seats would have come in under the 10 per cent arrangement. [More…]
Senator Drake-Brockman raised the point why this motion was not put before the Senate some time ago in view of the fact that we had mentioned it prior to the election. [More…]
We hoped that there would be a new Act in accordance with the principles which we also laid down prior to the election. [More…]
But suddenly the Government has found that it has an election on its hands and it has decided to start putting down its policy speech in the Parliament. [More…]
This is an election gimmick. [More…]
The health Bills are to come before us and they are purely an election gimmick. [More…]
We have heard this defence statement today and it is purely an election gimmick. [More…]
The Australian Industry Development Corporation Bill is to come before us and it is an election gimmick. [More…]
There it all is, window dressing for an election. [More…]
The Government cannot get over that and a piece of election window dressing will not help. [More…]
I will give some simple and clear illustrations of how phoney this defence statement is and to show that it is merely a piece of window dressing for the election. [More…]
The Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister for Defence, went up there just before the State election and tried to pull off that 3-card trick on the media and the people. [More…]
They knew his visit there was nothing but an election gimmick. [More…]
If 18 May is the date for the election we will be back here early in June and we will be sitting on different sides again. [More…]
Our treaty partners, our friends of former years- particularly the Americans who helped save us from 1942-1945- must be saying: ‘What is to be our attitude to the new Australia under Labor which says on the eve of an election, having done nothing worth while for 18 months “We will spend $356m somewhere at some time on some type of hardware for the defence Services” ‘? [More…]
I hope, but I know that it will not come true, that before election day there will be enough decency, enough sincerity and enough sense of responsibility on the part of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam)- and God alone knows he talks enough- or the Minister for Defence to come out and say precisely: ‘This is the state of the defence Services of Australia as at this time, after 18 months of our government. [More…]
not believe that it will be done but I know from now until election day, in the weeks that lie ahead before we come back into government, that 1 will expose to the people of Australia the rottenness and the lack of policy of this Government, the lack of responsibility and the lack of ability to get up and say: Yes, Australia, in the matter of defence we think that we need no strength, we think that we need no equipment, we think that everything is safe and lovely- and we will just stay at home and waste money on the news media by advertising Parliament and such things.’ [More…]
Incidentally, it does this in the face of preelection promises of the Labor Party that it would build its naval vessels in Australia and provide employment for the skills of the people in our dockyards throughout Australia. [More…]
This is a complete abdication of an election policy. [More…]
The simple fact is that the Government stated prior to the elections that it would build aircraft in this country and would employ Australian craftsmen to do so. [More…]
So another one of the hundreds of election promises has been broken. [More…]
It is nothing more than an election gimmick. [More…]
I know that the Opposition’s job is normally to endeavour to show that the Government is doing something as an election gimmick. [More…]
From memory, that was introduced just before the last election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
In my opinion, that was purely an election gimmick by the former Government, just as this proposed expenditure on defence is an election gimmick by this Government. [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…]
It was reintroduced on the day of and shortly following the announcement of the intention on the part of the Opposition parties to take certain action which might lead to an election of the House of Representatives and part of the Senate or to a double dissolution. [More…]
As an almost immediate response by this Government, it cynically and for the purposes of the election- as clearly admitted by Mr Hayden in that statement which is reported at page 1075 of the House of Representatives Hansard of 4 April 1974- said that this Bill was reintroduced because the Government regards health as an important issue at any election, but not the only issue. [More…]
This is an election gimmick, and it is a farce that this chamber should have imposed on it the duty of dealing with health Bills which were discredited last year throughout the public debate that took place in relation to them. [More…]
A double dissolution would bring about simultaneous elections of the whole of this chamber and of the House of Representatives. [More…]
It is not even necessary to hold a double dissolution to bring the elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives back to the same date. [More…]
The Government could, if it wished to do so and if it had the courage to do so, take out the House of Representatives at the next Senate election- that is, when those honourable senators who are due to retire at 30 June 1974 have to face their electors. [More…]
I remind you, Mr Deputy President, that this health scheme has been changed so many times from the one originally proposed at the time of the election campaign in November 1972 as to be virtually unrecognisable. [More…]
I suggest that the conclusion is inescapable: These Bills are an election gimmick. [More…]
health was an important matter for an election. [More…]
I was examining the reason why these Bills might have been introduced again at this time after the announcement of certain action which would lead to an election. [More…]
The real reason is political gimmickry, as an election gimmick, as a sham and as a fraud upon this Parliament. [More…]
I wonder whether one could ever have regard to the Government’s health proposals at any stage of an election campaign when one regards the general duplicity which has been employed in regard to this and some other actions. [More…]
It is my case to the Senate that the way in which we should regard the Bills, which were rejected last year, and in relation to which the Minister in charge of them has said in the other House that they are being reintroduced because, in effect, there is to be an election and we can look broader than one might normally look in that situation. [More…]
During the 1 969 election campaign the present Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, went right across this continent clamouring for reform. [More…]
I repeat- I say it over and over again- that if the people who administer these health funds intend to divert the reserves of the funds into the next election campaign, we will go out on the hustings and defeat them on this issue. [More…]
Surely we have a right to be returned at this general election that is to be held on 1 1 May or 18 May’ Mr Acting Deputy President, I make this point because it concerns me greatly that you are not able to see that it is relevant to indicate that this Bill, once disowned by the Government, has been reintroduced without a second thought being given to amending it. [More…]
We are putting this Bill once more before the Senate 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…]
Perhaps the Government slipped this Bill into the Senate yesterday so that if there was a double dissolution it would be able to say again: ‘The Senate has rejected our health Bill for which we had a mandate at the last election’. [More…]
The introduction of it is purely a political gimmick because the Government wishes to discuss in an election campaign a myth of free medicine. [More…]
In examining this Bill, we must look to the months prior to the general election of 1 972. [More…]
In essence the Government’s action in re-presenting the Bill is an attempt, in the light of a double dissolution or an election, to bolster up an argument in relation to alleged or imagined frustration of the Government’s legislative program by the Senate. [More…]
The resubmission of it here today is not a genuine attempt to get the Bill passed; it is an attempt to squeeze out some political argument that can be used at another time, at an election. [More…]
Under the heading ‘Health’ the Prime Minister, in his policy speech for the December 1972 election, said: [More…]
From the remarks that they have tendered in the Senate today one would gain the impression that if by some mischance at some future election they were re-elected to government they would continue with the hopeless, maladministered ramshackle scheme that the Australian people have had to put up with for so long. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is giving effect to its election policy of making $1.50 per week pension increases each autumn and spring such actions have been completely nullified by the stated rate of inflation. [More…]
Will he take note that the Australian Labor Party in that upper House of fat succeeded in forcing the lower House, the elected House, to an election and that in that election the people overwhelmingly endorsed the action taken to deny supply in the upper House by giving the Labor Party an immense majority which enabled it to become the Government? [More…]
They know that they will be obliterated in the coming election. [More…]
Following the statement made to the Senate last night by the Leader of the Opposition that if the Government did not jump he would push, can the Leader of the Government say whether Senator Withers has now advised him that Senator Withers does not have the numbers to reject the Appropriation Bills because South Australian Liberal senators now realise that a double dissolution will ensure the election of Mr Steele Hall to the Senate and so enable him to set up a power base for the purple Liberal movement on a national basis as was done by the late Senator Cole in 1955 in regard to the Australian Democratic Labor Party? [More…]
All I can say is that this really is not a ministerial statement; it is another in the long list of items of window dressing for the election. [More…]
This Government would not dare go into an election in Australia with the thought hanging over its head that it was considering a request from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to establish in Australia a base which would put the ANZUS pact at risk. [More…]
This statement is another in the long list of pieces of propaganda that we will see during this election campaign. [More…]
I notice from the ranks of Government supporters an indication that they claim that this decision is just an ordinary routine decision which had nothing to do with the coming election. [More…]
They have said that they are not frightened of any election and will play a straight bat against anybody. [More…]
If there had not been an election, they would have had a good chance. [More…]
But I am sure that they will watch the results of the elections most anxiously in the certainty that when the elections are out of the way Mr Whitlam will be able to show towards them the kind of friendship which in South East Asia has earned him the title of the running dog of Chairman Mao. [More…]
We are about to have an election and this Government is about to face its masters- and it is about to learn that the people of Australia want to belong to the free world and want to honour our alliance with the United States and those ideals, practices and objectives which we have in common with the people of the United States. [More…]
The reason, quite basically, is that there is to be an election. [More…]
The Opposition then says that it was a short examination, ‘you should go on with it because of the election’. [More…]
It never mentioned them prior to the election. [More…]
Before the election in December 1972 very little was said by the Labor Party about the plank of its platform providing for it to pursue a policy of nationalisation of the means of production, distribution and exchange. [More…]
The Opposition would not be worthy of its place as Her Majesty’s Opposition were it not to have taken steps which it has taken in respect of legislation for which there was no direct mandate given and no mention made before the election of intention and so on. [More…]
I think that it is farcical to introduce the Australian Industry Development Corporation Bill and the other Bills that it is proposed to introduce when the Senate is about to be dissolved for an election. [More…]
A number of them are about to lose their heads in the coming election. [More…]
At end of motion add- but not before the Government agrees to submit itself to the judgment of the people at the same time as the forthcoming Senate election, the Senate being of the opinion that- [More…]
The whole purpose of this exercise is to push him because we want an election. [More…]
Just look at the 4 constitutional Bills which were trotted up and which one assumes will be part of the next election. [More…]
Democratic elections, simultaneous elections and the rest of these phoney questions are deliberately put out to deceive the elector when he goes to vote. [More…]
One would hope that if the Government were genuine in wanting to go to the people it would not oppose the amendment; it would gladly receive it; it would say that it welcomes it so that this can be the final instrument which pushes the Government, which ought to go and which for the sake of Australia must go, to an election so the people can throw it out. [More…]
I think, from the election results, despite that Government’s defeat, it must have worked pretty well judging by the support it got in the last State election. [More…]
One only has to remember what was said by Mr Grassby, the Labor Party spokesman on primary industry prior to the 1972 election. [More…]
The primary producers in Western Australia showed what they thought of the Government by their vote at the election in that State a few Saturdays ago. [More…]
The attitude of my Party is that an election must be held on the issue of whether all power shall go to Canberra. [More…]
That is the issue of the election. [More…]
If this is the issue of the election- I believe that it will be- I have no doubt as to its result. [More…]
There can be no exception taken to your acceptance of the post if you take it after the Senate election when it will not affect the standing of the Parties’. [More…]
He said to me: ‘Whitlam made it clear that the job was available only if I resigned at such a time that he would be able to have an election in Queensland for 6 senators’. [More…]
A former member of Parliament who will be a candidate at the next election and a relative of the Minister have been placed in charge of this organisation which can make arrangements for large amounts of finance to be made available and patronage to be given in that area. [More…]
One has only to look at the set-up and at the series of Electoral Bills which have already been introduced by this Government and which are to be submitted to the people following a victory in the election, if the Labor Party achieves that victory. [More…]
Therefore, the Labor Party proposes to initiate an electoral system, if it wins this election, under which a vote cast in a Labor Party electorate will carry with it infinite advantages over a vote cast in a Liberal electorate. [More…]
I repeat: This election must be fought on one issue- the issue of all power to Canberra, the issue of the defence of the rights of the States, the defence of the rights of the family and the defence of all the other rights which are essential in any community such as ours. [More…]
He said that in this election there would be a campaign by the Labor Party to destroy the DLP. [More…]
The Australian Country Party, the Liberal Party and the Australian Democratic Labor Party went to an election in 1972 and they were defeated. [More…]
We turn to smaller matters, such as the Superior Court Bill which had been proposed in the first instance by those in the Opposition and which was a specific part of the Australian Labor Party’s policy at the election. [More…]
Yet when our Party spelled out before the last election the kind of legislation that we would bring in- at the election we promised to bring it in and got the endorsement of the people and brought it in, what have we seen? [More…]
There are other measures in respect of which manifestly the Opposition has obstructed the Government in carrying out the policies which it put forward in the last election campaign and undertook to implement. [More…]
It ought to be recalled that when in the House of Representatives the Leader of the Opposition Mr Snedden, first spoke on this Bill, he said the Opposition would oppose it because if the Opposition were successful it would mean that the Government would have to go to the people and face an election. [More…]
He said that if in the Senate the Appropriation Bill was denied, then after the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) had indicated that he was prepared to face on election, we would pass the Bill forthwith to ensure that the moneys were granted by the Parliament. [More…]
But the amendment is designed to ensure that there is an election. [More…]
But the Prime Minister has refused time and time again when he has had the opportunity to ask for that double dissolution which would involve an election. [More…]
What is obviously looming is the first city versus country election that we have had in this country. [More…]
-To force the Government to an election, Senator Wright said. [More…]
When the chips are down the people of Australia will understand that we gladly accept the challange to go to the country, because this election is not about this piddling quibbling amendment. [More…]
The election is about whether the people of Australia, who elected a government on 2 December 1972 to fulfil a certain program, wish to see that Government have the opportunity to fulfil its program. [More…]
If one good thing emerges from this election it will be the disappearance of a party which has been an excrescence on the body politic in this country for so many years. [More…]
I recall that, when it was announced that the date of the last Federal election would be 2 December, Mr Whitlam said that that suited him because that was the date on which Napoleon overcame a ramshackle coalition at Austerlitz. [More…]
by leave- Mr President, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) has attended upon His Excellency the Governor-General, and I wish to inform the Senate that His Excellency acceded to the Prime Minister’s request and granted an immediate simultaneous dissolution of both Houses of Parliament on condition that a definite assurance was given that the financial position was such that adequate provision could be made for carrying on the Public Service during the period of time covered by the elections. [More…]
The Prime Minister proposed, with His Excellency’s permission, to inform Parliament of His Excellency’s decision and to at once ask Parliament to make pro-, vision for Supply to cover the election. [More…]
The Prime Minister also told His Excellency that he did not propose to invite the Parliament to do business other than Supply and that as soon as this was granted we should recommend him to prorogue Parliament immediately and proceed at once to the elections. [More…]
The Prime Minister also assured His Excellency that the electoral machinery was in such a condition as to permit elections to be held after the dissolution. [More…]
Honourable senators will be aware that there is certain business which ought to be dealt with before the elections. [More…]
I ask that the Senate co-operate to enable us expeditiously to get to the point at which the Parliament, including this half of the Parliament, may proceed to a simultaneous election [More…]
Today, when the Government asks for Supply, the Opposition has the impudence to put forward a proposition that it will not even debate the Supply Bills until such time as the Government has agreed to send the House of Representatives to a dissolution at the same time as the forthcoming Senate election. [More…]
Mr President, I suggest that in the circumstances the appropriate course is to move to deal with the measures that need to be dealt with in order to bring this House to an election as speedily as possible. [More…]
I have just heard the statement from the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy) on behalf of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) that the Prime Minister has obtained the consent of the Governor-General for an election. [More…]
But when we ask the Leader of the Government when the election is to be held, he says: ‘I am not going to tell you ‘. [More…]
Then the Prime Minister goes into smoke and he says: ‘I will now have to look into my crystal ball to find out when I am going to hold the election’. [More…]
Then he comes in and says: ‘There is going to be an election. [More…]
Then he said: ‘The Government is going to know when the election is, but the Opposition is not allowed to know it’. [More…]
Surely we have not reached the stage in a democracy where the Government announces: ‘There is going to be an election, but we are not going to tell the Opposition because we want to book all the halls and make all the arrangements first. [More…]
He has a commission to have an election on condition that he deals with nothing else but Supply. [More…]
But do not run around saying that the Government is going to have an election and its supporters will know the date but the Opposition will not. [More…]
All he said was that the Government can have an election, but it must be on the condition that no other business is dealt with by the Parliament. [More…]
Because of the shortage of time I do not have the opportunity of going through all the matters which brought me to a decision that because this was such a grave emergency I was prepared to vote that supply and appropriation be deferred until an election took place. [More…]
It was to the effect that the Governor-General had acceded to the recommendation for an immediate simultaneous dissolution of Parliament on the undertaking of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) that Supply and nothing else would be transacted in ParliamentSupply until the conclusion of the elections. [More…]
5) but that it does include Supply not until 30 June but for a proper period to encompass an election. [More…]
It is a piece of impertinence, presumption unparallelled and impulsiveness quite characteristic of what has led Senator Murphy to destroy the Government’s business in the short time it has been in office that he would suggest that he should not tell the Senate his program for the elections as a mere matter of courtesy, as an obvious right and entitlement of the Senate before it is asked to consider the Bill for Supply for the period which the Governor-General has stipulated, namely to the conclusion of the elections. [More…]
How can we consider the propriety of Supply unless we know the period that the Government, after being advised administratively, says will be required to complete the election? [More…]
It is for that period, to complete the election, that the Supply is appropriatenothing more and nothing less. [More…]
On my present understanding of them, I insist that the Senate is entitled to know and is obliged to know the period of the program of the election before it can sensibly consider the Supply that is appropriate to be voted. [More…]
I am waiting to know whether I am wrong in any respect in asserting that His Excellency has made it a condition that we shall deal with supply for such finances as are required to carry on the services of government until the completion of the election. [More…]
It that is so, and I think that every member of the Senate has that understanding, it is essential that we be advised of the program of the election and of the period proposed to be occupied by that election as well as details of the writs, the nomination, the poll and the return of the poll. [More…]
I urge that the whole of this Senate recognise the fairness of the requirement that, before we pass money for appropriation in compliance with His Excellency’s condition we know the program of the election and the period over which we are required to finance the administrative services. [More…]
I am here only to advance a proposition that before I vote for any money Bill I wish to be satisfied that I am acting in accordance with the authority of the Governor-General and know the period to be occupied by the election. [More…]
In a sense, this is what the election is all about. [More…]
The other point was that Senator Wright was demanding to know the schedule, the issue of writs and the rest of it for the election. [More…]
We embarked on a course some 12 months ago- I am not trying to be provocative- to bring about a House of Representatives election. [More…]
Therefore, as I see the situation, the sooner we get to the people and have an election the better. [More…]
Whether the Government decides to hold an election the week before 18 May, on 18 May or on 25 May will not mean very much in the long term. [More…]
I believe that the 3 Appropriation Bills, the 2 Supply Bills and the 3 or 4 other Bills which are before the chamber ought to be concluded so that at least I can get up, go home and start electioneering, because that is what I want to do more than anything else. [More…]
I am only concerned that I protect the position first of myself and secondly of my Party with regard to this election. [More…]
Having given support to the proposition that we take parliamentary action to enforce a dissolution, it is a short-sighted view in the extreme, in my book, to say that we take the dissolution on any terms however brief may be the periods for the election. [More…]
I will not be dissuaded by any intervention whatever so long as I have parliamentary authority to proceed to ensure that the program of the election will not exclude him from the poll. [More…]
One or more members of State Parliaments in Australia evinced interest and were endorsed to stand for election. [More…]
Naturally they did not want to take action to get away from the House of Parliament of which they were members until it was sure that the election, which was due to be held in 1975, would be held in April or May 1974. [More…]
I understand it is traditional that a Prime Minister does not announce the dates concerning an election until he has to do so. [More…]
I believe that the Australian Government and the Party of which it is made up would be forever ashamed if they purposely called on the date for an election to stop a person who had given a prior indication of his intention to stand and who had been endorsed by a major political party from legally nominating. [More…]
I believe that tonight all we want from Senator Willesee, whose word I trust, is an assurance that there will be more than 14 days from tonight before nominations for the Federal election of 1974 close. [More…]
This election is being carried out in a state of great emergency because the Opposition in this place willed it to be so. [More…]
Are we to mess around with the dates that will be fixed for the election to suit the convenience of everybody who has political ambitions and who has seen fit to resign from a [More…]
Senator Negus did not desire an election and he desired to speak on Supply tonight but he was denied that request. [More…]
If he had designs to nominate for Parliament and died, would the whole election be cancelled? [More…]
It is prepostrous that honourable senators here on the Opposition benches who have brought about an election- whatever party we belong to- should now demand a postponement or something because of decisions of parties or individuals to resign to contest an election which may or may not have taken place. [More…]
Would we have had to have an election so that he could nominate? [More…]
On its own admission it started from the jump, right from the last election, to see that this Government was put out of power. [More…]
I do not care who has to resign from any parliament or who is to stand for election to the Federal Parliament and who is not to stand. [More…]
The dates of an election do not concern us. [More…]
Senator Wright claimed that everybody should be given an opportunity to nominate for this election. [More…]
The point I am trying to make is that the aim of this country should be to give everybody the opportunity to nominate for this election. [More…]
In an emergency election such as this, one probably is not given enough notice of the election. [More…]
Whilst the possibility of a double dissolution or the dissolution of the House of Representatives was being talked about, there was no guarantee of an election. [More…]
When we were talking yesterday about the question of dates I said that it was impossible to give the dates as we did not know when the election would be, but I promised Senator Wright that I would do my best to have this information supplied to the public and everybody concerned as soon as possible. [More…]
They are the questions of the date of the elections and whether or not this would be of some detriment to a Mr Hodgman. [More…]
The Prime Minister has advised that the reason he has not announced the date of the elections is that he must consult the Chief Electoral Officer before advising the GovernorGeneral of the possible dates and also that there are formalities which need to be worked out. [More…]
For example, there are pending State elections such as the election for the Legislative Council in Tasmania which require careful examination as to possible dates. [More…]
Act providing for the election of senators and because many of these Acts have different requirements, the Prime Minister has had to consult the Chief Electoral Officer about the dates for the issue of writs and the closure of nominations to see that the dates chosen meet the requirements of each State. [More…]
We will most likely be seeing each other somewhere, perhaps not on the same platform, during the election campaign. [More…]
I hope that in spite of the political arguments we have here that even during the election campaign we will have the same sort of friendliness and respect, one for another as people, which most of us have in this place. [More…]
I hope we will maintain this respect during the election campaign no matter for which Party we are campaigning. [More…]
For those who may be returning, for those who may leave us, the Country Party extends its good wishes to all of them and wishes them well in the next months as they go to the election. [More…]
I look forward with confidence to the result of the election in the next few weeks. [More…]
But we are all going to an election. [More…]
I offer my thanks to you, Mr President, and extend my good wishes to the rest of the Senate in the forthcoming election campaign. [More…]
I will be back here to bid them welcome when the new Senate is gathering after the forthcoming election. [More…]
Before I put the question I would like to say on behalf of all honourable senators- I know that I am speaking on behalf of all honourable senators- that it is with an immense amount of regret that the Senate acknowledges that Senator Cant, Senator Wilkinson and Senator Dame Nancy Buttfield will not be returning after the election. [More…]
Senator WITHERS (Western AustraliaLeader of the Opposition)- Mr President, on behalf of members of the Opposition may I offer our congratulations to you on your election this day as President. [More…]
On behalf of the Australian Country Party I wish to join in the congratulations being extended to you, Mr President, on your election by the Senate to the office of President, which is perhaps the highest honour that can be extended to any member of this place. [More…]
Honourable senators, I should like to thank all those who have spoken and congratulated me on my election to the office of President of the Senate. [More…]
I have to report that, accompanied by honourable senators, I presented myself to His Excellency the Governor-General as the choice of the Senate, and His Excellency was pleased to congratulate me upon my election. [More…]
Firstly, on behalf of the Opposition, I congratulate the Leader of the Government and the other Ministers on their election and appointment to ministerial office. [More…]
-I thank the Senate for the honour conferred on me by my election as Chairman of Committees of the Australian Senate. [More…]
-Mr President, I congratulate Senator Webster on his election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
Senator MURPHY (New South WalesLeader of the Government in the Senate)- On behalf of the Government I congratulate Senator Webster on his re-election and elevation to this important office in the Senate. [More…]
Although perhaps this is not the ultimate judgment, I recall that it was Nick McKenna who, up to the time of his retirement from politics, always polled more votes than any other in Tasmania in a Federal election. [More…]
I would like to take the opportunity through you, Mr Deputy President, to congratulate the President on his election to that august office. [More…]
I would also like to take the opportunity to congratulate you, Mr Deputy President, on your election. [More…]
It is an honour to be present in this place representing Tasmania and the Australian Labor Party, particularly in the circumstances in which this Party has been re-elected to office in an election not of its own making. [More…]
At the outset of the election campaign the Labor Party was treating inflation rather like a bush fly- content to have a swat at it now and again. [More…]
During the election campaign the Australian Labor Party manipulated with relish the March quarter cost of living figures in order to paint a rosy picture of the country’s inflation rate, but its manipulation could not halt the worsening of our country ‘s economic situation. [More…]
Despite election claims that interest rates would be reduced as soon as possible, we have witnessed this week a leap of 2 per cent in the bank interest rate. [More…]
The Prime Minister now intends to limit the growth of the Public Service, one of the measures which we suggested as imperative many months ago and a measure which we promoted during the recent election compaign. [More…]
in defiance of its election policy, it attempted to introduce compulsory unionism for Commonwealth public servants; [More…]
Before doing so I should like to join with my colleagues in congratulating you, Mr President, on your election to your high office which I am sure you will discharge with dignity and impartiality. [More…]
I take this opportunity to congratulate you, Mr President, on your election to office yesterday. [More…]
At the election on 1 8 May we elected 60 senators and 127 members of the other House, a total of 187, and the last position to be filled, the 187th, is the one which I have the honour to hold. [More…]
The election did more than that, Mr President. [More…]
There is no point in suggesting that this Senate is identical in any way with the Senate which ceased to exist before the last election. [More…]
They are troubled because the promises made before the election in December 1 972 have not been translated into the kind of action which people expected. [More…]
I quote again from the election pamphlet which was put out by the Labor Party before 1972. [More…]
Before my election I was always impressed with the work that the Senate could and did do. [More…]
The Senate election produced a result in Western Australia which has proved once and for all that right wing fringe elements like the secessionist movement have no appeal whatsoever to the people in my State. [More…]
It will be remembered that when we last addressed the Senate it was on an occasion when the Government was finally driven to a general election. [More…]
If they are born within a bed that is countenanced by peers entitled to inheritance they can come into the House of Lords without election or summons. [More…]
In Australia the Senate owes its election to the general suffrage, the adult vote, of the people on as wide a democratic basis as the election of the Australian House of Commons, the House of Representatives. [More…]
This House is just as contemporary as the House of Representatives and entitled to claim direct representation from the people at the same election as the House of Representatives. [More…]
The same election constituted the Senate in such a way that the Labor Party section of it does not have a majority. [More…]
Throughout the period from December 1972 until 18 May last, until the last election, they seemed to feel that like the Stuarts’ divine right of kings, they have a divine right to occupy the Government benches, that it is not their place to be on the Opposition benches. [More…]
I recall during the last election campaign the Leader of the senators opposite saying that if his Party was returned as the government he would cure inflation. [More…]
But before I conclude I should like to refer to the conduct of the last Federal election campaign in Queensland. [More…]
I think that the method of campaigning that was adopted in Queensland in the last Federal election campaign was the most distasteful and disgraceful that I have experienced in 30 years of political activity. [More…]
I would prefer to regard the Premier of Queensland as the symbol of political life in that State, but his over-enthusiasm in his campaign activities in the last Federal election left a lot to be desired. [More…]
But can I replace it by saying that some of the activities of the Country Party in Queensland in the last Federal election campaign could be regarded as tactics that one would expect to be adopted by a political thug. [More…]
At the outset, Mr Deputy Speaker, may I congratulate you upon your re-election to your high office. [More…]
No doubt the Treasurer hopes, as he hoped before, that interest rates will come down to 2 per cent or 3 per cent which was his goal before the last election. [More…]
So the Party which before the last election said that it would leaven interest rates is now forcing the general overdraft interest rate up to 1 1 and 12 per cent, creating enormous hardship to ordinary people. [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…]
Did the Minister give an undertaking during the election campaign that the Government would assist in facilitating the extraction of the rock phosphate deposits in Queensland? [More…]
-The Minister for Minerals and Energy and I issued a joint statement on this matter during the election campaign. [More…]
The Bill provides for the election of 2 senators each for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory and that such senators have the same powers, immunities and privileges as senators representing the States; that the first election of Territory senators be held at the same time as the next Senate elections in the several States or at the same time as the next general elections for members of the House of Representatives, if such is held before or in conjunction with the next Senate elections; that the term of the first Territory senators be from the date of their election until the eve of polling day for the ensuing general election for members of the House of Representatives; that after the first election for Territory senators, elections be held at the same time as the general elections for members of the House of Representatives; that after the first election of Territory senators, the terms of Territory senators be the period between each House of Representatives election; and for the Territory senators to be elected under the same system of proportional representation as that currently applicable to the election of senators representing the States, except in the case of a single casual vacancy when such vacancy shall be filled by the holding of a byelection adopting the procedures used for filling a single casual vacancy for a State senator, as far as may be applicable. [More…]
With regard to term of office proposed by the Bill for Territory senators I would remind honourable senators 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 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…]
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…]
I would like to congratulate Senator Webster on his election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
I was catapulted, somewhat unexpectedly, into this Senate by the ill-considered decision of the Opposition to force a double election for the Parliament on 18 May, and I represent the State of Western Australia. [More…]
The Premier of Western Australia, to the best of my knowledge, has the distinction of being the original slow learner in the field of interpreting and evaluating election results. [More…]
According to the Premier of my State and I remind honourable senators who are not terribly familiar with the election result in Western Australia- in that State the Labor Party increased its representation to both the House of Representatives and in the Senate. [More…]
According to Sir Charles Court the result of that election constituted a ‘stern rebuff’ for the Whitlam Government. [More…]
It is regrettable that Sir Charles Court’s post-election trip into the realm of fantasy, was not an isolated deviation, but is consistent with the long-standing and widespread propensity within the Liberal Party and the Australian Country Party to stand truth on its head. [More…]
The Government recognises that although the 1974 election resulted in the return of the Government it has not resolved the real differences that are being felt by the Australian people. [More…]
We have seen, in addition to this type of campaigning, corruption used on a scale which, if it were used by individuals in the course of an election, would vitiate the election. [More…]
We have seen intimidation used by Ministers of the Crown in their ability to use, during the course of an election campaign, officers of their department to ensure that what is favourable to them is published and what is unfavourable is prevented from being published. [More…]
We saw in the general election campaign of 1972 the promise of massive performance. [More…]
It is unreasonable to look at promises made during the last election campaign to the effect that persons on or below a certain income level will be able to have their interest payments deferred into the future. [More…]
Prior to the 1974 election the Government claimed that its policy of first establishing a Prices Committee and a Prices Justification Tribunal represented an earnest of intention to act to protect the community. [More…]
But I am amazed that members of the Opposition do not seem to understand that they lost an election. [More…]
If they continue to take the view that the Australian people did not really vote for Labor at the last Federal election, they will continue to be disillusioned in future and they will never develop the ideological core and reason for existence which they need and which we on this side of the Senate need. [More…]
I have done some research as to the reasons for the election, and I find the contest quite clearly outlined in statements by spokesmen for the Opposition Parties. [More…]
The only way to determine that is by an election for the government of Australia. [More…]
So the Opposition forced on the nation an election which should never have been forced, not only because the reasons for forcing it were not good reasons but because it was not in the Opposition’s interests to have an election. [More…]
In the policy speech which I gave before the election I said that it was the wrong election at the wrong time. [More…]
I feel somewhat resentful, because I am a good Liberal, that the people who caused this election are now responsible for the power that the Labor Government has. [More…]
I wondered why, for so long after the election, these people who have given the socialist Government of Australia the power to socialise, as we will obviously find out at the joint sitting, continue to blame the Government. [More…]
I would have expected a different tone in the debate, but listening to it so far it would appear that we are to have another election in one month’s time because the Opposition, in denigrating the Government- I can lend a hand in doing that when I get going in this place- has given only a recital of the problems. [More…]
Their speeches are reminiscent of the futile Liberal election campaign which started with a promise that interest rates would be reduced and which ended with an admission that they might rise. [More…]
We have an election situation as regards the promises and assessments of our needs in which the Opposition is doing no more than simply criticising the Government. [More…]
On its election in December 1 972, 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…]
I want to take the opportunity, as have other senators, to congratulate you, Mr Deputy President, and the President on your election to the 2 highest offices that the Senate can bestow on its senators. [More…]
We all know that he has a great deal of parliamentary experience but I was rather intrigued to hear him put forward his ideas in regard to the timing of the election which was held on 18 May. [More…]
I say to him that those of us who were on the Opposition side of the Senate before the decision was taken to hold the election on 18 May gave long and careful thought to the action we were taking. [More…]
The only point I have to make on this is that since the general election the Opposition has had a good look at its policies and has updated some of them. [More…]
This debate is the third Address-in-Reply debate that we have had since Labor won the 1972 general election. [More…]
One can see that the GovernorGeneral ‘s speech was based on the 1972 election policies of the Labor Party. [More…]
The Government won the May election with less than 50 per cent of the vote. [More…]
I ask honourable senators to remember the full page advertisements, which appeared in the Press before the last Federal election, proclaiming in the boldest type that Whitlam had beaten inflation. [More…]
That was in May 1974; and now, in July 1974- in fact, ever since the election- the Prime Minister has shown by word and deed that the rate of inflation was never checked. [More…]
Mr Deputy President, I offer my congratulations to you upon your election to the high office of Chairman of Committees. [More…]
I offer my congratulations to our President on his election to that very high office. [More…]
I suggest that the Government should consider the proposition put forward by the Liberal and Country Parties during the election campaign and look at the leadership of some of these unions. [More…]
I suggest that the Government should look at this aspect, introduce the holding of secret ballots for the election of union officials and insist that all trade unionists in Australia vote at such elections. [More…]
I suggest as a positive move- as a positive example of the policy of the Liberal-Country Party- that the Government should introduce legislation to provide for the holding of secret ballots for elections of union officials. [More…]
I believe that if that happened the average trade unionist in Australia would vote at such an election and would see that the irresponsible trade union leaders were thrown out of office and replaced by fair dinkum Australian workers who have the interests of their fellow workers at hean. [More…]
I believe that the State governments have recognised the importance of the policies that were promoted by the Liberal and Country Parties during the election campaign because they have agreed that our proposition with respect to the handing over of some temporary control of wages and incomes is a wise one. [More…]
I believe that the Premier of South Australia would agree with my statement that our propositions during the election campaign were the right ones. [More…]
On looking back to the election campaign I note with a lot of interest and cynicism the promises made at that time by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitiam). [More…]
But during the election campaign the Prime Minister said: ‘We will see that a contract is signed so that the State of South Australia will be provided with that dam’. [More…]
Another matter which arose during the election campaign and which greatly amused me illustrates the significance of the Press reporting things during an election campaign in a slightly more responsible way. [More…]
I recall reading in the Adelaide ‘News’ about a week before the election a report that the Federal Government would provide $2,000m for the construction of a water treatment plant at Port Pirie in South Australia. [More…]
I support the amendment to the motion and, together with members on this side of the Senate, will continually strive to promote our policies so that at the next election we will throw you people opposite off the Treasury bench and give the people of Australia responsible government. [More…]
I ask Senator Greenwood to accept that his Party was defeated at the last election and not to adopt the Snedden attitude, which is that if he had had a majority of two or three he would have had a mandate to govern but because the Whitlam Government has a majority of two or three it has no mandate. [More…]
There are some manufacturers in Australia who, prior to the last election, were stockpiling goods in the remote and feeble hope that there would be a change of government and that they could get away with marking up the price of their goods. [More…]
It is significant that during the last election campaign the average small to medium sized Australian business and some of the larger Australian companies gave their donations to the Australian Labor Party because they knew that they would get a fair go. [More…]
An amount of $2m was poured into the funds of the Liberal and Country Parties to help fight the election campaign on their behalf. [More…]
Members of the National Party or the Australian Country Party- whatever it is called in Queensland- who were handing out howtovote cards on election day were being paid $25 each to hand out those how-to-vote cards on behalf of the National Party. [More…]
Mr President, I wish to congratulate you on your election to the very high office of President and to congratulate Senator Webster on his election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
During the election campaign it became confused. [More…]
I was reminded by my colleague, Senator Wood, a few minutes ago that the Australian Labor Party relied upon a foreign owned company in the last 2 elections to manage its election propaganda. [More…]
However, during the election the question became confused. [More…]
Is the Attorney-General aware that immediately prior to the May 1974 general election, officers of the Fitzroy Legal Service and the Springvale Legal Service in Victoria wrote on the official letterhead of their respective offices to clients and former clients urging electoral support for the Australian Labor Party? [More…]
Will the AttorneyGeneral make inquiries to ascertain whether, prior to the recent general election, the Queensland Law Society sent out to all its members an official notification that they should vote against Australian Labor Party candidates because of the fact that the Attorney-General had instituted free legal aid in Queensland? [More…]
This would mean a redistribution before each election. [More…]
We seek only to introduce and perpetuate, as Tar 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…]
Surely the Act in its present form ensures that, because at the last election for the House of Representatives the Australian Labor Party obtained 49.3 per cent of the primary vote and 51.96 per cent of the seats. [More…]
I ask: Does the Labor Party claim that the results of the election on 1 8 May were not fair and just? [More…]
Surely that result was a very good example of the result of an election reflecting the opinion of the electorate. [More…]
The most fascinating result in Western Australia in the last election was, of course, in the electorate of Stirling. [More…]
The election there was fascinating not only because of the closeness of the count and the recount but also for quite a different reason. [More…]
We have just seen one of the re-distributions undertaken by the Government of which Senator McLaren is a supporter and we have just seen an election supervised by it. [More…]
If they care to look at the figures for the election held on 1 8 May last they will discover that, in fact, the Opposition and Government supporters in the House of Representatives represent electorates of approximately equal numbers of electors, and no proposed redistribution could provide a fairer equality of representation than that which exists today. [More…]
The only reason the Government has introduced this Bill is to enable the Australian Labor Party to hold a redistribution before the next election on terms more favourable to itself. [More…]
If the legislation is passed and a redistribution is carried out, it would be the first time in the history of the Commonwealth Parliament that a set of boundaries would be used for only one election. [More…]
This rapport between parliamentary representatives and their electors will be lost if we are to start having redistributions before each election or random redistributions held whenever a politca party thinks one necessary for its own advantage. [More…]
Those boundaries were used for 4 elections. [More…]
Those boundaries were used for 5 elections. [More…]
Five elections were held on the redistribution of 1934, three on the boundaries drawn up in 1948, five on the 1955 boundaries and, to date, three on the 1968 redistribution. [More…]
Any election held prior to the next census and determination ought to be held on the present boundaries. [More…]
-If I may interpose to answer as a matter of interest those useless and quite irrelevant interjections, at no time between 1949 and 1972 did your Party receive a majority of the primary vote above the Liberal-Country Party and the Democratic Labor Party except in 1954 when your Party ought to have won the election, but that was held on boundaries set by your Party in 1948. [More…]
The results of the 1974 election show this clearly. [More…]
Even with the natural movements in population and the entry of 1 8-year-olds onto the electoral scene, the election results still reflected, with uncanny accuracy, the preferences of the electors. [More…]
We handed the Government 2 seats, Fraser and Tangney, on a silver platter only weeks before the last election. [More…]
The results of the last election show that there is not. [More…]
Three elections have been held on the present boundaries with very fair results. [More…]
Is it not incredible that the party that won 2 of those 3 elections dares to claim that these present boundaries are unfair? [More…]
The Opposition is against the concept of changing boundaries at every election. [More…]
Let me take the position a little further and commend to Opposition senators that series of very analytical articles headed ‘Election- 1974’ which were produced by Mr David Solomon in the ‘Canberra Times’. [More…]
It will be found that the total number of votes cast for the 128 Government candidates who stood at the last election exceeded the total number of votes cast for the 174 Opposition candidates who stood for election. [More…]
As a matter of fact, in my State of New South Wales it was remarkable that in the 1954 federal election the Labor Party nearly won the seat of Robertson, but by the time of the next federal election, after a redistribution had occurred, the position was entirely different. [More…]
The Labor Party was very quick to allege in the recent general election campaign that the Opposition was refusing to obey the umpire’s decision. [More…]
In Britain the enrolments for this year’s election were as high as 96,000 electors and as low as 23,000 electors. [More…]
This, I believe, would bring about a chaotic situation in which every election would be fought on new boundaries. [More…]
We are not at all sure this is the right election at the right time for Australia. [More…]
If the LCP coalition wins, the gamble of using the Senate to force an election will have paid off. [More…]
As I have said, the Labor Party won the election and it has the authority to proceed with this Bill. [More…]
He does not support the view that the Senate can continue to frustrate the will of the people beyond an election expressly held for the purpose of resolving the previous negative views of the Senate. [More…]
The latter ones which I have mentioned have now lost population and are at the point at which they would be below a quota worked out on the enrolment figures at the time of the 1972 election. [More…]
At the last election the Labor Party received 49.3 per cent of the votes and won 51.96 per cent of the seats. [More…]
If my memory is correct the Australian Labor Party obtained 49.9 per cent of the vote in the previous election in 1972 and won just over 52 per cent of the seats. [More…]
In the last election the Liberal and Country Parties received 45.6 per cent of the formal votes and won 48.03 per cent of the seats. [More…]
Let us have a look at the 1974 election results in the United Kingdom. [More…]
He made his attack on these officers after they had been engaged in an election, the like of which had never before been seen in this country because the double dissolution of the Parliament culminated in an election for the House of Representatives and an election for the Senate as well as the referendum questions which were put to the people. [More…]
We believe they are people of integrity and impartiality, and that elections conducted by them are in good hands. [More…]
For the benefit of the uninitiated who do not know what happens in Queensland under a Liberal-Country Party regime, I will very quickly give some statistics of the last election held in that State in 1972. [More…]
Let me give the latest electoral enrolments in Canada; I presume that they are figures upon which the last election was fought. [More…]
It remains true that the Whitlam Government is charged with the same executive responsibility as it had before the election. [More…]
At the last election the Government’s share of the vote for the House of Representatives election fell and its majority in that House was reduced in spite of the fact that it won extra seats in the Australian Capital Territory and Western Australia. [More…]
Senator Hall also mentioned that we went to an election and that the people returned the Government with this mandate, or whatever it is termed. [More…]
It is true that the people returned the Government, but the election that took place was an election for both Houses of the Parliament, not for one House of the Parliament. [More…]
I will not mention the name of the person concerned, but I had a talk with a very intelligent and learned person from the Government side after the 1972 election and - [More…]
Can anybody tell me that the Bill that is before us tonight and the rest of the Bills in respect of which the Prime Minister sought a double dissolution were issues in the last election? [More…]
Was the Gair affair talked about much during the election campaign? [More…]
Were these Bills talked about much during the election campaign? [More…]
Inflation was the great issue in the election. [More…]
The composition of the Senate is exactly the same as it was before the election in that the Government has not got a majority in this chamber. [More…]
Mr Daly’s electorate of Grayndler is a striking example because when the last redistribution was drawn he had a number of electors above the quota- I forget the actual percentage but it was something like 7 per cent as I recall it-and when the 1972 election was occurring the number of electors in his electorate had fallen below the quota because there had been a movement of people out of his electorate. [More…]
Taking that fundamental fallacy, that speech by Senator Steele Hall, who has just returned to the chamber, entirely ignored consideration or understanding of the fact that at the last election the Government put forward a referendum not for one vote one value but for electorates to be divided according to quotas of population including qualified electors and unqualified electors. [More…]
The referendum was defeated, and the Labor Government, which at one time espoused the principle of one vote one value and which at the election espoused the cause of electorates equal in population, was defeated in the Senate where Senator Steele Hall and I have our responsibilities to cast our vote. [More…]
Senator Wood made the point that this was not really an issue at the election, that the people had voted on all sorts or things-whether they liked the colour of one’s tie or eyes or something like that. [More…]
However, I do not think that Senator Wood would argue that this Bill was not pretty well thrashed out prior to and during the election. [More…]
I regret very much the remarks of the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers) when he referred to the seat of Stirling in Western Australia, the election for which resulted in a very close vote. [More…]
He said there were fascinating errors in such a close election. [More…]
It is a smear to say that because the 2 errors were made they are fascinating errors in such a close election. [More…]
I ask honourable senators to judge whether that is so when it was said that the 2 errors were fascinating errors in such a close election. [More…]
We have seen such swings in some seats even in the recent election. [More…]
In sections 8, 9, 10 and 1 1 there are provisions relating to the qualification of the electors in each State and the method of the election of senators, again in the absence of particular provisions by the Commonwealth as required by each State. [More…]
As reported at page 2525 of the Senate Hansard of 7 June the Leader of the Australian Country Party in the Senate (Senator DrakeBrockman), as he was then although I understand that he is now the Leader of the National Alliance, having been elected as such at the recent election, said at the conclusion of his speech: Therefore we in the Country Party oppose this legislation’. [More…]
You should not be mentioning anything about Queensland because you will recall that when it looked like there would be an election for half of the Senate, you divided and formed an alliance with the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is giving effect to its election policy of making $1.50 per week pension increases each Autumn and Spring such actions have been completely nullified by the stated rate of inflation. [More…]
The honourable senator is referring to the claim that was made some weeks ago that a device had been found in the telephone of one of the candidates in an election in Sydney. [More…]
I think that election is due to be held this weekend. [More…]
One would have thought that the election on 18 May had not taken place. [More…]
It was clearly expressed in the policy speech of the Government and in the statements made by many of those involved in the election campaign that it was the intention of the Government, should it be returned to office, to give to the residents of the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory the same facilities as are given to residents in the rest of Australia as far as Senate representation is concerned. [More…]
Does any honourable senator opposite seriously believe that the Labor Party, which at present cannot win the one House of Representatives seat for the Northern Territory, is going to win the 2 Senate vacancies in the Northern Territory, if they are created, or is the election to be decided on the basis of each party receiving more than 33 per cent of the vote which would be required to elect a senator? [More…]
Largely the same senators will speak on these matters as spoke on the previous occasion, seeking to deny the results of the election and seeking to deny the Government the opportunity of bringing in even the simple Bill that is now before us. [More…]
I recognise that the Australian Labor Party won the last election, that it has some right to introduce legislation into this place and that we should give it due and proper consideration. [More…]
The people in the States convincingly rejected the Government’s referendum proposal for election of senators at the same time as members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
The matter went before the people at the recent election. [More…]
If this legislation is passed the result of the Senate election for the Northern Territory will without any doubt be that the other side of this place will get one representative and this side of the House will get the other. [More…]
Where is this fantastic result of two on the Government side in a Senate election for the Northern Territory? [More…]
He ought to realise that there was an election in 1972 and an election again last May and that the Government won both those elections. [More…]
Since these matters have been put to the test twice and an election held again because of their rejection, surely the honourable senator would accept that the Government has a right and- to use that horrid word- a mandate to- [More…]
If one were to take the view that the Opposition generally takes that this chamber is a second seat of government, there may be some reason for showing concern at disturbing the type of election of members to a second seat of government. [More…]
Is it a fact, as may appeal to Senator Steele Hall, that if this Bill goes through and that then at the next Senate election 2 senators are elected from the Northern Territory there will be only one member of the [More…]
We have the great representation, which was accepted at the last election, of Mr Sam Calder, the present member for the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Government proposes that the extra senators would be elected at a Senate election in 2 years time and would contest their election at the next House of Representatives election. [More…]
Do honourable senators remember Mr Whitlam saying: ‘We believe that there should be a synchronisation of the elections for the 2 Houses of Parliament’? [More…]
What a wonderful opportunity this would be for the Prime Minister to cut his term short by a year and to synchronise the next House of Representatives election with the Senate election before July in 2 years time. [More…]
But no, under the proposals of the Labor Party, the senators will be elected in 2 years time, they will come up for election in another year and they will come up for election in another 2 years after that. [More…]
It provides also that their method of election should be totally different from that of State senators. [More…]
They are to be elected at their first election at the next Senate election, and thereafter as each House of Representatives election occurs two of them shall come out and stand for reelection. [More…]
We also would have 2 different systems of election to elect one body of Parliament. [More…]
Senator Steele Hall has not made clear to us where he stood before the election in regard to the representation of these 4 proposed Senate representatives but he argues now about a Government mandate. [More…]
They have expressed through rejection of the referendum proposal the simultaneous election principle. [More…]
Since then we have been through the double dissolution and the subsequent election which we all recall. [More…]
The Opposition parties did not lose; they merely came second in the election. [More…]
There will be an obliteration, such as we saw at the last election, of many more honourable senators opposite if they insist in attempting to deny democracy. [More…]
So with the Whitlam Labor Government having been defeated in the Senate election following the double dissolution, having gained 29 seats only out of 60, and with the people being entitled to expect the other 3 1 senators to defend the cause of senatorial constitutional integrity, we are bound, when this Bill is presented to us after the dissolution, to give it the best of our consideration. [More…]
It is rather interesting that the question as to whether the Senate and House of Representatives elections should be held concurrently, which was one of the principal matters that the Government put before the people, was rejected. [More…]
The Government is trying to have the election of territorial senators held on the same day as the election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
It is an attempt to intrude non-State representatives into the Senate with terms of service the same as the terms of members of the House of Representatives, with elections to be held at the same time as general elections for the House of Representatives and with any vacancies of such representatives being filled at an election as though it were a byelection for a vacancy in the House of Representatives. [More…]
This Bill, as already mentioned, requires the proposed representatives to be taken to election at each House of Representatives election. [More…]
Such a proposal would make destitute the system of proportional representation instituted by a former Labor Government for Senate elections, which system has provided in the Senate a true reflection of the political feeling in the States. [More…]
We know full well Prime Minister Whitlam ‘s burning desire to take half the Senate out at each House of Representatives electionor is it his intention to take all the Senate to election with the lower House and so completely destroy the Senate by making it a replica of the House of Representatives? [More…]
It is a very simple Bill relating to the election of 2 senators from each of 2 Territories of Australia, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
But knowing the tenacity of members of the Opposition, who according to them did not lose the last election even if they did not win it, I believe that they are determined to delay and frustrate good government in this country. [More…]
It is because he could not deliver the goods at the last election when he promised the oil companies that he would obtain a certain amount extra for every barrel of oil they produced. [More…]
That is the Government’s figure for election purposes I presume. [More…]
In 1972, prior to the election in December that year, the Government put before the people its health program for Australia. [More…]
Of course, 1973 was the year of the so-called great debate which in a sense, ended with the election on 18 May 1974. [More…]
In that election, the timing of which was chosen by the Opposition, the Government obtained nearly 50 per cent of the votes throughout Australia. [More…]
I put it to the Senate that if the people who voted in the election of May 1974 were clear about anything, they were clear about one thing- that if the Government was re-elected it would introduce its national health insurance scheme, because that scheme was discussed throughout 1973. [More…]
Of course in the 1974 election campaign a new factor was introduced; suddenly the Liberal Party produced a new health scheme of its own. [More…]
Yet suddenly, before an election, a policy emerged- a son of Liberal Party jet lag of 4 years; Nimmo to Chipp, one might say. [More…]
We have our right by virtue of election to have our say and to be heard, and it would be quite improper for the Senate to demand that these Bills be put through- guillotined through as happened in another place- without new members democratically elected having their say, being heard, and expressing their points of view. [More…]
I return now to the ‘It’s time’ folders put out for our edification before the 1972 election in which all the promises were made. [More…]
Senator Sheil obviously does not think much of these 2 Bills or of the scheme proposed by the Government but unfortunately he made it obvious in his speech that he did not think much of the Liberal-Country Party scheme proposed by Mr Chipp during the last election campaign. [More…]
They have done an especially good job supplying the Opposition with public relations personnel, funds and supporting advertisements at election time. [More…]
We find that the Liberal and Country Parties proposed health scheme which was introduced prior to the last election, went a long way along the lines of our scheme. [More…]
I believe that this subject was one of the main subjects at the election. [More…]
We debated it during the 1969 election campaign when we were defeated and the Liberal and Country Parties were re-elected. [More…]
The people of Australia knew what it was that we were putting to them in that election. [More…]
The matter was debated from the end of 1972 through to May 1974 when another election was held. [More…]
They knew what the election was about and they returned Labor to government on the very question of whether those 6 Bills should become law. [More…]
Now, we hear from the Opposition that we do not rely on an election, even if it was held only 2 months ago and even if it confirmed the result of an election which was held 1 8 months before that. [More…]
As a result of the double dissolution and the election we were not able to proceed with the proposed joint educational broadcasting conference. [More…]
I only hope that the election has taught him a lesson, that he will stick to his legislative functions and help the Government to deal with inflation. [More…]
Did the Labor Party claim in full page Press advertisements just prior to the May election that the Prime Minister had beaten inflation? [More…]
But let us remember that, although 49.3 per cent of the people voted for the Government at the last election, some 50 per cent or more of the people did not vote directly for the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The Minister pointed out that the proposal to create the Petroleum and Minerals Authority was given great prominence during the election campaign following the dissolution of the Parliament. [More…]
I want to remind the Senate that this Labor Government both before the 1972 election and before the recent campaign for the last election made great sound and fury about multinationals and their exploitation and about what it had done and would do. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is giving effect to its election policy of making $1.50 per week pension increases each Autumn and Spring such actions have been completely nullified by the stated rate of inflation. [More…]
For instance, just last night we saw the Government welsh on its election promise to phase out the means test. [More…]
I might say that during the election campaign preceding the contest on 18 May, Mr Snedden did no good for himself or his Party or our side of politics by coming to South Australia and saying he would not insist on a majority of Australian ownership in the Redcliffs plant on Spencers Gulf in South Australia. [More…]
It is a tactic which might have some appeal for a few weeks, a few months and maybe for one election, but sooner or later the falsity of the style will become apparent. [More…]
It did not get beyond the second reading stage in the Senate because the Parliament was dissolved prior to an election being held. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is giving effect to its election policy of making $1.50 per week pension increases each Autumn and Spring such actions have been completely nullified by the stated rate of inflation. [More…]
How much money will the Government save by breaking its election promise to abolish the means test? [More…]
I feel more keenly about this matter because in response to its invitation I went along to its hearings during the early part of the election campaign, at great inconvenience because it took up time that I would have wished to devote to the campaign. [More…]
We preached that; we went to the last election on it; that was our policy then; it is our policy now. [More…]
A colleague of mine who sought election to the Senate in I think, 1968, and subsequently was elected to the House of Representatives in 1969, 1972 and 1973, recently made an examination of his financial position and found that he is now approximately $2,000 in debt when compared with his financial position when he started. [More…]
I know that every time increases in parliamentary salaries are mooted we are told it is not the rightime, that it is Christmas time, that we are just about to go into an election or that there is a problem in the economy. [More…]
That, coming from Mr Crean, is worthy of note because it was not long ago, in fact just before the general election, that there was no suggestion of any imminence of great strife, struggle and difficulty ahead. [More…]
We have just gone through another election- I do not say this in any spirit of partisanship- during which it was denied that there existed in Australia a dangerous economic situation. [More…]
Honourable senators can read into that anything they like, but if there is an election ahead of its due time I suggest to the Labor Party that it remember this day. [More…]
AND WHEREAS, since that dissolution and the election of the Twenty-ninth Parliament, the conditions upon which the Governor-General is empowered by section 57 of the Constitution to convene a joint sitting of the members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives have been fulfilled in respect of each of the said proposed laws: [More…]
Will the Government make an early review of its recent decision to give child care much lower priority than it undertook to give this matter during the election campaign? [More…]
That was a rather surprising proposition in itself, because until halfway through the last Federal election campaign we had found the Government’s attitude was that it ignored inflation; it tried to get everyone to believe that no such thing as inflation existed. [More…]
Of course we know that during the election campaign the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) himself had to recognise the fact that inflation did exist. [More…]
One can only gain the impression that in some way a hidden subsidy was paid to big business, which supports the Opposition parties at election time. [More…]
They did not increase postal charges in an election year even though such charges were warranted. [More…]
The figures show quite clearly that the last increase brought in by the former Government was in the Budget of 1970-71 which was brought down in August before elections were held in 1972. [More…]
As a result of those increases which were introduced in a non-election year- because the Government sought political expediency and did not want to become unpopular with the electoratein the following year, 1 97 1-72, some correction was made in the loss which was suffered by the Post Office. [More…]
The year 1972 was an election year, so what did the previous Government do? [More…]
But since the election the Government itself has expressed concern about it. [More…]
One has to cast one’s mind back only a few weeks, to the election period, to recall that the Government said: ‘There is no inflationary problem in this country; none whatsoever. [More…]
But every now and again the previous Government found that it had to advance a proposition- not in election years, as Senator McAuliffe said, but in other years- to increase Post Office tariffs in order to ensure that the earnings of the Post Office would not be less than the revenue and that there would not be calls upon taxpayersother than some fractional demands- to provide an amount of money to subsidise postal tariffs or telegraph tariffs. [More…]
Twenty-seven days after the day the Senate committee had been required by the Senate itself to report on the Bills, and still no report had been made, the Bills were again introduced in the House of Representatives and passed all stages, Parliament was dissolved for the election 3 days later and the Senate again failed to consider the Bills. [More…]
The Bill lays down that the first election of the Assembly shall be held on 24 October 1 974. [More…]
It will be practically impossible, if this Bill does not pass through the Senate this week, for the election to be held on 24 October. [More…]
Nobody has made a promise that there will be an election by 24 October. [More…]
All that was said on behalf of the Australian Labor Party during the 1972 election campaign was that if the ALP were elected to office, as it was, there would be self-government for the Northern Territory. [More…]
Because the work of the Committee was delayed considerably by the double dissolutionit would have been delayed in any case because a Senate election was to be held- because members of Parliament work on other committees and because Darwin, Alice Springs, Katherine and Tennant Creek are many miles away, not a great deal of progress could be made by the Committee in the period of 12 months since it started its work. [More…]
I believe that a very small proportion of the population is vitally interested in the election of a Legislative Assembly. [More…]
It relates to both the number and the manner of election of Aboriginal representatives in the Territory. [More…]
The facts are, as I see them, that the election is to be held on 24 October, the reason mainly being because the Minister took as fact that the elected members would resign if there was not an elected Assembly by the end of this year. [More…]
Who is to call an election? [More…]
If as the result of the election on 24 October there is a majority of non-Labor members of the Assembly, will the Government clamp down and say: ‘Right, you are not of our political colour. [More…]
Conversely, if there is an election that returns a majority of Labor members, will the Government say: Righto boys, here are the jobs for you to do. [More…]
I believe that we members of the Committee should theoretically close our eyes to the fact that this legislation has become law, that there will be an election and that there will be an elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
Despite visits by a variety of Ministers to some areas of the Territory where publicity appeared to be favourable, I do not think that the Minister will be able to point out where any positive statements have been made which could be a guide to those people who are likely to stand for election and who are likely to consider whether being a part of this Assembly is worth while. [More…]
I wonder whether the Senate is aware of the proposed times for the election. [More…]
-Election day is proposed for 19 October. [More…]
That is a very important matter and I wish to deal with it; but let me make this point first: Nominations close on 11 October and election day is 19 October. [More…]
Is it fair and reasonable to allow 10 days between the closing of nominations and election day; or is the Government doing it for some subtle purpose, so that those who are in the centres of concentrated population will be able to cast their votes very readily and others will not? [More…]
If so, its great principle of one vote one value will clearly be demonstrated to be lost in the election in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I understand that the period of 20 days between the closing of nominations and election day during the last Federal election was insufficient. [More…]
More electoral officers will be needed, as they were needed at the last Federal election. [More…]
I certainly believe that it is ridiculous that such a short time should be allowed between the closing of nominations and election day. [More…]
I did not want to be provocative or bring this up, but the point is that both Senator Webster and Senator Marriott, and Senator Webster’s colleague in another place, have severely criticised the Government because we have had to bring in this measure now in order to honour a promise that we made during the 1972 elections and which is part of our policy. [More…]
He says there is no record of the Government having said that the election would be held this year. [More…]
It is hoped that an announcement concerning that matter will be made fairly shortly and before nominations close for the election for the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
The percentage of the community which voted for the Australian Labor Party in the last election will rue the day that they did so. [More…]
This Bill is designed to give effect to the Government ‘s decision, which the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) foreshadowed during the election campaign, to strengthen the Prices Justification Tribunal and extend its scope in certain important ways. [More…]
It is the responsibility of members of the Opposition that not one cent of these funds has yet been provided as this Bill would have been passed several months ago but for the recent 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 senators of the Liberal and Country parties 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 senators of 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…]
I again repeat that I was talking about adult franchise for national elections. [More…]
The only way in which one as an Aboriginal or, for that matter, as a European had an entitlement to vote in a national election was to qualify as an elector ina particular State. [More…]
-The article repeated a canard that was circulating at about election time. [More…]
I suggest that we would be waiting until after the next election when the resounding victory of the Australia Labor Party would make all these things quite easy. [More…]
One of the residents of the Glebe was the Liberal Party candidate for the seat of Sydney in the last election. [More…]
We chose someone locally from the Glebe area to represent us in the election. [More…]
Senator Carrick, who apparently has some association with the Church, gave praise to Mrs Joyce Wallace, who was a Liberal Candidate at the recent election, because she had some responsibility for the purchase. [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-firth 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…]
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 5 1.96 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 1 973 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 1 8 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 Ministery which, at that time, had been in office, following its election in December 1972, for some 15 months. [More…]
Of course, the first Whitlam Ministery lasted for a month only while final election returns were obtained and Party elections held. [More…]
The Opposition Parties in the Senate after 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 Vh 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 concide 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…]
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 quite amazed- despite all 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 huie, if any, application of the community interest to policy making in this enormously important mining sphere. [More…]
Further in reply to the honourable senator, let me say that a concerted campaign was launched against me by one of the feature writers of the Melbourne ‘Age’ shortly after the recent double dissolution election and prior to the election by the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party of the new Ministry. [More…]
Some cynics in my Party have suggested that I put him up to it in order that I might be helped in topping the poll for the election of senators to the Ministry. [More…]
But, despite all that, when 2 Houses of Parliament rose for the election the work of the Committee was largely concluded; a draft report was practically ready. [More…]
After the election we came back to be met by 2 new Bills which took up a great number of the issues raised by the Committee when examining witnesses and which also took up quite a number of areas of concern about which people had spoken in the Committee and to the Committee in public hearings. [More…]
The fact that we had a double dissolution and an election campaign which interfered - [More…]
It was the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) who decided the date on which the election would be held. [More…]
The presentation of this legislation represents the outcome of an election promise made by the Prime [More…]
Minister (Mr Whitlam) prior to the 1972 election. [More…]
In the course of that election campaign, the Prime Minister said: [More…]
I have said that this legislation is the result of an election promise the implementation of which was delayed. [More…]
The election intervened, and the new Government is not prepared to take any action whatever to give effect to those proposals. [More…]
It is a completely new approach, but undoubtedly the Government has, by its election victories, the right to govern and the right to put forward this type of legislation. [More…]
However, it is proper that with the indulgence of the Senate I should record my strong feeling of appreciation at my election as a member of this House of the national Parliament. [More…]
I am rather surprised that I should have to debate a Bill of this nature in this House, considering the pre-election Press publicity gained by members of the Opposition. [More…]
In the Sydney Morning Herald’ of 1 May, 17 days prior to the election, the Federal Opposition spokesman on legal matters, Senator Greenwood, who unfortunately is not in the chamber at the moment, was reported as saying: [More…]
A State government may prefer to look after the big business interests which support it before an election. [More…]
The Opposition parties issued a Press release, unfortunately with no date on it, but it would be pre-election because it says: [More…]
I would say from the discussion that has taken place this afternoon that it is quite evident that the pre-election promises of the Opposition, or those on the Opposition benches, were never meant or never designed to give protective legislation to the consumers of Australia. [More…]
However, I think that I can well and truly say that unlike the Liberal Party, which at the last election undertook, if elected to office, to abolish the Department of the Media, whilst there is a Labor government in office there certainly will always be a Department of the Media. [More…]
I preface it by informing the Minister that during the last Federal election campaign a Mrs Jean Leu of Sydney received an anti-Labor communication in an official PMG envelope. [More…]
Will the Minister cause an immediate investigation to be made in an effort to ascertain how official departmental stationery was used as part of the Liberal Party election campaign? [More…]
This Government was returned to the Australian Parliament on 2 occasions- and on the second occasion we did not seek the election. [More…]
As the Bill is part of the Government’s development plan as stated in its election promises, we cannot see the possibility of the Government accepting an amendment which allows the States to decide where the Australian Government will carry out its development policy. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Health aware that during the general election campaign, among other election promises, the Government undertook to provide finance to the South Australian Government for the purpose of filtering the Adelaide water supply at a cost, I believe, of something like $80m? [More…]
I shall refer the honourable senator’s question to my colleague the Minister for Health and ask him to take whatever appropriate action he needs to take in order to achieve the objectives which the Government outlined before the last Federal election. [More…]
Similarly, of course, another spin-off- a thing which surely must be agitating the minds of people in local government- is the very serious question of the lack of interest in local government elections. [More…]
I saw recently in Tasmania an election where, I think, fewer than 100 people were sufficiently interested in what was happening. [More…]
It was an election for an urban council in Tasmania. [More…]
There is a substantial enrolment but fewer than 100 people- I am open to correction- - were sufficiently interested m the election. [More…]
Local Government Councillors during the period shortly before the May 18 election and referendum; if so, was that letter circulated to all members of Local Government bodies in Australia. [More…]
Four years after his election as mayor he entered the New Zealand Parliament. [More…]
Does the Minister realise that, unless Tasmania receives some special consideration by way of a special subsidy to equalise Tasmanian freight rates with those that exist between States connected by road and rail as was promised by Mr Whitlam during election campaigns, Tasmanian industries could well sink under these continual freight increases, with a consequent detrimental effect on the Government’s decentralisation aims and a worsening of our already bad unemployment situation? [More…]
-I think there has been a distortion of the statement made by the Prime Minister during the election campaign. [More…]
Because of the double dissolution and the general election which occurred at that time that conference had to be temporarily suspended. [More…]
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That leave be given to introduce a Bill for an Act relating to members of the Public Service and the defence forces who become candidates for election to the Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory and similar bodies for other Territories and for related purposes. [More…]
Furthermore, the recognition was done, Mr President, in breach of a clear undertaking contained in a letter written before the last election by the Prime Minister to the President of the Council of the Lithuanian Community in Australia. [More…]
Senator Murphy wished to introduce a Bill relating to members of the Public Service becoming candidates for election to Parliament. [More…]
What an extraordinary thing it was that the day before the last general election the Prime Minister of Australia wrote to the President of the Council of the Lithuanian Community denying that there would be any de jure recognition and indicating that the policy would be as in the past. [More…]
On the day before the elections, conscious of the importance of the migrant vote- and many times before that- the Prime Minister said: ‘We will not recognise the incorporation’. [More…]
What has changed since the day before the election? [More…]
This Government and this Minister have broken an election promise. [More…]
It was bitterly clear to the Australian people, and this must be faced, that at the election of 18 May the Government had given its word that there would be no de jure recognition of the incorporation of those states in Russia. [More…]
All the countries to which Senator Sir Magnus Cormack referred as having a voice in the election of the President of the General Assembly of the United Nations have no voice at all. [More…]
It is written on 17 May which was the day before the last election. [More…]
I wish to explain the situation that occurs in relation to these elections. [More…]
The election of the President of the General Assembly is dictated by the convention that each year the major geographical groupings of the United Nations members take turns in choosing from amongst themselves an agreed candidate for the presidency. [More…]
That was stated prior to the election on 18 May. [More…]
I think that it would be better for the honourable senator to wait and see what happens and to try to assist the Government to get a system of voting which will be better than the system we all had to endure during the last election. [More…]
We cannot afford to go through all that nonsense again and have 73 people standing for election to the Senate in New South Wales alone, the conspicuous feature of this situation being that the overwhelming vote was for the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Honourable senators will be aware that elections are to be held during October 1974 for the Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory. [More…]
Nominations for this election close this month. [More…]
The Northern Territory (Administration) Act provides that a person is not qualified to be a candidate for election as a member of the Legislative Assembly if, at the date of nomination, he is employed in the Australian Public Service. [More…]
Northern Territory could be denied the incentive for or opportunity of standing for election. [More…]
At present there is no specific provision enabling a public servant who resigns to contest an election in the Northern Territory to be re-appointed or re-employed in the Public Service if he fails to be elected. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to enable officers or employees of the Australian Public Service and members of the defence force, who resign to contest elections for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, to be re-appointed or reemployed if they fail to gain election. [More…]
A person who retired from the Public Service to contest an election for the Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory may, if he fails to be elected, be reappointed or re-employed at his previous level. [More…]
Provision is also made to enable the sections to be applied by regulation to elections for legislative or advisory bodies of other Territories. [More…]
The amendments made to the Superannuation Act by Part III of the Bill will extend to these candidates the same superannuation rights and privileges as presently apply to Australian Government employees who resign to contest Federal or State elections. [More…]
-I understand that the election result is not a reflection of the opinion of the majority of people in New South Wales. [More…]
In any event, it was a very low poll and the election was directed towards local government issues. [More…]
If Senator Baume seeks somehow to extend what happened in a local government election with a very poor poll to the attitudes to the Australian Government, I think he would on reflection find that his prediction was a very improper and unscientific- even politically unscientificmethod of analysis. [More…]
In the election of a union executive surely this must be a realistic way of contributing to the democracy of the union system in Australia and to more successful relationships between employer and employee alike. [More…]
Surely the form of election which is satisfactory for the Australian people to elect their government- at this stage an Australian Labor Party Government- should be an excellent and indeed necessary form by which to elect whether a union is to amalgamate with another union. [More…]
I would have thought that there would be no objection from a Labor Party which believes in compulsory voting in all parliamentary elections and which, I understand, believes in compulsory voting in local government elections and will force people to vote and fine them if they do not, to the application of that principle to the union movement which in many ways is more powerful in this country than the Government itself. [More…]
The one method that can be democratically used is to apply the same voting procedures to major union decisions as apply to the election of members of Parliament. [More…]
They have not been added to very much by the new senators who came into the Senate after the last election and they certainly would not convince anybody that there ought not to be a change in the existing provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
The unions believe that they should have a right to determine the affairs of their own union, including the conduct of a ballot, the election of officers and any other issues which affect only members of the union. [More…]
Senator Hall suggested that voting in a trade union ballot for amalgamation was similar to voting in a Federal or State election. [More…]
He said that the Australian Labor Party supported compulsory voting in elections for State and Federal Parliaments. [More…]
Voting in State and Federal elections, where it is compulsory under the Commonwealth Electoral Act to be registered on the electoral roll, to have one’s name, address and occupation on that roll, is quite different from voting in an election in the trade union movement where it is not compulsory to join a union. [More…]
Therefore, in my belief it was irrelevant for Senator Hall to refer to the fact that the Australian Labor Party supports compulsory voting in elections for parliamentary office and the imposition of a fine on those who do not vote, when he suggested that it should be compulsory for members to vote in a trade union ballot for amalgamation. [More…]
Electoral Commissioner and Officer conducting the Water and Sewerage Employees’ Union (Wages Division) Election under Section 1 1 1 J of the Industrial Arbitration Act. [More…]
I think that the Liberal Party is quite right in suggesting that secret ballots ought to be held for the election of union officials. [More…]
We inserted section 133 (1) (a) in the legislation providing that members themselves must vote in the election of union officials. [More…]
It has been said more than once and it ought to be said again that public statements were made before the last general election by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and by the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) that we considered these measures to be necessary. [More…]
The roll available for the election was finalised in December last year. [More…]
It is now nearly the end of 1974 and those concerned are no nearer perfecting a roll to provide for that election than the Registrar was when he first decided who should be on the roll. [More…]
Some of the people who would vote in a current election would not be in the industry anyway. [More…]
After all, it cannot be assumed that those who do not vote in an election concerned with an amalgamation motion oppose the amalgamation. [More…]
This is the second of the 2 Conciliation and Arbitration Bills which the Government introduced into the House of Representatives shortly after the last Federal election. [More…]
This theme was constantly reiterated in those months leading up to the election in 1972. [More…]
The fact is that the Bill had its genesis in 1973 when a government, flush with an election victory, was still expounding the policies which had helped to win it an election. [More…]
After all, both the Country Party and the Democratic Labor Party were represented by quite a number of senators in this place, in addition to which the Democratic Labor Party in its own right polled a significant number of votes at the previous Senate election. [More…]
After all, the Austraiian Labor Party received approximately the same number of first preference votes at the last general election after the double dissolution of the Parliament as the Liberal Party and the Country Party. [More…]
Senator Douglas McClelland- But Senator Drake-Brockman did not come in as a member of the Australian Country Party last election. [More…]
Perhaps we might have a declaration as to which of those 2 men honourable senators opposite voted for as their leader after the last general election. [More…]
I say that because, since Senator Townley ‘s first election over 2 years ago and his representation in this chamber over that period, he has proclaimed that he is an Independent when everyone knows that he never was an Independent, that he is not an Independent and that he is never likely to be an Independent. [More…]
The implementation of the recommendations has been delayed by the double dissolution and the general election this year, but the complex planning required in determining priorities for the establishment of new radio stations is now under way. [More…]
It does seem unreasonable that members of the Northern Territory Public Service and the Commonwealth Public Service should not be able to resign from their positions to contest an election and, if they are unsuccessful, to rejoin the Public Service and continue with the same rights as they had before. [More…]
The ability on the part of Commonwealth public servants to do that with regard to elections for the Houses of the Commonwealth Parliament has always been recognised. [More…]
I understand that the position with regard to the members of the Northern Territory Public Service has been acknowledged by an amendment to the Northern Territory Ordinance establishing the Northern Territory Public Service some 10 years ago so that members of that service are entitled to resign, contest an election and, if they are unsuccessful, to come back into the Northern Territory Public Service with no loss of continuity or of rights. [More…]
I think the expression ‘tidying up’ is a fair way to describe what will happen with regard to members of the Commonwealth Public Service who are interested in standing for election as candidates in the forthcoming Legislative Assembly elections in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Members of the Commonwealth Public Service have to resign in order to stand for election to the Houses of this Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
They can, if they are unsuccessful at the election, rejoin the Public Service after the election. [More…]
In regard to the Australian Capital Territory, according to the information which has come to me, there has never been any prohibition upon members of the Commonwealth Public Service standing as candidates for election as members of the Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council, and that there will not be any prohibition upon them standing as candidates for election as members of the proposed Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Indeed, I understand that some public servants are candidates in the election for the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
As I understand it, nominations for the forthcoming election for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly close on Friday, and it is desired that the Bill should pass through this chamber today, go through the House of Representatives and, if possible, receive royal assent on Thursday. [More…]
If adequate provision is not made it must be conceded that someone may, through inadvertence or by some change in attitude to these things, depart from the principle that we are accepting and by some kind of ordinance in a territory take away the right of public servants or those in the defence forces to stand for election and to be reinstated if they are unsuccessful. [More…]
I am glad that Senator Young has raised this point because I have some personal knowledge of Government interference in Wheat Board affairs which pre-dates 1 973 and in fact pre-dates the election of the Whitlam Government. [More…]
He stated that in fact quite early in 1 972 a directive had been issued to the Board by the then Liberal-Country Party Government not to trade with the Chilean Government following the election of the Marxist President Allende. [More…]
There could not have been an election in that year. [More…]
We did not hear any details from the Australian Labor Party in the 1972 and 1974 election campaigns about the imposition of its capital gains tax. [More…]
When the Australian Labor Party entered the 1972 and 1974 Federal elections and talked about social justice it did not reveal the hidden realities that the Australian people would have to contribute. [More…]
It did not say that because it knew very well that if it went into an election campaign espousing that sort of policy it would lose. [More…]
We did not hear a statement like that in the election campaigns. [More…]
Since I have been a member of the Senate I have heard it said many times- I have not attempted to count them- on the other side that we on this side should be reminded that we did not win the 1972 and 1974 Federal elections. [More…]
I never doubted that we lost the 1972 and 1974 Federal elections. [More…]
But I think the Federal Labor Government needs to be reminded that the Australian Labor Party did not win the State Government election in Queensland in May 1972. [More…]
It did not win the Victorian State election in May 1973. [More…]
It did not win the New South Wales State election in November 1973. [More…]
Indeed neither did it win the Western Australian state election in March 1974. [More…]
Following those actions of the Government in 1973 in relation to tariffs and revaluation, we had in 1974 the May election which was brought about by the refusal of supply to the elected government. [More…]
even though Mr Snedden has been constantly talking about the economy since the May election, he so far has displayed little evidence that he has the intellectual and political toughness to take the decisions which the deteriorating situation demands. [More…]
I hope that the people of Australia are becoming suspicious of rhetoric and clever debating, and that in the next election there will be a more realistic assessment of what is being offered to the Australian people. [More…]
At election time, we, the Opposition, campaigned on the need for Government restraint. [More…]
I remind the Senate of Bill Snedden ‘s caution before the May election and his refusal to promise increases in social programs until inflation was brought under control. [More…]
I draw to the attention of the Senate the fact that in the recent Senate election there were secession candidates in Western Australia. [More…]
As a member of the Senate Select Committee on Foreign Ownership and Control from its inception until the last election, I have been very much involved in its work at all stages, and in particular in the reference made to it by the Senate of the Australian Industry Development Corporation Bill and the National Investment Fund Bill. [More…]
We then had the election. [More…]
As I see it, the only interpretation that is compatible with the facts is that in the second week- that is after the election- the Commission dropped its reserves. [More…]
But once again a likely interpretation seems to be that the Commission was trying to oblige the Liberal- Country Party Government in the week before the Senate election by enabling it to claim that the establishment of the Commission was a remarkable success because in the first week of its operations it had forced prices up by 10 per cent. [More…]
After the election, when there was no necessity to do that, prices were allowed to fall to the previous level. [More…]
I was reminded the other night that during the last election campaign Mr Snedden said that interest rates would have to go up, before they would come down, even if his Party were elected to office. [More…]
The honourable senator also will recall that during the recent Federal election the Prime Minister announced that a Labor Government, upon being returned to office, would do all it could to provide a third network for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
If the Government wants to spread election propaganda about grants, let it deliver when the time comes. [More…]
When the 1972 general election campaign was being fought- nowhere was it fought more bitterly than Townsville- the Labor candidate and the then Labor Leader, Mr Whitlam, made it clear that if Labor were elected to office it would immediately provide funds for the construction of stage 2 of the Ross River dam. [More…]
It is sad that so much time has passed since that election before the commencement of stage 2. [More…]
I believe that the scrutiny given by the media and by the people and organisations that support our election to Parliament are sufficient to ensure that we act honourably and uprightly, as I believe all honourable members do in respect of their pecuniary interests. [More…]
During the last election campaign Mr Daly and other Labor Ministers said that the multi-national corporations were contributing to the Liberal Party. [More…]
A subject I know more about concerns the accounts run up during the election campaign which were paid by other people. [More…]
I have a document which was sent out during the May 1974 election campaign by the Leader of his Party, and it lists quite a number of people who made large donations to his Party. [More…]
I would just like to comment briefly on the Government’s much publicised national health scheme which was mentioned so much during the general election campaign and which was the subject of one of the double dissolution Bills. [More…]
I was greatly distressed when I heard that the Liberals were moving to a harder line in this way, especially in the election of their Cabinet. [More…]
I was pleased to read reports that they had moved away from that hard line and disciplinarian attitude in the election of their Cabinet. [More…]
It was introduced a few days before the 1973 State election in South Australia as a very great developmental project put together by the State Labor Government. [More…]
When the South Australian House of Assembly met earlier this year I was able to ask the South Australian Premier to produce the report which he said he had before the election and which gave the all clear on the environment in Spencer Gulf. [More…]
I remind honourable senators that the South Australian Premier had it all clear before the last State election, but now there is to be a full public inquiry by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
He will remember that during the last election campaign in South Australia the Premier came out with a very enthusiastic plan which had been worked out in co-operation with Mr Hawke of the Australian Council of Trade Unions under which the ACTU was to buy from the South Australian Government a large amount of land south of Adelaide and develop it for homes for the workers. [More…]
That plan formed pan of a dramatic election platform. [More…]
After the election Mr Hawke- the Minister must know this- said that he liked Sydney better and that he was not going to do this in Adelaide. [More…]
It was all right to say this during the election campaign in South Australia, but afterwards Mr Hawke got a bit tired of it and said that he would go to Sydney. [More…]
I remember formulating a policy for water filtration for the 1970 election campaign in South Australia. [More…]
Of course, we were defeated at the election and were unable to put into action the water filtration plan for Adelaide. [More…]
Prior to the 1972 Federal election at which Labor came to office Mr Dunstan was the Chairman of the Australian Labor Party Federal Election Finance Committee. [More…]
As Chairman of that Committee he worked rather assiduously to obtain funds for the election campaign. [More…]
I seek your financial support for the ALP campaign for the Federal elections. [More…]
The election of a Federal Labor Government will save you these costs in the future. [More…]
The promise of the Labor Party and of the Premier of South Australia prior to the December 1972 election has therefore cost the industry, by the imposition of a Federal excise in their place, an extra $ 1 3,729,000. [More…]
I think that was unfortunate, because if we read all the statements that have been made by our economic spokesmen and if we read the policies that we put forward during the May election campaign, we very quickly recognise that we have some alternative proposals. [More…]
Considering that the Government is reaping a reward in excess of $3,000m in personal taxation, one would have thought that even the Labor Government would have recognised that it could afford to grant in excess of the $600m reduction in personal income tax that Mr Snedden promised during the election campaign. [More…]
During the last State election campaign Mr Dunstan made the great announcement that there would be a $300m petro-chemical works established in that area of South Australia. [More…]
During the election campaign in March Dr Eastick said at Murray Bridge that Monarto would be an economic sink. [More…]
Mr McLeay was trying to say that the South Australian Labor Government advocated Monarto only as a public relations exercise when, if these words are correct, that is what his Government was trying to do prior to the 1972 election. [More…]
I do not think that it becomes a member from a far distant State which has the protection of the most democratic system of State elections in the whole of Australia to object to a reference to an area about which he knows nothing and which has the worst gerrymander system in Australia. [More…]
His successor won one election, lost the 2 following elections and then left the Party for the whole purpose of coming to this place to criticise his colleagues from South Australia. [More…]
He will remember that when his leader, during the last Federal election campaign, was asked which areas he would cut out, he found it very difficult to say anything, except to suggest cuts in expenditure on health, education and the other services which no selfrespecting government would cut. [More…]
If it wants such a mandate, let us have an election with that as the basis of the campaign. [More…]
We contested an election on 18 May. [More…]
He told the people before the election that the Government had taken certain action and that inflation had fallen by one-third. [More…]
During the campaign leading up to the election on 18 May, together with other members of the Liberal Senate team, I visited many factories in Tasmania and, without exception, each time the management were asked a question on shipping they gave the same answer. [More…]
I do not have the time and have never claimed that the election of the Whitlam Government was responsible for it. [More…]
In the Senate we have had the privilege of listening to all 15 new honourable senators who grace this chamber as a result of the election which was held because of the double dissolution of Parliament. [More…]
Thirdly, and quite importantly to Tasmania, as was proved at the last election by the reaction of the electors, Tasmania is under seige because of the harm done to rural industries in under 2 years by this Government. [More…]
A little later in the statement he rightly reminded the electors of Tasmania about the promises made by Labor before the last election. [More…]
The electors of Tasmania could become very important in the next federal elections as 5 seats will be coming up for the taking by the Opposition parties from members now representing them who have grown old and lazy. [More…]
The Whitlam Government stands condemned of the most flagrant breaches of its pre-election promises to equalise the rates for Tasmanian freight with those applicable to those on the mainland. [More…]
It is more loathsome and pitiable because of an advertisement which appeared prior to the 1 8 May 1974 election as a result of the double dissolution. [More…]
The then Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Barnard, the member for Bass, authorised in the week prior to the election an advertisement which stated: [More…]
Long before I knew I would use this advertisement in the Budget debate and before the election was held I had written in my own fair hand on this advertisement which was authorised by Mr Barnard, ‘Snedden and Anthony threaten our job’, because I thought and hoped that the Liberal and Country Parties would come back into power on 18 May. [More…]
The strange thing is that despite the criticism of honourable senators opposite, during the last Federal election campaign they never promised that anything more would be spent on defence. [More…]
Whilst their defence spokesman and others in this chamber criticised the Government before the last election and whilst they have come back here and said that we ought to do certain things, none of them has promised to spend anything more on defence because they know that we are managing the defence Services properly. [More…]
Just to drive it home, he came back in the 1974 election and promised something else. [More…]
On 5 May, a couple of weeks before the election, when addressing a convention he had this to say, and he was talking about inflation: [More…]
The final quote I will offer to the honourable gentlemen opposite is from their own ‘It’s Time’ folders from before the 1972 election. [More…]
Upon the election of this Government I recommended to the Cabinet that the matter be deferred pending my further consideration of whether the issue of a second licence for Canberra was warranted. [More…]
As the Prime Minister callously and cynically betrayed the Baltic people in repudiation of an undertaking that he gave on the eve of the general election on 17 May, so he has equally callously and cynically betrayed the Australian people by his repudiation of promises and undertakings that he gave during the election campaign. [More…]
During the election campaign in May he told the Australian people that inflation had been reduced and was no longer a problem. [More…]
Inflation was running at a rate of about 13 per cent during the May election campaign. [More…]
We look very simply for our answer to the Prime Minister when he was Leader of the Australian Labor Party just before the 1972 election and he gave a Fabian lecture. [More…]
A newcomer to this chamber, Senator Button gave us some enlightenment- no doubt it was an early pre-selection speech for the Victorian when he said, according to a report in Tuesday’s ‘Australian’, that industrial unrest, power struggles and militancy now being experienced in Australia are healthy signs. [More…]
Before the 1972 election, Mr Dunstan, the Premier of South Australia, as chairman of the Australian Labor Party Federal Election Finance Committee, wrote to producers of wine and brandy in South Australia seeking funds for his Party. [More…]
The election of a Federal Labor Government will save you these costs in the future. [More…]
Heavens above, we heard Ministers saying before the last election: ‘The one thing that Labor will not do is countenance unemployment in the community’. [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…]
I cannot see any person employed in the manufacturing industry supporting a return of this Government at the next election. [More…]
It is consistent with an undertaking given by the Prime Minister in 1 972 during an election campaign and restated in 1974. [More…]
The Labor Party promised in election speeches in 1972 that the Government would reintroduce the Interstate Commission. [More…]
The measure of the interest that the Liberal Party had in Tasmania is that its members were hardly ever seen, except at election time. [More…]
I wonder whether those visits are not related to the particularly high vote that the Liberal Party received at the election in May this year. [More…]
As Senator Everett said, Mr Whitlam and other Ministers travelled to Tasmania frequently before the election and they have travelled there frequently since the election. [More…]
In September 1972, before the election, we were assured by the then Minister for Education and Science and by Senator Rae that the removal of the Antarctic Division to Tasmania was impossible and undesirable. [More…]
In the year following the election this Government after investigation found that it was indeed possible and desirable. [More…]
Mr Whitlam promised before the last election to equalise freight costs between Tasmania and the mainland, with the cost of rail freights on the mainland. [More…]
If we are criticised for putting that to the national Parliament when dealing with a Bill to which it should be attached and Government senators do not vote for it, they are saying: ‘We heard the promise of the Prime Minister at election time. [More…]
I suppose we will find out at the next election when he is endorsed on the Liberal ticket and we find out which one of the sitting Liberal senators in Tasmania is sacrificed to give him a safe berth on that ticket. [More…]
Yes, let us go to an election. [More…]
Senator Young’s remarks on television on election eve are well remembered by South Australians. [More…]
Late in the election campaign when I was gaining some confidence, and recognising the dangers of a politician’s making any promises, I said at Whyalla that when I was elected to the House of Representatives I would ensure that a railway line was constructed from Port Augusta to Whyalla. [More…]
The proposals were presented to the State Government by the independent consultants just prior to the State election in 1970. [More…]
I know that the Government then was trying to arrange a satisfactory agreement for all sorts of reasons, and the forthcoming election could well have been one of them. [More…]
I remind the Minister of the statement made by the Prime Minister during the election campaign this year. [More…]
In this regard I simply want to place something on record with all deference to members of the Government who made this matter a feature of their 1972 election campaign. [More…]
Problems, of which Moore v Doyle and other cases provide illustrations, arise 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 for both bodies and one system of meetings. [More…]
For example, elections conducted for a State branch of a Federal union may be conducted under the rules of the State union and not under rules of the branch or partly under the rules of the State union and partly under the Federal union’s rules. [More…]
A member who is only entitled to membership of the State union may therefore participate in the election for officers in the State branch of the Federal union. [More…]
The provisions of Part IX A proposed by clause 16 provide for: The validation of all acts done in good faith by a collective body or by a person holding an office in an organisation or branch, notwithstanding any invalidity that may afterwards be discovered in any election or appointment or any making or alteration of a rule of an organisation or branch; the Australian Industrial Court to have power to determine the existence of an invalidity and to make rectifying orders provided such orders would not cause substantial injustice; the Australian Industrial Court to have power to decide, whether a part of an organisation has ceased to exist or to function effectively and to approve a scheme for reconstitution of the part so affected and a like power in relation to any vacant office or position in an organisation or in a branch of the organisation; a method whereby a person who is eligible for membership and has acted in good faith and has been treated as a member for a certain period of time is entitled to be admitted to membership and may apply to the Australian Industrial Court for a declaration as to his entitlement in that regard; the validation of acts done by a collective body or by a person holding office and of elections or rule alterations after the expiration of 4 years; and the Australian Industrial Court to have power to declare that the provisions validating certain acts, elections and rule alterations are not to apply where the Court determines that they would cause substantial injustice. [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Prime Minister noted the result of the election for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly wherein the Country-Liberal Party achieved a complete victory and the Australian Labor Party is unlikely to win any seats. [More…]
Does the Minister see any consistent pattern of disaster in this and other recent elections? [More…]
If we go back a little further to May of this year we find that a very important election was held all over Australia and it was a disaster for those who brought it on themselves. [More…]
Five members of that Party have gone, four of them as a result of that disastrous election. [More…]
I think that the Opposition ought not to remind the people of the disastrous period that it had in office and its disastrous steps in forcing a government, which was properly elected, to go to a premature election at which the Opposition was defeated. [More…]
The Minister indicated prior to the May election that there would be an opportunity to debate this matter. [More…]
I ask whether he recalls any Labor spokesman complaining about biased and unfair political reporting in the months preceding Labor’s election win in 1972. [More…]
I can recall instances of members of the present Government complaining on one or two occasions about misreporting, in the months preceding the 1972 election. [More…]
1 ) Did the Prime Minister inform the President of the Council of the Lithuanian Community in Australia prior to the election of 18 May 1974, that his Government did not intend to alter the policy of previous Governments with respect to recognition of the incorporation of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
-I think it is fair to say that the trade union movement in general around Australia worked very hard to have a Labor Government elected in 1972 and again worked very hard to have that Government stay in power in the election in May this year. [More…]
I am sure that at the next election- whenever it comes- the trade union movement in general again will work very hard to have the Labor Government re-elected, as it will be, because again that will be to the advantage of the members of the trade unions. [More…]
It is an interesting sidelight possibly on the attitudes which parties take that the desire to use the processes of the Constitutional Convention for the promotion of a further referendum on this subject of widening the industrial power of the Commonwealth was expressed as part of the Opposition Parties’ platform at the last election. [More…]
I think it is worth while at this stage, in case there are some doubts as to what the problem is, to point out that it is adequately and fairly stated in the second reading of the Postmaster-General (Senator Bishop), as Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, where he points out that over the years, because we have this dichotomy in our industrial law, situations arose so that a State branch of a Federal union and a State union often were 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 for both bodies and one system of meetings. [More…]
After years and years of litigation in which I succeeded in obtaining legal victory in the courts and Senator Murphy’s clients remained in control of the union because they ducked from the State body to the Federal body, my client finally won an election and went down to take his place in the union office. [More…]
In saying that I am not predicting any dire election results in the foreseeable future; I am talking about this in terms of man’s longevity. [More…]
From shadow Minister for Education at the time of the last election, we have him emerging shortly afterwards as the shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, and I pass no reflection on the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh). [More…]
I am informed that the South Australian AttorneyGeneral, who was to preside over at least the executive session, announced last night not only that he was aware of what was happening in the Australian Parliament and of the breakdown because of the Opposition’s attitude here, but also that he had been informed by the Premier of Queensland that there could be no delegation from Queensland due to the dissolution of the Queensland Parliament preparatory to the State election to be held there in December. [More…]
Has he also seen a statement by Mr Sinclair that during the election campaign an agricultural chemical company was asked to contribute funds to the Australian Labor Party’s campaign, with the implication that if a donation was not forthcoming then, to quote Mr Sinclair, some ill might befall that company’s continued participation in the agricultural community’? [More…]
When the last election was being held the test was whether the Opposition was prepared to reinstitute the taxation concessions which we had taken away and it was not prepared to undertake to reintroduce one single taxation concession. [More…]
These are the sorts of questions which will be asked and answered too before the next election. [More…]
Does the Minister recall that during the referenda associated with the 18 May election Opposition senators campaigned against the referenda on the basis that the proposed constitutional changes should be considered by the sessions of the Constitutional Convention which have now been abandoned? [More…]
Although he was not successful, he indicated at that time that, if the Labor Party were successful in the December 1972 election, he would bring before the Parliament shortly after it resumed a Bill to increase the rates of benefit in the compensation Act and would try to work into the new Bill the objectives of the Labor Party. [More…]
Following the election and Mr Clyde Cameron’s taking over the portfolio of Labor, he introduced a Bill in April 1973 incorporating many of the benefits about which he had spoken. [More…]
When I made my maiden speech you, Mr President, were not in the Chair for unavoidable reasons, so I was not able to pay you the courtesy of congratulating you on your election to the position of President and to say that I look forward to learning my trade as a senator under your Presidency. [More…]
I suppose they could be led on by Senator Jessop who is first on the casualty list to go at the next election. [More…]
I preface my question, which I direct to the Minister representing the Minister for Social Security, by saying that the Minister for Social Security made repeated election promises before both the 1972 and 1974 Federal elections that under his administration Queensland would receive $22m for health services. [More…]
I introduced into the Senate a Racial Discrimination Bill on 21 November 1 973, and again on 4 April 1 974, but the Bill was not debated before Parliament was dissolved for the last election. [More…]
Which persons appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of the Labor Government. [More…]
to (5) I indicated in my answer on 23 August 1974 (House of Representatives Hansard, page 1213) that the Government does not know in each case what occupations were followed by Australian Labor Party candidates after the 1972 election. [More…]
The same comment applies in respect of people who advocated the return of the Labor Government before that election. [More…]
Will the Minister agree that this action is only a petty campaign initiated by the Country Party Government of Queensland to disadvantage further low income occupants as parts of the current State election campaign? [More…]
In Queensland we are expecting a lot of gratuitous advice from the Prime Minister over the next few weekends leading up to our State election. [More…]
But the policy has misfired because the people who have been hit are the very people whom the Labor Party says at election times it is representing and will support. [More…]
Well, you were not and you will not be after the next election despite all your cockiness now. [More…]
On numerous occasions; and statements were made by the Prime Minister when he was Leader of the Opposition before the 1972 election. [More…]
One of the many claims made by the Australian Labor Party in seeking election to government and early in government was that it disapproved strongly of the principle of the previous government in substantial leasing or renting of premises and that its policy would be to alter that arrangement radically and to provide accommodation in its own buildings. [More…]
I believe that following Labor’s success in the election in 1972 there was a commission formed in the western suburbs of Melbourne in which prominent Labor Party personalities were involved and it was established with a view to promoting what was said by the Labor Government and by some of its Ministers to be the needs of the western suburbs of Melbourne. [More…]
Is it a fact that there were in fact 2 elections, the second election taking place because the names of 3 persons who had been nominated were left off the original ballot paper so a second ballot was held on that night in a rather haphazard manner. [More…]
We have said- we have said it in the documents which were published prior to the election on May 18- that the imaginative concept of this Assistance Plan warranted our support and we give support to it. [More…]
We must not forget the vindictive campaign that was conducted against the previous Minister for Immigration, Mr Grassby, in the electorate of Riverina during the period leading up to the election held on 18 May 1974. [More…]
163 asked by Senator Greenwood, state that he did not inform the President of the Council of the Lithuanian Community in Australia prior to the election of 18 May 1974 that his Government did not intend to alter the policy of previous [More…]
The right of every Australian citizen to vote at a National Referendum or Senate or Federal Election for the retention of our present Australian Flag and equally of our national anthem, ‘God Save The Queen’, before any government or other body can attempt to substitute either a new flag or anthem, and a similar voting right for the choice of any official National Song to play on international occasions. [More…]
It was said before the 1972 election that the remaining excise of 25c on wine would be removed and that no alternative taxation would be imposed on the industry. [More…]
I had occasion to read the Cairns newspapers in which reference was made to the forthcoming State election. [More…]
All he is doing is helping that close personal friend of mine, the Premier of Queensland, in his political arguments in the State election campaign. [More…]
There is no doubt that the visit is designed primarily to endeavour to create unrest and disharmony amongst Aboriginal people, and I would forecast also for party political purposes in view of the election, but especially as a result of a particularly vitriolic attack on him and his department by a group of Aborigines in North Queensland. [More…]
One understands, of course, that there is an election campaign in Queensland at this time and that this is a very political debate in this chamber. [More…]
It is seen, at least in my case, as an attempt to influence the election in Queensland by putting a clause in the Bill which is against the Australian Government and is for the State Government of Queensland. [More…]
I am at risk at the next election so I might have to resign. [More…]
I refer to the representations constantly made by the Australian Council of Social Service, the Brotherhood of St Laurence, the poverty inquiry and the Liberal and Country Parties both during the last election campaign and since for the immediate abolition of the 7-day waiting period for unemployment and sickness benefits. [More…]
The honourable senator is relying on a Press statement issued over the name of Mr Tucker who is at present campaigning in the Queensland State election. [More…]
It should be clearly understood that the present Western Australian Government made it clear, when in Opposition, that if it were returned to government at the next State election it would appoint a royal commission to ascertain whether the interests of Western Australia would be best served by the introduction of a second service at this stage in Western Australia’s development. [More…]
-As I think all honourable senators would be aware- 1 hope they would be aware- and certainly all war widows would be aware, there was a steady deterioration in the level of the pensions available for war widows after the election of a Liberal-Country Party government in 1949. [More…]
I do not believe that the Government has attacked the economic position from the right direction, and because of the action of those who control everything that is done in Caucus, I do not think that we will see this country get the right direction and the confidence it needs until after the next election. [More…]
I say to the people of Australia that at the next election Labor must be removed, never to be given the right to rule this country again. [More…]
We noticed that during the last election campaign he spent $15,000 to $20,000 to be re-elected. [More…]
If he has to run another election campaign he will not be able to pay for it out of his parliamentary salary so he must look to his income from his business undertakings. [More…]
Without going any further into this question of taxation concessions and all the other imposts which the Whitlam Government was alleged to have placed on farmers in the 1973 Budget, the final test of the sincerity not only of the Country Party but also of the entire Opposition was demonstrated quite decisively in the election campaign in May 1974 when, despite having fulminated for the previous 8 months about the alleged injustice and the alleged unwisdom of these policy decisions, the Liberal and Country Parties gave no undertaking to reverse any of these policies, with the exception of the superphosphate bounty; and even then that undertaking was carefully qualified by the statement that the bounty would be extended for 3 years and referred to the Industries Assistance Commission for study. [More…]
I suggest very strongly, though, that it is highly deceptive, to say the least, to grandstand in the countryside and say how necessary particular taxation concessions and rates of depreciation are, or are alleged to be, and then, when there is an opportunity of offering an alternative policy in an election campaign, to give no undertaking to provide some real backing for the empty rhetoric that the Country Party had been throwing around the electorate for the previous 8 months. [More…]
We were told the story by Mr Whitlam during the 18 May election campaign that the Government had collared inflation which was then on the down trend. [More…]
But it is rather serious when the Government of the day comes out at election time and says that it has collared inflation, that it is going down, when it is really rising at a very rapid rate. [More…]
Why, the Labor Party, during the last election campaign, engaged an overseas-owned multi-national advertising company to do its advertising so it would get back into government. [More…]
What is more interesting than anything else is that the Labor Party still owed the foreign-owned multinational company $200,000 for the 1972 election campaign. [More…]
At the 18 May election these haters of multi-national foreign-owned companies had a multi-national company financing their campaign to the extent of $200,000 and more. [More…]
In his election policy speech in 1973 the Premier spoke proudly of house building under government auspices in South Australia. [More…]
It is rather significant, is it not, that after the election Mr Hawke, when questioned again, said: ‘We have changed our minds. [More…]
South Australians know well that if it had not been for the double dissolution of the Parliament Senator Hall would have been back on his farm because he had to resign from his seat to contest the Senate election. [More…]
But in the 2 years that we have been in office, by the obstruction of honourable senators opposite we have been forced to a double dissolution and to another election. [More…]
I accuse them, on a Wednesday, of an inability to shut up in the belief that their speeches will get them votes at the election. [More…]
Which persons appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of the Labor Government. [More…]
Which persons appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of the Labor Government. [More…]
1 ) to (5) As the Prime Minister indicated in his answer on 23 August 1974 (House of Representatives Hansard, page 1213) the Government does not know in each case what occupations were followed by Australian Labor Party candidates after the 1972 election. [More…]
The same comment applies in respect of people who advocated the return of the Labor Government before that election. [More…]
Which persons appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of a Labor Government. [More…]
1 ) Which persons appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibilty are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of the Labor Government. [More…]
Baltic Council in South Australia protesting against a reported insulting remark made by the Prime Minister to a woman at an election meeting in Queensland? [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, firstly, to allow for 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 papers; printing of party affiliations of candidates on ballot papers; registration of political parties for purposes of indentification 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 ballot paper; 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 Officer; 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 Assistant 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. [More…]
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 two squares or, as was the case in the most recent Senate election in New South Wales, no less than 73. [More…]
As senators 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 elections, the precise number of formal votes was unknown until over 2 weeks after polling day. [More…]
As the Government is particularly anxious 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 applied 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 South Australian 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 right 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 1 969 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…]
When the Bill was first introduced in the House of Representatives in April this year before the election, copies were provided to the then Northern Territory Legislative Council for its information. [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…]
I suggest that if his Party on our side of politics wants to do something useful it might come out with some very firm unequivocal statement of what it is going to do about secret ballots for strike decisions and about the implementation of parliamentary disciplines in the election of union officials. [More…]
1) Which person appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility arc members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of a Labor Government. [More…]
I ) to (5) I refer the honourable senator to the Prime Minister’s statement on 23 August 1974 (House of Representatives Hansard p. 1213) where he referred to the fact that the government does not know in each case what occupations were followed by Australian Labor Party candidates after the 1972 elections. [More…]
This position also applies in respect of people who advocated the return of the Labor Government before that election. [More…]
However, due to unforeseen delays brought about by the election in May 1974, the Bill has been held over until now. [More…]
That conference had to be cancelled because of the decision then to hold an election following the double dissolution of Parliament. [More…]
This proposal was first publicised in 1973 as part of the election program of the Premier of South Australia, Mr Dunstan. [More…]
I remember clearly how I questioned Mr Dunstan during the election campaign as to what protection there would be of the environment of Spencer Gulf, especially in relation to the prawn industry, which is based on a very delicate environmental factor in those waters, and of course other factors of general pollution. [More…]
The Premier’s reply during the election campaign was that he had a report from the Department of Fisheries which gave the all clear to any possibility of the pollution of Spencer Gulf. [More…]
I may say that the Premier, when asked after the election in 1973 to table the report in the House of Assembly in South Australia, said: [More…]
Before I leave the environmental factor I wish to remind the House that the Premier said in April before the 1973 election that the environmental question had been cleared; yet in May 1974, over one year later, a report of his own Government- of course, a report obtained under the pressure of politics in my State- under the heading of Effluents’, in part of a very large report of the South Australian Department of Environment and Conservation, said that little information is yet available on the nature and quantities of plant effluents and noise. [More…]
When the Government says that the postal voting system must be reformed merely to speed up the count on election night, one cannot help but think: ‘It that the real reason for the proposed change? [More…]
I understand that the results of the last election for the House of Representatives- this proposed system is to apply to both Houses- showed that the average number of candidates for each electorate was four which meant that an elector had to fill in only three out of the 4 squares to have a valid vote because, as we all know but do not tell electors, they do not have to fill in the last square. [More…]
As I understand it, in the election for the House of Representatives this year the informal vote was only 1.92 percent of the total votes cast throughout Australia. [More…]
In fact, since 1900 the percentage of informal votes for House of Representatives elections has hardly moved, up or down. [More…]
As to the Government’s argument on informal votes for House of Representatives elections, I do not think that has much validity. [More…]
Turning to Senate elections, if one uses the argument that optional preferential voting will reduce the percentage of informal votes, I do not know how the Government can attempt to substantiate it. [More…]
What one must do is look at the informal votes cast in Australia because, after all, we are talking about a Bill for an Act which will affect all electors in Australia in elections for the whole of Australia. [More…]
As I understand it, the informal vote at the last election for the Senate was 10.77 per cent. [More…]
In 1948 the Labor Government introduced a Bill to provide for the application of proportional representation to the election of senators. [More…]
When the Bill to have proportional representation for Senate elections was introduced in 1948, the AttorneyGeneral of the day, Dr Evatt, in his second reading speech, was critical of any proposal to make voting optional. [More…]
At the parliamentary election in New South Wales in 1922 and 1925, the exhausted votes, which far outnumber the informal votes, were the cause of much dissatisfaction and disputation. [More…]
If we examine the table we find that optional preferential voting in Advisory Council elections was introduced in 1959. [More…]
In the table all election figures for 1949 to 1957 are complete preferential voting figures. [More…]
I have carefully stayed away from the question whether we should have optional preferential voting in elections for the House of Representatives. [More…]
I remind the Senate that more than anyone alse in Australia, perhaps with the exception of Mr Westerway, I had reason to understand the argument that the Senate election result was slow after the 18 May election. [More…]
It took 5 weeks to the day before we knew the result of the Senate election in New South Wales. [More…]
The only possible reasons for introducing this is to help the returning officers to get a quick result on election night. [More…]
People of that faith have to wait until an hour or half an hour before the polls close, and then there is a great rush on the polling places because that is the only time on election day when they are permitted under our law to cast their own vote. [More…]
Firstly, I cannot understand why the Opposition adopts this attitude since the last Senate election was held in great controversy about the effect of very long papers on which very many voting details were required. [More…]
Any Party that has not formed a view of how to handle Senate voting procedures since the election of 1 8 May is not capable of governing. [More…]
Following the last federal election, my Party in South Australia had very serious talks with the Commonwealth Electoral Officer in South Australia on the basis of misconduct we believe occurred in electoral voting in the division of Boothby which is now represented by Mr John McLeay. [More…]
My Party was very dissatisfied indeed with the ethics or lack of ethics exhibited by the South Australian Liberal Party in that division at that election. [More…]
The use of that name may have been a rather humorous way of livening an election, but it did not really add to the seriousness of the result. [More…]
A system of preferential voting for Senate elections is, I think, something to which practically all political leaders have subscribed since the last Senate election. [More…]
As I have said, I remember one Country Party leader in particular who had a detailed plan to overcome this problem, and it seems that the Government has met it pretty well in its proposals in relation to preferential voting in Senate elections. [More…]
Senator Hall mentioned the matter of State parliamentarians not being able to stand for election to another House. [More…]
If a person is a successful candidate at a Federal election he could then submit his resignation to the State House. [More…]
Had this sort of system prevailed for the last Federal election in Australia 49 per cent of the votes would have won 58 per cent of the seats. [More…]
The fact that came from the 1974 election was that with 49 per cent of the votes the Labor Party became the Government, having won 51 per cent of the seats. [More…]
I would not be surprised if he were to say that he will vote Labor at the next South Australian election but that he will vote Liberal in federal politics. [More…]
It is possible, of course, that there happens to be a State election campaign and that my beloved friend, the Premier, with whom I converse regularly- I will not refer to him religiously tonight; he has over the last few weeks done a lot to lose that title- would adopt this sort of tinny gimmick which he would think would probably gather votes for him. [More…]
He was been Minister for Aboriginal Affairs for almost 18 months, but 2 weeks before an election he goes to Queensland and starts tossing money around so that he can buy some votes from the Aborigines. [More…]
I know Eric Derrell, the Aborigine who happens to be running on the National Party ticket in Queensland at the corning election. [More…]
I am confident that as a result of the election to be held next Saturday we will be able to discuss this matter with someone of our own political persuasion. [More…]
I think, if the honourable senator casts his mind back to the 1972 election, he will remember that two of the matters upon which the Labor Government fought the election were inflation and rising unemployment- both brought about as a direct result of the Budget introduced by the then Treasurer, Mr Snedden, in August 1972. [More…]
Was the cut in the Queensland program caused by technical reasons, or was the deletion of the segment brought about because of political pressure applied to the Australian Broadcasting Commission by the Premier of Queensland, the Honourable J. Bjelke-Petersen, because of his diminishing political support in the current State election campaign? [More…]
If this is such an important and overwhelming matter that a Public Service Act should be held up, why is it not a plank in the election in Queensland? [More…]
Which persons appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of the Labor Government. [More…]
1 ) Which persons appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of the Labor Government. [More…]
I preface it by reminding the Minister that a Colin James Bennett, barrister, former Labor alderman, former Labor MLA and former member of the Australian Labor Party, is now the National Party candidate for the seat of Kurilpa in the forthcoming Queensland State election. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that C. J. Bennett was apparently induced to nominate as a National Party candidate with the promise of a possible appointment, after the election, as.a District Court judge? [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…]
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…]
As late as the second half of 1972- almost on the brink of the election in which he was made Prime Ministerthe Prime Minister in his Fabian lecture said these things: [More…]
In the year about which Senator Carrick speaks the Bill concerning the National Urban and Regional Development Authority was regarded as an interim piece of legislation and was introduced some 6 weeks before the Parliament was dissolved for the purpose of fighting the 1972 general election. [More…]
If there was any truth in that the Prime Minister had plenty of time to make inquiries about the state of the economy because throughout the election campaign before 18 May he was continually told about the need to reduce taxation and that the fight was about inflation, but he would not listen. [More…]
When the election campaign was on it was interesting to note the 2 themes adopted by the Labor Party in its advertisements, and this was particularly noticeable in Tasmania. [More…]
I believe that because of that when the election in that State takes place on Saturday the people will give the answer to show that they like strength in leadership and government and I hope that it will also be the answer to this Government. [More…]
I hope that the result of Saturday’s election will be an indication to this Government that the people of Queensland have shown in no uncertain terms what they think about the legislative program and enactments of this Government. [More…]
However, any thoughts in that direction must be cut short because of the particularly bad judgment which was shown by the Opposition in forcing an election in May of this year. [More…]
At end of motion, add- but the Senate is of the opinion that the provisions of the Bill which reduce the limit on deductions for education expenses from $400 to $150 seriously restrict the freedom of choice which now exists in the Australian education system, are a contravention of the Government’s election undertakings and will impose unwarranted burdens on parents with children attending both public and private schools and, further, that the Bill specifically: [More…]
But in the last year or two, because of a need for election propaganda, there has been spilled out the bile, the hatred against the private or public company in Australia, especially the mining company and in particular the multinational. [More…]
At end of motion, add- but the Senate is of the opinion that the provisions of the Bill which reduce the limit on deductions for education expenses from $400 to $150 seriously restrict the freedom of choice which now exists in the Australian education system, are a contravention of the Government’s election undertakings and will impose unwarranted burdens on parents with children attending both public and private schools and. [More…]
A decision on when one goes to an election is a matter of political judgment. [More…]
He was not at the particular meeting and would not be aware of the details but he said that no doubt I was one of those who voted for the Government to be forced to an election in May. [More…]
As a matter of interest, I was not one of those people who considered that an election in May was appropriate. [More…]
My assessment, based on my judgment and political sense, and it was expressed at that time, was that after another 9 to 12 months- that is from December to Marchwould be a better time to have an election. [More…]
If we had an election now, or at any time within the next 2 or 3 months, there is no question that there would be a change of government. [More…]
I have heard it said by the shadow Minister and others that there are free elections on every reserve in Queensland. [More…]
1 challenge the Queensland Department and the shadow Minister in this chamber to produce the evidence that there has been a free election on every reserve in Queensland this year or last year. [More…]
I was on one reserve within recent months at which no election had been held for 4 years. [More…]
Yet the shadow Minister has the effrontery to tell us that there are regular free elections. [More…]
Has he not noticed the vote of the Aborigines in the recent Northern Territory election? [More…]
Labor did not gain one seat in that election. [More…]
Has he not noticed that the only Aboriginal candidate in next Saturday’s Queensland State election is standing for the National Party under the leadership of Joh Bjelke-Petersen? [More…]
Its defeat should cause an election, if there is a serious assessment of the Budget by the Government of the day. [More…]
I assume that the Opposition is not ready to cause an election at this time. [More…]
I assume also that Senator Wood is not ready to cause an election. [More…]
It is a matter of whether this House will say there ought to be an election on this issue. [More…]
As I have said, the question is whether there will be an election on this issue. [More…]
Further to what has been said in connection with this clause, I should like to say that it is rather interesting to note that it has been suggested that this chamber should not cause an election even if honourable senators feel that way. [More…]
It is up to the Government to decide whether it ‘ants an election on this question. [More…]
n as I am concerned, I would not hesitate if the Government wanted to have an election because I know what the results would be. [More…]
The responsibility of deciding whether an election will be held lies with the Government. [More…]
We do not know how often opportunities such as this will arise and we do not know whether the Government will want to have an election over them. [More…]
I wonder, if it feels that the occasion warrants the holding of an election, whether it will keep to its present view. [More…]
I remember that during the Budget debate last year I was one of those honourable senators who wanted to have an election. [More…]
I do not believe there is any unreasonable licence contained within the manner of election to the Corporation or in its powers. [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 1 972. [More…]
Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of the Labor Government. [More…]
Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of the Labor Government. [More…]
I think it was released just prior to the Queensland election. [More…]
Despite the unusual questioning in this chamber today I ask the Leader of the Government: Can he remember that there was an election in Queensland on Saturday? [More…]
The honourable senator and his Party take great comfort from the result of the Queensland election. [More…]
Had these electorates been distributed in a way which was compatible with democracy- honourable senators will recall the great declarations by the Supreme Court of the United States of America that an election by the people means that there must be equal electoratesthe coalition would have gained 52 seats and the Australian Labor Party 30 seats. [More…]
Is the new Government of Queensland committed by election promises to abolish several forms of State taxation and to pay consumer subsidies? [More…]
I suppose that last week a lot may have been said that perhaps would not have been said but for the fact that there was a State election on Saturday, because many accusations were made, particularly about the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, myself as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and what operates in other States, to which one would be justified in replying. [More…]
I know of no reason for this other than the fact that in the Queensland elections these people would have voted for the Labor Party or perhaps assisted the Labor Party in the election. [More…]
Despite what has been said, this is not an election issue and I hope the Opposition will reconsider its attitude and enable us to have unanimity on this legislation which is to ensure the freedom and the rights of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
Frankly, I would give a substantial donation to charity if the Premier of Queensland could produce in the next couple of weeks details of every free election held on a reserve in Queensland in the last 2 years. [More…]
There was an election on Palm Island recently. [More…]
It was an election of intimidation. [More…]
It was not a free election and the honourable senator knows it was not a free election. [More…]
The election was held and the honourable senator knows how it was held. [More…]
He knows that a stranger to the Island stood over the voters when they went to vote for that famous election. [More…]
There is a photograph showing a person actually intimidating voters as they went to that so-called free election. [More…]
Why were 16 or 18 people needed to surround one black man’s house on Friday of last week, the day before the Queensland election, in a spirit of intimidation, bulldozing them off the island? [More…]
When the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh) was replying in the second reading debate he mentioned something about this having been an election issue and that now that it was not an election issue we could treat it possibly in a different manner. [More…]
Never at any stage was this an election issue in Queensland. [More…]
This Bill has been on the notice paper for some time and the election in Queensland has not affected it at all. [More…]
Senator Keeffe seriously doubts whether free elections have been held on reserves. [More…]
At the present time, we are coming very close to doubting whether free elections are held at all in Queensland. [More…]
We saw the movement of people from Palm Island at the weekend- the day before the State general election. [More…]
I will go out and I will be pleased to tell the electorate that this is what Senator McLaren believes in and that any re-election of him or any election of his colleagues in the Lower House will mean a continuation of the stranglehold which the Australian Labor Party now has on the States and their governments. [More…]
The Government undertook at the last election to give technical education a proper and honoured place in a changing society and to prevent it from being the Cinderella of Australian education. [More…]
They put the Australian Labor Party first every time, before the good of their own State, so much so that they went to an election in 1970 promising that 2 dams would be built on the River Murray in the near future. [More…]
That was their election policy. [More…]
The then new South Australian Government in 1970-71 denied any dams to South Australia and stated, following that election promise, that it would re-negotiate the scheme. [More…]
But in South Australia the State Labor Government was advised before the 1968 election that it would have to change its policy on the Chowilla Dam and promote the Dartmouth Dam because of new information that was to be introduced to it very shortly. [More…]
However, that Government went to an election promising the construction of the Chowilla Dam, as did the then Opposition. [More…]
Shortly after the election the information that the outgoing Labor Government knew was available was presented to the new government. [More…]
If Senator Steele Hall wants to go on the hustings at election time and tell the people of South Australia what a wonderful deal he negotiated I will be quite happy to take up arms with him and tell the people the real truth. [More…]
Prior to the election and since the election this Government promised to subsidise shipping services to King Island. [More…]
Prior to the election and since the election this Government promised to subsidise shipping services to King Island. [More…]
Which persons appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of the Labor Government. [More…]
The Australian Government has, since the election in December 1972, actively sought the Queensland Government’s approval to allow participation by the Australian National Line in Queensland general cargo intrastate trading. [More…]
In his election policy speech in November 1972 Mr Whitlam offered to accept responsibility for the railways of any State which was prepared to offer them subject to mutually satisfactory terms being agreed. [More…]
After the May 1974 elections the Prime Minister wrote to the non-Labor Premiers saying that he wanted lo pursue the offer to refer power for prices regulation they made during the election campaign. [More…]
In accordance with an undertaking in his 1972 election policy speech, the Prime Minister wrote to all Premiers on 25 June 1973 proposing an additional term of reference covering State and local taxes. [More…]
I spoke to the candidate there and he told me that perhaps the significance of and the reason for that was that very great care had been taken to explain the Federal policies to the people of that area and when they understood what the Federal policies were they stood by the Labor Party in the election. [More…]
Certainly the Government draws no comfort from the results of the election. [More…]
Those of us who were around during the last election campaign know why. [More…]
The people showed this in the last election. [More…]
We have our right by virtue of election to have our say and to be heard, and it would be quite improper for the Senate to demand that these Bills be put through . [More…]
The Queensland Government has just had an election. [More…]
It was a very successful election for the Labor Party in Queensland too! [More…]
And the Government, having found itself in a position of a refusal of supply, could stall an election for a good month after July 1. [More…]
Of the 3 States which are expected to accept the Government’s offer, two will do so automatically and the other has largely roundly rejected the Labor Party at a recent election. [More…]
I would expect him to support the gentlemen in these health benefit organisations who elect themselves; organisations which have been described in a rather quaint way by Mr Chipp as cooperatives, yet give their members no vote; which give their members no say in how their funds are used; which lend their public relations officers to the Opposition during election time; which distribute propaganda paid for by the contributors to their funds, to be distributed by doctors and others during election time without asking for the contributors ‘ permission. [More…]
Election Candidates (Public Service and Defence Force) Bill 1974 [More…]
Election Candidates (Public Service and Defence Force) Bill 1974 [More…]
Election Candidates (Public Service and Defence Force) Bill 1974 [More…]
Which persons appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of a Labor Government. [More…]
Which persons appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of a Labor Government. [More…]
Which persons appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of a Labor Government. [More…]
In fact, the opposite is the case, although one particular issue of one publication- the annual economic survey for 1 974- was not proceeded with due to timetable problems associated with the May election and the September Budget. [More…]
On one occasion Senator Rae, who was the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Securities and Exchange, was asked some questions which suggested that he was holding up a report of the committee so that it would not be released before an election. [More…]
If the chairman did not have an opportunity to answer on that day that fact could be used by some unscrupulous person in an election campaign. [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…]
1) Which persons appointed since December 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of the Labor Government. [More…]
1 ) Which persons appointed since December, 1972 from outside the Australian Public Service to Boards, Commissions and Statutory Authorities under the Minister’s responsibility are members of the Australian Labor Party or who, prior to the 1972 election, publicly advocated the return of a Labor Government. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Leader of the Country Party, or National Party, Mr Anthony, is again advocating a 40 per cent increase in the price per barrel of Australian crude oil at the well head, as he did during the course of the campaign for the election last May? [More…]
When we come to the second Budget of this Government introduced in 1974 after the Federal election of May 1974 we find that the Government said quite falsely that it had inflation under control. [More…]
I think one of the most shameful things in this country’s recent history- and there have been a lot of shameful things perpetrated by this Government- has been the dishonest statements which were made during the election campaign in 1974 and so carefully repudiated within a week of Labor returning to office. [More…]
They are not game enough to say that they will have an election now or later in the year. [More…]
If they won an election, with the improvement in the latter part of the year, they would say: ‘We did it’. [More…]
He admitted that at one time these stop-go policies nearly lost an election. [More…]
He was willing to say anything in the election campaign. [More…]
Two months before their election 1 12 000 Australians were out of work, and Senator Douglas McClelland found that intolerable. [More…]
We would love to see an election campaign in the near future when we could say to parents and citizens associations that the advent of the Liberal government will mean a cutback in education expenditure. [More…]
I distinctly remember the present Premier of Western Australia, Sir Charles Court, having said, when he was politicking in the election campaign of March last year, that inflation could be beaten to a substantial degree State by State. [More…]
Notwithstanding Sir Charles Court’s assertion that inflation could be beaten State by State, what has happened since he has been elected is that the consumer price index for Western Australia, which at the time of his election in March 1974 stood at the national average, has rocketed to 58 per cent above the Australian average. [More…]
They were not at all chastened by their defeat in the ensuing election, and ever since they have continually threatened to do precisely the same thing. [More…]
It has been a strong feature of the Labor Party, as it was during the May election and has been over the last couple of days, that it would dearly like the responsibility of writing a policy for us which would undoubtedly keep us in Opposition forever. [More…]
In the 1 972 Federal election campaign the Labor Party sold the line that this meant doing nothing. [More…]
If the place of a Senator becomes vacant before the expiration of his term of service, the House of Parliament of the State for which he was chosen shall, sitting and voting together, choose a person to hold the place until the expiration of the term, or until the election of a successor as hereinafter provided, whichever first happens. [More…]
Proportional representation was introduced for the election of senators in 1 949. [More…]
In order to give expression to this principle, it is necessary that in the filling of a casual vacancy, the representation of the parties should remain a reflection of the votes cast for those parties at the previous election. [More…]
My 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…]
In the present period of proportional representation for the election of senators, such a choice could be sufficient to deprive a government of its majority in the Senate.’ [More…]
They have done so clearly and legally in the election for the Senate in May last year. [More…]
As to this argument that the proportional system on a total election - [More…]
If the Labor Party is so wedded to the principle that we must not disturb the proportion at a normal election one would have thought that Senator Sim and 1 would not have been opposed at the next House of Representatives election. [More…]
The argument ought to apply irrespective of the method of election which is used to elect senators. [More…]
What did the Prime Minister’s Party get at the election? [More…]
The idea that a State government of itself should be able to nominate whomsoever it chooses cuts across the pattern established for the method of election of members to the Australian Senate. [More…]
As I have said, at the last election in New South Wales the Labor movement secured a majority of votes over and above the Liberal-Country Party candidates in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and it is only 7 months ago that the people of New South Wales expressed that point of view. [More…]
We had an election in 1972; the Government was elected with a 3-year mandate. [More…]
But now you are threatening the people with another election. [More…]
There are more elections in this nation in a year as a result of the political activities of, and frustration by, the Opposition than there are feeds for a worker in a day. [More…]
He has taken upon himself the power of numbers in this Senate and thus could force a national election on the people and on the Australian Government. [More…]
I make the point that I am one who believes in the method of the election of the Senate. [More…]
This is why I think it is so important to put into context the election of the senators of Australia. [More…]
I remind them that the election last May did return a number of senators who in a particular sense are capable of exercising constitutional responsibility. [More…]
At least we will have an expression from the Senate, in part, that there ought to be an observance by the New South Wales Government of the convention which has been adhered to since the proportional representation system for the election of the Senate originated in 1949. [More…]
As a spectator I was willing to be somewhat charitable about one remarkable statement he made in Melbourne soon after his election as Premier of New South Wales. [More…]
I subverted my entire political principles in that appeasement when I agreed to a new scheme for the election of Legislative Councillors in South Australia. [More…]
I remind the House that the Leader of the Opposition said that to vote for a party ticket in a Senate election is a denigration of democracy. [More…]
Now we have a State Liberal Premier helping to force an election on grounds that the Federal Liberal leader docs not agree with. [More…]
Why are we so backward on our side in politics in upholding the principle ofthe democratic election of members to Parliament and of this convention which is to continue it? [More…]
If the members of the sub-committee take the trouble to read the commentary by Quick and Garran on section 16 of the Constitution they will learn, if they do not already know, that even before any question of proportional representation was involved in election to the Senate the procedure for filling a casual vacancy under section 1 5 of the Constitution was regarded- this is supported by the convention debates- as an extremely temporary measure until either the expiration of the term of office of the vacating senator or the next House of Representatives or Senate election. [More…]
The legislative selection is only operative until the expiration of the term or the election of a successor, whichever first happens; it: is merely an ad interim appointment, in order to save the State from being short of a senator, on the one hand, and to save the State the cost of a special election, on the other: the legislative apppointee is not a successor of the deceased, disqualified, or resigned, senator, but merely a temporary holder of office, pending the election of a successor by the people ofthe State. [More…]
Since the introduction of proportional representation in 1 949, the States have demonstrated their readiness to choose a new Senator ofthe same political party as was the Senator he replaces at the time of his election to the Senate. [More…]
But the founding fathers reserved to the parliaments of the States the right to make laws for determining the times and places of elections of senators for the States. [More…]
Realising that there can be no division of boundaries for senators for purposes of rigging the electorates or divisions, that power in regard to the places and times of elections is not unimportant. [More…]
They reserved to the Governor of the State the right and authority to issue the writs for the election of senators. [More…]
The principle of proportional representation was applied to any full election. [More…]
It stated that, if the place of a senator became vacant before the expiration of his term, then the Houses of Parliament of the State would, sitting and voting together, choose a person to hold the place for a temporary term until there was another election which would give the opportunity for his successor to be appointed. [More…]
The term of the person coming in to fill the casual vacancy is temporary, ad hoc or interim until there is another election giving the opportunity for that person to be elected. [More…]
One of the defects of proportional representation and the transfer of votes from the original papers is that if there is an election in 1974 and the casual vacancy occurs in 1975 a great deal of change in the political judgment of the electors may have occurred in that interval. [More…]
So if it is found that the Constitution is in line with the general theme that the Senate is a body in which the States have a particular interest and that the Constitution prescribes that the members of both Houses of the State Parliament sitting together shall fill a casual vacancy, it can be seen that it may be that a decision by the people’s representatives in the State Parliament would be a more appropriate interpretation of the will ofthe people in February 1975 than a transfer of votes from an election held in May 1974. [More…]
The most satisfactory way to ensure this result, the Committee considered, was by a provision in the law that any votes credited to an ex-senator be transferred to the next in line according to his ballot papers and the candidate elected by a continuation of the count would serve until the expiration of the term or until the election of a successor at the next election, whichever should first occur. [More…]
The second thing, as the Committee noted, is that it is not outside the scope of experience that a vacating senator might join another party after his original election and before the vacancy occurs. [More…]
Suppose that no Queensland election was in contemplation at the time the Gair affair arose and an ambassadorship was offered. [More…]
The second is that they must believe that when they vote at an election to choose their representatives in Parliament they are taking effective action and an action which will retain its effect for the term for which they have voted. [More…]
The second requirement of law and order in a democracy is that the people should be assured that when they vote at an election their vote has some meaning. [More…]
Owing to the requirements of the Constitution an election has to be held before the balance of the departing senator’s term has been completed by his successor, and this throws the alignment of the Senate out of adjustment. [More…]
It was honoured last year by the Australian Labor Party Government in Western Australia when Senator Prowse resigned from the Senate when an election appeared to be in the offing. [More…]
Why is he not seeing his whole term out and allowing a new candidate to stand at the election?’ [More…]
If you are going to depart from the principles which govern a parliamentary democracy and make enough people think that, though they voted in an election and elected a party to govern, that is really meaningless and all sorts of steps can be taken to abort what they have tried to do with that vote, those people who are already dissatisfied because of economic circumstances and do not like the economic system will also have a contempt for the political system. [More…]
It is a matter of interesting conjecture as to what my chance of election would have been if there had not been a double dissolution. [More…]
They did their sums on election percentages and they decided that if there were 6 vacancies in Queensland the numbers might have come up right for them on that occasion. [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 in returns of particulars of gifts, including donations, made to political parties or candidates, through or with the authority of party agents or official agents, but excluding any gift of less than $ 1 00, and gifts by any one person aggregating less than $100, made during the period to which the return relates; and limit the campaign expenditure of a political party, including electoral expenditure by 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 permissable 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 elections in all States. [More…]
Details of the formula in relation to conjoint Senate and House of Representatives elections are included in the Bill. [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…]
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 United States of America 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 for broadcasting and televising time on commercial stations alone was in the nature of $ 1.5 m and in this connection I quote from the Australian Broadcasting Control Board ‘s Twenty-sixth Annual Report on its operations during the year ended 30 June 1 974. [More…]
The total time occupied by broadcasting of political matter on commercial broadcasting stations during the election period amounted to 683 hours 45 minutes and the charges for that time were $3 16,739. [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…]
In several overseas countries the burden of the cost of broadcasting and televising is partly met from the public purse and it is intended that the Government will give some consideration to this aspect before the next election. [More…]
I do not blame the Opposition for sticking up for the people who provide its finances for election campaigns, who provide it with the sinews of political war. [More…]
He will be cancelling out the developments that are taking place in public broadcasting and the initiatives that have been opened up for creative and performing Australians will be dissipated in the dismal event of the election of a Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
There will not be an election such as we have in Australia. [More…]
The statements in question were that there was a long history of government interference in wheat marketing and that the previous government had interfered in the Australian Wheat Board’s sales to Chile following the election of President Allende. [More…]
My sources of information regarding Government directives to the Wheat Board on sales to Chile after President Allende ‘s election was the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s radio program ‘Country Hour’ broadcast by an official of the Western Australian Farmers Union on 3 1 October 1973. [More…]
The principal 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 4 separate elections for the House of Representatives and three 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…]
Mr President, 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 of 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 decided to call an election for 19 seats at a time before the Joint Committee on the Northern Territory could finish its hearing and present a report. [More…]
Having set out to give the Territory self-government, having beaten the gun by deciding how many electorates there would be and then suffering a mighty defeat at the election, this Government is now using the Bill in an effort to criticise and to detract from the ability, sincerity and effectiveness of present members of the Assembly. [More…]
If honourable senators look at proposed new section 147 relating to the fines to be imposed where breaches of the Act occur, and to the limits to be set for expedition in respect of parties for the Senate or House of Representatives elections or for referenda, these can be seen only as being arbitrary. [More…]
It is all very well for honourable senators on the Government side to snigger but the ridiculous situation will arise of people putting up dummy candidates just to be able to fund the operation in an election. [More…]
Of course, they are used for election purposes and for electioneering expenses. [More…]
Any sitting member in this Parliament, no matter in which House he is, is campaigning from the day he is elected until the day his election comes again and that gives him an enormous advantage. [More…]
Nobody in this place is naive enough to believe that a government does not campaign from the date of its election to the date of the next election. [More…]
If we talk about equality and equity between incumbents and challengers, surely if we are to be fair the moment an election is over and a challenger announces himself he should be given the same salary, rights and privileges as the incumbent so he can challenge the incumbent at the next election. [More…]
The experience of the Electoral Office has been that in spite of the fact that there have been penalties for not putting in after an election electoral returns as to one’s expenses the Electoral Office has not prosecuted either a successful or unsuccessful candidate for not putting in that return. [More…]
Politics being what they are, my educated guess would be that the party which won the election would make quite certain that its members who breached the law were not prosecuted. [More…]
Senators shall be entitled to retain the seats occupied by them at the time of their taking their seats for the first time after their election so long as they continue Senators without re-election. [More…]
Party’ means a body or organisation, incorporated or unincorporated, having as one of its objects or activities the promotion of the election to the Parliament of a candidate or candidates endorsed by it or by a body or organisation of which it forms a part. [More…]
So much for the objections to parties and to the suggestion that in some vague way or in some totally nebulous way the Bill will restrict the number of parties which can contest elections. [More…]
The quibbling was about minor points such as whether the amount allowed should be 7.5c, 6.5c or 3.5c for specified elections. [More…]
The provisions state that a candidate for the House of Representatives may not spend or may not have spent on his behalf more than $500 in an election campaign, and that a candidate for the Senate may not spend more than $1,000. [More…]
Moreover, did Senator Withers or any other upholder of law and order who sits on the Opposition benches ever suggest that action be taken against those candidates for the Senate or the House of Representatives who flagrantly violated those provisions election after election? [More…]
His pronouncements, as we can see from his various speeches, are that it should not be one vote one value but that we should have elections on a population basis. [More…]
A great volume of tourists or a great volume of residents in Australia who are perhaps not naturalised are counted as a basis for holding an election if it will bring some advantage to the Australian Labor Party and disadvantage to other political parties. [More…]
It states: electoral expenditure’ means 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…]
These are travel advantages which are not available to anybody else who wishes to contest an election. [More…]
The Government is bringing in a provision that there should be a disclosure of the costs incurred at an election. [More…]
Dr Cairns, prior to the last election, had 2 public relations officers on his staff who contested seats in Victoria. [More…]
I remember so well this great Prime Minister who started his election campaign by branding the Opposition as an Opposition of hate. [More…]
Perhaps that could be construed under this legislation as being directly or indirectly influencing the voting at an election. [More…]
I challenge the Minister to tell the Senate where the funds came from to pay the advertising accounts for the Government’s mid-term election campaign. [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, - [More…]
There will have to be a pretty good group that wa be paid for at Government expense before it would be willing to contest an election. [More…]
I do not say that they will always latch on to any party, but during the last election campaign there was the infamous incident involving one of the dregs of the advertising agencies, Mr Singleton, who I know embarrassed the Opposition parties with some of his tactics. [More…]
There was an exchange between Senator Withers and another senator about New South Wales election laws. [More…]
Let me say this: The only occasion on which an election result was upset due to inefficient electoral operations by the Chief Electoral Officer was in a Coogee byelection. [More…]
Then there was a byelection in Coogee and it did happen again. [More…]
I remember that at the last Federal election the Labor Party failed to win the seat of Stirling. [More…]
When we lose an election I never think that the result is crooked; but I know that there can be inefficiency. [More…]
With reference to electoral inefficiency, I remember an incident that occurred during the last New South Wales State election. [More…]
I know that in the 1972 and 1974 election campaigns there were people- without naming the television channel involved- who would have liked to have gone much further than they went. [More…]
He is a politician seeking re-election, and if he is fearful of defending his record in open debate, he doesn’t deserve to be reelected. [More…]
A national election is little more than a joke if one candidate is able to pour twice as much money as his opponent into paid television time. [More…]
Our goal must be public financing of all federal elections. [More…]
First, we should achieve public financing of presidential elections. [More…]
When it proves successful, as I believe it would, we would move on to public financing of House and Senate elections. [More…]
An incumbent President, be he Nixon in 1972 or Johnson in 1964, holds an all but overwhelming advantage when he can start planning and organising his campaign a year or more in advance, while his challenger cannot really finalise planning until he is nominated, perhaps three or four months before the election. [More…]
Obviously a President, in one sense, is always campaigning, but it would be possible to restrict the kind of political activity that the Committee for the Re-election of the President started on Nixon ‘s behalf early in 1 97 1 . [More…]
The proposal was also to contribute money from the public purse for the maintenance and payment of candidates standing for election. [More…]
The Bill states: electoral expenditure’ means 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…]
It refers to what is done directly or indirectly and not only to electing but to influencing an election. [More…]
Just one of its objects or activities - the promotion of the election to the Parliament of a candidate or candidates endorsed by it or by a body or organisation of which it forms a part . [More…]
The Bill reveals a lack of understanding of the political process during an election. [More…]
Those 2 persons will be going in different directions during an election. [More…]
A person who is busy running an election campaign must give prior written authority before gifts can be made to him. [More…]
It provides that a candidate shall not, within 3 months before the day next following the day fixed for the polling for the election, make a gift to anybody. [More…]
Not many people in the community at present are prepared to risk their money on making a right guess as to election dates in relation to the proposed new section. [More…]
Senator Webster referred primarily to the ability of persons on the staffs to be elected and to what they could do before the election. [More…]
Instead I refer to the use of people after an election. [More…]
Throughout the period between elections a government is able to use its staff, the staff of the Department of the Media- we know how much that is used - [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…]
Proposed new sections 153b and 153c create the positions of party agents and official agents and require these persons to do many onerous things including the making of returns after an election showing all the donations that may have been made in the flurry of the campaign. [More…]
They are also required to authorise in writing gifts that are made before or during the election. [More…]
Somebody has picked out the amount, for u Senate election held alone, of 1 .5c for each elector enrolled for a State. [More…]
Someone has picked out the amount of 7.5c for each elector in relation to House of Representatives elections. [More…]
The Government may decide that this is a good time for a further increase to be made and, with prior knoweldge of a pending increase, take great electoral advantage of that provision when an election comes near. [More…]
If it were sought to disallow the regulation I suppose the election would be over before it were done. [More…]
It sets out the kind of expenditude that is to be allowed in relation to elections and it adds particularly 2 things. [More…]
If the Government were proposing to alter that provision it could have widened it so that the ingenuity and imagination of persons involved in elections is not restricted to some person’s idea of what are suitable election expenditures. [More…]
Proposed new section 149 adds the same strictures on official agents and registered party agents: They shall not incur or authorise any electoral expenditure in relation to an election other than expenditure described in that proposed new section. [More…]
In addition it is significant that in 1972 the United States Federal Election Campaign Act became law and it provided, among other things, for disclosure of all contributions in excess of $100. [More…]
However, it must also be noted that under the Tillman Act of 1907, the Smith-Connolly Act of 1943 and the Taft-Hartley Act of 1 947 restrictions were placed on national banks and labour unions in respect of making contributions in elections for federal office. [More…]
As a Parliament concerned with the effectiveness of our election system, we should look at the whole of the problem and not seize one or two aspects which seem to be of interest to our own Party. [More…]
I believe that if Tom Jones or Bill Smith down the road wants to stand as a candidate in an election and he knows the amount of money he is allowed to spend, as people do under the law at the moment although the law is being violated, he would be more likely to stand because he knew he could afford to or could raise the required amount of money. [More…]
Under the existing Act he is entitled to spend $500 on his election campaign but he has no compunction whatsoever about spending $40,000. [More…]
One of the things that the Australian elector is entitled to know is how much money is spent by political candidates and political parties on elections. [More…]
We had an exercise forced on us by the Opposition in May last year and we had to say to the Australian people: ‘We are now being forced to spend an awful lot of the taxpayers money, your money, on holding another election.’ [More…]
Today I understand that the cost of an election is in excess of $4.5m. [More…]
We could stand here and say- as Senator Missen did- that the party agents and official agents following an election have to fill in returns to state from where the funds have been received and where they have been expended. [More…]
It was a quite unwarranted election which still has not been paid for by the Australian taxpayers. [More…]
Consequently, at the present time there is a limit of $1,000 in the case of a candidate for Senate election and $500 in the case of a candidate for House of Representatives election; that is, the present limit on a Senate candidate is double that which existed in 1902, while the present limit on a House of Representatives candidate is 2% times the limit that was set in 1902. [More…]
The information provided to me by my instructing officers, representing the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly), is that the answer would depend on the particular facts of the case, but if the expenditure was made for the purpose of promoting or opposing, directly or indirectly, a party or candidate or influencing an election directly or indirectly, then such expenditure would be deemed to be electoral expenditure within the meaning of the proposed legislation. [More…]
The Constitution never intended that the Senate should automatically face an election when the House of Representatives faced an election. [More…]
However, because of certain circumstances, the pattern has developed of the 2 Houses going to an election together but there is nothing in the Constitution to indicate that the 2 Houses must go to an election together. [More…]
There is no question about it- Mr Whitlam ‘s idea of bringing this type of legislation forward is to frighten senators who may vote on some occasion to bring about a double dissolution of the Parliament that their terms of office will expire at the time the House of Representatives faces such an election. [More…]
If the House of Representatives is brought to an election in a period shorter than the period of 3 years for which it was elected, of what concern is that to the Senate, the constitutional chamber of this Parliament of Australia? [More…]
Therefore, if some honourable senators have 3 years of their term still to serve under normal circumstances, I cannot see the necessity for legislation to make it mandatory for them to face an election with the members of the House of Representatives, apart from the circumstances which arise in a double dissolution of the Parliament. [More…]
It was envisaged in the creation of the Senate that there would be 2 sets of 3 year terms for senators with half the Senate members standing for election every 3 years. [More…]
In the back of the minds of the writers of the Constitution was the idea that while the membership of the House of Representatives could change at each election, the Senate still carried a reflection of the thought prevailing for 3 years before the election so there would not be a complete change in the outlook of the Senate as there would be in the House of Representatives. [More…]
When the position is considered in that way, it makes it more clear in my mind that it was in the minds of the writers of the Constitution that there should be sufficient period of time between the election of each half of the Senate so that there could be a carry-over of opinion, not for just 12 months but for 3 years. [More…]
In those circumstances, I think that we should do all we possibly can to preserve the Senate as it is at present, and that the Senate should retain its independence in not going to election always with the House of Representatives. [More…]
I say quite definitely that if there was an election in this country today this Government would be landslided out of office. [More…]
In this circumstance it must constantly reflect the very often emotional circumstances of an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
I believe that the introduction of simultaneous elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate must most definitely deny Australians that most important province whereby the Senate is a responsible House of review. [More…]
It is equally important, I believe, that the Senate elections should occur not simultaneously with the House of Representatives but that they should occur as they do now and produce half the members of the Senate at any one election, so that there is a change not of the total Senate but of half the Senate. [More…]
Of course it is much simpler to hold elections conjointly. [More…]
As well as the self evident reasons for synchronising elections in the House of Representatives and the Senate, ever since May last year there has been another particularly compelling reason why this should be done. [More…]
If elections are not synchronised and if the Government does not have the qualifications to force a double dissolution, having had Bills twice rejected by the Senate, the Senate can reject a Supply Bill and force the House of Representatives and the Government to an election without exposing itself to the verdict of the electors. [More…]
Over and beyond that- I am sure that privately members of the Opposition would acknowledge thisthe circumstances which existed at the time of the May 1974 elections and referendums were such that the electorate was overwhelmingly involved in the question of the election for the survival, the return or the defeat of the Government. [More…]
It is obvious- the point does not need labouring- that if we have an election every year, which seems to be the pattern our opponents are trying to establish, we do not achieve greater stability in government. [More…]
I suggest to those who argue that stability is achieved in some way by having more and more elections is to turn logic upside down. [More…]
I forbear from taking up Senator Wright’s invitation to refer to the debacle which hit the Minister’s Party when it contested the last State election in Queensland. [More…]
On 3 October I asked a number of questions relating to the use of the Commonwealth Police during the 1 974 election campaign. [More…]
I am surprised at Senator Wright’s moral indignation on the matter because at the worst we can be accused of nothing more than larceny by finding whereas Senator Wright belongs to a party which at the May 1974 election could be accused quite openly larceny by stealing Government policy. [More…]
The clients for whom I acted won the election and the man who had been elected in this ballot as secretary of the union turned up in the union office to occupy his office and was told by the defeated secretary: ‘Yes, you can have a seat over there in that corner of the office. [More…]
The assets belong to the trade union registered in New South Wales, of which I am still the secretary because there was not an election for that position but only for the position of secretary of the branch of the federal organisation. [More…]
If it is the view of the Government that it may following an election find itself in a position to put a mass, a stockpile, of Bills before such a Joint Sitting, then in fact the Australian people would be witnessing a total reversal of the social and political history of this country at one fell swoop. [More…]
But let me impress upon those who wish to record what has happened here tonight that what the Opposition is doing is not judging the Bill upon its value or its contents but merely judging it as a means by which it can frustrate the Government and force it if possible to an election. [More…]
If the Opposition is so confident that it can win an election- and I do not think Opposition members are; I have a feeling that things have changed somewhat. [More…]
I believe that we have moved away from an election this year. [More…]
Why does the Opposition seek to discredit and to frustrate the Government and to force it to an election? [More…]
-If Senator Webster is going to bring up the argument that the Opposition did not deny Supply last year and did not cause an election, it is no wonder his side of the House is turning this debate completely upside down. [More…]
I suppose that 2 months ago they and their supporters would have said that they could not lose an election caused by a double dissolution. [More…]
They lost the election and, incidentally, would not accept the verdict. [More…]
As a result of them forcing an election when they ought not to have done so they were taken to a Joint Sitting by the Labor Party and all those things which their supporters detested so much came into being. [More…]
They are doing this without any certainty of winning an election. [More…]
I am prepared to table extracts from the ‘Argus’ on various dates in 1933 which point up very dramatically that Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, then Mr Robert Gordon Menzies, Q.C., was prepared to do the same thing as honourable senators opposite are now doing and as their Deputy Leader tried to do in 1974 during the course of the election campaign following the double dissolution when he was advocating protection of multi-national foreign interests, which was not in the best interests of Australian people. [More…]
This Government was elected in 1 972 and one aspect of its election platform was to protect the mineral resources of this country for the Australian people. [More…]
Nothing much is said about the proposals which were nervously unwrapped prior to the May 1974 election and afterwards put back on the shelf like an unwanted wedding present. [More…]
Nothing is said about those matters now because that was just a try-on for the purpose of the May election. [More…]
The Government has available to it now, as of this moment, the grounds for a double dissolution and it is an entirely competent for the Government, not the Opposition, to bring on an election. [More…]
The facts are that Mr Whitlam has the grounds now for a double dissolution and if he called an election, as well he might- I suppose were it not for this morning’s unedifying events in another place- and if defeated the Labor Party could leave this country in a very serious situation. [More…]
Bills to introduce this scheme were forced through the Joint Sitting with the help of the 4 Labor senators from Queensland who had been given a clear indication in the May 1974 election that the people of Queensland did not want the scheme. [More…]
This indication was reinforced in the Queensland State election in December 1974. [More…]
They know that, come election time, money, literature and a public relations man will be supplied to their parties by the voluntary health funds and that these will be supplied from moneys that have been contributed by innocent people who thought they were putting all their money into insuring against their health needs. [More…]
In the election campaign last year we foreshadowed that we have it in mind to do this. [More…]
In other words, the committee of the union has decided that it does not want to amalgamate in the way for which a small section of the union has been agitating, and one would suppose that the committee decision ought to prevail because, if the committee members have not the confidence of their union rank and file, there is a periodic election at which that policy can be changed. [More…]
There is no need for the employer organisations I referred to have a ballot of every one of their shareholders any more than it is a necessity for everyone to vote in a local government election. [More…]
I have been pleased since to notice that Mr Laurie Short has gone further and suggested some sort of triennial, formally fixed elections for the election of union officials. [More…]
No doubt that suggestion has merit, although one could think of defects involved in being so formal in relation to fixing times at particular periods for such elections. [More…]
It was shown in the last election. [More…]
The will of the majority of the members of the Senate is expressed by the majority vote which was accorded to senators in the Opposition ranks over the vote accorded to senators in the Government ranks at the election which was held in 1974. [More…]
I suggest to the Government and to the Minister that if they really wish to improve rank and file consultation and rank and file view of union matters they should provide for compulsory secret ballots in the election of union officials and require that those elections of union officials should take place at regular periods, say every second or every third year. [More…]
It seemed to me that he was saying that regardless of who wins an election the Senate Opposition will please itself about the matters upon which the Government went to the electorate. [More…]
But for political reasons, I imagine, mainly because the Government is desperate to find election issues to save its own hide, the Government did not allow that Senate Committee to report but introduced the Bills again. [More…]
The Government was prepared to delay the legislation for 12 months, and for 2 years if necessary, so that it could make a political point and store something away for a future election. [More…]
The Government was more concerned with putting something else on the stockpile for a future election. [More…]
It is very fitting that it should do so on a day when a former Prime Minister, Mr John Gorton, who took such a hand in forming the Corporation has announced that he will not be coming back to this Parliament after the next election. [More…]
It was subsequently repeated during the course of the election campaign following the double dissolution in 1974. [More…]
It has been interrupted twice for federal elections. [More…]
After the 1 972 election a portfolio for the A.C.T. [More…]
An election was held in September 1974 and the new institution designated a Legislative Assembly, although it had no legislative functions, has been meeting and conducting business. [More…]
It in fact gives statutory authority to the Australian Council for the Arts, which has been operating since February 1973, together with 7 boards devoted to particular art forms, lt fulfils an election promise of the Prime Minster (Mr Whitlam ) and the Government made in November 1972. [More…]
When referring to the possibility of an election in Australia the article stated: [More…]
I think that so long as the Government acceptedly remains the patron of the arts it must play a significant role in appointments to these boards, and it is probably not possible to devise a system of election of some members of the boards. [More…]
The suggestion for the election of the chairmen of the Boards is important. [More…]
That is the sort of policy which this Government has pursued since its election and, I trust, will pursue in the future. [More…]
But the Trotskyists organised and have been readmitted to the Young Labor Association, and, at the last Young Labor Association conference, secured the election of almost half the executive of the Young Labor Association. [More…]
His own vote plummeted at the last election. [More…]
Ought not the public to know that the group which fought so well to be readmitted is, within months of readmission, planning to contest seats against the Australian Labor Party at any election which is held in 1975? [More…]
Under the heading of Senator Greenwood’s amendment I want to refer particularly to the recent statements on Medibank and the proposals which have been put forward and then denied concerning a possible election upon the issue. [More…]
This has led to very strong conjecture that we will have an election possibly in June and certainly no later than July. [More…]
Over the weekend, Mr Anthony said there would be an earlier Federal election over Medibank. [More…]
When do you think the election will be? [More…]
Every citizen of this country is faced with this conundrum: Will there be an election by July? [More…]
The issue for Australians is that they do not know what health scheme they will have, they do not know whether they will have an election and they do not know who will lead the Liberal Party to any supposed election. [More…]
Everyone knows he is pushing for an election to save it. [More…]
Everyone knows that Mr Anthony is pushing for an election to put off a redistribution of boundaries in the Australian scene. [More…]
I notice today that Mr Anthony had a letter placed in the ‘Australian Financial Review’ saying that he had not threatened an election. [More…]
… No words attributed to me in that report in any way support your claim that lam trying to precipitate an early election over Medibank, or I am threatening people over this issue. [More…]
He is not threatening an election; he is just saying that if the Medibank funds are included in the Bill it will be rejected. [More…]
But he is not threatening an election; not at all. [More…]
The fact is that the Opposition parties forced an election which created the ensuing Joint Sitting which gave the Australian Labor Party the full endorsement of its health plans. [More…]
So the Opposition denies the result of the election and the Joint Sitting it created and takes to the absurd scene and length this denial of funds. [More…]
The point is that the Opposition is threatening in words through Mr Anthony to precipitate an election on the Australian people which the public does not want about a scheme which the Opposition does not then want to make the central theme of the election. [More…]
The Opposition has already said that Medibank, whilst it would be a major part of the election, would not be the central theme. [More…]
I am saying that Mr Anthony definitely is threatening the Australian people with an election. [More…]
It is politically committed to a State election within 12 months. [More…]
Much has been said by the previous speaker, Senator Steele Hall, at least in the early part of his contribution, which took my running, as the saying is, in relation to the performance of the Opposition and its constant threat and harassment of the Government over the possibility of a snap election. [More…]
We embarked on a course 12 months ago- I am not trying to be provocative- to bring about a House of Representatives election. [More…]
Leaving out the words which Senator Withers interpolated, what he was saying in the Senate was: ‘We’- meaning the Opposition- ‘embarked on a course some 12 months ago to bring about a House of Representatives election. [More…]
It also surprised me that he should have indicated that he felt it was a strange and even rude circumstance that when Mr Snedden was asked when he proposed to force an election- and who knows who forces an election, whether there is to be one and whoever may force it- he did not reply, did not give a date. [More…]
Indeed, I assume that such an astute Premier as Senator Hall once was would certainly not have indicated to anybody- to the Press or anybody else- when he may have chosen to set a date for an election. [More…]
I have been misrepresented in that I have been quite wrongly reported as threatening to force an election on this issue. [More…]
I have been misrepresented as threatening to force an election over this matter. [More…]
What I have said is that the Government itself will be responsible for the precipitation of an election if it deliberately and consciously adopts a course of action when it is fully aware of what would seem to be the likely consequences of that course of action. [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…]
I thought that that was a somewhat generous assumption because to me it seems that the Governments governs- whether there is an election or not- on a 3-monthly cycle. [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, it was included in the policy speech which was presented by the Prime Minister before we successfully fought the last Federal election. [More…]
With the election of the present Government came a new approach to Australia’s railway problems. [More…]
I think we must never forget that during the election campaigns in 1972 and 1969 contributions towards the cost of printing and propaganda were made to the Opposition parties. [More…]
In particular, during the 1972 election campaign one of the large voluntary health funds supplied free of charge a public relations officer from its staff to work for the Opposition parties. [More…]
One can recall the mystifying leak of the Opposition ‘s proposals on health before the last election. [More…]
I return to the point that either the Opposition has an emotional attachment or allegiance, as Senator Button puts it, to the voluntary health funds, or the Opposition is afraid of what will happen to the source of supply of propagandathe provision of people and printing- in future election campaigns. [More…]
Upon his election the new leader said that his policy would be against frustration of legislation in the Senate and that the Government would not be forced to an election by the withholding of Supply or the throwing out of the Budget. [More…]
He was a very good judge of the political climate at the time because the gallup poll last weekend showed that if an election were held the Government would be returned. [More…]
In the 7 quarters since December 1972, 262 000 dwellings have been built compared with 255 000 dwellings in the 7 quarters preceding the election of the Labor Government. [More…]
Last year- Senator McAuliffe will be well aware of the details of this- some Federal Government Ministers saw fit to say in Queensland during the election campaign before the State election that the problems that the Queensland Government claimed it had in relation to housing were entirely its own, and that the State Government had not managed to spend the money that the Federal Government had given it. [More…]
Did Commonwealth police visit a sports depot in Launceston during the week ending 18 May 1974, in the course of investigating an election advertisement. [More…]
On what occasions and to what persons during the election campaign for the double dissolution election on 1 8 May 1974 did any member of (a) the Commonwealth Police Force and (b) the Attorney-General’s Department request the withdrawal of an election advertisement or the insertion of an apology or correction, in respect of that advertisement. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a reported decision of the Government of Papua New Guinea to postpone the scheduled 1976 election for one year, which in effect would postpone Independence Day? [More…]
Does the Government of Papua New Guinea have the power to unilaterally change the year of an election, or would this require amending an Australian Act of Parliament? [More…]
The current legislation governing the holding of elections in Papua New Guinea is the Papua New Guinea Act 1949-1974. [More…]
This provides for the High Commissioner of Papua New Guinea to direct at any time the holding of a general election but that general elections shall be held at intervals not exceeding four years. [More…]
The last general election was held in March/ April 1972. [More…]
Yet this Government chooses to criticise South Vietnam for not holding an election. [More…]
How can any nation be expected to hold elections when it is under siege? [More…]
The promise of open government- a promise that it thought would win votes- has proved as phoney as its other election promises. [More…]
At that time the question of elections for the people of Vietnam was a burning issue- the assumption that the Viet-Minh would not agree to free elections could well be erroneous despite the consistent Communist rejection of election proposals for the unification of Germany, Austria and Korea. [More…]
If Senator Sim is prepared to open his mind and his eyes and become intelligent he will find that former President Eisenhower in his memoirs said that if there had been an election at the time when the Geneva Agreement was signed the forces of Ho Chi Minh who was a communist and a popular liberation leader, would have won 80 per cent of the popular support. [More…]
Because time is catching up, I turn very briefly to allegations that the United States of America and South Vietnam violated the Geneva Accords by rejecting free elections. [More…]
Does he seriously suggest that in North Vietnam political parties from South Vietnam would be free to operate an election campaign? [More…]
But the major issue involved is that from 1954 to 1956, a period when the Prime Minister and this Government claim there should have been free elections, the North Vietnamese were engaged in a pleasant little game of land reform. [More…]
Why does the Labor Party today deny that to the people of South Vietnam who in every election have always voted strongly against communism, as they are voting today on their feet? [More…]
Elections have been observed, and there have been observations by members of the Labor Party who have all reported that in the circumstances they have been as free as could be reasonably expected. [More…]
That is probably why, in the last Queensland election, the Labor Party won only 1 1 seats out of 84 seats. [More…]
If there had been a redistribution in Queensland before that election, as the Labor Party wished, and there had been equal numbers representing a cross section of the people, the Labor Party would not have got any seats. [More…]
-Certainly the Opposition is not threatening the Government with an election now unless the Government has something up its sleeve which will arouse great concern. [More…]
I have stated- I stated it in the campaign which preceded the 1 8 May election- that to my mind it was a disgrace that this legislation should have been delayed for so long. [More…]
I stated then- I tried to make it an election issue- that we could delay no longer, that it was necessary for the Liberal Party to declare itself and that it was necessary for it in its policy statement to declare that it was in favour of and would introduce this legislation. [More…]
That writ is still in force, in spite of my offer to Senator Rae that if he felt aggrieved by the statement which I made as part of an election campaign I was prepared - [More…]
This was found to be so most glaringly in the United States at the height of the Great Depression when President Roosevelt’s Administration, after its election in 1932, determined that at least part- certainly not all but at least part and a significant part- of the great distress which had afflicted the United States during the Great Depression had been caused not by problems in the economy, in the narrow sense of the economy, but by malpractices, defects in the stock exchanges of the United States. [More…]
In fact that did not happen until after the report was prepared and printed in April 1 974 and then because of the election it was not able to be presented until July 1974. [More…]
After the House of Representatives election in December 1972 the reconstituted Committee found itself operating in a completely different situation. [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…]
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…]
We believe that every politically minded person has the right to form, if he can attract support, a political party, and the right to contest an election, either singly or in a group. [More…]
Thousands who did vote this way would probably have their vote not counted because it would not reach their Divisional Returning Officer on the night of the election which is the new cut-off time. [More…]
Apparently the Government believes the average person cannot number a ballot paper from one to four- the demand made on more than 90 per cent of voters at the last election. [More…]
The Government might, perhaps, point to the 1974 Senate ballot paper in New South Wales, where 73 candidates stood for election. [More…]
The informal vote in New South Wales at that election in 1 974 was no higher than it was in the Senate election of 196 1 when there were only 2 1 candidates. [More…]
The informal vote for Senate elections has always been higher than it has been for the House of Representatives. [More…]
Optional preferential voting was used in Senate elections in the 1 920s, and the informal vote was no lower than it is today with the present full preferential voting system. [More…]
A change to an optional preferential system would make counting no easier for either Senate or House of Representatives elections. [More…]
Another example of the Government’s determination to deprive small parties and individuals of their right to be elected is contained in its proposals to lift the deposits for Senate elections. [More…]
But imagine the effect on an individual or a small group of people who wish to stand for election. [More…]
They would be forced to make a major financial sacrifice for the right to seek election. [More…]
It will mean, in effect, that anyone who does not cast his vote on the Thursday before an election will be disfranchised. [More…]
Under the specious excuse of avoiding delays in counting election results, the Government would insist that all postal votes be received by the close of the poll if they are to be counted. [More…]
There are few occasions when counting of postal votes materially delays the outcome of an election; but if it does, surely these votes are vital. [More…]
We will be proposing that for each election a different coloured postal vote form be used, ensuring no party can store up forms and then solicit votes with these forms. [More…]
Often in the past the very fact that the names of political parties did not appear opposite candidates’ names had been used to confuse voters and to upset the proper election results. [More…]
Certain small groups that appear at election time, and usually only at election time, come forward from time to time with how-to-vote cards that suggest that if you are a Labor voter you should vote for that Party’s candidate first and then follow the Labor Party ticket or if you are a Liberal voter you should vote for that Party’s candidate and then follow the Liberal card. [More…]
It is well known that there are in some areas amongst some of the smaller political professionals standing for Parliament, not because they ever expect to get there but because of the name they had or assumed in any election meant that they were placed at the top of the ticket and they picked up the donkey vote. [More…]
I do not believe this applies so much to the major political parties because they usually pick their candidates because of pressure of support for that person within the party and because of the value of the contribution that person will make to the Parliament, but for many of the smaller parties that mushroom up at election time this was their moment of glory, their little grab for power, to be king maker. [More…]
There are very many people in the community who in a Senate election rebel against having to rate the candidates- all the candidates- in an order of preference. [More…]
As has been pointed out before, we had the extraordinary situation in New South Wales during the last Senate election where 73 candidates had to be rated. [More…]
If a person did not understand our system in the first place it was an almost impossible job to explain how to apply it in that particular election with that number of candidates. [More…]
Senate elections are notorious for confusing voters. [More…]
Unless a person starts at one end of the ballot paper- it can be a long ballot paper as the last election for this place showed- and just runs through the sequence of numbers, the person can become very confused as to whether he has filled in all the squares. [More…]
At the last Federal election less than one year ago, 5 1 per cent of the seats in the House of Representatives were gained by the Australian Labor Party with 49 per cent of the votes. [More…]
At the Senate election on that same occasion 47 per cent of the vote gained for the Australian Labor Party 29 of the 60 seats in the Senate. [More…]
At the election only last May the Australian people were confronted with 4 referenda. [More…]
Why then is that system not suitable for the election of the Government of this country? [More…]
So I believe it is necessary that we leave that alone and that we should leave it to the responsibility and capacity of the Australian electors and the political parties which form themselves from time to time to make sure that those who believe in particular philosophies are aware of the candidates who represent those philosophies and of the order of preference they should follow in an election. [More…]
Postal voting, it is suggested in this Bill, should be such that no votes will be counted that are not received by the closing of the polls on the Saturday, if that be the day of the election. [More…]
If there was one characteristic of the 1974 election, it was the crescendo of criticism within a week of the election results urging extensive reforms in our electoral system. [More…]
Look at the editorials in the papers for the 14 days after the election. [More…]
I know that I may have misunderstood what Senator Scott said, but I defy any Opposition Senator to wander about his State when there are 74 or more candidates in a senate election and not discover that for every person who gets his kicks in life by voting for candidates numbered 1 to 100, there are a lot of people who want short cuts. [More…]
Senator Withers referred to the fact that in a number of electorates only two to four candidates contest an election. [More…]
In a national election, whether it is for the Senate which represents 6 States, or for the House of Representatives, where there are over 120 seats, a Party can win seats although fielding only 15 candidates. [More…]
I repeat that after an election when one goes into hotels, clubs, golf courses or on to the beach, people chiack one and say: ‘Fancy having to vote for 74 bloody candidates’. [More…]
As to the question of the cut-off time for votes after an election, if there is to be some malpractice or some honest misunderstanding with regard to the votes in transit, that will certainly happen in those 10 days after an election. [More…]
If the present Prime Minister had jumped the gun in the 10 days after the last election honourable senators opposite would have claimed that he was presuming that he was Prime Minister when he was not. [More…]
If I had to make a choice between an efficient system in which I knew who was to be the Prime Minister at midnight on election night, and one under which I had to wait 10 days to know the result, by which time all sorts of things could happen, I know the decision I would make. [More…]
There is one important feature of British elections. [More…]
The result of an election is announced on the night of the day that the election is held and it is too bad if somebody is too late. [More…]
If we were to apply to a postal ballot for a trade union election the safeguards that exist for postal votes in our electoral system of the moment, there could be resorts to all kinds of rorts. [More…]
I do not say that postal votes are the be all and end all ingredients of victory in an election where the results are very close. [More…]
I would like to instance a situation that occurred in the 1 969 election in the electorate of Phillip. [More…]
If in an election I had an idea that somebody who sought a postal vote was a phoney and I asked for access to his electoral card in the office of the divisional returning officer, I would not be granted that access. [More…]
On the Friday night before the election he had appendicitis. [More…]
A friend of mine, a Mr Peter Clanfield of Fairfield, was in Britain at the time of the last Australian Federal election. [More…]
On the morning of the election in Australia Mr Clanfield drove to Australia House at about 2 o’clock in the afternoon to record a vote. [More…]
Senator Withers instanced the election in 1961 and the last election. [More…]
I know there were some fears as to whether anybody in any pan of Australia could record an absentee vote in a national election. [More…]
It has been pointed out that there is no delivery of mail on the Saturday of the election, and therefore this would be an entirely unfair situation. [More…]
It is all right for honourable senators opposite to say that they want an immediate result, but an immediate result should not be achieved at the expense of people who want to exercise the right to vote in an election. [More…]
The Government has taken the course of saying that the deposits of candidates in elections are not enough, and I agree with that. [More…]
On the other hand, I think that the decision to require a deposit of $1,000 by a candidate in a Senate election is unreasonable. [More…]
It is all right to say that 48 candidates in Victoria and 73 candidates in New South Wales stood for the Senate at the last election and that this number should be cut down, but at the same time there is the important principle that individuals should have the right to put their names down as electors seeking the support of the community. [More…]
This method is not used in State elections and I can see one difficulty. [More…]
If a new system is introduced for one House of one Parliament and it is not used in the State parliaments there is room for confusion when people vote in a State election. [More…]
Firstly, the purpose is to allow a speedier finalisation of Federal election results, which I think everyone would want to see. [More…]
I have been associated with elections for a long while and, in fact, many years ago in my former occupation one of the many interesting things I used to do was to act as an assistant returning officer at times of election. [More…]
This is acknowledged all around Australia, and surely those of us who have contested elections or been involved at the polling booth or in some official capacity on election day will have heard comments made time and time again by the electors regarding some aspects of the electoral laws that required them to do things they did not want to do or that added a complexity or difficulty to the voting procedures that they would have preferred not to have had to encounter. [More…]
It is interesting to observe that with the foreshortened procedures of voting at an election nobody has claimed that has in any sense altered the ultimate outcome, the result of the election. [More…]
If we can reduce the number of candidates for whom a vote must be cast- in the case of the Senate election in New South Wales on the last occasion there were 73 candidates- to some reasonable number, and, working on the basis of the example I have just given about Tasmania, achieve a result that reflects the will of the people, surely that is what we ought to be doing. [More…]
But I suggest that when one is looking for an overall result in an election this will always occur. [More…]
Again, this is a matter that comes up at every election. [More…]
People say: ‘Look, for goodness sake, you can cut out a lot of nonsense that goes on at elections simply by putting the name of the party. ‘ [More…]
We are talking about the election of political parties. [More…]
People want to know which party they vote for at an election. [More…]
Asian Immigration Now’ (other names) and was a candidate in that name at the recent South Australian 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…]
This has led to some very difficult situations, as happened in the most recent Senate election. [More…]
The order of election of senators is based upon the obtaining of a quota, and that quota cannot be determined until all the votes are in. [More…]
For a 3-week period after the last election we did not even know what was the quota for the election of a senator and so it was not possible to proceed with the election of senators. [More…]
Secondly, quite apart from the problems associated with the re-election of the Parliament and the personal difficulties and apprehensions of people involved- not only those who have actually been candidates but also people in the political organisations concernedI think it is relevant to the whole establishment and performance of government that we should know at the very earliest date the outcome of an election. [More…]
In my home State of Tasmania the use of how to vote cards on election day is prohibited. [More…]
I do not think the absence of how-to-vote cards on the day of an election has made any difference to the outcome of an election in that State. [More…]
Every 3 years there is an election for the Australian House of Representatives, at which time the Government goes to the people to get approval for what it has been doing. [More…]
It is fundamental that we should be providing laws which give to every elector in this country an opportunity to have some say in the election of a government. [More…]
By doing this the ultimate wishes of the voters can be achieved by the election of a Parliament which the people desire. [More…]
A deposit for a candidate in a House of Representatives election is to be increased from $100 to $250. [More…]
I know that the last double dissolution Senate election vote in New South Wales is being used to frighten and to suggest to the people that there should be a change. [More…]
I think that what we have to be guided by is what has been the general run of the situation with the election of senators and members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
Very often some people do not take sufficient interest in an election for the Parliament of this country. [More…]
They should acquaint themselves sufficiently with what is needed in the elections for the Parliament of this country. [More…]
Those who have worked at a polling booth on election day have probably found people, both from interstate and from their home State, who arrive and want to vote. [More…]
Lots of other people who are probably not as well versed in voting procedures as we might be cannot get a vote on election day. [More…]
Therefore we should cast the net widely and make the voting system elastic so that notwithstanding the faults of the voters we get as many votes as possible, and that when the election result is announced it is what the people of the country really intend- a government of their choice elected to govern this country for the following 3 years. [More…]
Other reforms include the prevention of persons enrolling or nominating for election under changed names in certain circumstances and restricting postal vote application forms to be used at an election or referendum to those specified by notice in the ‘Gazette’. [More…]
We are well aware of the actions of one gentleman who immediately after an election is held begins compiling applications for postal votes for the next election. [More…]
The next is the prevention of a person from nominating as a candidate for more than one Federal election held on the same day. [More…]
How many of us have seen the abuse of the how to vote card system in many elections? [More…]
We saw the Democratic Labor Party completely wiped out of existence because of its actions in this place and I venture to say that had the Country Party been prepared to run on a separate ticket in that election for the Senate there would be very few of its members here now. [More…]
We are well aware of what took place during the run up to that election. [More…]
Is Senator Wood admitting that those people are being disfranchised under Mr Bjelke-Petersen in the State elections and should not be disfranchised at a federal poll. [More…]
The Opposition agrees to it in respect of a State election but disagrees with it in respect of a federal election. [More…]
Of course, we do not hear any objections from those opposite about the polls in local government elections closing at 6 o’clock. [More…]
Not many months after, there was an election and this farmer happened to be working on the polling booth. [More…]
has usually required at least 52 per cent of the total vote (including preferences) to win a federal election. [More…]
And it was the farmers who were decisive: they threatened to stand a candidate in a byelection in the Victorian seat of Flinders against the Nationalist hopeful, Stanley Melbourne Bruce, unless the Hughes Government introduced preferential voting in time for the next election. [More…]
It was a matter for amendment to the South Australian Electoral Act in connection with voting for the Legislative Council at the election next year. [More…]
We now have a system of election for the Legislative Council of optional preferential voting, and the Liberal Party in South Australia did not oppose that, so that has gone through. [More…]
With that, we find that this particular gentleman, whom I will not name, leant forward and struck him three or four times over the head with a roll of election papers and broke his glasses. [More…]
I am very pleased to see that we have an amendment there, and I would hope that the disorderliness that does take place at election meetings can be dealt with the way it ought to be, and that people who misbehave at political meetings are dealt with in the proper fashion, because no matter whether I agree with the candidate or whether I disagree with him, I think at least he has to have the right to put his case before the people and let the people judge for themselves his or his party’s policy. [More…]
It seems that the Government is making another attempt to alter the electoral laws of this country, about which it has had a preoccupation since it was elected to government and came to power in December 1 972 and also since its quite narrow election victory in May of last year. [More…]
But I do not feel that the people of Australia want this Government or any government to be able to ensure its re-election almost automatically. [More…]
I do not feel, because this Government won the previous election by such a narrow margin, that it has any right to force upon the people changes in the electoral system that will tend to enshrine it in office. [More…]
This country does not need a speedy election result. [More…]
Too many alterations to the electoral system in this Bill do not really help the outcome of the elections. [More…]
First, the Bill is designed to allow for speedier finalisation of federal election results. [More…]
But the main thrust of the Bill is to seek speedier election results. [More…]
He was appalled that Australians should have to wait for their election results. [More…]
It is possibly of some value to the media in their coverage of an election; it is possibly of some value to the Press to be able to state who has or has not won, but in terms of governing a nation speed in getting the result has no value whatsoever. [More…]
If we take 3 days or 10 days or 5 weeks to learn the result of a Federal election, democracy is well served if it is the right result- using the word right’ in the sense that it is the result that the community wants. [More…]
It depends upon the legislative arrangements for postal voting, it depends upon the efficiency and impartiality of the postal services, and of course it depends upon the existence of industrial peace at election time. [More…]
I might mention that following the last election more people came to me complaining about failures at various points in the postal voting system, more of them complained about their postal voting rights not being fully met according to the way they saw the situation, than about any other electoral matter. [More…]
It is proposed in this Bill to restrict postal voting application forms to those gazetted for the particular election. [More…]
I remind the Senate that the question of optional preferential voting is very different in the effects it will have on the House of Representatives and Senate election results. [More…]
I would like to restrict my remarks once again to Senate elections and the effect which optional preferential voting might have in the Senate. [More…]
I remind the Senate that full preferential voting in a Senate election ensures that there are sufficient votes remaining late in the count and available to elect the proper number of senators. [More…]
Surely the present system of full preferential voting which ensures that there is always a quota remaining for the election of the last few senators gives us a result which everyone accepts as the just result even if it is slow. [More…]
When you have a situation, which we have in elections today, where you must vote in some cases for 74 people, but in any case for even 5 or 6 people in a House of Representatives election, you have to say: ‘I prefer No. [More…]
I suggest that it is patently absurd to say that the electorate in Australia can manage elections with even 4 or 5 candidates but, when one gets Senate elections involving 26 or 27 persons, and in the famous case in New South Wales last year involving 73 persons, it is obviously beyond one’s power, because no one can have knowledge of so many people standing for election. [More…]
Those honourable senators from New South Wales will remember the mammoth ballot paper containing the names of 73 candidates who faced the electors of New South Wales in the last Senate election. [More…]
If optional preferential voting had been operative at that election it would have had 2 effects: First, the time taken and the difficulty involved in filling out the ballot paper correctly would have been greatly reduced and, secondly, the incentive to promote the nomination of a large number of candidates deliberately to produce confusion would have been severely reduced. [More…]
I do not think anyone argues that they were genuine candidates at that election. [More…]
There is, of course, a provision in the Bill relating to name changes by candidates within a specific period prior to an election, but there are obvious cases where, by long-term planning, this provision could be subverted. [More…]
I know that some honourable senators do not like to think that their great names do not draw attention to themselves, but I think we all realise very much that, if any one of us did not have a party affiliation attached to us at Senate election time we would not be here at all or, indeed, for as long as some of us have been here. [More…]
Standing for election to a State Parliament or the Federal Parliament should be a serious business, and it ought not to be too much to say that, as this is a serious business, a serious amount of money should be deposited. [More…]
The setting of a substantial deposit conflicts with the desire to facilitate the nomination of persons genuinely seeking elections to Parliament. [More…]
Few people in Australia would not have been appalled at the uncertainty that followed the last election. [More…]
I might add that the uncertainty paralleled that of the 1961 election. [More…]
Uncertainty as to the result of an election creates not merely a paralysis in government but means that the people’s representatives in Parliament are unable for the period of the uncertainty, to exercise the direction of government administration that the electors are entitled to expect. [More…]
All honourable senators will recall the outcry in the Press which reflected very genuine and deep public disquiet at the mechanical inability of the existing electoral system to produce a definite result within a short time after election day. [More…]
After the last election there was an uncertainty in both Houses. [More…]
I do not think the numbers of each party were that important from the point of view of the election, but the question arose whether the Government had a majority in both Houses. [More…]
I think that our views may have been coloured by what occurred in New South Wales during the last federal election campaign. [More…]
I do not think that anybody claims that there was not a fair amount of frivolity or mischievousness in New South Wales during the last election campaign when 74 candidates were nominated. [More…]
I want to relate a happening which took place during the last election. [More…]
Senator McLaren demonstrates his partisan attitude to this Bill by immediately dividing those who may protest about voters who should not be able to vote in a certain election on the basis of whether they may vote Labor or Liberal. [More…]
If that proper objection had been taken to its fullest extent and if there had been time to enable the roll to be cleaned up for a by-election, the election result would have been quite dramatically different. [More…]
I suggest that Senator McLaren and the Government have lost sight of the main objective of the parent section of the Act, which is to ensure that an election is as fair as one can make it. [More…]
They think their great names sweep the poll, but I would like to take a bet against any one of us, including myself, if we stood without a party tag at any Senate election. [More…]
Sometimes, as one knows by watching at election time, one of the big parties will publish its name in very small print. [More…]
The small party could know full well that every elector had picked up a ballot paper in that electorate, or, if it was a Senate election, throughout the whole State, and every elector would know that Joe Blow belonged to the ABC party, or whatever, and not one how-to-vote card would have to be put out by Joe Blow. [More…]
All honourable senators know how busy electoral officers are prior to an election with the closing of nominations, getting ready for the poll, the ballot, election day and the count thereafter. [More…]
Four or five candidates in each case stand for 90 per cent of the seats in elections for the House of Representatives. [More…]
Perhaps 1 will invite him to stand as an independent at the next election. [More…]
He made great play of saying that members seeking election to this House did not need to have a tag on them. [More…]
I am of the opinion that when people seek election to this Parliament under a party flag, are successful, sit in the Parliament and then for political reasons go to election under the flag of another party and are returned- as Senator DrakeBrockman under the National Alliance- it is a deception. [More…]
If they do so the electors, as a whole, will not continue to be misled by opportunists who seek election to this place and then, after they are elected, disregard all the promises that they made to the electors. [More…]
If he has to resign his seat in the State Parliament, as he does, and he fails to gain entry into the Federal Parliament, his career is finished until he contests another election, hopefully, with the break affecting very adversely his standing in the public in the meantime. [More…]
The position as I understand and know it is this: It has happened on a number of occasions that people have been elected as senators of the Commonwealth of Australia in December, which was the normal time for a Senate election, but were not to take office until 1 July the following yearsome have been public servants and one is now a Minister in this House- and they had to relinquish their Public Service office and then wait some time before being sworn in. [More…]
If he is defeated at the election he still holds that office of profit under the Crown whether it be within a State Parliament or the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
I believe this matter should be finalised, and very soon, because under State law a school teacher, for instance, can contest a State election without resigning from his position. [More…]
However, if that person desires to contest a Commonwealth election he must resign his position as a teacher. [More…]
If he contests a State election he can hold that position of train driver until such duy as he is elected or is defeated. [More…]
A person could be in the situation quite innocently, of having a common informer object to his election, perhaps 6, 12 or 18 months or even 3 years after his election, and find himself then subject to a fine of $200 for each sitting day. [More…]
I recall just before the 1972 election a Liberal candidate from Western Australia, who was a State school teacher, was advised that he must resign before nominating otherwise he would be incapable of being chosen. [More…]
If the Government had gone ahead, as it could have done under the law and issued the writs or taken whatever action was necessary on a particular night, Michael Hodgman would not have been able to contest the election, because 14 days would have been up. [More…]
But as my Leader Senator Withers said, Senator Willesee, now in charge of the Bill, was thankfully in charge of the Bill that night, and he took action within his own Party to give us a guarantee that the machinery would not be put in action to prevent Mr Hodgman from resigning from his seat and contesting the election. [More…]
Parliament may not be sitting at the time, and I believe there is a lot of merit, if we are to make this national Parliament open to those who want to stand for election, in having some form of procedure that will enable the member of another parliament to contest an election either independently or as an endorsed candidate and, if not elected, to retain the seat he had in the other parliament. [More…]
The result of a Senate or a House of Representatives election in a close seat is not made known until 1 7 or 2 1 days after the date of the election, and the pay of a person elected starts from midnight on the date of the election. [More…]
Therefore, the member of the State parliament so elected would be entitled to Commonwealth Parliamentary pay from the date of the election and may have, because the end of the month had come, received pay. [More…]
Therefore, in layman’s language, one would have to say that a candidate who was a member of a State parliament should sign some form of declaration that his pay as a State member would cease as from the date of his election to the Federal Parliament, and if he had received a cheque during the course of waiting for the declaration of the poll that would be returned. [More…]
In May I stood for election again and won a long-term seat. [More…]
I feel that something should be done whereby a State member standing for the Federal Parliament should be able to retain his seat until he knows the result of the Federal election. [More…]
The matter is not now as nicely boxed as those who will oppose my amendment might imagine because, as one honourable senator has already said, the existing clauses mean that it would be possible for a federal administration, if it so desired deliberately to fix the time between nominations and the issuing of the writ, to preclude any member of a State parliament from standing at a federal election. [More…]
Quite frankly, we did not want a byelection to be held in the seat that I was vacating before the Senate election. [More…]
I suggest that we can ensure that the government of the day does something before the next election by either passing my amendment or refusing to pass the clause in the Bill. [More…]
I am wondering whether he has in mind one of his colleagues in the South Australian State Parliament who we think will run as a Liberal Movement candidate for the Senate at the next Senate election. [More…]
People serving in local government do not have to resign their positions in local government to contest State or Federal elections. [More…]
During the last Federal election the Lord Mayor of Brisbane was a candidate for a Queensland seat. [More…]
He was not successful, but the position is that he did not have to resign his Lord Mayoralty in order to contest a Queensland seat in the Federal election. [More…]
Senator Willesee, coming from the same State as I, will know that for many years there were 2 well-known candidates, the late Carlyle Ferguson and the late Claude Swain, who were nominated, I think at every election for the Perth City Council, the Legislative Assembly, the Legislative Council, the Senate and the House of Representativesyou name it, they were candidates. [More…]
They were pan of the folk lore of” Western Australian elections. [More…]
1 understand that the nomination of 73 candidates in the New South Wales Senate election has raised all sorts of questions about the Commonwealth Electoral Act. [More…]
But what about a person outside who cannot get 100 nominators and who may well achieve election tq this place? [More…]
We have come down on the side that there ought to be not just an increase in the deposit in money terms but some penalty imposed on people who act either frivolously or mischievously in nominating in an election. [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…]
The point was made during an election campaign, and within a week I had received a visit from the gentleman, Mr John Dvorscek whose case I am now putting forward to the Senate. [More…]
This has been the practice for many years even prior to the election of a Labor Government in 1972. [More…]
This proposal is linked up with the Government’s objective of getting a speedier result on election night. [More…]
The Opposition holds the view that the capacity of the electorate to vote is more important than the capacity of the Government or the Opposition to know the result of an election by midnight on polling day. [More…]
If one looks over a large proportion of elections in the past 30 years, I think one can see that it is fairly clear before midnight on polling day which Party will be elected to govern. [More…]
The 1 96 1 election was one case. [More…]
I am trying to remember what has happened at elections. [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 Part. [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 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…]
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 ballotpapers, 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…]
This provision has worked quite successfully in State elections in Western Australia. [More…]
At the last federal election a large number of people in the Kalgoorlie Division in Western Australia, who had written in requesting a postal vote and who had received a ballot paper back, found they had no capacity to get their vote in because the ballot paper arrived too late to allow them to vote. [More…]
As a result of representations made to me by some of my electors in the Division of Kalgoorlie after the last electionI raised this matter with the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly). [More…]
Because of the shorter period allowed between the close of nominations and the poll, it is estimated that some 300 people in remote areas in the Division of Kalgoorlie never got a vote at the last federal election. [More…]
prior to the last Federal election held on 18 May. [More…]
Please advise when we may expect to receive our ballot papers in this area for Federal Election 1 8 May. [More…]
I am advised that the Opposition’s proposal envisages that as soon as practicable after the close of nominations for an election the divisional returning officer will send postal voting material to the electors who are registered on the register for his division. [More…]
I had in the back of my mind that the period from the close of nominations to election day was of the order of 3 weeks. [More…]
People living in these outlying areas know that an election is to be held on a Saturday, whatever the date is. [More…]
We did not press our amendment to the proposal to alter the postal vote form so that there will be different forms for each election. [More…]
If the Government had not altered the earlier provisions, this clause may well have stood on its own; but, as the change in the form to be used for each election ought to prevent most of the previous abuses which went on in this area, I think it is only reasonable that as far as possible all that happens in the electoral system should be open to inspection. [More…]
These applications ought to be open for inspection and persons who are interested ought to abe able to go along and see who voted at the previous election. [More…]
At the present time section 89 (3) of the Act provides that all applications for postal votes shall be open for public inspection at all convenient times during office hours from and including the third day after polling day until the election can be no longer questioned. [More…]
It has been found that this entitlement has been misused by certain persons who list the names of electors who recorded postal votes and retain such a list until just prior to the next election, when postal vote applications are forwarded to those electors without really knowing whether they are still entitled or desire to vote by post. [More…]
The Opposition’s amendment is consistent with its attitude of retaining the present situation which the Government believes is unsatisfactory and is conducive to delays in the finalisation of the election. [More…]
As I understand it, at the last election the average number of names on the ballot papers for House of Representatives seats was five- not seventythree as in the case of the Senate, for which we have a system of running in teams. [More…]
I know that in the electorates of both Mr Whitlam and Mr Snedden, merely because at the time of the last election they were the leaders of the 2 major parties that were in confrontation with each other, there was a great number of candidates. [More…]
Senator Withers knows that political scientists can substantiate claims that a certain percentage of votes at an election goes to the candidate whose name is first on the list. [More…]
I can see not one whit of reason why the Opposition would oppose a provision that would give sitting members at least the right to fight an election on the basis of their performance rather than have to contend with smartalec tricks used by their political opponents. [More…]
This clause, which the Opposition seeks to omit, provides for the order of the names of the candidates on the ballot papers for a House of Representatives election to be determined by means of a draw instead of by alphabetical order of surnames as at present exists. [More…]
In a close election, this could well influence the result. [More…]
The only reason I thought I would give this somewhat interesting if useless information to the Committee is that it shows that whilst it may appear to Senator Hall that persons whose surnames begin with ‘C and ‘B’ appear to have a great advantage in an election, I do not think that basically they do. [More…]
Democratic Labor Party if the names of candidates in an election are drawn from a hat, because the DLP used to be very rigid with its preferences. [More…]
It is well known that the DLP used to wait to see who the other candidates were in an election. [More…]
If Withers was the name of a candidate in a House of Representatives election one could wager guineas to gooseberries that the DLP would not have a candidate named Young as its candidate. [More…]
I know that they were very disappointed that they drew so far down the ballot paper in the Senate election in which 1 was elected, because I happened to come into this place on the Liberal Party’s preferences. [More…]
He is hoping that the Democratic Labor Party, or as it is rightly known the Dummy Liberal Party, will come back into the field at the next election and that he will get some gain out of it by having candidates on the ballot paper whose surname begins with the letter A. [More…]
I always remember Sir Robert Menzies saying that a government elected to Parliament under a certain system of voting never changes that system, because people who do not like it bring down their wrath on the government at the next election. [More…]
Regarding whether there is a so-called donkey vote- and I hate that expression- if one looked up the records of the 1966 election, when Prime Minister Holt was returned to power with the biggest majority the non-Labor parties have had in my term in the Parliament, one would see, I believe, that 23 new people were elected as members of the Liberal-Country Party coalition. [More…]
Quite a large percentage of seats in Australia are or have been semi-blue ribbon or blue ribbon seats but in the 1 966 election the people of Australia- they were not changing a government, but were re-electing it to office with a new Prime Minister- elected, out of a total of 123 members, 23 new members to the Parliament from the non-Labor Parties. [More…]
It is alleged that the proposed system works satisfactorily in Queensland State elections. [More…]
No evidence has been presented to me to indicate that the Queensland electors jump for joy about the beautiful hours on State polling day but bitterly resent those on Federal election day. [More…]
If honourable senators on the Government side were as confident as they make out that they are of being returned at the next election, why worry? [More…]
We are quite confident that, no matter when the election is held, we will know by 10 p.m. that night that we are in by a large majority because the vote will be such. [More…]
He will come a tremendous fall when we have an election. [More…]
What is most important is that we get the right election result so that everyone’s vote can count and everyone ‘s vote can be counted. [More…]
If it is just a matter of expediency to achieve quick election results, they are not going to be impressed, and that answer is just not good enough. [More…]
None of those people has ever complained to me when an election has been held in summer that they, because of their faith, have not been able to attend polling booths. [More…]
They have made arrangements for postal votes when an election is held in hours when they cannot attend in person. [More…]
Postal votes would be required only when elections are held in the time of the year when daylight hours are longer and the sun sets after 6 p.m. [More…]
It will be recalled that he moved an amendment which sought the establishment of a special register for general postal voters under which people who find that they cannot get to a polling booth on election day can register as general postal voters. [More…]
My main concern is the comments made by Senator Withers about Government members using sob sister sort of stuff- they were his own words- in claiming that the long hours of work on election day had inconvenienced polling booth workers. [More…]
As 1 pointed out in my speech on the second reading, election day is a very long day for those people. [More…]
I am there and I have not missed an election for a long, long time. [More…]
There has been a lot of weeping about the terrible amount of work to be done on election day but 1 have never heard any great moans and groans amongst the people who work at polling booths. [More…]
What has not been mentioned tonight in this debate is the fact that 6 o’clock closing applies at the present time in any summer election in three of the 4 eastern States, because of daylight saving. [More…]
Many thousands of such voters in the eastern States of Australia, with the exception of Queenslanders who have not yet been enlightened about the value and the advantages of daylight saving, cannot vote in an election held in summer when the polls close at 8 p.m. [More…]
I have been there at State elections and have worked in that area with the Party to which I belong. [More…]
I recall that Senator Baume said, in answer to an interjection during the second reading debate, that we should have a public holiday when an election is held. [More…]
He said that elections should be held on a day of the week other than a Saturday so that everybody can be accommodated. [More…]
Many thousands of those workers still would not be able to attend the polling booth even if a public holiday were declared for an election. [More…]
It is not a great inconvenience for any person who is likely to find himself in this position to make the normal application for such a vote and to cast his vote on the day prior to the election. [More…]
In State elections, as has been expressed by Senator Milliner, 6 o ‘clock closing already exists. [More…]
In many municipal elections 6 o’clock closing already exists. [More…]
The people concerned have been able to vote at elections by vitue of their right to cast postal votes. [More…]
No great attempt is being made by the Government to stop any person who desires to vote in an election from doing so. [More…]
I think Senator Wood is talking a lot of humbug when he speaks against the proposal in respect to federal elections and will not, under any circumstances, attempt to change the election hours in Queensland. [More…]
He says that the number of Jewish people there does not matter in a State election but it is important in a federal election because there is a far greater number of persons in the other States of the faith of Senator Baume and it is far more important in the other States because more people are concerned. [More…]
The situation applies to many thousands of persons other than Seventh Day Adventists or Orthodox Jews who wish to exercise their right to cast a vote at an election. [More…]
I was impressed by Senator Milliner’s conviction that all was well in Queensland where 6 p.m. closing at State elections was proving so successful. [More…]
It seems to me that, politically, in the Federal election which closed at 8 p.m. the success of his Party in Queensland was somewhat greater than it was in the State election when the polls closed at 6 p.m. [More…]
1 ) If any person who is not qualified to be or nor capable of being elected a member of the Council is elected and returned as a member of the Council such election and return may be declared by the Court of Disputed Returns to be void to all intents and purposes. [More…]
1 find also in the footnotes that it has been decided- whether this is applicable to the question before the Senate is a matter for examinationthat a person may be interested in a contract if he takes an assignment of it even before his election or appointment. [More…]
What we decide will vitally affect the rights of an individual to sit here and the rights of his supporters at the election to be represented here by him. [More…]
This statement is of course in direct conflict with his own statement prior to the 1 974 election. [More…]
In the normal course of events, it is still 2 years until there will be an election. [More…]
2 provide some $35 8 m to launch Medibank on 1 July and thereby give expression to the health and medical policy which gestated in the Labor Party in the late 1960s and which was presented to the electorate at the 1 972 election and which was a central feature of the double dissolution election last May. [More…]
At that time Sir Charles, in common with many other wishful thinkers in the Liberal Party and Country Party, was supremely confident that the Opposition would reject the Supply Bills and that the Whitlam Government would be defeated in a mid-year election, that Medibank would be aborted and that he would be acclaimed by his fellow obstructionists in the non-Labor States as a hairy-chested and successful Canberra basher. [More…]
Faced with reality and with the subsequent knowledge that, because of the factional fighting within the Liberal Party and the blood letting in mid-March, the Liberal Party was in no condition to reject the Supply Bills or to face an election, and the consequential facts that Medibank would be funded in the Supply Bills and would be operative from 1 July, and knowing that the people of Western Australia would, when they became informed, turn in anger on the government responsible for the State’s nonparticipation, and knowing that his monumental miscalculation about the future of the Whitlam Government was the direct cause of his dilemma, Sir Charles Court and his Government sought protection from retribution by throwing up a smokescreen of blatant untruths. [More…]
Before the 1974 State election Sir Charles Court claimed that he could, as he said, put things right’, and said: ‘Inflation to a substantial degree can be beaten State by State’. [More…]
I must admit that before my election I had never thought or worried about superannuation. [More…]
There can be no doubt at all that, contrary to the sorts of stories that were attempted to be put across about the Premier last year, particularly during the State election campaign, he did sincerely make an approach to the Prime Minister in March and April. [More…]
I refer to an interview which Mr Whitiam gave to David Frost in 1972 before the election which saw Mr Whitlam become Prime Minister. [More…]
The most heartening thing about Thailand, I think, is the recent election which at long last installed a civilian government there. [More…]
Did not the Australian Metalworkers Union exercise the freedom of an organisation in this country to give its support to the Australian Labor Party, prior to the 1972 election? [More…]
Did it not, before that election, require the Prime Minister to attend its executive meeting and promise not to enforce the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, before the union granted the Labor Party $25,000? [More…]
Did the Leader of the Government in the Senate or any other Minister of the Government or the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions take any steps during the recent shipping strike to exempt Tasmanian shipping from the strike and so fulfil the promises made by both Australian Labor Party members and the President of the ACTU prior to the 1972 election? [More…]
may, and at the request of any scrutineer shall, also put to any person claiming to vote all or any of the following questions: (iti) Have you already voted either here or elsewhere in this election (or in these elections, as the case requires)? [More…]
Have you already voted either here or elsewhere in this election? [More…]
I put it to the Committee that surely the most important question to be put is: ‘Have you already voted in this election?’ [More…]
Surely the $64 question the presiding officer asks an elector when he comes up to the table is the first mandatory question in section 115: ‘Have you already voted either here or elsewhere in this election?’ [More…]
Our proposed amendment- I do not think it is something which the Government ought to object to- to clause 42, paragraph (b) of sub-section 1 is to move sub-paragraph (iii) out of paragraph (b) as an optional question, that is ‘Have you already voted either here or elsewhere in this election . [More…]
I put to the Committee that surely the most important question then to be asked is not whether I live within the division, but: ‘Have you already voted in this election?’. [More…]
But we do say that the question ‘Have you already voted either here or elsewhere in this election . [More…]
Of course, after an election, as honourable senators know, the rolls are combed through to find the people who did not vote. [More…]
Section 123 ( 1) (a) of the principal Act states that when an elector has a ballot paper for a Senate election he shall place the number 1 in the square opposite the name of the candidate for whom he votes as his first preference, and shall place the numbers, 2, 3, 4 and so on as the case requires in the squares opposite the names of all the remaining candidates so as to indicate the order of his preference for them. [More…]
The effect of that provision will be that in a Senate election an elector needs to mark the ballot paper only up to the number of candidates required, which in effect is optional preferential voting. [More…]
The distinction is that section 123 of the principal Act provides for full preferential voting and the purpose of clause 45 is to introduce into Senate elections optional preferential voting. [More…]
We have heard that many of the amendments proposed to the principal Act have been introduced because in the State of New South Wales there were 72 or 73 candidates for the Senate in the last double dissolution election. [More…]
The argument is that in that election the number of informal votes was excessive. [More…]
That argument can apply to all sorts of elections. [More…]
I will quote to honourable senators the number of informal votes cast at various elections since proportional representation was introduced in 1949. [More…]
At the conjoint House of Representatives-Senate election held on 10 December 1949- I admit there was a large number of candidates because the Senate was being expanded from 36 members to 60 members - [More…]
The informal vote at that election was 10.76 per cent. [More…]
At the election held on 28 April 1951 the informal vote was 7.13 per cent. [More…]
When a separate Senate election was held on 9 April 1953 the informal vote dropped to 4.56 per cent, which was quite a dramatic drop. [More…]
At the conjoint election on 10 December 1 955 the informal vote rose to 9.63 per cent. [More…]
At the conjoint election on 22 November 1958 it was 10.29 per cent. [More…]
At the conjoint election on 9 December 1961 it was 10.62 per cent. [More…]
At the separate Senate election on 5 December 1964 in fell to 6.98 per cent. [More…]
At the separate Senate election on 25 November 1967 it was 6. [More…]
At the separate election on 2 1 November 1970, for some reason which is not explained, it rose to 9.41 per cent. [More…]
When a conjoint election was held in the form of a double dissolution in an attempt to elect 10 candidates, again the informal vote rose to 10.77 per cent. [More…]
Another interesting point is that the informal vote at House of Representatives elections has remained almost constant, varying between a low of, say, 1.9 per cent and a high of 3.1 per cent, which is hardly any enormous variation. [More…]
I suppose it does not do much for our egos in this place but, after all, many people tend to regard polling day at a conjoint election as the occasion on which to elect a government rather than individual members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
I suppose if one looked around for theoretical reasons for the oddity of the vote on 21 November 1970 one would realise that it was a peculiar election for a number of reasons. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that that election produced 3 Democratic Labor Party senators, which was somewhat unusual, and that 2 of them obtained quotas in their own right. [More…]
That was the election at which both major parties were basically rejected by the electorate and at which the Independents had a pretty free run. [More…]
For all that theorising is worth, I think that may well account for the rise in the informal vote to 9.41 per cent in that odd separate Senate election in 1 970. [More…]
Are the major parties to be elected to office or sent into opposition on the votes of the least intelligent in the communitythose who need mark the ballot paper with only the number 1 in a House of Representatives election and with the numbers 1 to 5 when voting in a Senate election? [More…]
At elections for both those Assemblies the optional preferential system worked quite satisfactorily and was much easier for the people who went to the polls than the full preferential system was. [More…]
That was particularly so in the case of the last Senate election in New South Wales where the ballot paper was a mile long, to use a fishing term. [More…]
I have taken out some figures of the informal votes at the Senate election in May last year. [More…]
I will speak in more detail about this matter when we are debating clause 46 because I have evidence from my personal investigations of House of Representatives or State elections. [More…]
There are a lot of people in our community today who, unfortunately, cannot count to the numbers required at the last Senate election in New South Wales. [More…]
What is interesting is if one looks at the figures for New South Wales one finds that in 1 974 the rate of informality was 12.31 per cent and that at that election there were 73 candidates. [More…]
An examination of earlier elections reveals that on 3 previous occasions the informality rate exceeded 12 per cent and that on two of those occasions it was greater than it was in 1974. [More…]
I am sure that the Minister will agree that wherever optional preferential voting has been used and wherever there has been a quota for the election of senators- even going back to the New South Wales experience in the 1920s- exhausted votes have meant that quotas could no longer be met for the later candidates to be elected. [More…]
It happened at an election which I personally contested in 1969. [More…]
I am not arguing, Senator Withers, that the Labor Party should have won the election. [More…]
He made that comment with reference to the 4 referendum proposals which were put conjointly with the 1974 elections. [More…]
If that is so they are far more responsible and intelligent than at least one of the candidates who was endorsed by Senator Scott’s Party for the 1 974 election. [More…]
It is not hard to see the Pandora’s Box that would open and the bloodbath that would ensue between the two uneasy partners in the Opposition if they had to come to that sort of an arrangement before an election. [More…]
I remind Senator Withers of certain events that took place in Victoria prior to the 1974 election when the [More…]
It was changed because the Country Party then, as it is doing now, was holding a gun at the head of the Liberal Party and demanding the introduction of preferential voting at the next federal election as a pre-condition to the Country Party not standing candidates against the Liberal Party in an election. [More…]
We still have State elections in which one must vote for every person on the ballot paper. [More…]
What would happen if we were to have a federal election in which one had to vote for only some of the candidates? [More…]
It may well be argued- I am not suggesting that I have any proof on the subject- that this would result in informal voting occurring in the State elections and in other ways. [More…]
I say that a lot of work needs to be done in convincing the people and those authorities that determine the holding of elections in the States that this is a desirable scheme. [More…]
In so doing I want to make my support of the preferential system of voting for Lower House elections quite clear. [More…]
I am in support of the idea of limited preferences under this optional system of voting only because there is a very distinct overload on the type of voting at present, as was demonstrated at the last Senate election. [More…]
In the rather dynamic political scene that exists in Australia we can perhaps expect more elections to occur in the future- in the mid-term- in which a large number of candidates may very well present themselves for selection to the Senate. [More…]
I suggest that that is very much slower than checking from one to ten, as would have been the case in the election that was referred to, or from one to five if it had been a normal year in which there was not a double dissolution. [More…]
This clause proposes an amendment to section 123 of the principal Act, which deals with the method of marking of votes at a Senate election. [More…]
Under the optional preferential system of voting which is proposed, although it is mandatory to vote only for the number of persons to be elected- one in the case of a House of Representatives election and five in the case of a normal periodical Senate election- every voter has the option of indicating further preferences for some or all of the remaining candidates. [More…]
73, as in the case of the Senate election for New South Wales, or whatever the number of candidates might be. [More…]
I may know the sitting senators; but I have never seen or heard a television appearance or a radio broadcast or addresses at public meetings by my opponents or, if I am not involved in the election, by the people in whom I am interested, because generally I have been out campaigning. [More…]
In the case of a Senate election the number to be elected is five. [More…]
Let me refer to the experience of the 1 974 Senate election in New South Wales. [More…]
That election highlights the absurdity of requiring voters to indicate a preference for all candidates. [More…]
I know that the 1974 Senate election was an example of this relationship. [More…]
The results of the 1 974 Senate election, including the concurrent holding of a House of Representatives election and 4 referendums, may be of interest to honourable senators. [More…]
These are the figures for the last election. [More…]
In the 1974 Senate election in New South Wales, with 73 candidates, the informal vote reached 12.3 per cent or a staggering 332 818 ballot papers. [More…]
The overall percentage was 10.77 per cent, which accounted for 798 126 Senate ballot papers being wasted at the 1974 Senate elections. [More…]
I have given the figures for one election. [More…]
A further example might be seen by taking the 1970 Senate election which was held alone. [More…]
Actually they vote for only 5 candidates in a Senate election, but in order to make the vote formal they have to fill in the whole of the ballot paper. [More…]
If this clause were to be omitted from the Bill the effect would be that full preferential voting as presently enforced for House of Representatives elections would be retained. [More…]
It is true of course that far fewer candidates generally stand at House of Representatives elections than at Senate elections. [More…]
Under the proposed optional preferential system the voter at a House of Representatives election must indicate his first preference for one candidate and may indicate his further preferences for some or all of the remaining candidates as he so desires. [More…]
I think it has been one of the distinguishing features of Australian politics that those who wish to say things during the period of the election campaign are known, and I think they ought to be known. [More…]
People who read election material between the issue of the writ and polling day ought to know the author of that material, ought to know the address of that author and certainly ought to know who the printer is. [More…]
That is fair enough in the day to day affairs of the nation, but, as we all know, during an election period quite often serious allegations are made against all of us either as individuals or as candidates. [More…]
On and after the date of issue and before the return of any writ for the election of a member of the Senate, or of the House of Representatives, or for the taking of any referendum vote, every article report, letter or other matter commenting upon any candidate, or political party, or the issues being submitted to the electors, printed and published in any newspaper, circular, pamphlet, or ‘dodger’ shall be signed by the author or authors, giving his or their true name and address or names and addresses at the end of the said article, report, letter, or other matter, or where part only of the article, report, letter, or other matter . [More…]
It is generally known that, together with Mr Giese, Mr Perkins hopes to be a National Party candidate at the next Senate election. [More…]
He is making an international trip to denigrate the Australian Labor Party to enhance his pre-selection prospects in Alice Springs next year. [More…]
It is particularly evidenced in the case of Mr Grassby because his statements after his election defeat in 1974 indicated almost a paranoia about what had happened to him. [More…]
If one looks at the December 1974 issue of ‘Viewpoint’ as an example- it is one of the least offensive examples I have seen- it will be seen that the issue is devoted to explaining the Association’s activities in the electorate of Riverina at the time of the May 1 974 election. [More…]
They also discovered that there had been no increase in tariffs in an election year until Labor came to office, despite the fact that increases were long overdue, justified and urgently required. [More…]
I leave it to the imagination of honourable senators why the Liberal-Country Party governments never had an increase in tariffs in an election year. [More…]
This issue of the amount of the Advance to the Treasurer evidences that deceit, and it is one of many points of evidence, ranging from the false election promises about maintaining full employment and controlling inflation to some of the hypocritical utterances about respecting Parliament and exposing for parliamentary approval legislation which the Government proposes to introduce. [More…]
Of course, the theory of the Westminster system is that the control which Parliament exercises over this type of expenditure and conduct is that Parliament refuses to give the money to the Government to enable it to carry on its business, but where a Parliament does that- and in this case the Senate has the power- that action is tantamount to inviting the Government to have an election. [More…]
Even though Opposition senators might skite about their ability to go to an election again, there is far from any certainty that they would be returned in sufficient numbers to control either one or both of the Houses. [More…]
The need for a redistribution is exemplified by the projected enrolments as at May 1977, the approximate date of the next Federal election, which show that compared with the enrolments as at 25 April 1974 the following changes will take place: Bonython, 83 388, will increase to 90 000; Kingston, 72 830, will increase to 78 000; and Sturt, 69 0 1 1 , will increase to 72 000. [More…]
-Perhaps the best thing that can be said about Senator Hall is that he was such a political genius in his State that he had a redistribution which was unfavourable to himself and then had an election, 12 months before it was needed, on a non-issue which he could not win. [More…]
The simple fact of life is that the present boundaries throughout Australia are fair and equitable if one accedes to the proposition that a national election is held to elect a national Parliament and to form a government as a result of that election. [More…]
The fact that the present boundaries are fair and equitable on a national basis has been proved at the last 2 elections. [More…]
I put it to the Senate that the proposal, if carried, in any event would mean that these boundaries would last for only one election. [More…]
I ask: If these proposed boundaries in New South Wales will be valid only for the elections to be held, say, in 1977, why has the electorate of Hume, of 17 000 square miles, 65 000 electors and the city electorate of Lang, of 9 square miles, only 60 000 electors? [More…]
For the simple reason that if Kalgoorlie had been brought within the tolerance the Liberal Party would have won that seat quite easily at the next election. [More…]
With the present electoral climate, even a marginal seat like Sturt will most likely be won by a swing of 10 per cent at the next election. [More…]
I forecast with the firmest of convictions that the redistribution proposals will pass the scrutiny of Parliament before the next House of Representatives election. [More…]
I honestly and earnestly believe that the next House of Representatives elections will be held under this proposed redistribution which we are considering now. [More…]
All that will happen in political terms is that the composition of the Senate which is now 60 members and which will be 64 members after the next Senate election, will alter and a majority in this place, which will be added to by my Party, will provide a free passage for these redistribution proposals when they are presented to the Senate after 1 July 1976. [More…]
It is a lesson to all of those who want to know what the community thinks about electoral reform to study the by-election which was held last year in that seat, and to study the policies which the parties put openly and vigorously to that community. [More…]
I notice that he is taking this electoral fight right back into South Australia by going to the electorate of Goyder to help the candidate who is standing in the State election for the Liberal Party. [More…]
I put it to the Senate that after the next Senate election, which will be effective from 1 July next year, this Bill will be passed, and members of the House of Representatives had better prepare themselves for the prospect of fighting the next federal election on the boundaries which we are now considering. [More…]
The only reason I rise to make a small comment in this debate is because of the remarks made by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator Withers, who accused Mr Foster, a former member of the other place, of using taxpayers’ funds to ensure his election to the Legislative Council in South Australia. [More…]
I think it was quite wrong for Senator Withers to make that statement because, due to Mr Foster’s position on the ballot paper, he is assured of election without expending one cent in the campaign. [More…]
1 on the ballot paper for the Legislative Council election. [More…]
It is beyond my comprehension how Senator Withers could arrive at that conclusion and make the statement that Mr Foster is using taxpayers ‘ money to secure election. [More…]
I was a little intrigued to hear him say that after the next Senate election he will have the numbers in this place to ensure passage of the Bill. [More…]
Be that as it may, I hope, along with Senator Hall, that there are sufficient numbers in this place after the next Senate election to ensure the passage of this legislation so that the electors of Australia will be able to elect a government on a democratic franchise. [More…]
Candidates are not supposed to spend more than a certain minimal amount on an election campaign. [More…]
Any Party that comes forward with a policy cannot honestly say at election time that it will implement that policy if it is going to be saddled with a splinter group, a pressure group, like the National Country Party which demands its pound of flesh for every decision that is made. [More…]
Even then, as they say they are going to win the next election, if they are really sincere and things happen as they think they will, they might form the government of this country after the next election in their own right. [More…]
In fact, I envisage that if the next election is conducted on the proposed boundaries the Liberal Party will win the seat of Grey. [More…]
I have heard him make predictions on election results early in the evening on polling day that have certainly led me to believe that he is not as accurate in some of his estimates as perhaps he thinks he is. [More…]
I support the attitude outlined by the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers) and I look forward to the next election when we can deal with the Government and return to the treasury bench. [More…]
I have mentioned before that at the last election the Labor Party just scraped home. [More…]
This is a dishonest attempt by the Government to force upon the people of Australia a government that they will not want, in my opinion, at the next election. [More…]
I say to Senator Hall that if his Liberal Movement is prepared to support redistribution following the next Senate election he should make that very clear to the people of Australia so that the people in those electorates in which he has candidates know just what they are letting themselves in for if they do elect any more of the people of the calibre of Senator Hall. [More…]
But the Government has decided not to have a redistribution there- not on your life- because it knows very well that if it does it will lose at least one seat at the next election. [More…]
Even if there is no change in the electoral boundaries in Western Australia I think that the division of Kalgoorlie will become a Liberal Party seat after the next election. [More…]
Let me forecast now that even if this redistribution proposal does not go through the Labor Party will be lucky to have any Tasmanian representatives in the House of Representatives after the next election. [More…]
In fact, I predict that he will be the first person to fall at the next election, if indeed he does stand. [More…]
I believe that company lost money last year and it could well close down before the next election, or following it if the Labor Party is returned. [More…]
I have been advised that in the electorate of Denison the zinc company may have to put off more than one-third of its work force before the next election. [More…]
Another thing about these redistributions that has not been mentioned is that we have to remember that they are to be used for the next State election. [More…]
Senator Townley had some unfortunate things to say about Mr Duthie who, he assures us, will lose the seat of Wilmot at the next election. [More…]
Mr Barnard also will lose his seat at the next election, I am told by Senator Townley. [More…]
Senator Townley certainly does not agree with him because he said that even if the redistribution goes through Labor will win all 5 seats at the next election. [More…]
The establishment of that Commission was not achieved before the 1974 election. [More…]
It is quite clear that the Bill has been drafted purely and simply to enable the Government to say: ‘We are observing our election promise to set up an Inter-State Commission’. [More…]
Observations were made by Senator Gietzelt about racial discrimination in the election which Mr Grassby lost. [More…]
No one has ever discussed the racism that was involved in the election for the seat of Riverina when Mr Grassby won. [More…]
In fact what used to happen was that, instead of these Country Party politicians tramping around their vast electorates, within a year of being elected they moved to the city to live, outside their electorates and they were never seen except when they were canvassing for an election or when the local show was on. [More…]
Not only will the seats which were marginal at the last election be safe- - [More…]
Senator Withers said the other day, in response to a very cutting interjection from Senator Hall: ‘Perhaps the best thing that could be said about Senator Hall is that he was such a political genius in his State that he had a redistribution which was unfavourable to himself, and then had an election.’ [More…]
The only reason for it is if the Government could see an opportunity to rig the boundaries before the next election and so ensure that it could maintain office for at least another 3 years. [More…]
So the redistribution in Victoria has been carried out to ensure that the Labor members who won seats at the election in 1974 following the double dissolution will be entrenched in those seats. [More…]
It is not my duty to advocate that the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Lamb) should be entrenched in his seat with a certain percentage of the votes, whereas in the last election he just scraped through. [More…]
The Liberal vote in La Trobe, which was 45 percent at the last election, has been brought down to 43 per cent. [More…]
In the last election the Liberal vote in the electorate of Isaacs was slightly more than 50 per cent, and there was a very close finish in that seat. [More…]
They have shifted some people from his electorate, in which he had a reasonable majority at the last election, into the electorate of Indi. [More…]
Of the 13 seats eight- that is, Berowra, Eastwood, Robertson, Hughes, Lang, Sydney, Kingsford-Smith and Grayndler- have been altered in minor ways that have no real bearing upon the electoral result or the result of any future election. [More…]
I remind the Senate that for the election held on 18 May 1974 the vote in New South Wales for the Australian Labor Party was 52.7 per cent of the total. [More…]
After the last election there was a tremendous amount of agitation, particularly among young voters, for certain changes in our electoral system. [More…]
Opposition senators say: ‘Well, you won the last two elections’ but I put it to them in another way. [More…]
If they looked back to the 1969 election they would find that there were one or two seats at least throughout the Commonwealth where there had been vital variations. [More…]
The strategy of members of the Opposition is to fight a rearguard action, deny us any electoral reform and to say to themselves: ‘When we come to the election next year we will feel a little easier’. [More…]
My answer to that is simply that the great leveller in elections is the mobility of electors. [More…]
So, this redistribution will apply to no more than one election. [More…]
In the case before the Australian Industrial Court the defendant was charged with, and found guilty of possessing without lawful authority or excuse ballot papers in a union election. [More…]
We may take it that there is no conclusion and that the matter is subject to experiment at this stage with a view to assuring, if possible, the right of election on the part of parents. [More…]
In addition, he has the added burden of knowing that if he does not perform in these areas and does not reach up to the requirements which go to make up a sort of six million dollar man’, he has to face at periodic intervals an election which might result in his losing his job. [More…]
I should like to have seen some way that this training could be related to the personnel of unions which use democratic principles and can show that in their articles and the election of their officers they use democratic procedures. [More…]
8- the second circulated amendment is designed to cover the situation that can arise when a member of Parliament who is a member of the Australian Council is re-elected at an election. [More…]
A member of Parliament who stands for re-election will receive his parliamentary allowance until he is defeated at the election. [More…]
When the Parliament is prorogued he will not lose his allowance as from that date but will continue to receive it until he is defeated at an election. [More…]
To suggest that 5 members of a council would be victimising people does not hold water because they would be tossed out at the next election, the same as we would be if we were not doing our job. [More…]
Senator Wood and Senator Scott, who spoke for the opposition on the Bill earlier this year, claimed that they opposed it because simultaneous elections would 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 1 953. [More…]
Since 1 959, however, there have been no fewer than 9 national elections, four of them for the House of Representatives alone, and three of them for the Senate alone. [More…]
Why on earth we need to go into this extended area of risk, because that is what is it, I do not know other than to say that apparently the Liberal Party sees this move as a closer step towards a possible election and there may be some possible use of the insurance industry as an ally in such an election. [More…]
Prime Minister’s 1972 election policy speech included the following promise: [More…]
There was then a run-off election and the Christian Democrats voted for him. [More…]
When he was elected ultimately he was elected with over 60 per cent of the votes because the Christian Democratic Party supported him in the run-off election. [More…]
If only we had a television camera and if every word of Senator Greenwood could be heard and every gesture and grimace of Senator Wright could be seen we would not need to spend a penny on any election campaign; we would win with an undisputed majority, the same sort of majority as that which was gained by Dr Allende when he was elected President of Chile in the last democratic elections that took place in that country. [More…]
Because the question of amalgamations was not solved in accordance with the policy we had put forward during the election campaign we introduced into the Senate in August 1974 another Bill to provide for amalgamations. [More…]
Is it simply that the Government wants to have restored to the Senate notice paper a number of Bills that have been defeated three or four times and have the Opposition express its opposition to them once more so that when it comes to adding up the grand total- the time when some double dissolution election is to take place in the future- there is a mighty score that runs into three figures? [More…]
The Bill provides that rank and file members of any organisation that has the collegiate style of election may not vote for a period of 3 years after the amalgamation. [More…]
We will to a man campaign actively against them in any future election ‘, the President of the Australian Government Employee Organisations, Mr Ken Turbet, said. [More…]
When one considers the record of this Government and its ability to twist the facts, to falsify and to misrepresent- leaving aside the outrageous lies which they engage in at election times- I think there is something deplorable in the fact that this misrepresentation is engaged in by a few union officials connected with the Public Service unions. [More…]
It is interesting to hear Senator Greenwood repudiating the sentiments in what his then Leader, Mr Snedden, and other spokesmen for the Opposition Parties said at various stages over the last two or three years, and even repudiating, I suggest, the policy statement on national superannuation which Mr Chipp issued on 21 April 1974 which, of course, was during the period of the last election campaign. [More…]
Of course, Mr Chipp was speaking for the Opposition Parties at the last election- when obviously he was vote catching; he was seeking to get support from Commonwealth public servants- the Opposition pledged itself to support a scheme that was in advance of all existing superannuation schemes in Australia. [More…]
The Government seems to be able to find an extraordinary amount of money for other sporting organisations throughout Australia- I gather to attract votes for a possible election in the future. [More…]
What has gone wrong with the claim made by the Australian Labor Party before the 1972 election that it knew best how to ensure industrial peace? [More…]
I refer to the election promise of the Whitlam Government that the means test on the age pension would be phased out over 3 years with the final phasing out to persons between 65 and 70 years of age being undertaken in the year ahead- 1 975-76. [More…]
a ) if the spouse does not make an election under section 88 or 89- to spouse’s pension in accordance with section 87 and, where the eligible employee had paid supplementary contributions, a lump sum benefit in accordance with that section; [More…]
if the spouse makes an election under section 88- to spouse’s pension, and a lump sum benefit, in accordance with that section; or [More…]
if the spouse is entitled to make an election under section 89 and makes such an election- to a lump sum benefit in accordance with sub-section 89 (2) and, where the eligible employee had paid supplementary contributions, an additional lump sum benefit in accordance with sub-section 89 (3). [More…]
1 ) Where a person makes an election under section 1 4 1 and- [More…]
1 ) Where a person (other than a person who, at the time when he ceased to be an eligible employee had completed 10 years’ eligible employment) who has made an election under section 14 1 is not employed in public employment at the expiration of the period that is the prescribed period in relation to him then, unless- [More…]
Where the person attains the age of 60 years while he is an eligible employee or ceases to be such an eligible employee before he attains that age, and neither sub-section (7) nor sub-section (8) applies in relation to him, then, if the election made by the person under sub-section (2) has not been revoked in accordance with sub-section ( 10)- [More…]
10) A person who has made an election under subsection (2) may, if- [More…]
b) does not make an election under section 69 or 70. [More…]
Where a person makes an election under sub-section ( 1 ) and the period of contributory service of the person is not less than 3 1 years, the annual rate of the pension to which the person is entitled is such percentage of the person’s final annua] rate of salary as, having regard to the number of complete years included in that period of contributory service, is applicable in accordance with columns 1 and 3 of Schedule 3. [More…]
who has not made an election under section 72 or 73. [More…]
Where a person makes an election under sub-section ( 1 ) and the period of prospective service of the person is not less than 30 years, the annual rate of the pension to which the person is entitled is such percentage of the person’s final annual rate of salary as, having regard to the number of complete years included in the person’s period of contributory service, is applicable in accordance with columns 1 and 3 of Schedule 5. [More…]
Where a spouse makes an election under sub-section (1 ) of this section, the annual rate of pension to which the spouse is entitled is 67 per centum of the annual rate of the pension to which the deceased eligible employee would have been entitled under section 69 if he had not died, but had, on the day immediately following the date of his death, become entitled to invalidity benefit and had made an election under that section. [More…]
If, at any time when spouse’s pension is payable to a spouse who makes an election under sub-section (1 ), there are children of the deceased eligible employee who are eligible children, then, in the application of sub-section (2) at that time to the spouse, the reference in sub-section (2) to 67 per centum shall be read as a reference to- [More…]
b ) does not make an election under section 9 1 or 92 . [More…]
If, at any time when spouse’s pension is payable to a spouse who makes an election under sub-section (1 ), there are children of the deceased eligible employee who are eligible children, then, in the application of sub-section (2) at that time to the spouse, the reference in sub-section (2) to 67 per centum shall be read as a reference to- [More…]
The contributions of any eligible employee making an election under sub-section ( 1 ) who would have been entitled to benefits under the superseded Act upon attaining the age of 65 years shall be increased to the level of contributions applicable to persons who have been entitled to benefits under the superseded Act upon attaining the age of 60 years. [More…]
An election under sub-section (1) shall be made by notice in writing served on the Commissioner within such period as is prescribed. [More…]
An eligible employee who makes an election pursuant to this section and who complies with the requirements of that Act shall be entitled to receive benefits under the superseded Act and the superseded Act shall continue in force and apply in relation to such requirements and entitlement as if this Act and the Superannuation Act Amendment Act 1975 had not been passed. [More…]
Under the provisions of the Act he is enabled to return to the Army in the event of his being defeated at the election. [More…]
Why was nothing done by the series of conservative governments that preceded the election of the Labor Government to provide radio services for these new citizens? [More…]
It was only about a year ago that we heard in election promises that inflation would be reduced and unemployment removed and we heard that only Whitlam could do it. [More…]
We will certainly pose a threat to the Government ‘s survival whenever the next election comes. [More…]
I am moved to speak because on Friday and over the weekend in Launceston there was delivered to homes an election pamphlet on the front of which appeared the words: ‘Kevin Newman. [More…]
I am sure we all realise that under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund legislation introduced by the former Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, Lieutentant-Colonel Newman would receive a lump sum of about $23,500, if he wished it, plus approximately $5000 a year which would have been a help if he was defeated in the election and retired to the farm that he already owns in Tasmania and would have been a very healthy addition to his parliamentary salary if he was elected. [More…]
This means that if he is defeated he can return to the Army after the election. [More…]
In his policy speech delivered a little over a year ago before the double dissolution election, which resulted in the rout of the Opposition, Mr Whitlam did undertake to provide half of the cost of building a new general hospital in Launceston, something which had been neglected for 23 years by LiberalCountry Party governments. [More…]
Ever since the December 1972 election when the Liberal-Country Parties were thrown out of power, and now that they are the Opposition, they seem to have flatly refused to accept the verdict of the people; they do not seem to realise and appreciate that they are no longer the Government; that they are the Opposition. [More…]
The irony of that is that such action could not have been taken before the 1 972 election without the support of Democratic Labor Party, the Party that endorsed Senator Drake-Brockman and helped elect him to this Senate at the 1974 elections. [More…]
1 on the Democratic Labor Party ticket, for the 1974 Senate election. [More…]
Maybe, about next March, after the Liberal Party fails to win the by-election in Bass, its members will be asking what is wrong with their present Leader and beginning to look for another one. [More…]
This was accepted by the Senate when the senator took his seat following the election in May 1 974. [More…]
I do not think we need to go into the statistics of the percentage of votes polled by each of the parties at the last election. [More…]
-The 23 per cent of the non-Labor voters who voted for my Party at the Senate election- that is the statistic if Senator Young would like to do his homework- would be very disappointed if I were excluded. [More…]
Certainly he is not a member of my Party nor, I believe, does he support it at election times. [More…]
As the Leader of the Government in the Senate has said, prior to his election to the Senate, Senator Milliner had a long career in the Labor movement. [More…]
He and I led the opposing sides at the last Senate election. [More…]
It is a major issue on which the next Federal election will bc fought, ignoring the smears and sneers of an Opposition which has, to its eternal discredit, the current majority foreign ownership or control of A Australia ‘s mineral and energy resources. [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…]
As Senator Cavanagh has said very rightly, there is an election on in South Australia. [More…]
Speaking on the present election in which we are now engaged in South Australia Senator Hall said: [More…]
The leader of the South Australian Liberal Movement, Senator Hall, said today the South Australian Liberal Party was ‘off its head ‘ to force an election over the railways issue. [More…]
He will not even talk to them until after the election. [More…]
Liberal Movement leader Steele Hall in the propaganda for his Senate election campaign makes much of his claim to be more ‘progressive’ than the official Liberals with whom he has bitter personal quarrels. [More…]
It was an issue for debate in the Senate, precluded only by the fact that a double dissolution of the Parliament occurred and the debate was not resumed after the election. [More…]
I despise the attitude that will parade the cause of integrity of Ministers with regard to truthfulness as a mere election expedient to obtain headlines through the Press. [More…]
1 say that Frank Shanahan was an unsuccessful candidate in the elections in the New South Wales Branch of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia declared in or about March 1 974 and was one of a number of candidates including myself who campaigned jointly for election. [More…]
The results of the election which was conducted by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for New South Wales were declared on March 17, 1971. [More…]
Will you come to Queensland with me and see if we can get a team together there to contest the Queensland Branch elections?’ [More…]
1 returned to New South Wales and was then asked by Egan to go to Tasmania to see if I could put together a team there to contest the Branch elections in the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia in opposition to the proGietzelt officials. [More…]
He told me that he had heard the same rumours as myself that there was a defect in the last Tasmanian Branch election in the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia due to nominations not being advertised but said that he did not know whether this was correct and could only suggest I search the newspapers. [More…]
In or about mid- 1972 Egan said to me that in preparing for our 1973-1974 election campaign in the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia in New South Wales it would be necessary for the campaign to be placed on a proper footing. [More…]
The election results had been declared in or about March 1974. [More…]
Norm Bray was the only one of our candidates who had been successful in obtaining election to a salaried position in the 1973-1974 elections and I feared that Shanahan might be pressured into making some statement which might be used against Norm Bray. [More…]
At the election after the double dissolution in 1 974 it was apparent that, in particular, the Country Party- as it then was- and also the Liberal Party had up to 20 times the amount of cash to spend on their campaigns as the Labor Party had. [More…]
This situation was repeated last year in the Queensland State elections and has been demonstrated in other elections elsewhere. [More…]
It is a matter of great importance and has been part of our policy which was put before the people last year at the double dissolution election. [More…]
Dame Ivy was the first woman elected to the Senate to represent Victoria and played a full and active role in this chamber from her election in 1949 until her retirement in July 1 97 1 . [More…]
My personal interest in her political career was, of course, that I was the chairman of the selection committee of the Victorian division of the Liberal Party which in 1 949 selected Mrs Wedgwood, as she then was, to be a Liberal Party candidate for the Senate election of 1949. [More…]
They seem to have had some success insofar as the Opposition is concerned, although I understand the Opposition attitude to be in conflict with a view expressed by the new Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) shortly after his election. [More…]
While I am speaking of governments and elections I should say something which I do not think has been mentioned yet. [More…]
Senator Wright may be interested in this since he seems to have some respect for the decisions that the people make at elections, or decisions that he anticipates that the people will make shortly. [More…]
The proposal was spelt out very clearly before the election in May 1974 at which, I remind Senator Wright, the people re-elected the present Government. [More…]
The Australian Mutual Provident Society has gone into alliance with the National Country Party of Australia with the object of defeating the Labor Government at the next election. [More…]
Under the terms of that deal the AMP representatives throughout Australia were to act as electoral agents for the Country Party between the present time and the next election campaign. [More…]
What might have been realistic at the beginning of this year is unrealistic today, and will be totally unrealistic by election time. [More…]
After the experiences of the last 2 elections, if this Parliament ignores the position, if it allows this dangerous situation to continue whereby democracy is made ridiculous by the inability of individual candidates to match the machines and the hysteria of Party machines becomes even more overpowering, then it will in retrospect look ludicrous and ridiculous. [More…]
Those who have been in a position to look at election campaigns at a national level are aghast. [More…]
One recalls very well a statement made by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) at the last election that all the benefits that the Labor Government would seek to bring to this community could be brought about without increased taxation. [More…]
Mr Whitlam’s statement in that respect during the last election campaign was misleading also. [More…]
We remember the attitude which the Press took prior to the election. [More…]
The proposals in the Bill are that the various individuals offering themselves for election should disclose the source of their funds. [More…]
This Government would not have the honesty to say that it believes that when an election is near or when the writs are issued members of the Opposition, Ministers and members of the Government should lose the benefits and the facilities they have as a result of being members of Parliament. [More…]
I believe that the money has been spent in the hope that there will be a kickback to the Labor Party at election time. [More…]
It provides that a party contesting all seats in the House of Representatives would be allowed to spend $606,000-odd on the election. [More…]
That amount of money ought to be sufficient to allow the big parties- the Liberal Party and the Labor Party- to put fairly and squarely before the electors what they term to be their propaganda, their platform for an election. [More…]
A party contesting a Senate election for the States and the Territories would be allowed to spend $ 12 1,000 on the election. [More…]
Parties contesting a double dissolution would be able to spend about $ 1.25m on the election. [More…]
I remember that a member of the Liberal Party who had been a candidate in the previous election described the attempt to rationalise the siting of service stations as Bolshevism by stealth. [More…]
When the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) delivered the policy speech on behalf of the Australian Labor Party during the campaign for the 1974 election nothing could have been clearer than what he said on the subject of the Bill which is before the Senate at this moment. [More…]
When the people of Australia voted for the Australian Labor Party in May 1974 this is one of the things for which they were voting, but because of the oddities of our Constitution and our electoral system and because of the behaviour of the Premier of New South Wales we do not have the representation in the Upper House that we have in the Lower House and we are unable to pass the legislation which any government should be entitled to introduce- that is, those matters which are put to the people at an election and are adopted by the people. [More…]
We simply say that if the Government feels that it has not sufficient control of the Parliament to pass its measures, it has a ready means of determining that issue, and that is the traditional course which other Governments on other occasions have pursued of asking the GovernorGeneral for an election. [More…]
The only comment I would wish to make concerns the statements on what are now called double dissolution Bills and their accumulation for the purpose of holding elections. [More…]
It was taken on in relation to an election. [More…]
We called on the election and we won. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that Mr Barry Cotterrell is the endorsed Australian Labor Party candidate for the Brisbane City Council ward of Camp Hill for the forthcoming municipal election? [More…]
If Mr Barry Cotterrell is still employed by the Commonwealth Public Service, when will this employment terminate to allow Mr Cotterrell to conduct his campaign for the forthcoming municipal election? [More…]
I know that it can be done by election and appointment. [More…]
After 23 years of allowing Australia to lie fallow so far as corporate raiders were concerned, on the eve of the 1972 election and in the face of a tide of economic nationalism which had arisen at that time, belatedly but inadequately the then Government acted and produced the 1972 takeover legislation. [More…]
In the case of South Australia the State Legislative Council rejected the transfer legislation and a State election ensued. [More…]
Mr McMahon, when he introduced the legislation, said that it was interim legislation and that the following year, assuming the election went all right, an independent authority would be established to determine the takeovers which ought to be rejected. [More…]
Then there was the April policy speech before the 1974 election when the Prime Minister said: [More…]
In short, this Bill is a very pale reflection, if it could be called a reflection, of what the Government promised prior to its election and shortly after its election. [More…]
It ought not to be forgotten that the Labor Party put itself forward before its election in 1972 as the only party which was interested in this subject and which had great proposals to which it would give effect. [More…]
I would be interested to hear from the Opposition members, who talk so freely about secret ballots in trade unions and the democratic election of trade union officials- something with which I largely agree- when they are going to call for a secret ballot amongst the policy holders in these insurance companies - [More…]
In reply I would say firstly that the Brisbane City Council elections are not due until 27 March next year, which is 7 months away, and, secondly, that it has never been assumed that employment in the Public Service in itself prohibits people from campaigning for public office. [More…]
Honourable senators will know that the normal procedure in the case of public servants who seek election to State or Federal Parliaments is for them to resign before the close of nominations. [More…]
Mr Cotterrell will of course resign from his employment if he is successful at that election. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present statistical returns for each State showing the voting within each subdivision in relation to the Senate Election 1974 and the General Elections for the House of Representatives 1974. [More…]
For instance, I understand that Mr Michael Baume, a company director, and the endorsed Liberal Party candidate for the next election joined Patrick Partners in 1969. [More…]
Under the Act as it stands, he is the candidate for Macarthur at the coming election. [More…]
Every election year they received an increase in their pension- sometimes 50c a week and sometimes 75c a week. [More…]
If we look at the political advertisements of the Liberal Party in South Australia during the last State election there we see that they blatantly stated, ‘Sweep out Socialism ‘. [More…]
Government to a premature election. [More…]
The Opposition will not force a general election by rejecting the Budget in the Senate. [More…]
So the Liberal Party is not at all contrite and obviously it intends to continue to promote the speculation about another premature election and hopes thereby to sabotage the Budget. [More…]
We are not here trying to win an election; we are not stumping in the Domain; we are in Parliament where Bills are passed, defeated or amended. [More…]
It has taken all the heat out of any talk of election in Australia. [More…]
In discussing the Budget Papers for 1975-76 the Senate in fact is examining Labor’s second last Budget before an election must be held. [More…]
I remember that during the election last year following the double dissolution I had to fight against dishonest advertisements which were placed by the Prime Minister, stating that only he had reduced inflation by one-third. [More…]
It was a false claim and it was proven to be false and dishonest soon after the election. [More…]
They sought re-election on these advertisements. [More…]
I had the pleasure recently of travelling to Launceston to take part in a by-election there. [More…]
It is Australians who want the right to work who will tip this Government out just as they tipped out the Labor Party in the Bass by-election, and they will reject the Prime Minister nationwide the same as they rejected him in the electorate of Bass when he went down to lend his support, the same as when he went to lend his support in the last Queensland State election when his Party did so well. [More…]
The only election Labor has done well in was the South [More…]
Australian election in which the Prime Minister was not allowed to appear. [More…]
What is interesting is that this represents a betrayal by the Government of a firm promise which was made before it came to government and before the 1974 election. [More…]
Never let those of us who had to fight the election in 1972 forget what Senator James McClelland ‘s Party said in the little document it put out headed Economics; It’s Time. [More…]
It is from Labor’s election manifesto. [More…]
Misha Lajovic won the Liberal Party preselection the hard way, after a 14-hour ballot. [More…]
He will come into the Senate and, because we will give the Labor Party such a walloping in the half Senate election, we will bring in also a fourth candidate. [More…]
Surprise, surprise, there was a State election coming up. [More…]
Prior to the presentation of this Budget the Opposition claimed that there would be an elections-there was no doubt about it. [More…]
The Opposition Parties were crying out for an election. [More…]
They wanted an election. [More…]
They were going to have an election. [More…]
-Senator Withers interjects and says: ‘Why do we not have an election?’ [More…]
Senator Withers on many occasions has threatened an election but it seems now that the Opposition is not prepared- irrespective of the opinion polls which seem to be running against the Governmentto do that which they threatened before the Budget was presented. [More…]
They are the people who in 1972 felt that the election of a Labor government would be the answer to their hopes and their dreams. [More…]
As I have said, I would be surprised if even one of the would-be home owners in this country were to vote for the Labor Party at the next election. [More…]
We all know about the situation in Launceston because we heard such a lot about it during the Bass by-election. [More…]
I predict at the next election a rejection of Mr Whitlam and his Party of a magnitude never before seen in this country. [More…]
Following that election, it is my belief that action will be taken to revive production and investment, to control government spending and to reduce personal taxation in order to get Australia on the road again. [More…]
It is the third Budget which has been introduced since the election of an Australian Labor Party government in 1 972. [More…]
The Labor Party then had the idea of really causing havoc to the Budget and possibly forcing an election. [More…]
This is a real conclusion because it is a good conclusion: If an election were to be held at the moment this Government would be wiped out of existence, and Mr Whitlam would go with it. [More…]
Yet during the last election campaign, which was not all that long ago, in May 1974, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Government claimed that Australia had overcome the worst of its economic ills and was on the upturn. [More…]
If this country is wise enough and the Liberal and Country parties get back into government at the next election, we will see some confidence restored in the community and overseas, we will see an upsurge in private investment and in the industry and commerce of this country and I hope and pray that we will see a great downturn in unemployment, which is one of the greatest tragedies that this Government has inflicted upon Australia at present. [More…]
To this end, therefore, I should appreciate your advising me as soon as possible the names of three 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…]
He was a candidate for the Labor Party at the Senate elections in 1970 and 1973 and at the double dissolution election in 1974. [More…]
He is a candidate again for the Senate election which will be held somewhere between now and 30 June next year. [More…]
As the leader of the Labor Party team for that election I am proud to be associated with him. [More…]
In fact, recently he had published a book dealing with Senate elections, particularly the 1974 election. [More…]
I think I have an obligation to let the people of this country know the circumstances of his selection. [More…]
It was certainly not an election in the true sense of the word. [More…]
It has improved Dr Colston’s position at the next Senate election. [More…]
Dr Colston is the number 3 candidate on the Labor Party ticket for the next Senate election. [More…]
It was an exercise in which he engaged during the 1974 election campaign when he required persons who had inserted advertisements in the newspapers protesting against the proposed laws on gun control to withdraw those advertisements, having used the Commonwealth Police and officers of the Attorney-General’s Department to indicate that action would otherwise be taken. [More…]
There had been, as I think it was described, a Legislative Council until 1963, when the first election was held. [More…]
Some will remember the saga of that election, as revealed on film. [More…]
A House of Assembly was elected in quite remarkable circumstances in a country in which the concept of election had not previously been experienced. [More…]
If there is an election in the next couple of months Senator Wright will be out of this Parliament and in receipt of an age pension, so he will not have to worry about what Party is in power. [More…]
For the benefit of the Opposition senators who have just returned to the chamber, I point out that I was mentioning that if an election were precipitated in the next couple of months Senator Wright would not be back here because he would be on the age pension. [More…]
Is the Minister not aware that Mr Misha Lajovic, who migrated in 1950 from Slovenia to Australia, is a Liberal Senate candidate for New South Wales and does he not occupy a position which is likely to ensure his election? [More…]
It is quite clear that the Government failed to restrain those rapidly rising wage costs; in fact it was the policy of this Government from the day of its election to set the pace and to encourage the cost of wages. [More…]
If the honourable senator is talking about the misconception which arose during the election campaign when he was elected to Parliament, I think that if he studies the statement which was made he will get a different view of what was intended. [More…]
I also understand that Don Dunstan, who tried to wash his hands of the Federal Labor Government during the State election campaign, was anxious to get some money from overseas for his own purposes. [More…]
To depart from its 1972 election promise that basic pensions would be related to average weekly earnings and never be allowed to fall below 25 per cent thereof, and [More…]
It seems to be an election gimmick; we seem to have put it above the needs of all sorts of other groups in the community. [More…]
There is some difficulty facing individuals who formerly were Labor voters in trying to understand the plea of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) at the last election when he said: ‘Give us a chance ‘. [More…]
I want to make a brief statement about the speculation concerning the possibility of an election. [More…]
None of us and none of those who are so closely associated with this place can be so innocent as not to be able to recognise the momentum that is running within the Opposition parties for an election. [More…]
The content of various speeches of members of the Opposition in the Senate can leave one with no other impression than that the Opposition is looking for the first spark that it can find to ignite the procedures that will lead to an election. [More…]
The organisation of that profession and the individuals in it were greatly harmed in their own eyes by the procrastination of the Opposition and the failure of the Opposition to carry Australia with it in the election following the double dissolution it caused. [More…]
What I am suggesting is that we might arrive at quite the opposite to what the Honourable Jim Killen was complaining about last year and that is a half Senate election alone. [More…]
The Government has the authority to call an election for half the Senate when it desires. [More…]
It could well be that the normal machinery for an election in November, or whenever is necessary, could be set in motion for half the Senate. [More…]
The Opposition could find itself in the very undesirable circumstance of having to come back, with whatever component it received after an election, to face the Budget or- in deference to Senator Wright’s complaint- whatever the individual measures were. [More…]
That is to say, if the Government so misbehaves as to cause on the floor of the House a disintegration of its own support, then even on a procedural vote, according to the practice, if it fails by one vote to get a judgment of the House on a mere matter of procedure- which may be completely irrelevant to confidence, as in the Beasley case in 1 930- it is proper to have an election. [More…]
In my political experience, if that had occurred to any government with a resolute parliament in previous days the party that had been so scattered to the 4 winds would have demanded a reconstitution of the Prime Ministership and therefore an election. [More…]
Today, though, we have such abysmal ignorance of the true basis of responsibility on the part of the Party to which the majority in the lower House is justified in according its confidence that we have it suggested that, far from that reconstruction being a matter for an election, it is a matter for guaranteeing the new outfit the full term of office. [More…]
We go in any double dissolution situation and in this other contingency that the genius of Senator Hall has found, namely, a half Senate election alone. [More…]
If we are to have a set Parliament and if we are prepared to accept that the Government should remain in office for the term that it was appointed at the last election we can deal with the matter in a much more favourable manner than otherwise would be the case. [More…]
I always have put my case clearly before the Liberal Party selection committee and have always won. [More…]
If something happens and there is a feeling that there has to be an election, that is when an election comes about. [More…]
Have election results since World War II always been counted initially at each polling place within Australia. [More…]
Statement showing results of the scrutiny of first preference votes (voting figures) in respect of polling places and of postal, absent and section votes (recorded in Election Form 62) are available at the Australian Electoral Office for 1969, 1972 and 1974 House of Representatives elections and 1970 Senate elections. [More…]
In 1969 a decision was taken to collate and present booth figures in a different format (Election Form 62). [More…]
Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate seen a Press report in which the national director, I think he is called, of the Liberal Party of Australia, Mr Eggleton, accused the Australian Labor Party of generating election speculation so that it could blame the Opposition for creating political instability? [More…]
CANBERRA-The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Fraser) yesterday started fresh speculation about an election by carefully leaving his options open on rejecting Supply. [More…]
In statements issued in Canberra yesterday Mr Fraser and the Senate Opposition Leader, Senator Withers, refuted Mr Whitlam ‘s description of the Opposition as ‘a pack of jackals hounding for an election ‘. [More…]
Calling Mr Whitlam a ‘pompous, arrogant, profane would-bc dictator’, Senator Withers said the only insurance against an early election was good government. [More…]
But while the nation speculates and politicians ponder on the possibility of an early election, a tight-knit band of specialists is ready to serve up the Opposition Leader, Mr Fraser, to the people tomorrow. [More…]
However, to prevent the Liberal and Country Parties from bringing down the wrath of the public servants and the pensioners upon their heads if an election prevented those people from being paid over the Christmas period, he would offer the Government temporary Supply on the understanding that the Government held an election early in the new year. [More…]
If he tries to bring on an election and if he is successful he will say to the Government: ‘I will give you temporary Supply because 1 do not want to have the wrath of the pensioners, the public servants and whoever else depends on a pay cheque from the Government, because of their being deprived of the wherewithal to buy Christmas essentials. [More…]
To depart from its 1972 election promise that basic pensions would be related to average weekly earnings and never be allowed to fall below 25 per cent thereof, and [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he can, on behalf of the Government, give the Senate a firm undertaking that if the Senate did not defeat any Supply or appropriation Bills the Government would not call an election for the House of Representatives until the expiration of the maximum 3-year term for which it was elected in May 1 974. [More…]
Alternatively, does the Minister believe that the Government should be free to call an election whenever it suits the Government? [More…]
I indicated yesterday to Senator Walsh in my reply that the calling of an election from the Government’s point of view, irrespective of what may take place in the Senate on refusal of appropriation Bills, is entirely a responsibility of the Prime Minister. [More…]
I am not in a position to say whether the Prime Minister would see fit to call an election at any time. [More…]
However, the important point is that the Prime Minister makes the decision, as Senator Chaney well knows, as to whether an election should be called. [More…]
The Leader of the National Country Party of Australia, in another place, during the 1974 election campaign called for an increase in the price of indigenous oil. [More…]
If Senator Carrick got them from his own secretariat there is no guarantee that they are reliable because Mr Fraser at the moment is relying on false, privately taken opinion polls in order to bolster his courage to see whether he will have an election. [More…]
We know that they get vast sums of money for their election campaigns from the coffers of the exploiters. [More…]
It was only with the election of a Country- Liberal Party Government in 1957 that a deliberate policy of expanding industry and of opening up mining areas so far as was possible was embarked upon. [More…]
Although the Premier had no mandate from the people of South Australia to effect a transfer of the rural railways to the Australian Government, he used that request by the Liberal Party Opposition for the reference of the proposal to a select committee, which I believe was a quite logical request, as an excuse to hold a premature election. [More…]
I venture to suggest that the result of the election of 12 July reflected the thoughts of the South Australian people on the matter before the Senate tonight. [More…]
During the State election I attended many meetings in South Australia in company with Mr Virgo, the Minister of Transport, and with us was Mr Ray Taylor who was the Federal Secretary of the Australian Railways Union. [More…]
A public opinion poll was conducted during the South Australian election campaign. [More…]
The results for South Australia, where 57 per cent of people favoured a Federal take-over of the railways, are particularly interesting because of the recent State election, which was precipitated by this issue and which resulted in the return of Labor to power in that State. [More…]
They are the people who organised the street march in Mount Gambier during the election campaign, assisted by Mr Fraser’s people from Wannon, who came over by the busload to bring about the defeat of Mr Allan Burdon. [More…]
A State election followed. [More…]
The Opposition is hanging on to any pretence- because it has the weight of numbers in this place- to try to force an election. [More…]
If his timing for an election is too soon he will get the chopper. [More…]
As an election promise in the 1974 Queensland State election campaign Mr Knox stated that the recommendations of that commission of inquiry would be implemented. [More…]
In its election promises the Government also committed itself to a policy of ensuring that women would be appointed to all Government boards and advisory bodies, wherever there is a woman in the State who is capable of contributing to such a board or such a body. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition talked of Senate-elect Colston topping the poll for the election of ALP candidates at the ALP Electoral College. [More…]
Good God, the less he said about the Electoral College for the election of ALP candidates the better! [More…]
1 ) What were the reasons that commercial radio and television stations were able to provide detailed information to the previous Minister as to election broadcasting while the Australian Broadcasting Commission could only provide simple aggregate times in answer to a Question of Mr F. Reynolds, M.P., on 2 1 April 1 975. [More…]
Before becoming probably the best known advocate for the newly formed Workers Party, John Singleton was advertising director for the Liberal Party of New South Wales for the 1973 State and 1974 Federal election campaigns. [More…]
563 asked by Senator Rae which said: In view of the Minister’s remarks about the circumstances surrounding the election of the Olympic gold medallist, Miss M. Wylie of Sydney to the International Hall of Fame, what are the names of individual sportsmen and sportswomen who have received direct Government assistance since December 1972. [More…]
During each election period the Premier of Queensland has visited the area and the children there have had the benefit of receiving lollies from him, but the lollies did not sustain the population for the whole year. [More…]
It will become one anyhow at the next election. [More…]
The fact that a party with approximately 50 per cent of the first preference vote is able to achieve office with a working majority at an election held on the present boundaries shows that there is no basis for claiming that the electoral system is either unfair, unbalanced or biased in any party’s favour. [More…]
The oddity was 1954 when the Labor Party ought to have achieved office but did not because the election of that year was fought on the boundaries set by the Labor Government in 1948. [More…]
If it wants to stay totally with the law it cannot attempt to criticise the Senate for exercising its undoubted legal and constitutional right to force an election for the other place. [More…]
It was inserted because a government, if it wanted particular legislation which was rejected and presented again, could either go to an election or forget about the legislation. [More…]
It was all arranged to try to obtain 6 vacancies for a particular State at a half-Senate election. [More…]
I refer to Senator Withers’ statement, which I accept, that a redistribution prior to the 1954 election would have seen the advent of an Australian Labor Party government. [More…]
As the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers) said in his opening address in this debate, the evidence of the most recent elections in this country, percentage-wise and seat-wise, has suggested on 2 occasions in the last 3 years that a vote of slightly less than 50 per cent has produced a government in power with slightly more than 50 per cent of the seats. [More…]
I believe that if that is the situation- indeed it is- then it is virtually impossible to get a system which is closer to electoral fairness and real justice than is exhibited by the results of those elections. [More…]
Surely it would be far more sensible to introduce such legislation at a time when the census had revealed that a redistribution was necessary than to rush into a redistribution at this time which can, at best, serve perhaps only one election. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party supporters in the main would be quite happy about casting one vote for the candidate for whom they wanted to vote and with not being compelled to have to vote for every lunatic fringe candidate who enters into the election campaign. [More…]
In the election before the last one something like- in round figures- 9000 votes were needed to elect a member of Parliament from the Liberal Party, something like 6000 votes were needed to elect a member of Parliament from the Country Party, and something like 14 000 votes were needed to elect a member of Parliament from the Labor Party. [More…]
1 ask honourable senators to examine the last State election results. [More…]
In the last State election it had more than 40 members returned to the House. [More…]
Mr Anthony is the man who wants an election for his own gain so that he will once again become the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]
The real test of one vote one value is this: In an election did a majority of voters elect a majority of members? [More…]
The only exception was in the 1954 election, the boundaries for which were drawn under the supervision of a Labor Minister, Mr Calwell. [More…]
Let us pose this question against the background of an array of electoral Bills before the Parliament which are trying to wipe out Independents by raising the deposit for candidates at an election. [More…]
That is particularly so in relation to Senate elections. [More…]
It is quite impossible at any point of time to have at an election a situation in which each seat has one vote one value. [More…]
I repeat that the Government hopes to ensure that at an election the 127 seats will be so distributed that a majority of votes gives it a majority of seats. [More…]
We are not talking about whether boundaries for State elections were bad- whether they were boundaries in New South Wales under a Labor government, whether they were boundaries in South Australia under a Labor government or whether they were boundaries in Western Australia under a Labor government. [More…]
If one looks at the effect of the value of a vote in the country and compares it with the value of a vote in the city, one finds the simple fact is that in the last election one country vote was equal to 1 . [More…]
That harm will not be evident at the next election. [More…]
It will be evident at the election thereafter. [More…]
There was to be an election at about that time. [More…]
What was the result of the election? [More…]
Surely honourable senators will recall the result of the election on that occasion. [More…]
The strongly held Labor seats of previous elections, such as the seat now held by Mr Burns, who is the present Leader of the Labor Party, scraped home but not by very much. [More…]
I think there is general agreement amongst the members of the Labor Government at the present time that if there were an election today they would be decimated, just as they were decimated in the election in Queensland last December. [More…]
I think that the members of the Labor Party who retained their seats after such an election would be so scarce about this chamber that one would have to ask: Have you seen a Labor Party member of Parliament today?’ [More…]
Honourable senators opposite allege that the proposals are deliberately designed and concocted to keep Labor in power forever or to give Labor, at the very least, a grossly unfair advantage in any ensuing election. [More…]
No matter what honourable senators opposite may say I believe that this is a blatant attempt by the Government to alter the way in which any future election in this country would go. [More…]
I believe that at the next election the Government will lose the Tasmanian seats, in this order: Wilmot, Braddon, Denison and Franklin. [More…]
Following the 1974 election the number of votes needed by the Opposition to capture Wilmot was only 3 per cent. [More…]
We saw what happened in the Bass by-election. [More…]
At the by-election in Bass Labor got about 37 per cent of the vote. [More…]
It is obvious that if an election were held tomorrow in Bass the Labor Party would get fewer votes than it did then. [More…]
I think the Labor Party will need to field a very good candidate to have any chance of holding that seat in an election. [More…]
2 on the Labor Party ticket for Tasmania at the next half Senate election I would be very worried. [More…]
Because of the way in which the electorate is going in Tasmania, I believe that at the next election the swing in Tasmania will be such that it does not really matter how many Labor votes are transferred from Franklin to Denison. [More…]
The point is that Denison was one of the most marginal seats after the last election, and that is why I think the redistribution went the way it did. [More…]
Legislation was introduced and tested because the Opposition precipitated an election which was held in May 1974. [More…]
Following that election legislation was introduced into the Parliament. [More…]
When we put it to the people at an election in May 1974 it was accepted by the people of Australia and it was accepted by the Joint Sitting of the Parliament. [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…]
I might add that honourable senators have talked about unsavoury traditions as if that is relevant to what happens in the future- the use of electoral gerrymanders by the ruling party to ensure its re-election. [More…]
I take it that Senator Hall’s interjection means that he does not always rely on Mr Mackerras’ election eve prognostications. [More…]
In the election conducted recently in the Northern Territory Labor did not win one seat. [More…]
Suppose Labor had its Bill passed and there were equal electorates in Queensland and there was a swing there such as happened at the last State election. [More…]
If there was an electorate with, say, 100 people and 3 candidates for election, and the first candidate got 35 votes, the second candidate 33 votes and the third candidate 32 votes, on first past the post or optional preferences voting the first candidate would be elected with 35 votes. [More…]
All of us have worked on booths on election day and we know what a hard, long day it is and what it is like to go into the polling booth at 8 o’clock at night and scrutinise and then struggle home late. [More…]
What I was saying was that the people who are precluded from voting on election day by the fact that the booths close at 6 o’clock at night would alter the figures in that 10 per cent estimate. [More…]
Senator Withers also mentioned that the results of past elections have generally led to the party which recorded 50 per cent of the vote winning government. [More…]
The Liberal-Country parties also won 62 seats at that election, yet their total vote was only 40.91 per cent. [More…]
Is it any wonder that they opposed the amendments to the redistribution provisions of the Commonwealth Electoral Act which the Government brought down and which were passed at the Joint Sitting following the double dissolution elections in 1974. [More…]
We said during the 1 972 election campaign, and we repeated it during the subsequent election campaign, that we would try to bring electoral fairness into the Australian system. [More…]
Of course, that was something that became available to the members of the defence forces upon the election of this Government and the implementation of the recommendations of the Joint Committee on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation. [More…]
I would be interested to hear from the Opposition members, who talk so freely about secret ballots in trade unions and the democratic election of trade union officials -something with which I largely agree- when they are going to call for a secret ballot amongst the policy holders in these insurance companies about the use of their money to bring down the Government for which the majority of the policy holders voted. ‘ [More…]
-Did the Leader of the Government in the Senate hear the Australian Broadcasting Commission radio program AM today in which he said that the Government is prepared for an election and in which the President of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Hawke, in his usual dulcet and endearing tones, said that the Australian Labor Party is not prepared for an election? [More…]
Where a member makes an election in accordance with sub-section (2), the Superannuation Act 1922-1974 applies in relation to him as if he had resigned. [More…]
Where the President makes an election in accordance with sub-section (2), the Superannuation Act 1922-1974 applies in relation to him as if he had resigned. [More…]
Finally, how does the Leader of the Government in the Senate reconcile those past statements and actions with the cowardly attempts by the Government to avoid a proper election if the present appropriations are voted against? [More…]
I am not aware, particularly in relation to the latter part of Senator Withers’ question, of any desire or manoeuvres on the part of the Government to avoid an election. [More…]
Let me assure him that, so far as I am concerned, if there has to be an election it will be fought on the issues that concern the Australian people and not on the manoeuvrings that take place inside the Parliament. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation seen a letter which was published in yesterday’s West Australian from a member of the Liberal Party who expressed regret at Mr Fraser ‘s apparent ‘bending’ to expediency and to pressures from within business circles to refuse Supply and bring on an early Federal election? [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…]
It was not long after the election of this Government that honourable senators opposite set about deliberately to create the conditions which led to the double dissolution in early 1974. [More…]
Opposition parties want to gain office by a devious trick, by capitalising on certain political trends that are taking place in this country without having any clearly identified policy with which to win an election. [More…]
In those circumstances there will be other Senate elections, that is if the Opposition proposes to allow the Constitution to operate at all. [More…]
We will have an election every 6 months, 12 months or 1 8 months. [More…]
Are we going to have accidental majorities which will be able to negate the will of the people, as expressed in the most recent election for the popular House? [More…]
In the first session of this Parliament after the election of the Labor Government- from February 1973 to December 1973- there were 174 divisions. [More…]
My friend Senator Sir Magnus Cormack interjected earlier, when I was citing the number of divisions that have been held in the Senate since the election of the Labor Government- the few that were won by the Government and the large number that were won by the Opposition- and asked about the number of Bills that the Senate has rejected. [More…]
We have heard so much from the Opposition about the Government having received from the people a mandate for the House of Representatives at the double dissolution election but not having received a mandate for the Senate. [More…]
I remind the Opposition that when we were given a majority in the House of Representatives in May last year, at the double dissolution election, we received a greater number of votes for the Senate than the combined opponents of the Government. [More…]
I remember that during the 1972 election campaign when the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Whitlam, was asked how he was going to finance a number of promises obviously involving vast sums of money he replied that he was going to finance them out of inflation. [More…]
But I go on to say this: Whoever remains, whenever an election takes place and whatever the composition of the Senate may be in future - [More…]
Mr Lynch replied: ‘No, we think we will keep it for an election’. [More…]
He knew it was to be used for the purpose of bringing about an election, and it has now been exploded. [More…]
The Opposition will give the Senate power to decide that there should be an election of the House of Representatives. [More…]
It is the intention of the Opposition to take steps to force this Government to an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
Immediately the Government agrees to hold an election the Opposition will pass the Loan Bill and the Appropriation Bills. [More…]
We have decided that an election is in the best interests of the people. [More…]
He has forgotten- conveniently forgotten- that on 12 June 1970, when referring to the States Receipts Duties (Administration) Bill, he declared his Party would vote against the legislation in both Houses of the Parliament in a bid to force an election. [More…]
I note that the Prime Minister is trying to avoid subjecting himself to the people by the device of a half Senate election. [More…]
A half Senate election cannot resolve the crisis because of the 36 senators who would be elected 30 would not take up their seats until after 1 July 1 976. [More…]
Finally, I put this to the Senate and to the people: The Senate is not refusing supply; it is not rejecting the Budget, but it is demanding an election. [More…]
The moment the Prime Minister takes the only decent course open to him- the calling of an election in which his Government can be tested at the polls- the flow of money will resume. [More…]
Prime Minister announces the election date. [More…]
If the Prime Minister has any sense of responsibility, any sense of decency, any sense of courage and any sense of honour, he will take the only course left open to him- he will agree to an election at which the people can determine the fate of the Government and the fate of every person sitting in this place. [More…]
We on this side of the Senate are not fearful of an election. [More…]
The Constitution provides the proper method for resolving the deadlock between the two Houses, that is, a dissolution under section 57 of both Houses of the Parliament and an election for both. [More…]
On behalf of the Opposition, I call upon the Prime Minister to take the only honourable course, that is to resign his commission and allow an election to be held for both Houses. [More…]
Before the election comes about he will be proven to be- I was going to say a big bag of wind but perhaps I should be more charitable- a man of complete indecision when the real crunch comes. [More…]
He can fight when he is in a corner, and if we must go to an election over this legislation, let me assure the Opposition that it will see him fight as a leader and he will have a lot of good fighters behind him. [More…]
I want to bring to the notice of the Senate 2 matters each of which I would suggest warrants the immediate resignation of the Whitlam Government and the holding of an election, which is the right of the people. [More…]
Tonight on one of the television channels I saw an interview with Mr Anthony who said with gravity, without actually smiling, that if the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) did not hold an election he would be breaking normal conventions. [More…]
It was interesting to note that at the Press Conference of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) today he was asked a question which went something like this: ‘This is the second time in 2 years that you have rejected money Bills in the Senate to force another election. [More…]
Whilst there is no doubt that the Leader of the Opposition would win an election now - [More…]
I believe that the previous Leader of the Opposition was reducing the effect of the Liberal cause by threatening an election every fortnight. [More…]
The result of an election is something that none of us can forecast. [More…]
We understand that certain States will not respond to a call for a half Senate election. [More…]
They will not collaborate with the Australian Government to have a normal half Senate election if it is called. [More…]
Indeed, it is the normal time to have a half Senate election. [More…]
Certain States have not yet refused to respond to the call for a half Senate election and we are not faced with that problem at the moment. [More…]
The Government is quite justified in having a half Senate election. [More…]
By having a half Senate election, it is seeking that answer. [More…]
May I say that he has every reason to be worried because at the last State election I think that there was about 7 or 8 per cent difference between us in the vote. [More…]
Given the rate of increase in votes for our party at each election I expect that Senator Young’s party will some day be in the minority position in that State. [More…]
Eighteen months later we were forced to an election. [More…]
We were forced to an election prior to which Senator Withers, the Leader of the Opposition in this chamber, said: [More…]
We embarked upon a course some 12 months ago- I am not trying to be provocative- to bring about a House of Representatives election. [More…]
Four months after the Labor Government was elected in Australia, a plan was embarked upon to bring about a House of Representatives election by the use of Opposition numbers in the Senate. [More…]
Only 4 months after the election that course was embarked upon in what has been described and has gone down in history as a grab for power. [More…]
The Labor Party won the election. [More…]
It is a shocking state of affairs to think that we have a parliamentary society today which allows the will of the people expressed at a triennial election to be flouted in this way. [More…]
It will be accepted if an election is held in the meantime. [More…]
At the time of the election of this Government there was a misplaced lack of confidence; on this occasion there is a misplaced confidence. [More…]
It is interesting to note in relation to comments which have been made by members of the Opposition in condemnation of the Government for not having arrested inflation and unemployment that Mr Wran, the Leader of the Opposition in the New South Wales Parliament, challenged the Premier to an election on the very ground on which the Federal Opposition is challenging the Government. [More…]
What is surprising, however, are the suggestions- at least some of which have been inspired by people close to Mr Fraser- that this funds shortage supplied the grounds and the vehicle for an early election. [More…]
But quite a deal of water will pass under the bridge between now and the day of an election. [More…]
The honourable senator asked me to make sure that there was not an election before a certain time so that he would be in Parliament long enough to get his pension. [More…]
I preface it by referring to the reported remarks, published in today’s Press, by the Governor of Queensland, Sir Colin Hannah, in the course of which he supported Opposition moves to force a general election. [More…]
Secondly, does Sir Colin Hannah’s publicly expressed partisanship for the Opposition’s cause cast doubt on his ability to exercise impartially his function under section 12 of the Constitution to issue writs for the election of senators in Queensland? [More…]
Why will the Government not turn over its power to the people who are the masters of us all and call an immediate election? [More…]
Is not the real difference that in 1970 and 1974 the Labor Party thought it could win an election; today it does not? [More…]
The reason why action was taken by the Opposition to put the Government before the people in an election is the scandal and the comment that came out as a result of this loans deal. [More…]
Those words mean that he would have had an election. [More…]
Senator Hall’s remarks meant that he was pressing very strongly for us to have an election between when he made his remarks and now. [More…]
If at one stage, on 16 July, Senator Hall felt that this matter should be investigated further, even to the extent of having an election, what has made him change his outlook now? [More…]
What Senator Cotton forgets is that that is not the question that is going to win the election. [More…]
The figures to which he referred, although he dealt with them in an orderly and expert way, are not going to win the election. [More…]
The election was fought on obstruction in the Senate. [More…]
A double dissolution was called because of the number of Bills the Opposition had obstructed in the Senate and the result of the election was that the Government was returned to office, which was quite contrary to what had been indicated by the gallup polls. [More…]
Today, because the gallup polls indicate that the Opposition would win an election, it again seeks to go to the people in the hope that it will gain office. [More…]
The Government has indicated that this election will be fought on the right of the Senate to reject the twice expressed opinion of the Australian electors and to become a dictatorship in its own right. [More…]
The election will be fought on the obstruction of that right and, whether one likes Labor or not, it is an issue that is in the forefront of people’s minds and they will vote accordingly. [More…]
My State has a Government which is in an unassailable position because it fought an election on this very issue. [More…]
This is the only section, other than section 57, which is concerned with the election or retirement of senators. [More…]
There was the double dissolution of the Menzies Government, and in my time in the Parliament there was the early election in 1963 when the GovernorGeneral dissolved the House of Representatives and the 1974 double dissolution. [More…]
It should be understood that the procedure which the Senate is following is the traditional procedure whereby in a bicameral legislature the second chamber brings about a general election at which the government goes to the people. [More…]
It is the accepted true fundamental convention of the Westminster system of responsible government that if a government cannot secure the approval of the Parliament of its Budget or money proposals with which to carry on the government, then the monarch is so advised and one of 2 consequences ensues: Either the monarch or the monarch ‘s representative calls upon another member of the Parliament to form a government in the belief that that new government will secure the approval of its Budget or monetary proposals; or the defeated Prime Minister is given the right to have an election and, in a democracy, to let the people make the final decision. [More…]
Pending an election, Supply is afforded so that the election can take place. [More…]
Let it be clear that the Opposition’s purpose is to secure an election. [More…]
But if the Government does not choose to have a double dissolution, it may have an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
If it chooses, although senators will not take their seats in the Senate until next July, it is constitutionally empowered to have an election for half the Senate at the same time. [More…]
By that time, there can bc an election for both Houses. [More…]
An election therefore would cause no disruption. [More…]
The justification for what the Labor Party then did was that it believed that there ought to be an election because the people would vote it in. [More…]
It ought not to be overlooked that a refusal by the Senate to grant the money to enable the Government to govern must lead to an election. [More…]
There can be no doubt that no matter how much the Prime Minister procrastinates there must be an election. [More…]
One may wonder why it is that there is this curious reluctance to face an election. [More…]
It seems to me that the Prime Minister virtually has a vested interest, particularly when he talks about holding a Senate election at this stage when it is not necessary to do so until some time towards the middle of next year, in maintaining the chaos which is currently existing as a result of his Government’s indecisions and inabilities rather than giving the people an opportunity of deciding which of the two competing Parties should be able to govern in this country. [More…]
The majority in the lower House may call an election at any time. [More…]
We offer this amendment so that the Government will know that the Appropriation Bills will not be debated and passed by this chamber until such time as the Government has had an election. [More…]
Those are the words of the Leader of the Opposition and we hope that when that election takes place, as it must, the verdict that the people give will be a verdict which gives either to the present Government a continuing mandate or to the Opposition Parties a mandate to ensure stability in government because when that election is fought the basic and fundamental issue upon which people must make their vote is what sort of government they want in this country. [More…]
At that time the considerations which I have been urging today and which others will be raising in the course of the next few weeks will become relatively unimportant because, as everyone will appreciate, when the election is on it is the choice of government which becomes paramount. [More…]
The proposal which is being put by the Opposition is, in effect, that the Government which was elected twice within the last 3 years, should be subjected to a third election within 3 years. [More…]
I refer to the traditions which we inherited from Europe, including the tradition of the election of parliamentary government. [More…]
to depart from its 1972 election promise that basic pensions would be related to average weekly earnings and never be allowed to fall below 25 per cent thereof, and [More…]
By that time, there can be an election for both Houses. [More…]
An election therefore would cause no disruption. [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 senators 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 incorporate in Hansard, for the benefit of honourable senators, a statement showing the percentage of informal votes recorded at the 1974 Senate Election in each State and in each electoral division throughout Australia. [More…]
In other words, in a normal periodic Senate election, the voter, in order to cast a formal vote would be required to mark his ballot-paper consecutively from 1 to 5, in his order of preference for the candidates. [More…]
In an election following a dissolution of the Senate, the voter would be required to indicate his order of preference for only ten candidates, be there 73 or 173 candidates on the ballot-paper. [More…]
Accordingly, supporters ofanypoliticalparty 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 firstpastthepost 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…]
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, one-quarter of the number of Divisions in the State. [More…]
In respect of casual vacancies in the Senate, or by-elections 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 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 Eelections 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…]
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…]
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…]
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. [More…]
enabling the posting up or exhibiting within a hall used in connection with an election or referendum an electoral poster irrespective of size. [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…]
Senators 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 ballotpaper 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 Bill, 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 relevant 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 Gazette; postal voting facilities 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 senators 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…]
There is a growing tendency for party workers to take advantage of the existing provision which enables a person to examine postal vote applications in the office of a Divisional Returning Officer so as 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 partially completed forms. [More…]
Under this proposal the Chief Australian Electoral Officer will specify by a notice in the Gazette, the postal vote application forms which may be used at an election. [More…]
I just wonder tonight if they are not a little rueful because if they had not beaten the gun in April 1974 they would have been facing an election very soon. [More…]
to depart from its 1972 election promise that basic pensions would be related to average weekly earnings and never be allowed to fall below 25 per cent thereof, and [More…]
We were challenged in 1 974 and, despite all the comments which were made by the Opposition early in 1974 that this Government had lost the confidence of the people, the Opposition was defeated at that election and the Government again was returned for another 3 year period. [More…]
I ask: In view of the persistent claims by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Fraser, and his colleagues in this place that the Government should consult the people by way of an election because there have been changes in the Whitlam Ministry, can the Minister say whether the Liberal and National Country Parties took the type of action they now advocate when, because of internal disputes within the Liberal Party, Mr Gorton was sacked and replaced by Mr McMahon on 1 0 March 1971? [More…]
There is no point in restoring these Bills to the notice paper until the Prime Minister agrees to a general election. [More…]
If the Prime Minister believes that there is a doubt, it can be resolved simply, quickly and properly by having an election. [More…]
The only indication is that if the Budget is rejected he will seek a half-Senate election. [More…]
If it assists the Prime Minister to make up his- mind, to face the inevitable, I assure him of this: The Opposition has no intention of passing these Bills until the Prime Minister agrees to an election which will resolve the current deadlock. [More…]
It is for that reason, and that reason alone, that the Opposition will hold these Bills in the Senate until the Prime Minister agrees to an election. [More…]
The payments, necessary to ensure an election can be held, will be able to be made. [More…]
We believe that this deadlock must be resolved in the proper legal constitutional manner- the holding of a general election. [More…]
It will not be resolved by a so-called half Senate election. [More…]
If he genuinely wants the deadlock resolved, if he wants this so-called crisis that he has created brought to an end, if he wants to stop people suffering, he will decide on an election for both Houses. [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…]
He can rest assured that the Bills will not pass until he agrees to an election for the whole Parliament of Australia in which the people can choose their government. [More…]
The Opposition then returns the following day with the same notion and says: ‘Yes, we should go to an election’. [More…]
The Government is not going to an election. [More…]
There was an election in 1963 and the then Government sent its Minister for Defence, Mr Townley, to the United States of America to sign an agreement for Fill aircraft which had no escape clause- nothing like that obtained by the British Government. [More…]
Senator Baume has referred to the Liberal Party’s prospect of having a new senator after the next Senate election, whenever it is held. [More…]
The far sightedness of an Australian Labor Government greatly exceeded that of the people who embarked upon the Ord River project as an election gimmick. [More…]
At the next Senate election, if there are two hundred or three hundred candidates the Opposition will see that a mockery is made of the ballot? [More…]
If and when there is an election for half the Senate and we get back a very illustrious statesman in the person of former Senator John Gorton, I will welcome him. [More…]
His advice to the Governor-General should be to arrange immediately an early election so that all the hardship which seems to be forecast in some detail by the Government can be avoided. [More…]
The market researchers were proved wrong yesterday, as they were 1 8 months ago and would be again in the event that Mr Whitlam decided to have an election- and it is going to be Mr Whitlam ‘s decision, not the decision of the members of this Opposition who see themselves in the role of the God-given right to rule. [More…]
We have had 2 very expensive elections since the beginning of December 1972 and now this irresponsible Opposition wants to see us go back and have another one. [More…]
I doubt that we have even been able to pay for the last election, but already the Opposition is saying to the taxpayers of Australia: ‘Let’s have another election. [More…]
We have plenty of money to put out our “how to vote” pamphlets and all our literature that is necessary with an election’. [More…]
The communications I am getting openly state that the people concerned do not necessarily support the Labor Party at electionsthat they may not have voted for the Labor Party at the last election- but that they will not stand idly by and watch the Opposition in its attempts to gain control of the Government benches when we have a freely elected Government, twice freely elected government, already on those Government benches. [More…]
So if the Government had been really responsible, at that stage and as a result of that election it surely would have taken stock of its policies and attitudes. [More…]
Yet the Government says that it is the threat of an election that is causing instability in this country. [More…]
If we are to list all these items and say that in total they represent sufficiently grave reasons, for this House to tell the lower House to go out and have an election, I simply do not understand the reason. [More…]
I assume they would not because the Minister was quoting from an election talk given by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcom Fraser) on 2 March 1975, in which he clearly set out the rules and the basis for the operation of Parliament and stressed the supremacy that needs to be exerted by Parliament and the stability that we need to obtain from it. [More…]
They might ponder also that a normal general election would have been due in December had they not unwisely sought a premature return to power last year. [More…]
No one in the community will start an argument if we are to approach an election under crisis circumstances. [More…]
It can get out of it in 2 ways- by giving in or ultimately by bringing this country to its knees and forcing an election on the issue. [More…]
If the Opposition continues on this course which will bring this country to its knees economically, it could well produce in this community at some stage in the not too distant future conditions under which there will be an election which the Government will win. [More…]
I do not think anybody gave one iota of credence last Monday to the thought that the Labor Party could win any election in the next 3 years. [More…]
Finally, and 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 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…]
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…]
The Liberal Party has drifted into disaster on this occasion for precisely the same reason as it drifted into disaster in April 1974- because the Leader of the Liberal Party then and the Leader of the Liberal Party now were not sufficiently astute to resist the urgings of the Leader of the National Country Party (Mr Anthony) to force a premature election. [More…]
Let me put it this way: The Leader of the National Country Party- who of course above all fears a just redistribution which would decimate his political power base- in common with Senator Withers and one or two others, has never accepted the verdict of the people at either the 1972 or 1974 elections. [More…]
Consequently, from the point of view of the Leader of the National Country Party it seems an attractive proposition that at any time when it appears that the Opposition may be able to seize power it should force an election. [More…]
This power-hungry Richmond bushranger has again tricked or seduced the Liberal Party into trying to force a premature election in order to make him Deputy Prime Minister, knowing full well that if it fails the blame, the stigma will accrue not to him but to the Leader of the majority Party in the coalition, the Liberal Party. [More…]
If we look at the percentage changes in the consumer price index from the December quarter of 1949- which I interpolate was immediately after the election of the MenziesFadden Liberal-Country Party Governmentand trace them through to the end of June 1952- the same period as the period for which the present Government has been in office, from December of one year to June 2y2 years later- we find that the total increase in the consumer price index in that period under a Liberal-Country Party government was 42.8 per cent. [More…]
If we take from the figures the highest 12-monthly or annual rate of inflation recorded in any period, we find that for the year ended December 1951 the annual increase in the consumer price index was 23.1 per cent, and the highest increase in recent times, since the election of the Whitlam Government, was 16.6 per cent for the year ended March 1975. [More…]
But the really ludicrous aspect of Senator Rae’s pathetic attempt to present this in terms of a States rights dispute or a States rights argument is that Senator Rae has aligned himself with a course of action the purpose of which is to force a premature election and, the Opposition hopes, bring in a Fraser Government- a Fraser Government which recently announced a new federalism policy. [More…]
I shall not go into this in any great depth, but just to set the record straight for the benefit of Senator Carrick and the people who read Hansard, when the 1974 Senate election was held 29 Labor senators were elected, one Independent, one Liberal Movement- Senator Hall- 28 members of the Liberal and Country Parties and one member ofthe National AllianceSenator Drake-Brockman from Western Australia. [More…]
Subsequent to their election, and as a breach of faith with the people who had elected them, Senator Drake-Brockman joined the Country Party, subsequently called the National Country Party, and Senator Townley joined the Liberal Party, which gives the Opposition its current number of 30. [More…]
Finally, and I would say this with unfaigned respect for the Vice Regal office, 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 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…]
This will avoid the further possible inconvenience to electors of a later election, will permit the referendum proposals to be put as already determined, and will of course result in the saving of considerable public expense. [More…]
It is also worth at least half a minute to comment on any suggestion of a half Senate election. [More…]
The Prime Minister appears to be running from this suggestion now but everybody in Australia who has ever taken any notice of any of his speeches in an election will know that the Prime Minister adheres to the point of view that elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate should be at the same time. [More…]
It is a principle which he forgets about when he talks of calling a half Senate election this year and afterwards to let us see what happens’. [More…]
We now have a situation where the Government cannot, in the Prime Minister’s own words, pretend to be able to govern, where it has been provided with the grounds more than 20 times to call an election, and yet still it chooses to ignore the facts. [More…]
The act which the Opposition is perpetrating in this House is the deferring of Supply in an attempt to force this Government to go to its third election in 3 years. [More…]
But I wonder how we will recover from the bitterness and the disillusionment that is produced by the certain knowledge that we all have now that if a Labor government wins an election in this country the conservatives in the Opposition will do everything they can to have that Labor government out within months. [More…]
I will be a candidate for the Senate and failing that I will stand as an independent at the next State election. [More…]
That needs reading into the record for the Australian public and in order to clear up the confusion, the misstatement of fact, the hysteria and to get away all the rubbish with which this quite simple issue- that is to have or not to have an election- is being confused and confounded. [More…]
It would appear that every time the Liberals have a blood bath in their own party and a change of leadership they want a general election. [More…]
Snedden replaced McMahon and then sought an election last year. [More…]
He was asked from where he got the message that there should be an election. [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…]
Senator Cotton is advocating here tonight that there should be an election every 18 months. [More…]
It would be outrageous if a Government, whenever it took such a hard decision, could be forced into an election at the whim of minor parties in the Senate. [More…]
The disastrous effect would not be that there would be many elections but rather that hard but necessary decisions would not be taken. [More…]
Yet we find people like Anthony and Fraser going to the people and saying that we should have an election because there have been some minor changes in this Government. [More…]
By flouting the will of the people in the 1 972 election and in the second election in 1974 and by moving this amendment the Opposition is taking undemocratic action. [More…]
I replied that without having had a close look at it, it was the type of Budget I expected; it was a Budget in accordance with the mandate given at 2 elections; it was a Budget in accordance with the thinking of the Government on the form of government it wanted. [More…]
He further pointed out that it was not within the power of the House of Representatives to force the Senate to an election. [More…]
It is interesting to note that the electoral sanction will not, unless there is a double dissolution or an impending half Senate election, be likely to affect the Senate at all. [More…]
On the other hand, it is suggested that non-Labor Premiers may not respond to a Government initiative to call out only half the Senate, and may refuse to issue writs for such an election. [More…]
Strategically, our non-Labor side of politics must surely be better served by planning to win a significant number of years of office at a normal election rather than by prejudicing the length of that office by grabbing at 16 or 17 months of Labor’s remaining term. [More…]
I have no doubt that Supply should be granted and that a half-Senate election should be proceeded with. [More…]
It goes to prove that the mandate which was given to this Government as a result of the promises made prior to the election has been carried into effect. [More…]
Why did the Prime Minister in 1974, at just a threat from the Senate to stop supply, rush to a double dissolution election, yet under almost identical circumstances this time, with the actual delaying of Supply, the Prime Minister finds the excuse of a very great constitutional question to prevent his going to an election on this occasion? [More…]
Is it not a fact that the reason for the difference in opinion is that in 1974 the Prime Minister felt that the Government had a chance of re-election but that on this occasion he feels that the Government will be decimated if he goes to the country? [More…]
Further, is it not a fact that despite the claims about the great return of the Government at the double dissolution election, the Government was returned in the House of Representatives with a reduced overall majority, and with very small majorities in some electorates, and that in this Senate, which was elected by the same electors, the Government did not secure a majority? [More…]
We do not hear that people outside the Parliament were making considerations as they did with respect to the possibility of a normal election of the Senate, which is due to take place before June 1 976, and how the Federal Council of the Liberal Party in fact gave the riding instructions to the four anti-Labor conservative Premiers to deny certain elementary facilities for the purposes of holding normal Senate elections. [More…]
Of course, it is significant also that prior to that decision having been made by this great man of principle, Mr Fraser, and prior to honourable senators opposite meeting and making their decision, the Liberal and Country Parties had in fact booked space on all the television and radio stations throughout Australia in the expectation that an election would be held between now and Christmas. [More…]
When the Labor Party was confronted with the likelihood of an election taking place it endeavoured to make some bookings on television and radio stations in order to present the policy of the government of the day. [More…]
It provides for an election every 3 years. [More…]
There is no evidence to suggest that the people want an election. [More…]
During the election campaign we heard the stupid statements he made about petrol prices and for which he traduced by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), the newspapers, economists and people generally. [More…]
It is said that there ought to be an election, that this House of review ought to make the running in relation to this issue. [More…]
It would be outrageous if a government when it took such a hard decision could be forced into an election at the whim of minor parties in the Senate. [More…]
One only has to reflect that if they had not been so impatient in April and May of 1974 in acting on their judgment that the electorate was against the Government, then it would have been a lay-down misere for them to have had the election which would normally have taken place in a month’s time. [More…]
In short, and except for the most improbable circumstances, neither the American Senate nor the American House of Representatives, can make or break a government; only the people can do this, every four years at a Presidential election. [More…]
It would be very rarely that a Liberal senator or a Country Party senator, or a Labor senator, would feel himself free to vote against giving effect to a measure propounded by his own party in the House of Representatives after a general election at which his party had been chosen, perhaps by a large majority, to carry on the government of Australia on the basis of its electoral policy. [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…]
Can the Minister confirm last Friday’s newspaper report that public servants have been required to work overtime recently in order to draw up, as a matter of urgency, a list of Government achievements, apparently in anticipation of a federal election? [More…]
I believe it is one of the reasons why Mr Dunstan put on the Pontius Pilate act during the last State election campaign and washed his hands of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
It is deferring further consideration of them all until the Government has indicated that it will, as the Opposition believes it should, present itself to the people in a House of Representatives election at the earliest possible opportunity. [More…]
I think the Government will have some explaining to do to the Australian people in due course, when it presents itself to the people at a House of Representatives election. [More…]
In that amendment the Opposition makes some assertions and calls on the Government to hold an election. [More…]
I think it is a reflection upon the present Government’s standards that it made great claims in its election platform that this would be a change which would be brought about when it came into government, but there has been no change whatsoever. [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…]
The Senate, in which the Opposition has a majority, has now failed to pass the Supply Bills as a means of forcing a general election, a power conferred upon the Senate by the Constitution for that very purpose. [More…]
The necessity for the Queen or her ministers, that is the present government, to come to Parliament every year to ask for money is the great democratic check which means, and was intended to mean, that if a government has lost the confidence of either House of Parliament it can no longer govern and an election must ensue. [More…]
That the Opposition, deciding that revulsion of opinion has prejudiced its chances at an election - [More…]
It is the height of irresponsibility for the Senate to demand an election of the people’s House just because it feels that the popularity poll is in the Opposition’s favour. [More…]
Whenever the Opposition thinks that its new leader has hit the top of the hit parade it tries for another election. [More…]
There is, as everybody knows, the fine point of deferral as opposed to rejection and I repeat that if rejection were to be persisted with, what guarantee has the Parliament that an election would follow? [More…]
The Government could very well withhold the holding of an election. [More…]
It would have its Budget rejected and could leave it rejected until after an election. [More…]
In short, the Prime Minister would then stand as someone ready and prepared to cause hardship and confusion to hurt people and to cause shortages until he gave an election assurance- and as I am speaking he has not given any assurance- that there would be an election. [More…]
Let us go to the people, let us bring on an election and let the judges of the parliamentary system in this country make a determination’. [More…]
By that time there can be an election for both Houses. [More…]
An election therefore would cause no disruption. [More…]
He is not prepared to seek an election because he knows perfectly well what the result will be. [More…]
That is just another reason why the Prime Minister should provide the people of Australia with the opportunity of going to an election. [More…]
The Constitution does not give the Senate the right to demand an election each year. [More…]
It gives the Senate the right to reject Bills, but it does not give the Senate the right to force an election at its behest. [More…]
Members of the Opposition have had 2 elections in 3 years. [More…]
Now they want 3 elections in 3 years. [More…]
They demanded an election in May 1974 because they were addicted to power. [More…]
They had the election. [More…]
They lost the election and shortly after that in their hallucinatory state or period of remorse they sacked their then leader. [More…]
Let us look at the Senate numbers as a result of the 1 974- last year’s- Federal election. [More…]
At the same time as the House of Representatives election there was also a Senate election. [More…]
At that Senate election 29 Government senators, 29 Liberal Party senators, one Liberal Movement senator and one independent senator were elected. [More…]
At that dme, at that election the Opposition was not given a mandate to govern in the House of Representatives. [More…]
If there is an election, the mass of the people speaks. [More…]
In 1974 the Government was reasonably confident that with the economic crisis that was going to develop it was better for it in many ways to have an election at that stage than for it to have to sit through the economic crisis and uncertainty of the future months. [More…]
By that time, there can be an election for both Houses. [More…]
An election therefore would cause no disruption. [More…]
I repeat: ‘An election therefore would cause no disruption ‘. [More…]
There is only one main issue in this debate and controversy and that is whether the Budget ought to be used as commodity of ransom to force the public to accept an election and the Government to agree to it. [More…]
Surely he can remember that an election was held in that environment. [More…]
I wonder whether Senator Young or anyone else in his Party would give an undertaking that if the Opposition were to have this election and lost, it would not yet again in 18 months’ time call for the same action. [More…]
The Liberal Party wants an election not for the greater good of this country but so that it can get into office and its leading spokesmen can be Ministers. [More…]
My recollection- I am sure it is the recollection of every honourable senator here- was that the then Leader of the Opposition asked on a Wednesday that the Prime Minister should consider taking the Senate and the House of Representatives to an election. [More…]
In other words, the people made a decision inside the terms of the Constitution and awarded to the Senate a supervisory power from the time of that election to the present day. [More…]
More recently, and shortly after his election to the leadership, Mr Fraser said: [More…]
Fraser had even said that the Governor-General had already made up his mind, and was going to ask Whitlam to call an election: which, of course, was irresponsible rubbish. [More…]
If the Senate succeeds in imposing its will on the House of Representatives then future governments, whatever their political principles, could be forced to an election every six months. [More…]
Give us a double dissolution election or we will refuse Supply’. [More…]
The Liberal Party says: ‘Stand and deliver us an election because the gallup polls seem to suggest that we might win it. [More…]
Stand and deliver us an election or the Budget will be refused ‘. [More…]
That minute was initiated a few days after the anniversary of Pearl Harbour when the Labor Party was slaughtered in Queensland at a State election. [More…]
If the system of one vote one value was operating at that election the Labor Party would not have one member in the Queensland Parliament. [More…]
They are now in the position where they are salting a few shillings away each week- not like they were previously when they were hanging on every election and were given a pittance of 50c just prior to an election in an attempt to bribe them. [More…]
Then we remember the people who pay the bills when it comes to election time and we know why they want to remove such legislation as the Trade Practices Act. [More…]
Then we wonder where are all these people who the Opposition tells us are demanding that we have an election? [More…]
The ethnic communities certainly are not demanding that we have an election. [More…]
The Aborigines are not demanding an election. [More…]
This is the traditional constitutional practice in order to bring about an election. [More…]
The Prime Minister is on written record, by letters to the GovernorGeneral, saying that it is the constitutional duty of a government denied Supply to go to the Governor-General and get an election. [More…]
I did, and I was delighted to learn that if we had had an election on the day on which the Morgan gallup poll was taken the Labor Party would have been wiped out in a landslide, that it would have polled 43 per cent of the vote and that we would have polled 50 per cent plus of the vote. [More…]
Where is the evidence that the people of Australia or any reasonable majority of them require an election? [More…]
It is the typical remark of the political brigand who simply says: ‘I say that there ought to be an election’. [More…]
If, fortuitously, there were to be a House of Representatives election in, shall we say, February or March, the procedure of section 57 would be impossible of application. [More…]
I know that honourable senators opposite are going to retain their excited state for a while under the impetus of the Prime Minister’s wonderful acting ability, but I suggest to them that they ought to give greater consideration to the problems of Australia and the matters which have led Opposition senators to take the course of refusing to proceed with the Budget Bills until an election is called. [More…]
I for one look forward to the time when an election is called and our stand is vindicated by the people. [More…]
If the Government were to succumb to the pressures of the Opposition it would be presenting to the Australian people the third election in 3 years. [More…]
Mr Menzies had used every device, every trick and every opportunity to change election dates, to go to the people at times which he considered to be politically advantageous to him and to change the normal timetable of the House of Representatives and Senate elections. [More…]
Those editorials said that the loans affair was the issue and was the reprehensible circumstance that ought to be grasped by the Opposition to bring about an election. [More…]
Subsequent to his election as Leader of the Opposition earlier this year he said: [More…]
The Opposition expects the Government to go to an election meekly, weakly and sweetly. [More…]
Let us face it; that was one of the issues upon which we fought an election in 1974. [More…]
It is good to see that even the newspapers, which were in the forefront of the campaign to defeat this Government and to force it to an election in December of this year, are now forced to put on their front pages details of the result of public opinion polls which justify the principal position that the Australian Government has taken. [More…]
Apart from confirmation of the arrangements for election of the composition of the Assembly the recommendations dealt with. [More…]
I can assure the honourable senator that the Australian Government will continue to govern under the mandate that it has been given by the Australian people until such time as the normal general election comes around again. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government: Has the Prime Minister come around to your view, as reported in the media the week before last, that there should be an election for the House of Representatives this year and not next year? [More…]
If so, and as time is running out to hold such an election, when will the announcement be made? [More…]
However, to prevent the Liberal and Country Parties from bringing down the wrath of the public servants and the pensioners upon their heads if an election prevented those people from being paid over the Christmas period, he would offer the Government temporary Supply on the understanding that the Government held an election early in the new year. [More…]
The deal that he is offering the Prime Minister now is that if the Prime Minister gives an undertaking to hold an election before June next year he will let the Budget through. [More…]
By that time, there can be an election for both Houses. [More…]
An election therefore would cause no disruption. [More…]
We believe that when we have an election we determine and elect a government for 3 years- but this is not provided for in the Constitution. [More…]
Its own way is to demand of the House of Representatives- not this chamberthat it should go to an election. [More…]
The Liberal Party, the Liberal Premiers, Liberal Opposition leaders and the senior members of the Liberal Party met at the weekend and pulled away from their position by announcing that they would allow the Appropriation Bills through providing the Prime Minister gave them an assurance of a House of Representatives election before next June. [More…]
Maybe he was going to do it last year, but it appears to me that the Opposition has held the Government to ransom for an election immediately but has now backed off and said: ‘Give us a half election and hold it before next June, if you like’. [More…]
There will be a half Senate election before 30 June and there will be an opportunity then for the people to judge the Budget but it cannot be judged until it has been passed. [More…]
At the last Senate election in 1974 the Australian Labor Party gained approximately 200 000 more votes than the Liberal and Country parties senators who sit opposite us. [More…]
It is a motion to the effect that the Senate should withhold supply until such time as the Government has agreed to hold an election. [More…]
He became a senator before the next Senate election was due. [More…]
But Senator Reid was appointed here, obtaining an advantage -by not having to stand for election. [More…]
Had that been done here; had the same decency been shown by Mr Bjelke-Petersen as was shown by Mr Tonkin; had the same respect for democratic traditions and conventions been shown by Mr Bjelke-Petersen as was shown by Mr Tonkin when Mr Tonkin had much more reason not to follow the conventions because it was quite obviously a ploy that was being followed by the Country Party whereas in fact our former colleague, Senator Milliner, died while he was in office; and had Mr Bjelke-Petersen followed tradition, the Opposition would not have had the majority to enable them to carry a resolution that the Budget be deferred until such time as we had undertaken to hold this election. [More…]
Why do we not have an election?’ [More…]
It is that if a government is elected for a 3-year term it is completely improper and completely undemocratic that an undemocratically constituted Upper House should be able to pick the time for that government to go to an election. [More…]
In the 1972 election speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) it was foreshadowed that moves would be made to licence overseas and interstate travel agents operating in Australia. [More…]
Can the Prime Minister confirm last Friday’s newspaper report that Public Servants have recently been required to work overtime in order to draw-up, as a matter of urgency, a list of Government achievements, apparently in anticipation of a Federal election. [More…]
To depart from its 1972 election promise that basic pensions would be related to average weekly earnings and never be allowed to fall below 25 per cent thereof, and [More…]
That we protest at the Opposition’s campaign to force a General Election by their decision to prevent the passage of Supply Bills. [More…]
Your Petitioners humbly pray that the Opposition will allow the passage of the Supply Bills and cease their campaign for a General Election forthwith. [More…]
Owing to manoeuvres which have taken place outside the Senate even the original number of 29 honourable senators which we had following the election and which we gained owing to the idiosyncrasies of the electoral laws of this country has been reduced. [More…]
Although in the last Senate election we polled some 200 000 votes more than our opposing parties, we received less than a majority in this place. [More…]
In fact, we even find the most comical situation now of the Leader of the Opposition in the other place as he finds himself sinking deeper and deeper into the mire saying that if we will have an election some time before the middle of next year he will let the Budget go through. [More…]
Consequently, it was confronted as a result of the 1 974 election with the possibility- indeed, the ultimate probabilityof a deadlocked Parliament. [More…]
Surely that sort of re-election should have been accepted by a responsible government as a real measure of reflection on its performance and as an indication that the Government had better take considerable heed of its policies and attitudes and sharpen up its performance. [More…]
If this was not a measure of stern warning then I fail to interpret the result of an election which saw a government returned with a lesser majority in one House, and being unable to control the house of review. [More…]
At end of motion add - but not before the Government agrees to submit itself to the judgment of the people at the same time as the forthcoming Senate election, the Senate being of the opinion . [More…]
We embarked on a course some 12 months ago- I am not trying to be provocative- to bring about a House of Representatives election. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that that was before the Opposition moved the motion which had the effect of deferring Supply until such time as an election was held. [More…]
In an article which appeared in the Australian on 19 October 1973, he said: 1 have made my attitude quite clear, that refusal of Supply to force an election is not the Senate ‘s right. [More…]
Did he wait for 3 years before he came out and called an election? [More…]
Quite recently, a matter of some 4 months ago, the present Premier of South Australia, Mr Dunstan, chose to take his Government to the electors approximately 10 months before he ordinarily would have had to go to an election. [More…]
He accepted- though as he said at the time, he did not like the course being followed- the consequences of what was being done and so he sought an election. [More…]
there can be an election for both Houses. [More…]
An election would therefore cause no disruption. [More…]
The plain fact is that where there is in the Parliament an Opposition which has power which it may lawfully and legitimately use, it has the right to force an election to take place. [More…]
If a Senate forces an election which the people do not want, those who have forced that election will suffer as a consequence. [More…]
The purpose of what the Senate is doing is to force an election. [More…]
Is it not an example of the old truism that the people who oppose elections are the people who fear elections? [More…]
Mr Whitlam is opposing an election because he fears the election. [More…]
I certainly feel that if the Bill is to be defeated and as a consequence thereof there is to be an election, that certainly should be the course that is followed. [More…]
But I have not understood the Prime Minister to say that if the Senate, instead of deferring the Bill until an election is held, were to reject it outright he would have an election forthwith. [More…]
As I have said, when the money supply is cut off by the Parliament, the ultimate recourse is an election. [More…]
Of course, pending the result of the election, the Parliament accommodates the government of the day by ensuring that necessary finances are available for the requisite period. [More…]
So the Opposition employed its numbers in this place to pull on an election in which it was subsequently defeated. [More…]
This will happen again at the next election. [More…]
I am not going to adopt the bravado stand that Senator Greenwood did in which he seemed to indicate that he thought that in the event of an election the Opposition would win and the Government would be defeated. [More…]
I was asked on television 3 months ago, when the surveys showed the Labor Government to be in a very serious position, whether we would win the next election. [More…]
But an election fought on this fundamental issue is one which the Australian people will understand. [More…]
This is the issue on which the Australian people would decide an election, I believe. [More…]
The time for decision as to whether or not the people support the present Government is at the time of a normal election and that, I would say, is towards the end of next year or perhaps the beginning of 1 977. [More…]
Suffice it to say at this stage that the Opposition is using the mechanism of the Constitution to force the Government to an election by the people of Australia. [More…]
And an election, because the Government is not prepared to introduce the Mathews Committee recommendations. [More…]
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…]
In determining whether to follow it or not he should have regard, amongst other things, to the time that has elapsed since the last General Election of the House of Representatives, the state of the parties in each House, the probable consequences of refusal of the advice tendered by his Ministers, and, in particular, whether their resignation would follow the refusal, and, if so, whether there is any reasonable probability that another administration could be formed in the existing Parliament which would be able to carry on efficiently the functions of Government without dissolution of the House of Representatives. [More…]
If the answer to that is yes, does the Minister realise that many of these people, because of high taxable incomes, in fact would be working for a little over $ 1 an hour, based on the amounts paid at the last election? [More…]
It is making a sham and a farce of the method of election to this chamber. [More…]
On behalf of all Government senators, and I am sure on behalf of all senators, I’con.gratulate you on your election as President. [More…]
1 hope that your term as President, will not be too long, and that after the change of government at the next election the same traditions will be able to be carried on as I am sure you will endeavour to carry on during your term. [More…]
-Mr President, I rise to offer you my sincere congratulations on your election to the high office which you have attained today. [More…]
I have to report that, accompanied by honourable senators, I presented myself to His Excellency the Governor-General as the choice of the Senate, and His Excellency was pleased to congratulate me upon my election. [More…]
-Mr President, I wish to congratulate you again on your election to the high office of President of the Senate. [More…]
Senator Wriedt, too, is to be congratulated on his election as Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. [More…]
Senator WRIEDT (Tasmania-Leader of the Opposition)- I cannot say that I am so delighted at Senator Drake-Brockman ‘s election. [More…]
Senator WEBSTER (Victoria-Minister for Science)- I, of course, am delighted to congratulate Senator Tom Drake-Brockman on his election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
It did not go unmarked on this side of the chamber that a couple of the rivals that you had for your election to the Presidency of the Senate, Mr President- Senator Young and Senator Davidson- had the good grace to stand in their places and to compliment and to congratulate you. [More…]
I ask the question in light of the very great public support which exists for the continuation of legal aid services and in light of the suggestion that was floating around before the recent election that the election of a Liberal-National Country Party government would mean the abolition of legal aid services in Australia. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Education whether he is aware of allegations made during the recent Federal election campaign by parliamentary and other members of the Australian Labor Party that it was the intention of the Liberal Party to abolish tertiary allowances and to re-introduce tertiary fees. [More…]
It is to the credit of those who rule the People’s Republic of China and to Chou En-lai particularly that, on his election, the new Australian Prime Minister in one of the first public statements that he made dealt with the area of foreign affairs and stated that he intended to visit the People’s Republic of China to see for himself the progress that has been made and to establish the normal and proper relationship that should exist among all countries. [More…]
Mr President, may I begin by congratulating you on your election as President. [More…]
I congratulate other honourable senators on their election, particularly those who, like myself, are taking their places here for the first time. [More…]
Although my Party-the Liberal Party of Australia expressed reservations about the constitutionality of the election of senators for the Territories it has accepted the ruling of the High Court of Australia on this matter. [More…]
I take this opportunity to suggest that, since the constitutionality of the election of Territorial senators has now been established, one further matter in this respect might be considered. [More…]
I also take the opportunity to extend my congratulations to you, Mr President, on your election. [More…]
I also take the opportunity to congratulate my good friend the Chairman of Committees, Senator Tom Drake-Brockman, on his election. [More…]
Until now, with the election of this Government, it appeared that our defences were eroding away. [More…]
They are unique because of the manner in which the election of 1975 was held. [More…]
It does not accept the manner in which the election was brought about and it will continue to explain to the Australian people the wrongness of what was done and the inherent dangers which those actions have brought to the Australian parliamentary system, in the hope that the Australian people will recognise that there must be constitutional changes in this country which would prevent any political party ever again bringing about the event that we saw last year. [More…]
I can recall quite clearly that during the election campaign Mr Fraser referred to the dismissal of certain Labor Ministers because allegedly they were not telling the truth or there was something improper about them. [More…]
I suppose it is unfair to be too critical after a government has been in office for 2 months and I will not suggest that everything that was promised or the undertakings which were made by Government spokesmen before the election should have all been implemented by now. [More…]
Were they told that before the election? [More…]
The commitment given by the now Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) during the course of the recent general election campaign is another case in point. [More…]
The only other matter with which I am concerned is the general one of commitments which were made by the Government spokesman on primary industry, Mr Sinclair, during the course of the election campaign. [More…]
I would like- although I have done it privately- to congratulate you, Mr President, on your election. [More…]
A philosophical commitment made plainly obvious in every election is that Australia stands for small businesses. [More…]
I refer honourable senators to the Liberal Party policy which was announced during the election campaign. [More…]
What the Governor-General suggested was that the Whitlam Government should undertake to him that he should convey to Mr Fraser a proposition that we have a half Senate election but that it would not call the Senate together until 1 July of this year and therefore would not attempt to gain any adventitious advantage about all of the things that were speculated upon at that time when it was said that we might have an accidental majority until 1 July. [More…]
If the members in the pits have finished, I would like to proceed to formally congratulate you, Mr President, on your election to the high office which you hold. [More…]
Let us not have a continuation of what was an extremely unsuccessful election campaign; rather, let us have people considering whether any form of constitutional reform is necessary. [More…]
At a time that was not of our choosing, we again went to the people in December 1 975 following dismissal by the Governor-General, and it was inevitable that we could not win that election. [More…]
We had the election imposed upon us, as it were, by royal decree. [More…]
Certainly the election was held at a time when it would have been most difficult for the government in office, irrespective of its political persuasion, to win. [More…]
We know that the Labor Government had had Supply already appropriated to it by the Australian Parliament; that if the Parliament had not been prorogued on that day, 1 1 November, it would have been virtually impossible to hold an election in 1975; and that if an election were to be held at all it would have had to be held over until 1976. [More…]
So far as making the final arrangements for the holding of an election in 1975 was concerned, the D-day was Tuesday, 1 1 November. [More…]
The advice given to us was that the D-day for the announcement of a half-Senate election or any other Senate election was Tuesday, 1 1 November. [More…]
We were told that if an election were to be held in 1 975 the announcement had to be made by Tuesday, 1 1 November. [More…]
Those who wanted the election to be held in 1975- last year- had to act and to act quickly. [More…]
He must have known also, as we were advised, that if the election was to be held in 1975 the Government had to be dismissed by Tuesday, 1 1 November. [More…]
The great tragedy about all of this- I mention this particularly because we are addressing our remarks this evening to the words of the Governor-General when he delivered his Speech from this chamber yesterdayis that a very large number of the Australian people who always have believed so fervently in the principle of the election of members to the Parliament are very rapidly losing faith in the system. [More…]
Let me remind the Senate what happened: An election in 1972; a double dissolution in 1974; success at the double dissolution in 1974 in another place; at least equal numbers in the Senate at that election - [More…]
They were carried away with the election of a Liberal-National Country Party Government. [More…]
We heard a lot about dole bludgers during the election campaign. [More…]
I can only remind the Opposition that Mr Whitlam, as Leader of the Labor Party, spent quite a deal of time during the recent election campaign discussing these very issues. [More…]
The Labor Party was jolly near decimated at the recent election. [More…]
I remind honourable senators opposite that in the election of 1974 the Whitlam Government was returned to office with a marginal majority. [More…]
As I have said, the Labor Party got back into power marginally in the 1974 election. [More…]
We had an election and we have seen the results. [More…]
As I said at the declaration of the poll in South Australia, it is a pity that a coalition which might have won the support of the people in an ordinary election at the proper time had to have recourse to that sort of device. [More…]
We would not have minded if we had been defeated in an election that had been properly called under the parliamentary system in Australia, but under it there is no power to recall the members of the Parliament. [More…]
We know that prior to the 1974 election the then Opposition, in concert with the people who backed it- the great vested interests in Australia and the Press monopolies- had set out to destroy the Labor Government because the Labor Government was catching up on the need to make great welfare reforms in particular, to change the face of Australia and to give Australia a new image in the world. [More…]
Let me first of all congratulate the President, in his absence, on his election to his high office. [More…]
He does not often have to blow the whistle but when the politicians get into an awful mess he blows the whistle and dissolves the Parliament and sends the government to an election to let the people decide’. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Administrative Services been drawn to an election letter written on 4 December 1975 by a Mr E. Costanzo on behalf of the former Minister for Northern Australia, Mr Paul Keating? [More…]
I would say that irrespective of which side of the chamber the member or senator came from, these envelopes ought not to be used during election campaigns for electioneering purposes. [More…]
I realise that honourable senators and members on both sides in both chambers have the advantage of incumbency during an election campaign in being able to use free telephones, secretaries supplied at taxpayers ‘expense and office accommodation supplied at taxpayers’ expense. [More…]
Shortly after the December election the Prime Minister advised the Australian Journalists Association that journalists formerly employed in the Department of the Media need not be concerned about their future with the Public Service. [More…]
We can talk and have our views about the reserve power that the Queen’s representative should have, but nobody has been able to give me any information that at any stage the Queen’s representative said to the then Prime Minister ‘ Mr Prime Minister, despite the eyeball to eyeball action that has gone on between you and the Leader of the Opposition, if some decision is not reached I will have to dismiss you- period’, the implication being that the then Prime Minister would have gone to a very vital national election not as the Prime Minister but as the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
I would also like to congratulate Senator DrakeBrockman on his election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
The fact is that the ex-Prime Minister was sacked and he was sacked because he would not call an election. [More…]
The election was obviously necessary because of the impasse that had developed in the Parliament. [More…]
The Senate was satisfied that the Government was acting without the support of the Parliament or the people, and the Senate’s view was vindicated at the subsequent election. [More…]
One would expect that there should be some justification for the manner in which a government which was elected for 3 years was subjected to re-election after serving 18 months in office and, after getting a second mandate from the people found that after another short period it again had to face the people as a result of an action which I have described as being contrary to the Constitution of Australia. [More…]
One would have thought that his reuniting with their families at Christmas 1972 the kids who were held in the gaols of Australia because they were acting in accordance with their conscience would have justified a longer term in office than he had had when he was forced to an election in 1974. [More…]
During the election campaign those people who thought about the question rallied to the Labor cause with greater enthusiasm than has ever before been seen in politics in Australia. [More…]
Labor’s record, despite the enthusiasm of the reception it had received, the media in Australia decided who was going to win the election. [More…]
We cannot have again a democratic election unless there is more industrial action and the false stories of the journalists are not printed. [More…]
It could be said: ‘We will give some amount for your services in this election’, and Senator Webster can justify that because it might have been done in the Labor Party. [More…]
But the fact cannot be avoided that people outside a particular political party were paid to enter this election for the purpose of purchasing votes. [More…]
The stage was reached where the hope of those involved in the trade union movement was that we could reach a position where with the election of a Labor government we would be able to achieve peacefully what we had to achieve by industrial action on the job. [More…]
When the Labor Party held a ballot for election to shadow ministry positions, the question arose whether I would stand. [More…]
On other occasions with respect to secret ballots, we have heard it suggested that organisers would go on a Sunday morning to trade union members who have received their ballot papers and say: ‘You are not interested in voting in the election, are you? [More…]
I say ‘unresolved’ because I believe, as I think all honourable senators on this side of the chamber maintained throughout the election, that the election was not some type of referendum on the future of the Constitution or of the rights of the Senate. [More…]
I read with that statement the opening part of the social welfare policy of the joint parties at the recent election: [More…]
A great deal of consideration has been given to this matter before the election and after it. [More…]
-I should like publicly to congratulate Senator Laucke, who is not in the Chair, on his election as President of the Senate. [More…]
I vividly remember his demonstrating his courage in this place not long before the election when he defended his old friend and political colleague, Sir Thomas Playford, from the insults and the innuendoes of the then Leader of his own Party, the now Leader of the Government (Senator Withers). [More…]
Similarly, I congratulate Senator Tom DrakeBrockman on his election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
With the big majority which the Government has in this chamber and in the House of Representatives, what Senator Steele Hall predicted after the election will come true- this chamber will go to sleep. [More…]
The events that led to the election did not surprise some of us. [More…]
The worst effect of the election and of what has happened is that more and more groups in the community and more and more people in the community believe that Parliament just does not hold the answer to their justifiable aspirations or their desires to achieve various aims. [More…]
The cowardly action in the election was the action that was taken to slap a stop writ on all the newspapers in the electorate concerned to stop them mentioning the Patrick Partners case. [More…]
Added to that is his latest key phrase- we have heard it many times since the election and especially since the selection of the Cabinet- that there are no soft options for Australians. [More…]
This has happened despite an election promise that the new method of fixing pension rises- indexing them to the movement in the consumer price index- would enable the new Government to give pensioners their pension increases early and more promptly. [More…]
The first thing we saw happened before the election campaign began, and seeing Senator Sheil sitting opposite me reminds me of it. [More…]
These are things that I fear most as consequences of the actions of 1 1 November and the resultant election. [More…]
Development: As he has already eliminated the technical assistance scheme for voluntary citizen’s conservation and environment organisations in 1975-76, will the Minister indicate whether in the next Budget this Government will adhere to its election pledge, which was quoted as follows in the December 1975 Australian Conservation Foundation newsletter: [More…]
Is it a fact that the Chamber of Commerce to which I have referred said that the national Liberal Party’s federal tourism policy could prove to be merely an election gimmick in the poorest taste? [More…]
In some ways the election we had last year is related to that assertion for we had to fight for the right to political contest, which is more precious in the end even than whether one or the other side wins. [More…]
The election was unique. [More…]
I shall quote the words of the man who was then Prime Minister, who with a little foresight could have remained Prime Minister up to the time of a properly called election but who chose another course. [More…]
The election not only provided an endorsement for my Leader, the new Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, my colleagues who formed the caretaker ministry and who now form the Cabinet and Government of this country, and the policies of the coalition parties, but also asserted once again that the Senate has a role, rights and a place in our bicameral system, that the legitimacy of our Constitution overrides the wishes of any Prime Minister and that the Governor-General has and can use the reserve powers which are given to him in the Constitution. [More…]
He was rejected in this place when the Senate stood firm and that rejection was endorsed by the people of Australia at the election which followed. [More…]
This was the first double dissolution, and the Labor Party should remember that well because it was able to ride into power as a result of that election. [More…]
He managed to lead his Party to an election, of course, where it received less than 41 per cent of the formal Senate vote. [More…]
He led them to an election where our coalition parties achieved a swing of just under 9 per cent in the support of the Australian electorate. [More…]
As a consequence of the December election, I believe that the Senate now stands confirmed as probably the second most powerful upper house in the world, exceeded in its power only by the Senate of the United States, on which it is modelled. [More…]
So we have a situation where the Senate chose to exercise its power and an election followed. [More…]
The Senate, after all, precipitated the last election. [More…]
It was the election of which this Address-in-Reply is a direct result and I have pleasure in supporting the motion. [More…]
There was all the talk during the election campaign of the Liberal Party wanting to curtail unemployment and to do something about it. [More…]
He has been exposed by what he said during the election campaign and by what he said later on once he became the Prime Minister. [More…]
In a Press conference lasting just 20 minutes, the Prime Minister had succeeded in casting doubt on every undertaking he gave in his election policy only 2 months ago. [More…]
People should be able to expect that a Prime Minister will abide by undertakings he gives in an election campaign, particularly in a carefully prepared, written policy. [More…]
As I have said previously, particularly during the election campaign, I wholeheartedly support the attitudes and actions of those trade unions in this country which have placed black bans on ships, mail and what-have-you to Indonesia whilst war rages in Timor. [More…]
Before I make a few general references may I, even in his absence, congratulate from the floor of the Senate chamber Senator Laucke on his election as President of the Senate. [More…]
I should also like to congratulate my friend and colleague, Senator Drake-Brockman, on his election a second time to be Deputy President and Chairman of Committees. [More…]
There has been continual talk in the Senate on the part of the Opposition concerning the problems surrounding the events of those days prior to 1 1 November and leading up to the election on 13 December, referring presumably to the improper use of power by the Senate itself in establishing a circumstance in which this Parliament was deadlocked. [More…]
The fact that such an election was forced is surely the very essence of democracy. [More…]
I believe it was a significant reflection of the Australian character that in the election of December 1975 the people were ultimately confronted with a choice that at long last had become clear to them and was relative to the position of the state in our society. [More…]
But pending the ultimate recommendtion, it was an IAC recommendation which the former Government refused to honour and is an election promise which we have already honoured. [More…]
Already we are seeing some of the results of the meaningless promises that spewed forth during the pre-election campaign in 1975. [More…]
We turn now to look at the Government’s role and at its pre-election promises in relation to the workers of this country. [More…]
They can assess for themselves whether in actual fact the pre-election promises that the present Government made are going to be kept. [More…]
Prior to the election we had an ‘on-again, off-again’ Medibank and still we are not terribly sure what is going to happen to it. [More…]
Immediately after the election, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) indicated some of the measures that would be taken, and acted immediately upon them, to try to curtail the expenditure that was occurring in the publicsector. [More…]
I took up the case with the former Minister for Labor and Immigration only a few weeks before the election. [More…]
That is the reason, of course, that we have brought out a policy whereby we advocate that the trade union movement ought to be provided with a facility to have secret ballots for the election of union officials. [More…]
The gentlemen on my right will recall that the 1969 election, when I happened to be the member for Grey, was held under a redistribution that was introduced by my Party which excluded no less than 8000 votes from one of my blue ribbon rural areas. [More…]
Of course at the general election we received a serious setback but we will fight back just as we have fought back previously. [More…]
Having done that, when can the Government be expected reliably to carry out its election promises- the promises contained in its manifesto? [More…]
Senator Sir MAGNUS CORMACK (Victoria) (9.22)- Mr Acting Deputy President, I am sorry that the opportunity is not presented to me at this juncture directly in this place to congratulate the President on his election to the high office which has been referred to by other honourable senators, namely the office of the Presidency of the Senate. [More…]
At 10 a.m. Mr Whitlam telephoned the Governor-General and informed him that he wished to call at Government House to advise an election for half the Senate. [More…]
At 10 a.m. Mr Whitlam telephoned Government House and informed the Governor-General that he wished to attend upon him in Government House and advise him to hold an election for half the Senate. [More…]
At 10.30 a.m. Mr Whitlam announced to Caucus that he intended to recommend to the Governor-General a half Senate election. [More…]
They made their judgment in the elections following the double dissolution. [More…]
They not only overwhelmingly supported the candidates of the Liberal and National Country Parties in the House of Representatives election but also returned to the Senate under various labels those people who stood before them as upholders of the Constitution and the proprieties of the Senate. [More…]
I well recall a lady writing a letter to the Sydney newspapers in the early pan of the election campaign asking when we would know who would be the government on election night if the government that won the majority in the lower House was not recognised as the Government prior to the election. [More…]
She made a valid point by saying that we really find little significance in the actual election results if we do not accept the fact that it is in the House of Representatives- in the popular House- where governments are elected. [More…]
including myself, hardened that Mr Malcolm Fraser was now in serious trouble and must soon agree to a Senate climbdown or face a pre-Christmas half Senate election. [More…]
Did the Prime Minister on Monday night last have a conference with members of the board of the Australian newspaper to discuss publication of the article appearing in today’s Australian under the headline ‘Arabs in secret deal to pay ALP election bills’? [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether he will use his advocacy within Government to have legislation brought down this year requiring all political parties to publish the major source of their election funds. [More…]
In it he seeks to justify his election victory and to turn back the clock as far as Australia’s social welfare program is concerned. [More…]
It is to the credit of the president of the Australian Newspapers Council, Mr Ranald Macdonald, that he has severely criticised the newspapers of Australia and the newspaper proprietors who let Mr Fraser off the hook during the last election campaign. [More…]
On 14 March 1961, when, as honourable senators might recall there were some difficulties for the then conservative Government because it almost lost the election, Mr Fraser was criticised in the Parliament. [More…]
May I begin by congratulating the President, in his absence, and paying to him the traditional courtesies- although they are traditional they arc nonetheless sincere- on his election to the high office of President of the Senate. [More…]
I would also like to congratulate you, Mr Deputy President, on your election to the important office of Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman of Committees and offer you a similar assurance of loyalty and a constant endeavour to respect your office in my time in this place. [More…]
Let me begin my comments about that address given by the Governor-General by congratulating the President, through you, Mr Deputy President, on his election. [More…]
So in extending congratulations to the President I remind him that his election to office came about in quite extraordinary circumstances and I propose to refer to some of those. [More…]
It is a chamber which can apparently force elections at whim, can reject a Budget, can defeat a government by delaying a Budget and can defeat a legislative program which the Government was elected to carry out. [More…]
It has been said by Government senators that the Labor Party cannot take an election defeat and that is what we are upset about. [More…]
I find that an extraordinary comment because we are very used to taking election defeats. [More…]
It is not the fact that we were beaten in an election which upsets members of the Labor Party. [More…]
First of all, twice in the term of a 3 year Labor Government the Opposition, for the first time in Australia’s political history, chose the date of an election. [More…]
It chose the date of an election in 1 974 which it lost. [More…]
It chose the date of an election in December 1975 which it won. [More…]
It is those matters which concern me and which lead me to take to task some honourable senators who have seen this undoubted bitterness amongst members of the Labor Party as some sort of aberration by people who were defeated in an election. [More…]
As I said earlier, it is not the defeat in the election which concerns us; it is the way in which the election was brought about. [More…]
Like the election promises made by the then Opposition, the Governor-General’s Speech is, with respect, full of sound and fury which signifies nothing. [More…]
The people of Victoria will be asked to consider these questions in a State election to be held on 21 March of this year. [More…]
Mr President, firstly, I offer my congratulations to you on your election to the most honoured position in this Senate. [More…]
Firstly, Sir, let me add my congratulations to those of the honourable senators who have spoken before me on your election to the high office that you now hold. [More…]
Although they might not be noticed nationally they have at least been noticed in their own State because of the circumstances surrounding their election to this chamber. [More…]
They were misled last year at election time. [More…]
I recently read something that the present Prime Minister said on 8 December before the election. [More…]
In the earlier period, that is from 1949 to 1952- the period when Mr Fraser’s patron Sir Robert Menzies was fulfilling his pre-election promise to put value back into the pound- the index increased by 52.7 per cent. [More…]
In 1966 the Australian Labor Party fought an election on its opposition to that war in Vietnam. [More…]
-If Senator Mulvihill takes note of the overwhelming numbers of Liberal Party and National Country Party members who are now in the House of Representatives as a result of the election held on 13 December, he will realise that the action taken by this Senate and by the other place has been vindicated by the people. [More…]
Is it a fact that approximately one week prior to the 13 December election the Australian Broadcasting Control Board issued a direction to commercial radio and television stations that all decisions regarding the publication of election news items should be made by news editors and that management was to take no part therein? [More…]
Others include the Presbyterian Church of Australia, the Aboriginal and Islander Catholic Council, the State Opposition, the Australian Conservation Council, Dean George, Mr F. G. Brennan Q.C., and Mr Frank Purcell, of Melbourne, the Aurukun people’s legal adviser (and a Liberal Federal election candidate). [More…]
Somebody said to me during the election campaign in December: ‘How will you know who has won the elections? [More…]
We looked at that future when we were out on the election trail. [More…]
But defeat in these circumstances can be more exasperating than usual, taking into account the things which led up to 11 November and 13 December and then looking at the electoral figures from the last election. [More…]
In Victoria, in the House of Representatives election, the Australian Labor Party got 42 per cent of the vote and it holds 10 seats. [More…]
Some allegations were made during the last Federal election campaign, and never denied, that confidential talks had taken place with employers who employed large numbers of women and that certain things had been said about terminating equal pay. [More…]
Early in November, when Australians were still speculating about an early election, an attorney for the American corporation, Westinghouse, was uncannily accurate in his forecast of the turn of events. [More…]
That was said 5 weeks and 3 days before 13 December, the election date, and 5 days before [More…]
It is to be found in the policy statement on this subject which was issued prior to the 1975 election. [More…]
I am quite certain that if the United States Navy wishes to come to Western Australia, whether for recreation leave or any other purpose, it will be welcomed by all the decent people of Western Australia, and they comprise the overwhelming majority of the people of Western Australia because at the last election the people of Western Australia returned not only six of the ten senators to this side of this House but also nine of the ten members to our side of the other place. [More…]
I say finally that I believe the Senate is a specialised House, both by virtue of its election and by virtue of the work which its members do. [More…]
In the same election he won a position as a delegate to the Federal Council representing the N.S.W. [More…]
As to our policy today with respect to tertiary allowances, the present Government in the course of the last election campaign undertook that it would maintain the whole of the education programs that the former Government had announced in the Budget presented on 1 9 [More…]
It was in the policy that was announced prior to the election in December 1975, and it has been reiterated by myself in this chamber and by the Prime Minister in the House of Representatives. [More…]
Will the Minister assure the Senate that the Government will not renege on its election promise to maintain the growth centre commitment not only in relation to New South Wales but also and more particularly in respect of those under consideration in Queensland and Victoria, namely, the cities of Townsville and Geelong respectively? [More…]
-Mr President, I join my colleagues on this side of the chamber in congratulating you on your election to the high office of President of the Senate. [More…]
I would like you to convey my congratulations to Senator Drake-Brockman on his election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
I say ‘unresolved ‘ because I believe, as I think all honourable senators on this side of the chamber maintained throughout the election, that the election was not some type of referendum on the future of the Constitution or of the rights of the Senate. [More…]
Prior to the Governor-General’s dismissal of the Whitlam Government on 1 1 November of last year and during the election campaign many people, particularly aged people, came along to see me about the events that were taking place in Australia. [More…]
Neither the Senate nor any other upper house should deny money Bills and so force an election. [More…]
I am about to repeat what has been said in the Senate many times: If it had not been for the death of the late Senator Milliner there would have been no election last year. [More…]
That is undeniable because 2 senators from the then Opposition said that they would refuse to reject the Supply Bills One of those senators is still in the Parliament; the other lost pre-selection by his Party. [More…]
Although in the last 3 double dissolutions the question of who will have the long term of 6 years and who will have the short term of 3 years has been settled rather amicably by both sides of the Senate, it could so happen that in an election 30 senators from the Government side, 30 senators from the Opposition side and 4 independent senators or senators from a small political party were elected. [More…]
I believe that matter should be looked at and that the practice followed in the past 3 double dissolutions could quite easily be written into the Constitution so that for all time the people of Australia would know, in the event of any elections, how senators would be placed and whether they were being elected for a long term or a short term. [More…]
Although the Prime Minister promised during the election campaign that he would support full wage indexation, no sooner was the case before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission than he intervened in the case in an effort to halve the amount of the consumer price index increase. [More…]
An organisation or a branch of an organisation may, in writing, request the Industrial Registrar that an election for an office in the organisation or in the branch (as the case may be) be conducted under this section with a view to ensuring that no irregularity occurs in or in connexion with the election. [More…]
For the purposes of section 170 of the Act, the number of members of an organisation or branch by whom a request under that section for the conduct of an election for an office in the organisation or the branch, as the case may be, may be made is two hundred and fifty, or one-twentieth of the total number of members of the organisation or branch, as the case may be, whichever is the less. [More…]
Only 250 signatures are required to ensure that the Commonwealth Electoral Officer will conduct the ballot in the same way as elections are concerned for the Federal Houses of Parliament. [More…]
Election of union members will be conducted by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for each State. [More…]
In every ballot each year we would petition so that the election of officers in the South Australian branch would be conducted by Commonwealth electoral officers. [More…]
First I should like to congratulate the President on his election to the high office of the President of the Senate. [More…]
I should also like to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as Chairman of Committees, and the new senators who have made their maiden speeches. [More…]
As honourable senators know, legislation is now being framed and the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) is carrying out the Government’s election promise to Tasmania. [More…]
Mr Deputy President, I take this opportunity of congratulating you on your election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
Opening Labor’s campaign for the 1969 election, Gough Whitlam put the progressive view of history as well as anyone has done before or since, in my opinion. [More…]
It does not matter how an election results; the Australian people have a consistent view that government is a creative force designed to serve their interests. [More…]
Assurances which were given to the Australian people during the election campaign of November-December 1975 on the future of wage indexation have now been revealed for what they always were- shabby lies. [More…]
Moreover, there exists in a related area an obvious and growing need for legislation to be introduced both to regulate and to provide for the financing of election campaigns. [More…]
A lot was said during the last election campaign about socialists and socialism. [More…]
However, before expressing my reasons for supporting the motion I congratulate Senator Laucke on his election as President of the Senate and you, Mr Deputy President, on your election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
These 2 elections gave me particular pleasure because Senator Laucke was one of the first new friends I found when I came into the Senate and of course you, Sir, are an old and valued friend and colleague from Western Australia. [More…]
The only other activity in which the Opposition has engaged is the one which is at present tearing the Labor Party apart and that is the moves which have been made and the discussions which have been held about the sources of its election funds. [More…]
This applies to the last election and. [More…]
indeed, to future elections. [More…]
Before I address myself to the motion let me through you, Mr Acting Deputy President, congratulate our President on his election to that high office. [More…]
Honourable senators may recall that during the election campaign the caretaker Prime Minister visited Darwin and promised statehood within 5 years. [More…]
The result of an election at which a government changes is very much like the aftermath of an auction. [More…]
In some ways, of course, the result of the election was not a vote for the Liberal Party so much as a decided vote against the Labor Party. [More…]
The manner in which the election was held is something that will have a pivotal effect on the development of the Australian parliamentary system. [More…]
Representatives election. [More…]
It will be a no-election. [More…]
The Labor Party will be unable to obtain a majority in this Chamber at the next Senate election. [More…]
Of course, at the last election there was an extreme polarisation, which was evident to those in smaller parties such as my own. [More…]
This happened particularly in the last fortnight and the last week of the election campaign. [More…]
There is much left to be desired, of course, in the conduct of the election, in many ways; some of this is still occupying the headlines of Australian newspapers. [More…]
I remember that on the day of the election that a person who, I believe, was an active supporter of the Labor Party, had arranged to copy a Liberal Movement how-to-vote card. [More…]
In other circumstances- for instance in the 1974 election which had a close result- it would have had a bearing on the result. [More…]
As it was, in this case it had no bearing on the result of the election. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) entered the election debate saying that it would be a fragile matter if we were to look for a consumptionled economic recovery and that the recovery would have to be based on increased productivity, not on consumption. [More…]
Likewise, Mr Acting Deputy President, I join with all honourable senators who have spoken today in congratulating the President and the Deputy President on election to their offices. [More…]
It is true that the Speech did not say a lot of things, in the same way as the caretaker Prime Minister, now the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), did not say a number of things in the course of his policy speech in the election campaign prior to 13 December 1975. [More…]
I assure the Senate that many more people than the 43 per cent who voted for the Australian Labor Party at the last general election are concerned and worried about what happened, how it happened and why it happened. [More…]
In his summary of reasons, Sir John said: ‘If the 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 Government . [More…]
We had an election in which Mr Whitlam ‘s majority of three in the House of Representatives was converted to a minority of fifty-five. [More…]
The result is that there will be an early general election for both Houses and the people can do what, in a democracy such as ours, is their responsibility and duty and theirs alone. [More…]
The result is that there will be an early general election for both Houses and the people can do what, in a democracy such as ours, is their responsibility and duty and theirs alone. [More…]
The double dissolutions of 1974 and 1975 demonstrated that a government which has been denied Supply by the Parliament cannot govern and should either advise a general election or resign. [More…]
Of most importance was the assertion of the supremacy of Parliament over the Executive Government, demonstrated by the exercise of the power of the Senate to withhold Supply and the dismissal of a Prime Minister who refused to advise an election or resign when denied Supply by Parliament. [More…]
If the proper constitutional course of a government whose appropriation of Supply Bill is rejected or deferred is then either to advise a general election or to resign, let us consider the propriety of the exercise by the GovernorGeneral of the powers that he exercised on 1 1 November. [More…]
In view of the increasing public concern about the unknowns which surround the actions of both the Leader of the Opposition and the Prime Minister in regard to the Iraqi election funds issue, highlighted today by an advertisement in the Australian Financial Review inserted by the Citizens for Press Reform group, will the Government set up a royal commission to investigate the growing number of allegations in an atmosphere free of the spate of daily writs and mysterious police investigations, and give the public an opportunity to know whether (a) Iraqi funds have passed to the Australian Labor Party illegally in breach of banking regulations; (b) the Prime Minister is the source of the allegations which his Attorney-General has mentioned as the basis for Commonwealth Police action; (c) there have been communications between Mr Rupert Murdoch and the Prime Minister about this matter; and (d) legislation ought to be introduced to require political parties to publish the source of their campaign funds? [More…]
-The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development will recall saying yesterday that continuing financial assistance for growth centres was now under review despite the Government’s assurance during the election campaign that, if elected, it would continue commitments entered into by the Whitlam Government. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators, I lay on the table copies of petitions filed in the Court of Disputed Returns by Helen Therese Berrill, petitioner in the matter of the Senate election held in South Australia on 13 December 1975 and in the matter of the Commonwealth Electoral Act; and by Bruce Noel Hill, petitioner in the matter of the Senate election held in Tasmania on 13 December 1975 and in the matter of the Commonwealth Electoral Act. [More…]
In recognition of the serious financial position facing the industry the coalition parties undertook to implement this recommendation in their election policy program. [More…]
Firstly, let me say that I think that the provisions which were in force at the time of the election and when this Government came into office should have remained in force until such time as they were taken away following an inquiry by and recommendations from the Remuneration Tribunal. [More…]
In the situation that developed the former Prime Minister made it firmly clear that he was adamant that in response to the Senate’s objection to the Appropriation Bills he would neither advise an election nor resign. [More…]
They were forcibly and strongly told that the last practicable date upon which an election could be held was 13 December. [More…]
Quite obviously, the Governor-General was presented with a practical predicament as to whether or not he, responsible for the executive government of the Crown, could carry on that Government if Parliament failed to provide the money and the government failed to vacate office or go to an election. [More…]
Secondly, a Prime Minister who cannot ensure Supply to the Crown, including funds for carrying on the ordinary services of government, must either advise a general election (of a kind which the constitutional situation may then allow) or resign. [More…]
The duty and responsibility of the Prime Minister to the Crown in each case is the same: if unable to secure Supply to the Crown, to resign or to advise an election. [More…]
Governor-General was within his legal rights if he saw fit to dissolve the Ministry and seek an interim Ministry which would secure from the Parliament Supply and advise a general election. [More…]
The Governor-General did not feel he could let the country drift into the dangers of being led by a government without money to pay its servants or bills, and therefore has himself forced the appeal to the electorate, by putting Mr Fraser into office simply to hold a prompt general election. [More…]
He installed a government which does not have the confidence of the House of Representatives under circumstances which enable it to govern without parliamentary sanction and to run its election campaign with all the advantages of a government in office. [More…]
Sir, Professor Howard (November 18) argues that the Governor-General of Australia’s action in dissolving Parliament for an immediate general election (18 months after the last) has ‘taken the matter out of our hands’. [More…]
The Governor-General’s letter reads: ‘You have previously told me that you would never resign or advise an election of the House of Representatives or a double dissolution and that the only way in which such an election could be obtained would be by my dismissal of you and your ministerial colleagues. [More…]
On July 11, 1975, Professor Howard wrote to 77ie Age (Melbourne) to say that if a government sought to by-pass parliamentary control over supply in order to avoid a forced election, it would strike ‘a blow at our system of government the seriousness of which it is difficult to over-estimate ‘. [More…]
Secondly, a Prime Minister who cannot ensure supply to the Crown, including funds for carrying on the ordinary services of government, must either advise a general election (of a kind which the constitutional situation may then allow) or resign. [More…]
‘In my view’, said Professor Colin Howard, ‘the loans scheme was simply an attempt to open up an extraparliamentary source of supply which would be available not, to be sure, to by-pass Parliament forever but to keep a Government afloat for long enough time to ride out the threat of another forced election’. [More…]
If Bert Milliner had not passed away, those who now sit on the Government benches could not have forced an election. [More…]
They used the death of a senator as an occasion to collude with the Governor-General to bring about an election. [More…]
If we refer to and study some of the decisions and speeches made by Mr Menzies in years gone by, we see that the Press statement that he issued prior to the election taking place was completely contradictory of ones he made many years before. [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…]
That is exactly what will transpire in the future because the precedent has now been set by which a party having the numbers in this place, irrespective of whether it has the numbers in the other place, can force an election every 6 months if it wants to, that is, every time a Supply Bill is introduced in this chamber. [More…]
I have a statement by Mr David Hamer who was elected at the last election. [More…]
It surprises me that after making this statement Mr Hamer even saw fit to offer himself for election on 13 December last year. [More…]
It would be outrageous if a government, whenever it took such a hard decision, could be forced into an election at the whim of minor parties in the Senate. [More…]
The disastrous effect would not be that there would be many elections but rather that hard but necessary decisions would not be taken. [More…]
Mr Hamer, after holding that opinion and making that statement, and in the light of the events which took place, saw fit to offer himself for election. [More…]
’, yet when the Liberal Party went out on the hustings at election time it said that the reason it had to take the Government to the people was the economic circumstances prevailing at the time. [More…]
The only thing, upon which he is basing that argument is what the Government’s great friend and the man who helped it to win the election, Mr Murdoch, has said in his newspapers. [More…]
I want to take the opportunity of congratulating you, as one South Australian to another, on your election to the office of President of the Senate. [More…]
I want to congratulate my colleague from the Northern Territory, Senator Ted Robertson, on his election to the Senate. [More…]
Although my Party-the Liberal Party of Australiaexpressed reservations about the constitutionality of the election of senators for the Territories it has accepted the ruling of the High Court of Australia on this matter. [More…]
It is the private sector which was uppermost in practically every paragraph of the supplementary speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) concerning the election. [More…]
I am sure that many public servants in the Australian Capital Territory, had they known what this Government intended to do to them, would not have voted for it at the election on 13 December. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Administrative Services, relates to the recent election for 10 senators for New South Wales in which there was an initial count and a recount. [More…]
I do not think that any allegations were made at the last election other than that officers of the Australian Electoral Office carried out their duties with their normal efficient and courteous - [More…]
But I detect in the honourable senator’s question an attempt to get some nicker of activity into the Australian Labor Party’s campaign for the Victorian State election. [More…]
During the December 1975 election campaign Senator Guilfoyle, the then shadow Minister for Education, expressed the view that there would be no undermining of educational standards in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Eventually the Bill was deferred indefinitely pending the Government’s agreeing to an election. [More…]
Senator Wriedt forgets that whatever the Senate does is subject, in the end, to the ultimate sanction of the people voting in an election. [More…]
During the election campaign I said- I say it again this evening- that with inflation and unemployment as high as it is in the Western world today any government, whether it be a socialist government, a conservative government or a government of any other political persuasion, which went to the electors in this atmosphere would receive the same treatment as the Government of Australia received in December 1975 and as the Government of New Zealand received prior to that. [More…]
We even heard the theme during the election campaign that we should return Australia to good housekeeping. [More…]
The outcome of the forced election in December 1975 has not eliminated the damage that has been done to the credibility of this chamber. [More…]
It has been alleged frequently by Opposition senators, both before and after the December election, that pay-as-you-earn tax collections this financial year under the Budget introduced by the Labor Government will be increased by 40 per cent. [More…]
The Government has announced that it is reintroducing the superphosphate bounty, thereby partially honouring one of its pre-election promises. [More…]
I observe in passing that it is one of the very few preelection promises by Mr Fraser which are to be honoured. [More…]
I assure the Government that there will be no election. [More…]
Despite a huge Budget deficit he can’t smash up Whitlam ‘s main welfare programs, such as Medibank, partly because he committed himself to maintain them during the election, but mainly because expenditure is already allocated for a year ahead. [More…]
How free are the people of this country when we remember how we were forced out of office in November last year after the Australian people at a free election had elected a government for a term of 3 years? [More…]
By all the manipulations of which one could possibly think the then Government was forced to another election in November last year- the second in 18 months. [More…]
We were forced to an election by people who used devious and unscrupulous means. [More…]
When we look at the supplementary speech that was made by the Prime Minister during the election campaign, to whom does he refer in every second paragraph? [More…]
In our policy statement for the election we made it clear that we had done so and that we saw a great cause for careful study of that report. [More…]
Thirdly, bearing in mind these delays in the implementation of the Act by the previous Government throughout 1975, what immediate action is to be taken to make operative the Australian Heritage Commission, which was supported by all parties in the Parliament and which was part of this Government’s election policy commitment? [More…]
Finally, will the Minister inform the Senate whether the decision in the Garland-Branson case established a precedent that will make election corruption and bribery a respectable profession in Australia? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Administrative Services whether, in relation to the 1975 double dissolution election, the Government intends to take any action to enforce compliance with the provisions of sections 151, 152 and 153 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act relating to the submission of returns by candidates of expenses involved, returns of expenses by political organisations involved and the submission of returns by newspaper proprietors? [More…]
It is an indication of the importance which this Government places on Australia’s relations with Japan that this Bill was amongst the first Bills introduced by us in Parliament after our election to Government last December. [More…]
I confirm those congratulations which I expressed immediately after his election to the chair. [More…]
Likewise, I extend my congratulations to you, Mr Deputy President, on your election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
Reference was made to the election which was held at the end of last year. [More…]
That election represents an event of some historical significance. [More…]
What I believe is of more importance and of greater significance is the result of that election. [More…]
Whatever interpretation the community or the writers may put upon the result of that election, it contained clear warnings to governments and political parties for the future because it became perfectly clear that the style of government of the Whitlam Administration was certainly not acceptable to the people of Australia. [More…]
Such candidates were not able to share in the wonder of the victory which we had at that election. [More…]
I mention this because it will materially influence the result of the next half Senate election. [More…]
This will give the Government parties a singular advantage at the next election and for some considerable time to come. [More…]
I for one responded enthusiastically when I noted in the Liberal Party policy statement made prior to the general election the line that indicated that the Liberal Party would establish a national information office to monitor, store and disseminate information and other data. [More…]
I am not quite sure why he was so excited about the change in the voting figures in South Australia that he noted on the occasion of the last election. [More…]
Davidson’s excitement could be extremely short lived, particularly if he is looking to repeating the performance in the next half-Senate election. [More…]
Before and during the last election campaign clear and unequivocal statements were made by the Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and his shadow Cabinet, which formed the caretaker Administration, that social programs would go on as usual. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and his supporters said during the last election campaign that they would support wage indexation. [More…]
Mr President, I am honoured to be able to congratulate you on your election to the highest office in this Parliament. [More…]
I also would like to congratulate Senator Drake-Brockman on his election as the Chairman of Committees. [More…]
Such a moment for me was my election and admittance to this chamber which, according to the Clerk of the Senate, Mr Odgers, is one of the most powerful upper Houses in the world. [More…]
It gets belted every time there is an election with promises of what the Country Party will do for it but as soon as the election is over and the Country Party members come back to the Parliament, back to the rut the farmers go. [More…]
I am good friends with many farmers although not many of them vote for me at election time. [More…]
Because the Opposition has dealt so much with past issues I think it is fair to say that the issues with which the Opposition has chosen to occupy this debate for so long were canvassed at great length during the election campaign. [More…]
Of course, as honourable senators know, that was a major point in the Government’s election policy. [More…]
As I have spoken already in the debate on the original motion that was moved by Senator Knight, I do not intend to touch upon the more controversial aspects of the remarks made by the Leader of the Government, Senator Withers, before the suspension of the sitting for lunch, except to say that not one speaker from the Opposition has queried the verdict of the people at the last general election. [More…]
I said, and Senator Button distinctly said that we of the Labor movement accepted the verdict of the people but that we did query and we did express concern about the manner and the circumstances in which the election was able to be brought about by the dismissal of a previously properly elected government. [More…]
I also wish to congratulate Senator Drake-Brockman on his election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
He referred to the fact that it is estimated that at least 50 per cent of trade union members did not vote for Labor in the last Federal election but, in fact, voted for the return of a Liberal-National Country Party government. [More…]
Those people in advance of their being an election, had no doubt at all about the need for an election in Australia. [More…]
If its pleas for assistance cannot be heard at the top level and it becomes submerged in the general welter of governmental operations within the States, one can easily see a situation developing in which the Federal Government wipes its hands completely of local government and local government is left floundering in the position it was in prior to the election of the Labor Government. [More…]
I believe that it is high time that my question was answered and that the questions of so many people in local government were answered as to where this better deal is to come from and how it is to be funded from the Federal sphere, having regard to the unacceptable attitude that was adopted by the Federal Government prior to the election of the Labor Government in 1 972 when local government, for the first time in its history, earned an overdue recognition of its function. [More…]
Honourable senators 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…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and Government spokesmen during the election campaign claimed that they would do what they could to obtain belter relations with the trade union movement and that they would consult with the ACTU at all times. [More…]
Being a party parliamentarian and a politician, I realise that a by-election is due to be held in Monaro- an electorate of the New South Wales Parliament. [More…]
Because the dairy industry will play an important part in that by-election, the Government of New South Wales has decided to establish a dairy industry inquiry. [More…]
Shortly after that Government was dismissed, the present Minister for Administrative Services, Senator Withers, early in December, after the election, released the report of the IAC into the dairy industry. [More…]
It has decided to do so because a by-election in the electorate of Monaro, which is just outside Canberra, is to be held. [More…]
The New South Wales Government has acted in that way only because a by-election is to be held in the State seat of Monaro. [More…]
If one looks at the supplementary election speech made by Mr [More…]
Is it a fact that approximately one week prior to the 13 December election the Australian Broadcasting Control Board issued a direction to commercial radio and television stations that all decisions regarding the publication of election news items should be made by news editors and that management was to take no part therein? [More…]
It would seem that the direction to which the Honourable Senator has referred was a circular letter from the Australian Broadcasting Control Board and sent to all commercial broadcasting and television stations on 18 December 197S, one week after the General Election of 13 December 1975. [More…]
The letter did not refer to election news items but rather to the respective responsibilities of news editors and management. [More…]
After all, as I recall the position, their election a year or 1 8 months ago provided one of the first pieces of evidence that the people of Australia were rejecting the lunatic policies of the Whitlam Labor Government. [More…]
As I said during the election campaign, and I will keep saying, there is no doubt that once governments get involved in the media and there is a Department of the Media, both the Minister responsible for that Department and the departmental people get an itch to interfere with the media. [More…]
I refer to a statement which was made in May 1974 by the honourable member for Angas (Mr Giles) at the declaration of the poll for his division in South Australia following the general election held after the double dissolution of the Parliament. [More…]
I was rudely shockedperhaps brought back to reality- in the first month after my election to this place. [More…]
On 1 September 1 started to campaign for the 1970 Senate election. [More…]
I campaigned from then until the election in November. [More…]
However I had set out in that election to try to get into this place. [More…]
After having found myself unsuccessful in that election I went back to the State department in which I had been employed before I left to do fulltime university studies. [More…]
The next time I was in receipt of unemployment benefit was again after a Senate election. [More…]
In 1974 I had to resign my position to contest the Senate election. [More…]
I was obliged to resign from that position because I was seeking election to the Senate. [More…]
I was not successful in that election either. [More…]
Again, because of the expenses I had incurred as a candidate and because I had been off work for a long period before the election I was forced, because of family responsibilities, to take unemployment benefits. [More…]
I believe that that is exactly what the Labor Party wanted and what it eventually might have obtained had it been returned to power in the last general election. [More…]
On 1 December 1975, during the currency of the election campaign, Mr Bob Ellicott, who was then the Liberal-National Country Party spokesman on Aboriginal affairs and who is now the Australian Attorney-General, sent a telegram which was widely distributed throughout Australia. [More…]
Land rights legislation to have top priority immediately after election. [More…]
He was a Liberal Party candidate in the 1975 election, after the double dissolution of Parliament. [More…]
That the failure of the Government to honour its 1975 election promise that the existing Commissioner for Housing loans scheme would continue will cause widespread hardship among citizens of the Australian Capital Territory because: [More…]
Election promises to be adhered to, particularly where contractual arrangements and purchases have been made by private citizens as a result of such promises; and [More…]
The need for the continuance of Commissioner for Housing loans on the same basis as before the December 1975 election. [More…]
For the record I will quote telegrams, copies of which were distributed, as far as I know, to all Aboriginal settlements prior to the election held on 13 December last. [More…]
Land rights legislation to have top priority immediately after election. [More…]
Before the last federal election the Country Party sent a telegram to all the settlements saying that there would be no cutbacks in the Aboriginal Affairs budget or Aboriginal projects. [More…]
You promised not to cut Aboriginal money before the election. [More…]
You promised to make that land rights law right away after the election. [More…]
If the Prime Minister has made that statement in the last 24 hours, let us hope that, for God ‘s sake, he is not telling us another lie as he did throughout the election campaign and ever since he has been Prime Minister. [More…]
That was done just prior to the election. [More…]
Cut backs in Aboriginal employment and programs which despite pre-election promises, had taken place causing great hardship to many communities. [More…]
The fact that this is happening is a repudiation of every promise made by the Liberal and National Country Parties prior to the election on 13 December 1975. [More…]
Did nominations for the election close on 30 December 1975; if so, why was the election suspended. [More…]
At whose direction was the election suspended. [More…]
What has been the cost incurred in the election process to date by (a) the Australian Government and (b) the 30 candidates nominated for the election. [More…]
Not known, but at the date on which the election was suspended, the eligibility of candidates had not been confirmed by the Chief Electoral Officer, and any serious campaigning would have been premature. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn also to a statement in that article that the Electoral Officer for New South Wales began sending out letters last Wednesday to candidates and political parties which were involved in the last election, asking them to complete and submit the returns to the Electoral Officer? [More…]
For its part, the Government maintains the position stated in its election policy statement on immigration and ethnic affairs as follows: [More…]
There was no mention during the last election campaign that the Government intended to destroy the ABC. [More…]
During the election campaign Mr Fraser committed the Government to the introduction of company tax indexation over a 3-year period for depreciation rates on plant and stocks held, and to the introduction of tax indexation for individuals. [More…]
I do blame him for using a spurious excuse for not honouring one of his election promises and for having the audacity to assert that there will be no increases in taxation under a government led by Malcolm Fraser unless the Government explicitly legislates for them. [More…]
Prior to the 1975 election I had correspondence with the Queensland Minister for Housing, Mr Lee. [More…]
You would know that in that great State of ours my close personal friend, Holy Joh, has been putting the money into savings accounts so that at some future date he may be able to use it on the eve of an election. [More…]
I can assure the Senate that tomorrow I expect to provide to the Senate the details of how the Government will implement the homes savings grant which it promised in its election policy of November last year. [More…]
Because I think the people of Australia should never be allowed to forget the way in which they were misled and hoodwinked in 1972 leading up to the election of the Labor Government, I have extracted the policy speech which Mr Whitlam gave with such eclat in 1972. [More…]
What was the number of primary votes polled by each candidate in each subdivision of each electoral division in the House of Representatives election held on 13 December 1975. [More…]
The Chief Australian Electoral Officer has informed me that he has supplied the honourable senator with copies of Election Form 62 (‘Results of the Scrutiny of First Preference Votes in Respect of Polling Places’) for each State and Territory, in respect of the 1975 House of Representatives election. [More…]
What was the total number of votes recorded and the percentage of that vote on (a) a national basis and (b) a State and Territory basis for all candidates contesting the 1975 House of Representatives election on behalf of the Australia Party, the Australian Labor Party, the Communist Party, the Australian Democratic Labor Party, the Liberal Party, the National Country Party and the Workers Party. [More…]
That the failure of the Government to honour its 1975 election promise that the ‘existing Commissioner for Housing loans scheme would continue’ will cause widespread hardship among citizens of the Australian Capital Territory because: [More…]
Election promises to be adhered to, particularly where contractual arrangements and purchases have been made by private citizens as a result of such promises; and [More…]
The need for the continuance of Commissioner for Housing loans on the same basis as before the December 1975 election. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Has the Premier of New South Wales, Sir Eric Willis, advised the Minister or the Prime Minister of his intention to announce this afternoon the withdrawal of the writs for the by-election in the State seat of Monaro and the holding of a State election in New South Wales on Saturday, 1 May 1976? [More…]
As to the latter part of his question, might I say this: Since the election of 13 December last, when the Party to which the honourable senator belongs was annihilated in both chambers of this Parliament, there have been 2 elections. [More…]
As I recall it, 2 elections have been held since that date. [More…]
As I further recall, in the Brisbane City Council elections last Saturday, in which for the first time the Liberal Party fielded candidates, there was a 12 per cent swing away from the Labor Party. [More…]
I do not know why the honourable senator is so upset that Sir Eric Willis- if he has done as the honourable senator alleges- desires to bring on an election. [More…]
One would have thought that if the honourable senator was dinkum he would have welcomed an election because on his premise a gentleman whose name I cannot recall but who leads his State Party may well become the next Premier of New South Wales. [More…]
That is what he would be if an election was held. [More…]
If the members of the Labor Party are so full of fight towards us- they have not shown much of it because they have been so busy fighting amongst themselves in recent months- I would have thought that the honourable senator would welcome an election being called by Sir Eric Willis, and if he wants an election I will see whether we can accommodate him. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that a challenge to the Senate election in Tasmania has been filed in the High Court? [More…]
In view of the fact that if this challenge is upheld Tasmanian senators may not be properly seated in the Senate and that a new election would be necessary. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Liberal Party candidates in the last election campaigned on a platform of selfgovernment for the Australian Capital Territory and that the Liberal spokesman on Australian Capital Territory matters at that time, Mr Vic Garland, endorsed the local Liberal platform of self-government, can Mr Staley ‘s remarks of yesterday be interpreted as a complete aboutface by the Government on its much vaunted policy of self-government for the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]
I had noted the comments of Mr Staley relating to self-government for the Australian Capital Territory, but I am unaware of the comments that were made by candidates at the last election. [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 all Australians shall have a meaningful opportunity, if they choose to avail themselves of it, to own their own homes. [More…]
But we find that this report, which contains no basis for means test application, presented to the Senate today by Senator Greenwood, while it may be associated with an election promise nevertheless does not in any way, shape or form make up for the leeway that exists in regard to accommodation in this country. [More…]
I hope that the Council will adopt as soon as possible the policy that it outlined during the last election campaign. [More…]
The charges that were laid against Norman Bray and supported by a statement signed by Frank Shanahan but not sworn by him indicated that in particular Mr Bray had participated with Shanahan and others in a meeting with one Brian Harradine, the secretary of the Tasmanian Trades and Labor Council, concerning the issue of the election in which Mr Ray Gietzelt was involved at that time. [More…]
It was that I allegedly held a meeting on 30 March 1971 to campaign against Mr Ray Gietzelt and his election to the Miscellaneous Workers Union in the R. A. [More…]
It is well known as a matter of public record that Mr Shanahan had been convicted by the Industrial Court of offences with regard to a union election. [More…]
After the election on 13 December, I made a decision which I communicated to my colleagues, that whilst for the first time in, I think, some 10 or 1 1 years a government- I put it that way quite deliberately- in this place would have a majority of senators in its own right I would hope that I would not have to use those numbers. [More…]
The same Gietzelt tabled at the ACTU executive in Perth in May 1 975 material detailing the days on which opposition election material was issued for the MWU elections. [More…]
-The fact is that certain moneys were allocated under the area improvement program before the Government took office after the election on 1 3 December. [More…]
I am not aware that there has been any increase in racial discrimination since an arbitrary date, namely, the date of the last election. [More…]
The re-introduction of the bounty- one of the few election promises carried out by the Fraser Administration- is and was a cynical attempt on behalf of the Liberal and National Country Parties to appear genuinely interested in the suffering of the small and needy farmers. [More…]
I find it particularly surprising that that sort of comment should come from a member of a Party which went into an election campaign 10 years ago with an emotive slogan about the downward thrust of China. [More…]
I would also like to point out to honourable senators opposite that this bounty was an election issue. [More…]
We all know the results of that election. [More…]
So his contribution to that election was not a great deal. [More…]
It is very interesting to note that Mr Pollard who was a Victorian member of the House of Representatives at the time, when speaking about the repeal of the bounty- Mr Pollard in that debate was not agreeing with Mr McEwen- went on to say that during the election campaign the Liberal and Country Parties did not mention that they were going to remove the bounty. [More…]
In that time we fought an election, the 1974 double dissolution election. [More…]
It has been said tonight, in reference to the 1975 election only, of course, that the superphosphate bounty was a big issue in country areas and was the reason that the Labor Government went out of office. [More…]
Mr Fairbairn, the former honourable member for Farrer- I guess he is the Mr Fairbairn who left the Parliament at the last election- said when talking on the Superphosphate Bounty Repeal Bill: [More…]
At the outset of my remarks I said that the coalition parties and farmer organisations used not only the IAC report but also other methods during the 2 Federal election campaigns to hoodwink people living in country areas into believing that the Whitlam Government did them in the eye, as the saying is. [More…]
That the failure of the Government to honour its 1975 election promise that the ‘existing Commissioner for Housing loans scheme would continue’ will cause widespread hardship among citizens of the Australian Capital Territory because: [More…]
election promises to be adhered to, particularly where contractual arrangements and purchases have been made by private citizens as a result of such promises; and [More…]
the need for the continuance of Commissioner for Housing loans on the same basis as before the December 1975 election. [More…]
I put a twofold question to the Minister: How does she reconcile Liberal Party election statements that used such words as ‘unequivocal’ and ‘specific’ in stating that this service that the Minister administers would come under the umbrella of the portfolio of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs? [More…]
I recall that members of the particular organisation to which the honourable senator refers have taken very harsh action against members of my political party, organising against them during election campaigns and at other times. [More…]
So overall my own Government is pledged to proceed as from the next Budget with tax indexation as was part of its election policy. [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 Employee Organisations and the Administrative and Clerical Officers’ Association. [More…]
That subsidy was allowed to expire in 1974 by the Labor Government and is being re-introduced at this time because of an election pledge by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
During the last election campaign I made an investigation of who used superphosphate in the large electorate of Fisher, a rural electorate. [More…]
One will see that when it comes close to election time, when it comes to making policy statements, when it comes to outlining the platform of the Liberal and National Country parties we will find that the superphosphate bounty will be promised again. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Prime Minister: Did the Prime Minister during the last election campaign make an unqualified commitment to maintain tax deductibility on home mortgage interest rates as introduced by the Labor Government? [More…]
The alternative assessment is that Sir Eric as Premier of New South Wales has decided with a total abdication of responsibility to abolish the tax because he is facing an election on 1 May. [More…]
It is significant, however, notwithstanding the Premier’s publicly proclaimed support for the proposals, that he has decided to hold a State election in August, 7 months before it is due. [More…]
Nevertheless, the Liberal Party’s current plan is to hold a State election in August, before the Federal Budget comes down, because the Premier of Western Australia knows very well that he would have no chance of winning an election if it were held when it is due- in March 1977. [More…]
Within my memory a premature election has not been held previously in the State of Western Australia. [More…]
Western Australians are sick and tired of elections. [More…]
Two elections have been forced upon them prematurely already by the actions of the Liberal Party and National Country Party in this Parliament. [More…]
The last thing that Western Australians want in 1976 is another election. [More…]
Certainly, the people of Western Australia ought to make known in no uncertain terms that they are not impressed by the Premier’s cynicism, his opportunism or by the cheap trick that he contemplates- the cheap trick of getting an election out of the way before the people begin to learn the truth about the Fraser Federal Budget and the Liberal Party’s new federalism policies. [More…]
In New South Wales we have the Premier, Sir Eric Willis, with his election-eve promise to abolish the State petrol tax, again without making any suggestion as to how the consequential shortfall in Government revenue will be funded. [More…]
Senator Carrick said he did not expect it would be issued before the December 13 election. [More…]
This is the New South Wales State Government- would act to reduce the price of New South Wales bread by up to 3c a loaf immediately after the May 1 election, the Premier, Sir Eric Willis, said yesterday. [More…]
My concern is that the Premier of any State can forecast that he is able to reduce to that extent the price of a loaf of bread, but not until after an election is held. [More…]
Basically, we oppose it because we believe that before the last election the Government promised that it would not do this sort of thing. [More…]
Reference has been made to the policies which the Liberal-National Country Parties put forward prior to the previous election. [More…]
In the absence of any such alternative I think that in the interests of the people who raised pension issues during the election campaign, the people in elderly citizens clubs who asked questions at public meetings, the people generally of the State I represent and the people of Australia who were interested in this matter, we should not support the withdrawal of this benefit. [More…]
Both Bills, particularly the Social Services Amendment Bill, repudiate the promises made to pensioners and to pensioner organisations in the course of the election campaign of November-December last that the value of social welfare benefits in this country would not be reduced if a Liberal-National Country Party government was elected. [More…]
I point out that nowhere in pre-election policy speeches was there a word about funeral benefits or in fact about subsidised pharmaceutical benefits. [More…]
Prior to the election the coalition parties promised to tie benefits such as the dependants allowances to the CPI. [More…]
In view of the record of the previous coalition Government between 1949 and 1972 with pensions and allowances we believe that the Government should be asked by this House to index all associated benefits so that in the future pensioners can have some guarantee as they were promised before the election. [More…]
It is to try to ensure that in the future the Senate makes sure that the Government follows up the promises it made before the last election. [More…]
During the recent general election campaign Mr Clark reprimanded me very strongly because I suggested that pension values would drop under a Liberal government. [More…]
Mr Clark referred to members of the present Government and to their promises before the election in his letter to the Launceston Examiner. [More…]
To the pensioners I can only extend my deepest apologies for any part I played in deceiving them during the election campaign. [More…]
These Bills actually put into effect what we promised during the general election campaign. [More…]
What happened to the election promises that were made by the Government’s then spokesman on social security matters, Mr Chipp, regarding the timing of pension increases? [More…]
Where are the automatic and instant increases that were promised by Mr Chipp as the spokesman for Social Security during the election campaign? [More…]
Before I touch on the abolition of the funeral benefit I would like to mention one final thing about pensions, and it concerns what the spokesman of the present Government said before the election last year. [More…]
These are the sorts of things that were said before the election and these are the sorts of things that should be put before this Parliament following the return to power of the people who made these promises. [More…]
On a number of occasions, in policy speeches preceding elections, attention has been directed to the inadequacy of this benefit. [More…]
So, in recent years, no mention has been made of the funeral benefit in the course of federal election campaigns. [More…]
I support this Bill because I believe it implements a very important election promise of the Government to adjust pensions in accordance with movements of the consumer price index twice yearly. [More…]
When the present Government was campaigning in the recent general election it made great play on relieving voluntary organisations of the burden of always being the bunny in providing the ready cash in emergency situations. [More…]
It should be recognised that the first increase in pensions after the Federal election in December 1972 occurred after an interval of 9Vi months from the previous increase. [More…]
What action is the Government taking to fulfil its election promise of re-opening negotiations with the Guild and bringing to a satisfactory conclusion the ‘Scott Inquiry’. [More…]
Chipp, in the November-December election campaign? [More…]
It is fairly obvious from the reference to the suburbs which Senator Douglas McClelland mentioned that there must be an election about to be held in New South Wales. [More…]
I hope he will pardon me if I regard his question as being directed primarily to that election on next Saturday. [More…]
They threw out every Labor member of the House of Representatives in the last election. [More…]
Some weeks ago I asked a question relating to a petition to the Court of Disputed Returns on the matter of the Tasmanian Senate election. [More…]
Sure there is to be an election in New South Wales on Saturday. [More…]
Let him realise what will happen before the election next Saturday if he votes for a party which endorses this type of policy. [More…]
It cannot have escaped notice that a State election campaign is being held in New South Wales. [More…]
I almost apologise for interrupting the conduct of the New South Wales election which has broken out, particularly in the last speech. [More…]
I say to Senator Walters, who a few minutes ago expressed some shock at the extent to which the Senate would be so used by members of the Australian Labor Party to fight that election, that there is a curious feature about the matter. [More…]
A feature of the last Victorian State election was that Senator Button rose so valiantly into the lists. [More…]
We know the result of that election and we know the assistance which members of the Labor Party in this chamber gave. [More…]
Of course, at this time Mr Wran may be saying, ‘Save me from my friends’, because it is his friends in this place who are imposing and who are insisting that they want to be in the election. [More…]
I make no apology for the fact that the Labor movement in the Senate is raising this issue today, 3 days before a State election is held in New South Wales. [More…]
Despite what has been said by honourable senators opposite, I, as a member of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, am one of those who have participated in the State election campaign. [More…]
The fact that only a couple of weeks before the New South Wales Government faced a State election it decided to order some new commuter buses for the travelling public of Sydney indicates surely that the needs of the community in this regard have been wantonly disregarded for so long. [More…]
Suddenly a State election is called. [More…]
Yet, in the course of the current election campaign in New South Wales, the State Premier has determined that if he is returned to office payroll tax will be eliminated. [More…]
To the undisguised delight of his political opponents and the scarcely disguised anguish of his supporters the New South Wales Premier, Sir Eric Willis, has performed a policy somersault in the closing days of the State election campaign. [More…]
This is an undisguised and confessed attempt by the Federal Labor Party to get in on the platform that is being occupied by the campaigners in the New South Wales State election. [More…]
Some of the Labor speakers have said that they have taken pan in the election campaign itself. [More…]
That is the reason why people like Senator Douglas McClelland, Senator James McClelland, Senator Arthur Gietzelt, Senator Kerry Sibraa and I have crossed the State in the election campaign; that has been our objective. [More…]
The ill-fated New South Wales Minister, Mr Jago, forgot to lodge his nomination for candidature in the last election. [More…]
Mr Whitlam then said to Mr Takriti: ‘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 1 am only sorry that I cannot talk to you more. [More…]
One Mr Fischer was engaged and had negotiations with Mr Whitlam over the gift of some money from Arab countries for election campaign funds. [More…]
I am pleased to say that the Leader of the Labor Party in New South Wales, Neville Wran, has promised to abolish the BMQ zone after the election on 1 May next. [More…]
It is taking it out on the people whose votes the Government sought before the last election, before it started pulling the rug from under those people. [More…]
It fought 2 elections on the matter and lost. [More…]
At the third election the present Government was not game to fight on Medibank. [More…]
It fought the election on other dangerous issues. [More…]
It only narrowly won that election in terms of the percentage of the vote. [More…]
In the circumstances of today, of course, the debate has been used as an election campaigning exercise. [More…]
It is rather remarkable that only 5 Labor senators should see fit to be here engaged in an exercise which Labor itself projected today and which I presume is related to the coming election in New South Wales. [More…]
South Australia, sought desperately to bring about an election before the Labor Budget was presented a month later in Canberra. [More…]
Even though he succeeded in holding that election a month before the Federal Budget which filled him with fear was presented he gained only a one seat majority in those circumstances. [More…]
Of course, Mr Holding in Victoria, whose Party was so severely defeated in the recent State election, would have no brief for Federal intervention in his State. [More…]
On the surface it sounds fine, but in actual fact when one relates these increased payments to the circumstances that were the prelude to the Federal election in December 1975 one finds that they were part of a system- in fact, part of an ideology- that produced for this country a national deficit beyond the imagination of any Australians up to that time. [More…]
Two of the incidents that we have witnessed tonight constitute a fair measure of the desperation of the Liberal and National Country parties on the eve of the New South Wales State election. [More…]
Despite all the boasting and the bombast which we saw early this afternoon and which we have seen during the previous few weeks, it is quite apparent that the Government parties desperately fear that they will be defeated in the New South Wales State election on Saturday. [More…]
The Government parties do all these things in the forlorn hope that somehow or other they will be able to inject some elixir to revitalise the wilting Willis campaign for the New South Wales State election. [More…]
Let us disregard the pseudo philosophical claptrap which seems to permeate practically all the policy statements which came from the Liberal Party both before and after the election. [More…]
Finally, it is obvious from the antics and contortions of members of the Liberal and National Country Parties in the Senate today that they have little confidence in the ability of the Willis Government to survive next Saturday’s election. [More…]
It is equally apparent from a cutting which I have from the Sydney Daily Telegraph of 9 April that the Willis Government has no confidence in the Fraser Government’s ability to fulfil its preelection pledge to control inflation. [More…]
On the other hand, the Federal Party clearly has no confidence whatsoever in the ability of the Willis Government to survive next Saturday’s election. [More…]
Did the Government accede to the request of the New South Wales Deputy Premier, Mr Punch, to delay presentation of that report until after his recent personal public relations inspection of Botany Bay and until after the New South Wales State election? [More…]
The Sydney Morning Herald, which is noted for its conservatism and for its editorials at the time of a federal, State of local government election enjoining the people to vote in a certain way, in its editorial today states: . [More…]
Sir Eric Willis fervently supports the Fraser Government’s commitment, overwhelmingly endorsed in the December election, to reverse the centralist trend of the Commonwealth Governments (of both parties) since the war. [More…]
I find it very difficult to understand how Senator Wright, as the representative of one of the smaller States which can be likened to Oliver Twist always asking for more, can take the position that he took in the debate yesterday, a debate which he alleges had some relationship to the election in New South Wales. [More…]
Of course, at election time one could imagine that Mr Willis would try to suggest that he is going to do very well out of this new system. [More…]
It might well be that Mr Fraser will want to honour one of his few election promises about reducing Federal taxation, but he can only do so at the expense of cutting back on his total program, his total responsibilities and his relationships with the States. [More…]
I think it is right and responsible that we should be raising these matters in the Parliament prior to people voting in the New South Wales election. [More…]
Federal election, the dairying industry, federalism and a great number of other things. [More…]
That is, if the latest statistics now available to the Australian Electoral Officer were used, there would have to be redistributions in Western Australia, Queensland and New South Wales before the 1978 election to take account of the changed number of members to which each of those States would be entitled. [More…]
As well as the matters to which I have already alluded, I suggest the report could look at the excessive costs involved in conducting an election. [More…]
It could look at the provisions of the Broadcasting and Television Act concerning elections, whether there should be a 3-day blackout on radio and television immediately preceding the poll whilst there is no similar embargo on newspapers, journals or magazines. [More…]
At last December’s election, in the seat of McPherson, the number of voters had increased to 102 175 and in Maranoa, in the same State, the number had increased to only 46 433. [More…]
In other words, on that electoral distribution for the 1975 election it appears that 2 Maranoans go for every one McPherson. [More…]
Last election it had 9 1 8 1 8. [More…]
By last December’s election the number of voters in Wannon had risen to only 54 583. [More…]
This has to be done before the next Federal election and that, at the most, is only 2h years away. [More…]
After all, we have compulsory voting in Australia and, in the best traditions of democracy, it is assumed that every Australian over the age of 1 8 has listened to the political debate that has taken place over an election period, has assessed the political issues and has made a selection, on an alternative basis, of his choice of candidates. [More…]
When there are 40, SO or 60 candidates at Senate elections, as there have been in New South Wales, the task becomes a farce if not an impossibility for many people. [More…]
We dictate to him that he shall vote and then, in exercising that vote, we expect him to have acquired a good knowledge of all the candidates contesting the election. [More…]
But that is not much different from what we expect a voter to do in Senate elections. [More…]
Australia as a nation cannot afford the luxury any longer of having the most complex and complicated voting system in the world, thus having to wait at least 2 and possibly 3 months after an election is held to know the composition of its Parliament. [More…]
That is the situation at the present time when a Senate election is held. [More…]
I do not agree with Senator Wriedt that the federalism policy was a major or significant issue in the New South Wales election. [More…]
I remind the honourable senator that he and his Party had 2 goes prior to that- one in the Federal election of 13 December 1975 when the honourable senator sought to raise the issue and was soundly and resoundingly beaten, and the other in the Victorian election when there was a resounding victory for Mr Hamer. [More…]
I also ask the honourable senator to remember Mrs Beaton’s advice for jugged hare- first catch the harebecause the honourable senator is seeking to see in the New South Wales election hares that are not there. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Administrative Services: Is he aware that in the New South Wales elections last Saturday for the first time in that State’s history polling booths were open only from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. to handle a general election and a referendum, without apparent consternation being shown by anyone and obviously with very sensible voting trends taking place? [More…]
Again surprising as it may seem, I am aware that an election took place in New South Wales last Saturday, and I am also aware that for the first time 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. voting was tried. [More…]
That is the previous senator- was chosen shall, sitting and voting together, choose a person to hold the place until the expiration of the term, or until the election of a successor . [More…]
For example, at the election following the double dissolution of 1914, the non-Labor Opposition polled nearly half of the Senate vote but won only five of the 36 places in the Senate. [More…]
Following the Senate election of 1919 there was only one Labor senator, and from 1946 to 1949 Labor held thirtythree of the Senate places to non-Labor’s three. [More…]
My 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…]
By way of illustration of the difficulties confronting the Committee, it would have been necessary, in any constitutional alteration, to deal with possible cases of a vacating senator who joined another party after election, became a member of another party because that party succeeded the party in existence at the date of election or who, for that matter, was not a member of any party. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party chose as its nominee Mr Peter Westerway who had been an unsuccessful candidate for Labor in the 1974 Senate election. [More…]
To this end therefore, t should appreciate your advising me as soon as possible the names of three 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…]
When the Parliament does meet, it must then proceed within fourteen days to the election of a person to hold the late Senator’s place in the Senate. [More…]
To this end therefore, I should appreciate your advising me as soon as possible the names of three 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 was argued that with one name only before the Parliament it was not possible for the Parliament, in the terms of the Constitution, ‘to choose a person to hold the place until the expiration of the term, or until the election of a successor . [More…]
Without the support of Senators Bunton and Hall, the Opposition would have been obliged, if it wished to use the Appropriation Bills to force an election, to reject those Bills. [More…]
It is probably significant that this senator’s State organisation was successful in its attempts to prevent Senator Bessell from returning to this chamber after the December 1975 election; or, at least, it put sufficient obstacles in his path to prevent his return. [More…]
This has caused a great deal of concern, not to mention economic hardship, to the pensioners and it has caused them to doubt the good faith of this Government with respect to many other election promises that affect pensioners. [More…]
Is it to be the policy of this Government to continue to let the pensioners lag behind the CPI increases or will the Government accept the responsibility that it undertook when it asked pensioners to vote for it in the December campaign and fulfil its election promise of making these increases automatic and immediate? [More…]
An undertaking was given during the recent election campaign that this would be one of the first pieces of legislation introduced by the new Government, and this Bill represents the honouring of that undertaking. [More…]
Thirdly, I comment briefly on the question of contract or election to retire at age 60 under this scheme. [More…]
In other words, the elections under the present Superannuation Act are elections to contribute on a specific basis, not elections to retire at specific ages. [More…]
It was an election commitment of the Liberal and National Country Parties when they went to the people of Australia in December. [More…]
It was a clear election commitment. [More…]
Electors in the Australian Capital Territory also voted for it, and this is instanced by the election of Senator Knight as one of the senators representing the Australian Capital Territory and Mr Haslem as one of the members representing the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
What was the expenditure by each political party and candidate who represented political parties on newspaper and magazine advertising on a basis of (a) metropolitan dailies, (b) provincial papers, (c) suburban papers, (d) weekend newspapers, and (e) magazines, during the 1974 and 1975 Federal election campaign. [More…]
In fact, he ran against Dr Patterson in the 1 974 election which seems to me to indicate that there is some objectivity in the reports that are freely available to us. [More…]
What is clear is that in February this year, and after the election when the incoming Government could take charge of events, action began to flow from the present Government- the Fraser Government- and, in the case of the foreign affairs matters, under the aegis of Mr Peacock. [More…]
We had a unique situation in 1973 in my State of Victoria when the then Minister for Education, suspecting what might be in the Karmel report but without actually knowing, went around Victoria promising that every school would have a library if the Liberal Government was returned to power in the State election. [More…]
As we know, that special report of the Schools Commission was endorsed by Senator Guilfoyle when she was spokesperson on education during the 1975 general election campaign. [More…]
It is good, too, I think, to remind ourselves that the primary function of this Bill is to discharge an election promise of the Fraser Government. [More…]
Then 1 5 years after receiving the first information, 10 years after the death of Senator Paltridge and on the eve of an election- not a federal election, but on a day on which it was known the first allegations would be published, on the very day before the election, cowardly cutting out any proper opportunity of reply on the part of Paltridge and others before the election- we had one of the most cowardly and despicable episodes of defamation in the political history of this country. [More…]
Yet, it could not even win the New South Wales Election conducted last weekend. [More…]
South Wales election have now been shown to be inaccurate and that the swing was in fact a relatively small 3.7 per cent? [More…]
Over some 3 decades now I have had some little experience in comparing election with election. [More…]
In individual elections different numbers of candidates are fielded by particular political parties. [More…]
In the recent New South Wales election it is true that Labor had, I think, some 6 more candidates fielded in electorates than previously so that this time it registered a larger vote, which last time was disguised in independent votes. [More…]
The vote for Labor in the previous election was artificially lower because its vote was hidden in independent votes. [More…]
In the 1973 State election a very large number of independents were standing. [More…]
I draw honourable senators’ attention to the fact that a correction would have to be made also for an aberration in previous elections with regard to the State seat of Gordon. [More…]
Do I correctly interpret his answer to mean that at the last election in the New South Wales Liberal Government was saved by independents and small splinter groups? [More…]
So quite clearly the independent vote heavily favoured the Labor Party at the last election, and no doubt was distributed and went to the Labor Party. [More…]
In Australia all evidence shows that the Liberal vote- as demonstrated on 13 December last year, as demonstrated in Victoria, and as will be demonstrated in future State electionsis polarising at a higher and higher figure. [More…]
Will the Minister agree that if the seat of Gosford is lost by the Liberals, in all probability it will mean the election of a Labor Government in New South Wales? [More…]
If that is so, will the Minister agree that, contrary to the utterances of the Prime Minister, Federal Government policy will have had a very direct bearing on the outcome of the election in New South Wales? [More…]
I remind honourable senators that the States were told in December that upon the election of this Government it would undertake to implement the calendar year program for schools. [More…]
Again, in the 1976 report, which was endorsed by Senator Guilfoyle when she was speaking on behalf of the then Opposition in the December election campaign last year, we find provided in paragraph 2.3: [More…]
I believe that they believe that espousal of that policy by the Australian and New South Wales Governments had nothing to do with the result of last week’s election in New South Wales. [More…]
I can assure the Senate- and the Government could well find this out for itself if it wished; it need not take my word for it- that one of the reasons why the rural vote in New South Wales swung so markedly to Labor in last Saturday’s election was that we of the Labor Party were able to get across to rural voters and to local government organisations in rural areas in particular that under the untied and unconditional grants made available to local government by the Australian Labor Government consequent upon the recommendations it received from the Grants Commission, the ratio of payment was of the order of $3 for the country to $ 1 for urban areas. [More…]
I suggest to the Government that if it were to ask some of its candidates in rural areas what happened and what were some of the reasons for the marked swing to Labor in last Saturday’s election, they would say that was one of the principal reasons. [More…]
Indeed, we also tried to elevate the status of local government by a referendum that was held in conjunction with the May 1974 Federal election, namely, to seek a power to enable the Australian Government to make grants direct to local government throughout Australia. [More…]
It has been subjected to campaigning in the last Federal election campaign. [More…]
I raise a matter which I believe may be subject to some confusion because of the ministerial responsibilities which were allocated temporarily during the term of the interim government before last year’s general election. [More…]
Before that election Senator Guilfoyle, I understand, as Minister for Education, made a ruling in relation to some private tertiary education organisations and that ruling appears to have caused a great deal of difficulty in the running of those organisations. [More…]
Thirdly, in the case of both West New Guinea and East Timor, the Indonesian actions were escalated during a time of elections or their aftermath in Australia. [More…]
In the case of West New Guinea, President Sukarno’s call to all Indonesians to be ready for general mobilisation to liberate West Irian came 10 days after the 1961 general election in Australia. [More…]
Little was he to know that at the election on the following Saturday the New South Wales electors would reject the very simple way in which he had attempted to suggest that federalism was understood by the Australian people. [More…]
It has been subjected to campaigning in the last Federal election campaign. [More…]
I believe that this gave birth to the federalism policy document of the Liberal and National Country Parties during the last election campaign. [More…]
One finds this statement to be an extraordinary example of the scene 6 months after the election in which there is still this calculated vagueness in a proposal as important as this one. [More…]
The road legislation enacted by the Whitlam Labor Government was the first such legislation it introduced, and obviously it will be the last until the next election in 1978 or perhaps, with the way things are going in the coalition at the moment, at a much earlier date. [More…]
The Liberal and National Country Parties lost that election basically because of 3 policies: Their neglect of farming areas, their neglect of the transport system and their institution of the 2-tax system- the new federalism. [More…]
1 ) Did the Broadcasting Control Board during the month before the 1975 Federal election issue a directive to all radio and television stations, both commercial and government, which said that all decisions regarding political material were to be made by news editors and not by management; if so, what is the text of the directive. [More…]
1 ) The directive referred to was a circular letter from the Australian Broadcasting Control Board and was sent to all commercial broadcasting and television stations on 18 December 1975-one week after the Federal Election of 13 December 1975. [More…]
Has he received a circular, part of which is reproduced in today’s Press, from the General Manager of Mcwilliams Wines Pty Ltd, Mr D. R. Mcwilliam, in which he claims among other things that the Government has not fulfilled election promises given to the wine industry by Mr Lynch, and that as a result grape growers will be left with fruit? [More…]
The election policy speech delivered by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on 27 November included the following passages: [More…]
Some weeks ago I asked a question relating to a petition to the Court of Disputed Returns on the matter of the Tasmanian Senate election. [More…]
Why would such a damaging statement, if untrue, be made by an endorsed Liberal candidate for the next Tasmanian State 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…]
Whether there was outside influence or not, we know that Mr Rupert Murdoch played a prominent part in both the dismissal of the Government and the subsequent election campaign. [More…]
Regardless of whether that money was sufficient to decide the outcome of the election in 1975, there were other forces at work. [More…]
Special figures that can be ‘read’ by a ‘magic eye’ have yielded an important new clue in the mystery of who sent the pre-election letter bombs. [More…]
With the suspicions which justify complaint concerning the activities of the Murdoch crew in regard to this election, more investigation is warranted. [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 pre-determined. [More…]
It was made clear before the election that the Federal government had been given too much power and that more of that power should revert to the States. [More…]
Yet the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Senator Cotton) suggests that it is necessary to regain control of the national Budget, a principle which we in this place discussed only a few weeks ago, on the eve of the election in New South Wales. [More…]
-The Leader of Senator Tehan ‘s Party, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), made 2 famous statements during the general election campaign. [More…]
I forecast that if an election were held tomorrow they would not survive because they pulled the political wool over the electors’ eyes prior to 13 December by fear tactics and everything that goes with them and now they are trying to do so by financial fear tactics. [More…]
There was a firm commitment on the part of the Whitlam Government which this Government gave an undertaking to honour to the electors when it was seeking their support at the election on 13 December last. [More…]
Let me refer to some quotations from the now Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) which were made during that election campaign. [More…]
Senator Carrick would well remember that at the commencement of the last election campaign he and I were invited by a very trendy Australian Broadcasting Commission radio station to speak on conservation. [More…]
By way of preface I think it appropriate before I do that tomorrow and as the first sessional period of the 30th Parliament draws towards its close to refer to some of the undertakings made by the present Government during the election campaign last NovemberDecember, and to the implementation of those undertakings, particularly the most important of them. [More…]
During the election campaign we said that we would introduce a partial auction system for land and that undertaking has been honoured. [More…]
We also undertook during the election campaign to allocate land on a preferential basis to first home buyers. [More…]
I was saying that during the election campaign we also undertook to allocate land on a preferential basis to first home buyers. [More…]
During the election campaign an undertaking was given also that Commissioner for Housing loans would be continued. [More…]
In accordance with the undertaking that we gave during the election campaign, Commissioner for Housing loans will be continued next year and an amount of $12m, together with funds flowing back from loans already outstanding, will be provided for that purpose. [More…]
During the election campaign it was promised that the sale of government houses to tenants would be recommenced. [More…]
I understand from the Minister for the Capital Territory in another place that it is his aim and objective that this pledge, as stated by the Government parties during the election campaign, will be honoured as soon as administrative details are settled and the matter is finalised. [More…]
During the election campaign we undertook that if returned to government the National Capital Development Commission would be under the responsibility of the Minister for the Capital Territory so it would be, as it was always intended to be, a planning body for the national capital. [More…]
The implementation of a new superannuation scheme was a major plank in our platform during the election campaign, and it was one of the first major reforms introduced in the Thirtieth Parliament. [More…]
I have referred to some of the major undertakings made by the Government parties during the election campaign and to the fact that those undertakings have been implemented or are in the course of implementation. [More…]
A lot of remarks were made about him by members of the Liberal Party because he was overseas at the time he gained preselection. [More…]
One Liberal Party member told me the other day that he was prepared to bet that the honourable senator will not be here after the next election and that there would be 2 Labor senators representing the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
1 ) Does the Government intend introducing secret ballots for the election of all officials of industrial organisations in Australia. [More…]
1 ) The Government, in its election policy, has undertaken to look for ways, through extension of rural reconstruction, by which approved applicants might lease farms for a period of ten years with an option to purchase at the end of that period. [More…]
I preface my question to the Minister for Education by reminding him that during the election campaign the LiberalNational Country Parties, as part of their promises to the people of the Northern Territory, said that there would be no expenditure cuts in education. [More…]
Seeing the Premier welcomed the new federalism policy just a short while ago, does the Minister think that the Premier is now trying to backtrack and join the New South Wales bandwagon on the double taxation scare campaign, as an election is due in our State shortly? [More…]
By way of preface, I remind the Minister that in the election held last weekend in Tasmania the Australian Labor Party candidate, being opposed by a previous Liberal Party Minister and a previous Liberal Party senator, obtained 57 per cent of the vote. [More…]
I think that the members of the Labor Party raised the question of Medibank during the last election campaign- or were they too busy worrying about the past and not about the present? [More…]
Turning to what happened in last Saturday’s Tasmanian election, the honourable senator did not say that although the seat was won by the Labor Party it was a seat which previously had been held by the Labor Party. [More…]
Adverting to the Tasmanian election, I understand that Mr Mather, a Liberal member of the House of Assembly in Hobart, is reported to have said on 26 May that: [More…]
I suppose that all politicians can get all sorts of things out of all sorts of figures but the simple fact is that if Mr Neilson feels so confident that support is running so strongly in his favour the best thing he can do is to take the Assembly to an election, which we in the Liberal Party would welcome. [More…]
The election policy speech delivered by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on 27 November included the following passages: [More…]
We all know that one of the reasons for the long agitation in this place by honourable senators opposite particularly which resulted in 2 elections in the 3 years that we were in office was the claim that we were extravagant in our welfare provisions. [More…]
Before the general election they said that the future of Medibank would be ensured; there would be an improvement in employment and our education and general welfare policies would be maintained. [More…]
When he was checked by one of the interviewers about these pre-election promises he said literally that politicians could make all sorts of fantastic promises but the resources of Australia were not there to keep the promises. [More…]
In fact Mr Fraser was saying, as we have said, that the promises that he made before the general election could not be taken seriously. [More…]
In our policies prior to the December election we made it perfectly clear that we supported tax indexation and would introduce it progressively over a period of 3 years. [More…]
-I point out to Senator Wright, who is always interrupting, that that very man will be a Liberal candidate in the next State election. [More…]
During the general election campaign Mr Street and I took part in a television appearance on Monday Conference. [More…]
During the election campaign Mr Fraser promised, firstly, that he would maintain wage indexation. [More…]
We on this side of the chamber face the fact realistically that a great number of trade unionists must have supported Mr Fraser or else he would not have been able to get the thumping majority that he got in the election. [More…]
But this was the first lesson in disillusionment that the workers of Australia who had voted for Mr Fraser- who had put their faith in him- had about what an election promise meant to Mr Fraser. [More…]
Some reference has been made today to Mr Fraser ‘s appearance on Monday Conference this week in which he said, in effect, that an election promise made in the course of an election campaign of course is not to be taken seriously. [More…]
-There was no qualification upon his promise, and I suggest that the honourable senator reads Mr Fraser ‘s election speech. [More…]
I suggest, in fact, to every member of the Liberal and National Country Parties that he go back and reread the election speech of Mr Fraser. [More…]
That has been demonstrated by, among other things, the result of the New South Wales election, which I know came as a real kick in the teeth to the architect of the new federalism, Senator Carrick, who was prepared to bet me on the day before the election that nothing remotely like that could be possible. [More…]
Any senator on the Government side who doubts that statement can read any one of Mr Fraser’s speeches made in the course of that election campaign. [More…]
Above everybody else in this Senate I believe that you, Mr President, recognise this because of the efforts you have made in this area since your election to the Senate. [More…]
But the Whitlam Government- the Government supported by Senator McLaren- at the time of the South Australian election in July 1975 promised to extend the original period of 5 years to a period of 7 years to enable the industry to pay these taxes. [More…]
As far as this present Government is concerned, the industry was assured during the general election campaign last year that the new basis of stock valuation for winemakers, combined with industry company tax rates, was threatening to bankrupt many important Australian wine producing companies. [More…]
The result of the election of this Government is that we now find that people actually are doing what in the past they were only saying they would like to do. [More…]
What we have seen the Government do during the time it has been in office, despite the undertakings it gave in December of last year, prior to that election which should never have taken place, is to reverse those principles completely. [More…]
It is a system which will breed confusion and fear in the minds of all Australian people, and it will replace a system which the members of the Parties that constitute the present Government undertook during the election campaign in December of last year they would not interfere with. [More…]
The suicide rate has not changed in any way by the election to office nearly 50 years ago of the Swedish Social Democratic Labour Party which has remained in office ever since. [More…]
The simple and sad fact is that the present Government is totally bereft of moral authority because of the sleazy circumstances- to use Senator Hall’s succinct phrase- under which it seized power and the succession of repudiations of its pre-election policy in which it has indulged since it was elected to office in December last. [More…]
Indeed, I believe that at least one senior member of the Liberal Party has been acknowledging in recent weeks that the investment allowance constitutes a classic example of the foolishness of entering into firm commitments long before an election to implement certain policies, no matter how inapplicable those policies may be to the reality which exists at the time the Government implements them. [More…]
At the time of the general election many people, myself included, pointed out that a country would not recover very quickly after 3 years of that sort of treatment; it would take some time. [More…]
The dominant aim of this Government expressed at election time and expressed again in the statement is to bring inflation under control as soon as possible. [More…]
I refer to the Governments policy, stated during the last election campaign, to seek ways to encourage private enterprisebased industries and business to locate in Canberra. [More…]
What happened at the last general election? [More…]
If Mr Neilson does not like what he agreed to at a previous Premiers Conference, why does he not hold an election and take the matter to the Tasmanian people? [More…]
by leave- Mr President, honourable senators 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…]
Briefly, I think it ought to be understood that this proposal does not honour the promise that the Government made before the last Federal election, which was that it would recommence the cadets training scheme. [More…]
1 sought it by way of asking a question in this Parliament when we resumed after the election. [More…]
The explanatory memorandum informs us that this additional appropriation is for the purpose of an election in the Northern Territory to a seat in the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
However, when the nominations were called for a person was elected unopposed and it did not take the long time it would have taken to fill this vacancy if an election had been held during the wet season. [More…]
I conclude by saying that if there is any effort to translate that into legislation everybody who purports to represent the apple industry in Tasmania must resist it to the uttermost of the authority which election to this Parliament gives. [More…]
We will not oppose the proposal relating to the trading stocks of wine makers, but it is necessary to highlight the fact that the proposal is a breach of a government undertaking given during the last election campaign. [More…]
Nevertheless, it is important to note that the principle which was enacted by us in 1973 now is being continued by this Government, despite the assurances that were given during the election campaign. [More…]
Prior to the last Federal election the Government said unequivocally that it would continue to support the tax deductibility scheme. [More…]
I trust that in the comments that I have made to the Senate we can see holes in the legislation, particularly in relation to the Government’s undertakings during the course of the election campaign. [More…]
These charges sound remarkably like the ‘missile gap’ claims which aroused anxieties in I960 only to dissolve suddenly a few weeks after the election. [More…]
The legislation involves the breaking of election promises with the removal, for many, of home mortgage interest deductions and the inadequate alterations to wine makers’ tax liability; and [More…]
During the State election campaign in South Australia in July last year- a very opportune time- Mr Whitlam made statements to the effect that the Labor Government would alleviate the pressure on wine makers who were affected by section 31a and the decision to remove it. [More…]
The proposal varies significantly from the proposal laid down by Mr Whitlam at a most politically opportune time last year prior to the State election in South Australia. [More…]
Indeed, Mr Mcwilliam himself or his company circulated just before the last Federal election a letter which was tantamount to a threat of dismissal to all of his employees if the Labor Party were returned at the election on 13 December 1975. [More…]
The present Government has now given wine makers a longer period in which to pay but it has not fulfilled its election promise, a promise made by the Honourable P. Lynch on 19.6.1975. to ‘abolish Labor’s new stock valuation system’. [More…]
Of course, we have learned since then that remarks and promises made by members of the present Government in the period prior to 13 December 1975, and in particular those remarks and promises- the absolute guarantees- made by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) himself, on his own admission on the Monday Conference television program last week were valid only for the period of the election campaign. [More…]
The modern or most recent variant of that is the Prime Minister’s admission on Monday Conference last week, once we reached 13 December 1975, all his pre-election promises ceased to have any validity. [More…]
On the other hand, it could be said that the Government’s investment allowance had absolutely nothing to do with the brewery’s decision since the decision predated the election of the Government and its announcement that it was going to legislate for this allowance. [More…]
Some criticism was levelled at Mr Whitlam during the State election campaign in South Australia last year when he said that we would increase the period for payment from 5 years to 7 years. [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…]
In the Adelaide Advertiser of 2 December 1975 when we were engaged in an election campaign there was an article headed ‘Liberal Pledge on Wine Tax Relief. [More…]
As my colleague Senator Walsh pointed out in his remarks tonight, many of the promises which were made by the present Government during the election campaign have been dishonoured. [More…]
I am sure that in the Riverland district of South Australia with which I am very conversant the people at their next opportunity to go to the polls might force the election to go to a distribution of preferences as happened several years ago when the wine tax was imposed. [More…]
The present Government has made no effort to restore that section despite promises which were made during the election campaign. [More…]
The present Government has now given wine makers a longer period in which to pay but it has not fulfilled its election promise - [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 Pty 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 Parry Government was not returned to office because the coalition parties were making promises relating to section 3 1A. [More…]
Was this stated as Australian Labor Party policy before the New South Wales election? [More…]
Is not such a proposal a device to avoid coming to terms with the Federal Government’s new federalism policy, against which Mr Wran conducted such a virulent campaign prior to the New South Wales election? [More…]
We were then stuck with the previous Government’s policy from then until the election. [More…]
The Government’s intentions to provide for secret postal ballots was one of the issues most commonly discussed during the election campaign. [More…]
The Government had proposed that all elections for officers should be conducted by the Australian Electoral Office, with the cost of the election being paid for by the Government. [More…]
As honourable senators will know, it is already the practice to provide for officially conducted elections at Government expense- provisions which, I might add, the unions indicated, when they saw the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations on 5 May, had their support. [More…]
During the Minister’s 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 by 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 Commonwealth Electoral Officer at Government expense. [More…]
As things stand, as a result of amendments introduced in 1973, organisations which provide for collegiate voting are required to move to direct election for full time officers by mid November. [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…]
Senator McLaren suggested that the Government had broken election promises to wine makers. [More…]
As the Treasurer said in a second reading speech, the Government promised during the election campaign to review the taxation arrangements that applied to wine and brandy stocks. [More…]
Of course, it is consistent with comments made by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) after the election which implied that statements and promises made during the election campaign were not necessarily binding on the Government after the election. [More…]
The Medibank program has other disadvantages, and we alluded to them before the last federal election. [More…]
During the recent federal election campaign we made it clear that our first commitment was to fighting inflation and to righting the economic ills which afflicted this country as a result of 3 years of socialist irresponsibility. [More…]
We made it clear before the election that in order to win the fight against inflation we would need to cut government expenditure in all sectors except education. [More…]
In the pamphlet which summarises our election pledges again we said: [More…]
The Government would not have been game to go to the people in that election and say that it was going to do away with Medibank, that it was going to threaten Medibank in any way. [More…]
So, for the purposes of the election, it said: ‘We will maintain Medibank and the standard of health care will be maintained’. [More…]
In conclusion, I urge the Government to stick to its election promise. [More…]
As I said earlier, this is a blatant breaking of the Government’s election manifesto and these are temporary arrangements to last until September. [More…]
We on this side of the chamber oppose those Bills because they constitute a violation of the major election promise of the Liberal-National Country Party coalition. [More…]
Medibank as a national health insurance system is working remarkably well; so well that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the coalition parties included it in their election platform. [More…]
I only hope that the Tasmanian people realise that an election is imminent and that this is the reason the Minister for Health in that State is coming out with these exaggerated comments. [More…]
I wish to mention briefly now some aspects of what happened in the course of the 1975 election campaign and what the present Government said it would do with relation to Medibank. [More…]
On 28 November, before the election campaign concluded, on This Day Tonight, Richard Carleton asked Mr Fraser: [More…]
In making it plain, he probably ensured that he did not enter the Ministry after the election in December. [More…]
There is nothing about the legislation which is not completely in line with what the Government said before the election and has said since. [More…]
Time and again during the last election campaign the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and other Government spokesmen on welfare gave assurance after assurance, when challenged, that Medibank would remain, that it would not be disturbed and that most certainly it would not be dismantled. [More…]
I used to think Lloyd George was the prince in this field because he contested and won an election in Great Britain with the slogan ‘Hang the Kaiser’. [More…]
Mr Chipp let the cat out of the bag in the last election campaign when he disclosed the Government’s intentions regarding Medibank. [More…]
Although the level of child endowment was increased, it was not until 1950, when Mr Menzies was again Prime Minister and in order to honour an election pledge, that any endowment was introduced in respect of the first child. [More…]
I would hope that whilst we were in opposition, during the election campaign, and since we have been in government, overseas investors would have been quite aware of our policies on foreign investment in Australia. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Social Security: Seeing the community at large is still this morning being told that the Government has broken an election promise and is disbanding Medibank, could she inform the chamber of the Prime Minister’s promise during the time of the general election that Medibank would be looked at and that minor changes would take place? [More…]
We could see it on May Day in the big cities in the processions, if there isn’t enough hammer and sickles and red flags flying around the streets, as we’ve seen it during election time to put a fire under people and to make them realise that they’ve got to choose people who are prepared to be alert to these things and be positive, be active, be interested. [More…]
The only place at which one finds reference in the legislation to ‘an office in or an office within’ is in clauses 12 and 13, which provide that the office holder must come up for election after 4 years. [More…]
So proposed section 4(4) refers only to those who must come up for election and not to those who must be elected by postal ballot. [More…]
The Government is compelling that person to retire from his position every 4 years and to stand for re-election. [More…]
In spite of an election promise that wage indexation would be supported by the Government, which was made by Mr Fraser in December last year, a quite open attack has been made on the principles of full wage indexation. [More…]
If people do not want to petition for a ballot one must assume in a democratic society thai they do not want to do so for the very valid reason that they are content with the union officials they have or with the candidates Ibr an election; that they are content with the present system. [More…]
I refer to the fact that trade union officials constantly have the knowledge that they have to face an election in a prescribed period of time. [More…]
This Bill contains a provision that secret ballot elections may be conducted within the structure ofthe union, and I believe that that is a sensible and important provision. [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…]
It will entail the election of one more judge to the panel and will create the proper status of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. [More…]
The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, during events leading up to last year’s election, continually criticised the Labor Government for its economic policies. [More…]
Contrary to the promises made by Mr Fraser during the election campaign, at the first hearing before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission on wage indexation he reneged on his election promise. [More…]
I believe that this Government will try to put the blame on the trade union movement if it fails-there are ominous signs that this will be the case- to fulfil its election promises to contain inflation and to reduce unemployment. [More…]
It will try to put the blame on the trade union movement for strikes and election ballots that do not please the Government; ballots in which the wrong officials are elected or officials are elected who place too much importance on conditions and the welfare of the members of the union. [More…]
It is being passed through the Parliament for a purpose, namely, so that at a later stage the Government may have it proclaimed if it finds that the measures it has introduced- slashing expenditure here and there and at the same time giving huge handouts to primary industry by way ofthe superphosphate bounty only because it was an election promiseare not effective. [More…]
However, the Government does not worry about the election promise it made to support full wage indexation. [More…]
As I have stated previously, Mr Fraser very quickly reneged on that promise which he made during the election campaign. [More…]
For the purposes of section 170 ofthe Act, the number of members of an organisation or branch by whom a request under that section for the conduct of an election for an office in the organisation or the branch, as the case may be, may be made is two hundred and fifty, or one-twentieth of the total number of members of the organisation or the branch, as the case may be, whichever is the less. [More…]
1 4 per cent of the total membership- requesting that the elections for officers of the union not be conducted under the terms of the rules of the union but be conducted under the terms of this Act. [More…]
I venture to say that, whether that election be for the officers of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union or any other union officials who are giving a service to the members, the result of the election would remain exactly the same. [More…]
I am not concerned with whether only 2 per cent or 95 per cent ofthe membership of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union voted at an election. [More…]
I venture to say that, irrespective of how the ballot was conducted, whether it be under union rules or under the control of the Registrar, the result of the election would be the same. [More…]
When one considers the tremendous costs involved in union elections, it seems to me to be quite incomprehensible that the unions should be disagreeing with our proposal. [More…]
I am led to believe that if the AMWU were to run an election and pay for the election itself it would cost approximately $ 1 50,000. [More…]
In regard to the collegiate system I make the general observation that it seems to me only reasonable that in order properly to obtain democracy in unions there should be only one tier between the individual member of a union and the final election to Federal leadership. [More…]
I refer to secret ballots for the election of office bearers. [More…]
I remind the Senate also that a continuous series of public opinion polls taken authoritatively has shown that a vast majority of the public and trade unionists believe that the secret ballot system properly conducted for the election of office bearers should be introduced. [More…]
The simple fact of the matter is that what the Government is seeking to do is to provide what must be regarded as essential in a democratic community, namely, an opportunity for full participation by members of trade unions in what is a vital function- the election of their office bearers. [More…]
1 have heard nobody say that a secret ballot, properly conducted, for the election of office bearers is other than a good thing. [More…]
I direct to the Minister representing the Attorney-General a question relating to the fact that the Commonwealth Police are still interviewing independent candidates in the Australian Capital Territory for the last Senate election, with the exception of Mr Michael Cavanough. [More…]
The Commonwealth Police have interviewed certain persons who stood in the Australian Capital Territory as independent candidates for election to the Senate at the 1 975 election. [More…]
The statements so made suggested possible breaches of the electoral law in relation to the election of senators for the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Did the Government make election promises to increase the number of people involved in Aboriginal affairs, and increase job opportunities for Aboriginals throughout Australia; if so, how are these promises being implemented. [More…]
Honourable senators 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 Labor Government, in its short 3 years, sprinkled with 3 election campaigns did not sit back. [More…]
The Corporation was being prepared, as honourable senators well know, to undertake this work before the 1972 election. [More…]
If we had won the 1972 election, the Wool Corporation would have been introduced by our government. [More…]
To achieve that end, the election of a government which was politically opposed to the National Country Party was required. [More…]
The scandal and outrage that the Opposition and the Australian people feel about the highhanded activities of the Government will be expressed over the next 3 years and most forcefully and finally in December 1978, or before then if an election is held before that date. [More…]
1 ) Is an election for the 41 members of the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee due to be held in September 1976. [More…]
What preparations have so far been made for the election, and what has been the total cost incurred. [More…]
Is there any move to postpone the election because of the inquiry currently being held into the future of the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee. [More…]
-The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: ( 1 ), (2) and (3) The Committee of Inquiry into the role of the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee will consider, inter alia, the method of selection or election of members of the NACC; the Committee of Inquiry is due to make its recommendations to me before 31 August and the Government will decide whether further elections will be held after it considers these recommendations. [More…]
No arrangements have therefore been made to hold an election, as previously proposed, in September 1976 and no costs have been incurred in respect of such an election. [More…]
In 1949- in that vital election for Australia’s future- Casey returned to active politics as the representative for the seat of La Trobe. [More…]
In 2 tasks he undertook following the 1 949 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 he continued his involvement with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial [More…]
In 1969 his knowledge of the Parliament was respected by his election as Chairman of Committees and Deputy President of the Senate. [More…]
Senator Aylett was elected to the Senate for Tasmania at the general election in 1937, taking his place here on 1 July 1938. [More…]
Although we are not debating the Budget this afternoon- we reserve that for next week- it is necessary that we consider the immediate problems which confront this country at the present time as a result of policies introduced over the past 8 months by the present Government, despite undertakings which were given last year before the election. [More…]
We all remember that during the course of the last Federal election one of the cries of the Liberal and National Country Parties- to their eternal shame- was to get the dole bludgers back to work. [More…]
During the election campaign in 1975 from 1 1 November to 13 December, the caretaker Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, said that the economy would be maintained by spending on social security and that social security services, in particular, would be maintained. [More…]
And they will face a reduction in their unemployment benefit in real terms as a result of the decision not to adjust the benefit in line with consumer price movements as was promised at the election. [More…]
In fact last year in the course of the general election campaign he sounded much more like a used car salesman. [More…]
First of all, I quote from the Melbourne Age of 29 November 1975, some 12 or 13 days before the general election, which reported him as follows: [More…]
I just observe in passing that that was typical of the behaviour of that newspaper throughout that entire election campaign, throughout the 4 months that preceded it and indeed throughout the 8 months that have succeeded it. [More…]
We were told by the present Government when it was in Opposition that the election of a Liberal government would ensure that the problem of unemployment would begin to be solved. [More…]
I think my colleague, Senator Button, quoted the Prime Minister as having said that within 6 months the problem would be overcome; all that was needed was the election of a Liberal government. [More…]
This policy incidentally was one endorsed by Mr Malcolm Fraser in the last election campaign. [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…]
The fact of the matter is that the Government in the election campaign- I remind the honourable senator of the result of that campaign and of the attitude which was taken to our policies- made it perfectly clear that we regarded trade practices legislation as in need of review. [More…]
Shortly after the election of the present Government the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Howard) set up a committee to conduct a general review of the trade practices legislation. [More…]
The activities of the review committee have been perfectly well known since the election. [More…]
It was one of our election promises to set up that committee. [More…]
In the election campaign of 1975 the coalition parties’ policy contained repeated references to the importance of such a concept. [More…]
Government concerning the Albury-Wodonga twin city development scheme indicate its intention to repudiate the original support it gave to the enabling legislation, to repudiate the Prime Minister’s election undertaking of continued support and to repudiate the solemn, legally binding agreement between the Australian, New South Wales and Victorian governments? [More…]
No longer can this Government hide behind the phoney rhetoric and propaganda of the last election. [More…]
I chaired an all-day meeting of the Economic and Trade Committee of my federal parliamentary Party after the 1974 election, at which we discussed the strategy that was to be worked out in respect of the Budget. [More…]
No less than $33m has been cut from last year’s expenditure, notwithstanding the Government’s express pre-election promise to the contrary. [More…]
It is particularly painful to analyse Mr Anthony’s pre-election rhetoric if the complete disregard and contempt in which he must now hold his audience is considered. [More…]
These are things which Mr Anthony promised in his election speech in November last year. [More…]
This was made perfectly clear by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) during the election campaign. [More…]
Each of us from South Australia accepted an obligation when we stood for election to support our State. [More…]
Much play was made of that by the Labor Party at the 1972 election. [More…]
The then Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, in his election policy speech in November 1975- remember, he became Prime Minister on 1 1 November in the caretaker government- assured the people of Australia that a consumer led recovery would be short lived. [More…]
On 27 November, during the course of the election campaign, Mr Fraser had this to say: [More…]
I have been talking to a few of them recently and they say that they have not noticed any particular change in the rainfall patterns or any particular change in the situation of rural industry as a result of the election of this Government. [More…]
We can talk about the rugged society as Malcolm Fraser did in the general election campaign. [More…]
That was said during the election campaign. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister assisting the Prime Minister in Federal Affairs, relates to promises made during the recent election campaign in New South Wales in relation to imposts by way of taxes upon the people of New South Wales. [More…]
I ask: Did Mr Wran, in election campaign speeches on the new federalism, give to the people of New South Wales any undertaking that municipal and shire rates would not be increased in New South Wales if he became Premier? [More…]
I said last night in the course of the Budget debate that on 13 December last- the election day- many people in the country thought everything would suddenly become right. [More…]
Cosmetic adjustments have been made to the figures in order to appease the Liberal Party’s deficit demonology and the Prime Minister’s pre-election, preKeynesian pontifications about paying back deficits. [More…]
The investment led recovery which, according to the policy speech of the present Prime Minister and the pre-election policies of the Liberal Party, was the only way to secure an economic recovery, has now been dropped as an economic measure from the Fraser-Lynch rhetoric. [More…]
During the general election campaign the Prime Minister was saying that we had overspent by $6 billion and that it was just like a household that has overspent- if one overspends one has to pay the money back. [More…]
I have indicated that the Government’s first priority- a priority it undertook when it sought office at the election in December 1975- is to come to grips with, to steady and finally to reduce inflation in this land. [More…]
The American was asked, among a number of questions, what he thought would happen if the presidential election in his country saw a move from Republican dominance to Democratic dominance. [More…]
He reported to the Prime Minister that the farmers were against the Government and would vote against the Government if an election were held today. [More…]
The shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, before the previous election, assured Aborigines that there would be no reduction in their appropriations if they returned a Liberal Government. [More…]
The most recent election indicated how much support the Labor Party received from country areas. [More…]
It has been proved in the last election and in many other ways that the Government’s objective of creating a situation where rural producers can help themselves is the right one. [More…]
The Government is mindful of its election undertakings in this area. [More…]
When the ballot box has proved to be a futility, as it did late in I97S, and when a political party seizes power by violating conventions and by lies and misrepresentations, and when it arrogantly and blatantly breaks its election promises, which is what the Liberal and Country parties did in respect of Medibank, the majority of the Australian people, particularly the working class people in Australia, have every right to use the methods of passive resistance - [More…]
Is this yet another example of efficient government, which was the main promise made by the present Government during its election campaign? [More…]
Thinking back to those wonderful little housekeeping homilies that we were treated to during the election campaign, I wonder whether the planners and the Government realise that a stitch in time does save nine and that there is a false economy in their policies. [More…]
We on the Government side made it perfectly clear during the election campaign last December that we would be doing things in a responsible way, not looking to be a popular Government but looking to be a responsible Government because we would be acting in the national interest. [More…]
I think we also know that Mr Dunstan is warming up for a State election. [More…]
Hence at this stage there is very little on which the Premier can hang his hat for an election. [More…]
The promise at the election was that we would introduce tax indexation. [More…]
During the December 1975, election we believed that the Prime Minister was referring to the original form of Medibank. [More…]
In fact, the statement is nothing more than a rather cynical rationalisation of the failure of the Government’s economic policies, an attempt to excuse broken election promises and, ultimately, an exercise in self-delusion about an industrial relations policy. [More…]
More particularly, how can a trade union official say that to his members in the context of the Government’s promises made at the time of the last election or in the context of a government which, in Opposition in 1973, opposed a referendum to give power over prices and incomes to the Australian Parliament? [More…]
Mr Fraser, in his election speech in November 1 975 said: [More…]
Later, in the course of the election campaign, he said: [More…]
That is what he was saying right throughout the election campaign. [More…]
These steps have been taken by the Government which is now pleased to announce a wages policy 9 months after its election in the context of a severe recession which is continuing; in the context of company profits which are well above the inflationary rate in respect of 83 per cent of companies which have published figures to date; in an economy which is described by Senator Durack in the statement as precarious- and one might well ask whose responsibility is that in the context of the promises which have been made; and in the context of a declining level of unemployment. [More…]
During the 1975 election campaign we heard how they would cure all these ills and how they would rapidly restore the nation’s economy. [More…]
Twice in 3 years they forced us to an election because of the brutality of numbers that they were able to exercise in this chamber. [More…]
In the 1975 election campaign the Government said that it would not reduce expenditure in socially important areas. [More…]
During the 1 975 election campaign Mr Chipp who was then the shadow Minister for Social Securitythat was the last time he was shadowed- stated that Medibank should be disbanded. [More…]
When I was there it was explained to me what was happening in Portugal today and as a member of the Australian Labor Party I am proud to say that the assistance, both moral and financial, given by the Australian Labor Party helped in some small way towards the victories which the Portuguese Socialist Party achieved in the election recently. [More…]
Without the effective performance of the Portuguese socialist party under Dr Soares, both electorally and in government since the election, Portugal would long ago have fallen to the forces of dictatorship. [More…]
This is breaking the election promise that was made by the Liberal and Country Parties in 1975. [More…]
That Government, during the 1970 election campaign, said: ‘We will build 2 dams following the Stott line’. [More…]
That decision was announced prior to that election for political purposes and to achieve political advantage. [More…]
If the Government is fair dinkum about unemployment it should remember the election policies of Mr Street. [More…]
This Budget marks a very significant departure not only from the policies which were pursued by the Labor Government during its less than 3 years of office but also, in emphasis, the policies that were followed, however inadequately, for 23 years by the Liberal-Country Party Government which preceded the election of Labor in 1972. [More…]
The health services for Aborigines have been allocated Sim less than in 1975-76 despite the fact that the present Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott), when he was the Opposition spokesman on Aboriginal Affairs, promised before the last general election that there would be no cut whatsoever in the moneys to be made available for Aboriginal services. [More…]
Probably most importantly of all in that field, again despite promises that were made before the last general election by the people who now constitute the Government, Medibank which was accepted by the people, which was voted for on 2 occasions in Federal elections and which was introduced as a result of a joint sitting of both Houses of this Parliament, has been so mutilated as to be unrecognisable. [More…]
As the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, said in his election speech in the Northern Territory last December, perhaps Statehood will be achieved in 5 years. [More…]
He served in that Parliament until October 1949 when he resigned from that House to contest the Federal seat of Blaxland which he won at the 1949 genera] election. [More…]
in reply- Perhaps it is useful to remind ourselves once again that the people of Australia had an election last year and voted the then Government out of office. [More…]
That has been said by people such as myself on many occasionsbefore the election, during the election campaign and after the election. [More…]
Nothing was said during the subsequent election campaign to the effect that a Liberal-National Country Party government would impose a levy. [More…]
This is one of the areas in which the Government misled the people during the election campaign. [More…]
We all know about that famous telegram that was sent during the election campaign by Mr Ellicott, who was then the Shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, to all the Aboriginal communities in Australia pointing out to them that if a Liberal-National Country Party government was elected there would be no reduction, not even by one cent, of expenditure on Aboriginal affairs. [More…]
No doubt those recommendations are causing Senator Bonner very great concern because he now realises that this Government- through its then shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Ellicott- during the election campaign promised the Aborigines that it would not cut by one cent the appropriation by the Labor Government. [More…]
Those were the statements and the promises given by this Government during the election campaign. [More…]
He was in the gallery and I said to him: ‘How is your campaign going for the next election?’ [More…]
He said: ‘I wish the election was on Saturday because I would have a majority of 5000 votes’. [More…]
Senator Webster says that it is bad luck that we cannot have an election very soon. [More…]
They do not have any solutions yet they endeavoured to convince- and did convince -the people during the election campaign last year that they had all the solutions. [More…]
As I said earlier, the people have woken up to the fact that this Government does not have the solutions and when they get the opportunity in another 2 years time- it could be less than 2 years because a half Senate election is coming up- they will be able to point out to this Government that they were misled during the last election campaign. [More…]
The Federal Government is going to pass the buck so that when Mr Fraser has to face the electors for the half-Senate election he will be able to say: ‘Look, you cannot blame me; that is the States’ problem. [More…]
It reminds me that many years ago when Mr Playford, who was then the Premier of South Australia used to promise every election time that right down the coast and around to Ceduna he would construct deep-sea ports. [More…]
He did this until one wag interjected at an election meeting and said to him: ‘Are you going to construct a port at Karoonda?’ [More…]
I shall leave it until then because we will be on the air and people will be interested to hear Senator Young’s remarks to the effect that unemployment is much higher at the present time than it was when the previous general election was held. [More…]
Ever since the election of the Fraser Government a series of direct and indirect statements and accusations has been made by Ministers in this chamber as well as in the other place fixing on Aboriginal communities the blame for the wastage in Government expenditure. [More…]
Prior to our election in 1 972 the Commission was literally starved for funds for development purposes. [More…]
I find it incongruous, to say the least, to hear this from a member of the Liberal Party, particularly a senator from Queensland, the State Parliament of which, we will remember, was recalled the week before a federal election so that the Premier could make entirely unsubstantiated allegations about the honesty of Cabinet Ministers in the former Labor Government. [More…]
I find it incongruous, to say the least, to hear this from people whose present Treasurer, just before the previous general election, accused the former Labor Party Treasurer of stealing files and had this allegation published by courtesy of the Murdoch Press. [More…]
It was also noticeable during the election campaigns that took place in the days of Sir Frank Packer that the conservative parties always got the advance bookings for election advertising. [More…]
What I say to them- I believe that what I am saying to them is quite correct- is that the present Government has set out to destroy Medibank, despite the assurances given by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) during the election campaign, that he would not interfere with Medibank. [More…]
It promised Statehood to the Northern Territory during the election campaign but it has been exceedingly quiet about that matter since. [More…]
It shows that people in the primary producing industry are upset and disgusted that this Government has failed to honour the many promises it made during the election campaign. [More…]
This has all happened without an election. [More…]
The Australian has the headline ‘Drink can hits PM in violent election rally’. [More…]
The Daily Telegraph has the headline ‘Election mob punches and pelts PM ‘. [More…]
I think we also know that Mr Dunstan is warming up for a State election. [More…]
I understand that after the election honourable senators and members of the House of Representatives were asked to supply biographical notes and photographs. [More…]
Honourable senators will be aware that prior to the election the Government parties undertook to abolish the Prices Justification Tribunal and to use the machinery of the trade practices legislation to promote fair prices. [More…]
Subsequent to the election the Government received representations from trade unions and other sections of the community to retain the Tribunal. [More…]
In the light of these representations the Government undertook to review its pre-election undertaking and to have consultation with interested parties. [More…]
During the election campaign I had occasion to phone him after he had put out a Press release. [More…]
During the election campaign Senator Withers put out a Press statement- I shall quote from it before I finish my speech- aimed at winning the support of many people in the far northern areas. [More…]
During the election campaign I got some information from Leigh Creek. [More…]
Yet we find that on 20 September he put out another Press statement only reiterating what Senator Withers had put out in a Press statement in December of last year during the election campaign and what the two Liberal members of Parliament referred to by Mr Dunstan had said in June. [More…]
Mr Dunstan visited that area well recognising that it displayed a tremendous interest in returning a Liberal and National Country Party government at the last election, well recognising that the Liberal and Country Party vote in Leigh Creek was better than the Labor Party vote and recognising that the reputation of members of the Labor Party in that area was at an all-time low ebb. [More…]
In fact, in the electorate of Grey a swing of less than .6 per cent on the last election figures is all that is required for the Liberal-National Country Party to regain that seat. [More…]
I recall that in October 1972- well before the election period and in fact before the election date was known- the Hon. [More…]
I do not think that this is a matter of one-upmanship but one does react very strongly when colleagues of one’s Party in South Australia and oneself happen to be discredited by the Premier of South Australia for purely political purposes and obviously in fear of his life that he is going to lose the next election, which is a very strong possibility. [More…]
Although it is not my intention to answer Senator Jessop, I feel I must say something in view of his confident forecast that the Liberal Party will win the House of Representatives seat of Grey at the next Federal election. [More…]
It seems to me that Senator Jessop, as the person who lost the seat of Grey for the Liberal Party, ought to put his money where his mouth is if he is so confident, resign from the Senate, and contest the seat at the next general election. [More…]
In February, on the eve of the election campaign - [More…]
That was the 1965 general election campaign- [More…]
The slate government plans to spring the biggest shock of its 23 years reign in its state election policy to be announced soon. [More…]
These Bills are a further step by the present Government in the dismantling of Medibank which was set up by the previous Government and which the present Government in its election policy announcements before 13 December last promised to maintain. [More…]
The name of Medibank may well remain but there will be a return- this is one stage in that return- to the concept of health insurance which we had before the election of the former Labor Government. [More…]
The present Government, in its election campaign last November, said that it accepted that Medibank was a fact. [More…]
Such is the Government’s haste to placate the private health funds which assisted it so much with finance and other help during the election campaign. [More…]
It is nice to know that some people on the other side never change and that some of them occasionally are willing to criticise their leaders for not supporting those who supported them so financially and with such great manpower during the last election campaign. [More…]
We should not be witnessing it at the moment because the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made a promise during the election campaign that Medibank would be continued. [More…]
Of course, legislation would not have been prepared for this scheme and it would not have been passed by the Parliament had it not been for the double dissolution that followed our original election in 1 972. [More…]
The brief statement made in Mr Fraser’s policy speech was amplified during the course of the election campaign. [More…]
After all, Mr Fraser during the election campaign, said that everyone would have the opportunity to express his views in relation to it after public statements had been made. [More…]
I am sure that his constituents during the campaign for the next election for the House of Representatives will ask him why he said that he could not care what happens to Medibank. [More…]
They had one and they will demand another one at the next election. [More…]
but it has been forced by its election pledge to maintain a semblance of the scheme, while committing the country to an ever more complex and grossly expensive system. [More…]
They will demand one at the next general election. [More…]
After the next general election, when there is a different government, they will be provided with such a system. [More…]
Currently the PSRO issue is quite a hot little number in the United States presidential election. [More…]
Of course the Government has honoured its election promises and retained the fundamental principle that was set out by the Labor Party and compaigned upon in several elections; that is the universality principle. [More…]
It is worth while, I think, to review the history of the present Government’s attitude to Medibank both before and after the election. [More…]
In the election the Government gave a commitment that Medibank would be maintained and improved. [More…]
After making some preliminary comments about the fact that the Government had promised to maintain Medibank during the election campaign, the editorial in the Australian Financial Review stated: [More…]
All that this Government is maintaining, in contradiction of the assurance given by the Prime Minister even after the general election, is the use of the term ‘Medibank’. [More…]
The point I was making, Mr President, was simply that the failure of the Government to honour the undertakings given to the electors before the general election with respect to Medibank is consistent with its entire actions since it has come to power. [More…]
The overall effect of the Government’s amendments to the Medibank legislation is an undermining of Medibank to the point where it is fair and accurate to say that this Government has broken its election promise to maintain Medibank. [More…]
An election is the only way to give them the opportunity. [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…]
The only way that an Opposition could properly bring on an election on the sort of grounds of responsibility that I’ve mentioned, is not by meddling around and throwing out bits of Bills or bits of other Bills: it’s by forcing the Government to go to the country and the only way you can do that is by cutting off its monetary supply’. [More…]
Sir Owen Dixon: “… if a difficulty arises between the executive government and the Parliament it shall be resolved in an appeal to the people, and we place on the representative of the Sovereign the responsibility of saying whether the case is one for the dissolution of Parliament and a general election. [More…]
Deakin (Debates, 30 March 1897, p. 295) said that if Government’s money bills are vetoed by the Senate there should be an election: [More…]
In March 1 975 in relation to supply for Medibank, he is reported as saying: ‘If there is again a refusal of a supply bill there will certainly be an election but we see some marvellous issues, to fight on, not the least Medibank’ … ‘I don’t seek a double dissolution. [More…]
You have previously told me that you would never resign or advise an election of the House of Representatives or a double dissolution . [More…]
Believing that the Constitution appeared to give the Senate this power (even though you might have thought its actions wrong), knowing that a half-Senate election would in all probability not solve the problem, knowing that you were after all choosing a course which in the circumstances and the Constitution permitted of sending the whole Parliament to the people and confronted with a choice- would you have thought it unreasonable to take this course?’ [More…]
From memory, I think we actually had it in our policy speech in the 1969 election. [More…]
Before the suspension of the sitting I was reminding the Senate of the promise that the Prime Minister made during his election speech on 27 November. [More…]
I was pointing out also the extent of the exposure and public scrutiny which our health insurance program received prior to the introduction of the legislation which brought about what is now known and what has been known for over 12 months as Medibank, It was subjected to Vh years of public debate and at least 3 elections- those in 1972, 1974 and 1975. [More…]
From memory, it may even have been part of our 1969 election policy. [More…]
Undertakings were given by the Government during the course of the election campaign that it would ensure that the income of pensioners would at all times be commensurate with the movement in the cost of living. [More…]
He ran for cover before the last election so that he would not be asked his views on this aspect. [More…]
A carefully orchestrated campaign during and after the latest Federal election has harped on cruel cutbacks to social services the Fraser Government allegedly planned. [More…]
When Mr Fraser was conducting his election campaign last year he said, as we all well know now: ‘We will maintain Medibank’. [More…]
We did riot believe that Medibank would be changed, because Mr Fraser had given an undertaking when, during the course of the election campaign, he said that Medibank: . [More…]
We will discontinue the levy after the next election. [More…]
Does the Government mean that between July 1977 and the time of the general election in 1978 inflation is going to increase by 33 per cent? [More…]
Senator Colston made some comments about the fact that after the next election the Labor Party will throw all these proposals out again. [More…]
The Labor Party will not be in after the next election; it will still be out. [More…]
At the present time the Government sees no reason why this schedule cannot be achieved within the time span suggested by the Prime Minister in his policy speech delivered prior to the election held in 1975. [More…]
I equally believe that it is a pity there is not more student participation in the election of office bearers on campus so that we get a truer reflection of the nature and attitudes of students and a greater student participation in decision making. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled, should reaffirm its election promise to the people of Australia that it would support Medibank on the universal basis upon which it was introduced by the previous Government. [More…]
When the Labor Government assumed office in 1972 no provision was made for isolated children’s grants and no provision for isolated children’s grants was made in the Budget that was passed by the previous Government before the election in December 1972. [More…]
The election on 13 December 1975 confirmed the new Government. [More…]
It is only since the election of the new Government that inflation has shown no signs of being controlled by the new economic measures used by the current Government. [More…]
When the Government starts to make repairs, even if they are running repairs, as they will be, the closer we get to an election, there will be a tremendous amount of catching up to do on the administrative side before it can even put people back into employment. [More…]
In the election campaign last year the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who was then the Leader of the Opposition, made it perfectly clear that it would take a period of time- in fact it would probably take a period of up to 3 years- to restore to a normal state the shattered economy which we had inherited from the Labor Government. [More…]
That is why this Government has maintained from the time of its election to office that there must be a proper degree of wage restraint as an absolute precondition to the solution of the twin problems and inter-related problems of inflation and unemployment. [More…]
Is that the Mr Uren who when in Western Australia just after the election said that students who were not satisfied with the ballot box result should take to the streets? [More…]
-Mr Bjelke-Petersen has the power and privilege of his own place and he misused that privilege not to do what Senator Colston did but to recall the Queensland Parliament for one day during the Federal election in order to defame people without naming them. [More…]
I should like briefly to correct that position by quoting from the policy statement on the Capital Territory issued by the Government parties prior to the last election: [More…]
Tonight in this chamber I seek a clear assurance from the Minister representing the Minister for the Capital Territory that the statement made by the Government parties during the election campaign and the assurance which I gave on 4 August still stand and that public servants who, because of constitutional change, may be involved in or transfer to the Capital Territory administration will have the same rights and terms and conditions as all other public servants under the Public Service Act. [More…]
The Opposition has a while to wait before the next election. [More…]
His record of promotion speaks for itself: Three years after entering Parliament he joined the Ministry as Minister for Health and 5 months later became Attorney-General, a post he held until the 1972 general election. [More…]
It is a peculiar sort of special relationship if the actions of the United States President in an election year are such as to demonstrate that he has little consideration of his responsibility to us in Australia and that he places our trading goodwill at the bottom of his priority list. [More…]
This Government, when in Opposition and in its caretaker capacity before the last election, quite blatantly and purposefully ignored the interests of country people. [More…]
Take a look at the rural policy of this Government at the time of the last election. [More…]
As I said in my policy speech for the last election, the preservation of the importance of the individual person in a free society is the paramount aim. [More…]
Additionally, the Tasmanian Government is going to make certain tax concessions, no doubt in an election year. [More…]
Finally, will the Minister agree that the Federal Government’s policy on federalism, as it affects the States, was very much an issue in the New South Wales election last May as a result of which the Liberal-Country Party Government of that State was defeated after it had been in office for 1 1 years? [More…]
I was asked whether federalism was raised as an issue in the New South Wales election. [More…]
It was, and there was an attempt to raise the same issue in the Victorian election campaign. [More…]
In the New South Wales election the Wran Government won narrowly. [More…]
If there were an election in New South Wales today, that Government would be defeated overwhelmingly. [More…]
During the December, 1975, election we believed that the Prime Minister was referring to the original form of Medibank. [More…]
National Country parties- a policy on which we went to the election last year and a policy which my predecessor carried out and which I certainly will carry out- to consult with the RSL on any matters concerning changes in the whole repatriation system. [More…]
He would also be aware of the fact that in 1 975 there was to be- in fact there was- an election held in New Zealand. [More…]
There has been only one election in which this policy was specifically in issue and that was the New South Wales State election in May. [More…]
As Senator Colston said earlier, already the federalism policy of this Government has been rejected by the electors of New South Wales at the only election at which the policy was specifically in issue. [More…]
I would certainly hope that in Tasmania and Western Australia the federalism policy becomes an issue in the State elections. [More…]
Let me conclude this part of my speech by saying that democracy in Queensland seems to be operating very vigorously indeed and this was particularly evident in an election held not long ago when the Labor Party was decimated. [More…]
Elections for the Queensland Parliament are held frequently as indeed they are for other State parliaments, and as I understand it common law is alive and well. [More…]
I should remind the people of Australia who are listening to this broadcast and my friends opposite that after the last State election in Queensland, even though the Labor Party was supported by the great white hope of those days, the then Prime Minister, it succeeded in winning only 1 1 seats or, as has been perhaps somewhat uncharitably suggested, a mere cricket team. [More…]
Be that as it may, I suggest that the people of Queensland at the next State election will pass judgment on this question of civil rights. [More…]
At the basis of the Lourigan dispute was a general feeling in the party that the State ALP needed a shake-up following recent dismal election performances. [More…]
There were suggestions last night that he might be offered ALP endorsement for a State seat at the next election. [More…]
We have done precisely what we undertook to do before the general election in the field of privacy. [More…]
We seek an election by the local government bodies in the States, in accordance with a method determined by the Council of Local Government Associations, of the 6 local government representatives on the Advisory Council for Inter-Government Relations. [More…]
How those States determine the method of election is a matter for them. [More…]
In my own State of South Australia the State Government has been endeavouring for a long time to have a common roll so that every person entitled to vote in a State or a Federal election is entitled to vote in local government elections. [More…]
Unless you are a ratepayer you are unable to vote in local government elections or to stand for local government except when you have a property in joint ownership- that is, a property held by the husband and wife- and there is an anomaly there. [More…]
I thought I would be included on the roll for the next election, but when I went to vote I was told: ‘No, you are not entitled to vote because you did not notify the council that you wanted to be on the roll’. [More…]
If the number of people who stand for election to local government councils in South Australia is restricted because of the difficulties outlined by Senator McLaren- I accept what he said- at this point of time it is curable entirely by the State Government of South Australia. [More…]
I said that the Government in South Australia has tried to give every person over the age of 1 8 the right to stand for election to local government or to vote for the candidate of his choice at such elections. [More…]
It was only after the election of an Australian Labor Party government that Senator Murphy, the then Leader of the Government in the Senate, altered that rule and question time went for one hour. [More…]
In May 1976 when the Premier was in Mt Larcom campaigning for the forthcoming election for Port Curtis he extended an invitation for a deputation from the Mt Larcom Protest Group comprising the Chairman, Mr George Lucke and four delegates (of which I was one) to meet him and Mr Camm in Brisbane to discuss our problems on the 24th June 1976. [More…]
When Mr Petersen was travelling around, meeting the people, prior to the May by-election in Port Curtis, he very affably told us he felt for us and our problems. [More…]
Shortly before the May by-election, about thirty members of our Group decided not to vote in protest at the handling of our case. [More…]
Mr Petersen also made the comment, ‘We didn’t do any good in the by-election’. [More…]
At a recent by-election the politicians all put forward their versions of how we should be treated. [More…]
Roy Woodman- member ambulance committee: chairman ambulance benefit committee; president Mount Larcom show society; chairman Mout Larcom cemetery trust; secretary Cedar Vale bush fire brigade: trustee Bracewell Hall; chairman PCD election committee [More…]
It is also concerned at the blatant disregard of the Government for its election promises. [More…]
the Government’s failure 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…]
The Government made great play of this proposal in the last election campaign. [More…]
Mr Fraser repeatedly during the election campaign lauded this approach. [More…]
This was one of the most clearly spelled out intentions of the Government during the last election campaign. [More…]
The Government has been willing to go back on its clear election promise. [More…]
When the sitting was suspended, in discussing the Social Services Amendment Bill and the Repatriation Amendment Bill, I had been pointing out that the provision in the legislation for indexation of pensions to movements in the consumer price index did not fulfil the election promise made by the present Government. [More…]
We find that the election promises to make pension rises automatic have come to pass and will soon be a reality. [More…]
the Government’s failure 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…]
We were not in government for even 1 8 months when we had to face an election again. [More…]
We had to face the people at an election in May. [More…]
If what is happening now is any criterion, and I have figures with me, in the next 2 years- the government has had nearly a year in office nowthere will have to be a dramatic turnabout if it is to achieve in 3 years what it said it would achieve; and if it does not achieve it in the next 2 years we will be sitting on that side of the chamber after the next election and Government senators will be back over here. [More…]
Payment of pension increases was made retrospectively from the first pay day after the election. [More…]
The Government did so in the hope that pensioners would forget all of the wrong things that it had done and vote for that Government on election day. [More…]
On 5 October 1972, another magnificent increase of $1.75 a week was granted, as the McMahon Government came nearer to the election date. [More…]
The first part of the amendment refers to the Government’s failure 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…]
The sooner he has an election in Tasmania the better. [More…]
I suspect, from the reply just given by Senator Withers, that his visit to Tasmania with Senator Webster indicated their great concern about the prospects of the Liberal Opposition in the forthcoming State election. [More…]
I ask: What progress has been made on the Government’s proposals to seek a wage freeze for 6 months in its endeavour to produce a consumer price index figure for the next 2 quarters more in keeping with its election promise to arrest inflation? [More…]
I think that if people in the community had understood it they would have been less angry with the Labor Government than they subsequently proved to be at election time. [More…]
Prior to the election of this Government the then Leader of the Opposition- he became Leader of the Opposition by strange methods; nevertheless he was the Leader- said: [More…]
Most honourable senators can probably remember the wild, extravagant undertakings that were given by this present Government before the 1975 general election. [More…]
The farm sector of Australia was grossly misled by the pre-election propaganda of the Liberal and Country Parties. [More…]
The Government’s failure to live up to its election undertakings and its failure to deliver the goods in the agricultural sector are just small components of its overall failure to live up to its pre-election promises. [More…]
I challenge honourable senators opposite to go to the people again now just 17 months from the date of their election, in the way they forced the Whitlam Government to go to the people, to see what the result would be. [More…]
As my colleague points out, the New South Wales State election was a clear and classic example of the way the people feel. [More…]
They knew that if they supported that measure they would not return here after next half Senate election. [More…]
Let us have a look at what Mr Fraser had to say in his statement on the economy prior to the last election. [More…]
Despite all the assurances that were given in the past, at the time leading up to the last election, on how the States would be given more decision-making powers and how they would be better off under federalism- many of the State Premiers believed early this year that they would be getting a better deal- now as the truth seeps through all the State Premiers are objecting to the arrangements which the Commonwealth is forcing upon them. [More…]
This plan is nothing more than an election gimmick. [More…]
It has become increasingly obvious that what has happened is that the plans we have all known about for some time and which have been going ahead to prepare for an election on 4 December have now been taken to the stage where Mr Neilson had to find an issue, had to find something that might make him look a little bit more like a competent Premier and less the way he has appeared during his time as Premier of the State. [More…]
It is an election ploy by a desperate Government to pinch from here and to pinch from there, to put up windmills to be tilted at, with a view to being able to distract people from the real truth about Tasmania and the incompetence of the Government which has been administering it for the last 4 years. [More…]
We find it being suggested that this plan, which is merely an election gimmick in Tasmania produced to confuse and bemuse people who will not be confused by it, should be applied throughout Australia. [More…]
So the horrible story goes- a story of the last 12 months of deliberately hoarding $4.5m for an election campaign fund. [More…]
The Premier has been going around handing it out in $500, $1000 and $5000 lots to every organisation in the State that wants to hold out its hand for some money just before the election. [More…]
This money is not being spent in the best interests of the State; it is being spent in the best interests of the Labor Party’s election campaign. [More…]
It makes it very easy to look to the fact that perhaps after 4 December or after next May or whenever the State election may be held, one of the worst aspects of the unemployment problem which the new Liberal Government will have to consider will be to find some sorts of employment opportunities for a number of members of the State Labor Party who have been sitting in Parliament waiting for the Liberal Party to tell them what they can do by way of producing a Budget. [More…]
In the election campaign of December 1975 the present Government knew all about unemployment. [More…]
Mr Street, in his election campaign statements, said: ‘We have a 4-point plan. [More…]
During the election campaign there was mention of specific plans for Tasmania. [More…]
When the election campaign was on I, and other Labor people, said: ‘Let us see these plans in writing’. [More…]
We were told that they were not printed because the election had come too soon, but they were in preparation. [More…]
We have not seen a plan since the election. [More…]
The sort of slanging and the sort of personal denigration that we have had of Mr Neilson this afternoon have at least given us warning of what we can expect in an election campaign between now and next May. [More…]
It certainly embarrassed one of his candidates in the State election, a distinguished Launceston banker, who no doubt has ambitions of being Treasurer of Tasmania if the Liberal Party should ever win in Tasmania. [More…]
Senator Rae said that the State Government has made handouts to various groups just because an election was coming up. [More…]
Did he think that that was a miserable handout which was made because an election is coming up or does he think it was made because those people desperately needed assistance? [More…]
Senator Rae tried in his contribution to discredit these proposals on the ground that they were an election gimmick. [More…]
He said that it was an election ploy by a desperate government. [More…]
The attempt by the Tasmanian Government to create employment opportunities has been denigrated this afternoon by Senator Rae who accused it of tilting at windmills, using the situation as an election ploy, or an election gimmick. [More…]
He condemns it as being an election ploy and on the other hand he says that it was Liberal policy that had been pinched by Mr Neilson. [More…]
I am sure that when the Tasmanian State election is held the people of Tasmania will remember the way Government senators were under riding instructions and carried them out. [More…]
I had explained the reasons why they opposed it and the type of tactics that they had been adopting and that we can expect them to adopt during the next State election. [More…]
Less than 3 months after that election the Australian Prime Minister was not saying that a national government was responsible for unemployment but he was trying to lay the blame on the newly elected Labor Government in New South Wales which had not even met to put forward its legislative program. [More…]
When the election of 1949 took place- it was equally as climacteric as the election of December last year- we set out as a Liberal Party and Country Party coalition to raise the standard of living in Australia by increasing to the maximum the wealth that this country was capable of producing. [More…]
I realise that an election of either the House of Representatives or this chamber is not scheduled for this year so naturally there would be a reduction. [More…]
But the matter that I wish to raise tonight is the electoral provisions for election of senators and therefore the departmental costs involved as dealt with in division 133. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister Tor Administrative Services, relates to the recent election for 10 senators for New South Wales in which there was an initial count and a recount. [More…]
I do not argue about the capacity of the electoral officers; what I do argue is that the system of election to the Senate at the moment places undue and needless strain on the staff of the Australian Electoral Office. [More…]
At the last election in 1975 and previously in 1974 they were confronted with a huge task in determining which candidates would be successful in the Senate poll not only in New South Wales but also in other States. [More…]
There was the original count, that is, the preliminary count following the elections; then there was a recheck that took place over the Christmas holiday period; and, finally, as I said there was the first full recount under this system since 1948. [More…]
A document entitled Election Statistics for New South Wales was given to all honourable senators recently. [More…]
I submit again that if the votes were recounted today the totals would probably be altered because of the near impossible task given to the officials of the Australian Electoral Office in scrutinising the votes of 53 candidates in the Senate election in 1975 and, perhaps even worse, the votes for 73 candidates who stood for New South Wales in 1 974.I think it should be mentioned also that because there was a complete recount there was also a new random sample. [More…]
The book on election statistics that was given out in this place the other day showed a farcical situation in that the preferences of the Social [More…]
This meant that the donkey vote was over 25 000 in New South Wales at that last election. [More…]
A number of things have been raised about what should be done in a Senate election. [More…]
It has been suggested that the deposit required of Senate candidates should be raised to $1,000, This would eliminate some of the nonsense candidates who appeared in 1974 and in the last Senate election. [More…]
During the recent United States presidential election campaign Mr Carter seemed to indicate quite different priorities with regard to trade from those of the policy presently practised by that country. [More…]
What happens in election campaigns is that people are prone to make statements about what they are going to do and perhaps life turns out slightly differently. [More…]
This Bill fulfils the Government’s election undertaking. [More…]
But whether that is so or not, Labor fought the last election on the issue that the Senate, a State House, has no right to take action to dismiss a people ‘s elected government. [More…]
In 1973, the then Minister for Labor, 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…]
Finally, the Bill proposes that the Act be amended to delete from the definition of ‘Office’ in section 4 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 are 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…]
Is his trip to Canberra nothing but a panic measure to try to find an issue for an election that he will lose, according to my calculations, by 5 seats? [More…]
It seemed that it was being somewhat stage managed, because it is fairly obvious that already he has taken a decision to hold an early election. [More…]
By way of preface I refer to a statement made by the Assistant Commissioner of the Australia Police, Superintendent J. Davies, in respect of the letter bombs which were sent to Mr Fraser, Mr Bjelke-Petersen and Sir John Kerr during the course of the last Federal election. [More…]
I ask the Minister: As nearly a year has elapsed since these events and in view of the widely held belief at the time that the letter bombs were not intended to harm those to whom they were sent, since notoriously such personages do not open their own mail, but to harm the Labor Party, has there been any outcome of the ‘all-out law enforcement effort to find the culprit’, or was the matter quietly dropped after the election? [More…]
As I understand it, his visit is not simply because there is to be an election in Tasmania on 4 December but also arises out of other matters. [More…]
I therefore assume and hope that the Premier’s visit here arises out of the discussion between the Prime Minister and the Premier in Hobart and not simply out of some desire to have an election on 4 December next. [More…]
On 12 December 1975, which was the day before the election of the Fraser Government, Sir Brian Massy-Greene, who is chairman of the company, visited the Department of Minerals and Energy. [More…]
Perhaps it is also coincidental that the Premier of Tasmania, I understand, said that if his 24-point plan were not accepted by the Prime Minister today he would call an immediate State election in Tasmania. [More…]
It has an election to be held on Saturday, 4 December. [More…]
As I understand the position, halls are being booked, newspaper space is being booked, and all the things that normally are done before an election campaign are being done. [More…]
So everything is being orchestrated for the election to take place on that day. [More…]
The Premier of Tasmania is in Canberra today hoping that he can obtain an excuse to say: ‘I really did not want an election. [More…]
But because the Prime Minister has been so wicked to me I must go back to Tasmania and hold an election right away’. [More…]
It has been able to reduce taxes hither and thither, obviously working up to an election. [More…]
I was delighted to read in the Press the other day that during the course of the previous day the 2 opposing parties in the Tasmanian Parliament came together despite even the impending election. [More…]
So great was Mr Neilson ‘s concern that he sat on the information he had for 6 days, doing nothing but preparing to use it in an election campaign stunt. [More…]
I remind honourable senators that the first thing Senator Withers did was by implication to accuse Senator Harradine of staging this debate for the purposes of the election of the State Labor Government. [More…]
Instead of showing concern he spent half an hour rubbishing the previous Labor Government, rubbishing the State Government and carrying on as though the State election had started and the election campaign was on. [More…]
The unpalatable fact for the Government Parties, in respect of which they now seek retribution against the Australian Broadcasting Commission, is that in the 1975 election campaign it was only Australian Broadcasting Commission interviewers who asked the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) questions which should have been asked by any intelligent political interviewer anywhere in the world. [More…]
Rather than have an election in the wet and to get a proper electoral system I extended the Committee’s period of operation from the 2 years for which it was appointed for a further 9 months. [More…]
Members of the Committee were due to come up for election, I believe, in March of this year, but we find that there has been no provision to hold an election this year for the [More…]
The Department is making provision to pay their salaries and for their assistants but is not making provision to let them meet and to let them have an election. [More…]
No funds have yet been provided for an election, again pending the outcome of the inquiry and its recommendations. [More…]
If the recommendations are such that there is to be continuity of the Consultative Committee and there is to be an election for the members of it, funds can be provided in the supplementary estimates. [More…]
But the farmers at that time were so upset about this matter that in the by-election in the Port Curtis electorate they decided to ban the election. [More…]
There are people in the Queensland Parliament who hope that the scandal will never get out, because if it does some of them probably will not hold their seats at the next election. [More…]
Maybe that is only a drop in the bucket and maybe because they live in the electorate of Capricornia the Government is not going to be worried about them at the next Federal election. [More…]
Part (a)- There is no provision under Commonwealth law in respect of health benefits organisations registered under the National Health Act relating to the election of members to the boards of management. [More…]
Part (a)- There is no requirement under State law dealing with the election of members to the boards of management of registered benefits organisations. [More…]
The Hospital Benefit Fund of Western Australia Incorporated- There is no provision for election of the board of management by contributors. [More…]
I suggest that the increase in revenue is not compensated for by the hardship caused to families who, without much prior warning, and certainly with no prior warning by the coalition parties before the last general election, have to face these vast increases. [More…]
The real issues of industrial relations in Australia are not necessarily the methods of election of union officials or catering for the wishes of minority interests in trade unions. [More…]
With regard to the question of union elections, the present system of voting for office holders is by direct vote of members of the union in respect of the election of full time officials. [More…]
There are differences of opinion within the trade union movement and within employer organisations operating in the industrial field as to the desirability of alternative systems of voting for the election of officials. [More…]
It is interesting to note that in 1973 when the Labor Government introduced the legislation providing for direct election of officials, it was not voted against or opposed by the then Opposition which now finds it a subject of condemnation and necessarily requiring change in the year 1976. [More…]
All through the election campaigns which followed in 1974 and in 1975, references were made by people such as Mr Fraser and later by Mr Street to the desirability of membership control of trade unions. [More…]
It has been common knowledge in industrial relations circles in this country for a period of about 6 months that it was the Government’s intention to reintroduce as an alternative to direct election a system of collegiate elections. [More…]
It is not even clear from the legislation whether the provisions which the Government now seeks to introduce apply to the election of branch officials. [More…]
It is not clear whether the principle which the Minister enunciates applies both to elections for organisations and for branches themselves. [More…]
The important emphasis which was stressed by Government Ministers at that time was the involvement of the members of the union themselves in those elections. [More…]
It seems to us strange that at this stage in a variety of ways the members of the unions will no longer be directly involved in the election of their officials. [More…]
True, they will participate in the election of an electorate college in some circumstances and that itself is subject to qualification. [More…]
It is one of the grave difficulties which an elected officer of a trade union faces and one of the grave responsiblities which he assumes that by virtue of his office and his election he is entitled to do certain things; indeed, he is bound to do certain things. [More…]
He has been on the federal council of the Federated Clerks Union for 22 years without having had to face an election. [More…]
In that legislation it was provided that individual unions could decide for themselves the system that they would select for the election of office bearers. [More…]
It has been followed in this legislation by providing in 3 circumstances for the election of full-time office bearers, a system whereby a union can decide upon a direct vote, or through a one-tier collegiate voting system. [More…]
The final point which seems to me to be of great importance in this legislation, and which of course would lead to greater efficiency in trade union affairs, is that the definition of ‘office’ has been amended in order to provide for appointment rather than election. [More…]
I think Senator Button made the point that because such an officer would not be submitting himself to election, in some way this would detract from the rights of individuals to get their views across to him. [More…]
It is not by appointment, it is by election. [More…]
These people gain their positions by election. [More…]
In this circumstance they will come up for election at the proper time, and of course they can be removed from office. [More…]
This Government proposes to reintroduce the collegiate system for the election of officers as an alternative to the direct vote of the total membership. [More…]
The previous Labor Government’s commitment to democratic control of trade unions prompted the amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act in 1973 which have been referred to and which provided direct election of full time officials. [More…]
In fact, the relevant clause of the 1 973 legislation which provided for the direct election of union officials was agreed to by the Opposition in the [More…]
Firstly, the present Government went on a union-bashing campaign during the last election campaign. [More…]
One should look at the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, for example, and at the percentage of members who vote in that union’s elections. [More…]
The Federal President of the Organisation, John Peter Maynes, was elected to the Federal Council in approximately 1950 in an election by the Victorian Branch membership as a whole. [More…]
Although remaining at ali times qualified to nominate as a candidate for election to the position of Federal President pursuant to Rule 22 (2) (d) (ti) Mr Maynes has not been required by the existing Rules to re-submit himself as a candidate for election to the position of Federal Councillor at any time since he first assumed office as Federal President in 1954. [More…]
The Victorian Branch records were falsified to secure his election. [More…]
In fact, as Senator Button said earlier, with the 1 5 per cent proviso now Mr Carmichael will probably never have to face election again from the rank and file. [More…]
This situation was changed by a court-controlled ballot after a 31 -day court case established that falsified ballot-papers were used in a previous election. [More…]
Previously a union member who wanted a vote had to apply for a ballot-paper and prove that he could not attend the meeting where the voting was to take place, with the result that some elections for the New South Wales branch were held and decided by under 200 members, not under Electoral Office control. [More…]
The Government is protecting his privileged position, but at the same time it is entrenching the very militants whom it was attacking in its election campaign. [More…]
I feel that I should reiterate that the Government does not actually condemn the direct method of election. [More…]
It is not a question of condemning that sort of election of a trade union representative or of any other representative. [More…]
The difficult proposition is to answer that question, to find the best method by which a measure of real democracy can be called upon to result in the election of those people whom the great mass of the unionists require to lead them. [More…]
2) 1976 last evening I was drawing attention to the fact that it was immensely necessary that we establish a method of election of officers in the conciliation and arbitration system that permitted the greatest possible number of members of Australian unions at the grass roots level to take a real part in the election of those people who are to negotiate for them. [More…]
I believe that the legislation goes a significant distance in the direction of establishing in the election of trade union members and in the election of officers of other organisations and associations, a circumstance which will tend to have a reasonable measure of flexibility about it. [More…]
The amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act contained in this Bill seek to implement 2 methods, and consequently a choice, of election- direct election or election by a one-tier collegiate system. [More…]
In the case of part time officials it provides for election by direct method, by a one-tier collegiate system or by a multiple-tier collegiate system, which is the circumstance that applied prior to 1973. [More…]
The first was the provision that all ballots were to be conducted by rank and file election. [More…]
Unions which were still operating under the collegiate system were given a period of 3 years to change their rules and to provide for rank and file elections. [More…]
And of course they were aided and abetted by the media in their attempt to confuse the electorate about what went on in union elections and what the Cameron legislation provided for. [More…]
To encourage this, the Liberal-National Country Party Government would provide secret ballots under Commonwealth Electoral Office supervision for the election of officers to elected positions. [More…]
Some of Australia’s most powerful unions are now controlled by officials who have gained their positions as a result of election at which only a very small percentage of members entitled to vote did in fact cast their vote. [More…]
The Liberal and National Country Parties wholeheartedly supported these demands and would introduce legislation as soon as possible for secret ballots for the election of trade union officials. [More…]
We will be hoping to press for as early as possible the important matter in the policy speech, secret ballots for the election of officials of industrial organisations. [More…]
It is interesting that it comes up right at this time, because we are now at the end of the 3 years prescribed in the Cameron legislation of 1973, during which time all unions would have to adopt the rank and file method of election. [More…]
Because of the legislation before us they will not have to change to rank and file election. [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 fact is, however, that direct election is not, in all situations, a guarantee of proper democratic control. [More…]
How can it be that a system of election which allows every member of a union a voice is less democratic than a collegiate system which does not allow every member a direct voice in the election of union officials? [More…]
Certainly there is a kind of choice but who will exercise that choice as to whether there be a rank and file election or collegiate system election? [More…]
There is no provision in the legislation for rank and file ballots as to what kind of election that union will have subsequently. [More…]
Of course the pre- 1973 legislation, the multi-tier collegiate system, has been reintroduced for the election of part-time officers. [More…]
I submit that this constitutes a further erosion of the right of rank and file participation in the election of those who will perform the duties of officers. [More…]
Of course this is another means by which the controlling faction of any particular union can strengthen and reinforce its position without recourse to election by the rank and file membership. [More…]
Similarly the amendment introduced during the course of the debate in another place which provided that 15 per cent of the Federal college should not have to face re-election after they are once elected is another way of eroding the rights of rank and file membership. [More…]
Following that election, the collegiate or council then vote for the office bearers. [More…]
To hear honourable senators opposite say that it is undemocratic and that it is absolutely against all they stand for really amazes me because if that is true they do not agree that they themselves have a democratic system of election. [More…]
-As far as I can see, Senator Cavanagh, the rank and file person in Tasmania- I have done a lot of work on this because I was on the employment and industrial relations committee- has absolutely no idea of what the chaps are like who are standing for election in New South Wales. [More…]
The members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union are frustrated by the fact that these man have money behind them, that they have the capacity to organise their election and that they wield such tremendous power through the finances, possibly brought in- I am not saying this is definite- from overseas communist countries. [More…]
So there is an election to give that State its representative. [More…]
The amendment is to ensure that the president or the secretary or the rest of the executive at the next election who, because they have not a State behind them at that stage, so are not able to be voted for by the rank and file, are permitted to re-stand without the rank and file vote. [More…]
Things were going all right when Senator James McClelland was the Minister for Labor only for the fact- and I take issue with honourable senators on the other side-that the Senate denied Supply and forced the Government to an election. [More…]
As there is an advertisement in the Courier-Mail seeking support for the election of Jim Golledge for president, Noel Wilson for vice-president and [More…]
A senator is using the privilege of the Senate for the purpose of carrying his filthy campaign into Queensland to defeat those seeking election. [More…]
There has been a slanderous attack made against him for the purposes of defeating him in an election. [More…]
The federal president of the Union has never faced an election for some 22 years. [More…]
He could not exist if he faced an election of his rank and file membership. [More…]
If the numbers are getting close and the possibility of losing an election were close, anybody would be off to a pretty good start if he had a 15 per cent stop vote. [More…]
No candidate would lose pre-selection. [More…]
The application states that the rules of the Federated Clerks Union which currently allow for officers to be added to the elected members of the federal council for the purpose of forming an electoral college for the election of the office in fact are oppressive, unreasonable and unjust. [More…]
By a decision of the State branch of the Miscellaneous Workers Union, in 1971 and again in 1973, that union made application to the court to have the Electoral Office conduct its election. [More…]
In 1970 the National Civic Council held a meeting for the purpose of organising a team to oppose at the election the sitting officials of the union. [More…]
The results of the election showed that by devious means its candidates scored reasonably well. [More…]
The NCC decided that it would raise some money and again contest the next election in 3 years time. [More…]
That was a difficult task because the election was being controlled by the Electoral Office. [More…]
The NCC did not succeed in that election. [More…]
After the election the Commonwealth police made certain inquiries and as a result 2 men were charged with depriving members of the Miscellaneous Workers Union of their votes. [More…]
In each case the defendant visited the home of a member of his union on the day ballot papers for an election of officers of his union could be expected to be received by those members and by various subterfuges he took possession of the mail containing the ballot papers forwarded to those members by the Commonwealth Electoral Office. [More…]
The defendant was one of a team of candidates opposing the officers in the election. [More…]
His conduct not only deprived the member of his vote but was a fraudulent interference in the election. [More…]
I suggest that the action that the Government has taken already by making amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, particularly earlier in the year when we started off by introducing the requirement for a compulsory postal secret ballot for the election of union officials, is an attempt to encourage the trade union rank and file members to take an interest in their leadership and to deal with those who are not acting in their best interests. [More…]
2) 1976 relates to the method of election of officers of registered organisations. [More…]
It is my view that the Government has done a complete somersault on its promises during the campaign for election in December last year, when it made non-interference with trade union affairs part of its platform. [More…]
Yes, only because the man is standing for a democratic election in Queensland- a man trying to defend himself against the infiltration of people like Senator Harradine. [More…]
The Chief Electoral Officer in Tasmania, Mr J. R. Lennard, said yesterday the design would be changed following claims that envelopes used in the current Liquor Trades Union election had been tampered with. [More…]
We, as a legislature, as a parliament and as parties, can offer the opportunity for the union movement to regulate fairly and to react democratically in the election of its officers. [More…]
The South Australian branch of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union held an election for an organiser a couple of years ago. [More…]
When one per cent of 15 000 people vote in an election one can understand how easy it is for them to maintain those positions. [More…]
He referred to the fact that the South Australian Government is to appropriate $4m to alleviate the unemployment position in South Australia, a situation that the Federal Government has failed to improve despite its promises during the election campaign last year that it would reduce unemployment and inflation. [More…]
Where is this great democracy and rank and file participation in the election of the officials of a union that Senator Hall is talking about? [More…]
It is also strange that in 1973 not one of the then Opposition senators opposed the legislation to change the Act so that the rank and file members would have a greater say in the election of their officers. [More…]
No arguments have been advanced as to why we have to have 2 systems of voting- the collegiate system and the rank and file system- in the election of union officials. [More…]
Provided the rank and file members have a direct vote in the election of all their full-time officers to the Federal council, executive or college, we do not disagree with that body having the right to elect part-time officers. [More…]
If he has done his job in the interest of the members he has no worries about re-election. [More…]
I would have thought that Senator Steele Hall and Senator Jessop, who have criticised the trade union over disputes, stoppages and so on, would have been among the first to support legislation that sought to create harmony within the trade union movement and not to reverse the legislation which was supported unanimously by the then Senate Opposition and which changed the Act so as to give greater participation by the rank and file members in the election of the officials of their union. [More…]
The Government has made it clear for at least 6 months now that it had accepted in principle a form of collegiate voting for the election of trade union officials. [More…]
In 1973 the then Minister for Labor, Mr Clyde Cameron, brought in amendments to provide that within 3 years the elections of not only the full time officials but anybody who was then carrying out functions similar to the role of those officials, should all be elected by the direct voting system. [More…]
It is strange that the Labor senators in this debate should have attached such enormous significance to this particular method of ensuring the election of the leadership of trade unions because, as I have said, from 1904 until 1973 trade unions had been free to adopt the alternative method of collegiate voting for their leadership. [More…]
Whether it was a one-tier system or a multi-tier system, for 70-odd years that had been accepted as a perfectly democratic form of election for union leadership. [More…]
The fact is that this Bill requires that if a union adopts a one-tier collegiate system there must be a secret postal ballot for the election of members of the college. [More…]
Every office within the organisation or branch for the filling of which an election is required to be conducted within the organisation or branch and any position within the organisation or branch involving duties substantially similar to the duties of such an office; [More…]
It may not have done so completely but in 1973 it changed its rules at the federal level so that all the members throughout Australia received a ballot paper in the rank and file election for their fully paid officers. [More…]
means a method of election comprising a first stage, at which persons are elected to a number of offices by a direct voting system - [More…]
So it seems clear to me that full time officials can be elected under a collegiate type election, which is provided for in this Bill by the rank and file voting for the college and then that college electing persons by and from the people elected at the first stage. [More…]
The only qualification to that is provided for in clause 3 (d) which specifies that a number of persons not exceeding 15 per cent of the total number of members of the body- those members having had to be elected originally in the college and having been elected to a full time position such as secretary- may in future years be re-elected, even though that re-election is not by the rank and file, as members of a college. [More…]
Anyone who thought these issues had been settled by the result of the 13 December election last year should be disabused of that illusion by the publication of 2 important books this week. [More…]
Does the Minister recall the inclusion of a reference to the establishment of a rural bank in the Government’s election policy statement last year? [More…]
It seems to be a logic that is related to the fact that, having been through an election in which the centralism and federalism concepts were major problems and major elements for discussion and determination by the electorate and having witnessed the Australian electorate come down strongly, in common with most democratic societies around the world today, in favour of the federalist concept and all that it means to State and local governments, he now chooses to take a position whereby he will seek to destroy the effective implementation of legislation which can only be of benefit to the States and to local government areas in Australia. [More…]
We all well recall that throughcut the last election campaign the Fraser philosophy pledged the Government to new federalism. [More…]
Of course the window dressing for the new federalism had great appeal during the last election campaign. [More…]
It was election ballyhoo designed primarily to deceive the electors. [More…]
I do not need to remind the Senate that in 1952 Mr Menzies fought and won an election on the ballyhoo that he would put value back into the pound. [More…]
Do I need remind the Senate that Lloyd George in the United Kingdom fought and won an election on a hang the Kaiser campaign? [More…]
We know the Liberals to be the experts at ballyhoo in election campaigns. [More…]
We saw that developed to a great extent during the State election campaign in New South Wales. [More…]
This new federalism which the present Government featured so prominently before its election campaign commenced and during its election campaign has now been revealed and is recognised by every State government in Australia with the exception of my own State of Western AustraliaI will say a bit more about that later- as a confidence trick. [More…]
As Senator Scott has spoken in this debate, since the question of new federalism was a central, if not the central, issue in the New South Wales election which was held on 1 May and which much to the consternation of the Liberal Party resulted in the defeat of the then Liberal Government and the election of a Labor Government which was campaigning vigorously against the new federalism, and since I understand that Senator Scott has received a telegram from the Premier of that State asking him to vote against this Bill- given that on 1 May the people of New South Wales also voted against this legislation- it will be interesting to see how Senator Scott votes on this Bill. [More…]
From 1971 until the double dissolution of the Federal Parliament in 1974, when by law I had to resign that position to contest the Senate election, I worked in that position in the Police Department. [More…]
The Liberal and National Country Parties stated prior to the 1 975 election that the activities of the Australian Housing Corporation would be critically examined. [More…]
He asked whether the Government intends to honour its election promises in which it emphasised the need to support research into solar energy. [More…]
No one denies that that situation had a great influence on the 1 972 election. [More…]
We have legislated to require a secret postal ballot for the election of holders of offices having policy or management functions in industrial organisations. [More…]
I think it is fair to say, as Senator Withers acknowledged in his statement on this matter last Tuesday, that since the last election the Opposition has set out to co-operate with the Government in securing the passage of the Government’s legislative program. [More…]
For example, in the policy statement presented before the last election the then joint Opposition Parties said: [More…]
As I pointed out in my speech during the second reading debate, an election was held in early 1953, and in April 1954 legislation was introduced which provided for a commencement date of 1 January 1954 to make up for the delay which had occurred because of the election. [More…]
The regular increase had been delayed by an election in late 1953. [More…]
Following the election last year, the Government reviewed the rates. [More…]
The Government has a policy and a commitment from the last election which I think is well worth reading in regard to the preservation of the National Estate and other conservation measures. [More…]
That was a member of the Liberal Party stating the type of philosophy to which all honourable senators opposite ought to be dedicated if the things they said during the 1975 general election campaign were ever to have been taken at face value. [More…]
It will be recalled that the former Treasurer, the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) predicted during the last election campaign that a Liberal-National Country Party Government would devalue the dollar if confirmed in office at the election. [More…]
He might have particular reasons for so doing, because an election is just around the corner in that State and is due to be held on 1 1 December. [More…]
The Treasurer then proceeded to castigate the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) who, to quote from the Treasurer’s statement, predicted during the last election campaign that a Liberal-National Country Party Government would devalue the dollar if confirmed in office at the election’. [More…]
This is a very real manifestation of the growing recognition throughout Australia of the validity and strength of Aboriginal society- which, I might add, is clearly acknowledged in the election policy statement of the Government parties on Aboriginal affairs which recognises a special obligation ‘to provide opportunities for Aborigines to preserve their traditions, languages and customs from further encroachment and destruction where possible ‘. [More…]
Heaven’s above; the New South Wales election was held only on 1 May and it took the best part of the month before the results were announced. [More…]
Two Aborigines shall be appointed by the Director: Provided that if candidates do not offer for election, or if for any reason an election cannot be held, all members of the Council may be appointed by the Director.’ [More…]
With certain exceptions every adult Aboriginal resident of a reserve is eligible for nomination and election to a council and is qualified to vote at an election. [More…]
I want to repeat for the record a section of the Australian Labor Party’s policy statement for the 1 972 election. [More…]
Its belief in this matter Will be as fallacious as its previous beliefs that the very fact of the election of a Liberal-Country Party government would lead us out of economic recession, the belief that we were going to have an investment-led recovery, spurred on by the useless and scandalously costly investment allowances, the belief that consumer recovery was under way and the fantasy after fantasy which have been produced by the Treasurer and the Prime Minister and which, without exception, have been contradicted by the subsequent revelation of the facts. [More…]
What we do not need in particular are the sorts of loopholes deliberately reinserted into the law of Western Australia by the Court Government shortly after its election. [More…]
As the Minister for Agriculture, I can assure you that on election to Government on December 13, 1 will ensure that priority will be given to the problems of the fruit industry and strong representations will be made overseas on behalf of Australia’s apple producers. [More…]
The great goal of this election is to put Australia back on its feet. [More…]
It was a news release by Mr Nixon just prior to the last State election in New South Wales in which he said: [More…]
That is what a member of the Government of which he is a supporter said a few months ago in relation to the election in New South Wales, but the Labor Party did win office in that State. [More…]
Of course, in my opinion the people will vote ALP in the Riverland district at the next State election. [More…]
A matter of weeks after the election he came forward with an announcement. [More…]
Despite this, our trade relationships in this area have deteriorated so much that we were not even consulted when the arbitrary decision was made at the height of a big election campaign. [More…]
True, there was election fever and the decision was made for pragmatic reasons; but, if that is the way friends behave, who needs enemies? [More…]
Perhaps we could latch on to one of the catch-cries of the recent election and call on the Government to put the industry in the Territory back on its feet. [More…]
Senator Gietzelt and I had a quite amicable chat across the chamber about this when I observed that I thought part of the problem at the moment with Japan and the United States was the fact that they were involved in election situations. [More…]
He was one of the members returned at the election of 1974. [More…]
Many of those Bills should have been on the business paper earlier this year, if we are to believe the rhetoric and the propaganda upon which the Government based its campaign against the Whitlam Government in 1 975 and its subsequent election campaign of November-December last year. [More…]
During the 1975 election campaign, Liberal and National Country Party spokesmen promised repeatedly that the Community Health Program would be maintained if they were elected. [More…]
Are we not rapidly reaching the position where unless some such initiative is taken it will be impossible to hold an election in 1 977 or even in 1 978? [More…]
The priorities as well as the credibility of this Government can be judged by the Minister’s own statement before last year’s election when he was in Opposition. [More…]
I do not think anything can be said other than that Mr Sinclair and the Government have not kept their word and that this is another pre-election promise which has been broken by the Government. [More…]
The Government has not done this, in spite of its election propaganda. [More…]
During the 1974 election campaign Mr Sinclair on 8 May 1974 said: [More…]
Then again during the 1975 election campaign Mr Sinclair repeated his previous false assertion that the Labor Party would, if elected, immediately eliminate the bounty and so on. [More…]
I think Australians realised at the last election that the need was to get Australia back on its feet. [More…]
At the date of the election, December 1975, Australia’s inflation rate was over 1 7 per cent. [More…]
Before the last election, with the galloping inflation rate, with costs increasing rapidly week by week and with wages increasing, many small businesses went broke. [More…]
This is an election promise of the Liberal and National Country Parties which is now being implemented. [More…]
The facts of our economic situation as it is today, which has been brought about after 12 months of a Liberal-National Country Party coalition, are these: Unemployment has risen by 40 000 people; the deficit about which we heard so much from Mr Fraser, the Leader of the Liberal Party, during the election campaign, the deficit which had to be reduced at all costs, the deficit which for the coalition Parties was the most telling evidence of the incompetence of the Labor Government, is now at $5,000m, which is greater than it ever was under a Labor Government. [More…]
This Government said during the election campaign and has said many times since that it will not desert the needs of the elderly citizens of our community. [More…]
For example, in the election campaign of November and December of last year the Prime Minister of the caretaker Government promised that wage indexation would be preserved. [More…]
In the election campaign of November and December of last year the then Prime Minister promised his friends in the business community that the Prices Justification Tribunal would be abolished. [More…]
What is appalling about this is the adhockery of it all and the fact that it has been done to justify broken promises in relation to the election campaign of last year and that it has been done in an economic situation which has totally changed, particularly as a result of the devaluation of a week or so ago. [More…]
I point out that this legislation is just a shabby compromise based on the dishonouring of 2 promises made by the Government in its election policy statement of last year. [More…]
The Senate has before it legislation arising from an undertaking given by the present Government during the last election campaign. [More…]
This legislation is a result of undertakings given last year during the election campaign. [More…]
Can the Minister tell me whether the Prime Minister is really interested in the tourist industry, remembering the policy that he came out with at election time, then forgot about, then the Government committee was appointed and now he is apparently ursurping its position with the appointment of a select committee? [More…]
During the 1975 election campaign the famous Ellicott telegrams were distributed far and wide in this land, and a specially prepared telegram was sent out over radio telephone in the central northern areas. [More…]
Land Rights Legislation to have top priority immediately after election. [More…]
Land Rights Legislation to have top priority immediately after election. [More…]
The election of the Labor Government on 2 December saw new initiatives, new aspirations, and a new hope for Aboriginal people throughout Australia, even though they were a comparative minority in the total Australian population. [More…]
Request Government honour election promises to Aboriginal people . [More…]
On 25 February the President of the Haasts Bluff Council sent a telegram to the Prime Minister protesting against the action of the Government as a repudiation of its election policies. [More…]
I am satisfied that by this legislation we are moving to honour yet another of our election promises. [More…]
We promised before the last election that there would be legislation to provide land rights for the Aboriginal people. [More…]
-After all, we did have a double dissolution in 1974 and the Labor Party could not get the numbers in this place as a result of that election. [More…]
I now ask the Leader: Has his attention been drawn to an article in yesterday’s Australian Financial Review in which Mr Len Reason, chairman of the Masius advertising agency which devised the Liberal Party 1975 election slogan ‘Turn on the Lights’, is now claiming that because of the Government’s inability to find the correct combination of switches, and of the many shocks and short-circuits, the Government is finding great difficulty in turning on the lights? [More…]
What I did say was that the new Government, after its election on 13 December last, showed no indication of bringing on land rights legislation of any sort at any time despite the famous Ellicott promises. [More…]
What other action, if any, has the Minister taken to investigate and draft a definite program for the establishment of a National Rural Bank in line with the Government’s 1975 election promise. [More…]
Kilgariff-he talked about that great place of democracy- that he is one of those who opposed the election of senators for the Northern Territory when the Labor Government proposed it. [More…]
After he wins the seat at the forthcoming State election he will be the Labor Party’s representative in the Western Australian State Parliament. [More…]
The Government has also accepted the Royal Commission’s recommendation 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…]
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…]
Despite all the promises in the election last year and all its huffing and puffing when in Opposition, the Government now must be described as procrastinating on the dairy industry. [More…]
We knocked off in about March 1974 to fight the May 1974 double dissolution election. [More…]
I can recall that during the election campaign one of the more primitive members of the coalition- a man named Nixon, who I believe is the Minister for something or other- was sounding off about the necessity to gag the ABC during the campaign. [More…]
Nonetheless, all of the prejudices of this Government in relation to the ABC emerged during the election campaign. [More…]
It was first stated in its most direct and crudest form during the election campaign. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs aware that Mr Brian Horgan, who was until yesterday the endorsed candidate of the Liberal Party of Australia for the Legislative Assembly electorate of Balcatta in Western Australia, has announced that he no longer wishes to contest the election on behalf of the Liberal Party for a number of reasons, among them being the fact, according to him, that Liberal Party officials in Western Australia have been describing him as a pommy’ and his wife, who is of Greek descent, as a ‘ wog’ and that he has announced that he will now support the Australian Labor Party member for the electorate, Mr Brian Burke? [More…]
In the weeks immediately following the election in December 1975, several hundred million dollars of private capital flowed out of the country- mainly due to a widespread belief that the Australian exchange rate was overvalued. [More…]
It was the wish of the staff association that that election take place. [More…]
We will be able to judge in the next 1 8 months whether it is adequate, whether it will provide a panacea, or whether the election of a staff representative is still desirable. [More…]
If he did, he would not make the wild promises he has made at election times and repeat ad nauseum some of the statements he makes about beef contracts, nor would he deliver a second reading speech on the apple and pear industry without giving some indication of the matters of concern to the industry and a solution to the problems facing the industry. [More…]
Even though a State election is to be held in Tasmania tomorrow, I repeat that I am pleased that, at least till now, the contributions made in the debate have been devoid of politicking for the State election tomorrow. [More…]
It was an election promise to establish a reconstruction scheme for the fishing industry similar to the present rural reconstruction scheme. [More…]
Did the Prime Minister, in his policy speech for the 1975 Federal election, undertake on behalf of his Government to form a Productivity Council in Australia. [More…]
I refer to the Government’s proposal to establish a so-called industrial relations bureau and I ask: Will the functions of the proposed bureau be consistent with the functions suggested for it in the Liberal Party’s policy announced during the last election campaign? [More…]
As the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations pointed out, that policy received extensive publicity during the election campaign and there is a clear mandate for the establishment of the bureau. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite are trying to beat something up because the Leader of the Opposition in Western Australia is so hopeless that he has to rely on people such as Senator Walsh to try to promote his election campaign. [More…]
In my State of Western Australia where we have a State election coming up we face a real choice between the prospect of continuing enterprise, continuing expansion, and stultification. [More…]
I believe that the election next Saturday therefore has a national significance, not only for those who are interested in development as development but also for all those who want to see better education, better social security, better health and better welfare. [More…]
It was then that the initial ground seemed to be lost, and an antagonism developed after the election of the Court Government. [More…]
This urgency motion has been put before the chamber 3 days before a most important election for the people of Western Australia. [More…]
It has been brought on purely and simply as a ploy to get the Premier of Western Australia off the hook because there will be an election next Saturday. [More…]
Mr Acting Deputy President, what we are witnessing this afternoon is a subterfuge designed by the Liberal Party to try to get Sir Charles Court off the hook in the Western Australian State elections to be held next Saturday. [More…]
This debate is a red herring to divert attention from Premier Court’s failure to deliver the cargo which this greatest of all cargo cultists promised in the 1974 election campaign. [More…]
Following the election of the new President of the United States, there appears to be a move towards making the strategic arms limitation discussions effective. [More…]
They are just the same sort of political differences as the Liberal Party has with the Country Party, but they are nothing in relation to which anything more serious should be done than to deny each other one’s preferences in an election in Western Australia. [More…]
People who were involved in politics in Australia at that time will recall the Liberal Party’s election propaganda which showed arrows threatening Australia from the north. [More…]
I cannot remember during which election we brought the FI 1 1 aircraft to Australia as an election issue because we were going to defend the people against militant communism-the Chinese. [More…]
My question relates to the Government’s announced decision in its election policy to establish a national rural bank. [More…]
I want to establish the true election nature of Senator Walsh’s question. [More…]
We introduced the Medibank scheme, which the present Government, when it was contesting the last election, pledged itself to support but which, as is so often the case with its promises, it promptly forgot once it was elected to office. [More…]
I can remember speaking to him in the election campaign in 1975 and he said to me, “If you vote for Whitlam you will end up with higher unemployment, higher interest rates and higher inflation.” [More…]
It is after the Western Australian State election. [More…]
One has to concede that there will be a State election in Queensland this year and it is obvious that Mr Knox is trying to dissociate himself from the mismanagement of this Government. [More…]
Mr Malcolm Fraser in his policy statement prior to the election referred to the employment creating incentives of his Government’s policy when it was elected to office. [More…]
I recall that I took part during the election campaign in an interview for the Monday Conference program together with the present Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Street, on the question of wage indexation. [More…]
Labor is trying to convince the public through a rather determined propaganda exercise that unemployment is somehow related to the election of the Liberal Government on 13 December 1975. [More…]
In 1973- the year following Labor’s election to office- using constant dollars, $3 50m was spent. [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…]
Howeverand 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, then 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…]
Since our election to Government, appointments to positions of permanent head have been made in conformity with the principles behind the legislation, although initially formal committees were not set up. [More…]
If we allow welfare development in this country to continue to grow like Topsy, as it has done for 77 years, and if we go on adding bits and pieces here in response to some articulate group around election time or out of a desire to do something nice in a Budget the contents of which are otherwise unpleasant, the shambles will get worse. [More…]
Indeed, in the month leading up to the 1975 election then Opposition members all over the country and the then Opposition spokesman on social security were enthusiastic supporters of the Australian Assistance Plan wherever they went. [More…]
Some of them since that election have remained supporters; others unfortunately have not. [More…]
The Senate Committee was reconstituted and given its further reference after the last election on 2 March 1976. [More…]
Senators whose terms are due to expire in June 1978 will 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…]
Under the existing section a person so chosen would not hold office beyond the next general election of Members of the House of Represenatives or the next election of Senators for his State, whichever first happened. [More…]
The fifth paragraph provides for a situation in which a vacancy had occurred in the place of a Senator chosen by the people of a State at the last elections and, at the date when the new provision is to take effect, there is no person currently filling that place. [More…]
The effect of this will be that a person chosen by a State Parliament after the commencement to fill a place that was vacant at the commencement will hold office for the balance of the term of the Senator who had been chosen by the people- instead of being limited as at present until the next general election of Members of the House of Represenatives or the next election of Senators for the State, whichever first happens. [More…]
The present position is that such a replacement Senator would not hold office beyond the next general election of the Members of the House of Representatives or until the next election of Senators for the State, whichever first happened. [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…]
Did the Prime Minister, in his election policy speech in November 1975, say that only under a Liberal-National Country Party government will there be a return to business confidence and that only under a Liberal-National Country Party government will there be jobs for all who want to work? [More…]
We see this legislation as being nothing more than an attempt to fulfil an election slogan which went something to the effect that there would be no more jobs for the boys after the Fraser Government came into office. [More…]
That appointment is a salutary reminder of the emptiness of the slogan ‘there will be no more jobs for the boys after we are elected to office’, which was, of course, a slogan used in the election campaign of 1 975. [More…]
The reason for saying that is that in February 1977 the Fraser Government, looking through its election promises, finds that there is perhaps one which it can fulfil. [More…]
It responds to an election slogan but fails to introduce any new procedures which would provide for those criteria to be fundamental to the question of the selection of senior officers in the Public Service. [More…]
We see this very much as a piece of political legislation designed, as I have said, to fill an election promise. [More…]
It introduces into the Australian Public Service a system of selection of permanent heads which is very much subject to the control and influence of the Chairman of the Public Service Board, much less subject to the influence of Ministers and the Prime Minister and very much subject to the influence not only of the Chairman of the Public Service Board but also of his colleagues from among permanent heads whom he selects. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party sees this legislation as a sort of knee-jerk response in an effort to fulfil a mistaken election promise. [More…]
He indicated that if the Government did not get that legislation before Thursday of this week there could be no guarantee that a redistribution of electoral boundaries for the next House of Representatives election would be through the Parliament by the end of this year. [More…]
This so-called Simultaneous Elections referendum is the first one of four which the Government is holding with the Senate elections, and in each one the Government has deliberately attempted to mislead you. [More…]
The Government also hopes these referendums will put a smokescreen over the central issues of the Senate election. [More…]
What were the central issues of the 1974 Senate election to be? [More…]
The Constitution, the law, and parliamentary practice allow each Prime Minister to have a House of Representatives election on the same day as any Senate election. [More…]
He can have the House of Representatives and Senate elections on the same day simply by his own decision. [More…]
He could have a House of Representatives election with the Senate election if he wanted to do so. [More…]
Imagine an honourable senator in this chamber sidling up to somebody in a pub and saying: ‘Mate, what do you think about the simultaneous election proposals? [More…]
-They are the laws of an organisation, not the laws which relate to the election of representatives to Parliament in a democracy. [More…]
-The Opposition opposes clause 1 1 which relates to the holding of elections at large. [More…]
If that redistribution is ordered but in fact does not take place before the next ordinary House of Representatives election, either because it has not been completed or because it has not been approved by either House of the Parliament, there shall be an election at large. [More…]
Whilst clause 1 1 of the Bill provides for the holding of an election at large, it does not spell out, nor are there spelt out in any other clause of the Bill, the rules under which an election at large shall be held. [More…]
Whilst there is doubt as to whether a redistribution can take place under the existing Act, the Minister now acknowledges that there is doubt as to whether regulations can be made to provide for the rules under which an election at large can be held. [More…]
For those reasons we believe that the way in which an election at large shall be held should be written into the Bill or into the rules. [More…]
We have already agreed- I think it is commonly conceded- that if there is an election at large the possibilities are unimaginable. [More…]
We believe that for a government to bring in legislation of this nature, to provide for elections at large, without writing into the legislation the rules under which an election at large shall be conducted, is wrong. [More…]
Senator Douglas McClelland said this afternoon that there are no details as to how the votes cast at an election can be counted and how the election can operate. [More…]
In order to get these redistribution Bills through the Senate the Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Withers) spoke about the essential requirements to set up a redistribution and said that the question of how an election at large will be held will be decided in some further detail. [More…]
I submit that to hold an election taking a whole State as one electorate or multiplicity of candidates would be impossible no matter what the details were. [More…]
It was an unfair election as the principle of one vote, one value, did not apply. [More…]
The judgment was that within each ordinary election there must be a decision as to the representation of the States. [More…]
The alternative to having no redistribution need not be to hold an election with the whole State as one electorate. [More…]
I cannot see that there would ever be a necessity for an election of the whole State if we took away from the Parliament the power to endorse or reject the Commissioners’ recommendations on electoral boundaries. [More…]
When there is no alteration in the State representation between ordinary elections there is no reason why a complete redistribution could not be made by ascertaining the number of entitlements for the State in the first year of the Parliament, before its 3-year term was up, if the Parliament did not have the power of endorsement or rejection. [More…]
I can see that on many occasions when the Senate has a majority with differing political affiliations from the majority in the House of Representatives the redistribution will not be made before the next election. [More…]
Therefore, there will be reasons for having an election taking the whole State as a boundary. [More…]
One would expect that at least 150 candidates would be standing for election in New South Wales from which 44 or 45 would be elected to Parliament. [More…]
If the system of preferential voting operated at an election at a time when one party was in favour with the electors of a State, if those electors followed the party ticket that party would win all the seats in that State. [More…]
I asked whether the 6 States and the Territories could have different methods of conducting an election, and I asked what voting system would be used. [More…]
One has only to go back to the last Senate election and take into account that there were only 53 candidates-not 153 or 300, as has been mentioned, but only 53- and that the result of that election, which was held on 13 December, was not available until 6 February to appreciate that the counting under such a system of voting could not be completed before the date for the return of the writs. [More…]
Why is the election at large proposition contained in this Bill? [More…]
It said as to proportionality between States that if a redistribution is not carried out there shall be an election at large. [More…]
How do we carry out an election at large? [More…]
It would be a very risky operation for any government to attempt to run an election at large under regulations without putting the matter into a statutory form. [More…]
I know the horrendous situation that would face us in an election at large. [More…]
It would be easier to run an election at large in Tasmania than it is to run a double dissolution- five members of the House of Representatives as against 10 senators. [More…]
The Northern Territory already has elections at large. [More…]
But there is the deterrent there that if either House of the Parliament acts capriciously it is going to be faced with an election at large. [More…]
They will either have to accept the proposition of the distribution commissioners or have an election at large under known rules. [More…]
I hope I have satisfied everybody as to the doubts that my advisers have on the proposition of using regulations to run an election at large. [More…]
They strongly advise me and urge me that that would be a most risky thing to do because there would be the risk of having the whole election declared invalid. [More…]
It was rather amazing to see the Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Withers), the Minister in charge of this Bill, stand here and say that he cannot tell the people at large in Australia what rules are to govern the conduct of an election if it is to be held in the form of an election at large. [More…]
If an election at large is held, let us consider what would happen in the State of New South Wales as an example. [More…]
One could safely say that it will be 30 days from the issue of the writ until the election is held and then another 60 days for the return of the writ. [More…]
The Minister has gone to great pains since he came to office to tell the people what a very thorough government they are under and what a thorough government has charge of the affairs of this country, yet we find that he cannot come into this place and tell us what method is to be adopted for the conduct of an election at large. [More…]
He is not prepared to tell us but surely he must know what his Party has in mind if an election at large is to be held. [More…]
How is the Government going to conduct that election? [More…]
The Government also has to consider what some of the State Premiers might do and whether they will try to upset the Government if it tries to hold an election at large. [More…]
I hope the Minister can give us some further explanation of how an election at large is to be conducted. [More…]
As I understand what the Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Withers) has said, when the McKinlay judgment was handed down in December 1975, some 15 months ago, the officers of his Department and the Commonwealth Electoral Office, which is a statutory office, started working on proposed amendments to the legislation to provide for the contingency that the High Court suggested might exist if a redistribution had not been carried out where one should have been carried out and that was for the holding of an election at large. [More…]
Therefore whilst this Bill now provides for the holding of an election at large, no other work was done in the meantime to provide for rules as to how the election at large should be conducted. [More…]
I am subject to correction but I infer from what the Minister said that if a redistribution drawn up as a result of the passage of this legislation is not approved by this Parliament when presented to it, the Government might look at the way in which an election at large shall be conducted. [More…]
An election at large may not be held at the next election, or the election after, but one may be held at some distant point in the future and surely the Parliament and the political parties we all represent in this Parliament are entitled to know the ground rules which will apply when we run on to the field. [More…]
So in fact the electoral boundaries that were in existence for the last election, the 1975 double dissolution election, were those that were last drawn up and approved by Parliament in 1968. [More…]
Therefore, if Parliament approves the boundary proposals to be put to it subsequently by the distribution commissioners after the passage of this legislation the next Federal election will be the first one fought on boundaries approved on the 10 per cent principle. [More…]
The commissioners to be appointed will have a tremendous responsibility because it will be up to them to make recommendations which will ensure that when the election is held the party which gets the greatest number of votes or the greatest percentage of votes also gets the greatest number of seats. [More…]
Perhaps I should point out that if the redistribution proposals which are eventually submitted to Parliament for endorsement are not approved by either House the timetabling for another redistribution before the next House of Representatives election is due could be very acute. [More…]
Whilst the legislation provides for the holding of elections at large in certain circumstances, the Bill does not set out the ground rules on how an election at large shall be conducted. [More…]
For example, at an election at large will the names of all the candidates for the whole State- the borders of the State will become the boundaries of the electorate under an election at large- appear on the one ballot paper? [More…]
Is an election at large to be conducted on the system of proportional representation, or is it be be the multiple preferential voting system? [More…]
Perhaps that is because he is a member of the Senate and will not be a candidate for the House of Representatives under an election at large. [More…]
Unless a specific system is laid down to provide for the conduct of an election at large, the nation could be without a government and a parliament for months on end after an election. [More…]
Even though senators do not receive that allowance at this stage, I assume it would happen under an election at large when the members of the House of Representatives would all be elected for an electorate larger than 5000 square kilometres. [More…]
I mention that matter only to show the great administrative headaches which could or would occur if an election at large is held without ground rules being laid down for the conduct of that election. [More…]
The Opposition believes that in this legislation the Government should have spelled out the rules for the conduct of an election at large. [More…]
But if at the time of the next ordinary House of Representatives election the redistribution has not been carried out and implemented in order to comply with the State’s determined representation entitlement then, as I said earlier, the border of the State will be the boundary of the electorate for all those entitled to represent the State in the House of Representatives. [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…]
It recognises that this area is so jolly big it is even standing 2 candidates for the next State election for the one area. [More…]
I hope that the commissioners, in accepting their responsibilities, will make sure that the redistribution is done on such a basis that when an election is held in the future the party or parties that wins by the greatest majority of voters will also win by the greatest majority of seats in the Houses of Parliament. [More…]
I do so by citing to him the position that prevailed at the last national election. [More…]
I remember that when we returned to this Parliament after the last general election, I engaged in a dialogue with Senator Withers and referred to the need to improve and to simplify Senate voting procedures. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite know in their hearts that, if the difference in electoral support among the Parties at the last election had been reversed and a Labor Government had won on the present boundaries, the present Government Parties would not have lost the number of seats that Labor did at the last general election. [More…]
If this meant, for example, an infinitesimal quota for election being set in New South Wales some odd people who might mean well in support of a particular cause might be elected. [More…]
I shall pick up some of the matters raised by Senator Douglas McClelland in the body of my speech but one curious, almost unfair, thing I must refer to is his complaint that the Minister for Administative Services (Senator Withers) did not set out in detail in these Bills how the elections at large should be conducted. [More…]
I am delighted that Senator Withers and his team have not bothered to waste their time at this stage in trying to translate the monster of the election at large into something which will probably be even more monstrous if we have to see it in all its horror. [More…]
Because of the High Court’s decision, if we did not carry out a proper redistribution when a State has a change in the number of members it is entitled to there would have to be an election at large- an election whereby all the members for that State would be elected in one large ballot- which would be a sort of monstrous three times over Senate-type poll. [More…]
These Bills provide the methods whereby regular determinations will be made at a certain stage after each election in accordance with the High Court’s decision. [More…]
We will know the number of seats to which a State is entitled and the preselections that are required by reason of any change in numbers can go ahead in a proper manner and will apply for the next ordinary general election. [More…]
I regret that he trotted out again the old chestnut that his Party gained 42 per cent of the votes in the last election and only gained 36 per cent of the seats. [More…]
That is why such a big proportion of the seats went to those parties in the last election. [More…]
-New South Wales may have them much more frequently, but it seems to me that it will cause difficulties if there is a change every election and people are moved from one electorate to another. [More…]
Therefore the matter will then go through to a redistribution which takes some dme but it will all be completed in time for the next election. [More…]
The people will be able to get to know this and each party will be able to select its candidates well in advance of an election. [More…]
This was done so that, by the time an election was actually held or when a subsequent election was held, the number of electors in that division would be appropriate. [More…]
Clause 1 1 of the Bill provides for an election at large if a redistribution has not been conducted in a State in time for an election. [More…]
No conditions are laid down under which an election at large will be conducted. [More…]
Is it envisaged that an election at large will be held under the regulation making powers in section 219 of the existing Commonwealth Electoral Act? [More…]
Even if it is not envisaged that an election at large be held under regulations issued in accordance with section 219, is it possible that an election at large could be held under regulations issued in accordance with that section? [More…]
If the answer to either of those questions is yes, anyone who witnessed the events of late 1975 does not need too much imagination to visualise a situation in which a redistribution proposal for one or more States put by the commissioners could be rejected in this Parliament and then, if an election is due, an election at large could be held in that one or more States. [More…]
If the election is held under conditions laid down by regulation, what is to prevent a government or a political party deciding in a State where it believes it can get more than 50 per cent of the votes that it will issue regulations providing for what is usually known as an exhaustive preferential ballot? [More…]
Simultaneously in a different State regulations could be issued which would provide that an election be held according to proportional representation. [More…]
Is it possible that Queensland- if recent voting performance is to be taken as an indication of future voting performance the Liberal and National Country Parties could confidentally expect more than 50 per cent of the vote- could issue regulations for an exhaustive preferential ballot in an election at large? [More…]
It has become necessary for a redistribution before the next election because of the variation that has occurred in the number of voters within the present electorates. [More…]
The provision in this legislation for a redistribution every 7 years will avoid a redistribution every time there is an election, although we will find still that very soon after a redistribution another redistribution is required. [More…]
It is clause 1 1 which causes me the greatest concern because it provides for elections at large, yet there do not seem to be any rules. [More…]
For example, could the 6 States and the Territories all have different methods of election? [More…]
If we used that system, would a limited percentage of the vote be required for election- for instance, the 5 per cent which exists in West Germany or in the State of New South Wales, say, would candidates getting less than 3 per cent of the vote win seats in the House of Representatives? [More…]
A further question I pose is: What would happen in a by-election? [More…]
In 1902 in Tasmania there was a by-election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
That would not have been too much of a problem in 1902 but let us consider what it would be like today if there were a by-election in New South Wales and it were held at large. [More…]
We are not talking about reforming the system of election to this chamber. [More…]
Any system similar to the one which operated in New South Wales at the last Senate election, when a ballot was held on 13 December and we got a result on 6 February, I believe needs an overhaul. [More…]
In New South Wales in 1974 we had 73 candidates for the Senate elections and in 1975, 53 candidates. [More…]
Of course this leads to an election lottery system. [More…]
What we ought to be considering in the Senate is the setting up of a committee like the Houghton committee in Britain which recommended government funding for election campaigning. [More…]
I raise these questions because I feel that the present system of election to this chamber has become so complicated that it is not understood by the vast majority of voters and for the reasons I have stated it has become something of a lottery, especially in a close contest. [More…]
Because of this not only does the system come into disrepute but also when we have the sort of election that we had in New South Wales in 1 974 and 1975 I believe that the reputation of this Senate suffers. [More…]
Perhaps we are erring on the cautious side but the law officers to the Government have advised that, whilst we may get away with it, should a redistribution take place and an election be held and we did not really take this extra step, such action could be subject to a challenge which might succeed. [More…]
I was interested to hear Senator Mulvihill say that New South Wales always has a redistribution just before an election. [More…]
We do not know whether the High Court will one of these days define what it meant when it said ‘a general election held at or towards the effluxion of the 3 years spoken of. [More…]
I presume that that is what the High Court had in mind, that it would be about the time an election normally would be due within the expectations of a parliament. [More…]
How far back it relates in terms of a snap or early election will have to be determined. [More…]
A constitutional amendment in relation to simultaneous elections will ensure that elections for the 2 Houses are brought together, and we can have at such elections a full national debate on issues. [More…]
Half the Senate will go out with the House of Representatives at each election every 3 years. [More…]
The further period of government without an election which comes as an optional extra from this referendum will be an additional help to the improvement in the economy which we can expect. [More…]
Otherwise, if we wanted to bring the elections for both Houses together we would have to have a premature poll. [More…]
In future we will have contemporaneous polls for both the Senate and the House of Representatives not, as in the past on many occasions a separate Senate election and then a separate election for the House of Representatives, with people saying that the Senate was not contemporaneous, that it was out of date, that its senators did not represent the opinion of the people now. [More…]
The election campaigns have not been debates on Senate issues. [More…]
It is claimed at such polls that people can vote against a government in a Senate election and the result will not destroy the government; that it will show the displeasure of the community if people vote for an independent or some small party. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh, you know that in an ordinary election candidates are not elected on the basis of one issue. [More…]
If the election is held well ahead of the mandatory date their term will not expire until 1 July or 30 June of the next year. [More…]
If we have during that period another poll and concentration must be directed towards the necessity of winning a Senate election, I do not think that makes for a good government. [More…]
The Committee concluded, in paragraph 243 above, that an increased number of Senate elections has been avoided by obtaining the dissolution of the House of Representatives before the expiration of its normal life of three years. [More…]
A premature election brought about by the need to synchronise general elections with elections for senators makes it difficult to obtain constructive government. [More…]
If separate elections for senators are held, work of the Parliament is completely disrupted. [More…]
Members of the House of Representatives, as well as senators, must devote their energies to the task of obtaining the best possible results for their respective parties at the elections. [More…]
The Senate has faced separate elections before. [More…]
It has faced joint elections. [More…]
But it has grown to a zenith of power in recent years not because of separate elections. [More…]
Honourable senators may recall that the last 2 elections- the one in 1974 and the one in 1975- were not separate elections. [More…]
Yet in 1974 there was left in the Senate after the election a majority hostile to the then government. [More…]
I do not believe that in any way the Senate’s real significance to this country is dependent upon the fortuitous fact that there have been some separate elections in recent years. [More…]
I do not believe in the arguments which we have heard, which we will hear and which I have heard around the Senate already that somehow a government, under this constitutional proposal, will rush to another election immediately after an election in order to bring out a hostile Senate. [More…]
In this country, the people are concerned about premature elections. [More…]
They are not very pleased at being called to vote at elections. [More…]
Any government that came into power and then sought to hold a quick election again to get rid of the other half of the Senate would risk all. [More…]
So the only suggestion that he had for synchronising the elections was to use the cumbersome procedure of section 57 which as he well knows is not available and has not been available for most of the life of the Parliament. [More…]
It is only rarely that there has been the sort of disagreement between the 2 Houses which enables a Prime Minister to go along and ask the Governor-General to dissolve the Houses and to have a simultaneous election. [More…]
But the GovernorGeneral is on record, in a speech he made in India when he was on a visit there, as saying that he would not necessarily grant an early election to a Prime Minister merely because the Prime Minister wanted it and it suited him politically. [More…]
When we advocated synchronisation of elections for both Houses it was necessary and it is still necessary for the reasons I shall give. [More…]
If he has any elementary honesty he would have to admit that it is not for any reasons which might have to do with political principle but merely because of the blue funk which his Government is now in about facing the electors of Australia either for a House of Representatives election or for a Senate election. [More…]
It is because his Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) fears that if the Government cannot keep the Senate going longer than it was originally intended to be in being, if it has to have an election at any time as early as May or June 1978, it will get a resounding rejection from the electorate, compounded by the fact, as Senator Missen pointed out, that a half Senate election partakes of the atmosphere of a by-election. [More…]
Senator Withers and Malcolm Fraser know that if there were a half Senate election early next year the Government’s numbers in the Senate would be reduced and it would go out to the world what is now clear from the gallop polls, that there is creeping dissatisfaction throughout all sections of the community with this Government which has failed so abjectly to fulfil the promises with which it stole office. [More…]
We also believe that Parliament should express the will of the people as expressed at the last general election and that this purpose is best served by simultaneous elections. [More…]
We also believe that simultaneous election for both Houses will save busy Ministers and members of Parliament from wasted time in constant electioneering. [More…]
I find it incredible that the present Government should introduce this Constitution Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) Bill which radically weakens and undermines the powers of the Senate. [More…]
I find it completely beyond belief when that decision comes so soon after the Senate, in what I think was the most worthy exercise of its powers, used the express reserve power of rejection to give the people an election. [More…]
I find it incredible that this Bill should be called a Bill for simultaneous elections when it is nothing of the sort. [More…]
So, I suggest that it provides for a half dissolution of the Senate every time there is an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
The British electoral system allows the Prime Minister to call for the dissolution of Parliament and the holding of a general election at any time he pleases within the 5 years that is the statutory limit of each Parliament. [More…]
I went on to say that, if no decision of the Senate has precipitated the election, then half of the Senate should go if the Senate decides for convenience or cost that there should be a simultaneous election. [More…]
The fact that its decision to bring on a dissolution of the House of Representatives means that we would automatically go to the country, whatever be the cause of that election, reduces this House to a mere echo of the other place. [More…]
Of most importance was the assertion of the supremacy of Parliament over the Executive Government, demonstrated by the exercise of the power of the Senate to withhold Supply and the dismissal of a Prime Minister who refused to advise an election or resign when denied Supply by Parliament. [More…]
I therefore stood for election and was successful in gaining membership of this body which I then thought was an august body. [More…]
The Bill were again presented to the Senate and this House was not prepared to accept the expression of opinion by the people at that election. [More…]
1 think it is a desirable and logical principle to have joint elections. [More…]
He cannot have a censure against his Government this year or next year as a result of a half Senate election. [More…]
If the elections for the 2 Houses are brought together, as is stated here, we will get the same complexion, the same political affiliation reflected in the people ‘s view at the time they have to vote. [More…]
What concerns me about the proposals to hold referenda in the manner which is being sought is that it is evident that the Fraser Government considers that it will be unable to restrain inflation and to reduce unemployment by the time of the expected half Senate election in mid- 1978. [More…]
Obviously that is what is behind the proposals which are being put before the Senate and, in particular, the proposal for the so called simultaneous elections. [More…]
Honourable senators will be given the chance to show and in fact will be tested on their genuineness about simultaneous elections. [More…]
This is not an argument about simultaneous elections at all. [More…]
I could not care less whether we have simultaneous elections. [More…]
Senator Missen last night suggested that not having simultaneous elections throws up all sorts of odd people into this chamber, including independents. [More…]
I was elected at a simultaneous election and received almost twice the quota; so I do not mind in the slightest having simultaneous elections. [More…]
However, senators will be given an opportunity at a later time to test their genuineness about whether they want simultaneous elections or whether they feel that what Senator Button and Senator Cavanagh said is true, that is, that the net result of carrying this referendum in the electorate would be the emasculation of the powers of the Senate and the significant transfer of powers from the States to the central Parliament. [More…]
Have the immutable principles which he stood on at that time somehow changed or has he changed in some desperate move to stave off a Gallup poll election in 1978 which would allow the people to make a judgment on his performance as Prime Minister and the performance of the Government without invoking the ultimate sanction of throwing the Government out of office? [More…]
If the Government wants simultaneous elections it can have simultaneous elections and can have them by calling an election of the House of Representatives in the middle part of 1978. [More…]
If it wanted to, the Government could synchronise elections by having an election in the middle part of 1978. [More…]
Mr Malcolm Mackerras apparently has guessed -some of his guesses have gone wrong on previous occasions- that if the half Senate election is held in 1978 the Government could stand a chance of losing the numbers in the Senate. [More…]
That will leave remaining in the Senate16 Government senators, 12 Labor Party senators and one independent Given that all States go against the Government except Queensland, the result of the half Senate election in 1978 would be a return of 16 Government senators and 19 Opposition senators, giving the following line-up after the half Senate elections in 1978: 32 Government senators, 31 Opposition senators and one independent. [More…]
The test of this matter is whether the Government is prepared to put the proposals to a referendum at the same time as the next half Senate election. [More…]
The Government does not want to go to the people on the vital issues that are affecting the economy- prices and incomes- but it will spend their money and create more inflation by going to the people separately with referenda proposals on these matters for purely political purposes, namely, to avoid the opinion of the people as it would be declared at a half Senate election. [More…]
Why not allow this matter to be decided at an election time, as I think the Whitlam Government did? [More…]
At least that Government held the referendum at the same time as an election for this Parliament. [More…]
Somebody will correct me if I am wrong; but, from memory, that referendum was held at the same time as an election for this Parliament. [More…]
As I said at the beginning, the real issue is this: The Government admits by the introduction of this legislation that it cannot get the economy going again by the expected time of the half Senate election in 1978. [More…]
We are being asked to write into the Constitution a power which would, in future, prevent any kind of mid-term elections. [More…]
This would prevent a Senate election being held between elections for the House of Representatives. [More…]
He thinks that the people of Australia are going to give him a kick in the pants at the half Senate election in 1978. [More…]
To say that the people are annoyed and irritated with elections is really to argue for a dictatorship. [More…]
If you do not have elections, you do not have democracy. [More…]
Let us throw aside this idea that cost or the irritation involved in an election is the thing to be considered. [More…]
I have quoted from the debate on the Constitution Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) Bill 1974 as set out at pages 253 to 277 of the Senate Hansard of 13 March 1974. [More…]
If the Government is going ahead only with these particular matters let it save money by submitting them at the next half Senate election. [More…]
The reason that Opposition senators gave for holding the referendum in conjunction with the general election was to save on costs. [More…]
This would enable the Government to have an election in the final dying hours of 1 978 or in April or May of 1979, to bring down a horror Budget this year, to allow unemployment and inflation to run rampant throughout the country and to impose upon the ordinary people of Australia the heavy burden of shouldering those problems. [More…]
But why do they not say that it should be held at the time of the next half Senate election? [More…]
The leadership of the parliamentary Labor Party will come up again in May of this year because of the principle of an 18- months review of leadership which was adopted by Caucus after the 1975 general election. [More…]
If the referenda proposals go through and if there is to be a Federal election in about November or December 1978, who is going to challenge his leadership one month before an election? [More…]
Of course no one will challenge his leadership one month before an election. [More…]
It may be unimportant to some that the government of the country is interrupted every 18 months or so by a half-Senate election with all the campaigning that goes on. [More…]
Governments which have hanging over them the threat of a hostile upper House which may throw them out at any time or which must go to elections to maintain their majority in the upper House every 18 months will be reluctant, I submit, to take some of the difficult and politically unpopular decisions that they should make. [More…]
I support this legislation to amend the Constitution, so that if it is passed by the people, we will have simultaneous elections for the House of Representatives and for the Senate. [More…]
Nevertheless in such a case we would have removed the sorry situation that we have at the moment and that we have experienced in recent years whereby we have elections for the House of Representatives and later on .have an election of half the members of the Senate, with a continuation of that pattern. [More…]
However, when we consider the fact that certain people put up a ‘no’ case against the referendum that we had in 1974- and were so insistent that there should be a ‘no’ case- and subsequently there was a ‘no’ vote in respect of this simultaneous election proposal, and then find now that they are advocating a ‘yes’ case, we might wonder at their motives. [More…]
In the booklet which was sent to every elector at that time there were comments about the Constitution Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) Bill 1 974. [More…]
The Constitution, the law and Parliamentary practice allows each Prime Minister to have a House of Representatives election on the same day as any Senate election. [More…]
He can have the House of Representatives and Senate elections on the same day simply by his own decision. [More…]
Why is Mr Fraser now saying’ that we should have a referendum to alter the Constitution, following the will of the people, so that we will have simultaneous elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate? [More…]
If the Prime Minister wants simultaneous elections all he has to do is take out the House of Representatives with the Senate sometime in the next financial year. [More…]
Mr Fraser does not want any type of election before the end of 1 978. [More…]
If we were to have a single Senate election it would have to be held as late as the last Saturday in June 1978. [More…]
Would it, in fact, hold a House of Representatives election at the same time, that is in May 1978, or would it wait and have the House of Representatives election some 6 months after the Senate election? [More…]
I do not think having 2 elections so close together would go down too well with the electors. [More…]
The last thing the Government wants is a Senate election prior to the end of June 1978. [More…]
It knows that if it had a Senate election and a House of Representatives election simultaneously then it would be not only defeated, it would be slaughtered. [More…]
If the Government were genuine about its proposals to bring elections for the 2 Houses together it could propose a date not in May but some time after 1 July this year. [More…]
This would provide the opportunity for a Senate election to be held. [More…]
Of course, initially, it is not up the Commonwealth Government or the GovernorGeneral to call a Senate election. [More…]
If this referendum proposal were put down not for May but for some time in July or after that it would allow some of the States at least to call a Senate election. [More…]
But the Government decided that the vote on the referenda proposals had to be held in May because, at that stage, there would be no possibility that the Government would have to face the will of the people at a Senate election. [More…]
I look forward to the proposal being passed by the people so that the Constitution can be altered and so that we can have the House of Representatives election and the Senate election on the same date. [More…]
However I am displeased at the motives which suggested to the Government that it should not only bring this Bill before the Parliament but should do so now so that it will not have to face a Senate election later this year or in 1978. [More…]
Prior to 1 96 1 there was not much need to think about the necessity for the elections for the 2 Houses to be in line. [More…]
Those people who looked at it must have been fairly far seeing, even those who had a dissenting view, because after that review it was revealed what a cumbersome situation could prevail when the elections for the 2 Houses became out of line. [More…]
However prior to 1961 only one Senate election had been held by itself and not in conjunction with a House of Representatives election. [More…]
In 1929 and 1954 House of Representatives elections were held by themselves and not in conjunction with a Senate election. [More…]
However 1953 was the only time when a Senate election had been held not in conjunction with a House of Representatives election up to 1961. [More…]
In 1961 we had a Senate and a House of Representatives election but following that an early election was called for the House of Representatives in 1963. [More…]
So in 1964 there was a necessity for a Senate election. [More…]
So we had a Senate election by itself and the pattern continued. [More…]
In 1966 there was an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
In 1967 there was an election for the Senate. [More…]
In 1969 there was an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
In 1970 there was an election for the Senate. [More…]
In 1972 there was an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
Each election was for one House only. [More…]
The people in the electorate were becoming heartily tired of election after election because not only did they have to elect people for the House of Representatives and the Senate but also they had to elect their State representatives and their local government representatives. [More…]
Many of them found that there was just one long run of elections, and the pattern would have continued if it had not been for the double dissolutions in 1974 and 1975. [More…]
If we had not had the double dissolution in 1975 the pattern would have continued after the 1974 double dissolution because the senators’ terms would have been backdated and there would not have been the necessity to hold a House of Representatives election at the same time as a Senate election. [More…]
We have the case again where the two will be out of line unless something is done because the Senate election must be held by the last Saturday in June 1978 or, more correctly according to the Constitution, on the last day of June 1978. [More…]
1 mention Saturday because that is the day on which the Electoral Act says we shall have our elections. [More…]
It was mentioned earlier that if we had fewer elections the cost would be much less. [More…]
This is an important consideration not only for the major parties who contest the elections but also for the people, who, through taxation, have to fund the elections each time they are held. [More…]
The cost of holding a House of Representatives election in conjunction with a Senate election will be much less than if they were held at different times. [More…]
Too many elections are not good for government whichever government might be in power. [More…]
He wants to bring the 2 elections into line so that he does not need to have a Senate election in 1978 and can continue with his unpopular policies for longer than he normally would have been able to. [More…]
The simultaneous election Bill is designed to weaken the power of the Senate. [More…]
They upheld the action of the Senate in the election of December 1975 because they realised that the government had to be changed [More…]
Whatever merit there may be in reducing the power of the Senate- and in my view it is substantial- the only power which this Bill and this referendum seek to take from the Senate is the power to force an election in the House of Representatives without any members of the Senate having to present themselves to the electorate. [More…]
Under post-November 1975 practice or perhaps even law, the Senate can force the House of Representatives to an election every 6 months by stalling- not even by rejecting- Supply or Appropriation Bills. [More…]
It is simply not true to assert, as most of the people opposing this Bill have asserted, that simultaneous elections can be secured without carrying the referendum. [More…]
Simultaneous elections can be guaranteed only if the Bill and the subsequent referendum are carried. [More…]
I presume that because the Liberal Party and the National Country Party were successful in the election which ensued, Senator Sir Magnus Cormack is claiming on very tenuous logical grounds that the people thereby endorsed the actions of the Senate. [More…]
Although it is no longer possible to test directly whether the people supported the Senate’s action at that time, putting forward this Bill does provide some opportunity to test, albeit indirectly but more directly than the test of a general election, whether the people do support the action which the Senate took at that time. [More…]
The truth is that it is the only way to guarantee that Senate and House of Representatives elections will be held simultaneously. [More…]
There may have been some argument in 1974 as to whether it was the only way; there can be no argument now because the doctrine has been proclaimed and apparently accepted, that the Senate can withhold Supply and force an election in the House of Representatives without any part of the Senate having to present itself to the electors. [More…]
Unfortunately for Senator Sir Magnus Cormack and for all his colleagues, their present Leader, Senator Withers, was indiscreet enough on 9 April 1974 to put into Hansard the real reasons why the Liberal and National Country Party senators- every one of them- forced the 1975 election. [More…]
Eighteen months ago we embarked on a course to force an election in the House of Representatives. [More…]
I believe that there should be simultaneous elections. [More…]
I believe that the public wants the elections for the 2 Houses of Parliament to come together. [More…]
We could then remain in the Senate without having to face an election. [More…]
We could have done that in 1974 but on that occasion a half-Senate election was due. [More…]
I do not agree with the former Prime Minister (Mr E. G. Whitlam) on most things but on that occasion I thought he had something when he said that people who had been elected in 1967 and in 1970 were able to make a decision to send the people who were elected in 1972 to 2 elections without going to an election themselves. [More…]
So far there have been 12 or more speakers in the debate on the Constitution Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) Bill. [More…]
Under the existing constitutional provisions it is possible theoretically for elections for both Houses of Parliament to be synchronised by holding elections for the House of Representatives whenever half Senate elections are due. [More…]
In fact, elections for both Houses have been out of phase since 1963 when, as has been said, for reasons of political expediency, to obtain a short term political advantage the Menzies Government called an early House of Representatives election. [More…]
The result has been that, in the 9-year period from 1963 to 1972, 7 national elections have been held. [More…]
If the Constitution is not altered and the status quo continues, there can be as many as 4 elections over the next 4 years and that would mean that 14 elections all told would have been held between 1961 and 1981. [More…]
In view of this, the Bill aims at altering the Constitution by an amendment to ensure that the elections for both Houses are brought together. [More…]
This was pointed out last evening by Senator Missen in relation to the situation that arises when an election is held in late November or early December. [More…]
Following such an election, some senators may unfortunately lose their seats but they continue to sit in this Senate until 1 July of the following year. [More…]
The political reality is that by bringing elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate back into phase this Government can hold off a half Senate election until, at the latest, March 1 979. [More…]
It is almost certain that, if a half Senate election were held in the middle of next year, the Government would lose 3 Senate seats in South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. [More…]
The Labor Party would certainly hold the 3 Labor seats which would be up for election in New South Wales. [More…]
The opposing cases, as I see it, are that on one hand this Bill is being presented as a convenient adjustment of the mechanics of the election provisions of the Constitution; on the other, it is being opposed in my case on the grounds that enactment of this legislation would result in a substantial and radical change in the nature of the Senate and in the distribution of political power in Australia in a way which I believe would be to the long term detriment of this country. [More…]
In the ultimate, the proposal can enable simultaneous elections but does not, as suggested, ensure them. [More…]
I again remind the Senate that in 1961 the Menzies Government went to an election, which it all but lost and which many people would say it richly deserved to lose- one of the reasons being that its policies had had a very detrimental effect in the State of Queensland. [More…]
Mr Menzies’ advisers had told him at that time that the situation in Queensland had improved and that if he wanted to go to an election to increase his majority he might well consider calling an early election because he could increase that majority in Queensland. [More…]
He was persuaded on that occasion by his advisers in Queensland, in contrast with the earlier occasion, and we had an early election which put the Senate and the House of Representatives out of step. [More…]
That is the source of the subsequent difficulty in House of Representatives and Senate elections being out of step. [More…]
To give the Prime Minister the power to take the Senate to an election at any time would be a divisive and intimidatory tool in the hands of whatever man or woman might hold that office in the future. [More…]
The letter is headed Altering Senate election system’. [More…]
Some people have suggested that if the Senate has a very particular power over the House of Represenatives to send it to an election, which it obviously does have at the present time, that it is only right that the House of Representatives ought also to have that power over the Senate. [More…]
It is suggested that we are afraid of being taken to election by the Prime Minister and facing the verdict of the voters because that will lessen our degree of independence, will make us toe the line, and will ensure that the government of the time has an easier passage than many governments in the past have had. [More…]
But the Prime Minister has a power to take the House of Representatives to an election at any time. [More…]
Elections do many things, but one thing they do supremely within a political party is enforce party discipline. [More…]
It comes through the possibility of losing one’s seat at an election- as long as there is no election one has an infinitely better chance of keeping one’s seat. [More…]
Indeed, when an election is held for the Senate simultaneously with an election for the House of Representatives it may be that the Senate election would indicate a slide if there were a slide one way or the other in the House of Representatives election. [More…]
Separate elections for the Senate have been supported. [More…]
The people could well take a Senate election as one that does not really matter all that much, that will not be significant in the immediate future government of the country. [More…]
The simultaneous elections that occurred in 1974 and 1975 seem to lend emphasis to that view. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that in 1974 the Australian people returned the Whitlam Government in the House of Representatives and in a simultaneous election for the whole of the Senate they failed to give Mr Whitlam control of the Senate. [More…]
I thought that was not only evidence of the intelligence of the Australian electorate but also justification of the view that one election for one House will not necessarily be a mirror image of an election for the other House. [More…]
I am not one who assumes or in any way would believe that the electors would have a bar of frivolous elections. [More…]
If any honourable senator can imagine an election called by the House of Representatives involving half the Senate and then 6 or 9 months later the calling of another election being acceptable to the Australian electorate his imagination goes further afield than mine and I trust that his imagination is wrong. [More…]
However, if the majority after that election had not been sufficient to give Mr Whitlam a majority in the Senate, if after that election the majority still had not been with the Labor Party, during the early part of 1973, in that euphoric stage through which we passed when he was handing out all the goodies, when the damage was not obvious to the people and when he had not shown his true socialist colours, he could have again taken the House of Representatives to the people and under this legislation, the second half of the Senate automatically would have gone to an election with Mr Whitlam and the Labor Party. [More…]
I would be surprised, Senator, if you could go round Tasmania and convince people in the trade union movement- you did pretty well in the executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions- that the trade union movement can look to its elected representatives to get unfettered progress of industrial legislation and at the present time fight an interim Senate election where a lot of what we want can be vetoed. [More…]
I spoke to a host of people after the last general election. [More…]
Some did not even vote in that election as a matter of protest. [More…]
He says: ‘Look, let them have their elections. [More…]
Let them have a House of Representatives election but we will apply the power of veto in the Senate’. [More…]
The Constitution; the law and parliamentary practice allows each Prime Minister to have a House of Representatives election on the same day as any Senate election. [More…]
He can have the House of Representatives and Senate elections on the same day simply by his own decision. [More…]
Senator Kathy Martin today pointed out how the elections came to be out of kilter. [More…]
Then, as Senator Kathy Martin said, when he thought that the sun was shining a little more brightly he rushed us out to another election. [More…]
It is a ‘staggered’ election system with half of the Senate coming up for election every 3 years. [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…]
Conceivably, a government could go back to the people time and time again forcing election after election, until it won control of the Senate. [More…]
I believe that we ought to be considering some measure under which we can govern the interval between simultaneous elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate. [More…]
I say quite frankly that I am not opposed to the principle of simultaneous elections. [More…]
I am concerned about the frequency of elections if that power is in the hands of an irresponsible Prime Minister. [More…]
I believe that the best answer to this matter would be to adopt a provision similar to that which prevails in South Australia There the Constitution Act provides that the Upper House, the Legislative Council, is guaranteed a full term of 6 years and that the Premier in that State cannot take the Upper House out at an election at intervals of less than 3 years. [More…]
I propose to move at the Committee stage of this debate to limit the interval between elections. [More…]
I believe that had a provision for simultaneous elections been in the Constitution in 1972 we would have had an extra election, not one less. [More…]
We would have had Mr Whitlam attempting to win control of the Senate by having another election early in 1973. [More…]
One year there is a House of Representatives election, another year there is a Senate election, and in between there is an election for possibly both Houses of a State Parliament. [More…]
But if one examines that, why should there not be those elections? [More…]
If one reflects upon why those elections are held, why ought not the justification to be readily expressed and readily accepted and why ought we not to say that this is the means by which we govern ourselves. [More…]
If its purpose is to arrange simultaneous elections between the House of Representatives and the Senate the answer is no. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) could easily decide that and he could choose, if he needed to, to arrange a Senate election at the same time as the House of Representatives election instead of spending S megabucks or $Sm, as honourable senators would know it, on having the referendum particularly when it must be rememberedthis is something that not many people have mentioned- that the founding fathers referred to the desirability of holding separate elections. [More…]
The Prime Minister, as I have indicated, has used the argument that there are too many elections as the sole justification for his proposal. [More…]
He believes that we should bring into line the elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate. [More…]
He postulates as a sound principle that every 3 years there should be a House of Representatives election and that at the same time- at the same election- there should be an election for that half of the Senate for which an election is required at that time. [More…]
Its other equally important role is to review, to consider and often to suggest improvements to legislation sometimes sent to the Council hastily by the Assembly in answer to some spectacular election pledge … or sent to it as a result of the advocacy of some dominant member of the ministry whose pet theme is. [More…]
It is a ‘staggered’ election system with half of the Senate coming up for election every three years. [More…]
If a half Senate election were to be held at the normal time I believe it would have been at the moment of the Government’s greatest unpopularity. [More…]
It is common knowledge that Senate elections such as have been held since the early 1960s in Australia are held in a by-election atmosphere, and in that situation they do not genuinely reflect the wish of the people as to who should govern. [More…]
At the time of his report he was able to say- good luck to him- that only on one occasion in 59 years, in 1953, has it been necessary to have a separate Senate election. [More…]
He held those views in the light of a system which had produced only one separate Senate election in 59 years. [More…]
Why is it that suddenly the concept of bringing the elections together will destroy this chamber? [More…]
As the Senate was not destroyed up to 1959- the time of the writing of that report- it will not be destroyed after the passage of this referendum and the guaranteeing of simultaneous elections. [More…]
It will do anything to push back the holding of the next election for either the Senate or the House of Representatives as far as it possibly can because it knows that if it meets the judgment of the people, either in a half Senate election next year or in any other form of election, that will be curtains for it. [More…]
The principles involved and the philosophy of what simultaneous elections mean to the Australian people have all been thrown overboard. [More…]
Therefore it is not being said that the mere fact that there will be an election of half the Senate and the House of Representatives at the same time will weaken the Senate. [More…]
It is being conceded also that if the Senate takes some action which would precipitate an election of the House of Representatives, or which may cause a political issue to arise on which the Prime Minister may recommend that the House of Representatives go to the people, or if the Senate is an initiating force in some way of a political crisis which leads to an election, it would be reasonable in those circumstances for half the Senate to go to the people with the House of Representatives. [More…]
A simultaneous election as such does not weaken the Senate. [More…]
In other words, she implied that the Prime Minister could have an early election of the House of Representatives and thereby take out the other half of the Senate. [More…]
There would be a general election. [More…]
Is it suggested that suddenly the new Prime Minister, having just been elected after some period in Opposition, having just formed his Government, with all the enthusiasm that a new government would have and with all the hopes that it would have, is going to turn round within a very short time and call another general election and thus put the government at risk? [More…]
I have just been elected with a thumping majority and I want another election.’ [More…]
I do not think that even Senator James McClelland would object if the GovernorGeneral refused an election in such circumstances. [More…]
It was only the action taken by the Opposition in April 1974 which made him go to an election then. [More…]
I also refer him to the election promise of December 1975 that a Liberal government would reduce the level of unemployment by 200 000. [More…]
I refer to the fact that the Indonesian Government has decided to have a general election in the near future. [More…]
I ask: In view of the Indonesian Government’s decision, what action will be taken to recall all Australian personnel working on aid programs outside city areas whose time will Become completely unproductive until after the elections are held? [More…]
Parliament would have power just to make laws for the times of Senate election, ensuring that those elections were held at the same time as House of Representatives elections. [More…]
As I understand it, the effect of the amendment would be that when a Senate election was held for half the Senate, an election for the House of Representatives would be held at the same time. [More…]
In other words, the House of Representatives elections would be tied to Senate elections, rather than Senate elections being tied to House of Representatives elections. [More…]
Certainly if those fixed terms remain in the Constitution, the only way to give effect to this amendment would be for a House of Representatives election to be held every 3 years at the same time as an election for half the Senate. [More…]
Honourable senators have been talking about profound changes and so on being made to the Constitution by this Bill but if House of Representatives elections must be held at the same time as Senate elections, that is, virtually at fixed times, then we are facing a fundamental change in the Constitution. [More…]
Therefore any tying of elections for the House of Representatives with fixed terms with Senate elections, which is the effect of Senator Wright’s amendment, would be a fundamental change in the Constitution and it is not one which this Government certainly is proposing or would propose. [More…]
I suppose one can conceive a crazy situation in which it was decided to have an election for the [More…]
House of Representatives one week and an election for the Senate a week or so later. [More…]
I think it is so inconceivable that the amendment becomes unnecessary and that in fact the substance of the amendment put forward by the Government in this amending Bill is simultanous elections. [More…]
Obviously the whole purpose of it is to bring elections for both Houses into line as was the practice years ago. [More…]
Although this leaves with the Paliament the right to make laws in respect of the date and timing of the elections it is obvious that no Parliament in its right senses would contemplate having anything like a weeks difference or something like that in the holding of the elections. [More…]
Sir Eric moved an amendment to the effect that the writs for a Senate election should be issued by the Governor of the State. [More…]
I wish to say- I shall not repeat this in proposing the amendment- that the Bill claims to be aBill to ensure simultaneous elections. [More…]
The fact is that this is a Bill to ensure that half the Senate shall be dissolved every time there is a House of Representatives election. [More…]
It has been made quite clear that the person who decides within the constitutional period of 3 years when a House of Representatives election shall occur is the Prime Minister. [More…]
It is that undermining of the power of the Senate that we find so difficult to reconcile with a true description of this Bill, which is described as one merely to ensure simultaneous elections. [More…]
It incorporates what I believe the majority of honourable senators want, that is, presumably, simultaneous elections. [More…]
As I mentioned, from a political point of view I do not mind simultaneous elections because 1 was returned with 2 quotas at a simultaneous election. [More…]
Sometimes it is important to have a half senate election, not in conjunction with an election for the Government, where the people can express their opinion about the performance of the Government. [More…]
Government supporters are absolutely terrified of going to the people in a half Senate election in mid 1978. [More…]
I understood Senator Wright to say that he was not happy with the present system where the Prime Minister has the right to call an election when he thinks fit. [More…]
All they have to do is refuse to pass Supply every time it comes into this chamber and then they can force the House of Representatives to an election while they sit pat in this place. [More…]
This chamber should have to go to the people every time it forces the House of Representatives to an election. [More…]
The whole purpose is to preserve the power of the Senate to force the House of Representatives to an election every time there is a Labor Government in that place and it docs not have the numbers in this chamber. [More…]
If, after deliberating for 3 months the other place, the House of Representatives, considers the proposal important enough, it can submit it again to the Senate and if the Senate, by its own action, thinks that the rejection of the measure is so important and rejects it again, it knows full well that it is only just then to argue the issue before the country and have a simultaneous election upon the matter. [More…]
If, after the election, the Senate comes back upheld in its stand upon an equal vote in each State with equality of numbers in this chamber, but if Sydney and Melbourne, with their 79 votes out of 125, prevail in the House of Representatives, the Representatives view can be established only if there is a majority in a joint sitting. [More…]
He made it crystal clear that he did not consider that the mere wish or request of a Prime Minister was sufficient to oblige him to grant an election merely because it suited the convenience of the Prime Minister. [More…]
If Senator Wright is concerned with the learned writings from which he has quoted and if he is so devoted to the statistics which he has given us in support of the proposition that a Prime Minister can have an election any time he wants to, I can supply the honourable senator with a copy of this speech by Sir John Kerr. [More…]
It should put at rest any notion which Senator Wright has that even a Sir John Kerr will grant a Malcolm Fraser an election any time he wants one. [More…]
It was only because the twelfth Parliament was dissolved 2 years later that the next election for senators was able to be held simultaneously with the election for members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
I want to comment on the matters raised in the recent debate by saying that, if one looks at some examples of what might possibly occur, bearing in mind what has happened in Australian politics in the past, and at the sorts of things which might precipitate a House of Representatives election, one would have to agree that to have this absolute provision in the Constitution is undesirable. [More…]
In that situation, for example, if a government fell because it had simply lost its majority in the House of Representatives and the Parliament had to be dissolved, it seems to be axiomatic that there ought also to be an election for the Senate so that the voters would have an opportunity to have the representation in this chamber reflect the new political alignments which had occurred. [More…]
We are talking about a half Senate election. [More…]
I ask them to explain how, if, the amendment proposing the addition of words to the proposed new section 13 ( 1 ) is agreed to and if a premature election for the House of Representatives were to be held, say within 12 months of the original election for the House of Representatives, but because of the amendment Senator Wright proposes no Senate election was held simultaneously with that House of Representatives election, what provision or provisions would determine the term of a senator or the date of the next Senate election. [More…]
I summarise them again: They include the convenience and practicality of not having elections for half the Senate separate from the election for the House of Representatives so that a situation arises in which there is an election for the national Parliament roughly every 18 months. [More…]
This is a situation which occurred between 1963 and 1972 when no less than 7 elections for the national Parliament or some part of it were held in a period of 9 years. [More…]
That is the sort of situation that develops when elections for the House of Representatives and half the Senate get out of kilter as occurred in 1963. [More…]
Speakers in the debate last night did not deny the desirability of having simultaneous elections and everybody’s preference for them. [More…]
This idea that there must be 7 elections in the next 9 years is completely false. [More…]
All members of the Liberal Party of Australia, including Senator Durack, said to a man 2 years ago that this alteration to the Constitution was unnecessary to achieve simultaneous elections. [More…]
It only requires the House of Representatives to have a premature dissolution to synchronise its elections with the Senate at a time stipulated by the Constitution. [More…]
But it is completely misleading to put that forward as necessitating an undue number of elections in the next 9 years. [More…]
It was a question as to whether the Governor-General had power to ask for a new Prime Minister who would recommend a dissolution so as to enable an election to take place to avoid mal-administration and to ensure that the Government could get parliamentary funds to carry on. [More…]
It is for the Prime Minister, who is the elected nominee of the majority from Sydney and Melbourne, to advise the Governor-General that an election is required and to send half this Senate to the people. [More…]
It may be that because of flood or fire an election is postponed from one Saturday to the next. [More…]
An election is not something that just happens on a particular day. [More…]
But broadly speaking and as a practical matter this Bill together with the supplementary legislation that is contemplated will achieve simultaneous elections. [More…]
I briefly reply to the suggestion by the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs (Senator Durack) that this legislation is necessary to achieve simultaneous elections. [More…]
That seems to remain the basis upon which it is put-that the Bill is necessary to achieve simultaneous elections. [More…]
Malcolm Fraser, in an election statement said: [More…]
Where, since the election of senators for a State following a dissolution of the Senate but before the division of the senators for that State into classes in pursuance of this section, the place of a senator chosen at that election has become vacant, the division of senators shall be made as if the place of that senator had not so become vacant and, for the purposes of section fifteen of this Constitution, the term of service of that senator shall be deemed to be, and to have been, the period for which he would have held his place, in accordance with this section, if his place had not so become vacant. [More…]
This amendment has the same effect except that it provides a guaranteed term of 18 months after a conjoint election between the House of Representatives and the Senate, whether it be a half Senate election or a double dissolution, whereas Senator Wright’s amendment guaranteed 12 months. [More…]
Briefly, the objection is that the acceptance of this amendment, as with Senator Wright’s amendment, would mean that in some circumstances the 2 Houses would get out of kilter and simultaneous elections would not be able to be ensured. [More…]
-Whilst I can see and have at all times accepted the argument in favour of the convenience and the reduction in cost of holding simultaneous elections, that makes simultaneous elections desirable but not essential. [More…]
I, therefore, ask again that people reconsider the instances where they are prepared to say that elections must be held simultaneously or the instances where they are prepared to take a stand and make simultaneous elections as practicable as they can without making simultaneous elections absolutely essential. [More…]
That is: Should a Prime Ministerany Prime Minister, of whatever party- the chief of the executive government, be able to take half of the Senate to an election at his whim and at any time that he choses, as opposed to at any time that the actions of that chamber have lead to a deadlock or confrontation? [More…]
I said that I did not see any advantage in having a second House- in retaining a bicameral system and having the Senate- if the decision of when one half of the membership of that House is to be put to an election is to be made at the whim of the chief of the executive government - [More…]
My short answer to Senator James McClelland s point is that the Senate cannot in any way nominate the day on which the House of Representatives will go to an election. [More…]
Entirely at their whim- as early as they like or after a matter of months- they can nominate a day for an election. [More…]
If the Prime Minister of the day can take half this House to the country at any time he thinks is politically opportune, any study of the structure would convince any objective student that that makes this House a rubber stamp of the executive government unless the people at a joint election divine the situation so as to return to this chamber sufficient numbers who will stand against the executive government when reelected. [More…]
What happens if the Senate is taken to the people a short time after election? [More…]
I think it is a very reasonable conclusion to say that that probably is an infringement and a restriction which would be imposed upon the opportunity to have double dissolutions under section 57 which bring senators to an election before their time. [More…]
That would make the concession to the Government that one refusal to pass a proposed law already passed by the House of Representatives would give the House of Representatives the right to call a half Senate election. [More…]
Another proposes a half Senate election if the Senate rejects any money Bill in the sense that I have indicated. [More…]
The effect of this amendment is to enable the government of the day, if it has had a measure rejected in the Senate which has been passed by the House of Representatives, to operate this Bill and have a half Senate election and a House of Representatives election at the same time. [More…]
In effect Senator Wright said that it is perfectly reasonable that the Senate at any time of its choosing should be able to force an election in the House of Representatives and have half the Senate go to the polls. [More…]
If it is perfectly reasonable that the Senate should be able to precipitate an election, surely it is perfectly reasonable that the entire Senate face the electors and be judged on its actions. [More…]
However the amendment does not ensure simultaneous elections occur at all times. [More…]
If there is a situation where it is necessary for half the Senate to go to an election and there is not a rejection or failure to pass any proposed law submitted to the Senate by the House of Representatives of course according to Senator Wright’s amendment there would not be a situation in which simultaneous elections would be possible. [More…]
I come back to the point I have been making over and over again: This Bill is designed to ensure that there will be simultaneous elections to avoid the excessive number of elections that have been occurring over the last 10 years or so in the national Parliament. [More…]
This Bill is not all about whether the 2 Houses ought to come together for election on polling day; it is much deeper than that. [More…]
Why should they not have the opportunity to say: Perhaps there is some merit in the proposal, but why should not the referendum be held simultaneously with the next half Senate election and thus save a great deal of money? [More…]
The importance of this convention now, if the people approve, to be turned into law is that the proportional representation system of election must be maintained. [More…]
The second part of the amendment, which is likewise most valuable and originates from the Constitutional Convention last year, is the provision that the person appointed to fill a vacancy shall not just fill it until the next election, when he may be thrown out and proportional representation would no longer apply in the State he represented, he will in fact now serve the balance of the term of the person who was elected originally. [More…]
For example, I ran on a group at the last election in order to get into the groupings under the provisions of the Electoral Act. [More…]
Proportional representation was introduced in 1949 in the election for representatives of this chamber. [More…]
Alf Arnell was the next candidate on the Labor Senate ticket at that election and he was nominated by the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Mr Bjelke-Petersen, the Premier of Queensland, well knew at that time that I had been endorsed already as the candidate of the ALP for the next Senate election. [More…]
This legislation goes a long way towards ensuring that the Senate retains the proportional representation that was given to it by the electors at the time of the election. [More…]
The proper way to give representation to a successor of a vacant seat under proportional representation is to recount the votes because the votes at a single election must be represented in the proportion in which the people then voted. [More…]
An empirical decision subsequent to an election for the fulfilment of a vacancy, unless guided by the recount of votes of a candidate who has already been before the people, will be invading the very fundamental principles of proportional representation. [More…]
Despite the fact that he did not secure re-endorsement for the election of 1974 in circumstances which, I think it might be fair to say, a lesser person could have well taken amiss, he remained a loyal and dedicated supporter of the Australian Labor Party until his death shortly after the death of his wife to whom he was very close. [More…]
But so strong are the links which bind us and so great are the tangible and intangible benefits which our allegiance has produced over so many years that I am confident that any such proposal will be rejected by a majority more overwhelming than that which swept us into government at the last federal election. [More…]
Because of the way it came to power I pointed out that if the Government’s policies which it had enunciated during the election campaign were not realised, if it did not bring down inflation and unemployment, it would be shown no quarter in the criticism which we would direct towards it. [More…]
They were prepared to bring on, or to threaten to bring on, an election every 6 months to the detriment of the country. [More…]
The Australian people will become more disillusioned as time goes by, and no doubt disillusionment has already been expressed in some State elections. [More…]
I am sure that when the result of the next election is known we will see a change back to policies which recognise the needs of the Australian people and which seek to give equity and genuine assistance to those in the Australian community who really need it. [More…]
Let me cite to the Parliament some of the statements that were made at that time in his election policy speech by Mr Fraser, who, as a result of that election, became the Prime Minister. [More…]
After a period of some 15 months or 16 months in office the business confidence about which we heard so much from this Government and its supporters during that election campaign and about which we have heard so much from them in this Parliament since that campaign has not come to fruition. [More…]
Within a week or fortnight of the election of the new Wran Labor Government the Federal Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Street, and the Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, were blaming the Wran Labor Government for the high incidence of unemployment in New South Wales. [More…]
I again cite Mr Fraser ‘s election policy speech of November 1975 on which he was given a mandate in both Houses to govern. [More…]
The fact is a great deal of cynicism exists in Australia today because of the election policy speech of the Prime Minister and of recurring statements made by the Prime Minister and his Ministers. [More…]
Prior to the election the Liberal Party said: We are now enlightened. [More…]
This Government took the Australian people for a ride in the election in December 1975 and carried the vote. [More…]
But, in fact, on 26 November 1975 the Prime Minister said that the election of a Liberal-National Country Party government would give such business confidence that there would be a drop of some 200 000 in unemployment in its first 6 months. [More…]
This man, the Prime Minister, has abandoned almost every promise he made during the last election campaign to the community in general, particularly those promises made to the poor and underprivileged in this country. [More…]
He has even abandoned promises he made after the election. [More…]
I understand that the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) has been successful in stopping this atrocity, in stopping the Government going back on legislation which it introduced only 4 months ago, in stopping the Government going back completely on one of the firmest promises it made in the last election campaign. [More…]
That is not to say that that is a denial of the promise that was made during the election campaign and subsequently that tax reform remains a basic objective of the Fraser Government. [More…]
Of course, that is an improvement on the promise made during the election campaign that tax indexation would be introduced over a 3-year period. [More…]
I therefore hope that these are some of the matters that will be considered by the Federal Government during this Parliamentary session and during the period of its office which, of course, will continue beyond the next election. [More…]
In view of the high level of unemployment, the record December consumer price index increase of 6 per cent and now the record deficit which, when all taken together, constitute economic mismanagement of the worst degree, will the Government now take the advice it so often gave in opposition, that is, to have an immediate election to allow the Australian electorate to make a judgment of its performance? [More…]
The Government has indicated, both in its election policies and subsequently in its Budget decisions, that it supports student allowance schemes of the nature of the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme and others, and that, unlike the Opposition, it supports those schemes with a realisation of the need for the allowances to be increased in view of increases in the cost of living in times of inflation. [More…]
It is not living up to its election promise. [More…]
There has been criticism of the Government over its failure to honour its election promise regarding inflation. [More…]
The complete lack of honesty and the complete incompetence of the Fraser Government should lead to an election now if Mr Fraser really meant what he said in 1975. [More…]
Indeed, on one nomination form I know of which he submitted as a candidate for Senate election he showed his occupation as that of barman. [More…]
I remember his disappointment when he lost his Senate preselection after, as Senator Mulvihill just mentioned, 24 years service. [More…]
On the morning after the last federal election when senators on this side of the chamber were not receiving many calls, I remember, John Armstrong called at my house and discussed the results. [More…]
For instance, I can remember that there was some difficulty in this chamber at the time of the New South Wales State election campaign in May of last year when a senator on the Government side wanted to have a document incorporated in Hansard. [More…]
All honourable senators will recall that during the 1972 election campaign when Mr McMahon was Prime Minister he used a device called an auto-cue which did not always work properly. [More…]
If we recall all the events leading up to 11 November we realise that the then Opposition was not satisfied to go the normal course of 3 years and face the Australian Labor Party at the normal election time. [More…]
I can recall that in 1969 on the eve of a State election, pressure from the country areas of Queensland on the Premier, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, was so strong that he promised the country people that he would have a searching inquiry into these iniquitous confidential freight rate concessions and he appointed in 1969 a management services company named Beckingsale Management Services Pty Ltd. After 8 months it had completed its report but the year is now 1977 and the report has not seen the light of day. [More…]
I want to draw some attention to the various alibis which this Government has adopted since it was elected for the failure of its election promises and the failure of its economic management, but before I do I shall contrast some of the failures with the promises that were made in 1975- the promise to restore business confidence, the promise to reduce inflation and the promise to slash unemployment by 200 000 people if this Government were elected. [More…]
The second alibi used is the failure of the business community to respond to the election of this Government and become confident immediately upon the election of Mr Fraser ‘s Government. [More…]
I venture to say that by 1978, or on whatever earlier date an election is held, this Government still will not have developed its policies. [More…]
The line ‘switch on the lights’ was repeated so often that it virtually became the catch phrase of the election. [More…]
Bearing in mind the time factor which is one matter that concerns me with the inevitability of an election in October of this year, I think it will be necessary for the Distribution Commissioners to work quite swiftly. [More…]
The election was by secret postal ballot of the rank and file and the votes are currently being counted. [More…]
Every 3 years or so there would be a presidential election. [More…]
The Constitution, the law, and parliamentary practice allow each Prime Minister to have a House of Representatives election on the same day as any Senate election. [More…]
He can have the House of Representatives and Senate elections on the same day simply by his own decision. [More…]
It is a ‘staggered’ election system with half of the Senate coming up for election every three years. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made that perfectly clear during the election campaign when he said that it would be a long hard struggle and a lot of slogging, and that it could take up to 3 years, before we saw what we would consider to be good economic recovery in Australia. [More…]
It is not a case of playing politics; it is a case of stating clearly what the Prime Minister saw the situation to be during the election campaign. [More…]
Some people no doubt expected a Father Christmas exercise almost immediately after the election. [More…]
Unless we all pull our weight it will be a longer and harder struggle than the Prime Minister said it would be in the election campaign. [More…]
I want to mention one or two references in the document, mainly because they represent more or less a repetition of the election promises made by the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on 27 November 1975. [More…]
In its pre-election speeches, this Government promised a new deal for supporting fathers but nothing has been done. [More…]
That is the same catchcry we heard prior to the election in 1975. [More…]
If we had had an elected president during the time of the constitutional crisis, he would have had the power to do what Sir John Kerr did which was to dismiss us and send us to an election in the event that we could not agree to the carrying on of government by the granting of Supply. [More…]
We certainly came back from India with the opinion that Fernandes had taken the right stand in deciding that he would not take part in the election campaign that was about to be held because he thought that he could not campaign from detention in gaol and that the elections would be rigged. [More…]
However, wiser heads prevailed and the Socialist Party of India decided that it would take part in the election campaign as part ofthe coalition which stood against the Congress Party. [More…]
Regardless of whether one supports Fernandes or the Congress Party the election result is certainly a great turnaround from the position we saw in India and a great victory for democracy not only in that part of Asia but throughout the world. [More…]
One only has to look at some of the speeches made during the Western Australian State election to realise how the talks were used for this purpose. [More…]
That in the opinion of the Senate, the following is a matter of urgency: That the Federal Government has failed to honour its election promises to Aborigines. [More…]
That in the opinion of the Senate, the following is a matter of urgency: That the Federal Government has failed to honour its election promises to Aborigines. [More…]
During the 1975 election campaign and prior to the commencement of that campaign we heard many statements from representatives of the parties who are now in government saying that there would be no cutbacks in money for Aboriginal affairs and that no one would be deprived of his just entitlement. [More…]
The 1976-77 Budget brought down by this Government, which Mr Ellicott said during the pre-election period would not impose any cuts at all, only served to highlight the callousness or the general thinking of the administrators. [More…]
The Government is mindful of its election undertakings and is committed to promoting the welfare and well-being of Aboriginals. [More…]
Land rights legislation have top priority immediately after election. [More…]
As if all these things were not enough, there appears to be an attempt to keep Aboriginal people from participating in elections. [More…]
I quote from a letter I received from a voter at Fitzroy Crossing in relation to the recent State election campaign in Western Australia. [More…]
It was the most vicious intimidatory action I have yet seen any party apply to Aborigines in an election. [More…]
This subjected each person who asked for help to a series of questions not applied to them in any previous election nor to European electors in this one. [More…]
During the election campaign both the party candidates had been given a hearing by all Aboriginal communities at Fitzroy. [More…]
I wanted to vote for Labor last election but they muck me about for the first voting that was on 1 975. [More…]
That is a matter which I could refer to the responsible Minister or was the honourable senator referring to a State election? [More…]
No election has been held in Victoria to fill the vacancy. [More…]
That the Federal Government has failed to honour its election promises to Aborigines. [More…]
However, I do not believe that Senator Melzer either has proved that this Government has failed to honour its election promises to the Aboriginal people. [More…]
I am very pleased to be following Senator Bonner in this debate because I was interested to hear what an Aboriginal senator would have to say about this urgency motion which has been moved against the Government for its failure to honour the election promises made to the Aboriginal people prior to the December 1975 election. [More…]
That the Federal Government has failed to honour its election promises to Aborigines. [More…]
I believe that it has been brought forward because it happens to be 1977 and there will be an election in the Northern Territory in the year 1977. [More…]
Most of the matters brought up by the honourable senator who moved the motion had very little to do with whether the Federal Government had failed to honour its election promises to Aborigines, but I will come to that in a moment. [More…]
First of all, I should like to go back to the situation of the housing associations in the Northern Territory prior to the election of this Government. [More…]
Because this is an election year in the Northern Territory, the Labor Party, through a motion such as this, is endeavouring to pull the wool over the eyes of the people in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Section 16 of the Act provides that when a referendum is held on the same day as an election the same ballot boxes and polling booths may be used for the purposes of the referendum and the election. [More…]
I assert that the health of the Aboriginal community in Australia has deteriorated since the dismissal of the Whitlam Government, and I endorse the remarks made earlier by my colleagues on this side of the chamber that the Fraser Government has indeed failed to keep its election promises to the Australian Aboriginal people. [More…]
It is a well known term in electoral discussions and is defined in one of the major dictionaries in the library as follows: a method of arranging election districts so that the political party making the arrangement will be enabled to elect a greater number of representatives than they could on a fair system . [More…]
At the next election he received 37.49 per cent of the vote and at the next election he got 45.84 per cent. [More…]
In the election conducted on 2 March 1 968 the Labor Party, as the Government having to go the people, received 51.98 per cent of the vote. [More…]
I give Senator Hall credit for the fact that, because the contest was so close, when he had to go to the hustings because of a byelection he said that he would bring about electoral reform. [More…]
The Labor Party won the election with a majority of seven, with a very small increase in votes following the redistribution brought about by Mr Hall. [More…]
In 1973 Mr Dunstan was again returned to Government after winning 5 1.52 per cent of the vote and the Liberal Party lost the election after receiving 39.79 per cent of the vote. [More…]
He made no statement at all as to whether compulsory voting applied in various circumstances; whether there were elected to the House of Assembly in South Australia independents who supported the government of the day; or whether many seats were contested in those elections. [More…]
I cite as an example the 1959 election. [More…]
In that election 2 1 of the 39 House of Assembly seats were uncontested. [More…]
Senator McLaren emphasised those elections last night and related the 1938 election result to the fact that the Liberal Party in South Australia gained only 3 1 per cent of the votes in the 1975 election. [More…]
There is no question in Senator Harradine ‘s mind of the unions’ adhering to the law and conducting democratic elections. [More…]
He wants the Government to enter into another agreement so that it will not be necessary for such elections to take place. [More…]
Honourable senators will remember the provisions for the collegiate system of voting and the 1 5 per cent provision relating to the election of a decision making body. [More…]
He cited the case when in one election 2 1 seats were uncontested. [More…]
What I am saying is that in the election of 1953 a party which received 50.97 per cent of the vote remained in opposition. [More…]
In one election, there were 2 1 uncontested seats. [More…]
But when all seats were contested in the March 1968 election, Labor received 51.98 per cent of the votes and was defeated by a party that received 43.82 per cent of the votes. [More…]
The Liberal-Country League Government was returned to office with 43.82 per cent of the vote in a fully contested election. [More…]
Senator Hall has told us of the alteration which he claims has brought about one of the most democratic election systems. [More…]
The result of the election in 1972, as some honourable senators may remember, was that [More…]
The Government may need this time, but I suggest it should not need this time in view of the fact that at the end of 1975, during the general election campaign, members and supporters of the present Government said continually that the election of a LiberalNational Country Party government would mean the survival and the increased affluence of the apple and pear growers, as well as other primary producers in the community. [More…]
As I said, in 1975 Government supporters told apple and pear growers in Tasmania with considerable vehemence that after a Liberal-National Country Party government won the election they would be looked after. [More…]
I remind him of the promise of the Labor Premier, Mr Wran, on which he based his election victory, that a State Labor Government would reemploy 3000 unemployed teachers. [More…]
The statement we are looking at does note some change in the position of the United States of America following President Carter’s election and this needs to be examined by an Australian delegation for the Australian Government. [More…]
He was speaking to Indonesian Pressmen on his return to Jakarta, from election campaigning in Sumatra. [More…]
The Federal election in Australia took place on 13 December 1975. [More…]
Al the time nl tin- election nf lite S medical committees thai head the :> .specialist medical units in the hospitals, the private doctors ran a how-to-vole ticket thai had nothing to do with medical competence and everything to do with ACTMA politics. [More…]
In the establishment of the new Tertiary Education Commission the Government is redeeming one of its election promises. [More…]
Following that, as a result of election promises made during the 1960s, the Federal Government’s involvement in education increased. [More…]
In 1969 the Labor Party gave an undertaking to establish a Schools Commission and during the 1972 election campaign Mr Whitlam made a statement which I consider to be worthwhile quoting. [More…]
Following the 1972 election the Labor Government followed this procedure and the Interim Committee was set up followed later by the Schools Commission. [More…]
I think that that is really the essential point- that the reforms proposed by this legislation will provide better co-ordination of educational policies at the tertiary level, and it implements the Government’s election policy on the need to coordinate the work of the educational commissions and in this case particularly the 3 tertiary education commissions. [More…]
Did the Prime Minister in his election policy speech 18 months ago state that a government which understands and can manage the Australian economy is essential to Australian prosperity and to the revival of business confidence? [More…]
The policy was clearly stated in the November-December election campaign in 1975. [More…]
Senator Harradine ‘s major criticism seemed to me to be that the Government’s legislation does not require compulsory unionism, yet that in fact was the very first point under the heading of Organisations’ in the Government’s policy statement issued prior to the election in December 1975. [More…]
This legislation was anticipated in speeches by Government candidates prior to the election. [More…]
He did this despite the fact that the Industrial Relations Bureau was part of our election platform; in fact, it was quite an important plank in our policy. [More…]
However, the principle behind the legislation already had received wide public debate at the time of the election campaign. [More…]
I am sure also that the Medibank strike which occurred after the election underlined the fact that the ordinary rank and file member wanted some form of redress and some way to say to his union executive if he felt as many of them did at that time that there was not enough consultation and, in a majority of instances, there was absolutely no consultation between the union bosses and the members of the union. [More…]
Defeated at election held on 30 November 1963. [More…]
Defeated at election held on 25 November 1967. [More…]
Defeated at election held on 13 December 1975. [More…]
I further ask: If the letter indicates that the Minister is advocating that the Federal Government break its election promises on the environment and on Aboriginal affairs in order to push ahead with uranium mining in the Northern Territory, does not this pre-empt any recommendations which may be made by the second report of the Fox inquiry? [More…]
In view of the fact that polling clerks are on duty for some 15 hours or more on polling days, will the Minister take some action before the next Federal election to see that suitable heating is provided in polling booths where none exists at present? [More…]
We will remember that in 1975 in its election platform the Liberal Party said: … we intend to take the matter further by having a White Paper developed for further discussion and investigation. [More…]
Following the election of the Fraser Government statements were issued concerning a White Paper on manufacturing industry. [More…]
An election was held. [More…]
At that time and during the course of that election the Liberal and National Country parties undertook specifically to bring down in the Parliament a White Paper for discussion. [More…]
In the election campaign Senator Cotton promised that he would carry out the recommendation of the Jackson Committee and would produce a White Paper. [More…]
He did this in the course of the election campaign on 28 November 1975. [More…]
Yet a month after the Wran Government was elected in New South Wales, the Prime Minister- ignoring the fact that there was a report on manufacturing industry known as the Jackson report and ignoring the structural difficulties that manufacturing industry had in Australia- in his typical, inane and inept way, had the temerity to suggest that the decline in the work force in New South Wales arose primarily as a result of Mr Wran’s election. [More…]
1 have no doubt that it will become a wealthy country again after the election in 1978. [More…]
The decision to abolish the Australian Development Aid Agency was taken within a few months of the election of the present Government. [More…]
It was foreshadowed by Sir Robert Menzies in his 1 963 election speech. [More…]
Is it a fact that there was once a Senator Jack Kane but that he was defeated at an election in New South Wales as long ago as May 1 974? [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Has he seen a report in this morning’s Sydney Morning Herald under the signature of Mr Peter Bowers in which it is stated that the Prime Minister has warned or alerted officials of the Liberal Party that if the referendum fails to be carried he will bring on a Senate election before the Budget in order to find a time when it is more favourable to the Government? [More…]
It was reported that the purpose of the referendum is that the Prime Minister is trying to find the most favourable time for a Senate election. [More…]
Does this not very clearly indicate that the Prime Minister’s stated reasons for holding the referendum are untrue; that the real reason is that the Prime Minister is fishing around to find the most suitable time for an election in the hope that he will find a more appropriate time to return to office; and that the purpose of this referendum is to delay a Senate election as long as possible in the hope that he will have things in better shape than he has at the present time? [More…]
That is why one has provisions within the Commonwealth Electoral Act, certainly within the Constitution and within our own Standing Orders, as to disputed returns on election of senators, no matter how chosen. [More…]
I doubt that any honourable senator on my side of the chamber has not been to meetings of the Liberal Party where there have been requests that party affiliations of candidates for election be shown on ballot papers. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister representing the Attorney-General been drawn to the repeated assertion by Senator Rae, on behalf of the referendum No campaigners, that the simultaneous election proposal makes no provision for simultaneous elections? [More…]
Did the Minister not, in debate on the Constitution Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) Bill in February, clearly dispose of this misleading and pettifogging assertion? [More…]
In view of the danger of the people being deceived by repetitive assertions of this nature, will the Minister reassure the public that they will achieve simultaneous elections, with all their attendant benefits, by voting for this proposal? [More…]
The matter was canvassed in the debate on the Constitutional Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) Bill 1977 in this chamber. [More…]
The proposal seeks to alter the Constitution to ensure that Senate elections are held at the same time as House of Representatives elections. [More…]
That proposal also contains the provision that this Parliament is to make the laws for determining the times and places of elections of senators. [More…]
As I have pointed out in the debate on this matter in the chamber before, an election is not simply a polling day. [More…]
An election is a long process. [More…]
It is quite obvious from the nature of the proposal for simultaneous elections, coupled as it is with a proposal for this Parliament to make laws for the holding of Senate elections, that it will obviously be the purpose of any government to ensure that the election for half the Senate will be held at the same time as and on the same day as elections for the House of Representatives. [More…]
It is not necessarily the case that polling in an election takes place everywhere in Australia on the same day, although naturally as we all know by and large that is the case, and that is what is to be intended to be the provision in this proposal. [More…]
He may whistle a different tune when election day comes in 1 978. [More…]
The only time that it was put to the test was in the election held in 1929 or 1930 when the then Prime Minister, Mr Bruce, went to the people on a platform of abolishing the system of conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Government in the Senate have been claiming continually that there is a necessity to have simultaneous elections of the Senate and the House of Representatives, I ask: Is it not a fact that simultaneous elections of the Senate and House of Representatives can be held simply at the request of the Prime Minister? [More…]
Is it also not a fact that in these austere times all that is necessary, with the Prime Minister talking about austerity, is for the Prime Minister to mount his push bike, go out to Yarralumla and see the GovernorGeneral and tell him that he wants an election of the House of Representatives and the Senate at Senate election time? [More…]
If he took time off to read the High Court judgments in both the McKinlay case and the McKellar case, he would know that unless one wished to have an election at large, it is not possible to take the House of Representatives out until a redistribution is made, certainly in accordance with the decision in the latter High Court case. [More…]
If the honourable senator believes that it would be a good thing to have the House of Representatives elected at an election at large instead of by single member constituencies let him say so, but I think there is a general desire, certainly by members of that place, for the single constituency member to continue. [More…]
Before the last election the conservative coalition was quite clear that it had the answers to the housing problems in this country. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that during 1975 in the frantic election campaign the Government made lavish promises in respect of the older citizens in the country but has failed to provide the goods that these people were promised. [More…]
Will the Government now take the advice it so often gave when in Opposition, that is, have an immediate election to allow the Australian electorate to make a judgment of its performance. [More…]
I understand that Mr Dunstan has been making a lot of noises about an election this year. [More…]
I am concerned about the position of Senator Lewis from Victoria who was appointed for a period up to the next Federal election in accordance with the Constitution as it then was. [More…]
On 10 March I asked a question regarding the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee as to when an election was to be held to replace Mr David Anderson who resigned on 28 February and when the next meeting of the NACC was to be held. [More…]
As to this date no by-election has been held to replace Mr Anderson and now more than 12 months have elapsed since the last meeting of the NACC, can the Minister give me some information on this matter? [More…]
The amendment will preclude an election being made under the section in respect of transfers of interests in company shares and securities or other choses in action. [More…]
The amendment proposed will not, however, withdraw any rights to lodge elections under section 36a in relation to transfers of interests in such property that took place before today. [More…]
The situation which we have had twice now in New South Wales, where people have had to fill in 70-odd squares the first time and 50-odd squares the next time, has turned the method of election into somewhat of a lottery. [More…]
1 think that when an election for the Senate is turned into some sort of lottery the end result is a downgrading of the standard of this chamber. [More…]
We have also seen the election in New South Wales that went through May and June 1976 and the Tasmanian election that took place in December 1976. [More…]
In the last State election in New South Wales we saw some of these improvements. [More…]
Any who did would agree that there is a very good case for the polling places to close at 6 o’clock, especially for elections held in the winter months. [More…]
Of course there are ways to launder money, to make it impossible to know where donations come from, especially during the rush of an election campaign. [More…]
People are able to go into the election commission office in Washington- I went there myself- and for 10c a copy get a list of all the donations being made to any of the candidates who are running in the primary elections for the Presidency of the United States. [More…]
That could be at a half Senate election which must be held before June of next year. [More…]
One of the first things we did when we came to office was to introduce legislation requiring compulsory secret ballots for the election of union officials, because we believed that this would encourage trade unionists to take a greater interest in their union leadership and would ensure that more responsible leaders were brought into a position in which they could protect the interests of trade union members throughout Australia. [More…]
The Government indicated during the last election campaign and has confirmed since its intention of encouraging the private sector in Canberra, in the Capital Territory and the adjacent region to provide balance for the existing dominance of the public sector in this national capital. [More…]
The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, made capital in the 1975 election campaign about the overseas jaunts of Mr Whitlam during Labor’s period of Government. [More…]
Even at the time of the loans spy mission late last year, and the unnecessary recall of the State Parliament in the week before the Federal election, it seemed that the Premier had acted unwisely. [More…]
Section 128 of the Constitution provides for proposed laws for the alteration of the Constitution to be submitted for approval in each State to the electors of each State qualified to vote for the election of members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
1 ) When is the Government going to implement their 1975 election promise to quickly establish a National Rural Bank to provide specialised funds for Australian rural industries. [More…]
Has he noticed that Mr Gough Whitlam, the referendum comrade of Mr Fraser and Mr Anthony, has stated that the Government should bring the House of Representatives to an election next May with the Senate, making it a simultaneous election? [More…]
Does this not prove the truth of the No’ case that simultaneous elections for both Houses of the Parliament can be held at the decision of the Prime Minister? [More…]
We have just seen the results of an election in Israel where a party that has an entirely different attitude from the previous Government of Israel has come into power. [More…]
Despite quite trenchant opposition from the people who opposed the simultaneous elections question with the backing of funds conscripted from the taxpayers of Western Australia and Queensland the question regarding casual Senate vacancies was approved. [More…]
Perhaps what is really needed to carry the first question is a State government, as it is perfectly entitled to do under the present law, to refuse to issue the writs for a Senate election when requested to do so by the Federal Government. [More…]
Perhaps it would be better still if each of the 6 State governments decided to hold Senate elections on a different Saturday. [More…]
The first of the 6 Senate elections could be on 3 July next and the last on 30 June 1978. [More…]
If or when that happens it will be made perfectly clear to the people that the simultaneous election provision in the Constitution can no longer be tolerated. [More…]
He asked why the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) could not hold a conjoint House of Representatives and Senate election next May, that is, hold an election for the House of Representatives 6 months early and a Senate election about the normal time. [More…]
So I want to say this: First of all, the matter of simultaneous elections was all moonshine. [More…]
The comrade-in-arms in the referendum campaign of Mr Fraser and Mr Anthony- I refer to Mr Whitlam- has stated publicly that the Prime Minister could bring the House of Representatives to an election with the Senate in about May of next year. [More…]
We said that it could be done, and everybody knew that, but the screen was put up and we were told that the referendum had to be passed so that we could have simultaneous elections. [More…]
Everybody knows that the prime reason why the Prime Minister and Mr Anthony proposed this referendum question was to delay the half Senate election until things are better so that it would not have an adverse reflection on the House of Representatives election 6 months later. [More…]
So this fabrication was put forward and then their comradeinarms, Mr Whitlam, blew the gaff when he said that the Prime Minister should hold the House of Representatives election at the same time as the Senate election. [More…]
I well recall after the last Senate election the declaration of the results of the poll in Hobart. [More…]
They support them in their votes in this Senate, in the speeches they make and in the preferences they give to the Liberal and Country Parties on election days. [More…]
Does the Miniter recall his Government’s 1975 election policy statement on minerals and energy that ‘The Liberal and National Country Parties will encourage the use of liquid petroleum gas in commercial vehicles and fleets’. [More…]
During the recent referendum campaign relating to simultaneous elections it was frequently stated as an argument that this Senate should not have the right to send the other House of Parliament to an election without itself going to the people. [More…]
I would like to know, for the record, whether this Senate has sent the House of Representatives to an election on its own or whether on each occasion that the Senate has caused an election there has been a double dissolution. [More…]
In view of the arguments during the campaign, I would like to know whether this chamber has ever sent the House of Representatives to an election on its own. [More…]
Mr. Fraser was asked for his reaction to the call by Mr Whitlam for a general election- for the Hose of Representatives and half the Senate -in ky. Mr Fraser said: ‘I believe that a governent should be allowed to run its full term, i a matter of fact, I believe that 3 years is not 10: enough. [More…]
!> take that a bit further, if one looks at H,sard one sees that Senator Withers is on record as saying- I think it was some time in Ail 1974- that immediately after the election 0the Labor Government in 1972 the then Liberal-Country Party coalition set about getting t’ Labor Government out of office. [More…]
That is right, and have a simultaneous election. [More…]
When honourable senators opposite are in Opposition they will do anything to force an election because they have nothing to lose and they have a chance of government, but when they are in government they do not want an election because they have a lot to lose and because they know that there will be a change of government. [More…]
I am sure the people will not forget this incident at the next election, whenever that may be held. [More…]
He has been most emphatic in stating that a Yes vote on the referendum for simultaneous elections was not needed because simultaneous elections could be held without that vote. [More…]
But what Senator Wood does not go on to tell the people and what none of his colleagues in the No campaign told the people is that, whilst they are not prepared to sacrifice any of their term of office for which they were elected under the present Constitution, they are quite happy to have members in another place sacrifice some part of their term of office of 3 years to bring about a simultaneous election. [More…]
They said we can have simultaneous elections. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) has called for an election in May next year. [More…]
But those eleven or twelve rebels opposite have it in their hands to cause a simultaneous election to be held in May next year. [More…]
So we will have a simultaneous election. [More…]
If the election were held in April next year, after the Appropriation Bills had been opposed, instead of retiring on 30 June those senators would have to go out about 2 months before they want to go. [More…]
Of course, they did not hoodwink the people as a whole because 62 percent of the electors in this magnificent country voted for simultaneous elections. [More…]
I venture to say that if the proposal for simultaneous elections had been carried the Senate would have been given more power and responsibility. [More…]
Honourable senators who want to force members of the House of Representatives to an election have to weigh up whether half of themselves are prepared to face an election also. [More…]
They cannot tell me it is democratic when a proposal for simultaneous elections cannot be carried when 62 per cent of Australians are in favour of it. [More…]
He said: ‘it was nonsense to say that the simultaneous election proposal could lead to abolition of the Senate’. [More…]
They are the things that this Government has to explain to the people at the next election. [More…]
I am hoping, as I said before, that Senator Wood and his colleagues will have the courage of their convictions and will put the Government to an election next April because they have the power to do it. [More…]
Of course, with a Queensland election coming up before that time and in view of the way the present Queensland Premier behaves in misleading the people and misappropriating public funds, to use the words which came out of the mouth of the present Prime Minister, there is every possibility that there will be a Labor Premier in Queensland despite the gerrymander. [More…]
So there will be 4 States that will be agreeable to the issue of writs for an election for half the Senate in April next year if Senator Wood and his colleagues- and Senator Bonner is one of them- have the intestinal fortitude to carry out what they say should be done; that is, that there was no need to have a referendum for the holding of simultaneous elections because the Senate can bring on an election. [More…]
You will have the opportunity in May or April when the Appropriation Bills come in to bring on an election. [More…]
The great goal of this election is to put Australia back on its feet. [More…]
Senator Coleman spoke about broken election promises, as did quite a number of Opposition senators. [More…]
At election time Ministers make policy guarantees to people about matters for which the Government will legislate. [More…]
Since my election to this place I have snared, and still share, many of the views put forward by the 3 previous speakers. [More…]
That election is to be held on Saturday of this week. [More…]
The Point McLeay Council agreed out of court to hold elections on Saturday of this week. [More…]
I did ask during the Estimates Committee hearings who would be responsible for the cost of that election. [More…]
As a result of the issue of that writ, the council has agreed to hold elections which it did not want to hold. [More…]
The reason why it did not want to hold the election is known to the officer, known to myself and known to many other people. [More…]
I also asked the officer whether, if the result of the elections on Saturday next was that there would be no further antagonism by the Point McLeay Council towards the directors of the Ralkon Agricultural Company, the Department would then pay the $63,000 grant to which this company is entitled but which has been withheld because the Department has no confidence in the manager of that company. [More…]
They have every confidence in this man and they have also signed a petition of no confidence in the present members of the Point McLeay Council who come up for re-election on Saturday of this week. [More…]
There has been no appropriation made to hold an election to fill his position. [More…]
Under the conditions of appointment provision is made to hold an election of the Aboriginals living in his electoral area. [More…]
What I said, Senator Wright, related to a council election which is a different matter from the Ralkon Agricultural Co. [More…]
I want to express some general concern about the question of the Regional Employment Development scheme in the light of the Government’s election promise of December 1975 that the Scheme, which the Labor Government in the Budget of 1975 had announced would be phased out, would be restored by this Government. [More…]
That was an election promise made by this Government in 1975. [More…]
In the light of problems of that sort I am concerned to find out whether the additional appropriation of $ 1 20,000 is seen in some way as a fulfilment of those election promises or for what other purpose that additional amount is being appropriated. [More…]
Can he assure the Senate that the AUS election processes are fair, democratic and properly conducted? [More…]
There has been a great deal of discussion whether the election processes of the AUS are democratic. [More…]
The first step towards the relief of unemployment in New South Wales would be to direct the attention of Senator O ‘Byrne to the election promise of the Wran Labor Government to employ all of the unemployed teachers in New South Wales. [More…]
So if 700 teachers are unemployed in New South Wales no doubt Senator O ‘Byrne and his colleagues will ask Mr Wran when he is going to keep his election promise. [More…]
Under an amendment proposed by clause 6 of the Bill, 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 I now propose will preclude an election being made under the section in respect of transfers of interests in company shares and securities or other choses in action. [More…]
These 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 they took place before 24 May 1977, the day on which the amendments were foreshadowed in the second reading speech. [More…]
One recalls that there have been 2 State elections since the handover of the railways, one in Tasmania and one in South Australia. [More…]
In South Australia in particular the last State election was fought on the transfer of railways, and the people of that State agreed with the measures taken by the South Australian Government in effecting the transfer. [More…]
The South Australian election was brought forward by some 12 months or more because of the fact that the Liberal Oppposition in South Australia at the time was making all sorts of noises about the illegalities and the ramifications of such a transfer. [More…]
Mr Dunstan fought the election on that issue. [More…]
He won the election and he is still Premier of South Australia. [More…]
It was not the mere election of a Labor Government. [More…]
Let us look at what he had to say in one of his leaked letters when a State election was coming on. [More…]
-Before I ask my question, Mr President, I seek your indulgence to express to the Leader of the Opposition and the Leader of the Government in the Senate my appreciation of the congratulatory remarks they made on my election to the position of Deputy Leader of the Opposition today. [More…]
The Commission to Mr Justice Hope will fulfil both parts of the election promise. [More…]
If I had performed 2 weeks ago the way I am performing today perhaps I would have been up for election. [More…]
An election was brewing in New Zealand. [More…]
The Opposition will oppose this Bill because we believe that it is an example of a retraction on the part of this Government from the policy which it enunciated in 1975 in the course of an election campaign. [More…]
At least the Government, during the election campaign in 1 975, said that this full tax indexation would be introduced and in fact made a claim that by introducing it in 1976 full tax indexation would be introduced in one year. [More…]
Senator Wriedt has been making out a case that there is a retraction by the Government of some election promise; but in fact there is no retraction of any promise. [More…]
This is total tax indexation and it is not a retraction of any policy that was stated before the 1975 election or at any time since. [More…]
In no way can this be regarded as a betrayal of this Government’s stated promises before the last election or since. [More…]
One will recall that it claimed at election time that it would employ all unemployed teachers. [More…]
The clause provides for a fancy change of words to give the impression that the Government is honouring an election reform that it said it would introduce if elected. [More…]
But let us look at the original proposal before the Government decided that it had to carry out paragraph 3 of its election promise of 1 975. [More…]
In 1973 before an election New South Wales Premier Askin promised an industrial relations Act with very repressive measures. [More…]
After Sir Robert Askin won the election the proposal was forgotten. [More…]
The first step, of course, was taken some 12 months ago and that was the introduction of legislation which involved compulsory secret ballots for the election of union officials, the object being to encourage trade unionists throughout Australia to take a more active interest in ensuring responsible leadership, to the mutual benefit of the trade union concerned and the individual trade unionist. [More…]
-The question of whether or not we had been proved to be incapable in some areas should have been put to the test at the normal election time. [More…]
If your Party had been patient perhaps the result would have been the same, but it was not content to wait until the normal election. [More…]
If a ballot is held for the election of a person to the federal council or the State council of a union, people should not go on a crusade to the court to upset the outcome of that ballot. [More…]
I want to refer to the telegrams that were sent out by a Minister of this Government during the last election campaign. [More…]
I have always paid tribute to Senator Hall in the past for being a Premier who brought about some form of democratic electoral redistribution in South Australia, even though he was forced to do so because he made a rash promise in regard to a by-election for the seat of Millicent. [More…]
Now the matter has been settled the next election in South Australia will be fought on the most democratic boundaries we can get in that State. [More…]
I believe that Mr Fraser will have an election in May of next year for half the Senate and the House of Representatives. [More…]
I am sure that Mr Porter’s vote will drop dramatically from what he got at the last election. [More…]
Polls have shown that well over 80 per cent of South Australians are seeking to enjoy the freedoms that Victorian and New South Wales people enjoy and they will vote accordingly at the next State election. [More…]
Of course that is the attitude Senator McLaren defended tonight and which will be rejected utterly at the next South Australian election. [More…]
He will be returned at the next election also. [More…]
The present undemocratic election of those bodies, the present conduct of their meetings, the present character of the organisations, the funds that they have at their disposal which are used for extreme left wing causes have been condemned not just by the Liberal clubs on the campuses but by the Labor student movements also. [More…]
One thing that we have in common in this place is a desire to see decent democracy in this country and to see decent elections so that people elected to office really represent the groups whom they allege they represent. [More…]
What he has done is to ensure his re-election to the Guild of Undergraduates at the University of Western Australia at the next election. [More…]
The position has been complicated just recently by the election in Israel of Menachem Begin as the Prime Minister of Israel, a man whose own record unfortunately does not compare with those of his predecessors. [More…]
Election Statistics: Senate Election and General Election of Members of the House of Representatives, 13 December 1975- [More…]
Members of the present Government parties gave no hint to the electors during the general election campaign that they intended to take the retrograde step of eliminating this subsidy. [More…]
During the election campaign he did not tell the farmers that he had any intention of repealing it. [More…]
When we have the Prime Minister making an election promise to restore the bounty, of which he will be one of the biggest recipients, it does not smell good to me. [More…]
Within days of my election last year I started seeing dairy men, quite a few of whom are friends of mine whom I have known all my life. [More…]
Does this letter indicate that the Minister is advocating that the Federal Government break its election promises on the environment and Aboriginal affairs in order to push ahead with uranium mining in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The method of election or appointment has still not been decided, and I think it is terribly important that it be determined. [More…]
If the Minister and the Government persevere with the election of the consultative group several criteria must be considered. [More…]
The voting entitlement of the persons who form these consultative groups is not stated; their method of election is not stated. [More…]
How will the elections for the consultative groups be conducted? [More…]
If the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs (Senator Durack) sees fit to answer the questions- that would be a substantial improvement on his preformance over the last few days- I ask him, in fact, I challenge him to tell us, before this so-called House of review passes yet another Bill that was introduced into the House of Representatives only last Thursday, who will be entitled to vote and what will be the method of election. [More…]
It is the next election that we will look at. [More…]
198 on the broadcasting of election speeches and political advertisements (vide House of Representatives’ Hansard, 2 June 1976, page 2882), can the Minister provide similar details for the past two State elections in Queensland. [More…]
Details of political advertising and expenditure incurred by political parties in respect to the State election in Queensland on 27 May 1972 arc not available because they were not supplied in the form used for answer to Question No. [More…]
Information in respect to the State election in Queensland on 7 December 1974 is being compiled and will be available shortly. [More…]
Details of political advertising and expenditure incurred by political parties in respect to the State election in Queensland on 27 May 1972 are not available because they were not supplied in the form used for answer to Question No. [More…]
Information in respect to the State election in Queensland on 7 December 1 974 is being compiled and will be available shortly. [More…]
1 ) When is the Government going to implement their 1975 election promise to quickly establish a national rural bank to provide specialised funds for Australian rural industries. [More…]
In the 1961 election, when I was elected to the Senate, Theo Nicholls was the leader of the Labor team. [More…]
Senator Foll was defeated at that particular election. [More…]
-My question, which is directed to the Minister for Industry and Commerce, follows other questions about the AUS Student Travel Service Pty Ltd. Is the Minister aware that during recent Australian Union of Students election campaigns all students were assured by the AUS executive that the financial position of the AUS travel company was satisfactory? [More…]
As to the financial standing of the Australian Union of Students and its election campaigns, I know nothing about that. [More…]
198 on the broadcasting of election speeches and political advertisements (vide House of Representatives Hansard, 2 June 1976, page 2882), can the Minister provide similar details for the past two State elections in Queensland. [More…]
As previously stated in my interim answer details of political advertising and expenditure incurred by political parties in respect to the State election in Queensland on 27 May 1972 are not available because they were not supplied in the form used for answer to question No. [More…]
The following tables ‘A’, ‘B ‘C and ‘D’ provide answers sought by the honourable senator in relation to the State election in Queensland on 7 December 1974 and are based on information supplied to the former Australian Broadcasting Control Board by the licensees of commercial broadcasting and television stations and by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
As previously stated in my interim answer details of political advertising and expenditure incurred by political parties in respect to the State election in Queensland on 27 May 1972 are not available because they were not supplied in the form used for answer to question No. [More…]
The following tables ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C provide answers sought by the honourable senator in relation to the State election in Queensland on 7 December 1974 and are based on information supplied to the former Australian Broadcasting Control Board by the licensees of commercial broadcasting and television stations and by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
The present Martial Law Administration led by General Zia al Haq removed Prime Minister Bhutto from office on 5 July and plans to transfer power back to the civilian authorities by way of a national election on 18 October. [More…]
Why do honourable senators opposite think that the previous Speaker of the House of Representatives, the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes), almost lost his seat at the last election? [More…]
Why did it almost turn out to be a disaster for the Labor Party at the last election? [More…]
What happened in Tasmania at the Bass by-election? [More…]
They are the people who supply funds for the Opposition’s election purposes. [More…]
-Senator Mulvihill, I hope you did not get your election funds from the maritime unions. [More…]
The Government’s solution to the unemployment situation is to break the promises that it gave on the election eve to agree to full wage indexation. [More…]
The Government is using these devices to try to confuse the Australian electors in the same way as it confused the electorate on the eve of the election that defeated the Labor Government. [More…]
I would say that there have been occasions when Senator Chaney has considered the winning of an election in Western Australia more important than Aborigines in the Northern Territory, so I would not be too critical of those who did not attend meetings. [More…]
The amendments could not be made before he felt that it was essential to go to the people in an election for the Northern Territory. [More…]
As a result of the election, there is now the possibility of a majority group in the Assembly who will be more sympathetic to the Aboriginals’ claims than was the previous group which was in control of the Assembly. [More…]
The question of the United States troop withdrawals from the Republic of Korea has been the subject of exchanges of views at various levels between the United States Government and the Australian Government since the election of President Carter in November 1 976. [More…]
In its 1975 election policy speech the Government said: [More…]
An election was held in South Australia in 1970; the issue was the Chowilla Dam as opposed to the Dartmouth Dam. [More…]
He made this a great election issue. [More…]
After he had won back the premiership of South Australia at that election, Mr Dunstan admitted that, unfortunately, what he proposed to do was not possible because he had discovered that the terms of the River Murray Agreement prevented action by him which would result in the Chowilla Dam being constructed. [More…]
Quite frankly, I think the uranium issue in South Australia is an exercise similar to the Chowilla Dam election issue. [More…]
By his own choice, the Premier of South Australia now has an election on his hands. [More…]
-At the last State election a Labor candidate was returned in each electorate in the Kalgoorlie area. [More…]
But Mr Isaacs did say that if Labor won the Assembly election last Saturday, the party would co-operate with the Federal Government if it decided to go ahead with uranium development . [More…]
I do not know what his position is following the recent election in the Northern Territory. [More…]
That was prior to the Assembly election on 1 3 August. [More…]
If it calls an election on this issue it is admitting to the electorate at large that it does not have the capacity to govern. [More…]
It has lost control of the economy and it is going to try to fool the people into believing that it has to have an election to give it the numbers so it can govern the country. [More…]
It forced the Whitlam Government to an election following the double dissolution in 1974. [More…]
This new power which the Government wants is either a dictatorial power to enforce its new right wing tendencies in the industrial field or it is a gimmick which is a prelude to a general election which will be argued as being necessary to do away with the malcontents in industry. [More…]
If it wants an election let it not imagine that the Opposition will be afraid of it. [More…]
Senator Wriedt chose to pursue the theme that this legislation is necessary because of some thought of an early election on the part of the Government. [More…]
Parliament has been prostituted in order to instigate a political confrontation with the trade union movement, in order to ‘set up’ an election late this year in the sure knowledge that the appalling state of the economy- and unemployment . [More…]
To divert the debate on to issues relating to an election is quite irrelevant. [More…]
The Government wants to have this legislation so that, when it goes to an early election or supports the campaign being run in the South Australian election by Dr Tonkin, it can show that it has made a move against industrial anarchy. [More…]
He won the seat of Cunningham at the 1963 general election, and retained it until his death in Canberra yesterday. [More…]
If the Dunstan Government, with very considerable reserves in its capital accounts, is crying poor mouth it is doing it purely for election purposes. [More…]
the overall result would be that if the Liberal Party polled as well at the next election as it did in 1975 that party would win the election on the new boundaries? [More…]
I think the honourable senator is quite right in saying that on the boundaries that are coming out at the moment we will certainly win the next election, the one after and the one after no matter how many redistributions take place. [More…]
I think two areas that could be given better attention than has been the case in the past are firstly, the remuneration of people operating in the Antarctic bases and secondly- I have raised this with the Minister before in Estimate Committee hearings- the right of people in the Antarctic to vote and the ability of those people to be able to cast their votes in elections and referenda and matters of that kind. [More…]
Of course under our present arrangements it is not possible for these people to exercise their democratic right of a vote at elections. [More…]
I hope that the situation can be corrected because it is one of the fundamental rights of people to be able to cast their vote at an election. [More…]
Contrary to the grandiose promises in Mr Fraser ‘s election speech, we have seen the following: Industrial confidence has declined; manufacturing output has declined; real wage rates have declined; dwelling house construction has declined; unemployment has risen; the number of loans made by major institutions for all new dwellings has declined from 22,700 to 19,800 between the last quarter of 1976 and first quarter of 1977; total new private capital expenditure declined by 2.5 per cent in the first quarter of 1977; and the Sydney share market indices for manufacturing industry are at one of their lowest points. [More…]
On this basis how can the Prime Minister claim that the whole exercise is not an election ploy? [More…]
Senator Wriedt who led for the Opposition spoke about the election promises in 1975 of the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
Consequently, the latest gallup poll in the Bulletin a fortnight ago was headed ‘Labor would win federal election: The electoral support for the Labor Party is higher than for the Liberal and Country Parties’. [More…]
During the 1975 election campaign this Liberal-Country Party coalition gave an unequivocal commitment to establish a rural bank. [More…]
Prior to another budget being brought down in this Parliament electors of Australia will go to the polls for an election. [More…]
That may be an election for half the Senate. [More…]
I draw attention to these things simply because, as I said at the outset, before another Budget is brought down there will be a Federal election. [More…]
People may realise that there is to be an election in South Australia. [More…]
I was amused when the Premier of South Australia decided to make the main election issue the matter of unemployment. [More…]
In the 1973 election campaign Mr Dunstan boldly and loudly promised that he would build a petrochemical works at Redcliff at a cost of $300m. [More…]
He started his speech by saying that there will be an election soon in South Australia. [More…]
Two members of the House of Representatives who should be in unity to win the State election are fighting each other for the seat of Wakefield in South Australia to see who gains Liberal Party pre-selection for that seat. [More…]
That is one reason why a South Australian Liberal senator said going home last weekend that he could not get enthusiastic about the State election. [More…]
He said: ‘You cannot get enthusiastic when you know the results of the election’. [More…]
Everyone knows what the result of the election will be. [More…]
Of course Mr Dunstan said he would fight the election on the unemployment issue. [More…]
Not only Don Dunstan but also Bjelke-Petersen want an election in their respective States to condemn this Government for the unemployment level which it has created in Australia. [More…]
The whole purpose of the political propaganda is that an election is to be held and they know that the result will be hopeless for them. [More…]
They fear that the majority of voters in that election will condemn the Fraser Government anc. [More…]
It was very good for the purpose of winning the election for the Labor Government in South Australia. [More…]
He is an advocate for the election of a Liberal Government in South Australia. [More…]
Although I have raised this very important matter on those occasions, it appears that the Government as yet has taken no action to carry out a promise which was made by the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) in the 1975 election campaign. [More…]
Will the Government be able to keep to its program of calling an election on 1 0 December this year? [More…]
Well they might, because both are ALP candidates for the next House of Representatives election. [More…]
This meeting or representatives of 29 Unions declares that if the attacks on Bob Watling and Peter Imlach are allowed to succeed the result will lead to the destruction of the Tasmanian Labor Government and Labor’s chance in the forthcoming Federal Election and will pave the way for a procommunist takeover of the TTLC. [More…]
If some honourable senators on this side have an interest in a pro-communist takeover of the trade union movement they at least should heed the other part of that resolution declaring that it those two top officials are axed it will lead to the destruction of the Labor Government in Tasmania and Labor’s chances in the next Federal election. [More…]
These two people, Watling and Imlach, want to be expelled from the ALP so that they can form a group with him for the next Senate election campaign. [More…]
Is this not yet another example of cheap headline grabbing by the South Australian Government in the course of a State election campaign, which is totally illogical, devoid of economic principle, and designed to confuse the South Australian people as to the real issues? [More…]
Since his election to office, the Prime Minister has seriously damaged the Liberal Party and cast aside the stability and sense of direction of earlier times. [More…]
I remember reading the headline in 1973, during an election campaign, which said that Mr Dunstan was going to build a $300m petrochemical works at Redcliff near Port Augusta. [More…]
The Labor Party knows that there is to be an election in South Australia and it has introduced this motion so that it can go back to South Australia with a story of propaganda. [More…]
It has been mentioned in this debate that it has put forward at each election for, I think, the past several elections the proposition of a petro-chemical works in South Australia. [More…]
So we can go through the many empty promises of the Labor Government in South Australia and know that they are just election bait and nothing more, bait that takes the South Australian public for a ride at each election. [More…]
The first person I wish to speak about is Mr David Llewellyn who, as was said last night, will be a candidate for the Australian Labor Party at the next House of Representatives election. [More…]
I should like to remind Senator Grimes that there was a vast difference also between the percentage of votes in the Senate for the ALP in Tasmania at the last Senate election and the percentage at the previous election. [More…]
I think Senator Douglas McClelland would agree with me that in the vital national election campaigns in 1969, 1972, 1974 and 1975-I think this is the nicest comment that I can personally apply to Les Haylen- Les Haylen did not feel it infra dig to be out on the street corners in the electorate of Evans where his family lived putting a point of view to the people on the kerbside. [More…]
The background to that report was the promise made by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) during the last Tasmanian State election that he would get the Grants Commission to review the needs of local government following complaints by the Tasmanian Premier that his State was being disadvantaged. [More…]
It seems to me that we are rapidly reaching a stage at which we need to provide funds to these local authorities in order to pay the aldermen and alderwomen to carry out their activities so that any person who wishes to nominate, stand and achieve election should be able to carry out the work of local authority representation. [More…]
It is interesting to remind ourselves that immediately before the 1972 general election the Labor Party promised the people of Australia that it would maintain the existing subsidies, that is, the direct per capita grants based on a 20 per cent principle that the McMahon Government had brought in. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has completely forgotten the Labor Party’s election policies that it would maintain the subsidies. [More…]
I indicated that the Department of the Capital Territory, in close co-ordination and co-operation with other interested departments, would prepare detailed proposals on the financial and administrative arrangements for submission to the Government and that the Government would ensure that the proposals would be available to Territory residents before the next Assembly election. [More…]
Without trying to be political at all, which I have no desire to be, I must confess it is somewhat of a surprise because, as I understand it, Mr Neilson took his party to an election not very long ago. [More…]
The strategy outlined before the election of December 1975 by the present Government was a fantasy. [More…]
Despite what the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Senator Cotton) has said in criticism of the Whitlam Labor Government, I should tell him that the public now realises that in our three years of government we had three elections to face, two of which were double dissolutions. [More…]
The public are now determined to give us, when the next general election comes, a further opportunity because not one person in Australia can name any accomplishment of this present Government. [More…]
Knowing full well that there had to be at least a half Senate election this financial year, the Government jettisoned all previous strategies and opted for tax cuts, on the basis of which it opportunistically asserted a deliberate change to a consumer led recovery. [More…]
The Prime Minister is trying to have an election before the end of this year because he knows that he does not have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning an election next year. [More…]
Let us look at some of the root causes of the economic troubles that beset this country until the election of the Liberal-National Country Party Government in December 1975. [More…]
These are the demonstrable facts that compare with those of the period immediately preceding the election when, under the Labor Government, the actual number of jobs in the work force declined. [More…]
-Senator McLaren can spout on about the South Australian election last week. [More…]
If there was anything like a disaster for the Labor Party, it was that election result on Saturday. [More…]
Of course we know that the Labor Party’s object is to destroy stability in this community so as to undermine confidence in the Government and hopefully bring an election in its favour. [More…]
That was said by the adviser to the Premier of South Australia who, during the election campaign over the last three or four weeks, decried the Federal Government’s policies. [More…]
Of course, he did not bother to release this sort of information until after the election, as we have now realised. [More…]
During the recent election campaign Mr Dunstan tried to make a play about being given a raw deal by the Federal Government. [More…]
In fact, the Labor Government in South Australia could have won the election with less than 50 per cent of the vote. [More…]
For Mr Dunstan to claim satisfaction from the result of the recent election is again a typical example of the Labor Party over emphasising the success of an election. [More…]
Is this an example of the private sector taking up the slack, or when can we expect the election promises of the Government to improve private business confidence and slash unemployment to be realised? [More…]
1 therefore ask the Minister whether the Department, at least, is anticipating an early election? [More…]
Senator Collard, like most members of the Liberal and National Country Parties, has obviously forgotten Tasmania, which is usually forgotten by those parties except when an election is taking place, because he said that Queensland is the only State which has more people living outside its capital city than inside it. [More…]
We are also proud of our Government, and our pride was borne out by the result of the election on Saturday. [More…]
If I could go back to the election of the Labor Government in South Australia in 1965, most of us who have taken some interest in public transport in South Australia realise that it was Mr Walsh who made provision for car parks at many suburban railway stations. [More…]
If the Government were sincere in its stated election policy that it would decrease the numbers of unemployed, this is one area in which it could bring about a massive decrease in unemployment. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a report in the Sydney Sun oi 21 September last in which the Wran Government is accused of breaking an election promise on education funding for New South Wales independent schools? [More…]
Apartheid was a word, an election slogan introduced in 1948 by Mr Malan. [More…]
It won the election and has had increasing support ever since. [More…]
We are on the verge of a law and order election, and Government senators say that if it is good enough to be a law it has to be obeyed. [More…]
I think that if we look at what has happened in the Australian Capital Territory since the election of the Fraser Government we can see very clearly how inept the Government is at economic management, how prejudiced it is when it encounters the public sector and how obtruse the Government remains about the real relationship between the public and the private sectors. [More…]
The reason Mr Fraser wants an early election is that he feels he can get himself another threee years by going now. [More…]
In the last days of the Labor Government and in the election campaign it certainly was a matter of great debate and concern by us. [More…]
Senator Durack was acting as if he were still fighting the 1955 election when he told us how wonderful things were back in 1952. [More…]
Rumours are going about now that are causing much unease m all circles- particularly the business circles which are bothered about the economic future of this country- that the Government will be calling an early election and that it will be going to the polls in December of this year. [More…]
There is no constitutional pressure or other form of pressure that would stop the Government governing for another year, but it is talking about going to an early election and will not deny that. [More…]
What is the only reason which could take the Government to an election? [More…]
I would like the honourable senator to tell us later if she gets the opportunity to do so- if the Government Whip has been sufficiently negligent to have put her on the speakers’ list- why it is that the Government is talking about having an election this year, one year before its time, if it is not because of the Government’s fear about the dreadful condition in which the economy will be next year. [More…]
-The Government is talking about it; the Press is talking about it; Mr Nixon is talking about it and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is undertaking an election campaign. [More…]
If Senator Archer is now going to give a categorical denial that there will be an election this year I would like to hear him do so. [More…]
If he is not to do it, other members of the Liberal Party, seeing that they seem to be concerned at the suggestion that there should be an election this year, will have the opportunity in a few moments to stand up and give a categorical denial to scotch these malicious rumours. [More…]
I am glad to see that Senator Archer at least, for one, has said that he is firmly opposed to an election this year and has said that he believes that only a slanderous person would make such a suggestion. [More…]
I go on to say that despite Senator Archer’s strong opposition to the holding of an election there are many people within the Liberal Party who are in favour of it. [More…]
For no other reason than the fear of the wrath of the Australian people if the Government waited to go to an election at the appropriate time. [More…]
I know- there has been a hint of it today by Senator Durack- that an effort will be made to say that the Moscow-line communists, the Pekingline communists or some other people in Melbourne are an election issue. [More…]
But I think the question still has to be asked: If they are an election issue, how does it come about? [More…]
What is it that the Government could do after an election which it cannot do before an election? [More…]
What powers is it lacking, with a majority in both Houses of the Federal Parliament, that it would have after an election? [More…]
This Government is talking of an election. [More…]
It is setting the stage for an election because of its admission of its total failure economically. [More…]
If the Government does scurry to the polls with perhaps the permission of the Governor-General, who may well feel that the best time for an election is always the time that suits the Liberal Party best, whoever is in government, I believe that the people will give the proper answer to it when it takes this reckless and unprincipled step. [More…]
Before I say a few words that hopefully will be constructive in some measure, let me say that if thoughts of an election are not generating much excitement in many fields they certainly are generating an extraordinary measure of excitement in Senator Wheeldon, who left his seat and paraded around the aisle as he became more and more enthralled in the question whether there should or should not be an election. [More…]
The subject of my remarks was Mr David McNicol, a journalist attached to the Bulletin, a weekly publication, and in particular the actions by Mr McNicol in 1965 when he falsified a news report which appeared in the Sydney Daily Telegraph of which he was then editor in order to secure political advantage for the Liberal Party in New South Wales in the State election which was then pending. [More…]
The second point I wish to raise concerns the speculation about an early election. [More…]
It is, of course, quite apparent that this Government and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in particular are desperate to conduct an election this year instead of next year. [More…]
This Government is desperate to have an election this year because it fears the wrath of the electors next year. [More…]
The Prime Minister clearly was preparing to hold an election on the uranium issue until he became aware of the relative unpopularity of the Government’s view on this issue and particularly its unpopularity with one of its traditionally strong areas of support, the female voters. [More…]
The logic of the situation, had the Government proceeded with this plan and even had it survived an election and lost 25 seats, is interesting to say the least. [More…]
One must speculate what the Government’s reaction would have been, having lost 25 seats in a uranium election. [More…]
The other more recent excuse to hold an election is industrial unrest which is deliberately exacerbated by this Government and by Liberal and National Party governments in Victoria and Queensland. [More…]
It is apparent, having found that the uranium issue was likely to be counterproductive, that the Government is now paving the way for an election on the question of industrial unrest. [More…]
Again this question arises: Let us suppose the Government holds an election on this issue and survives the election but loses 20 or 25 seats. [More…]
There is absolutely no need or justification for a premature election being called on the issue of industrial unrest. [More…]
The reason Mr Fraser wants an election is that he feels he can get himself another three years by going now. [More…]
On the other hand, of course, everyone knows that whatever statement is made by a person in the present Opposition, there is no way that person has any effective political power, at least until after the next election. [More…]
All these attempts to obtain a premature election are transparently cynical. [More…]
It seems to have been accepted, virtually without question, that if the Government decides to have an election there will be an election. [More…]
That view ignores what I believe is the very important role of the Governor-General, should Mr Fraser officially decide to ask for an election. [More…]
That is the Prime Minister- to seek a dissolution of Parliament simply because he would like to have an election long before it is due . [More…]
Precedents were set in 1904, 1905 and 1909 when Governors-General rejected requests by the Prime Ministers of the day for premature elections. [More…]
There are precedents for a Governor-General refusing to accede to a request from a Prime Minister for an election. [More…]
I do not believe that the Governor-General will accede to a request from the Prime Minister for an election should such a request be made because the Governor-General knows very well that if he grants an election for no better reason than that the Prime Minister wants one, he will have tacitly admitted that the function of the Governor-General as perceived by him is to grant the Liberal Party an election whenever it believes it can win, irrespective of whether it is in government or in opposition. [More…]
I do not believe that the Governor-General will grant a request for a premature election, given that knowledge, with one possible exception which I will mention later. [More…]
He has drawn to the attention of this Parliament and many other people the reasons for the story doing the rounds today that we possibly will have an election before the end of the year. [More…]
Senator Walsh should be thanked for what he has exposed here in relation to the proposed actions of the Prime Minister, who goes around the country dropping little syllables here and there- Mr Nixon does it; Mr Anthony does it; and I think one of the other Cabinet Minister did it the other day in a certain place, I think it was the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen- trying to put the people on edge by hinting that there may be an election in the offing in the very near future. [More…]
Country Parties want an election? [More…]
It is guaranteed, of course, that if the Prime Minister goes to an election he will come back with fewer seats. [More…]
He has the numbers now; so there is no need for him to go to an election- except, as I will point out, for one thing. [More…]
This is the main reason why the Prime Minister will go to the polls; he well knows, as Senator Hall has pointed out, that even if he is defeated at the election a Labor Government, which is the alternative, would not be allowed to govern because we would not have the numbers in this place. [More…]
That is, that we cannot have a successful and democratic trial of this Government at the next House of Representatives election. [More…]
It will be a no-election. [More…]
The Labor Party will be unable to obtain a majority in this chamber at the next Senate election. [More…]
As Senator Walsh has pointed out tonight, the present Leader of the Government is on record in the Senate Hansard as saying on more than one occasion that immediately after the election of 1972 he and others in the Liberal Party set about destroying the Labor Government despite the fact that the Labor Party had been elected by a majority of the people. [More…]
Because of the method of election of the Senate- with half the members of the Senate going to the people every three years- we were not able to get the numbers to pass legislation in this place. [More…]
As Senator Hall has rightly pointed out- it now looks almost certain because of the way the present Government has got the country into an economic mess, with rising unemployment which is the worst since the last Depression- even if Mr Fraser holds an election in December and is the loser he will still ride roughshod over the democratically elected government because he will have the numbers in this place. [More…]
I can understand Senator Hall’s concern because he was the victim of the same sort of thing when he was the Premier of South Australia, when he had to contend with a person named Mr Renfrey De Garis who even though he was in the same party- he was the Leader of the upper House- went on record as saying: ‘Why do you want a democratic election for the Legislative Council in South Australia? [More…]
Those are some of the reasons why the Prime Minister wants an election. [More…]
We then find a Western Australian Liberal member saying that he will not stand for election again because he cannot stand the methods used by the present Prime Minister. [More…]
If the present Prime Minister has to wait another IS months for an election the pot will boil over and he will be in real trouble. [More…]
If the Prime Minister does not hold an election before Christmas we well may live to see the day, in the not too distant future, when that will eventuate. [More…]
I am talking about an election because the hints are being dropped every day. [More…]
I would be happy if Senator Kilgariff could tell this Senate that there is not going to be an election and put the people’s minds at rest. [More…]
-We would like to have an election because we know from looking at the gallup polls and the rising unemployment figures, to which I shall refer in a few moments, that we would be returned to office. [More…]
We would welcome an election, because we are ready whenever he is. [More…]
I was elected in the first place for a term of six years but, because of the unsatisfactory way in which this Senate operates, I had to face two more elections even before my first six-year term finished. [More…]
But I got back each time and I suppose I can say to Senator Kilgariff that there is more certainty that I will be back here after the next election, whenever it is, than that he will be back. [More…]
The document in question is entitled ‘National Country Party of Australia Policy Speech: 1975 Election, delivered by Right Honourable J. D. Anthony, M.P., Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the National Country Party of Australia at Festival Hall, Brisbane, 26 November 1975’. [More…]
You would really think it was a Labor Party speech before an election, because the wheel has turned and history is repeating itself. [More…]
The great goal of this election is to put Australia back on its feet. [More…]
Unemployment was an issue in the State election in South Australia on 17 September. [More…]
In no way can he present and develop an argument as to the election and unseating of governments that in any way will justify the uncontrollable attitude that his party adopted towards Australian finances when it was in office. [More…]
The essence of the result of the 1975 election is simply that the Australian Labor Party, despite the method by which it confronted the Australian people, was found wanting by the Austraiian people. [More…]
In general, in answer to Senator McLaren, I would say that no fulminations and no causes of election can hide the fact that the members of the public have tested the Labor Party and found it to be wanting. [More…]
As I said, there are ample opportunities for the people of Australia to demonstrate their needs, to demonstrate their wishes and to demonstrate their concern not only on the issue of uranium and unemployment but also on the vital issue of broken promises, promises that were made prior to, during and after the election of this Government in December 1 975. [More…]
Can he say when the result of the Industrial Registrar’s investigation into the irregularities of the last election of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union will be made known so that the Government can take any action which may be necessary? [More…]
The investigation into the irregularities of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union election referred to by Senator Walters was carried out by what was then the Arbitration Inspectorate of the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]
As a result of that investigation, the union is in the process of conducting a fresh election for the office of federal national organiser. [More…]
In South Australia the federal executive of the union has taken a decision to conduct a new election for the office of State secretary. [More…]
The latter election is scheduled to take place immediately after completion of the ballot for national organiser, which closes on 1 7 October. [More…]
It is rather ironic that in this sort of economic environment the Government has the audacity to be talking about, contemplating, suggesting or floating the rumour that a Federal election will be held in the near future. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite do not do anything about the re-establishment of a scheme of that nature between now and the next election they will really be in great electoral difficulties. [More…]
Without doubt the most revealing indicator of the Fraser Government’s concern about its ecomomic performances is the obvious obsession of the Prime Minister with the holding of an election after only two years in office. [More…]
If an early election is contemplated there can be only one motive behind the Government’s stategy. [More…]
I suggest that that will be shown in the byelection for the Cunningham electorate on Saturday, 15 October. [More…]
The Government is quickly running out of electoral support, as will be shown by the people in the Cunningham by-election on Saturday, 15 October. [More…]
The Senate has had the pleasure of listening to Senator Douglas McClelland expounding eloquently on the reasons why an election should not be held. [More…]
I can well understand why no member of the Australian Labor Party wants an election to be held. [More…]
I can understand why they do not ever want elections to be held. [More…]
I do not know whether there is any truth to the speculation which they have been fuelling so carefully, but I say to them that we on this side can all understand their desire that there should be no election for as long as possible because they know they could not win it. [More…]
He alleged that the visit to Club Marconi was an electioneering stunt. [More…]
It was set up months ago and it was conducted in a low key manner quite unlike an election rally. [More…]
For a start, I place on record that my election to the Senate in 1 974 depended upon the Liberal vote in Labor seats in the western suburbs of Sydney. [More…]
There are 205,466 people who voted Liberal at the last election, and in none of those seats did the Liberal Party get less than 37 per cent of the vote. [More…]
Yes, and he also implied that the honourable member for Prospect, Dr Klugman, might be in danger of holding the seat in an election or in danger of holding it in a preselection. [More…]
All I can say to Senator Baume is that I confidently expect, also as a senator from New South Wales, that after the next election all of those six seats will be held by the Labor Party and that there will be a very large swing in the seat of Prospect towards the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
He has been going backwards and forwards across this country raising speculation about whether there will in fact be an election. [More…]
I just put it to the Senate: How can there be any sense of business certainty at all with everybody speculating daily as to whether there will be an election? [More…]
I think the most recent example of the extent of the rejection of this Budget was the results of the elections that have been held in South Australia and also in New South Wales. [More…]
They supported Labor candidates in the State election in South Australia and in the local government elections in New South Wales. [More…]
At the last Senate election I was elected by only a very narrow margin and perhaps I could say that that was because of the 200,000-odd people in those North Shore safe Liberal electorates who voted for the Labor Party. [More…]
In the local government elections in the electorate of Mackellar two councils were involvedthe Warringah Shire Council and the Manly Municipal Council. [More…]
In the elections for both of those councils for the first time Labor Party people have been elected to the councils on the official ALP ticket. [More…]
This happened in spite of a very strong attack against the endorsed Labor candidates by the honourable member for Mackellar, Mr Wentworth, who in the adjournment debate in the other place on the Thursday night before the local government elections were held called the Labor Party candidates, amongst other things ‘fifth column candidates’ and asked all people who lived in the Warringah Shire and the Manly municipal area to put the Labor candidates last on the ballot paper. [More…]
Indications are that inflation is now running at slightly under 10 per cent per annum, so it can be claimed fairly by our Government that despite the great problems caused by inflation which confronted it at the time of its election in December 1975, substantial progress has been made in reducing the rate of inflation to a more realistic level. [More…]
Then he made great play of the wonderful result his Government got in the 1975 general election. [More…]
I should like to remind him of the percentage of votes the Liberal and National Country parties did get and the number of seats they got with that vote under the old system of election. [More…]
In the 1975 election the Australian Labor Party polled 3,313,004 votes, or 42.8 per cent, and we won 36 seats. [More…]
No, it was not through the ballot box after the 1974 election. [More…]
It was through actions taken by a Liberal Premier in New South Wales and a Country Party Premier in Queensland who is now seeking re-election. [More…]
If we read the barometers correctly and if we can believe all the chit chat thrown around by various Ministers, unless those Ministers have been misinformed by their parties, there will be another election before Christmas and the people of Australia will be able to make a comparison: three years of Labor and two governmentsone of 17 months and another of about 18 months- compared with two years of LiberalNational Country Party government. [More…]
I am sure that when the results go up on the tally board after the next election is held there will be a great difference. [More…]
Senator Withers was on record- I referred to this yesterday- as saying that immediately after the 1 972 election the coalition parties set out to bring about the downfall of the Labor Government. [More…]
All he wants to do is fool the people like he did in the election campaign of 1975 when he was playing the fairy godfather. [More…]
I think of the position in my State where the Government has nine out of ten Parliamentary representatives in the House of Representatives and this year has six out of the ten representatives in the Senate to illustrate that it is the quality of the candidates and the policies that we espoused at the last election that brought about this result. [More…]
-Mr Dunstan is not particularly strong on logic and perhaps has a tendency from time to time to issue misleading statements, particularly at election time and Budget time. [More…]
But honourable senators opposite did not tell the people that during the 1975 election campaign. [More…]
Senator Scott in his speech went on to talk about how the Government within the first few months of its election increased the first advance payment for wheat by 20 per cent. [More…]
Of course, the wheat growers of this country know full well that for 15 years prior to the election of the Labor Government in 1972 there was no increase in the first advance payment. [More…]
I want to refer to a statement that was made by Senator Wriedt during the 1974 election campaign for the double dissolution of the Parliament. [More…]
Every election we used to see massive advertisements in newspapers with big red arrows pointing down to the words *Be Careful-These People Will Take Australia’. [More…]
If a Labor State is involved they will go out- probably in a few weeks dme when questions are asked at election rallies- and say to people who ask why the States are not getting money for sewerage schemes that that is the responsibility of the State governments. [More…]
It has been said by honourable senators op- posite during the last week or so, and even today y Senator McLaren, that there is to be an election and that this is an election Budget. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite constantly tell us that there is to be an election this year. [More…]
I think Senator Mulvihill put it in the terms of our being on the verge of a law and order election. [More…]
We do not have elections in Australia in that sense. [More…]
Every election in this country in recent times basically has been about the government of the country, about the running of the economy and about those who are most able to develop the country. [More…]
We have had elections that perhaps were thought would be elections on other issues, but basically the Australian people are concerned with what group of men and women is best capable of continuing to operate the economy of this country. [More…]
I put aside the suggestions about an early election as quite useless rumours. [More…]
We also need an end to the damaging speculation about an early election. [More…]
To have a House of Representatives election in December just as we are beginning to get inflation down would bring about a deep, self-inflicted wound. [More…]
The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, should end the election speculation now and get on with the job of improving the economy. [More…]
Many of us went up and down the countryside in May of this year arguing in the referendum campaign against the highly undesirable situation whereby governments and parliaments in the past have come to an early end because of the need to bring the two Houses together in an election. [More…]
I was also interested to read certain comments by Mr Whitlam in the Age of this day about election speculation. [More…]
Mr Whitlam said that if he were in Mr Fraser’s place- thank goodness he is not- he would kill the election speculation. [More…]
But I think it is desirable that we should have less of the election fever that has been and is around the place and that we should concentrate on developing the courage of industry and the courage of those people who alone can make the future of this country successful in an economic sense. [More…]
One would think the Government intends to fight the next election against an army of unemployed. [More…]
It looks as though the Government wishes to fight the next election against an army of unemployed and so long as the Government has a lack of understanding in the industrial field and its supporters continue blindly to make the remarks about the trade union movement that have been uttered by the two previous Liberal speakers, I am afraid there is very little hope unless the Government resigns. [More…]
I hope that the people of Australia who have taken notice of this debate will take that into account at the next election, whenever that might occur. [More…]
Let me simply say that those unemployed teachers who were given an election promise that all unemployed teachers would get a job would regard it as a great non-success, seeing that Mr Wran falls short by several thousand of keeping that promise. [More…]
I am aware that there was a recent election to the position of Federal Secretary of the Builders Labourers Federation, that some dispute has now arisen about that election and that proceedings have been instituted in the [More…]
For example, this included $8m arising out of Schools Commission recommendations that there be a percentage link between the per capita cost in a non-government school and the average cost in a State school; $3m in our judgment responding to the earlier indication by the Schools Commission that there was need for more capital in new growth areas and that capital to be applied through the State planning committees, and $2m for levels one and two schools in furtherance of our own mandate and election policies and in the spirit of the Schools Commission’s recommendations that there should be basic per capita grants, Federal and State. [More…]
Of course in this circumstance one is entitled to ask: Why all the speculation about an early election? [More…]
Can the Minister tell the Senate whether the New South Wales Government has done anything in its new Budget to overcome the great difficulties it has created for teachers in that State and whether it will be able to meet its election promise to employ all trained teachers? [More…]
I am aware that an essential plank of the Wran Labor Party’s election policy was that it would employ all unemployed teachers. [More…]
One was the statement by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) during his election campaign that the Liberal and Country parties would switch the lights back on. [More…]
It was only when the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), with his nose to the political wind, discovered that he was running out of popularity that he decided to use this again as a gimmick quite recently, just in case an election is held on 3 December or 10 December or whatever date it may be held. [More…]
If the Prime Minister loses his nerve I suppose an election will be held. [More…]
-I do not care whether the Government calls an election because after the election- whether it is held in the middle of December or in April or May of next year- Senator Withers will be sitting on this side of the House and we will be sitting on the opposite side of the House. [More…]
The Government can have an election when it likes. [More…]
With all the chattering that honourable senators opposite are doing about elections, they are not endeavouring to stifle any of these criticisms. [More…]
One of the Liberal-National Country Parties’ election promises was to increase and encourage research and development of alternative energy resources in Australia. [More…]
I think that there are many people in Australia who will remember that when the next election comes about. [More…]
An election promise by the Liberal-National Country Party Government to investigate the possibilities for the development of solar power, has not been matched by action. [More…]
Does this mean that this Government is negating its election promises to the Aboriginal people; if not, why not. [More…]
Does this mean that this Government is negating its election promises to the Aboriginal people; if not, why not. [More…]
Does this mean that this Government is negating its election promises to the Aboriginal people; if not, why not. [More…]
Does this mean that this Government is negating its election promises to the Aboriginal people; if not, why not. [More…]
Does this mean that this Government is negating its election promises to the Aboriginal people; if not, why not. [More…]
Does this mean that this Government is negating its election promises to the Aboriginal people; if not, why not. [More…]
Does this mean that this Government is negating its election promises to the Aboriginal people; if not, why not. [More…]
Does this mean that this Government is negating its election promises to the Aboriginal people; if not, why not. [More…]
Does this mean that this Government is negating its election promises to the Aboriginal people; if not, why not. [More…]
Does this mean that this Government is negating its election promises to the Aboriginal people; if not, why not. [More…]
Does this not mean that this Government is negating its election promises to the Aboriginal people; if not, why not. [More…]
Does this mean that this Government is negating its election promises to the Aboriginal people; if not, why not. [More…]
Does this mean that this Government is negating its election promises to the Aboriginal people; if not, why not. [More…]
Does this mean that this Government is negating its election promises to the Aboriginal people; if not, why not. [More…]
Does this not mean that this Government is negating its election promises to the Aboriginal people; if not, why not. [More…]
On 6 October I issued a public statement advising that the National Aboriginal Conference election in Queensland will now be held on Saturday, 19 November. [More…]
As the election for the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee will be held on 19 November 1977, will the Minister inform the Senate whether the Government has given consideration to encouraging the new members to join a superannuation scheme? [More…]
In Queensland, a so-called developed State, we are about to have a State election. [More…]
I would not be surprised if shortly the newspapers will be censored at least until the election campaign is over. [More…]
I paraphrase one of the comments used in the election campaign: ‘This is a wonderful Territory; let us make it work ‘. [More…]
It is not really good politics for a government to go out and fight any election by suggesting to the electors that their standard of living is too high and that they should reduce it. [More…]
In the last election the National Party gained 27.9 per cent of the vote and 39 seats; Labor (which admittedly contested many more electorates) won 36 per cent of the vote and 1 1 seats. [More…]
Mr BjelkePetersen, with an eye on the coming State election and a conspiracy theory for every occasion, has accused them of being manipulated into supporting communists and radicals. [More…]
Is it not also a fact that it was this Government which set about immediately upon its election to destroy the principles of wage indexation? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that had the Government supported the wage indexation policies which it announced during the election campaign that would have meant that over-award payments which have been restricted to State Electricity Commission workers would have been expanded because the policy would have applied to over-award payments? [More…]
I ask the Attorney-General: Is it a fact that under the Senate (Representation of Territories) Act senators representing the Territories are subject to election to the Senate at the same time as a general election is held to elect members of the House of Representatives? [More…]
If one looks at the dramatis personae if I can call them that, in the Victorian land dealings in terms of involvement with the Liberal Party, the names which crop up are these: Peter Leake, one-time chairman of the Regional Planning Authority, president of the Mornington branch of the Liberal Party, campaign director to the Federal Treasurer, Mr Lynch, and involved in each of the speculations concerned; the company known as Lewis Land Corporation, donor of $100,000 to the Liberal Party in the last election campaign; Peter Stirling, a proprietor of Pinmore Pty Ltd, a company with $2 capital, which has been given a $100m development job by the Victorian State Government. [More…]
Recently we have heard the question asked: Who will lead the Labor Party at the next election. [More…]
If there is to be a December election it is to be Mr Whitlam. [More…]
If there is to be a May election, who is it to be? [More…]
If the election is to be held in November of next year, is it going to be Mr Hawke or is it going to be Mr Dunstan? [More…]
They were used by the Nationalists as slogans in the 1948 election, which was the time when the Nationalists were elected, and they are: [More…]
-There is an election coming up amongst the whites. [More…]
I hark back into the distant past to Lloyd George who fought an election on the basis that if the country elected him he would hang the Kaiser. [More…]
It is three months after the election in 1975. [More…]
I wish to bring to the attention of the Executive that, during my absence on annual leave, an account for $2,128.51 was incurred by people connected with the ALP election campaign. [More…]
On every occasion that the proceedings of the Senate are being broadcast in the future before the next election we can expect Senator Hall to take the opportunity to get upon his hobby horse and try to convince the electors of Hawker that he is the man who should represent them. [More…]
I will not have time tonight to repeat or quote from Hansard what the trade union movement in South Australia thinks about Senator Hall, but I hope that I will have an opportunity before the next election once again to let the people of South Australia know what the trade union movement thought of Senator Hall when he was a member of the South Australian Parliament. [More…]
He was elected at the last election and he knew very well that he had no chance of getting back to this place again if he faced the electors as a senator. [More…]
If it is in error, or if honourable senators opposite believe that its present leadership nas become discredited, they should be encouraging students to do what they ought to do- participate in the meetings which lead to the election of officers at the very top of AUS. [More…]
It is a farce, it is a sham and it is a smokescreen for the creation of an election issue. [More…]
This is the Government’s excuse for holding an election. [More…]
I endorse the remarks of Senator Douglas McClelland to the effect that the Government wants to introduce the legislation as an election ploy because it believes that it cannot win at the polls next year. [More…]
The suggestion is not that it will mean six months plus another three years of office for this governmentbut that the Government will be in office for six months only if it does not get an election now. [More…]
So, for the purposes of an election, we are having legislation rushed through this House, without honourable senators knowing what it is all about and suffering from an inability to study it in the time available. [More…]
That is the situation which the Prime Minister needs to justify an early election. [More…]
He has already made up his mind apparently that there should be an election on 10 December (Quorum formed). [More…]
1 Labor senator on the ticket for the next Senate election is a man who does not believe that this Bill should pass through all stages without delay. [More…]
If there is to be a May election - [More…]
Liberal Movement leader Steele Hall in the propaganda for his Senate election campaign makes much of his claim to be more ‘progressive’ than the official Liberals with whom he has bitter personal quarrels. [More…]
Senator Hall did his utmost, in the events leading up to the election in South Australia on 1 7 September last, to remove Mr Millhouse from his seat of Mitcham. [More…]
The situation has changed dramatically since the election last year. [More…]
Following the election the then Leader of the Opposition said as honourable senators know very well, that he did not lose the election . [More…]
From then on, week after weary week, he threatened Australia with yet another election. [More…]
No doubt, he will support Mr Fraser if Mr Fraser brings about that divisive action of going to the people for an early election. [More…]
I am sure that the people in the electorate of Hawker will be very grateful that I have reminded them of all the disputes between Senator Hall and the members of the Government party for which he now seeks to be elected, whenever the election may be. [More…]
I have not sat on any other side in this House, and in proof of the direction of politics I then followed I draw to Senator McLaren’s attention the fact that the Liberal Movement, now out of existence, on every occasion on which an election was held, State or Federal, directed its first preferences to the Liberal Party. [More…]
The fourth point on which I was seriously misunderstood and misrepresented concerns the election of Mr Millhouse for the State electorate of Mitcham at the last State 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…]
The amendments I am proposing will deem the regulations to be the rules of organisations in relation to the elections required to be conducted by ‘secret postal ballot’. [More…]
The regulations will not, however, apply to elections which the Industrial Registrar has exempted from the secret postal ballot requirement as already provided for in existing legislation. [More…]
To reinforce these provisions, it will be open to the Federal Court, in proceedings under section 141 of 171c 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…]
To make it even worse, the direct responsibility for implementation of these recommendations must surely rest first with the Minister for Police and the Commissioner for Police in Western Australia, with the State Government of that State, but we saw those aggravations continue right into the recent State election campaign when five Perth lawyers went into the electorate of Kimberley with the direct responsibility of blocking an Aboriginal candidate from becoming a member of the House of Assembly in Western Australia. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Did not the present Prime Ministerthe then caretaker Prime Minister- in the election campaign in 1975 give an unequivocal undertaking that his Government would maintain full wage indexation? [More…]
We will have to face up to it’, he is reported to have said; and that in future the Government will be prepared to govern with courage if it has an election, that is, if this issue can be used to have an election. [More…]
He went on to say that the Government will have to have an election in order that it might be able to govern with courage and to stand up. [More…]
One might ask the question: What happens, in Mr Anthony’s view, if an election is held and there is the unfortunate circumstance that the Government is returned but is returned with a greatly reduced majority? [More…]
Could you explain to us as simply as you can how an election a year ahead of time is going to help curb industrial unrest? [More…]
I didn’t know there was going to be an election a year ahead of time. [More…]
Society will have benefited if they realise that the course upon which they now embark because they seek an election is quite unworkable. [More…]
The Government knows that but to divert the public’s attention it will have an election. [More…]
An election is certain. [More…]
We know that certain arrangements are being made within the Government parties which indicate that an election is on the go. [More…]
Why is there to be an election? [More…]
The election is going to be against the union movement as though by some stroke, by some legislation, the Government will cure the troubles in the country. [More…]
The measures it contains give effect to the Government parties’ industrial relations policy which was overwhelmingly endorsed at the last election. [More…]
That policy was enunciated in our policy speech delivered at the previous general election. [More…]
But the Government in its general election speech did flag its intentions to introduce this legislation. [More…]
This second reading speech contains a major instalment of what was said in the general election speech. [More…]
Among other things, I referred to the imminent announcement of a general election this side of Christmas. [More…]
This Bill, as I see it, is nothing more nor less than a continuation of a scenario that was commenced some two years ago to attempt to justify the need for a general election before time. [More…]
Not the elected leaders, however the election may be made; certainly not the elected leaders in relation to the strike in Victoria. [More…]
But the Liberal-National Country Party Opposition said: ‘No, it is a bad thing because it will take away from us one of the weapons we use at election time to stir up industrial strife and to convince the Australian people that these are issues they should be looking at’. [More…]
I think it is a cheap political gimmick to hide the real economic conditions of this country and to give this Government what it thinks will be an easy ride into an election. [More…]
Once again he referred to indexation and suggested that the Government had dishonoured an election promise referable to indexation. [More…]
Indexation, as it was promoted in days prior to the election of December 1975, referred not to a mere statistical, mechanical exercise of adjusting wages exactly to movements in the consumer price index every time there was a move. [More…]
After all, the legislation before us is the introduction of the final chapter of the industrial relations policy of the Government parties prior to the 1975 election. [More…]
Therefore Mr Fraser and his cohorts have sought in every possible way to manufacture some issue upon which to have an election. [More…]
I was fascinated to see that the spearhead of the Australian Labor Party campaign for an election, which evidently it does not want before Christmas, and the people it would promote the most would be Mr Hawke and Mr Dunstan. [More…]
I remember the great election campaign of 1963 which dealt with the 36 faceless men. [More…]
This leads to the question: Why does the Government want an election this year when already it has a huge majority in both Houses, a majority of 51 in the House of Representatives and a majority of at least eight in this chamber? [More…]
I submit that this Government knows that unemployment will reach 8 per cent of the work force early in the new year and that if it goes to an election when unemployment is at 8 per cent it will be thrown out of office. [More…]
If we look back at what occurred in 1928, we find that not only did the Bruce Government lose the election as a result of its industrial relations policy but, in fact, the Prime Minister himself lost his seat. [More…]
The way in which our selection board was denigrated and reduced in status by the attack made upon it for political purposes will be to the everlasting disgrace of every individual member on the other side of this chamber, not only in respect of Blue Poles but also in respect of their attitude towards the improvement and expansion of the art collection of this country. [More…]
The Government is quite happy to see its supporters having their few bob each way and their Tooths or Courage or whatever it might be, continuing with the daily grind, the common task, and turning up on election day, fearing the $2 fine if they do not turn up. [More…]
He first put forward the plan as shadow Minister for Labor (in the days when we still could use the word), and reiterated it firmly as Leader of the Opposition: and it was one of the very few direct promises he made in his election campaign speeches in 1975. [More…]
That illustrates in the clearest possible way how the situation in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria has been manipulated for the purpose of calling an election. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite will get their desserts in the right proportion whenever the election is held. [More…]
Yesterday, the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anthony, said that sooner or later the Government must face up to the industrial situation and have an election. [More…]
However, there is no doubt that the Government will use the wave of national outrage caused by the strike to launch a campaign for an early election. [More…]
And at this stage it will win such an election because Australians have had their fill of strikes and union leaders . [More…]
The Minister may remember that a few months ago I asked whether he would consider asking his Department to issue up-to-date photos of members of parliament for the Press, and for use in election brochures, because if one makes a quick survey of the daily newspapers one sees that many photos of politicians show that politicians are ageless; indeed, unlike old soldiers they do not even fade away. [More…]
I therefore ask, in view ofthe recent talk of elections: Will the Minister consider altering the Electioral Act so that photos of politicians on election brochures, which may soon fall like confetti from the sky into letter boxes across Australia, would be required to have the year in which the photo was taken printed across the chest, somewhat as a convict has a number across his chest, which I am sure some people would feel was quite appropriate. [More…]
As for the photographs that members of parliament use for electioneering, I am still waiting to see someone photographed on a bear skin and sucking his dummy! [More…]
Of course, there are some who are perhaps like Dorian Gray, in that they change not from election to election. [More…]
-Senator Robertson asks: ‘What about simultaneous elections?’ [More…]
As I recall the matter, the Prime Minister in answering a question in the House of Representatives the other day reminded Mr Whitlam that he had said some months ago that there ought to be a twin election this December. [More…]
So I do not know why Mr Whitlam has been running around like a headless chook for the last fortnight talking about the possibility of an election. [More…]
Can the Minister now inform the Parliament whether the purpose of the visits was to apply pressure to the Governor-General in order to ensure that he, in turn, would refuse permission for the dissolution of the Parliament and thus eliminate any possibility of a general election this year? [More…]
The serious economic uncertainty caused by the Prime Minister’s election manoeuvring’. [More…]
That, in the opinion ofthe Senate, the following is a matter of urgency: the serious economic uncertainty caused by the Prime Minister’s election manoeuvring’. [More…]
In moving this motion the Opposition wants to place on record its concern at the continuing debate- there is a lack of debate in some areasabout the election manoeuvring that has characterised parliamentary life since the beginning of the spring session of the Parliament. [More…]
No one could say that we are in a period of stability, that there is any long term planning by this Government or that there is any justification for a fourth election in five years. [More…]
The whole thrust of the election policies put forward by the Liberal and National Country Parties was to that effect. [More…]
There was some chance that this hiccup type of recovery may have developed into a substantial trend if the Government had adopted Labor’s recommendations for economic recovery and, more importantly, the Prime Minister had decided to end the rampant speculation about the date of an election. [More…]
What sort of parliamentary process is it that enables this one man to determine whether or not we shall have an election, whether or not we shall have a settling down period in the Australian economy? [More…]
It is pertinent to look at a number of these, because almost no one in the Australian community is supporting the holding of an early election. [More…]
Exploiting a speculative political advantage is not a sufficient excuse to justify the cost in money and disruption of Government functions and of business activity which another election now would entail. [More…]
Election jitters are a damaging distraction to the country and Mr Fraser and his Cabinet colleagues- by their hints and evasions- are doing as much as anyone to fan the rumours. [More…]
To suggest that an election is necessary when a government’s moves are challenged by significant elements in the community is either the refuge of weak and uncertain leadership or the desperation of election mania. [More…]
The electorate is treated to Ministers wandering around like rag and bone men scouring for election finds, their perceptions and decisions warped by electioneering necessities. [More…]
We have had an extended period of pre-election jitters, which cannot be totally unrelated to the fact that the capital account of the balance of payments has remained weak despite the shoring up program of foreign borrowing and standby facilities. [More…]
If the economy is picking up, why have a premature election? [More…]
If one reads the second manifestation of this so-called urgency motion one sees that it really talks about three things- economic uncertainty, election manoeuvring and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
The second subject is the so-called election manoeuvring. [More…]
They have been saying that an election is on and then saying that one is not on and doing that sort of thing. [More…]
Having been involved in some of the areas of so-called election decisions, I say that this speculation is a complete load of nonsense. [More…]
The third proposition is that the so-called election manoeuvring and uncertainty is all due to the Prime Minister. [More…]
They combined to say to the Labor Government of 1974: ‘If you do not hold an election we will not give you Supply.’ [More…]
So we had an election. [More…]
We held an election and we won it. [More…]
For three months we were shilly-shallying about Supply in this place and for three months afterwards we were looking closely at election results. [More…]
Not only now but also for some months past, since the Budget was introduced in August, the Government has been floating out rumours and comments that an election might be held. [More…]
I recently saw a television program in the week Parliament was not sitting, about four or five weeks ago, and I saw a Tasmanian member of the House of Representatives- I am not quite sure of his name-urging the government not to hold an election. [More…]
I saw that the honourable member for Franklin (Mr Goodluck) had made statements in the Press that the time was not right for the holding of an election. [More…]
So I assure the Minister for Industry and Commerce that these rumours that an election is in the air are not merely a figment of the imagination of members of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
It appears it is setting the stage for an early election. [More…]
There have been other snippets of bait going out to set the stage for an early election. [More…]
This spiel of election promises and promised policy relaxations that we have seen in the past few weeks are rather cynical if not hypocritical in view of the existing backlog of broken or unfulfilled promises which have been made by this Government. [More…]
Its electioneering activities I suggest became abundantly clear, as I have already mentioned, with the announcement of its August Budget. [More…]
That decision was taken in the hope of winning popular appeal should an early election be called. [More…]
Because of this preoccupation with an early election, as I have indicated, the Government seemed to decide to forgo much needed stimulatory increase in public sector spending. [More…]
However, the Government’s election manoeuvring overpowered any concern it may have had with the rising levels of unemployment in this country; so much so that today, in this year of 1 977, we have the greatest number of people out of work in Australia since the Great Depression of 1932. [More…]
The reason the Government is postulating an election now is that it knows it will not be able to face the Australian public at large when the unemployment rate exceeds that staggering number. [More…]
Finally, perhaps the most blatant example of the Government’s election manoeuvring was a recent meeting between State Premiers and the Federal Government about which the Age of 22 October delightfully commented. [More…]
As a result of the uncertainty created by this Government as to whether an election will be held, business is uncertain and there is serious economic uncertainty caused by the Prime Minister’s election manoeuvring. [More…]
The urgency motion originally proposed accused the Government of dishonouring a number of election promises and it was substantially in the same form as a motion debated yesterday by the other House. [More…]
However, one would have thought that Opposition members in this place today and in the other place yesterday would have regarded a debate of this nature as a golden opportunity to put forward positive policies that presumably they propose to put to the Australian people at the next federal election, whenever that might be. [More…]
The Minister for Industry and Commerce (Senator Cotton) listed two areas of alleged contention, namely economic uncertainty, which I submit to the Senate is the meat ofthe motion, election manoeuvring and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
First, let me deal with the election manoeuvring and the Prime Minister. [More…]
It is true that there has been endless speculation both in the media and by members of the Opposition about when there will be an election. [More…]
We all know that there has to be a half Senate election. [More…]
I know that because I am up for re-election before the end of June next year. [More…]
One of the essential qualities of an able and prudent Prime Minister is the ability not to telegraph his punches, particularly in respect of when an election will be held. [More…]
I know that members of the Opposition and certain sections of the media are upset that the Prime Minister has not indicated the date of an election. [More…]
However, the Prime Minister is under no obligation to say any more than he has said to this stage about when an election might be held. [More…]
Before I leave the subject, I might point out that if any election manoeuvring has taken place it has been entirely due to Opposition and media speculation. [More…]
Tax cuts were at the forefront of our election promises. [More…]
The present Government said during the last election campaign that it would reduce the tax burden and put an end to Labor’s tax rip-off. [More…]
-The Senate is debating the serious economic uncertainty caused by the election manoeuvring ofthe Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
The reason Mr Fraser wants an early election is that he feels he can get himself another three years by going now. [More…]
It is in the light of that comment that the subject of this debate- the speculation about an early election and the effects of that speculation on the Australian economy- is raised by the Opposition. [More…]
That is the sort of climate amongst businessmen at the moment and it is not improved by speculation about an election. [More…]
However, it does confirm the view which the Opposition has put that the reason an election might be sought by the Government is that the problems to which I have referred are likely to be much worse next year than they are this year. [More…]
The Prime Minister is on record as saying that continued speculation about an election is damaging to the economy. [More…]
On 28 September this year when speaking in Brisbane, the Prime Minister said that continuous speculation about an election is damaging to business confidence and to the economy. [More…]
Of course, there is a lot of cynicism about that comment coming from the Prime Minister because there are various views about the source of election speculation and one source which is quite widely pointed to is the Prime Minister’s office itself. [More…]
This sort of speculation is consistent with the number of elections we have had in Australia in the past five years and the methods by which other elections in the past five years have been brought about. [More…]
If an election is held this year, it will mean that we have had national elections four time in five years. [More…]
Three of those elections have been brought about prematurely by the coalition parties behaving in a manner not dissimilar from the manner in which the Prime Minister is now behaving. [More…]
I remind honourable senators that the first of those elections was in May 1974 when the Senate threatened to reject Supply. [More…]
We have the word of Senator Withers, another authority in these matters, that that election had been planned since the Labor Government came to office in December 1972. [More…]
From December 1972 until May 1974 plans were in progress to subvert the normal procedure for holding elections in Australia to bring about an election prematurely in a way - [More…]
I refer to the May 1974 election and his part in that election. [More…]
He will remember the way in which the election was subsequently brought about in 1975. [More…]
Numbers in the Senate were used ultimately to bring about an artificial and premature election. [More…]
The coalition Government has an interesting track record in relation to the forcing of elections prematurely at great cost not only in terms of the cost of those actual elections but also in terms of the cost to the interruption of ordinary life in this country and particularly interruption to the economic life of this country. [More…]
The facts are that in 1974 some five months of governing was lost through the period of the Labor Government as the result of that election which was brought about precipitately. [More…]
In 1975 another period of some three to four months was lost because of the conduct of the then Opposition and the way in which the election was forced. [More…]
Again, it looks as though the people of Australia are to be the subject of speculation and probably an election which will cause the interruption to economic management which I have indicated. [More…]
On the one hand the Prime Minister says that election speculation is damaging to business. [More…]
On the other hand, the Deputy Prime Minister has said that election speculation is a good sort of thing. [More…]
He states that perhaps the Government does not have the courage to govern now with the biggest majority in the parliamentary history of this country but if we have an election somehow it may get that courage. [More…]
The results of that sort of speculation will lead the average Australian elector to scratch his head and say: ‘If they cannot govern now with a record majority for God ‘s sake what will they be like if we have an election and the majority is reduced? [More…]
I referred to the Financial Review editorial which pointed out that the speculation about an election was not a question about speculation of policies which this country so desperately needs in the manpower area, in the industry area and in the industrial relations area, as Government spokesmen tell us. [More…]
The heading to the editorial was: ‘Economy the first election casualty’. [More…]
Much of the damage to domestic and international confidence could have been minimised by a short, sharp election campaign. [More…]
But instead we have had an extended period of pre-election jitters, which cannot be totally unrelated to the fact that the capital account of the balance of payments has remained weak despite the shoring up program of foreign borrowings and stand-by facilities. [More…]
The motion mentions both economic uncertainty and election manoeuvring. [More…]
If it is not economic uncertainty, we had better look at the election manoeuvring. [More…]
There had to be a Senate election before May 1978. [More…]
There had to be a House of Representatives election at the end of 1978 or in early 1979. [More…]
The referendum held in Australia showed that voters wanted simultaneous elections. [More…]
They included Senator Douglas McClelland who spoke a lot about when the election will be held. [More…]
It was shown that concurrence of the elections is preferred. [More…]
Elections have to be held by May of next year. [More…]
To make the elections coincide they will have to be held within the next few months. [More…]
Who is doing the election manoeuvring? [More…]
The first person I heard speculating on when the election would be held was Mr E. G. Whitlam. [More…]
Upon reviewing the record further, I find that when he was Prime Minister he had two opportunities, one in 1974 and one in 1975, to call for elections, but that his track record on those two occasions was not terribly impressive. [More…]
I really wonder why he feels that he would be any more competent to call an election when we are in government than he was when he himself was in office. [More…]
It is certainly not the Prime Minister who has been talking about an election, nor has it been the Government in general. [More…]
If the honourable senator or the Government really believed that, we could expect that there would be no election this year, because recent polls have shown that an election, if conducted now, could be won by either side. [More…]
We saw the same technique used against Mr Snedden in 1 975 over the blocking of the Budget; in late 1975 in regard to a change of mind falsely attributed just a few months ago to Mr Justice Fox concerning the export of Australian uranium; and finally, of course, the speculation, which the Prime Minister has over the last four months fed, about a premature election. [More…]
In that speculation, of course, he has been supported by his deputy, Mr Anthony, who before the National Country Party Council some two or three weeks ago castigated the Australian Labor Party for allegedly circulating or initiating rumours about a premature election, stating how damaging it was that the dastardly Labor Party had so acted and adding that it would be quite unreasonable to expect the Prime Minister to refute the rumours and make an unequivocal assertion that there would not be an election for the House of Representatives this year. [More…]
He did not take it up and the reason why he quite properly did not, according to the ludicrous logic for which the Australian Country Party has become famous as demonstrated by its present leader, was that, if the Prime Minister said there was not going to be an election earlier than 12 months hence he would lose the last method available to him for controlling the irresponsible, militant left-wing unions. [More…]
In what way the threat of a premature election would influence union behaviour Mr Anthony did not explain. [More…]
Mr Anthony tacitly admitted that the Government would not be able to win an election six months hence; thus the reference to the six months of life remaining to the Government. [More…]
With that commendable, although unconscious clarity and honesty- which he has displayed on previous occasions- Mr Anthony admitted that the reason why the speculation about a premature election was initiated by the Prime Minister and himself, and why it has been fuelled by both those gentlemen ever since, is that they fear that the electors will by next year be fully conscious of the magnitude of this Government’s economic mismanagement and the horrendous level of unemployment which will by the early months of 1 978, be staring us in the face. [More…]
This stunt was pulled on by the Prime Minister and the Western galah in order to boost the chances of the Liberal Party in the election that it plans to pull on prematurely on 10 December- [More…]
It is all coherently tied in, in a sense, that it is designed to induce and to build-up an expectation or to engineer a sense of phoney crisis for a premature election and false expectations about the economic performance in the future. [More…]
What could be more demoralising than the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam), as he then was, having breakfast with dubious charactersand he was spurned by his own party for that action- trying to raise election funds before the 1975 Federal election? [More…]
As my leader said in this chamber today, how peculiar it is that Mr Dunstan and Mr Hawke will be the chief actors in the television series to promote the Labor Party at this supposed Federal election. [More…]
What greater uncertainty could there be in this community, when one surveys the political scene, than trying to guess who would be the Prime Minister of Australia in the unlikely event that Labor was elected at the next election? [More…]
-Of course he could not when even his spokesman in that election campaign, as Senator Young has indicated, may be in the running. [More…]
Even Senator Gietzelt who inadequately moved this motion on behalf of the Australian Labor Party said that the choice in relation to any prospective election was properly between May and December. [More…]
We are not talking about a separation of a year or 1 8 months between some prospective and improper- by Labor Party definition- date for an election. [More…]
In regard to whether the election will be in December or six months later, I say to the Labor Party that the only uncertainty and concern which the business community and private individuals who are involved in the situation have is whether Labor will be defeated. [More…]
Because of those words which I have read to the Senate, the great fear in the Australian community is not the fear of an election; it is, what I believe is a quite unjustified fear, that Labor might have some chance of winning. [More…]
As soon as an election is held, whether it be December or May, and the Labor Party is again defeated with the Liberals victorious, there will be no uncertainty in the community because the election itself will remove that fear. [More…]
I was rather disturbed though by the South Australian Premier’s undertaking during the recent election campaign in South Australia to provide filtered water for metropolitan Adelaide. [More…]
I wish to inform the Senate that the Government has recommended to His Excellency the Governor-General 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 December. [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 on the same date. [More…]
Indeed, in 1955, the GovernorGeneral, 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, in a Monday Conference interview on 1 November 1976, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) thought 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 1 98 1 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…]
Let me also make 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 the 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 one occasion only. [More…]
Today, the Leader of the Government in the Senate, acting on behalf of the Prime Minister, came into, the chamber and said: ‘We are now going to end the speculation and stop the economic uncertainty caused by that speculation by announcing the date of the election as 10 December’. [More…]
Since August last when the Prime Minister told the editor of the Australian newspaper that he might spring an election, the Australian economy and political system have been subjected to very great stresses, strains and uncertainties deliberately created by this Government. [More…]
In early September, when the Prime Minister was engaged in a pre-election campaign in Queensland, he admitted that speculation on an election date was creating uncertainty and confusion. [More…]
It is is fair to say that as a result of the Government’s antics there have been as many bets placed on an early election and on the date for an election as have been placed on the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. [More…]
The redistribution proposals have not been approved by Parliament and yet, before those proposals have been dealt with by Parliament, the Prime Minister is announcing the date for an election. [More…]
Despite all the semantics connected with the statement made by the Leader of the Government in the Senate on behalf of the Prime Minister, the simple and clear fact is that the Government is hoping that by holding an election at this time it might escape the wrath of the Australian community when the number of unemployed persons soars to over 420,000 early in 1978. [More…]
Because the Prime Minister has been fiddling and hesitating in his typical fashion about an election date, the Labor Party has been preparing to fight and we will challenge the competence of this Government before the people of this country. [More…]
We will fight the election on the basis of the hesitancy, uncertainty and turmoil that the Government has created. [More…]
We will fight the election on the issue of the unemployment the Government has already created and will continue to create. [More…]
We will fight the election on the issue of the Government’s interference with the great Medibank scheme that was introduced by the Labor Party. [More…]
So far as simultaneous elections are concerned, senators who are elected in December will not take their places in the Senate until July, 7 months later. [More…]
If the Prime Minister really wanted to synchronise elections for both Houses, as has been said by the Leader of the Government in the Senate, if things are on the up and up, as has been said by the Leader of the Government in the Senate, the time for an election on both counts surely would have been May of next year. [More…]
This will be the fourth House of Representatives election to be held in 5 years and the public is well and truly fed up with the political uncertainty that the coalition parties have been creating in this country. [More…]
The election date having been announced, the Labor Party is ready and when the new Parliament is assembled a Labor Government will be installed in office with a majority in the House of Representatives. [More…]
We have seen that if the vote for the Labor Party in 1972 were to be again the vote for it in the forthcoming election the Labor Party would win 10 of the 19 seats, which would not be an unreasonable result in the circumstances. [More…]
Of course, if the vote at the confused election that occurred in 1975 were repeated in 1977 the Labor Party would win only one seat. [More…]
So by the unnecessary inclusion of those three shires in the Federal division of Kalgoorlie the Liberal Party, which currently holds the seat, has gained in net terms in excess of 1,000 votes which could well be enough to enable the Liberal Party to retain the seat at the forthcoming election. [More…]
I think that something like 1,400 enrolled prior to the last State election. [More…]
As a result of those changes the seat of Perth, which almost certainly would have been returned to the Australian Labor Party at the forthcoming election, has now become a highly marginal seat and could be retained by the Liberal Party. [More…]
In view of that challenge and in view of the challenge, which has been heard by the court but upon which judgment has not been delivered, as to the right of the Territories to return members to the House of Representatives or to the Senate, and in view of the fact that redistributions are required, according to an existing judgment of the High Court which precludes any election being held on the old boundaries in at least five States, and presumably would permit an election at large, it is astonishing, to say the least, that the GovernorGeneral should have granted permission for the dissolution of Parliament, particularly when his action blatantly contradicts his own statement in New Delhi in February 1 975. [More…]
I must say that I was a little concerned when it was first issued because until the Labor Party endorsed its candidates I thought that it might succeed in winning a seat from the Liberal Party in the coming election. [More…]
I can understand the transfer of a major subdivision, but some of these things have convinced me very much of the testimony of Senator Baume about having a look at the matter in the context of the 1969 election. [More…]
But I put it to the Opposition that, should this motion fail, on 10 December there will be an election at large in New South Wales. [More…]
I also put this to honourable senators: There is no law in force at the moment which would govern the conduct of an election at large. [More…]
I think that at that time I gave the honourable senator some answers relating to my capacity under, I think, section 24 of the Act to issue regulations to conduct an election at large. [More…]
How does one conduct an election at large when we have no laws in relation to that contingency? [More…]
I have had it put to me that if that happened the election would be conducted under the rules which existed in New South Wales some time in March 1901. [More…]
If some hurried legislation were passed through the Parliamentthat is the only alternative to accepting this redistributionI think there would be general agreement that should there be an election at large it would be basically along the same lines as the Senate election, that is, proportional representation. [More…]
But I put to the Opposition that the only logical conclusion I can come to is that the alternative is a Senate type election for the 43 New South Wales seats. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that we would have four times that many for a House of Representatives election. [More…]
I very much doubt whether this Government will be in a position to introduce legislation in respect of any matters which affect primary producers at this time next year because after the general election is held on 10 December its supporters will be sitting on the other side of the chamber. [More…]
It is getting near election time and, in the main, the farmer organisations are being very critical of the Labor Government and the trade union movement. [More…]
Similarly, the Cattlemen’s Union and the Fruitgrowers Association, following the big marches in Mooroopna, Victoria, and Berri, South Australia, said that the Government is not living up to its election promise to look after people in the country areas. [More…]
We will have to suffer statements, similar to those which have been made by honourable senators on the Government side, week in week out until the election. [More…]
I well remember when I was a boy that Stanley Bruce, a conservative Prime Minister, took the trade union movement on and lost his seat at the next election. [More…]
They are the very words which I used: The people in country areas will have no difficulty arriving at their choice when they compare the record of the Whitlam Government in its three years in office-a period interrupted by an election which was forced upon us- with the record of the Liberal-Country Party coalition in the last two years. [More…]
I know that there was a recommendation that a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Standing Orders be held, I think, either this week or next week; but, because of events which have overtaken the calling of that meeting, doubtless no meeting of the Committee will take place between now and the next general election. [More…]
I say with great respect to every honourable senator that, if we believe in the institution of Parliament, if we believe in the system of parliamentary democracy, if we believe in the election of people’s representatives to the Parliament, we have to devise and evolve a system whereby as much as possible of the deliberations in this place is recorded and transmitted to the public at large. [More…]
Last week the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) gave further proof of this statement when he announced the calling of a House of Representatives election a full year before it in fact was required. [More…]
Senator Douglas McClelland referred in passing to the early election. [More…]
I thought it seemed strange for an opposition to complain about the holding of an election. [More…]
During the three years that we were in opposition I asked once a week for an election to be held. [More…]
An opposition that is confident that it is going to win an election will want that election to be held so that it can do so. [More…]
I think that an opposition that complains about the holding of an early election knows that it is going to be beaten. [More…]
I think that a really good fighting opposition does not complain about the holding of an early election. [More…]
I am just saying that I am surprised that the Opposition does not want an election to be held. [More…]
In respect of that Department, funds were set aside for the cost of running elections and, if one looks back now at those estimates, one sees that probably not enough money was set aside for that purpose. [More…]
One of the points I want to raise is that no funds at all were made available for investigating electoral reform, and we are about to go into an election campaign with a system of running elections, especially for this chamber, that I believe is in the greatest need of reform. [More…]
In 1975 it took two months to get the final result of the double dissolution election. [More…]
Taking a situation such as the one that occurred in the 1961 election, when the Government finished up with only a one seat majority, in 1975 the country could have been placed in a situation in which for a period of two months nobody would have known who the Government was going to be. [More…]
It is not good enough when one compares it with the situation in the United States, which has a presidential election system. [More…]
There are 600-odd seats in the House of Commons and sometimes two or three complete recounts, yet it is usually only 48 to 72 hours before the full election result is known. [More…]
When faced with a situation such as that which occurred in New South Wales in the last election, where in the first count there was a difference of only 19 votes per electorate for the 45 electorates, it is apparent that the system of random sampling also needs investigating. [More…]
I think also that the Department of Administrative Services should be looking at ways of reducing possible corruption in an election campaign by looking at the public funding of candidates and campaigns. [More…]
In the United States at the last presidential election there was public funding for the first time. [More…]
I believe that in time this aspect will spread to all the Congressional and Senate elections which are held in the United States. [More…]
We have at the moment a system of election for the Senate which is so complicated that it causes much distortion of the electorate’s will. [More…]
The events leading up to and subsequent to the Lords rejection of the Finance Bill in 1909, culminating in the General Election of January 1910 and the subsequent passing of the 1909 Bill are well enough known to be not dealt with here. [More…]
We are all about to go electioneering and if he intends to advocate as part of his election platform that there ought to be greater government expenditure, I hope he will be honest enough to tell the people where he will get the money. [More…]
I do not know what the present Australian Labor Party policy is but, as we are in an election atmosphere, it ought to be clearly made known. [More…]
I do not think it is terribly destructive of democracy if somebody has to wait for a week or so to know who has won an election. [More…]
Speed is not always necessary in elections. [More…]
There are very few elections in Australia in which we really do not know who has won government by midnight on Saturday night or 2 o ‘clock on Sunday morning. [More…]
I simply make this observation: Last week when we were dealing with the redistribution of electorates Senator Withers drew a very vivid picture of what would happen if we were to have an election at large. [More…]
I simply say respectfully from the previous experience of more than 50 candidates standing for a Senate election in one State, that unless we can guarantee that there will be fluorescent lighting in every polling booth we will find the frequency of errors rising. [More…]
The Government’s failure to act upon the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Public Libraries is scandalous and certainly will be used against it by the Labor movement and the people of Australia when they cast their votes at the forthcoming Federal election. [More…]
But, after all, the idea of having an election is to make certain that the right government is elected and not to make things easier for anybody in the community. [More…]
The exception was the 1954 election, which the Australian Labor Party should have won. [More…]
After all, the election was held on its boundaries and the funny way in which it drew them. [More…]
Apart from that oddity, all the House of Representatives elections from 1949 to 1975 showed that the party or parties that obtained the greatest popular vote attained or retained office. [More…]
That a Senate select committee be appointed 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 ask the Minister representing the Treasurer Has his attention been drawn to the rise of 6.6 per cent on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday, one of the strongest rises for years, which was attributed to the falling of official interest rates and the prospect of a Government win at next month’s election? [More…]
The rise was prompted by falling official interest rates and the prospects ora Government win at next month ‘s election. [More…]
Has the Minister for Social Security seen a report in a weekend newspaper that her Department intends to introduce a sole parents benefit as part of the Government’s election policy? [More…]
I take it that he and all his colleagues will campaign before the next election saying that they are totally opposed to fuel price equalisation in Australia as they are opposed to the superphosphate bounty. [More…]
Bearing in mind that over the next few weeks leading up to the election these people will be doing quite a lot of extra work and also that their salaries have not kept pace with those of their counterparts in the States, can the Minister say whether senators’ and members’ staff can be recompensed by the payment of overtime during this period? [More…]
In the puerile efforts of this Government to try to denigrate Mr Bill Hayden, does the Minister recall that in a television debate between Mr Hayden and Mr Lynch prior to the last Federal election it was agreed all around the country and especially by the media that Mr Lynch came out second rate at best. [More…]
He thought he would not be able to survive another election. [More…]
This question has a sense of urgency about it because of the impending election. [More…]
Negus: Do you see that this sort of thing, Whitlam and Hayden and together is going to be something well see for the rest of the year with an election in the year? [More…]
I put it to Labor today that it must clear up this position before it can begin to have a coherent debate about the election. [More…]
May I say that he has every reason to be worried because at the last State election I think that there was about seven or eight per cent difference between us in the vote. [More…]
Given the rate of increase in votes for our Party at each election I expect that Senator Young’s Party will some day be in the minority position in that State. [More…]
My main reason for speaking on this Bill was to draw attention once again to the audacity of the Prime Minister when he pulled this premature election in claiming that it was necessary to have an election to remove the instability which had been generated by constant talk of a premature election. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s posturing about an early election, his attempt to justify his action, his cynical political opportunism, on the ground that it was necessary to remove the uncertainty that he himself had generated, is precisely comparable with the actions of the legendary double murderer who was guilty of both patricide and matricide and threw himself on the mercy of the court because he was an orphan. [More…]
At the time the unemployment forecast was outlandish, as was shown by the slight fall in unemployment immediately after the election. [More…]
At one stage during the 197S election campaign, Mr Fraser said that in two years Australia would spend $6,500m more than we have- over $500 for every Australian. [More…]
Mr Fraser, having pulled this premature election because he knows very well that the economy is sliding rapidly further Unto recession, pretends that the Government is optimistic, that the economic depression has bottomed and that we are rapidly moving into an era of new prosperity. [More…]
If the Prime Minister really believed that the economy was recovering we would be having an election next year and not this year. [More…]
Again, the Prime Minister is getting in to hold an election early hoping that he can fool the electorate before the people become fully conscious of the economic disaster into which he and his policies have led the country. [More…]
It is also interesting to reflect that the Governor-General, who granted this election, said in February 1975, that the only justification for granting a premature election would be that the Parliament was unworkable. [More…]
He explicitly stated that an election should not be granted just because the Prime Minister of the day found it convenient to hold it prematurely at that particular time. [More…]
As I said in my speech last week on the Oilseeds Levy Collection and Research Bill 1977, Senator Hall has come to light and emerged from hibernation now only because he is seeking re-election as a Liberal member. [More…]
If we apply the voting figures for the State election on 17 March to the boundaries of Hawker, we will see that Mr Hall, as he will be when he contests that seat, is in for a rude shock. [More…]
My esteemed friend, Senator Donald Cameron, soon ousted him the first time he had to go to an election. [More…]
He was appointed and then six months later, I think, when he went on the hustings at a by-election, my great friend, Senator Donald Cameron, gave him a whacking of a hiding at the polls. [More…]
How will he explain his statements of that time to the people he wants to vote for him at the coming election on 10 December? [More…]
What happened after the 1975 elections? [More…]
He is now on the political stump trying to woo the people in Hawker to vote for him at the next election. [More…]
He will again be the incumbent of the seat after the election on 10 December. [More…]
I hope that Senator Young will not be remiss during the Senate election campaign to remind the electors of Hawker just what type of person he thought Senator Hall was when he made those remarks. [More…]
I am sure that he will not be asking Senator Withers to introduce him on the platform when he opens his election campaign in Hawker. [More…]
He still has a grouch against the Country Party; yet he will be campaigning in the forthcoming election in an endeavour to come back to this Parliament as a member of a coalition government in which the Country Party will be propping up the Liberal Party-that is, if the coalition parties return to office. [More…]
As Senator Withers told us here again today, every day they were in opposition they were calling for an election. [More…]
I have forgotten- some insignificant bloke who had an election 12 months early on a non-issue and lost, and wondered why. [More…]
The form of the legislation will become known when the Bill is before the Senate, and all I want to say at this stage is that it is a worthwhile reform and is yet another election promise which our Government has redeemed. [More…]
He was given the Premiership of South Australia and at the first election he was defeated by Don Dunstan. [More…]
In the last Senate election he scraped through. [More…]
Knowing that he would be defeated in the next Senate election he scrapped his Party- sacrificed the loyalty of his comrades- and went back to the Liberal Party. [More…]
After the redistribution, all seats in South Australia which there was a possibility of Liberal success were strongly contested in the pre-selection of the Liberal Party. [More…]
The Liberals have contested the seat of Hawker at every election. [More…]
The Liberal Party has given it on a plate to Senator Hall who is running a big election campaign. [More…]
It has been obvious since the date of the election was announced that with the Liberals asking Dorothy Dix questions and the propaganda replies of the Leader of the Government (Senator Withers) in an attempt to discredit the Leader of the Labor Party uranium will be a major issue in the election campaign. [More…]
It wants to use it as an election issue for the purpose of attracting votes in spite of the possible sacrifice of human life, the possibility of nuclear weapons proliferation and the possibility of terrorist control of nuclear material. [More…]
There is insufficient variation in the difference of opinion in the issue for the Government to win or lose the election on it. [More…]
It is not an issue that will take the place of the state of the economy and the unemployment situation in the forthcoming election. [More…]
Let me just say that Senator Hall will be replied to every time he seeks to use this venue for the purpose of political propaganda for his campaign in relation to the seat of Hawker and the Government will be replied to on every occasion that it distorts the Labor Party’s attitude to uranium mining, which is the most commendable, the most desirable and the most consistent on uranium mining, for the purpose of gaining advantage in the forthcoming election campaign. [More…]
I have no doubt that over the next three or four days that remain in the sittings before we rise for the election they will keep up that effort and that the strength of the effort will simply mirror their own fears in relation to the seat of Hawker. [More…]
I say to him that in view of his opposition to any form of racial discrimination, I hope he will use his good intentions with some of his colleagues in his State who trooped north during the last Western Australian election to confuse the minds of so many Aborigines in the north of Western Australia over their rights to vote. [More…]
The three subjects referred to were the increase in the size of the Public Service, election issues, and the Constitution and the granting of appropriations contained in money Bills. [More…]
I turn to deal with the very difficult question of what system of elections Australia should have. [More…]
I think that all political parties when in power support the system of election that most suits them. [More…]
The party in power will support the election system which it thinks will give it an advantage, whether that be the preferential voting system or optional preference voting. [More…]
Just as one can depend upon the party in power to favour the system of election must suitable to it one can depend upon the opposition party to oppose the election proposals of the party in power. [More…]
If such a course were followed in Australia, it would solve immediately the long delays in election counting. [More…]
If Supply Bills are not passed and this results in the inability of the government of the day to carry on with the funding of the Public Service, the only known solution under the interpretation of our authority is for the Governor-General to dismiss the government and to submit it to the people for re-election. [More…]
He argued that if this chamber opposed a money Bill and could not agree upon the matter there should be an election of both Houses. [More…]
Such a situation would arise so frequently that there would be more elections than occur presently. [More…]
The State Government thereupon appointed two commissioners who were, I believe, Mr Justice Clarkson, Visiting Lecturer of the University of Western Australia and Mr Bridge, who is now disputing the election results in the Kimberleys. [More…]
If honourable senators look at the figures when the rolls close for this coming election, it will be seen that they are different from what the Commissioners brought down as their expectations as at 24 June. [More…]
If so, will such a statement reconcile the Governor-General’s action with the view he expressed in New Delhi in February 1975, namely, that he had to have good and sound reasons for calling an early election? [More…]
I know that the institution is very dear to the hearts of honourable senators opposite because we have seen in recent years that a Liberal Party, with the aid of the Governor-General, can choose an election at any time, whether the Liberal Party be in opposition or in government. [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 GovernorGeneral waiting upon him forthwith to advise him- that the party I lead has the confidence of the House of Representatives, and you should appraise his Excellency of the view of the House that I have the confidence of. [More…]
Whether or not people should be allowed to conduct their affairs via trusts under sections 98 and 99 of the existing legislation is something that was recognised by the Government in its election promise back in 1975 that individual taxpayers would have the alternatives of paying taxation either as a company or opting to be taxed as partners. [More…]
I applaud the Government’s decision which is right in line with statements of government policy made before the 1975 election. [More…]
But I wonder whether the Minister believes that the blueprint, shall we call it, which the Minister visualises will be operational in the period leading up to the general election day. [More…]
I can assure the honourable senator that between now and polling day the Australian Electoral Office will be doing all it can, taking into account, of course, that all the divisional returning officers naturally are terribly busy with the normal problems of running an election, for example, employing some 10,000 people to work on polling day, hiring polling booths the problems of nominations, printing of ballot papers and distributing them around the electorates. [More…]
As I understand it, the way the Act reads at the moment it is more than likely that all the people who are standing for the next election have committed a breach of the Electoral Act because they have bought somebody meat or drink 90 days before the issue of the writ. [More…]
But who amongst us ever knows 90 days before the writ is issued that there will be an election. [More…]
Having no knowledge that an election was coming one could have done something which the issue of the writ had made unlawful, and one could be prosecuted for attempting to influence voters by the supply of meat and drink [More…]
He is reported to have said that finance would not be available for the Mount Isa City Council if the National Party candidate in the forthcoming State election was not returned. [More…]
Asked whether the situation would change if any other candidate won the election, Mr Bjelke-Petersen said: ‘You can read it that way if you like. [More…]
The ALP candidate in Mount Isa for the November 12 election is Mr A. Pavusa whose party thinks he can beat Mr Bertoni. [More…]
The very basis of democracy is threatened if we have the threat of reprimand hanging over us for the way in which we vote at an election. [More…]
The Opposition Leader (Mr Burns) today lodged a complaint with the Justice Minister (Mr Lickiss) concerning yesterday’s election campaign statement in Mount Isa by the Premier (Mr Bjelke-Petersen). [More…]
This is a clear example of political intimidation and blackmail aimed at denying Queenslanders their democratic right of election choice ‘, Mr Burns said. [More…]
It is distressing in this election when the National-Liberal parties are prepared to resort to this type of fear on electors to conceal their own economic mismanagement’, Mr Burns said. [More…]
If so, does his proposed departure from the Prime Minister’s staff immediately prior to an election display a singular lack of confidence in the prospects of the Prime Minister? [More…]
Does that indicate APPM’s confidence that this Government will continue after the election? [More…]
In his election campaign pamphlet of 1968 he said to the South Australian electors that one of his aims was to build Chowilla Dam and safeguard Australia’s water supplies. [More…]
An election for the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly will take place before the end of 1978 and issues of future constitutional development for the Territory will be widely canvassed. [More…]
The role of the Legislative Assembly in planning and development is a central aspect of this inquiry and will be an important consideration in the debate preceding that election. [More…]
I would therefore emphasise this Committee’s view that the reappointment 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…]
They will be expected to be considered by all members of Parliament and debated and passed by both Houses of Parliament before the Parliament rises early next week for the forthcoming election. [More…]
It is only because of the immediacy of an election that we do not oppose the Bills. [More…]
Firstly, a judgment of the High Court, known as the McKinlay case, was handed down in December 1975 at a time when a general election was being held. [More…]
At about that time there were suggestions in the air about the holding of an early election and the Distribution Commissioners were said to be being put under pressure to hurry up their final proposals. [More…]
I think it would be fair to say that the electoral laws of this nation are as uncertain as we were over the last three or four months about whether the Prime Minister would determine to hold an early election. [More…]
As I have said, all of this last minute panic has been brought about because of the Government’s mad rush for an early election, especially one so soon after a massive redistribution has been carried out by Distribution Commissioners- doubtless with assistance of officers of the Australian Electoral Office- and also because the Government has made a hash of its February amending Bill. [More…]
When one bears in mind the great, important and onerous responsibilities of the divisional returning officers at a Federal general election, especially when a ballot is very tight- when a seat or even a government can be determined by a mere handful of votes- one can see that one needs a person whose pay is at a level in accord- .ance with the responsible position he is occupying. [More…]
I well recall that at the last election the seat of St George was determined by about 42 voters. [More…]
As he said last week, if the boundaries are not approved the Government can provide for an election at large and the Minister himself could write the rules for such an election. [More…]
I wonder how many members would make up the Opposition if the present Government and not an independent electoral officer wrote the rules on which an election could be conducted. [More…]
The High Court could injunct the present redistribution or it could hear the matter and rule the existing redistribution to be invalid and then there could well be an election at large. [More…]
If the Government had waited until May to hold the forthcoming election it would not have had to race around, causing terrible upheaval, because of the time limits imposed by that election. [More…]
Election candidates, particularly senators who like to get nominations from a number of areas, will probably have to do what I am doing and risk a High Court challenge to the validity of their nomination because the rolls might not be available before the writs close. [More…]
The legislation is intended to deal with an emergency situation which, as both Senator Douglas McClelland and Senator Mulvihill have said, arose out of the unnecessary haste required to get through a redistribution in time for a December election. [More…]
The Opposition asked the Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Withers) about the time that the Commonwealth Electoral Officer would require following a redistribution to put his organisation into the sort of shape necessary to cope with an election. [More…]
Those questions were asked as long ago as February of this year, and Senator Withers indicated that the nature of the timetable was such that it would lead to an election early in 1978. [More…]
It is obvious that even at that time Senator Withers, as the Minister responsible for the Department covering electoral officers, realised that it would take at least until early 1978 for the Chief Electoral Officer to complete the reorganisation necessary to carry out a very complex task, involving changing the rolls, setting up new polling places, all the paraphernalia that is necessary for an election. [More…]
Some time ago figures were given to me by an electoral officer in Queensland relating to a very tight election contest that led to counting going on for about a fortnight afterwards. [More…]
I am not talking about a Senate election but about one of the House of Representatives elections. [More…]
Electoral officers carry out the most important function in a democratic system in relation to the procedure for an election. [More…]
As Senator Douglas McClelland has said, if this legislation does not go through today there could be a successful approach to a court to prevent the election taking place in New South Wales on the redistributed electorates. [More…]
If the redistribution were to be found to be in doubt and if some injunction were granted against it we would have an election at large in New South Wales. [More…]
I am told that an election at large would be held under rules brought down - [More…]
But accepting that the Minister is essentially a fair man he would find it very difficult to set up a rule for an election in New South Wales without being influenced by his politics and ideological philosophy. [More…]
The second part of that proposition appeals to me somewhat so honourable senators can understand that I could not be trusted either to draw up rules for an election at large. [More…]
Coming from this legislation there is a need for someone to anticipate the day when an election at large has to be held. [More…]
It is possible that even in our time there could be an election at large. [More…]
We go along with this legislation so that the election which has been decided on can proceed. [More…]
There can be no doubt that we would have some misgivings about an election at large, and those misgivings ought to be removed by the Minister suggesting that he could antici- pate some future problem arising and he will ave his officers look at the situation now. [More…]
I suspect that recent events in politics, especially in Queensland and I suppose in the Federal sphere, because an election is coming up, could goad members into taking a political stance on this BUI, but I do not intend to do that. [More…]
Despite that and the fact that this $24m is over and above the weighted entitlements which Queensland already receives, one reads with some surprise the things which are written in Queensland, which at the moment is subject to an election campaign. [More…]
We as Australians are concerned about civil liberties and about the rights which people have in election campaigns - [More…]
I know that an election is being heldin Queensland. [More…]
I know that the members of the public voting in that election do not want to jump out of the frying pan into the fire. [More…]
I hope at the same time that the Queensland Government will recognise that we are making this assistance available as Australian citizens and that it will respect the rights of all Australian citizens during this election period. [More…]
I rise to take part in this debate and to use the procedures of the Senate to air one or two matters that are concerning me gravely with respect to conduct in the election campaign in Queensland. [More…]
I am gravely concerned about certain events that have occurred during the State general election campaign in Queensland. [More…]
Inevitably, because there is an election in Queensland in eight days time, the debate took the form of a State election campaign. [More…]
We have been actively engaged in the affairs of Parliament for a period of five straight weeks and we are about to become involved for a further week before we rise for the election. [More…]
Has he seen reports that if the Australian Labor Party wins the election on 10 December it will reduce tariffs, inevitably leading to further unemployment in manufacturing? [More…]
We will be delighted to prove it later on as the election campaign progresses. [More…]
Will these announcements have anything to do with the forthcoming general election? [More…]
But, with the impending general election, the meeting needed to be held prior to the rising of the Parliament. [More…]
The Minister has also had raised with him the fact that the schedule of the team visits coincides with the election campaign; indeed, it is due to be finalised on the actual day of the election. [More…]
Negotiations have been in progress since well before there was any suggestion of an election in Queensland and the coincidence concerning the election date could not have been foreseen by those who made the arrangements. [More…]
In the course of the debate dealing with the economic uncertainty created by the Prime Minister’s election speculation, Senator Withers interjected when I was speaking and he said that Mr Whitlam wants an election. [More…]
Is one entitled to conclude that the report is an unfavourable one and that the Government is keeping it under wraps until this election is over? [More…]
I would have thought that the circumstances were so urgent that a government wishing to take advantage of the best political climate at the time of an election would have reacted to any favourable recommendation that the Industries Assistance Commission had made. [More…]
It is unjust, cruel and unfair if, knowing that, we keep these people dangling on a string for another six or seven months and then at the end of that time, with the election safely over, say to them: ‘We cannot expend any further Commonwealth funds on this operation’. [More…]
Added to this lack of decision is the fact that the forthcoming election has necessitated the dropping of further consideration of this program until after 10 December. [More…]
I believe that, should the Government survive the forthcoming election, it will attempt to send these back to the States, without the guarantees of continuous funding which the States will require. [More…]
The decision then may, or may not, depend upon whether another election is pending. [More…]
The Opposition’s objection is not to the extension but to the fact that the extension is for only one year- that a sudden election thrust upon the Government the need to extend the program for one year. [More…]
There will be plenty of opportunity, over the next two days and perhaps during the election campaign, to point out the errors of the Government in its approach to the economic problems that the nation faces. [More…]
I express the hope that the extension of the year is not considered necessary merely because we are about to have an election. [More…]
It may be that Labor will be successful in that election. [More…]
Again, it seems to demonstrate that the Government is not very anxious to find a solution to the problem of employed school leavers, except insofar as it wishes, for the purposes of the coming election, to demonstrate a few token schemes which have absorbed just a few thousand of the unemployed youth. [More…]
However, when her leader brought on a hurried election and the Government had to scamper around and bring in something that would appeal for votes, it sought to amend the Bill and afford provision over and above what the Budget had contemplated. [More…]
I am not growling about that because, after the Greensborough by-election on Saturday last, I am very happy. [More…]
However, I am happy to say that after the result of Saturday’s by-election we will be in government very soon. [More…]
My understanding is that no such action seems likely, however, since at the last election in September this year the public imposed its own punishment by not returning the two members to Parliament. [More…]
As Mr Khemlani is reported to have made telephone calls to Canberra, does the Minister believe that there is any possibility that he could be involved in planning the Australian Labor Party’s financial policy prior to the election campaign? [More…]
The Treasurer, who was absent from Question Time in another place on 3 November, must frankly and promptly reveal the full nature and extent of his dealings in land on the Mornington Peninsula and, in particular, his financial relationships, personal and political, with Mr Leake, whose relations with Ministers in the Hamer Government in securing development permits and raising election funds have been exposed before the inquiry in recent weeks. [More…]
It was he who, with the present Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony), recommended Mr Fancher to the Premier of Queensland on the eve of the last Federal elections. [More…]
Mr Bracey stated that, in the run-up to the last election, the honourable member for Flinders fronted up with his secretary, Andrew Hay, to Mr Bracey ‘s Sydney office and spent three hours with him. [More…]
Aboriginals encouraged to enrol for election: BjelkePetersen. [More…]
It will be stopped at least until after the Federal election and possibly indefinitely. [More…]
The Premier said they had encouraged Aborigines to enrol for the State election. [More…]
They are asking Aborigines to enrol on State rolls for the State election. [More…]
It is listed in a Liberal Party election pamphlet as one of the Fraser Government’s major achievements - [More…]
If the Premier of Queensland says that Bonner is a political activist because he tells people to enrol and speaks on street corners during an election campaign asking the people to vote for the Liberal Party, is the Premier going to ask the Federal Government to withdraw me from the Senate because I am a political activist? [More…]
I am not saying she was doing that for any other reason than to indicate that at the moment this country, and particularly Queensland, is in a delicate situation because of the two election campaigns that are taking place. [More…]
The Minister has also had raised with him the fact that the schedule of the team visits coincides with the election campaign; indeed, it is due to be finalised on the actual day of the election. [More…]
But nothing happens in relation to treatment of ill people in hospitals or in the field anywhere in Queensland or in Australia, even though the fact they may be dying or suffering from some grievous disability happens to coincide with the day of the State or Federal election. [More…]
Federal rolls will be open for a few days yet but I cannot imagine that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) would be worried about half a dozen enrolments in a Federal Division which he will lose anyway at the next election. [More…]
The Liberal Party has produced a pamphlet for the Federal election campaign and under the heading ‘Aboriginal Affairs’ the claim is made that the national trachoma campaign is one of the plus factors of the two years of Liberal Government. [More…]
If such a decision is postponed until after the December election, Aborigines in the area, and in Queensland generally, will scatter far and wide. [More…]
I said earlier this year that if a general election were called before Christmas it would be only because the Prime Minister had lost his nerve. [More…]
We are to have the general election. [More…]
Prime Minister is so sure that there are no political problems facing him, it will make no difference at all to hrs election campaign. [More…]
The votes in both the areas in which the teams will be operating will come back to the Labor Party at this election, so it will not make one iota of difference. [More…]
What is occurring in Queensland is similar to the situation in Western Australia at the moment where, because an Aboriginal candidate was successful in an appeal to the tribunal, the Premier of that State has decided to motivate his Party to introduce legislation to prevent every nonliterate Aboriginal in the electoral seat of Kimberly, or in any other seat in Western Australia, from having the right to vote in an election. [More…]
I defy any honourable senator or any member of the community to go into a polling booth in a Senate election such as we saw in New South Wales in 1975, when there were some 70-odd candidates, and not take his how to vote card with him so that he will know who to vote for in the ordinary sequence set out on the how to vote cards. [More…]
The legislation represents the final move in the Government’s broadcasting policy before the election on 10 December. [More…]
It is important that Government senators understand this because it will be a significant issue in the forthcoming election. [More…]
We are most concerned with the structural way in which licences are to be granted under the proposed legislation, and in the context of an election on 10 December I say quite frankly that the policy of the Australian Labor Party is one of separating these functions quite distinctly and taking them away from the Minister, as this Minister keeps saying that he intends to do but does not do. [More…]
As I said earlier, it is these sorts of things that we will wrap around the necks of Government supporters in the course of an election campaign. [More…]
They will approve of it, of course, because an election is to be held on 10 December. [More…]
I thought that Senator Wright, who made a lot of noise just a moment ago, would have been concerned that the house of review is about to adopt legislation of this kind because an election is to be held on 10 December and he has to be loyal to his Ministeror part time Minister as he is described- for Post and Telecommunications and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who want this legislation passed. [More…]
I do not regard it as a Bill that ought to be considered in a party political or election atmosphere. [More…]
I believe that the general tone of the statement is of one that has been thrown together hurriedly because an election is to be held in about six weeks’ time. [More…]
How does this compare with the active community involvement in the Australian Assistance Plan which the Government, despite a firm election promise, effectively torpedoed without any consultation with the States soon after coming into power. [More…]
I assume the Government’s statement is in fact some sort of pre-election gimmick. [More…]
I rise to make only a few comments on the Government’s statement, which took me by surprise and was obviously not so much a social welfare statement as one made in preparation for the forthcoming election campaign. [More…]
If she repeats it during the election campaign one can imagine the multitudes lauding the good servant, the Government, which now cries over the poverty in Australia that it supposedly wants to alleviate. [More…]
Actions speak louder than words, and recent elections have shown that the Aboriginal people know what this Government is doing for them. [More…]
It shows the desperation of a Government that has pulled on an election and is afraid of the results. [More…]
However, it will be too late by then because the figures will come out on the eve of the election. [More…]
In some years the pensioners would get nothing but if it was an election year they would get ten shillings. [More…]
Our promise was that we would lift the pension to 25 per cent of the average wage and were very close to achieving it when we went out of office, despite the fact that we were continually frustrated in this chamber and had been forced to an election midway through our first term. [More…]
At least Mr Court, the West Australian Premier, will not be able to deprive illiterate Aborigines of the opportunity to vote in the Federal election. [More…]
Yet immediately Mr Court, this Liberal Premier in Western Australia, was made aware of the fact that he presented a very weak case in the Court of Disputed Returns and that the court intended to order another election, what did he do? [More…]
He was hoping that the candidate who ran so close to his Minister in the election in the Kimberleys would not have the benefit of the vote from the Aboriginals despite the fact that the Labor candidate is an Aboriginal himself. [More…]
Yet we find being put down in this Parliament tonight on the eve of an election a document which tries to fool the people that the Government has some concern, in the first place, for people who are suffering poverty and, m the second place, for the Aboriginal people of this community. [More…]
I was more than interested to see that in the forthcoming general election campaign our opponents, as usual, will be devoting their time and attention to affairs of the past, whereas the present Government, led by a progressive Prime Minister, has progressive policies for the future. [More…]
Therefore, this action has prevented those people being eligible to vote at the forthcoming election. [More…]
It is certainly not the fault of this Government that these people were unable to acquire Australian citizenship in time for the next election. [More…]
Other than the fact that there is an election on 10 December, what was the reason for the Government’s complete somersault on what appeared to be an irrevocable refusal? [More…]
Is it not a fact that the Prime Minister when announcing policies on the eve of the last election said that a Liberal government would find work for all who wanted work? [More…]
The arguments concerning education have during the last 12 months or so been canvassed widely in the Parliament and no doubt will be again during the course of the coming election campaign. [More…]
Every educationist and every parent in Australia should realise that what they have had over the past two years is only a taste of what they will get in the succeeding three years if the present Government happens to be in power after the next election. [More…]
I was somewhat surprised to read of the debate that took place in the other place because when my colleague Mr Scholes moved the amendment which I am suggesting should be considered by the Senate today, he was berated by the Tasmanian members, all of whom are up for election and, therefore, whom one would have expected to have shown a bit more interest in the problems facing the apple and pear industry in Tasmania. [More…]
It has turned its back on that and we find Tasmanian members of the House of Representatives, who are all up for election and whom one would expect to be much more interested in the plight of the industry, making statements that the support is not required. [More…]
Only today we heard that leading figures in the beef industry are considering running independent Country Party candidates in the forthcoming Federal election. [More…]
Of course, in Queensland that disenchantment will become apparent in the results of the election next weekend. [More…]
It is easy to talk at election time about what one is going to do. [More…]
We were told during the last election campaign that the present Government would get access to export markets. [More…]
It announced an early election and set in train a last minute rush to deal with a momentous legislative program. [More…]
It was not within the capability of that Government to control the rate of inflation, having regard to the extensive trading relations with other countries that preceded the election of the Australian Labor Party Government in 1972, the revaluation of the currency which flowed from the mining boom of the 1960s and the capital that poured into the country at that time. [More…]
The first point of the amendment says that the Bill dishonours the November election promise of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
The planning for this national Rural Bank began in 1 976, after our election to office. [More…]
It was gestated by the private trading banks, dictated by them to the Government and aborted by the premature election which we are to have in a little more than four weeks. [More…]
We are to have the premature election following the dissolution of the Parliament tomorrow notwithstanding the fact that the Appropriation Bills have not yet been passed and that the electoral laws at the time the Governor-General agreed to the dissolution were in a state of anarchy and in fact had to be twice amended to legalise the election which the Governor-General had approved. [More…]
The Bill dishonours the Prime Minister’s November 1975 election promise, repeated as late as 11 September 1977, to establish a Rural Bank under a statutory corporation; [More…]
This action repudiates the Liberal-National Country Party election promises. [More…]
It has been aborted by this premature election. [More…]
It is another pre-election gimmick. [More…]
This Bill is another example of the fulfilment of the policies which were projected in our rural policy speech prior to the 1975 election. [More…]
It has been said that the Government has not honoured its election promises. [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…]
Four of our colleagues face an election- four territorians and if they are not elected at the forthcoming election they will not come back. [More…]
We wish him all the best in his election quest for Hawker. [More…]
I conclude by wishing everybody a happy electioneering period. [More…]
On behalf of the Opposition I express our best wishes to everybody during the Christmas break and our very best wishes for the success of the Australian Labor Party at the forthcoming election. [More…]
Although he was defeated in 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 came into the Senate and was acknowledged by the Senate by its election of him to the high office of President, an office whose duties he discharged with singular distinction. [More…]
I came to know him particularly well during the 1966 federal election campaign when he assisted me in the electorate of Grey. [More…]
Sir John was elected to the Senate for Victoria at the 1940 election, was defeated in 1943 and was then re-elected at the subsequent elections of 1949, 1951 and 1955. [More…]
One of the things that I really do enjoy about the Opposition is that, concerning a particular Australian, we have been through two election campaigns in which he has been a central figure and each time the [More…]
I am delighted that they are continuing this campaign because they will be thrashed at the next election, the one after that and the one after that. [More…]
After all, whilst the present Opposition has emerged with the most disastrous thrashing from the election of members of the House of Representatives, honourable senators opposite should look at the Senate figures sometime; in State after State they could not even get two quotas. [More…]
Here they are attempting still to rake over the old coals of the period before the 1 975 election. [More…]
In the building industry in the first three weeks following the election building approvals totalling $1 ,400m were announced, and this is an area of high employment. [More…]
Honourable senators on the Government side might say that I have every reason to be sad after the past two general elections and that is true; but there are things beyond the general election results to which I want to refer and which I do find saddening. [More…]
One had stood as an Australian Labor Party candidate at the Federal election and was appointed to the position of deputy principal of a school on 23 January 1978. [More…]
That is, that after many years of service the teacher interrupted his employment to become a Labor Party candidate in the Federal election of 1977. [More…]
I say that because I think that what the Premier of Queensland is really saying is: ‘If the Federal Parliament regards it as the right of every Australian citizen to contest Federal elections- to vote in them but, more importantly, to contest them- as far as certain Australians are concerned, I shall take it upon myself to qualify those individual political rights which are accorded to all Australians and the qualifications will be that the right to stand for Parliament is extended to all Australian citizens except teachers employed in Queensland ‘. [More…]
Senator Button drew attention to the desirability of there being no interference with people who offer themselves as candidates for election to Parliament. [More…]
After all, Sir Zelman may have to decide during his incumbency of the office whether the present Government should have a premature election or something else that it wants. [More…]
The results of the recent election surprised everyone with regard to the size and uniformity across the country of the coalition victory. [More…]
I congratulate Senator Haines on both her election to this Parliament- it was not a foregone conclusion- and her maiden speech tonight. [More…]
I mention this matter also because the election of Senator Haines was the first after the constitutional alteration which provided for the filling of a casual vacancy by a member of the party with which the retiring member had been associated at the time of entry to the Parliament. [More…]
Not only was it the first occasion on which such a selection had to be made in South Australia, but also the senator who retired was from a party whose existence in South Australia was difficult to recognise. [More…]
For that reason, the Liberal Party in that State submitted a nominee and urged at the joint sitting that its nominee should receive the selection. [More…]
The contention of the Liberal Party was that the party to which Senator Steele Hall had belonged at the time of election had now merged with the Liberal Party and that, in accordance with the constitutional alteration, a Liberal Party member should receive the endorsement. [More…]
The second candidate on the ticket at that election is now in the State House as a Liberal Party member and would not have desired election to the Senate for a six-month period. [More…]
There was a suggestion that the appointment by the State Government should have been held over until after the Federal elections so that if the fate of Senator Steele Hall was what it in fact proved to be he could be re-appointed for the six-month term as nearly expressing the opinion of the people who elected him. [More…]
Everyone knows that at the time Senator Steele Hall was originally elected he had different beliefs, different politics and made different utterances than he had and made when he stood at the last election. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh seemed to think his thoughts were quite irrevelant- that somehow the election of a successor to Senator Hall was related to the constitutional amendment which this Parliament and the people, adopted last year. [More…]
Senator Button spoke of the position of a person in Queensland who resigned from his position as principal of a school for the purpose of taking part in the last election and whom the Queensland Premier has refused to allow to return to his job. [More…]
Things have happened in this country, both during the election period and since that time, which I think ought to have our immediate concern. [More…]
One thing which happened during the course of the election campaign and which I regard as a matter of some seriousness was the premature disclosure of the report on human relationships. [More…]
But I felt that it was a very grave disservice to the commissioners that parts of the report were leaked out and thrown into the election campaign. [More…]
It seems to me that we have too many elections and too early elections in this country. [More…]
I think that we ought soon to come to a situation where we know when elections will be held. [More…]
I can find nothing in the Westminster system of government that requires, for example, a Prime Minister to have some special right to choose, in consultation with the Governor-General, a time when there should be an election. [More…]
I think it would be very useful as one possible solution to our problems if we had a fixed term, we knew where we were and we knew when the elections would be. [More…]
When I hear some of the cries from politicians from both sides of the Parliament that they do not like having an election at a particular time because they might be a little unpopular I can say that they are condemned out of their own mouths. [More…]
Whilst I am talking about our new senator whom I welcome here as the first representative of a new Australian party, which I congratulate upon the success it achieved in the December election, I raise a matter of concern in relation to that Party and I think it is fair enough to do so tonight. [More…]
As it was so close to the date of the election, one wonders why Mr Peacock could not have informed the Australian people of the Government’s intention before 10 December so as to allow the citizens of Australia to vote on this issue, to make up their minds whether they believed that Indonesia had the right to move in and take over East Timor. [More…]
Granted in the intervening period we have had an election, but governments should not come to a halt because of elections. [More…]
Yet the Government said during the election campaign that it was very concerned about the unemployed people in this country. [More…]
Yet yesterday and during the election campaign the Government said that it had a vital concern for the unemployed in this country. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) will remember also that I raised in this chamber before the election the matter of the deferred payment of unemployment relief benefits. [More…]
I was intrigued during the recent election campaign, while in the field for some three weeks meeting hundreds of people in factories, timber mills, shops, pubs and other places that the one matter that was raised constantly by the average person was his concern about unemployment. [More…]
Now we have seen the pendulum swing to the stage where at the last election in December the management of the economy was probably the only issue. [More…]
As this House has the right to refuse Supply, defeat a government and force an election in the other place without going to an election itself, it is a very powerful House as Senator Rae and others have said. [More…]
But as this will not happen, as Senator Rae and his ilk are firmly committed to the concept of a Senate which can at any time throw out the lower House even though the Senate cannot in any way be considered representative of the people in the same way as the other House is and even though many members of that Senate will have been elected many years before the election of whatever government is in office, I believe the Senate will remain the rubber stamp it is. [More…]
It will be ignored by the press and populace except at election time. [More…]
We have not been able to get specific information but the Minister may remember appearing with me during the election campaign on a program called The Policy Makers. [More…]
The disappearance of a well-known This Day Tonight reporter from that program after the last election is very distressing. [More…]
What I do find distressing is that the only national current affairs program which gave daily coverage of the election campaign found itself short of its main reporter at the end of the campaign. [More…]
I cannot agree with her interpretation of some of the voting figures in the last election, but if she can take comfort from the interpretation she should do so by all means. [More…]
I also believe that a large proportion of the Australian people who voted to oust the Labor Government at that time had some misgivings about the way in which the election was engineered. [More…]
But in late 1977 John Kerr granted the Government an election in mid term. [More…]
It seemed that Kerr was determined to give the other side an election whether it wanted one or not, whether it was in government or in opposition. [More…]
Who would have believed that so cynical a deal, and so dishonest a deal, could have been set up- a job in exchange for sacking an elected government, for calling an unjustifiable early election and then retiring in time for the electorate to forget about the shame of 1 1 November. [More…]
As one who lost in the last election and who has examined that defeat I shall make a few brief and general comments. [More…]
A lot of critics have forecast the end of the Labor Party and a whole new era in Australian politics as a result of the 1977 election. [More…]
One issue that seems to have been ignored by a great majority of them is the similarity between the elections of 1974 and 1977. [More…]
1 believe that was a crucial element in the election campaign and, as I said, one the critics seem to be ignoring. [More…]
I raise briefly another matter which was brought to my attention more strongly than ever during the Federal election campaign and immediately afterwards. [More…]
I have talked to people who scrutineered during the election campaign. [More…]
I am referring to casual employees, those people who were put on just for the election. [More…]
The result of the last Senate election in New South Wales, even without a recount, was not known for at least a month following the ballot date. [More…]
If one takes the last election, one can see that the cost of running election campaigns in this country today has become crippling for all parties. [More…]
I congratulate the Government on its election promise, which was confirmed in the Governor-General’s Speech, that federal estate duty will be abolished in respect of an estate which passes from spouse to spouse or parent to child. [More…]
Joh Bjelke-Petersen and Mr Eric Deeral of National Party will hold a pre-election speech at the Bamaga Beer Canteen at approximately 3 p.m. on Monday 24 October 1977. [More…]
It is very convenient that it is two-and-a-half years to the next election but I don ‘t know if the people will forget this decision. ‘ [More…]
I wish to refer to the election results in my State of South Australia. [More…]
It is interesting to note, when looking at the final figures- I am talking now of the primary votes in South Australia- that in the House of Representatives election the Liberal Party polled 45 per cent of the votes, whilst the Australian Labor Party polled 42.6 per cent of the votes. [More…]
In the Senate election the Liberal Party in South Australia polled 49 per cent of the votes and the Labor Party 36.8 per cent. [More…]
On a twoparty preferred basis, in South Australia in the House of Representatives election the Liberal Party polled 51.3 per cent of the votes and the Labor Party 48.7 per cent; yet we in the Liberal Party finished up winning only five of the 1 1 seats. [More…]
In the Senate election- also on a two-party preferred basis- the Liberal Party received 55.9 per cent of the votes and the Labor Party received 44. [More…]
At this stage I want to make it perfectly clear that I have no criticism whatever of any of the distribution commissioners who redrew the boundaries both for the Federal election and for the State election in South Australia. [More…]
I mention this matter tonight because I think there is a great need for the people of South Australia to be aware of the fact thatagain I am not being critical of the Distribution Commissioners- the guidelines under which the Commissioners had to operate were restrictive in such a way that there was a greater opportunity for the Labor Party in the State elections than there was for the anti-socialist group, if I may put it that way, to win. [More…]
-That was in October, which would be after the State election. [More…]
What is more, he also led the ALP general election campaign on the anti-uranium issue. [More…]
Was it because, as Senator Messner stated earlier, some things happened after the State election? [More…]
Was it to appease people and to make sure that he maximised his vote in the State election? [More…]
I am especially interested to see how these representatives of the Party which made the Senate its particular target in the 1977 election treat this body in fact. [More…]
I wanted to make one or two comments, in opening, about the 1977 election, a subject in which the Australian Democrats are, of course, highly relevant. [More…]
At the declaration of the poll in Queensland I made some comments on the election. [More…]
I do not intend to repeat that sentence this evening, but would like to repeat a little of what I said on that occasion concerning my impressions on the election and what it meant to this country. [More…]
Without doubt, the overwhelming mood of the electorate in 1977 was one of weariness and cynicism; not necessarily weariness at having to vote again, because there was a special situation in Queensland in that only one month earlier there had been voting for the State election. [More…]
I believe every candidate in the last election, regardless of party, would have been quite aware of that sentiment on the part of a significant section of the Australian public, which is a thinking and caring public, one which cares about this nation and wants to see government, whatever its political colour, clearly motivated towards acting in the interests of our nation. [More…]
The points which are scored in this place frequently come too cheap and, unfortunately, especially so during election campaigns, when the attention of the media is really centered on the politicians, especially the leaders: That sort of point scoring becomes monotonous, tedious and disillusioning. [More…]
We cannot just believe that it will just go away for another three years, until the next election. [More…]
If Mr Mensaros is successful in allowing fully foreign-owned companies to operate, and one presumes that if they are fully foreign-owned they are also fully foreign-controlled, it could jeopardise thousands of jobs in my State as well as raising doubts about the credibility of Sir Charles Court’s pre-election promise of majority Australian ownership. [More…]
He gave the job figures in a statement which he said showed that the Government’s performance had matched its election promises. [More…]
I do not believe that the Government will uphold the promises made in this place last week by the Governor-General, any more than I believe that the Government upheld the promises it made prior to the last general election or the previous general election in 1975. [More…]
He was defeated at that election and was reemployed by the Education Department. [More…]
So it would appear that the policy is to depress the economy during the 1978-79 period in the hope that we will see a return to some levels of prosperity by 1980, which is when the next election is due. [More…]
I think one of the most important events which has taken place over recent years, however little it may so far have accomplished, has been the statement by the President of the United States of America shortly after his election that in future the United States Administration would not look merely at the national interests of the United States of America in assessing its relations with foreign countries but would also look at the human rights of citizens within foreign countries. [More…]
In the elections held in South Africa in 1974, which were elections in which only whites were able to vote, the Progressive Party- a party which may be a capitalist party and which may have all sorts of planks in its platform with which I would not agree but which is certainly a party that is committed to racial equality within South Africa and an equal voice for all citizens in the government of South Africa- won seven seats, having won only one seat in the previous elections when Mrs Suzman, who for many years was its only member, was re-elected. [More…]
In the most recent elections held in South Africa, despite the fact that the National Party gained an overwhelming majority in the South African House of Assembly, the Progressive Federal Party, which is a new party that is committed to the same basic policies as the older Progressive Party, achieved the election of 17 members. [More…]
He was referring to the results of the election- of the people’s conviction that the basic direction of the Government’s policies reflects their aspirations and interests. [More…]
Due to the intervention of the election it was necessary to postpone the meeting of the Australian Education Council which was to have been held in November in Canberra under my chairmanship. [More…]
I was first endorsed in 1 970 to contest the 1970 half-Senate election. [More…]
As was the case with a lot of senators elect, I thought I would be a member of this chamber for six years before I faced an election. [More…]
But because of the lust for power of the people who now sit on the Government benches, I had to face two more elections before I had even completed my first six years in office. [More…]
At such a time not only the events which I have cited will be taken into consideration; all the false promises made during the 1975 general election campaign and again during the general election campaign last year will be taken into consideration also. [More…]
After the September election and the challenge which was thrown out by Mr Tonkin, the Labor Party in South Australia was returned to office with a record majority of seven. [More…]
Mr Tonkin is somewhat the same as honourable senators opposite and supporters of the Government in the other place were after the 1972 general election. [More…]
They forced us to an election 18 months after we were elected into government. [More…]
Two of the most important matters on which Senator Young dwelt were the election results in South Australia, and he made a very interesting comment on that subject, and the question of uranium, about which he misquoted several things. [More…]
I deal now with what Senator Young had to say on the election results. [More…]
I wish to refer to the elections results in my State of South Australia. [More…]
It is interesting to note, when looking at the final figures- I am talking now of the primary votes in South Australiathat in the House of Representatives election the Liberal Party polled 45 per cent of the votes, whilst the Australian Labor Party polled 42.6 per cent of the votes. [More…]
In the Senate election the Liberal Party in South Australia polled 49 per cent of the votes and the Labor Party 36.8 per cent. [More…]
On a two-party preferred basis, in South Australia in the House of Representatives election the Liberal Party polled 5 1.3 per cent of the votes and the Labor Party 48.7 per cent; yet we in the Liberal Party finished up winning only five of the 1 1 seats. [More…]
He went on to say, referring to election figures: [More…]
Now let us examine the South Australian election figures. [More…]
That was the last occasion in any South Australian election that the Liberal Party polled the majority of votes. [More…]
We find hononourable senators coming into this place and criticising the last Senate election figures. [More…]
They are saying that because they got so close in the overall figure for South Australia at the last election they were robbed of one seat in particular- yet nothing was said in all those years about the times when the Labor Party had a massive majority but could not form a government. [More…]
They have experimented with the election of supervisors. [More…]
He made no mention of the fact that this very important report should have been tabled in this Parliament last year, before the election, so that people could see that the mining of uranium is not the great money spinner and employer of labour that the present Government told the people of Australia it is. [More…]
The people of Australia passed their clear judgment on these events and Sir John’s actions in the election of 1975. [More…]
It has been used as an emotional argument in two general election campaigns but the argument has failed. [More…]
Senator Haines reminded us in her maiden speech that at the last House of Representatives election 48 per cent of the population supported the Government. [More…]
We think we know that there are traditional swingers- if I can use the word traditionalin the sense that these people oscillate between elections. [More…]
We saw the effect of this in the election in December 1 977. [More…]
The simple fact is that in the 77 years of federation the Labor Party has been in office for about only 14 years, and at each election the conservative forces of this country close their ranks and in unison heap blame on previous Labor governments for the poor state of the nation. [More…]
True it is that the Labor Party was heavily defeated in 1975 and again in 1 977 but, as Senator Haines- I congratulate the honourable senator who recently joined us from South Australia on the making of her maiden speech- said, when one analyses the results that came from the last election this Government need not necessarily crow or gloat about them. [More…]
It was the sheer weight of media bias principally that won the election in the manner that it was so decisively won by this Government. [More…]
That was the case in 1 943 and again in 1946, when the newspaper proprietors of this nation generally supported the re-election of the Curtin and Chifley Labor governments. [More…]
It was the case in 1974, when at least the Murdoch group of newspapers remained neutral in its attitude towards the re-election of the Labor Government. [More…]
So it was that we lost, and lost heavily, in 1975, when all of the newspaper groups- those privileged groups of peopleviolently opposed the election of the Labor Party. [More…]
Malcolm Fraser) in the presentation of the Government’s election proposals. [More…]
I am now saying that it was politically neutral until the last couple of days of the election campaign. [More…]
Mr Murdoch conveniently returned to Australia during the general election campaign. [More…]
He announced a policy of political neutrality for his fleet, until he realised there was a possibility of the election of a Labor government. [More…]
One only has to look at the front page editorial of the Sydney Daily Telegraph of the day before the election- the editorial on 9 December headed: ‘We can’t afford a change ‘-to realise this. [More…]
Doubtless, when one takes into account the country Press it is only axiomatic to say that there was a one-sided election campaign and a onesided election results. [More…]
The whole weight of media operations throughout the length and breadth of this nation was fanatically directed to ensuring the election of one particular party. [More…]
It is true that there were faults in the Labor movement election campaign. [More…]
Certainly Senator Rae made some mention of this during the course of his remarks when he said that wherever he went throughout the election campaign he found that a feeling was being engendered or being felt in a lot of industries that people who were out of work need not necessarily have been out of work. [More…]
For an outline of what happened in the last general election I merely rely upon a report, written by Valerie Lawson, which appeared on page 1 of the Australian Financial Review on 14 December 1977, four days after the general election was held. [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…]
I mention that to indicate that it was the excessive weight of the campaign that was conducted by the media proprietors against the Labor Party, the campaign based on the selfishness and altruism of the Liberal Party, that was primarily responsible for the defeat of the Labor Party at the last election. [More…]
We have had four elections in five years- one in 1972, one in 1974, one in 1975 and another in 1977- and all of them were called ahead of their time by the Liberal Party. [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…]
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 government- that is one that makes no appointments or dismissals and initiates no policies, until a general election is held. [More…]
The result is that there will be an early general election for both Houses and the people can do what, in a democracy such as ours, is their responsibility and duty and theirs alone. [More…]
In all the circumstances which have occurred the appropriate means is a dissolution of the Parliament and an election for both Houses. [More…]
When, however, an Upper House possesses the power to reject a money bill including an appropriation bill, and exercises the power by denying supply, the principle that a government which has been denied supply by the Parliament should resign or go to an election must still apply- it is a necessary consequence of Parliamentary control of appropriation and expenditure and of the expectation that the ordinary and necessary services of government will continue to be provided. [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 continues to be denied does not guarantee a prompt or sufficiently clear prospect of the deadlock being resolved in accordance with proper principles. [More…]
You have previously told me that you would never resign or advise an election of the House of Representatives or a double dissolution and that the only way in which such an election could be obtained would be by my dismissal of you and your ministerial colleagues. [More…]
I propose to send for the Leader of the Opposition and to commission him to form a new caretaker Government until an election can be held. [More…]
They were terribly disappointed and terribly unhappy that they received very little information about the recent general election in Australia. [More…]
I did not ask any of them their political views, but they were deeply disappointed that they were unable to cast a vote in the general election. [More…]
Top level people there- I will not mention names; no names, no pack drill- were all critical of the fact that an election had been held and they were not part of it. [More…]
It has subsequently recovered some considerable ground, but in the 1974 election many members were defeated and Bill Wood and Peter Wood, his brother, were two of those people. [More…]
Nevertheless, they carry out an accepted and commendable exercise in taking part in an election. [More…]
To get back to the point I am making, Bill Wood is entitled to be reinstated and candidates who are defeated in an election in every other State are, to my knowledge, reinstated. [More…]
It means that if a person is a State employee in Queensland he cannot stand for a council election because he will not be able to attend the meetings which are held during the day. [More…]
In Queensland there are hundreds of State employees who seek to serve their community and who would like to stand for election for non-paid, voluntary jobs but who are prevented from doing so because they are refused leave of absence to attend council meetings. [More…]
This did not happen to Mr David Byrne a defeated Liberal candidate at the last election. [More…]
As far as can be ascertained there was no vacancy prior to the election. [More…]
Senator Coleman was a member of that very interesting Senate team that did so disastrously in the election. [More…]
Senator Douglas McClelland made a most interesting speech in which he said that the Labor Party lost the election because Rupert Murdoch and Warwick Fairfax wrote a number of editorials in the last week of the election campaign. [More…]
Perhaps honourable senators opposite ought to read what is alleged to be a report of Mr David Combe, the National Secretary of the Australian Labor Party, which he presented to a meeting of the ALP Federal Executive on 30 July 1975, after the Bass by-election. [More…]
Legislation would need to be introduced to allow for the election. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Administrative Services been made aware of a report by the Australian Electoral Office stating that 731,555 Australians, or 9 per cent of the total poll, voted informally at the Senate election last December? [More…]
Senate election. [More…]
The number of informal votes cast varies from election to election. [More…]
The figure was lower for the election after the double dissolution of 1975. [More…]
At the last separate Senate election the figure was much higher. [More…]
I assume that in 1975 the people of Australia were so anxious to make certain that the Whitlam Government did not get back to office that they concentrated on filling out a formal ballot paper and that at the time of the last election they were so convinced that the Liberal and National Country Parties would win easily they did not take so much care. [More…]
of course, the messages concerning the appointment of members to this Committee and other such committees have always come from the House of Representatives after each House of Representatives election; but over at least the last 10 or 12 years my colleagues in this chamber have taken the view that the Senate is a House in constitutional life irrespective of the dissolution of the House of Representatives. [More…]
These considerations were interrupted by the recent general election. [More…]
Those considerations would have been interrupted by a general election regardless of whether it had been held last year or this year. [More…]
So I do not imagine that the time lost due to the general election will make any great difference to the plans we had in mind and the time factor envisaged. [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…]
That was timed to meet the needs of the Western Australian election. [More…]
I was following the precedent which the Opposition had set with respect to the South Australian and Tasmanian elections. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Minister made an arrangement with the producers of a television program to give an exclusive interview on this and related matters, provided that the matter would not be exposed prior to the last Federal election? [More…]
His speech was designed primarily to defend the position of one Mr Bill Wood, who was an Australian Labor Party candidate at the last State election. [More…]
He lost his seat in the November 1977 State election. [More…]
This did not happen to Mr David Byrne a defeated Liberal candidate at the last election. [More…]
As far as can be ascertained there was no vacancy prior to the election. [More…]
The State election in Queensland was held on 12 November. [More…]
So there were indeed several known vacancies before the State election. [More…]
They were advertised in the newspaper on the day of the State election, which I suggest was totally coincidental. [More…]
Senator Georges’ statement that there was no advertising of the position and no vacancy prior to the election is just untrue. [More…]
There was a program on This Day Tonight in Queensland- I am sorry I cannot cite the date, but I know it was in the week before Parliament resumed so I could find out the datewhich related to Mr Wood and made the statement that Messrs Byrne, Lamont and Young had achieved high government appointments after their defeat at the election, although Mr Wood could not get the position he wanted. [More…]
However, it ought to be noted that, far from this being a top government job, Mr Young returned to work at the Queensland Police Force in the Juvenile Aid Bureau without any recognition of his service prior to his election to the State Parliament in 1974. [More…]
The Deaf Society advertised the position during October 1977 and it had not been filled by the time Mr Lamont was defeated in the November Queensland State election. [More…]
What I said under privilege last Thursday night was that Mr Byrne had been appointed to a position in the Police Academy, having been defeated at the previous State election. [More…]
At Mr BjelkePetersen’s direction, an application for Public Service appointment from a member of the Labor Party who has been defeated at an election is a matter for the Executive. [More…]
The clear lines of that appointment were these: The person concerned was to be a candidate at the next State election and the job would facilitate his movement around the electorate of Cook. [More…]
He was a candidate for the Australian Labor Party in the State seat of Salisbury at the last Queensland election. [More…]
The difference between Bill Wilcox and Bill Wood is that one stood at a State election and the other stood at a House of Representatives election. [More…]
The person who stood at the House of Representatives election- Bill Woodhad to resign because of the requirements of the Constitution. [More…]
Having resigned to contest the election he was without a job. [More…]
I intend to pursue the matter further in this place as part of a major speech relating to public servants having to resign if they wish to contest a Federal election. [More…]
I doubt that the Minister could tonight give me an answer on this case, but it seems to me that if a person left Australia in 1975- about the time of the election- and before any decision had been made by the Government to provide for a sixweek waiting period before people who left a job of their own accord could obtain unemployment benefit, it is rather unfair that they should now have to wait for that period because of that decision in 1975. [More…]
Apparently this situation follows an election in late 1 977 for a position in the Tasmanian division of the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations when a Mr Cooper, who had been the nominee of ACSPA, was defeated and Mr Lavey was elected. [More…]
In the election just passed Mr Fraser attempted to win votes by branding his opponents as ‘free traders’. [More…]
It is ironic that, on the day Mr Fraser was admonishing the Europeans, the Philippines Government expressed its concern that the policy announced during the election campaign would virtually extend for another three years the ‘temporary’ protection being given to several inefficient Australian industries. [More…]
In regard to the second part of the amendment, I recall vividly that prior to the last Federal election the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made very critical public statements about Industries Assistance Commission reports that had been presented from time to time. [More…]
Why should they be entitled to a job with the Commonwealth Government when they are superannuated on retiring allowances after being defeated at an election or going out of the Parliament when their services are no longer required by the people? [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that the report of the royal commission which has been awaited for a long time by many people throughout Australia first came into public view when the Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, chose to bring it into the election campaign in November last year in a misleading, distorted and irresponsible way. [More…]
Honourable senators will remember that he was condemned by all sections of the Press, by the commissioners themselves and by many people who had made submissions to the royal commission, for his absolutely cynical use of the report during the election campaign. [More…]
The Prime Minister says that he has written to the Premiers seeking their views, but I wonder what that means when the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Withers, felt free to express their hostile and negative views without even having read the report during the election campaign. [More…]
Ratification of the Covenant would be desirable, particularly in the light of Australia’s election to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. [More…]
The other $1.5m, for which this Bill makes an appropriation, and the $200m promised, which is something separate from this Bill, over five years for future water resource development projects, are two specimens of the grab bag of promises conjured up by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) during the weekend before he delivered his policy speech last year, when he thought that he was in considerable danger of losing the election. [More…]
Those restrictions were not applied because of the cynical opportunism of the Court Government which was facing an election and which did not want the public to be appraised of the fact that the Government which claims to be a government of development and so on had failed in one of its primary developmental obligations, namely to provide an adequate water supply. [More…]
Water restrictions were not imposed for the summer of 1976-77 when they really should have been because the Government was facing an election and it did not want its crumbling clay feet to be exposed. [More…]
-The National Water Resources (Financial Assistance) Bill forms the legislative framework which will enable the Commonwealth to provide finance to the States for various water projects and, in effect, provides the legislative means whereby the Government’s election promise on this subject will be fulfilled. [More…]
The Premier of South Australia made reference in his policy speech during the South Australian election campaign last year to providing metropolitan Adelaide with filtered water. [More…]
A submission was made to the Commonwealth Government following the election and the Whitlam Government undertook to fund the program in 1974. [More…]
On 7 December last year, just prior to the Federal election, Mr Corcoran had to put out another Press release dealing with the Fraser Government’s water resources program. [More…]
It was her colleague who went to an election on Chowilla. [More…]
It was produced during the 1968 election. [More…]
Referring to the fact that there may be an election coming on he said: I can feel a dam coming on’. [More…]
Two years later, in November 1966- it is of interest to note that this was at about the time of the general Federal election- the Commonwealth announced the national water resources development program, under which it would provide non-repayable grants to the States of up to a total of $50m over five years for water conservation works aimed at reducing the hazards of drought, and of expanding primary production. [More…]
Frankly, the Fraser Government, in the two years that it has been in office, has shown a total lack of regard for water resources in Australia- until it was forced to take an interest in them a mere month before the recent federal election. [More…]
The Government announced the details of its new national water resources program in 1977 during the election campaign. [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…]
Senator Walsh said in his speech at the second reading stage that the purpose of the Bill was to meet an obligation in regard to the 16 bribes at the last election. [More…]
If this is so, there may be bribes for future elections. [More…]
We were not told, when an election was fought on the construction of Dartmouth Dam, that there was to be a hydro-electric project in association with its construction. [More…]
Before the election last year the new Woden Valley public library was opened with much fanfare and bombast. [More…]
There is complete inefficiency and failure to fulfil the undertakings given during the election campaign. [More…]
I was glad that he reminded the Senate that several letter bombs were sent through the post during the 1975 election campaign and that a non-political individual- a totally innocent person- who had the responsibility of opening the mail in the Queensland Premier’s Department was blown up by a bomb because proper security precautions were not taken. [More…]
We all know that when we address public meetings during election campaigns, when feelings tend to run a little high, and when we do other things of that nature there is a certain risk attached. [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…]
Does the Minister representing the Treasurer recall the Prime Minister’s promising during the 1977 election campaign that the Federal Government would abolish Federal death duties as from November 1977 with respect to succession by spouses? [More…]
The Treasurer, Mr Howard, on 18 January this year announced the timetable decided on by the Government to give effect to the election promise to abolish both Commonwealth estate duty and gift duty. [More…]
So I look forward to the Government honouring these promises, even though the one given by Mr Sinclair was given during an election compaign. [More…]
Honourable senators 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 last 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…]
I also say to Senator Walsh that rather than his Party, both Federal and State, setting up committees to discover why it lost the last election it ought to be looking at his remarks and wondering why the workers of Australia will not vote for the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Senator Withers knows that when the Labor Party was facing a crucial national election in 1974 those people, who are enemies of my Party, forced me to incur legal expenses to brief counsel in a Supreme Court action. [More…]
I would hope that those who were elected would make at least one or two visits to this place within the fortnight after their election. [More…]
I must say that the Indonesian Government has agreed, following the presidential election, that an immigration team should go to East Timor to obtain the reunification of families. [More…]
He expressed those double standards last year when he spoke at the United Nations on the occasion of Australia’s election to the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
Our election to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in May of this year gives us an additional reason for doing so. [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 has 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…]
The Government has agreed that in some circumstances it should be possible to 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 [More…]
This scheme will not equalise petrol prices, and it does not honour the election promises of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) given in November last. [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…]
Because this Bill, which has been misleadingly called the Petrol Price Equalisation Bill, does not equalise prices and does not honour the Prime Minister’s election promises, I move that at the end of the motion these words be added: but the Senate is of the opinion that the Bill: [More…]
1 ) implement the election promise of the Government to equalise the price of petroleum products between city and country’, and [More…]
So nothing could be clearer than that this scheme barely scratches the surface in the implementation of the Prime Minister’s election promise to equalise petrol prices between city and country. [More…]
Somebody said there was an election and that is precisely what happened. [More…]
In that two months’ period an election was announced, and on 19 November the then Treasurer and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party was forced to resign in disgrace. [More…]
I want to make it clear that any such attempt absolutely repudiates the second point in the Prime Minister’s election promise that the Government would equalise prices without adding to city prices. [More…]
So what the Prime Minister and his Deputy are covertly trying to force the oil companies to do absolutely repudiates the second leg of the undertaking the Prime Minister gave in his election policy speech. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that the Prime Minister in the course of the last election campaign stated that prompt steps would be taken after the last 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…]
Senator Walsh has moved an amendment, not opposing the passage of the Bill but expressing an opinion as to its inadequacy and shortcomings when considered in the light of the coalition parties’ election promise and also in the light of reports received on the petroleum industry in this country, such as the report of the Royal Commission into Petroleum conducted by Mr Justice Collins. [More…]
We should also point out to the Government that whatever we may think about the legislation, it represents a failure by the Government to uphold one of the main policy promises made before the last election. [More…]
It is important to realise that this Bill fulfils an election promise. [More…]
I welcome the legislation as a redemption of the Government’s election promise and a worthwhile initiative to return a measure of justice to the rural community of which it was deprived by the Labor Government during its term of office from 1972 to 1974. [More…]
It is a first step to implement the election policy of the Prime Minister and I look forward to the day, with some optimism, when there will be complete justice for people in isolated areas of Australia, so that they will pay no more for their petrol than do their counterparts in the capital cities of the nation. [More…]
implement the election promises of the Government to equalise the price of petroleum products between city and country , and [More…]
We have heard Senator Tehan make the remark that this Bill restores a measure of justice; also, that it fulfils an election promise. [More…]
Let us look at the election promise that was made by the Prime Minister. [More…]
We also had Mr Fife, the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs, who was in charge of the Bill in the other place, and Senator Tehan quoted him, in winding up the second reading debate claiming on numerous occasions- in fact, that is about all he said at that point- that the Government had honoured an election promise. [More…]
He kept repeating what Senator Tehan has said here tonight, that the Government has honoured its election promise. [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…]
I ask him: Can he truthfully say that that election pledge has been carried out? [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…]
He said that this carried out the election promise that had been made by Mr Fraser. [More…]
He has thus admitted that this legislation is in fact not carrying out the Prime Minister’s election promise, although he claimed only a few moments ago- as had Mr Fife in the other place- that it did. [More…]
I will quote from page 25 of the Budget Speech delivered by the then Treasurer, Mr Lynch- and we all know what happened to him during the course of the election. [More…]
The Government has not honoured its election promise. [More…]
So much for the statements made in the Senate this evening and in the other place that the Government has honoured its election promise that it would bring in legislation which in effect will not increase country prices by more than 4c a gallon above city prices. [More…]
The people of this country will quickly find out what the Government is doing, just as it found out about another magnificent promise that the Government made during the election campaign in respect of a newspaper advertisement which depicted a hand holding a bunch of $5 notes. [More…]
I believe those people will have second thoughts and that they will not be fooled again when people such as Senator Tehan claim in this Parliament that the Government has honoured its election promises on petrol subsidies. [More…]
I have looked at Mr Fife’s second reading speech and I can see nothing in it which leads me to believe that the Goverment, as Senator Tehan claimed, has honoured its election promise by introducing this legislation. [More…]
Of course, we now have to wait for nearly three years for the electors to be given the opportunity to pass judgment not only on this legislation but also on other legislation which will no doubt come before this Parliament as a result of the Government ‘s election promises and which again will be claimed by Government supporters as evidence that the Government is honouring its election promises. [More…]
But there will be other members of his Party who will come in for some very severe criticism unless, of course, Mr Howard, the new Treasurer, unlike Mr Fife, is prepared to honour the election promises. [More…]
I only hope that the people outside this place who have listened to the speeches made by Senator Walsh, Senator Grimes and me are now fully aware of the way in which they have been hoodwinked and misled by election promises. [More…]
The Government is seeking to delude the electorate into believing that it is carrying out the promise made by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) during the election campaign. [More…]
An election for an advisory council comprising members of the Cocos Malay community took place on 18 March 1978. [More…]
Honourable senators know that the Government stated in its election platform that it would increase energy research and development in Australia and establish a high level body to advise on the special measures needed to administer an expanded program of energy research and development. [More…]
To him they represent a problem at election time but because of his outrageous gerrymander he is able conveniently to ignore them otherwise. [More…]
In 1975 the Labor Party following upon its election promise introduced a land rights Bill for the Northern Territory. [More…]
There has been no fair go at the Doomadgee Mission which, generally speaking, has been totally controlled by the National Party from 1967, when Aboriginals earned the right to vote by the carriage of the referendum, until the State election in 1977. [More…]
In that election also the ballot papers were filled in on behalf of the Aborigines. [More…]
He said this included continuing to back him to run again as Premier at the next State election in 1 980. [More…]
He led us into two great election victories,’ the party member said. [More…]
A few months ago, after the 1 977 election in Queensland, we had the public spectacle of the Queensland Government not being able to form a Cabinet. [More…]
It is the Queensland Premier who banned the team involved in the trachoma program in Queensland, allegedly because two of the people concerned were taking political action during an election campaign. [More…]
I know of one local authority which, in the old days, had the special grants for the employment of Aborigines held up for many months because an election was imminent. [More…]
He is not now on as firm ground within his own environmentand this was shown by the last State electionas he was previously. [More…]
We saw the start of his decline right after the last State election when there was a dispute over the number of Liberal Party members who should be in the Queensland cabinet. [More…]
In the interests of Australian democracy let the Senate take a stand and again say, not that it will halt a budget to force an election but that it will halt a particular piece of legislation on a most sensitive matter of the highest significance in Australia’s national history beginning at the definition of race relations in this country for the next 50 years. [More…]
We prescribe laws to ensure the integrity of election or the nomination of a point of view. [More…]
the election of persons to such bodies; and [More…]
The other thing that perhaps could satisfy the Opposition even further is that a council of an Aboriginal reserve is a council construed under the provisions of the Queensland legislation which provides for an election. [More…]
implement the election promise of the Government ‘to equalise the price of petroleum products between city and country ‘; and [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…]
In doing so I emphasise that what we are doing is virtually fulfilling an election promise made last year by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
implement the election promise of the Government to equalise the price of petroleum products between city and country’ [More…]
As has been indicated in the election speeches of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and of the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) the cost will be further reduced to less than 0.5c a litre or 2c a gallon in the life of this Parliament. [More…]
This Bill delivers yet another proposal which the people of Australia endorsed at the last election. [More…]
It is worth noting that one of the three basic points on which Senator Walsh criticised the Bill on behalf of the Opposition is that it fails to implement the election promise of the Government. [More…]
That Act presently does not allow a member of the scheme or the spouse of a deceased member to alter a decision that had been made for a particular form of benefit once it has been made- for example, the election between a lump sum benefit and the payment of pension. [More…]
Let us take this business of an election for lump sum or weekly payments. [More…]
The very essence of the idea of election between recurrent annual payment and lump sum is that a person makes an election. [More…]
Therefore, a person must make his election responsibly, and all those who directly receive the benefit should be bound by it. [More…]
After a person has made an election, how much time does he have in which to change it? [More…]
Then a person makes an election. [More…]
I want to make an election to take out a periodical sum ‘. [More…]
The Senate has passed the legislation necessary to establish the new scheme, which was one of the election promises made by the Government that has now been implemented. [More…]
One of the first very interesting Bills which was introduced in the Senate after my election in May 1974 was the Family Law Bill 1974. [More…]
It was ultimately incorporated and was a major feature in the Liberal Party’s 1975 election rhetoric and policy documents. [More…]
In 1977 there was not one line or one word about new federalism in the Liberal Party ‘s election rhetoric or policy documents. [More…]
If the Liberal Party is as convinced of the wisdom and popularity of this policy as Senator Carrick ‘s remarks would have us believe, is it not strange that there was not a word about it in the 1977 election campaign? [More…]
This issue which featured so prominently in the 1 975 Liberal Party election campaign got no mention in 1977. [More…]
I think it is true to say that one of the major issues in the 1975 election campaignSenator Gietzelt is still propounding the proposition- was that federalism will not work and that all power should be centralised in Canberra. [More…]
I remind honourable senators on the opposite side of the House that there was a Premiers Conference shortly before the last Federal election. [More…]
This fact was made known in the Press in Tasmania and was certainly known by members on both sides of the Parliament well before the Bass by-election occurred and before any pre-selection for that election was made. [More…]
Clause 12 (Election of staff members). [More…]
Every time there is a Senate election we are told by honourable senators on the other side of the chamber that the Senate must be maintained; that it is a House of Review; that the Senate in looking at legislation acts as a safety device. [More…]
By way of preamble let me say that a young constituent reported to me that, on finding her name was not on the electoral roll prior to the last Federal election, although she had filled out a card, she was told by the officials: ‘Do not worry about voting this time.’ [More…]
If this girl had not persisted, would she have been fined for not having been enrolled at the time of the election? [More…]
Government’s election proposals for removing the burden of expense on the families of handicapped students. [More…]
The Bill, 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…]
Is the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Federal Affairs aware of the anxiety expressed by local government associations for .the Federal Government to implement its election promise of December last to increase local government’s share of personal income tax receipts from 1.52 per cent to 2 per cent? [More…]
It is like the former Treasurer just prior to the election agreeing to resign when he had the option of getting the sack. [More…]
If I may just talk about that, one of the complaints emanating from journalists who accompany political leaders during election campaigns is that the BAC aircraft are quite inadequate even to carry a proper Press gallery group during election campaigns. [More…]
During election campaigns one of the more important facets of electioneering is that the leaders of political parties should be able to move with great rapidity round a very large nation, carrying with them a Press corps. [More…]
Is it a fact that in his election policy speech in 1977 Mr Fraser made a commitment that the Government would redevelop Brisbane Airport? [More…]
Commitments of the Australian Electoral Office late in 1977 necessitated a variation of the time-table orginally proposed and subsequently a number of other developments have influenced the finalisation of arrangements for an election. [More…]
If there is a real prospect of these moves coming to fruition it would be foolish and irresponsible for the Government, in a time of budgetary constraint, to spend a lot of money by proceeding with an election for a producer consultative group against the majority of industry opinion. [More…]
It should be noted that elections conducted in accordance with the principles suggested by producer organisations would cost in the order of $250,000, more than double the amount originally envisaged. [More…]
There would of course also be recurring expenditure for subsequent elections and by-elections. [More…]
The purpose was not to give notice of a decision to defer the election but rather to provide the organisations which represent Australian livestock producers with an opportunity to give further thought to the desirability of proceeding with an election at this time. [More…]
They indicated to me that there were moves afoot, for various reasons, for the Government to defer the matter of the election of this group- indeed, they believed, to abandon the whole idea. [More…]
Today Senator Webster representing the Minister for Primary Industry made in this chamber a statement giving the reasons for the Government’s decision not to honour this promise to have elections by March of this year but to defer them. [More…]
In the statement the Minister said that one of the reasons for the deferral of the election which should have been held in March was that commitments of the Australian Electoral Office late in 1 977 necessitated variation of the timetable originally proposed and, subsequently, a number of other developments influenced the finalisation of arrangements for an election. [More…]
Given that those elections should have been well under way- presumably during February and certainly by early March- I wonder why no statement on the need for deferral was made by the Government until I asked a question in this place last week. [More…]
I understand that there would have been certain effects on the Australian Electoral Office presumably as a result of our having a Federal election last year. [More…]
Nevertheless there had been no statement by the Government that that would mean a deferral of the election of this group. [More…]
It should not have waited until April to inform the leaders of the producer groups that it had decided to defer the election and review the situation at the end of this year. [More…]
Today the Minister in his statement said that there was a strong division of opinion amongst producers on this issue, with two of the four national livestock producer organisations being opposed to an electoral basis for election of members of the producer consultative group. [More…]
To state that two of the four organisations are opposed to an electoral basis for selection of members to this body might be taken to indicate a split down the centre, but it does not give the Senate the true facts of the composition of those who support and those who oppose the proposal. [More…]
However, it also ought to be spelt out to the Senate that the amalgamation was not suggested until February this year, by which time the election for the producer consultative group should have been well under way. [More…]
For the Government to claim that as a basis for a decision to defer the election ignores the timing of the amalgamation proposal. [More…]
The Government may wish to claim that as a basis for now continuing to defer the election but it cannot claim that as a reason for a decision which apparently was taken at the end of last year. [More…]
One of the grounds for delaying the election which the Minister put to the producer organisations in his letter of April was the cost involved. [More…]
In the statement which the Minister made available to the Senate today he made the comment that in a time of budgetary restraint, to spend a lot of money by proceeding with an election for the producer consultative group against the majority of industry opinion would be foolish and irresponsible. [More…]
If, last year, prior to the passage to the Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation Bill the Minister gave undertakings to producers and producer organisations that the Government would support these elections, it was presumably prepared to support whatever those elections cost. [More…]
If it is true that the estimate 12 months ago for this election was approximately $ 125,000 and if the estimate is now $250,000, the Minister has raised many questions which he ought to answer. [More…]
I do not know whether it was a part of the problem but I do know that since I have been in this place I have found that matters to be decided by an election of producers always raise the question of who is to have a vote. [More…]
However, it was not within my power to decide who would have a vote if such an election were held. [More…]
In November a Federal election was announced and the Electoral Office would have been more than busy during November, December and January. [More…]
Again I acknowledged that if an election were to be held, it could have been put in hand probably in February, March or April of this year, as the honourable senator suggested. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Australian Wool and Meat Producers’ Federation, which claims to represent the largest number of beef cattle and other livestock producers, has indicated to the Minister that it does not favour deferring the holding of the election for the producers consultative group? [More…]
Is it also a fact that the Cattlemen’s Union of Australia favours holding the election as soon as possible? [More…]
If that is the case, what are the real reasons for the Minister’s deferring the election for the beef producers consultative group? [More…]
If the honourable senator believes that there is some other reason why the election is not being held, he might care to put that to me, but I will seek an answer from Mr Sinclair immediately. [More…]
I am unable to say whether the Minister for Primary Industry would immediately negotiate an election if the majority of producers, that is, the majority of members who produced beef, were to request it. [More…]
The point was raised that, whether a farmer produces two or three head of beef or whether he produces 50,000, some consideration should be given to when an election is a proper thing, but I will refer the matter to the Minister. [More…]
But during the election campaign, Mr Anthony became even more reckless and less factual in his statements. [More…]
In fact, sugar prices are falling, contrary to what the Deputy Prime Minister said during that election campaign. [More…]
Before his election to the Senate, Denham Henty had had a long and distinguished career 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. [More…]
I had known ex-Senator Henty even before his election to the , Parliament- during the time in which he was the Mayor of the City of Launceston, the city in which I was born. [More…]
As to the Bill itself, Senator Wriedt has correctly reminded the Senate that the matter was floated in legislative form prior to the last general election and it is my recollection that it was then circulated to the States. [More…]
I refer him to the following election promise made by the Prime Minister on 21 November 1977: [More…]
The assertion made yesterday by Senator Lewis that the people of this country voted at the last election for the mining, milling and use of uranium is nonsense. [More…]
That was not part of the Government’s election campaign. [More…]
But they would be hardly moving in demountable buildings and other types of buildings to storage areas in August of last year if they had not received the green light from this Government before the election of 1977. [More…]
Immediately upon his election to Federal Parliament, Sir Robert was appointed AttorneyGeneral and Minister for Industry- portfolios he held until 1939. [More…]
In that year- just five years after his election to the House of Representatives- he became Prime Minister. [More…]
I recall, as others will, that he acknowledged publicly in his own electorate that he would support John McEwen- Sir John McEwen as he is now- when a section of Sir Robert’s party thought it wise to stand against John McEwen in an election. [More…]
Like Senator Wright, I came into office after the 1949 general election when Sir Robert was swept back into office as Prime Minister of this country. [More…]
You may feel that, although you went to the elections with us, you were not consulted on some particular aspect. [More…]
The advice that he gave us after the 1949 election is advice upon which I have always acted. [More…]
I saw his activities from a different direction, namely, as one who lived in his electorate, who worked as an officer in his branches in election campaigns, along with a lot of other people, and who saw the way in which he campaigned. [More…]
From those days until the time when he ceased to be a member of parliament I well recollect the way in which Liberal Party members in Victoria supported him strongly and to what degree they admired and appreciated his election campaign speeches and the way in which he fought out election campaigns. [More…]
The period when Sir Robert was a figure in politics was a period when people came to election meetings. [More…]
In that way he demonstrated that he had respect for the ordinary Australian citizen and that he was prepared to bandy words and speak to him during an election campaign. [More…]
Has he noted that the advertisement included comments reportedly made by a Government spokesman during the last election campaign to the effect that he believed it necessary to identify a special fund to make allocations specifically for the reconstruction of the Stuart Highway? [More…]
Honourable senators might recall that after the last State election the Liberal Party’s former Cabinet Ministers went on strike. [More…]
The Premier said that because the Liberal Party had lost votes and seats in the State election he did not think it was entitled to the eight Ministers it had in the previous Cabinet. [More…]
It was repudiated after the 1 975 election in the case of the Larakeah people, the Gurindji people and others in the Northern Territory. [More…]
In fact, at the last State election on 12 November 1977, Mr Bjelke-Petersen was told in no uncertain terms that neither community wanted his government. [More…]
It was set out in the policy statements concerning the November 1975 election and ought to be restated now lest there be any concern in the community that there should be a need for the Opposition to seek a further declaration of policy. [More…]
The Government has given effect to its election policy statement with regard to Aboriginal land rights, first by legislating and secondly by providing money to the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission for the purchase of land outside reserves. [More…]
For the benefit of Opposition senators I would like to read the policy of the Liberal-National Country Parties, as stated during the 1975 election campaign: [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…]
Every time there is an election they go out on the public hustings and say that the Senate is a States House. [More…]
Surely if the Government has adequate safeguards they must be an improvement on what was contained in the uranium package of statements that was put out as Liberal Party propaganda during the last election. [More…]
Indeed, it was before the public of Australia in the general election of that year. [More…]
I ask the Minister In view of the promise and the undertaking by the Prime Minister before the election that the Medibank scheme would be retained in its then current form, how does the Government justify the current policy which chips away the benefits of the scheme and also the promises of future reductions in benefits? [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…]
Whilst that is a winning plea as election propaganda, in fact the legislation of this Government is wholly anti-Aborigine. [More…]
After the 1 975 election, the interim ASTEC was re-established, with some modifications to its membership and functions. [More…]
But from what she said I gained the impression that she interpreted the results of the past general election as indicating to the Senate and to the people of Australia that the Australian Democrats had something significant to say about the Australian Constitution. [More…]
As I recall the Press discussion on the policies of the Australian Democrats at the last election, it was to the effect that the Australian Democrats had no policy, particularly in relation to matters such as constitutional reform. [More…]
There will not be an election for nearly three years. [More…]
Since the thirtyfirst Parliament commenced, several honourable senators have addressed themselves to the problems faced by Queensland public servants who are candidates in a Federal election. [More…]
Mr Wood was the Australian Labor Party’s candidate for the Federal seat of Leichhardt in the 1977 election. [More…]
A former member of the Queensland State Parliament, Mr Wood was teaching prior to the 1977 Federal election. [More…]
Given these events in Queensland, it is timely that we in the Senate pay attention to the problems faced by public servants who wish to stand for election to the Federal Parliament. [More…]
With Parliamentary democracy under some threat in this modern age, it is of great importance that as few restrictions as possible are placed on people who desire to contest Federal elections. [More…]
Provided justice prevails, election results are accepted by both the victor and the vanquished. [More…]
It is also profitable to look at the obstacles which are faced by a public servant who contests a State election. [More…]
The effect of this section is that a member of the Commonwealth or State Public Service who seeks election to the Federal Parliament must resign prior to nomination. [More…]
If the public servant does not resign and is successful in the election, he runs the risk of having his place in the House of Representatives or the Senate being declared vacant. [More…]
If a Commonwealth public servant resigns to seek election and is unsuccessful, sections 47c and 82b of the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922 provide that he may be re-appointed. [More…]
These provisions- sections 47c and 82b- state only that a person who was a public servant or a temporary public servant, and who resigned to contest an election, may be re-appointed by the Public Service Board. [More…]
Despite the lack of right of re-appointment, I am not aware of a case where a Commonwealth public servant has been refused permission to rejoin the Commonwealth Public Service after contesting an election. [More…]
It would not be long before the Commonwealth public servant who unsuccessfully contested an election was refused re-appointment to the Public Service. [More…]
It is pertinent to examine the position of State public servants who resign to seek election to Federal Parliament. [More…]
In Queensland, the Crown Employees Act 1958 section 3 covers the case of a Queensland public servant who resigns to contest a Federal election. [More…]
Before the suspension of the sitting for dinner I was discussing section 44 of the Constitution and how it relates to public servants who are standing for election to the Federal Parliament. [More…]
I was outlining the position of State public servants who resign to seek election to the Federal Parliament. [More…]
Regulation 89 of the Western Australian Public Service Act Regulations 1964 provides that an officer may be granted leave of absence to conduct a State or Federal election campaign. [More…]
Despite the fact that this regulation is expressed to cover elections to State or Federal Parliament, I am advised that it is considered unlikely that it could in fact be applicable to Federal elections because of section 44 of the Commonwealth Constitution. [More…]
The regulation does not specify any reappointment rights if an officer resigns to contest an election. [More…]
Therefore, it remains uncertain whether a Western Australian public servant who resigned to contest a Federal election would be reappointed automatically. [More…]
It is important to note that the situation is quite different for public servants who wish to contest a State election. [More…]
Certainly a Commonwealth public servant who wishes to seek nomination for election to a State parliament is required to resign. [More…]
Leave of absence will not be granted to any officer or employee to enable him to campaign for election. [More…]
On the other hand a State public servant seeking election to a State Parliament is generally not required to resign. [More…]
Most States have legislation, usually the Constitution Act, which disqualifies a person holding an office or place of profit under the Crown from seeking election to State Parliament. [More…]
State public servants are usually granted leave to contest elections. [More…]
Presumably Commonwealth public servants and public servants of other States would still be required to resign to contest a State election in New South Wales. [More…]
If the public servant does not resign the Board is at present not prepared to grant leave for the purpose of contesting an election though there is nothing to prevent it from doing so. [More…]
The Board apparently is aware of being a party to a defective declaration of eligibility for election by a public servant. [More…]
Legislative provisions require public servants to resign before seeking election to the Legislative Assembly in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Section 4ka of the Northern Territory (Administration) Act 1970 as amended by the Northern Territory (Administration) Act 1974 disqualifies a person employed in the Public Service of the Territory or of the Commonwealth from being a candidate for election to the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
Therefore a public servant must resign in order to contest a Legislative Assembly election. [More…]
On the other hand, no restrictions apply to public servants seeking election to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
From this review it may be seen that the public servant who contests a Federal election is treated more harshly than his counterpart who contests a State election. [More…]
The most salient feature in regard to State elections is that in all States except South Australia no constitutional requirements necessitate State public servants to resign to contest a State election in their own State. [More…]
Section 3 provides that the Governor-in-Council may reappoint someone to the State Public Service after he or she has resigned to contest a Federal election. [More…]
There seems to me to be only one course of action to take- to ask the Australian people to alter the Constitution to remove the requirement which obliges public servants to resign to contest a Federal election. [More…]
If a constitutional change is made, it may still be necessary to alter some existing legislation or regulations which unnecessarily fetter the rights of public servants to stand for election. [More…]
Armed with comments from others it may be possible for me to work towards the goal of providing public servants with the same rights to offer themselves for election as are enjoyed by their fellow Australians. [More…]
I abstain from any comment on the subject to which our attention has been addressed except to say that public servants are the servants of the public and if they want to stand for parliamentary honours they do what other people do; that is, take the risk of election. [More…]
In December 1972, under the Whitlam Government, the Australian Government policy announced in a pre-election speech stated that pre-school education would be made available within six years to every child. [More…]
In December of that year, just 12 months after the election policy speech, in a national broadcast the then Prime Minister said: [More…]
On 29 April 1974 it was announced that the Government’s election policy with respect to pre-school and child care was estimated to cost $130m in a full year. [More…]
In December 1975, when the present Government came into office, although there had been an election in the meantime, the Liberal-National Country Party election policy stated: [More…]
They too are feeling the pinch because of the Government’s decision to renege on its election promise and a promise again made in February 1 976 by the Minister that the arrangements for funding 75 per cent of the cost of salaries and other costs which go with it would continue. [More…]
When the government, to put it in political terms, lowered the boom 10 days ago the by-product was that a number of political leaders who were grooming themselves, perhaps girding their loins, for the future national election which had been promised by the junta suddenly found that they were being rounded up. [More…]
As to the last part of Senator Walters’ question, I assume that within the law as it presently stands the result of the election does represent the opinion of the union members as ascertained in the ballot conducted under those terms and conditions. [More…]
It is quite interesting that Mr Vanderheiden stood as a candidate in the last local government election. [More…]
As Senator Button may recall, the 1976 Act was part of an undertaking by the Fraser Government in its election policy that it should not vary the policies implemented by the Whitlam Government. [More…]
I am reminded of a statement in this chamber along those lines by the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Withers, shortly after the election of the Fraser Government. [More…]
The impact of these critics has been most noticeable since the 1975 federal election. [More…]
After the 1977 election campaign the removal of another ABC current affairs reporter, George Negus, was more blatant. [More…]
Certainly during the last election campaign there was at least one example to direct pressure successfully being applied by the Fraser office. [More…]
The following day, 27 October, the Prime Minister announced the election date. [More…]
That sort of thing really came to an end with the election of the Fraser Government. [More…]
In a political situation it could very well be argued that election results have something to do with success and with failure, perhaps not as much as she would like to acknowledge, but on the other hand they cannot be dismissed. [More…]
The address concerned the 1 974 election results. [More…]
Never in its history will the Australian Broadcasting Commission be under such close scrutiny as during the coming election campaign. [More…]
In Townsville in an election campaign the Minister for Trade and Resources became even bolder and he said, as reported in the Sydney Morning Herald ofl December: [More…]
-The Senate is debating a number of Bills which are designed to implement the Government’s undertaking, given at the 1977 election, to abolish estate duty and gift duty. [More…]
In the first place I think it should be recognised that the abolition of estate duty and the gift duties surrounding it was one of the major platforms and one of the significant platforms in the last election campaign. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Senate to the fact that in abolishing estate duty and the gift duty that surrounds it the Government is honouring yet another- I mark the words ‘yet another’- of its election promotions or undertakings. [More…]
We heard Senator Button, engage in his usual personal and vitriolic attack on the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), this time for carrying out the terms of the promise made prior to the last election. [More…]
This legislation is the result of one of the very few election promises that this Government has kept. [More…]
in reply- This ends the second reading debate on four quite important Bills which discharge a policy undertaking, made by the Fraser Government in its last election campaign, which has the widespread support of the Australian people. [More…]
I remind the Senate, in order that we will know the substance of the vote taken at the second reading stage, that the first change that is made by the Bills relating to estate duty is that estate duty will not be payable by the estate of a person who died on or after 2 1 November 1977- that was part of the election policy promise- in respect of” a family property that is passing to the surviving spouse, a child, a grandchild, a parent or a grandparent of the deceased person. [More…]
Why should the people of Australia not have some say directly about those people who are to discuss the future amendments to their Constitution, as opposed to the executives which are so far removed by processes of election from the people that, whilst we can say that democracy prevails, we cannot say that for this purpose democracy prevails. [More…]
Only 1,500 words were spoken by delegates on the question of the so-called simultaneous election proposals. [More…]
It is one thing for some people to say that 60 per cent of the people of Australia voted in favour of simultaneous elections– [More…]
Does the Minister recall my asking him a question on 4 May 1978 relating to the deferral of the election of a Producers’ Consultative Group to be established under the provisions of the Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation Act 1977? [More…]
Does he recall further that on 8 May 1978 he told the Senate, in answer to my question, that the Minister for Primary Industry had informed him that ‘commitments of the Australian Electoral Office late in 1977 necessitated a variation of the timetable originally proposed for this election’? [More…]
In November a Federal election was announced and the Electoral Office would have been more than busy during November, December and January? [More…]
I respond as follows: I recall Senator Martin’s question of 4 May relating to the election of a Producers Consultative Group to be established under the provisions of the Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation Act of 1 977. [More…]
In November a Federal election was announced and the Electoral Office would have been more than busy during November, December and January. [More…]
I am informed that at no stage did the Australian Electoral Office indicate that it would be unable to hold an election for a Producers Consultative Group. [More…]
Last July, when announcing the formation of the Producers Consultative Group, the Minister for Primary Industry said that he had agreed to elections for this Group and indicated that this may take some time. [More…]
There followed, of course, the announcement of the Federal election. [More…]
The Minister for Primary Industry again wrote to the four major groups on 13 April this year seeking their views on now proceeding with an election for the PCG membership or deferring it for review towards the end of 1 978. [More…]
The Minister no doubt took this fact into consideration in not proceeding to an election earlier this year following the finalisation of the Federal election. [More…]
On another occasion I visited a local authority for which grants that had been made directly from the Commonwealth to provide special employment facilities for Aborigines were held up for many months by the Queensland Government because it was opportune to do so since it was the eve of an election. [More…]
If that principle were to be applied to governments, it would mean that in every country of the world where optional voting prevails- I think that that is every country except Australia- the parties which are now in government would be in opposition, on the ground that less than 50 per cent of the total people entitled to vote voted for them, and the parties which lost the election would be in government. [More…]
We committed to the Australian people at the time of the election last year and previously that no longer would personal income tax continue to rise because of consequential rises through inflation. [More…]
At the time of the last election that was probably a fundamental issue in the minds of the Australian people. [More…]
It will not be long before there is another election and then it will have to answer for these promises. [More…]
What happened after the election? [More…]
After the next Federal election and the Labor Party is returned to office I hope that we will be able to explore these matters. [More…]
I prophesy that after the next election we will be back on the other side of the House. [More…]
In summary, that Bill provides, firstly, that the Council of the University shall not authorise a students representative council to expend moneys raised by the University for the provision of amenities or services unless the governing body of that Council is elected by students in an election at which not less than one quarter of the students entitled to vote have voted; secondly, that the Council of the University is to have a duty to ensure that any moneys it makes available to a student organisation for the provision of amenities and services are applied bona fide to the provision of amenities and services of direct benefit to the University; thirdly, that the Council is to have published and freely available to students at least twice a year an audited statement as to the amount of fees paid by students for amenities or services that are not of an academic nature, the organisations to which any part of these moneys have been paid and the purposes for which they have been expended; and fourthly, a provision that no person shall be required to be a member of any body or organisation in order to entitle him to be admitted as a student or to graduate. [More…]
This has been the situation since the last election campaign. [More…]
The Minister for Trade and Resources announced in April this year that the Government will introduce legislation for a new and improved export incentives grants scheme in accordance with its policy announced prior to the election. [More…]
He wanted to enjoy the luxury of criticising and voting against his Party and, at the same time, having its support at election time. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Committee to this clause because, as I understand it, it provides for additional remumeration for office holders to be dependent upon their election. [More…]
But the amendment provides that where someone has a six-year term, which is the normal term of a Senate election, and he gets through the first three years of that term those three years will constitute one of the occasions. [More…]
There were elections in 1972, 1974, 1975 and 1977- four elections in five years. [More…]
Let us suppose that two of those elections were caused by double dissolutions. [More…]
All honourable senators would have to stand for election on those occasions. [More…]
Does this clause as amended, in applying to honourable senators, mean that a senator who has served for those five years is entitled to a pension for life if, after surviving two double dissolutions, he resigns after the fourth election? [More…]
If an honourable senator serves for five yearsthat is after four elections for the House of Representatives and three for the Senate, namely, the original election and two double dissolutionsand then resigns, does he become entitled to a life-time pension because of those five years of service? [More…]
Wright asked about those who survived a number of elections. [More…]
They would survive four elections in that period. [More…]
It is true that there would be a series of quick and early elections. [More…]
They would have to face an election at an earlier time. [More…]
Over that period where there are quick elections there are members who will qualify at an earlier stage than they would have qualified under the eight-year rule. [More…]
If an election is made, future payments of retiring allowance are reduced by that percentage and the Senator receives, in lieu of the pension foregone, a lump sum calculated by multiplying the annual amount of pension foregone by the following: [More…]
I would have thought that he was the very person who, in the words that the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) has referred me to, was the person who by reason of having satisfied the Trust that his resignation was made bona fide on account of ill-health or that his failure to be such a candidate at an election was due to ill-health as the case may be and he is not deemed to have retired voluntarily. [More…]
ceases to be a senator upon the expiration of the term of office of a class of senators or the dissolution of the Senate and is not, at the time of an election to fill places in the Senate that become vacant at the time when his place becomes vacant, a candidate for election as a senator or, if - [More…]
elections of members of the House of Representatives are held, or a certain event occurs- an election of a member of the House of Representatives is held, at the same time as such a Senate election, a candidate for election either as a senator or as a member of the House of Representatives; [More…]
I understand it applies to a person who does not seek election but who will be able to satisfy the Trust that he has not sought election on the ground of ill health. [More…]
During the election campaign the former Minister for Post and Telecommunications announced that the Federal Government would extend television services to the far northern areas of South Australia. [More…]
That statement unfortunately was misinterpreted and quite a bit of publicity was associated with it during the election campaign. [More…]
Senator Button has been a valuable member of the Committee since his election to the Senate in 1974 and has taken a lively interest in the many investigations conducted by the Committee since then. [More…]
The knowledge that there is an election ahead in New South Wales has, in fact, concentrated the truth for once upon the State Labor Government and there has been, I hope permanently, a seeing of the light. [More…]
After the last federal election a very prominent Australian businessman said to me that the Australian community had gone too far in giving a man, such as the present Prime Minister, a massive majority in the House of Representatives and a clear mandate in the Senate, that with three years ahead of him and with his idiosyncrasies Australians did not know what they had done to themselves. [More…]
What Senator Carrick is actually admitting, by that statement, is that last year the Government drew up a phoney set of accounts because it planned to hold an election; that it deliberately excluded moneys which it knew it would spend later on. [More…]
This was the confirmation of the Whitlam election promise, particularly as to the scope of the assistance. [More…]
In the 1972 election campaign Mr Nixon pledged to spend $330m on urban public transport. [More…]
We are discussing the States Grants (Urban Public Transport) Bill which is in fact an election policy commitment by the LiberalNational Country Party Government and will provide $300m to the States over the next five years, commencing on 1 July, by way of nonrepayable grants to upgrade urban public transport. [More…]
Although I would like to have seen South Australia attract a little more finance than the sum of $20m- I mentioned that I thought $30m would be a more appropriate figure- I am glad to see that the Commonwealth Government has fulfilled an election policy commitment and is providing this money to the States for this very important purpose. [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 announced during the election policy speeches of 1975, my colleague, the Minister for the Northern Territory (Mr Aderman) introduced into the Parliament in 1976, 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…]
The maximum term of the Legislative Assembly will be extended from 3 years to 4 years from the date the Assembly first meets after a general election. [More…]
I believe that at the last election we outlined our view that payroll tax was a tax on production. [More…]
At election time we made an error in our policy speech. [More…]
Let me turn to an argument which the local Country-Liberal Party members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly have put forward, namely, that the election of last year gave a mandate for statehood. [More…]
Speaking at a public forum organised by the Territory Australian Democrats on Saturday, Mr Perron said: ‘There can be no dispute that our election victory was a mandate to institute the changes now imminent. [More…]
The election was fought primarily on the issue of selfdetermination and when it would arrive. [More…]
So we know from the Deputy Leader of the majority party, Mr Perron, that that party quite clearly saw the issue of the election as that of statehood. [More…]
So if its members are using the election result as an argument that they have a mandate for selfgovernment, then they are backing the wrong horse. [More…]
So if the result of the election is to be used to determine whether the majority party has a mandate, it is obvious that the people of the Northern Territory do not want statehood. [More…]
We do not want the situation that existed in the last election, when the number of electors in electorates ranged from 1,686, through 2,063 and 2,486, up to 2,922 persons. [More…]
I am vitally concerned with this legislation dealing with selfgovernment for the Northern Territory, because I was one of the members of the Committee which was set up by the Whitlam Government immediately after our election to government in 1972, to look at and report on constitutional development for the Northern Territory. [More…]
The maximum term of the Legislative Assembly will be extended from three years to four years from the date the Assembly first meets after a general election. [More…]
Nothing was said in the second reading speech that the Committee recommended that there should be a house of 1 9 elected members and that the election of those members should be carried out by way of optional preferential voting. [More…]
Optional voting was used for the first election, but as soon as this Government came to office it reverted to the old system of preferential voting, despite the wishes of the people in the Northern Territory who gave evidence to the Committee. [More…]
What happened in the Kimberleys in Western Australia last year in a State election? [More…]
It did not come to a decision on it until the Labor Party came to office following a Federal election and set things right. [More…]
This is vitally important because an election for the Legislative Council of the Northern Territory will be held in about October next year. [More…]
Of course, one of the first matters the Committee will consider is the constitution as it stands and it will endeavour to bring down a recommendation to this Parliament that it should give the people of the Northern Territory a fully elected Legislative Council at the next election. [More…]
The Labor Party won quite a few seats at the following election and I am sure that we will win quite a few more when the next election is held. [More…]
Under this Bill the Government is trying to extend the life of the Assembly for another 12 months after the next election. [More…]
He also said in his speech that he thought the fact that the Legislative Assembly had been made a fully elected body was the reason the Labor Party was decimated in the election that took place immediately after. [More…]
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…]
But of course we were bludgeoned into having an election. [More…]
They forced us to an election in 1974. [More…]
They forced us to an election again in 1975 by not passing the Supply Bills under which we could have financed the construction of this laboratory. [More…]
One of the election promises made by the Australian Government in 1975 was the establishment of a special Australian Rural Bank. [More…]
We recall the large contingent of small businessmen who arrived on the steps of Parliament House before the last election. [More…]
I commend the Government for introducing this particular piece of legislation at this time, following the promises made before the election in December of last year. [More…]
Secondly, when will we see legislation to set up a security appeals tribunal as promised in the 1977 election campaign? [More…]
Specifically the honourable senator referred to the Liberal Party policy speech delivered during the last election campaign and said that we were very proud of our past record and our future program in law reform. [More…]
How does the Minister equate these figures with the statement by the Prime Minister during the last election campaign that unemployment could be expected to fall from last February? [More…]
inquire into and report upon whether, in the course of the re-distribution 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’) in so far as the re-distribution affected that part of the State of Queensland that, prior to the re-distribution, comprised the Division or McPherson, any breach of a law of the Commonwealth or any impropriety occurred by reason of: [More…]
Notwithstanding his success in securing pre-selection for Fadden and winning that seat in the December election, he continued to raise 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…]
This will include the first instalment of the additional capital program announced at the last Federal election. [More…]
Originally, in 1975, a promise to establish a rural bank was incorporated in the Liberal and National Country parties ‘ election program. [More…]
For 22 months after it had been elected it did nothing but brought in this legislation and passed it in the week before the Parliament rose for the last election. [More…]
In 1977 the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) returned to the Rural Bank for the purposes of his election policy and said ‘that it would provide long term credit to viable borrowers for up to 30 years at concessional rates of interest’. [More…]
So the concessional interest rate mirage, which was shimmering before the last election, has now disappeared. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s election undertaking was clearly repudiated last Wednesday by the Minister for Primary Industry. [More…]
So, this institution which started out as a gimmick in the coalition Parties’ 1975 general election program, to the degree, if any, it is not a gimmick, is now a complete captive of the Australian Bankers Association. [More…]
This then leaves us without any reason whatsoever for the existence of this Primary Industry Bank, except to provide a costly facade to save face for the Government which in two election campaigns made a major issue of the establishment of this institution. [More…]
So, what is the purpose of having the institution other than as a face saving gimmick for the Government and for the reckless election promises which the Prime Minister made in November 1977 to provide long term loans at concessional rates of interest and so on. [More…]
At an election the view of the farmer organisations was repudiated by 73 per cent of the farmers. [More…]
In the euphoria of the recent election campaign, the Government promised to build a laborator)’ at Geelong- and, even though it will cost $ 100m, this is one promise that must be kept . [More…]
In order to correct the problem that arose during the election- a problem that faced the then Treasurer, Mr Lynch- another ministry was subsequently created, that of Finance. [More…]
The history of these Bills goes back to late 1975 when the Liberal Party, which was then in Opposition, advised during the general election campaign of that year that if it were elected to office it would introduce the new federalism policy and that that policy would mean that the States would be given the power to introduce a State income tax. [More…]
During the last election campaign the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was challenged to say whether this legislation would be introduced if he were re-elected. [More…]
It is a complete repudiation of a promise given by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) during the 1 975 election campaign that the Liberal-National Country parties, if elected, would not interfere with Medibank. [More…]
There has been a good deal of squabbling between the Liberal and National Country Parties on this issue, squabbling that is relevant to the impending State election in Victoria. [More…]
They are in different parties, but of course the real cause of this unseemly squabbling between the conservative parties is that they are jockeying for position for the impending Victorian State election. [More…]
Finally, I mention another senator whose term would normally have expired on 30 June but who left the Senate prematurely to contest a seat for the House of Representatives in the last electionRaymond Steele Hall. [More…]
I am sorry that before the Senate rose for the last general election I did not have the opportunity to say those words. [More…]
In fact, Senator Sir Robert Cotton was the first candidate in any election in this country to be returned with a million votes. [More…]
One of the honourable senators on the other side of the chamber, Senator Mulvihill, had more than a million votes, but Sir Robert Cotton with almost one and a quarter million votes has had more votes in a single election than has any other candidate in this country. [More…]
Because of considerable pressure from various people I eventually gave way and stood for election to the Senate. [More…]
I believe that my continued re-election over such a long period has shown that I have given sincerity and devotion. [More…]
It was Arthur Calwell who instituted a decent system of election to the chamber on the basis of which a threshold development began. [More…]
Detailed costings of the procedures involved in conducting an election showed that the preliminary estimate was much too low. [More…]
On the matter of East Timor family reunions, in February this year the Indonesian Government advised that final arrangements for a visit to East Timor by an Australian immigration team would be discussed after the Indonesian presidential election which was held in late March. [More…]
By way of preamble let me say that a young constituent reported to me that, on finding her name was not on the electoral roll prior to the last Federal election, although she had filled out a card, she was told by the officials: ‘Do not worry about voting this time.’ [More…]
If this girl had not persisted, would she have been fined for not having been enrolled at the time pf the election? [More…]
Mr President, I congratulate you on your election to the high office of President of the Senate. [More…]
I have to report that, accompanied by honourable senators, I presented myself to His Excellency the Governor-General, that I advised him of my election as President of the Senate, and that His Excellency was so gracious as to congratulate me upon my election. [More…]
I invite Senator James Webster and Senator Kenneth Wriedt to act as scrutineers for the election of the Chairman of Committees. [More…]
Mr President, it is my pleasure to extend to Senator Scott the warmest of congratulations upon his election to such a high office. [More…]
Senator WRIEDT (Tasmania-Leader of the Opposition)- On behalf of the Opposition, I also congratulate Senator Scott on his election as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
-I also congratulate Senator Scott on his election. [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 [More…]
The provision of proportionate subsidies by the Australian Government to political panics 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…]
I preface my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs by reminding him that the Government established an inquiry into the fuel industry under the chairmanship of the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs in furtherance of a promise made by the Prime Minister during the last election campaign. [More…]
Then a decision will be made whether they will have another council election. [More…]
There is nothing to say when the next election will be held. [More…]
Then there was an election and that report has been gathering dust ever since. [More…]
This matter arose out of the election to the Parliament of groups or representatives outside the two major political parties. [More…]
During the general election campaigns in 1974 and 1975, I was working at the meetings with the then Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]
Firstly, may I congratulate you, Mr Deputy President, on your election to the position which you now hold. [More…]
It is fully consistent with the actions of a government which won an election with the promise of tax cuts by holding out a fistful of fivers, and then immediately it brings in another Budget, the fistful of fivers disappears back into the Government’s collective pocket. [More…]
The Government undertook to establish such a corporation during 1978 as part of its policy outlined at the last election. [More…]
That factor in fact sets the tone for the subsequent election results. [More…]
That motion, of course, was designed to maintain the election of a Liberal-Country Party government. [More…]
Whilst the overall result of the 1977 election was such that the State Government was returned, the question is certainly raised in my mind whether in fact there is such a thing as a fair distribution. [More…]
One is entitled, therefore, to say that those who draw up the electoral boundaries have a much greater influence on the final result of an election than perhaps they should otherwise have. [More…]
The Government’s commitment to this legislation was confirmed by the GovernorGeneral in his speech to Parliament following the 1977 election. [More…]
Of course, the legislation had been referred to also during the Labor Government’s term of office and at the time of the 1975 election. [More…]
Since this is my first utterance of any consequence in this place I would like to congratulate you, Mr President, on your election as President of the Senate. [More…]
This Budget painfully reminds us of commitments that were made, not only during the last election campaign, but also throughout the past two and a half years: Commitments of jobs for all; a commitment of a revitalised economy which would give the business community hope to plan for the future; a commitment of no more expensive overseas trips; a commitment to give the States a better deal; a commitment to reduce income tax; and, most important of all, a commitment to work in the interests of the total Australian community. [More…]
Before I do so, I remind every senator of the promises which the Liberal and National Country parties made prior to the last election. [More…]
We were told that all that was needed was the re-election of the Fraser Government to set the whole thing in motion. [More…]
We find a consistency in this Budget that has been with us since the election of the Fraser Government and which Mr Hayden as Treasurer in 1975 acknowledged in the statement that I read out to honourable senators earlier. [More…]
I offer my congratulations to you on your election to this high office. [More…]
Mr President, I have no doubt that should honourable senators be minded to get on with the job, they will be much assisted in that process by your own courtly presence in the chair, and I join with other senators in congratulating you on your re-election to that high office. [More…]
Taxes were to come down, and so they did for a few months until the election was over. [More…]
Before I make my contribution to the Budget debate I would like to congratulate you, Mr President, on your re-election to your high office. [More…]
When he looks at all these factors and at some other factors in the Budget which I shall mention at a later stage he sits and ponders and says to himself: ‘Where was all this in Mr Fraser ‘s election policy speech, made just under eight short months ago? ‘ [More…]
He realises, like many other people in the community, that these things were not in the election policy speech of the Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser. [More…]
In the United States, when President Carter had settled down after his election, he established a Metric Conversion Commission. [More…]
Is it also true that the housing allowance scheme was included in the Government’s 1977 Federal election campaign program and was referred to in the Governor-General’s Speech as one of the Government’s plans to ‘help those in need, increase opportunities and bring about greater social justice’? [More…]
In view of the fact that these two bodies could make a major impact upon the advancement of scientific and technological development in Australia, can the Minister say what progress has been made in fulfilling these election promises? [More…]
-I take this opportunity from the floor of the Senate of congratulating you, Mr Deputy President, on your election to the position of Deputy President. [More…]
I was happy to support your election and I look forward to years of association with you in that position. [More…]
I also congratulate, in his absence, the President on his re-election. [More…]
I refer firstly to the comment by Professor Charles Kerr on 7 February 1978, soon after his election to the post of President of the Family Planning Association of New South Wales. [More…]
Several years ago farmers in Tasmania and their organisations rebuffed the attempts of the National Country Party to organise in Tasmania, so much so that Mr Bill Cassimatty, a man of very considerable farming expertise and political talent in Tasmania, declined to field a National Country Party team in the last Federal election. [More…]
There is a great anomaly between the payment of pensions in this Budget and what was promised to pensioners during the election campaigns in 1975 and 1977. [More…]
She even went so far in a Liberal Party election advertisement last December to say: [More…]
They promised that during the election campaign, but now when they have two and a half years of government ahead of them they sweep away the benefits of these people. [More…]
They thought that both the Minister for Social Security and the Prime Minister were genuine in making the statements, and no doubt many of them were influenced by them in the way they voted at the election last year. [More…]
I consider that appointment to be as important as any other election to any other committee. [More…]
This approach was adopted in connection with the 1977 Northern Territory Legislative Assembly elections and the last Federal general election. [More…]
Following the 1975 election, approval to continue the operation ofthe Committee was given by the Minister for Social Security in April 1 976. [More…]
I was about to refer to a promise made by the Minister for Social Security, Senator Guilfoyle, in the last election campaign. [More…]
That is what the Minister was reported to have said in a Liberal Party election advertisement last December. [More…]
If during an election, the best economic advice is to restore incentive and give businesses and people the wherewithal to get the economy moving, is the position so different now? [More…]
Mr Deputy President, I congratulate you on your election for the first time as Deputy President of the Senate. [More…]
I also give my congratulations to Mr President, Senator Condor Laucke, on his re-election. [More…]
Whenever they are preparing to go to an election they should read The Sobering Story of Australia’s Big Spending’. [More…]
In 1963, in response to very real electoral pressure, we had science laboratories offered as an election gimmick to independent schools. [More…]
One relatively minor problem that has not yet been solved is that of the holding of simultaneous elections. [More…]
With a short term for the House of Representatives most governments- although admittedly certainly not this one- would be reluctant to put forward tough, long-term policies that they know to be necessary, 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 Senate election. [More…]
The proposal on simultaneous elections that was put to the people last year, and rejected by them then, was produced by the Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Review in 1959 and was endorsed by the 1976 Hobart Constitutional Convention. [More…]
I know of nothing in the theory of responsible government that necessitates giving a Prime Minister the power to hold an election at a time which suits his political advantage. [More…]
All that would be needed would be to have a constitutional provision that if a government could not be formed in the House of Representatives there should be an election for a new House of Representatives to complete the unexpired portion of the fixed term. [More…]
I should like to see this issue of simultaneous elections, through fixed terms of both Houses, go to a referendum at the next general election without bringing in other issues, such as a longer term for Parliament. [More…]
I would like to see the simultaneous election issue stand or fall on its own. [More…]
Although the matter of simultaneous elections is not an issue which should be swept under the carpet, just because it is not likely to be a problem in the near future, there are other much more important problems. [More…]
Unlike any other second chamber, we cannot effectively be whipped into line by the threat of an election or of abolition. [More…]
The average voter does not feel that voting for a kind of shopping list of proposals at a general election, some of which he probably does not agree with anyway, gives him any significant influence on the machinery of government. [More…]
Mr President, please accept my congratulations on your re-election as President of this chamber. [More…]
Each political party discloses its policies to the people at election time. [More…]
There should be a moral obligation for the elected government to carry out without changes its expressed policies until the next election. [More…]
Mr President, I congratulate you on your re-election in this chamber to your high office. [More…]
What I do favour is that, in the event of a blocking of Supply leading to a deadlock between the Houses, the Parliament, including the Senate, should face the people in a general election. [More…]
An aspect of this redistribution of the burden of recovery in this country which is even more disturbing is the fact that many of the Government’s actions are quite contrary to promises that it made to citizens very recently, certainly in the last election and for some time since then. [More…]
Finally, of course, it has imposed a tax surcharge on 1 1 per cent of the income of all taxpayers, thus wiping out for most taxpayers the tax reductions which were so famous or, should I say, notorious during the 1 977 election campaign. [More…]
If during an election, the best economic advice is to restore incentive and give businesses and people the wherewithall to get the economy moving, is the position so different now? [More…]
It would do Mr Fraser well in relation to unemployment to go back to his party’s predecessor, the United Australia Party, which in the run-up to the election in 1943 was putting forward a plan for a national insurance scheme on a contributory basis beginning with insurance against unemployment. [More…]
If they do not want their money spent on these types of organisations, they know what to do about it; they can vote the Government out at that next election. [More…]
Obviously there are some elements in the attitude of this Government as expressed then and now by the Minister for Primary Industry in common with pre-election commitments to tax cuts and post election tax increases; with preelection promises to provide funds at concessional rates of interest for agriculture; with unequivocal assurances’ given in 1974 again by the present Minister for Primary Industry that the nitrogen bounty would be maintained at $80 a ton although the Government now has legislation before the House to reduce the subsidy from $60, to which it reduced the bounty a couple of years ago, to $40. [More…]
In fact, it seems that the best way to ensure that a dam will be at least started is to hold an election. [More…]
When he could feel an election approaching he would say: ‘I can feel a dam coming on’. [More…]
As far as the specific questions which he has raised are concerned, it appears to me that, since limitations are contained in the Electoral Act with respect to expenditure which bear little or no relation to the amount which is spent on elections in Australia, that is a matter which may well require examination. [More…]
Those restrictions do not inhibit the amount spent on elections. [More…]
My personal wish would be that that discussion should take place as far away from an election as possible so that we can get as dispassionate an examination of the Act as possible. [More…]
On 8 May 1974, which it will be recalled was during the 1974 election campaign, the Australian Country Party secretariat issued a Press statement on behalf of the then shadow Minister for Agriculture, Mr Sinclair, who at the time was in Mackay, a well-known sugar growing area. [More…]
I think it is noteworthy outlining what Mr Sinclair, the present Minister for Primary Industry, said in May 1974, just prior to the election. [More…]
I remind the Senate of what he said on 8 May 1974, just prior to the election that year. [More…]
I can remember quite clearly the 1974 election campaign in Queensland. [More…]
At that time one of the major election planks that some people were putting forward on behalf of the then Opposition was that if the people put the Labor Party back into government it would do away with the nitrogenous fertilisers subsidy, yet it is now actually being removed by the present Government. [More…]
The Government has not delivered an expanded nursing care benefit, which was promised during the last election campaign, and now it has cut home care and welfare subsidies. [More…]
In November last year, before the election, we had before us a Bill which was similar to this one. [More…]
As I have said, almost a year ago just before the last election a Bill was rushed into the Parliament to extend the homeless persons assistance program from a three-year to a four-year program. [More…]
It would otherwise have come to a conclusion with the onset of the December 1977 election. [More…]
Is the James Kaldis of Kingsford, Labor candidate for election to the New South Wales Legislative Council, the James Kaldis who is active in the presentation of ethnic radio programs for the Special Broadcasting Service? [More…]
But this Service applies a policy consistent with that applying to the Public Service generally which requires candidates to resign from their positions prior to an election. [More…]
I was pointing out that in fact the Government could well have taken a page from the election platform of the United Australia Party in 1943 when it was proclaiming what it would do once war ended, to wit, introduce a national insurance scheme, on a contributory basis, beginning with insurance against unemployment, immediately victory is achieved and peace returns. [More…]
Housing approvals during July last were the lowest for over 1 5 years, which is an indication of the continuing slump in this activity and a contradiction of the Liberal Party’s mouthings at election time on how it stands for the right of people to own their own homes, but of course talk is cheap. [More…]
At this stage I wish to pay several tributes: Firstly, Mr President, to you on your re-election to your high office. [More…]
The legitimacy of this Government at the next election will rightly depend upon the success which it has demonstrated in solving this problem more than any other issue. [More…]
As a result of the Fraser Government’s repudiating an election promise not to interfere with Medibank and its proceeding to dismantle it, he will save the $2 a week levy. [More…]
For so long Mr Dunstan has done so many things and now, because we are nearing another election perhaps in 1980 or 1981, he is starting to back away a little from industrial democracy and so many other things. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications: Has any direction been given by the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal under section 1 16 of the Broadcasting and Television Act forbidding the broadcasting of election matter on radio or television by the New South Wales Branch of the Liberal Party between midnight last night and polling day next Saturday for the by-election in Werriwa? [More…]
If it can win the next election, which I seriously doubt at this stage because of the lack of popularity of the Dunstan Government, it is quite possible that the uranium enrichment development will get off the ground. [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 self-governing authority with full autonomy. [More…]
Some 2,153 people were first told that it had been suggested that the Federal Government provide a fixed amount of money for the election campaign of candidates for Federal Parliament and that all private contributions from other sources be prohibited. [More…]
In other words, no matter how well intentioned a political party might be, no matter how honest and even-handed its members might be, without public funding the imputation is there that that political party, especially while in government, will in one way or another serve the interests of business organisations and others which provided it with really large sums of money, particularly at election times. [More…]
It seems to me wrong that major political parties should have to vie with each other to obtain one way or another- one might almost say in any way, at any cost- millions of dollars at election time. [More…]
It is unfortunately true, based on the results of elections since television was introduced, that use of expensive television time will influence, to some extent, the electorate. [More…]
The point is that while there is a very great and seemingly impelling and increasing need for large sums of money for advertising, especially at election times, there must also exist a very great amount of temptation towards some kind of arrangement with a lavish donor of funds. [More…]
I recall very vividly a full page advertisement which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald during the last election campaign. [More…]
I suggest to honourable senators that we are even reaching the stage where such huge advertising at election time is becoming counter-productive. [More…]
Of course, it is right and proper that there should be election advertising. [More…]
But surely it ought to be carried out under some sort of control, with impartiality, as our other election procedures are carried out. [More…]
I do not believe there is any corruption within the actual machinery of our election system. [More…]
Ideally, advertising at election time, which is right and proper since it is necessary that the public should be informed of what is going on at that election, might present to the public the actual policies of the rival parties. [More…]
Mr President and honourable senators, I suggest that this is necessary because at election time the Press tends to regard policy from the point of view of what has news value. [More…]
I suggest that we would then have a situation in which, instead of people being completely bewildered by what is going on at election time, concerned citizens could have easy and systematic access to the policies of the various parties. [More…]
However, in recent weeks Mr Ellicott has added to the confusion, first of all by putting out a statement saying that there would be held simultaneously a referendum with regard to the wishes of Australian Capital Territory citizens in respect of self-government and an election for some form of legislative body. [More…]
Now the Minister has changed his mind and has offered a referendum to the community this year on the issue of selfgovernment and an election for some form of self-government next year. [More…]
I refer to the by-election in the Werriwa electorate last Saturday, in which there was a massive swing to the Labor Party, despite the fact that Senator Webster said in this Parliament a few days ago that the Budget had been accepted by every person in the country. [More…]
When the Prime Minister was acquainted with some of the results of recent gallup polls, he said that the only poll he was interested in was the poll taken on election day. [More…]
Well, we had an election on Saturday and what was the result? [More…]
So the Labor Party gained an increase of 1 1.6 per cent on its vote in Werriwa over that of the last election. [More…]
Before the last election, I said unemployment would fall from February and keep falling. [More…]
When there is a by-election for that seat, because of what has gone on in the Victorian Government, there will be another massive swing to the Labor Party. [More…]
Mr Ellicott told lies in the 1975 general election campaign - [More…]
Let us look at the result of the by-election held in New South Wales last week and ask how many members from Western Australia we will have in the House of Representatives after the next election. [More…]
If an election or a by-election were to be held in the immediate future Senator Chaney would find the results surprising. [More…]
The votes polled at the various ballot boxes in the Werriwa by-election showed definitely that the biggest swing to Labor occurred in those districts which normally vote Liberal and in the middle class districts. [More…]
Only one ballot box recorded a win for the Liberal Party candidate, and that was the ballot box which in the 1977 election recorded a four to one vote in favour of the Liberals. [More…]
At this by-election it recorded only a two to one majority. [More…]
Whereas previously he intended to persecute everyone, now that the by-election in New South Wales has been held the story is a different one. [More…]
It is because there is to be a sensitive by-election in the area of Ballarat in a month’s time. [More…]
Some honourable senators will recall that in 1977 one of the justifications for an early election, although now, as a result of a royal commission in Queensland, we begin to hear others, was that the Government wanted additional muscle to stand up to militant unions in Australia. [More…]
We were told at the time that the Industrial Relations Bureau legislation would be part of this and that if the Government got a big vote in the 1977 election it would be proved to be right. [More…]
He stressed the fact that at no time since its election had the present Government pretended that there were quick and easy solutions to Australia’s economic problems. [More…]
The Government cannot afford to break election promises in such a sensitive area, especially in light of the fact that the Aboriginal infant mortality in Australia is as high as 98 per thousand in some areas. [More…]
When members of the Government were campaigning on the election trail they said: ‘We will hook up Adelaide River, Newcastle Waters, Mataranka and Pine Creek’. [More…]
It is as futile to read its policies as it is to listen to the policy speeches or the promises made on the election trail. [More…]
I might say that that is a decision motivated by our public pledge before the 1977 election that we would never vote against a Supply Bill brought forward by a government elected by a majority of Australians regardless of the political complexion of that government. [More…]
It had to be a horror Budget because an election was held last year. [More…]
There will not be another election until 1980. [More…]
His Government won the election then, but it won the election only because of all the false promises that are contained in this document. [More…]
The Government repeated a lot of those promises in last year’s election and now they are catching up with the Government. [More…]
1 had people come to me after the election and say: ‘We voted for this man. [More…]
Obviously the electors of this country do not think it is too honest because at the first test of it, which occurred on Saturday last in the Werriwa by-election, we found out how honest the people thought the Budget was. [More…]
After the Bass by-election was held, which the Labor Party lost and in which the Government had a massive win, honourable senators used to complain every day that we should resign. [More…]
That was proved on Saturday in the Werriwa by-election and it will be proved again as soon as we can get another opportunity for the people to go to the polls. [More…]
Sir, Though we deserve a break from the pre-election indepth interviews, Lenore Nicklin ‘s cosy chat with Senator Susan Ryan deserves some comment. [More…]
The Canberra branch of the Women’s Action Alliance (a national body of concerned women) sent a questionnaire to all ACT election candidates, seeking their views on indexation of family allowances . [More…]
It refers to the Prime Minister’s statement in Sydney last Monday that he had been advised prior to the last election that ‘Unemployment will fall from February onwards’. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the claim made by the Secretary of that Association, Mr Blunden, which, if not saying so, at least implies that the claim made by Mr Fraser during the last election campaign was in fact not a correct statement? [More…]
Mr Blunden is concerned that the Prime Minister’s statement ‘reflected on the ability and integrity of the Public Service advisers who were in no way responsible for the electioneering promises made by Mr Fraser in the 1 977 general election ‘, will the Minister refer the Press release to the Prime Minister and seek his comment? [More…]
I was in the chamber on Tuesday night when Senator McLaren was speaking about the Werriwa by-election which was held last Saturday and I listened to Senator Messner’s interjections. [More…]
I am convinced that he is one Government member who does not even believe the figures of that by-election. [More…]
Perhaps that is part of the reason that there was a vote in excess of 67 per cent in favour of the Labor Party candidate in the Werriwa by-election last weekend. [More…]
They expressed their concern on Saturday at the by-election. [More…]
I am not given to quoting from documents of parties in opposition to my own but I have here one from the Westralian Secession Movement which was issued presumably, although I do not know because there is no date on it, when it was contesting the 1 977 election. [More…]
I would have to admit to feeling that perhaps this Budget is the most disgraceful Budget that has ever been introduced or ever presented to a parliament of Australia; not only because of the retractions that have been made since it was introduced but also because it is the machinery by which a great number of pre-election promises that were made in 1977 and in 1975 are being totally ignored. [More…]
I believe the only reason why it has a feeling of security is purely and simply because it holds the key to the next election date. [More…]
Budget such as that in an election year. [More…]
No matter how severe the economic circumstances, nothing will convince me that a government with any political nous at all would have introduced such a Budget in any year other than a nonelection year. [More…]
The Australian people will well remember the night of 15 August 1 978 until the election in 1 980. [More…]
The feeling of the Australian people was well and truly expressed at the Werriwa by-election last Saturday. [More…]
It is no good the Government now saying that it is normal for the electorate to vote against the government in a by-election. [More…]
It does not necessarily apply that there is a swing against the government in every by-election. [More…]
These figures show that on quite a number of occasions when a by-election has been held the swing has been quite substantially in favour of the government. [More…]
In December 1953 in a by-election for the seat of Gwydir,- there was a 1 .54 per cent swing to the government. [More…]
In December 1956 there was a 4.57 per cent swing to the government in the byelection for the seat of Wentworth. [More…]
In June 1963, in a by-election for the seat of Grey, there was a swing to the government of 3.6 per cent. [More…]
In February 1965, there was a swing to the government in a by-election for the seat of Riverina of 4.67 per cent. [More…]
In September 1967 there was a swing of 1 .68 per cent to the government in a byelection for the seat of Capricornia. [More…]
In February 1968 there was a swing of 6.13 per cent to the government in a by-election for the seat of Higgins. [More…]
In May 1970 there was a swing of 1.25 per cent to the government in a by-election for the seat of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
In March 197 1, in a by-election for the seat of Murray, there was a swing to the government of 10.57 per cent. [More…]
The other interesting point that these statistics show is that on perhaps six occasions there has been a swing in excess of 1 1 .7 per cent, which I believe is the figure which has been calculated as being the swing towards the Australian Labor Party at the Werriwa byelection last Saturday. [More…]
I do not believe that the Australian Government can take any solace from the fact that it will be two years before we have a Federal election. [More…]
Tasmania would be agog to see both of us who had recently been fighting an election campaign agreeing wholeheartedly. [More…]
I admit that he came on that occasion only because an election was pending. [More…]
I have answered questionnaires from the Women’s Electoral Lobby, the Women’s Action Alliance and many other groups who issue questionnaires, usually at the time of an election. [More…]
For example, I recall that during the 1 975 general election campaign I answered a questionnaire for the Women’s Electoral Lobby. [More…]
Nevertheless, by the time the Victorian State election comes around some impact might have been made. [More…]
The Pope’s death after only 34 days in office came as a great shock to the world, not only to the vast multitude of Catholics around the world but also to those who followed with interest his recent election at the Conclave of Cardinals. [More…]
I think I am correct in saying that his informality- indeed his smiling face on the balcony of St. Peters in Rome after his election- elicited an extremely favourable response around the world. [More…]
1 ) Has the Australian National Group yet made its choice of candidates for election to the International Court of Justice; if so, who are the candidates; if not, when will the decision be made, and will the Attorney-General make the names public immediately. [More…]
Australian Citizens of Polish origin, wish to bring to the Honourable Senators attention, the promise made by the Prime Minister, the Right Honourable J. M. Frazer,, in his election policy speech on November 21st 1977, when he said: [More…]
It relates to the undertaking given during the 1977 general election campaign by the Prime Minister that the Government would provide additional funds to ensure that the cost to parents of educating handicapped children should be no greater than the cost to parents whose children are educated in the usual government school system. [More…]
That election undertaking was one that jointly concerned Senator Carrick as Minister for Education and me, and our two departments have been working closely on a submission to the Government. [More…]
Instead of being labelled a taxation debate, this debate should be called the ‘abrogation debate’ because the Fraser Government now has to reverse a number of the major promises it gave at the last election. [More…]
As the Werriwa byelection showed and as the New South Wales election enforced, the path of this Government, that is the path of liberalism, is in retreat. [More…]
The resounding swing in that by-election and also the landslide victory in the State election in New South Wales show clearly that the people of Australia are disillusioned by the string of broken promises and the inability of this Government to put the economy back on the road to recovery. [More…]
Before the last election and after the recent Budget, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm [More…]
As the New South Wales election results show, the voters were not deceived by Mr Coleman’s promise of an income tax rebate. [More…]
The breach of an election promise and the imposition of what is labelled a ‘temporary increase’ in personal income tax will have adverse effects on consumer confidence. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that those tax cuts were the key issue on which the Government fought its general election campaign in 1977. [More…]
It is to be hoped that at the next general election the Australian people will remember the full page advertisements of the previous general election and will realise that the bunch of notes which were shown in that advertisement as being the great inducement to vote for Mr Fraser was nothing more than a mirage. [More…]
I remind senators that we speak about these items of legislation in the context of a government which in the 1977 election cynically exploited its proposed February taxation deductions for the purposes of that election. [More…]
In the course of that election campaign the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said: [More…]
More graphically, listeners will recall the advertisements of the Liberal-National Country Party Government in the election campaign in November and December last year. [More…]
The Labor Government became so disreputable that it lost the election with such derision in the eyes of the public in December 1975. [More…]
As Senator Button rightly said, it would be a very popular government indeed which decided that it would go to the people in any election process and declare that it would cut taxes or remove them altogether. [More…]
Who could forget the fanfare with which it promised again in the 1977 general election campaign to introduce massive tax cuts? [More…]
What an awful disappointment it must have been for those people who were taken in by the fistful of advertised dollars in that last November-December general election campaign. [More…]
At the outset I wish, somewhat belatedly, to congratulate you, Mr President, on your re-election. [More…]
I should like formally to offer my congratulations to my coalition colleague, Senator Douglas Scott, on his election to that high office. [More…]
Economic development in my State blossomed in 1959 with the election of the Brand Government. [More…]
In concluding my remarks, I would like to pay a tribute to those who have contributed to my election as a senator for Western Australia. [More…]
I acknowledge first of all that I would not be here without the support of the Liberal Party, including the staff and those on my pre-selection committee. [More…]
The Canberra representative of the Adelaide Advertiser, when his opportunity came to ask a question, quoted to the Treasurer statements made by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) prior to the 1977 election in which the Prime Minister had followed his usual line and said that if Labor got back into government it would increase income tax and that everyone knew that that would be disastrous and therefore the people could not let Labor get back into government. [More…]
As well as the increase in tax payable by the overwhelming majority of taxpayers- some 80 per cent- also operating is what Mr Fraser once called a massive unlegislated tax increase applying because of fiscal drag, because the Government has not adjusted the tax scales for changes in the consumer price index as it had solemnly promised to do prior to the 1975 election. [More…]
The Government in its panic, knowing that an election was looming, made massive and overgenerous changes to the averaging provisions for primary producers in a way which left them wide open to exploitation. [More…]
I believe the Government since its election in December 1975 has consistently been responsible to all Australian people in recognising that if our economy is not well and soundly based then we do not have a country with a soundly based future. [More…]
Yet, with all the favourable conditions during this Government’s first two years of office it called an election a year early. [More…]
It was tragic to hear poor Mr Coleman in New South Wales say, even on election night, that it was not the Federal Budget, or Mr Fraser, that was at fault. [More…]
I suggest that the results of the New South Wales election have intimidated senators opposite. [More…]
After all, those results have confirmed the result of the Werriwa by-election, which was fought on federal issues. [More…]
That result was subsequendy confirmed at the New South Wales election. [More…]
It is easy for Mr Fraser to say that it was attributable to Mr Wran: It is nice and simple to say that he is a tremendous leader of great personal capacity and that that was the reason for the election result. [More…]
One of the reasons, I suggest, the Government is in difficulties electorally is that it has broken every election promise on which it came to power in 1975 and 1977. [More…]
It said that it was in favour of tax indexation but has shown that it cannot be relied upon to put into effect honestly its election promises. [More…]
My words were that this Budget gives the lie to the promises made by the Prime Minister during the last election campaign when he told the people that he would reduce taxation. [More…]
We saw in its election promise the Government handing out $5 notes. [More…]
What about the young couples who were hoodwinked by this Government not only at the last election but also at the 1975 election when it promised to give them assistance in buying a new home? [More…]
The taxation measures contained in these Bills which will be passed tonight or tomorrow will have a big impact on the by-election in Ballarat on the 28th of this month. [More…]
This Government then repudiated its election promises and imposed a levy of Vh per cent. [More…]
That has been attacked as a going back on election promises which related to the lowering of taxation. [More…]
I have heard that many Aborigines have a mind to remove you on 21 September 1978 from your Chairman ,-/ , /- 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 son 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…]
That has been attacked as a going back on election promises which related to the lowering of taxation. [More…]
The Labor Party has never made any promises during election time, as his leader has, that it will reduce taxes. [More…]
The main thrust of our complaint has been that there was an election promise that taxation would be reduced, but in the very next Budget the Government increased taxation. [More…]
I have been thrown out of a job as Health Minister and Parliamentarian in 1 975 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 ofthe break, and I believe if I’d missed on re-election I would still feel that way in some other job. [More…]
To assist in the defence of Rhodesia against threatened disruption by communist terrorists so that an orderly and peaceful general election may take place. [More…]
Is it not the case that it has been widely known and acknowledged among United States political and agricultural writers for months that this legislation was essentially a domestic, political stunt motivated primarily by a desire to appease midwestern beef producers in the congressional election due in the first week of November? [More…]
Further, is it not the case that because of the rising of the Congress for that election in the first week of November, the legislation in question will lapse automatically without the necessity of any affirmative presidential veto? [More…]
We oppose it because of the broken promises contained in itpromises made during election campaigns in 1975 and 1977. [More…]
The Bill runs contrary to promises made in two previous election campaigns when the Government went to great pains to reassure pensioners that they would not be disadvantaged by Government measures. [More…]
-That was well after the election in 1974. [More…]
This renunciation of yet another election pledge (plus the erosion of a commitment to ease the means test on pensions) has brought a heartening back-lash from the Government backbench - [More…]
It is amazing that only such a short time after the 1975 election I was forced to mention these things in this Parliament. [More…]
Even such a short period after the election campaign of 1977, promises made then have been broken. [More…]
It was quite clear from that advertisement, which was part of the campaign to get this Government back into power in the 1977 election, that the people of Australia, the pensioners of Australia, were led to believe that these six-monthly adjustments would continue. [More…]
So few of us thought in 1977 when the election campaign was being waged that these words were so significant. [More…]
The record of the McMahon Government in doing what it did clearly exposes the duplicity of this Government in deliberately reducing the standard of living of pensioners by refusing to adjust pensions every six months as it said if would in its election policy promises. [More…]
They are expressing concern that election promise after election promise is being broken by the Government. [More…]
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…]
Unfortunately, there are not very many members of the Government who are prepared to admit that the pre-election promises were just a ruse to get the pensioners and the thinking people in Australia to vote for this Government- vote it back into office to retain the Treasury benches. [More…]
I believe Mr Goodluck can lay claim to that title because he sees the necessity of not just saying something to win government but that when government is secured to endeavour to make the party adhere to its pre-election promises. [More…]
This renunciation of yet another election pledge . [More…]
I remind honourable senators that this is one of the most conservative newspapers in Australia making the very valid point that this is yet another election pledge being broken by the Government. [More…]
Let me just remind Senator Walters that, although she is claiming for the government credit for having introduced what she must have considered to be a rather sensational move, the Government of which she is a supporter had already committed itself to its introduction in a pre-election promise in 1975 but did not even put it into operation until November 1977 when it was time for it to go back to the people of Australia and justify that pre-election promise. [More…]
The Government made pre-election promise after pre-election promise and is breaking them all. [More…]
The Government is breaking about six election promises in this Bill. [More…]
This Bill represents a brutal assault on something like two million Australian men, women and children who are dependent in some way on social services; two million people whose standard of living lies in the calloused hands of this Government- hands that have become calloused because the Government has spent the last 34 months wiping its hands of every pre-election promise it made. [More…]
However, there will be many opportunities for honourable senators to remind the people of Australia that this Government cannot be trusted prior to an election or whilst it is in office. [More…]
Let us look at some of the hypocritical statements made by honourable senators opposite and at some of the false promises made by the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) back in 1975 during the general election campaign and again last year during the general election campaign. [More…]
That was borne out in no uncertain terms, firstly, by the results of the Werriwa byelection and, secondly, by the results of the New South Wales State election held about eight or nine days ago when the Fraser Government got a massive rebuff for the way in which it was handling the economy of this country and for its treatment not only of the States but of the people in need. [More…]
Already it has repudiated an election promise to maintain the twice-yearly pension increase. [More…]
As I said earlier, those occasions were the Werriwa by-election and the New South Wales State election. [More…]
If it does not do so, after the next election- and this may come sooner than many of us anticipate because of the way in which the Government is carrying on- honourable senators opposite will be sitting back on this side of the House and the people of Australia will be able to rejoice because then there will be in office a government with some concern for the people in need in this community. [More…]
Senator Guilfoyle, in an election advertisement on 5 December 1977, said: [More…]
This was the statement set out in the Minister’s election gimmick. [More…]
I compared the number of pensioners in Pinnaroo with the number of people who voted for the Labor Party at the last election. [More…]
I can say to the Minister now that the figure will be very greatly increased the next time these people get an opportunity to vote because I know that a great number of the 1 14 people who voted for Labor at the last election are not pensioners. [More…]
Will the Minister also take into consideration the fact that Mr Sinclair made an election promise at Alice Springs that if the Federal Government were returned to office last December special funds would be made available by the Federal Government for this purpose? [More…]
When this Government fought the 1975 election it pledged to retain wage indexation. [More…]
But if we are not today voting on whether the Government failed to keep an election promise - [More…]
Much as we have sympathy with the Opposition’s point of view that this is another one in a long series of broken promises of the 1977 general election campaign, we believe that logically that is no reason to vote against this clause. [More…]
During the election campaign last year the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) was quoted as having said that a means test would not be imposed. [More…]
After the 1975 election the Government seemed reluctant to introduce automatic indexation until prompted by the Opposition and, I must admit, by the then Government backbencher, Mr Chipp. [More…]
Senator Guilfoyle, during the last election campaign, said that pensioners had been daily knocking on her door and thanking her for taking politics out of pensions. [More…]
Immediately after we won that election instructions were given by the Prime Minister of this country, Malcolm Fraser, to my successor, Senator Margaret Guilfoyle, and her Department to scrap the promise. [More…]
It was two months or two weeks or whatever after the election results were announced. [More…]
In the 1977 election campaign, which is not a long time ago, there was not one mention of changing that indexation of pensions. [More…]
Instead there were constant references in the Liberal election campaign that the Liberal Party was an innovator in this field of social reform. [More…]
Has anything happened between the election in 1977 and the Budget in 1978 to warrant a breaking of this promise on such a massive subject? [More…]
I appeal to those Liberal senators who find a semblance of morality in the argument I have put forward today to vote against this overt breach of an election promise on which many Liberal members won their seats, on which, perchance, some Liberal senators in the third position on the ticket won their seat. [More…]
Let us see what happened in 1970 when this guy first stood for election. [More…]
2 elected in South Australia at the last election. [More…]
He is now sounding a warning to the Government that the pensioners will not vote for it at the next election. [More…]
I think that if we could only dissect the figures of the New South Wales election we would find that part of the disastrous result for the Liberal Party came from the pensioners because they are disgusted with honourable senators who sit opposite and who are led by Mr Fraser making false promises to the electors and trying to win their support. [More…]
I say to honourable senators opposite here and now, as Senator Chipp has said, that they will not get the pensioners’ vote at the next election, because of this very measure, this very clause 6 in this Bill. [More…]
It introduced legislation to perform this task before the last election. [More…]
When it became obvious that the Government was calling an election earlier than expected, the legislation was withdrawn. [More…]
At the first opportunity after its re-election, the Government introduced this Bill to remove the benefits that were previously available. [More…]
A Minister in the previous Labor Government, Mr Clyde Cameron, in 1975 made provision for nominations for election of a staff representative or representatives on the Executive of the CSIRO. [More…]
I am not so addicted to the election of staff representatives to the executive of an organisation that I stand by it as a point of fundamental principle on which I would be prepared to go to the wall, but I think it is a principle which would appeal to the staff of the CSIRO. [More…]
It is important that the device which has been substituted for that principle of staff election to the Executive should work, otherwise the situation ought to be reviewed. [More…]
In addition, we are promised no extension to Western Australia of the FM service of the ABC, quite contrary to the promises that were being made at the time of the last election. [More…]
It was accepted so much that the Prime Minister, in his election speeches in 1 975 and again in 1977, even after he had made some modifications, said: ‘We are committed to preserving Medibank. [More…]
It is also interesting if one considers the promises made by this Government before last year’s general election. [More…]
After the election we propose to take up this question as a matter of priority. [More…]
It is well within the realms of possibility that Senator Grimes could be the Minister after the next election and we may not have such confidence in his ability or determination. [More…]
After the 1977 federal elections the Divisional Returning Officer for Fisher, in accordance with the Commonwealth Electoral Act and the Electoral and Referendum Regulations, notified Dr W. L. Fowles that he appeared to have failed to vote at the election and asked him to state his reasons why he so failed to vote. [More…]
Has the impounding of this journal by her Director-General during the last election campaign anything to do with its non-appearance since then? [More…]
We were told in February of this year- in fact, we were also told in December of last year and November of last year during the general election campaign- that this country could well afford a taxation cut. [More…]
This situation applies also to Mount Isa, where during the 1977 election campaign the Premier advised the local people that if they did not re-elect their National Party member to the State Parliament he would cut off their water- he would not help them with the financing of a new dam or anything associated with it. [More…]
As has been well known, for the last few months several Bills have been floating around the United States Congress, the object of which, in this United States congressional election year, was to impose, or seem to impose, further restrictions on the importation of beef to that country. [More…]
It was also fairly widely recognised that most of this political activity in the United States Congress could be described as political stunting, grandstanding by politicians who represented the cattle States and who, prior to the congressional elections of next month, were attempting to ingratiate themselves with their electors. [More…]
There can be no doubt that the legislation, which passed Congress before it rose for the November election, will not be implemented irrespective ofthe actions of Mr Sinclair. [More…]
The promises that were made originally when the administrator was appointed- and there were two significant promises, one that the rolls would be updated and a local government election would be held and the second that the leases would be finalised- have not come to pass. [More…]
The rolls are apparently completed but no date has been set for the local government election, which in the normal course of events will take place in Queensland on the last Saturday in March 1979. [More…]
That the State Government be requested to announce a date for shire election at Aurukun and Mornington Island, and that that date should be no later than 1 December 1978. [More…]
No pressure is being applied to the Queensland Government to go ahead with the election of new Aboriginal councils. [More…]
It is also, of course, a panic measure arising out of the by-election results in New South Wales and Victoria in the last couple of months and the crushing defeat of the Liberal Party in the State election in New South Wales. [More…]
Before the suspension of the sitting of the Senate I said that the Commonwealth’s agreement to the funding of development projects by way of loans raised by the States was a panic measure directly attributable to the Liberal Party’s crushing defeat in a Federal by-election in New South Wales, a State byelection in Victoria and, of course, the New South Wales State election. [More…]
It was a precursor of the slogan that the Liberals used in the last election campaign, something that referred to the lights. [More…]
That the decision of the Australian Government to depart from its 1975 election promise, a promise re-affirmed during the 1977 election campaign, that pensions would be increased twice-yearly in line with increases in the CPI, will seriously add to the economic burdens now borne by those citizens who are wholly or mainly dependent on their pensions. [More…]
We pray the Government will direct that this position should continue, and that the Minister will authorise the Commonwealth Electoral Officer to proceed with an election, by all ABC staff, of a new commissioner, and your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s failure to honour his 1977 election promise to provide, through the Primary Industry Bank, long term credit at concessional rates of interest.’ [More…]
But by November, when the Bill actually appeared just in time for the election, Sir Samuel had come up with a completely new set of requirements which included ‘facility for producers to approach the bank without first being referred by the trading banks’ and a ‘guarantee of increased skills of loan appraisers’. [More…]
Like other Australians, the farmers know now that the Prime Minister’s promises become inoperative each election night. [More…]
The Prime Minister has tried to divert attention from his dishonoured election promise on interest rates by emphasising that money may be provided on long terms of up to 30 years. [More…]
In this context the Government’s claim that the loan term is more important than the interest rate is almost as counterfeit as the Prime Minister’s election promises. [More…]
But whatever the justice or the wisdom of providing or not providing cheap credit for agriculture, there can be no justification for cynical pre-election prime ministerial promises to deliver cheap money- promises which are inoperative as soon as the votes are safely in the ballot box. [More…]
The Labor Party Opposition in this Senate has submitted as a matter of public importance ‘the Prime Minister’s failure to honour his 1977 election promise to provide, through the Primary Industry Bank, long term credit at concessional rates of interest’. [More…]
I direct the attention of the Senate and the Australian public to the 1 977 election promise of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
In that election policy, which of course was not read by Senator Walsh, honourable senators will find these words: [More…]
The Prime Minister’s failure to honour his 1977 election promise to provide, through the Primary Industry Bank, long term credit at concessional rates of interest. [More…]
Senator Carrick referred to the policy statements of the Liberal Party in the last two election campaigns. [More…]
Prior to the 1975 Federal election the Liberal and National Country parties’ joint primary industry policy statement outlined that a Federal government would ensure: . [More…]
He promised tax cuts- we know that in this Budget tax has been increased; he promised in the last election campaign that unemployment would fall steadily during 1977- we all know that the figures that will come out this Friday will show that that promise has not only not been fulfilled but that unemployment will increase. [More…]
The Fraser Government has deceived the farmers by making a dishonest election promise. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s failure to honour his 1977 election promise to provide, through the Primary Industry Bank, long term credit at concessional rates of interest. [More…]
In 1 977, during the election campaign, the matter was floated again. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s failure to honour his 1977 election promise to provide, through the Primary Industry Bank, long term credit at concessional rates of interest. [More…]
Naturally in 1977 when it was going to an election the Liberal Party dangled a bait before the rural sector. [More…]
He knew it was an excellent bargaining point in the face of an election. [More…]
But it will be to the misfortune of the Liberal Party at the next election because every primary producer will be reminded of the manner in which Malcolm Fraser let them down. [More…]
(a) The time taken to prepare financial statements and to obtain a report thereon by the Auditor-General (Statements finalised 25 August 1977 and report thereon obtained 14 October 1977) resulted in the Report not being tabled before Parliament was dissolved for the 1977 general election. [More…]
We pray the Government will direct that this position should continue, and that the Minister will authorise the Commonwealth Electoral Officer to proceed with an election, by all ABC staff, of a new commissioner, and your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray. [More…]
Following the Government decision in August a draft permanent ordinance was prepared, delayed because of the election in 1977, redrafted early in 1978 and gazetted in June 1978. [More…]
The abortion issue was never an issue at the election in 1974. [More…]
She said that abortion was not an issue at the time of the last election of the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
That is not the argument that members on this side would have been prepared to advance when our own Government introduced for the first time the conscription of young men to go and fight in Vietnam following an election at which there had been no issue about conscription and from which there was no conceivable way of saying that a mandate was given on one side or the other. [More…]
During the course of her speech she made great play of the fact that this issue was not an election issue for the Assembly when it was last elected. [More…]
I am saying, in a sense, that members of this chamber and of this Parliament went to the electors and were elected last year and therefore people are entitled to say that it was an election issue insofar as we are concerned. [More…]
If my information is correct, at the last Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly election abortion was not an issue at any time of any party or any candidate and no referendum has been held on the matter. [More…]
A new election has been repeatedly postponed. [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…]
One example is the recent survey conducted in New South Wales in respect of Premier Wran prior to the New South Wales State election. [More…]
The results of that election reflected exactly the results of that survey. [More…]
There is little doubt that on the basis of the results of the by-election for Werriwa, also the New South Wales State election and, subsequently, the by-election for Ballarat, the tide is turning strongly against the Fraser Government and against its supporting governments in the States. [More…]
As many of the political commentators have noted, the swing in all three elections has been uniform. [More…]
Those people who remember the election promises of 1975 will recall that a dominant theme running throughout the Liberal-National Country Party coalition campaign was the notion of restoring confidence, of introducing stability, of conducting government with propriety and dignity and, above all and to quote the Prime Minister’s words, ‘to govern for all Australians’. [More…]
There is no doubt from the columns of political commentators and from the recent election results that those people also expected the Government to perform and to bring about the positive changes which it claimed would be possible under the new economic management of the LiberalNational Country Party coalition. [More…]
Whilst it is important to remember the number of Ministers who have been removed from office under the Fraser Government and to concentrate on the broken election promises, especially about reduced taxation, stability and economic recovery, it does not solve some of the more fundamental problems which confront this country at present. [More…]
It is given to Charlie Constituent or the elector to make his decision every three years but, let us face it, there is a long time between one election and the next, even with the present Government, so he needs a watchdog in the form of his representative over what is happening in the Estimates. [More…]
We ail know that some governments feel that an election gives them a mandate to do almost anything and I have commented on this before in this place. [More…]
I express my hope that if we had the numbers in the chamber to delay the passage of these Bills, that we would force the Government to an election, to allow the people to make a judgment, as the present Government did in 1975. [More…]
1 am confident that if we had the numbers in the Senate, as the then Opposition had in order to force the Government to an election, that the judgment meted out to the Government in this year of 1 978 would be much harsher than that which was meted out to us in 1975, and goodness knows that was harsh enough. [More…]
He has broken election promises about which all members of the Opposition have spoken on many occasions in the Parliament. [More…]
If there was a Federal election tomorrow then the Labor Party would win by the proverbial mile. [More…]
If the Opposition were in a position to reject or to delay these Appropriation Bills, as the Government did when it was in Opposition, and if we had an election of course we would win by the proverbial mile. [More…]
There has been a Werriwa byelection which was a record victory for the Labor Party. [More…]
There has been a New South Wales State election at which the party that you support, Senator Lajovic, was slaughtered. [More…]
We have had the Ballarat by-election where a seat which has not been held by the Labor Party I suppose for about 25 years was won by the Labor Party with a 9 per cent swing. [More…]
We have a by-election coming in Queensland very soon but because of the awful gerrymander there we probably will not win it but I am sure that we will see a big swing away from the coalition. [More…]
I am sure that we cannot blame the result in the Ballarat by-election entirely on Fraser although he must take a lot of the blame for what has happened in New South Wales. [More…]
Do we believe Mr Hinze and Mr Court, both of whom have said that the Prime Minister is not working in harmony with them or do we believe the present Prime Minister who has broken so many promises since the last election? [More…]
In election years the coalition Government probably gave them $ 1 or $ 1 .2 5 in an attempt to buy their votes. [More…]
Twelve months ago, the Prime Minister called a general election a year early on the pretext that he needed a renewed mandate to deal effectively with the major issues facing this Government. [More…]
We all have our differences with the Constitution, but it contains a provision that senators may not take up their positions until the end of the June following their election. [More…]
That the decision of the Australian Government to depart from its 1975 election promise, a promise re-affirmed during the 1977 election campaign, that pensions would be increased twice-yearly in line with increases in the C.P.I-, will seriously add to the economic burdens now borne by those citizens who are wholly or mainly dependent on their pensions. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators, I present the election statistics for the Senate election and general election of members of the House of Representatives held on 10 December 1977. [More…]
These election statistics form part of the information and electoral education services of the Australian [More…]
F. M. CHANEY, MINISTER FOR ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES, ON THE TABLING OF ‘ELECTION STATISTICS’ AND ON ELECTORAL EDUCATION SERVICES, NOVEMBER, 1978 [More…]
Election Statistics’ has been produced by the Australian Electoral Office and comprises 7 volumes, one for each State and one for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [More…]
This book gives a most detailed breakdown of the election results and will provide a basic reference for students of political science as well as for Senators and Members. [More…]
Mr President, there is a tendency, I believe amongst all of us, to regard the Australian Electoral Office as an organisation which concerns itself almost solely with the maintenance of the electoral roll, the running of elections and the counting of votes. [More…]
Election Statistics’ forms part of the information and electoral education services which the Australian Electoral Office has been developing, particularly over the last two years. [More…]
In keeping with the Government’s directives in relation to providing services for members of ethnic communities, the Australian Electoral Office has made wide use of ethnic radio and ethnic newspapers not only at the time of elections but also during non-election periods. [More…]
Whilst I have not been able to get the precise final figures on the advantages that accrued to the electors in the recent Legislative Council elections as a result of this change, I think it is true to say that fewer than 5 per cent of the voters involved voted informally under a similar method of voting to that which is used for Australian Senate elections except in relation to optional preferences. [More…]
This represents the lowest percentage of informal votes recorded in an election at large for a considerable number of years. [More…]
I have taken the time to look at the figures for the last three Senate elections, that is the double dissolutions in 1974 and 1975 and the election in 1977. [More…]
The results show a consistent pattern of informal voting at Senate elections, For example, in New South Wales in 1 974 the figure was 12.3 1 per cent. [More…]
I have pointed to the reduction in the number of informal votes in both local government and State elections in New South Wales. [More…]
The fact is that the Labor Party Caucus does have an optional voting system for the election of its officers and its executive. [More…]
For example, in the 1974 Senate election there were 73 candidates for New South Wales. [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…]
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…]
At the next election, they will have a voice in the matter. [More…]
Many exservicemen who in the past have stuck solidly to Liberal governments, because they have held the misguided belief that Liberal governments are the only governments that care about defence in this country and the only governments that are prepared to do anything for ex-servicemen, are going to have a change of heart at 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…]
As honourable senators know, Mr Sinclair went so far as to say before the last election that if re-elected the Government would build the road through from Alice Springs. [More…]
Senator Bishop’s motion is worded in similar terms to a statement made by Mr Sinclair in Alice Springs prior to the last election. [More…]
The assurance was given in a pre-election promise by a responsible Cabinet Minister. [More…]
Subsequently the Defence Department recommended the purchase of a third FFG, which was announced by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) just before the last election. [More…]
That the decision of the Australian Government to depart from its 1 975 election promise, a promise re-affirmed during the 1977 election campaign, that pensions would be increased twice-yearly in line with increases in the CPI, will seriously add to the economic burdens now borne by those citizens who are wholly or mainly dependent on their pensions. [More…]
On 1 1 November 1975 the inquiry was halted by the dissolution of Parliament and subsequent federal election, but was resumed in March 1976 by the newly formed Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]
That amendment refers to the failure of the Government to fulfil the pre- 1977 election promise ofthe Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to provide funds at concessional rates of interest. [More…]
Although the Government has persuaded a couple of people in the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council to support it in regard to this Bank, the fact quite clearly is that the great majority of farmers have not been fooled by the Government’s attempts to get itself off the hook for failing to fulfil the Prime Minister’s election promise. [More…]
If Government spokesmen want to try to get the Prime Minister off the hook for the Government’s failure to honour his election promise, or if they want to assert that the Government has in fact kept its promise, they should also explain why Mr Sinclair made that admission on 7 August. [More…]
In the Government’s attempt to escape from the embarassment of its failure to honour the Prime Minister’s 1977 election promise, under this legislation it concentrates on the extension of the term of loan to a maximum of 30 years. [More…]
At end of motion, add- but the Senate 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…]
The 1977 election policy commitment of the Government stated: [More…]
That was a election promise made by Mr Nixon. [More…]
Will the Minister also take into consideration the fact that Mr Sinclair made an election promise at Alice Springs that if the Federal Government were returned to office last December special funds would be made available by the Federal Government for this purpose? [More…]
Now we find that Mr Nixon is trying to get Mr Sinclair off the hook by saying that Mr Sinclair expanded on the promise, but if he expanded on the promise he did not do so until after the Federal election last year. [More…]
Of course, the electors of the division of Grey and, I hope, the electors in the Northern Territory, will not forget those broken promises the next time they vote in a Federal election, and they will not forget the episode which occurred in this Parliament last week when a motion was moved by Senator Bishop to get the weight of the Senate behind applications and representations that had been made to the Minister for Transport by all South Austraiian senators to have this special fund established and to get on with the work of reconstructing the Stuart Highway. [More…]
As it seems to take this Government two or three years to respond to any positive proposal to help Australian exports and exporters, I am hoping that my reminder tonight will spur the Department of Trade and Resources and Cabinet to put some positive proposals to the Parliament before the next election. [More…]
That the decision of the Australian Government to depart from its 1975 election promise, a promise re-affirmed during the 1977 election campaign, that pensions would be increased twice-yearly in line with increases in the CPI, will seriously add to the economic burdens now borne by those citizens who are wholly or mainly dependent on their pensions. [More…]
I congratulate you on your election to the highest office in the Senate and record my admiration for the wisdom and firmness that you have shown as President. [More…]
I wish to congratulate Senator Scott on his election to the position of Chairman of Committees and Deputy President of the chamber. [More…]
I must record my thanks to the Liberals in Queensland for the support they gave me through the election campaign. [More…]
I wonder whether the changes we are seeing in the great swings in election results over the last three years are not some early warning of the change. [More…]
For three years after his election he served as Moderator-General of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and also for a period as a Vice-President of the World Presbyterian Alliance which has its headquarters at Geneva and a membership that is world wide. [More…]
If the wheel were to turn the full circle, as it has in some other Parliaments, it could well be that after 1980 or the next half Senate election the people who now sit on the other side of the chamber will be pleading for mercy from a Labor government. [More…]
If we look back to the headlines in newspapers prior to the 1977 election where people like Mr Anthonythe professional loud mouths of Australian politics- were promising that uranium mining would produce 100,000 jobs, we recall that sort of stuff. [More…]
The ethical implications of this kind of intent are in themselves serious since surely under our system of democracy it is basic that when a government loses the confidence of the people through an election it also loses the right to influence the affairs of the nation in a decisive way as from that time. [More…]
It also did not disclose the fact that this is a breach of a commitment given by the Liberal-National Country Party Government after the general election of 1977. [More…]
1 daresay that one of the major attractions during the course of that election campaign was the promise given by Mr Fraser that he would reduce taxation in this country. [More…]
Notwithstanding the fact that increases in the excise on beer and cigarettes is something which we have seen imposed by all governments over the years, the particularly reprehensible nature of these increases in indirect charges following the commitments given during the course of the last election campaign, only serve to illustrate that the undertakings and the promises given by this Government are totally unreliable. [More…]
We gave to the grape growers a clear undertaking in our 1972 election policy that if Labor was elected we would remove the excise. [More…]
Perhaps they will have a change of heart at the next election. [More…]
That the decision of the Australian Government to depart from its 197S election promise, a promise re-affirmed during the 1977 election campaign, that pensions would be increased twice-yearly in line with increases in the C.P.I., will seriously add to the economic burdens now borne by those citizens who are wholly or mainly dependent on their pensions. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Attorney-General, relates to the sensitive question of the Australian nominations for the recent elections to the International Court of Justice. [More…]
972, that, contrary to the procedures recommended by the statute of the International Court, the Australian national group failed to consult either the High Court or the nation’s law faculties before making its nomination of candidates for election to the International Court. [More…]
In particular, will the Attorney-General confirm that it was linked with the Prime Minister’s veto earlier this year, against the advice of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, of the possible candidature for this court of the former Prime Minister, Mr Gough Whitlam, this veto producing a situation where there was no potential Australian nominee with sufficient international stature to have a chance of election? [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…]
An effect of sub-section (iv) is that any member of the Commonwealth or State public service who seeks election to the Federal Parliament must resign his Public Service appointment prior to nomination. [More…]
Thus, if he is successful in the election, he runs the risk of being declared ineligible to sit in the Senate or in the House of Representatives. [More…]
On the other hand, it does restrict the ability of the public servant to contest a Federal election. [More…]
The public servant, however, is required to resign his position before contesting a federal election. [More…]
One important consequence of this situation is that there are probably many highly qualified public servants who could make a significant contribution to this Parliament but who choose not to seek election because of the possibility of losing their livelihood in merely attempting to enter Parliament. [More…]
I have previously outlined in this Parliament the limited opportunities for re-appointment to the Commonwealth and State public services for public servants who have resigned to contest a federal election. [More…]
Certainly the public servant in Australia who unsuccessfully contests a federal election may be re-appointed but it is important that the word ‘may’ be stressed. [More…]
My only regret is that this is not a parliament that is rising to conduct an election but perhaps we will be doing that in two years time. [More…]
I had no contact with Stawell Timber Industries Pty Ltd until I visited Stawell during the election campaign on 17 November last year. [More…]
After his election to the Senate in 1964 he was prominent in the activities of the Senate. [More…]
Yet in a remarkable omission the statement makes no reference to the fact that the South African Government rejected the United Nations proposal and went ahead with an election in Namibia in December of last year. [More…]
The establishment of a insurance office very much along the lines of the sort of thing we see in the States with the State government insurance offices was suggested by the Australian Labor Party during the last election campaign. [More…]
As is fairly common during election campaigns, the concept was attacked by the Country-Liberal Party, but this is to be expected. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
-Does the Minister representing the Prime Minister recall that in the 1975 election campaign the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, promised to provide jobs for all? [More…]
Does the Minister also recall that in the 1977 election campaign the Prime Minister forecast that unemployment would fall from February 1978 and then keep falling? [More…]
Prior to the 1975 election campaign the then shadow Minister for Social Security, Mr Chipp, now Senator Chipp, promised, as he said with the full authority of both coalition parties, that pensions would be immediately and automatically indexed to the consumer price index. [More…]
Before the 1977 election the Minister for Social Security, Senator Guilfoyle, promised that this policy would continue, as did the Prime Minister and, taking their cue from the Minister for Social Security and from the Prime Minister, as did every government member and supporter who campaigned in that election, lt was a firm promise given to every pensioner and every beneficiary in this community. [More…]
One remembers how vigorously the present honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman) refuted any suggestion of mine to this effect in the last election campaign. [More…]
In a television advertisement on 5 December 1977, just before the election, the Minister for Social Security said: [More…]
There is no question that this matter of indexation of pensions is one of the biggest things weighing in pensioners’ minds, and it is one of the biggest things which influences them on how to vote at election time. [More…]
Therefore, it was included in the policy speech made by Mr Fraser at the time of the 1975 election. [More…]
That is what is being done, notwithstanding a firm promise by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) at the last election on which he must have won hundreds of thousands of votes- possibly millions of votes. [More…]
That was in 1 975 before the election of that year. [More…]
In 1977, just before the election which was called 1 2 months early, Mr Fraser said: [More…]
The Minister for Social Security, Senator Guilfoyle, added to that statement during the election campaign in 1977 in an advertisement in which she featured. [More…]
As an initial step to such a return to honesty in government I believe that this Government should immediately announce that it will revert to a six monthly adjustment of pensions because this is what the pensioners of Australia expected after the 1975 and 1977 election campaigns. [More…]
It should say to the Australian people, ‘We cannot have twice yearly indexation of pensions as we said we would at the 1975 election and the 1977 election. [More…]
As honourable senators 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…]
He agreed to the legislation and the people in the electorate of Murray in South Australia vilified him so much that in the 1968 election he lost his seat and the Labor Government was defeated in South Australia. [More…]
Contrary to what this Government is doing, it ought to be spending and allocating the sort of money to which it committed itself, through its Minister for Transport and its Leader, in both the 1975 and 1977 elections. [More…]
It is no wonder that the Australian people are losing faith in political parties and in governments when election promises can be broken so glibly as though they have no value. [More…]
I remember during an election campaign visiting the railway workshops in Launceston and being ashamed of the fact that public facilities had been allowed to deteriorate to the extent to which they had. [More…]
It has been proved to be an issue in the last two elections in New South Wales. [More…]
I do not know whether Senator Peter Baume is smiling at my reference, but he must surely recognise that one of the features of Mr Wran’s victories in the last two elections in the State has been his determination to improve the urban public transport system as far as the available money would allow. [More…]
It was in recognition of that need for improvements in urban transport that seats were won in the election before last in the key areas of Gosford and the Blue Mountains, which brought about the defeat of the conservative government. [More…]
The Senate, of course, will very well recall that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) announced in his election policy speech that the Commonwealth would initiate programs for urban public transport and that these programs would provide something like $300m over five years to assist the States in upgrading their urban public transport systems. [More…]
It has become clear to us on this side of the Senate that when it comes to election time the Liberals have no peers as promisers. [More…]
We all know, as history reveals, that Lloyd George won the election but the Kaiser died peacefully in his bed 20 years later. [More…]
In 1977 the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) promised in his election policy speech to provide $60m annually over five years for urban public transport in all States. [More…]
The gloss soon wore off after the election. [More…]
The election of a new Swedish Government was not considered to be of sufficient interest to Australian listeners to also warrant inclusion in ABC public affairs programs. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectations and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
At the moment the reserve councils in Queensland are in the process of holding their elections. [More…]
It might be that, in the light of that election opportunity which is offered to them, a referendum is not necessary. [More…]
I ask: Have other States experienced similar drops in the election of teaching as a chosen vocation? [More…]
During the last election campaign the Prime Minister said that Australia was ready to go with $6,000m worth of investment. [More…]
Prior to the 1977 election Mr Anthony and subsequently the Prime Minister made great play of the alleged $6,000m worth of investments which were about to be made. [More…]
It is a sum which is hopelessly inadequate to meet that to which the present Government committed itself in its 1975 election program, namely, ensuring that no person be denied legal aid because of lack of means. [More…]
But, following the change of government, which some of us regrettably cannot help but remember took place in the latter part of 1975, that base figure of 442, the increase in which had not had time to be implemented at the time of the election, was reduced to 364, and it has sat there ever since. [More…]
If there were an election, businesses would know that if they planned rationally and sensibly the guidelines would not be changed, or the whole ball game changed, as it is changed every few 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 first and most obvious reason why Australia needs to introduce some form of subsidies for political parties is that election campaigning in Australia has become a very expensive business. [More…]
In the Labor Party a $12,000 cheque is not generally treated as petty cash and would certainly be a noticeable contribution to a House of Representatives candidate in any election. [More…]
I believe that most of the problems about which I have been speaking arise not because party officials and parliamentarians are inherently dishonest- at least not the vast majority of dedicated people on both sides of the political fence- but because of the difficulty of making ends meet in election campaigns today. [More…]
Senator, are you saying that the Liberals of New South Wales or Victoria have never paid people to work on election booths in the past? [More…]
State aid for political parties takes several forms of which the most important is for election campaign expenses. [More…]
Payments are spaced over a period of four years, with the greater part being paid during election years. [More…]
A law introduced in 1967 lays down the rules for subsidy through grants advanced for election purposes based on the performance of the parties concerned at the last election. [More…]
The Canadian Elections Act of 1974 introduced a system of financial aid to political parties. [More…]
Candidates are partially reimbursed for election expenses if they are elected or receive more than 15 per cent of the total votes cast in their electoral district. [More…]
The Houghton committee which was set up in Britain recommended that to qualify for a grant a political party, at the previous election, must have firstly saved the deposits of its candidates in at least six constituencies. [More…]
The recommendations continue: Secondly, as a party, it must have polled at least 150,000 votes and had at least one member elected in the previous election; or thirdly, as a party, it must have had at least two of its candidates returned as members in the previous election. [More…]
For example, Senator Chipp and Senator Mason might find it interesting that under a system similar to that recommended by the Houghton Committee, their party, the Australian Democrats, the newest party in Australian politics, would be eligible for a significant amount of state aid in the next election, having established that their party is a popular force and that it had considerable electoral support at the last election. [More…]
We believe that no mechanism should be available to a naturally hostile Opposition to force an election at its will. [More…]
The issue is not whether there shall be an election to determine the government. [More…]
There must be an election within three years of the summoning of the Parliament. [More…]
But when that election shall occur and by whom it shall be called is the issue involved. [More…]
Seven days before the election in December 1975 the Canberra Times broke a story about a Minister in the then caretaker Government being involved in electoral malpractice. [More…]
They did not have an election recently although I note that it was called an election in the newspapers in Australia. [More…]
As honourable senators know in September they will be holding their election. [More…]
I hope that the peacekeeping force being placed there will be able to contain his activities so that the country can have a peaceful election. [More…]
Rhodesia, of course, is coming to an election in April. [More…]
One of the greatest difficulties it has had has been in being able to hold an election because of the activities of terrorists from outside the country. [More…]
They are determined to have an election. [More…]
They are determined to make their elections work. [More…]
He spoke about the elections in Rhodesia. [More…]
I am glad to see that Great Britain and the United States are not going to support a puppet regime which I believe will fail regardless of the results in that election. [More…]
They are not interfering with a government which I believe will not have the support of the people after the April elections. [More…]
Prior to Mr Whitlam we had always been challenged at election time by the red threat from China. [More…]
How many elections were fought on this issue? [More…]
That the decision of the Australian Government to depart from its 1975 election promise, a promise re-affirmed during the 1977 election campaign, that pensions would be increased twice-yearly in line with increases in the CPI, will seriously add to the economic burdens now borne by those citizens who are wholly or mainly dependent on their pensions. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
In the last election campaign of 1977 1 made a public statement disclosing the existence of a Cabinet submission signed jointly by the Deputy Prime Minister and the then environment Minister, Mr Newman. [More…]
In response to my disclosure Mr Anthony defended the submission by saying publicly during an election campaign: [More…]
Furthermore, it is an attempt by the local socialist Left controllers of the Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Labor Party to flex their muscles to see just how far members of parliament and Ministers are prepared to ingratiate themselves in order to obtain parliamentary preselection at the end of this week. [More…]
At the last election he received 656 votes out of a total enrolment of 51,886 voters. [More…]
On 15 December 1975- that is, after his election to this place- a further $ 10,000 was paid in, not care of the Trades Hall but just ‘The Trades Hall, 219 New Town Road, New Town’. [More…]
Mr Lynch stood down during the election campaign. [More…]
I would have thought that Senator Mason’s party and Senator Chipp ‘s party would have been aware that there is a vast difference between getting the support of 10 per cent of the Australian people in an election and getting the support of over half the population, which of course would be necessary at the second stage, the referendum stage, of the citizen initiative system. [More…]
I seem to remember that in the last election their party complained bitterly about its lack of financial resources and its inability to get much space in the media to put its programs. [More…]
Far be it for me to concede, after the events of 1975, that our present system of democracy is perfect, but the point that has to be made is that our system of government is one of representative democracy in which the people make a choice between the people and the parties that they want to represent them on the basis of the programs produced by those seeking election. [More…]
When the representative does not make the right decision, he has to answer for that at the next election. [More…]
Senator Evans said that during the election campaign I had complained bitterly about the inability of my party to obtain funds and to obtain space in newspapers. [More…]
I said that Senator Evans had made two statements about what I said during the election campaign, one of which was true. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Is it a fact that Mr Garland was prosecuted for attempting to bribe a candidate in a Federal election? [More…]
I remind the Minister of the Prime Minister’s election promise to set up an insurance scheme in conjunction with the States and financial institutions to protect savings. [More…]
At the time of Carter’s election at the end of 1976, Moscow was losing ground in Vietnam, the Kremlin’s only significant foothold in Asia (Indira Gandhi’s pro-Moscow Emergency rule in India was to crumble by March 1977). [More…]
There is not one senator on the Government side at any time in any election who can say what we achieved in the futile war in Vietnam. [More…]
Certainly external pressure and moral exhortation was needed from countries outside the area to make sure that that election was completed, but it was completed and we have a democracy there. [More…]
Mr Lynch stood down during the election campaign. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
That the decision of the Australian Government to depart from its 1975 election promise, a promise re-affirmed during the 1977 election campaign, that pensions would be increased twice-yearly in line with increases in the C.P.I., will seriously add to the economic burdens now borne by those citizens who are wholly or mainly dependent on their pensions. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Mr Ross Edwards said he regretted that Mr Hamer had not recalled Parliament before the election. [More…]
I suppose, given the well-known subjectivity of the Prime Minister, it is no wonder that he breaks his election promise to provide concessional funds to farmers through the Primary Industry Bank. [More…]
In questioning why this motion was moved today, I guess it is a coincidence that the Victorian State election will be held fairly soon. [More…]
When the change of government came about statements were made by members of the present Government, including the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and various spokesmen, particularly during the 1977 election campaign, which I am sure led every Tasmanian to believe that this Government was maintaining the commitment made by the previous Government. [More…]
On 28 November 1977 at a Hobart evening rally during the election campaign the Prime Minister made this remark: [More…]
The impression created during the 1977 general election campaign was that this Government would do exactly the same as the previous Government undertook to do. [More…]
By that time a Labor government will be installed in Canberra and, as already indicated through my Party’s federal conference, that government will repudiate any new uranium sales contracts in the light of the lack of safeguards, in the light of inadequate consultations with the affected communities and in the light of the failure to implement promises to protect the environment and to establish national parks, matters which were expressed clearly in policy considerations for the 1975 and 1977 election campaigns. [More…]
It is one that would have been well in line with Australian Labor Party policy at the last election. [More…]
They will remember it for a long time, and no doubt our opponents will remind the electors of it at election time. [More…]
In fact, this report was presented just before the Federal election in 1977. [More…]
It is well known in the Northern Territory that Mr Calder is going to resign before the next election is held and that Mr Kilgariff, as he will be then, is going to stand for the seat of the Northern Territory to take a place in the House of Representatives. [More…]
After we came down with a democratic system of election for that chamber we found that there was an amalgamation of the National Country Party, or the Country Party- whatever you like to call it- and the Liberal Party. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
In view of the decision of the New South Wales Government to establish a committee to investigate the possibility of public funding for political parties in election campaigns, will the Government reconsider the terms of the motion moved by me and seconded by Senator Grimes on 22 February calling for the establishment by the Federal Parliament of a joint committee to investigate the introduction of public funding of political parties at a Federal level? [More…]
A person who wants to vote in a State election must have his name on the electoral roll at least three months before the election is held. [More…]
But what do we find when a supposedly democratic election is held? [More…]
He has prepared this petition which has been signed by 59 residents of the Island who are fully qualified to vote in the normal sense because they are voting in both State and Federal elections. [More…]
However, they are not allowed to vote in an election that is very near and dear to them because it involves the running their own little community. [More…]
It was in 1 84 1 , with the defeat of Lord Melbourne’s Whig Government in the Commons and the subsequent election of Sir Robert Peel’s Tories that the concept of parliamentary responsibility was established. [More…]
The Government ignored the fact that an increase had been due at the time of the election in 1975. [More…]
It is a fair bet, I would say, that the Victorian Premier will give the rate in Victoria a sharp lift due to the fact that he has an election in the next few weeks. [More…]
In 1954 a precedent for this was set when the Government backdated increases to payments under the Commonwealth employees compensation legislation which had been delayed by an election. [More…]
This precedent should have been followed in 1976, as the Opposition then suggested, when the increases were again delayed by an election in 1975. [More…]
We know, of course, that the Government in Victoria is facing an election and to ban the use of the herbicide at this stage would probably have created the impression that it was against the farmers and other people who feel the need to use these types of herbicide. [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…]
This Government made great promises during the election campaign of 1975 and again in 1977 of what it would do to equalise petrol prices, but what has happened? [More…]
So again Senator Walsh is able to point out that in fact the consumers are not benefiting as they were promised in the Fraser Liberal Government’s policy speech prior to the last election. [More…]
Yet here we have Mr Fife using the excuse that the Government has not power under the Constitution to honour its election promise to equalise fuel prices. [More…]
We well know that, prior to the last election, Senator [More…]
The only way the people will get television over thereand I am sure they all realise this- is to elect a Labor Government at the next election. [More…]
They go out into country areas and try to persuade people that for some fallacious reason they cannot carry out election promises. [More…]
We will hear many more before the next election. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
The Governor-General’s Speech after the last election referred to the Government’s carrying out a continuing program of law reform - [More…]
The first of these was the Garland case, which involved illegality in that an attempt was made to bribe a candidate in a Federal election. [More…]
He was forced to resign because the matter became a public issue immediately prior to an election. [More…]
Mr Lynch was not forced to resign because of his family affairs; he was forced to resign because they became a public issue immediately prior to an election. [More…]
Merely because Mr Lynch ‘s personal affairs looked like becoming an election issue, the Prime Minister forced Mr Lynch ‘s resignation and no doubt would have sacked him had that resignation not been forthcoming. [More…]
I also pointed out that the Commonwealth payment of some $80 a week was lower than the payment made in any State except Victoria, but that Victoria was very likely, in view of its impending election, to increase the payment very soon or at least to promise to do so. [More…]
We ask you to take over the land for us immediately and before the shire election is held. [More…]
We might have expected a government, in the light of its policy as expressed in its platform, upon which it fought the election, and as expressed in various statements relevant to this report that have been made by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), would have acted upon the recommendations of the Committee. [More…]
As Senator Bonner pointed out, not only were a third of the people kept off the electoral roll but also people who have lived on the Island consistently were denied, by this undemocratic and discriminatory Minister and his Department, the right to nominate for election to office. [More…]
As the Victorian Government has promised in successive State elections that it would provide a public hospital for Monash University, this action amounts to a sell-out. [More…]
It is being kept quiet until after the State election is held on 5 May next. [More…]
I am sure that the State Government will have to answer many questions, because this will be an issue in the Victorian election. [More…]
I am afraid that since this Parliament assembled after the 1977 election, the bloated majority of the Fraser Government in both Houses of Parliament has meant that the fence mending has not taken place. [More…]
But the Government hopes that with the passage of time, with perhaps two or three years going by, with another election coming and another Parliament coming, that Notice Paper will be scrapped. [More…]
The legislation came in only after the election of a Labor Government in South Australia in 1965 and Mr Bywaters became the Minister. [More…]
1 ) Did an article in the Melbourne Age, 23 February 1979, headed ‘Election Funding and the Question of Reform ‘ state that the Liberal Party has set up a sub-committee of its Federal Executive to report on overseas methods of public funding for political parties and that the National Country Party has also asked its organisation to review the matter. [More…]
In 1978 there were further unsuccessful attempts to extend public funding to congressional election campaigns (Hansard, page 3 105, 8 November 1977). [More…]
Will the Minister consult with his colleagues in the State Governments to ensure application of the same standards to political advertising in the State Election campaigns. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
What the Opposition has done today has been simply to bring down a cheap propaganda stunt some five weeks before the Victorian State election. [More…]
Thank God the Victorian electors year after year and election by election have re-elected a State Liberal government and have totally and abjectly rejected the State Labor Party. [More…]
It was written and broadcast today in a hopeless attempt to influence some people in Victoria in an election in five weeks. [More…]
I have no doubt that the Victorian people will recognise the foolishness of this motion and the foolishness of the Labor Party’s plans and will defeat those plans in the 5 May election. [More…]
Speaking of apologias, when talking about the Land Sales Development Commission which the Victorian Government brought into being to oversee government purchases of land, one cannot help but remember that that Commission came into effect only after the Ballarat by-election was held and the State Premier said that it appeared that they would have to look as though they were doing more about the land scandals and as though they cared more about the people of Victoria. [More…]
It is interesting that only last week, in the election build-up, the Victorian Minister for Housing said that he had directed the Housing Commission to buy back properties from people who wanted to sell them. [More…]
In the heat and the exposure of an election campaign, even he is starting to feel doubtful about the role of the Housing Commission and whether it should be selling houses or building houses for people to rent. [More…]
They have done so purely because they think that the main thing that is going to occur next month is a Victorian election and they want to direct the attention of this chamber to try to get some cheap publicity for their action in Victoria. [More…]
That is an extraordinary thing that we will be able to tell the electors of Victoria in the forthcoming election campaign. [More…]
In fact, right from the word go- right from Senator Wriedt ‘s speech- it was made clear that the debate would be about the forthcoming election in Victoria. [More…]
Every speaker from the Opposition side since Senator Wriedt spoke has debated the subject of the election coming up in Victoria and not the subject of the matter of urgency. [More…]
Now I want to say something about the next Victorian election. [More…]
Regardless of what Mr Wilkes might say in the forthcoming election campaign and regardless of promises which he and his parliamentary colleagues might make, the people of Victoria will know that if they return Mr Wilkes and his colleagues they will give the ALP a mandate to introduce socialism. [More…]
That will become the issue to be faced in this election. [More…]
My mind goes back to the period of the early 1950s- about 1954- when the Menzies Government, after it had been in office for a mere five years, was under challenge at a general election. [More…]
Instead of the drama of the election being whether the old age pensioners of this country would receive a pension free of the means test, the drama of the day became whether members of the Labor movement were engaged in political sabotage or espionage in this country. [More…]
The Government is aware of reported statements by the former British Prime Minister, Sir Harold Wilson, that, provided they were satisfied that the results of the forthcoming election in Rhodesia reflect the wishes of the majority of black and white Rhodesians, Britain and the United States should recognise the postelection government and that Britain, the United States and independent black African states should send observers to the elections in April. [More…]
At this stage no Western governments, including Britain and the United States, have advocated sending official observers to monitor the Rhodesian elections. [More…]
I remind the Senate of a statement made by Malcolm Fraser to the National Press Club on 8 December 1975, before the election that made him Prime Minister. [More…]
This Government is aware of the fact that the only way it will maintain its position with the Australian community and guarantee its re-election is to govern well. [More…]
The 1975 election results showed how unsuccessful was that avalanche of paper. [More…]
The then Prime Minister recalled that in his policy speech of 29 April 1974 he had given an undertaking that the Government would, if returned, appoint a judicial inquiry into the structure of the Australian security services, and the methods of reviewing decisions adversely affecting citizens or migrants and he said that the commission given to Mr Justice Hope would fulfil both parts of his election promise. [More…]
I stood for the Senate election in 1961; I was chosen as number three on our Senate ballot paper. [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…]
I think the Government’s decision to make available the analyses of election results and redistribution proposals is a very useful decision. [More…]
At least as bad as an Attorney-General may be from time to time, he can go only to some limits because he is responsible to the Parliament and the people at election time. [More…]
-The shot fired by the Government tonight is, of course, a shot in the Victorian election campaign. [More…]
As I have said, the predominant purpose of the statement is to fire a shot in the Victorian election campaign. [More…]
It always talks tough when there is an election about. [More…]
The statement has been thrown together at short notice for the purpose of the forthcoming Victorian election. [More…]
Malcolm Fraser is stunting again in order to get his friend, Dick Hamer, off the hook and in order that his friend, Dick Hamer, might in turn get him off the hook when his particular problem arises and when he has to go to an election. [More…]
Of course what we are concerned about here is what I would call the pre-election werewolf sort of atmosphere which possesses this Government. [More…]
That classic example is what happened in October 1977 when honourable senators on the other side of the House were seeking justification for holding an election a year earlier than their Government ought to have held one. [More…]
It makes this statement made tonight look ridiculous because in October 1977, Mr Anthony was suggesting in this Parliament that what the Government needed was an early election so that it could get the unions under control and this sort of problem would never arise again. [More…]
It will have to put down one of these statements every day until the Victorian election. [More…]
Such exercises are always carried out by this Government at the time of a State election or when it has some other problem in respect of which it wants to get off the hook. [More…]
-Yesterday, in response to a question from Senator Bonner, I gave some information about the elections on Aurukun and Mornington Island. [More…]
At Aurukun four of the five previous councillors ran for election. [More…]
At Mornington Island, all five concillors ran for reelection. [More…]
Of these two appear to have been elected, the election of one because of postal voting, is still in doubt, and two appear to have been defeated. [More…]
The economic downturn- affecting the Aboriginal population far more than other groups- has been used to justify the cutting of expenditure and the breaking of election promises. [More…]
The inquiry has been interrupted by a general election, a number of changes in membership of the Committee and by the referendum on constitutional development in the Capital Territory. [More…]
145 Election Statistics 1977- Papers. [More…]
If I went to the Monash University and told the students that in my opinion Fraser is a cur and is not fit to live in this country, in the hope that at the next election they will overthrow him, and my words lead them to engage in force or violence, I think that possibly justification would exist for my being subjected to surveillance under this clause. [More…]
I think that there would be just as great a temptation for many political candidates to express certain views about their opponents on various occasions during election campaigns. [More…]
He has opened the United States to a tremendous influx of beef to keep domestic prices down simply because- I remind Senator Baume of this- a presidential election is coming up and he wants to keep his cost structure down. [More…]
I submit that as soon as this presidential election is over we will be in a situation in which, because of the powerful United States lobby, many of these beef markets could be lost. [More…]
In the 1 977 election campaign, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) gave a number of unequivocal guarantees. [More…]
It is still stuck with the Prime Minister’s election boast that a 2 per cent interest reduction is a target that can and will be achieved. [More…]
Mr Fraser may be hesitating because of the Victorian State election next month. [More…]
I am not sure whether the Melbourne Age was suggesting that Mr Fraser would behave responsibly if he knew what the responsible part was, but of course Mr Fraser knows very well- as do most of his back benchers- that his back benchers are going to depose him as leader before the end of the year if the Hamer Government loses the Victorian election. [More…]
An announcement will not even be made until after the Victorian election, at the very least. [More…]
I dare say that the Prime Minister’s time horizon does not extend beyond 5 May because he knows that his survival as leader of the Liberal Party depends on whether the Victorian Government is defeated in the coming election. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to provide the legislative framework within which the Commonwealth will meet its 1 977 election policy commitment to a joint Commonwealth-State program for upgrading State railways which are part of the mainline network. [More…]
Indeed, I am told that there may be no Leader of the Opposition because after the Parliament is dissolved and until the election there may not be someone who, in actual statutory terms, is a Leader of the Opposition or he may have died and his successor may not have been appointed. [More…]
Perhaps the most definitive of these was the statement put out in November 1975 at the time of the general election. [More…]
We know what happened at the elections which took place at the end of last month, as Senator Chaney informed the Senate yesterday. [More…]
At Aurukun, where the council had previously been dismissed, four of the five previous councillors who ran for re-election were elected. [More…]
At Mornington Island all five councillors ran for reelection. [More…]
The re-election of one, because of postal voting is still in doubt and two appear to have been defeated. [More…]
Last week Senator Bonner told us about the wonderful election in which Aboriginals could elect their own delegates. [More…]
On 3 1 March of this year local government elections were held in a number of areas in Queensland. [More…]
Elections were held in my own city of Ipswich. [More…]
The Liberal Party, my party, contested that election. [More…]
But it was a fair and square election and these people are waiting for the postal and absentee votes to be counted. [More…]
The elections at Aurukun and Mornington Island were also held on 3 1 March. [More…]
To some extent the same anxieties are present because the election result cannot be determined absolutely as there is a ‘cliff hanger’ situation there with the counting of votes. [More…]
It concerns the election results at Aurukun and Mornington Island. [More…]
But the point is that three additional councillors have been elected to local government so that when one looks at the election of four out of five of the previous councillors at Aurukun and five out of five of the previous councillors at Mornington Island who have been re-elected to the councils of both of these communities, it surely proves to us in this chamber that negotiations between the Commonwealth Government, through the previous Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Ian Viner, and the present Minister, Fred Chaney, have been successful. [More…]
The results of the elections have still to be declared at both communities and the election of two candidates at Mornington Island still depends on the outcome of postal votes. [More…]
An election has just been successfully held. [More…]
How unhappy was Senator Cavanagh tonight at the fact that there seems to have been an effective election in both those communities giving the people the councillors that they wanted and, in some places, the councillors which they had previously. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs and follows the question asked earlier tonight by Senator Young concerning the election in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. [More…]
Are we to take his statement that there will not be peace until all parties agree to mean that even if it were established that a majority of eligible citizens within Rhodesia/Zimbabwe voted in the election and that a majority voted for the party of Bishop Muzorewa, the Australian Government would not accept that government as a valid one as long as any group of armed insurgents was prepared to bring down that government? [More…]
Will the Minister not agree that in relation to this matter the Government and other Western governments will need to say soon and quickly whether or not they believe that a valid election has been held? [More…]
Provisions for qualifications for election, filling of casual vacancies, dates for elections, meetings procedures, election of a President and Deputy President. [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, 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…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Indeed, the outcome of Saturday’s election in Victoria may well determine whether the policy of State income taxes, introduced by the Federal LiberalNational Country Party Government, will be proceeded with or whether it will receive the death blow it deserves. [More…]
Let there be no mistake either about the fact that the re-election of the Liberal Government in Victoria will give the green light to Mr Fraser to pursue his declared intention of seeing State income taxes introduced in all States. [More…]
By contrast, the election of a Labor government on Saturday in Victoria will be a clear signal to Mr Fraser that the Victorian people will not accept State income taxes in their State, because the Australian Labor Party is firmly opposed to this form of taxation. [More…]
Upon his election as Premier of Victoria he will add another voice at future Premiers Conferences against State income taxes. [More…]
We can always tell when there is in the offing somewhere on the continent of Australia a State or Federal election, because the same written speech, read so slavishly word by word, is made by Senator Wriedt. [More…]
Surprise, surprise- a Victorian election is to be held on Saturday and out he trots with the same words today. [More…]
Sir Eric Willis made it clear prior to the New South Wales election. [More…]
It is interesting to recall that prior to the New South Wales election, Senator Carrick, in supporting Sir Eric Willis, delivered almost the same speech as he has delivered today, prior to the Victorian election. [More…]
In addition to the other matters which Victorians have to weigh up in any forthcoming election, they have to consider that matter as a matter of fundamental importance to their own well-being. [More…]
A lot of his speech revealed to me a chronic anxiety state about the Victorian election which is due on Saturday. [More…]
As Senator Wriedt made clear right from the word go, he was taking this opportunity to exam.ine the political situation in Victoria shortly prior to an election there. [More…]
For example, the Australian Labor Party candidate for Dromana made some casual promises during the course of the election campaign about a coastal management authority and what Labor would do in relation to grants to local councils. [More…]
Only in two of the 10 seats created was there any chance for the Australian Labor Party in any normal election to have its candidate elected whatever the vote, unless there were a landslide. [More…]
1 say advisedly that we are not convinced that with the selection of the Commissioners that Senator Chaney has referred to on behalf of the Minister for Administrative Services, Mr McLeay, there necessarily will be a better result. [More…]
Despite Mr Fraser’s frequent statements that he would not hold a general election, we all know that the whole purpose of the speed-up that took place in 1977 was to get the redistribution off the plate and to get the procedures formalised so that the Government could have a double dissolution and hold a general election. [More…]
In the last election in Queensland the Labor Party polled 42.83 per cent of the votes and got only 23 seats, which in actual terms represents only 28 per cent ofthe votes. [More…]
Many applicants for jobs with the council waited weeks for a reply, yet Mrs Slack had her appointment confirmed only two weeks after the announcement of her defeat in the election. [More…]
He was elected at the council election held in late March this year. [More…]
Alderman Rowland retired at the time of the council election and did not seek re-election. [More…]
Alderman Olsen seems to suggest that non-successful election candidates should not be offered any work. [More…]
If he continues to act as he has in trying to take cheap political tricks by running down a person who was a very good candidate when she opposed him in the last Brisbane City Council election, he will find that after the next election he will no longer be an alderman. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Is it not a fact that during the 1977 election campaign a joint Cabinet submission from the then Minister for National Development and another Minister- I think it was the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development- seeking approval to drill on the Great Barrier Reef was made public? [More…]
I gave as my reason that that would take the Victorian election politicking out of the debate on my Bill. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Honourable senators may recall that the existence of this submission was publicly disclosed by me shortly afterwards, that is, during the election campaign. [More…]
Because of the pending election, the Government recognised that the political consequences of the decision were highly significant, and it was not proceeded with. [More…]
1 can recall that during the election campaign of 1977 when I raised the matter the Deputy Prime Minister created the impression in the minds of journalists through various statements that the Cabinet submission dealing with the mining of the Barrier Reef did not exist, or that it did not recommend any exploratory drilling. [More…]
Because that statement was publicly disclosed prior to the election, it was not dealt with at that time. [More…]
As this undertaking was quickly dishonoured and has caused grave hardship to many thousands of pensioners in all categories, will the Minister give an undertaking that the 1977 election promise will be honoured in the August Budget this year? [More…]
I am delighted that such smear tactics, which are of a piece with much of the Labor tactics during the Victorian election campaign, have failed. [More…]
Of course it was made just before an election. [More…]
It may have advantaged the Labor Party in the election. [More…]
He was the only one in the anti-Labor forces to win a seat in the 1 943 election. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Did the Prime Minister in his 1977 Federal election policy speech state that the Government’s objective was to move towards an allocation of up to two per cent of personal income tax collections for local government over a three year period? [More…]
Is the ratio existing in 1979 still the same as it was before the 1 977 election, namely, 1.52 per cent of personal income tax collections? [More…]
We had an election in 1 977, and in the policy speech leading up to that election, the Government gave no indication that it was going to reverse the policy in its next Budget and cut out the May pension increase. [More…]
So pensioners and beneficiaries in this country are no longer to rely on election promises. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Those beef producers who were aware of that prophesy he made during the 1977 election campaign about the sugar industry should have been doubly apprehensive. [More…]
This has been the result of several factors, including changes in the Committee’s membership following the 1977 election, the pressure of other important references and a decision in October last year to seek further submissions on this reference in order to provide an opportunity for wider participation in our deliberations. [More…]
We do not know whether the money is still being used by special branches in State police forces to compile dossiers on every member of the Australian Labor Party who has been a candidate for election to or a member of parliament. [More…]
ASIO, through this funding of the Special Branch, had compiled dossiers on every member of the Australian Labor Party who had been a candidate for election to the parliament, who is now a member of parliament or who had been a member of parliament. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
It was doing so because of the short term electoral political advantages which it had gained during the 1975 election. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
I ask: Does the Federal Government intend to honour its 1977 election promise to provide special funds for the sealing of the Stuart Highway in South Australia. [More…]
This is essential to a modern economy, something we hope we will have the benefit of creating after the present Government is defeated at the next election. [More…]
Melbourne and Canberra but if the party of which Senator Button is a member wishes to attain the Treasury benches at the next election its members had better smarten up their footwork. [More…]
I hope that the ABC inquiry will be a serious one; that it is not simply a strategy by which the Government hopes to defuse the ABC situation as an election issue. [More…]
Undoubtedly it would have been an election issue because of the savage cuts and other treatment by the Federal Government. [More…]
We all remember that in November 1975, Mr Fraser promised, as part of his election manifesto, that the PJT would be abolished. [More…]
I guess that even the Prime Minister recognised this when he did not overtly implement his 1975 election promise to abolish the Tribunal. [More…]
During the 1975 election campaign, the then caretaker Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, indicated quite clearly that he would abolish the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]
Therefore it is not surprising that an election promise to abolish the Prices Justification Tribunal was not fulfilled. [More…]
I quoted earlier from the 1975 election speech of the caretaker Prime Minister. [More…]
Even though I was only 1 1 years old in 1949, I can remember reading in some of the magazines that my mother bought the election promises of the Liberal Government of the day. [More…]
If we look at the figures we will see what happened after the 1 949 election. [More…]
The purpose of the acquisition was to honour an election promise made by the Prime Minister of the time, Mr Whitlam, to acquire that land as a wetland and as an area to be dedicated for passive recreation. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
The recent election of the Parliamentary Librarian, Mr Harold Weir, to the Parliamentary Libraries Section of the International Federation of Library Associations is an indication ofthe high regard in which this Parliamentary Library is held by information scientists, research specialists and librarians overseas. [More…]
As Senator Cavanagh has pointed out, it would be remiss of us Opposition senators if we did not continue the debate on this statement tonight, in view ofthe fact that, on behalf of the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt), the Minister for Social Security made a statement in this chamber tonight to the effect that Medibank is to be completely destroyed, despite the fact that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) gave a categorical assurance in the 1975 election campaign- it was one of the main points of his platform- that Medibank would not be interfered with. [More…]
It is important that this statement be debated later this evening because our constituents expect us to object to the Government’s repudiation of its election promises. [More…]
Government has lost all credibility in view of the fact that it has failed to honour its election promises made on two occasions? [More…]
The most blatant attempt ever to buy votes was an advertisement showing a hand with a fistful of notes- we all remember it in the 1977 election campaign- and Mr Fraser uttering some prophetic words. [More…]
On the Government’s own admission, made in the House of Representatives and in this Senate last Thursday night, that 1977 election speech was a policy of falsehood, and it was a policy of deceit. [More…]
Never did the Government say during the 1977 election policy speech that it would impose a tax on social welfare payments. [More…]
I believe that at the next election the Australian people will have no hesitation in ridding themselves of this promise-breaking, incompetent Government which pursues and defends such manifestly unjust spending priorities. [More…]
Did the Prime Minister, in his policy statement for the 1977 election for the House of Representatives, announce that new arrangements would be made in 1978-79 for pensioner housing to help those who want to rent privately in their own neighbourhood: if so, what progress has been made in the fulfilment of this promise. [More…]
The new scheme, which came into operation on 1 July 1 978, is in response to our election commitment. [More…]
Journalists who are respected in the Gallery tell me that leaks were coming from the Prime Minister’s office about an early election in 1980. [More…]
The point that I am making is that it might be a good political tactic, but we should consider what it does to business confidence if rumours are circulating and the columnists of daily newspapers and the weekly newspapers are speculating that an election could be held 12 months early. [More…]
Yet, in February 1976, at the first party meeting after the election was won, the Australian Assistance Plan was abolished. [More…]
That leads me to think now that perhaps Senator Chipp believes in the stories that are being leaked from the Prime Minister’s office to the effect that there will be an early election. [More…]
We all know that after the election in 1975 Senator Chipp was not selected as a Minister. [More…]
But no matter where one goes, be it to a sporting function or a hotel, no one will freely admit that he voted for Fraser at the last election. [More…]
He has dishonoured those statements and of course he has dishonoured all his election promises. [More…]
If you ‘re choking over your breakfast this morning as you read about last night’s ‘mini-Budget’- and you voted Labor at the last election- you have our sympathy. [More…]
Next year he will offer all sorts of handouts in an election Budget and if the electorate is true to form, it will vote through its hip pocket and return him to office. [More…]
If you ‘re choking over your breakfast this morning as you read about last night’s ‘mini-Budget’- and you voted Labor at the last election- you have our sympathy. [More…]
It indicates to the Australian people that this Government is not carrying out its proper responsibilities so far as its election promises are concerned and so far as its proper economic management of the Australian economy is concerned. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
We know- it is on record- that the Government was considering the massive alterations to Medibank which will cause serious disadvantage to many thousands of people in this country who cannot afford the extra that they are to be called upon to pay because of the Government’s repudiation of its election promise not to interfere with Medibank. [More…]
The persistence of other honourable senators and myself in raising this question arises from the lamentable absence of Federal Government support for the project, although on 25 November 1977, which was an election year, such special funding was promised by the Minister for Primary Industry, Mr Sinclair. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
I ask: By its own standards has this Government failed and will it apply its own yardstick and call an election? [More…]
2 on the ticket if there is to be a joint Liberal-National Country Party ticket for the next Senate election: We all know of the reason why honourable senators opposite are trying to say: ‘No, Senator Webster’s job is not on the line’. [More…]
That led the Wran Government to a successful election last year. [More…]
Last year the forty-sixth Parliament of New South Wales sat on 7 November following the election and rose a matter of weeks ago having sat for a total of 4 1 days. [More…]
I think the average taxpayer in the community has the message and knows that the Government has broken all the election promises it made in 1975 and 1977. [More…]
His speech is the type of speech of which we will hear many in this Senate until the pre-selection ballot is held in New South Wales. [More…]
To try to enhance his preselection chances he had to launch a real diatribe of nonsense against the New South Wales Labor Government. [More…]
When we look at the task in front of Senator Puplick we find that three Liberal Party senators from New South Wales will come up for election at the next half Senate election. [More…]
When we look at the last State election results in New South Wales we realise that one of those senators has to miss out. [More…]
Without a shadow of doubt three Australian Labor Party senators from New South Wales will be returned at the next half Senate election. [More…]
The three senators from the Government side who will face re-election in South Australia are the President of the Senate, the previous speaker, Senator Davidson, and Senator Jessop. [More…]
Of course the President is prohibited from making any preselection speeches in this place but we can expect to hear a few from Senator Davidson and Senator Jessop. [More…]
While the proceedings of the Senate were being broadcast last night Senator Jessop launched his campaign for pre-selection by trying to convince any of the people who might have been listening to him- I understand there were quite a few because I have received a few messages today to which I will refer- about funding for the Stuart Highway in the mid-north of South Australia. [More…]
Some of these messages I have received today were not complimentary to Senator Jessop so I do not think he did his preselection campaign any good by the way he behaved here last night. [More…]
We will see a big gap on the benches opposite after the next half Senate election is held. [More…]
The Victorian Premier assured the electors of Victoria prior to the last election that the land deal matters were cleaned up. [More…]
This has all happened without an election. [More…]
No, not every election. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
The only complaints that I have ever heard about letter boxes have come from many people I have met who strongly resent the rubbishy literature that is poked into their letter boxes at election times by Labor candidates. [More…]
Has the attention of the Leader of the Government in the Senate been drawn to the result of last Saturday’s election for the Australian Capital Territory House of Assembly? [More…]
When this Government went to the polls at the last election, it promised to provide ethnic television programs. [More…]
That was why we wrote it into the Liberal Party policy, and emphasised the point in the 1 975 Federal election campaign. [More…]
It was also repeated in the 1977 election campaign by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Onceayear payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Onceayear payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
When will the Government honour its election undertaking to extend Service pensions and repatriation benefits to eligible Allied ex-servicemen? [More…]
Firstly, I remind the Senate that in the policy speech put down by Mr Fraser on 2 1 November 1 977 for the 1 977 election he had this to say: [More…]
The Senate will also recall that in the course of that election campaign electors were invited to dial you tax cuts’, that is, they were invited to telephone the Liberal Party of Australia, which would tell them what it would do for the Australian taxpayer in terms of taxation. [More…]
We will then see how she gets on in the next election. [More…]
In his policy speech on 2 1 November 1977, during the last election campaign, the Prime Minister stated: [More…]
Also during the election campaign, in a statement made on 7 December, he said: [More…]
This was in 1976, if you please; it was not the 1979 show- thc Government has honoured its election promise to mainlain spending on essential education programs. [More…]
I think that is borne out in the results of last Saturday’s election in the Australian Capital Territory where there was a 20 per cent swing to the Labor Party candidates and a similar swing against the Liberal Party candidates. [More…]
Forty-six per cent of Australian electors would vote for that ALP and 43 per cent for the coalition if a Federal election were held this month, according to the poll. [More…]
The poll was taken on the first two weekends of this month, immediately following the Victorian State election. [More…]
Where was the economic responsibility when Fraser made his election promise in 1975 and 1977? [More…]
I am talking about the Government’s election promises in 1977. [More…]
He was so incensed with the Budget that the Government brought down that he published in his article on page 5 a photograph of the Prime Minister and reproduced one of the election advertisements. [More…]
Only a few moments ago I quoted from an election advertisement where the Prime Minister said that if electors voted for the Liberals on election day in 1977 they would get lower income taxes. [More…]
Under Mr Fraser’s photograph there is this election advertisement: [More…]
Every election promise has been broken. [More…]
I think I gave the heading of the article, but he is so excited about having to face up to broken promises, untruths and that sort of thing that have been uttered by members of the Government and himself during the election, that he cannot take it. [More…]
I think I have proved to the Senate again that the people who sit opposite handle the truth very carelessly when it comes to election promises. [More…]
The Prime Minister and a number of other Ministers indicated following their election in 1975 that full tax indexation would be introduced, and that it would apply not only to personal income tax but also in industry. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strikea cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Clause 20 of the Bill requires that this mandatory question be asked of all people presenting themselves to vote: Have you already voted here or elsewhere in this election? [More…]
The Government plans to insert this mandatory question into the relevant Act: Have you already voted here or elsewhere in this election. [More…]
Not necessarily in order of declining knavery, we have firstly, Mr O’Driscoll, a prominent Liberal Party member and resident of the Kimberleys, who, during the 1977 election campaign, lied to the presiding officer at the GoGo booth. [More…]
Keith Alan Ridge, the successful Liberal Party candidate in the disputed Kimberley election, complained six days later about having to spend the last two weeks of his campaign among Aborigines. [More…]
Unless the Act is amended in the forseeable future, I would have no intention of standing for election again in Kimberley because I believe that within three years there could be in the order of 4,000 Aborigines on the roll and I am sure you would agree we would be fighting a lost cause. [More…]
I can foresee that unless this is done, there could be anything up to 4,000 Aborigines on the roll at the next election and, under these circumstances, the Liberal Party would probably be fighting a lost cause. [More…]
Finally, Mr Smith made the election void on those and on other grounds. [More…]
So that if an illiterate person or- perhaps to use a less offensive expression- an Aboriginal who cannot read or write English wished to get a postal vote for a Federal election, he would not be able to do so. [More…]
I would put very squarely before the Senate the suggestion that we have a great obligation to ensure that Aboriginal people, and other disadvantaged people, know what to do when election time comes and how to do it. [More…]
Before the elections some people were saying that Aboriginal people wouldn ‘t vote or that they shouldr ‘t vote because they didn’t understand what was going on. [More…]
The Election Office - [More…]
We say ‘Well done, Election Office! [More…]
A lot of information has been put before the Senate, including extracts from the judgment of Mr Justice Smith relating to the Kimberley election which gave rise to the Kimberley by-election. [More…]
One of them was that after the election which was challenged, the Commonwealth and the State in co-operation mounted an electoral education campaign in the Kimberley area. [More…]
It was a joint Commonwealth-State effort and on all reports that I have been able to obtain it eased substantially the conduct of the voting in the subsequent by-election. [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 5.08 percent to the total vote in 1974 to 3.18 per cent of the total vote in 1 977. [More…]
Again, I think that that indicates that one can get over some of the sorts of difficulties which gave rise to the Kimberley by-election by having a better educated, better equipped and better prepared electorate. [More…]
I say that because I think it is very easy to say: ‘All right, I am going to read the report of the Court of Disputed Returns on the Kimberley election. [More…]
Whatever one wants to argue about the reality of manipulation in a particular circumstance in a particular election, the fact is that the voting of people who are not able to read and write is open to manipulation. [More…]
On 25 November 1977, which it will be recalled, was just prior to the 1977 election, the Prime Minister replied to a letter dated 10 November 1977 from Mr Gradwell, as the Prime Minister put it, ‘concerning the attitude of political parties to their role as potential employer of Australian Government Employees.’ [More…]
In the course of that letter the Prime Minister gave a certain undertaking relating to the principle of wage indexation, an undertaking he made in general terms in election promises prior to the 1975 and 1977 elections. [More…]
This was in November 1977 shortly prior to the election when, for example, the taxation cuts which all honourable senators- or perhaps I should say ‘ all senators ‘ in this context- will recall. [More…]
After the election we propose to take up this question as a matter of priority. [More…]
It is implicit in the statement and the letters that I referred to that at least at the stage prior to the last election it was the Prime Minister’s view that that situation would continue. [More…]
Moreover, as Senator Button pointed out, it is retrenchment in blatant breach of the election promise of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in November 1977 when he said, in that letter of 25 November 1977, which was tabled by Senator Button: [More…]
That report was published just prior to the last Federal election. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said during the 1975 election campaign that he would not interfere with Medibank, that his party realised we had to look after the ill, the sick and the needy. [More…]
If we go back to the 1 977 election campaign we see that both of the major parties promised support for the upgrading of State main lines. [More…]
He is not dead; he was defeated in an election. [More…]
Although the persons who lead the new regime in Ghana apparently have announced that they will be holding some form of election, will the Government insist that the same criteria be applied to Ghana as are being insisted upon in the case of Rhodesia and that no recognition will be granted to the new government until such time as internationally supervised, free elections have been held in Ghana? [More…]
If this is not the case and recognition is granted to Ghana during the period that the Parliament is in recess, for the benefit of those of us who find these events a little difficult to follow, will the Government prepare a list of those countries where a change of regime can be recognised only after the holding of internationally supervised, free elections and those countries where this is not necessary? [More…]
I point out briefly that in December 1972 the Whitlam Government announced in a preelection speech that pre-school education would be made available within six years to every child. [More…]
In December 1975 the present Government came to office, although there had been an election in the meantime. [More…]
The Liberal-National Country party’s election policy of that time stated: [More…]
I have raised this matter, as I have on four other occasions, to endeavour to persuade this Government to honour its responsibilities and the election promise that it made in 1975. [More…]
If he looked at the situation that occurred in the election that took place recently in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia he would find that 4 per cent of the white minority in that country had 28 per cent of the votes in the lower House. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Amongst the multitude of deceptions which the Government perpetrated during the election campaigns of 1975 and 1977 was the matter of jobs for the boys. [More…]
One persistent theme has dominated this Government’s conduct of economic policy since its election in 1975. [More…]
Has the Electoral Office established procedures to conduct an election at large, in the event of this becoming necessary in any of the States; if so what are the details. [More…]
No specific procedures have been laid down for the conduct of an election at large. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
I ask him whether he remembers the Prime Minister, during the 1977 election campaign, on 25 November to be precise, saying: [More…]
Time and again during the 1975 and 1977 election campaigns, the Government parties emphasised that they were the low tax parties. [More…]
Under the circumstances, is it any wonder that, since the Prime Minister’s credibility is at its lowest level since his election in 1975, the Australian people have the greatest doubts as to the integrity and genuineness of this man? [More…]
On 25 November 1977, during the 1977 election campaign, on the subject of taxation generally the Prime Minister said: [More…]
Let me talk for a moment about taxation because it has become the major issue of this election campaign. [More…]
If we look at the question of tax indexation, we see that the Fraser Government has reneged on its election promise in two respects. [More…]
For that reason, the Government and particularly the Prime Minister said- during election campaigns he says these things- that governments have to be kept honest. [More…]
The Prime Minister said during the election campaign that ‘the public has a right to know when taxes are being raised and governments should be subject to the financial discipline of introducing explicit legislation to this end’. [More…]
The subject of tax indexation was raised also during the 1977 election campaign. [More…]
The Prime Minister always becomes most self-righteous on this question during election campaigns. [More…]
The people remembered that in the election of 1975. [More…]
Most members of the chamber will recognise that today an election has been called in South Australia. [More…]
I see that Premier Corcoran has decided to call this election on the following basis: He says that he wants South Australians to confirm him in office so that he can put before them a package of policies to carry the Australian Labor Party, not the people of South Australia, into the 1980s. [More…]
He was asked by journalists at his set-up Press conference whether his calling of an election on the day after the Federal Budget had anything to do with the Budget. [More…]
He said: ‘No, the election has nothing to do with the Federal Budget, but, yes, the Budget will be an electoral issue ‘. [More…]
Apparently moved by the same sentiments as Opposition senators have expressed today, he is calling an election. [More…]
At a press conference today Colonel Corcoran said that he had been contemplating an election in South Australia for some time. [More…]
He came to office last February on the resignation of Mr Dunstan, saying he would not have an election for three years; that he wanted the State to consolidate so that it could recover from a disastrous state that had been created even though Labor had been in office there for almost 10 years. [More…]
If Labor does not gain office next election then by 1983, when we could next hope to gain office - [More…]
He was already admitting, apparently, that his party could not win the next election- 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 do it in a totally amateur way, I might say; but, belonging to a political party that is impoverished, the only way we can propel ourselves in election campaigns is to have my notorious face exposed on the streets on Saturday mornings. [More…]
Perhaps I should not because people will think that I am either burying him or praising him now that the election announcement has been made. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
Also, since a South Australian election is to be held and we are tender about that, let me remind honourable senators that the great and total critic of the uniform taxation system of the Whitlam Labor Government was the former [More…]
The result of the Tasmanian election and the inevitable results of the South Australian election demonstrate that not only have State governments rejected the policy but that the people in the States have done the same. [More…]
In the recent Victorian election Premier Hamer made it clear that he would not impose a second income tax. [More…]
Now he is facing an election and it is likely that any interest he had in a State income tax will have ceased. [More…]
The possibility of double taxation was instrumental in the defeat of the New South Wales Liberal Government in 1 976, but an even more damning criticism of the policy came in the recent Tasmanian election, which was fought specifically on this issue. [More…]
Let the Liberal Party in South Australia at this coming State election go to the South Australian people on the basis of a State income tax implementing Federal Liberal policy. [More…]
What one has to watch is something very simple: Mr Corcoran wants to get an election under his belt because he wants to put up a wide range of taxes and charges. [More…]
Having heard yet another harangue from Senator Carrick on the subject of Fraser federalism, I have a proposition to put to himthat he ask Mr Tonkin, the South Australian Liberal Party leader, whether Mr Tonkin will give Senator Carrick an invitation to participate heavily in the South Australian election campaign and to preach the virtues of a double income tax on behalf of the Liberal Party during that election campaign. [More…]
A number of extravagant claims were made about federalism before and after the 1 975 election. [More…]
But the same President who is prepared to do this now has announced his retirement from the Senate as from the next Senate election. [More…]
Once-a-year payments strike a cruel blow to their expectation and make a mockery of a solemn election pledge. [More…]
He should have prefaced that question by saying that, in case the electors of Murray Bridge do not know it, there is to be a State election in South Australia. [More…]
Three related events have sparked off new rumours of an early election in South Australia. [More…]
As this matter has progressed the left wing finally has forced Mr Corcoran to a State election some 18 months early. [More…]
It is only a few weeks ago that the Premier, Mr Corcoran, made it perfectly clear that he had no intention of going to an election. [More…]
As I was saying, Mr Corcoran has been forced into an early election by the left wing of the Labor Party in South Australia. [More…]
There is absolutely no doubt that it is using him as a front for the election. [More…]
No doubt what will happen is that he will be deposed by the left wing because it will have an increase in numbers after the election. [More…]
Mr Corcoran should not allow himself to be used as an election tool by the radical left wing of the South Australian Labor party on an issue that is so vital to South Australia. [More…]
All he is doing is allowing himself to be used in the hope of winning an election for his party, knowing full well that the left wing will take control straight after the election. [More…]
I remind the honourable senator that at lunch time today Des Corcoran, at a tremendous meeting in Adelaide, delivered his election policy speech. [More…]
I was interested in the ALP theme for the current election, namely, ‘Follow a leader’. [More…]
I must admit that I really did believe that the Government was quite serious in its endeavour to get before the chamber an urgency motion which was not connected with the South Australian election. [More…]
This motion has been brought on quite deliberately by Government senators from South Australia to somehow bring some credibility to, or improve the flagging support for their party in the forthcoming election in South Australia. [More…]
It is perfectly obvious that it does not matter what a Federal member of parliament from South Australia does in this chamber in a debate on an urgency motion such as this as there is no way in which it could alter the course of the election on 15 September. [More…]
Yet the Government parties do not rely on the issue of uranium to fight an election; they rely on other issues which would be less likely to lose them an election. [More…]
They can be trusted on one thing, that is, to win elections. [More…]
They have a rather cute way of ensuring a win at a democratic election: They lock up all their political opponents during the election campaign. [More…]
What a misleading advertisement, which confuses people in an election campaign- as though it would have some real impact. [More…]
He talked about advertising by the present Premier of South Australia, Mr Corcoran, being misleading but did not tell us about the misleading advertising during the 1977 election. [More…]
Senator Messner, as did Senator Young, today used the forms of this House to try to promote Mr Tonkin in his election campaign in South Australia. [More…]
The people of that electorate had never heard from Senator Messner or Chick Hanson after the latter was defeated in that election. [More…]
Mr Corcoran ‘s honesty, which must be in question, after leading us all to believe that an election was not forthcoming. [More…]
For all we know he might be a candidate this year because as you would know, Mr President, the Liberal Party in South Australia was caught with its trousers around its ankles when the election was announced. [More…]
Mr Corcoran ‘5 honesty, which must be in question, after leading us all to believe that an election was not forthcoming. [More…]
He is the person who said that he would not go to an election, that he would not refuse a Budget when we were in government. [More…]
Of course, as soon as he had unloaded Mr Snedden, he went to an election. [More…]
The Liberals in this very chamber forced us to an election in May 1974. [More…]
They again forced us to an election in 1975, and in 1977 they again went to the people. [More…]
Therefore, they had three elections in the space of four years. [More…]
There was no Legislative Council election the last time that the House of Assembly went to the people. [More…]
In successive elections since 1970 they have given their decision at the ballot box, and they are going to give the same decision again. [More…]
I saw Mr Tonkin when he was interviewed on the night that the election was announced. [More…]
This Government is giving away our natural resources because in some areas- we would be hard put to prove it- it is getting some kick back to run its election campaigns. [More…]
Unlike the Fraser Government, which has broken every promise that it has made since 1975, the Labor Government honoured every promise that it made prior to the 1 972 election except for those promises which this chamber would not allow it to honour. [More…]
Honourable senators are well aware of the trauma that went on in this place and how we were forced to an election in May 1 974 and again in 1 975. [More…]
Half the people in this chamber had been elected before the 1 972 election. [More…]
As Senator Withers said in this chamber, the night after the election results were known they set about formulating a policy to get rid of the Labor Government. [More…]
I ask: Is this the same Mr Pickering who contested an election in the Australian Capital Territory as an endorsed Liberal Party candidate? [More…]
It was plain that if the Government did not re-introduce indexation it would be at peril at the next election. [More…]
Is this Government now willing to undertake voluntarily what it forced the Whitlam Government to undertake, a mid-term election? [More…]
It is painfully aware of one thing, however, and that is that it is absolutely essential to give its backbenchers and its sympathisers outside this Parliament some glimmer of hope for the next general election, whether that election is held this year or whether the Government clings to its sinking ship until the end of next year. [More…]
It is a package which increasingly will become a liability for the Government as the date of the next general election becomes closer. [More…]
Mr Fraser proclaimed during the election campaign of 1 975 that a Government he led would provide jobs for all who wanted to work. [More…]
In addition, it is pertinent to question what happened to the tax indexation which the Prime Minister championed so strongly during election campaigns. [More…]
When will they next be broken, may well be the question that pensioners will pose when they ponder how they will cast their vote at the next election. [More…]
It is a Budget which spells the Fraser Government’s doom and it heralds the incoming of a Hayden Government at the time of the next election, whenever that might be. [More…]
-In the course of the 1 975 election campaign, the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Malcolm Fraser, promised that if his party was elected to power in this country it would provide what he called government for all the people. [More…]
Every Press advertisement that has been put out by the Labor Party during the current State election campaign is an attack on the Fraser Government. [More…]
I put it to you, Mr President, that the honourable senator is talking entirely about the South Australian election, which has no relevance to the subject matter of the notice, and in that respect he is abusing the parliamentary Standing Orders. [More…]
We have an election on. [More…]
We have just heard a fairly incoherent tirade from Senator Messner, one that had nothing to do with the subject of this debate but had a great deal to do with the impending election in South Australia. [More…]
I want to concentrate my remarks tonight on the way in which the people of South Australia have perceived the Federal Budget and also, to some extent, on the way in which in the current State election campaign the Labor Government has abused its responsibilities by trying to pass the buck to the Federal Budget for its deficiencies in government. [More…]
Since the 1977 State election employment in the private sector in South Australia has fallen by 5,800 people; it is the only mainland State to have had such a fall. [More…]
But in South Australia we found the Labor Premier, to build a smokescreen for him to try to pass the buck for these disasters in South Australia, calling an immediate election the very day after the Federal Budget was brought down. [More…]
For months he had been banking upon an unpopular Budget, a Budget which he thought he could capitalise on, being brought down to enable him to win by using a smokescreen, by default, by passing the buck, sufficient election victory to give the Labor Government another three years in office. [More…]
As a consequence, the very illconceived tactics of the Labor machine in South Australia to force a State election on the issue of the Budget is falling flat. [More…]
With that responsible record of the Federal Government and with the very attractive response by the people of South Australia to the Federal Budget, the tactic of the Labor machine to call an election in South Australia has fallen flat. [More…]
It has fallen flat doubly because the South Australian Liberal Party, right from the beginning of the election campaign, has concentrated all its thrust entirely on State issues. [More…]
The election on 15th September will give you a real chance to decide the future direction of the Government of this State. [More…]
The last thing that I enjoy doing is entering into the gutter of filth over the current State election. [More…]
The reason for this election relates to the raising of taxation by the States. [More…]
I put it that more than an election is involved. [More…]
In 1975, when Labor was defeated in the election, I referred in this House to the fact that Rupert Murdoch was the person who decided who was to govern in Australia. [More…]
Nevertheless, the left wing of the Labor Party had committed Mr Corcoran to an election. [More…]
As I have said before in this place, Mr Corcoran has been made the front image for the left wing because it knew jolly well that it could not win an election with anybody else. [More…]
Since the last South Australian election employment in the private sector of industry has fallen by 5,800 people, according to the statistics, compared with a rise of 27,000 in New South Wales, 3,000 in Victoria, 2,800 in Western Australia, and nearly 2,000 in Queensland. [More…]
There is no doubt, again, that this election was forced on earlier than usual because the Labor Party in South Australia was running scared of the release of the Auditor-General ‘s report. [More…]
The headline in the Advertiser read: ‘Left Wing “forced” early SA election’. [More…]
I had never used to refer to them as ‘the bosses’, but I have become so sick of their propaganda in the last few weeks that I now identify them as bosses who cannot see the morality of assisting their State and of being fair in election campaigns. [More…]
The State Government was confident that industrial democracy would not bc an issue in the election campaign . [More…]
I know that in South Australia, since the last State election only 18 months ago, unemployment in the private sector has risen by over 5,800 individuals. [More…]
If not, is his absence due to illness, or some other personal reason, or to pressure from his union masters to stay home because of the desperate state of the Australian Labor Party in the last days of the State election campaign? [More…]
All of these claims of victories and breakthroughs are starkly revealed as being as worthless as a Fraser election promise. [More…]
It is just a few lines of rhetoric designed to cloud the issues until the next election. [More…]
Let me illustrate what I mean by a cynical approach to industrial relations by referring the Senate to something which happened in October 1977 when this Government, the Fraser Government was seeking an excuse for an early election. [More…]
That was a prosecution nicely timed to coincide with the Victorian State election. [More…]
Could you explain to us as simply as you can how an election a year ahead of time is going to help curb industrial unrest? [More…]
I didn’t know that there was going to be an election a year ahead of time. [More…]
shall be entitled to have his name placed on or retained on any roll or to vote at any Senate election or House of Representatives election. [More…]
Perhaps, as a preliminary, I should say that the bandage on my forehead was there before the South Australian election on Saturday. [More…]
Has the Leader of the Government seen the statement by the Premier of New South Wales, Mr Wran, that he personally favours a four-year term for governments and that a referendum to alter the term of the New South Wales Parliament could be conducted in conjunction with the next State election? [More…]
Does this action equate with the Tasmanian Premier’s cry of ‘poor’ and the recent excuse for an early election held on the pretext of a shabby deal from the Federal Government? [More…]
Despite the circulation of false propaganda to all parents before the election the State of Tasmania is able to employ an additional 48 teachers. [More…]
Here, the Government’s failure to lower interest rates as it promised- it partially won an election on this issue- is well known. [More…]
On 2 December 1977, as an election promise, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said he would reduce interest rates by 2 per cent. [More…]
If the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) feels particularly jubilant about something he may call an election. [More…]
Mr Harry Gordon first rang a Labor member in Brisbane and took exception to my remarks, stating that he was not associated with the Murdoch Press, that his purpose in spending two days in Adelaide was not in regard to the election. [More…]
When the Government comes around to election date, it will find the people of Australia do not believe that it is justifiable either. [More…]
He did that in an election policy speech. [More…]
In the 1977 election campaign the Labor Party said in its policy speech that it would give certain tax concessions but would not reduce income tax because it was realistic about the matter. [More…]
There is no good relying on the Commonwealth Government because they won’t bc in power after the next election and they know it. [More…]
Then he went on to say ‘there is no good relying on the Commonwealth Government because they won’t bc 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…]
In 1977, at the general election, Mr Paul Baker was the Australian Democrats candidate for the seat of Paterson in New South Wales. [More…]
At that election he polled 6.6 per cent of the vote in Patersonsome 4250 votes- compared with 1.45 per cent for Mr William Ignatius O’Donnell, an independent candidate, 57.61 per cent for Mr Frank Lionel O ‘Keefe, the National Country Party candidate, and 34.28 per cent for Kerry Donald Scott, the Australian Labor Party candidate. [More…]
Provided on the back of the newspaper was an elaborate how-to-vote chart which promoted Mr Baker as the candidate for the seat of Paterson and promoted the Australian Democrats candidates for the Senate election. [More…]
I raise this matter because, as one who has some claim to a fair amount of experience in the operations of political parties during election campaigns and as one who has served in various capacities in the Liberal Party in New South Wales- as a campaign manager, as a member of the State Executive of the Party and of various other committees concerned with the operations of the Party- I am aware that the general practice of the Liberal Party is that debts incurred by candidates on behalf of the Liberal Party are honoured by the Liberal Party when the candidate or his electorate committee is unable to honour them. [More…]
Given the fact that the Australian Democrats as a party have not seen fit to honour a commitment or to assist my constituents to maintain a reasonable position in terms of electoral expenses incurred on their behalf, I use this occasion to make a public appeal to the Australian Democrats to understand that this debt was incurred in terms of the election of people to this place and to see that this account is promptly and properly settled with people who are entitled to receive payments for services rendered. [More…]
) How much time was made available to broadcast election speeches or political advertisements in respectof each political party on each radio broadcasting station and television station for the State election in Victoria on 5 May 1979. [More…]
Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware that petitions have now been lodged with the Registry of the Supreme Court of Tasmania challenging the right of all those members of the House of Assembly declared elected following the recent State elections to take their seats? [More…]
Is he also aware that, according to respected Tasmanian legal authorities, the election of most members of the House of Assembly will probably be declared null and void and, therefore, the constitutional right of the present Government to occupy the treasury benches is in serious doubt? [More…]
Government, lt has been revealed that Ian Rice is on the Committee of the Bjelke-Petersen Foundation which raises money to fight election campaigns. [More…]
I just draw attention to the fact that they stand in stark contrast to the attitude displayed by the Prime Minister just prior to the 1977 election when he said that interest rates would fall by 2 per cent over the coming 12 months. [More…]
This election results from the dishonesty and incompetence of the Whitlam Labor Government. [More…]
This election has been caused by the dismissal of two acting Prime Ministers for deceiving the Parliament. [More…]
Mr Garland was charged with bribery in the context of an election, he instantly stood down from the Ministry. [More…]
In 1972 we won the election on the basis of the acceptance of Medibank I, and that was the levy concept. [More…]
On 2 1 November 1977, during an election campaign, when these matters were being discussed- it goes back more than two years- the former Minister for Primary Industry said: [More…]
It was a panic measure prior to the 1 977 election, and it was estimated at the time that it would cost $100m. [More…]
1 ) The desirability of amending the Broadcasting and Television Act 1 942 to remove the existing ban on the broadcasting or televising of election matter after the Wednesday preceding an election day. [More…]
I have no doubt that the election of the new government in South Australia represents a chance to ease the problem in this area as in other areas. [More…]
the Government’s 1975 Election commitment to give financial and moral support to the future of the growth centre: [More…]
the Government’s 1973 Election commitment to give financial and moral support to the future of the growth centre; [More…]
It was signed, I think, in January 1 973, about six weeks after the election of the Whitlam Labor Government. [More…]
It is interesting that my friend, Senator Messner from South Australia, should interject because for the first time ever at the last State election in New South Wales, a Labor candidate, Mr Mair, was elected as the State Labor member for Albury. [More…]
I suggest to honourable senators that when the next election takes place, whenever it might be, they have a look at the figures. [More…]
I think it is well known in this place that the two persons I have always made a point of referring to concerning the use of VIP aircraft have been the previous occupant of Government House at Yarralumla and the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who made great statements during the 1975 general election campaign that Mr Whitlam, the then Prime Minister, was overusing VIP aircraft and made claims about all the things he would do to curtail the use of those aircraft. [More…]
We well know that that was another election gimmick that he put up to the people and they fell for it. [More…]
Senator Bishop tabled the document in this place on the third sitting day of the Parliament after the election of the Labor Government in December 1972. [More…]
So it would appear that very special circumstances prevailed on those three days when Senator Martin, Senator MacGibbon, Mr Katter, Mr Petersen and Mr Edwards travelled round Queensland, no doubt electioneering. [More…]
If those circumstances are to be classed as special circumstances, I expect that during the next Federal election campaign a request by members of the Labor Party to travel round our States with the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) will be classed as special circumstances. [More…]
One would hope that, with the election of the new and vital government in South Australia, some of the difficulties of the past will be resolved more easily than they have been. [More…]
It was the same Government, or the same Fraser-Lynch team, which prior to the election in 197S was so vocal about good economic management. [More…]
By this time next year, when we go to an election, presumably that figure will be anywhere between $6 billion and $6.5 billion, which is an enormous load on the Australian public. [More…]
1 ) The desirability of amending the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942 to remove the existing ban on the broadcasting or televising of election matter after the Wednesday preceding an election day. [More…]
I speak firstly to the question of amending the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942 to remove this absurd ban that is now an anachronism on the broadcasting or televising of election matter after midnight on the Wednesday preceding an election day. [More…]
One argument that could be advanced for the proposition for its retention- no doubt the argument was put forward when it was first introduced into legislation- is that one wealthy party could spend a fortune up to midnight on the Friday night before an election and swamp all other less affluent parties. [More…]
A party with a great deal of money can and does do that through newspapers at the very last minute on the Friday night or on the Saturday morning of an election which then renders a smaller party, or a less wealthy party, totally incapable of responding to that advertisement. [More…]
That is why I have put in my motion that the Committee ought to consider amending the Act to put a limitation on the amount of expenses that can be spent by any political party or individual in an election campaign. [More…]
The third reason for this absurdity is that a political party can still swamp a television station or a radio station on the Wednesday before an election with an incredible amount of money. [More…]
We also have a ridiculous situation that can and has occurred where there is, say, an obscure by-election in a State. [More…]
Perhaps it is in an area which is way out in the country and where no city issues are affected; it is a by-election for a State [More…]
If a Federal election happened to be taking place at that dme and if perchance a leader of a political party wanted to make his policy speech on a Thursday night and if the State by-election was on a Saturday, it could well result in a situation where that policy speech would have to be postponed in that State. [More…]
Surely Senator McLaren is not asking me to be naive enough to believe that the trade, unions do not finance the Labor Party in its election campaigns; The principle is precisely the same although I will concede to Senator McLaren that the amount of money given to the Labor Party by trade unions nowhere near compares with the amount of money given to the Liberal and National Country parties by God knows whom. [More…]
A farce has been carried on in this Parliament ever since I have been a member in relation to the statutory declarations demanded of members of Parliament and senators that on their election campaign they have not spent more than a certain amount, have not allowed it to be spent, or are not aware that it has been spent. [More…]
Any member of this Parliament, of this Senate or of the House of Representatives, who signed that form without amendment at the last election ran a great risk of committing perjury. [More…]
I give notice that after the next Federal election or the next Federal by-election the result, whichever way it goes, will be challenged by me unless this Electoral Act is amended to take the hypocrisy out of it so far as election spending is concerned. [More…]
Then when Mr Fraser sacked him as a Minister in the legitimate Government following the 1975 election, Senator Chipp discovered principles. [More…]
It is the intention of the Opposition to take steps to force this Government to an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
In the 1975 election campaign it was promised in Kalgoorlie by Mr Lynch, among others, that a Liberal Party Government, if elected, would take steps to ensure that the gold mining industry in Kalgoorlie was sustained at the level which then operated. [More…]
After a period of 14 days, notwithstanding the fact that Senator Wriedt, the Leader of the Government in the Senate at the time, had given answer after answer to questions posed on this important Bill, the Loan Bill 1975, the then Opposition decided to defer passage of the Bill until the then Government agreed to go to an election. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that one of the immediate and most beneficial changes for the people of South Australia with the election of the Tonkin Government is that some development will now be able to take place in South Australia. [More…]
Also, is the Minister aware that such statements by the Australian Labor Party in South Australia were a contributing factor in the decimation of that party in the recent election in that State, because such Leftwing dominated policies threatened the development of one of the greatest - [More…]
Have some Queensland teachers who normally work as presiding officers and poll clerks on an election day been informed by the Australian Electoral Office that their services might be required on 8 December this year? [More…]
If so, is this an indication that the Government is seriously considering holding a general election this year? [More…]
Of course, when it is near election time the Government always wants to do something for the Baltic community. [More…]
In particular, it is interesting to note the way in which the Government, as my colleague Senator Sibraa has mentioned, has been so insensitive to the pleas of the Baltic community, to the needs of which, at election time anyway, the Government is notoriously so sensitive. [More…]
All parties contesting the French election, which takes place on 4 and 1 1 March, consider science and technology to be the bread of life and the foundation of progress- at least, in their public utterances. [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 in connection with the State election in Tasmania on 28 July, 1979. [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 1980-8 1 . [More…]
This is another example of the Government’s failure to honour not only its election policies of 1975 and 1977 but also the commitment which the Minister for Transport, Mr Nixon, made in 1977 when he presented the principal legislation to the House of Representatives. [More…]
He said he hoped that at the next Federal election, the Government’s majority was reduced to one- as that’s all it deserves’. [More…]
The Darwin soya bean meal case demonstrated the need for a time limit on the exercise of this election, and this practice is now being adopted in similar cases. [More…]
The owner was unwilling to exercise an election to destroy or re-export it. [More…]
It is basically because of these unacceptable delays that a time limit is being set for the exercising of that election. [More…]
However, with the 1977 election safely out of the way, in the 1978-79 Budget the Government reduced the bounty from $60 to $40. [More…]
Speaking during an election campaign prior to coming into government, quite ironically in Mackay in Queensland, Mr Sinclair said: [More…]
Of course, it may be deterred from doing that by the fact that next year will be an election year and it will probably wait, hoping to be re-elected in 1980- although that looks an increasingly forlorn hope- with the intention of passing legislation in 1981 to phase out the bounty from 1 January 1982. [More…]
Yes, until the next election. [More…]
In an election campaign in the city of Mackay in Queensland- when speaking as a member of the Opposition, of course- he said: [More…]
Many other spokesmen at that time used a similar sort of tack in the rush up to the election in the hope that they could win government. [More…]
In view of the deterioration of Labor representation at each Federal election since 1972, there is some logic in putting all of the blame on the record of the Labor Government between 1972 and 1975. [More…]
Was it, in the first place, because the Government expected to have an early Federal election and it thereby released the statement very secretly. [More…]
I am sure that that will have the support of the whole of the community, including many members of trade union movements who voted for us at the last election. [More…]
In fact, it may very well be that the whole Bill is designed to provoke and antagonise the trade union movement in order to enable this propaganda offensive to succeed at a forthcoming election. [More…]
I exhort Government senators to reject this attempt to set the scene for an election. [More…]
If Mr Hawke has any intention of entering this Parliament, perhaps after the next election, he will have to learn to behave in a more adult fashion. [More…]
The Pakistani Government stated that it would not hold an election it had promised ‘in the national interest’. [More…]
We can go back, for instance, to the State election of 1977. [More…]
This was the election in which the sitting member for Kimberley, Mr Alan Ridge, very nearly lost his seat to an Aboriginal candidate for the Australian Labor Party, Mr Ernie Bridge. [More…]
A new election was subsequently held, I think on 19 December 1977, and Mr Ridge retained his seat. [More…]
It is quite feasible to suggest that the vote of the black people could tip the balance at the next State election which is due early next year, because in a letter presented to the Court of Disputed Returns Mr Ridge stated, in part: [More…]
I would anticipate that the next election there could be 3000 to 4000 Aborigines on the roll and under such circumstances the Liberal Party would be doomed to failure. [More…]
He wanted them to be able to accept the responsibilities that are accepted by the European community, part of which is the right to cast a vote in elections and to know what one is voting for. [More…]
It is an amendment to the Electoral Act and it will preclude many Aborigines from casting a vote in the next State election, on the grounds of illiteracy as much as anything. [More…]
He said that Mr Davey’s resignation was the third major step by the Government in its campaign to ensure that the present member for Kimberley, the Minister for Housing, Mr Alan Ridge, held the seat at the next State election. [More…]
At the next election he lost his seat purely because people like this person in the Australian Capital Territory organised against him. [More…]
That is the assurance that was given to the egg industry by Mr Fraser prior to the 1 977 election; that he would ensure that the law was carried out to the letter. [More…]
Perhaps I should just mention the electoral situation and draw the attention of the Senate to the fact that the Commonwealth is engaged with the Western Australian Government in a joint education exercise to try to ensure that Aboriginals in the Kimberley area are able to exercise their franchise without the difficulties that were experienced in the last election. [More…]
It is my hope that this education campaign, like the one that preceded the by-election after the decision of the court of disputed returns, will reduce the difficulties which led to the voiding of the previous election. [More…]
I am not aware of any major event taking place tomorrow, unless the Government is going to call an early general election. [More…]
In the South Australian election, my side of politics made an immature judgment and the Japanese Government did exactly the same thing. [More…]
Premature elections might cause the Government more trouble than it is worth. [More…]
The State governments that have just had an election are trying to work with the trade unions. [More…]
I repeat that the three governments that are trying to create a disturbance with the trade unions are those that must soon face an election. [More…]
It is obvious that they are doing so for election purposes. [More…]
In past elections possibly the biggest issue has been that of unemployment. [More…]
A government seeking re-election often desires an enemy, a danger to the people that it must fight and put down. [More…]
An attempt will be made to place the blame for unemployment on the trade union movement and to deprive members of the public of certain services or goods when election time comes around. [More…]
Every time there was an election he had a communist waiting around the corner or a communist army about to invade the country. [More…]
Other than the Labor governments and the Liberal governments who are not coming up for election- Mr Tonkin called them in- we are doing very little about trying to get down and talk to them. [More…]
If my theory about an election is a correct one, where will it take place? [More…]
That amending Bill provided for the deregistration of unions, the seizing of union funds and property, fines on officers and rank and file trade unionists, suspension from office of union officers, and the debarring of members of trade unions from elevation or election to full time or part time office in their union. [More…]
I have heard previous speakers ask whether the Government is contemplating an early election. [More…]
As I said, is it all leading up to an election? [More…]
The South Australian election recently demonstrated that. [More…]
I believe the results of the 1977 Federal election demonstrated this, as did the 1 975 Federal election. [More…]
It is a slick, cynical and sick set-up to induce confrontation and industrial turmoil for the purpose of creating another sleazy and dishonest election issue, just as the Government did in 1 975. [More…]
It is urgent because it has been pointed out by previous speakers that we might have an early election. [More…]
We had a situation in South Australia prior to the State election with the bus employees union where people went along to the depots, agitated for strike action and drove out of the depot with stickers on their cars asking for people to vote for the Tonkin Government. [More…]
So, we have already got the warning from Senator Jessop that the trade union movement in South Australia will be made the scapegoat for the Tonkin Government’s failure to carry out its election promises. [More…]
I make the forecast here tonight that we will be in this Parliament this time next year debating how the Tonkin Government failed to carry out its outlandish and wide-ranging election promises. [More…]
Mr Brown will find it a bit hard to get through because, even though the Labor Party suffered a disastrous defeat at the South Australian election, due to a lot of untruthful advertising and the electors being misled, the Tonkin Government does not have the numbers in the South Australian Upper House. [More…]
The reason, I think, is that the Prime Minister is going to use it as a prop for his election campaign. [More…]
He thinks he can win if he has an early election. [More…]
So an early election would suit him in the hope that possibly he could win with a majority of seven or eight seats. [More…]
We should be looking at this new technological era and tackling it with the unions, finding out where we are going as a nation and how we intend to get there, instead of waiting until the whole lot falls on our heads and we are fighting the next election against an army of unemployed. [More…]
In respect of veterans of allied countries, this Bill honours an election promise of the Government made in 1977. [More…]
I must admit that I was concerned that when the Minister originally announced this problem, which from memory was almost on the eve of the Victorian State election, it appeared that Victoria would receive the lion’s share of the $3m. [More…]
I remind the Government that even now twice-yearly indexation is not the indexation which was promised by the conservative parties in their election campaign in 1 975. [More…]
In doing that, this Government callously broke promises that it had made in the 1 975 and 1 977 election campaigns. [More…]
Senator Guilfoyle, the Minister present tonight, had boasted particularly in the 1 977 election campaign, that the Fraser Government had taken politics out of pensions. [More…]
I support the amendment, but in doing so I give notice to the Government that its insensitivity to the unemployed, to those people in the union movement whom I have just described, and to the dependants of those people, will loom large at the time of the next election. [More…]
We should have obeyed our promise at the 1977 election to maintain the indexation of pensions. [More…]
Hence the election promise of 1975 given by the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) of instant and automatic indexation adjustments of pensions came about. [More…]
It will not be the election issue that the Government thinks it might be. [More…]
I believe that at the next election this Government will most certainly feel the sting of the people. [More…]
If the Government does not do anything by the next election, every mother of five children will be told by me and others that the Government has taken away $500 a year from her because it has failed to index family allowances. [More…]
The emergency relief payments were included in this Budget following an election commitment to make available $500,000 to assist voluntary agencies. [More…]
I note in particular that in this legislation the Government is implementing, as it sees fit, its election undertaking in relation to allied ex-servicemen. [More…]
I can assure you that all of the five persons elected as councillors at the last election at Yarrabah were present for the whole of the formal discussion and in this case, as I was actually present, you might accept my version of what happened. [More…]
General Election- 16. [More…]
1.79, 340 voted; Bye-elecrion-16.4.77; 282 voted; Bye-election-16.7.79; 223 voted; Regulation 41(1) reads: [More…]
A fresh election of the whole number of Councillors shall be held at such time as the Manager appoints. [More…]
Having due regard to all of the circumstances and developments at Yarrabah, it is reasonable that the petition be allowed to proceed, the Council dissolved and a new general election be held. [More…]
The provision does exist for, if necessary, the appointment of an administrator in lieu of the Council should it be deemed desirable that a fairly lengthy interim period be allowed to proceed between dissolution of the Council and a new election. [More…]
Nevertheless, the new election went ahead and, on that first occasion, there were real problems. [More…]
For the purpose of assessing the petition, it is worthy of note that the largest number of Yarrabah residents who have taken advantage of their right to vote at Council Elections in recent years was three hundred and forty (340) at the General Election on 16th January 1979. [More…]
Immediately prior to the forced election in December of that year the present Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, was already threatening to abolish the PJT on the very grounds that I mentioned earlier- that insufficient profitability levels were being maintained. [More…]
The Government made an undertaking during the last election campaign that it would increase local government’s share of personal income tax collections to 2 per cent in the next Budget. [More…]
In the second reading speech delivered by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) it was pointed out that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in his election policy speech in November 1977 referred to the fact that the share of net personal income tax collections allocated to local government would be increased to 2 per cent by 1 980-8 1 . [More…]
I suggest that the news has come at an opportune time as preliminary plans are being made; and councils and municipalities will now be able to plan on a secure basis and follow through the program which the present Government has initiated and carried through since its election to office. [More…]
Sometimes we probably take it for granted that Commonwealth funds of some size go to local authorities, but this really started only after the election of 1972, which, as we all know, was towards the end of the year. [More…]
But, of course, next year is election year. [More…]
Of course, the letter to the Tasmanian Premier was made public just prior to the last Tasmanian State election. [More…]
It was scheduled to come into effect on 1 July 1977 and because he had an election in mind for 1977 he was not game to force the issue. [More…]
During the 1977 election campaign he refused, as did Senator Carrick, to accept the challenge which I, and probably others, issued on this point. [More…]
Let the Australian people realise- the State Premiers already do- the significance and implications if this man is returned after the next election and allowed to continue with his policy of Fraser federalism. [More…]
We know of all the problems it has had from time to time, but whatever Mrs Gandhi might have done at least when she was removed from office she was removed by an election. [More…]
I make it absolutely plain that there are 400,000 people in the Public Service who would have liked to have known, now that party preselections are going up, whether there is any possibility of a reasonable deal being given to them whether they should be allowed as other Australians are to nominate in a reasonable way as candidates for election to this place or the other place. [More…]
An officer or employee wishes to nominate for election to a House of Parliament . [More…]
Another of the reasons why there has been an attempt to cram legislation through is that tentative arrangements were made for an election to be held on 8 December. [More…]
I do not want to disagree, Mr President, but one of the reasons for cramming this legislation through is the fear that there might be a snap election. [More…]
I believe it is relevant-I am not disagreeing- because there has been a great panic on that side of the chamber ever since the beginning of the Budget session because of the fear that the master of the Party, the master of the Parliament, would call a snap election without telling them. [More…]
Do honourable senators opposite know that in recent weeks their Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has had lengthy discussions with senior members of the Commonwealth Electoral Office in a search for all the options with regard to which date would be the most suitable to hold an election? [More…]
Do honourable senators opposite know that in Queensland some country schools have been booked, only tentatively, for an election of 8 December? [More…]
Of course, next year is an election year and the Prime Minister might say: ‘I will put them off until after the election’. [More…]
After the election the Australian Labor Party will be in office and we can kiss goodnight both the amendments and the Act. [More…]
Who would have thought that Article 1 of the United States Constitution, which makes the statement that it is necessary to have a well regulated militia should be used as the basis for striking down all gun control legislation in the United States or indeed that the provisions of Article 1 which relate to free speech should be used in the case of Buckley v. Valeo as the basis for saying that there can be no limit on election campaign expenditure. [More…]
It goes no further than a cosmetic fulfilling of the Government’s election promise to secure human rights within Australia. [More…]
It has been commonplace for candidates for political office who have been forced by constitutional provisions to resign in order to contest elections and who have failed to secure election, thereafter not to be reappointed. [More…]
I now turn my mind to the tactics which the Government intends to use at the next election campaign. [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 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 Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) promised throughout the 1975 and 1977 election campaigns that taxation would be reduced. [More…]
3 person in the present Government, who was forced to resign from the Cabinet during the 1977 election campaign because it was publicly disclosed that he was involved in insider trading, in land speculation on the Mornington Peninsula and buying up land on the cheap. [More…]
I want to put it to the Senate tonight that the Government has, since its election, provided that kind of climate whereby the Australian community can earn more for itself, keep more of its earnings and can do more for itself. [More…]
If further proof is required the honourable senator should take note of what happened in South Australia at the recent election. [More…]
One of these two will certainly be part of our policy in the next election. [More…]
The matter I want to raise tonight deals with false and misleading election advertising during the recent South Australian election. [More…]
South Australia’s business establishment will today close its anti-Labor election campaign after spending $100,000, according to figures from the Bureau of Statistics. [More…]
I am wondering whether these organisations will follow the same tack against the Court Government in its election campaign early next year and will point out how all the business people are suffering because of the high rate of unemployment. [More…]
Why did these people not say this during the election? [More…]
What were the opponents of Labor saying during the election campaign? [More…]
Obviously, it was only an election policy speech of which no one can take any notice. [More…]
The Government is saying that its succeeding in an election does not mean that it will put a policy into operation. [More…]
Mr Ridge concluded in a shameful display of a callous politicking with the claim that if changes to the Act were not made there could be 3,000 to 4,000 Aborigines on the roll by the next election, in which case, I quote him, the Liberal Party would be doomed to failure. [More…]
In 1 980 the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) will be facing an election which he will not win. [More…]
Perhaps after the next election the Senate might be more evenly balanced, and that would give the Parliament a slightly better opportunity to play a sort of review role. [More…]
Whilst I can agree with Senator Mason that the problem facing all members of parliament is how to handle the tremendous volume of reports, let him be assured that in the event of an election producing a Labor government it would certainly be very interested in improving the resources of members of parliament so that they can more readily carry out their role of appreciating these sorts of reports. [More…]
ACT Schools Authority Regulations, Regulation 61 - Decision of Authority declaring an election to be void or refusal of a declaration. [More…]
In the previous Bill there was a provision in proposed new section 29a (3) that organisations on campus, in order to be eligible for support out of moneys collected by way of fees, should be only those in which, at their last election for office bearers, the percentage of students electing office bearers was not less than 25 per cent. [More…]
Nevertheless, in many such 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…]
First of all is the election of the AUS national executive by proportional representation which will have the effect of guaranteeing all political groups with at least 10 per cent support of the AUS annual council a place on the executive of the organisation. [More…]
Thirdly, the direct election of the AUS regional organisers in each State is through a ballot of each member campus. [More…]
What were the costs charged for the time purchased by each candidate, and the percentage distribution between candidates of the total costs, in connection with the State election in Tasmania on 28 July 1979 (see the answer to Senate Question No. [More…]
In Namibia the aim of the forces was simply to have been supervising peace-keeping forces at the time of the election. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Labor, Liberal and National Country parties have in the past received millions of dollars in election expenses from interests which will not disclose themselves and which are not disclosed by those political parties? [More…]
Will the Government move urgently, in the interests of a genuine democracy in this country, for a system of public funding of all political parties similar to that applying in most Western democracies, to be introduced before the 1980 election? [More…]
Mr Tony Eggleton might like to include the word ‘mismanagement’ under the Government’s minuses when he prepares his next confidential election campaign strategy. [More…]
The answer to the extraordinary behaviour of the prosecution can perhaps be found in this anecdote The son of an endorsed candidate for the Liberal Party in the forthcoming election in Western Australia was apprehended on a drink driving charge by the Road Transport Authority. [More…]
Knowing all this the Liberal Party in Western Australia, with the full support of Sir Charles Court and some other prominent Western Australian Liberals, especially State politicians, and in spite of the spirited opposition of Senator Durack and Senator Withers, has endorsed this man, Crichton-Browne, as a member of its Senate team for the next election. [More…]
As far as State election laws are concerned these are matters for State Governments and Parliaments. [More…]
Senator Walsh has mentioned briefly the promise given by Mr Lynch prior to the 1975 election at a dinner given by the wine and grape growers in the Barossa Valley. [More…]
During the election campaign great play was made about that promise and the Labor Party was severely criticised for repealing that section of the Income Tax Assessment Act. [More…]
If honourable senators look back over the last 10 years as I have done, at a period which covers both Labor and nonLabor governments- with the exception of last year when the Government introduced this practice of lifting the Senate very early, well before the end of November- they will see that in all of the other years, excepting years when elections were held, the Senate sat until at least 10 December. [More…]
Of course, 1977 was an election year. [More…]
Some people have suggested that the Government has ignored the problems of the unemployed; that it has taken the cold political judgment that the unemployed are not the people who will vote for it in next year’s election anyway and that the people who will vote for it in next year’s election anyway are a selfish group of our society who have work and are prosperous. [More…]
Sad though as it may seem to be, the appearances of things are often much more important in deciding public issues or even elections than the actual facts. [More…]
It was called an election Budget but it backfired. [More…]
If it had been an election Budget it would have assisted the Australian Labor Party and not Fraser. [More…]
Their leader has assumed a dictatorial position, with a threat to Government members that any of them who do not follow the lead will have their candidature opposed at the next general election. [More…]
I said at the time, and it has not been denied since, that it was just an election jaunt around Queensland. [More…]
But leading up to the 1975 election the incumbent of the Prime Minister’s office continually criticised Mr Whitlam in regard to travel and that is why I raise the question. [More…]
As Senator Walsh said in his Press statement, the present GovernorGeneral ought to be following the action of the previous Governor-General and installing Mr Hayden in government as a caretaker Prime Minister until there can be an election and this Government answers to the people. [More…]
We will all recall that prior to the last general election the present Prime Minister ( Mr Malcolm Fraser) gave an assurance that Australia would not be put into hock and that we would not become dependent on overseas capital. [More…]
I am further concerned that the reason lying behind that decision was not any concern that there would be any actual threat to the security of Australia as a result of the visit of that Organisation but rather a blatant political one, that the visit of that Organisation to an event sponsored by the Government in an election year would be unpopular with some significant sections of the Australian community and would, as a result, conceivably do some political damage to the Government. [More…]
The interesting development was at the Liberal Party Conference in Melbourne last week, when the Victorian State Minister for Agriculture, Mr Smith, announced that the decision by the Victorian Government to guarantee $4.5m to that organisation was made on a political basis- the political basis being that because there was a forthcoming election, it was deemed wise for the Victorian State Government to give that guarantee. [More…]
Smith made the announcement that the decision to back the co-operative by guaranteeing the sum of $4.5m was a political one because an election was on the way. [More…]
He said that the $9m loan was agreed to because it was an election year. [More…]
We all know that the Liberal Government in Victoria won the election by an overall majority of only one seat. [More…]
The Opposition and the National Party moved a censure motion on Mr Smith over his statement that the CF and G was given loan guarantees because an election was pending. [More…]
It is further regrettable- that is the point I was making- that Mr Smith has publicly stated that the Victorian Government entered into the agreement so hurriedly because of a pending Victorian election and the State Government had to use the matter as an election ploy. [More…]
What did Mr Sinclair say in Alice Springs during the 1977 election campaign? [More…]
define members of the Institute, their method of election, and their duties and powers as members of the Institute’. [More…]
Another matter of concern is expressed in paragraph (f) of the amendment which seeks to define members of the Institute, their method of election, their duties and their powers as members of the Institute. [More…]
are in direct violation of the Government’s election promises, are imposing an increasing income tax burden on the Australian taxpayer; [More…]
The people recognise that there have not been tax cuts under the present Government which made all sorts of outlandish promises, as we all recall, before the last election. [More…]
are in direct violation of the Government’s election promises, are imposing an increasing income tax burden on the Australian taxpayer; [More…]
shall be entitled to have his name placed on or retained on any roll or to vote at any Senate election or House of Representatives election. [More…]
Nevertheless, the Liberals’ frustration has reached such a level that they have declared that they will field a separate Senate team at the next Senate election. [More…]
After the 1974 Senate election I wrote: [More…]
Although the Liberal-National Senate team triumphed in Queensland, the two parties will be faced with an interesting situation at the next Senate election if that election is for five senators. [More…]
Because of the 1975 double dissolution, the next Senate election after 1974 was not for five senators. [More…]
At the last Senate election two Liberal senators retired and the joint team consisted of two Liberals and one National Party member. [More…]
At the next Senate election, however, one Liberal and two Nationals will retire. [More…]
The Liberal Party has chosen a team of three for the next Senate election. [More…]
It was a victory for the National Parry organisation, scarred by recent by-election set-backs at Redcliffe, Gympie, and Sherwood last November 25. [More…]
I know the attitude of parliamentarians to anyone who interferes with their election signs so I ask the Minister to ask her colleague the Minister for Health what his attitude is towards that reference and whether he is aware that, if a statement is not made on it, it could be interpreted as being the policy of the Department and those people whose property is being attacked may be forced into the position of having to protect their property. [More…]
The chain of events leading to this Bill ‘s introduction starts from the Western Australia State Election in February 1977. [More…]
Justice Smith ordered a new election. [More…]
Justice Smith found that 96 people had been improperly deprived of their right to vote for Ernie Bridge and for that reason declared the election void- the winning margin having been only 93 votes. [More…]
I can foresee that unless this is done, there could be anything up to 4,000 Aborigines on the roll at the next election and, under these circumstances, the Liberal Party would probably be fighting a lost cause. [More…]
Supplements clause 5 by stating that a Western Australian Registrar shall not refuse to enrol an Aborigninal for a Western Australian election if that Aboriginal is enrolled as a Commonwealth elector. [More…]
It was introduced by Sir Robert Menzies prior to the 1963 election. [More…]
We will not abolish the Home Savings Grant Scheme after we gain victory in the 1 980 election. [More…]
Liberal Senator Don Jessop, when contacted in Canberra yesterday, said that he would not accept responsibility for the statement he made prior to last December’s Federal election. [More…]
It was my understanding that this service was promised within 12 months of the 1977 election campaign, and residents of the west coast areas were anxious to know if this promise would be fulfilled. [More…]
1 ) How many officers in the Public Service Departments and statutory authorities within each Minister’s jurisdiction have resigned to contest elections pursuant to Public Service Board General Order 3/D/4, for each Federal general election held since 25 October 1 969. [More…]
How many officers in each Department and statutory authority were unsuccessful and were re-employed in exactly the same position of employment, in respect of each election. [More…]
What was the average period of the resignations in each Department and authority in respect of each election. [More…]
and (3) Section 47c of the Public Service Act provides that officers who resign from the Australian Public Service to contest certain specified types of elections and who are unsuccessful may be reappointed by the Public Service Board at their previous level provided they apply for such reappointment within two months of the declaration of the result of the election. [More…]
Information provided by the Public Service Board in respect of persons reappointed under Section 47c following Federal general elections held since 25 October 1969, is contained in the following schedule. [More…]
1 ) How much time was made available to broadcast election speeches or political advertisements in respect of all political parties, other organisations and persons on each radio broadcasting station and television station in connection with the 1 979 South Australian election. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a reported decision of the Papua New Guinea Government to postpone a scheduled 1976 election for one year, which in effect would postpone Independence Day? [More…]
Has the Papua New Guinea Government the power to change unilaterally the year of an election or would this require amending legislation by an Australian Act of Parliament? [More…]
On 4 July 1974 the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, commented on a decision of the Full Bench of the Australian Industrial Court which fined a candidate in a Miscellaneous Workers Union election $450 for illegally possessing ballot papers. [More…]
There have also been references to the 1 977 election promise to which he has referred. [More…]
If there is an attempt by the Government to suppress this information I, like my colleague Senator McLaren, intend to pursue the matter until the date of the election. [More…]