environment - hofreps - 1970

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

What initiatives has Australia taken or what responses has Australia made at international level concerning the investigation of pollution and the conservation of the human environment. [More…]
Is he able to say whether up to 80 per cent of the students attending these schools are migrants and whether any facilities exist at them to provide special English classes or compensatory education of the type needed for children reared in a high density environment. [More…]
Australia was among the co-sponsors of resolutions at the 23rd and 24th General Assemblies of the United Nations on the problems of the human environment, and has given strong support to a Swedish initiative to focus world attention on the effect on human life of science and technology. [More…]
In order to provide a framework for comprehensive consideration within the United Nations of these problems and to identify aspects of it that could best be solved by international cooperation, the 23rd session of the General Assembly decided to convene in 1972 a United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware that 22nd April was celebrated by millions of Americans as Earth Day and that this massive protest was against the poisoning of the atmosphere, pollution of rivers and streams, destruction of wildlife and the total rape of man’s environment? [More…]
Is he aware that vast numbers of Australians are similarly concerned with the growing evidence of despoliation of Australia’s environment? [More…]
Would he support such a demonstration by a protest movement or a moratorium if one were to be organised in Australia, or does he agree with the delegate at the Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution who said: ‘Subversive elements plan to make American children live in an environment that is good for them’? [More…]
Has the attention of the Prime Minister been drawn to the article on pollution by the Minister for the Army in the ‘Australian Quarterly’, which has been widely reported in the Australian Press, calling on the Commonwealth Government to act to control the polluting of our environment? [More…]
Does this Association provide Australians with a sufficient awareness of the actions and inadequacies of the United Nations and its prospects for development as a law-making and lawenforcement organisation of the citizens of the world in matters affecting world peace, civil rights, economic development and the conservation of man’s environment. [More…]
The Government’s inaction in preventing the serious damage to the environment which results from noise, from pollution of air and water and from destruction of flora and fauna. [More…]
On what dates has (a) he written to each Premier and (b) each Premier written to him concerning the proposed Commonwealth Office of the Environment and National Advisory Council. [More…]
An Office of the Environment has been created in the Prime Minister’s Department and an approach has been made to the States for the establishment of a National Advisory Council. [More…]
The Government’s delay in acting on recommendations it has received and undertakings it has given to safeguard the environment. [More…]
This is a desperately exhilarating environment in which to discuss trade practices and resale price maintenance. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
When was the Office of the Environment established? [More…]
Office of the Environment (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
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Mr Fuller, also mentioned that, in addition, the activities of the newly created State Pollution Control Commission, backed by the full weight of the Clean Air Bill and the Clean Waters Bill, will ensure that the plant would not interfere with the environment or detract from the recreational attractions of the area. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Has the Commonwealth insisted that as much of the natural environment as possible be retained. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
However, as the honourable member is aware, the Commonwealth and the States have agreed to discuss the establishment of a National Advisory Council on the Environment which will advise on areas where coordination can be properly achieved and this area may be one of them. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
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It would not be possible to compile a complete list of chemical elements and compounds known to be environmentally destructive as many substances are environmentally destructive only if misused. [More…]
The Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment to be held in Stockholm in 1972 is considering the establishment of an International Registry of Chemical Compounds as a means towards understanding the effects of environmental contaminants on human health and biological systems. [More…]
The Office of the Environment has been established within my Department. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts whether he can give to the House any information about the proposal to establish an Australian National Film and Television School. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has subsequently corresponded with the Queensland Minister for Marine, Conservation and Aboriginal Affairs about the proposed changes in the Queensland legislation and had further discussions during his visit to Queensland early in August. [More…]
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All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
What were the names and portfolios of the Ministers who attended the meeting on the environment in Canberra on 17th September 1971. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment. [More…]
Does his Government acknowledge the fact that difficulties arise insofar as the Commonwealth Parliament possesses no general head of power to legislate with respect to the environment, save that power which may derive from the use of external affairs power? [More…]
Does this mean that the Commonwealth Parliament’s power with respect to environmental issues remains persuasive only? [More…]
Can the right honourable gentleman give an assurance that, if confronted with indifference to environmental issues by those authorities which have the power to deal with them, this Government will display resolution on the matter even to the point of being accused of centralism? [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
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I direct my question 10 the Minister for the Environment. [More…]
That being concerned with the environment of Adelaide in the State of South Australia and the growing noise nuisance of the. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment, in his capacity as Minister in Charge - Tourist Activities. [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
How many houses were constructed (a) on Government settlements and missions, (b) to house Aborigines previously living in a fringe dwelling environment and (c) to house or rehouse Aborigines living in cities, towns or villages. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: (1)Is the Office of Aboriginal Affairs negotiating with the owners of Everard Park in the north-west of South Australia to purchase this property for Aboriginal purposes. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australian will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
The matter I want to deal with in relation to the National Film and Television Training School does not in fact relate to whether or not we should have a school but relates rather to the conduct of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) and the Government in respect of the way in which they have handled this matter in the House. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
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In Perth today, a meeting of Commonwealth and Slate Ministers with responsibility for the environment agreed to the formation of an Australian Environment Council. [More…]
It is intended that, in this way, to achieve effective consultation and co-ordination between Commonwealth and State Governments on appropriate environment matters. [More…]
One of the foremost topics discussed by Ministers was the need for measures to encourage enterprise and individuals to increase efforts to combat pollution and protect the environment. [More…]
Ministers also agreed that there was a need to assess any other possible measures which could encourage installation of plant, equipment and buildings so as to yield definite benefits for the environment. [More…]
The Australian Environment Council is to have prepared a statement of requirements for environment research in relation to national and State needs. [More…]
It will also obtain a survey of current and proposed environment research programmes and an assessment of where there may be any substantial deficiencies. [More…]
The Ministers are aware of the broad range of interests in the environment and they will discuss further with fellow Ministers as to the best method of co-ordination of the new Council with other existing bodies. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts in his capacity as the Minister in Charge of Tourist Activities. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
That a continuing contamination of the sea coast and off-shore area by coalwash discharging into the sea at Coalcliff, New South Wales, is damaging and destroying marine life and adversely affecting the quality of the sea and the environment. [More…]
I have seen the text of resolutions that are reported to have been adopted by that meeting and which make recommendations to governments in regard to educational and research aspects of problems of the human environment. [More…]
Those resolutions are reported to be intended for submission to and consideration by the forthcoming U.N. Conference on the Human Environment. [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
The assertions of the Goodradigbee Shire Council were exhaustively examined by the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment which called expert witnesses and sought advice from the responsible New South Walesauthorities. [More…]
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Is it to be a condition that we have an overall environment in which the private airline will be mollycoddled at the expense of the community, or are we to have a situation which we on this side of the House want, namely one in which the people’s airline, TAA. [More…]
ns asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
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On what matters and to what extent has Australia so far participated in the work of the Environment Committee of the OECD since it was formed in December 1970. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
I think the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) will be aware that the Government Publishing Service has been transferred from the Department of the Treasury to the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and therefore the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) no longer has the ministerial responsibility in relation to this matter. [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
At its meeting on 7th April, the Australian Environment Council discussed the problems of non-returnable containers and packaging generally. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
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asked the Minister for the Environment. [More…]
The conference on the environment, I believe, will assist me in connection with the Wildlife Conservation Committee. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
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How many meetings of the Australian Environment Council have taken place. [More…]
Is there any, permanent administrative body, such as an interstate commission, made up of Commonwealth and State representatives, to formulate proposals for joint action by all Australian governments to protect the environment [More…]
If not, will consideration be given to the establishment of such a body, which will make recommendations to the Australian Environment Council. [More…]
The concepts of economic growth and of conservation of the environment and rational use of resources are not mutually exclusive. [More…]
The environment must be considered as a major factor in the planning and management of practically all forms of development from human settlements to engineering and industrial works. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
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Are pollution of the environment and depletion of non-renewable resources functions of economic growth. [More…]
The Australian Environment Council met in Canberra on 27th July 1972. [More…]
The Australian Environment Council of State and Commonwealth Environment Ministers met in Canberra today to consider the implications for Australia of the resolutions of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment at Stockholm. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
When and where was the second meeting of the Environment Council held. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and Minister-in-charge of Tourist Activities. [More…]
The Government has decided to introduce a system of impact statements designed to protect the environment. [More…]
The question of Australia’s involvement in a proposed international convention on the dumping of industrial wastes at sea has been the subject of correspondence between the Prime Minister and the Premiers commencing in July 1971 as well as discussions between Commonwealth and State Ministers responsible for environmental control and also the Ministers responsible for port development and marine affairs. [More…]
In a statement issued after a meeting of the Australian Environment Council in Canberra on 27th July 1972 Ministers attached particular importance to the adoption of actions and procedures to check on dumping in the oceans off Australia and the implementation of adequate controls to prevent environmental damage. [More…]
The Council also directed its Standing Committee to examine urgently the final draft international convention on ocean dumping, expected to be concluded by next November, and to report on the implications for environmental control in Australia. [More…]
The purpose of the impact statements is to ensure that the Government, when considering matters coming before it, has made certain that all aspects of the environment have been considered and those examinations will be incorporated in any Government proposals that are put to the House in due course. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and. [More…]
The quality of the environment is of course a matter of great concern to me and to the Government. [More…]
I lean towards the view expressed by Sir Peter Medawar in his Presidential Address to the British Association ‘On “The Effecting of All things Possible “ ‘, when he said that ‘The deterioration of the environment produced by technology is a technological problem for which technology has found, is finding and will continue to find solutions.’ [More…]
The Commonwealth has taken, and will continue to take, appropriate action within its constitutional responsibilities to protect the environment in ways appropriate to Australian circumstances, e.g. [More…]
by looking into the desirable level of the Australian population; establishing co-ordination of Commonwealth and State activities in the environmental field; and taking part in international activities such as the recent Stockholm Conference on the Environment. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
At the Stockholm Conference on the Environment did Australia vote in favour of a 10-year moratorium on commercial whaling, and yet 3 weeks later at the International Whaling Commission conference in London did Australia abstain from voting on the moratorium issue and instead support the imposition of the usual quota system? [More…]
Australian delegation to the United Nations Conference on Human Environment, Stockholm, 1972. [More…]
Will he confirm for the benefit of the House that Australia and the work force in this country are functioning in an environment more favourable than that elsewhere in comparative economies? [More…]
The New South Wales Government has a Minister for the Environment. [More…]
Last week the Treasurer said that he would be discussing with his colleague the Minister for the Environment the definition of ‘impact statements’. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the statement in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment relating to Canberra sewage effluent that Australian Capital Territory authorities readily acknowledge that Canberra’s waste water does contribute pollution to the receiving waters and that their evidence indicated that they have been aware of this and the need for improved standards though they found themselves forced to regard the streams receiving the effluent as forming in effect part of the treatment process. [More…]
Mr MALCOLM FRASER (Wannon - Minister for Education and Science) - Mr Deputy Chairman, 1 suggest that the order for the consideration of the proposed expenditures agreed to by the Committee on 31st August be varied by postponing the consideration of the proposed expenditure for the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, the Department of External Territories and the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
In answer to a question from the honourable member for Reid on 23rd August did the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts reject the principle of making environmental impact statements public on the grounds that these reports were for Government information only? [More…]
Has the Prime Minister now accepted the principle of disclosing these reports as essential documents for informed public debate on environmental issues? [More…]
If so, will he overrule the Minister and make these important studies available to facilitate consideration by the House of the estimates for the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts? [More…]
Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
I call the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
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1 refer to the recent proposal of the United Nations Stockholm conference on the environment for the setting up of atmospheric monitoring stations. [More…]
However, I have sought information from the State Minister for Environment and will provide the honourable member with a copy, of his reply. [More…]
However, I have sought information from the State Minister for Environment Control and will provide the honourable member with a copy of his reply. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Will he inquire into the present position in relation to the stage reached and the effects on the environment to date. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Has any study been undertaken into the effect on the environment and the effect that deforestation and mercury discbarges could have on the tourist and fishing industries in Eden-Bega districts. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice. [More…]
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asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
Has the Government implemented an environment impact statement procedure. [More…]
Have any decisions been made which will effect the environment directly or indirectly. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
As an interim measure the principles developed by the previous Government be adopted immediately and extended in accordance with the next recommendation; in addition, environmental impact statements be required at the Minister’s discretion after consultation with appropriate Ministers, where a proposal has significant environmental consequences and where Commonwealth funds are involved and/or where Commonwealth constitutional power is involved; as from 1st January 1974 the provisions of this paragraph to become mandatory without any discretion at all and the proposing Department or Authority be required to arrange, through the Department of the Environment and Conservation, for public hearings in the case of all impact statements involving the Commonwealth in order to ensure that the public is given an opportunity to express its views on the environmental impact of a proposal prior to the particular impact statement being prepared; the Department of the Environment and Conservation in consultation with other interested Departments to be directed to prepare draft guidelines for the requirements for and preparation of environmental impact statements and to advise on the need for and, if appropriate, the form of covering legislation. [More…]
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Has there been a meeting of the Australian Environment Council since 5th December 1972. [More…]
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Department of the Environment and Conservation: Staff (Question No. [More…]
The nature of the work environment and personnel policies and practices pursued in the individual work place are among significant factors in relation to absence from work. [More…]
A number of discussions have already taken place and action has been taken with the Ministers for Aboriginal Affairs, Tourism and Recreation, Environment and Conservation, Works and the Treasurer to consider an interdepartmental meeting to discuss the future of the Ayers Rock-Mt Olga National Park. [More…]
I seek leave to amend paragraph 1, in the terms that have been circulated, of the notice of motion to appoint a Joint Committee on the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
However what I would wish to see are new courses of instruction developed which would be related more closely to the present-day nature of Australian society in all its aspects and emphasising particularly our responsibility towards the environment. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, is submitting the matter to Cabinet, I think next week. [More…]
This is yet to be determined but there will be emphasis on development in the minds of our new settlers, as well as the Australian born, of a greater awareness of our history, the preservation of objects of national interests and protection and respect for the environment. [More…]
If so, what are the likely effects of this chemical on the environment. [More…]
The matter is being investigated by a committee of the Australian Environment Council and when we get an answer everybody shall be informed. [More…]
The detailed procedures to be adopted in the preparation of environment impact statements are still the subject of discussions between my Department and other Australian Government departments and authorities. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
Has he issued instructions to all Commonwealth departments and authorities specifying the detailed procedures to be adopted in the preparation of environment impact statements. [More…]
If not, what procedures are now being followed by departments and authorities in the preparation of environment impact statements. [More…]
Is it the Government’s view, as stated last year by the honourable member for Maribyrnong - now the Minister for the Environment and Conservation - that private hospitals and nursing homes are irrelevant in the Australian Labor Party’s health scheme? [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
What is the (a) number and (b) nature of environment impact statements which (i) have been issued or (ii) are in preparation, and what are the expected dates of completion of the latter group. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
I wish to inform the House of the following nominations of members for the Standing Committee on the Environment and Conservation: Dr Jenkins, Mr Kerin, Mr Lamb and Mr Sherry have been nominated by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam); Mr Bourchier and Mr Fox have been nominated by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden); and Mr Ian Robinson has been nominated by the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony). [More…]
The information summarised in documents prepared for the Australian Environment Council in 1972. [More…]
The proposal to construct new buildings at Victoria Barracks as part of a re-development plan is to be examined soon by my colleagues the Minister for Environment and Conservation and Minister for Urban and Regional Development. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
Where and when was the last meeting of the Australian Environment Council. [More…]
Is the Minister for the Environment and Conservation aware that the House of Representatives Select Committee on Wildlife Conservation said that kangaroos have to be wisely harvested or they will either starve themselves or the sheep and cattle with which they compete for food? [More…]
Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment. [More…]
How many environmental impact studies have been initiated by him or his Department? [More…]
Is the Minister making progress in achieving an increased governmental concern in matters of the environment, or has his only progress been to the extent suggested by Harry Miller, that is, that of a cannibal learning to use a knife and fork? [More…]
The information requested by the honourable member is quite extensive as the all-embracing nature of the term ‘environment programs’ means that nearly all international organisations are involved in some environmental programs and Australia has been active in many of these. [More…]
Department of Science, Bureau of Meteorology, Department of the Environment and Conservation, Department of Foreign Affairs, The Treasury. [More…]
The matter has also been discussed in the Australian Environment Council. [More…]
I expect a report shortly on the environmental effects of supersonic aircraft from the Australian Advisory Committee on the Environment. [More…]
Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
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Is the Minister for Social Security aware of an article in a Western Australian newspaper of 15 September which quotes a witness appearing before the Senate Select Committee on Social Environment as saying that social security cheques for some Aboriginals in East Perth were mailed straight to a wine saloon? [More…]
Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
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Is there any overlapping in the responsibilities of the Bureau of Environmental Studies, the Centreof Research of the Environment and the three Land Research Divisions of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]
Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
Is he able to say whether there is a Centre of Research of the Environment. [More…]
Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
However, the Government has g iven approval to the creation of a Bureau of Environmental Studies within my Department. [More…]
The prime purpose of the Bureau will be to build up a corps of officers who will study environmental problems in a multi-disciplinary fashion. [More…]
It would stimulate research into problems which currently are not the province of any existing agency and will co-ordinate and integrate research into the various social, biological and physical aspects of the total environment. [More…]
This Convention includes special provisions relating to species taken in the marine environment not under the jurisdiction of any State. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
Mr Sherry has drawn to the attention of the Committee of Privileges the fact that he is a member of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
As the matter referred to the Privileges Committee relates to a letter allegedly written in connection with the hearings of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, Mr Sherry believes that he should take no part in the Privileges Committee inquiry. [More…]
I should like to see greater emphasis placed in existing courses on the realisation of Australian history, on appreciation of our heritage and the development of a sense of responsibility towards the environment. [More…]
Has he taken any steps in conjunction with the Minister for Education and the -Minister for the Environment and Conservation to implement the course he feels is desirable. [More…]
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On behalf of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation I bring up the report on Ayers Rock-Mount Olga National Park. [More…]
Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
Will the Minister for the Environment and Conservation inform the House whether the Government’s decision to offer financial support for a moratorium on the flooding of Lake Pedder has been conveyed to the Premier of Tasmania, Mr Eric Reece? [More…]
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On behalf of the Standing Committee on the Environment and Conservation, I present the report of the Committee on turtle farming in the Torres Strait Islands. [More…]
Is it the intention of the Government to encourage the research and development of energy conversion methods which entail minimum pollution of the environment such as solar energy and tidal power. [More…]
Will he have his Department investigate the possibility of utilising loose material strips, similar to those developed for the end of aircraft runways overseas, to minimise the defacement of the environment. [More…]
Department of the Environment and Conservation: Interdepartmental Committees (Question No. [More…]
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However, the Australian Environment Council, through its Marine Sub-committee, is reviewing the problem of heavy metal pollution of the sea and seafoods with particular reference to effluent sources on the Australian coastline. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
Australian Advisory Committee on the Environment (Question No. [More…]
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Has he yet received the report from the Australian Advisory Committee on the Environment un the environmental effects of supersonic aircraft which he referred to in answer to my question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: What is the salary and allowances for accommodation and travelling of Mr J. Mundey in his capacity as an executive on the Australian Conservation Foundation. [More…]
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What action has been taken pursuant to the recommendations of the report by the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation on Ayers Rock-Mount Olga National Park. [More…]
The honourable member also referred to an article .by my colleague the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
At present, management and control will remain with the Northern Territory Reserves Board, however a committee consisting of representatives of the Departments of the Northern Territory, Environment and Conservation, Tourism and Recreation, Housing and Construction and Aboriginal Affairs and Aboriginal representatives selected by Aboriginal communities, would advise and assist the Northern Territory Reserves Board in the implementation of the action approved by the Government. [More…]
Can the Minister for Immigration reconcile his policy of an increased migrant intake in the next financial period with the published opinions of his colleague the Minister for the Environment and Conservation that Australia must limit its population growth? [More…]
Is it a fact that the present policies of the Minister for Immigration are helping to exert extreme pressures on the environment, as stated by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation in an extensive paper published recently in the national Press under the heading ‘Staunch the Migrant Flow’? [More…]
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(2) and (3) As my colleague the then Minister for the Capital Territory pointed out in his reply to the question referred to by the right honourable member, national emission standards for air pollutants were being investigated by a Sub-committee of the Australian Environment Council. [More…]
The Australian Environment Council will consider the report as soon as it is available. [More…]
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Department of the Environment and Conservation: Increase in Positions (Question No. [More…]
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Will he assure the House that any decision to use sales tax powers or any other taxing powers to encourage the use of different forms of motor vehicles will be taken only after consideration is first given to the environment of people inside motor vehicles? [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
What formal environment impact statement procedures are now operating pending the introduction of legislation. [More…]
On behalf of the Select Committee on Road Safety I bring up the second report of the Committee which relates to roads and their environment, together with minutes of the proceedings. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
Just briefly let me say that the Department of Environment and Conservation has laid down guidelines for all Departments for the preparation of environmental impact statements. [More…]
We do not want to build a monolithic Department of the Environment and Conservation but to encourage departments to work with due regard to effects on the environment. [More…]
If the staff in the separate departments could function in this way we could avoid creating an enormous bureaucracy in the Department of Environment and Conservation. [More…]
But that Department at any time can seek a public hearing on an environmental impact statement, as was the case with the report on the Molonglo Parkway. [More…]
A public inquiry was held at the request of the Department of Environment and Conservation, even though the environmental impact statement was prepared by the National Capital Development Commission. [More…]
-1 support the motion moved by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass). [More…]
Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation [More…]
I wish to inform the House of the following nominations of members to be members of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation: [More…]
The Bill already goes so far as to include the policy of the Australian Government in relation to the environment, industrial relations and so on. [More…]
Under the Bill the matters to be taken into account by the Corporation are the current monetary policy of the Australian Government and the policies of the Australian Government in relation to trade practices, the environment, industrial relations and the efficiency of industry. [More…]
The following Councils are serviced by the Department of the Environment and Conservation: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conversation, upon notice: [More…]
Department of the Environment and Conservation: Appointment of Women (Question No. [More…]
What we are opposed to is creating an environment wherein irresponsible trade unions, feather-bedded by a government - [More…]
The Department of Housing and Construction has advised that it is expected that further surveys will be undertaken but they have not been scheduled at this time; the Department is discussing the nature and timing of these with the State Department of Environment Protection and the Fremantle Port Authority. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
Do members of the re-structured Australian Advisory Committee on the Environment receive any income or allowances in their capacity as members of the Committee; if so, what are the details. [More…]
I challenge the Government to send any team of experts it likes to the 2 Wangaratta mills and to let those experts stay there for as long as they like investigating intimately the situation there and the machinery available, and let them come down with a report to the members of the Australian public showing where those 2 mills can become more efficient in the Australian environment. [More…]
I have received advice from the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) that he has nominated Mr Morris to be a member of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr Sherry. [More…]
Department of the Environment and Conservation, and Department of Tourism and Recreation (together). [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
May I in moving for the rearrangement of business compliment the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Lamb) and other members of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment and Conservation on the report. [More…]
-On behalf of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation I bring up the report of the Committee on the conservation of endangered species on Christmas Island, together with extracts from the minutes of the proceedings. [More…]
I suggest that the order for consideration of proposed expenditure agreed to by the Committee on 15 October be varied by postponing consideration of proposed expenditure for the Department of the Environment and Conservation and the Department of Tourism and Recreation. [More…]
Department of the Environment and Conservation [More…]
In his absence the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Moss Cass, will act as Minister for Health. [More…]
The Government has offered to provide a Global Atmospheric Baseline Monitoring Station for the United Nationss Environment Program ‘s s ‘Earthwatch’ ‘ program. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for the Environment who is representing the Minister for Health. [More…]
‘Although it is tough legislation, by 1985 we should have a non-polluted environment’, he said and continued: ‘Our lead has been followed by Canada, Japan and Western Europe. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
-by leave-I present the report of the Australian delegation to the third International Parliamentary Conference on the Environment which was held in Nairobi between 7 and 1 1 April 1974. [More…]
-Mr Speaker, on behalf of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, I bring up the report of the Committee on the Environmental Impact of Freeways, together with the extracts of the minutes of proceedings. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
The Opposition supports the amendment moved by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) but wishes to move an additional amendment. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
I appreciate the statement made by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass). [More…]
-On behalf of the Standing Committee on the Environment and Conservation, I bring up the report of the Committee on deposits on beverage containers, together with extracts of the minutes of proceedings. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
Is he aware of British Airways’ recently announced plan to operate Concorde nights from London to Melbourne from mid- 1976 onwards on the grounds that Melbourne airport has fewer environmental problems than Sydney (KingsfordSmith) Airport? [More…]
I refer the right honourable member to the reply given by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation to Question No. [More…]
1 ) Is the Australian Government finding it very hard to stop people consuming goods which do not make them happy and which they do not really need as the Minister for the Environment and Conservation said on 7 July 1974. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
I wish to draw to the attention of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) a matter that I have mentioned to him privately, and that is my disappointment that in relation to clause 65 no amendment has been forthcoming to deal with the matter of averment clauses. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the fourth report of the Australian Advisory Committee on the Environment entitled ‘Land Use in Australia’, dated December 1974. [More…]
Further, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Moss Cass, also left Australia on 23 February to attend the South Pacific Conference on National Parks and Reserves which is being held in New Zealand. [More…]
In his absence the Minister for Health, Dr Doug Everingham, will act as Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
to (4) I am a member of the following Councils: the Environment Council; the Transport Advisory Council; the Recreation Ministers Council; the Tourist Ministers Council. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the summary record of the fifth meeting of the Australian Environment Council. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
I am on record as expressing more than a little sympathy with the need to maintain some balance in the matters of conservation and environment. [More…]
I inform the House that earlier today His Excellency the Governor-General determined the appointment of the honourable Moss Cass as Minister for the Environment and Conservation and has directed and appointed Dr Cass to hold the office of Minister for Environment. [More…]
Under the minerals export control procedures established in February 1973, D. M. Minerals had consulted with officers of my Department prior to drawing up the draft agreement The project was not considered new in that it had reached an advanced stage in planning and development and substantial exploration and development expenditure had already been incurred, some of which dated back to the early 60 ‘s; also, ruining leases had been granted by the Queensland authorities laying down, amongst other things, stringent conditions to protect the environment [More…]
Did he inform the Minister for the Environment and Conservation of his decision; if not, why not. [More…]
In his absence, the Minister for Environment, Dr Moss Cass, will act as Minister for Health. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
On what date was the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 proclaimed. [More…]
-What the Minister for Environment (Dr Cass) has said, of course, is quite correct. [More…]
-Does the Prime Minister believe that matters of the environment have been handled expeditiously and effectively by his Minister for Environment and by that Minister’s Department? [More…]
If so, is it true that the Minister for Environment is about to be treated in the same ignominious fashion as the previous Speaker and the previous Treasurer? [More…]
There were communications with the New South Wales Planning and Environment Commission and the South Sydney Municipal Council regarding zoning aspects. [More…]
My question to the Minister for Environment is supplementary to that recently asked of him by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
I have every confidence that the Australian Labor Party will stick to its policy on the environment. [More…]
Does the Minister for the Environment have any confidence that the Government’s environmental policies will be implemented? [More…]
I know it would be the intention of the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) and the Minister for Environment (Dr Cass) to ensure that in the development of a register all governments, Commonwealth, State and local government would pay the same regard to a place on the register as, indeed, the Australian Government would have to under this legislation. [More…]
-I accept that undertaking given by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass). [More…]
-On behalf of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, I bring up a report of the Committee on the operation of the Softwood Forestry Agreements Acts 1967 and 1972, and I move that the report be printed. [More…]
The Committee concluded that there was a need for the facility, that the facilities proposed by the Australian Post Office were satisfactory, that the site selected was suitable, that the facility will not adversely affect the local environment, and that the work should proceed to construction. [More…]
The matter in queston was even the subject of an environment impact inquiry, which took place in the Woollahra Municipal Council chambers recently The report was favourable in all respects. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
I inform the House that on 14 July His Excellency the Governor-General accepted my resignation as Minister for Environment and appointed the Hon. [More…]
Joseph Berinson as Minister for Environment. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
Legal Assistance for environment and conservation groups is provided through the Australian Legal Aid Office. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) How many public servants were employed in the Department of the Environment and Conservation and agencies responsible to the Department as at 30 June 1973 and 30 June 1974. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Environment. [More…]
At a recent conference of Nature Conservation Ministers in Canberra, did the State Ministers congratulate the Minister for Environment on the way in which funds had been made available to the States under the States Grants (Nature Conservation) Act for the acquisition of land for nature conservation purposes? [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
93 in which his predecessor provided a list of research grants allocated by his Department, will environmental research funding now be undertaken by the Department of Environment and, in particular, will assessment of research projects to be funded be undertaken by the Bureau of Environmental Studies which has been established within that Department. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What are the international and multi-national conventions and agreements concerning the environment and conservation under the auspices of the United Nations to which Australia is a signatory. [More…]
I have received advice from the Prime Minister that he has nominated Mr Fry to be a member of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in place of Dr Jenkins, resigned. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report prepared by the Australian Advisory Committee on the Environment entitled Coastal Land. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
13 a Bill for an Act relating to the prevention of pollution of the marine environment. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
I wish to ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
In view of the public controversy concerning the Concorde supersonic transport aircraft, the availability of the draft environmental impact statement prepared by the United Kingdom Government and the British Aircraft Corporation, and the claim in the report by the Environment Protection Authority of Victoria that the area of Melbourne affected by the excessive noise of Concorde will be far greater than that affected by the Boeing 707, the noisiest of the present aircraft, and the Authority’s assertion that the introduction of Concorde into service at Melbourne airport is contrary to its noise control policy, will the Minister inform the House whether and when a public hearing will be held under the terms of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act? [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has been examining in recent times the proper way of establishing the objectives of the Heritage Commission in the most economical and sensible manner. [More…]
-I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has recommended to the Minister that nuclear powered vessels - [More…]
Former Secretary, Department of Environment [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the. [More…]
No money has been provided by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development to the Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross, over the past 5 financial years. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What sums, and for what purposes, were given to the Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross, New South Wales, by (a) direct grants and (b) section 96 grants administered by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development in each of the last 5 financial years. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
If the honourable member had looked at the statement made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development he would realise that instead of applying from the end of 3 years, as it was interpreted before the last election, it applies earlier. [More…]
As the Prime Minister has made perfectly clear, the package which was recently brought down in another place by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is one which commends itself to the Australian electorate because of the overall benefits it provides. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Environment Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development received the deputation. [More…]
(in) Far from withdrawing assistance, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has been asked to advise on a comprehensive policy in the area of youth, sport and recreation. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
However, it may be possible to develop a more effective scholarship scheme in today’s environment, and this will be studied. [More…]
It is estimated by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development that a further 10 per cent of the labour force, employed mainly in the manufacture of building materials, rely principally on demand from the building and construction industry. [More…]
I call on the presentation of a report from the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
-On behalf of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation I present the first report of the Committee on land use pressures on areas of scenic amenity. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the annual report of the former Department of Environment for the period July 1974 to June 1975. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
What sum has been paid by the Department of Environment. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
All the Government has to say on this matter was said’ in the second reading speech of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), who at the time was Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
M.J. R. MacKellar Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development Canberra 28 May 1976 [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: Did Press reports which appeared following his recent visit to Adelaide correctly represent his views on the desirability of the Monarto project? [More…]
-The Opposition is not opposed to the amendment just moved by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, but we intend to oppose the amending clause as a whole. [More…]
In the States of Australia and in New Zealand he can act personally and he can act consistently but in the Commonwealth environment can he see every report? [More…]
Housing Research Council Research Advisory CommitteeThe composition of this committee includes principal officers (or their nominees) of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Experimental Building Station of the Department of Construction, the CSIRO Division of Building Research and each State housing authority. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
-My question is addressed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
What effect has the continuing reduction of the staff ceiling of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development had on that Department’s ability to carry out its functions properly? [More…]
Will the staff cuts inhibit in any way the Department’s capacity to administer in the future the Government’s responsibilities in fields such as the environment? [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
-I direct my question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
Is it a fact that there is pressure within the Government for major modification of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act because of pressure from the mining and woodchip industries? [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
As all honourable members know, I follow Ivor Greenwood as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
-I have received advice from the Leader of the Opposition that he has nominated Mr Bryant to be a member of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr Young. [More…]
Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
Let me state the case for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and Government policy as succinctly as I can. [More…]
Dr D. F. McMichael (Acting Chairman), DirectorGeneral of Environment [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
On what dates and from what sources did the Government receive the information which the Minister for Environment. [More…]
I have been advised by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development that the information given by him on 21 September was obtained on 21 September as a result of research by his personal staff in anticipation of the matter being raised during the discussion of a matter of public importance on that day. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
Has the Minister seen recent media reports that the Federal Government was withdrawing from the field of environmental impact inquiries? [More…]
If not, can the Minister assure the House that a complete environmental impact assessment has been made of the major Coffs Harbour woodchip proposal to export 300 000 tonnes of woodchips per annum for the next 1 5 years? [More…]
Can the Government ensure that in any decisions it makes in relation to Fraser Island it will use principles which have universal application to all developments, that it will consider carefully the effects on all other mining and development if those decisions are applied equally throughout Australia, that it will remember that the ultimate environment in Australia are the households which, for a proper and happy functioning, require people to be employed and to be certain of their future and finally that it will look with the greatest scepticism at the vague and imprecise propositions in the Fraser Island report concerning compensation and the serious understatement of the economic and social consequences if mining were to be stopped forthwith? [More…]
Let us be clear on the Government’s feelings to the environment. [More…]
The Government firmly believes in the necessity to preserve the quality of the Australian environment. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, concerns the very important general issue of the protection of our environment and the Government’s and the Minister’s attitudes to environmental issues. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the newsletter alleges, among other things, that he has adopted a position hostile to conservationists and abrogated his environmental responsibilities? [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
I call the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
I should just like to ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) whether he has had any indication from the Leader of the House (Mr Sinclair) as to when the debate mentioned in the statement is likely to come before the House. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
I merely request the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who is at the table, to advise the Minister representing the Minister for Education that I believe that immediate, thorough and favourable consideration should be given to the allocation of special grants to St John’s College, Lakemba, and to other schools- not only in New South Wales but also in other parts of Australiawhose young pupils are faced with a similar souldestroying problem. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) To what groups or individuals and in what proceedings seeking to protect the environment has assistance been given by the Australian Legal Aid Office since 1 1 November 1975. [More…]
To what groups or individuals and in what proceedings seeking to proect the environment has assistance been refused by the Australian Legal Aid Office since 1 1 November 1975. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the first annual report of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, for the year 1975-76. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development upon notice: [More…]
I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development whether he has noted a statement by the Victorian Minister for State Development and Decentralisation that the Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation faces a cash crisis and will be out of money in a few days’ time because of a delay in the signing of the appropriate financial agreement. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
-Some wild allegations have been made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, (Mr Newman) that Opposition members have used the Grievance Debate this morning to try to stir and to worry needy people, people living in housing commission homes, by saying that their rents may go up. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
14, a Bill for an Act relating to the prevention of pollution of the marine environment. [More…]
-I direct my question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
There is a clear understanding between the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and myself in respect of these matters. [More…]
The normal procedure that is followed is that where there is a heavy Commonwealth investment in any of the States, the environmental impact proposals are brought into operation. [More…]
Where the States themselves have a heavy investment and the State has an environmental agency or authority, quite often the recommendations of that authority are satisfactory for Commonwealth purposes. [More…]
Was the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development present? [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]
-On behalf of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, I present the report of the Committee on the management of Ayers Rock-Mount Olga National Park. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]
1 ) What was the cost of the VIP flight undertaken by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on Sunday, 13 February 1977. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]
I am incited by the reply of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) in his second reading speech - [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 9 March 1 977: [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, concerns the AlburyWodonga growth centre. [More…]
1 ) In the interest of consumers, will he hold discussions with the oil industry with a view to changing the present ratio of premium/standard grade petrol consumption so that the cost of lead phase down proposals may be avoided while still ensuring that no more ambient lead enters the environment than is presently the case. [More…]
Has his Department prepared an environmental impact statement under the provisions of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974; if so, when will the statement be made public; if not, why not. [More…]
Will the precedent set by the payment of an ex gratia payment to the widow of the former Minister for Environment now apply to all senators and members whose work contributes to their death. [More…]
In the circumstances perhaps I should inform the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) desires to present a report to the House before a certain time. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development: Have officers of his Department had discussions with appropriate State officials with a view to the cessation or lessening of Australian Government involvement in environmental protection? [More…]
If so, what measures are being taken to ensure that the States adopt minimum standards for environmental protection and what are these minimum standards? [More…]
-Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development agreed with the request of the Victorian Minister for State Development and Decentralisation for a ministerial meeting on Albury-Wodonga to be held in the next 2 weeks? [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and I refer to the answer he gave me last Thursday in reply to my suggestion that money could be made available to the Albury City Council by way of grants. [More…]
Has the Minister seen a Press statement issued by Mr Jensen, the New South Wales Acting Minister for Decentralisation and Development, last Thursday in which he said that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development was obscuring reality with streams of abuse? [More…]
-Does the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development expect the implications of the rise in April approvals for house building to be sustained in the industry generally? [More…]
-I call the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development who will close the debate. [More…]
1 ) Did he, when he was acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development for some time in 1976, receive the annual report of the Australian Housing Corporation in accordance with sub-section 48 ( I ) of the Australian Housing Corporation Act 1975. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 9 March1977: [More…]
-The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (1)1 understand that on 1 1 November 1976 the Director of the Northern Territory Reserves Board, which was at that time responsible for the Ayers Rock- Mount Olga National Park, advised the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation that the condition of the park was such that essential interim work needed to be done as a matter of urgency and estimated it would cost between $2.28m and $3. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 30 May 1977: [More…]
I should point out that an agreement has been reached between the Western Australian Minister for Conservation and Environment and myself, not between the Commonwealth and Western Australian Governments. [More…]
This agreement is to rationalise procedural arrangements so that each Minister might fulfil his respective environmental responsibilities without duplication and in full co-operation with the other Minister. [More…]
I am discussing and progressively making similar arrangements with other State environment Ministers. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 30 May 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 26 May 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, [More…]
If so, did he receive it from his predecessor, the present Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs who acted as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development for several months, or did he receive it from the Corporation. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 May 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 May 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 May 1977: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1977: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1977: [More…]
-Did the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development hear or has he since been shown a transcript of the remarks made on AM yesterday by a committee chairman of the United States Congress to the effect that the United States had a staggering problem of both cost and environmental danger in regard to what to do with the temporarily stored nuclear waste much of which is in liquid form, something like 74 million gallons of the stuff, which has fife of anywhere from 1,000 years to 250,000 years’? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development a question. [More…]
I call upon the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development not to describe the objects. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development seen or heard a statement which claimed that uranium and nuclear power is the most violent source of energy known to humanity? [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 25 August 1977: [More…]
The honourable member may be aware that the Australian Science and Technology Council and the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment are at present undertaking inquiries which encompass Government funding of industrial research and development. [More…]
On behalf of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and for the information of honourable members, I present the report of Sir Bede Callaghan, C.B.E., following his inquiry into the structure of industry and the employment situation in Tasmania together with a statement made by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) on behalf of the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Senator Cotton). [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 27 May 1977: [More…]
Mr Les McMAHON (Sydney) ( 10.43)- I was appalled tonight that the Government Whip, the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Bourchier), gagged the debate on the estimates of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 27 April 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 14 September 1977: [More…]
From the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development- [More…]
An Environment (Financial Assistance) Bill [More…]
Has the Australian Government taken any particular initiatives in pursuit of a safer nuclear proliferation environment? [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 20 September 1977: [More…]
I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: When is a decision likely to be made on a grant to assist the Australian Commonwealth Games team to compete at the Edmonton Games in August this year? [More…]
The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development is undertaking a preliminary assessment of the effects of a closure of the whaling company on the economy of the Albany district in connection with the forthcoming inquiry. [More…]
Last week the Prime Minister, my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and I met representatives of permanent building societies throughout Australia and received their general views on this matter. [More…]
In November last the New South Wales Minister for Planning and Environment, Mr D. P. Landa, and I both agreed that the study period should be extended in order to permit an effective public participation program. [More…]
It is also relevant to observe that a number of other important Commonwealth activities, in such fields as education, child care, Aboriginal affairs and the environment were first the responsibility of the Prime Minister of the day but are now in other portfolios. [More…]
The Opposition is well aware of the problems of security in the present day environment and the problems presented by the structure of this building. [More…]
I like to have your protection in this hostile environment when I am trying to present my case. [More…]
With your indulgence, Mr Deputy Speaker, I would like to direct a question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]
I had intended to raise another matter and I notice that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) is in the chamber. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 7 March 1 978: [More…]
(a) Recruitment $1,200, (b) Local Government $3,100, recruitment $300, Ranger Inquiry $2,300, Fraser Island Inquiry $5,500, general $4,200 (c) Home Savings Grant $34,800, promotion of TV co-production with the ABC $9,800, recruitment $6,000, Ranger Inquiry $10,500, general $2,400 (d) Home Savings Grant $1,800, World Environment Day $500, Office of Youth Affairs $800, Housing Allowance Experiment Scheme $200, Sporting Bodies application for grants $2,300, recruitment $ 1 8,000, Housing Costs Inquiry $12, 100, Life. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 April 1978: [More…]
1 ) What progress has he made in reviewing the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
Before the debate on this Bill resumes, I suggest that it might suit the convenience of the House to have a general debate covering this Bill, the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Bill 1978 and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978, as they are associated measures. [More…]
During the cognate second reading debate on the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill and the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Bill I intimated that I opposed an amendment moved by the Opposition to the motion for the second reading of the latter Bill. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1976: [More…]
The Government introduced the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978 in Parliament on 10 April 1978 which will provide means whereby the Code can be incorporated in Commonwealth legislation. [More…]
-The Australian Labor Party still opposes this Bill, although it is not opposed to the Senate’s amendments which in effect have been moved in Committee by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) because as we see them they are somewhat similar to the amendments that we moved. [More…]
Land in the Northern Territory, other than land in the Uluru (Ayers Rock-Mt Olga) National Park or in the Alligator Rivers Region as denned by the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Act 1978, shall not, without the consent of the Territory- [More…]
If honourable members look at the area covered by the Alligator Rivers region, as denned in the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill and the map at the back thereof, they will see that Gimbat and Goodparla are within the Alligators Rivers region. [More…]
Two major decisions of the Government are to proceed with the establishment of the Kakadu National Park and to make special arrangements for the supervision of environmental protection measures in the region. [More…]
The Bill to amend the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act will facilitate the establishment of the Kakadu National Park, and this Bill with which we are now concerned- the Environment Protection (Alligators Rivers Region) Bill- will establish the environment protection arrangements. [More…]
These amendments arise from the agreement reached in Darwin on 10 May, to which I referred when I introduced the amendments to the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill. [More…]
The honourable member knows that the Northern Land Council sent a telex to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) asking that the clause be strengthened to permit what is called a class action being taken to protect the interests of the general public. [More…]
I notice that the amendments to which the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) referred have not really been circulated although I have a copy of them. [More…]
If the amendments moved by the Opposition on 4 May had been agreed to they would have given everybody concerned in the environment, not just the Territory Parks and Wildlife Commission, the right to appear before the court. [More…]
I have listened to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) in his last two contributions. [More…]
I shall be precise and deal with the amendments affecting clauses 11 and 13 of the original Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 2 May 1 978: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 April 1978: [More…]
On what matters and on which dates have (a) environmental impact statements been prepared, and (b) inquiries conducted under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974. [More…]
-I direct a question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
Is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware that the honourable member for Holt is wearing a badge on his lapel in the House today? [More…]
Pursuant to section 6 of the Environment (Financial Assistance) Act 1977 I present four agreements made under the provisions of that Act relating to New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]
Pursuant to section 6 of the Environment (Financial Assistance) Act 1977 I present an agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and Western Australia made under the provisions of that Act. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 10 May 1978: [More…]
The environmental impact assessment procedures were the subject of a Press release by the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 26 July 1978. [More…]
Environment up to and including paragraph 5.2.7 (f) have been undertaken. [More…]
No, the Commonwealth assessment of this proposal is being undertaken in accordance with the requirements of the Environment Protection Administrative Procedures. [More…]
The NEAC Report was referred to VENSAC by the 27th meeting of the Australian Environment Council’s Standing Committee, held on 3 and 4 May 1978. [More…]
The VENSAC advice is at present still being finalised, and I am hopeful that it will be considered by the next meeting of the Environment Council. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 August 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 June 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 15 March 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 May 1 978: [More…]
Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development admitted that there were low yield atomic explosions through to 1 963. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 19 September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 12 September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 August 1 978: [More…]
1 ) Has the Government refused a request by the Australian Conservation Foundation and the Northern Territory Environment Council to send a representative to the Workshop on Environmental Studies in the Alligator Rivers Region being conducted by the Supervising Scientist this week. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 August 1 978: [More…]
From the time the Government decided to mine uranium it was inevitable that a time would come when the concerns of the Aboriginal people about their land rights and the environment would conflict with the perceived policy of the Government. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 August 1 978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 August 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 August: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 August: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 14 September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 August 1978: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development for the year ended 30 June 1978. [More…]
Is it a fact, as reported on the ABC radio program AM of 6 July 1978 that the United States Environment Protection Agency has reported evidence which establishes a statistical relationship between the use of 2,4,5-T and human birth defects. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 27 September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 27 September 1 978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 20 September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 19 September 1978: [More…]
Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development: Liaison with States (Question No. [More…]
-This afternoon, both during Question Time and during the debate on a matter of public importance, we saw the desperate efforts that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) was forced to make, given the degree to which he had been discredited by the handling of that particular portfolio. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 12 September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 23 August 1978: [More…]
In the case of the Iwasaki resort proposal at Farnborough, near Yeppoon, Queensland, and in the terms of section 1 of the administrative procedures under the Environment protection (Impact of Proposals) Act- (a) what was the proposed action and (b) what was held to constitute the execution of the proposed action. [More…]
What is the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s estimate of the annual radiation dose which a member of the local population receives from (a) the general environment and (b) from the atmosphere only, as a result of the discharge of radio-active material from the Research Establishment at Lucas Heights, NSW. [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: (l)and(2)- [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 8 November 1978: [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report entitled ‘A Basis for Soil Conservation Policy in Australia’, being the first report of the Commonwealth and State Government Collaborative Soil Conservation Study 1975-77 prepared under the auspices of the former Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 24 November 1978: [More…]
1 ) Does the Department of Science and the Environment or any agency under the Minister’s control prepare an index of Hansard. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 22 August 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question. [More…]
During his absence the Minister for Administrative Services (Mr McLeay) is acting as Minister for Housing and Construction and the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman) will represent the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) in this chamber. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 2 1 November 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 16 November 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 8 November 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 26 October 1978: [More…]
Does the Government propose to approve by order, under the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Act 1978, the Code of Practice on Radiation Protection in the Mining and Milling of Radioactive Ores as it is presently constituted; if not, in what aspects will it be amended. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1979: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Australian Research Grants Committee for 1978 together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) concerning the report. [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
and (3) The pamphlet was first distributed by the former Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development in early 1976. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 16 November 1978: [More…]
1 ) Did the publication ‘Environment Information No. [More…]
which was produced and distributed by the Department of Science and the Environment include the statement that overseas, radioactive wastes are being temporarily stored in various ways, for example, in cement-lined containers, that as yet, no longterm solution to the problem of safe disposal exists and that there is no solution in sight. [More…]
Was the conflict between the Prime Minister’s statement and that contained in ‘Environment Information No. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present the text of the Government’s responses to the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs’ report on annual reports and the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment ‘s report on annual reports. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) relating to the establishment and declaration of Kakadu National Park. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 21 February 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment the following question, on notice, on 21 February 1979: [More…]
What action has the Minister taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that the Department of Science and the Environment, in conjunction with the Department of Transport, assess the feasibility of introducing cargo-tagging programs with a view to introducing such a system’ to Australia. [More…]
1 am further advised that in his recent testimony to the Sub-committee on Energy and the Environment of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Professor Lewis emphatically agreed with the view that his Review Group Report ‘does not undermine the basis for confidence in the safety of licensed nuclear power plants ‘. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
I welcome the Oil Spills report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
I welcome the Oil Spills report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment the following question, on notice, on 21 February 1979: [More…]
What action has the Minister taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that the Minister assess the use of satellites in the field of detection and monitoring of oil spills to determine their suitability for incorporation in the Australian surveillance network. [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 1 March 1979: [More…]
Pursuant to section 6 of the Environment (Financial Assistance) Act 1977 I present a copy of an agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and Tasmania in relation to the provision of financial assistance made under that Act together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Science and the Environment relating to the Agreement. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment the following question, on notice, on 22 February 1979: [More…]
Department of Science and the Environment: Polls and Surveys (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) How many opinion polls or surveys have been commissioned or carried out by the Department of Science and the Environment in each year from 1975 to date and how many have not been completed? [More…]
I wish to read from some advice I have received from the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) concering the qualifications of Mr Higgs. [More…]
He has been at the centre of the Public Service involvement in the implementation of successive government’s policies in relation to the environment. [More…]
In 197 1 Mr Higgs was appointed as First Assistant Secretary in charge of the newly created Office of Environment in the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
The Office of Environment subsequently became the core element for the Department of the Environment and Conservation formed in December 1972 with Mr Higgs as acting Secretary. [More…]
Following his appointment as Deputy Secretary in June 1974 Mr Higgs was responsible for oversighting preparation of environment protection legislation and the formulation and implementation of Federal environmental policies in relation to both national and international activities. [More…]
He was Vice-Chairman of the OECD Environment Committee from 1974-76. [More…]
Mr Higgs has held the position of Director of Environment with the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, and with the Department of Science and the Environment since March 1978. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
) Has the Government taken any steps to investigate the extent to which factors related to the work environment affect the incidence of cancer in Australia; if so, what are the findings of any investigations; if not, what steps are proposed to investigate this matter. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) concerning the implementation of recommendations of the reports of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment on Wood Chips and the Environment. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) on World Environment Day 1979 and what it means for Australia. [More…]
1 ) the Government has failed to act on the assessment report of the Nabarlek uranium project prepared by the Department of Science and the Environment which revealed that radiation levels at the mine site are five to 10 times higher than Queensland Mines estimates and that workers in the mine would be exposed to lethal dosages of radiation should they work for more than 3 hours a day over the 29 week extraction period; [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the text of a statement made by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) on Australia’s Antarctic program. [More…]
and (2) The information requested is of a detailed commercial nature and it has been made clear on a number of previous occasions, as the airlines are operating in a commercial environment, it would not be appropriate to disclose such information. [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
However, as part of the United Nations Environment Program, an International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals (IRPTC) is being established which is intended to include this information. [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answers to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The honourable member will be aware from my answer to questions 3517 and 3518 that the Australian Environment Council has established a National Advisory Committee on Chemicals. [More…]
This Committee is currently developing procedures for assessment of synthetic chemicals used in industry and commerce for potential environmental hazards. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 27 March 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 2 1 March 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 27 March 1 979: [More…]
-by leave-The Opposition largely supports the recommendations of the Research Directorate of the former Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development which produced this report entitled ‘A Basis for Soil Conservation Policy in Australia’. [More…]
The study also looks at the relation between production and conservation- the inevitable trade-off between commerce and the environment or enterprise and the environment and makes recommendations. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 21 March 1979: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present two agreements, one between the Commonwealth of Australia and New South Wales and the other between the Commonwealth of Australia and Western Australia, in relation to the provision of financial assistance for projects related to the environment for 1978-79, made under the provisions of the Environment (Financial Assistance) Act 1977. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Science and the Environment: Motor Vehicles (Question No. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Science and the Environment on grants to voluntary conservation organisations. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 13 September 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 25 September 1 979: [More…]
Which offices of the Department of Science and the Environment are engaged in the preparation of these plans. [More…]
The Government’s stated intention to hand over to the States certain areas of responsibility for environment protection. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the annual report of the Department of Science and the Environment 1978-79. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 7 June 1979: [More…]
1 ) What is the total volume of fuel consumed per annum by motor vehicles operated by the Department of Science and the Environment and statutory authorities and business undertakings under the Minister’s control. [More…]
Science and the Environment: Motor Vehicle Fuel Consumption (Question No. [More…]
-by leave-I present the report of the Australian representatives to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development debate of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe held in Strasbourg on 9 October 1 979 and to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Seminar on Environment in Europe held in Geneva from 22 to 24 October 1979. [More…]
The report sets out the findings of the Seminar on Environment in Geneva. [More…]
It contains a lot of valuable information on air and water pollution which I intend to bring to the attention of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
That means to say that the people in this area were defined in a very austere living environment, and the Government is not moving out in a wholehearted approach to this problem by giving completely free cover to a person such as the one I have mentioned, who earns $48.75 a week and is supporting a wife and five children. [More…]
I would expect the work and interests of the Institute to extend, as time goes on, over a very wide range of possibilities - for example, the study of the geology of the sea floor; the potential of the sea as a source of food and pharmacological products; the need for and means of conserving our marine environment; the effect upon that environment of the activities of man, in his attempts to win new treasures from the sea, and of predators, among which 1 would anticipate that the crown of thorns starfish would be a continuing subject of study until the problems it has created may have been solved. [More…]
The learned writer goes on to say that there must be an attempt to outline the environment within which that hardware can be expected to operate or, put in another way, to discuss the forces that necessitated the acquisition of that hardware. [More…]
The negative contribution of poor environment of course can bc turned to positive account by exposure to the attractions of learning. [More…]
In the past few months the question of environment has become not only an issue of local or national concern but an issue that is occupying the attention of the nations around the world. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has for many years urged the Government to do something about the chaos in the cities and now that the issue is in the forefront and has been taken up by all the mass media, the Government demonstrates its complete inability to gauge the tempo of the times by ignoring the whole question of environment altogether. [More…]
Eventually it was the propertied gentlemen who decided the main principles of our Constitution, taking what was best from the States and giving it to the Federal Government and leaving a suitable environment for themselves in the State field. [More…]
Various aspects of the GovernorGeneral’s Speech lead us to a consideration of the degradation and pollution of our environment. [More…]
References dealing with dam construction, eradication of brucellosis and tuberculosis in cattle; forestry development, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s proposed nuclear power station, research into wild life and marine science are all relevant to the degradation of our environment. [More…]
We degrade, pollute and ravage our environment in every way imaginable. [More…]
Just as the picture in America is one of complete ravaging of the environment due to industry so it is with other industrialised nations. [More…]
There have been factories in my electorate which pollute the environment. [More…]
This is the way we ravage the environment with pollution. [More…]
I did not hear, and I have never heard, the honourable member discuss to what extent these problems are contributed to and aggravated by the very high tariff protection which is given to secondary industry and which, in association with arbitration court decisions, creates the inflated and artificial environment in which the wheat growers and other primary producers must purchase their commodities in order to meet their financial obligations and to live with the same dignity as other Australians. [More…]
A comprehensive review is needed of the peculiar physical and psychological strains of Service life and of the Service environment. [More…]
Of course we know that in Melbourne such housing is not adequate enough for the citizens of our more affluent suburbs because only recently the citizens of Toorak were successful in preventing the intrusion of high rise flats into their living environment. [More…]
The land is expropriated regardless of the quality of life and the living environment in the area under attack, the people are evicted and the flats constructed. [More…]
The people of Paddington in Sydney who have done such a magnificent job renovating and refurbishing the old houses in the area should thank God every night that the Victorian Housing Commission has no authority in New South Wales, otherwise some of the best living environments in Sydney would be demolished in the name of progress. [More…]
In short, this is the arena where our ability to construct the quality of our living environment is being most obviously put to the test. [More…]
Our ultimate objective is surely the provision of a living environment that will provide the quality of life that our people in this rich country have a right to expect; a living environment that will give our people the opportunity to develop themselves to their full potential. [More…]
I contend that one of the prerequisites for the development of people is their involvement in the construction of their living environment and the proper vehicle for this involvement is their local government. [More…]
Our attitude is based on the simple premise, that if this wealthy country cannot solve the problems of its living environment it is not because of the lack of resources but rather a failure of leadership. [More…]
For years we have allowed greatly talented people, creative people, to leave these shores, not only in dozens but in battalions, and we have done little or nothing to bring them back to this country where they want to create and to make some contribution to our cultural environment. [More…]
I believe that if a nation is to be judged by posterity, if it is to be critically examined by historians, then the contribution we now make will be vital for the place we hold in an enlightened and cultural environment. [More…]
This is especially so if the structure of the social welfare programme is to penetrate into the heart of what is called the poverty environment and overcome want and deficiency, and to help people to lift themselves up and participate at a level in the economy which will give them self respect and adequacy. [More…]
The Leader of the Australian Labor Party has often been criticised for sounding like a municipal mayor or shire president, but he believes that Australians cannot enjoy a high standard of living while they have to live in a substandard environment. [More…]
The Labor Party is the only party that has concerned itself with our environment and the manner in which we live. [More…]
It could be because of an unhappy home environment, the pressure of intense study, the urge to try something different, or it could be as a reaction against authority, just to name a few reasons. [More…]
Australia is represented by an observer delegation at a meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the United ‘ Nations Conference on the Human Environment which is meeting in New York from 10th to 20th March, 1970. [More…]
If we are setting out to give everybody an equal opportunity in life, we should bear in mind that, if we give a child from an underprivileged family the same education as a child who has an adequate home environment, the child from the underprivileged family will make less of that same education. [More…]
Certainly I am in favour of living in a clean environment, but I am more in favour of continuing to keep our country free and thus provide the opportunity to clean up the environment. [More…]
If we can keep people contented and happy in their own environment we are doing a worthwhile job. [More…]
They signify a very necessary adaptation to the changing circumstances of Australia’s international environment. [More…]
1 rise on a matter which affects the environment of life in one of the oldest settled parts of our nation. [More…]
If children are given the opportunity to have the environment of their own home, they certainly will grow up better citizens. [More…]
If they are given the opportunity to have the environment of even a government home they are still lucky enough to have the feeling of belonging to something. [More…]
Statistics show that if a child is fortunate enough to have parents residing in a certain area his chances of going to the university are doubled when compared with a child who may not have the same affluent environment. [More…]
They are different only with regard to the environment in which they live and work. [More…]
To most of us, I would think, it was presumed that this would be a road decently and discreetly set inside Capital Hill in such a way that it would not destroy the natural environment of Canberra. [More…]
I believe that Capital Hill is part of the precious visual environment of Canberra and at the present moment the operation that is going on there is road making run mad. [More…]
I hope that we in the Parliament will do something to protect that part of our environment. [More…]
I cannot express too strongly what I believe to be the view of many people who come to Canberra that the NCDC has destroyed part of the visual environment of Canberra which was part of the total planning and attraction of this city. [More…]
As the Minister has said, in his second reading speech, there will be a great deal of work concerned with marine environment. [More…]
The university is specialising in such fields as tropical engineering and some aspects of tropical medicine, in the husbandry of beef cattle and their environment in tropical areas - breeds with such as zebu or Brahmin blood - all in association with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Townsville. [More…]
But the tragedy of this pollution of man’s environment by himself is the lack of research that has gone into this aspect of pollution. [More…]
More and more we are coming to appreciate that the preservation of our environment is a factor in public health and mental hygiene, and in the Indian, Southern and. [More…]
Pacific Oceans, and in the Arafura Sea, Australia has a truly magnificent environment. [More…]
We can take the matter even further than that in terms of possibilities of the marine environment. [More…]
They then elaborate some 20 or more principal fields of research, which include, amongst others, marine environment, submarine geology, studies on the interaction of biological and geological problems, submarine organisms and so oh through the biological and physical fields of marine research. [More…]
I have not yet touched on the question of the varying types of students of marine environment who may be involved in these institutions. [More…]
While 1 readily agree that the tropical environment could be very well investigated - it would probably be hard to find a better site to do this than Townsville - I think we should by no means consider the Barrier Reef, the Queensland coast and that general area as the only source of operations for people who will be attached to this Australian Institute of Marine Science. [More…]
Of course, the basic difficulties in coming to grips with a submarine environment, or even a surface marine environment, compared with the ability to move about on land, has inhibited development in this field relative to development on land up to the present time. [More…]
In any event, he has a right to make a free political choice within our democratic society, that is, to exercise certain liberties and freedoms which inherently belong to an individual within a democratic environment. [More…]
These children of foreign origin, proficient in their own tongue and able to communicate in the home situation, have now to adjust themselves to an environment where it becomes necessary to learn a completely new set of speech habits, the sounds, structures and vocabulary of their initial language being of little or no use to them. [More…]
This was delayed to some degree in view of the survey on the environment which is proceeding at the present time. [More…]
It is structured to function in a private enterprise environment and completely in acordance with the principles of free enterprise and the free enterprise system. [More…]
In those circumstances and in that environment we will find democratic Socialism taking on the iron fist of authoritarianism. [More…]
It would be interesting to know whether he could talk about any other subject, for example, pollution, environment, pensions, health or any other 1 of the tremendous issues that the people of Australia are concerned about other than the anti-Communist tactic. [More…]
The actual matters in the Bill are themselves not very explicit but in his second reading speech the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) referred to the importance of a study of marine life, the potential of the sea and, particularly, the need for conservation of the marine environment. [More…]
That leads me to enter this debate for the very good reason that he has said the Bill is not limited to what it says On the face of it, that is, the exploration of the Great Barrier Reef, but is mainly interested in the whole of the marine environment. [More…]
On that basis, and following what might have been said by the honourable member for Cook (Mr Dobie), I speak in the debate because the electorate which I represent has a fair marine environment in the sense that it covers quite a number of foreshores and beaches and also the Botany Bay area. [More…]
It has become obvious from studies recently published overseas that among the greatest pollutants of the marine environment are industrial waste and domestic sewage. [More…]
In that regard it has now been established that where you have this type of disposal of sewage and industrial waste and other forms of waste you are virtually destroying the marine environment. [More…]
When I look at the problem of the disposal of sewage and the effect that sewage has on the marine environment I am led to suggest to the Minister that clause 7 be amended to provide that the Institute of Marine Science have branches throughout the Australian continent. [More…]
There could not be a better opportunity to study the effect of pollution on the marine environment than would be given by the establishment of a branch of the Institute adjacent to the sewage treatment works in the Botany Bay area. [More…]
Also a matter which has not yet been mentioned but which should be mentioned is the dredging of the Bay for the extension of the Mascot Airport and what effect the dredging of the area might have on the marine environment. [More…]
If we allow this to continue at Malabar, or anywhere else for that matter, we are virtually destroying whatever marine environment we have left there. [More…]
That is completely hopeless from the point of view of trying to maintain the marine environment. [More…]
They have established clearly that when we dispose of sewage - raw sewage, if we may use that term - into a marine environment it does not dissipate the bacterial infection. [More…]
It is well known that, in the area that I represent, many medical practitioners treat a number of illnesses that they are not prepared to say, from a scientific point of view, are associated directly with people surfing off Malabar Beach or being involved in the marine environment there. [More…]
But I feel that these illnesses could well be associated with this environment. [More…]
Another more tragic aspect for the whole area is that a major teaching hospital there which would be the subject of grants from a University point of view - the payment of federal money, if I may put it that way - disposes of its sewage directly into the same environment. [More…]
the Malabar outfall and the marine environment in that area, we see that there can be no better opportunity than this area for any scientific group to have a quick look at the pollution that has taken place already. [More…]
Sewage has been disposed of in that area since 1890 and it is well recognised that this sewage has affected already the marine environment. [More…]
When public meetings are held in the area that I represent and the Premier of New South Wales says to the gathering: ‘1 am writing to the Prime Minister asking that he give mc more money’, it should be recognised that that will not solve the problems to the tertiary stage or in any way help in solving the pro blems of pollution of our marine environment. [More…]
Why do we dispose into the modern environment something which will pollute and destroy it? [More…]
Not only will the unfortunate people who live in this area, along with the many thousands who use the marine environment of the beaches, have to put up with an aggravation of a nuisance that they have suffered for years; they also will have the additional problem of all the destroying features of industrial waste dumped through the same sewerage outlet. [More…]
Should the Commonwealth of Australia seek to create a political environment in which we will be able to stand in the eyes of the world and be recognised as being conscious of the fact that the maritime super-power is coming into our area? [More…]
I say this to him: If South Africa were prepared to cooperate in certain particular strategic environments with Australia, Australia would be, as is the Government of the United Kingdom at this time, prepared to acknowledge that co-operation. [More…]
Whether there would be a need for a pact, as the honourable member has put it, is dependent upon the environment in which a threat is seen to develop. [More…]
We cannot blame people who live in a depressed environment for trying to escape in the television tube to get away from the depression which their environment fosters. [More…]
I can well understand this situation if it is one way of drugging his senses against the depression and frustrations of living in an environment of want. [More…]
This is a simple recognition of the fact that the production environment differs in the different States. ‘ [More…]
In the first place, a matter which has received a great deal of attention in recent times is the effect that industrial development is having on the environment. [More…]
I hope in this case that Government opinion will not lag very far behind public opinion and that when matters of industrial development are considered concurrent attention will be given to the effects it will have on the environment. [More…]
I believe a pressure group in the United States of America called Zero Economic Growth Incorporated has been formed and that this group does not want anything done to increase industrial development because it fears that the effects on the environment might completely outweigh any economic advantages that might accrue. [More…]
So let us have as much industrial development as we can, but let us qualify that by saying: Just have that amount of industrial development that is consonant with minimal over exploitation of the environment by man, exploitation of man by man or exploitation of man by machine. [More…]
On this side of the House we believe that these aims of industrial development, hand in hand with desirable social changes and the preservation of the environment, can be achieved only by democratic socialism. [More…]
These objectives are to be achieved in a private enterprise environment and the terms of the Bill ensure that it will operate within the principles of the free enterprise system. [More…]
So 1 pose to him this question: How do we tell what can motivate indigenous people to rise above their environment and to take proper jobs and acquire higher qualifications? [More…]
They see what is tantamount to a cement jungle - a sterile environment - with hardly a blade of grass, a tree or a living plant. [More…]
I do not mean to say, for instance, that if one or two half-trained academics are loose in the environment up there and hold the view that kiaps must get out or that we must lop the heads off the while people, that is a national aspiration of which we need take much note. [More…]
I draw attention to the fact that this Bill is concerned with maintaining the marine environment, and that includes the whole Botany Bay complex and also the beaches immediately adjoining. [More…]
So it is virtually misleading the people in my area to leave the whole problem to what might be termed the sanitary engineers who may, of course, effectively design a better treatment works for the more effective and quicker discharge of effluent, but if the water itself is so polluted, that in turn destroys the whole of the marine environment. [More…]
), we not limit this provision to the Barrier Reef but relate it to the problems created for the marine environment, by allowing sewage to be discharged without proper treatment. [More…]
Pollution is a factor that would worry most of us, but people in this area see it every day, they smell it every day, and they realise that the whole beach environment is being destroyed. [More…]
that they were developed about the turn of the century about the time that the major treatment for sewage was thought to be sufficient if it was discharged into a marine environment. [More…]
This country, 1 submit, is not doing any work in the field of the biological treatment that is essential to maintain marine environment. [More…]
The suggestion that the solution is merely to discharge the effluents into the marine environment is no longer tenable. [More…]
It can no longer be disposed of by discharging it into the marine environment. [More…]
There is also the subject of fish preservation, the subject of fish and shellfish cultivation and the modification of the environment. [More…]
Investigation and monitoring of ocean circulation, the inter-action between ocean and atmosphere, the influence of long range trends in the marine environment and the productivity of fish resources are examples of such projects. [More…]
The third is the provision of the best available scientific advice to organisations responsible for the national utilisation and management of marine resources or the safeguarding of the marine environment from pollution The fourth area is the facilitation of the exchange of ideas and techniques between marine scientists and technologists of all countries. [More…]
’, lt will concern itself also with our rivers where pollution by mankind is contributing to the despoliation of our environment. [More…]
It called on the Secretary-General to prepare a survey of the present state of knowledge of the resources of the sea and of activities in marine science and technology, and to formulate proposals for an expanded programme of international cooperation to assist in a better understanding of the marine environment through science and in the exploitation and development of marine resources with due regard to the conservation of fish stocks. [More…]
The record shows that our Senate colleague, Senator Felix Dittmer, in his maiden speech in 1959, raised the question of research into the tropical environment. [More…]
J return to the Bill and the proposal to establish an Australian institute of marine science, lt is a very apt time to be doing this, in the year of the discovery of iiic east coast of this continent by Lieutenant James Cook in the HMS ‘Endeavour’, He made the first contributions to marine science on the east coast of Australia and certainly his expedition charted new fields in oceanography, hydrography and scientific investigation of the marine environment. [More…]
Many of the honourable members who have spoken in this debate, including the honourable member for Griffith, have mentioned the pollution of our environment. [More…]
Of course we all are concerned with this, but real conservation is based on a proper survey of the flora and fauna of our nation and the ecological system - the environment in which plants and animals live and how they may best be preserved. [More…]
Whilst the Barrier Reef may be what one may perhaps call the glamour element of our continental shelf, there is much to be learnt about other sections of the marine environment of Australia. [More…]
When did he receive the suggestion by Sir Garfield Barwick, the Foundation’s President, that, pending the establishment of the commission, urgent consideration should be given to a special inquiry into all factors bearing on the desirability and safety of oil drilling in that region, having regard to the paramount importance of protecting the living marine environment.. [More…]
The demands of a teachers training college are such that we try to attract to them people who are particularly familiar with the environment or particularly suited to specialise in a particular environment. [More…]
We have a very special environment in northern Australia and one would logically, I imagine, establish a teachers training college - one of the essential facets of education generally - in a town that is renowned for education, if such a town is offering. [More…]
The building - it is already substantially apparent on the ground - is a notable improvement on the physical environment of the old Teachers College. [More…]
What kind of an atmosphere or environment is this in which to try to train young people for industry. [More…]
More intensive development of rural areas further improving the ‘ environment fur secondary industry development already substantially established around Bundaberg and thus encourage further decentralisation in the Stale. [More…]
This often makes it extremely difficult for these children in their transmission into an adult environment. [More…]
I would not rule this out but I point out to the House that this Bill is meant to help children and it is not always in the best interests of children to have an adult stranger introduced into their environment. [More…]
During the past 12 months a few hundred have died, partly due to normal mortality of plants in this environment and partly due to watering restrictions which were applied during the recent very dry summer. [More…]
There are few aspects of our environment, our culture or our welfare which can be adequately tackled without involving local government. [More…]
It is possibe to give only a rough estimate of the cost of cleaning up the urban environment because it is difficult to find proper statistics. [More…]
No longer will they accept growing pollution, including noise and smell, and the destruction of our environment. [More…]
The CMC Act is an act designed to meet the requirements of civilian employees in a civil environment. [More…]
Does he realise that vast population increase, once considered highly desirable, is now being questioned due to the pressures it places on education, health and social welfare services, housing and land prices and the consequent diminution in the quality of life that over-crowded cities have on our environment? [More…]
When wool has reached this low price in the economic environment we find in the world today I have no hesitation in saying that it cannot be justified. [More…]
The basic philosophical issue for our democratic society is that there are rights for minorities, lt Ls no: a democracy that is run by a majority which believes that a decision made by the majority must at all times bc upheld, even whore it arises as a result of moral standards which become somewhat osified in a conservative environment because they have not been subjected to critical scrutiny as frequently and as intensively as should be desirable in a liberal society. [More…]
In essence it was the survival of traditional military practice in a changed environment; what once was acceptable in a rigidly-disciplined military college could no longer be tolerated in a changing institution mingling academic and military scholarship, and moving towards greater autonomy. [More…]
The recommendations on daily routine, local leave, discipline, alcohol, pay, marriage, cars, dress, and entertainment of visitors will, if adopted, give cadets a much more attractive environment in which to live and work. [More…]
In summary, the Committee has made 20 specific recommendations designed to remove for all time the stain of bastardisation from Duntroon and assure an attractive and creative environment for the training of military officers. [More…]
The Occupational Health Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council is continuing its research on this problem with a view to recommending a hygiene standard and encouraging the development of the most effective methods both for the prevention and control of dangerous exposure to airborne asbestos fibres in the work environment. [More…]
The Government is aware of the nature of thermal pollution, and detailed examination of environmental and ecological factors is being made so that any disturbance of the environment at Jervis Bay will not be significant. [More…]
It is this: People who live in the Australian Capital Territory probably live in the most planned seat of Government and the most planned environment that the world has ever seen. [More…]
The time is appropriate for a comprehensive inquiry not only into the DFRB but into the whole range of conditions of service which are under lire at the moment - into pay, moves and re-posting, re-settlement and re-establishment in civilian life, family separation and disruption, housing, education, in short into the whole social environment of the serviceman and his family. [More…]
In the present environment that exists in the Australian community this responsible trend is unfortunately being negated. [More…]
The urgent need to appoint a joint select committee to inquire into and report upon the grants and conditions which the Housing Agreement 1971 should provide for housing, land development and urban environment. [More…]
The original 1945 Agreement was intended both to enable ordinary Australians to secure housing at a cost they could afford to pay and ensure that housing was provided in a properly planned and serviced urban environment. [More…]
The three extensions of the Agreement dropped all provisions for planning and servicing the environment. [More…]
Although the Leader of the Opposition did not say much about it, his motion foreshadows an urgent need to appoint a joint select committee - of this Parliament, presumably - to inquire into and report on the grants and conditions which the Housing Agreement 1971 should provide for housing, land development and urban environment. [More…]
To take another element of the motion, urban environment is not being ignored by my colleague the Minister for Housing. [More…]
All the State housing authorities are interested in improving the environment surrounding homes. [More…]
There was no mention in the Budget Speech of urban life or of pollution associated with the urban environment. [More…]
In this motion it seems that the Opposition’s only concern is with urban homes, urban environment and urban development, but we want to see equal opportunity for the people not only in urban areas but also outside urban areas. [More…]
It must be borne in mind that we can create pollution by establishing a certain environment, but it must be remembered also that we can move out into the great areas of this country and build cities elsewhere if we want to avoid this situation. [More…]
How could we expect to be effective in helping to shape our own environment if we rendered all efforts to establish and maintain security null and void by our own actions? [More…]
The only area of Australian life in which laissez faire continues to rule is the systematic destruction of the environment. [More…]
Without such a systematic reassessment we will not even begin to tackle the problem of environmental deterioration. [More…]
The honourable member for Boothby referred to the Government’s defence programme in recent years and to the grave problem of our survival in a hostile environment which bids fair in the next decade or so to become more sensitive to the intrusion of naval forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics into the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The most despicable part of the article, however, was the implication that all the talk about environment is really a front for old fashioned racism and a desire to return to ‘Australian dreams of isolation and primitivism’. [More…]
I understand that the survey proposed by the Department will include a cost benefit analysis of immigration, desirable populations levels for Australia and the effect that increased immigration will have on our environment and urban problems. [More…]
Migrant communities are following the same pattern as in the United Stales, that is, in the early years in a new and foreign environment they tend to gather together and live in close proximity of people of their own nationalities. [More…]
In recent times there has been constant use of the terms ‘environment’, ‘pollution* and ‘quality of life’. [More…]
If he were prepared to elevate his thinking from the concrete jungle environment in which he has found himself he would perhaps be of some service to the Australian community. [More…]
One is the suitability of the site itself having regard to such matters as cooling water supplied, foundations and the environment. [More…]
that the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk to the life of the pregnant woman or of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman or any existing children of her family greater than if the pregnancy were terminated (and in determining whether the continuance of a pregnancy would involve such a risk of injury to health, account may be taken of the pregnant woman’s actual or reasonably foreseeable environment); or [More…]
Surely the people who live in a tribal setting, who depend on the tribe for their personal selfrespect and self-esteem, for their future outlook, and for their security and harmony in the world, are entitled to the bare minimum of environment which the tribal arrangement can so secure. [More…]
His school environment is superior in every way to his State school counterpart. [More…]
The physical environment in which we live we vandalise, poison and defile in a way which ravages nature as only some infernal brute would. [More…]
No other animal so abuses his environment as does man. [More…]
As democratic socialists we of the Australian Labor Party reject this objectionable philosophy of pandering to personal selfishness by ignoring the human want and qualitative needs of our society and environment. [More…]
Naturally this Government docs not believe it has any responsibility to assist migrants with their housing problems or, for that matter, any of the other problems of their living environment. [More…]
lt is not the Labor Party that is afraid of local government; it is not the Labor Party that refuses to accept Federal responsibility for the quality of the living environment of over 80 per cent of our people. [More…]
To argue that we cannot afford to tackle the problems of the living environment of over 80 per cent of our people is nothing less than an admission of incompetent leadership. [More…]
Were it to recognise it had any responsibility for the living environment of over 80 per cent of [More…]
Clearly the affairs of the living environment of our people are going to have to wait for a Labor Government in Canberra. [More…]
He stayed there only 2 or 3 days because he was completely dissatisfied with the environment and the fact that there was virtually no tuition. [More…]
It would not have the normal environment of a school. [More…]
Would it be correct to deduce from the very rapid growth rate of this industry, from the fact that it is one of the most heavily tariff protected industries in this country and that despite these 2 great advantages it is still a very low profit earner, that it is not an industry suited to the Australian economic environment, at least in its major parts, and that it is grossly over-capitalised? [More…]
I hope to deal in a more detailed manner during the Estimates debate with the problems confronting urban living problems such as pollution, the lack of planning and the destruction of our environment. [More…]
By this I mean it enhances our interest in a peaceful international and geographical environment. [More…]
Our geographical environment is undoubtedly Pacific and Asian. [More…]
This statement is even more true today - now that we have greater and increasing opportunities to influence the course of events in our environment. [More…]
It is not some sort of childish environment. [More…]
As any official in a Communist country can testify, the indiscriminate adoption of systems and administrative details designed for another national environment is as good a way as any of preparing the way for a total takeover by those for whom the system was originally designed. [More…]
They are poor because they are products of an environment that they were born into. [More…]
We are all products of that environment. [More…]
How much different is the atmosphere in the environment of the poor working class homes compared with that in the homes of the affluent and the middle and upper class sections of our community? [More…]
It is the fault of the life that creates this environment. [More…]
If such appropriations are absent or deficient, we may fairly judge that Australian law enforcement services, like its schools, hospitals and urban environment, are a victim of the impasse in Commonwealth-State financial relations which Liberals have devised as a pretext for under-investment in every aspect of public activity. [More…]
That rule must prevail; without it, we will lack not only order but the environment essential to social and economic progress. [More…]
The war and its whole environment engendered a certain amount of emotion and prejudice which could have only harmed the functioning of many a courtmartial. [More…]
The unchallengeable advantages which the independent non-Catholic schools pro vide for their pupils - high standards in accommodation, environment, quality of staff, facilities and curricula - were a direct, major influence in 28 per cent of secondary scholarships being attracted to those schools in spite of the fact that they represented only 13.7 per cent of total enrolments. [More…]
The middle class orientation of our education systems disadvantages too many children who are not familiar with the middle class environment and its values. [More…]
There is no necessity for me to go over the statistics which highlight the fact that young Aboriginal children in many parts of Australia have a mortality rate which is some 22 times in excess of that of European children who live in the same environment. [More…]
In one of the most urbanised nations in the world we need to be guardians against further destruction of our environment. [More…]
In’ this discussion I do not want to deal with the pollution of our environment: I intend to deal with that aspect when we are debating the estimates for the Department of National Development. [More…]
But I want to deal with the destruction of our environment by machines made by man, such as the bulldozer. [More…]
The Commonwealth is subsidising the destruction of our environment. [More…]
In many cases the governments are purchasing farms and allowing them to revert to their natural environment. [More…]
that the management of the station complies with the standards and procedures approved by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in relation to nuclear health and safety, the release of radioactivity into the environment, and such other matters as related to the safe operation of nuclear facilities at the station; [More…]
So that general calls for more housing, lower costs and improvement in environment do not get us very far forward. [More…]
When one calls for an improvement in standards and environment, which it is quite proper for anyone to do, one must always remember that it will involve more cost and that the additional expenditure in meeting that cost will have to be taken from something else. [More…]
The appointment of authorities on urbanisation and environment as consultants on the immigration programme, [More…]
The appointment of authorities on urbanisation and environment to the Migration Planning Council can only add to the effectiveness of this Council and, together with the Immigration Advisory Council and the Immigration Publicity Council, it will act as a source of good advice to this Government. [More…]
the effects of the establishment of a nuclear power station upon the environment; [More…]
The Government is aware of the nature of thermal pollution, and detailed examination of environmental and ecological factors is being made so that any disturbance of the environment at Jervis Bay will not be significant [More…]
Coming from the peasant environment, generally speaking, of Spain at that time, he projected, among other things, a population of about 100 million people for Australia. [More…]
Then and only then will our people be informed of the crucial matters relating to the degree of radiation emissions, and their possible effects on health and the environment, and the dispersal of radioactive wastes. [More…]
Fourthly, factors involving health and safety both in the environmental and technical sense must be considered. [More…]
He would be aware that the New South Wales Government and a broad section of our community are seeking the restoration of the natural environment of the areas of North, South and Middle Heads and Georges Heights. [More…]
Australian industry is entitled to be protected if it is efficient in our own environment. [More…]
If it is efficient in our own environment it is entitled to be protected in the future as it has been in the past and I have no doubt it will enjoy that protection. [More…]
the effects of the establishment of a nuclear power station upon the environment; [More…]
He said also that a study should be made of the effects of nuclear power on the environment. [More…]
lt has been stated in the House many times that there will be no harmful effects on the environment arising out of the building of the reactor at Jervis Bay. [More…]
These problems are mainly those which arise in translating to a different Service environment rates which have been assessed in a civilian context. [More…]
To review the practical working of the group pay system applicable to other ranks pay, including the basis of assessment in a Service environment, the significance of rank and military skills and the implications of the concept of automatic application of civilian wage adjustments. [More…]
We are still buying equipment which will be used for short hauls in a jungle environment. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition said that the Labor Party would look into the whole social environment of the Services - pay, moves and establishment, civil life assimilation, separation, disturbance and housing. [More…]
What is the environment in this world of 1970 which leads me to state that outarmed forces must be the very best of our people? [More…]
Labor believes that low cost housing has a right to share and be constructed in serene and gentle surroundings with all of the aesthetic, cultural, sporting, social, recreational and industrial environment. [More…]
Very often the benefit derived by people under the Act is that they have the opportunity to live in a convivial and appropriate environment with people of their own age. [More…]
Sometimes wealthy people can benefit from this environment. [More…]
An examination of Aboriginal mythology shows it to be intimately bound up with all the environment of the Aboriginals - the hills, the waterfalls, the fish. [More…]
Coming from a poor environment, he lacks the expectation and incentives to give much thought to the future. [More…]
No doubt the new navigational aids that are required will result in further charges to the companies and will develop a situation in Perth similar to that described in the ‘Doomsday Book’ by Gordon Rattray Taylor where continuous aircraft noise will be a permanent part of the urban and suburban environment throughout most of Britain by 1983. [More…]
This often leads to re-employment within a commercial or sheltered workshop environment, or delays the deterioration of disabilities which would otherwise mean long-term institutional care. [More…]
Neither the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) nor any other Minister wants the responsibility of dealing with this aspect of life - the environment in which we are to live and in which our children and our children’s children are to reside. [More…]
Not in a single reply did I receive any indication that positive action would be taken to curb, control and rectify the destruction of our environment. [More…]
On 23rd September - only a few weeks ago - I asked the Prime Minister whether he agreed with the view expressed by the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock) and reported in the ‘Australian Quarterly’ about pollution and environment, and also why there was no mention in the Budget of proposals to implement the recommendations of the Senate Select Committee on Air Pollution and of the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution. [More…]
I should have liked to have developed my argument against the destruction of our natural environment - the destruction of our wonderlands, our beautiful bushlands - by the creation of more farm lands. [More…]
I revert to Sydney’s environment, for I want to deal with the Parramatta Valley. [More…]
What is the best way of applying a thoroughly comprehensive national plan for the environment? [More…]
First, we must establish a Federal environmental bureau which defines the optimum human environment as a series of goats towards which all Federal and State agencies work. [More…]
These Acts should be comprehensive, cover the whole human, physical and psychological environment and be based on goals already mentioned. [More…]
It can strive for uniformity by levying taxes in accordance with the legislation - for example, special taxes on pollution, tax incentives to encourage pollution control, and if necessary, a tax surcharge to encourage pollution control - and giving grants to States, local and semigovernment authorities, to ensure a system of policing the environmental effort. [More…]
Fourthly, once legislation has been passed by the Commonwealth and by all the States, a joint Commonwealth and State authority should administer pollution and environment control. [More…]
But the problem is one of balance because, in fact, we do want and expect the benefits of a modern industrialised society and we cannot have these benefits without some disturbance to the natural environment. [More…]
Whenever people come together in cities, wherever goods are manufactured and wherever and however people travel, problems of environmental disturbance arise. [More…]
Of course, the greater the concentration of people, the greater the demand for consumer goods and the greater the development of technology and industry, the greater the amount of environmental disturbance. [More…]
It is obvious that we cannot live in this world and totally avoid any alteration of our environment. [More…]
What we must ensure is that in altering this environment we do not destroy our capacity to live healthily or in aesthetically satisfying conditions. [More…]
This Government is actively co-operating with State governments in investigations aimed at safeguarding the environment. [More…]
It would be very easy to over-react to questions concerned with environmental disturbance. [More…]
As the air pollution committee reported more than 13 months ago, ‘in any future arrangements for the study of pollution problems, cognisance should be taken of the total environment and the interaction of the different facets of what is virtually one problem’. [More…]
School children are now acutely aware of the threat to their environment. [More…]
water from baths, washing machines, and the kitchen sink in unsewered homes is regarded as ‘stormwater’ and discharged quite untreated into the environment. [More…]
It is thus important that the physical environment be seen in relation to the social environment and that the psychological, social, cultural and technological variables be considered when analysing the destructive influence of man on bis surroundings. [More…]
In a discussion in ‘Business Week’ of April 1970 on ‘Pollution and the Profit Motive*, it is suggested that economists are at last wondering how to relate the environment to the gross national product. [More…]
The honourable member for Warringah mentioned that if we are to have progress some changes in the environment are inevitable but it is important to realise that these represent costs. [More…]
should be made to include the cost of producing and disposing of them without damage to the environment. [More…]
This ignores the old idea first put by Malthus that resources are exhaustible or in the terms of his 20lh century followers, the capacity of the environment to sustain economic processes is also finite. [More…]
Unfortunately, unlike other areas of science, (he results arc not directly applicable in Australia; because of our unique biota and environment, we must stand on our own feet in biological investigations. [More…]
In the process care has been taken for the protection of the environment. [More…]
In particular, a number of the committees of the Council have pointed out problems to manufacturers of pesticides and agricultural chemicals and have requested them to take into account the dangerous effects of their products on the environment, on life and so on. [More…]
State and local government perform essential functions and try to satisfy the reasonable aspirations of Australians for improvements in the environment in which they live. [More…]
It is essential that the wool industry adjust itself to the changing economic environment at home and to world trading conditions abroad. [More…]
Secondly, it will create an environment - as the honourable member for Corangamite (Mr Street) spelt out so clearly - to encourage the changing of our selling methods. [More…]
Another thing the Commission will do is create an environment so that we can have effective commercial competition between people who sell wool. [More…]
It is the taking of an academic judgment so as to put into the one pot all the people who can best benefit intellectually from a particular concentrated environment. [More…]
You have cut off the tail of the social environment. [More…]
It was further evident in most of the cases that the reason why they had not remained at school or succeeded was that there were problems at home in their environment. [More…]
As we.l as educating the parents, an opportunity might be taken to try to improve the home environment or to try to improve the attitude of the parents, in other words, because they might need further assistance as well. [More…]
Apart from the defence aspects of the issue there are environmental aspects which are important. [More…]
The House will note that 2 Opposition members of the Public Works Committee, the honourable member for Leichhardt (Mr Fulton) and the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson), drew attention to the impairment of the environment and moved an amendment that was defeated. [More…]
I know that several members of the Opposition are concerned about the impact on the environment of the proposals and they should have been able to discuss these matters in the House. [More…]
The minority report which the honourable member for Leichhardt and 1 submitted was to this effect: Unless the Government is able to convince the Parliament that the work is urgent, further investigation should be carried out to ensure that impairment of the Cockburn Sound environment will not occur’. [More…]
I believe that the words ‘unless the Government is able to convince the Parliament that the work is urgent’ are very interpretative and they apply not only to the environmental situation but could well apply to the strategic situation as well. [More…]
But 1 do have some obsessions and they are about decent values and things like the environment and about matters which affect posterity and the wellbeing of the people in this country. [More…]
Time will not permit me to go through their evidence, but if honourable members read this evidence I am sure that they would be gravely concerned by the prospect of the ecology and the environment being detrimentally affected in the Cockburn Sound area. [More…]
We want to live with our environment. [More…]
I hope however that we do not engage in this impetuous decision-taking in the future and that we have more regard for the preservation of environment, ecology and the best interests of the Australian people when we take into account the serious matters which concern us about defence. [More…]
A motion was moved to the effect that unless the Government is able to convince the Parliament that the work is urgent, further investigations should be carried out to ensure that impairment of the Cockburn Sound environment will occur. [More…]
I quote from an article written by him on environmental surveys in relation to the natural environment. [More…]
Once the natural environment has been modified it is impossible to reverse the process. [More…]
With this in mind, it can be seen that before any environmental modification can take place there must be a survey or stock-take nf the environment to see: [More…]
What natural processes are actively changing that environment. [More…]
The next matter the Committee had to consider was whether the erection of the causeway and the 2 bridges that are part of the concept would have any adverse effects on the environment of the Sound. [More…]
Some evidence indicated hesitation and doubt on the subject, and other equally authoritative evidence quite clearly indicated that in the opinion of the expert witnesses who gave the evidence, no deterioration of the environment was expected. [More…]
The majority came to the decision that no deterioration of the environment was likely. [More…]
That unless the Government is able to convince the Parliament that the work is urgent, further investigation should be carried out to ensure that impairment of Cockburn Sound environment will not occur. [More…]
A lot of evidence has been given before the Public Works Committee on the effect on the environment. [More…]
Most of the fears centre on the flow of water through the Sound which will severely affect the environment. [More…]
I would like to quote from this submission because it makes me think that the Committee has thought about the environment only as an afterthought. [More…]
But the point that most concerns me about the report of the Public Works Committee is that while the function of the Public Works Committee is to make an examination of the project from the standpoint of engineering and economic feasibility and effects on the environment, the strategic considerations are really primarily the concern of Cabinet. [More…]
Some of the evidence suggested that insufficient investigations had been made for an unequivocal assurance to be given that the proposed work would not have harmful long term effects on the natural environment of Cockburn Sound and Garden Island. [More…]
lt does suggest to me that undue consideration was given to strategic matters and not enough consideration to the effects on the environment. [More…]
As the Line is required to operate in a competitive environment it would be commercially inappropriate to detail financial arrangements with individual suppliers of shipping-services. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Government take steps to ensure that bottles are made non-returnable, fumes from aircraft are reduced, tissue and toilet paper is made to disintegrate and councils adequately collect and bury rubbish for the better protection of the environment. [More…]
What consideration has been given to the environment in schools for this type of teaching? [More…]
This appears to be the ideal place within the school curriculum - in school hours, in school surroundings with the proper textbooks, equipment and environment. [More…]
They have no knowledge of English, no English is spoken in their homes and they drift into clubs or into an environment singularly of their own countrymen in the workshops and factories. [More…]
1194 (Mansard, 19th August 1970, page 253) state that a detailed examination of environmental and ecological factors is being made so that any disturbance of the environment at Jervis Bay will not be significant. [More…]
I would add that in relation to possible dangers from the release there will be a continuing monitoring after the nuclear power station has been completed so that any effect of the discharge on the environment will be kept under constant observation. [More…]
Air pollution is only one facet of the problems of the total environment and departments with an active interest in environmental problems are studying the reports of the Parliamentary Select Committees on Air Pollution, Water Pollution and Aircraft Noise, with a view to preparing recommendations to the Government. [More…]
The special provisions in this Bill - I again emphasise the payment of salaries of these special teachers in addition to teaching aids and so on, is a very progressive step forward by the Department of Immigration and will be a big factor in enabling migrant children to settle more quickly into their new environment. [More…]
Such programmes might not only depart from the situational method of language instruction but also would demand the use of bi-lingual teachers, for there is no doubt that students would be more at home with teachers who spoke their own language and who could understand their fears and misgivings in a new environment. [More…]
Even with the ramshackle machinery we have had for 20 years to care for the young people who come to this country we have still managed, in a good healthy environment, to be able to obtain the maximum - 1 do not say optimum - degree of integration compared with any area of migrant intake in any country. [More…]
The Government is considering declaring some 11.000 acres of the 16,700 acres contained in the Commonwealth Territory of Jervis Bay as a reserve to preserve the natural environment. [More…]
What studies are being made of the longterm effects of herbicides on the environment. [More…]
That Quail Island sanctuary and other pockets of bushland provide the ecological environment for native animals and birds which would be wantonly destroyed. [More…]
1 ask: When are we to be given any positive details of action to be taken by the Commonwealth to control the spread of pollution, which is destroying our environment? [More…]
We stated in our last policy speech that we proposed to set up an Office of the Environment and would write to all States in an endeavour to set up a council to advise the States and the Commonwealth of the sort of action that could be taken throughout Australia. [More…]
Notwithstanding the rapid growth in government expenditures on capital projects, the facilities provided in the main centres of population ara failing to keep pace with needs and the Ufa environment of the major cities, far from improving, is deteriorating. [More…]
We require control of pollution in our environment. [More…]
So not only will this college save them this lengthy travelling but it will also enable them to go to school in their own environment in central Australia which, I think, is very important with regard to the bringing up of children whether they be Aboriginal or European. [More…]
The loss of self-respect, the degrading environment in which too many of these beneficiaries find themselves unavoidably moving as a result of their circumstances, are counterproductive to their speedy return to health or to the workforce. [More…]
Secondary poverty, arising from mismanagement of budgets, if added would represent a much larger proportion of the people we are concerned about today as being in the poverty environment. [More…]
We have inherited a 19th century technique to deal with a 20th century problem of attitudes, environment and circumstances. [More…]
On the question of what people shall see and what people shall not see, I have my own belief that things, such as posters, which impinge upon my visual environment and which are, in my view, obscene or offensive to me, to my family or to the public, ought not to be permitted. [More…]
Is it a fact that he has deferred the appointment of the Director and Assistant Director of the promised Office of the Environment, gazetted 5 weeks ago, in order to achieve a saving of $25,000 in Commonwealth expenditure? [More…]
I would remind the Leader of the Opposition that I indicated that we were going to set up an Office of the Environment to advise the Commonwealth on matters under its control, and that we were also going to seek to set up a council of representatives of . [More…]
It is quite true that we are not proposing to proceed at this time with the appointments to the Office of the Environment, which was to have advised us. [More…]
The neutrality of Laos has been shattered not for a few months, not for one or two years but for nearly 10 years by the active participation and aggression of North Vietnam in that part of what was once Indo-China It was not South Vietnam and the United States of America which shattered the myth of neutrality in Cambodia, as the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) well knows and as he reported courageously in view of the environment of his own colleagues; it was the blatant aggression by North Vietnam and the determination of the Cambodian people to stand up for their own independence that ended Sihanouk’s regime, placed the present Prime Minister in power and began their struggle for independence. [More…]
As this nation has grown and developed so the population has become more aware of the degradation of the environment by pollution. [More…]
After this a sense of well-being, tranquility and passive enjoyment of the environment leads to fatigue and sleep. [More…]
Commonwealth Office of the Environment and National Advisory Council (Question No. [More…]
Office of the Environment [More…]
This, in the crude jargon in this environment in which we operate, was a leak and this is what the then Minister for Defence had set about. [More…]
He does not understand this concept, living in his environment of a disciplined policy regime dictated by a nonelected body, lt would have more neatly fitted into a dusty cranny of the ALP if the Prime Minister had said: ‘No policies are subject to review’. [More…]
What evidence published in reputable scientific journals indicates that the relase of Dichlorvos vapour in a closed environment and over a long period is safe. [More…]
Australia’s law enforcement services, like its schools, hospitals and urban environment, are victims of the impasse in Commonwealth and State financial relations which Liberals have devised as a pretext for under investment in every aspect of public activity. [More…]
It could well be due to a bad home environment. [More…]
Take a young man who may be 19 or 20 years of age who has been brought up in an environment in which his family has given him every access to a motor car and wealth. [More…]
These are biological factors and factors in the individual’s present and past environment. [More…]
What does matter is that, from a practical viewpoint, we can do a great deal to prevent crime and other behavioural deviations by a study of their biological and environmental causes. [More…]
We are told that the burning of coal can release mercury into the environment. [More…]
It is going to stockpile the world’s largest pile of coal, pollute the coastline and ruin the environment in that area. [More…]
In several of the States we already have a Minister for the environment. [More…]
I understand that the cameramen travelled 15,000 miles to capture scenes of the real environment of Australia’s 5,900 bee keepers, excluding those in Tasmania. [More…]
There are areas in Western Australia where dried fruits are also important but without question it is the Murray environment which is the principal producing region in Australia and with which we are concerned here. [More…]
The former Prime Minister promised in his opening speech for the Senate campaign to establish within his own Department an Office of the Environment. [More…]
He emphasised: The time to begin to correct present pollution and prevent increasing pollution is now; On 21st January creation of positions for a Director and Assistant Director of the Office of the Environment was announced in the Government Gazette, but on 24th February, in reply to a question by me without notice, the then Prime Minister acknowledged that as an anti-inflationary measure these positions would not be filled. [More…]
He has not merely persisted with his predecessor’s refusal to appoint staff for the Office of the Environment but has consigned the Office itself to that limbo of left-over Gortonian aspirants and ideals, the Department of the Vice-President of the Executive Council. [More…]
Unless the government is able to convince the Parliament that the work, is urgent, further investigation should be carried out to ensure that impairment of the Cockburn Sound environment will not occur. [More…]
Thi: former Prime Minister told me on 24th February that while establishment of the Office of the Environment had been postponed, he had written to the Premiers on 11 th December about a National Advisory Council on Pollution which would be established as soon as replies had been received. [More…]
Water pollution is only part of u much broader pollution problem which is threatening our whole national environment. [More…]
Whilst not opposing establishment of a Commonwealth-State Advisory Council on Pollution, we believe that establishment of the Office of the Environment is incomparably more important and should no longer be postponed. [More…]
I think there is no doubt that the Australian people, as well as the members of this Parliament, recognise the problems of pollution and the problems in the environment which result from pollution. [More…]
I shall come later to the Office of the Environment. [More…]
We as a Government are only too conscious that in developing this great nation of ours we must take care to protect and preserve our environment. [More…]
Your organisation is to be commended for seeking to awaken in the individual a sense of responsibility for protecting his environment. [More…]
We therefore have taken the decision to set up a Commonwealth Office of the Environment under the control of the Prime Minister’s Department. [More…]
Following that the then Prime Minister wrote to the State Premiers suggesting that there should be a conference of officers to discuss the matter of pollution and the problems of the environment. [More…]
The Premiers of New South Wales and Victoria said that they were not yet ready but that they desired to set up their own organisations to deal with pollution and environmental problems so that they might have some information relating to the problems in their own States. [More…]
I think it is important to remember that (here is now an Office of the Environment which has been mentioned in the new administrative arrangements and. [More…]
I mentioned the Office of the Environment, which has come under the Department of the Vice-President of the Executive Council. [More…]
I know that work on the protection of the environment has been done in the transport area and I hope that my colleague, the Minister for Shipping and Transport (Mr Nixon), will participate in this debate and that he will deal with pollution in his area of responsibility. [More…]
I want to deal with some philosophical aspects of our environment. [More…]
It is accepted by reasonable men that the task of fighting pollution and preserving the environment cannot be met by our State governments, which are in chaos in every department. [More…]
The proposed Office of Environment can act in 2 main ways: Firstly, by developing programmes designed to rectify past mistakes; secondly, by developing programmes which will institute sound planning and resource management to prevent the mistakes being made in the future. [More…]
International agreements could include agreements about conservation of marine species and protection of the sea from pollution: export and import policies which have impacts on the environment or which protect endangered species of flora and fauna; and presentation of cases to international conferences. [More…]
The Office of the Environment could define the optimum human environment as a series of goals towards which all Federal and Stale agencies work. [More…]
These Acts could be comprehensive, cover the whole human physical, and psychological environment and be based on goals already mentioned. [More…]
The only other point in his speech worth mentioning is that his interpretation of what the Office of the Environment can do in the Commonwealth field is really a rehash in his own words of the policy speech of the former Prime Minister delivered last year. [More…]
Having heard the Postmaster-General (Sir Alan Hulme) explain the Commonwealth’s activities in connection with pollution and environment across a very broad field, one has to come to the conclusion that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) today in moving this resolution is jumping on one of his usual band wagons. [More…]
The House has heard an account from the Minister for Shipping and Transport (Mr Nixon) about what has been done overseas to arrest pollution and the destruction of the environment. [More…]
The terminology of the matter of public importance before the House is that we are to discuss the Government’s delay in acting on the recommendations it has received and the undertakings it has given to safeguard the environment. [More…]
This department was to be the Commonwealth Office of the Environment. [More…]
Some time ago a Senate select committee applied itself to the consideration of pollution and environmental problems. [More…]
For a major party to display an indifference and disregard about environmental matters in the Senate campaign that followed the report of the committee would have spelt disaster. [More…]
He said that the Office of the Environment would be responsible for advising the Commonwealth and recommending action that should be taken to prevent or reduce pollution arising out of the activities of any Commonwealth department or authority. [More…]
1 want to refer briefly to the enormous ramifications involved and to the hotchpotch nature of efforts made by this Government to control our environment so far as Commonwealth responsibility is involved. [More…]
Department conducts research into environmental pollution through this body. [More…]
He ought to be aware of his former responsibilities as Minister for the Interior in regard to environmental matters for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Department of Trade and Industry also is involved in environmental matters because it is concerned with the export and quality of foodstuffs. [More…]
1 would need to spend some time to enunciate the wide range of responsibilities that the Department of Shipping and Transport has in regard to the environment. [More…]
It is, of course, an inevitable consequence of increasing technological development and rising standards of living that man is more and more modifying his environment. [More…]
words ‘ecosystem’ and ‘biosphere’ are frequently used instead of the word ‘environment’, in current writings on this matter. [More…]
Both words contain the thought of involvement with the complete environment, including all forms of life, and this is the basic thinking of the Government. [More…]
It is apparent that any adequate consideration of the overall quality of the environment must involve practically all the major scientific disciplines and that a recurring feature will be the action and reaction between various phases of the environment as changes occur in any one of them. [More…]
The concept of the imposition of standards for the treatment of wastes or for other practices presupposes the establishment of programmes for collection of the data which will provide a measure of the quality of the environment, particularly air and water but including land, flora and fauna: the establishment of standards to be set; and an adequate legal and administrative framework to ensure adherence to standards. [More…]
Its overall objective is to provide for effective management of resources, ensuring optimum benefits for present use, consistent with maintenance, and where possible betterment of the quality of the environment. [More…]
The philosophy of the Government is to seek the achievement of maximum satisfaction of material and cultural needs consistent with minimum interference with the natural environment. [More…]
The Australian Mining Industry Council encourages its member industries to undertake economic redevelopment to regenerate areas damaged and to take measures to forestall any future pollution or other environment hazard. [More…]
The Australian Forestry Council resolved at its last meeting in July that its standing committee of officials should study aspects of forestry activities in relation to the maintenance of the quality of the environment and report to the next meeting of the Council. [More…]
There are many examples that have been given to this House of action that has been taken and it is at the present time, as has been stated, the intention of the Government to establish before not too long an office of the environment. [More…]
In addition it has been and is still the intention of the Government to institute negotiations with the States to set up a national council on the environment which will cover many of the aspects I have mentioned. [More…]
She must therefore live constantly in an environment where the temperature is at least higher than normal body temperature. [More…]
The Chief of the General Staff and members of the Military Board have lived the whole of their professional lives in this environment. [More…]
Earlier I mentioned highly developed community attitudes towards environment, pollution, quality of life and people who are less privileged and less able to work. [More…]
More and more people are arguing that growth is too high a priority already and are warning of its cost in terms of threats to the environment. [More…]
We must treat any argument based on the environment with sympathy and seriousness. [More…]
Japan is an example of a country which, having single-mindedly pursued a goal of quantitative growth, is now counting the environmental cost and finding it extremely heavy. [More…]
Our task is to ensure that growth really does lead to an increase in welfare, remembering that welfare consists not only of the quantity of goods and services which we produce but also of the quality of the environment in which we consume them. [More…]
We must always bring the environmental argument into the balance sheet, and we must devote part of our growth to dealing with its costs. [More…]
Urban planning can, in theory at least, protect the urban environment. [More…]
Quite apart from the wages and earnings argument, it determines what the community can afford by way of urban amenities, our education facilities, the amount of leisure we have, the extent to which we conserve and protect our environment, and other critical aspects of our standard of living. [More…]
Of course, the economic environment generated by this Government has been very favourable to capital accumulation. [More…]
Having emphasised the role of management, 1 should add that all efforts to accelerate technological progress would be in vain unless the environment was sufficiently competitive to provide a maximum incentive to innovation. [More…]
The United States of America has recognised that there is a 3-pronged approach to cutting the road toll - the driver, the environment (that is the road) and the vehicle. [More…]
The worst feature of all is the fact that the project threatens the environment of one of the most attractive coastal areas in New South Wales. [More…]
While $2m is being spent on examining the engineering feasibility of the scheme, the possibility that the environment will be desecrated and people will be contaminated by coal dust is completely neglected. [More…]
The pollutive effects of the project and the environmental destruction which seems imminent in one of the most attractive coastline areas of Australia, to which visitors go from all over the world, should become one of the first investigatory tasks of the new Commonwealth Office of the Environment, if this Government is ever going to demonstrate a decent sense of priorities to the point of getting this Commonwealth Office of the Environment off the ground. [More…]
Concern about this matter in the region is such that I believe that the citizenry and the workers are not prepared to contribute to the destruction of their own environment. [More…]
I suppose it could be said that pollution is any change in the primitive or pristine environment - any change from the simplicity of the natural situation. [More…]
It would be a ridiculous situation to close the mine because it continually poses a threat of pollution to the environment in those terms. [More…]
In my book, pollution is the unnecessary, ugly or dangerous change in the environment which is not in the best interests of the community; not just in terms of finance and economics but culturally and physically in terms of its health or in terms of the real security of people. [More…]
I propose to deal briefly with 3 points - Firstly, coking coal reserves; secondly, the environment; and thirdly, the Commonwealth rights in relation to the seabed. [More…]
On the question of any threat to the quality of the environment, it goes without saying that the responsible Ministers and departments in New South Wales have taken the closest interest in this matter. [More…]
discussions between the company and the appropriate departments, and agreement has been reached on the inclusion of provisions in any lease that may be granted which will ensure that measures necessary to preserve the quality of the environment will be taken. [More…]
The New South Wales authorities are satisfied ‘ that these conditions will ensure that the environment of the areas concerned will not be adversely affected. [More…]
The penalties provided by the Bill should not be compared with the lengthy gaol sentences deriving from an earlier and much more primitive social and legal environment. [More…]
We should plan its progress with special consideration to environment and the expansion of cultural, sporting, entertainment and community activities in an effort to make it a warm and friendly city, and to ensure that as the years unfold before us, the national capital will develop in beauty and splendour. [More…]
I believe that where an art exhibition of this kind can be held in the environment of the work place - in this case in the lunch room, where it will not interfere in any way with the work of the Dockyard - it should be encouraged. [More…]
They - seek an environment free from external interference. [More…]
It is very interesting to consider the environment in which the original policy of military and diplomatic isolation of China evolved and to see some of the justifications on which this policy of separation of China from the world community was based. [More…]
This policy was aimed also at preventing the expansion of Russian power because, interestingly enough, in the early 1950s, the official American view in this environment of antiCommunism was that China was in fact merely an extension of Russia. [More…]
I preface it by referring him to the remarks, as published, of Mr Commissioner Winter, to the effect that unless a satisfactory price-wage relationship could be secured he was not optimistic for the future of any kind of reasonable industrial relations and that wage earners could not have their real living standards suffering erosion from the very moment an arbitrator set a fair and reasonable standard in the current economic environment. [More…]
At the same time we have to consider the facts of the Australian environment. [More…]
Many Australian industries face costs higher than those of their overseas competitors for reasons beyond their control arising from the Australian natural and social environment. [More…]
I am thinking particularly of the discharge of Commonwealth responsibilities in the fields of Aboriginal Affairs, the Arts and the Environment. [More…]
Activities relating to the environment, including responsibility for the Office of the Environment. [More…]
The administration of Aboriginal affairs and of Commonwealth functions in the fields of the arts and the environment are among those to be transferred to the new Minister. [More…]
Then there is what has come to be called ‘the environment’. [More…]
An office to bring together and generally to superintend the Commonwealth’s work and responsibilities in the environmental field is a new initiative, and an important one. [More…]
It has seemed desirable at the same time to add what will be a rapidly developing role in relation to the environment. [More…]
There will be renewed emphasis upon the importance the Government attaches to three different groups of responsibilities - in Aboriginal Affairs; in the arts; and in the environment. [More…]
In the environment of the pre-school the door is opened to a wider range of creative and imaginative activities than is provided in the homes and neighbourhoods of many children. [More…]
The growth of self reliance and social co-operation gives this educational environment in the preschool a value that scarcely needs emphasising. [More…]
However, the Labor Party’s Pre-School Commission will aim not only to ensure equal access for all children to a preschool education but also to discriminate in favour of those who are disadvantaged by the limitations of home environment. [More…]
The middle class Australian child has already received from his home environment the advantage of greater opportunities for communication, for social confidence, for creativity, for reasoning of the type required by the primary school, and for motivation to be successful. [More…]
The handicaps which the child’s cultural environment cause and in which the greatest retardation generally occurs are in the reasoning and language abilities. [More…]
For too long housing, urban living and the environment have been at the very bottom of the priorities list of successive anti-Labor governments over the last 2 decades. [More…]
It wants a better deal for the people living in the cities - a better environment and the right to participate in the arts, the theatre, culture, social and recreational activities. [More…]
I want the environment of a city like Canberra spread right across this continent. [More…]
The environment has been improved. [More…]
To view the problem of housing out of context with the other elements and ingredients that determine the quality of life and the quality of the environment is one of the great tragedies of the postwar period. [More…]
He is the victim of <polluted air, blighted street sides and the incredibly urban ugliness and chaos of an asphalt environment. [More…]
Let us do what we can to encourage Australians to fulfil their birthright and live in a decent environment where their children can grow up and have the opportunity to live a decent life. [More…]
The question of the complete urban environment is also involved. [More…]
Only a government with large tracts of land at its disposal can create an environment as pleasant as has been developed at Canberra. [More…]
Each year at this time the ‘OECD Observer’, which I am glad to say we have in the Parliament, produces the latest statistics showing the economic pattern of OECD countries, incentives to invest in developing countries, the need for intergovernmental co-operation on the environment and policy implications of increased growth in higher education. [More…]
facility to the ecology and the environment at Cockburn Sound was regarded by the Public Works Committee as being, not of great importance; that the Committee felt that there were no major ecological considerations or any question of damage to the environment there, and therefore the Public Works Committee felt, with a clear conscience, that it was quite in order to go ahead and recommended the’ -expenditure for Cockburn Sound. [More…]
Dr J. Verrett’s testimony to the United States Senate Sub-committee on Energy, National Resources and the Environment on 15th April 1970 indicates that chloracne has occurred in the United States of America, the Netherlands, Germany and Japan in association with the manufacture of chlorinated compounds similar to ones occurring during the production of 2,4,5T. [More…]
How do we make the Minister and the Government respond to the demands of the public on questions relating to Aboriginal affairs, for instance, or to the environment? [More…]
The third matter on which I suggested that there should be separate department - the third of the significant group of matters of which the Prime Minister is divesting himself - concerns the environment. [More…]
I hope that now that he has divested himself of so many of his responsibilities for Aboriginal affairs, the arts, the environment and a very great number of other administra tive or housekeeping functions, the Prime Minister will give proper attention to those matters which in a Federal system require co-operation by the States. [More…]
Will the environment become more attractive and pleasurable? [More…]
Activities relating to the environment, including responsibility for the Office of the Environment. [More…]
Let me deal briefly with the four key areas of responsibility - Aboriginal affairs, the arts, the environment and tourism. [More…]
I turn now to this question of the environment. [More…]
I will digress here for a moment to say that it is an important issue - so important that the British Government has appointed a Ministry for the Environment with no other responsibilities. [More…]
As the Leader of the Opposition pointed out very cogently and quite clearly, the time has now arrived in this country when the whole environmental question is deserving of a single Ministry with the subsequent responsibility that this will bring about. [More…]
I cannot accept that a Ministry that is a kaleidoscope of tourism, the environment and of so many other extraordinary sorts of responsibilities will be able to carry out effectively and efficiently the contribution and the assistance to the arts that was enunciated by the former Prime Minister, now the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton). [More…]
It highlights the lip service paid by this Prime Minister to the arts and, indeed, to the environment generally. [More…]
These measures advanced by the Prime Minister in no way accord the priorities to the arts, to Aboriginal affairs or to the environment consistent with the needs and the aspirations of the Australian people in this, the last term of the century. [More…]
One cannot expect wage earners to have their real living standards suffering erosion from the very moment an arbitrator sets what he considers to be a fair and reasonable standard in the economic environment in which he’ determines the standard. [More…]
Many Australian industries face costs higher than those of their overseas competitors for reasons beyond their control arising from the Australian natural and social environment. [More…]
In recent years, since sensitive chemical analysis has permitted the detection of minute amounts of chlorinated chemical compounds in the environment, concern has been expressed about the possible effects of such materials as organochlorine pesticides (e.g. [More…]
The restrictions were considered necessary in view of the build-up of chemical pollution in rivers, lakes and marine estuaries, and the possible effect of this pollution on the ecology of the immediate environment. [More…]
State Departments of Fisheries and Wildlife have made preliminary surveys and the conclusion reached is that there is no significant organochlorine pesticides contaminatioin of the Australian environment. [More…]
But, nevertheless, that company is put in the position where its trade, its company profitability, its circumstance and its whole economic environment are put in jeopardy because a hearing is not readily available to it. [More…]
In spite of what the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) said, it is a great step forward because the Aboriginal children will not have to leave their natural environment. [More…]
People are beginning to be concerned now about the detriment that particular industries sometimes cause to the social environment. [More…]
These are the areas where we need to improve the environment. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the environmental message of President Nixon of 8th February 1971 wherein he said in regard to ocean dumping, that protection of . [More…]
the total: marine environment from suchpollution can only be assured if other nations, adopt similar measures and enforce them. [More…]
recommend a national policy banning unregulated ocean dumping of all materials and placing strict limits on ocean disposal of any materials harmful to the environment; and [More…]
will be represented in the Senate by Senator Drake-Brockman, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts will be represented by Senator Greenwood, and Senator Cotton will represent the MinisterinCharge of Tourist Activities. [More…]
It is his place in the environment - the good he does, how he lives with his neighbours and the measures of his contentment - but at the same time we must preserve our freedoms and our civil liberties. [More…]
I know that the new Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) has a commission from the Prime Minister to use his influence in the Liberal Party to destroy the former Prime Minister of this country. [More…]
However I might say that the selection of a treatment system for any particular application will depend on the circumstances of the water being treated, the quality required of the product water, the environment in which the’ treatment plant is to be located and any secondary effects resulting from the use of the process or set of processes. [More…]
None of the joint activities initialed to date under the Agreement has been established specifically or principally to study problems of the environment. [More…]
However, some joint activities that have been established in three scientific fields are relevant to acquiring a belter understanding of aspects of the environment and of environmental management. [More…]
Did the Australian Forestry Council resolve at its meeting in July 1970 that its Standing Committee should make a study of the environment for the next meeting of the Council? [More…]
Work will continue also at Jervis Bay in restoration of the environment surrounding the road and the cutting prepared for the power station. [More…]
the effects of the establishment of a nuclear power station upon the environment; [More…]
When they are constructed care is taken to preserve the environment and the beauty of the surrounding landscape. [More…]
We do not increase our influence by taking that kind of action, but at least I feel 1 can say to this House 2 things: President Yahya Khan has publicly expressed his intention of transferring power, in an orderly way and in a stable environment, to democratic civilian institutions. [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Is it a fact that in the last 12 months there has been an increased awareness of the pollution of water and air by the heavy metals - mercury, cadmium and lead - leading to the institution of very strict controls in many countries on the release into the environment of these metals and a great increase in the testing of food drawn from areas suspected or known to carry high concentrations of these metals. [More…]
Can he say who in Australia is responsible for (a) regulating and controlling the release of these metals into the environment, recognising the fact that most heavy metals eventually finish up in off-shore waters and (b) measuring their concentrations in food produce. [More…]
No single authority in Australia is charged with the responsibility for (a) regulating and controlling the release of these metals into the environment or (b) measuring their concentrations in food produce; however, with respect to (a) State and Commonwealth Departments of Health exercise a general supervisory role and with respect to (b) State Health Departments, the Department of Customs and Excise and other Laboratories perform this function. [More…]
As the honourable member is aware, the Commonwealth and the States have agreed to discuss the establishment of a National Advisory Council on the Environment to advise on areas where co-ordination can properly be achieved. [More…]
and (2) The Office of the Environment was established as a Division of the Prime Minister’s Department on 24th December 1970. [More…]
The Office of the Environment is responsible for advising the Commonwealth and recommending action that should be taken to prevent or reduce pollution arising out of the activities of any Commonwealth Department or Authority. [More…]
Insofar as any pollution of these rivers might result from the activities of any Commonwealth department or authority, the Office of the Environment will be responsible for advising the Commonwealth and recommending action that should be taken to prevent or reduce such pollution. [More…]
Also, as the honourable member is aware, the Commonwealth and the States have agreed to discuss the establishment of a National Advisory Council on the Environment to advise on areas where co-ordination can properly be achieved. [More…]
In submitting proposals to the Secretary-General regarding the review of the United Nations’ Charter, which are required before 1st July 1972, will the Government give consideration to the need to move for (a) negotiating an international exchange of press space and broadcasting time, (b) representation for China and Tibet separately (as for the Soviet Union, the Ukraine and Byelorussia) to encourage China to accept de facto representation for Taiwan, and separate representation for contending regimes in other divided countries, (c) universal suffrage in developing nations as a step towards democratic representation at the General Assembly or an associated House of Deputies and (d) growing legislative, judicial and executive powers for the United Nations as a pre-requisite for total disarmament, co-ordinated world development and control of the environment, subject to safeguards for national sovereignty in purely national matters? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and refers to the recent Press notices stating that a report on the Great Barrier Reef has just been completed. [More…]
1 hope that all honourable members will take this opportunity of studing this report which shows what tremendous tourist potential is available if the Great Barrier Reef is developed in an imaginative and orderly manner while still preserving the ecological environment which is so important. [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
I have the responsibility on this side of the House for housing, urban affairs and the environment. [More…]
Housing and the environment are dealt with by 2 Ministers, whilst in regard to urban affairs we know that this Government has no responsibility at all for the cities of Australia. [More…]
Other matters to be considered would be his ability to fit in, his socialising tendencies within the community itself and the environment to which he is likely to return. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the decision of President Nixon in February 1969 to alter patent procedures in the United States to give priority to the examination of patents which are designed to improve or protect the environment? [More…]
Has the Australian Minerals Council commissioned a committee to study the environment as the Australian Forestry Council and the Australian Water Resources Council have done. [More…]
and’ (2) As was announced in a press statement issued on behalf of the Australian Minerals Council, following , its meeting on 7th May 1971, the matter of ‘mining and the environment’ was discussed. [More…]
At- this stage the Council has not commissioned a special committee on the environment. [More…]
Impairment of the environment is caused by a complex inter-relationship of factors changing according to local situations. [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and MinisterinCharge of Tourist Activities. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts who is also MinisterinCharge of Tourist Activities. [More…]
Spending on environment and the arts is reduced by nearly $lm. [More…]
Presumably most of this reduction will be effected by postponing establishment of the Office of the Environment - deemed to be a matter of urgency by the former Prime Minister at the last Senate election and as recently as last Wednesday still awaiting ‘final approval’. [More…]
Of all documents, it has to situate itself more within the environment in which it operates than within any other environment. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Does the decision to postpone the establishment of the Office of the Environment indicate that in the Government’s view the Commonwealth need not play a leading and co-ordinating role in the development of a rational environmental policy or that the role is unimportant? [More…]
When we consider the effect of the Budget on productivity and growth we must also consider the effects on the environment. [More…]
I realise of course that, because of our peculiar Constitution, control of the environment rests chiefly with the States. [More…]
Nevertheless, this House must be concerned because of the very substantial economic effects and because of the diversion of resources which environmental control will cause. [More…]
The first report of tha Standing Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution in Britain is an absorbing document. [More…]
Assuming that the economy settles down and gets on a fairly even keel again so that financial landmarks are not continually eroded by the process of increased prices, one of the things that impress me is this: If in the future governments are to play a larger part in the economic life of the country by undertaking some of the new things that have been proposed in the fields of education, health and the environment- [More…]
Finally, I wish to join the honourable member for Isaacs (Mr Hamer) in urging the Government to consider the problem of the environment. [More…]
I mean the whole environment, the whole cycle of biological life on this planet. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
Has he made arrangements to meet the States to discuss the protection of the environment? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that some large and powerful firms are anxious to co-operate with the appropriate authorities in the protection of our environment? [More…]
I know of the great interest of the honourable members for Macarthur and Bradfield and many other honourable members in the work that this Government is doing in the field of the environment. [More…]
Referring to the last part of the question I am certain that as a result of increased activity, not only on the Federal scene but also in the States, a larger number of companies have been taking much greater care to prevent damage which might otherwise have been occasioned to the environment as a result of their activities. [More…]
I address my question to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
Also, will he support the call for a public inquiry into the Clutha scheme to consider claims that special privilege has been given to this overseas company, that the environment is seriously threatened and that the economics of the scheme deny a fair return to the Australian people? [More…]
This position brings the individual into direct contract with the operational and flying environment [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
As the spokesman for the Australian Labor Party on housing, urban affairs and environment I was appalled that the McMahon Government continues to accord housing a low priority in Government policy. [More…]
During this debate I want to deal with matters relating to the environment. [More…]
The newly appointed Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) would be better described as the Minister for spare parts. [More…]
This exemplifies the Government’s priorities on the environment. [More…]
During the parliamentary recess I represented the Parliament and my Party on a parliamentary working committee on the environment at Bonn, Germany. [More…]
Because it is difficult to have a debate on such a topic in this Parliament I intend to devote my comments in this debate to the problems of the environment. [More…]
It does not matter if man’s value system - and I even include the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) who is at the table - is Communist, Fascist, Conservative, Liberal or Socialist, he faces a global crisis based on the fact that his population increase, his squandering of natural resources, his control of food production, his accelerated urbanisation and his release of a wide variety of toxic substances into the environment are directing him on a collision course with disaster. [More…]
Let us be the leader in moves for a good global environment policy and let us work for population control, pollution control and a rational rate of use of natural resources. [More…]
Now that a Federal Department of the Environment has been established, we should define immediately the optimum human environment by a series of goals towards which the Federal and State agencies should work. [More…]
These Acts should be comprehensive, cover the whole human, physical and psychological environment. [More…]
It can strive for uniformity by levying special taxes on pollution, by tax incentives and, if necessary, a tax surcharge to encourage pollution control, and by giving grants to States, local and semi-government authorities to ensure a system of policing the environment effort. [More…]
We should look at our population policy at home and decide on what kind of total population increase, natural and immigrant, our environment can handle over a long period. [More…]
I hope that some positive action will be taken by the Government and that it has not appointed a Minister for the Environment just to detract from the criticism of the conditions existing in this country. [More…]
A good deal of what the honourable member for Reid said about the environment and growing problems in relation to population growth and future trends would be matters with which we would all be in agreement. [More…]
There is no doubt that the question of the preservation of our environment is a world problem. [More…]
The honourable member for Reid who preceded me in this debate made some very thoughtful comments about our environment. [More…]
Some parts of our environment and heritage, however, must be retained in their present condition for science, recreation, or use in the more remote future. [More…]
I want to make it perfectly clear that I am not criticising the newly appointed Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts; quite the contrary. [More…]
It is an absurdity to include the important portfolio of the Arts - here I speak in the broadest terms - with that of Aboriginal Affairs, the Environment, Tourism and the multiplicity of activities for which this Minister is responsible. [More…]
In the short time left to me I would like to comment upon the appointment of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
P. Howson, Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and Minister assisting the Minister for Trade and Industry, in Tourist Activities. [More…]
If the Budget is successful in changing attitudes to inflation; if it encourages employers to behave responsibly in dealing with excessive wage demands; if it gives unions a more realistic appreciation of the capacity of the economy to absorb wage increases; and if it alters the environment of almost unqualified optimism in which industrial tribunals have operated - if it does these things, even if only partly, then we will have been very well served. [More…]
Human behaviour is determined by the environment - the social, economic and physical environment. [More…]
You must do something about the environment which determines those attitudes. [More…]
Now we have run into a period when the environment has become of immense importance. [More…]
The Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) will know that when the steel works at Port Kembla were erected we did not bother about the environment. [More…]
But Armco, who will be building the new steel works, has won 3 awards in America at its plant at Middleton in Ohio for the protection of the environment. [More…]
We are going to protect the environment. [More…]
We are protecting the environment with tremendous skill and with the best advice in the world. [More…]
My friend from Reid (Mr Uren) has raised the question of the environment. [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and Minister-in-Charge of Tourist Activities a question. [More…]
We have to have an appreciation that it is not only a matter of serving the people with field social workers but other factors are included such as housing and more importantly education and the environment. [More…]
The significance is that it is an established fact that children who have the opportunity to attend a pre-school develop certain personal skills; develop a better ability to handle conceptualisation; they develop their tactile abilities and so on and in addition they develop certain personality traits which allow them to adjust to group environment more easily. [More…]
For the human component, examples of such factors include age and the influence of alcohol; for the vehicle, visibility, handling behaviour and the efficiency of the braking system; and for the environment, highway design and layout, and traffic management measures. [More…]
Examples of factors concerned here are, for the human being, the use of seat belts or the wearing of crash helmets; for the vehicle, interior design; for the environment, the design of roadside furniture and the properties of natural hazards such as trees. [More…]
Such factors include, for the human, the quality of medical care; for the vehicle, the chance of a fire occurring as a result of impact; and for the environment, the ease with which rescuers and medical teams can reach the scene of the crash and evacuate the injured from it to suitable medical care. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and MinisterinCharge of Tourist Activities. [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and Minister-in-Charge of Tourist Activities a question arising from his statement 2 days ago on the National Film and Television Training School. [More…]
Never before or since the first great conflict of World War I has man been called upon to endure the terrors, hardship, confusion, frustration, pain, filth and vermin-infested environment which were endured by the men who fought in that great holocaust. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts who is now the focal point of a campaign by all, Australian governments to prevent pollution of the atmosphere and natural amenities, especially by industry and public authorities. [More…]
I address a question to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and the MinisterinCharge of Tourist Activities. [More…]
The question of taxation is usually a matter for the Treasurer and not for the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
Let the environment for people and their well being count for more than bringing people into the heart of Sydney a few minutes earlier than they might otherwise have arrived there. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for the Environment, etc. [More…]
I direct to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the [More…]
And are we not now learning very fast to live with the concept that the world is in the process of destroying itself at a terrifying rate by the physical pollution of the environment? [More…]
This conference was referred to earlier in this debate by the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren), lt was a conference arranged by the Working Centre of the 11 provincial parliaments of the Federal Republic of Germany and the theme of the conference was ‘The Environment’. [More…]
The delegates at the conference were left in no doubt that the problem of pollution and the destruction of the environment is one which cannot be dealt with by one country in isolation and that laws relating to pollution, whether it be of the air, or of water, and to the destruction of the environment, have to be dealt with at international level. [More…]
benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
Would it have been determined by some Minister for Urban Affairs and Environment? [More…]
The honourable member for Reid would love to have control of the whole of the environment and be advised, as he said, by a public servant here in Canberra. [More…]
Canberra is a first-class example of decentralised urbanisation which has produced a good environment and a pleasant place in which to live. [More…]
Australia is situated as an outpost of the European community in a South East Asian environment and its associations are quite different. [More…]
As to effects on ecology these are now matters which, at the Commonwealth level, are the responsibility of my colleague the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
Is the- Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts aware that most, if not all, of the larger advertising agencies in Australia are now overseas owned or controlled? [More…]
It is a very pleasant environment now. [More…]
This was an extraordinarily good move in that it set up a team of scientists in the environment in which they were to work and to apply their results rather than in Canberra, Brisbane or some other capital city. [More…]
This is quite apart from the tremendous damage to the environment and the aircraft noise issue in all those suburbs I have mentioned before with their huge mass population. [More…]
As I said the other day, we in Australia, in designing our new destroyer, are currently thinking in terms of a capacity to deal with this kind of threat and to operate in this environment. [More…]
To administer what it considers to be its world charter the USSR has for some time had a task force in the Indian Ocean and more recently in the environment of the Philippines there have been activities of another Russian task force. [More…]
A home visitor can visit these lonely old people and keep them buoyed up, interested in their society and in their environment and so help to delay the erosion of age which otherwise could lead to them suffering mental degeneration and eventual incarceration in some sort of home where there is no stimulation or interest for them. [More…]
We now have the spectre of rural ghost towns, of agricultural wastelands, as people are being forced to the great city environments, not of their own volition but because of Government ineptitude in policy. [More…]
Is this the great vision of decentralisation, when people are forced out of an industry they have created with their own vigour, their own intelligence, and their own capability and capacity, to an environment that they do not want and an environment that is incapable of supporting them? [More…]
In 1901 we had no Department of Civil Aviation, no Navy that was established in 1911 by a Labor Government no Royal Australian Air Force, no Repatriation Department, no Department of Social Services, no organised Commonwealth marketing schemes in primary industry, no medical and hospital benefits legislation, no Commonwealth education and science legislation, no uniform taxation, no restrictive trade practices legislation, no uniform marriage or divorce laws, no Commonwealth Department of Housing no external territories responsibilities, no industrial legislation, no national service, no national development responsibilities, no departments covering Aboriginal affairs, the environment and the arts, no tourist activity responsibilities, no shipping and transport responsibilities including Commonwealth ships, and no organisation relating to trade and industry. [More…]
In fact, what I have in mind was illustrated by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) a few days ago when he was asked a question about the $7m proposed for the establishment of a national film and television school to educate actors, television producers and the like which had been deferred. [More…]
Commonwealth - The Honourable Peter Howson, M.P., Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, [More…]
At today’s meeting, Ministers exchanged information on existing legislation and gave their views on the problems of the environment in their areas and the steps that they are formulating to protect it. [More…]
However, it was agreed that there was a continuing need to combat pollution and to improve the quality of the environment. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and I preface it by referring to a statement issued by the Minister for the Interior in which he referred to the establishment of an advisory council on the projected use of Commonwealth land. [More…]
To take the matter a stage further, within recent weeks I have had discussions with my colleague the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and I have pointed out to him that he is to proceed as quickly as possible to collect all the evidence that becomes available to him so that the proposal can be presented to the Government well before the next Budget and not necessarily therefore in a budget context. [More…]
We are aware of the shortage of skilled personnel in almost every profession in our community, and we should be able to understand that in this environment now is not the time for the Commonwealth Parliament to be seeking to extend its influence and thus create unnecessary burdens for the departments of Slate. [More…]
Our workers want jobs, long service leave, reasonable wages and security and the right to full employment and be employed in their own environment, but if they want those things, we must be prepared to pay for them. [More…]
So far as the third area of industrial relations is concerned, that is, the function of government, let me make it clear to the House - the honourable gentleman did not raise it- that we as a Government recognise the need to establish a satisfactory legislative environment in which industrial relations can be effectively ordered, and we will do so, but we will not do it at the expense of destroying the system which is inherent in what the Opposition put forward yesterday. [More…]
Before I call the Minister, as there seems to be some confusion in the minds of honourable members as to the correct way in which the Minister should be addressed, I suggest to all honourable members that the Minister be addressed as the Minister for the Environment. [More…]
These doubts are permeating the whole environment of the secondary school system and it is creeping into the primary school system. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) is just as much a product of the Australian society and Australian education system as we are, and we all remember the answer he gave to a question asked by the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) relating to population and the environment. [More…]
The home environment is another factor that would result in many of them not being stimulated to go on even if this could be afforded and even if scholarships were available. [More…]
I am not saying that this would be appropriate in our environment. [More…]
One must recognise that environment plays an important part in the development of society, and it is extremely difficult to change environment. [More…]
At the moment deprivation in the home - that is, in the homes of low income earners, in migrant homes, in Aboriginal homes, in the homes of unskilled workers and in broken homes - and the lack of a proper cultural environment retards children from this background and perpetuates inequality. [More…]
We must look at the whole social and physical environment in which people are seeking and taking more medication. [More…]
It may mean anti-pollution measures to reduce respiratory disease; it may mean measures to improve the urban environment to reduce the incidence of psychoneurosis; it may mean safer motor cars and better road rules to reduce injury from road accidents. [More…]
The Office of the Environment has at last filled its first 2 positions - 2 administrative positions within the second division. [More…]
Is it any wonder that the Government never develops any co-ordinated environmental policy? [More…]
Environmental policy by this Government has grown piecemeal, with never a thought as to whether a total overview of the situation is required, and a restructure of administration. [More…]
We can divide environmental administration into 2 areas - policy making and problem solving. [More…]
The major policy which must be made is a continuous updated statement of an optimum human environment, in physical, psychological and social terms - urban and rural. [More…]
The problem-solving agencies can then suggest the various alternative ways in which such an optimum environment can be planned. [More…]
The problem solvers will need complete data bank facilities and specialists and will receive environmental impact statements for all activities which will have any environmental impact. [More…]
Population policy, including immigration; natural resource policy, including exports of natural resources; science policy, including research policy; technology policy, including pollution control; educational policy and urban policy will all be influenced by the comprehensive environmental policy. [More…]
lumped together sp that the environment policy reflects the environment itself- a whole and integrated system. [More…]
The United States of America, for example, has a problemsolving agency - the Council on Environ-, mental Quality - and a policy making agency - the Environmental Protection Authority. [More…]
As well as the Environment Protection Agency, the United States Government also has organised the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration which integrates activities of the United States weather service, fisheries, sections formerly in the Department of the Navy on oceanography and all other sections of Government concerned with the oceans and the atmosphere. [More…]
I say to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) that we have an opportunity here to do likewise. [More…]
We can only ask just what the Office of the Environment is supposed to be doing, especially as. [More…]
at the first meeting of Commonwealth and State Ministers concerned with the environment on 17th September it was agreed that basically no national policy towards pollution control was necessary. [More…]
Finally, if this great problem of pollution of the environment is to be checked, controlled and, of course, rectified, the only way in which it can be done is by the Commonwealth making available some of its financial resources. [More…]
We have been variously told by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) firstly, that in 12 months time consideration will be given to the recommendations made by the interim council. [More…]
In the question that 1 put to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) this afternoon, I asked specifically had he had any communication from the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations. [More…]
But many of these problems will not go away so easily, and the environment is probably the most pressing of them. [More…]
Despite the special responsibilities of the States, the control of the environment is a national problem and should be concidered by the national Parliament. [More…]
This is not only because the problem is in large measure an economic one, but also because environmental problems recognise no State boundaries. [More…]
1 favour the solution adopted in Britain, of having a standing royal commission on the environment. [More…]
We urgently need such a body here, for neither this House, nor the Department of the Environment, nor the State Parliaments, nor any voluntary bodies are capable of carrying out this important and urgent investigation. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for the Environment (Mr Howson) will set up such a standing royal commission on the environment as a matter of urgency. [More…]
The other problem of our environment on which we are lamentably ill-informed, is in the need for outdoor recreation space. [More…]
I commend this proposal, together with the other one on the establishment of a standing royal commission on the environment. [More…]
Recently I asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) the following question: [More…]
I rise to support the Budget estimates for the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
The establishment of the Ministry for the Environment really had its beginning during the last Senate election campaign when the then Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), made the Government’s intentions plainly known during that campaign. [More…]
We therefore have taken the decision to set up a Commonwealth Office of the Environment under the control of the Prime Minister’s Department. [More…]
Every inhabitant of Australia can perceive today the disturbing signs of pollution and defacement of our environment and the serious threats which endanger it. [More…]
The environment is being impaired as a result of the uncontrolled and indiscriminate use of space and irrational exploita tion of resources. [More…]
It is essential firstly, that rational use and management of the environment must have high priority in national government policy and must be adequately financed. [More…]
Thirdly, legislation and regulations introduced to safeguard the environment and its quality should be harmonised to the extent necessary at the Australian level. [More…]
Australians are only just beginning to observe the effects of pollution, and the Federal Government and the State governments are just beginning to give prominence to the subject by creating active ministries to control the environment and to eliminate the problems associated with air, water and soil pollution. [More…]
I am pleased to see that most States have set up ministries of the environment and that they are co-operating with the Federal Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson). [More…]
Watching television tonight, I was pleased to note that the New South Wales Government has set up at Lidcombe an environmental control office with a staff of 36. [More…]
We were able to see at first hand the prominence that European countries give to this very important subject of the environment. [More…]
At its previous meeting the Council had spent 4 days discussing ways and means of assisting to improve the environment and in overcoming the pollution problem. [More…]
When we arrived in England our party was taken by the parliamentarians of that nation to the environment station a few miles out of London. [More…]
It has also been very pleasing to note that the National Industry Council on Environment Quality Control has met in Canberra. [More…]
It is dealing with the protection and restoration of environmental quality and industry’s role in this immense task. [More…]
They include the Australian Chemical Industry Council, the Chambers of Manufactures of Australia, the Australian Mining Industry Council, the Metal Trades Industry Association, the National Packaging Association of Australia, the Petroleum Industry Environment Conservation Committee, and the Printing and Allied Trades Employers Federation of Australia. [More…]
These organisations are taking a very active interest in dealing with this problem which comes under the control of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
In other words, what I am trying to get at in relation to the question of the environment is that it is not a matter of rubbish or garbage disposal; it is a matter of pollution by over-population. [More…]
People are becoming more conscious of the fact that civilisation is gradually destroying the environment, which it inherited, thereby impairing the quality of life. [More…]
1 believe 1 have said enough to indicate that environmental hazards can and do transcend international boundaries. [More…]
But fortunately the governments of a great many countries in the world are aware of the seriousness of the problem and many of them, including Australia, have already established departments and ministries concerned with the environment. [More…]
Some housewives in the United States have formed themselves into an association to inform their members of the effects on the environment of different types of products on the market. [More…]
Earlier this year I was privileged to attend a conference on the environment which was held in Bonn in West Germany. [More…]
It was recommended that international treaties should be examined to ascertain their impact on the environment and that parliaments of the world should be advised of the potential environmental effects of those treaties. [More…]
It was recommended that tests should be conducted to ascertain the effect on the environment of non-degradable and toxic components and that the results of these tests should be published. [More…]
It was recommended also that the United Nations Organisation should sponsor international environmental programmes and that an international pollution data bank should be established and that the function of this bank should be to collect information and to make it available to all countries. [More…]
I believe that we in this Parliament should already be thinking along these lines and already doing much more than we are doing at present to combat both pollution and the destruction of the environment whilst we still have time on our side. [More…]
In speaking to the estimates now before the Committee, I intend to confine my remarks to a subject which in my opinion is receiving very little, if any, real attention from the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
But as I see it the initial responsibility lies with the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
The Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts is surely the department which must take the initiative even though it will have to obtain the co-operation and assistance of those other departments to which I have referred. [More…]
I certainly hope that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, who is at the table, notwithstanding that his interest seems to be very little, will give us some satisfactory explanation of the contradiction that exists between those 2 replies. [More…]
At the outset I wish to refer to the inept title of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and MinisterinCharge of Tourist Activities. [More…]
I shall not deal at length with the environment and Aborigines beyond saying in the context of my particular thesis - the development of an Australian identity - that nothing could redound more to the advantage of our national image than, firstly, that we should succeed in dealing humanely and intelligently with the problem of promoting the happiness of and establishing a satisfactory relationship with our Aboriginals - ‘the first Australians. [More…]
This evening we are devoting our attention to the estimates for the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and we all recognise that some very thoughtful speeches have been made on both sides of the House. [More…]
Although it is a new Department which when it was set up came under some criticism as being a miscellaneous sort of department, there is no doubt that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) has under his control some very important facets of the national life and some very important responsibilities that the Commonwealth has to meet. [More…]
We have Aborigines living in a number of environments on government settlements and missions. [More…]
When we consider the expenditure of Commonwealth money and where it is being spent we find that it is spent mainly on Aborigines who live in towns, and that the largest amounts of money spent have been on Aborigines other than those living in a fringe dwelling environment. [More…]
we as a Government recognise the need to establish a satisfactory legislative environment in which industrial relations can be effectively ordered. [More…]
If the Government was so concerned about the legislative environment, there would be no need in this country to introduce such shocking legislation as the subsidised medical health scheme. [More…]
Honourable members opposite stand up in this chamber and say that they will create a legislative environment. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: Did the right honourable member for Higgins last night assert that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts had given the House figures which were not accurate and estimates which were misleading on the national film and television training school? [More…]
I did listen in on the intercommunication system last night to the speech made by the right honourable gentleman from Higgins and I heard that part of it relating to the figures that had been presented to the House by my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
What I can say is that if anyone knew the full story relating to the VIP incident, rather than being critical of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, he would say that he took upon himself an enormous responsibility when there was no need for him to have taken any responsibility whatsoever. [More…]
2 of the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee entitled ‘Strontium 90 and Caesium 137 in the Australian Environment During 1969 and Some Results for 1970’. [More…]
My Deputy Chairman, in speaking to the estimates for the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, which cover, of course, matters relating to Aboriginal affairs, tourism and the arts. [More…]
1 want to speak about a very important matter relating to the environment but first I want to register my disappointment and dismay at the reply given by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) to a question asked of him a couple of weeks ago by my colleague, the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford). [More…]
I want particularly to draw the attention of the Government and the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) to a unique area called Hallett Cove in my electorate in South Australia. [More…]
But I have a little feeling in regard to the environment. [More…]
Within those years I have realised that the people of the world have become increasingly conscious of the environment in which they live and are attempting to ensure that it is a healthy environment for themselves and future generations. [More…]
Within the last 20 to 25 years the progress in industry and communications and the increase in the number of city dwellers have created a situation in which man has to take a quick, serious look at the environmental problems which he has created and is still creating and which have certainly been to bis own detriment. [More…]
To me, the term ‘environment’ covers many things which affect our daily lives. [More…]
Had we been aware of the danger we faced by polluting our environment, this could have been avoided. [More…]
Fortunately, we in Australia are in the position of being able to learn from the mistakes made by other countries and we still have time to plan our living environment accordingly. [More…]
I would rather see half a dozen major centres with a healthy environment free from pollution than one major city complete with every known hazard to the health of the population. [More…]
But when one sees the evidence of the dangers that are created by pollution in a closely settled city which has been allowed to grow haphazardly - and this is what has happened in every major city in Australia - with no thought at all having been given to the environment, this argument becomes so much rubbish. [More…]
As I said before we have the areas in which this development can take place; we now have a Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts; the Minister for the Environment (Mr Howson) is currently the Minister at the table. [More…]
Let us face the fact that it would be a long, hard and arduous task, but there is no doubt that it must be done in order to preserve our environment and to prevent these centres being allowed to grow in a haphazard fashion. [More…]
In this way sensible and economic planning can be undertaken so that the best possible results for the preservation and maintenance of the environment can be achieved. [More…]
What is money if it means the preservation of our environment for ourselves and for future generations? [More…]
He spoke in a revolutionary and ardent way about the protection of the country against the destruction of the environment, but he supports a government which will hand over any of the more desirable spots in Australia to anybody who has a bulldozer and a cheque book. [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who is at the table, to take the bit between his teeth in these matters and challenge the State authorities on them. [More…]
If this is so, will it despoil the environment? [More…]
This procedure would be a nuisance to the residents in that environment and it would cause dust and deterioration of the roadway. [More…]
During the time available to me I intend, naturally, to concern myself with Aboriginal welfare and with the way in which Aboriginals will benefit this year from the estimates of the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
The Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts certainly has to think about these matters. [More…]
All these things, some of which are more peripheral than others, must be taken into consideration if we are to be concerned about urban environment. [More…]
There are few places in the world where a greater majority of people live in an urban environment than do Australians. [More…]
So, I believe that a case has been fully established for an examination of this important area of environment, for the simple reason that the greatest number of people in this country will be affected by environmental changes in that particular area. [More…]
The greatest number are involved in urban environments and by any predictions are likely to be. [More…]
Therefore, despite all the problems of the countryside - and there are some in relation to agriculture and pesticide use and that sort of thing - the fact is that the quality of urban environment and the direction in which it is moving is the outstanding problem which remains for this or any other government in Australia to take on. [More…]
I am not going to fling a lot of cheap criticism at the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) who is sitting at the table. [More…]
My main plea to the Government, to the Minister for the Environment (Mr Howson) and to the House is that we should not give way to the temptation to make political capital out of such a desperately important subject. [More…]
There is no doubt about the fact that these people have now moved out of their natural environment in many cases. [More…]
I want to make a few remarks in the debate on the estimates for the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts mainly because of events that have taken place in the last few days in my electorate of Bowman. [More…]
But frustrations have been thrust on her by the Government and by the Department administered by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) who sits at the table this afternoon. [More…]
It has been a most interesting time to see that all the facets of the Department - environment, Aborigines and the Arts - have come under scrutiny. [More…]
1 turn now to the matters raised on the subject of the environment. [More…]
I feel that I should dwell for a short time on the role as I see it of the Commonwealth in our environmental affairs. [More…]
I have had an opportunity to study the way in which Federal and State systems relating to environmental matters have been adopted in places throughout the world, but I have not studied it in great depth because the time has not been available. [More…]
Wherever there is a federal system there has to be a policy department of the environment and these have to be administrative departments that carry out individual environmental procedures. [More…]
As I have indicated to the House before and as the honourable member for Reid mentioned, there are seven or eight Commonwealth departments that administer various facets of environmental policy. [More…]
Therefore, I believe that in environmental matters the role of the Commonwealth - exclusively; of its own responsibility - should be firstly to set an example within its own territories. [More…]
Secondly, it should see that the administrative departments carry out the task and realise how important environmental matters are at this time. [More…]
Thirdly, the Department of the Environment should co-ordinate the policies of the various administrative departments and generally see that the whole matter is co-ordinated at Common*wealth level. [More…]
For instance, I believe that in one State the Minister for the Environment has to co-ordinate 14 other administrative departments. [More…]
We could not afford this leaching of our society any more than we can now afford to allow our incomparable environment to be despoiled and polluted by lack of foresight and conscience. [More…]
In the Commonwealth, overall responsibility for the arts has been placed by me with the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson). [More…]
It is increasingly clear that the superb natural environment which this continent provides for human life can no longer be taken for granted. [More…]
If, as I have said, the arts should be deeply integrated into our lives, they too form part of the intellectual and cultural environment within which our lives are lived - offering diversity of experience and lending form and substance to our personal and natural identity. [More…]
There is, particularly in relation to the environment and the arts, much that we can learn from them. [More…]
They continue to this day and now advise the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
Perhaps the Prime Minister tonight could have taken the opportunity to clear the air of assertions made by the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) in this House that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) had been inaccurate and misleading in information he had supplied to the House - a squalid performance. [More…]
On 14th October, in reply to a question from the Leader of the Opposition, I undertook to look at figures concerning the proposals of the Interim Council for a National Film and Television Training School that my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) had presented to the House and at criticisms that had been made about them. [More…]
A copy oi a Idler dated 28th July 1971 from the Chairman to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
International Parliamentary Conference on the Environment (Question No. [More…]
DrEveringham asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
What action has been taken by the Government to implement the resolution of the International Parliamentary Conference on the Environment that governments should begin international negotiations on pollution control, research and environmental aspects of treaties and foreign aid. [More…]
The report of the International Parliamentary Conference on the Environment held in Bonn in June 1971 has been brought to the attention of the Government and also to the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on Human Environment. [More…]
AH present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
As well as visual ones there are the sonar, radar and other sensors on the ship which convey information to the vessel about the environment. [More…]
-I wish to direct a question to the Minister for the Environment. [More…]
My question is also directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for the Environment etc., etc. [More…]
Can the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts assure the House that the inquiry into the role of the crafts as an art form, which was announced by the Prime Minister 2 nights ago, will not entail any interruption of or reduction in the programme of support for craft activity currently being carried on by the Craft Council? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment. [More…]
In the course of his examination and in particular his voyage on HMAS ‘Sydney’ he has acquired a mass of information which should be made available to those interested in the Navy and the quality of the Service environment and Service life. [More…]
I was utterly amazed to find that last year the United Nations committee dealing with the environment had not discussed de-urbanisation as such. [More…]
They will be in that environment a substitute for our natural increase. [More…]
They will be in that environment a substitute for our national increase. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
The Government’s failure to co-operate with the Government of New South Wales in preserving the environment of South Head and in establishing a Sydney Harbour National Park. [More…]
The Government’s failure to co-operate with the Government of New South Wales in preserving the environment of South Head and in establishing a Sydney Harbour national park. [More…]
In my view this land grabbing mentality and this insensitive reaction to the need to preserve and improve the Sydney environment should be the subject of a royal commission before this fine scenic area is lost to the people and indeed to posterity for ever. [More…]
In doing so, they made it clear that their opposition was on behalf of the Minister for Local Government, the Minister for Lands, the Minister for the Environment and, indeed, the Premier of New South Wales. [More…]
In addition, a most careful study has been made of the way in which the whole environment of this area can be landscaped and improved and a very comprehensive programme of plantings of indigenous trees and shrubs, such as eucalypts, casuarinas, banksias, acacias and gre.villeas, will be undertaken. [More…]
There will be a definite improvement of the scenic and environmental aspects of South Head. [More…]
It is this erosive activity which has created the environment and ecostructure of that area. [More…]
This rock and top soil through the centuries have built up the very environment we are discussing, and nothing more than this is being done now. [More…]
The Navy, together with the other Commonwealth authorities, has indeed done well in maintaining the original kind of environment so that the original scrub and much of the original scenic beauty of Sydney Harbour has been retained. [More…]
But as regards the overall matter of proportion, I personally as a Sydneysider, and I am sure all those members of my Department with whom I have discussed this matter are eager to see that to the greatest possible degree the objective of the New South Wales Government is realised in preserving the environment not only of South Head but also of many other areas around Sydney Harbour which today are in the stages of preservation in which we now find them because of the long term occupation of these areas by the Commonwealth. [More…]
Like a number of honourable members in this House, I am tremendously concerned about the future of the environment, particularly that surrounding Sydney Harbour because, like the honourable member for Wentworth, I live in a very pleasant area of Sydney and the proposed Sydney Harbour national park is of tremendous interest not only to me and the people in my electorate but also to all the other people of Sydney. [More…]
But I was concerned, as were a number of other people, about the possible damaging effect that the installation of this building could have on the local environment - this tremendously worthwhile and pretty environment of Sydney Harbour. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
They are competing against their own types throughout the world and, believe me, competition is tough when you live at a pedal extremity of Asia where the civil aviation environment has to be measured in thousands of people and thousands of flights per annum. [More…]
It was stated that there would be a meeting of officials of the Department of the Interior, the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, the [More…]
On Tuesday, 26th October last, 1 spoke on the estimates of the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wiledrness area. [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment has gathered together these papers and has had preliminary discussions with me. [More…]
A person who goes before the Privileges Committee goes into a very strange environment. [More…]
guard the ecology and environment from pollution by fuel extraction and energy generation. [More…]
guard the ecology and environment from pollution by fuel extraction and energy generation. [More…]
But what about a national commission to look at our environment to ensure that it is preserved? [More…]
They have opposed the planned construction of a private railway which is to cut across property from the Bur.ragarang Valley to Coalcliff where a gigantic coal-loading wharf is to extend half a mile out into the sea and destroy the ecology of the beautiful environment in the Wollongong-Coalcliff area. [More…]
There will be a work embargo should the New South Wales Government try to implement this Clutha scheme because the people in this region are determined that their environment will not be destroyed. [More…]
The estimates for this Department are divided into 10 separate divisions, even after the hiving off of a number of divisions to the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts whether the Council of Ministers established by the Prime Minister in May to inquire into Aboriginal land rights reached a decision on this matter some weeks ago. [More…]
Two of the MPs whose endorsement the committee will oppose are the Environment, Aborigines and Arts Minister, Mr Howson, and former Navy Minister, Mr Jess. [More…]
I say this because in a world environment which is changing throughout the 1970s - this may be a cause of alarm to my friend from Wills (Mr Bryant) - we will have a situation where, by 1990, the greatest naval power on this earth will be the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
In this environment it will be absolutely essential for the people of Australia, irrespective of rising costs, to find the courage, the capacity and the dedication to the welfare of their country to put forward their own best capacity in the defence of Australia. [More…]
If a national superannuation scheme is to cost $ 1,800m in this financial year - and I venture to suggest that the honourable member for Oxley would not be exaggerating that figure because in political terms I suspect that it helps his argument if he can keep it down to a minimum figure - then I suggest that in the present economic environment, with inflation in the community and with the rising cost of living, the cost of the scheme over the next three or four financial years would increase at an alarming rate. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
Management Consultants’ at the 1 3th meeting of the Interim Council 12 noon Monday 11th January 1971 text of a telegram despatched on 25th October from me to the Chairman of the Interim Council: copy of text entitled ‘Draft telegram to the Honourable Peter Howson from Peter Coleman* dictated by telephone to my office from Sydney on 25lh October by Mr Martin-Jones; text of message dated 25th October from me to Mr Peter Coleman which was telephoned to Mr Martin-Jones by Mr LeGassick: text entitled ‘Message to Mr Peter Howson, M.P.. Minister for the Environment. [More…]
This particular letter was in the possession of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) and the Cabinet when they met on 25th October. [More…]
During the debate on the estimates for the Department of the Environment, the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford), following the same line of embittered, misinformed- [More…]
The noise of aircraft and motor vehicles would combine to desecrate the entire environment of one or the State’s great tourist attractions. [More…]
Let me give him this warning: It is very doubtful, even if the Wattamolla site were approved, that workers would be prepared to contribute to the destruction of their environment by making labour available for this project. [More…]
I intend, if necessary, to enlist his aid in this matter and to communicate personally with him to test his sincerity in taking on this important role which gives him the prerogative of protecting Australia’s environment. [More…]
benefit by being able to escape from their usual, environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
Dubcek was operating inside a hostile environment of his own. [More…]
It was formulated in the environment of the 1890s when we had no such thing as radio, television or nuclear energy, or any interest in ecology or conservation. [More…]
A conservative estimate of the number of persons who play and enjoy these facilities is in the region of 2,000 each week while a further 8,000 to 10,000 spectators enjoy the sports and the environment of this great sporting complex. [More…]
Whilst I fully realise that this matter is one that concerns mainly the Department of Civil Aviation it is also one that is, or should be, of the utmost importance to the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) and the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson). [More…]
The Committee will recall that the Prime Minister, soon after taking over his high office, appointed a Minister for the Environment in accordance with the election promise of his predecessor. [More…]
We have taken the decision to set up a Commonwealth Office of the Environment which will be responsible for advising the Commonwealth and recommending to us action that should be taken to prevent or reduce pollution arising out of the activities of any Commonwealth Department or Authority. [More…]
Having regard to this clear charter given to the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts I confidently expected that during the recent debate on the Estimates for his Department the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts would have grasped the opportunity further to restate his charter, particularly that section that directs him to intervene when the activities of any other Commonwealth department will cause added pollution. [More…]
At the same time I challenge the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts to stand up to his responsibilities and report this matter to the Prime Minister and the Cabinet immediately. [More…]
But I never for one moment thought that in these times of sensitivity about the environment a member of this chamber would stand up and seriously contend that an airport ought to go in the Royal National Park. [More…]
Millions of people are finding sanctuary in the Royal National Park from the great concrete jungles and the polluted environment of these cities. [More…]
I will certainly have the support of Mr St John, who is standing for the protection of the environment, as is indicated by his objection to the Clutha proposals. [More…]
Environment. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wildneress area. [More…]
He will be aware that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts said in answer to a question on Aboriginal land rights addressed to him on 9th November by the honourable member for Prospect that the matter was one for an announcement by the Prime Minister. [More…]
Was he aware when he made his statement on the National Film and Television Training School of the existence of the letter from the Chairman of the Interim Council to the Minister for the Environment setting out the Council’s dissatisfaction with the report of P.A. [More…]
They included ‘The Commonwealth and Problems of World Security’, ‘Problems of the Environment’, ‘Challenges to Parliamentary Democracy’ and Economic Development’. [More…]
It worked for the common good of our environment. [More…]
The continuing existence of our environment is an integral part of our society. [More…]
The Australian Government has been giving much thought to the question of the environment. [More…]
I took the opportunity while in Washington to have discussions with Mr Russell Train and other members of the council on environmental quality. [More…]
From these discussions I gained valuable insights into American experience of the problems of dealing with pollution and environmental protection measures, especially in the context of a federal-state relationship. [More…]
1 was particularly interested in his discussions in America on environment control. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Why is Australia not a member of the preparatory committee for the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment which is to be held in Stockholm in 1972 (question No. [More…]
Will the Australian contribution to the Conference be co-ordinated by the Office of the Environment after it commences operation. [More…]
Australia is not a member of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment because it was nol elected to membership. [More…]
Australia strongly urged that this pattern was not suitable for a committee on environmental questions if it did not ensure that important geographical areas of the world were adequately represented. [More…]
The Department of the Environment, Aborigines mid the Arts is co-ordinating preparation 13r Australia’s participation in the Stockholm Conference. [More…]
Australia nas submitted a national report on the environment. [More…]
In addition, we have sent observers to the lnter-governmental Working Group on the Declaration on the Environment as - well as the [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment lo rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
AH present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wildneress area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wildernes area. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware that the letter from the Chairman of the Interim Council for the National Film and Television Training School about which he was asked yesterday by the honourable member for Franklin, and which he said he had not seen, was sent by the Chairman on 20th October and acknowledged by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts on 25th October? [More…]
The simple fact is that, because this matter was so sensitive, I thought it was desirable to appoint a group of Ministers to handle it and to receive letters and correspondence direct from the Department of the Environment so that they would be able to prepare a speech for me and advise me as to the action that should be taken.They did this. [More…]
I have not at any time, other than in respect of the number of trainees who should be trained at the film and television training school and the fact that the Minister for the Environment had made an incorrect statement, taken any part whatsoever in the discussions relating to the report of the P & A consultants or any comments that might be made by the Chairman of the Interim Council about them. [More…]
For that reason most of the people in those areas are of a similar income group and are being forced to live together in the same environment. [More…]
In this way we could intermix people and we would not set up a group of people who are within a certain range of income or of any one environment because this cannot bc to the advantage of the lot. [More…]
The work these people do in these organisations is extraordinary in an effort to uplift the standards, the environment and opportunities of the children of the people in those districts. [More…]
Only the Commonwealth Government has the powers to ensure that families are raised in an environment that does not place strains on the other needs of the families. [More…]
To what extent is the Government prepared to exercise these or other powers to ensure that projects for export chipped or pulped wood are planned and executed so as to best conserve the national environment. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wildneress area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
As to libraries provided for secondary schools, it appears that the needs of schools in the more culturally privileged areas are met before the needs of schools in the areas where good reading material and access to that type of environment are most needed by students. [More…]
Although the results of this action are not readily quantifiable, I am confident that it wilt contribute to a general environment conducive to a moderation in the rate of inflation. [More…]
If the Government took risks with demand and tolerated an economic environment favourable to cost-push inflation, the economy and the balance of payments could suffer serious damage. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly, future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the House whether such a climate or such an environment has been reached regarding the ANZUS Treaty? [More…]
Did the Prime Minister, before establishing a group of Ministers chaired by the Treasurer to handle the matter of the national film and television training school, advise the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Aru of his intention to do so? [More…]
The control of the pollution of our environment has become a problem that concerns all mankind: and in this local authorities have a pari to play. [More…]
I invite the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who is sitting at the table, to study and consider the way in which the money has been allocated, particularly in respect of how much has been Spent on Cape Barren Island. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment; Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) made mention in his second reading speech of the fact that direct national expenditure on Aboriginal advancement for 1971-72 will be $44m for an estimated Aboriginal population of 140,000.It could be said that the Government has shown some consideration for the Aboriginal problem on that score alone. [More…]
They should give some idea of the difficulties that Aborigines are facing in adapting to our technological environment. [More…]
But the environment is not the same. [More…]
But one does find decent people in this environment. [More…]
According to the figures made available by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) there has been an increase from $3,650,000 in 1968-69 to $9,200,000 for this year. [More…]
The officers of that Office look at the problems fairly and I am sure that the recommendations that they make to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) are well balanced and represent a much broader approach to the problems than is the case with many of the State administrations because the State administrations are tied down with their own administrative problems in settlements and reserves. [More…]
There are 3 environments, and I propose to deal briefly with each. [More…]
There have been improvements in the physical environment on the settlements. [More…]
However, we have no effective programmes in the broad to cater for the Aborigines who live in a fringe dwelling environment. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment. [More…]
Therefore, we can do nothing with it and the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts who is now at the table can use all his charm; he has quite a deal of charm. [More…]
Our environment does not depend solely on ownership. [More…]
It seems almost nothing short of criminal - certainly aesthetically - to find second rate imported materials being used in the dwelling places of the territorians in lieu of the very suitable materials which tone in exactly with the environment. [More…]
The physical environment - the almost primaeval environment - is so close at hand in most cases that in fact it is more than a little affront to the senses to see the matter which the honourable member previously raised. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: (!) [More…]
Cockburn Sound Naval Base: Effect on Environment (Question No. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
Law concerns people and it concerns their problems in a social environment. [More…]
All present and particulary future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
A person can be placed in an environment where he becomes completely addicted and cannot be got out of it. [More…]
They are: firstly, law enforcement; secondly, treatment; thirdly, education; fourthly, the environment itself. [More…]
But the longer term avenues for attacking the problem are, of course, education at all levels of society and the environment. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and menial strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
1 direct my question to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Ails. [More…]
Without any policies to develop in the capital cities an environment which is comparable with the environment which people are able to enjoy outside the capital cities we are seriously damaging human beings. [More…]
These areas have very few advantages other than a better environment and possibly a more stable work force. [More…]
A- concluding example is that the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and . [More…]
Is it to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson)? [More…]
The Minister, appointed only a few months before, was deposed from his own environment by a group of Ministers. [More…]
One dominant theme that emerges is that a film school can provide an environment for experimentation, development and a society of its own which does not conform to the society outside. [More…]
Within this environment the boundaries of film and television communication or experience can be pushed forward and this to me seems an excellent idea. [More…]
The first time that the costs of these proposals were examined was on 22nd June, when the Minister for the Environment met the Chairman of the Interim Council in Sydney. [More…]
What the honourable member for Bradfield has said is true and I hope the Parliament and the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) will read what he said and do something about the intoxication of Aborigines and the profit motive behind the sale of liquor to Aborigines. [More…]
This part of the honourable member’s question refers to matters falling within the ministerial responsibility of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for the Environment and the Minister in Charge of Tourist Activities. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
I will refer the general question of mercury pollution in Australian waters to the Australian Environment Council. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts upon notice: [More…]
As the honourable member will appreciate, there is a very great number of statutes which impinge on environmental control and pollution. [More…]
However, 1 shall discuss with my colleagues on the Australian Environment Council the question of assembling the data which the honourable member has sought. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Can he say (a) what works have been carried out and are yet to be carried out in the Botany Bay area and (b) whether the environment of Botany Bay has been altered by public works, sewage discharge, oil spillage and industrial waste. [More…]
If so, will Australia support the Society’s resolutions to be submitted to the 1972 United Nations Conference on Human Environment; if not, why noi. [More…]
The Secretariat for the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment is drafting action proposals for discussion at Stockholm from the material that has been submitted to it, including National Reports, reports of five intergovernmental working groups, the United Nations Specialised Agencies and other intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
The statement of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) deals with Aboriginal land rights alone. [More…]
Without being too partisan in these matters, the development of Commonwealth assistance for Aborigines in the Northern Territory has been inhibited for too long, as not only the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts but his predecessor with responsibility for Aboriginal affairs, the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth), have found, by a succession of Country Party Ministers for the Interior, and it has been inhibited in the States by the fact that there is a predominantly Country Party Government in the State of Queensland. [More…]
The Prime Minister has announced, as my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), has said, that an additional $13m is to be provided for the purchase of properties and land coming on the market from outside the reserves. [More…]
Recently I visited Docker River with my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson). [More…]
The Minister for the Interior and the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) have been patting themselves on the back. [More…]
He made another point which is relevant because both the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and the Minister for the Interior referred to the Yirrkala people. [More…]
In his statement the Minister for the Environment Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) outlined the Government’s policy on Aboriginal land rights - a policy with which I am sure the great majority of our coloured people will be happy. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) suggested that the Australian Labor Party’s policy was one of separate development. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) made a statement and the Minister for the Environment has made the statement we are now debating outlining what the Government proposes to do. [More…]
The developers would cut down every tree and change the whole structure of the environment. [More…]
Of course, the matter has been amplified by the Minister for the Environment. [More…]
Tonight, running through the speech of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts was talk of consultation with the Aborigines. [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice. [More…]
Allpresent and particularly future Australians will Benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
That jet aircraft operations have a detrimental effect by way of air and noise pollution on the environment and airports should be situated so as to preserve the environment of populated areas. [More…]
That protest should be made against the proposal to establish an international airport at Richmond owing to the detrimental effect it would have for the environment there and in surrounding districts. [More…]
However, times have changed and since 1968 we have experienced a revision of values and priorities about our environment. [More…]
In the report of the United States Congress Council for the Environment Quality President Nixon clearly states what he did in 1971 in regard to the Cross Florida Barge Canal - he stopped it. [More…]
We want to keep these places of unique beauty in a state of preservation so that we do not destroy our environment around us just because of some short term economic gain. [More…]
We want to look to a wide horizon because when we destroy our environment we are in fact destroying part of ourselves. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and metal strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
We now know what the Treasurer meant when on 21st February this year he said: We have achieved what we set out to do in that we have created an environment in which over-award payments are depressed’. [More…]
In my view, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology is a magnificent institution that has existed in a rather difficult environment. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the Report on Effects of 2,4,5-T and Related Herbicides on Man and the Environment from the Sub-committee on Energy, Natural resources and the Environment of the Committee on Commerce of the United States Senate, dated 17th and 18th June 1970, which recommends the immediate and publicised removal of this herbicide from the channels of commerce such as its use around the home, on bodies of water and on food. [More…]
All present end particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts in his capacity as Minister in Charge of Tourist Activities. [More…]
They could not adapt to changed environment and they died. [More…]
It is submitted that these characteristics of metropolitan Sydney are adversely influencing the quality of government and community organisation, the character of socio-industrial relations, and the overall quality of the living environment. [More…]
In the case of industries which have recently relocated outside the metropolitan area, a significant explicit motivation has been avoidance of the industrial labour environment. [More…]
The available evidence suggests that in the older established industrial suburbs - which could only be restructured at enormous cost - industrial militancy is being aggravated by non-industrial frustrations stemming from excessive travelling times and costs, poor quality housing and/or the unavailability of housing finance except for newer dwellings in the outer suburbs, the increasingly high ratio of homesite costs to weekly earnings, and the impersonality, anonymity and lack of identification inherent in a conglomerate metropolitan environment. [More…]
I know that they represent a lot of very good people in the cities, but they do not rush out to join all of those godlike creatures in the rural environment in the hinterland. [More…]
Like the blessed word ‘Mesopotamia’ or ‘Mecca’, this is a delightful work that can be used at election time to tickle the minds of country voters, and idealists who live in the city and the city people who formerly lived in the country and who are eating their hearts out to get back to the country to live a worthwhile life and apply themselves to the problems of the nation in the environment that they know so well and among their friends. [More…]
In principle there was no difficulty in defining in general terms what was meant by an ‘educational priority area’: the Plowden Report itself speaks of areas where ‘educational handicaps are reinforced by social handicaps’ and the Department’s circular 11/67 refers to children in districts that ‘are suffering from multiple deprivation because of the combination of several disadvantages in their environment’. [More…]
multiple deprivation because of the combination of several disadvantages in the environment. [More…]
the general quality of the physical environment. [More…]
in my philosophy a child is privileged today if he comes from a stable home, if his parents are really interested in him, if they have love for him and if they have discipline in their own lives, all of which give him a rational environment. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
on asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Of course the Public Works Committee, and this Parliament too, to a very considerable degree now operates on this new dimension which never used to be much of a factor - the environment factor. [More…]
In my opinion, it is not good enough in a wealthy country such as ours to have a gold-plated standard of services, whether they be in health, education, welfare or any other field - urban environment is probably the outstanding example - in a national capital such as Canberra and then to find in the capital cities far greater aggregations of the nation’s population living in slums or resorting to slum standards of facilities such as our public health services. [More…]
The production of high protein wheat is limited by the soil type, the climate and the genetic make-up of the various species which grow in our environment. [More…]
by leave- First of all, I hope that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) can assure us that there will be no impediment to or suspension of the activities in the area of the crafts which is currently being supported by the Arts Council of Australia. [More…]
I am not keen to shove them into units which would move them away from their traditional home site, their home in which they raised their families and with which they have had a long term association that is a sort of spiritual relationship with their environment. [More…]
Some of those schools are a disgrace to a civilised society and the environment in which they have to operate. [More…]
I would not be surprised if, despite the rather meagre facilities that it has and the rather austere environment in which it operates, it is not producing a more adventurous spirit inside the school about the educational principle than is produced almost anywhere else. [More…]
So, I suppose one must admit in this case that the actual school environment is not always what produces the results. [More…]
I believe that those students are entitled to a better school environment and that the teachers at the school are entitled to better support. [More…]
There is an inadequate supply of teachers and an inadequate environment in most of the schools. [More…]
It could look at the physical environment of schools to cull out those with inadequate buildings and facilities, and insufficient teaching aids. [More…]
Such a commission could look at the physical environment of schools, as I have already pointed out. [More…]
In the Minister’s view much too large a proportion of families with children at state schools didn’t give their children the encouragement in their home environment to encourage them to stay at school as long as possible. [More…]
It is to be hoped that ali information and research in this field is made public and that people who will be affected along the flight paths and adjacent to airports have a say in their future environment. [More…]
Then, as he said only some families he corrected himself - perhaps much too large a proportion of families- that is, whose children attend State schools - who don’t give their children the encouragement in the home environment which helps them, or encourages them to stay at school as long as possible. [More…]
At page 57 of the report on the Commonwealth’s Role in Teacher Education the Committee defines a deprived school as being a school in the inner urban or rural areas providing primary education, in which a high proportion of the school population is disadvantaged through background and/or environment. [More…]
With regard to religious schools, I feel parents have the right to influence the environment in which their children are educated, provided they are prepared to make some personal sacrifice to obtain it. [More…]
Let me say - and I do not qualify this statement one iota - that, man for man and in the particular environment in which the Australian Army operates, it is second to none in the whole of the world. [More…]
These developments have made it more difficult for the Government to control the domestic national economic environment. [More…]
They have also influenced the development of the social, cultural and political environment in Canada. [More…]
The increasing internationalisation of some important sectors of industry and the growth of the multinational enterprise as an institutional development of foreign direct investment add a further dimension of complexity to the Government’s ability to control the national economic environment. [More…]
Foreign capital has played an equally vital role in polluting the environment. [More…]
It is far more difficult to regulate foreign money than Australian money with respect to the environment, cultural developments and public interest. [More…]
It should be noted that in a speech on 9th March the Deputy Leader of the Opposition said that a schools commission ‘could look at the physical environment of schools to cull out those with inadequate buildings and facilities, and insufficient teaching aids’. [More…]
Some of them have to do with inadequate environment in which they teach, some with the inadequate salaries and all that goes with it. [More…]
Several State governments are, through their relevant departments, involved in studies of the marine environment and in addition several of the universities have small research groups which are interested in biological and physical studies in the marine area. [More…]
It is of course important to ensure that the work of the Institute at its base at Cape Pallarenda will not be adversely affected by pollution of the marine environment and the Government is in close touch with the Queensland Government on this matter. [More…]
On the last sitting day the Minister for Education and Science, in moving the second reading of the Australian Institute of Marine Science Bill, voiced concern at the possible pollution of the marine environment by a proposed nickel smelter atTownsville. [More…]
I am fully aware, from my experience throughout Australia, that there is one salient scientific and economic fact, namely, for the gene build up of the Australian merino there has to be a climatic environment suitable to that particular gene. [More…]
It is argued that Australia has the right environment. [More…]
Secondly - and the honourable member for Dawson did mention this point - the environment in which the wool is grown has a very large influence on the type of wool produced, and whether in fact sheep of a particular strain can survive is often determined by the environment in which they live. [More…]
What kind of Opposition do we have when it does not know that the reason why Australian merino wool has its pecular qualities is the environment in which it is bred. [More…]
Does not the Opposition know that the quality of merino wool varies all over Australia as the environment changes? [More…]
It is clear that great changes are occurring in Australia’s external environment which justify a careful and progressive re-evaluation of the situation. [More…]
The purpose of tonight’s statement then is to define the strategic environment which, in the view of the Government, is most likely to exist during this decade and could potentially exist in the 1980s; to describe how in general we believe Australian defence capabilities should be shaped in accordance with the responsibilities of an independent country; to make clear the Government’s policy of strengthening and not withdrawing from our international defence associations; to describe the burdens and the gains and the clear balance of national advantage which we believe flow from these associations. [More…]
It aims as well to remind the House of some of the perils which will arise if any Australian Government should flout our commitments or jeopardise confidence in our word or our endurance, or seek refuge from contemporary burdens by reducing the country’s defence capabilities and retreating from a military role in helping to maintain the security of the external environment in which Australia is destined for all time to live. [More…]
It is essential to try to foresee the way in which the nations who are great in terms of military and economic power will exercise that power in the are.a of Australia’s strategic concern - an area which comprehends our northern neighbourhood and the sea and air spaces of the maritime environment of Australia. [More…]
But it is, I believe, an essential ingredient of Australian diplomacy that Australia should be understood to be a country whose security interests are growing; whose population and wealth are growing; and whose determination to take some part in shaping the environment in which we live is more lively than ever now that the great western powers have served notice that their involvement in lesser situations is not to be taken for granted. [More…]
What can be achieved by a defence programme giving us the ability to project Australian armed strength beyond our continental shores is twofold: It will give future governments options to have some influence on events in our strategic environment so that we may contribute to the greater security of all countries in that area. [More…]
It believes that only if it preserves these practical options and thus preserves too the evident political option to support its neighbours will its military capabilities support its diplomatic and economic efforts in its environment. [More…]
The Navy and the Air Force are concerned with the preservation of the security of our general maritime environment and with freedom of navigation. [More…]
What a lot of nonsense it is to say that the next Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Mr Huong, made a request through the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson). [More…]
Just one comment before 1 commence: It is interesting to note that Ambassador Anderson described the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) as the most fluent French speaker in the Australian foreign services; that is just for the record. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
The Australian Environment Council has commenced an examination, of the financial and technical problems associated with community waste together with ways and means of sharing costs between polluters and the community. [More…]
I can assure the honourable member, without making any commitment regarding his suggestion which I shall refer to my colleague in another place, that everything possible is being done to study the ultimate effects, if any, which this may have on the community or on the environment. [More…]
But I think that it is a little out of keeping with the general context of our social environment at the moment for it to be proposed that the average female teacher might suffer undue embarrassment in the early or middle stages of pregnancy by being in front of a class. [More…]
The State associations therefore tend to try to act as spokesmen for the industry, which they are frequently not competent to do because of their isolation or their own circumstances and the environment surrounding them. [More…]
This doesn’t mean to say that this can or ought to be done without regard to other matters, to the underprivileged, without regard to the quality of life issues, without regard to the environment Greater economic strength and enterprise is compatible with and consistent with these other objectives which a modem community requires. [More…]
The present takeover bid by Thomas Nationwide Transport for the share capital for Ansett Transport Industries is, I suppose one could say, prima facie a business transaction within the freely competitive economic environment. [More…]
The present takeover bid by Thomas Nationwide Transport Ltd for the share capital of Ansett Transport Industries is, prima facie, a normal business transaction within a freely competitive economic environment. [More…]
Greater emphasis is now paced on the training of interviewing and selection officers, not only to enable them to better assess applicants for migration from an occupational point of view but also to judge the ability of applicants to cope with adjustments to a changed environment. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
That jet aircraft operations have a detrimental effect by way of air and noise pollution on the environment and airports should be situated so as to preserve the environment of populated areas. [More…]
That protest should be made against the proposal to establish an international airport at Richmond owing to the detrimental effect it would have for the environment there and in surrounding districts. [More…]
Ability to do this and to undertake ourselves the continuing protection of Australia’s expanding interests presupposes the existence of Australian forces organised, trained and equipped to be able to meet conditions in that external environment. [More…]
The ministerial statement and its accompanying White Paper on defence have allowed what has been rather a wide ranging debate on this subject, a debate that has covered the environment in which Australia finds itself, the forces and equipment that Australia has and is likely to need, and the forward planning for the next decade or so. [More…]
The arguments that the Commonwealth and State governments have about the provision of money for hospitals, facilities for training, road safety measures, measures against pollution, sewerage and all the rest that man wants from his environment nowadays, are 10 times worse in the field of local government and the finance that is channelled through the States to assist local government bodies. [More…]
In other words, the Labor Party believes - this is not very far from the sentiments expressed by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who has just come into the chamber, in the States Grants (Aboriginal Assistance) Bill introduced not long ago - that this sort of assistance is necessary. [More…]
Aborigines live under a great range of environments from one end of this country to the other. [More…]
If there are 2 or 3 Aboriginal families living in sub-standard housing in your street or in my street or next door, this affects the total sociological climate of the whole environment. [More…]
That jet aircraft operations have a detrimental effect by way of air and noise pollution on the environment and airports should be situated so as to preserve the environment of populated areas. [More…]
That protest should be made against the proposal to establish an internal airport at Richmond owing to the detrimental effect it would have for the environment there and in surrounding districts. [More…]
Particular attention is given to these elements as they are considered potentially the most hazardous of the radioactive materials released into the environment from nuclear testing. [More…]
The second Commonwealth committee is the National Radiation Advisory Committee (NRAC) which reports to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and advises the Commonwealth Government on matters concerning the effects of ionising radiation, whatever its origin, on the Australian community. [More…]
The normal gamma radiation in the environment is many times these levels. [More…]
These additions to the radioactive contamination of the environment, however, are being made against a background of the strontium 90 and caesium 137 remaining from the earlier tests. [More…]
In conclusion, I take the opportunity to report to the House the possible effect in Australia from the accidental release of plutonium 238 to the world environment, a matter that has received some publicity recently in the Press. [More…]
Newspaper reports have referred to the release of plutonium 238 into the world environment in April 1964 as a result of the burn-up of the power generator contained in a United States satellite which disintegrated on entering the upper atmosphere after failing to gain the desired orbit. [More…]
The Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee has assisted and cooperated with the United States Atomic Energy Commission in a world wide programme to monitor plutonium 238 in the environment by con ducting sampling and providing materials from Australia for analysis. [More…]
The International Commission on Radiological Protection has undertaken detailed study and has adopted a level of concentration of plutonium 238 in the environment to which the general population could be exposed continuously without significantly endangering its health. [More…]
The current concentrations of plutonium 238 in the Australian environment, which are generally representative of the southern hemisphere are between one ten thousandth and one thousandth of the International Commission on Radiological Protection levels and can in no way be considered a hazard to health. [More…]
The first is that it seems an unusually cumbersome process to split responsibility for these monitoring programmes between two committees, one of which reports to the Minister for Supply and the other to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, (Mr Howson). [More…]
Since Australia joined the OECD in June 1971, there have been 2 meetings (Nos 3 and 4) of the Environment Committee held on 29th September to 1st October 1971 and 9th to 11th February 1972 respectively. [More…]
4 by the First Assistant Secretary, Office of the Environment Division of my Department. [More…]
Officers from the permanent delegation and from Australia have attended a variety of specialist sector and ad hoc group meetings set up under the aegis of the Environment Committee. [More…]
The delegation and the departments concerned in Australia keep in close touch with the work of the Environment Directorate through its documentation. [More…]
The Environment Committee of OECD has the following mandate - [More…]
To investigate the problems of preserving or improving man’s environment with particular reference to their economic and trade implications; [More…]
To review and confront actions taken or proposed in Member countries in the field of environment together with their economic and trade implications; [More…]
That jet aircraft operations have a detrimental effect by way of air and noise pollution on the environment and airports should be situated so as to preserve the environment of populated areas. [More…]
That protest should be made against the proposal to establish an international airport at Richmond owing to the detrimental effect it would have for the environment there and in surrounding districts. [More…]
In addition, a senior officer of my Department recently had discussions in Washington with officials of environment agencies. [More…]
That jet aircraft operations have a detrimental effect by way of air and noise pollution on the environment and airports should be situated so as to preserve the environment of populated areas. [More…]
That protest should be made against the proposal to establish an international airport at Richmond owing to the detrimental effect it would have for the environment there and in surrounding districts. [More…]
All present and particularly future Australians will benefit by being able to escape from their usual environment to rebuild their physical and mental strength in this unspoilt wilderness area. [More…]
I welcome the statement that has been made to the House this afternoon by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) as indeed does the Opposition. [More…]
I know that my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) had indicated that he wished to respond to other matters that have been raised tonight. [More…]
My question which, is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts follows on his announcement that a proposal for a national film and television training school would be resurrected, although in a much truncated form. [More…]
Australian security is best promoted if, drawing on increasingly self-reliant military strength, we continue to recognise and support the security interests which we share with those who are part of our special strategic environment. [More…]
This is one industry where there is a recognisable and sound market in the foreseeable future, particularly with the relationship between New Guinea and other countries close to the environment of New Guinea. [More…]
It has been suggested that new work on the environment should be undertaken by the organisation. [More…]
In summation, I suggest to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who is at the table, that he convey this submission to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) so that he may review the constraints that I have, mentioned and so that he may look at the research project within the CSIRO which has been held up in order to evaluate what is being done and to indicate needs in a forward way. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who is sitting at the table, is one of the very few intelligent Ministers. [More…]
The following Press statement was issued at the conclusion of the first meeting of the Australian Environment Council held in Sydney on 7th April 1972: [More…]
The Australian Environment Council acknowledges that waste disposal is the most pressing environment problem facing Australia today and decided to study the problems of sharing the cost of waste disposal. [More…]
The wider environmental problem facing Australia and other countries was the setting of criteria for chemical and other pollutants. [More…]
The Council is undertaking studies on this question, particularly with the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in mind. [More…]
The Honourable Peter Howson, M.P., Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
The Honourable J. G. Beale, M.L.A., Minister for Environment Control. [More…]
Minister for Environment Control, The Honourable J. [More…]
The Council decided that a specialist committee would be set up to investigate and report to it on national emission standards and guidelines to protect the environment. [More…]
The Council resolved that individual States and the Commonwealth accept the merits of decentralisation as a means of environment improvement. [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
what staff and facilities he has at his disposal to operate effectively as Minister for the Environment; and [More…]
whether he regards these facilities as adequate, having regard to his recent answers to questions and personal representations requesting investigation of environment problems and his advice that these matters are for Slate action only. “ [More…]
Clearly, it would be inappropriate for me or officers of the Department to investigate specific environment problems which arise locally and exclusively out of activities within the constitutional responsibility of the States. [More…]
Consultation and co-ordination between the Commonwealth and the States on appropriate environmental matters take place through the Australian Environment Council and its Standing Committee. [More…]
Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
What is the (a) number and (b) classification of personnel employed in the section of his Department concerned with the Environment. [More…]
Has his Department initiated any action against persons or companies contributing to the impairment of the environment; if so, what are the details. [More…]
The approved staff establishment of the Office of the Environment Division is - 1 - First Assistant Secretary, Level 3 1 - Assistant Secretary, Level 1 1- Senior Executive Officer, Class 10 1- Executive Officer, Class 9 1- Clerk, Class 8 2- Clerk, Class 6 1- Clerk, Class 4 [More…]
The Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has a general responsibility to act for the Commonwealth in environmental matters including - [More…]
Co-operation with the States - in particular, through the Australian Environment Council; International aspects. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, who is in charge of tourism. [More…]
The Government, of course, recognises the need to protect the environment of this proposed park area and has already placed 2 areas of major ecological interest - Deaf Adder Valley and Jim Jim Falls - under a mining reserve, which means that no mining exploration shall take place in those 2 areas of special significance. [More…]
The Government has also initiated 2. environmental impact studies of the area to provide information on ways to minimise damage from mining and other activities. [More…]
importance of the park area to the nation from a mineral and economic point of view and the importance of the park in an environmental sense. [More…]
by leave - I propose in this statement to outline the changing environment in which the Australian Government is formulating its foreign policies. [More…]
There is the adverse effect on our environment to which I have referred - the fumes, the noise, the accidents and the pace of living. [More…]
All these things have an environmental effect. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
I address a question without notice to the Minister for the Environment. [More…]
It should be unnecessary in today’s political and economic environment and is merely evidence that one or both sides is unwilling or unable to act in accordance with the principles of goodwill and a sense of responsibility. [More…]
He is also a member of the Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory, he is the Government Whip, and he was appointed by the Government to represent it at an environment conference overseas. [More…]
The point is whether the honourable member can carry out his responsibilities to the House of Representatives Select Committee on Road Safety, The House of Representatives Select Committee on Wildlife Conservation and the Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory as well as his responsibilities as chief Government Whip and go overseas as the Prime Minister’s representative to an environment conference in Vienna in the near future. [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts whether he has seen a report of comments made by Professor Ali Mazru of Uganda recommending a policy which encourages Aboriginal children to be educated with ot without the consent of their parents and suggesting that some degree of coercion is needed if Aboriginal children are to be separated from parental influence and absorbed, through education processes, into the mainstream of change? [More…]
Will the Minister inform the House what is proposed in Commonwealth administered areas to ensure that Aboriginal children are given every opportunity to overcome their present environmental handicap? [More…]
This is an interesting question relating to the problem of trying to maintain the family environment in the Aboriginal community and at the same time increasing education standards. [More…]
So, a higher cost will be imposed on the private section of the community to protect what might be described as the public environment. [More…]
He gave all the technical reasons why it would be so wasteful to go ahead with the Institute of Marine Science there if the environment in which it has to work can be polluted. [More…]
He could give no assurance that the marine environment in which the Institute would have to work at Cape Pallarenda would remain unpolluted. [More…]
It is unsafe to go ahead with the Institute of Marine Science Bill until the Commonwealth, which is financing this Institute, is able to ensure the proper environment for it, and that can only be done if the Territorial Sea and Continental Shelf Bill is enacted and the States have an opportunity to test it. [More…]
Marine pollution from agricultural chemicals in the environment of Townsville itself and the proposed establishment of a nickel refinery at Townsville are quite relevant to the argument. [More…]
Has he noted that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts stated 2 days later (Hansard, page 1391), in answer to question No. [More…]
We now know that cancer-producing factors in our environment are actually far more common, and more diverse, than we imagined. [More…]
But if education programmes, which I have said are the key to success, are to be successful we must create an environment in which they can be effective. [More…]
Such a campaign has to take place in an environment where $12m a year is being spent on cigarette promotion. [More…]
lt has often been said that Australian government instrumentalities and other similar bodies are not anxious to accept or are not comfortable in accepting tenders from the Soviet Union or from Czechoslovakia because these countries are not experienced in working in the Australian environment. [More…]
This is why the establishment of a potentially hostile environment in either the Pacific or the Indian Oceans must be viewed with very great care. [More…]
I agree with what he said, but I think it would be wrong for Australia and it would be a dereliction of duty if, in considering Australia’s foreign policy, due weight were not given to the possibility of a hostile environment being developed, particularly in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The Government recognises that we must be involved in these matters because it believes that our environment will change and that, therefore, it is necessary to be involved in those changes to see that they occur in ways that will advance our cause and the general security of our region. [More…]
It will determine the environmental conditions in which we live. [More…]
It is a matter of building an environment that we are concerned with when we are concerned with tariffs, because with tariffs we are concerned with the development of industry, the pattern and the type it will be. [More…]
The other Departments presently involved in the matter are the Departments of the Treasury and of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
by leave - In recent years there has been an increasing public awareness of the threat to our environment in Australia and the need to do something about it. [More…]
My purpose, therefore in addressing honourable members today, is to emphasise the Commonwealth Government’s deep interest in the problems of the environment and our determination to do what we can, within our powers, to help solve those problems. [More…]
Basic to this is a healthy environment in which we can develop a quality of life to satisfy our needs in all fields of human endeavour. [More…]
It is essential, therefore, that we preserve the great gifts nature has given us and that we keep our environment as free from man-made contamination as human skills can devise. [More…]
At the outset I wish to commend the Government for its decision to participate in the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm early in June of this year. [More…]
I criticise the Government for not permitting those 2 members of the Parliament the honourable member for Henty (Mr Fox) and Senator Keeffe who will be attending a parliamentary world conference on the environment in Vienna in late June to attend the Conference on the environment in Stockholm early in June. [More…]
Quite frankly, I think that there has been some window dressing by the Government in regard to the environment. [More…]
We have just heard a Minister who is twenty seventh in seniority of the 27 Ministers in the Ministry make a statement on the environment. [More…]
However, I am glad that the Government has now officially recognised the environment. [More…]
The statement by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) contains a few items which are very welcome but which are buried in a wealth of meaningless cliches. [More…]
The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, which is to be held in Stockholm in a few days, dramatises the fact that the problems of the environment are global problems and Australia, as a part of the world, has to share its responsibility in this respect. [More…]
Even though representatives of the States will be going to this Conference in Stockholm it is the Commonwealth which will in the main represent Australia in the world environmental stage. [More…]
The Government has at last recognised that environmental issues do exist, although depressingly it still emphasises only the pollution control aspect. [More…]
The environment involves more than pollution control. [More…]
Still unanswered on the notice paper is a question asked on 17th August last year by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
What has been the (a) date and (b) outcome of correspondence between the Commonwealth and States concerning the National Advisory Council on the Environment since the former Prime Minister’s answer on 24 February 1971. [More…]
Another question asked by the Leader of the Opposition of the Minister for Health (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) aims at trying to pry out of the Government the composition and meeting dates of the interdepartmental working party on the environment since 25th November 1970. [More…]
In other words, there is no way of assessing whether the interdepartmental working party on the environment is of any real use or is just a piece of window dressing. [More…]
The land filling of estuaries in Queensland for tourist development is having a profound environmental impact on the nearby marine ecosystem, although we barely have any knowledge of the impact. [More…]
In addition a nickel refinery is planned near Townsville in Queensland which will have a significant impact on the marine environment. [More…]
All parts of the environment - airsheds, watersheds and land - have certain capacities to stand use and abuse. [More…]
However, an environment department is much more than a pollution control department. [More…]
The environment embraces a whole host of items such as over-population, urban sprawl, litter, dirty air and water, mining, land use planning and flora and fauna conservation. [More…]
Because the environment is such a complex interaction of man, nature, technology and society we cannot just set up a bureaucracy and call it the Department of the Environment and expect it to solve our problems. [More…]
The Commonwealth Department of the Environment has a staff of 8 clerks one is an Engineer the remainder is without any skilled scientists or men of technology in that field. [More…]
We can see this in New South Wales where 4 departments - the Department of Health, the Department of Local Government, the Department of Transport and the Department of Environmental Control - are fighting each other about who has the right to monitor and control motor vehicle emissions and to manage the environment as a whole. [More…]
All decisions by government, by private companies and by individuals have environmental impact. [More…]
What we must do is design a new model which ensures that when any decision is made it is an environmentally wise one. [More…]
We can attain such a goal if we first set up proper social and environmental goals to keep us on course. [More…]
It is the existence of these ‘hidden links’ which we must recognise now when we talk about ‘the environment’. [More…]
Clearly the ‘environment’ means virtually ‘the world’. [More…]
In a world where everything is connected to everything else, it can be very misleading to isolate ‘basic environmental factors’. [More…]
What then is ‘the environment’? [More…]
Dr Aurelio Peccei, the founder of the Club of Rome expressed ‘environment’ in a systems way which embraces both natural and man-made components. [More…]
each subsystem or system is contained in a system of a higher order, which represents its environment. [More…]
We must forever bury the notion that the ‘environment’ means clean water or air, depleting resources or anything in an absolute sense. [More…]
That is, let us consider its environment. [More…]
The environment of a wild animal can be expressed similarly. [More…]
The environment is the system upon which the subsystem depends for its maintenance. [More…]
There are three things which we must constantly keep in mind when we consider the environment. [More…]
In other words, we cannot ‘isolate’ the basic factors of the environment. [More…]
We must become system oriented in our thinking when we consider the environment. [More…]
We must understand what is the environment of any subsystem. [More…]
That larger system is the environment of the subsystem. [More…]
We must sit down and decide what kind of environment we want. [More…]
We should put all of them down as an optimum environment statement. [More…]
An optimum environment statement, can be used to provide the framework for policies of decentralisation just as it can for other policies. [More…]
An optimum environment statement should be idealistic and be reached as much as possible by consensus. [More…]
A Commonwealth Department of the Environment would be a suitable place. [More…]
The optimum environment statement should also include the rights of the environment. [More…]
This can provide the legal basis for protection of the environment from man and his technology. [More…]
Man is now doing violence to the environment at an increasingly alarming rate. [More…]
It is very easy for a subsystem to wreck the larger system of which it is a part, that is its environment. [More…]
Finally, it must become obvious that once we recognise that everything is interconnected in a systems way, that the environment can be overloaded and destroyed, we must realise that our concepts of ‘freedom’ will have to undergo great changes. [More…]
However, if, ahead of time, we have agreed upon a set of environmental goals we will be better off. [More…]
We on this side of the House believe that in matters of the environment everything is connected with everything else. [More…]
We have to look at it nationally and globally and to make sure that we manage the environment and I use that word ‘manage’ deliberately one cannot control the environment; it can only be managed in this sector of planet earth. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and Minister in Charge of Tourist Activities (Mr Howson) spoke today on the important matter of the environment, but there was no debate on the matter. [More…]
The matter of the environment. [More…]
Let me go back to the matter of the environment [More…]
We could have said something about that in relation to the environment today. [More…]
There was keen criticism from those who think almost exclusively in terms of the environment. [More…]
But with a population of less than 13 million in a land mass of some 3 million square miles our policies must be designed to fit in with the environment and the population that we hold. [More…]
ns asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Is the CSIRO researching the possible effects of the Concorde on the Australian environment; if so, what is the nature of the research being undertaken. [More…]
If the government has already given or if it is considering giving approval for Concorde flights over its territories, have the obligations of the government and aircraft operators been firmly established in respect of providing just compensation for damage or injury to people, property, animals and the environment; if so, what are these obligations. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
and (2) My, statement of 24th May 1972 on the environment indicates the Commonwealth’s response to the recommendations by the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution. [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
What has been the (a) date and (b) outcome of correspondence between the Commonwealth and States concerning the National Advisory Council on the Environment since the former Prime Minister’s answer on 24th February 1971 (Hansard, page 559). [More…]
and (2) My statement of 24th May 1972 on the environment indicates the Commonwealth’s response to the recommendations by the Senate Select Committees on Air Pollution and Water Pollution. [More…]
I refer to the problems of conservation - the effect of reafforestation programmes on the environment, the ecology, the flora and fauna and associated matters. [More…]
Those of us who have seen reafforestation and development along these lines know the effects that it can have on the environment, the ecology, the flora and the fauna. [More…]
There is nothing in this agreement, for example, which states the responsibilities of the States and the Commonwealth with respect to the environment. [More…]
As a matter of fact, in some areas development should be accelerated, provided that in the management of our hardwood forests sufficient emphasis is given always to conservation of flora and fauna and the environment. [More…]
When honourable members consider these aspects they should bear in mind the efforts that are being made by foresters to ensure that the environment will be improved by the culture of forests. [More…]
I support this Bill and the amendment moved by the Opposition which seeks to protect the environment because irrespective of what the honourable member for McMillan says, this is an important phase of the timber industry. [More…]
We must always keep an eye on environmental aspects. [More…]
This Bill, from the environmental point of view, is highly irresponsible. [More…]
Last week the Minister for the Enviornment (Mr Howson) when making a statement said that his Department would examine the environmental aspects of all legislation before being passed through this Parliament. [More…]
There has been no consideration of the environment in this legislation. [More…]
The Bill contains not one word about the large environmental impact of the policies contained in it. [More…]
A sound environmental policy would ensure that with the passage of this legislation the loans will be used primarily for buying up farm land first. [More…]
A sound environmental policy would ensure that wood demand was reasonable and not excessive; for example, that packaging was minimised rather than maximised. [More…]
A sound environmental policy would tolerate the permanent alteration of natural ecosystems only after much thought about the very great ecological consequences. [More…]
A sound environmental policy would see that taxation deductions were no longer given for further land clearing on private land but be given for re afforestation of already cleared land. [More…]
However, these costs would be minute compared with the tremendous cost to the Australian environment of the present programme. [More…]
It would appear to me that there is considerable doubt whether the Bill in its present form is in the public interest on both environment and economic grounds. [More…]
We must ask what are the implications for the conservation of flora and fauna, water catchments, conservation of soil in respect of present policies; what basic environment guidelines in terms of forestry policy should be laid down to ensure the wisest management of the Australian environment? [More…]
It is on these bases, planning and the environment aspect, that the Opposition has moved its amendment. [More…]
I refer here to chip mill projects particularly, which have been approved by State authorities, sometimes doubtfully, and where there could be despoliation of the environment. [More…]
There has been serious concern that the undertakings that were given that the environment would not be unduly interfered with, that the scenic beauty of the headlands would be retained or at least restored to some degree do not seem to have been honoured. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
The matter referred to is one which falls within the authority of the Minister for Lands and Environment in the House of Assembly for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
The matter referred to is one which falls within the authority of the Minister for Lands and Environment in the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly. [More…]
Can the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts inform the House whether the Commonwealth ever held an option to purchase Everard Park in north west South Australia? [More…]
All through this situation we had firstly a Liberal Minister in charge of Aboriginal Affairs, the Honourable W. C. Wentworth, and now we have the Minister for the Environment Aborigines and the Arts, the [More…]
On 29th July my colleagues, the Minister for Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) and the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Affairs (Dr Coombs) and officers of my Department met with Aboriginal leaders in Canberra. [More…]
I sent him a telegram because all of the reports said that he and his colleague - I suppose that one can call the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) a colleague - were in Darwin or somewhere doing something else probably quite irrelevant, given the situation that had arisen in Canberra. [More…]
One thing that I have been endeavouring to do as Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts is to improve the dialogue between the Government and the Aboriginal people. [More…]
Having stated how I believe we shall be able to understand these needs more closely, I now wish to inform the House of what has taken place while I have been Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
This is the very point that is being dealt with now by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) introduced the general question of Aboriginal administration. [More…]
I was interested in the comment made by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts about the Government’s aim to create a single society in Australia. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts spoke about the Government’s plans. [More…]
The Minister carries the burden of responsibility for the Prime Minister, the Cabinet and the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
We recognise that relations between the major powers will be the predominant influence on Australia’s future strategic environment. [More…]
The Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee is responsible to the Minister for Supply for safety aspects of the use of testing of nuclear explosive devices in Australia, for evaluation of proposals by other countries to explode nuclear devices outside Australia which might give rise to increased levels of radioactivity in Australia, and for monitoring of levels of radioactivity in the Australian environment arising from activities with nuclear explosive devices either in this country or elsewhere. [More…]
I do not want to over emotionalise the aspect of the fallout from the French nuclear tests but I want to draw to the attention of the House some facts which have been stated by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) in his statement. [More…]
I spoke with the Minister for the Environment on a radio programme when he was in Stockholm. [More…]
We know that when the New Zealand Government placed its resolution before the Stockholm conference the Minister for the Environment, who is now sitting at the table who represented the Australian Government opposed the New Zealand Government’s proposition. [More…]
Subsequently at the environmental conference in Stockholm a resolution, which was much less appropriate than the one we voted in favour of and which also referred to the disarmament conference at the United Nations, was put before a committee at Stockholm. [More…]
When the resolution came into plenary session at the Stockholm conference on the environment, because we could not get it framed in accordance with the procedures we thought were proper and consistent with our attitude up to that time, we voted in favour of it. [More…]
The honourable member for Reid pointed out to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) what he calls the ‘conservative view’ stated on page 4 of this statement where these words appear: [More…]
The honourable member for Reid asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts what he had done or what anyone on behalf of the Australian Government had done to try to persuade the French to accept the Australian Government’s view. [More…]
Therefore it is still open for the Minister for Foreign Affairs or the Minister for the Environment to reply. [More…]
I welcome the statement made by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson). [More…]
In such an unsettling environment it is not surprising that consumers and businessmen have continued to display caution in their spending policies. [More…]
No adverse effects on other aspects of the environment are expected to occur. [More…]
and (4) The Council is supported by a Standing Committee comprising senior officers of the Commonwealth and State environment agencies. [More…]
to investigate and report on national emission standards and guidelines to protect the environment; [More…]
The performance of this selection under Australian conditions is not a necessary indication of the way it will show up in a foreign environment. [More…]
If so, (a) what are the precise details of submissions made by the Commission to present and previous Planning Authorities of New South Wales, (b) why is a buffer zone required, (c) what is the area of the proposed buffer zone, (d) what arrangements are being made to compensate property owners affected by the proposed buffer zone, (e) in what possible circumstances could the wellbeing of people, property, flora and fauna and the environment within the area of the proposed buffer zone be at risk as a consequence of activities conducted by the Commission at the Lucas Heights Atomic Research Establishment, and (f) were assurances given by Professor Baxter and the late General Stevens to the Sutherland Shire Council during 1954 that there could be no deleterious effects from the Lucas Heights Atomic Research Establishment, approval for which was being sought at that time. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Who is to prepare and submit the impact statements, designed to protect the environment, which will accompany submissions to Cabinet on any proposal that has some relevance to the environment, as he foreshadowed on 24th May 1972. [More…]
Will the Government make available impact statements on the effects on the environment of: [More…]
It is the responsibility of the individual Minister to have an environmental impact statement prepared and submitted when preparing a Cabinet submission on a proposal that has some relevance to the environment. [More…]
The scheme will provide water under pressure in adequate quantities for household uses, including the watering of gardens, with consequent improvement in the living environment of settlers. [More…]
No adverse effects on other aspects of the environment are likely to occur with the new scheme. [More…]
For example, the Government is concerned that migrants coming to this country should receive assistance in learning English, to help in their adjustment to their new environment, and increased amounts are being provided in this financial year for this purpose. [More…]
The fastest growth of intelligence occurs between the ages of 0 to 5 years, and the intelligence is stunted in a defective environment. [More…]
The absence from the wonderfully stimulating environment of pre-school education of so many children is a tragedy. [More…]
The Department of Defence has even coined the dreadful label maritime-archipelago environment’ to describe the new area of Australia’s defence interest. [More…]
The paramount position of the Navy in this sort of defence environment has at last been recognised. [More…]
He expressed it as follows: ‘We must be able to deploy destroyers which, if need be, can act in a hostile environment, without the support of our allies’. [More…]
Basically, this is a Fortress Australia approach - keeping our own defence strong and having the capacity io work in the archipelago environment. [More…]
As I said in a previous debate touching on this matter, the intellect can be stunted by an unfriendly environment - an environment unfriendly to its development. [More…]
Their inferior school performance is not necessarily genetic in origin, but may rather be seen as a result of deficiencies in their environment. [More…]
It is a beautiful environment. [More…]
What I am saying is that despite the great works that we may find in pre-schools, a great deal of what is offered, socially and educationally, could well be found in a good home environment between mother and child. [More…]
Finally, we recognise - though the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) suggested that we do not - the idealism involved in any educative process, and not least in this area of very young lives and minds who have the capacity not only to be moulded by the influences of their environment but who now it appears have also the mental capacity to be much more influenced by proper teaching than was previously thought to be the case. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
I appreciate the interest that the honourable member for Ryan shows in this important matter relating to the environment. [More…]
Of course, the Commonwealh has stated its position in a statement made by my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
In co-operative bodies such as the Australian Minerals Council, the Australian Forestry Council and the Australian Water Resources Council, I have had the opportunity over the last year or so of studying with the States problems related to rational economic development of our resources and aspects of the environment. [More…]
Have any of these men been recruited and, if any have been appointed, are their efforts having any effect on preventing the damage that was being done to that environment? [More…]
I visited the area earlier this year, on a suggestion made by the honourable member for the Northern Territory, because of a degree of vandalism that was taking place in the proposed national park area, lt was as a result of this visit that I decided to have set aside 1,250 square miles as a wildlife sanctuary, and my Department has agreed to appoint 5 rangers to ensure that the environment is protected until such time as the question of the proposed national park is settled. [More…]
Agreement has been reached between the mining companies which are prospecting over the area and the Government to contribute on a Si for $1 basis towards an environmental impact study to protect the environment including the fauna and flora. [More…]
It will be based on the need for scientific investigation to achieve breakthroughs to overcome the underlying problems of soil-plant-animal relationships that are presently reflected in practical farming problems in this environment. [More…]
In fact the very action taken by the Government itself and the kind of action we have continually thought about are designed to ensure that so far as the environment and the quality of life of people in the metropolitan and urban areas- [More…]
A man’s working environment has to be treated as part of his total environment, because a working man spends more than half his waking hours in the workshop. [More…]
Factory environment, as I said earlier, must be treated as part of a person’s total environment. [More…]
A good environment at work is just as important to a good workman as a good environment in the home is to a good husband or a good wife. [More…]
They find here a peace and tranquility, a natural scenic gen tleness, a rural and marine environment that have long since disappeared from Sydney. [More…]
I ask all honourable members in the House - 1 do not care on what side of the House they sit - or any member of the general public who examines this Budget: Where does it contain any mention of the environment, the problem of controlling urban land prices, the problem of housing in both the public and private sectors, the real problems of urban transport, the problems of trying to control the over-building of the central business districts of our capital cities by major insurance companies and foreign investors and the problem of providing sewerage in our cities, particularly in the cities of Sydney, Melbourne and Perth? [More…]
This budgetary measure indicates how seriously the Government considers the problems of the cities and the environment of Australia. [More…]
It ignores the environmental impact of petroleum on city air. [More…]
On 24th May last, speaking on behalf of the Government, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) said that all Federal action would require an ‘environment impact statement’ about future legislation. [More…]
This tax on LPG indicates that decisions are made in the Treasury and to hell with the environmental consequences. [More…]
Decisions will be made environmentally-wise’ irrespective of who makes them. [More…]
What is more, we will do it without building a huge monolithic environment department and it will not act as a ‘big brother’ to other departments, the States, the municipalities or private industries. [More…]
We will work in cooperation with all Australians for a better environment as a whole. [More…]
When I talk about the environment I include those people who live in cities and whom, I believe should not be strangled by car exhaust or industry emissions. [More…]
The Government has now embarked on one of the largest programmes it has ever undertaken in providing destroyers, a naval force that is able to look after the situation in our environment, particularly the archipelago to our north and in the seas to the east and west adjoining our coasts. [More…]
Also I would like to draw to the attention of the Government the work that is being done in relation to the environment and national parks. [More…]
1 am pleased that the Minister for the Environment (Mr Howson) is at the table. [More…]
The educational theory and practice underlying this approach to primary school planning is the educators’ need for a physical environment in which teaching can proceed flexibly and which can be readily and quickly adapted to different kinds of teaching and learning situations. [More…]
The proposal to introduce new integrated measures to help not only chronically ill patients in nursing homes, but also to assist aged infirm people who can be looked after in a home environment will meet the support of all those Australians who have detected within our prosperous community a tendency for families to avoid their responsibilities to their elderly people. [More…]
I believe that this is a remarkable and very valuable step forward in the concepts which have been introduced by this Government over recent years and it will have a profound effect upon the environment of the average family in our community. [More…]
However, expert professional opinion is increasingly aware of the social advantages in retaining our aged people, wherever possible, in the home environment. [More…]
They get on to a sort of sickness syndrome and are destroyed physically and mentally by the dullness and the lack of stimulation in the environment in which they are living. [More…]
The crux of the company’s case was that continuation of the stable economic environment created by the competitive 2-airline system was absolutely vital before the ATI board could involve its 50,000 investors in the substantial loan commitments needed for additional aircraft, the repayment of which would extend well past the present agreement expiry date of 1977. [More…]
What we must get over to members of the community, as, I think, many of them already realise, is the fact that increased productivity is the key to all the things the community is striving for - improved education, better social services, a more pleasant environment and so on. [More…]
I absolve the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who is sitting at the table, from guilt in this matter, lt was the Minister for the Navy who made the suggestion. [More…]
In conclusion, I would like to express the personal satisfaction I received when the Royal Lifesaving Society of Australia and the Surf Lifesaving Association of Australia received an increase in the grants in aid from the Department responsible to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) who is now sitting at the table. [More…]
As far as prices are concerned, the Government is seeking - through trade practices legislation and a review of the tariff - to promote a vigorous, competitive environment. [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who is at the table, to draw the attention of the Attorney-General to this loophole which exists. [More…]
It has to be remembered that when the migrant comes to Australia he understands he is coming to a new environment, an environment to which, in the first instance, he has to adjust. [More…]
As my Department of Primary Industry is responsible for the general negotiations that take place within the International Whaling Commission it might be appropriate if I explained to the House that there was no inconsistency between the vote cast by my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts at Stockholm and the others made within the International Whaling Commission for the control of resources of whales around the oceans of the world, lt needs to be recognised that whaling is an industry which today has contracted significantly. [More…]
There is no discrepancy between the action taken by my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, and that taken by officers of my Department with the International Whaling Commission. [More…]
No word has been said about any submission on this matter having been taken to Cabinet and no action has been taken to deal with this important question of decentralisation, to provide for the development of this country and to locate people in country districts in order to give them the opportunity to live better and healthier lives in an environment which would be to their advantage and to the advantage of their children. [More…]
Who would be foolish enough to try to predict with certainty what the situation will be throughout the world - and especially in our own region - in 10 years time except the members of the Labor Party who appear to have adopted the thinking that nothing can happen to us, and the devil take any of our neighbours who suddenly find themselves in a hostile environment. [More…]
However, I have no doubt that, if the tangible and intangible benefits of maintaining a high quality environment were evaluated in monetary terms, the rate of return on capital invested would be extremely high. [More…]
There are few aspects of our environment, our culture or our welfare which can be handled adequately without involving local government. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has indicated on many occasions that it is clearly the responsibility of the Federal Government to see that all 3 levels of government have not on’y the finance but also the motivation and the expertise to play their part in creating a viable environment for the Australians who choose to live in cities. [More…]
We seek an environment where man and nature can live in harmony. [More…]
I should like to draw the attention of the House to the fact that on 24th May this year the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) stated that, when Commonwealth Government money was involved in anything that could have an environmental impact, an impact statement would be made. [More…]
A power station is to be built at Tennant Creek and a power station, whether it is small or large, can have an environmental impact. [More…]
If the power station is to be built in the township, I would like to know the environmental impact it will have on this area. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Customs and Excise (Mr Chipp) whether any impact statement has been prepared by the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, because Commonwealth money is being used for a project in a Commonwealth Ter ritory. [More…]
An eleventh hour decision has been made and I would like to know whether an environmental impact statement has been prepared in regard to the siting of this power station in Tennant Creek. [More…]
The Minister responsible for the Corporation - the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) - might care to claim that the Corporation’s role has consisted primarily of creating a climate of stability and confidence in the Australian feature film industry, encouraging private investors to join in the development of that industry, and so on. [More…]
Has the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) been hovering around in the background on this one too? [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment. [More…]
I ask: As the Navigation Act that he brought in last March did not cover this point and as the United Nations Conference on the Human Enviroment in June and the Australian Environment Council in July have stressed its urgency, how soon will this minute amendment to replace 3 words in existing Commonwealth legislation be introduced? [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts a question. [More…]
ls the Treasurer aware that his colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, has indicated that environmental impact statements will be prepared on the effects of any Government measures but only if the responsible Ministers request them? [More…]
Has the Treasurer had an environmental impact statement prepared on air pollution and other sequelae of the imposition of tax on liquefied gas? [More…]
I am not quite sure of the circumstances in which my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, uses the term ‘impact statement’. [More…]
What I can say to the honourable gentleman is that the impact of pollution on the environment by this measure was most carefully weighed against the other side of the equation; that was the potential for the erosion in very great dimensions of the capacity of the Commonwealth, by means of tax revenue, to discharge the very many expenditure requirements upon the Commonwealth. [More…]
He asked: What aspects of environmental impact had the government studied before making its decision? [More…]
He could not really co-relate what the Minister for the Environment Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) meant by an ‘impact statement’. [More…]
The record of the past decade testifies to our ability as a nation to adapt to changes in our trading environment. [More…]
In addition, the Minister who is supposed to represent the Aborigines of Australia - the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) - has not spoken in this debate. [More…]
Is he afraid that he might get the sack from his position of Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts? [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
In addition, the Minister for Health has announced that he will be introducing new forms of assistance for patients who require nursing care on a continuous basis, together with other measures aimed at encouraging aged people, who might otherwise be admitted prematurely or unnecessarily to nursing homes, to remain in their domestic environment for as long as they are able to do so. [More…]
This trend is accelerated by the deficiencies of services in many nursing homes, the lack of stimulation, the lack of an arousing environment, and the failure of the paramedical services to provide a stimulating challenge. [More…]
Very often elderly people are much happier in a different environment such as a hostel type atmosphere where they are able to move about and take an. [More…]
I should like to suggest that the Ministry for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts - this Ministry which is very ambiguous in many respects and which from the environmental standpoint hardly seems to have come down to any positive line of objectivity - should start to accept some responsibility in this regard. [More…]
I do not know whether the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who is in the House at the moment, has consciously applied himself to this matter and whether in fact he concedes that it ought to be the responsibility and the prerogative of his Department to liaise with the Post Office in this case and indeed with many other Departments where there is a responsibility to determine whether an historical building, such as the Customs House in Sydney, is to remain. [More…]
The College could be successful providing we take a proper attitude towards the environment there for these children. [More…]
This Government has a superb regard for and has shown an awareness towards the problems of noise and the environment. [More…]
The State’s reliance on the Commonwealth for funds gives the clue to the small amounts allocated to the new ministries of the Arts, Environment and Decentralisation. [More…]
As a biological organism, he has evolved over millions of years in an environment demanding physical mobility and endurance, yet in the last 50 years, Australians, by following the trend of other technologically advanced countries, have considerably reduced their daily energy expenditure. [More…]
There is now alarming medical evidence which indicates that man’s inability to physically adapt to his changing environment is causing many diseases of a degenerative nature. [More…]
Without disputing this contention by the Minister I feel he should have put greater stress on the peculiar environmental conditions of the rural islands off Australia’s coast. [More…]
Each of the 3 large islands which are important rural producers and are farmed largely by soldier settlers is confronted by a unique set of environmental conditions. [More…]
Apart from these joint problems there are physical and biological problems produced by the distinctive character of an island environment. [More…]
In the same month, on 24th May, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) in a statement, entitled ‘Australian Environment - Commonwealth Policy and Achievements’, incorporated statements of the Government’s observations on the recommendations of the Senate Committee and concluded: [More…]
Accordingly we find that the largest semigovernment authorities in Australia, the ones which have most conspicuously failed to meet the requirements of a civilised community, are to have no help from the Commonwealth as far as the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts is concerned and no help from the Commonwealth as far as the present Prime Minister is concerned. [More…]
We can show the world how a sensible nation can go about the kind of development the modern world and the modern needs of man and the demands of his environment require. [More…]
The absence of reference to the ‘environment’ in the originally proposed agreement does not mean that this important field has been ignored; in fact environmental aspects of forestry activities are very much in mind in the formulation of forestry programmes throughout Australia and the very expression ‘sound forestry . [More…]
practices’ in paragraph 9 of the original agreement contemplated full recognition of the effects of forestry activities on the environment. [More…]
In addition, there are established in New South Wales and Victoria Ministries responsible especially for the environment. [More…]
The Australian Forestry Council, which recommended the softwood programme, has demonstrated a responsible attitude to the environment by endorsing a Forestry and Wood-based Industries Development Conference to be held in 1974. [More…]
The conference will recognise the importance, not only of economic matters concerning forests and forest industries, but also social and environmental aspects of forestry and forest industries. [More…]
The Council has also established liaison with the newly formed Environment Council. [More…]
Whilst the Government has no objection to including in the Agreement a form of words that emphasises the need to protect the quality of the environment, it would not appear desirable to dictate a precise procedure for the Forestry Council and the forest services to follow in undertaking a task to which they have diligently addressed themselves in the past. [More…]
The amendment that I have proposed to clause 9 of the Agreement will ensure that planting is carried out each year efficiently and in conformity with sound forestry and financial practices and that environmental factors are considered. [More…]
It is also recommended that similar special reference to the environment should be considered in any future agreements. [More…]
It is clear that the environmental factors have to be considered. [More…]
In the clearing of timber regard must be had to ecological and environmental influences. [More…]
A consequence of the amendment will be that the Commonwealth will become more conscious of the environment. [More…]
Planting methods demand that environmental factors be taken into account. [More…]
I can tell the House that the Australian Transport Advisory Council has a sub-committee known as the Committee on Motor Vehicle Emissions which is made up of Commonwealth and State representatives of environment, health, transport and national development portfolios. [More…]
It is probably the first time - it will be only the first of many - that governments have been brought to task with regard to and reminded of the impact of certain legislation on the environment. [More…]
The absence ot reference to the ‘environment’ in the originally proposed agreement does not mean that this important field has been ignored. [More…]
The forestry commissions probably would be as environment minded as most people. [More…]
In fact, they would probably be the leaders in the environmental field. [More…]
But no matter how progressive the environmental people are they have to be open to criticism and there have been mistakes made by the States. [More…]
As far as I am concerned, when one starts to deal with the environment one should remember that everything is connected to everything else. [More…]
As I said, this will be just the first of many actions to be taken in this Parliament with regard to the environment. [More…]
It is through the home environment, through better housing and the obtaining of housing soon after marriage that we can assist families in this country to stay together. [More…]
They are being forced into this type of accommodation and this type of environment because the Government, in bringing forward a homes savings scheme, does not recognise and does not even commence to understand the basic necessity of arresting this tremendous burden on the young people today. [More…]
Shortly after the Minister for the Environment made a statement in this House relating to impact statements, I caused a letter to be sent to each of my ministerial colleagues, over the signature of the permanent head of my Department, giving instructions that whenever the problem of environment or pollution was involved in any submission to Cabinet there must be interdepartmental consideration and the results of that interdepartmental consideration must be mentioned in the Cabinet submission. [More…]
Instructions were given that, particularly when there was likely to be an environmental or pollution effect, a statement had to be attached to each one of the Cabinet submissions setting out the nature of the effect. [More…]
I also wrote to each of the Premiers informing them that whenever Commonwealth assistance was given to the States we would expect them to take into consideration the environmental and pollution impact of whatever activities were to be carried out by the States. [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
The original tax measures indicate how seriously this Government considers the problems of the cities and the Australian environment. [More…]
On 24th May last, speaking on behalf of the Government, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who is now sitting on the front bench, made a statement that all Federal action would require an ‘environmental impact statement’. [More…]
I know what pressures are placed on the Government by the environmental bodies throughout Australia. [More…]
This tax on LPG indicates that decisions are made in the Treasury and to hell with the environmental consequences. [More…]
It will ensure that decisions take into account environmental factors, irrespective of who makes them. [More…]
What is more, we will do it without building a huge monolithic environment department and it will not act as a big brother to other departments, the States, the municipalities or private industries. [More…]
The Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has shown itself to be a complete washout. [More…]
The proposed tax would certainly have been a setback to those people who are interested in the environment and who, with knowledge gained from overseas, are concerned that we do not have in our cities a situation similar to that in cities such as Los Angeles. [More…]
I know that my colleague the honourable member for Reid is most interested in the environmental aspect. [More…]
For over 12 years Mr Fox searched in vain for a site where he could recreate in authentic detail the living environment of Australia’s first settlement. [More…]
It is a pattern which does not fit into the kind of environment in which they must live and I think a good deal of imagination should be used to design a completely different kind of house. [More…]
In doing so, I would like to draw the attention of the House to the statement of the Minister for Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson). [More…]
The Minister for the Environment, the Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) and I were both members of a select committee which examined the grievances of the Aboriginal people of Yirrkala. [More…]
I would suggest to the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) that the statement he is criticising is the second reading speech by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts on the States Grants (Aboriginal Advancement) Bill 1972. [More…]
In the estimates of the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, there is a provision under the Office of Aboriginal Affairs for consultation and liaison with Aboriginal panels and associations. [More…]
It is not even run by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) but the Minister for the Interior (Mr Hunt). [More…]
They will grow up in an environment which is totally different from that in which their parents developed themselves. [More…]
But those Aboriginal people who created the Federal Council, who have kept it alive, who have been about and have carried on the battle sometimes in a most hostile environment, ought to be given a great deal more respect even though they are grateful for the occasional assistance for fares and such things when it turns up. [More…]
In the paper issued by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) we see a list of houses to be built by the Commonwealth. [More…]
I have heard an anthropologist say that this is the way in which they want to live and that a set environment could be unhealthy. [More…]
They wish to place the whole of the burden on social environment. [More…]
In fact the suspicion is growing once again that the argument about social environment is not quite enough, that there may be inherent differences which any amount of compensatory action in respect of social environment may not eradicate. [More…]
They will be children who have a lack of environmental stimulus in their home and a lack of community environment. [More…]
Last Thursday the right honourable gentleman amplified an earlier statement by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts on the subject of impact statements which the Government will require from Commonwealth departments and expect from State governments when questions of the environment and pollution are involved. [More…]
A small overseas country entered this field, spent very large sums of money on the project and then abandoned it, recognising belatedly that it was not the kind of project that a country with its resources in a modern environment should really have entered. [More…]
One does not need to think too deeply to realise the deep social and psychological upsets that would occur in children who are in a completely different and foreign environment with social conditions different from those that they have been used to and with an educational system that does not use their native tongue. [More…]
I recently returned from a visit to Europe during which I attended a conference in Vienna on the environment. [More…]
Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts [More…]
The Government’s approach in the preparation of the legislation has been to strike a balance between the need to regulate insurance companies and the preservation of the rights of those companies to carry on business in a free enterprise environment. [More…]
Just as all Cabinet submissions are looked at to see their effect on the environment, so these submissions also should be looked at to see how they will affect decentralisation. [More…]
So it is very hard to reconcile this new-found interest that the Government has in decentralisation and the environment. [More…]
Indeed the problems are starting to compound and people are recognising this in every walk of life and in every environment. [More…]
I might mention at this stage that a great deal of credit for the success of Canberra - a success which was recently acknowledged at the United Nations Conference on Human Environment in Stockholm - is attributable to the work of Sir John Overall as head of the National Capital Development Commission. [More…]
I put on record my thoughts about the real role of the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts in a federal system. [More…]
I challenged it to describe to this Parliament its concept of what should be the concern of the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) on 24th May last in which he detailed the Department’s so-called duties. [More…]
Clearly the concept of such a department held by the Government is very limited and out of date and if I asked honourable members to state the first couple of items which came to their minds when I mentioned the word ‘environment’, we could see what part of the problem is. [More…]
Many countries have tried to set up huge monolithic departments with the power to solve environmental problems. [More…]
One cannot put environmental problems under one bureaucratic roof, for the environment is not a thing but a complex of interconnected natural and man-made items. [More…]
The environment is a complex interconnected web in a state of constant change. [More…]
What the environment is like depends upon the point from and time at which we view it. [More…]
What is important is that an environmental programme be undertaken, no matter who regulates auto emissions. [More…]
The Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts can investigate and write the guidelines to indicate what is environmentally wise. [More…]
The Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has a key role to play here to ensure that such sell-outs to industry do not occur. [More…]
Guidelines which the Department of the Environment can lay down are sets of rules which define environmentally-wise ways of doing anything; of building dams or roads or a new town; cleaning land, managing city air, planting forests, building and siting industries, designing transportation and maintaining natural ecosystems to allow evolution to continue, or managing our arid interior or our precious coastline, or harvesting wood, mining and exporting minerals, generating power or viewing the population policy, and many others. [More…]
The Environment Department can advocate these guidelines to other paris of the Government, to the States and local governments and to private industry. [More…]
These in turn should account to the Department of the Environment for their performance in meeting these guidelines. [More…]
The Department must have teeth to use but, hopefully, they should not have to be used too often, for I believe that when most people act they do not deliberately plan to plunder the environment; they do it out of ignorance or because of special pressures. [More…]
The key to the whole process is the socalled environmental impact statement assessment. [More…]
The Minister in his paper of 24th May indicated that environment impact statements would be required of federally funded projects. [More…]
Any environmental impact statements will be for Cabinet and bureaucratic eyes only. [More…]
The people to whom the environment belongs will have no say in what is being done to it by the Government. [More…]
The Prime Minister in a reply to a question by the Leader of the Opposition in this House on Tuesday last said that in his opinion the environmental impact statement should be made public. [More…]
This was a rebuke to the Minister for the Environment who on 21st August in this House, in reply to a question by me, said that impact statements would not be available to the Australian public or to organisations but only to Government members. [More…]
The final impact statement sent to the Council on Environmental Quality must include all the public comments on the statement. [More…]
The constitutional power Includes the environmental protection of Commonwealth territory, the environmental impact of interstate or international trade particularly the export of natural resources, the regulation of corporations now that quite a few issues have been cleared up by the High Court in the so called concrete pipes case, and certain other areas. [More…]
In areas of environmental impact assessment which do not require Federal money or power and over which the Commonwealth has no jurisdiction the Commonwealth will act to work with the States for rational management and the protection of the Australian environment. [More…]
Here in Australia we have many big environmental problems. [More…]
It is about time that the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts gave some leadership in these matters. [More…]
He has not got so far as to put 2 and 2 together and realise that this is absolutely the best means of achieving the reverse of his first objective* Perhaps some time he and the people who help him with these matters will put the whole thing together and decide whether they are going to go for balanced development so that the environment is seen in the perspective of economy and vice versa, or whether they are going to keep them absolutely separate and therefore almost totally meaningless. [More…]
One of the biggest problems that confronts this or any other government in doing something meaningful in the environmental area is to work with all the powers that be in the matter. [More…]
We are well aware that the initial attempts of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) to enlist the cooperation of the States in a national intrusion, as it were, into this field were not universally acclaimed. [More…]
I suppose it is fair to say now that the much criticised, in some ways, impact statements are in fact a very considerable move in the direction of a national framework for environmental awareness and action. [More…]
I think people are aware that impact statements are designed to show what any given intended action may produce in the environmental sense, in particular what detrimental effects or what changes in the environment may be brought about by any direction of action. [More…]
What we have to do, what the Minister has to do and what his Department has to do is to get into some reasonable sense of balance the kind of things we need to be done in the future in the environmental sense. [More…]
We have, in simple terms, the physical environment which involves things like air pollution, water pollution, perhaps the consequences of over-population, depletion of resources and matters of that kind. [More…]
On the other hand, we have the social environment in which aesthetics, interpretations, perception and the quality of life in a general sense are more likely to be involved, although both these facets-the physical and the social - add up to the quality of life. [More…]
I think we will see that it is not long before the Department of Environment, Aborigines and the Arts will be working towards national standards for a variety nf things. [More…]
On the question of the environment, all I can find has happened in a period of 3 years has been talk about what we might do, what we could do or what we should do. [More…]
They are working on preserving their environment. [More…]
The point is that we have all the problems of the human environment in the area about which I am speaking. [More…]
Will he call for a report on the extent ot the financial problem and confer with the Suites and the authorities concerned to ensure a continuation of the work involved as a first priority to reduce pollution and protect the environment. [More…]
However, I do hope that in the coming 12 months this serious matter of beach erosion and the causes thereof will be referred to some coordinating authority, for example the Austraiian Environment Council for consideration. [More…]
As honourable members will realise, the Council is chaired by the Minister for Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, who is at the table, and the several States are represented by the appropriate State Ministers. [More…]
Time does not allow honourable members to cover adequately the activities of the Department of the Environment. [More…]
However, I would just say that it is a very interesting fact that whereas the Labor Party has been saying for a very long time that all the ecology, environment and conservation problems of Australia should be compounded into a responsibility of one monstrous, huge centralised organisation here in Canberra, this has never been, and never will be, I am sure, the policy of the Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
In the time allowed to me 1 wish to concentrate on the environmental aspects of the estimates that are now before the Committee. [More…]
I do so in some ways to rebut what the previous speaker the honourable member for Cook (Mr Dobie) just said, in that he has taken the concept of the Opposition as one of an overall structure dealing with the environment rather than an overall concept of what a Department of the Environment means and what it should deal with. [More…]
Environment, ecology, pollution and conservation are nice ‘in’ words at the present moment. [More…]
In examining the functions of the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, I am afraid that its functions are far too nebulous and that they do not give us any clear guidelines as to what we are determining. [More…]
We see the briefest of debates on the report presented to the Parliament on the United Nations Conference on Human Environment held in Stockholm. [More…]
Another important conference that was held was the second International Parliamentary Conference on the Environment which was held in Vienna this year. [More…]
I think we should have a look at this total concept of the environment and the Minister should use his Department to encourage this sort of involvement of members of the Parliament and discussion of these wide issues. [More…]
In 1971 an Environmental Protection Authority was set up in Victoria and the pamphlet publicising the setting up of this authority is headed ‘Tomorrow and tomorrow and . [More…]
‘Tomorrow’ is right because despite the Clean Air Act of 1958 little has been done, and I have little confidence that anything will be done by the Environment Protection Authority. [More…]
It will pollute the environment in which we live. [More…]
Perhaps it might be wise for the political parties to put on every piece of paper they publish a message such as ‘Do not rubbish Australia’, ‘Dispose of this’ or Do not pollute your environment’. [More…]
On a more serious note, mention has been made of impact studies carried out by the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
The actual industrial process itself causes the pollution through the various chemical treatments of the wood which causes the release of effluent which pollutes the environment. [More…]
The Department of the Environment should be taking a hand in these matters because industry may not necessarily be solely responsible. [More…]
We must think of the environmental aspects of industry and other things in a total concept of national planning. [More…]
I trust that we will see the Department of the Environment really spelling these things out and being not a nebulous structure but something with real force and real effect in the community. [More…]
Although in the past a number of people have been concerned about the relationship between man and his environment, about the utilisation and conservation of scarce resources, about the preservation of unique natural land forms and the conservation of the earth’s flora and fauna, only recently has this concern become widespread amongst the people of the developed countries of the world. [More…]
There is no doubt that in these countries, it is the popular thing to be ‘for the environment’ and this to my mind is a very good thing. [More…]
1 only wish that this concern to combat pollution was even more widespread, and that individuals did ail in their power, which is considerable, to stop polluting the environment by such mundane but effective acts as not throwing cans and bottles about indiscriminately, not Uttering the countryside wilh all sorts of garbage and, in fact, by behaving like people who care about the surroundings in which they and other people live. [More…]
As President Nixon said in his 1972 Environmental Message to Congress: [More…]
The starting point of environmental quality is in the hearts and minds of the people. [More…]
Their enthusiasm about the environment spreads with a healthy contagion. [More…]
In the past we have emphasised quantitative growth at the expense of qualitative growth; the failure to attempt to assess environmental effects when undertaking new developments; neglecting to account for the social costs of pollution; the increasing dependence on conveniences such as the car without due regard for the environmental effects. [More…]
But perhaps funda mentally we have had a lack of recognition of the concept, both nationally and internationally, of the interdependence of all the parts making up the environment. [More…]
V;n himself is an increasingly important part of this total equation, not only because of the absolute growth in the world’s population but also because of man’s increasing capacity to alter the environment for both good and evil. [More…]
Measures aimed at environmental protection are not necessarily divinely inspired and it could be that in some cases the cure is or could be worse than the complaint. [More…]
To develop a new consciousness towards the problem of living in harmony with our environment we need new knowledge, new attitudes new insights, not only through all levels of government - and here I would like to place special emphasis on the role of local government which has particular responsibilities particularly in city areas - but in the private sector as well, in the protessions, in industry of course, right through to the individual citizens themselves. [More…]
We need 2 things in the future - a healthy environment and a healthy economy. [More…]
The achievement of a healthy environment is dependent for its very lifeblood on a healthy economy. [More…]
All this leads to my second warning, and this ls specifically directed at those who see the cause of our problems as being the growth economy and the onward march of science and technology and who advocate as a cure the restriction or abolition of our dependence on technology, the cutting bask of an economy based on growth and the introduction of extremely harsh environmental legislation. [More…]
Firstly, as I have said already, the economy and environmental action are irretrievably intertwined. [More…]
If there is no expansion of output within the economy roughly equivalent to the cost of cleaning up the environment then, of course, that cost can be met only by cutting down on other sectors of the Budget. [More…]
The only way out of the dilemma, is to expand the economy, with its consequent risks to the environment. [More…]
Not to do so is to invite the slowing down or stopping of environmental action as a result of the backlash I have referred to. [More…]
Secondly, we must realise that cleaning up the environment will need the development and application of costly technology. [More…]
Thirdly, it has often been suggested that harsh legislation should be introduced as the means whereby those polluting the environment can be made to pay and pay dearly for their sins. [More…]
What is required is cooperative incentive based legislation, aimed at encouraging manufacturers to adopt new and worthwhile pollution methods aimed at encouraging individuals to keep in mind their effect on the environment. [More…]
Punitive laws have to be enforced if they are to have any effect, and in an area as widespread as environmental control the sheer size of the law enforcing agency necessary is frightening. [More…]
If, however, both companies and individuals secured worthwhile rewards - and this would almost automatically have to be economic - for acceptable environmental actions, the chances of widespread co-operation would be greater. [More…]
Government supporters have woken up to the environment in the last few short weeks and they are falling damn short of what their responsibilities ought to be in regard to this matter. [More…]
The Minister for the Army (Mr Katter), who is attempting to interject, does nothing in administering his portfolio to ensure that certain near city areas are given back to local authorities in the interests of the people, and in the interests of environment and recreational facilities. [More…]
There are local problems which require Federal assistance if we are to provide a worthwhile environment. [More…]
Party’s shadow Minister for the Environment, the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren), has promised that the Australian Labor Party would, when elected, give assistance to the purchase of major portions of the Hills face zone and thus provide recreational land and preserve this vital backdrop to the city. [More…]
Mr Chairman - [Quorum formed] In speaking to the estimates for the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts 1 would point out to the honourable member for Sturt who has just left his seat- [More…]
He said that the Government has done nothing about the environment. [More…]
The committee is in the process of preparing a report to the Parliament on the conservation of flora and fauna, the ecosystems, habitats, the environment and so on. [More…]
These amounts show that the Government is conscious of improving the environment and doing something about it in a practical way. [More…]
Mining companies should be allowed to go into these areas but they must be forced to keep the environment in first class order. [More…]
But it is up to the government to see that these areas are policed and that companies such as Peko-Wallsend and Queensland Mines makes positive statements that they will protect the environment. [More…]
I hope that no-one will think that I am casting a reflection on the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) in that regard. [More…]
A further indication of the Government’s lack of interest is the fact that the same Minister has been given several other areas of ministerial responsibility - tourism, arts and the environment - to take up the bulk of his time. [More…]
It is utterly impossible and ridiculous for one Minister to try to handle the several responsibilities that the present Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has had placed upon him. [More…]
(3.34)- During the winter recess it was my privilege to attend a conference which was held in Vienna to discuss matters affecting the environment. [More…]
The fact that 32 nations were represented at this conference, which was held so soon after the Stockholm Conference, indicates the very great interest held by quite a number of governments of the world on matters affecting the environment. [More…]
One of the conclusions which was reached at Vienna was that the main thing wrong with the environment in developing countries is poverty and the main thing wrong with the environment in developed countries is pollution. [More…]
I believe that the customer must be prepared to pay for a clean environment. [More…]
The conference suggested that particular attention should be given to the interaction of urban and land uses with the marine environment, notably wetlands. [More…]
It was suggested by that conference that much more research should be conducted into projects having environmental impact and that individual countries should consider adopting methods in favour of antipollutant goods and services and against certain goods and services which contribute to pollution and that these be of a fiscal nature and involve tax concessions. [More…]
I believe that in the interests of a clean environment we ought to give consideration to this aspect. [More…]
I am pleased that the matter before the Committee concerns Aborigines, the arts and the environment because they represent 3 of the merging issues in Australia about which young people, particularly, are showing a great deal of interest. [More…]
Even though the Government has emerged so belatedly, in this pre-election period, with concern about Aboriginal welfare, environmental matters and many other things, it will help to compound the efforts that have been made by the Australian Labor Party to make these real issues for the whole country. [More…]
The question of the environment has lacked Commonwealth involvement. [More…]
It is staggering to think that the Commonwealth Government, which now has a Minister responsible for environmental affairs, has been a party to putting to the Parliament proposals that would have a deleterious effect on the environment. [More…]
Recently we have heard from the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who is at the table, that there is to be a manifestation of governmental concern in the form of impact studies and subsequent statements. [More…]
The effect of that is to ensure that in respect of every developmental proposal a study will be made from an environmental standpoint. [More…]
For example, does he think it is good for the environment of Sydney for the Commonwealth to put 15,000 people in a narrow, bottle-necked isthmus which already suffers from great strain from the standpoint of the movement of traffic and the commuting that goes on? [More…]
Does the Government have a genuine regard for the environment to the extent that it will not allow that proposal to proceed and will replace it with a new idea? [More…]
Its first proposal would have contributed to the destruction of Sydney’s environment. [More…]
This afternoon I intend to confine my remarks in the debate, on these estimates to the matter of the environment. [More…]
Perhaps one of the most significant national developments during the 1960s was the widespread realisation by the public that the quality of the environment in which we live is declining, that the air and waters around us are becoming increasingly polluted and that much of the land upon which more and more of us live, is becoming increasingly congested with mounting burdens of waste disposal and with growing social problems. [More…]
terms to know and use in daily conversation are ‘conservation’, ‘pollution’ and ‘ecology of the environment’. [More…]
The ecology of the environment embraces all forms of life and its natural surroundings. [More…]
It is the study of environments and the interdependence of life that exists in those environments. [More…]
Another factor which is becoming an increasing problem in our environment is the population increase throughout the world. [More…]
Therefore, I think it is of extreme importance to our future generations that we as a people do something to conserve our environment, whether we do it individually or collectively. [More…]
We must learn that the conservation of our environment must be a joint venture between man and nature if we are to hand our country and our way of life over to future generations in good order and condition. [More…]
The challenge of preserving this environment may well become one of man’s greatest tasks in the near future. [More…]
The establishment by the Government of the Department of the Environment is a significant step forward in this direction. [More…]
The recently announced intention to introduce legislation for urban and regional development is another significant step forward in planning properly for the preservation of our environment. [More…]
I appreciate the sentiments that have been expressed in this debate by a number of other honourable members on the need to preserve our environment and our ecology. [More…]
It is not a matter of ecology and environment versus development, but rather of ecology, environment and development. [More…]
Therefore we should think in terms of ecology, environment and development. [More…]
I have taken part in this debate today merely to sound the warning that it is not environment versus development; rather it is ecology, environment and development. [More…]
I am glad that we have had such a useful series of speeches today and also last Thursday week on the estimates for the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
Consequently the speeches on the Department have generally concentrated on the importance of the environment in Australia at the present time. [More…]
1 think it is important that we have been able to set up an administrative structure that enables the Commonwealth to play its part in the environment scene. [More…]
The various piecemeal activities of several government departments must be lumped together so that the environmental policy reflects the environment itself - a whole and integrated system. [More…]
The United States of America, for example, has a problem solving agency - the Council of Environmental Quality - and a policy making agency - the Environmental Protection Authority. [More…]
1 say to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) that we have an opportunity here to do likewise. [More…]
This is a policy-making Department on matters of the environment. [More…]
The Opposition really has no clear conception as to how environmental machinery should be established in Australia. [More…]
Both stressed the need for balance in environmental considerations and said that we must balance the needs of the environment against the needs of the economy and try to see that the two march hand in hand together. [More…]
They were not saying that there must be economic growth and that there must be care of the environment but rather that the two can be made to co-operate and not to fight against one another. [More…]
The Government, through the Australian Environment Council, has established the means by which we can see that we do get this balance not only in relation to matters which are the direct responsibility of the Commonwealth but also in relation to those which are the responsibility of the States. [More…]
There has been very great progress in the work of the Environment Council. [More…]
I am glad to see that as a result of the announcement by both the Commonwealth Government and State governments of the polluter pay’ principle that industry is cooperating with governments in seeking solutions to environment and pollution problems and that the governments and industry are working together to find better solutions than they have had in the past. [More…]
There is .also the danger that the courses we provide are- much too sophisticated for the kind of environment in which these young people are to operate. [More…]
He talked about the situation in Papua New Guinea and brought to our attention some of the very real changes which will occur in this area of our immediate environment. [More…]
The stresses and strains of growth are having an impact on the living conditions and the environment of the entire Australian community. [More…]
Words like ‘environment’, ‘ecology’, ‘conservation’ and ‘quality of life’ are all inwords today. [More…]
Very early in its term of office the Western Australian Government established an environmental protection authority, and the Government has consistently acted on the basis of its recommendations even where, as in the postponement of the Pacminex refinery project, they were in conflict with other basic Government aims. [More…]
-But in environmental matters, as in all areas where costs are heavy, we will not get anywhere without Commonwealth involvement and commitment. [More…]
The 2 variables are: At what stage economic take-off occurs and how quickly that stage can be reached if enough money is infused into that local regional environment. [More…]
It is easy for all of us in this Parliament and for members of State parliaments to say that we will build a magnificent concept of a new city, that we will develop a new region, that we will start where there are few people - perhaps 10,000 - and try by capital infusion to turn the area into the sort of environment where people will be most fulfilled and happy in the years to come. [More…]
In addition, we should do something to ease the older generation out of agriculture - and the abolition of the means test is of considerable significance here, with the property component so far adding to the immobility of older people in agriculture - and allow them to move into a nearby rural community where socially they are happier and they are still in their own environment. [More…]
Also, so that Australia is enabled to maintain its position as an industrialised nation in an international producing and trading environment which is becoming increasingly competitive and sophisticated. [More…]
Recently we have had much talk about decentralisation and the environment - this new found love that the Government has - but why did it not apply some of these principles when it brought forward these proposals? [More…]
I wonder what the’ Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) would say about this proposal if he were available to participate in this debate. [More…]
Was any impact study made from an environmental standpoint? [More…]
I suggest that the Minister for the Environment, to whom I referred earlier, would be involved. [More…]
I express my concern firstly because I do not think I can see attached to the report of the Public Works Committee an environmental impact statement. [More…]
I notice that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) is sitting on the front bench. [More…]
On 24th May of this year he made a statement that where Commonwealth moneys were involved environmental impact statements would be made. [More…]
Under questioning from me about whether or not the environmental impact statements would be made public the Minister stated quite coldly that they would not be. [More…]
Following this matter up the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), in a question to the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) which appears on page 1972 of Hansard of 27th September, asked about the environmental impact statements. [More…]
I am aware that a Public Works Committee inquiry was held into the environmental aspect but I would like to know, with due respect to my colleagues on my side of the House who are members of the Committee and also to supporters of the Government who are members, what qualified environmentalist was on the Committee to give advice on the scientific evidence and to make his findings available. [More…]
If we are to have environmental impact statements we want to see trained scientists in the field of ecology and the environment deal with these matters. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts interjects. [More…]
He does a lot of talking about the environment but takes little action. [More…]
But we do not really know what pressures will be put on th; environment. [More…]
It is time that he got on his feet and told us what he thought about environmental impact statements. [More…]
No environmental impact statements was made in this place even though we made available the bridging finance. [More…]
I want more detail from the Government on its attitude to making available Commonwealth money for projects which destroy the natural environment, particularly the proposal in regard to the Black Mountain area It is about time that more detail was mad: available to members of this Parliament, [f this is not forthcoming in the future this Government will certainly hear a’ great deal more from members on this side, at least until December. [More…]
It will take a while to get it moving but we hope that in regard to environmental aspects we will make available all the arguments, we will make public any documents which are available and we will make our decisions known. [More…]
The Committee heard detailed evidence from the environmentalists. [More…]
We had environment running out of our ears before the hearing concluded. [More…]
We heard evidence on the environment over a period of 3 days. [More…]
They weighed up the environmental problems and they weighed up the recommendations of the National Capital Development Commission. [More…]
I am glad to see that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) has just come into the chamber. [More…]
In addition, on figures that I have revealed already by way of Press statements and so forth, there is a large discrepancy in regard to the purchase price of this property and what later appeared in Press statements and other statements by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts about this property. [More…]
The attitude of the Department of the Interior to Aboriginal affairs and Aboriginal land rights and the attitude displayed by the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts are somewhat different. [More…]
Then this matter will be approached on a proper basis and not with interdepartmental jealousies as have occurred over this particular property where the Department of the Interior on the one hand, does not wish to see the property acquired by the Commonwealth and perhaps the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts wants to acquire the property and has to have some considerable interdepartmental argument with the Department of the Interior. [More…]
I shall conclude and make 4 minutes of my time available to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts so that he can answer the questions which I have put to him in regard to the transaction. [More…]
As I told the House when introducing the Aged Persons Homes Bill recently, one of the most important aspects of this year’s comprehensive programme to improve the health and welfare of aged people is to encourage and assist people who might otherwise be admitted prematurely or unnecessarily to nursing homes or other similar institutions to remain in their domestic environment for as long as possible. [More…]
In subsequent years the Commission has refined its activities to comparing the fiscal efforts as between States, or in the broader term, taking into account the environment in which the people in a State operate, the environment in which they pay taxes, or the environment in which they show a propensity to pay certain taxes as compared with other States. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, is supplementary to the one asked by the honourable member for Sturt. [More…]
With the way the environment is being protected at the present time this matter is understandably most important now if we do not want a forest cf overhead telephone and electricity wires to deface the landscape and skyscape. [More…]
I think that it is short-sightedness on the part of the developer to overground wires in an area in which he is trying to sell land because the poles will go up, the wires will go up and there will be a considerable defacement of the environment. [More…]
It should ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) and the State [More…]
Ministers responsible for the environment to intervene. [More…]
I think that honourable members and the people of Australia have seen pictures of Tokyo, Osaka and I suppose, to some extent Los Angeles, where pollution and defacement of the environment are almost incredible. [More…]
I know that the question of environment arises. [More…]
The other point I wish to make is that because the Department has lowered its standards in permitting overhead cables once again or in abandoning the former requirement that cables had to be put underground, the Department is making it so much more difficult to have a pleasant environment. [More…]
Indeed, if one looks at the problems of the environment, if one looks at the problems of pollution, one could say the same thing in respect of everything that is infecting and polluting the environment. [More…]
Pollution of the environment affects more than just the people with telephones. [More…]
It is interesting to note the newly found concern of the honourable member for Macarthur (Mr Bate) for the northern part of his electorate, but I think the more significant factor about this debate is the failure of the Minister for the Environment. [More…]
The Governor-General, Sir Paul Hasluck, has been giving a lead to the country 031 environment. [More…]
When civilised mon looks out from the padded cell of urban life, what a destruction of the human environment he would see if only his eyes had not become too narrowly focused on his house, motor car, golf course, his cocktail bar and his television set. [More…]
The environment is a lot more important than the Postmaster-General has been prepared to concede in the discussion today. [More…]
It would be reasonable at least to say that whereas it might be expensive to put things underground in Collins St Melbourne or in George St, Sydney, in new communities about which there has been a lot of talk recently we will lay out our requirements as a department which has some concern with preservation of the environment. [More…]
I know that the aesthetic standards in Canberra are such that even external tele.vicion antennas are not allowed and householders must use internal antennas to prevent intrusion into the environment of a very unsatisfactory feature. [More…]
The smelter’s lead discharges into the environment and the effects on the staff working in it blew into an international scandal late last year. [More…]
We will ensure that all the necessary components of government planning, such as transportation, land use, housing, industry, tariff and population planning and environmental impact assessment, are joined in the national effort to achieve our goals. [More…]
The department, which will have both technical and research staff, will integrate the activities of such bodies as the Bureau of Transport Economics, the Bureau of Roads, the Departments of Shipping and Transport, Interior, Works, Environment, Natural Resources, Primary and Secondary Industry, Civil Aviation and others insofar as they affect urban development. [More…]
Finally, we will use environment impact assessments and environment impact statements to ensure that all this is done in the best interests of the Australian environment and the Australian people. [More…]
If they do not have the obnoxious pan system they have to put up with the septic system with its extra cost and often polluting effects on the environment. [More…]
Interestingly enough, our Country Party colleagues have been running a campaign which is designed to show that they are concerned about the environment. [More…]
We are being asked to believe that the Country Party is not just a mouthpiece of the big grazing and farming interests but has always been concerned with the health, education, housing and social welfare of Australians and is dedicated to solving the growing problems of the environment, namely urban congestion pollution, conservation and decentralisation. [More…]
The Bill is about decentralisation and environment. [More…]
The Country Party backbenchers asked 458 questions, the figures I give will show their interest in the environment. [More…]
One hundred and twenty-four were addressed to the Minister for Primary Industry, 55 to the Minister for Trade and Industry, 44 to the Prime Minister - 20 of which were rural questions, none on the environment - 39 to tha Minister for National Development, 32 to the Minister for Shipping and Transport, 27 to the Minister for the Interior, 23 to the PostmasterGeneral, 20 to the Treasurer - 12 of which were rural questions relating to tax concessions and rural relief - 14 to the Minister for Education and Science - 7 of which concerned the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation on cattle - 13 to the Minister for Labour and National Service, 9 to the Minister for the Army, 8 to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and, 7 to the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
We have not yet got down to the questions on the environment. [More…]
the environment or the problem of the cities. [More…]
Only 7 or 8 years ago I called a big meeting at Blacktown to support the abolition of the State Planning Authority, one of the bodies which had brought about this wretched environment in which we were asking our kith and kin to live. [More…]
Twenty-two years of Liberal-Country Party neglect not only have left an unbalanced state of development throughout Australia but also have seriously jeopardised our national environment. [More…]
Every Australian should be entitled, as of right, to a healthy national environment - healthy in all senses. [More…]
Any continued increase in their populations can only threaten the environment of urban dwellers and all Australians with increasing pollution. [More…]
There is nothing in either the second reading speech of the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) or in the terms of the Bill itself that suggests that this Government has the imagination to grasp the magnitude of the threat to our environment from the continually increasing centralisation of population. [More…]
It cannot be doubted that in a number of cases of the admission of elderly patients to nursing homes it would be of social and medical advantage to them if they could remain in the environment of the private home with relatives able to look after them provided the professional nursing care needed is available. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
What were the names and portfolios of the Ministers who attended the third meeting of the Environment Council in Brisbane on 4th October 1972. [More…]
‘State and Commonwealth Ministers with prime responsibility for the environment agreed today that, South Australia excluded, the existence of inadequate sewerage facilities is a major cause of pollution in Australia. [More…]
COMMONWEALTH- The Honourable Peter Howson, M.P., Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
NEW SOUTH WALES- The Honourable J. G. Beale, M.E,, M.L.A., Minister for Environment Control. [More…]
After all, in the last few months, his Government has adopted or gone some way towards adopting Labor Party policies on participatory schemes for nursing homes, which are the responsibility of the department he represents today, a needs concept in regard to Commonwealth secondary school scholarships, foreign ownership, the abolition of the means test, a national superannuation inquiry, a poverty inquiry and urban affairs, the environment and decentralisation. [More…]
I can see every reason why it must, in the interests of conserving the environment. [More…]
I read recently that the Victorian Minister for the Environment was complaining about the manner in which the Victorian courts were dealing with offenders dumping oil into the sea. [More…]
The Government is not prepared in what is rightly its own territory to take action to protect the environment by stopping ships from fouling our waters. [More…]
Because it is so important to oxygen generation this could potentially have an important effect on our environment. [More…]
I think it has a responsibility to act to protect our environment and it is about time it did. [More…]
I note that once again the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) is not in the House. [More…]
I would like him to make an impact statement on the failure of the Government to enact the Territorial Sea and Continental Shelf Bill and on the failure of the Government to take any serious action to control the environment. [More…]
The Committee has recognised that wildlife conservation is only a part of a much larger issue of conservation, and the environment and that retention of our environment is essential to man’s survival, not only that of wildlife. [More…]
During its inquiry the Committee became: aware of the very great concern of a large number of individuals about a wide range of environmental and conservation matters, many of them outside the scope of this Committee. [More…]
I therefore support the creation of a standing committee of this House to inquire into and report on matters of conservation and the environment referred to ir by the House. [More…]
actual, name of the Committee was in some sense misleading in that a select committee on wildlife conservation allowed a number of our fellow members, departmental officials and a number of the general public to feel that many things would be pushed aside, when in fact what this committee was dealing with was the relationship of man to his natural environment. [More…]
Of course, the terms of reference really restricted our comment on the question of the marine environment and marine national parks. [More…]
Not only are we dealing with land use and with man and his relationship to his natural environment but we are dealing also with some of the aesthetic values for tourism, recreation and enjoyment of life. [More…]
I hope that the outcome of the report will be a better understanding by the Parliament and the country of the relations of man and the environment in which he lives. [More…]
The Committee also recommended that the Post Office should acquire additional land adjacent to the near complex to improve the setting of the building and the amenity of its immediate environment, including car parking. [More…]
But the people who live in those suburbs and who will live there have every right of call on their environmental surroundings. [More…]
In the 1970s and in the latter part of the 1960s there has been an increase in the number of people who care about and look around at what is being done to the environment in which they live. [More…]
If you live on the other side of Brisbane or in the outer suburbs this is not a problem; but in this part of Brisbane there is an opportunity to make a contribution to the quality of the environment by ensuring that conditions will be satisfactory not only for the people who will work in this new building but also for those who have to live near this proposed new building, and it is on their behalf that I speak today. [More…]
Because the Committee believed that it is important to improve the setting of the building and the amenity of its immediate environment, including car parking, we recommend that a more positive approach be adopted and that the Post Office acquire additional land adjacent to the new complex for these purposes. [More…]
The Post Office should acquire additional land adjacent to the new complex to improve the setting of the building and the amenity of its immediate environment, including car parking. [More…]
Are we protecting the environment by purchasing this land? [More…]
The honourable member mentioned the environmental concept. [More…]
This gives us the opportunity to give some consideration to the environment. [More…]
The Post Office is prepared to consider environmental problems, but we have planned this building in accordance with the broad policies which have been laid down. [More…]
protect the environment from damage as a result of resource developments’. [More…]
protect the environment from damage as a result of resource development’. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Peter Howson, M.P., Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
What are the estimated maximum disaster effects on the Australian environment of the forthcoming French nuclear tests in the Pacific. [More…]
ns asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
ns asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Isolated examples for particular communities based on a fictional figure of 1,000 live births are a misleading and unreliable way of expressing the problems of infant health particularly when the communities include groups living on remote pastoral properties where the natural environment and social hygiene standards are complicating factors. [More…]
Will he make available to the -Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, a copy of the minutes of the Conference of Commonwealth and State Ministers for Housing held in Hobart in April 1972, if the Minister should request it, in order that the Minister might acquaint himself with the views of the Queensland Minister for Housing as to the precise location of homes built for Aborigines with Commonwealth grants. [More…]
As the honourable member will know, my colleague the Treasurer announced in the Budget Speech of 15th August that the Government had reviewed the arrangement for assisting people requiring nursing home care and proposed to introduce new integrated measures to help chronically ill patients in nursing homes, and also to assist aged infirm people who can be looked after in a home environment. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the action of Queensland Alumina and/or associated construction firms in dismissing, on 18th October 1972, 1,200 employees on a temporary construction project because of their claims for a week’s severance pay, protective clothing, reduced working hours, fares to and from their home town once in 3 months, allowances for travelling time and penalty rates of pay for the substandard conditions and civic amenities, exorbitant rents and living costs, unhygienic environment at the work site and the dearth of adequate and convenient accommodation. [More…]
The Department of the Environment and Conservation proposes to develop a ‘human progress’ index to reflect the new and emerging human and social values in a modern society. [More…]
The Government will institute a program requiring environment impact statements for all major projects involving national funds and national constitutional powers. [More…]
From 1st January 1974. public hearings will be held before the writing of an environment impact statement. [More…]
The Government recognises that the use of leisure in a modern society presents problems and opportunities involving profound questions of the relations between man and his community and man and his environment. [More…]
The new Departments of Urban and Regional Development, Environment and Conservation, Tourism and Recreation, the Media and of Science, together with the Departments of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Special Minister of Stale. [More…]
I take for an example the proper use of our environment. [More…]
Conservationists who apparently allow no involvement by people in the environment are opposed by sectional interests who pay little or no attention to the long-term national impact of their short-term proposals. [More…]
In most of the debates about the environment the missing element is a definition of the community objective and priorities for a particular area. [More…]
No environment is static, no plant association will remain the same on its own, and at any time certain plants will be dominating others. [More…]
Therefore it is essential to manage the environment. [More…]
We can define 3 areas of responsibility relating to the problem of environmental conservation. [More…]
Because of the defence environment in which we exist, the Liberal Party gave this programme the highest of all priorities. [More…]
(Mr Clyde Cameron) and the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) - when words such as thuggery, arrogance and hypocrisy were used to describe his actions, the Prime Minister could only respond, after much pressing by journalists, that ‘there will be no further statements on foreign policy except by the Minister*. [More…]
It can decide whether or not the official view of ‘the Australian Government will be that opinions of the Minister for Overseas Trade, the Minister for Labour and the Minister for the Environment and Conservation’ about President Nixon are official views of the Labour Party and whether or not military co-operation with Singapore is consistent with the Government’s principles. [More…]
me in this debate I should, like to discuss something which relates particularly tq , my own portfolio, namely, the .environmental impact statement technique which we have proposed. [More…]
I concede quite frankly that the previous Government had adopted the concept of environmental impact statements designed to protect the environment; but its proposals had not in fact reached the implementation stage. [More…]
Its idea was that the appropriate departments would prepare these statements and the statements would be called for if there appeared to be anything’ in a project which impinged on the environment. [More…]
Should I consider that a project concerns the environment, then I have a discretionary power to call for an impact statement; but after January of next year that discretionary power will no longer exist and the statement will be automatically expected. [More…]
I must admit that in the environment in which I see them at the moment I have never seen a better looking group, and I hope that I shall be able to sit on this side of the House for many years and watch them. [More…]
From 1949 to 1972, this country became known internationally as the lucky country and, although from time to time there may have been the odd blemish and the room for improvement which can always be found in every environment and in every economy, I am quite sure that my friends and colleagues on both sides of the House will agree with me that Australia knew great development and prosperity in those years. [More…]
New concepts which will provide fast, safe, and efficient transport and at the same time preserve our resources and our environment must be thought out and adopted. [More…]
Our environment can also be preserved by providing well planned incentives to individuals and corporations to encourage them to recycle waste and prevent the destruction of irreplaceable resources. [More…]
As trustees of the earth we must see that through world wide co-operation the earth’s resources and the environment are preserved. [More…]
My electors will be watching with hope and interest to see the implementation of policies which will assist in the preservation of the environment. [More…]
To be truly educated is to be aware of the world we live in - the city, the street and the block, environment, housing and community. [More…]
Whatever the profession, the level of education reached or the social role expected, everyone must be able to live in harmony with each other and the environment. [More…]
The lake has become a symbol of what can happen when engineering projects are pursued relentlessly in the name of progress and without sufficient regard to the consequences upon the ecology and environment. [More…]
It is fitting that in the Speech, the Governor-General, as the Queen’s representative, should echo the words of Prince Phillip when His Highness, as President of the Australian Conservation Foundation, said that the Lake Pedder case marked the end of Australia’s pioneering days and ushered in a new phase of conscious concern for the long term future of our national and human environment. [More…]
These national parks will become more important as increased leisure unlocks the opportunities to enjoy our environmental heritage. [More…]
The Department of the Environment and Conservation’s proposals to develop a ‘human progress’ index will go some way to focus on the new values of society towards the environment. [More…]
But 1 feel the Government will need to demand environmental impact statements for all major commercial and private projects as well as Government projects if the total objective is to be realised. [More…]
No longer can Australia, or any nation, act in an irresponsible manner towards the environment, for a nationally committed error can become an international disaster. [More…]
The offensive statements of 3 senior Ministers - the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron), the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) and the Minister for Overseas Trade - and the conduct of the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister have imposed totally unnecessary strains upon our alliances and our friendships. [More…]
Local government has unique contributions to make to the quality of human existence in our changing environment. [More…]
Funds must be made available, not only to provide the essential hygiene service of sewerage but also to protect the waters and environment of the lake itself. [More…]
What greater growth has there been in the community in recent years than th.it of an interest in the environment? [More…]
At last among the people of Australia there is a stirring to protect the quality of the environment, a stirring to protect the quality of the heritage which has been passed down to them. [More…]
The allegiance of these conservationists and environmentalists knows no political boundaries. [More…]
Action to control monopoly and to achieve a more competitive environment than currently applies in this country will be undertaken by this Government. [More…]
Apparently Mr Wilbur Smith, an American, did not learn from the American experience that by providing additional roadways and freeways the cities become jammed with traffic hold-ups, that the air becomes polluted and that the environment suffers. [More…]
If the Government is serious about improving the quality of Australian life, is concerned about the imbalance of population on the seaboard and is desirous of establishing a relatively pollution-free environment, there is no better place for an injection of Commonwealth finance for growth purposes than the Darling Downs. [More…]
They have a feeling about land which is not understood by most of us, although when one considers how closely the Australian people are applying themselves to the preservation of their environment one can get some understanding of it. [More…]
We have achieved what we set out to do in that we have created an environment in which over-award payments are depressed. [More…]
Mr Speaker, 1 am an environmentalist. [More…]
In Vietnam there has been an incredible tonnage of bombs dropped, causing massive destruction of the Vietnamese environment and causing untold pollution, as well as the appalling destruction of lives. [More…]
The native genius of our people will be given full play to bring about a society, an environment and a forward looking nationalism that is our birthright and our destiny. [More…]
They are more interested in soft issues such as social welfare, the environment and even inflation. [More…]
I have sufficient faith in the youth of Australia to believe that it will protect the nation, its people, its environment and its future much more effectively than have conservative governments over the past 23 years. [More…]
Youth has shown through its actions that it is concerned about the environment and its protection and is prepared to act against pollution of our waters and the atmosphere, lt is genuinely concerned about peace in the world and it is deeply interested in the survival of this planet and its people. [More…]
The key to sustaining their idealism is more direct and effective action on the problems about which young people are concerned: the problems of the cities, of the environment, of racial injustice, of irrelevant and outmoded teachings, of overpopulation, of poverty, of war. [More…]
We can see it in the strong participation of youth in what are regarded as the concern’ or the ‘life quality’ issues in our society, for example, the elimination of poverty, concern for those persons unable to adjust to a complex society, the socially handicapped, the preservation of our environment, the generation of better cultural and educational facilities, and interest in the wellbeing of people in other countries and aid for them. [More…]
In today’s technological environment I believe there is no need for government sponsorship of new cement based products. [More…]
By contrast, the concrete sleeper is produced from once only limestone and stone quarries which are usually responsible for undesirable scars on our natural features and environment. [More…]
Five to 10 years spent in a stimulating environment with job satisfaction leads many women to have expectations which did not exist with prior generations. [More…]
Describing population growth as one of the world’s dominant problems, he said it was tied up with such problems as economic development, the environment, urbanisation - to use that terrible word mentioned by the Leader of the Opposition - and unemployment, and that to solve these problems it was necessary to solve the population problem. [More…]
Through full and proper co-operation with the States we can build a much more pleasant and satisfying urban environment at no more expense than our present expense. [More…]
The honourable member for Hunter tonight had the hide to criticise the wine industry and to accuse it of ingratitude when, in an environment of cost increases of that magnitude, the industry increased its prices, despite the fact that the present Government had made this gesture in relation to the removal of the excise. [More…]
The meeting agreed that a scientifically acceptable range of data gathering and control measures be drawn up to regulate culling or harvesting throughout Australia in the interests of conservation of the species and the general environment. [More…]
It must be extraordinarily difficult for them to cope with an entirely different environment. [More…]
On the question of housing, we need to make sure that the housing is suited to their environment. [More…]
They need housing which blends with the environment, suits their purposes and allows them to make adjustments if they wish to do so. [More…]
The previous Government tacked it on to other Ministries, first the Prime Minister’s Department and later, in a reshuffle, it was a part of the Ministry dealing with arts and the environment. [More…]
In this respect, I wish to quote from the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment which inquired into the environmental conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait islanders and the preservation of their sacred sites. [More…]
In the area of the proposed site for the refinery a joint study has been undertaken by the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Australian Academy of Social Sciences with the 3 Federal Departments of Urban and Regional Development, Science, and Environment and Conservation and the New South Wales Department of the Environment. [More…]
I am sure that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation will be involved. [More…]
For example, one is the Department of Environment and Conservation. [More…]
I remind honourable members that under the last Administration the Department of the Environment was almost the ministry of odds and sods. [More…]
This is one of the problems we face in this aspect of the environment. [More…]
We continued to make our opposition known and at the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment we sought to promote a form of resolution which would mobilise the greatest number of delegations in opposing atmospheric nuclear tests. [More…]
On 1st August last year we announced at the fourth session of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of the Seabed and Ocean Floor, that, with 11 other countries, we would be sponsoring a resolution declaring that no further nuclear weapons tests likely to contribute to the contamination of the marine environment should be carried out. [More…]
Our protests continued to escalate, culminating with our cosponsoring of a resolution with 12 other sponsors inviting the General Assembly of the United Nations to declare itself in favour of 2 main objectives: Firstly, a halt to all atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in the Pacific region or anywhere else in the world, and universal support for the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963; and secondly, the suspension of all nuclear weapons tests in all environments and the negotiation of a treaty banning all such tests. [More…]
It also emphasises that incentives for decentralised development will be effective only if the total economic environment in the decentralised locality is taken into account and that businessmen with first-hand experience of decentralised development will need to be brought into consultation with State and Federal authorities at an early stage to ensure that basic commercial considerations are not overlooked. [More…]
Many foreign affairs debates are very interesting, as are defence debates .and debates on the environment. [More…]
These changes flow not only from statements, which have been referred to, which were made by the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron), the Minister for the Environment (Dr Cass) or the Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr Cairns), who referred to maniacs in the White House. [More…]
May I in passing make brief reference to the tens of thousands of people who as tourists come each year to enjoy the wonderful Gold Coast environment, including. [More…]
Aboriginal Affairs and the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
I am interested because as Minister for the Environment I was invited to visit the area and see what was involved, and I will make no more comments on the possible outcome of that inquiry at this stage. [More…]
As for the question about whether we would use our powers to prevent the export of the products of mining, it has already been indicated by the Minister for Minerals and Energy that in cases when the national interest is best served by steps like that we will certainly take them, and in cases where it is necessary to protect the environment that decision will be taken only after a very careful consideration of all the factors. [More…]
That is what the concept of environmental impact statements is about. [More…]
Moreover the incidence of problems encountered by the member is not directly related to the number of voters in an electorate but to the social environment that produces these problems and to the alternative avenues of redress open to the electorate - a mixture of lobbying power and wealth. [More…]
Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
The child will be taught English at school and will then return to a home environment in which a language foreign to us is spoken. [More…]
I hope that the response will be taken further, not only to look at the school environment but also to look at the total environment of the children who are now in part the Minister’s concern but still significantly the responsibility of the States. [More…]
Cost comprehends also values for any deterioration of the natural environment, for noise, for the loss of an open space area, for the effects upon rural industries, for the costs of new urbanisation and for many other ‘disbenefits’ which might be imposed upon people. [More…]
It is essential, therefore, that the benefit-cost study has sufficient freedom to produce ultimately a selection of the best site having regard, on the one hand, to the community’s need for efficient air transport services, and on the other, to its desire to avoid unnecessary economic or environmental penalties. [More…]
I do not believe that this can be done unless the environment in which they appreciate these things is such that they can relax and concentrate on the matter in hand. [More…]
In the international area, its responsibility is to create an environment in which and the facilities by which we can discharge our business responsibilities efficiently. [More…]
Is his Department responsible for minerals and energy, forestry, beef, education, health, environment, conservation, beef roads and development? [More…]
The environment which Australia faces is one of increasing competitiveness among trading nations. [More…]
This is an environment in which Australia must not only survive but also flourish, and only the resourcefulness and determination of government action can ensure that Australia derives the maximum benefits from the opportunities that are presented to Australia. [More…]
He lured them across the high level bridge ostensibly to be seen speaking to Aborigines in camp environment. [More…]
As to how these businesses will cope with the environment established by this Government remains to be seen. [More…]
In the report there is a recommendation on the forms of assistance which the Committee considers would be ideally suitable for the Australian environment. [More…]
We will also prevent the pollution of the ecology and the environment by fuel extraction. [More…]
The conciliation and arbitration system is struggling to find a new role in a changing environment. [More…]
We will help it to find that role by removing its most objectionable features and developing those conciliatory features most useful in today’s environment. [More…]
This means that the complex road transport system involving the vehicle, the road environment and the road user and his social environment is working with a fair degree of efficiency. [More…]
Secondly, we must provide an environment in which a vehicle can travel properly. [More…]
environmental aspects of legislative and administrative measures which ought to be taken in order to ensure the wise and effective management of the Australian environment and of Australia’s natural resources and [More…]
such other matters relating to the environment and conservation and the management of Australia’s natural resources as are referred to it by- [More…]
the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, or [More…]
Select committees of both Houses, concentrating on environmental issues, have performed a valuable service to both the Parliament and the people of Australia in recent years. [More…]
It is proposed that this be achieved by the establishment of a Joint Standing Committee on the Environment. [More…]
The use of a Standing Committee rather than a series of select committees should facilitate the timely consideration of environmental issues as they arise, thereby strengthening Parliament’s role in this area. [More…]
In moving for the establishment of this Committee I am conscious of the great many environmental problems that must be both faced and solved if the future citizens of this country are to enjoy the kind of life that so many of us take for granted. [More…]
A Joint Standing Committee on the Environment would, in my view, provide a most effective means of providing for the full involvement of Parliament in this field. [More…]
As the first Minister for the Environment and Conservation it gives me pleasure to commend this motion to the House. [More…]
Joint Committee on the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
The question of the environment involves difficulties, and the more inquiry there can be in a central way, the more information that is given to members of Parliament and the more experience gained from listening to experts that we have, the better it will be. [More…]
At that time 25 of the divisions were separately concerned with particular matters affecting the environment. [More…]
He looked at all federal submissions to see their effect on the environment and in effect made an impact statement. [More…]
In addition to that they were then setting up something that we do not have here, a department of protection of the environment under a Mr Ruckelshaus, who was taken from the Attorney-General’s Department. [More…]
He was a young lawyer in his thirties who was setting up this department with about 16,000 officers to police the enforcement of all environmental laws throughout America. [More…]
I have had particularly close association with the New South Wales Government in relation to the environment in my own electorate, particularly as it affects the Parramatta River. [More…]
But in point of fact, the Minister for the Environment in New South Wales, Mr Beale, and the Minister for Health, Mr Jago, both of whom have responsibilities in this area, had in fact done considerable studies on the river and they received the co-operation of business to a considerable degree. [More…]
I commend the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) and the Government for moving for the establishment of this Committee. [More…]
There is a very good reason why very many more people are conscious of pollution of the environment now than there were 5 or 6 years ago. [More…]
As the population of the world increases very rapidly we have to be conscious of the fact that we are making an environment that will be there for generations to come. [More…]
People are entitled to live in a clean environment, but if they want to live in a clean environment they ought to be prepared to pay for it. [More…]
I believe that a committee such as has been set up could act as a watchdog for a clean environment. [More…]
It is a poor environment in which to bring up families. [More…]
It is pitiful to see people being taken away from the environment in which they have lived for up to 60 and 70 years in many cases. [More…]
They are taken from the people they know and the environment that they have loved. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
4 of the Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee entitled ‘Strontinm-90 and Caesium-137 in the Australian environment during 1970 and some results for 1971’ compiled September 1972. [More…]
In February 1973, I requested the Australian Academy of Science to report to me on ‘the actual or potential harm to Australia, including its human and animal population, its resources and environment, from the explosion of nuclear devices in the atmosphere, underwater, or on or near the surface of the earth, with particular regard to the past and prospective explosions by France in the Pacific’. [More…]
Honourable members will note that in the foreword to the reports of the AWTSC it is stated that the AWTSC is responsible for safety aspects of the use or testing of nuclear explosive devices in Australia; evaluation of proposals by other countries to explode nuclear devices outside Australia which might give rise to increased levels of radioactivity in Australia; and monitoring of levels of radioactivity in the Australian environment arising from activities with nuclear explosive devices either in this country or elsewhere. [More…]
A new institution to be known as the Australian Ionising Radiation Advisory Council will be established and this Council will be the advisory body to the Government on the effects of ionising radiation on the Australian population and environment. [More…]
The new Council will report to the Government through my colleague, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), who will in future table its reports. [More…]
This is a cooperative project between CSIRO and the New South Wales Department of Environment. [More…]
They were part of the great Liberal plan that proceeded despite the desperate opposition of the Labor Party, to leave in their wake destruction of the environment, incalculable social disruption by the bulldozing of houses and the uprooting of people in many cases after a lifetime in the locality. [More…]
In the second reading speech on this Bill the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) made it clear that this legislation is only to enable assistance to be provided for work on 3 creeks flowing into the ocean south of the Tweed River. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment has stated that there is no intention to vary the Act or its method of operation, but the opportunity to say a few words on flood mitigation in general should not be let pass. [More…]
This is especially so when we are told by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) that in order that objectives endorsed by the Water Resources Council may be achieved the Government is making available $15.1m by way of grant to the States for planned programs in the next 3 years. [More…]
I congratulate the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) for the interest he has shown in this problem. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment and Conservation has supplied the following answer: [More…]
There has been no local investigation conducted specifically on its effect on the environment However, the likely effects on the environment in its use on cotton crops would be: [More…]
The Opposition believes that the Bill contains proposals which are designed to weaken our conciliation and arbitration processes and which will seriously impede the Commission from dealing effectively with problems now experienced in the contemporary industrial environment. [More…]
This is certainly no way in which to bring about a better industrial environment. [More…]
For all Parties the main issue is to preserve a safe and secure environment for the Australian people. [More…]
They reaffirmed their strong opposition to these tests which exposed their peoples as well as their environment to radioactive fallout against their wishes and without benefit to them, and which demonstrated deplorable indifference to their future well being. [More…]
While it is to be recognised that these are possibilities and that the conclusions reached are subject to qualification, nevertheless, it should be selfevident that any pollution of the environment carrying with it the possibility of endangering human life and welfare, should be avoided. [More…]
1 ask the Minister for the Environment and Conservation a question. [More…]
In view of the fact that many people, having been encouraged to do so, go to the trouble of disposing of cans in a way which allows recycling in the belief that they are assisting the environment and the conservation of resources, will the Minister investigate the allegations and expose the practice if it proves to be nothing more than an advertising gimmick? [More…]
To me, these trends must result in a weakening of those institutions - marriage and the family - which provide the best environment for the upbringing of our children. [More…]
Even the honourable member for Maribyrnong (Dr Cass) who is a doctor of medicine and the Minister for the Environment and Conservation in the Federal Government and a strong supporter of the Bill, has been honest enough to say in the Press on 17th November 1972: [More…]
There is a greater awareness these days of the need for conservation of our resources and preservation of our environment, and there is much more urgency to find and adopt suitable methods to prevent or control pollution. [More…]
Particular attention will be directed towards ensuring the conservation and preservation of our natural resources and of the marine and associated environments. [More…]
The need for such a title is particularly important in the search for minerals in a relatively new and unknown environment. [More…]
Our main aim will continue to be that this legislation shall encourage efficient and adequate exploration and exploitation of our off-shore resources and at the same time control operations in such a way as to ensure the conservation of our natural resources and the preservation of our marine environment to the common good. [More…]
We believe that on the Commission or the advisory committee there should be at least 2 persons who have a specialised and expert knowledge of environment preservation and of conservation. [More…]
In the planning of new cities it is essential to consider the effect of specific proposals on the environment. [More…]
This approach, and occasional interdepartmental consultations with environmentalists as planning was proceeding, would be much better than waiting until plans were well advanced before consulting the Department of Environment and Conservation and those with specialised knowledge. [More…]
Surely it is fundamental that people’s behaviour is determined by their social environment - by their domestic and physical environment. [More…]
I believe that the type of environment in which people live has a very great effect on their communal and individual behaviour. [More…]
The first is what to do about improving the suburban and metropolitan environment of the major capital cities. [More…]
They will, however, have an important effect on the community by providing a different type of environment where people may go and live and work. [More…]
This is part of the whole awareness of the environment which is occurring increasingly throughout the community. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation been drawn to the high capital cost to industry of the installation of effective air pollution control equipment? [More…]
So the whole matter is in the melting pot and is being considered by the Australian Environment Council and its various committees. [More…]
We already have that on the Darling Downs without creating an artificial environment. [More…]
But I shall let that point go for the time being and in the minute that I have remaining to me I sum up by saying that I hope this House will take note of the fact that, in a low rainfall area with no catchment available next door, regional complexes should not be built upstream without assurances to the people who live downstream in towns and around irrigation systems or who are dependent on this water, as in the case of people living in a capital city, that proper precautions have been taken and that there has been an agreement between a disinterested State government and a Federal government which should be vitally concerned with the environment and the interests of the people downstream, to make sure that those waters reach those people in a pure state. [More…]
In foreshadowing this amendment the right honourable member for Higgins said that he believed that there should be on the Advisory Committee at least 2 persons who had a specialised and expert knowledge of preservation of the environment and conservation. [More…]
The right honourable member for Higgins wants the Committee to accept this amendment so that the Government in its wisdom will have the opportunity of appointing to the Advisory Committee 2 professional environmentalists or experts in conservation, a situation which he has said, and which I agree, is lacking under the present constitution of the Commission. [More…]
I have no doubt at all that the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren), being such a renowned if amateurish enthusiast about matters of conservation and the environment will enthusiastically accept the amendment I have moved on behalf of the right honourable member for Higgins. [More…]
Quite frankly any different behaviour on the part of someone who speaks so feelingly about environmental and conservation matters, as does the Minister, would be difficult to countenance. [More…]
The right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) said that there were no environmentalists on the Advisory Committee. [More…]
In fairness to the previous Government, I think I should say that Professor Walsh is not just close to being an environmentalist but is in fact an environmentalist. [More…]
Professor Walsh is Chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Study Committee of the Australian Academy of Science, Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Environment to the Australian Government through the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Chairman of the Research Advisory Committee on the Crown of Thorns, past Chairman of the Joint CommonwealthQueensland Crown of Thorns Starfish Inquiry and a member of the Immigration Planning Committee. [More…]
Professor Walsh is one environmentalist on the committee now but the Government will make sure that another environmentalist will be appointed to it. [More…]
I am pleased that Opposition members are now showing some concern about environmental matters. [More…]
I give a clear undertaking that all aspects of environment and quality of life will be dealt with in the development of the Albury-Wodonga region. [More…]
In the feasibility study which was carried out by an eminent engineering firm based in Adelaide the environmental aspect was dealt with in depth. [More…]
When one is dealing with the environment one considers all aspects so I urge honourable members opposite not to get too uptight about environmental problems associated with the development of Albury-Wodonga. [More…]
When the Minister for Urban and Regional Development introduced this Bill amending the National Urban and Regional Development Act of 1972 he foreshadowed a new federalism within which the Commonwealth Government, the States and in particular local government authorities will be able to develop, in co-operation, that excellance of urban environment to which increasingly Australians aspire. [More…]
Water is regarded as undrinkable when it has a bacteria count of more than 50, and unswimmable with a count of more than 1,000 but a typical Yarra tributary in the electorate for which I am now the member, and which was represented in the last Parliament by the then Minister for the Environment, contains concentrations of bacteria ranging from 18,000 to 77,000. [More…]
Inadequate education, health care, social welfare and law enforcement as well as a deteriorating physical environment are the price of our having chosen to move so far so fast within such narrow confines. [More…]
Man stilt seeks a more pleasant environment in which to live, and it must become more so. [More…]
A planned environment with urban corridors, the activity of land developers and, most importantly- [More…]
The former Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts approved in principle the recommendations in the report and indicated that the Government would provide funds for their implementation. [More…]
There is, of course, a capacity within government and a necessary requirement of government to supervise the intrusion of a pipeline into the natural environment. [More…]
The Commonwealth should be very concerned with natural resources and works that: (1) Are important for defence; (2) involve land acquisition on a large scale; (3) involve (potentially) harm to the environment; (4) are situated in areas remote from seats of State Government; (5) involve a large capital investment; (6) play a potentially large role in the maintenance of balance of payments; (7) involve the seabed around Australia; (8) are national in scope but are subject to conflicting State laws; (9) are situated on Federal territory; (10) are required by citizens in Federal territory; and (11) promote decentralisation. [More…]
When renovated, they can not only provide decent homes for families for many years, but can also improve the quality of the residential environment. [More…]
In the current economic environment there are no winners; we are all losers. [More…]
There is no simple solution to the problem of inflation in today’s complex economic environment. [More…]
We have achieved what we set out to do in that we have created an environment in which over-award payments are depressed. [More…]
It is expected that the work of the task force will be conducted by a committee of 7, with a permanent secretariat supplied by the Department of Urban and Regional Development and the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
The task force is needed because increasing numbers of Australians are concerned to preserve for the enjoyment of future generations the best buildings of our past and the best features of our natural environment. [More…]
I know that in recent weeks organisations interested in protecting the environment have contacted the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) regarding the need for a proper environmental impact study to be made of the proposed motorway through Blackbutt Reserve. [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Environment and Conservation to take a good look at the representations he has received concerning this beautiful reserve. [More…]
I ask him to consider referring the whole subject of Blackbutt Reserve and proposed Motorway 23 to the joint parliamentary committee on environment and conservation which is to be formed shortly. [More…]
If the premise is accepted that the purpose of growth centres is to stop the drift to the cities, to provide a better living environment, and to prevent despoliation of the countryside, the Hunter region is a prime zone which meets these requirements. [More…]
Agreed that a scientifically acceptable range of data gathering and control measures be drawn up to regulate culling or harvesting throughout Australia in the interests of conservation of the species and the general environment. [More…]
A second way is to put pressure on prices to ensure that the business environment is competitive, and it is the intention of the Government to change radically the Trade Practices Act to bring about this situation. [More…]
It came to power after promising extensive and expensive programs in almost every aspect of our affairs - health, education, social security, housing, urban development and protection of the environment. [More…]
We need to protect our environment and to conserve our national resources. [More…]
This project would take out of the metropolitan area approximately 1,000 employees and their families into a pollutant-free environment and provide a wonderful opportunity for the economic use of many natural resources within the Central Gippsland region. [More…]
The whole question of atmospheric monitoring ls under investigation following recommendations for monitoring programs recommended by the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. [More…]
These proposed international monitoring programs will be further discussed by the United Nations Governing Council on Environmental Programs and the question of Australia’s participation in them is under investigation by the relevant agencies. [More…]
Research in wool marketing requires a completely different environment from that required to operate a commercial system. [More…]
Research must be carried out in an environment in which innovation blossoms. [More…]
A welfare component in a commercial operation is a matter of political judgment which should be made in the political environment. [More…]
The Department of Civil Aviation will continue to work closely with the Departments of the Environment and Conservation, Urban and Regional Development, Services and Property, as well as the appropriate State and Local Government authorities. [More…]
Emergency generating plant is included, and special attention has been paid to the decor of the manual assistance centres, where murals and curtaining will be provided to create a pleasant working environment. [More…]
The approach in the preparation of the legislation had been throughout to strike a balance between the need to regulate company activities in the public interest and the preservation of the rights of companies to carry on business in a private enterprise environment. [More…]
I can assure him that both the ecology and the environment will be fully observed, if and when we get to that point. [More…]
This is a significant advance because in the past when we have built public housing that is what we have done: We have built public housing with no consideration whatsoever for the community in which the people had to live, the environment in which they had to live. [More…]
I said at the beginning that the Labor Government inherited a soundly based economy, growing rapidly prospering, producing goods and services in ever increasing quantities, with growing concern for the quality of life and the environment and with a more equitable distribution of all the goods and services produced. [More…]
I need mention only one particular aspect, and that is that big industry and rapid economic growth impinging on a finite environment necessarily spells pollution in a big and accelerating way, in the absence of a vigorous government policy to combat it and so maintain and in some cases restore the environment and the quality of Australian life. [More…]
Labor promises a social and economic environment that is fair and progressive. [More…]
Like Alvin Toffer’s victims of future shock the people in the business community are unable in an environment that is unfamiliar, rapidly changing and unpredictable, to make a reasonably correct assessment on which rational behaviour and sound judgment depend. [More…]
It is depressing that at this time people in such an environment should be suffering a deprivation of health services. [More…]
Department of the Environment and ) Conservation: Accommodation (Question No. [More…]
Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
Emergency generating plant is included and special attention has been paid to the decor of the manual assistance centres where carpet tiles, acoustic ceilings and detailed interior design will create a pleasant working environment. [More…]
Against the background of your difficulties, Mr Minister, in accommodating the many demands of your colleagues for greater expenditure in the emerging situation of overfull employment, I refer to an estimate by economist Kenneth Davidson in yesterday’s ‘Australian’, that over $4m could be saved if the Black Mountain tower project were replaced by an alternative scheme which is acceptable to the National Capital Development Commission, I gather, would fully satisfy the Postmaster-General’s requirements and would be acceptable to those concerned for the environment. [More…]
I ask: Where development, technical and environmental considerations can thus be harmonised and are further supported by the economics of the matter, and still the environmental viewpoint is overruled, does not the Treasurer agree that the professed concern of his party and his Government for the environment, which it is said was an important factor in their winning the last election, is humbug and a sham? [More…]
I would not care if it were the Minister for Science, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation or anybody else. [More…]
environmental aspects of legislative and administrative measures which ought to be taken in order lo ensure the wise and effective management of the Australian environment and of Australia’s natural resources; and [More…]
such other matters relating to the environment and conservation and the management of Australia’s natural resources as are referred to it by- [More…]
the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, or [More…]
As the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) has said, this matter has been discussed before. [More…]
I think it is true to say that today there is no more sensitive area than conservation, and the environment. [More…]
I appreciate what the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) said about interstate and even international agreements on wildfowl and what the honourable member for Cowper (Mr Ian Robinson) said about conservation, but this commitee is to be an environment and conservation committee. [More…]
The terms of reference relate to the environmental aspects of legislative and administrative measures. [More…]
I hope that the House in passing the recommendation for such a committee will accept that it will not be a committee that deals only with wildlife measures, whether they relate to flora or fauna, it is to deal with the wider environmental aspects as they affect man. [More…]
After all, this is why we are here - to look after the well being of man, to preserve the environment that he enjoys and to make the greatest use of our natura] resources without ravaging them and leaving the place in an awful mess for coming generations. [More…]
This is to be en environment and conservation committee which is to deal with the broadest aspects of the environment. [More…]
We dealt with the upheaval in international affairs over recent years when the Vietnam conflict and the emergence of new great powers transformed the international environment. [More…]
The Liberal Party sees danger in the proliferation of devices of nuclear war which threaten the future cf mankind, and all Australians deplore any action which in any way threatens the earth’s environment and possibly the lives of people now or in the future. [More…]
The Government must define how it sees Australia’s total role in our ocean and archipelago environment. [More…]
In his statement, the Prime Minister stated that the reports showed that radioactive fall-out had occurred over Australia, had contaminated the Australian environment and that the people of Australia may have been adversely affected by the tests. [More…]
I think it would be a very good thing if maximum interchange between the teaching systems within the total educational environment of Australia were to be encouraged. [More…]
Whilst much of the accommodation is no doubt occupied by people in need of government -subsidised housing, or of the sheltered environment of a hostel or nursing home, a considerable degree of preferment is known to be given to people able to offer what are euphemistically known as donations towards the funds of the organisations concerned. [More…]
In fact, there was no proper explanation of Government policy given to this House in the form of ministerial statements in many significant areas of Government policy - areas of selfproclaimed Government concern - such as the environment and conservation, urban and regional development and, of course, a field very dear to the heart of the Leader of the House, immigration. [More…]
We and our advisers do not at present foresee any deterioration in our strategic environment that would involve consideration of the commitment of our defence force to military operations to protect Australia’s security or strategic interests. [More…]
The favourable developments in the strategic environment that I have outlined strongly support our view that Australia is unlikely to come under strategic pressure or military threat. [More…]
The naval component has the type of units which contribute - especially in conjunction with maritime patrol aircraft and aircraft providing strike attack and defence - to meeting the appropriate fundamental requirements for the protection of Australia and its immediate environment. [More…]
It could, in the present strategic environment, deter to a great extent any minor harassment and interference with Australian sovereign control. [More…]
I hope that the teachers will be asked to get through to the Aborigines the importance of respecting their environment. [More…]
it through to the young Aborigines and Europeans that they must respect the environment because we see it ruined from top to bottom by people of various ages. [More…]
We see the environment burnt. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
One of the points that was put to us on the Standing Committee years ago was that, if we put the new parliament house in the centre of Camp Hill, we would develop a controlled environment. [More…]
But in fact, Australia is not a controlled environment; this country is one of the limitless environments. [More…]
What I would like to do today is to join my colleagues the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) and the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) and to make up a troika, if you like - although some would prefer to call it a trinity - of ministerial backing and support for the point of view put very capably by the Minister for Urban and Regional Development not just in the House today by way of a competent speech but also in his very informative and stimulating document entitled ‘New and Permanent Parliament House Feasibility Study’ which has been circulated. [More…]
And finally, what is its relationship to the environment? [More…]
It may sound a mundane subject to many people but we all know that the lack of proper sewerage in our large urban areas has had a very deleterious effect upon the environment around our cities and in our cities. [More…]
The father learns some English at work but when the child goes back to the home environment there is probably often tension and difficulty if there is an attempt to speak English because the mother does not understand and does not want to be left out. [More…]
So in the home environment there is a reversion to the native tongue. [More…]
I think that in this kind of home and this kind of environment there are potential problems which will be difficult to overcome and which will need, as I have said, something going beyond the school boundaries - something that reaches out into the home and tries to establish a close link between the home and the school. [More…]
As the Minister for the Environment and Conservation told the House last Thursday the report of the committee inquiring into the salinity problems of the Murray will be received within the next few days and is due to be considered by the Ministers of the 4 governments concerned. [More…]
Honourable members will recall how the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon) as Prime Minister and my predecessor in Casey, as Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts endeavoured, in the parlance of the day, to de-Gortonise this project along with many other projects in a manner that was highly disruptive to the unity of the Liberal Party and damaging to its electoral prospects. [More…]
On 8 September 1971 the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts said in answer to a question without notice from the honourable member for Chisholm (Mr Staley): [More…]
within recent weeks I have had discussions with my colleague the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, and I have pointed out to him that he is to proceed as quickly as possible to collect all the evidence that becomes available to him so that the proposal can be presented to the Government well before the next Budget and not necessarily therefore in a Budget context. [More…]
Did the Prime Minister, before establishing a group of Ministers chaired by the Treasurer to handle the matter of the national film and television training school, advise the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts of his intention to do so? [More…]
On 19 April 1972 the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts announced that the Government had received a third report from the Interim Council. [More…]
To have heard the then Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts talk at the time one might have supposed that Australia had no film industry and that there would have been no opening for the graduates of the school other than in our limited number of television studios. [More…]
Those honourable members in the House who wanted to have a little morning doze would have been indebted to the honourable member for Casey (Mr Mathews) for his monotonous, archaic monologue which seemed to be devoted more primarily to taking apart the former honourable member for Casey who was Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
One great advantage would be in the saving of lives and another would be in the preservation of our environment by use of a system to dial a vehicle and then to dial the destination. [More…]
As the honourable member for Diamond Valley has so rightly said, it is essential to try to preserve the orderly environment of the ANU and to protect it from undue encroachment of traffic on the campus itself. [More…]
I understand that this has greatly beautified the campus and although most of the students are enthusiastic supporters of the improvement of the environment they have some reservations about these happenings. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
They provide a social environment, a place away from the home or hostel with which they can identify; where they can make friends and feel that they have a purpose. [More…]
Some people are now saying that growth is opposed to quality; that if we have growth in the Australian economy we cannot have quality in the environment, in the cities and in the countryside. [More…]
I firmly believe that growth is essential to quality of life in Australia, quality in the environment, quality in welfare services and quality in compassion for those who need assistance and those who need help. [More…]
This Budget breaks new ground in the areas of expenditure designed to overcome the tremendous pressures of life in our cities, after years of tedious repetition of Budgets that showed no imagination and no ability to meet the needs of this rapidly changing social environment. [More…]
It neglected to provide an adequate response to the major quality of life issues such as the environment, conservation and urban improvement. [More…]
The Treasurer told the Parliament that the Government would support a wide range of activities in the fields of environmental protection and conservation. [More…]
Environmental protection is an endeavour which has been conspicuous for its neglect by the Government. [More…]
Not only does the Budget make an inadequate allowance for environmental improvement but the Minister whose area of responsibility is directly involved has yet to make any statement to this House outlining his activities during the past 9 months. [More…]
And in spite of the unprecedented number of Bills introduced we have yet to see a single environment impact statement tabled in this House. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) has been an abject failure in his portfolio. [More…]
Australian environmentalists in all the groups in which they are active will be rightly disappointed with the meagre provisions this Budget makes for the vital concerns of environmental improvement and conservation and its promises and pledges in the area of the environment. [More…]
As honourable gentlemen sitting opposite know full well, the promises and pledges have been dishonoured by lack of activity in the ministerial portfolio in which the environment has become the lost cause of the Labor Administration. [More…]
They ask: ‘What is being done about the environment? [More…]
It is not a decision for somebody who is motivated by profit and personal gain rather than by a desire to see the benefit that may flow to the community or to safeguard against the harm that could be done to it and the environment ‘by his actions. [More…]
Had the previous Government been returned at the last Federal election the situation would have been completely out of hand and the whole environment could have been irreparably destroyed. [More…]
I refer now to the environment. [More…]
I wonder what environmentalists are saying today about the site chosen by the Government for the new Sydney international airport. [More…]
From the way this Government is behaving one does not see much hope for the environment. [More…]
We must take into account the effects of mining on the rights of Aborigines, on the environment and pollution and the rights of those people who work in and around the mines. [More…]
I have lived in a mining environment all my life. [More…]
You cannot (take your family away to a new environment during that period because your wife cannot get her holidays at the same time’. [More…]
I oan assure the honourable member for Wide Bay that consideration of the Bundaberg irrigation project is in hand and that organisations such as the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and the Snowy Mountains Corporation, as well as the Department of Environment and Conservation and the Department of Northern Development, have started an evaluation analysis. [More…]
The aim of a social welfare system is to produce, through a range of social policies, a social environment in which every individual has the opportunity to develop his unique potential and in which various supports are offered to those individuals who, through some inherited or acquired disadvantage or handicap, need special assistance. [More…]
The aim of a social welfare system is to produce, through a range of social policies, a social environment in which every individual has the opportunity to develop his unique potential, and in which various supports are offered to those individuals who, through some inherited or acquired disadvantage or handicap, need special assistance. [More…]
People were living in slums and a computer or some boffin suggested that the cheapest, most efficient way to solve that problem was to tear the slums down and erect high rise flats in their place without thinking for one moment of the impact of that on the individual concerned and without thinking about the kind of environment, both social and other, of the child living on the 31st storey of a 32-storey high rise flat. [More…]
The objection is not so much that the Budget tries to do too much, but that it fries to do too much too soon in an economic environment calling for restraint, and leadership in restraint. [More…]
It is not a Budget for the industrialist, because it will encourage the inflation that distorts his business environment - and he is discouraged from investing by the removal of the investment allowance. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Transport been drawn to the proposals of the Government of the United States of America to compel motor manufacturers in the United States, as an environment, energy and consumer protection, to show on all new motor cars how many kilometres those cars can be expected to give to the litre? [More…]
The third point I want to make is that we are not raising this matter merely in the hope that somebody may be listening to the broadcast of these proceedings; we are raising it because we are concerned about the damage that can be done to the ordinary person’s environment, comfort and quality of life - I have to use that phrase again - if an airport is established at Galston, just as we were concerned about the Mascot proposals. [More…]
The decision was taken regardless of any consideration of the environment in which the people would have to live. [More…]
Has a proper environmental study been made? [More…]
Another Minister, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), indicated with great regret that he was not even able to get along to the Cabinet meeting to makea statement on the environment. [More…]
Was it one that we would consider as perhaps we might consider an environmental study by a joint committee comprising members drawn from both sides of this House which was established to look into the damage to the environment done by this proposal? [More…]
We, as a Government, appointed a committee comprising members from both sides of this House to examine the environmental damage that had been done at Mascot. [More…]
It is designed rather to the destruction of the economic environment within which business operates. [More…]
As part of our commitment to the environment and conservation $3m is set aside for the first time for national parks and the preservation of the national estate. [More…]
My Department recently advertised for staff to conduct a feasibility study for an information retrieval system which would be directed towards making environmental information available to interested groups and individuals. [More…]
My Department is also represented on the Public Awareness Sub-Committee of the Australian Environment Council. [More…]
The Australian Environment Council is the forum in which I discuss such matters with my State counterparts and its committees have worked closely with the Committee for Motor Vehicle Emissions of the Australian Transport Advisory Council. [More…]
Until this Budget was presented the economy had been operating in an environment largely determined by the previous Government. [More…]
Some are being forced to abandon the environment of their choice, to leave their homes and to move many miles away in their evening years and either make new friends or perhaps spend their fast years in loneliness. [More…]
Having in mind the divisive effects of expressways on neighbourhoods and the impact of new major road systems on the overall environment, I ask: In the preparation of the proposed Commonwealth Aid Roads Agreement for the coming 5-year period 1974-79, has provision been made for an assessment of the social and economic impact on the environment of new major road systems to be built in that period and will provision be made for the Australian Government to participate in such assessments? [More…]
We are not satisfied with the manner in which the States are constructing freeways without having regard to the effects of those freeways on the environment and on the people. [More…]
Therefore, in future,when money allocated by the Australian Government is used for road construction the effects on the environment will be considered and the social effects of the freeways or main roads will be considered. [More…]
If the construction of that road is not commenced before 30 June next, before we allocate any money to it we will take into consideration the effects of the highway on the environment - on the Black Butt Reserve. [More…]
Minister for the Environment and Conservation been drawn to a recent newspaper article alleging that since the Budget was brought down by the Treasurer with its provisions against land clearing for tax purposes, the cost of uncleared land has not risen, whereas the cost of cleared land has increased? [More…]
Whatever its environmental implications, does not the Minister agree that the altering of section 75 and section 76 of the Income Tax Assessment Act is a form of discrimination against Pitt Street farmers? [More…]
The extent and effectiveness of existing education programs in providing a sound basis in the fundamentals of inter-personal relationships in the Australian social environment: [More…]
The motion, I believe, is misdirected and inadequate because it tends to look at fertility control and abortion in isolation from the complex of interpersonal relationships, and it is an inquiry into fertility control and not into sexual responsibility in its wider sense grounded in the total growth of a person in the entire social environment. [More…]
A positive program for an inquiry that could be expected to produce results that could be acted upon would encompass a study of the extent of existing educating programs and the need to provide a sound basis in the fundamentals of interpersonal relationships and of personality development in the context of the Australian social environment. [More…]
the extent and effectiveness of existing education programs in providing a sound basis in the fundamentals of inter-personal relationships in the Australian social environment. [More…]
If this amendment is adopted the commission would have to inquire into the extent and effectiveness of existing education programs to provide a sound basis for inter-personal relationships in the Australian social environment. [More…]
It must also comprehend a responsible role in respect of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, the rejection of this Government’s continuing indecision concerning migration, the promotion of a more competitive business environment. [More…]
I have lived in an environment of mining. [More…]
There are the Departments for Minerals and Energy, Northern Development, the Northern Territory, Aboriginal Affairs and Environment and Conservation. [More…]
There are strange people such as ecologists and others - I do not use ‘strange* in the sense that they are nuts - who have a great consciousness that the environment to which they belong has some importance in itself and ought not to be there just for the rapacity of private profit. [More…]
It is also concerned about the environment. [More…]
An environmental impact study had to be concluded. [More…]
In responding to the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Barnard) concerning the siting of Sydney’s second airport at Galston and the ramifications that might have on the Royal Australian Air Force base at Richmond I referred to the fact that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) was so busy with his own affairs that he was absent from a Cabinet meeting at which the decision was taken. [More…]
The Departments of: Labour (Chairman), Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General’s Education, Environment and Conservation, Health, Housing, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Science, Social Security. [More…]
At its initial meeting the Committee decided to set up a smaller Working Group which comprises representatives from the Departments of Labour, Education, Environment and Conservation, Health Housing, Social Security, Treasury, Urban and Regional Development and the Bureau of Census and Statistics to draw up a program for formulating a system of social indicators in Australia. [More…]
Environment Research and Information Centre, $2,250 [More…]
Tasmanian Environment Centre, $40,000 [More…]
Cairns Environment Advisory Committee, $100 [More…]
My Department was set up not to criticise Government environment policies but to help formulate them. [More…]
In fact, I urged that the Foundation should adopt a more critical approach to Government policies which it considered to be environmentally unwise. [More…]
When an entirely different measure was introduced in a different and emotional environment in that autumn session it was debated for over 11 hours. [More…]
Job satisfaction and job enrichment are high in our priorities in attempting to improve the quality of the working environment. [More…]
Equally, the Minister’s abrasive and inflammatory approach to the industrial environment has had the effect of doubling the amount of wages lost through industrial disputes for the first 9 months of this year as compared with the same period last year. [More…]
Accordingly, as the Opposition’s spokesman for industrial relations, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), has stated, the Opposition’s attitude to this Bill is determined by its analysis of what best serve the legitimate interests of the principal parties in the industrial environment and the public at large. [More…]
The responsibilities of the principal parties in the industrial environment are equally important. [More…]
I remind the House of this fundamental truth, that in the industrial jurisdiction there is an overwhelming need to pay far more attention to the positive initiatives which can be taken to improve the nature of the working environment. [More…]
This is no less than the workforce of this country deserves or demands, because the quality of life of the workers is, in no small measure, the quality of the work environment in which they spend the greater part of their lives. [More…]
I have written to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation suggesting that a term of reference for the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, of which the honourable member for Scullin is the Chairman, include the environmental impact of mining operations on Christmas Island. [More…]
It may well be an opportune time, when I am visiting Christmas Island, for members or a subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation to join me in that visit. [More…]
Nola, 7 years of age, was reared in the home and the environment of Mr and Mrs Brown, loved and cared for from her earliest babyhood, speaking English and walking in the ways of the foster parents and the little foster brothers and sisters with whom she grew up and played. [More…]
The honourable P. Howson, as the then Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, in a debate in Parliament on 14 September 1972 set out the number of organisations which had been set up to care for the welfare of the Aboriginal. [More…]
It was directly under the control of the then Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts but the 2 previous speakers on the Opposition side said they know nothing about it. [More…]
When Mr Howson, the former honourable member for Casey, was the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, government policy was to liaise with the organisations set up in each State. [More…]
It should lead to improved roads and roadside environment, safer cars and better drivers through better training and more effective publicity. [More…]
The next topic probably will be that of road environment, with the vehicle, the driver, and the road transport system to follow. [More…]
We find exactly the same arguments available to us as apply to the aged people; that is, if it is desirable in the interest of the aged person to remain within a home environment rather than an institutional environment, or if one wants to be a bit more callous about it and simply look at the economic argument that even from the public point of view it is cheaper to keep a patient in those circumstances out of hospital rather than in hospital, I cannot for the life of me see how either of those arguments can apply to the person who reaches 65 years of age but not to one who has not reached that age. [More…]
I am not arguing for any abstract democratic principle; I am saying that this sort of development is highly desirable because tensions and misunderstandings in the environment of aged persons homes will inevitably arise otherwise to the discomfort and the unhappiness of the residents and also to the discomfort and concern of management committees. [More…]
The Prime Minister will be reminded of them if he thinks of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), the Minister for Health (Dr Everingham), the Minister for Northern Development (Dr Patterson) and, in the other place, the Minister for Repatriation (Senator Bishop), the Minister for Primary Industry (Senator Wriedt) and the Special Minister of State (Senator Willesee). [More…]
Social workers are drawn from the immediate environment. [More…]
One committee which has to investigate a number of matters is the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation and its activities should be advised to the Parties so that members who are interested in making submissions or who have organisations in their electorates which would be interested in taking part in the hearings on particular matters, know what is going on and can make appropriate representations. [More…]
I hope, with my colleagues the Minister for Environment and Conservation and the Minister for Urban and Regional Affairs, to be a party in initiating action in order to avoid any future risk of pollution. [More…]
Children are raised in a non-English speaking environment and on reaching primary school arc unable to participate in school activities … On 11 January 1973 the Director-General of the Queensland Department of Education approached the Department of Immigration for funds to establish pre-school facilities for migrant children in existing centres in West End and Paddington in Brisbane. [More…]
It is well known that students who come from homes with many books and magazines, and an environment conducive to reading, not only will read better, but also will show more interest in literature. [More…]
It is equally well known that when the population of a school comes from homes wherein the parents themselves are well educated, economically advantaged, and able to provide an environment in which reading matter and communication media are available, the school will show a generally superior level of reading achievement. [More…]
The achievement of these ends may necessitate the building of boarding schools in the inner suburbs which the children could attend for limited periods on a voluntary basis, and the provision of houses in these areas where children could study away from school in a satisfactory environment. [More…]
Furthermore, we should encourage trained teachers to establish their own schools away from the larger school environment. [More…]
Four or 5 teachers and 70 or 80 students, working in an inner suburban house, may achieve more than the same number of people working in the larger school environment. [More…]
Most migrant children are usually completely exposed to a new environment amongst people who are unaware of these difficulties. [More…]
It was pointed out that educational deprivation often has its source in the home environment because of lack of motivation in the home environment. [More…]
Social psychologists have quite often expressed some agreement that these children are better in the close family environment. [More…]
In this environment men, women, boys and girls can be engaged in worthwhile activities which satisfy their dignity as human beings by providing the opportunity to engage actively in manufacturing or processing and thus making a contribution to society. [More…]
Theoretically, a council will have to work in liaison with the Australian Department of Social Security or the State offices of it and up to 13 other Australian Government departments, such as Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-Generals’, Capital Territory, Education, Environment and Conservation, Health, Housing, Immigration, Labour, Northern Territory, Repatriation, Tourism and Recreation and Urban and Regional Development; the State Government in its various departments concerned with welfare services; local governments - there are 900 of them; the Australian Council of Social Services and the State Council of Social Services; various planning boards in existence and to be set up; and local bodies and charities concerned with welfare services. [More…]
Sometimes my sympathies go out to my friend the Minister for the Environment (Dr Cass), who is trying to implement his philosophies on the environment around the nation and is frustrated by having to deal with so many other people and finds himself impotent - in a political sense, I assure him - in being able to carry out these policies. [More…]
We found that most Aboriginals are not prepared to leave their home environment to gain employment, but most were adamant that they wanted employment rather than unemployment relief. [More…]
In doing so, they have quoted statements made by Senator Georges who had referred to the fact that this matter had been before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation and that certain matters had arisen from the investigation by the Committee. [More…]
The former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant), through the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) referred this matter to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation raising the question whether this project contravened the international convention with regard to endangered species, and also the question of the general conservation aspects of the whole project. [More…]
At one stage this disgraceful state of affairs came under the control of the then Minister for the Environment. [More…]
I hope that the new Minister for the Capital Territory is able to get some assistance, if necessary, from his colleague the present Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) in order to get rid of this very nasty nuisance which at times causes a large area of Canberra to be covered in smoke. [More…]
The increased traffic would kill off the city, pollute the air and do nothing to enhance the environment and the living standards of people generally. [More…]
In a time of doomsday prophets it has become customary to expect a continuous deterioration in the quality of our environment. [More…]
Consequently when one is able to report that there is somewhere at least where a few certain aspects of the environment have improved there are many cynics who would comment that such a thing is unlikely, if not impossible. [More…]
One section of the new 14 point environment platform of the Australian Labor Party, which was approved at its 1973 Federal Conference at Surfers Paradise, is ‘regulate toxic or indestructible materials by the development of standards for ambient air quality, water quality, ocean release of materials and the land disposal of solid and liquid waste and by the development of integrated programs at all levels of government under the leadership of the Australian Government’. [More…]
There is insufficient vocational training in secondary schools and insufficient opportunity for students to undertake study in subjects which equip school leavers to go into worth while jobs in their local environment. [More…]
I have been concerned for some time that opportunities for the special treatment of extremely gifted children in the Australian environment have not been available. [More…]
The report says that Mr Dexter’s letter to Dr Coombs related to evidence to be given to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
Can the House or in this case the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation be regarded as being defeated in getting at all the facts and all the truth of the matter which they were examining? [More…]
It might also help Japan to avoid further difficulties with her trade balance as well as ease her critical environmental problems. [More…]
First, there is a need to prevent pollution, conserve our resources and protect the environment even in the most remote areas of Australia. [More…]
We will not import pollution into Australia, nor will we dispose of our resources too fast or to the highest short term bidder, nor will we erode our environment and transform it into holes, cuts and gashes. [More…]
So it seems to me that, within the frame work of the environment we should apply ourselves in a very real sense to town planning. [More…]
To deal with this concept we will have to have people who can not only look after the environment in a way to be admired but who can also apply themselves to seeing what trees along the sides of the roads may be hazards and will have to be removed. [More…]
The previous Government took no decision on the matter because it was swayed at that time by the objections from the then Office of the Environment that certain studies should be carried out before the previous Government acquired it. [More…]
This Government has taken full account of the views of the Department of the Environment and Conservation, and agreement has been reached at the interdepartmental level that the Government acquire the land but that the overall urban development for the plan of the area be subject to later consideration. [More…]
This consideration will be based upon reports and studies, at least one of which meets the points raised by the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
If not, how can environmental groups do other than busy themselves in fighting rearguard actions if the public is unaware of proposals likely to prejudice the environment. [More…]
In what way is it intended to involve the affected public or the public in general in the decision-making process ‘ so that the need for rearguard actions to protect the environment is reduced. [More…]
Through the use of the Environmental Impact Statement procedure, environmental considerations including land use are receiving greater attention in decision making than they did previously. [More…]
In addition the Australian Advisory Committee on the Environment is currently investigating the question of land use planning in Australia, and my Department is examining ways in which better decisions on land use can be encouraged. [More…]
We and our advisers at the present time do not foresee any deterioration in our strategic environment that would involve consideration of the commitment of our forces to military operations to protect Australia’s security or strategic interests. [More…]
Persons suffering from psychiatric and similar problems return to coping normally much more quickly when treated in their usual community environment, with their families and friends around them. [More…]
To me it is rather significant and extraordinary that this motion has been seconded by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) in the atmosphere which exists in the community today because I do not know of any subject that tends more to mora] pollution than homosexuality. [More…]
A very high suicide rate exists among homosexuals because of their inability to overcome this affliction that is either hereditary or which has been brought about by environment. [More…]
The legislation provides that the Commission will be required not only to consider the immediate circumstances of an inquiry and the consequences for an industry of assistance that might be sought, or which might already exist and is sought to be reduced or abolished, but it will also be required to consider the following matters: The allocation of national resources, in itself a vast consideration and a tremendous responsibility to be removed from this Parliament and the Government and given to a statutory body without direct responsibilities to the people; full employment; price stability; external balance; conservation of the environment; the interests of consumers; national economic policy; and trade policy. [More…]
We have created an environment in which there has been built up over past years a large and sophisticated manufacturing sector and in which there was every reason for confidence in the future that the growth and progress of manufacturing industry would continue. [More…]
Manufacturers need to feel confident that their investment and planning decisions will be able to develop in a constant environment. [More…]
In the performance of its functions, the Commission shall have regard to the desire of the Australian Government, in pursuing the general objectives of national economic and social policy and urban and regional development, to improve and promote the well-being of the people of Australia, with full employment, stability in the general level of prices, viability in external economic relations, conservation of the natural environment and rising and generally enjoyed standards of living, and, in particular, to the desire of the Australian Government to - [More…]
facilitate adjustment to changes in the economic environment by industries and persons affected by those changes; [More…]
That is what it wants to delete - conservation of the natural environment and rising and generally enjoyed standards of living - [More…]
facilitate adjustment to changes in the economic environment by industries and persons affected by those changes - [More…]
The Government proposes that the Commission also shall have regard to the conservation of the natural environment. [More…]
The Government, unable to report to the Parliament on the processes of environmental impact studies, sees the Commission as better exercising this function of government. [More…]
These include improving the efficiency with which the community’s productive resources are used - this involves the making of an economic judgment concerning the prospects of success for an industry and surely that should be within the compass of government and not within the compass of an outside commission as should be matters relating to the maintenance of an appropriate standard of living and full employment - facilitating adjustment to changes in the economic environment and recognising the interests of consumers and consuming interests likely to be affected by measures. [More…]
Almost any pretext can be used for making a judgment on how industry resources will be used, how determinations will be made in the interests of consumers, how the environment may be affected or the public interest concerned. [More…]
The Commission will be taking into account not how an industry might succeed but what the impact may be on the environment, the employment situation or something else. [More…]
The small percentage of national revenue allocated to the Department of the Environment and Conservation by this the first Labor Budget in 24 years indicates that these two important facets of modern living are treated just as nice sounding rhetoric and not as matters of fact. [More…]
It was rather amusing to hear the honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh) talk of the niggardly appropriation for the Department of the Environment and Conservation because, Mr Deputy Chairman, you are no doubt aware that in 1972-73 the appropriation for the Department was $778,700, the actual expenditure was $760,215 and yet the appropriation for this year is $1,729,000. [More…]
I think that the honourable member for Darling Downs should read the Appropriation Bill and perhaps reflect on the years of neglect of this field when there was simply the Office of the Environment and Conservation; it had not been brought up to the rank of a full department. [More…]
I think that the honourable member would be generous enough to admit that the Department of the Environment and Conservation is going through a building-up period and is steadily defining the functions it will serve as far as Australia is concerned. [More…]
Having said that, I wish to refer to several matters which I think come within the scope of the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
Morrison), the Australian Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren), the Australian Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), and the New South Wales Minister for Environmental Control. [More…]
According to the brochure the study is designed to examine the impacts of about two long lifetimes of human settlement on a wide range of typical Australian coastal environments and from this to predict the course which future impacts may take. [More…]
It is going to be rather important in the future that we should be clear on the functions of the Department of the Environment and Conservation because I note that the initial funding of this project was done through the Department of Science or through the Australian Minister for Science. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation will sum up the present position of the Botany Bay project when he is making his closing remarks because it would seem that the results that will be obtained from that will have a great deal of application to many other areas in Australia. [More…]
Too often, of course, the questions of environment and conservation are overshadowed by the question of wildlife conservation, or the term might even be ‘preservation’. [More…]
I wonder whether the Department of the Environment and Conservation is giving any attention to this aspect, because if we are to think of this third alternative it is quite obvious that we must have a look at what regulatory devices we put into the system. [More…]
Only in this way will the most important source of urban environmental pollution in any case be satisfactorily tackled. [More…]
I know that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation has indicated in another paper his interest in this matter of water supply, water resources research and water resources determination. [More…]
This is one of the problems that is predominant in Australia because of the relatively dry environment and the arid nature of a lot of the area. [More…]
There are many other environmental matters on which I would like to speak. [More…]
I think that the Department of the Environment and Conservation has got off to a very good start in this year. [More…]
I will certainly not endeavour to attack the Government on the estimates for the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
In speaking to the estimates for the Department of the Environment and Conservation I, like previous speakers, have no desire to attack the Government on this issue. [More…]
I believe that more money, thought and action must be devoted to the conservation of our forests and our water resources and to protection of the environment which is most important from every point of view. [More…]
The environment and, in particular, the countryside hold resources capable of many uses for agriculture and forestry, for water catchment purposes, for mineral workings, for settlement and, increasingly, for outdoor recreation. [More…]
At the same time the rural environment is valued in a less tangible way for the culture and history of its community, for its wildlife, for the beauty of landscapes and, in some areas, for its remoteness. [More…]
Environmental conservation is therefore concerned both with the quantity and quality of many different resources. [More…]
This problem can be eradicated by putting some more muscle into pollution control and by giving the Minister for Environment and Conservation more finance to enable him to work in co-operation with the States so that this dreadful raw sewage is stopped from entering our coast and desecrating the lovely beaches about which I have spoken. [More…]
The honourable member for McKellar (Mr Wentworth) said that pollution and environmental control has mainly been in the hands of the States. [More…]
This is true but I feel that the Minister for Environment and Conservation will agree that we should be using our best endeavours to co-operate with the States to do whatever we can to improve our environment and to eliminate pollution. [More…]
Tonight while debating the estimates for the Department of Environment and Conservation I wish to say something about the effect of cities and urban development on the quality of the air. [More…]
Most spectacular among the effects of the city upon the atmosopheric environment are those caused by air pollution . [More…]
However, because we have an international responsibility for the protection of the global atmosphere, the Australian Government has in its platform on environment a clause stating that it is the responsibility of the Australian Government to show leadership in co-ordinating measures designed to monitor the level of air pollution and to develop programs to protect the quality of air in Australia. [More…]
We are at the present time debating the estimates relating to the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
He spoke of his concern about the environmental effect - particularly with reference to water - on the development of a new reservoir in the State of Victoria. [More…]
I urge the Minister for the Environment and Conservation to act as the Government’s conscience and as the nation’s conscience to make sure that we do not develop urban areas out of political whims - building castles in the sky - and seek to place them at locations which seem attractive for political purposes. [More…]
When analysed in the calmer atmosphere that should prevail in a department such as that headed by the Minister, we should, if we find there are risks of an environmental nature which cause us to question politically made decisions, be strong enough to be outspoken and to have those decisions changed. [More…]
In this debate many of the speakers have drawn attention to the significant - though I still suggest small - increase in the Australian Government’s financial allocation in respect of its concern and responsibility for the environment. [More…]
Where are the resources whereby governments - State, Australian or local - can be funded to enable them to buy other areas of environmental significance? [More…]
I, like other honourable members and concerned people, am worried that very often in debates such as this we talk a lot about the environment and create the illusion that a great deal is being done when in fact little is being done and that which is being achieved is often being achieved in a crisis atmosphere; where large sums of money are needed to save something in respect of which the public conscience cries out that it should be saved. [More…]
Then we find that the resources of the nation are spent in saving something which, if the public had been alerted previously, could have been saved at a fraction of the cost and the balance of the money used for saving that environmental resource could have been spent in preserving other significant assets. [More…]
I gained an inspiration to say something on this very important question affecting the nation and particularly to advert to the Labor Party’s determination to challenge the erosion of the country as the result of polluting the environment. [More…]
Public alarm throughout the nation to my mind in the last decade has reached an all-time high on the question of pollution and the interest in the natural environment. [More…]
But in my view it needs to go a lot higher to truly awaken the Australian community as a whole as to the need to stir governments, both State and Federal, and the need to protect the natural environment for future generations. [More…]
I believe that it is a pity that we never had a government, State or Federal, with the interest in conservation and preservation of the natural environment that my Government has shown in this very important subject. [More…]
Because we have not protected the natural environment. [More…]
The fatness of people’s purses became more important to them than the preservation of the natural environment. [More…]
The present Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) and the Whitlam Administration are taking the most positive determined steps by the creation of the very ministry which the distinguished Minister holds to arouse even more the Australian people’s need to support the Government and the Department which is determined to protect the natural environment. [More…]
In my electorate of Hunter, of course, our greatest problem with the natural environment is coal dust from inferior coal that burns in chitter dumps for years and years once a fire is started by spontaneous combustion. [More…]
If it is not economical for the mining companies to curb or prevent this nuisance, 1 believe that our Minister for Environment and Conservation will sympathically consider subsidising steps to alleviate the worst of these nuisances. [More…]
I am very proud of my Government, the Whitlam administration, for setting up a Ministry aimed at preservation of the environment and conservation. [More…]
This awakened the minds of people and they went on to think about the destruction of the natural environment of man. [More…]
In conclusion I again congratulate my Government for the positive steps it has taken in regard to this important social question and I wholeheartedly and sincerely congratulate the Minister for Environment and Conservation on the task that he is undertaking on our behalf. [More…]
Tonight the Committee is debating the estimates of the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
I know that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) could not do so out of the amount that his Department has been allocated this year but obviously this point will arise again later. [More…]
In my view the Department of the Environment and Conservation ultimately will become a most important and integral part of our future. [More…]
In this way too I can see a future for this Australian Government in its role of protecting the environment and conservation in that the Department will provide the expertise and the funds to help the smaller shires and also councils in the suburbs of the cities to provide this necessary means of disposing of their waste. [More…]
Although Noise Exposure Forecasts have been prepared for various airports they are theoretical predictions of aircraft noise only and cannot be used to describe the actual noise environment. [More…]
Under this Government our trade has been based on the fact that efficiency in trade depends on a competitive environment. [More…]
The world’s rich will have to do a little more about the world’s poor and new sets of international laws on environment and conservation issues will be needed. [More…]
Also, it is no coincidence that the Minister for Environment Control, Mr Beale, was sacked from that office because of his ineptitude in looking after conservation matters as they affect the welfare of the New South Wales people. [More…]
The Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) cannot move until he has his regions all worked out; the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) is tying up any decisions he may make with the Minister for Urban and Regional Development; and so it goes on. [More…]
One in particular is in the field of environment and conservation. [More…]
One area which has been proclaimed as suitable for a national park is the Mount Worth area in the Strzelecki Ranges which has everything to commend it economically, environmentally and conservationally. [More…]
It is within pleasant driving distance from the metropolis and for that reason it should demand the support of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) whose constituents would be among the tourists who would benefit. [More…]
A very interesting range of subjects will be financed by this money: Firstly, as to the environment in which the wheat is grown - namely, the soil itself - moisture, organic matter, nitrogen content, microbiology and nutrients within the soil which are required for the adequate production of wheat. [More…]
This project is without doubt a most appropriate industry which would be compatible with the serene environment of the Shire of Warragul. [More…]
The Committee is concerned at the length of time the matter has been discussed, the cost and the number of reports which have been produced on various aspects of Ayers Rock-Mount Olga National Park development, and is concerned that immediate action should be taken to initiate measures to protect the environment and improve the appearance of the Park while making adequate provision for tourism and for meaningful Aboriginal involvement at every level. [More…]
The rapid rise of tourists to the Park, the fragile nature of the arid environment and the present management practices adopted have all led to great pressures on the area. [More…]
The Committee saw its role as being to accommodate these competing roles in such a way that all interested elements would be reasonably provided for and the environment would suffer minimal damage. [More…]
Ayers Rock without regard to the effect of this attitude on the environment and the aesthetic value of the area. [More…]
We applaud this modern day approach to this problem of treating these people initially in their homes where no embarrassment is felt and where, through the participation of the whole of the family in the healthy environment that is created, the patient can probably readjust himself and overcome his problem, whether it be an inability to cope, a problem with drink or a problem with drugs. [More…]
Persons suffering from psychiatric and similar problems return to coping normally much more quickly when treated in their usual community environment, with their families and friends around them. [More…]
Some provide a home environment but there is a need for more Of them. [More…]
There has been a great tendency overseas in the training of nurses, for example, to shift from the traditional tertiary training of nurses - if we consider it tertiary training, and I do - in hospitals to the double stream where some of the nurses are trained totally in the hospital environment and others are trained in a degree course in the particular nursing subject. [More…]
I believe that it could well be that the very best thing that some students at the 15 or 16-year age level could do would be to leave school and spend several years outside of the school environment. [More…]
It appears that although the education system provides a good general education to fourth form, it then becomes very restrictive in its discipline for students who wish to remain in the educational environment but who are not necessarily interested in seeking a university degree, or even sixth form standard for that matter. [More…]
Gunnedah could be described as having a service town environment but as a town where industrial growth patterns are not evident with two exceptions, namely, the local abattoir and the re-emerging coal mining industry. [More…]
We acknowledge that the existing Restrictive Trade Practices Act is an inadequate Act in the present economic environment. [More…]
The Bill seeks to impose United States practices, procedures and law without any clear recognition of the differences between the Australian environment and conditions and those in the United States. [More…]
They cannot be completely independent in the pricemaking environment which leads to their decision on price. [More…]
The fact is that the current Act which this Bill will replace is hopelessly inadequate and utterly incapable of providing a competitive business environment in this country for many years hence, if indeed it would ever achieve that objective. [More…]
The fact is that the present Act is woefully inadequate to achieve its supposed objective of providing a more competitive environment and that inadequacy is directly attributable to the previous Government’s unwillingness to upset its big business friends. [More…]
It is a Bill which will provide a competitive business environment in Australia and so produce a more efficient and healthy economy and at the same time make a contribution to the control of inflation. [More…]
At the present time firms are doing what they like and the rate of progress under the current Act towards a more competitive environment is snail-like. [More…]
1023) Mr Lynch asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: <1) Has his attention been drawn to statements by the Minister for Overseas Trade and Minister for [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment and Conservation has been holding hearings about the advisability of placing deposits on nonreturnable drink cans and bottles. [More…]
It is true that the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation is conducting this inquiry. [More…]
The question was raised at the meeting of the Australian Environment Council in July. [More…]
Before I call the Minister for the Environment and Conservation I point out to the House that I will not allow this debate to become a shouting match from one side of the chamber to the other. [More…]
I call the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
One of the main points made by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) related to the social injustice and double payments that supposedly occur with the existing health scheme. [More…]
They know the customs and practices and the environment in which changes to the law have to be and should be made. [More…]
What we have in the Bill, as exemplified by the clauses to which we are speaking at the moment, is an importation of an American concept of trust busting into an Australian business environment. [More…]
The Australian Environment Council has a subcommittee which is examining the major problem of waste disposal in Australia. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) made a magnificent comment. [More…]
The Minister for the Environ ment and Conservation is reported as saying: We middle class trendy intellectual environmentalists ‘, Just have a look at the trendy middle class intellectuals. [More…]
What is happening in Australia today is that these trendies like the Minister for the Environment and Conservation and the 2 Ministers at the table - the Minister for Labour and the Minister for Services and Property - have turned Australia into a place governed by white collar socialists. [More…]
I think it is a disgraceful thing for the Minister for the Environment and Conservation to allege that anybody who supports conservation is a middle class trendy intellectual. [More…]
The green ban strikes have been welcomed by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
They are his responsibility, but the Minister for the Environment and Conservation speaks about them. [More…]
I thought that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), when speaking recently, made a very valid point, that is, that it is most unlikely that in various areas people are healthier or unhealthier than in other places. [More…]
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, too, has been looking at the situation. [More…]
There are some views that this level is caused by industry in the area, by the sewage output into the Derwent River, possibly by the run-off from galvanised iron roofs of which there are many in the Hobart area and also a possible combination of these factors with the naturally high levels of metal in the Tasmanian environment. [More…]
There is even the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), although I do not know what he has done in the course of this year. [More…]
The Minister for Housing in particular, _the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, and the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) on an earlier occasion, sought to bolster the fortunes of this union. [More…]
The Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren), the Minister for Housing and the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) have acted with propriety. [More…]
What is nearly as practicable to the honourable gentleman may in the eyes of his friend the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) be thoroughly impossible. [More…]
Yes, and with authorities concerned with main roads, as well as with new departments established to look after ecology and the environment. [More…]
The Minister for Environment and Conservation - [More…]
The Ministers agreed that they were opposed to the uncontrolled harvesting of kangaroos and related species; that for conservation purposes selective culling or harvesting of certain species of kangaroos may be a legitimate management practice; and that a scientifically acceptable range of data gathering and control measures be drawn up to regulate culling or harvesting throughout Australia in the interests of conservation of the species and the general environment. [More…]
Firstly, New South Wales had not agreed that the annual quotas for each species of kangaroos harvested should be determined by consultation between the appropriate authorities of the States or Territories and the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
The South Australian Minister for Environment and Conservation has advised me that his State intends to implement a tagging system as part of its kangaroo management program in 1974, and is prepared to co-operate with the Australian Government in accordance with the working party’s recommendations. [More…]
I thank the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) for making the report available to me towards the end of last week. [More…]
The time to enlarge our national park and sanctuary system is now, before some species of the environment are irretrievably alienated. [More…]
I support the recommendations of the working party and the views expressed by the Minister for Environment and Conservation. [More…]
It will prevent the depletion of the fuel and energy resources needed to match Australia’s requirements and, of course, will guard the ecology and environment from pollution. [More…]
If we looked at these animals in the Australian environment we might be able to clear up some of the fundamental problems of behaviour and ecology, and some of the fundamental problems of how much is inherited and how much is not. [More…]
The problems of the interaction between science and the environment also are now concerning the CSIRO. [More…]
Naturally they will criticise, but in a virile, healthy political environment any government can afford such criticism. [More…]
If that is done I believe that this will be a most important development for the greater matching of what we can produce efficiently and the preservation of the environment. [More…]
On 25 January, the three heads of government agreed that Albury-Wodonga would be developed into a major city which will attract large numbers of Australians, which will attract industry, which will control pollution and protect the environment, and in which every attempt will be made to preserve the identity and character of the existing cities. [More…]
The functions of the Development Corporation, conferred on it by the Federal and State governments, will include urban and regional planning and development, construction in designated areas, growth centre promotion, negotiation with Federal, State and local government agencies, the protection of the environment and the involvement of the local community in the planning process. [More…]
Special attention will also be given to protection of the environment, not only of the centre itself, but also of areas which will be affected by the establishment of this new growth complex. [More…]
As the preamble makes clear, this Agreement springs from the intentions of the 3 governments that a Development Corporation will bring about in Albury-Wodonga a city with a high quality of environment, appropriately planned and developed, with full regard to human requirements and the involvement of the public. [More…]
The report on tourism examines the place of tourism in Australia in relation to individual demands, community values and our national identity and, most importantly, its relationship to the environment. [More…]
The pattern of demand for these resources will change with increasing affluence and general awareness of the environment. [More…]
I believe the report of the Ayers RockMount Olga National Park tabled by the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation of this House carries many lessons for the management of these areas close to Melbourne. [More…]
I congratulate the Minister for making it a condition for grants that the environmental impact of the project must be considered in formulating proposals for assistance and, if the impact is likely to be significant, demanding that an environmental impact statement be prepared. [More…]
Efficient government decision-making in a changing environment requires more than just the redrawing of the boundaries as catchment areas shift or merge. [More…]
Unfortunately, these objectives do not bring about equality but rather debase the quality of life and bring down people and their environment to the lowest common denominator. [More…]
I believe the time is right for us now to embark upon a program of teaching neighbourhood law in our universities so that young lawyers can be aware of the laws dealing with and relating to the environment, laws relating to the administration of local government, approval of developments and the means of achieving a review of decisions when taken without thought to local opinion. [More…]
Already at the University of Sydney the students themselves are calling for the introduction in their courses of the teaching of environmental laws, or as [More…]
There has been a course in environmental resources law established at the Australian National University. [More…]
I think this type of teaching has to be more broadly based right through our universities so that people can get support from the legal profession to assist them in meeting the demands of protecting their environment and protecting the type of locality in which they live and to ensure that the good things about our life are aided. [More…]
It is a law of persistent change in the environment and persistent social change as well. [More…]
It is clear from Government statements that its new concern with continental defence and its confidence in a low threat environment is based substantially on the latest strategic estimates which came this year from Defence Department planners. [More…]
It is understood that environment and conservation have been taken into account throughout the studies of the State Planning Advisory Committee in this area. [More…]
In addition it is understood that before a final decision is made as to which particular airport site is preferred the State Planning Advisory Council will require an Environmental Impact Statement on each of the alternatives. [More…]
(3 and 4) In the event of consideration being given the actual establishment of a second airline airport to serve Melbourne, as an Australian Government project, then public hearings primarily dealing with the environmental impact would be arranged in accordance with the recently announced policy of this Government. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation and I preface it by referring to a proposal by Queensland Cement and Lime Co Pty Limited to establish a coral crushing plant at MacArthur Avenue, Meeandah at the mouth of the Brisbane River. [More…]
I understand that an environmental impact study has been carried out, though it appears that the company has not released the report. [More…]
The only sense of realism in this matter has been injected by the Secretary of the Building Workers Industrial Union who pointed out that unionists are likely to withdraw their labour because they take the view that an industry which is potentially dangerous to the health of people, or could have a deleterious effect on the environment should not be established until an environmental impact statement has been prepared and published so that the community can see it and comment on it. [More…]
Because of the potentially hazardous nature of the proposed plant, the environmental impact study ought to be freely published and the community should be able to comment upon it. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Moss Cass, recently announced that the Australian Government had decided to sign the Convention. [More…]
There is no doubt that the environment and the relationship between the teacher and the child will have a much greater influence on educattion than the surrounding facilities which, as I mentioned, are being given great attention. [More…]
We see the likelihood of far reaching changes in education and teaching methods as part of this rapidly changing environment in which national policies must be continually determined and revised. [More…]
One of the problems of migrant education which has been highlighted by some people recently is that the children of migrants, and of recently arrived migrants are involved in an environment at school which is in so many respects foreign to that which they have left behind in the old country. [More…]
It has a small unit set up for deaf children and provides them with highly specialised training in the broader context of an ordinary, normal, day to day school environment. [More…]
I think it is safe to assume that what the Government is saying to us at this stage is that the trend, in its opinion, is such that those people who are disadvantaged on environmental grounds should receive some inequality of treatment in order to bring them up to another standard. [More…]
In every social group where we perceive and look at those matters it will be seen that people rise beyond their environment, or from the richest sociological group they sink below it. [More…]
The first thing I would like to say is that the grants made to many of the organisations which he quoted were, from my own personal knowledge, approved by Mr Peter Howson, the former Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
There is a need to design special types of houses - I know that the word ‘transitional’ is a dirty word in relation to housing, but it need not be - to cater for the particular needs of Aborigines and to suit the degree of transition that they have made from their own traditional environment to living in the broader Australian community. [More…]
The name of the company includes the word ‘ecology’, but I am afraid that not a great deal of consideration was given to the environment when the whole operation began. [More…]
From what I can learn, it appears that environmental consequences were not taken into consideration. [More…]
Hence, there has been a great imbalance and a complete maladjustment of the environment. [More…]
The Aborigine is in his environment in, for example, raising cattle to supply the meat needs not only of a particular mining enterprise, such as that at Gove, but also that of the towns and the developing areas in that particular part of Australia. [More…]
I pay full tribute to a second group - I do not like to hear people talk about the city slicker type of Aborigines - who live in the cities, who have come out of their natural environment and who have obtained university degrees. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
Department of the Environment and Conservation: Interdepartmental Committees (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
We must set out to improve the expectation of people to a clean, aesthetic and yet varied environment. [More…]
This means providing a balance between the social environment and the need for Australia to recognise its optimum economic potential. [More…]
The point is that we should take into the country as many people as we can find who suitably fit into our environment, into our way of life, and who can contribute. [More…]
In trying to direct development our concern must be first with the type of society and environment we are trying to produce. [More…]
What is desired is that those 300,000 or 400,000 people will go into the area in a properly planned environment. [More…]
As we have overcome other difficulties so the attention of the Australian people has been directed to the importance of the urban environment. [More…]
As the community has become aware so have all those involved in the political process in this country become deeply conscious of the concern of the average Australian for the improvement of the urban environment. [More…]
This has meant that we have directed our attention to both the improvement of the existing urban environment and the more rapid establishment of new urban areas. [More…]
As a result of this emerging consciousness by the Australian people as to the importance of urban development we have seen increasing attention paid to the policies of governments - national, State and local - in ensuring that the environment is developed in an orderly fashion. [More…]
I believe that it is important that this community desire to participate should receive the response of government so that people can play a real part in the decision making process on the type of environment in which they live. [More…]
Can the Minister for the Environment and Conservation confirm that senior officers of the Tasmanian Department of Mines are aware of the existence of a newly discovered geological fault passing in the vicinity of Lake Pedder? [More…]
The Commission reiterates what many of us have been saying for so long; that is, that most of the problems of our urban and rural environment are brought about by the inadequacies of our present systems of land control and land management. [More…]
It will be required to conduct its operations in a proper and workmanlike manner and, in accordance with good industrial practices, to look after the safety, health and welfare of persons engaged in its operation, to interfere as little as possible with navigation, to have regard to conservation of the reserves of the sea and the sea bed, to have regard to operations being carried on by other persons engaged in similar activities and to consider in the exercise of its functions, factors connected with the ecology and the environment. [More…]
These 2 experts were retained on the advice of the Secretary of the Department of the Environment and Conservation and other expert sources. [More…]
While I believe that a Constitution such as ours must always be regarded as a document that is dynamic, alive and capable of being changed to meet the changing environment, changing economic and social circumstances, a changing culture, changes in our international status and relations and the growth of a greater national spirit, I do not believe that changes should be made to it unless such changes have received mature consideration by the Australian people. [More…]
Provision of funds for sewerage works is only one part of the Government’s overall program for improvement of the environment and living conditions in cities throughout Australia. [More…]
I can imagine the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) proposing Don’t fence me in’ as the song that he would like best as a national anthem. [More…]
(In promoting the studies referred to in (i) and (ii), special attention shall be given to areas where rapid changes are taking place in the natural environment, and to remote unstudied areas.) [More…]
I invite my friend sitting at the table opposite, the Minister for Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) to correct me if I am wrong, but he was quoted on 23 July 1972 - I think this is a remarkably significant statement - as saying: [More…]
Or CASS (Maribyrnong - Minister for the Environment and Conservation) (3.33) - First of all I would like to touch on some of the points made by the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp). [More…]
What better environment could there be into which to launch this deceptively simple, superficially appealing and apparently cheaper scheme? [More…]
That is a pretty fair indication of how the Minister for the Environment and Conservation approaches the subject. [More…]
We stress this not only in terms of economic argument; it is also better health care for the patient to be treated in a friendly and familiar environment. [More…]
In the past preventive medicine has been looked on as dealing with infectious disease or matters of public health, but we are becoming more and more aware of the stresses and strains of the environment, of the psychiatric factors that occur in the community, of the problems of inactivity of the housewife or other members of the community and perhaps the need for their retraining. [More…]
We have achieved what we set out to do in that we have created an environment in which over-award payments are depressed,’ he said. [More…]
Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
To recommend, with regard to development projects which may have a significant effect on the environment, such changes and improvements in laws and decision-making procedures as the [More…]
To recommend with regard to development projects which may have significant adverse effects on the environment, such changes and improvements in investigational, legal and administrative procedures as may be considered necessary or desirable to prevent or minimise the likelihood of such effects. [More…]
Is the Minister for the Environment and Conservation aware of strong representations by Queensland conservation groups and a number of public minded people for a block of freehold land on Fraser Island, adjacent to the national park at Wathumba Creek, to be acquired by the National Estate and added to that park? [More…]
guard the ecology and environment from pollution by fuel extraction and energy generation. [More…]
As one who has lived all his life in a mining environment, I want to stress again the desolation, the despair, the uncertainty, and the insecurity of the little man in those areas. [More…]
The environment of our water playgrounds will improve, and our lakes, beaches and streams will be less polluted because the sullage traps and septic systems no longer will overflow and feed into the waterways or the gutters at the front of houses at the foot of the hill. [More…]
Is the Minister for the Environment and Conservation aware that more than $2m had been spent on the Pike Creek Dam water conservation project before the Federal Government decided to repudiate the undertaking given by the previous Government to share the cost of constructing the dam with the State governments of Queensland and New South Wales? [More…]
I acknowledge the part that he played, firstly, in having this Institute established and, secondly, in proposing the proper preservation of the marine environment preferably by way of creating a national park in that area. [More…]
I got a flat no from the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass). [More…]
I suppose it is a matter of one’s sense of prejudice or one’s sense of legal environment whether one favours one system or the other. [More…]
We created new Departments of Urban and Regional Development, Aboriginal Affairs, Environment and Conservation, Tourism and Recreation, Minerals and Energy and the Media to administer whole areas of policy that had been neglected or downgraded in the past. [More…]
I mention a few - Mr James Oswin in the Department of the Media - Dr Don McMichael in the new Department of Environment and Conservation - Mrs Marie Coleman as head of the new Social Welfare Commission - Mr Charles Halton in the amalgamated Department of Transport. [More…]
The Government accepts its basic responsibility to create for the people of Australia a secure environment in which they can maintain and develop their welfare free from fear, threats or artificial constraints whether internally or externally inspired or contrived. [More…]
They include: Legislative Record of the Year; Reports Tabled in Parliament on Inquiries Instituted by the Present Government; Statements Arising from Meetings Between Australian Government and State Government Ministers; Committees; Commissions of Inquiry and Task Forces Reporting to the Government; Reports Tabled by the Present Government on Inquiries Instituted by Previous Governments and the record on Cities, Women, Social Security, Resources, Other Decisions, Migrants, Rural Industries, the Economy, Education, the Environment and a Text of Treaties and so on presented to the Parliament. [More…]
Is the Auditor-General carrying out a full inquiry into the specific recommendations by the Standing Committee on the Environment and Conservation arising from its investigations into the Turtle farming project in the Torres Strait; if not, why, not. [More…]
The Auditor-General has not been asked to carry out a full inquiry into the specific recommendations by the House of Representatives Committee on Environment and Conservation as the recommendations - set out on page 1 of the Committee’s Report on Turtle Farming in the Torres Strait Islands - are outside the ambit of the duties of the Auditor-General as laid down by the Audit Act 1901-1969. [More…]
The Committee comprised representatives of the Departments of: Urban and Regional Development; Treasury; Services and Property; Works; Prime Minister and Cabinet; Transport; Environment and Conservation; and of the Public Service Board and the Cities Commission. [More…]
Medical courses at Australian universities are designed to train future medical practitioners in clinical techniques appropriate to an Australian environment. [More…]
It was assessed that the effects on the environment of using either type of sleeper would be approximately the same. [More…]
It will continue its activities to control pollution and protect the environment. [More…]
There will also be a report from the Minister for the Environment and Conservation and the Minister for Urban and Regional Development on the environmental and regional aspects of the proposals. [More…]
Is the Minister for the Environment and Conservation aware that defence personnel are at present on Lord Howe Island to commence shortly construction of an airstrip suitable only for light aircraft? [More…]
Is he aware that great concern has been expressed as to the effect of such an airstrip on the extremely fragile environment of Lord Howe Island? [More…]
Has there been a complete environmental impact study on the effects of the suggested airstrip? [More…]
If not, will he intercede immediately to halt construction and prevent the potential environmental disaster many believe will occur if the airstrip is constructed, until such time as an environmental impact study has been completed and published? [More…]
However, a study of the environmental consequences was undertaken. [More…]
Notwithstanding all these difficulties the environmental impact statement suggested that despite the anxieties there would not be major disruption of the extremely fragile environment as the honourable member suggested. [More…]
Is the Auditor-General carrying out a full inquiry into the specific recommendations by the Standing Committee on the Environment and Conservation arising from its investigations into the turtle farming project in the Torres Strait; if not, why not. [More…]
On the one hand they have passed increasing responsibility to local government, such as for child care centres, assistance for aged persons and environmental protection. [More…]
Local governments are so poor that in many cases they cannot even afford to police their litter laws let alone to expand and police the environmental laws to -protect the environment which becomes a more important responsibility of local government each day. [More…]
It must grow out of national aspirations and patterns of events in our environment. [More…]
Many of us are facing riddles and tend to talk in worn cliches like leisure, environment, quality of life and so on, without delving into the true meaning of these words. [More…]
Nevertheless, the delegation did take part in debate on the European Economic Community, World Security, the Protection of the Environment, Commonwealth Immigration Policies and the Status and Role of the Parliamentarian in contemporary society. [More…]
Delegates found a great deal of common ground in their approach to social problems, particularly in their realisation of the threat of irreparable damage to the environment. [More…]
Patients respond infinitely better to the home environment and food than they do to the best of hospitals. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), with the full sense of confession upon him, has said: ‘It is a glorious series of failures’. [More…]
He cited some examples including Black Mountain tower, Lake Pedder and the fact that there is no legislation requiring environmental impact studies to be carried out. [More…]
He said: *we must assume we are all middle class trendy intellectual environmentalists. [More…]
The question of erecting dams, and the Australian Government’s share in the cost of dams, for flood mitigation is a matter of continuing concern in which my colleague the Minister for the Environment and Conservation is engaged in discussions with all the States, but particularly of course with the States of Queesland and New South Wales. [More…]
Of course, we had from the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) an observation which was most helpful. [More…]
They are disappointed to find that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation has said that his program is a disaster. [More…]
We will improve the quality of life by improving the environment in which people have to live. [More…]
Further, research programs in agricultural and biological sciences often have broad implications for the quality of the environment generally, and for the maintenance of the productive capacity of renewable resources. [More…]
It appears that although the educational system provides a good general education to the fourth form, it then becomes very restrictive in its disciplines to students who wish to remain in the educational environment, but who are not necessarily interested in seeking the sixth form standard or a university degree. [More…]
This of course is causing a further drift of young Aboriginal people from country areas and their environment to places like Redfern, where they try to find some sort of an existence in circumstances that are not really acceptable to them. [More…]
In colleges such as the East Sydney Technical College we see an environment and an attitude towards art and drama which accepts the fact that these are as much and as important a part of everyday living as are the more functional courses that the technical college has to teach. [More…]
I am glad to see the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) at least nodding some agreement with the point of view I have put forward. [More…]
In his second reading speech the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) referred to changes pending in the River Murray Waters Agreement and River Murray administration generally. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment and Conservation will be conferring soon with the 3 States involved with the Commonwealth Government in the River Murray Commission on which tender to accept for the completion of the major part of the dam. [More…]
I am a little concerned that Sir John Fuller, the New South Wales Minister for Planning and Environment, does not believe in planning and does not mention the environment. [More…]
I want to say something about the environment of the new country. [More…]
That is the sort of international environment in which we operate. [More…]
For so long a great deal of effort has been put into enticing manufacturers to make a complete commitment in the export arena, but this Government is progressively eroding the manufacturing export incentive scheme which has induced manufacturers to move into exports and which has taken them into the cold, competitive environment of international trade. [More…]
A ship of the DDL type is a major deterrent to threats to our maritime environment. [More…]
Another example is the grants by the Department of the Environment and Conservation to local community groups to allow these groups to become their own environmental advocate. [More…]
The Government’s decision was also made on environmental grounds, as well as the foreign takeovers aspects. [More…]
My colleagues the Minister for Urban and Regional Development and the Minister for the Environment and Conservation have placed in the library for honourable members the report on regional development which T. S. Martin and Associates were engaged, as consultants, to prepare a year ago, and the report on the environmental aspects which the Department of the Environment and Conservation prepared this month on those aspects of the project. [More…]
We are told that they work in an inhospital environment and therefore need adequate returns for their effort. [More…]
In accordance with the Government’s wishes the Development Bank will consult as appropriate with the Departments of Tourism and Recreation, Urban and Regional Development, and Environment and Conservation in carrying out its financing role in the tourist industry. [More…]
The Minister for the ‘Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) has said that La’bor policy in his field has been a series of failures. [More…]
Following a question asked of my colleague the Minister for the Environment and Conservation on 5 March I wish to make available for the information of honourable members the Environmental Assessment - Proposed Aerodrome on Lord Howe Island. [More…]
In an increasingly environment conscious society, it is now apparent that science and technology have themselves created problems. [More…]
This is a curious business because on 27 February a letter was written by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) on behalf of the Minister for Social Security to a colleague of mine on this side of the House. [More…]
The letter, signed by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation continued: [More…]
I hope the question will not even be: Does this plan meet the needs of the GPO block without unreasonable violence to the adjacent city environment?’ [More…]
I urge the Committee to start at the other end and to ask: What is the ideal city environment in this area? [More…]
We believe that the redevelopment will materially enhance the environment of Forrest Place and will complement conceptual plans of the State Government and the Perth City Council for die development of the ‘heart of Perth’. [More…]
In his absence the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, the Honourable Moss Cass, is the Acting Minister. [More…]
Through our related policies on roads, on making up the sewerage backlog, on urban public transport investment, on the environment, on education, on social welfare programmes and on health we are also seeking to bring an end to the isolated and incomplete development of new urban areas. [More…]
Obviously in the present world environment there is a major disability in excess dependence on either the United States dollar or the pound sterling as units of currency for international trade contracts. [More…]
It has become apparent, I think, that students in Australia have been trained in a far more sophisticated environment than exists in their home countries and much of the training which they receive in Australia, while being very valuable to themselves personally, is not always able to be put to good use in their home countries when they return. [More…]
Instead of bringing students to Australia we should be sending professors and teachers to their countries to train them in their local environment so that they can then go out into the field without any dislocation caused by oversophistication in training’. [More…]
Though it is important that there be a pool of educated people in the developing countries who understand the operations of a developed country, it is more important that the developing countries have technicians, educated academics and professional men understanding the environment in which they live and the development of which we wish to assist. [More…]
I wish to raise other aspects tonight, namely, the impact on the environment of the increased number of tourists, both those circulating in Australia, and, if we are successful, those coming from overseas. [More…]
The protection of the environment has not been mentioned yet. [More…]
I will bring out shortly the interrelationship between the protection of the environment and the supporting industry, namely, tourism. [More…]
Conservation is the wisest possible use, over a long term, of all our national resources for the benefit of man and his interdependent environment. [More…]
This accelerating groundswell of opinion which signals the folly of environmental despoliation, combined with the change that has led to leisure and recreation no longer being the preserve of the few, has led to the recognition that the factor of socio-economic interdependence must be central to the development of a balanced and sensitive national tourism plan. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
These studies have been chosen to illustrate practical applications of the redesign of the job or the work environment. [More…]
Arising out of these discussions, proposals have been put forward for an agreement between governments which would protect the environment of the Torres Strait Islands and the way of life of the Islanders and the coastal people. [More…]
We would act to improve the environment and the quality of our life by actions, not by mere words upon which this Government relies. [More…]
We will tell the people that we cannot, as a nation, continue our maltreatment of the natural environment; that in damaging the environment we are damaging our capacity to keep a kind of living that we believe the Australian people deserve. [More…]
Social and Human Factors - to investigate human aspects in housing and to recommend ways of improving housing as a physical and emotional environment. [More…]
The honourable member for Maribyrnong, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), who has done more than any man I know to subvert one decent environmental organisation in Australia thinks that this is amusing, but he will not be in this Parliament after the business either. [More…]
Of course there are many in this Parliament - the honourable member for Lalor, the Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns), and the Minister for the Environment and Conservation - who would be delighted if they could provoke the United States into that kind of activity. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment and Conservation is nodding his head in agreement. [More…]
As to the nature of this core force, our geographical position as an island continent, with- a vast oceanic and archipelagic environment, suggests some fundamental defence requirements and skills to be developed and preserved in all 3 Services. [More…]
However I do not share the attitude, apparent in some public comment on our defence posture, that change in our strategic environment means that we shall necessarily be less secure, and that we must now act on the assumption that, when uncertainties resolve, things will be worse. [More…]
Given Australia’s ocean-archipelago environment, long range maritime patrol aircraft are a necessary part of Australia’s force structure at all times for both military and civil purposes. [More…]
It was to put into effect our view that we must have a self-reliant maritime capacity - a capacity to operate independently over the vast distances that comprise our maritime environment. [More…]
I illustrated in a debate in the chamber the other day, through reference to a series of articles contributed by Professor Hogan of Sydney University, the degree to which the inflationary impact on the Australian environment is isolated from that overseas because of the measures which have been taken with respect to the appreciation of the currency and the degree to which there are major shortages of commodities in the northern hemisphere. [More…]
Those two factors mean that there is no longer within Australia a paramount influence causing the inflation in our environment. [More…]
The second guideline chosen by the Committee was that the broader the approach in technical and further education the more the likelihood of creating an environment in which self motivated individuals can reach their vocational goals and in which motivation may be regenerated in people who have lost it. [More…]
They involve departments and institutions other than my own - Education, Labour, Social Security, Environment and Conservation, Urban and Regional Development, the Council for the Arts and the like. [More…]
My Government will promote these opportunities by continuing commitments to develop Land Commissions and new growth centres, the national sewerage program, area improvement programs, environment impact studies, and through the constant monitoring of resource allocation within our great urban areas. [More…]
Legislation will be introduced to implement the Government’s policy of ensuring that needs of the environment and the views of the public are fully considered in governmental decisions particularly in relation to projects under the control of, or funded by, the Australian Government. [More…]
Secondly, his colleague the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) was quoted on 23 July 1972 as saying: [More…]
Social Security, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation and the Minister for Health (Dr Everingham) and say that he is a socialist and declare where he stands on the question of private enterprise in the health care delivery system? [More…]
What better environment in which to launch this deceptively simple, superficially appealing and apparently cheaper scheme. [More…]
It’s time we stopped destroying our nation’s reputation as a stable, hospitable environment for investment and development that are good for us. [More…]
The project has been developed with careful consideration for the protection and enhancement of the natural environment. [More…]
Measures designed to protect the natural environment will include a soil conservation program to reduce erosion in the catchment area and sediment deposit in Lake Burley Griffin; the preservation of permanent geological features including the London Bridge; a natural limestone bridge over Burra Creek which is a geological feature with tourist potential; and the undergrounding of pipelines. [More…]
These professional skills should blend with the environment of the Glebe both in its landscape and its community. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I believe that the lessons that will be learnt from the Glebe project, the detailed understanding of the problems of low income earners living in the inner city, and the solutions which emerge towards providing an effective way for the community to participate in shaping their environment will be of immense benefit to Governments, professional people and to all those concerned with improving the quality of life in our cities. [More…]
I refer to the Minister for Health (Dr Everingham), who is the honourable member for Capricornia, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), who is the honourable member for Maribyrnong, the honourable member for Kingston (Dr Gun) and the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman). [More…]
The AIDC must take into account monetary policy and <policies in relation to trade practices, the environment, industrial relations, the efficiency of industry and perhaps regional development. [More…]
The absence of an environmental impact statement with this legislation has exposed the Government as a humbug. [More…]
I am surprised that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) allowed this Bill to be presented without the statement. [More…]
The Minister has frequently claimed to be concerned with our environment and its conservation. [More…]
But here is this great champion of the conservation cause presenting legislation with admittedly widespread environmental consequences knowing that in fact an environmental impact statement is in existence. [More…]
I, like the honourable member for Corangamite (Mr Street), raise the point that it is regrettable that the environmental impact study has not been tabled and has not been made public. [More…]
I think it must become a feature of government to table such studies with every project of this nature, whether or not it is being carried out by the NCDC Let us face it; the National Capital Development Commission should not have any prior right to be exempt from the scrutiny of the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
I hope that in the future any proposal for a project of this type will be accompanied by an environmental impact study for the benefit of those who are concerned about environmental matters. [More…]
Of course, a very big environmental factor is attached to the construction of the Googong Dam. [More…]
The Captains Flat pollution problem will then intensify the environmental problems of the Canberra lake. [More…]
I do not want to delay the House, but I am sure that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) will quietly agree with me that with every works project of this type there should be tabled an environmental impact study, whether it recommends that the project go on or whether it recommends that it should not. [More…]
I think that the public generally expects this of governments today because of the increasing despoliation of our environment by greater numbers of people, by industrialisation and all forms of development. [More…]
I might even accompany the Minister for the Environment and Conservation to see whether we can protect that delightful area of New South Wales. [More…]
The planning and design of the Googong project has been carried out with great care to ensure that the construction of the project will have a minimum impact on the environment. [More…]
The second report entitled ‘Road Safety: Roads and their Environment’ was presented on the last day of the previous Parliament. [More…]
environmental aspects of legislative and administrative measures which ought to be taken in order to ensure the wise and effective management of the Australian environment and of Australia’s natural resources, and [More…]
such other matters relating to the environment and conservation and the management of Australia’s natural resources as are referred to it by- [More…]
the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, or [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to consider and make use of the evidence and records of the House of ‘Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment and Conservation appointed during the Twenty-eighth Parliament. [More…]
I make the point that the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its operations will conclude the references which had already been placed before it before the double dissolution occurred. [More…]
The Liberal and Country Parties recognise there is increasing community awareness of the need to improve the living environment of major urban centres. [More…]
Equally there is growing community concern to protect land or buildings which contribute to ,he quality of the living environment . [More…]
We believe that the people of Glebe are entitled not only to the kind of shelter that they have had throughout their lives but also to an uplifted environment. [More…]
In meeting these needs we are concerned not only with housing but also with the wider concerns of the total human environment. [More…]
It was the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) who said that the Federal Government had taken a punt on the choice of the site. [More…]
Societies are not static structures but ever-changing inter-relationships between people and between people and their environment. [More…]
Let me offer a few interesting facts on timber and the environment. [More…]
Because of their remoteness from this area honourable members may be unaware of the impact of a timber milling industry in an otherwise natural environment. [More…]
Compare therefore the damage to the environment by the use of timber as a building material with the use of, -say steel or aluminium. [More…]
The disturbance to the environment by any quarrying activity is self-evident. [More…]
Recent American investigation into disturbance of the environment came up with these figures: concrete products, 24 to 48 per cent; steel, 9 per cent; aluminium, 28 per cent; timber, 2 per cent. [More…]
Anybody said to be concerned with the environment should be 100 per cent behind the timber industry in its campaign to become self-sufficient in raw material. [More…]
That he should exercise thought and responsibility towards the environment in the process goes without saying, but in the final analysis man must eat and be sheltered. [More…]
It has already demonstrated the economic and social benefits of decentralisation - not the concept of decentralisation that was practised by the previous Government of transplanting individual industries from a city to the country but rather the establishment of the whole infrastructure of the urban industrial society in a rural environment. [More…]
That is, it plans to marry the desirable characteristics of urban society in the form of well planned living, working, recreational and cultural facilities to the advantages of the Australian rural environment, to the ultimate benefit of both elements of Australian society. [More…]
With a wise measure of community involvement and delegated authority, we could encourage the development of indigenous art forms and other avenues of creative cultural expression which reflect the particular nature of the inland cities - cities built on a human scale and in harmony with the surrounding rural environment. [More…]
Acting Minister for Planning and Environment [More…]
Surely by some rezoning of the property or even by the Commonwealth buying the properties and farming them out to people who want to buy them and renovate them within a set plan, we would be able to achieve a far better environment in that area. [More…]
As one who has lived his lifetime in mining areas and in a mining environment I derived great joy from the fact that we were at long last to have an independent commission. [More…]
It is necessary, therefore, to adapt to the new economic environment. [More…]
There is no denying that these non-bank financial institutions operating in a competitive environment can increase the efficiency of the financial sector in attracting funds and channelling them into the areas they are needed most [More…]
In today’s conditions such a policy of permanent direct control would be another clear admission by the Government and the Treasurer of their inability satisfactorily to manage the economy or understand the environment in which non-banking financial intermediaries work. [More…]
Under Clause 6 (i) of the new legislation, the Corporation shall have regard not only to the current monetary policy of the Australian Government but to its policies in relation to trade practices, the environment, industrial relations and the efficiency of industry. [More…]
(1) In the performance of its functions the Corporation shall have regard to the current monetary policy of the Australian Government and to the policies of the Australian Government in relation to trade practices, the environment, industrial relations and the efficiency of industry. “ [More…]
The Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) and the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) are still battling for control of the population planning section of the Department. [More…]
The interesting aspect of this struggle is that both the Minister for the Environment and Conservation and the Minister for Urban and Regional Development are avowed supporters of zero population growth, whilst the Minister for Labor and Immigration is responsible for manpower planning. [More…]
Migrants felt that in this new and often strange environment they had a ready symbol of the Government’s concern for their particular problems - one they could turn to for assistance and one they knew. [More…]
The Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor), the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh), the Minister for Northern Development and Minister for the Northern Territory, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) and even the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) visited Arnhem Land in chartered aeroplanes to study something or other some months ago. [More…]
We have even had the spectacle of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) and the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Bryant) making statements on the economy. [More…]
There were the admitted disasters such as the Ministers for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
Let me remind the House of what the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Cass, had to say when this legislation was before the last Parliament. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
During the .past decade, the Australian dairyfarming industry has adjusted rapidly to changing economic circumstances: farms have expanded in area; productivity per farm and per cow has increased markedly; smaller herds have been withdrawn from dairying or grown larger; and the industry has become more concentrated in areas with a better environment for dairy production. [More…]
I should also take this opportunity to thank the officers and staff who have done so much to help me settle into the environment of Parliament. [More…]
I draw the attention of this House in particular to the Government’s failure to appreciate in depth the economic environment in which we must live and work. [More…]
In the political environment of Australia severe unemployment is simply not an acceptable political response to inflation. [More…]
I believe there is a real and pressing case for decentralisation of authority and that local governments will best perform many governmental functions in such critical areas as welfare, culture and the environment. [More…]
He is notching up more defeats in Cabinet than even the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass). [More…]
It would have provided a little longer time in office for this poor Prime Minister who, in the environment of the country, is putting forward such peevish propositions as this and who is for all the world like the chicken that has come out of the coop, pecked and worried and bleeding from the hawks. [More…]
In July 1972 the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) said: [More…]
What better environment could there be in which to launch this deceptively simple, superficially appealing and apparently cheaper scheme. [More…]
It will be required to interfere as little as possible with navigation, to have regard to the conservation of the reserves of the sea and the sea bed, to have regard to operations being carried on by other persons engaged in similar activities and to consider, in the exercise of its functions, factors connected with the ecology and the environment. [More…]
The use of this term first arose in 1969 when, following the most profitable decade in the history of the oil industry, that industry faced problems in relation to the environment, import quotas and the oil depletion allowance. [More…]
That is why the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Les Johnson), the Minister for Transport and the Minister for Urban and Regional Development in our Government, and their departments, have worked particularly closely together. [More…]
I am concerned to see that the Australian Government, with its concern for the environment, takes fuel consumption data into account in reaching its decisions. [More…]
Department of the Environment and Conservation: Inter-departmental Committees (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
How is the $25,000 allocated from the Australian Environment Fund to raise public awareness, survey environmental attitudes and improve public awareness techniques, being spent. [More…]
The Australian Environment Council approved in principle the allocation of $25,000 from the Australian Environment Fund for the following two purposes: [More…]
to enable the Public Awareness Sub-committee to expend some funds for national publicity in connection with World Environment Day, 5 June. [More…]
With regard to (a) the Sub-committee has proposed a pilot environmental attitudes survey be funded. [More…]
This will be examined by the Standing Committee of the Australian Environment Council at its meeting on 2/3 October, 1 974. [More…]
With regard to (b) an amount of $13,347.77 was spent for World Environment Day on 5 June, 1974 for the design, preparation, printing and distribution of World Environment Day charts and posters. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
We also insist that these treatment facilities should meet standards which safeguard our environment. [More…]
This will bring important benefits to the environment in central Brisbane and in the outer suburbs of the city. [More…]
This was the first real drive of an Australian government to work together with the States and local authorities to overtake the backlog of sewerage, to protect the environment and to give every person living in an urban community the right to sewerage and better environmental conditions. [More…]
Adequate safeguards as to the environment should be applied during the exploration stage, and if oil or gas should be discovered within the ‘adjacent areas’, it would consult with the Australian Government and seek the advice of an independent authority to ensure that commercial exploitation would not commence until the environment was adequately safeguarded. [More…]
He has also indicated that the Papua New Guinea Government shares Australia’s concern to protect the environment. [More…]
The purpose of the amendment was to increase by two the number of persons on the Advisory Committee of the Cities Commission to allow the appointment of 2 persons with a specialised and expert knowledge of preservation and conservation of the environment. [More…]
Everyone agreed that Parliament had done a good thing and we waited with interest to see what the Government did in appointing 2 persons who had specialised and expert knowledge in the preservation and conservation of the environment. [More…]
I hope that the House will note that neither of those persons could exactly be described as being an expert in the field of the environment or conservation. [More…]
In all sincerity and honesty, on behalf of this side of the chamber I moved that 2 persons who had specialised and expert knowledge of preservation of the environment and conservation be added to the Advisory Committee of the Cities Commission for the very purpose that I have stated to the House tonight. [More…]
We have got a bosom friend of the Minister for Urban and Regional Development from the far Left of the Australian political spectrum, Mr Jack Mundey, appointed to one of 2 positions that Parliament said- not only the Minister said it- should conform to the description of a person who was expert in the field of the environment and conservation. [More…]
There have not been 2 experts in environment and conservation appointed to the Advisory Committee of the Cities Commission. [More…]
We have got, I think, the present Treasurer of the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Builders Labourers Federation as representing, might I say, onethird of the Parliament’s decision to appoint to this important Advisory Committee 2 people who were competent in the fields of the environment and conservation. [More…]
I suppose they will say that he interested himself in environmental matters in relation to strikes against green belt projects and other building problems in the State of New South Wales. [More…]
I hope that he will come into this House in due course and explain why he flouted the authority of the Parliament by appointing one of his bosom pals- Jack Mundey to two positions that this Parliament said should go to people who were expert in the fields of the environment and conservation. [More…]
According to the Minister, Papua New Guinea has agreed in the exchange of correspondence or by some other means to abide by the agreements on the environment and on restricting itself to the adjacent areas of Queensland and Papua New Guinea which is confined to the territorial sea and the continental shelf within the areas designated as adjacent areas. [More…]
I pointed out at the time that Parliament had agreed to the appointment to this Committee of 2 people trained and qualified as environmentalists and conservationists. [More…]
The first one and the second one have no claim to any expertise in the fields of environment or conservation. [More…]
He was not at any stage to be considered an expert in the fields of either environment or conservation. [More…]
Parliament accepted the amendment I moved that the number of members of the Advisory Committee should be increased from eleven to thirteen to provide membership for 2 people properly trained and competent in the field of environment and conservation. [More…]
I would like to know also by what method of ministerial machinations or mental processes the Minister arrived at the incredible solution that when Parliament empowered him to appoint two additional members to the Advisory Council of the Cities Commission, who were to be two trained and competent people in the fields of the environment and conservation, it empowered him to appoint this man to that job. [More…]
My interest in the appointment of 2 properly qualified persons expert in the fields of environment and conservation stems entirely from a belief. [More…]
He does not really understand the interconnection in environmental matters. [More…]
I have said before in regard to the environment that everything is connected to everything else. [More…]
The Albury-Wodonga complex is connected to the River Murray system which, if the waters or the environment be polluted, will affect the water system of South Australia, as would the water system of Canberra as Canberra is on the Molonglo River which in due course runs into the Murrumbidgee, which runs into the Murray River system. [More…]
-Well, the sad thing about these men who do not understand the interconnection of the various facets of the environment is that they want to make criticism before they have really studied the situation. [More…]
Dealing with the question of the environment, I point out that no government in Australia’s history has really tried to look at the problems of the environment as this Government has done. [More…]
It is damning and critical of the previous Government for allowing the human environment of this nation to go into decay in the way in which it has. [More…]
May I say in regard to appointments to the Cities Commission that there was already a wellknown environmentalist, unknown to the - [More…]
-Dr Walsh is a well-known environmentalist. [More…]
The other environmentalist who was appointed was Jack Mundey. [More…]
Frankly, I know of no other individual in Australia who has made a greater contribution to the physical environment in Australia than Jack Mundey. [More…]
Uren) would reply to, was that although Parliament authorised, in fact instructed, the Minister to appoint 2 people, competent and trained in the field of environment and conservation, he has not done so. [More…]
I do not wish to talk about the environment, and I hope when I resume my seat the Minister will not call me a humbug. [More…]
Department of the Environment and Conservation: Financial Training of Officers (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
by leave- I join with my colleague the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) in tabling the report of the Committee of Inquiry into the National Estate. [More…]
It was a concept which I devised and publicised in the days when I was the spokesman on the environment and urban and regional affairs for the Labor Party in opposition. [More…]
A pleasing feature of the report is its rejection of the widely held notion that conservation and preservation of the environment are a ‘middle class ‘ issue. [More…]
This Commission will be responsible to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation and myself. [More…]
The National Estate report not only recognises the need for the preservation of historic buildings and things like the Chinese joss house that was mentioned in the Minister’s speech, but also the natural environment. [More…]
To protect and conserve the natural environment requires conservation to be part of the normal planning and development process. [More…]
I have felt for some time that too often in the environment protection field we have been treating the causes of abuse rather than trying to establish an inventory so that proper land use decisions can be made. [More…]
William Morris had one great advantage in his writing days; he was writing in a cosy provincial environment which had been man-made for more than 400 years. [More…]
The William Morris the Minister talked about was a very wealthy socialist and he lived in an environment where 400 years of manmade effort enabled him to assume the sort of statements and writings that he was able to produce. [More…]
It is against that background that we can afford now to protect and conserve our environment. [More…]
It is only because of that situation that we can now turn our attention to preserving and conserving the environment and the national estate. [More…]
We are one of the last developed nations to have a large part of our environment left virtually in its natural state and it is up to all men and women, not just the socialists, to preserve as much of it as is economically and socially possible. [More…]
This industry produces its product in an environment where costs are boosted by the tariff wall and by industrial policies of the Government, and are abetted by the Government. [More…]
It is rather a chaotic environment and a very sad reflection on the Labor Government’s monetary policy when increases in inputs other than the main substance, wheat, have been more than twice as important in determining the price of bread, and increased paper costs were just as important. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
Did he announce the new members of the Australian Advisory Committee on the Environment on 1 August 1 974. [More…]
Car parking will be provided and the site will be landscaped to suit the surrounding environment. [More…]
It is an outrage on the environment. [More…]
If we have to forego revenue that is a proper price- it is a very small price in terms of dollars- to pay for the improvement of the environment and for the improvement of living conditions in our cities and centres of population where the car exhaust is the main contributor towards atmospheric pollution. [More…]
If we are serious about improving the environment we should be thinking in terms of encouraging in every way the conversion to LPG of petrol driven vehicles, particularly in the capital cities. [More…]
It would have given more revenue but we really believed in preserving the environment. [More…]
The Government is spending large amounts of money on the environment, and rightly so. [More…]
But the dollar lost in forgoing a little revenue on LPG which a taxi might use would be very much more productive in terms of improving on the environment than the average dollar that the Government is spending under this heading. [More…]
Again, from the point of view of the environmentalist this is what we want to encourage in the centre of the cities where the motor car exhaust emissions are one of the main sources of atmospheric pollution. [More…]
But is it not a small price to pay for improving the environment and for reducing atmospheric pollution in the cities? [More…]
The Government quite rightly- I praise the Government for it- is saying that it is spending money on reducing pollution and improving the environment. [More…]
But the amount of revenue it would forgo by letting a vehicle refrain from paying the amount it otherwise would have to pay in excise above the $30 I have suggested would be more than made up by the saving in the amount it is spending on measures to improve the environment. [More…]
Let the Government drop some of its pretence about being so environmentally minded. [More…]
When something practical can be done about a matter which affects the environment, aU the Government does is wring its hands and say: ‘Look, we might be losing a few dollars to the Treasury’. [More…]
I ask the Government just to do its sums, do a little bit of arithmetic and it will see that the loss to the Treasury about which it is talking will be quite miniscule compared with the money it is spending, and in many cases spending very rightly, on improving the environment. [More…]
Here is something on which the good faith of the Government on the environmentalist issue is in question. [More…]
The good faith of the Government on the issue of the environment is now in question. [More…]
Or is its pride and its vanity, in trying to push everything and by steamrolling this measure through this House, greater than its concern for the environment? [More…]
The second aspect is the pollution of the environment. [More…]
So we must look to the preservation and improvement of our environment. [More…]
It represents an appreciation of the need to provide a better environment for urban dwellers. [More…]
If one looks to the possibilities for the future in respect of what can be achieved in the urban environment by a national government under a responsible Minister, such as we now have, and one bears in mind the assistance given to local government through the Grants Commission and through the many other subsidy schemes now operating, and one sees other programs take shape and come to fruition eliminating problems associated with urban life- programs related to transport, health and social amenities- one realises the delays which have adversely affected progress in these matters. [More…]
We have heard some comments from the honourable member for Swan (Mr Bennett) and the honourable member for Casey (Mr Mathews), both of whom have said that members of the Opposition are not really concerned about matters relating to the environment, meeting the problems of urban communities and solving the problems related to sewering metropolitan areas, regional areas and so on. [More…]
The main objective here obviously is to protect the environment at outfall points. [More…]
The Environment Protection Authority of Victoria, for instance, found that there were E.coli counts exceeding 200 milligrams to 100 millilitres in the bathing beaches of Port Phillip Bay. [More…]
A study by the Environment Protection Authority shows that the major cause of pollution is the discharge from houses. [More…]
I submit that the following five approaches might be made to the problem of setting standards: These approaches could be based, firstly, on health aspects, which would involve doctors and scientists; secondly, mental health aspects, which would involve psychologists and social scientists; thirdly, the number of complaints from the community; fourthly, cost benefits, which would involve economists; and, fifthly, absolutism, which would involve some environmentalists. [More…]
As in consumer protection the first consideration should always be the safety of the human environment. [More…]
I submit that it is very essential that the present proposal should be extended to include smaller country towns, particularly when we realise that as a means of decentralisation elderly people are being encouraged to retire to these smaller country towns where they are close to their friends, close to the environment into which they have been born and in which they have grown up and to which as members of the community they have contributed. [More…]
This Government has repeatedly reaffirmed its pledge to upgrade the quality of our environment, and sewerage is a major part of that upgrading process. [More…]
I bring this to the attention of the Minister because I want him in the not too distant future to inspect the Nine Mile Beach outlet and the BlacksmithsPelican area in general to see the damage being caused to the area and the harm being caused to the environment and to see the conditions under which the residents live. [More…]
We have achieved what we set out to do in that we have created an environment in which over award payments are depressed. [More…]
Of course, the effects of any policy on future land use, on marketing and transport requirements or on the wider community and on the environment must be considered. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
Foreign policy planning; political and social research; information and publications; historical and archival research; commercial and economic policy; international organisations and agencies; conditions of service oveseas; information handling and retrieval systems; development and review of communications systems; and science, technology and environment activities. [More…]
Department of the Environment and Conservation: Research and Development Staff (Question No. [More…]
Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
I agree that bias of a destructive kind against the people would of itself be entirely unscientific because the cultures that people have are usually the products of their environment and situation, and any inferences of superiority or inferiority arising out of them would be unscientific. [More…]
Third, the high level of pressure on profits, the serious difficulties of capital mobilisation and the problems associated with extreme levels of industrial unrest have created an environment in which the private sector is simply unwilling to expand its activities. [More…]
In such a sterile environment it is questionable whether we can maintain life as we know it. [More…]
That working party, which was composed, I think, of the then president of the Victorian Branch of the AMA, several members of the AMA, the Dean of one of the clinical schools and as one of its co-opted members my colleague, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), presented a report which showed that community practice preferably should involve integrated services in the sense of community health centres. [More…]
The total expenditure, leaving aside protection of the environment and provision of sewerage faculties, will rise from $ 102.6m last year to an estimated $264.7m this year. [More…]
In political terms Eric Harrison was very much in the mood of our political philosophy of today, namely, where the individual is entitled to be considered predominantly above the interests of the State, that the State exists to serve the interests of the individual and to create the environment for the individual to prosper and be able to fulfil himself as an individual on the basis that successful individuals will make a successful community, and that the community, from the success of individuals, will be able to do those things which it wants for the poor, the sick, people overseas and so forth. [More…]
In his absence the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Cass, will act as Minister for Science. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
I refer to reports in which it is stated that the Australian Government is to hold a public inquiry into the environmental effects of the establishment of the Redcliffs petro-chemical project in the Spencer Gulf area of South Australia. [More…]
We notice that the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Bryant), the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) have spoken on this matter and now the Government has added to its list that all-wise, that learned, that profound honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage). [More…]
In accordance with the Government’s wishes the Development Bank will consult as appropriate with the Departments of Tourism and Recreation, Urban and Regional Development, and Environment and Conservation in carrying out its financing role in the tourist industry. [More…]
The social problems which arise are evident if policy provides the apparatus of education without providing the social environment conducive to academic study. [More…]
Whether the programs be in the field of housing, education, the environment, grants in relation to the national estate, roads or whatever, under the present government we have received far more per capita than ever before and than any other State. [More…]
first class medical care for all; help for the less developed nations; the protection of the environment; the improvement of our cities and towns. [More…]
Because the Minister is very keen about the environment may I say in passing that the construction of such a railway will involve also the removal of some houses and no doubt some rare species of plant and animal life will be affected, as at Lake Pedder. [More…]
We will have the same sort of self-appointed environmentalists, often led by the Communist Party of Australia, opposing the construction. [More…]
The environment produced by the billions of years of evolution which has resulted in man in his present state, is being drastically altered in a few decades by man himself. [More…]
This will deal with important aspects of environmental concern, in addition to nature conservation, aimed at halting man’s unthinking degradation of the total environment, the genesis of life on this planet. [More…]
What I am trying to get across to the House is that it is important to realise that tourism is not an isolated thing but that it has to be looked at in the context of the way in which it integrates with urban and regional development, town planning, conservation, the environment and so on. [More…]
There will be an expansion of the national parks system there if the Australian Government, through the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) and the Minister for Tourism and Recreation, receives co-operation. [More…]
We need to escape to our more primordial surroundings, our environment, and to imbibe something more natural than the artificial life we have created in the cities and the suburbs. [More…]
It always stunned me, coining from a strong industrial area, to see people from my environment with good brains going down into the bowels of the earth to dig coal because their parents could not afford to send them to university. [More…]
How can we possibly advance the citizens if all the time the Government is chipping away at the basis of things, if it is destroying the social and economic environment in which these people live, if it is putting extra tax burdens and impositions on the people, if it is taking away incentives, if it is creating unemployment and if it is causing massive redistributions to the public sector from the private sector? [More…]
The Committee then inquired into the environment in which the motor vehicle moves, specifically roads, road engineering, town planning and roadside obstacles, and I had very much pleasure in presenting this report to the House on 10 April 1974. [More…]
The major aspect which has been dealt with in this report is the environmental side of the problem and covers such things as road design; construction and maintenance; the roadside environment; traffic engineering, including signs, signals and markings; town planning and the transport system, including alternatives to the private vehicle. [More…]
Australian Advisory Committee on the Environment (Question No. [More…]
These are 3 arms of a total concept, namely that we must provide a safe environment at work and elsewhere, rehabilitate those unfortunate enough to suffer incapacity and ensure compensation during rehabilitation and for residual handicap. [More…]
Not only do they oppose these moves, but they scream like stuck pigs when those terrible socialists try to create some of that very free enterprise environment which they claim to admire so ardently. [More…]
I say to the Minister for Northern Development and to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass): Get the Government cracking on the Burdekin Dam project. [More…]
We have achieved what we set out to do in that we have created an environment in which over-award payments are depressed. [More…]
I trust that the Minister at the table, the Minister for Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), will consider the points raised by me tonight. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
Social disruption on this scale is a terrible blow particularly to elderly people who are denied the consolation of a familiar environment and amenities and are faced with costly and inadequate public transport. [More…]
At the same time the whole community will benefit from increased community spending, including amounts for education, sewerage, hospitals, roads, protection of the environment and health. [More…]
There is no sense in gaining more money in the pocket through higher wages or less tax if the environment, the neighbourhood, suburb or country is not fit to live in. [More…]
This allowance will be payable at the rate of $10 a week to parents or guardians of physically or mentally handicapped children who are cared for in a family environment. [More…]
As well as providing handicapped people with the opportunity to augment their social security benefits, sheltered workshops perform what are perhaps the even more important functions of providing a social environment away from their homes or hostels and preparing handicapped people for employment in outside industry. [More…]
The four lower ones are the Department of the Environment and Conservation, the Department of Northern Development, the Department of Tourism and Recreation and the Department of Urban and Regional Development. [More…]
They are heavily involved in preservation of the environment as their ratepayers become more conscious of the problems of pollution. [More…]
The plain fact of the matter is that in many ways they are counter-productive because people see these spectacular purchases, and in the present environment they see them as unnecessary and they react to them. [More…]
The main thrust of the whole program of the Government in the artistic field- of course it now comes through the Australian Council for the Arts-is that it creates infinitely more opportunities not only for performers but also for our society and audiences to associate with and participate in the exciting rewards and satisfaction that flow from a vibrant and creative artistic environment. [More…]
1 ) As a rehabilitation centre for those families experiencing difficulty in adjusting to an urban European environment, for others in need of special help and as a home for the aged; [More…]
The city is a demonstration that successive governments have been able to achieve a quality of life, a standard of community development and an environment that is not available in many other parts of this continent. [More…]
The environment they face and the life style to which they are required to adapt is unique. [More…]
The Treasury approach is based on sound- at least they were sound- Keynesian principles, that is, if we reduce purchasing power we reduce demand and therefore we make it more difficult for employers to raise prices, we make employers resist union demands more and we create unemployment and a bad environment for unions to seek further wage increases. [More…]
I imagine that the departments involved in the inter-departmental committee would include, naturally, the Department of Customs and Excise, the Department of the Environment and Conservation and, because of the threat of imported diseases and parasites, the Department of Health. [More…]
I also recommend to this Parliament that the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation start an inquiry into the disgraceful and hazardous practice of trafficking in rare and endangered species of birds. [More…]
I recommend that the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation conduct such an inquiry as I have suggested. [More…]
In the report of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Road Safety entitled ‘Roads and Their Environment’, which I tabled in the House on 10 April 1974, we were concerned that the debate about expressways between the road builders and the ……..-…- , for want of a better name, may overshadow the very great benefits of expressways, particularly as regards traffic flow and road safety. [More…]
New concepts which will provide fast, safe, and efficient transport and at the same time preserve our resources and our environment must be thought out and adopted. [More…]
Every person in this chamber has heard of the confrontations between the road construction authorities and the people affected, whether they be residents of the areas through which the freeways are passing or people concerned for the environment that a freeway may disrupt or mar. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard the recommendations contained in the House of Representatives Select Committee on Road Safety report entitled ‘Roads and their Environment’ in which these very points are raised. [More…]
I can assure honourable members that it is only on the rarest of occasions and in a particular environment even the biggest of companies are able to make high profits. [More…]
He was talking about a man who was smitten by his boss, worried by his family situation and beset by the problems of the urban environment. [More…]
The only way that he could get away from this situation was to get into his car, wind up the windows, turn on the air conditioner, put the cassette into the player and there be in his own little environment. [More…]
This amount will be payable to the parents or guardians of a mentally or physically handicapped child cared for in a family environment and requiring constant attention. [More…]
I am sure that the allowance which, as honourable members will be aware, is $10 a week to the parents of guardians of physically or mentally handicapped children who are cared for in the family environment, will meet with wide approval. [More…]
I ask you, Mr Speaker, why there would need to be 4 RED Ministers- the Minister for Labor and Immigration, the Minister for Tourism and Recreation (Mr Stewart), the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) and the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass). [More…]
-by leave-This is the first report from the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in the Twentyninth Parliament. [More…]
The Committee’s major aim was to examine the effect of mining and other activities on the flora and fauna of Christmas Island and to advise on any measures necessary to protect the environment. [More…]
We have a responsibility to ensure that this bird, and other species of fauna, do not become extinct as a result of our exploitation of the environment. [More…]
It sets the seal on the socialist view of people as simply the products of their environment. [More…]
The next observation I make to my friend the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) who is in the House and for whom I have the utmost affection is this: Why the haste? [More…]
But I do ask the Government to consider whether there ought not to be some type of option of capitalisation available to the victim of such an accident because one of the additional tragedies of a person who suffers such a permanent accident as that is that he is so often forced out of his own family environment. [More…]
Notwithstanding the desire of parents and relatives to care for them in a home environment and to give them some kind of emotional and personal support to alleviate much of the suffering they have, they are forced out of that family environment. [More…]
I think that far more emphasis should be placed on making provision to assist people to care for relatives who are victims of accidents in their family environment. [More…]
The Minister now is the victim of his own environment and I think it is pertinent to record in this debate some of the failings that the Minister has had. [More…]
We can hardly blame the Department of Northern Development for this, because when one looks at the responsibilities of the various Ministers one finds that the Minister for Agriculture (Senator Wriedt) has all the say in meat and wool production, the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) has all the say in regard to the mining industry, the Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) has all the say in regard to our road system in the north, the Minister for Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) has most of the say in this area, and the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) no doubt has most of the say in any development projects which may be proposed for the north. [More…]
Whether this is the responsibility of the Minister for Environment and Conservation or of the Minister for Northern Development does not really concern me. [More…]
The health of the community should at all times be considered and a standard of environment should be maintained. [More…]
We can be excused for the environment that is created when we hear comments such as those which have been uttered by speakers opposite and inspired by a prejudiced outlook and a lopsided argument. [More…]
On the other hand there are some expected to be reduced outlays such as those in relation to the Intergovernmental Commission on European Migration and the United Nations Environment Fund. [More…]
I would like to put to the Government for considerationI do not say this in any critical sense- the proposition that an examination might be made of our social services to see whether it is possible to give some incentive to families to care to a much greater extent for the elderly members of their families in their own home environments. [More…]
But there is no doubt that the caring of elderly people within their own family environment is socially, and I think in the long run also economically, beneficial. [More…]
The whole philosophy behind the provision was to give a bit of assistance and incentive to those in the community who were prepared to undertake care of the elderly in their family, their close relatives, within their own home environment. [More…]
The lump sum payments would often make it possible for those persons to be cared for in their own family environment. [More…]
I would hope that perhaps as an interim measure the Government might give some consideration to the extension of the domiciliary allowance and the removal of the limit of 65 years or over where a person has been the victim of an accident and is being cared for in his or her own family environment by close relatives. [More…]
I think in a number of Scandinavian countries some financial incentives through the taxation mechanism are given to persons who are caring for the elderly within their own family environment and have had to make extensions to the home to care for these people. [More…]
But I would hope that this Government and successive governments of this country will give in the provision of social services much greater emphasis to the creation of circumstances in which people will have incentives to care for the elderly within their own environment and accordingly I hope that the emphasis of our social service provisions will be altered. [More…]
I am in total agreement with him that the home environment is undoubtedly the ideal one, but with so many families now in small homes and so many parents working it is not feasible for a large number of elderly people to live with their relatives, and therefore we desperately need homes for the aged where they can retain independence and nursing homes for those who are no longer able to care for themselves. [More…]
It has been my opinion also that handicapped children should be moved as often as possible back into the normal State school environment instead of being segregated as they are at the moment. [More…]
Having looked after elderly parents in the home environment myself I am well aware of how necessary it is for those who want to care for their elderly people at home to have somewhere to take them so that the younger people can have a day or a weekend off or a holiday. [More…]
It is also good for those elderly people who are being cared for at home to move out into a different environment, into a more stimulating environment, to move among their peers. [More…]
There would be a great saving to the Government if people were to be kept in the very desirable environment of the home. [More…]
I believe that most of these migrants, because of the environment, are happy here. [More…]
-In addressing myself to the estimates for the Department of the Environment and Conservation I wish to draw attention to the way in which the administration and programming of expenditure on the environment is fragmented between the Department of the Environment and Conservation and the Department of Urban and Regional Development. [More…]
1.I do not have the departmental estimates as such but I would assume the estimates for the 2 departments aggregate the total amount of expenditure on the environment. [More…]
It will be noted that on page 49 of the paper, under section 6, ‘Urban and Regional Development NEC and the Environment’, the section headed ‘Protection of the Environment’ deals with Department of Urban and Regional Development initiatives and we find that $250,000 is listed within that category for a national air monitoring program and $100,000 is listed for an education program to develop a public environmental awareness. [More…]
I have just spoken to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) and I have found that that does in fact reside within his own area. [More…]
I make the point that the national estate could comfortably reside within the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
It is not easy for the ordinary layman- indeed it is not easy for those of us in this House unless we spend a lot of time going through the Budget papers- to readily add together the total amount being spent in the preservation of the environment and in nature conservation. [More…]
1) 1974-75 of $475,000 to such bodies as the River Murray Commission for water resources research, the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, the United Nations convention and forum for the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage, the Australian Environmental Council and so on. [More…]
Grants in aid to conservation organisations total $448,000 are also provided for in the appropriation for the Department of the Environment and Conservation, yet the Department of Urban and Regional Development appropriates $299,000 to other conservation groups and to the various trusts in each one of the States. [More…]
Surely these grants and appropriations should be the responsibility of the Department of the Environment and Conservation and its Minister. [More…]
This splitting serves to weaken the role of a very important department and the influence of its Minister at a time when people generally are conscious of the environment, conscious of the need to try to protect it. [More…]
To provide focus in the machinery of government for conservation of the present state of the Australian environment and the social, technological and ecological factors relating to the proposed actions or evolutionary changes affecting it and for recommending environmentally beneficial courses of action. [More…]
Although the definition is in some ways vague, although it does not give the Department a full policy making function and limits it to focusing on the machinery that should be adopted, in my view the Department of the Environment and Conservation should have a full responsibility in the areas to which I have referred. [More…]
I suggest- I do so in a personal way- that those functions should include the environment and the national estate, urban and rural land use strategies and policies, anti-pollution, wildlife and nature conservation, responsibility for the education of the community in conservation, water and soil resources and conservation policies, and the administration of those areas. [More…]
In the resource area, mining, agriculture, manufacturing, urban and regional development, housing and works, and environment and conservation could well come together within the one unit. [More…]
The Department of the Environment and Conservation should have an important liaison role with all the resource use areas, possibly with one senior liaison officer in each component resource area which would make up the single unit. [More…]
-In discussing the estimates for the Department of the Environment and Conservation I feel rather inhibited by my chairmanship on the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
I congratulate the honourable member for his thoughtful contribution to the debate on the estimates for the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
There is a developing realisation throughout the world that governments and parliaments must play an active part in the field of the environment and conservation. [More…]
Really, this Parliament should be able to discuss the role that officers of the Department are playing in the United Nations environmental program, where Australia stands with regard to the Earthwatch program and what Australia is doing about the exposition on human habitat; yet, because of the very nature of the way in which things have been presented, this Committee does not have the opportunity to examine those programs. [More…]
This Parliament has had representatives at the 3 interparliamentary conferences on the environment over the last 4 years; yet we have no mechanism by which the Parliament can follow through the sorts of matters that are raised there. [More…]
I have no doubt that the Department of the Environment and Conservation does so, but what it does is not brought forward so that honourable members can examine what has happened. [More…]
It has become trendy amongst governments throughout the world to talk about environmental impact statements. [More…]
The other day the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), the honourable member for Gwydir and I heard a gentleman who is very skilled in the field express his concern about the use of the word ‘impact’ in the term ‘environmental impact statements’ because it has some connotation of force, confrontation, the adversary principle in examination and so on. [More…]
The completion of an international agreement (with provision Tor the standardisation or testing procedures) requiring each nation (a) to test specified products and processes particularly those containing non-degradable, nonrecyclable or toxic components, for their potential effects on the environment and (b) to publish the results of these tests before the products are introduced on the market. [More…]
The Federal Republic of Germany is establishing within UMPLIS - which is the environment planning information system: a special data bank on such information. [More…]
This takes that so-called environment impact statement quite a deal further into the situation of examining products. [More…]
Nowhere, through looking at the operations of the Department of the Environment and Conservation, can I see that thread that allows members of the Standing Committee to be able to discuss what is going on or to receive guidance as to what is going on. [More…]
We still have a situation where it is quite easy for a developed country to put its dirty, environmentally unsound and contaminated processes into developing countries because of the economic carrot on the stick that developed countries can offer to developing countries. [More…]
I raise this subject in the hope that we may devise some procedures to get the overall picture on the matters that are dealt with by the Department of the Environment and Conservation and, in fact, in the hope that that Department will develop further and into a better, and better understood, role. [More…]
I was particularly pleased to hear the most helpful comments on overseas trends made by the honourable member for Scullin and his reference to the attitude overseas to environmental studies and statements. [More…]
Equally I was very pleased to hear the contribution of the honourable member for Gwydir in relation to the Department of the Environment and Conservation and his reference to the way in which the Department perhaps should be organised in terms of the Government’s structure. [More…]
I note that the submission by the Department of Urban and Regional Development to the National Estate Task Force Inquiry includes a contribution by Dr D. F. McMichael on the role of the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
I do not know whether the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) accepts that statement as being representative of the attitude that his Department ought to be taking now. [More…]
I am sure that the New South Wales Government was complimented when it discovered that the Commonwealth found it necessary to draw the Permanent Head of the new Department of the Environment and Conservation from the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service. [More…]
It is a pity therefore when shortly thereafter one sees statements by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, who is at the table, supporting people who are outside government and outside until recently even roles in respect of this Government in terms of its own commission although the gentleman to whom I will refer I understand, for a short time held certain offices under the Crown. [More…]
On 9 November 1973, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, referring to the imposing of green bans by the New South Wales Builders Labourers Federation, said that these were immensely effective and ought to be supported by every Australian who cared about the environment. [More…]
2) wherein mention is made of a national environment awareness program. [More…]
Various bodies, such as the Public Works Committee of this Parliament and statutory authorities in other States, investigate matters affecting the environment and I am concerned lest delays occur through the duplication of hearings. [More…]
In talking to the estimates of the Department of Environment and Conservation I think it is well to remember that this is a new department which was created just after the 1972 election. [More…]
Sir Charles Court does not understand that there is a conflict between development and the environment. [More…]
When the Minister for the Environment and Conservation was drawing attention to the possible dangers of the Alwest complex- we all know that the Minister is a very mild mannered and rational type of expositor of this point of viewthe Premier of Western Australia said that this was absolute nonsense, that there had never been any dangers from bauxite mining in Western Australia and that in fact it was fruitless continuing a conversation with the Minister because he just did not understand. [More…]
Another similar example to which the Minister for the Environment and Conservation drew attention relates to the need to preserve the wet lands which in Western Australia are now under threat. [More…]
Unfortunately, there will continue to be similar irrationality until such time as people are prepared to face up to the dangers that accompany rampant development or development which is not proceeded by proper studies with proper consideration of what effect it will have on the environment. [More…]
-My purpose in speaking tonight might be pleasant, for a change, because I wish to congratulate the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass). [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Environment and Conservation. [More…]
Changes in our strategic environment affect our options for defence strategies, but they do not alter the need for adequate defence and national military capabilities. [More…]
With reference to the problems that are being experienced in the Goodradigbee Shire, the State Minister for Environment and Planning, Sir John Fuller, has recently been put into a position where he had little alternative but to raise the subdivision limit in that shire from 100 to 1,000 acres, and that is in the area immediately adjoining the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
I point out that in a planned society or in a planned urban environment people, no matter how much money they have, what their job is or even what their aspirations are, have much better living conditions than they would have if their society or environment were left unplanned. [More…]
In a report entitled ‘Roads and their Environment’ which was tabled recently, that Committee pointed out that one of the ways in which we can reduce the number of road accidents in Australia is by proper urban planning. [More…]
Reading through the Estimates I frequently came across wording such as lands, buildings, preserved, restore, enhance, conserve and environment. [More…]
I suggest to the Minister that traditionally and on the lead given to us by many countries with a great many more years experience in this field than we have had, the most effective way of dealing with the problem of matters coming under the National Estate- I do not in any way wish to decry the excellence of this program- is to place them under the Environment portfolio which has a team of specialists, people who are closely related to a study of the area, the preservation of buildings and the seeking out of historic sites and in fact historical towns. [More…]
The links between conservation, preservation and the environment are, in my view, the ones that are very close and I would feel that despite the Minister’s interest in the matter they are best dealt with under the Department of Environment and Conservation. [More…]
In urban affairs and in the field of the environment everything is connected to everything, else. [More…]
On present day costs without any inflationary input, it will cost the citizens of Australia $3, 800m to sewer all our urban communities in a proper way, which will protect the environment. [More…]
I inform the House that the Minister for Overseas Trade, Dr Jim Cairns, who left Australia on 1 November to attend the Council of Ministers of the International Bauxite Association in Georgetown, will return on 16 November; that the Foreign Minister, Senator Don Willesee, who left on 3 1 October to attend a meeting of iron-ore producing countries in Geneva and the 9th meeting of the Ministerial Conference for the Economic Development of South-East Asia in Manila, will return on 17 November: and that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Moss Cass, who left on 1 November to attend a ministerial meeting of the O.E.C.D. [More…]
Environment Committee in Paris, will return on 1 7 November. [More…]
In the absence of these Ministers I shall act as Foreign Minister, the Special Minister of State, Mr Lionel Bowen, will act as Minister for Overseas Trade and represent the Minister for Customs and Excise in this House, and the Minister for Health, Dr Doug Everingham, will act as Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
We have achieved what we set out to do in that we have created an environment in which over-award payments are depressed. [More…]
It will be noticed that the Australian Broadcasting Commission has been given licence to control its own destiny and to exercise its own powers but, as can be seen from the speech of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) in introducing this Bill, clause 6 provides that the Board shall have power to determine rules and standards to be observed by licencees in relation to commercial broadcasting and television programs. [More…]
There is the view which the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), who introduced the Bill, has invited us to take, and there is the view which the Bill demands that we should take. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment and Conservation during the course of his speech said that the majority of people in Australia believed that certain powers sought in this Bill were already in the Act. [More…]
This has in turn led to a loss of confidence by business in its ability to obtain an adequate return on capital in an inflationary environment [More…]
It is not all on the profit side and I think it behoves the Government in consideration of the industry as a whole to take cognisance of the fact that the industry is sustaining some of the costs to maintain our environment in the state which we would all prefer. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
It consists of the Departments of Transport, Urban and Regional Development, Manufacturing Industry, Treasury, Environment and Conservation, and Prime Minister and Cabinet. [More…]
1 ) Has he had discussions with the Minister for Environment and Conservation and the Minister for Transport regarding the future use of the Essendon Airport. [More…]
The Committee comprises myself as Chairman, the Minister for Social Security, the Treasurer, the Minister for Urban and Regional Development, the Minister for Manufacturing Industry, the Minister for Environment and Conservation and the Minister for Tourism and Recreation. [More…]
For the benefit of the honourable member I say that this is being done in complete co-operation with the New South Wales Government through the State Planning Authority, as it was then, and now the Department of Environment and Planning. [More…]
We live, the Government alleges, in an idyllic and tranquil environment. [More…]
Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) released on 10 October 1973. [More…]
Above all, in the family context it enables them to be a good parent and to give their children a better environment in which to grow up. [More…]
We lament this environment but unless State and local governments unite to repel the invader the incurred wounds of centralis tic control will take a lot of curing. [More…]
For instance, 76 per cent of the money spent on education will go to the States, 52 per cent spent in the housing field will go to the State and 65 per cent spent in the fields of urban and regional development and the environment will go to the States. [More…]
It comprised the existing Kimberley Research Station Policy Committee (made up of representatives of the Australian Department of Northern Development, the CSIRO and the Western Australian Departments of Agriculture and Public Works), together with representatives of the Australian Departments of the Treasury, and the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
To do this we must provide an urban environment which includes all of the facilities and life style demanded by the Australian people and provides them at a reasonable cost. [More…]
The third part of our program is designed to arrest and to reverse the decline in the urban environment of our great cities, and to improve the services within them. [More…]
We aim to give these regions a better living environment and to improve forward planning. [More…]
These were regions with particular deficiencies in community services and a living environment which compared unfavourably with other parts of Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]
For a variety of other reasons the living environment in these regions might not have realised its full potential. [More…]
The proposal is to provide a faculty to house the Australian Radiation Laboratory, which has the functions of maintaining standards for the precise measurement of ionising radiation and of radioactive substances; procuring and distributing radio-pharmaceuticals; maintaining a surveillance of the levels of radioactivity in the environment; and providing a consultancy service on the protection of people against various radiations. [More…]
As the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Les Johnson) has said, the Australian Radiation Laboratory which is to be constructed in my electorate under the motion which is before the House is to maintain standards for the precise measurement of radiation, to procure and distribute radio-pharmaceuticals and to maintain a surveillance of the levels of radio activity in the Australian environment. [More…]
If people are going to talk about destroying the environment they had better start talking in terms of the truth and the facts. [More…]
There is no doubt that an effective system of local government can play an important part in increasing our standard of living and in achieving substantive changes in the quality of the community environment. [More…]
This benefit was introduced in March 1 973 as an incentive to people to care for sick and frail aged people who are in need of continual nursing care and supervision in the home environment. [More…]
In fact, with respect to the desirability of maintaining disadvantaged people in their own home environment, that could be a matter of even greater concern with younger people than with aged people who are at present the only beneficiaries of this domiciliary nursing care benefit. [More…]
It is very easy to talk in terms of keeping people in their own homes, to claim that the environment is better, and that we should concentrate more on domiciliary care. [More…]
Not only has the value of our dollar been reduced to a shadow of its former self; there has also been an attack by the Government on private enterprise particularly in an environment of tight credit, which is driving construction firms out of business or into inaction. [More…]
The community will then obtain directly, from local production, those goods and services for which the Australian environment and resource endowment are best suited; it will exchange its surplus production of those goods and services for that of other countries producing more efficiently the other goods and services it needs; and it will concentrate industry development in the types of production most suited to local conditions. [More…]
In particular he said the Country-Liberal Party would encourage the involvement of Territory women in future town planning, recognising the importance of this work in relation to the social environment. [More…]
Strontium-90 in the Australian Environment During 1 964. [More…]
Strontium-90 in the Australian Environment During 1965. [More…]
Strontium-90 in the Australian Environment During 1966. [More…]
Strontium-90 in the Australian Environment During 1967. [More…]
Strontium-90 in the Australian Environment During 1968. [More…]
Strontium-90 and Caesium-137 in the Australian Environment During 1969 and Some Results for 1970. [More…]
Strontium-90 and Caesium-137 in the Australian Environment During 1970 and Some Results for 1971. [More…]
I understand that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation will be tabling a copy of those measurements in the near future together with a copy of the measurements to date of fall-out recorded in 1974, which are also to be forwarded to UNSCEAR [More…]
A government should adopt clear policies to achieve this objectivepolicies which must include the creation and sustaining of an environment which encourages investment in manufacturing. [More…]
The Commission shall have regard to the desire of the Australian Government, in pursuing the general objectives of national economic and social policy and urban and regional development, to improve and promote the well being of the people of Australia, with full employment, stability in the general level of prices, viability in external economic relations, conservation of the natural environment and rising and generally enjoyed standards of living . [More…]
If we have a trace-back program we can eradicate the cause of these pesticide residues in the carcasses of meat- residues which can have a disastrous effect on the human environment. [More…]
Last year Cabinet approved a document submitted by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) on water resources management. [More…]
But, as I quoted earlier, the basic philosophy expressed by this Government is that the conservation, development and management of water resources must take place in the broader framework not only of the development and management of resources generally but also of the overall economic environment and social platform. [More…]
My interest in this dam occasioned my asking a question of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) some few weeks ago. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that in advertisements in Melbourne newspapers the SEC claims that the proposal for the Newport powerhouse has the support of the Federal Ministry of the Environment and Conservation? [More…]
The Treasurerdesignate of this country has consistently adopted the propaganda line that inflation and unemployment in Australia are products of the international economic environment or the socalled system. [More…]
Under this legislation the Australian Government will extend the impact statement requirement to cover any proposal in which it is involved and which is likely to have a significant effect on the environment, irrespective, of whether or not it is a matter to be decided by Cabinet. [More…]
For example, it will be used to ensure that the environmental effects of mining and woodchip proposals are thoroughly evaluated before any decision is taken on export licences. [More…]
These extensions merely use Australian Government constitutional powers which, because of the indifference of earlier government to environmental issues, were never applied. [More…]
Within the Australian Environment Council there has been basic agreement on what statements should cover. [More…]
The Australian Government will have to rely to a large extent on State government advice in assessing the environmental consequences of proposals in which it is involved and which are being developed in the States. [More…]
The extent to which it will rely on State environment authorities will depend on the confidence it has in those authorities, on its judgment of their independence and on the significance of the proposals from the national viewpoint. [More…]
In addition, where the environmental consequences of a proposal are considered to be particularly significant, or where there is considerable public controversy over these consequences, a public inquiry will be held. [More…]
The assessment of the environmental consequences will be conveyed to Cabinet at the same time as the proposal itself is put to Cabinet for consideration. [More…]
Thus we will ensure Cabinet considers the economic, technological and environmental consequences of proposals at the same time, before any decision is taken. [More…]
The procedure will not give to environmental considerations a veto power in decision making. [More…]
Environmental considerations will become an integral part of the information upon which a decision is taken. [More…]
It represents a very significant step forward in contributing to the adequate protection of our environment and should be of real benefit to all Australians, irrespective of their occupation, their political outlook of their place of living. [More…]
It is a problem of which, I know, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) is aware. [More…]
Conservation is an exercise in applied ecology to fit man into his environment so as to provide for his needs now and in the future in a manner which will maintain a satisfactory human habitat. [More…]
On that occasion the Minister at the table was the Minister for Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) who is also at the table tonight. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
This year $8m has been made available through my Department and some $9m has been made available through the Department of the Environment and Conservation to try to preserve the national estate. [More…]
They include the Department of the Environment and Conservation whose administrative costs alone amount to $2,730,000. [More…]
I support the extension of powers to the Australian Parliament in such matters as the petroleum submerged lands legislation and the environment which are so important nationally and internationally and which are interconnected in the world in which we live. [More…]
It will enable steady progress to be made towards achieving an industrial structure more attuned to the Australian environment and contributing more fully to the effective use of our human and physical resources. [More…]
Assistant Director, Level 1, Second Division (3 positions) In charge of the following BranchesRequirements and Programmes Studies Management Environment Forecasting [More…]
Clerk Class 10, Third Division and Clerk Class 8, Third Division (2 positions)- Located in the Data Collection Section of the Environmental Forecasting Branch. [More…]
The functions are to review arrangements for the continuous collection and collation of data on the Australian environment and develop means of ready access to the data. [More…]
Such agencies include the Department of Transport, the Department of Defence, and the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
Car parking will be provided and the site will be landscaped to suit the surrounding environment. [More…]
Consequently, in the current environment of rising unemployment, the opportunities for these people to pursue meaningful employment within the areas in which they formerly resided have been severely restricted. [More…]
Although since that hearing there has been a change by the Tribunal of its attitude towards price increase applications by the dairying industry, it is important to remember that no farm industry can survive in an environment of rising production costs exceeding 25 per cent per year while prices received for its products are increasing by only one per cent per year. [More…]
The Labor Party is actually trying to marry the urban conditions to the advantages of the rural environment. [More…]
by leave- This report from the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation entitled ‘Environmental Impact of Freeways’. [More…]
In 1972, the former Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, Mr Howson, said in a second reading speech that the procedures that were to be adopted in a Bill he was putting forward were ironed out in consultation and after discussion with the State Ministers. [More…]
The basic assumption in the Bill is that either by dint of environment or by geography a measure of political infallibility can come to Canberra but cannot go anywhere else in the State. [More…]
The courses that the Opposition proposes should be instituted at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College are those connected with a city-country type of environment- those connected with surveying and valuing of land, those connected with the environmental sciences whereby people look at the influence of man on the environment and at the way in which the landscape is affected by the development taking place with the construction of houses. [More…]
The environmental sciences could utilise a large part of the facilities already there, taking in such things as soil science and town and country planning, supplemented by things like environmental psychology. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
The Department of the Environment and Conservation has approached Herr. [More…]
We have achieved what we set out to do in that we have created an environment in which over award payments are depressed. [More…]
That the cultural environment is hostile, is obvious enough. [More…]
The point of contact will he the Minister for Minerals and Energy who will refer to other Australian Government Ministers matters coming within their areas of responsibility- e.g., the Treasurer on foreign ownership and on financing aspects, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation on environmental aspects, and the Minister for Urban and Regional Development on urban and regional aspects. [More…]
It is self evident that if we are dealing with homeless people and wish to grapple seriously with the problems, the first basic requirement will be the provision of a ‘home-like’ environment. [More…]
I preface my comments on the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Bill and also the States Grants (Nature Conservation) Bill by thanking the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) for his frank and ready co-operation in an endeavour to reach consensus on a number of matters that have concerned the Opposition. [More…]
I am sure that the Minister agrees with the view that the environment does not belong to any one group or party or section of the community. [More…]
It was an essentially practical politician, President Pompidou, who coined the phrase ‘environment ethic’. [More…]
Each person who makes noise or otherwise contributes to polluting the environment - [More…]
I ask the Minister to accept the Opposition ‘s criticism of the Bill and the amendments which the Opposition proposes as being prompted by the wish to see a wider acceptance of this environment ethic, and to see this Bill becoming a potent force in securing that acceptance. [More…]
The Board resolved that it be suggested to the Minister Tor the Northern Territory that he recommit to Cabinet its decision concerning some of the functions allotted to the Department of Environment and Conservation, to enable it to take account of some aspects of this matter that may have been overlooked when its decision was made. [More…]
The Board considers that the Department of the Environment and Conservation should act as a policy body and give assistance with finance, co-ordination etc., for all States and Territories. [More…]
There have been no public hearings or proper consultations as suggested in first principle of stated functions of Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
Recommend defer or withdraw Bill until (a) Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Northern Territory tables report, (b) Government considers executive role newly elected Assembly after studying above report, (c) Ministers for the Northern Territory and the Environment have discussions with Assembly representatives, (d) Northern Territory public properly consulted. [More…]
I believe also that the Commonwealth should set out in this Bill, indeed in all the other Bills relating to the care and the preservation of the environment, to seek the closest co-operation with all the governments and statutory authorities. [More…]
In fact, the truth of the matter is that in the Northern Territory on 6 November 1973 senior officers of the Department of the Environment and Conservation attended a meeting in Darwin of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
The first section at page 4 is headed ‘Ecologically oriented studies’ and the second section at page 5 is headed ‘Relationship to Funding by the Department of Environment and Conservation’. [More…]
and (2) The Working Environment Division of the Australian Department of Labor and Immigration conduce an ongoing program of research into personnel practices and issues affecting the quality of working life. [More…]
Of course, in Australia many of these areas of responsibility reside in departments other than the Department of the Environment and Conservation and will be covered by authorities other than the National Parks and Wildlife Service. [More…]
I hope that some consideration will be given to that aspect and perhaps we may see the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) at some stage giving the same son of economic assessment of what the national park setup in Australia means to the Australian economic system. [More…]
This action is needed to protect and develop properly our environment and our natural resources, minimise the pollution of our air, land and water, conserve our flora and fauna, preserve our historic buildings and sites and preserve and create urban and rural landscapes of beauty. [More…]
Indeed, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) in his second reading speech appears to have avoided it. [More…]
It requires careful consideration to ensure that the measure is appropriate to our federation and the proper protection of our environment. [More…]
I am optimistic that in his speech in reply the Minister for the Environment and Conservation will assert the Government’s clear intention not to interfere but to co-operate with and to assist the States in their work in this field. [More…]
It is pleasing that the Opposition supports this measure which seeks to acknowledge the responsibility of the Australian Government for the environment. [More…]
I hope that the public at large will join with all political parties in accepting this responsibility so that concern for the environment can be regarded as a non-political, national issue. [More…]
The Bill should be seen as a measure of the Government ‘s sincerity and determination to halt the destruction and the disturbance of the natural environment which has taken billions of years to build up. [More…]
But in the very short time in which the white man has settled in Australia the environment has been threatened because of lack of government direction and shortsighted economic exploitation. [More…]
The Bill also should be seen as a measure of the Government’s desire and determination to ensure that its plans for the development of new urban growth centres in rural environments are supported by adequate national parks. [More…]
If necessary, those national parks should become integral parts of the recreational environment of the new cities and new growth centres. [More…]
A further important feature of the Bill is the extent to which it will safeguard the special needs of Aboriginals whose natural environment has been ruthlessly exploited and destroyed with drastic effects on their culture and security. [More…]
Institutions of learning such as the Canberra College of Advanced Education offer a number of courses relating to the environment, ecological studies and conservation and park management, as well as land use and resources location and urban planning. [More…]
The policies of the Labor Government recognise the traditional Australian preference for the urban way of life and it seeks to combine that preference with the advantages of the rural environment. [More…]
It seeks to establish and combine the whole urban superstructure in the form of well-planned living, recreational and cultural amenities with a rural environment, just as we have done in the A.C.T. [More…]
I notice that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) in his second reading speech said that despite the excellent leadership initiatives taken in some of the States our record in Australia has not been good. [More…]
I assume the Minister means what he has said but on one occasion a former Minister, a colleague of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation who is at the table, made all sorts of noises about a 32 square miles acquisition area south of Darwin. [More…]
Bearing these things in mind, I hope that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation will give very serious consideration to the amendment relating to the Northern Territory. [More…]
-In introducing this Bill, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) has brought in a most important piece of legislation concerning conservation in the Territories. [More…]
Accordingly the 3 components of the cultural and natural environment forming the National Estate are those which are: [More…]
In supporting them we thank the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) for taking into account the wishes of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Aboriginal Affairs which brought this matter to the attention of the Minister. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) has assured me that that is not the intention unless the State itself requires the Australian Government to, or suggests that the Australian Government may, take over those areas if it feels that the Australian Government may have more resources or is more adequately able to cope with the preservation of such areas as historical, archaeological or geologically important areas, or areas that may have a special significance to Aboriginals. [More…]
The Minister could quite rightly claim that he has introduced environmental protection legislation which gives the Minister power to call for environmental impact assessments. [More…]
This makes other Commonwealth departments responsible for the submission of environmental impact assessments in areas where there is Australian Government involvement. [More…]
While I have no doubt that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation who is sitting at the table would, in fact, as a matter of course demand that an environmental impact assessment be provided with regard to any operations that may be contemplated within a reserve or a national park another may not. [More…]
It is the thinking of many well informed environmentalists around the world that it is probably better to allow mining to take place where there is mineralisation and where it may be considered to be in the national interest provided the mining is undertaken according to very strict guidelines and under the codes of the plans of management. [More…]
However, before any consideration is given to the possibility of mining I think it should be mandatory that those who are going to take part in the mining exercise, whether it be done by the proposed Petroleum and Minerals Authority, by private enterprise or in association with an authority of the Australian Government, should undertake an environmental impact assessment to ascertain the likely effect upon the environment within that park and the area adjacent thereto. [More…]
It would require the approval of 27 Ministers rather than the approval of 2 Ministers- in the first instance the Minister for the Environment and Conservation and certainly, as prescribed in the clause, the Minister of State for Minerals and Energy. [More…]
The plan of management of the park has to be approved not just by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation or his [More…]
I would like to raise with the Minister for the Environment and . [More…]
As I am a member of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Aboriginal Affairs, I feel that I should thank the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) for being so co-operative in this matter. [More…]
I was glad to hear the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) say that the programs for the protection, conservation, management and control of wildlife would be implemented and organised in co-operation with each State concerned. [More…]
I hope the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) with characteristic frankness and fairness will accept this amendment. [More…]
I concede that when the Australian Labor Party got to power many of us on the Government side in 1972 and at the beginning of 1973 felt that we had gained office because- among other reasons- of our concern for the environment and conservation. [More…]
Having said that, I assume that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) would be prepared to discuss that matter with the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy), and on that basis the Opposition has not proposed any further amendments to clause 70. [More…]
-The Opposition supports the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Bill 1974. [More…]
The Bill will have farreaching effects on the environment. [More…]
In 1971 the former Liberal-Country Party Government formed the first Ministry with environment as one of its specific responsibilities. [More…]
Full credit must go to the former Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Lowe, Mr McMahon, for the first initiative in recognising the environment as a dimension that should be taken into consideration when coming to a decision on any proposal of a structural nature or otherwise which might affect the environment. [More…]
The former Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, the honourable Peter Howson, established the Australian Environment Council which is a council of State and Commonwealth Ministers. [More…]
I believe that it has a tremendous role to play in trying to bring about the sort of co-operation which is necessary to achieve a total involvement in the consideration of problems and matters which affect the environment. [More…]
In that statement it was announced that the Government had decided to introduce a system of environmental impact statements designed to protect the environment. [More…]
Quite frankly, from memory, that was the first time that 1 heard the term environmental impact statement used. [More…]
This is not to say that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), who is sitting at the table, and other more enlightened people had not come into contact with the phrase prior to that time. [More…]
Apart from being notable for the introduction of this legislation the month of November 1974 must be remembered and be regarded as an appropriate time to contemplate the present and future status of environmental impact statements in this country. [More…]
The nation’s first few environmental impact statements have been released so that we can decide, with a reasonable amount of confidence, whether they are worth the time and expense which is involved in their preparation and, more importantly, whether they will be an adequate vehicle for bringing environmental considerations into the processes of government decision making. [More…]
The Bill we are debating gives the Minister power to ensure that any project of any organisation or agency or, indeed, the Commonwealth Government or any project involving Commonwealth funds within the States which is likely to have a significant effect on the environment should be accompanied by an environmental impact statement. [More…]
If clause 5 of the Environment Protection (Impact Proposals) Bill covers works included in programs approved by the Loan Council, it is considered inordinant delays will result. [More…]
If loan works were to be made the subject of environmental impact studies the consequent delays would mean without doubt that it would be impossible for approved allocations to be expended in the same year. [More…]
This would mean that preplanning, environmental impact studies and design work would have to be carried out at least a year in advance. [More…]
whether or not this legislation would lead to a duplication by the Commonwealth Government of the environment assessment procedures and activities of the appropriate State organisations, and [More…]
It is precisely to overcome such an attitude that the standing committee of the Australian Environment Council established a working party to put forward the principles which should be observed in the assessment of the environmental effects of projects and these principles were agreed to by the Council at its last meeting late in 1973. [More…]
Perhaps the Victorian and the New South Wales Governments have moved as far as, if not further than, most governments in the whole of the Commonwealth to try to ensure that the procedures that are adopted with respect to environmental assessments are in fact sound, and more than just window dressing. [More…]
That is, that the Australian Environment Council should meet as soon as possible after this legislation becomes law to ensure that there is a general acceptance of broad guidelines so that much of the necessary work is done at the regional or State level. [More…]
The Australian Environment Council is the essential vehicle for such agreement. [More…]
As I have said, the purpose of the Bill was stated by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation in his second reading speech to be the introduction of the environmental impact study technique into the Government’s decisionmaking processes. [More…]
Furthermore, as the Mnister stated, there has been basic agreement by State Ministers sitting on the Australian Environmental Council on what statements should cover. [More…]
Some people, I am told, would like to see its members as rubber stamps- this is in relation to the whole environment impact assessment exercise- which can absorb the energies of the concerned public. [More…]
Others see them as advocates to Cabinet or as environmental policemen. [More…]
A member of the Public Service” informs me that the greater part of the energies of government environment bodies up to now have not been directed against pollution or even in warding off public protests, but have been expended in interdepartmental rivalry and pitched battles which are usually lost. [More…]
I am sure that the Federal Minister is in a position to allay the fears of all the State Ministers and the State governments through the Environment Council by indicating to them that the purpose of this Bill is not necessarily to intrude into their decision making processes but to ensure that in all decisions that are taken, where Commonwealth funds are expended, the dimension of the environment is taken into account according to procedures that are generally agreed to between the Australian Government and the State governments. [More…]
Once having done that, I am sure that we will be able to develop a degree of respect and confidence amongst the community at large for the importance of taking environmental factors into account before taking decisions on a whole range of projects. [More…]
The Bill is the most important environmental legislation to come before the Parliament. [More…]
In a speech to the Academy of Science on 29 November the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), when he was discussing environmental impact techniques, said: [More…]
From now on the community is welded to the decisionmaking process as it affects the environment. [More…]
There is very little Australian literature on the technique of environmental impacts. [More…]
As yet all the States do not have manuals on environmental impact statements. [More…]
Now a new department has been set up and it is combining environmental control with planning. [More…]
The New South Wales manual points out the areas of expertise and provides a check list of the characteristics of the environment. [More…]
In South Australia recommendations of the Environment Protection Council on environmental impact statements have been approved by the South Australian Government. [More…]
In Western Australia there is still no official policy and one can say that the need per se for an environmental impact statement is not yet fully recognised. [More…]
Quite obviously we are all in the same boat as far as environmental impact statements are concerned. [More…]
Clauses 6 to 10 concern environmental impact statement techniques. [More…]
The aim is to protect the environment by 2 means- the environmental impact statement technique and the hearings. [More…]
I emphasise that the aim, desire and hope of the Government is that when major development proposals are being considered it will be just as logical for business, for a government authority or a government department to make an environmental assessment as it is to make a feasibility study. [More…]
In fact I see cost benefit economic analyses or economic studies being just as much a tool for environmental impact statements as I do for economic feasibility. [More…]
For example, I can see this broadening into quite a few areasinto some of the larger issues that we will face with the environment. [More…]
Another problem is the problem of categorising an environment. [More…]
It also appears to me that environmental impact statement techniques tend to ignore people. [More…]
An environmental impact study was conducted. [More…]
I believe that with co-operation and a desire to see optimim use of the environment we will overcome these procedures at all levels. [More…]
I will refer later on to certain matters which I think indicate that although this matter may be important to myself, the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt), other honourable members on this side of the House, and particularly the honourable member for Macarthur (Mr Kerin) who preceded me, and perhaps the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), it certainly is not important to the Government as a whole. [More…]
Few people could disagree with the statements of the Minister in his second reading speech when he refers to the virtues of legislation of this type, as distinct from this Bill, and its clauses, and one could be very much inclined to accept the view that to speak about the environment and environmental consequences when we are looking at important developments, is almost the same as speaking 10 years ago about the virtues of the family and family life. [More…]
I submit that the community is not prepared at the moment to accept lengthy studies and perhaps examinations by commissioners in addition to seeking approval from State planning authorities, or planning and environment commissioners in the case of New South Wales, and local government authorities, and then have to meet substantial holding charges, which business has to do as distinct from governments which do not have to do that. [More…]
In political terms it is time for this sort of legislation because members of the community are concerned about the environment. [More…]
I was particularly pleased to see the definition of the environment. [More…]
The word ‘environmental’ has a corresponding meaning. [More…]
I think that the concept of environmental impact statements ought to be widened in the public mind to accept a social responsibility. [More…]
I think that this definition will be more important in the future when the concept of environmental impact statements is seen to be wider, particularly when government proposals are being looked at. [More…]
I am not suggesting that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, who is at the table, would exercise this discretion improperly. [More…]
Certainly the Galston decision would clearly indicate that a government, where government interests are concerned, could arrive at a decision without regard to environmental factors and it could do so in exercising this sort of discretion. [More…]
Many people have been concerned about the volume of law dealing with the environment. [More…]
I spoke about it in the Estimates debate involving the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
We have seen numbers of young lawyers, particularly at Sydney University, express concern at the lack of teaching at the moment of environmental law within universities. [More…]
Again in this legislation, which is the second Bill dealing with the environment and conservation which has been before this House today, there are matters relating to civil liberties which appear to be in conflict with the environmental protection and impact proposals that we have before us. [More…]
I see no danger of and am not concerned at the possible duplication of environmental impact statements. [More…]
I support the legislation now before the House, the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Bill. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to ensure that full consideration is given to the environmental factors involved in the Government’s decision-making through the use of the environmental impact statement technique and public inquiries. [More…]
Throughout Australia there is widespread concern for the management of the environment both in urban and in non-urban areas. [More…]
In the regions which are the centres of agriculture, mining, services and out-of-town recreation and tourism, there is also concern about the environment in terms of the multiple use of resources and investment in them. [More…]
There is a pressing need for evaluations of the impact on the urban and rural environment. [More…]
In the past insufficient attention has been given to consideration of the impact on the environment of actions flowing from decisions that were taken. [More…]
The provisions for the publishing of environmental impact statements and the conduct of public inquiries are in line with the Australian Labor Party’s policy of open government, of informing the people, of enabling public participation in the decision-making process. [More…]
In recent years increasing concern from all parts of the political spectrum has been expressed that inadequate consideration was being given to the environmental effect of decisions taken. [More…]
Generally, economic and technical considerations have overridden the environmental aspects of proposals. [More…]
Many of our existing environmental problems of today- of noise pollution, air pollution, waste disposal, reduction of amenitywould not have arisen if there had been procedures available for a complete assessment of the impact on the environment of the proposed developments. [More…]
In the Sydney region, Botany Bay would still have most of its own natural qualities if environmental assessments had been carried out before industries and port developments were commenced. [More…]
After all, the environment does not belong wholly and solely to us. [More…]
The concept of environmental assessment is not new. [More…]
We aim through this Bill to protect the environment in 2 ways; firstly, by use of the information obtained in the environmental assessments themselves- the factors threatened, the alternatives and the best course to follow having in mind a full consideration of all factors involved; secondly, by the educative process inherent in public hearings that may be held in association with the preparation of assessments. [More…]
Some people may see the need for preparation of environmental assessments as another round of red tape to be overcome- a further unnecessary cost to be incurred by the taxpayer and a possible further delay in the planning process. [More…]
We hope that, unlike the past when economic considerations were the prime considerations that influenced the decision-making process, in the future consideration of the environmental impact of proposals will take place along with the consideration of the economic features, hand in hand: that is, a parallel process, a marrying of the econ. [More…]
omics and the effect on the total environment of the proposed development. [More…]
It is envisaged that proposals which could have a significant effect on the environment and which involve the Australian Government specifically or by use of grant moneys, or specified loan funds or projects which involve the constitutional powers of the Australian Governmentsuch as the woodchip industry and mining activities- will need to be examined before export licences are granted. [More…]
It goes without saying that this legislation will mean there will be considerable scope for co-operation with State environmental authorities- a complementary activity. [More…]
In the Australian Environment Council there has already been basic agreement on what impact statements should cover. [More…]
Thus it is expected that as experience in the use of the environmental assessment technique develops, a decision on whether or not a proposal should be the subject of an impact statement will become a relatively simple matter and the preparation of the statement will be part and parcel of any initial consideration of a proposal. [More…]
The provisions in the Bill for participation by the people in public inquiries are of major importance and represent a victory for the supporters of community expression of concern for planning and care of environment. [More…]
I can think of no better example of the driving desire for public expression than that encompassed in the report tabled yesterday of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
If environmental impact legislation had been in existence since Federation the 8-year argument over Blackbutt Reserve would have been avoided. [More…]
This legislation follows the greatest grass roots movements of the people in modern Australian history which has been centred around protection of the environment. [More…]
The time has arrived when we should survey our Australian environment, raise our standards and change our practices. [More…]
We must plan for the optimum control utilisation for our country to provide an acceptable environment for both present and future generations. [More…]
This Bill is termed by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) as an interim program of financial assistance to the States. [More…]
In his second reading speech, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) informed the House that the first significant Federal attention that was drawn to this problem was in February 1971 when the Australian Agricultural Council received a report from the Standing Committee on Soil Conservation. [More…]
In my opinion, this demonstrates a great deal of procrastination by the Liberal Party and the Country Party in showing concern for our national resources and is a bit inconsistent with the argument that they have been putting forward recently in respect of the environment. [More…]
I do not think that anyone in this House was surprised to learn, when the Minister for the Environment and Conservation stated that the precondition for the provision of this financial assistance was an agreement by the States to participate in this investigation, that, at this stage, New South Wales has not reached this agreement. [More…]
I am going to make some criticisms both of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) and of this legislation. [More…]
-Is the Minister for the Environment and Conservation aware that in many parts of Australia the kangaroo population is estimated to be at record levels? [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the first report of the Department of the Environment and Conservation covering the period from the establishment of the Department in December 1972 to 30 June 1974. [More…]
The school without walls has been operating to cater for children who feel that they can learn in a different environment to that of the Government schools. [More…]
The question of solid waste management in Australia was one of the matters referred to the Committee on its appoinment by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, the Honourable Moss Cass. [More…]
For this reason the Australian Environment Council considered it appropriate to refer the question of deposits on beverage containers through the Minister to the Committee. [More…]
The reference was however accepted as reflecting the wishes of the Environment Council and the environmental impact of beverage containers, while only part of a wider problem, does raise a number of specific issues. [More…]
We hope that the various State Ministers for Environment on the Australian Environment Council will support the recommendations of this Committee which were made in response to a request by them and will urge their adoption by their governments. [More…]
He might not agree with that, he might not say that they should be helped, but when one looks at the industries across the Australian economic scene that have been helped one sees that the ones that are most economically ill adjusted to the Australian economic environment are the ones that get the most help. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
In addition, a sum of $40,000 was granted to three voluntary bodies; the National Trust of Australia (Western Australia), ($20,000); the Conservation Council of Western Australia ($15,000); and Environment 2000, ($5,000) for assistance with administrative expenses. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
It is pleasing to note that your Government is thinking along similar lines to our own in this regard to ensure that the environment of the area and the way of life of the Islanders are protected. [More…]
The Islanders have expressed their opposition to a change in their status and indicated that their concern was largely to preserve the Strait as a distinctive environment on which their way of life depended. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
Mrs C. Settle (Chairman) Department of the Environment and Conservation, Canberra. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
The report was received by the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
Mr Doherty has conducted prior research which suggests that the phenomenon of the late development of certain of the cognitive skills in the visually handicapped child is associated with the child’s inability to interact with the environment i.e. [More…]
Department for the Environment and Conservation: Publications (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
The Environmental Physics Research Laboratories were instituted in July 1971 under the Chairmanship of Dr. C. H. B. Priestley FRS, with the object of strengthening the CSIRO research effort concerned with studying the physical processes controlling weather, the experimental modification of weather (as in rainmaking), the interaction of plants and the environment, and the atmospheric effects of pollution. [More…]
The EPRL complex currently comprises the Division of Atmospheric Physics, the Division of Cloud Physics, and the Division of Environmental Mechanics. [More…]
Although the activities of these Divisions are basically directed towards acquiring a better understanding of the natural environment, much of their work has indirect commercial consequences. [More…]
A report published by the Division of Atmospheric Physics in 1972 entitled “Environmental Research- Practical Contributions from a Fundamentally Oriented Group” lists a large number of contributions of commercial importance that have been made by the Division since its inception in 1946. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report on the meeting of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Environment Committee at ministerial level on 13 and 14 November 1974. [More…]
Can honourable members tell me that any predecessor of the Prime Minister from the other side fo the House would have gone to the Soviet Union and- I will put it in pretty blunt Australian terms- had the guts to raise in that environment the issue that Prime Minister Whitlam raised? [More…]
Thus the Bill responds to the needs arising from this industrial environment by providing procedures both facilitating agreements and their operation according to their tenor. [More…]
It has created departments for the environment, recreation and the media. [More…]
We must make the best use of the buildings and services Still intact in such a way that every opportunity is taken to provide employment and to improve the urban environment. [More…]
There was the need to evolve a new building code to take into account higher wind velocities- 1 50 miles per hour plus- the desirability of providing a better urban environment, the uncertainties about the population to be catered for, the difficulties of land ownership and many others. [More…]
Australian society’s views of marriage and practice, notwithstanding the present trend towards equality of male and female roles, is I believe that the husband financially in the generality of cases supports his wife, while the wife supports her husband in the home environment, particularly during the childbearing years. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
Nevertheless, the paper does reflect a concern that the amount of waste generated in our society by packaging is a significant environmental problem. [More…]
This problem was acknowledged by the Australian Environment Council when it established the Packaging, Recycling and Waste Sub-Committee. [More…]
Have there been adequate and completely satisfactory discussions between officers of his Depanment and the Department of the Environment and Conservation regarding the administration of national parks and wildlife conservation in the Northern Territory. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, has recently introduced the Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Bill, which will apply to a much wider range of proposals than I originally suggested. [More…]
Minister for the Environment and Conservation: Personal Staff (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
I address my question to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
I add that the Minister may have noticed the gratuitous comments made by the Opposition’s spokesman on the environment who travelled all the way from outback New South Wales to reveal to Western Australia his ignorance of the issues involved. [More…]
I ask: What are the environmental conditions imposed by the Australian Government on the Alwest project? [More…]
But I believe that what we have proposed is completely consistent with what we have been saying all along and is completely encompassed by the environment protection Act which this House in fact enacted in December last. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
and (2) The Department of the Environment and Conservation administers the Technical Assistance Program. [More…]
The applications are considered by a committee chaired by a senior officer of the Department of the Environment and Conservation, with members from the Department of Science and a member of the public from the conservation movement. [More…]
He is plunging ahead dangerously, creating an environment of dictatorship as though to say: My will shall be done’. [More…]
These decisions must, I would think, often have reflected the social attitudes and ideas of English judges rather than those of our own judges in Australia for, despite the idea that I think many laymen have about the law, there are many students of the law who hold that the social environment in which judges work can often play a role in determining judicial decisions. [More…]
However, I am going to throw a bouquet at the Minister ibr the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), with whom I have had numerous discussions on this Bill and other Bills under his administration. [More…]
I thank him and his Department for the courtesy and cooperation they have shown and for their genuine attempts to respond to my bipartisan- I say that sincerely- approach to matters relating to environment and conservation. [More…]
The regulations that flow from that legislation do not have the sort of far-reaching national and international consequences of regulations that might flow from an agreement that we could enter into with Japan, Russia, China or other countries which could not only involve the preservation of flora or fauna, but could also have a far-reaching effect upon the environment of man. [More…]
In a weak moment, Australia could find itself, in the euphoria of a conference, involved in some international agreement that could well limit the freedom and the rights of an individual within a community or society, for the sole purpose of trying to preserve the environment as such. [More…]
This legislation will provide the structure, the authority and the will to create a new enthusiasm and purpose that will be the means of providing infinitely more opportunities for our society to assist and participate in the exciting rewards and satisfaction that flow from a very vibrant and creative artistic environment. [More…]
I dunk we must all agree that there is a growing desire and interest for the enrichment, preservation and development of all aspects of our environment. [More…]
At the same time- perhaps this is even more important -it is the responsibility of the Council to ensure that the other people, the consumers of art, who after all are the vast majority of the population, are able to appreciate the art in an environment and at a cost which is to the best advantage of the majority of the people. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Minerals and Energy: Is it true that a very senior officer of his Department was invited to deliver a paper to the Fifth International Symposium on Energy Resources and Environment held in Kuala Lumpur last week? [More…]
Further, why was no officer of his Department present at that conference and symposium at which the world’s leading experts on energy resources and the environment gave the benefit of their knowledge? [More…]
Paragraph (z) refers to the particulars of any arrangements made by the corporation during the financial year for protecting the safety and health of the public in relation to the activities of the corporation and for protecting the environment. [More…]
Because of the nature of the gear involved, as well as the processing requirements, it is an industry which must continually seek to expand its market opportunities, particularly within an environment of raging inflation of the sort to which I have already referred. [More…]
Too often in the past emphasis has been given to ‘house’ people rather than to ‘create a home environment’. [More…]
This is one of the things that worries me, because I personally am convinced that most people in Australia like to be able to plan themselves the home in which they will live, without having it forced upon them and without having the situation in which governments provide housing in the cheapest possible waywhich means uniformity of housing, lack of different designs and an unexciting environment in which to live. [More…]
What the opponents to this Bill are trying to preserve are unstable and unhealthy marriages where the relationship has broken down and become embittered; an environment in which children are likely to be greatly affected and exposed to pressures and tensions that develop insecurity and anti-social behaviour later in life; and huge incomes on which some lawyers- only somespecialising in divorce proceedings wax fat. [More…]
In 1965 in the United States of America the Department of Housing and Urban Development was set up to ensure that the Federal Government was enabled to be more effectively involved in 2 critical domestic problemsthe provision of decent housing in a wholesome environment and the future of cities and suburbs. [More…]
There is little co-operation between Government departmentsthe Department of the Environment and Conservation, the. [More…]
But no one can deny that a government which runs into chronic deficits in its budgeting and fiscal policy and which continues them for long is creating the atmosphere and the environment in which inflation will run riot and which will take several years to correct. [More…]
That is the very environment in which a growth in inflationary pressures will flourish. [More…]
It is the very environment in which the trade unions, which have been a little but only a little reserved in recent days, will see the opportunity to push further their wage claims. [More…]
They represent failures in the operation of the interacting components of a large and complicated transport system involving the vehicle, the road environment, the road user and his social environmrnt. [More…]
The staff will be representative of a wide range of disciplines needed to undertake detailed investigations into the factors affecting vehicles, roads and the road environment, road user behaviour and the interrelationships between them. [More…]
It is the one way to guarantee that children will have a good family environment. [More…]
The Committee concluded that there was a need for the facility, that the site selected was suitable, that the facility will not adversely affect the local environment, that the siting will provide an attractive landscape, and that the work should proceed to construction. [More…]
Consider the fuel that could be saved, as well as the easing of our environmental problems. [More…]
This question involves our whole environment and a more acceptable standard for freight and passenger travel. [More…]
But in many areas where road transport is now breaking up the roads, and causing congestion, environment problems and energy problems, we should be looking at the use of rail transport. [More…]
I hate a man’ because of his environment’. [More…]
Unfortunately racial discrimination has characterised modern history as man of different ethnic origins has achieved greater mobility enabling him to move rapidly from his own environment to the environments of other ethnic groups. [More…]
As man has emerged from the perils of his non-human environment, he brought with him into his new world the instinctive and emotional make-up by means of which he has survived through previous ages. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
It is in this environment that our divorce laws of today must be framed. [More…]
Children need a stable and secure family environment. [More…]
The Council has recently made a total review of research priorities which is aimed to take account of the most pressing needs for the Australian community, some of which have undoubtedly arisen because of its life style and environment. [More…]
Agreement between the Government of Japan and the Government of Australia for the Protection of Migratory Birds and Birds in Danger of Extinction and their Environment. [More…]
Invitations have since been extended to current spokesmen on urban affairs, regional development, housing, the environment and related matters. [More…]
The studies can be conducted with the assistance or the Bureau of Transport Economics and Roads- the Departments of the Treasury, Manufacturing Industry and Environment and Conservation to collaborate in the studies. [More…]
The layout is thought to follow a logical sequence and incorporates the views of an outside consultant, the results of customer opinion surveys and most of the recommendations made in 1971 by the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment in their report on the content form and presentation of telephone directories. [More…]
-Was the Minister for Environment and Conservation informed by the Minister for Minerals and Energy 4 days before the Environmental Impact Bill became law that the Minister for Minerals and Energy had sanctioned the export of mineral sands from Fraser Island? [More…]
I should ask my colleague the Minister for Environment and Conservation on that matter. [More…]
The Treasurer said today during question time that he was prepared to go on spending public money indefinitely to find jobs for the unemployed; yet, as the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) pointed out, each time he spends more public money in the present environment he lessens job opportunities and guarantees that he will need to spend more and more moneys in order to try to bolster up jobs. [More…]
Apart from the fact that many Australians are therefore seriously concerned and are wondering whether in fact they are getting the value from education expenditure which they would expect, the Opposition sees the need to establish an environment in which Australian children receive equal opportunity in education irrespective of whether they come from the cities or remote parts of the continent and regardless of the economic or social position of their parents. [More…]
I hear from many of my own parents and citizens associations and others the constant question: What is the relationship between the work our children are being expected to do at school and their future lives and the environment in which they anticipate living in the future? [More…]
Consequently curricula must include the totality of normal life experiences as well as try to bring children into an environment where they will be trained and able to face the very real changes which quite obviously will be part of their lives. [More…]
I think the tendency has been for far too long that the recommendations of the curricula development committees of the various States have been based on the assumption that those who go to secondary school at some stage are going to find themselves in a tertiary education environment, probably universities. [More…]
There would be above all a reappraisal of the relationship of the school to the wider society with increasing inadequacy of education in formal institutions separated from both the home and the working environment. [More…]
Since we are one of the world ‘s greatest consumers of English literature and English books, I think there is a very real need for the development here of Australian texts prepared by Australians for our own educational environment. [More…]
In this context when we talk about curricula, are we just considering formal studies or are we to relate the environment in which children are expected to live in the future to what they learn at school? [More…]
It is no good teaching children in an environment which is in complete isolation from the environment in which they are expected to live. [More…]
This approach diverts attention from our low quality roads, our appalling highways, the environment in which a vehicle moves and the motor vehicles themselves. [More…]
They represent failures in the operation of the interacting components of a large and complicated transport system involving the vehicle, the road environment, the road user and his social environment. [More…]
What we are doing is providing the machinery by which and the environment in which further scientific approach can be made to this very tragic problem. [More…]
I wish to inform the House that the Leader of the Opposition has nominated Mr Killen to be a member of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in place of Dr Forbes; nominated Mr Hyde to be a member of the Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties in place of Mr Wilson; and nominated Mr Hodges and Mr Jarman to be members of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in place of Mr Bourchier and Mr Wilson. [More…]
It is absolutely impossible, in the competitive environment in which we live, for a city with the character of Hobart to operate efficiently unless a reasonable communications system is maintained, and I am concerned that in the operation of the city of Hobart there should be both the maximum possible expedition in the permanent replacement of the bridge and, in the short term, that there should be a temporary expedient available. [More…]
They can be contrived in a way that is artificial with buildings and landscaping at odds with perspective and the natural environment. [More…]
I want to incorporate in Hansard, just for the record, a Press release by Mr Howson, the then Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, issued on 16 August 1 972. [More…]
I have not moved the motion to embarrass the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) whose sincerity I have never doubted. [More…]
I believe that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation has done his best. [More…]
Let this never happen again to any future Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
I hope that a future Liberal-Country Party government would not do this to its Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
It has been an accepted fact of modern day planning that environmental considerations are an important dimension in any development project. [More…]
He was the first Prime Minister in Australia to introduce the environmental impact statement technique into decision making. [More…]
Indeed the Whitlam Government stated its acceptance of the EIS technique and introduced the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Bill 1974 on 26 November. [More…]
The Opposition commended the Government and the Minister for the Environment and Conservation for the legislation as indeed most environmentalists and conservationists applauded the Government’s action. [More…]
We are led to believe that the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet contacted the Department for the Environment and Conservation for advice. [More…]
That Department rightly advised that no action should be taken unless an environment impact study were made. [More…]
It was a callous, cynical, political decision showing no regard for the environmental protection of Fraser Island. [More…]
It was not until March this year that the truth came out, shocking the Minister for the Environment and Conservation and environmentalists everywhere. [More…]
It is significant that the Minister for Minerals and Energy advised D. M. Minerals on 13 December- 4 days before the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act became law. [More…]
In other words, he went under the neck of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
Why did he not consult his colleague, the Minister for Environment and Conservation? [More…]
On 26 November, the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Bill 1974 was introduced by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
On 17 December the Government’s environment protection impact proposals legislation was proclaimed. [More…]
If the issue of minerals sands from Fraser bland is allowed before the issue of an EIS, and a fair opportunity given in the courts for the public to challenge any such development, what reliance can we place upon this Government’s professed concern for the environment? [More…]
One of the reasons that I voted for your party in the last 2 Federal elections was that the ALP policy seemed to offer some hope that environmental issues within the community would be resolved by democratic- and ultimately by legalprocess. [More…]
Your proposals for the compulsory issue Environment Impact Statements seem to go some way in this direction. [More…]
The EIS is, in the field of man/environment relations, an embodyment of a truly socialist philosophy which allows the people to be subverted right from the start by permitting the export of dune sand minerals from Fraser Island before an EIS, or in defiance of its findings, you will forfeit my support. [More…]
We recognise the need to achieve a balance between the conservation of the environment and economic growth in the knowledge that people not only demand a better environment for themselves and their children but demand also jobs, better houses, better nutrition and better services. [More…]
A Liberal-Country Party government will invoke the principles of the environment protection legislation introduced by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
Let us hope that this brutally dishonest raping of Fraser Island by a Government which has posed as being environmentally conscious marks the beginning of a new era, a new era where development at all cost, where jobs at all cost, where profits at all cost, give way to a more sensitive public determination to balance growth, jobs, profits and standards of living against the needs of posterity and the quality of life. [More…]
Environmentalists have a cause for resentment. [More…]
Yet it introduced a Bill- and it did so with the support of the Opposition- to protect the environment from this sort of intrusion, and 4 days before its proclamation it defied its own Cabinet, its own Caucus decisions and, indeed, its own law. [More…]
Little wonder that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) issued his low key Press statement on 25 March and announced the establishment of an inquiry which it was hoped would influence the mining of the approved leases on Fraser Island. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment and Conservation has done his best but the horses are out of the yard. [More…]
The rights to export the minerals have been given and so an inquiry is now to be held, I suppose, in the hope that the minimum amount of damage is done to the environment, to the sand dunes and the island in the course of those mining operations. [More…]
We have heard the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt) outline the history of events dating back to the appearance on the scene of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) during the Queensland election, when he confirmed the declared attitude of the Government as being extremely interested in and responsible for the environment. [More…]
I refer to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass). [More…]
He gave the people in the area and the conservationists great encouragement when he declared his attitudes and said that it was his intention to prevail on the Government to take measures to arrest the sand mining operations until such time as a proper environmental impact study could be made. [More…]
No one else would have been more dedicated to the declared ambitions of the Labor Government in preserving the environment, but he was moved to send a telegram, immediately after the declaration of the issue of licences, to the Opposition spokesman on the environment in the following terms: [More…]
I will yield to no one my dedication to a proper balance between mineral development and the preservation of the environment. [More…]
The honourable member for Gwydir knows full well- he has had sufficient Parliamentary experience- that the terms of the legislation to which he gave such fulsome praise makes provision for the protection of the environment in relation to projects and decisions of or under the control of the Australian Government. [More…]
Environmental impact study can be carried out under Queensland legislation, namely the State and Regional Planning and Development Public Works, Organisation and Environmental Control Act. [More…]
My Minister for Minerals and Energy and Minister for the Environment and Conservation have now recommended, and I have agreed, that in future, when seeking approval for export contracts for these minerals - [More…]
The minerals are named- derived from new sand mining ventures, the precise source from which the mineral is to be obtained should be stated together with full information concerning the environmental considerations and safeguards that have been submitted to our colleagues the Ministers for the Environment. [More…]
I stress the word ‘new ‘- for these minerals to be accompanied by an identification of the precise source of the mineral and by evidence that the environmental consequences of the mining operations have been studied and found to be satisfactory. [More…]
Insofar as this might require the preparation of environmental impact statements for submission jointly to the appropriate State and Australian Government Departments concerned, I suggest that this specific matter be referred to our respective Environment Ministers at the meeting which we agreed at our Conference on 7 June should take place shortly. [More…]
No doubt you will wish to refer this matter to your Minister for Mines in order that his views may be available to your Environment Minister prior to the proposed Conference. [More…]
I have noted your comments on the advanced stage in planning and expenditure which the company have reached before the date of my letters of 9 July to the Premiers of Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia, and on the steps being taken to ensure protection of the environment. [More…]
In that, I shall expect and receive the assistance of my colleague the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass). [More…]
With inflation reduced and a more stable environment for economic decision making restored there could be a return to genuine full employment. [More…]
It will also require very substantial financial resources to ensure the attainment of planning and development goals and a high standard of services and environment. [More…]
No funds have been requested this financial year for the F19 highway in Victoria, but funds have been made available to the Victorian Government to carry out an environmental impact study on the F19. [More…]
I am concerned about the situation, particularly if the highway is to cut through the very delicate environmental area of the Mullum Mullum Valley or if it will affect the North Ringwood area where a large number of families would be involved. [More…]
I will speak with the Minister for Transport and the Minister for Environment about the possibility of looking at other alternatives, particularly in regard to the Olivero proposals put forward by the honourable member and by the Road Safety Committee. [More…]
The Labor Party is now the victim of its own environment and it is paying the penalties of its policies when in Opposition in inciting unnecessary strikes. [More…]
Australia is to play in our strategic environment and of the requisite size and structure of the defence force. [More…]
We must be prepared, first and fore-‘ most, for military commitment in the Australian environment rather than in the forward areas. [More…]
We must develop and practice an operational doctrine suited to this environment and to a national defence task. [More…]
The orientation of the ground forces has been changed from a counter-insurgency role related to the jungles of South East Asia to roles more specifically related to the defence of Australia in the Australian environment. [More…]
He did say that we live in a low threat environment. [More…]
He did say that we live in a favourable environment. [More…]
There is no indication in the speech of the Minister for Defence of the impact changed ASEAN attitudes may have on the strategic environment in which we live. [More…]
Too often we have heard the heartless platitudes of Hawke, Carmichael, Halfpenny and others who quite apparently have grown up in an environment where those who supply the capital, take the risks, and create employment and security are to be opposed for the sake of opposing and to be pursued relentlessly with a devilish attitude of squeezing the last drops of juice out of private enterprise. [More…]
Here we have a government which has its basis in the trade union movement being unable to exercise authority over its own environment. [More…]
If it is true, will the Minister for Environment (Dr Cass), who is supposed to be humanitarian but who laughs - [More…]
The sad fact is that up till now preschooling originally intended by us as an important aid in removing or modifying inequalities of background, environment, family income and family nationality- had primarily benefited children whose mothers could afford to stay at home. [More…]
Not only has this situation put children from less privileged environments at an even greater disadvantage but also it has created a harmful distinction between the mother who stays at home and the mother who works. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
Preliminary studies of the effect of mining on the environment have been carried out during the exploration phase. [More…]
Some of these studies were undertaken by the South Australian Department of Fisheries and reports on these studies were tabled at the recent Redcliff environmental inquiry. [More…]
These studies are being overviewed by the South Australian Department of Environment and Conservation. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
On Thursday 21 November I was informed that the Department of Environment had received from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet a copy of a letter from the Minister for Minerals and Energy dated 20 November, which indicated the Minister intended to approve an application from D. M. Minerals to negotiate an export contract (Hansard, page 1776). [More…]
The proposed response from the Department was discussed with me and I agreed with the line taken as it was in accordance with previous Government decisions on environmental questions. [More…]
method involves a thorough assessment in both the working and home environment and provides a basis for social and vocational rehabilitation. [More…]
In these preliminary remarks I want to stress that the Department of Urban and Regional Development and the Department of Environment will jointly administer the great task of preserving and enhancing the National Estate. [More…]
It also included programs to ensure that environment protection was the key part of the decisions of the Government, and it started a wide range of programs for the rational management of Australian land, air, water, and biological resources. [More…]
Immediately the draft recommendations were known, the Minister for Environment (Dr Cass) and I set out to give life to the Government’s plans to protect and enhance the National Estate. [More…]
The Committee has also advised the Minister for Environment on the implementation of the States Grants (Nature Conservation) Act under which $9m was spent this financial year. [More…]
The National Estate program must be seen in the whole context of Government policies for the environment and urban and regional development. [More…]
It also supplements several other Acts of Parliament, including the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, The National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act, the States Grants (Nature Conservation) Act and proposed legislation to create a Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. [More…]
The National Estate was a concept which I devised and publicised in the days when I was a spokesman on the environment and urban and regional affairs for the Labor Party in Opposition. [More…]
They feel in much stronger measure the withering away of the physical environment into ugly and barren patterns. [More…]
I also want to stress that we will seek the support of people of goodwill whatever their background to protect the National Estate and beat the bulldozer mentality that has disfigured our environment for so many years and particularly during the last quarter of a century when the Opposition was in Government. [More…]
It is obviously the victim of its own environment, a creature of its own circumstance. [More…]
I remind the House that what we are talking about when we use the term ‘home’ is a combination of a house, the home environment created by the people in it and the articles of furniture which go to make living accommodation. [More…]
One of the reasons that I voted for your party in the last 2 Federal Elections was that the ALP policy seemed to offer some hope that environmental issues within the community would be resolved by democratic- and ultimately by legalprocess. [More…]
Your proposals for the compulsory issue of Environment Impact Statements seem to go some way in this direction. [More…]
The EIS is, in the field of man /environment relations an embodyment of a truly socialist philosophy which allows the people to express a view about the quality of the environment they live in. [More…]
In the printing process, the words ‘to express a view about the quality of the environment they live in. [More…]
A copy of it was sent to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, as he was then titled, the following day. [More…]
Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
I address my question to the Minister for Environment. [More…]
I refer to the occasion when this House was debating the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1 974. [More…]
We are genuinely seeking to implement our environmental impact procedures generally. [More…]
This is where I suggest that those people on both sides of the House who have contact with the States could make the point because I think the environment is at risk if we do not have this sort of responsibility being shown. [More…]
Whenever any mining corporation applies for a prospecting lease or a mining lease we should, if we are all honest, make sure that the environment departments of both the State and the Australian governments are informed. [More…]
When that is done we may then be able to institute environmental impact procedures in co-operation. [More…]
As my colleague, the Minister for Environment, has already stated, when the present Government took over administration the position was already well advanced; I came in at the end of the line, not the start. [More…]
It could well be that she would be asked to go back and work in an environment that was completely and utterly foreign to her. [More…]
Australian Government is not adhering to its policy on environmental impact statements. [More…]
So, with all due respect to the doubts of honourable members opposite, I have every confidence that we will adhere to our policies on the environment. [More…]
Tomorrow my colleague the Minister for Environment will be introducing the Bill, under Federal powers, to make a Great Barrier Reef marine park. [More…]
Even at question time this morning the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) found it necessary to give us something like a 10-minute dissertation on the reasons he still believes that his environment policy is intact. [More…]
From them he will learn that many people in the community are concerned about what is happening on Fraser Island which involves the Minister for Environment (Dr Cass). [More…]
We have seen the Government’s policy on the environment and so forth - [More…]
Essentially, the danger is this: When there is an economic environment such as we sadly see at the moment, there are companies- we are aware that in the last few years there have been failures-with considerable assets, termed ‘book assets’ in particular, as well as assets related to their actual policies, which could be bought up by an Australian Government Insurance Corporation at very low cost indeed. [More…]
Most, if not all, companies which expect to survive in any economic environment, and in particular the present one, would interpret sound commercial principles as based on the premise that they must return a profit, and that their costs of operation therefore must be maintained at a sufficiently low level to achieve a profit at the end of their trading period. [More…]
Mrs Rolfe fundamentally said that it is a peculiar state of affairs that in Australia which has soils that are completely different from those in Europe we have a farming system which is uniquely European and that we are forced, as it were, in our environment to take the species and animal products that have been developed in Europe. [More…]
She argued both to the Agricultural Bureau and on the radio: Would it not be more sensible to look for species which are uniquely suitable to the Australian environment? [More…]
In a climate in which inflation is running at an average rate of 17.5 per cent per annum, in an environment in which statistics released as recently as this week showing that private employment is down by 140 000 persons and public employment up by 76 000, a directly increasing burden is being placed on those who as wealth producers are finding it difficult to survive in the international markets. [More…]
Whether the takeover would be consistent with the Government’s objectives in relation to such matters as defence, the environment and conservation, urban and regional development and the preservation of Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
They are the breeding grounds and nurseries of species upon which the world ‘s commercial fisheries depend and of many other species vital to the complex food webs of the marine environment. [More…]
To ensure that marine ecosystems generally are protected in a comprehensive manner, I will be introducing a Marine Environment Protection Bill in the Budget Session of Parliament. [More…]
-Will the Prime Minister table a letter dated 22 November 1974 from the Department of Environment to his Department expressing opposition to the application by Dillingham-Murphyores Minerals for a licence to export minerals from sandmining operations on Fraser Island in order that the Minister for Environment and his Department may be cleared of charges of delay and inefficiency? [More…]
I have nothing to add to answers which have been given already to questions on notice asked of my colleagues the Minister for Minerals and Energy and the Minister for Environment and myself bearing upon these precise matters. [More…]
Minister for Environment) ( 10.28)- We agree with the sentiments expressed in this proposal but we have been advised that the actual terms used by the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt) in his proposed amendment will not quite achieve what he is setting out to do. [More…]
However, the Minister alone or governments alone have little hope of protecting the National Estate or the environment. [More…]
The environment, and for that matter the National Estate, surrounds all of us. [More…]
The Bill states: the national estate consists of those places, being components of the natural environment of Australia or the cultural environment of Australia, that have aesthetic, historic, scientific or social significance or other special value for future generations as well as for the present community. [More…]
Co-operation and co-operative effort by all sections of the community are necessary to enhance the quality of our environment and to protect the National Estate. [More…]
It is in times of prosperity, full employment and social security- we are all products of that situationthat a population is likely to concern itself with the environment and the National Estate. [More…]
It is in times of economic disorder and social suffering that a population is more likely to concern itself with its own social survival and to ignore the environment and the preservation of the National Estate. [More…]
I understand that it will take 3 years to finalise the ecological survey which the Minister for Environment (Dr Cass) has initiated in respect of our wet lands. [More…]
During my membership of the Australian Parliament, my greatest job satisfaction in the 26th Parliament has been to be Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Wildlife Conservation and in the 27th Parliament and the 28th Parliament to be Chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
We just do not have the bodies which can handle that sort of thing; nor do we have the sorts of land use bodies that can take on the environmental considerations of commercial activities- for example, forestry activities- and determine how they fit into this scheme. [More…]
Some of the greatest sins and ravaging of our environment are done in the private areas of land use in destroying a national estate. [More…]
In that area there is a conflict between the interests of tourism, the management of an arid environment and the needs of the Aboriginal people, to whom that area has tribal significance, and so on. [More…]
They are abusing the trust of ordinary, honest, decent Australians who want to preserve pur environment. [More…]
I would yield to no one in my desire to preserve the environment. [More…]
The changes proposed are designed to achieve a balanced membership which will enhance the Corporation’s ability to perform its functions in a modern marketing environment. [More…]
It reflects the history of administration in my ministry and in the portfolio of the Minister for Environment (Dr Cass). [More…]
-The Opposition appreciates the effort made by the Minister for Environment (Dr Cass) and the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) to accommodate the Opposition’s concern that the Commission should, in the exercise of its functions, ensure adequate consultation and cooperation with the States. [More…]
Those features of our environment likely to come under threat can be identified. [More…]
Crisis preservation on an ad hoc basis will not enable us to save enough of the best of our environment. [More…]
When one looks at the National Estate program as it applies to South Australia one finds that the South Australian Minister and the Australian Government Minister for Environment (Dr Cass) have said: [More…]
It was dealt with in the Jordan report dealing with the environment in South Australia in which it was described in this way: [More…]
This area is of great national significance and both the Minister for Environment and the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren), who are sitting at the table, have been involved in this issue. [More…]
When the Minister for Environment was in Adelaide in 1974 he said that it was the Australian Government’s responsibility to preserve areas of significance at Hallett Cove, south of Adelaide. [More…]
I hope the Minister for Urban and Regional Development and the Minister for Environment (Dr Cass) will look very closely at these matters because I think that this commission ought to make recommendations and that there ought to be a separate organisation to accept bequests. [More…]
The report will be available within the next day or two and I think an important statement will be made within a week by the Minister for the Environment (Dr Cass) and myself and the South Australian Minister for the Environment regarding certain action that we will be taking in Hallett Cove. [More…]
It is a constant source of amazement to me to find the Minister for Environment (Dr Cass) blaming anyone from the Legislative Council to conservative forces in South Australia in relation to this question. [More…]
Both the Minister for Environment and the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) will remember clearly that on several occasions I have sent them telegrams. [More…]
Environment) ( 12.43)- I move: [More…]
I wish to point out 3 things: First of all, both the Minister for Urban and Regional Development and the Minister for Environment (Dr Cass) will be aware that I am very interested in this matter. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Environment (Dr Cass) has indicated his willingness to do so in matters relating to his portfolio. [More…]
We must encourage the housewife to venture outside and we must encourage the husband and wife to spend time together in an environment of recreation. [More…]
Thanks to the hard work and the dedication of its members I firmly believe the Environment and Conservation Committee has made a valuable contribution to the process of the public examination of important topical issues. [More…]
-As a member of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation I want to make a very brief statement endorsing the comments of the Chairman of the Committee in the presentation of the report which has just been tabled in the House. [More…]
This involves questions of finance and resource management as well as the important environmental considerations. [More…]
Every morning he wakes up to disputes between Ministers, differences in approach between the left wing section and the right wing section of the Labor Party- whether it is on foreign policy, managing the economy, or on the question of mineral exploitation versus the environment. [More…]
Environmentalists can take considerable satisfaction from the decision of the High Court. [More…]
I have conveyed the decision to the Minister for Minerals and Energy and also to the Minister for the Environment for their consideration. [More…]
I should also inform the House, in conclusion, that legal assistance through the Australian Legal Aid Office was given to the objector and the environmental movement right from the beginning; in the hearing before the Mining Warden, in the hearing for the writ of mandamus in the Queensland Supreme Court and right up to the High Court. [More…]
Nevertheless, Japan’s problems with pollution and the environment are of prime consideration to us. [More…]
The environmental problems of sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere and of all the other pollutants which come from burning hydrocarbons is such that in a small area such as Japan, this will be an inhibiting factor. [More…]
I think this is nowhere more prominent than in the issue of conservation and preservation of the environment. [More…]
Any mineral or environment policies in Australia are essentially based upon co-operation between a national government with powers over export licences and State governments which have the power to issue mining licences. [More…]
I give this example because it shows that our environment policy is sound and consistent but it falls down if we cannot gain State co-operation. [More…]
He cannot buy his way out of bad planning, out of a smog-filled environment or out of a traffic jammed city. [More…]
Co-operative federalism implies an end to ad hoc or piecemeal decision-making and a start to national planning for the environment, for the cities, for the country and for our economy. [More…]
The Australian Government policy statement ‘A National Approach to Water Resources Management’ which the Minister for Environment (Dr Cass) tabled in Parliament in October sets out a broad framework and a series of objectives for a balanced approach to water resources management. [More…]
Such zoning and management must of course be carried out in the context of the regional development framework and take full account of the overall social, economic and environmental requirements of particular districts and the nation as a whole ‘. [More…]
The Minister for Environment (Dr Cass) has stated on other occasions that flood plains are for floods. [More…]
I understand that in other areas of Australia where new universities have been developed there has been a request that colleges be developed within the universities to assist students to create that special environment in which they will be able to pursue their studies to advantage. [More…]
Raising the standard of health of Aboriginals requires consideration of and improvement in all aspects of their living conditions and their social and economic environment and, of necessity, greater participation and direct involvement of the Aboriginal people themselves. [More…]
Surely the key thing at risk here is that the fine OTC machine for international negotiation in the multilateral environment will be dissipated and lost if the OTC were absorbed by the much larger ATC. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, upon notice: [More…]
These studies have been administered by the Department of the Environment. [More…]
The growing complexities of international trade in such an evolutionary environment have either demanded or resulted in more and more government involvement. [More…]
What I and others like me are concerned about is that ultimately this Government intends to use the Superior Court to rule on all manner of matters such as discrimination, environment, children, women, motor accidents, the stock exchange, corporations and trade unions. [More…]
The Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) is in dispute with the Minister for Environment (Dr Cass). [More…]
Part of this program will be directed toward recreation in the work environment and I hope to undertake some initiatives in this field in 1975-76. [More…]
Other reports were prepared to assist in the development of my Department s approach to the leisure environment and, as such, are not available for wide distribution. [More…]
-Today is World Environment Day. [More…]
If reports are correct the Minister for Environment (Dr Cass) will be transferred from his Environment portfolio today, on World Environment Day. [More…]
It was against this background that, as the Opposition shadow Minister for Environment and in association with the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Ellicott), the former distinguished SolicitorGeneral, I commenced negotiations with the Minister for Environment to give more consideration to Queensland in the personnel to be appointed to the all-important Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. [More…]
We commend the objectives and also the motivation and the diligence and the cooperative attitude of the Minister for Environment and his Department for the way in which they have co-operated with me and with the Opposition in these and in other matters. [More…]
I say that sincerely, because he is seeking to achieve the sort of co-operative community involvement in matters affecting our environment that is needed. [More…]
I also should like to congratulate the Minister for Environment (Dr Cass) on his initiative and the initiative of his Department in bringing forward this legislation, which marks another very great step forward in the field of conservation. [More…]
The successful growing of sugar cane involves using very large quantities of pesticides and fertilisers, and the effect of these is little known insofar as the marine environment is concerned. [More…]
As the Minister for the Environment (Dr Cass) said in his second reading speech, the Barrier Reef is a vast collection of islands and coral reefs extending some 1900 kilometres along our northeastern coastline. [More…]
New South Wales aims to establish a number of marine national parks, but the marine environment of the greatest extent and interest is clearly the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]
I understand that the Minister for Environment (Dr Cass) may consent to the amendment. [More…]
It is World Environment Day. [More…]
It is also the day when the Stockholm environmental conference began in 1972. [More…]
I hope that it is also the day when the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) abandons any thought of removing Dr Cass as Minister for Environment. [More…]
The aim of the Bill is to preserve the marine environment. [More…]
One of the questions that has to be considered in relation to this measure and particularly clause 65 is whether it bases itself soundly in constitutional power, because it would be tragic if Australia and this Parliament had no power to control the marine environment of the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]
The right of movement over the high seas has to be taken into account, and therefore what might seem on the face of it a very wide regulation-making power, in order to stay within validity, should be read down so that the measures that are taken are clearly relevant to the protection and the conservation of the marine environment concerned. [More…]
In case there be any doubt I suggest that one of our efforts in the law of the sea discussions should be to achieve a situation where coastal States have either a right or an obligation to preserve the marine environment around their shores, not unrealistically and not without regard to the rights of fishermen, traditional or otherwise, but having regard to the fact that it is part of the heritage of Australia and indeed of the world beyond. [More…]
In brief, these are to build a new and permanent Parliament House and to ensure parliamentary control of the environment surrounding it. [More…]
It had to look at the question of car parking which was canvassed by the representatives of the Parramatta City Council and by the representatives of the Planning and Environment Commission, and it had to look at past policies. [More…]
During talks a few months ago with the State Planning and Environment Commission they indicated that in the light of further studies they would prefer a maximum of 1000 cars. [More…]
asked the Minister of Environment, upon notice: [More…]
-asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
the letters that were written by his Department on 2 1 November 1974 to the Department of the Environment seeking that Department’s views on sand mining on Fraser Island; [More…]
the Department of the Environment’s reply dated 22 November 1974; [More…]
On 2 July I advised the Governor-General to terminate the commission of the Minister for Environment. [More…]
I emphasise this to draw the contrast between my decision to transfer him from the Treasury to Environment on 6 June and my decision to advise the Governor-General to terminate his commission. [More…]
Jim Cairns, M.P., Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Environment, Parliament House, CANBERRA, A.C.T. [More…]
I have been removed from the position of Minister for Environment for a reply to the Prime Minister, which he considered unsatisfactory, on whether I had misled the House in my answer to questions on 4 July. [More…]
The advice of the Permanent Head of the Attorney-General’s Department puts all the arrangements of the Minister for Minerals and Energy, as executed through that Executive Council minute, in the same light as those which led to the dismissal of the former Minister for Environment, the honourable member for Lalor. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
If so, has the Government assessed what impact these tests might have on the environment of the South Pacific; if so, what has been the outcome of that examination; if not, will an investigation be undertaken urgently? [More…]
The Australian Government is naturally anxious that the environment of the South Pacific not be damaged. [More…]
the extent of relevant existing eduction programs, including sex education programs, and their effectiveness in promoting responsible sexual behaviour and providing a sound basis in the fundamentals of male and female relationships in the Australian social environment; [More…]
I have served on the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, under his chairmanship, for more than 2 years, as have members on the other side of the House. [More…]
He has shown that same skill in his time in this Parliament as chairman of committees which have dealt with quite controversial topics relating to the environment. [More…]
He has been a member of the House Committee, he was the Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Wildlife Conservation, he is the Chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation and he is the Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Parliamentary Committee System. [More…]
He has, moreover, been a member of the Australian delegation to the annual conference of the InterParliamentary Union at Paris in September 197 1 and a member of the Third International Parliamentary Conference on the Environment in Nairobi in April last year. [More…]
Is it true that the 3 Ministers who sat through the discussions were the Minister for Environment, the Minister for Tourism and Recreation and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs? [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
‘An Evaluation of the Dartmouth Project’ Department of Environment and Conservation, April 1974. [More…]
Mr J. P. LeMaistre Windsor High School, N.S.W.-The ‘ WIMS ‘ project- structuring a learning environment consistent with the needs, interests and abilities of the nonacademic adolescent. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report on a survey conducted by Spectrum International Marketing Services Pty Ltd for the Department of Environment entitled ‘Public attitudes to the environment’. [More…]
If the proposed takeover is judged not to be against the national interest on this basis, the following additional criteria will also be taken into account: Whether, after the takeover, the business concerned could be expected to follow practices consistent with Australia’s interest in matters such as exports, imports, local processing of materials produced, research and development and industrial relations; and whether the takeover would be consistent with the Government’s objectives in relation to such matters as defence, the environment and conservation, urban and regional development and the preservation of Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
If the proposed takeover is then judged not to be against the national interest, additional criteria will be taken into account, namely, whether after the takeover the business concerned could be expected to follow practices consistent with Australia’s interests in matters such as exports, imports, local processing of material produced, research and development, and industrial relations, and whether the takeover would be consistent with the Government’s objectives in relation to such matters as defence, environment and conservation, urban and regional development, and the preservation of Aboriginal land. [More…]
Whether the takeover would be consistent with the Government’s objectives for defence, the environment and conservation, urban and regional development or the preservation of Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
-It seems that there is a great and urgent desire to change the whole of the structure, the environment and the thinking in regard to an Army which only some few years ago General Westmoreland- an American general, by the way, and that is of some significance; they do not throw out their praise very freely- described as the most magnificent of its kind in the world. [More…]
Flats were permitted to be built in a residential areas in which people had bought or built homes so that they might live the rest of their lives in a decent environment and in the company of friends and relatives. [More…]
It is this sort of feeling and this sort of environment that existed in the mid-1960s under a Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
Consequently the Committee was concerned to preserve as much of the natural environment as possible. [More…]
If some of the enormous amount of money being spent on drugs treating various conditions that are part of the way of life of industrialised society were spent on research into the type of environment which is producing those conditions, and if social and political action were taken to rectify that climate, the funds might be very much better spent. [More…]
Last week we saw an exhibition of the sort of old-fashioned politics of abuse, exaggeration and assault on public confidence we are simply unable to afford in this new world economic environment. [More…]
The background to it is that during the last financial year the previous Minister for Environment made offers under the States Grants (Nature Conservation) Act to reimburse the States for the purchase of various tracts of land valued in all at about $9m. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a table dealing with the reductions and increases which is actually a Budget paper and the incorporation of which has been approved by the Minister for Environment (Mr Berinson) at the table. [More…]
I believe that we have a responsibility to provide an environment in which jobs for young people are available. [More…]
The Department of Environment administers a program of Wildlife Policy Investigation which in 1974-75 made $381,000 available for a wide range of biologically and ecologically oriented studies. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment upon notice: [More…]
Public notices of intention to hold environmental inquiries under the Environment Protection (Impact ofProposals) Assessment Act 1974-75. [More…]
Expenditure over the last five years for the Department of Environment was as follows- [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
Much of the research undertaken in carrying out this role is concerned with understanding the environment and learning to manage it. [More…]
The role of the Bureau of Environmental Studies is to carry out research and investigations to provide factual information needed by the Department of Environment to enable it to carry out its legislative and regulatory functions and to encourage research in those aspects of the environment where a need exists but which have not been adequately studied by other research bodies. [More…]
Is the Minister for the Environment aware of the concern of councils and citizens in relation to the damage being caused by wave action in Botany Bay and also their concern about installations for the new port development in Botany Bay? [More…]
It is not even clear at this point whether the direct environment protection powers available to me would be applicable in the Botany Bay situation, although the Commonwealth does have an obvious interest there through Towra Point and its involvement in the proposed harbour and airport developments. [More…]
That is desperately sad not merely for any political party in this country but for the whole nation, because the startling fact of life is that for this country our whole defence environment has changed. [More…]
We have been able to demonstrate here that we can establish cities somewhere other than on the eastern seaboard; that we can establish pleasant urban living facilities in the country; that we can have good education, good health services, good roads and at the same time enjoy the advantages of a rural environment. [More…]
It is through closer co-ordination at the delivery level where the effects of our spending have their impact that an improved urban and regional environment and through it a better quality of life can be realised. [More…]
To date the Department of Science and Consumer Affairs and the Department of Environment have communicated informally on environmental research. [More…]
It is expected that the establishment of the Bureau of Environmental Studies will allow closer consultation in the future. [More…]
Does the Department administer policy in these areas jointly with the Department of Environment or separately. [More…]
The National Estate is defined widely as those sites of historic, scientific and cultural importance and include both the natural environment and the urban and built environment. [More…]
The Department of Urban and Regional Development administers the National Estate policy jointly with the Department of Environment on the general basis that Urban and Regional Development is concerned primarily with the urban and built environment while the Department of Environment is concerned with the natural environment. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) (a) Grants are made to environment and conservation groups for the following purposes: [More…]
The objective of this scheme is to ensure that private environment and conservation groups receive the professional assistance necessary to enable them to prepare sound cases on specific issues and thus help the community to become its own environmental advocate. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
Five members of the Committee were appointed on 13 March 1972 by the then Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
His program, in order to have any semblance of economic responsibility, would have to tear the heart out of the Government’s education, welfare, health and urban development and recreation programs that are designed to provide equality of opportunity, income security, good health and a more pleasant environment for all. [More…]
They can afford to pay for the best schools, the best health care and the best urban environment and have no need of income security programs. [More…]
We will be swimming in dollar bills- an environment in which inflation and wage demands will inevitably take off again. [More…]
It is one of the tragedies of our society that the people who need a comprehensive knowledge of their rights, who need a thorough understanding of the process of the law, are the very people who are denied this knowledge, that those people who are most likely to have their rights usurped and trampled upon are the very people who, because of their background, their education and their environment, are the most helpless when it comes to asserting those rights. [More…]
This is the area of environmental and consumer protection. [More…]
No other legal aid service is available for groups seeking to protect our environment. [More…]
Without the Australian Legal Aid Office they would be at the mercy of the huge and often multinational companies which so frequently threaten our natural environment. [More…]
Where, for instance, is the market place which requires the private sector to value and care for the environment? [More…]
In this Parliament and in the practice of politics is where we all have to stand up and demonstrate our support and concern for people in need and a concern for the environment. [More…]
We have achieved what we set out to do in that we have created an environment in which over-award payments are depressed. [More…]
It has squeezed profits and has created an environment in which private industry cannot plan for the future because it has no confidence in what will happen. [More…]
I recall grants of $145,000 under the Aged Persons Homes Act for 4 projects at Smithton and Ulverstone; $8,200 for environment and conservation; $253,000 for community health and school dental services; $206,000 for tourism and recreation grants; $100,000 for child care centre grants; $12,000 towards the Australian Assistance Plan for salaries; and $91,000 for road safety improvements. [More…]
It would be doing exactly the same thing in a different environment. [More…]
I raise a question which concerns a lot of Western Australians and I feel would concern the Minister for Environment (Mr Berinson) who is at the table. [More…]
Department of Environment, and Department of Tourism and Recreation (together). [More…]
It is becoming increasingly obvious that one of the major factors affecting the quality of the education provided is the quality of the environment in which that education is being given. [More…]
Money can go some way towards providing this environment, although as we are always aware from the growing concern over the illiteracy rate, it is not the sole answer. [More…]
This environment is also achieved by the purchase of equipment such as projectors and duplicators and all sorts of material that can be used by teachers to capture their pupils’ interest and for greater personal involvement by the students in their own education. [More…]
In this sitting the Environment Protection (Marine) Bill will be introduced to bring together a comprehensive code for the protection of all aspects of the marine environment. [More…]
The lowest of all the appropriations is the appropriation for the Department of Environment, for which an amount of $7,703,000 has been provided. [More…]
Of course, the Department of Environment is a very new department whereas Parliament is a very old institution going back for centuries. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment (Mr Berinson) made reference to a number of inadequacies with respect to the researching of material which is to be considered in Parliament. [More…]
I regret that when the Minister for Environment (Mr Berinson) was speaking earlier this evening, a quorum was called. [More…]
As mentioned by the Minister for Environment (Mr Berinson) this evening, we had one election before the required time because the Senate threatened to refuse Supply. [More…]
It was to be an example to the Third World that the system of parliamentary democracy might be able to work in an environment that many thought was alien to that system. [More…]
What about questions of the environment, which was a ragtag attachment to a Minister who had a number of things to deal with? [More…]
What about the environment- the impetus that has been given to research in this field and to the biological research in a number of other fields? [More…]
Obviously it is difficult to come up with an economic solution in that environment. [More…]
Previous letters have been written to, the then, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs- Mr Kavenagh the Minister for Police and Customs, and the Minister for Environment (who was approached through the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs) because the main source of liquor comes from the East Alligator River ‘ Border Store ‘, which is within the proposed Kakadu National Park. [More…]
But I would like to read what the Reverend Jim Downing of Alice Springs said about consultants, in giving evidence before the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]
I know that the Department of Labor and Immigration has taken the suggestion aboard but I hope that in the not too distant future the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs will turn his attention to this possibility and that his Department will take the opportunity to use this wool store, which is lying empty, to try to provide worthwhile employment opportunity and training for many of the young people who, because they have no trade, will have to drift into Redfern or elsewhere in Sydney away from their own environment. [More…]
The honourable member for Fraser (Mr Fry) made a very important point, that is, that zero growth in the Public Service Will have a very direct impact on the economic environment of the A.C.T. [More…]
It Will certainly have a direct impact on the economic environment of Queanbeyan where nearly 750 public servants are now employed in the Australian Government Public Service. [More…]
The joint development corporation there is under the control of the New South Wales Minister for Environment and Planning. [More…]
If one is concerned with pollution, particularly noise pollution, and the environment this ought to be a matter of very great concern to them. [More…]
Labor will encourage research and development of energy conversion methods which entail minimum pollution of the environment, such as solar energy and tidal power. [More…]
He shows concern also for the environment. [More…]
Cadets develop skills in a structured environment supported by the authority of the school and fostered by the Army. [More…]
The current role of the school cadet system is to develop in the school cadet the qualities of leadership, citizenship and self-reliance in a disciplined environment. [More…]
How can this Government, so avowedly concerned for the environment and getting people to enjoy it, disband an organisation that fosters enjoyment of it? [More…]
-The table indicates the low call on legal aid for environmental matters. [More…]
Let me illustrate with an example the misunderstanding about what legal aid is and its availability for environmental matters. [More…]
Recently the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Enderby) announced that assistance to the value of about $5,000 to $6,000 would be given to a woman at Ferntree Gully to fight against quarry operations which were allegedly despoiling the environment and encroaching onto the communal rights of nearby residents. [More…]
The interpretation was that the Australian Government interfered in areas outside its concern and it sided with the woman and the environmentalists, whereas the facts were that after the woman had established that she had a prima facie case against the quarry company she required legal assistance, to take her case to the court. [More…]
I will show them secondary schools where local initiatives by parent groups and teachers are providing rural children with a component of technical tuition specifically orientated towards future employment in their own district and environment. [More…]
The police, the pensioners association, the Brotherhood of St Laurence and even the Bureau of Statistics are of the opinion that deaths and accidents among the aged are in many cases inflicted and caused by an environment of isolation. [More…]
They were: The Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Cameron; the Treasurer, Dr Cairns; the Minister for Urban and Regional Development, Mr Uren; the Minister for Social Security, Mr Hayden; the Minister for Manufacturing Industry, Senator James McClelland; the Minister for Tourism and Recreation, Mr Stewart; and the Minister for Environment, Dr Cass. [More…]
They are: The Minister for Labor and Immigration, Senator James McClelland; the Treasurer, Mr Hayden, the Minister for Urban and Regional Development, Mr Uren; the Minister for Social Security and Minister for Repatriation and Compensation, Senator Wheeldon; the Minister for Manufacturing Industry, Mr Bowen; the Minister for Tourism and Recreation, Mr Stewart; and the Minister for Environment, Mr Berinson. [More…]
-In speaking to the estimates for the Department of Environment I would like to take this opportunity to thank the former Ministers especially the previous Minister who is now Minister for the Media (Dr Cass) and the present Minister for Environment (Mr Berinson) for the co-operation they have extended to me on matters related to the Environment portfolio. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that in a period of 12 months I have had the privilege, for want of a more courteous expression, to shadow no less than 4 Ministers, namely, Dr Cass, Dr J. F. Cairns, then the Prime Minister and now the present Minister for Environment, Mr Berinson. [More…]
Last year when I was offered this responsibility by the Opposition of being Opposition spokesman on the environment I resolved that I would approach it in the most bi-partisan manner possible. [More…]
Irresponsible confrontation on environmental issues will not solve anything. [More…]
The environment belongs to everyone and it will not be protected unless individuals and the community as a whole are concerned for it. [More…]
1, expenditure by the Department of Environment for 1975-76 is shown as $7,703,000 as against $8,893,439 in 1974-75 and $8,243,437 in 1973-74. [More…]
2 a total of $7,703,000 is shown as the appropriation for the Department of Environment for 1974-75. [More…]
From what I have said, Mr Chairman, you will appreciate that it is very difficult to speak to the estimates of the Department of Environment and environmental issues when it is so hard to work out the total appropriation and the funding for this important area. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Environment: Is it necessary to present the Department’s estimates in such an involved and fragmented way? [More…]
-I address myself to the estimates for the Department of Environment. [More…]
The sum of $ 1 ,000 was made available for an investigation into the environmental aspects of the establishment of a radiation laboratory at Yallambie in my electorate. [More…]
Environment made $5,000, 1 think, available to the Town and Country Planning Association of Victoria to enable a project on waste disposal in Melbourne to be carried out and a report to be prepared. [More…]
In biological history, no organism has survived long if its environment became in some way unfit for it, but no organism before man has deliberately polluted its own environment. [More…]
I will say something later on about the methods by which we dispose of wastes, but little or no thought has been given to the following: Have methods been in harmony with the environment? [More…]
I believe that the Department of Environment, in enabling reports like this to be prepared and in assisting residents of areas to get information that they can put before government departments, is doing a great service. [More…]
I think I have got to the stage of life where I can give the Minister for Environment (Mr Berinson) some kind of fatherly advice. [More…]
What is wrong with a Department of Environment that cannot grasp a nettle such as this? [More…]
Estimates debates are too fragmented for use as a platform for any real discussion of our attitude as a nation to environmental and conservation matters. [More…]
I believe it is too simple to accept the impression that concern for the environment now is so widespread that the battle, at least in principle, has been won; that it is just a matter of sorting out the details; that we are not in fact in an area of political dispute, as the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt) put it to us earlier. [More…]
As Minister for Environment, as one of what he called the colourful figures passing him by, I think I can say with confidence, and in the hope that I have not yet passed him by, that environment is one of our most highly contentious areas and as a result one of our most political areas. [More…]
That arises simply from the fact that environmental questions come up so often on the basis of competing interests. [More…]
That is the sort of field in which anyone with the responsibility for environment finds himself. [More…]
Finally let me say this to honourable members as I believe it will be of interest to them: A great deal of the work of the Department of Environment is a bit like the iceberg with only a small amount of it appearing above the surface. [More…]
-In rising to speak on the appropriations for the Department of Environment, I wish to direct my remarks to the sum of $315,000 set aside for the costs associated with public hearings held as part of the preparation of environmental impact statements. [More…]
The expenditure is quite necessary if the full intentions of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act are to be achieved. [More…]
It is essential that the public be involved if forward planning and successful protection of the environment are to be achieved. [More…]
The environmental impact statement approach goes a long way towards achieving this end. [More…]
The planning and environment Ministers in the Hamer Government, Mr Hunt and Mr Borthwick, have come under partly unjustified attack to the point where Mr Hunt was forced in exasperation to say: [More…]
For example, in similar terms to the platform of the Australian Labor Party, the Liberal Party’s own platform provides for ‘recognition that effective and sensible land use planning is essential to provide for orderly development, preserve the environment, and maintain and enhance the quality of life ‘. [More…]
Of course, the Australian Government would require an environmental impact statement on programs which involve expenditure of Australian Government money- that is, where the money is identifiable as being Australian Government funds. [More…]
An environmental impact study would need to take into account many factors, including the impact of the proposal on the physical environment, the flora and fauna, and man made materials. [More…]
It would need to take into account also the social environment such as health, employment, safety, the community, recreation and privacy. [More…]
If the publication of such an environmental impact statement resulted in public comments which questioned whether the proposal had been considered adequately, then the Minister could call for a public inquiry to follow, although I suspect, and it is expected, that only a small proportion of such statements would result in public inquiries. [More…]
The Australian Government is anxious that people be encouraged to participate fully in decisions which affect their environment. [More…]
Accordingly, finance is being provided to environment centres and conservation organisations to enable them to co-ordinate the activities of community groups. [More…]
Local government had cooperated with the State Government to bring about the re-organisation of the quarry operations in the Dandenongs also to minimise the impact on the environment. [More…]
Both parties thought that their plan was the best one to minimise the impact on the environment. [More…]
It is extremely important that that sort of assistance be given by the Australian Government and that environmental impact studies and public inquiries be carried out if all people in the community are to have their rights observed and the community rights observed. [More…]
I welcome this opportunity to speak on the estimates for the Department of Environment, particularly because yesterday the Australian Advisory Committee on the Environment published a report dealing with coastal land. [More…]
The results may form the basis of an environmental impact study if the proposal for a highway is to be taken further. [More…]
It has a responsibility to ensure that the environment is protected, to make its own assessment and judgment on whether or not this area of land, unique as it is within metropolitan Perth, should be preserved as it is. [More…]
Therefore, both from a personal and a political interest, I think it is of great national importance that this report of the Advisory Committee on the Environment has been brought down, advocating as it does a national coastal protection policy. [More…]
Once more I must praise him, and particularly so today for bringing to the attention of this chamber the report of the Australian Advisory Committee on the Environment in respect of coastal land. [More…]
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation has recently concluded a reference in respect of future land use in the Jervis Bay area. [More…]
During the hearings of that Committee the Department of Environment brought forward a submission relating specifically to coastal lands. [More…]
I certainly trust that the Minister for Environment (Mr Berinson) and his Department will take the recommendations of this Committee into account. [More…]
I think it is very important that a department working in an area such as environment should constantly adjust and not become too rigid because we are dealing very much with an area concerned with value judgments. [More…]
I think that one of the most important pieces of legislation introduced into the House in the current Parliament was that relating to environmental impact statements. [More…]
Many environmental impact statements are now under way and I foresee that in the future there may be some need to look at the way that these measures have worked out in practice. [More…]
The House of Representatives Standing Committee has enabled the members of it in particular to assess the way that people involved in the conservation movement, from the Department down to individuals, are thinking and developing their thoughts on all matters concerned with the environment and the way that the Government can involve itself at all levels in the problem. [More…]
As the Minister for Environment said, the States are co-operating with respect to national parks. [More…]
The table shows that the States are trying to incorporate their legislation into one Act that will cover all aspects of the environment. [More…]
-In rising to speak to the estimates for the Department of Environment and the Department of Tourism and Recreation I would firstly like to refer to a point made by the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Lamb). [More…]
I give the Government an assurance that when there is a change of government the present Opposition certainly will carry out the same policy in regard to environmental impact statements. [More…]
I noted with interest one particular item when looking at the proposed expenditure for the Department of Environment in the Appropriation Bill. [More…]
One of the areas under the control of the Department of Environment is that relating to impact statements on the acquisition or use of land. [More…]
An environmental impact statement issued on the land in that area has shown that it is environmentally not practicable or desirable that homes should be built in these areas. [More…]
But I think that as Minister for Environment he has an indirect responsibility. [More…]
I would like the Minister for Environment, who is at the table, to take note of this matter because these people are in need of assistance. [More…]
I thank the various honourable members who have contributed to the debate on the environment, particularly the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Lamb) who has been a member, and is now Chairman, of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
The honourable member has recently accepted the chairmanship of the Australian Advisory Committee on the Environment, one of whose reports was the subject of comment by the honourable member for Stirling (Mr Viner). [More…]
I advise the honourable member for Stirling that, as a fellow Western Australian, apart from being Minister for Environment, I will certainly be looking with great interest at any proposals on the highway to which he referred. [More…]
If there has been a change in the pattern of behaviour and incidence of disease it is far more likely to be due to an established change in the chemical environment than to any alleged social or economic factors. [More…]
There has been an environmental change related to industry and to the motor vehicle, but there is nothing new about stress. [More…]
Social and economic factors have remained substantially constant or have improved; the environment has not. [More…]
Man has to live within his environment and I hope that this Government and future governments will do what they can to encourage not only the universities but also private industry to take a very real interest in the social sciences. [More…]
To interpret the Science and Industry Research Act in such a way as to strengthen CSIRO’s involvement as a research organisation in new fields, particularly in consumer standards, safety, transport and environment research; [More…]
To control, and where possible, prohibit the advertising of products which represent a danger to human health, or which release into the environment toxic or indestructible materials, or which make unreasonable use of scarce natural resources, or which have other significant detrimental environmental impact; [More…]
National Air Quality Criteria (convened by the Department of Environment) [More…]
Membership includes representatives of the Departments of Environment, Health, Science and Consumer Affairs, Urban and Regional Development, Treasury, and CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian Government Analyst. [More…]
The Committee comprises representatives of Australian and State Departments of Health, Environment and Transport and representatives of the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries and the Petroleum Industry Executive Council for the Environment. [More…]
The Committee’s function is to advise on motor vehicle emission standards, to keep a watching brief on overseas developments and to liaise with health and environment officials in Australia. [More…]
(i) The Victorian Environment Protection Agency has supplied the following data from their internal report No. [More…]
I inspected the Manjimup woodchip area on 24 and 25 September 1975 in the company of the Honourable T. V. Jones, Minister for Conservation and Environment and Mr Bruce Beggs, Conservator of Forests for Western Australia. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
However in May 1975 the South Australian Minister of Environment and Conservation, Mr Broomhill, and the former Minister for Environment, Dr Cass, agreed to issue a joint statement setting out details of those proposals for which Dr Cass had agreed in principle to provide financial assistance under the States Grants (Nature Conservation) Act 1974. [More…]
I have written to the South Australian Minister of Environment and Conservation advising him of my desire to conclude agreements this financial year for the Murrays Lagoon program, a program at Pike River-Gurra Gurra Lakes and in respect of certain other lands for which no agreement to make a public statement has been made. [More…]
As with part ( 1 ) of this question I am only able to disclose details of areas approved in principle by the former Minister for Environment Dr Cass with the agreement of appropriate State Ministers. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
Minister for Environment Dr Cass with the agreement of appropriate State Ministers. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
I have written to the Western Australian Minister for Conservation and Environment advising him of my desire to conclude agreements this financial year for certain of the proposals and will be pleased to provide details to the honourable member on a confidential basis. [More…]
As with Part ( 1) of this question I am only able to disclose details of areas approved in principle by the former Minister for Environment Dr Cass with the agreement of appropriate State Ministers. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
Any decision to provide funds over and above Crown valuation is made after consideration of the merits of the situation by the Australian Government Minister for Environment. [More…]
As with part ( 1 ) of this question I am only able to disclose details of areas approved in principle by the former Minister for Environment, Dr Cass, with the agreement of appropriate State Ministers. [More…]
Both Badger Island and Asbestos Range were approved in principle by the former Minister for Environment, Dr Cass, and 1 will be pleased to provide details of further such proposals to the honourable member on a confidential basis. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
As with part ( 1 ) of this question I am only able to disclose details of areas approved in principle by the former Minister for Environment, Dr Cass, with the agreement of appropriate State Ministers. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
As with part ( 1) of this question I am only able to disclose details of areas approved in principle by the former Minister for Environment, Dr Cass, with the agreement of appropriate State Ministers. [More…]
It would not follow, however, that the Budget objective of maintaining an environment conducive to balanced economic growth would be adversely affected by such a development. [More…]
Following that, preparation of the draft environmental impact statement was begun by the Department of Science and was published in February this year. [More…]
The final environmental impact statement was begun in March 1975 and cleared by the then Department of Environment and Conservation in May 1975. [More…]
-The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation of which I am a member is conducting an inquiry at present into packaging. [More…]
This was one of the conclusions of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment and Conservation in its report last December on beverage containers. [More…]
This expansion of the packaging industry is not only major in its impact on the comsumer and the environment, but also it would appear to be almost out of control. [More…]
It jeopardises our forestry and our environment, and it presents massive disposal problems. [More…]
The consumer is paying heavily for the present packaging of goods and so too is our environment. [More…]
These people see the population explosion, diminishing food, resources, the destruction of our environment and thermo-nuclear annihilation as the most immediate threats to our continued existence on this planet. [More…]
If not, I ask that the needs of these services be referred to other Government departments, if necessary, such as the Department of Environment, which possibly could ascertain whether they could give some assistance to these services. [More…]
It is very necessary for any Minister for Defence, for any government, to maintain a continuous review of the strategic environment and the strategic situation so that any threats that do emerge can be monitored in terms of lead times and warning times. [More…]
What we are concerned about is realistic assessments of the sort of threats that may affect Australia and its environment. [More…]
The rate of progress in the improvement of the urban environment will be drastically slowed down. [More…]
Proper planning with due regard to all human factors and environmental factors will result in sensible balanced development; efficient utilisation of our natural resources; gradual creation of a better life style; preservation of the desirable features of our natural environment; and the restoration and preservation of our national heritage. [More…]
I will read some of the headings: Urban expansion and redevelopment, urban services, transport in urban areas, housing, the urban and regional environment, community and regional services, and the location of Australian Government activities. [More…]
If we are to do that then clearly we are dealing with a wide-ranging area involving transport, housing, the environment, a sensitivity towards our heritage, and so on. [More…]
I welcome this statement because it reveals a more sober and realistic appraisal of the strategic environment of Australia. [More…]
It has been clear from the outset that the Torres Strait Islanders shared with the Government of Queensland a general reluctance to see any change in the present location of the border, in the status and rights of Torres Strait Islanders as Australian citizens, but that in addition they attached great, perhaps even over-riding, importance to the protection of the total environment of the Torres Strait which they saw not merely as the basis of their livelihood but of their characteristic and independent way of life [More…]
The Islanders would therefore prefer that the border be not changed and the present status of the Islands, of their environment and of the Islanders be maintained. [More…]
They believe that the Governments of Australia and Papua New Guinea could work out a form of joint control which would be adequate in a zone where the protection of the environment and the embargo on mining and oil drilling would make many of the issues requiring the exercise of sovereignty unlikely or less difficult. [More…]
Protection of the Environment [More…]
The Governments of Papua New Guinea, Australia and Queensland to agree to the establishment of an environmentally protected zone or marine park controlled so as to ensure the preservation of the total environment of the Torres Strait- the Islands, reefs and cays, the sea and seabed, and the air above it including the natural wild life and marine creatures as the basis for the traditional way of life of the Islanders and the coastal people of Papua New Guinea bordering on the Straits. [More…]
That all new commercial ventures in this zone be subject to control to ensure that they will not damage the environment, that they are substantially owned and controlled by local residents and that the consent of the Representatives of the Islanders and the residents of Papua New Guinea bordering on Torres Strait has been given to their establishment. [More…]
I ask honourable members opposite to picture themselves in a strange country, trying to establish a family in an environment characterised by indifference, trying to take account of a new set of laws governing their relations with the rest of the community. [More…]
All applications received are considered by the Interim Committee on the National Estate, who make recommendation to my colleague the Minister for Environment and myself. [More…]
-The honourable gentleman’s interest in legal aid and environmental matters is well known and appreciated. [More…]
In that case legal aid was granted to the Williamstown Conservation and Planning Society and the Port Phillip Conservation Council in their appeals to the Environment Protection Appeal Board. [More…]
Westernport and Ballarat in Victoria also were the subject of legal aid in environmental matters. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present two reports entitled ‘An Exploratory Study of Canberra-Goulburn Airport’ and ‘An International Airport in the Canberra-Goulburn Region to Serve the City of Sydney- Assessment of Likely Effects on the Environment’. [More…]
-On behalf of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation I bring up the report of the Committee on development pressures on Jervis Bay [More…]
The report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation on development pressures on Jervis Bay is concerned with areas of the electorate of Fraser, capably represented by my colleague, Mr Fry, and my electorate of Macarthur. [More…]
The Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation has reached agreement on findings and recommendations which have been presented to the Parliament and if implemented will ensure that at least that part of our coastline in the Jervis Bay area will be available for the use and enjoyment of the community. [More…]
Although the report concerns a specific localised area with its own particular problems, the Committee has attempted to set down guidelines which could give a lead to land use planning in other areas, particularly where conflicts have occurred or are possible between environmental and various other interests. [More…]
Some of the developments taking place on the fringes of our cities provide, in certain respects, an environment that can be equally depressing and restricted. [More…]
Furthermore, the support industries such as shipbuilding and repair, together with the wide variety of ships which use a major port, all need to be available to provide a practical environment for educational observation. [More…]
3 ) To provide for freight and essential private car movements at minimum cost to the community, and with minimum impact on the social and physical environment. [More…]
I have had a number of consultations with my colleagues, the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Bryant) and the Minister for Environment (Mr Berinson) on this question. [More…]
The works to be undertaken also include measures to protect the environment during construction. [More…]
the institution of proceedings relating to the protection, maintenance and preservation of the natural or cultural environment of Australia (including those places, being components of that environment, that have aesthetic, historic, scientific or social significance or other significance or other special value for future generations as well as for the community). [More…]
the protection, maintenance or preservation of the natural or cultural environment of Australia (including any place, being a component of that environment, that has aesthetic, historic, scientific or social significance or other special value for future generations as well as for the community) if the provision of legal assistance under this Act to a person is not authorised by the preceding sub-sections of this section, legal assistance may nevertheless be provided to the person under this Act in such circumstances as are specified in, or ascertained in accordance with, the regulations. [More…]
The purpose of the second amendment is to make it clear in a case involving a question of public importance or the preservation of the national environment that where the provision of legal assistance is not otherwise authorised- under the Act legal aid may be provided if the special criteria to be prescribed by the regulations are satisfied. [More…]
case that satisfies the requirements of sub-clauses ( 1 ), (2) and (3) of clause 29 although it raises questions of public importance or the national environment. [More…]
It means that if a person has a public interest action involving the environment, irrespective of whether that person complies with the eligibility criteria that a person with a private action might have to comply with, that person might become eligible for legal aid. [More…]
The honourable member for Bennelong (Mr Howard) has pointed this up very well in referring to the proposed amendment to sub-clause (4) of clause 29 which relates to matters of public importance and matters affecting the protection, maintenance or preservation of the natural or cultural environment of Australia. [More…]
The regulations will prescribe the circumstances where it is considered that legal assistance ought to be given in matters of public importance or matters affecting the environment and culture. [More…]
However, that may be gauged by the day, according to circumstances or events at the time, or in matters of natural or cultural environment. [More…]
Groups within the community concerned about the impact of an export industry or of the construction of highways on the environment may wish to bring either an individual or a collective action to try to control the damage which will be done, as they see it, by such an industry or by such a thing as a highway. [More…]
They know that the economic circumstances have created the environment in Australia which make it absolutely essential that there be an election. [More…]
Two of these determinations relate to the Secretary to the Postmaster-General’s Department, the Australian National Railways Commission, the Commissioner for Community Relations, commissioners under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1 974, the Road Safety and Standards Authority, the Director of National Parks and Wildlife, Aboriginal Hostels Ltd, the Schools Commission and the Health Insurance Commission. [More…]
That honourable members have, by and large, taken this approach in the past is evident through the work of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and the Senate Standing Committee on the Social Environment. [More…]
Members of the Opposition do not have any real interest in the Government’s economic programs at the moment which are designed to provide better educational opportunities for the ordinary children in Australia, better welfare, better urban development and a better environment. [More…]
That is a philosophy that benefits those who can afford the best education, the best health services and the best environment. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, upon notice: [More…]
The ecological survey currently being funded by the Department of Environment is expected to provide accurate assessment of the present extent of rainforests and other plant communities in Australia. [More…]
In the 1973-74 financial year for example, $1,250,000 from my Department’s ‘Machinery of Government’ vote was expended on an advertising campaign which included advertisements on the workings of Parliament and on community/Government joint responsibilities in areas such as migrant assimilation and pollution of the environment. [More…]
The Government quite obviously realises, as the Minister stated, that in the environment it has created, it is impossible accurately to plan ahead with any certainty. [More…]
It certainly was effluent, and it certainly ruined the natural environment in that area. [More…]
We made a further $50,000 available to try to catch up with the environmental problems that the sewerage problems were creating in that area. [More…]
1 ) and (2 ) As pan of its environmental public awareness program the Department of the Environment and Conservation in February 1975 commissioned Spectrum International Marketing Services Pty Ltd to carry out an exploratory research study to determine current public awareness of and examine attitudes to the environment. [More…]
The report of the study, entitled ‘Public Attitudes to the Environment’, was presented to the Department of Environment on 30 April 1975 and tabled in both Houses on 20 August 1975. [More…]
What needs now to be understood is that when this sort of activity is undertaken efforts need to be made to ensure that damage is not caused to the environment in the future, taking account not only the environment as it exists at the time but also the environment as it may exist with the development that takes place in other areas. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren), myself as Minister for the Capital Territory and our colleague, Dr Cass, as the then Minister for Environment, conferred with 3 Ministers from New South Wales, the Minister for Mines and Energy, Mr Fife, the Minister for Public Works, Mr Punch, and the Minister for Health, Mr Waddy. [More…]
It has always been able to dig holes in the ground, make whatever mess it might around the place, destroy the environment and leave. [More…]
I realise that, but the whole point about the environment is that little mistakes build up into a great bundle of mistakes. [More…]
This is why we in the Department of Urban and Regional Development and also the Department of Environment look into every interrelationship, try not to minimise issues and try to look at the broad picture. [More…]
I want to thank the officers in the Department of Urban and Regional Development, the Department of Capital Territory and the Department of the Environment who were able to work with their counterparts in the States in order to try to solve this problem. [More…]
This brings about co-operation between all levels of government and is the way to solve problems relating to urban and regional affairs or the environment. [More…]
It was set up on the same day as the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
The Government is conscious of the need to protect and improve the nature of the environment. [More…]
In these consultations the Government will seek to work out an appropriate basis of cooperation with the States not only in relation to particular industries but in particular for the protection of the marine environment. [More…]
He was chairman of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation and brought the same qualities to that committee. [More…]
I can well understand the concern of many people in Sydney to protect the environment of some of the older parts of that city. [More…]
This Government will certainly act, in concert with State governments and other authorities, to protect the Australian environment, whether it is man-made or natural, if it is deemed to be desirable in the interests of future generations. [More…]
The choice is between, on the one hand, restoring fully the real incomes of those who do have jobs at the risk of throwing some of them out of work and on the other hand providing an environment in which the recent slight strengthening in consumer and business confidence will continue and more job opportunities will become available. [More…]
It did not tell them it would close down 2 major conservation and environment operations started under the Labor Government. [More…]
The Government has set about encouraging an investment revival at an earlier stage than would otherwise be the case by creating an environment conducive to an optimistic, expansionist business outlook. [More…]
Unlike the great dreamers we do not propose to try to carry mankind on some great wave of discovery to a new world of enlightenment based on socialism to an environment in which men and women lack the capacity to make decisions for themselves according to their inclinations and in their own way. [More…]
I raised this question because the text of a letter from the Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) was published on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald of 14 February. [More…]
Can the Prime Minister give me details of his strategy in creating the super department by the amalgamation of the Departments of Environment, Housing and Urban and Regional Development and then pulling out its teeth by excluding it from the Economic Committee of Cabinet thus excluding this new department from having any say in Cabinet on economic aspects even though it is responsible for fixation investment in the cities of Australia which represent 85 per cent of the Australian people? [More…]
The honourable gentleman should well understand that matters which affect the individual in his environment, whether it is the natural environment or the physical environment and matters which affect community development all round Australia have been brought within one department. [More…]
Nowhere are they more important than in the ability of people to choose the sort of occupation they want to follow and to have some meaningful role in the company or business environment in which they find themselves. [More…]
It is an essential part of freedom and independence for a person to have the ability, whatever level of industry or commerce he might find himself in, to choose meaningful employment, and having chosen that form of employment, he must then thave the capacity to influence his work environment and gain satisfaction from what he is doing. [More…]
These experiments have been designed to introduce people to a wider range of responsibilities and a wider range of areas of decision-making within their work environment and not make them subject to a simple repetitious and mindless process. [More…]
They do tend to limit the extent to which people in the work environment can participate in a broad range of tasks, in a broad range of decisions, instead of concentrating on the one thing. [More…]
There are many people in our society who give lip service to such phrases as ‘underwriting the quality of life’ or ‘concern for the environment’ or ‘improvement in social services’. [More…]
To create a balanced society, to conserve an environment, to care for those who cannot care for themselves will require money. [More…]
In whole areas of public policy- schools, health, the environment, industrial conditions, the National Estate, social welfare, local government- no body of fact or evidence existed. [More…]
Such picayune savings are meant to prepare us for the onslaught to come against basic and wide-ranging parts of Labor’s program- against Medibank, against free tertiary and technical education and expanded programs for education generally, against all Labor’s measures for the cities and growth centres, for the protection of the environment, for Aboriginal lands, for social security. [More…]
The honourable member for Maribyrnong will know that, following the publication of the draft environmental impact study by British Airways, submissions were invited to be lodged with my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
The only substantive statement that I can find by the Liberal Party on the Department of Community Development- it is now administered by Senator Greenwood who is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development- was issued on 10 May 1974 by the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Snedden. [More…]
It has put tourism under the control of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, Senator Cotton, and it has put sport, recreation and physical fitness under the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, administered by Senator Greenwood. [More…]
The references to the environment and other matters to which Labor has subscribed and in which we share with it in aspiration but differ from it in technique, is clear evidence of the fact that we want growth and want to assist the underprivileged and disadvantaged with maximum freedom for them, maximum freedom of choice and maximum human dignity. [More…]
There is certainly a clear and workable commitment to the environment and there is, of course, a most important provision regarding the right of privacy. [More…]
It is clear that the Opposition today is operating in a simple Keynesian environment. [More…]
The trade union movement can no longer be too much concerned with higher money wages at the expense of other legitimate concerns such as the working environment and jobs. [More…]
Its main role must be to create the right environment in which the community as a whole, all members of the community, can live and work and act with the maximum of individual freedom, economic prosperity, social wellbeing and human dignity. [More…]
My attention has been drawn by the Prime Minister to the fact that the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is not present in the chamber. [More…]
I have no knowledge of what the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development may or may not have recommended in relation to this matter, but I indicate to the honourable gentleman, who ought to know, that it is the Government which makes policy in these matters, not any one department. [More…]
If our aim is to be decentralisation, with all its advantages of labour stability and of the environment, let us forget about artificial support schemes and short term concessions. [More…]
While we have a range of small manufacturing industries and the natural climate and environment have attracted a significant tourist income, the present and future viability of north west Victoria fluctuates continually with the fortunes of farm production in many diverse rural industries. [More…]
We should be encouraging the community to tackle its own problems and we can do this by ensuring that those on low incomes have the financial assistance necessary to have some choice in their own environment and lifestyle. [More…]
A colleague of mine in the Queensland State Parliament, Mr David Byrne, summed up the situation by saying recently in that place: ‘A depressed environment is self-perpetuating; a depressed society is self-destructive. [More…]
Towards this latter group the Government owes its greatest responsibility, not to give them handouts but to create the climate and the environment for human endeavour. [More…]
The environment which was created by the Labor Government was a totally different one. [More…]
I refer to the man who was Deputy Prime Minister, who was Treasurer, who was Minister for Overseas Trade and who became Minister for the Environment. [More…]
Its residents comprise old people and young people, women in employment and women who work at home, people who were born here and people came to this country to build a new life, men and women who are employed pursuing courses to improve their skills and persons on the dole desperately seeking employment- all these people look to the Government to create an environment for greater opportunity and fulfilment. [More…]
The public interest must be defined and seen in terms of the Australian environment. [More…]
In such an unattractive educational environment a high turnover of teachers was not surprising. [More…]
We are awaiting a statement from the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) in regard to the outcome of this worthy plan. [More…]
I am pleased that the Government made it clear in its pre-election policy speech that it supported the establishment of the Australian Heritage Commission and that only last week the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) stated that consideration is now being given to the appointment of an adequate staff to enable the Commission to start its initial work. [More…]
A recent survey in Sweden, quoted in the United States magazine Business Week of December 22 last year, showed that many Swedes thought there should be more expenditure on health, care of the aged, education and the environment. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I note also with interest, in the Governor-General’s Speech reference to the need to protect and improve the environment. [More…]
I need to refer honourable members to only one of these, and that is on the subject of preservation of our environment. [More…]
This Government’s economic policy is to create an environment in which companies, large and small, can grow and be self-reliant and strong. [More…]
The second Committee report in 1974 dealt with Roads and their Environment. [More…]
The Government fully recognises the gravity of this situation despite improvements which have been made in recent years through changes to vehicle design and the road environment. [More…]
a) environmental aspects of legislative and administrative measures which ought to be taken in order to ensure the wise and effective management of the Australian environment and of Australia’s natural resources, and [More…]
such other matters relating to the environment and conservation and the management of Australia’s natural resources as are referred to it by- [More…]
the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, or [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to consider and make use of the evidence and records of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation appointed during the Twenty-eighth and Twentyninth Parliaments. [More…]
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation was first appointed in May 1973 as the result of a recommendation by the House of Representatives Select Committee on Wildlife Conservation. [More…]
Since its inception the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation has inquired into many issues of importance for environmental protection and has produced several valuable reports, including those on the environmental impact of freeways, the Blackbutt Reserve, the operation of the Softwood Forestry Agreements Act 1967-72, and development pressures on Jervis Bay. [More…]
In recommending the continuance of this Committee I remind honourable members of the urgency which is being felt by the general public about environmental problems. [More…]
The long term consequences of our actions must be recognised and present environmental problems solved if we are to have any control over the future quality of the human environment. [More…]
In the past the existence of standing committees has enabled the House of Representatives to be involved in initial and formative consideration of a wide range of major environmental problems. [More…]
However, there is one matter which seriously concerns me about their role in a private enterprise environment. [More…]
The facts are that in a difficult environment Qantas has to take some fairly desperate measures. [More…]
I believe also that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) must review a number of matters associated with the development of this complex as quickly as possible. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) should look very seriously at the expenditure commitments that may be entered into on such a long term basis if we try to follow through the pattern of the expenditure proposals of the previous Government. [More…]
We must create the right sort of environment for private industry to see a future in decentralisation, in setting up industries in country areas as well as in outer metropolitan areas. [More…]
We had completed the second report which was Roads and Their Environment. [More…]
It gives me a great deal of pleasure to support the motion for the re-forming of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
All parties realise that the recommendation of the Select Committee on Wildlife Conservation for the setting up of a standing committee on environmental matters was a sensible one, and so everyone co-operated in the setting up of that committee. [More…]
I share something of the enthusiasm for the Environmental Committee that my colleague, the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen), has for the Standing Committee on Road Safety. [More…]
It may be that the Committee on Environment and Conservation will have to be one of those which disappears into a more general committee. [More…]
Time is very short if we are not to suffer permanent depredation of the environment there. [More…]
I fear that the present Government will believe that the present financial stringencies are too great to deal with environmental matters such as these. [More…]
It gives me a deal of pleasure to support the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins) in this debate on the establishment of a Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
I think it is only fitting that the national Parliament should take a deep interest in matters affecting our environment. [More…]
It is my firm belief that our environment and its conservation should be the concern of all. [More…]
There are various agencies throughout the State governments for the control of our environment and its conservation. [More…]
I believe that in the main these groups do an excellent job in our communities and keep a watchful eye on these very important matters of conservation and environment. [More…]
They are also extremely interested in the environment, even more so than most people in our communities would give them credit for. [More…]
Some of the States have legislation requiring local authorities to demand environmental impact studies to be carried out. [More…]
From these studies environmental impact statements are prepared. [More…]
I believe that the subjects that were selected by the then Minister for Environment and Conservation and discussed at some length by the Committee were of extreme importance to the nation. [More…]
Prior to the suspension of the sitting for dinner I was pointing out to the House some of the inquiries that had been conducted by the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in the 28th and the 29th Parliaments. [More…]
A report on the impact of freeways on our environment was another important report put out by the previous Committee. [More…]
As a member of the previous Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation I say to honourable members that sitting on the committee was an education that should not be taken lightly by honourable members. [More…]
I think that most important in relation to our environment is ourselves as human beings. [More…]
I realise that there has been considerable despoilment of our natural environment and that man has interfered with and endangered many species of plant, bird and animal life. [More…]
He carried on originally in what might be called an inclement environment among members on the other side of the House. [More…]
I just want to make the point that this year’s Committee should be seen as working in a quite different environment from that in which Committees have worked in the past. [More…]
If one adds to the Commonwealth and Housing Commission ownerships all the land owned by the State Government and other State instrumentalities, such as the Planning and Environment Commission, which land is non-ratable, one sees that in the case of Penrith there is a further rate loss of an estimated $ 190,737. [More…]
In view of the hostile environment being created by this Government it is folly to expect wage and salary earners to continue to co-operate in this way although the country desperately needs their co-operation. [More…]
-The Government of the day has to create an environment in which everybody can participate- in which workers can work, in which producers can produce and in which growth can take place. [More…]
How can they tolerate the knowledge that $7m has been sliced from Aboriginal Affairs spending, $34m from health care, $9m from child care and $30m from environment, housing and consumer affairs? [More…]
New areas of advanced technology with astronomically high costs, the requirement of preserving and improving the natural environment, the constant erosion of balance sheets by inflation are some of the causes which clearly reveal that the risks to private industry are growing even faster than the need for capital. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) has power in name only. [More…]
It examined problems involving the social, economic and environmental aspects of life, and that is what is needed now. [More…]
It is a matter that concerns a basicenvironment for young people growing up and a basic environment for young people when they are married and when they are engaged in early family formation. [More…]
I understand that Cabinet has decided against the proposal put by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) to speed up the reintroduction of the home savings grant scheme. [More…]
I have spoken to the new Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) in relation to amending the current housing agreement. [More…]
Therefore, it is appropriate in this debate to lay down a few policy objectives which I submit are necessary to strive for in any housing environment. [More…]
We on this side of the House hold this simple belief: An environment must be created in which every Australian can plan confidently for the prospect of having his own special piece of Australia- his own home. [More…]
Housing objectives can be achieved by the States on a mutually cooperative basis with private enterprise but it is most difficult and almost impossible when restraints and controls are imposed by people from a centralised point who are completely unaware of the local environment. [More…]
I commend the Government and the Minister for Construction (Mr McLeay), who represents the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood), for the fact that there has been no cutback in housing. [More…]
I thank honourable members for their contributions to it and I reiterate that I shall make sure that their contributions are brought to the attention of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood). [More…]
Moreover, inflation thrives on inflationary expectations, and inflationary expectations thrive in a permissive monetary environment. [More…]
It can cover civil rights, environment, welfare, consumer protection, anti-trust, security law and the like. [More…]
Furthermore, I understand that the Australian Environment Council considered lead emissions in November 1973 and recommended similar but not identical standards requiring progressive reduction in lead content of petrol over several years. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
The constraints on our potential for population growth are not so much those of our natural resources as of the need to ensure a continuing improvement in living and working standards, the avoidance of short-term pressures on our infra-structures, the preservation of the environment, the avoidance of pockets of disadvantaged persons and groups, the need to ensure the retention of a cohesive Australian community with scope for cultural, ethnic and individual diversity and the availability of the sorts of migrants the Australian community requires and wants. [More…]
When I was Minister I always said that I would not have a person forced to take work in a place that was dangerous, in a place where the environment was injurious to his health or in an industry where there was an unresolved industrial dispute. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware that under the direction of the former Federal Labor Government 70 per cent of welfare houses built by the States and funded by the Commonwealth were available on only a rental basis? [More…]
I want to say a word this morning about the family, from whose stable environment most of us have come. [More…]
Foreign capital seeks to avail itself of profitable opportunities and Australia has a social and political environment which imposes few non-commercial risks. [More…]
The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has suffered a budget cut of $31m. [More…]
I mention this, Mr Speaker, because it is becoming increasingly obvious that the environment we live in, is emerging as a great political and humane issue and the motor car may play a different role in the next 25 years, related to the role it has played in the last 25 years. [More…]
I repeat that this will be contingent on the Dunstan Government becoming more aware of the basic needs of industry in that State, a low-cost environment for that industry to continue to prosper. [More…]
-Last week the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) acting on behalf of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) announced the intention of the Government to amend the home savings grant scheme. [More…]
I wish to draw the attention of the House to the Urban Transport Advisory Committee report to the Minister for Transport and Highways and the Minister for Planning and Environment in the New South Wales Government. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in another place has made a series of statements in answer to questions there, making it quite clear that the Government supports the establishment of an Australian Heritage Commission. [More…]
So we have confronting us in Australia today a very, very serious situation and it is at a time when the Cabinet has rejected a recommendation by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) that a rescue operation should be invoked to do something not just about the construction industry and the housing industry but about all the other industries that rely upon those primary industries. [More…]
It is this Government which has to bear responsibility for the cut of $31m in the budget of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
One can have economic growth and at the same time within reasonable bounds preserve the environment, broadly denned, in which one lives. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s questions: [More…]
The Departments of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Treasury, Administrative Services, Environment, Housing and Community Development, and the Capital Territory. [More…]
If the honourable gentleman wishes to mix it in this environment he will come off worse, because his record is one of utter disgrace in this place. [More…]
The Labor implemented environment committee is one. [More…]
Tariffs, as a means of providing assistance for industry, certainly had relevance in the period when wage and raw material costs in Australia were stable and when Australia was trading in an international environment with stable exchange rates. [More…]
In the volatile international trading environment which I have just described there is a trend towards the use of a quota system for the protection of local industries. [More…]
In the performance of its functions, the Commission shall have regard to the desire of the Australian Government, in pursuing the general objectives of national economic and social policy and urban and regional development, to improve and promote the well-being of the people of Australia, with full employment, stability in the general level of prices, viability in external economic relations, conservation of the natural environment and rising and generally enjoyed standards of living . [More…]
Does he, like the Premier of Western Australia, favour this proposal, or will he prevent the country from becoming a dump for nuclear waste until it is clear that there will be no threat to the environment or the health and safety of the Australian people? [More…]
We have to consider the political and regional environment in which we live. [More…]
If a nursing home bed is not needed these people should be looked after in their own homes in their family environment with a greater provision of support services for them. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Last Friday the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Senator Greenwood, who is the Minister responsible for growth centres, made a sensible speech in Adelaide on the future of growth centres. [More…]
I was very pleased not only that he had read the recent speech by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) in relation to growth centres, but also that he praised it. [More…]
In relation to settlement policy, the Government’s broad national goals are: Individual freedom and responsibility, economic growth, efficiency in the use of public and private resources, a greater degree of equity in terms of people’s access to services and opportunities and a high quality environment. [More…]
Taking these goals as a whole, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development stated last Friday a series of basic objectives of a settlement policy in Australia. [More…]
The Minister cannot gloss over the dispute which has arisen between the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) concerning the growth centre program. [More…]
I commend the statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Senator Greenwood, for what I believe is a balanced and rational dissertation on this Government’s present attitude towards growth centres. [More…]
If he knew a little more about monetary and fiscal policy surely he would have turned to what was one of the decisive influences in halting the environment conducive to inflation- the money supply. [More…]
Yes, a better environment. [More…]
I believe that the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation of this House is to be commended for tabling this Report on land use pressures on areas of scenic amenity, which, as my colleague the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges) has pointed out, is the work of the Committee in the previous Parliament. [More…]
Co-operation between the 3 levels of government is essential if planning proposals that will both protect the environment in these sensitive areas and preserve the rights of residents are to be found. [More…]
We hear continuously of the cash flow, the volume of money and all the other factors that go to make up the economic environment. [More…]
The 1973 Budget established a new environment for so many things- education, health services, Aboriginal advancement and all the rest. [More…]
I would have hoped that by now the Australian Labor Party would have learned that one cannot import into Australia a product whose seeds have been sown in one’s own environment. [More…]
These criteria include consideration of whether the proposal would conform with the broad objectives of national policies concerned with, among other things, decentralisation and the environment. [More…]
I inform the House that in the absence of Senator the Honourable Ivor Greenwood, Q.C., the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Honourable M. J. R. MacKellar, Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, will act for him. [More…]
As a consequence, the following representational arrangements will operate in the Senate: Senator Carrick will represent the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Public Service matters, and the Acting Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
In many respects the concept that the real value of something is what it would fetch on an open market between a buyer and a seller is not only an equitable system of valuation but is also a system of valuation which most people in a commercial environment will understand. [More…]
In my capacity as Chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation I have had some contact with these men. [More…]
The unique nature of the Territory’s physical environment has bred in, or attracted to it, a special kind of people. [More…]
They are decent, sincere, honest, idealistic people and yet they are advocating what is in point of fact the maximum pollution in the environment. [More…]
In this, what we might term the modern era, there has grown a movement which has dedicated itself to what we might generally term the preservation of the environment. [More…]
Many, I submit, will however disagree with the emphasis that has been given to various items which cover the whole concept of the environment. [More…]
We are not dealing with shadows in this matter, we are dealing with substance, and whilst one can appreciate the great necessity to cut expenditure in the present economic environment it is to be hoped that funds will be made available in co-operation with the States on a long term continuing basis to overcome this serious problem which will engulf us unless controlled. [More…]
It is only by using the land in accord with its capabilities and in balance with its environment that it can continue to produce the needs of man in perpetuity- be they for food, fibre, shelter, water supply or for recreation. [More…]
Under the aegis of the Australian Environment Council, agreement has been reached between the States and the Federal Government on the measures needed to achieve standardisation of methods, of measurements, types of pollutants to be measured and formats for recording data. [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…]
This will allow existing organisations to adapt to the new environment in which they will be in competition with Medibank and to develop their own arrangements to monitor usage in co-operation with the medical profession. [More…]
The provisions will assist in creating an environment in which health maintenance organisations might successfully operate. [More…]
The Secretary of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has raised the matter in the course of discussions with State officials. [More…]
The Department of Environment. [More…]
The Department of Environment. [More…]
Environment, and the present Department of Environment. [More…]
I direct my question to the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
I am authorised by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to say it is his expectation that he will, in the present session, make a statement to Parliament which sets out the Government’s broad attitude to the world environment in which this country must shape its policies and its relations with other countries. [More…]
In the meantime there is no reason why we should not be using what we have in the Department of Construction and the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development to get on with the task of putting into production unused capacity in the building industry of this country. [More…]
My ninth point is that the lesser amounts in specific grants to the States for hospitals are well short of last year’s figure in real terms; for education, well short of recommendations by the education commissions; for railways, even the Adelaide-Crystal Brook line is questioned, as is the standard gauge program generally which seems now to be a thing of the past for this government; for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, slashed by over $400m, and so on. [More…]
At one stroke the Government is condemning millions of Australians to secondrate housing, second-rate transport and a second-rate environment in second-rate suburbs and towns. [More…]
The Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr MacKellar) admitted to his own statement on Thursday: [More…]
The statement last Thursday by the Treasurer and that of the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development made it clear that Federal funds for land commissions will be curtailed. [More…]
It is a policy which says to the States and local government: ‘If you want to improve the urban environment, pay for it yourself. [More…]
All this adds up to a lowering of living standards- an attack on our environment and real wages. [More…]
Firstly, there is the recessionary environment which is created by the withdrawal of government expenditure, the factor to which Mr [More…]
Australia stands to gain immensely from an orderly and stable world financial, economic and trading environment. [More…]
Are any alternative types of weedicides or pesticides available which would cause less damage to the environment than those found in the River Murray. [More…]
Commonwealth Government responsibility for Albury-Wodonga development is vested in the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, but the Albury/Wodonga designated area incorporates only sections of the Lake Hume foreshore within the Lake Hume catchment. [More…]
The main pressures for farmlet subdivisions will arise outside the Albury/Wodonga designated area and control remains the prime responsibility of the Planning and Environment Commission (N.S.W.) [More…]
Available information suggests that average concentrations of these pollutants are not causing any significant damage to the environment. [More…]
-Is the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware of reports in the media of an alleged statement by a Mr John Bulbeck that the Australian Government delegation to the United Nations Habitat Conference on Human Settlement to be held shortly in Canada is in a mess and that there will not be a Minister leading the Australian delegation? [More…]
Has the Minister seen the very authoritative reports establishing clearly that carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels pose a far greater threat to the atmosphere and the environment in general than does nuclear power? [More…]
My question is directed to the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
There has been a reduction in forward estimates of over $400m in the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
Probably the worst of these is poor nutrition and that this should be so prevalent in a fertile environment is most alarming. [More…]
Four hundred million dollars is wiped off urban and regional development as is work being done on the environment which was initiated by the former Government. [More…]
In the urban affairs area the estimates of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development have been reduced by $400m. [More…]
Does he really expect private industry to expand its operations in this stifled environment he is deliberately creating? [More…]
The Labor Government used Canberra to demonstrate the advantages of physical and social planning in providing modern urban conditions in a healthy rural environment, in providing adequate housing, transport and recreation facilities as well as health and education services. [More…]
From today the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Newman) will act as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
The detailed appropriation of revenue in the Supply Bills does not give very much indication of what the Government will do in the next Budget but there are 2 areas in particular- the appropriation for Aborigines and the appropriation for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development- which draw to our attention once again the unfortunate statement of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) which was made on Thursday of last week, in which he announced such devastating cuts in so many areas of government spending. [More…]
However, before moving on to deal with that overall strategy, let me mention the other appropriation to which I have already alluded- that for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
What environment development, what housing development or what community development will there be after the drastic reduction in funds that is apparent in both of the Supply Bills? [More…]
I return to the details of the Supply Bills and say that particularly in the areas of appropriations for Aborigines and appropriations for environment, housing and community development, we see the first signs of real cuts. [More…]
I count this as a very important manifestation of the results of the work of the Wool Corporation because what we can begin to look at now is the environment that is being created in which the next logical steps can be made. [More…]
Labor, in developing its regionalism concept, recognised that the individual living standards of the average family, especially in environmental and cultural terms, depend more on the initiatives and efficiency of local government than on the initiative and efficiency of either State or Federal governments. [More…]
We recognise that local government provides the opportunity for competitive diversity in those qualities of life which Australian families would like to see achieved in the environment of their choice. [More…]
It was also an attempt to direct people’s attention to their environment and to encourage them to become involved in solving the problems of their community. [More…]
They are flexible provisions which can take account of the environment in which people work and the industries in which unions operate. [More…]
asked the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
am asked the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
I ask the Acting Minister for the Environment, Housing, and Community Development whether the environmental impact statement on the Concorde has been exempted from the requirements under the administrative procedures of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974-75. [More…]
If the Government has exempted the environmental impact statement on the Concorde from these requirements, when will the Minister make public a summary of the reasons for granting the exemption? [More…]
I can add only that although the decision has been taken on the Concorde, monitoring of its performance and its effect on the environment will continue. [More…]
I direct a question to the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development I ask: In view of his answer to the question from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and in accordance with the administrative procedures of the Environment Protection Act, when was the final environmental impact statement prepared by the proponent, which I take it was British Airways? [More…]
Where is the final environmental impact statement available to the public for sale? [More…]
In fairness to the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, I think that I, as Minister responsible for the decision ultimately to allow Concorde to come to Australia, should answer the question asked by the honourable member for Maribyrnong. [More…]
The Department of the Environment - [More…]
We want to help diminish the dangers of war and conflict, to help others -as well as ourselves- to live in peace and prosperity, and to work towards an international environment that is favourable to these ends. [More…]
Australia in common with other medium and smaller countries is now facing a more difficult task in developing foreign policy in a deeply disturbing world environment. [More…]
From our own point of view the primary concern is an international environment which could progressively limit the capacities of Australia, her friends, and allies, to advance their interests and ideals, which reduces options, which almost imperceptibly weakens the capacity to pursue our interests and advance the cause of human dignity. [More…]
Although our capacities to advance our interests are limited we should be active and constructive in pursuit of a peaceful and favourable international environment. [More…]
This phobia about Russian ships is presumably the justification for defence expenditure of $ 12,000m over the next 5 years- for a 5.5 per cent per annum increase in real terms in the defence budget at the expense of funds for health, cities, roads, the environment, child care, education. [More…]
Although the present Government has so far continued the national air monitoring program through this Bill, and while the then Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr MacKellar) indicated his personal support for improved air quality monitoring in his second reading speech, what does the future hold for this program? [More…]
The events of the last 6 months make me doubt whether the Government will give environmental matters the high priority they deserve, particularly when public health and safety is involved, let alone the protection of our national heritage. [More…]
Last week’s decision to allow the Concorde to fly to and from Australia without preparation of a final environmental impact statement is just one reason why I doubt the Government’s intentions. [More…]
The way in which the Fraser Government abolished large numbers of positions in the former Department of the Environment when it was made a part of the new Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development is another. [More…]
The failure of the Government to appoint commissioners to the Heritage Commission and giving it very little financial muscle, the low priority it has given to the preservation of the national estate as witnessed by the Budget measures announced 10 days ago and its failure to appropriate any money for the National Parks and Wildlife Service in the supply Bills last week are just some reasons why all Australians must doubt this Government’s integrity on environmental issues. [More…]
The Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development did not indicate whether his Government intends to extend this program over the 4 year period. [More…]
The quality of air, the level of noise, the safety of people and the environment are threatened. [More…]
To lessen the effect caused by man’s impact on the environment we must face up to the need for complex solutions. [More…]
Simple solutions are achieved only by ignoring the interconnections of all areas of human endeavour and the environment. [More…]
One hundred years ago nobody could have foreseen the pattern of environmental crisis which was to develop in our society as we became industrialised. [More…]
For example, the Australian Advisory Committee on the Environment, in its report on the environmental effects of supersonic transport aircraft, added a proviso to the recommendation that the Government should not prohibit the operations of Concorde in terms of the necessity to have continuous and extensive monitoring of the stratosphere. [More…]
We should respect the fragility of certain water and atmospheric environments and should ensure a thorough environmental appraisal before taking firm decisions on policies and strategies for industrial location. [More…]
We can go further and so plan our urban environment to encourage pedestrian movement and the use of nonmotorised nonmotorised transport. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has become directly involved in the global environment monitoring system of the United Nations to develop a means of monitoring trends in global air pollution. [More…]
As a result of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environmental Program in 1973, a baseline air pollution monitoring station is being developed by the Commonwealth in southern Tasmania. [More…]
Over the last few years the Environment Committee of OECD has pioneered an international effort on policies for the control of the rapidly developing problem of photochemical oxident air pollution. [More…]
The Australian Environment Council has recognised this need for co-operation in preparing the national air monitoring program in which agreement has been reached for participation by all State governments. [More…]
In this debate we are considering one of the major environmental problems of this century- pollution. [More…]
I am pleased to see it brought forward because it represents an initiative started while I was Minister for the Environment in the last Labor Government. [More…]
This creates, in the end product of its metabolism, if you like, the things we see as pollution because they cannot be dissipated or absorbed by the environment. [More…]
If we succeed in getting data to show what we are doing to our environment then hopefully it will be easier to proceed to the next steps and deal with other aspects of what we like to call pollution but which really is an abuse of the basic biological life cycle. [More…]
I ask the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development a question. [More…]
I must observe that questions on environment, housing and community development seem much more popular than questions on repatriation. [More…]
The Government’s failure to observe the requirements of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974-1975 before granting the British Airways permission to fly Concorde to Australia. [More…]
In making that announcement the Minister for Transport failed to comply with the requirements of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974-1975. [More…]
His colleague, the then Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr MacKellar) also failed to comply with the requirements of the Act. [More…]
The failure of both Ministers to comply with those requirements, coupled with the events of the past 6 months, makes me doubt whether this Government will give environmental matters the priority they deserve. [More…]
There was, in the first instance, the abolition of the Department of the Environment. [More…]
That not only entailed the abolition of many positions in the former Department of the Environment, but also meant that the role the Federal Government was playing in environmental matters had decreased. [More…]
One of the other more startling actions of this Government in relation to the environment, and a matter which is indirectly related to the subject of the debate today, was its high-handed action in directing Mr Justice Fox to complete the Ranger uranium environmental inquiry by May this year. [More…]
That direction, like the decision last week, was in complete contravention of the legislative requirements of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
It is my opinion that this Government not only does not have any commitment to the preservation and improvement of the natural and built environment but also does not even understand the most important environmental Act it has to administer. [More…]
The enactment of this legislation by the Whitlam Labor Government is the only example of formalising environmental assessment requirements into statuterequirements that most Australians want followed, not ignored. [More…]
The Act defines the environment to include ‘all aspects of the surroundings of man whether affecting him as an individual or in his social groupings’. [More…]
The purpose of that definition was to ensure that the use of the Act was not to be confined to matters affecting the physical or natural environment only. [More…]
Section 6 of the Act provided a framework for the introduction of the details of the environmental assessment procedure requirements by regulation. [More…]
These regulations were ignored by both the Minister for Transport and the then Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
Regulation 8.1 states that if any written comments are received on the draft environmental impact statement those comments must be taken into account by the proponent in the preparation of a final environmental impact statement. [More…]
Regulation 8.2 provides that the final environmental impact statement, when prepared, will be circulated to interested bodies, including the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and those people who made comments on the draft. [More…]
Regulation 9.1 provides that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development shall examine the final environmental impact statement on behalf of its Minister. [More…]
Those regulations, as I have already said, require the proponent to prepare and circulate a final draft environmental impact statement. [More…]
After it has been circulated, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development must examine the final statement on behalf of its Minister. [More…]
It has not been done even though I am informed that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development had many questions to ask British Airways if its final environment impact statement did not satisfactorily dispel many major doubts raised by concerned Australians such as the Society for Social Responsibility in Science. [More…]
But some blame must be placed on the former Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Minister responsible for the administration of the Act. [More…]
As a former Minister who was closely associated with the departments that now form the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, I have no doubt that the officers of that department advised the former Acting Minister to ensure that the procedures were followed. [More…]
If the Minister for Transport maintains that his actions were legal and that the former Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development agreed that there was no need for these procedures to be followed, I call on the Minister for Transport to table the letter that is required under the legislation to have been sent to him by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development under regulations 11.1 and 1 1.4. [More…]
The Government has blatantly ignored the legislative requirements of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974-75. [More…]
First of all, as the honourable member for Reid said, the British Government, the British Aircraft Corporation and British Airways produced a draft environmental impact statement on Concorde operations in Australia dated December 1975. [More…]
This view was supported eventually by my colleague, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) and former Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
I am writing to confirm the agreement we have reached today following our consultation in accordance with the Administrative Procedures of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act- [More…]
Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development Parliament House, Canberra, A.C.T. [More…]
I am writing to confirm the agreement we have reached today following our consultation in accordance with the Administrative Procedures of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act of 1974-75 on the necessity or otherwise of holding a public environmental enquiry on the operation of the Concorde aircraft into Australia, in particular to Tullamarine Airport. [More…]
Setting this aspect aside, the wider consequences on the global environment have been well canvassed in enquiries in other countries and at this time I do not believe that further knowledge would be gained by traversing these issues again in an Australian environmental enquiry. [More…]
The letter confirms that in the judgment of the then Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, on the information that had been made available there was no need for a public inquiry. [More…]
The British High Commission again confirmed that the draft impact statement with some minor editorial changes will be the final environmental impact statement on the question of Concorde visits to Australia. [More…]
In other words this is the impact statement, with an addendum covering the submissions that have been made on it by Australians, upon which the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development made their judgment that there is no cause for a public inquiry. [More…]
That becomes the final environment impact study and it has been available since December. [More…]
We will give the operators notice, under due process, when we are satisfied about the environmental impact. [More…]
I submit most strongly that no case exists on the allegations made about any breach of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
-In reply to my question yesterday to the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) he quoted a letter received by him from the Department of Environment in the United Kingdom. [More…]
Section 5 of our Act specifies ‘that matters affecting the environment to a significant extent’ should be fully examined. [More…]
The fact that the United Kingdom and the United States of America required an environmental impact statement would confirm that our own legislation is not excessive on this score. [More…]
Next, in section 6 it is indicated that, in order to fulfil this requirement to examine fully and take into account environmental effects, certain administrative procedures must be followed. [More…]
Section 8 (b) indicates that each Minister shall do all that is necessary, consistent with relevant laws, ‘for ensuring that any final environmental impact statement’- I emphasise the words ‘final environmental impact statement’- ‘formulated in accordance with those procedures, and any suggestions or recommendations made in accordance with those procedures, are taken into account, in matters to which they relate, in the department administered by him and by any authority of Australia in respect of which he has ministerial responsibilities’. [More…]
The revised draft EIS becomes the final EIS and, according to section 8.2, the proponent is to provide 5 copies to the Department of Environment, a copy to a commissionerif there had been a public hearing-and copies to any department, authority of Australia, State, State authority, local authority or any person or body which has submitted written com: ments on the draft EIS. [More…]
But, on the Minister’s own admission, the final EIS has not yet been received by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
Section 9.1 of our procedures requires the Department of Environment to examine the final environmental impact statement. [More…]
The Minister for Transport could have asked the former Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development for an exemption from the requirements of the procedures. [More…]
Perhaps, in accordance with section 11.2, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development consulted the Department of Transport concerning the request for exemption. [More…]
I note the letter that the Minister for Transport received from the former Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, which says, in part: [More…]
It looks to me as though the former Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has made the mistake. [More…]
In rising as the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and therefore the one concerned in the application of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, I have certain difficulties. [More…]
Secondly, I have had only a short time to acquaint myself with the provisions of this Act and the responsibilities of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
I think it is important, first of all, to summarise the administrative procedures that are required under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
There has to be, first of all, a draft environmental impact statement. [More…]
During the 18 months from the tabling of our second report on roads and their environment, the Commitee held 27 public hearings and took more than 5000 pages of evidence. [More…]
It would have conducted research into factors affecting vehicles, roads, the road environment, road-user behaviour and the inter-relationship between them. [More…]
In regard to road environment, the Authority staff and interested bodies would have had access to off-road facilities which would have enabled comprehensive testing under controlled conditions of such things as breakaway poles, guard railing and crash barriers which would yield on impact and reduce the likelihood of injury to vehicle occupants. [More…]
I appeal to the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Newman), to ensure that the programs commenced or enlarged by the Whitlam Government for the young people of Australia are maintained at least at the present level for 1976-77. [More…]
Work conducted by CSIRO concerns the following applications: domestic water heating industrial water heating space heating space cooling power production distillation controlled environment horticulture heat storage production of energy from crops, forests and other organic material swimming pool heating. [More…]
Since those 2 statements we have seen the youth, sport and recreation sections hidden in the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
I made a speech during the adjournment debate last night in which I asked the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) to see that the allocations of funds to sports, youth and recreational organisations are continued in the 1976-77 Budget. [More…]
However, it is the responsibility of government to help provide the economic environment in which the answers can be determined basically by the market place. [More…]
As the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr MacKellar) said in his second reading speech: [More…]
Despite what the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr MacKellar) said in the second reading speech, if a person attracts a grant for a home under the homes savings grant scheme and the home is for the purposes of rental or sale, provided the person has never had a home before he can go on to rent it or to sell it. [More…]
People are now fighting against the wanton destruction and pollution of the environment, and fighting for the preservation of natural assets and beauty spots. [More…]
Protection of the environment normally involves an economic cost, at any rate in the short term. [More…]
Environmental issues must be one of the factors considered in each decision, together with other factors such as the economic cost and community convenience. [More…]
It has attempted in too many cases to give environmental issues an effective veto. [More…]
This is as unbalanced and undesirable a situation in the opposite direction as it was when environmental issues were not considered at all. [More…]
In furtherance of the objective of ensuring that matters affecting the environment are fully examined and taken into account, the Government has given very careful consideration to a classified draft environmental impact statement prepared by the Department of Defence. [More…]
Nevertheless, in order that maximum possible information, consistent with the interests of Australia be made available to the public, a document titled ‘Environmental Considerations of Visits of Nuclear Powered Warships to Australia’ dated May 1976 is attached to this statement. [More…]
The Government is taking these decisions on the basis of international experience with nuclear powered warships and in light of the assessments in the unclassified environmental document which I am tabling. [More…]
The Government accepts the expert advice that the risk of an incident resulting in a release of radio-activity is extremely low and the hazard to human health and the environment is remote. [More…]
Those matters are dealt with in detail in the document ‘Environmental Considerations of Visits of Nuclear Powered Warships to Australia’. [More…]
Appropriate arrangements concerning environmental safeguards will be applied in consultation with state governments by a group of officials led by officials of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
I looked at these matters as Prime Minister and as Foreign Minister, and for a while as Environment Minister, on 2 grounds. [More…]
Secondly, the environmental aspects, both Commonwealth and State, had not yet been investigated. [More…]
Nevertheless, I wish to make this point: Towards the end of last year the position had arisen in consultation between the Department of Defence and the Department of Environment where my Government was about to make an approach to the governments of New South Wales and Western Australia, to consult them about the environmental aspects of nuclear powered ships- in this case nuclear powered allied warships- visiting their ports. [More…]
Accordingly it is very important that the State governments should be involved in the question of environment in this case. [More…]
The question of environment was not one that the Australian Government could solve in isolation. [More…]
I, of course, do not assert- it would be most uncharacteristic of me to assert- that the Australian Government did not have constitutional authority in matters of the environment arising out of defence or trade with other countries. [More…]
There is also a House of Representatives Committee on Environment and Conservation; it is not required to keep confidences. [More…]
I rise in this debate to forward the proposition explained by the then Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr MacKellar) and the previous speakers from the Government side and to rebut some of the spurious arguments advanced by members of the Opposition. [More…]
Even at this late stage once again I make a special appeal to the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) to see whether it is possible to make retrospective payments to people who built their homes and, on account of” inflation, exceeded the $22,500, even by the sum of $400 or $500. [More…]
These arrangements that I have announced show our determination to achieve a responsible balance between conservation of the environment and economic growth. [More…]
They show also our concern to work with the States and the voluntary bodies, and indeed with the whole community for the improvement of environmental and conservation standards. [More…]
Ever since the 1930s the defence planners have looked at the problems of Australia in relation to the environment in which we live but very little consideration was given to the territorial defence of the continent. [More…]
A reactor accident of sufficient severity to cause a hazardous release of radio activity to the environment has an extremely low probability . [More…]
It is important that, when we produce fighting equipment for roles, we control the tactical environment in which that equipment might have to perform its task. [More…]
Under the normal operating conditions there is no release of nuclear waste into the environment at all. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
The Western Australian Government Environment Protection Authority’s consultants have recently completed a ten-month study on four options for developing the West Coast Highway in the Cottesloe-Swanbourne area. [More…]
The Acting Minister for Environment. [More…]
asked the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What commitments for expenditure in 1976-77 and 1 977-78 does the Department of Environment. [More…]
The report entitled ‘Geelong Strategy- Employment in Geelong’ can be obtained from the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
asked the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
I ) How many persons are employed by the Department of Environment. [More…]
To what extent does the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development or any such agency engage private employment agencies to assist in the recruitment of staff. [More…]
What sum was spent by the Department of Environment. [More…]
4 ) I’o what extent does the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development or any such agency engage or otherwise obtain assistance from the Commonwealth Employment Service in the recruitment of staff and what sum has been paid to the Commonwealth Employment Service in respect of such assistance. [More…]
Ivor Greenwood, Q.C, as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
Peter Durack to hold offices of Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and Minister for Repatriation respectively. [More…]
Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, and Senator Durack will represent the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street), the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Ellicott) and the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Howard). [More…]
A lax monetary environment would endanger wage and price deceleration. [More…]
13: The present red mud disposal areas were established as pilot projects but have continued in use pending negotiations of further leases for red mud disposal; the effects of red mud disposal on the environment are being taken into account in the consideration of the Company’s further requirements; the appropriate Government Departments, the Aboriginal community and the Company are involved in these negotiations. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Volume one of the consultants report, which contains the terms of reference of the study together with a discussion of the options available and the conclusions and recommendations, was submitted to the Western Australian Minister for Conservation and Environment on 6 May 1 976. [More…]
It is further understood that, when the State Environment Protection Authority has considered the consultants report and the public comments, it will report to the Western Australian Minister for Conservation and Environment [More…]
Therefore it has not, in terms of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974-75 formulated any proposal that is subject to the Act [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
On 12 March 1 976 the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development formally invited the Queensland Government to nominate members for the Great Barrier Reef Consultative Committee. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
In a statement issued on 20 May 1976 the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development advised that an urgent review of the National Sewerage Program was being undertaken. [More…]
1 ) and (2) The information requested is not held by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
and (2) The Information requested is not held by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
What Commonwealth/State expenditure has been incurred or committed to preserve or rehabilitate the environment of (a) Botany Bay, (b) Sydney Harbour, (c) Parramatta, (d) Port Hacking, and (e) Georges River. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) and (2) The following list shows the sporting organisations known to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the latest available registration figures. [More…]
Department of Environment, Housing and Community The registrations by State of National Sporting Associ-Development. [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/hofreps/1976/19760817_reps_30_hor100/#subdebate-56-58)
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
I played a part in devising and publicising the concept of the National Estate when I was the Labor spokesman on the environment and urban and regional affairs between the years 1969 and 1972. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has stated publicly as has the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) who is now sitting at the table, that no money will be spent by this Government until the register to be established by the Commission is well advanced. [More…]
There is information on this matter within the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
Does he not realise that when the squeeze comes our friends in Treasury say that if there is one place in which they can really use the knife it is environment and urban and regional development? [More…]
As in the environment, as in urban affairs and as with our national heritage, everything is connected to everything else. [More…]
When Labor was in office the then Opposition spokesman on environment, the current Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) and the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson), both publicly stated in the debate last year on the Heritage Commission that it was necessary to appropriate funds before a formal register was completed to preserve those immediately threatened areas of our national estate. [More…]
Of course, the pressure will still be on back benchers opposite to ensure that that commitment is met, because all we have done to date is buy the internal fittings of the Palace Hotel, which in fact are in the custody of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
The programs to which I referred earlier also include endeavours to ensure that environment protection forms the key part of the decision-making process of government. [More…]
That was done by the enactment of the environment protection legislation, and the appointment of permanent heads of departments that had special environmental significance to the Interim Committee on the National Estate, apart from conditions embodied in the legislation currently being amended. [More…]
I would not be surprised to see legislation introduced into this Parliament shortly to amend the environment protection legislation. [More…]
It is their environment and that is why we wanted to work together- the Australian and State governments, local government, the private sector, the people’s sector, people’s organisations and the people themselves. [More…]
The present Minister for Health (Mr Hunt), who represents the electorate of Gwydir, reflected this Government’s view of the Australia Heritage Commission Bill when as the then Opposition spokesman for the environment he said: [More…]
The environment and for that matter the National Estate surrounds all of us. [More…]
There should be no doubt that this Government has reiterated its firm and unequivocal commitment to the preservation and maintenance of that part of our environment, our National Estate, having asthetlc historical, scientific and social significance for future generations. [More…]
If any commitment of the natural environment which would form part of the National Estate and appear on the register in accordance with the terms of the Act is in danger of destruction, despoliation or is in any way adversely affected, the Government must take immediate and urgent steps, on the advice of the Commission, to preserve or maintain that component. [More…]
There unfortunately has been a tendency of late to label those in our community who support conservation or express concern for the protection of the environment- our National Estate- as freaks. [More…]
The majority of people in Australia are concerned with the quality of their environment and are able to make assessments of the environmental aspects of any project likely to threaten that quality. [More…]
There is much to be learnt from the United States experience and it is pleasing to note that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and the Commission have examined this and other overseas examples and are very well aware of the requirement and work necessary to establish the register. [More…]
It was to advise the Ministers- that was the Minister for Urban and Regional Development and the Minister for Environment- on legislation to create an Australian heritage commission, on grants from the 1974 National Estate financial assistance programs and on any other matters related to National Estate issues. [More…]
The Department of the Environment’s program on grants to conservation bodies, amounting to $448,000 was a recommendation of the Interim Committee as was the program of the Department of the Environment for acquisition of land for nature conservation. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) must accept responsibility for this. [More…]
That fact having been acknowledged at the first meeting of the Commission, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) said that the Commission had no doubt that the Government was committed to policies which would protect the environment. [More…]
I would add that the then Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development announced that $9m will be provided in 1976-77 to meet forward commitments. [More…]
The Commonwealth Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development (or the relevant predecessor Department of Urban and Regional Development) was also represented on each occasion. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
I would like to quote the statement made by the present Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) when he was then spokesman for the environment. [More…]
It is in times of prosperity, full employment and social security that a population is likely to concern itself with the environment and the National Estate. [More…]
It is in times of economic disaster and social suffering that a population is more likely to concern itself with its own social survival and to ignore the environment and the preservation of the National Estate. [More…]
The Minister for Health, when he was the spokesman on the environment, went on to say: [More…]
As the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development knows, the Government has cut back its expenditure on the National Estate. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development knows that his Government has not conferred with all States. [More…]
I wish these young bureaucrats would brief the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) a little better on the development of and the necessity for our creating an Australian Heritage Commission with approximately 18 commissioners. [More…]
Even though the Commissioners are all good people and I have been advised by people who should know their backgrounds and their disciplines, I understand that most of the Commissioners have disciplines in the man-made environment and not so much in the natural environment. [More…]
-Last night during the second reading debate I commented on this clause, as the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) would be aware. [More…]
The protection of the environment is downgraded. [More…]
I have mentioned growth centres in another context; our plans for urban and regional development embraced in the widest sense a whole range of policies for improving the environment, for improving roads, transport, the supply of land, sewerage and essential community services. [More…]
It cannot buy a decent environment. [More…]
As the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) said in his statement of 26 July: [More…]
There will be more opportunity to elaborate on the cutbacks in real terms of funds available to various departments such as Health, Education, Environment, Housing and Community Development and Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
The fact is that more and more the urban environment of both Sydney and Melbourne will degenerate, particularly under this Government’s new federalism policy. [More…]
A lot of Australia’s natural resources and environment are in danger from overexploitation without proper care. [More…]
I suggest that this House would do well to look at its own capacity to examine protection of the environment. [More…]
The Department has grown out of three of the former Administration’s departments: The Department of the Environment and Conservation, the Department of Urban and Regional Development and the recreation wing of the Department of Recreation and Tourism. [More…]
I think the Prime Minister in a speech on 2 June made very clear where this Government stands in matters of the environment, the protection of the National Estate and the prospering of urban and regional affairs. [More…]
The apportionment of the allocations between the State Housing Authority and the Home Builders’ Account for each State is as determined by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development after consultation with the housing Minister of the State concerned. [More…]
Within 8 months this conservative Government has virtually destroyed all programs that sought to improve the urban environment of our major cities and to relieve the pressures on cities by developing regional growth centres. [More…]
The Firemen and Deckhands Union has given constant trouble in its militancy and caused stoppages for reasons as wide ranging as Medibank, the environment, higher wages, sympathy with the teachers ‘ strike and the refusal to handle French ships, following the French nuclear tests. [More…]
The Budget puts paid to the hopes of education equality and the chance of a better environment in my own area of Melbourne. [More…]
The misrepresentation is that during my speech I quoted what the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) had said. [More…]
They do not understand- or do theythe effects of their actions in jeopardising industrial expansion and in forcing Australian firms to look elsewhere for a more dependable and more economic environment in which to carry on their operations. [More…]
With regard to apprenticeships, the most recent figures available indicate that in New South Wales alone- I accept that the extent of the crisis in this industry varies from State to State with New South Wales being accepted by all, including the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), as the worst affected- over 1650 apprentices from this industry are now on the dole. [More…]
The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has itself recognised that it is unlikely that the rise in private commencements in the June quarter will be maintained on a national level. [More…]
The visits take place only after all the proper environmental controls have been applied, and my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is principally in charge of those matters. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development been drawn to the claim by the Executive Director of the Master Builders Association, which is supported by the building unions and associated industries, that only by committing an extra $350m can the Australian and New South Wales Governments save the New South Wales building industry from total bankruptcy? [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development will remember that in the document entitled Environmental Considerations of Visits of Nuclear Powered Warships to Australia tabled on 4 June, it was stated that because the authority for controlling emergency services is vested in State governments, the Commonwealth Government must rely on the States to establish and control the safety organisation in their ports. [More…]
Secretary of the Department of Housing and Construction and the Secretary of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development as well as the Secretary of the Department of Housing. [More…]
Time may show that the most important contribution of this Budget is the creation of an environment which is very much more favourable to reasonable reward for reasonable effort in the private sector- an environment which was certainly lost in the three years up to December 1 975. [More…]
Is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware that contracts to construct 400 family homes to be built by the New South Wales Government have not been let although tenders closed on 19 July? [More…]
By keeping unemployment high, the Government clearly hopes to maintain an environment in which its policy of reducing real wages will be capable of implementation. [More…]
My question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development concerns mermaids. [More…]
I shall now deal with urban and regional development and the environment. [More…]
It is clear that this industry is undercapitalised, equipped with obsolete plant and lacking in the marketing and management skills to survive in a competitive international environment. [More…]
Either directly or by inference, he said he would increase expenditure on schools, roads, health services, sewerage, environment, women and children, Aborigines, the unemployed, public works, construction, shipbuilding, Medibank, State funds, growth centres, pensions, supporting mothers, unemployed school leavers, aged persons homes, destitute and lonely men- that includes most of the Opposition- supporting fathers, migrants, defence, nursing homes, hospitals, school dental services, refuges for women, national highways and last but not least, women. [More…]
Looked at in its right perspective, wage increases are becoming in the present environment more and more a device whereby the have groups among the wage and salary earners are protecting their positions at the expense of the have nots, not only among wage and salary earners but also among self-employed groups, particularly those in rural areas who are dependent solely on what the world is prepared to pay them for their products. [More…]
In the present environment particularly, job opportunities are integrally related to wage costs. [More…]
So let us go back to Launceston, which was the scene of the start of the long march and which is where his favourite Tasmanian- the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman)- comes from and see what the exceedingly conservative Launceston Examiner has had to say about this scheme. [More…]
In contrast the Labor Party is a Party of double standards, as the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) pointed out a few moments ago. [More…]
As the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development pointed out, there were 7 Maoris in the New Zealand rugby team that went to South Africa. [More…]
The development of the Statistical Information System by the Local Government Branch of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, in co-operation with the Bureau of Statistics, will provide a data bank of information of benefit to researchers and people concerned with local government. [More…]
In the Local Government branch of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development we see the nucleus for a specialised [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, is supplementary to that asked by the honourable member for Prospect and is concerned with the sell-out of the ex-servicemen of this country by the Fraser Government - [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and [More…]
It was the intention of the 3 governments, as expressed in the preamble to the Agreement, that ‘a development corporation will, by developing a growth complex, create a city with a high quality environment, properly planned and properly developed, having full regard to human requirements and the involvement of the public’. [More…]
The critical comments made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) cannot be directed just at the former Federal Labor Government; he is obviously taking to task State governments of his own political persuasions which acquiesced in the land acquisition program at AlburyWodonga which he has so trenchantly attacked and criticised. [More…]
This Government, through the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in his position as Chairman of the Ministerial Council on the Development of Albury-Wodonga, will encourage private industry to develop and private enterprise generally to be active in the Albury-Wodonga area. [More…]
It is in pursuit of a more amenable environment which can be provided only by government. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) continues to represent Senator Durack in this House. [More…]
They have helped us to increase our knowledge of the physical and biological environment through which we move and on which we depend. [More…]
For example, it is concerned with the maintenance and enhancement of the environment, with the improvement of working conditions, and in contributing to basic scientific knowledge as a necessary background to applied research and development. [More…]
They were stated in a submission to the Botany Bay port and environment inquiry a few weeks ago. [More…]
But we simply cannot afford to persevere with a policy of ever-increasing assistance to industries which seem to be becoming less economic for the Australian environment It reduces the opportunities for the more economic industries and those which have good prospects of growth. [More…]
In the performance of its functions, the Commission shall have regard to the desire of the Australian Government, in pursuing the general objectives of national economic and social policy and urban and regional development, to improve and promote the well-being of the people of Australia, with full employment, stability in the general level of prices, viability in external economic relations, conservation of the natural environment and rising and generally enjoyed standards of living- [More…]
At the weekend he represented the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) at a seminar which was sponsored by Civic Constructions Pty Ltd. A Press report of his speech states: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
In view of the serious potential danger of these nets to the marine environment, will the Minister ban their use in Commonwealth waters? [More…]
The reason I am so keen to have these nets banned is the long term effects they will have on the marine environment. [More…]
The Victorian Government which I fear has an obscurantist approach is having some trouble in seeing the arguments put forward by the fishermenthe people who know about fishing and the people who invariably are great environmentaliststhat these nets militate against the best interests of the fishing industry in Australia. [More…]
But I assure the House that the facts are that monofilament nets are against the long term and short term interests of the fishing industry in Australia and of our marine environment. [More…]
This leap in public fear, from just over a third of the populace to more than a half, cannot be rationally explained by changes in Australia’s external environment. [More…]
However, if there is competition, we should work to limit it to peaceful competition in the supply of aid and matters of that kind in a world economic environment which provides opportunities for all nations to develop their trade and grow in prosperity. [More…]
The municipalities of those areas must bear the costs brought about by the heavy flow of through traffic which does not create any revenue or satisfaction but in fact destroys the urban environment in which the people in those municipalities live. [More…]
For many children pre-school experience is their first contact with their peer group outside of their own home and family environment. [More…]
After the Liberal Party returned to government he became Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
In December he became the first Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
I remember the huge and boyish enthusiasm he found for his new and, on the face of it, unlikely portfolio of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
He quickly decided that in moving from the area of AttorneyGeneral to Environment, Housing and Community Development he had not, in fact, moved from the sublime to the ridiculous. [More…]
Above all, he loved the unique beauty of the Tasmanian environment. [More…]
This was not merely a Minister performing the duties of his portfolio but also a man with a great love for the environment and the natural beauty of Australia. [More…]
( 1 ) In the performance of its functions, the Commission shall have regard to the desire of the Australian Government, in pursuing the general objectives of national economic and social policy and urban and regional development, to improve and promote the well-being of the people of Australia, with full employment, stability in the general level of prices, viability in external economic relations, conservation of the natural environment and rising and generally enjoyed standards of living, and, in particular, to the desire of the Australian Government to- [More…]
facilities adjustment to changes in the economic environment by industries and persons affected by those changes; [More…]
-My question is addressed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and [More…]
The advantages are: The conveying of information earlier than other media; the audio-visual potential to convey all aspects of a subject; and its ability to enlarge the environment of viewers. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) referred in his second reading speech to people who can exercise this option. [More…]
According to the second reading speech by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), this is what the Government proposes to do: [More…]
Currently- I think that this was stated in the second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman)- 86 homes or 1400 handicapped children are covered by this Act. [More…]
The new income test to determine pension entitlements is a concept attributed, in the second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), to Professor Ronald Henderson. [More…]
I think the legislation achieves a great deal in a very difficult economic environment. [More…]
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-This is the first time we have discussed the Estimates of the new Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
When it was first amalgamated with the Department of Environment and also with the recreation section of the previous Department of Tourism and Recreation I thought it was a forward move by the Government. [More…]
Environmental matters have an interrelationship with urban and regional development because everything is connected to everything else. [More…]
Even the Minister who administers it, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), is a junior Minister who is not even a member of the Cabinet and consequently not on the Cabinet Economic Committee. [More…]
I know that the Minister and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development are concerned about the area of dwelling and non-dwelling construction in this country. [More…]
What is the future in the areas of environment, housing and community development and construction? [More…]
I know the present Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is more thoughtful and more effective in what he seeks to achieve. [More…]
The challenges for the future are there in these departments, particularly in the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
It seems that there is a potential to build an area of concern and real achievement around a total way of life, about the home, about the community and about the environment. [More…]
We should be looking at minimum standards of achievement in the areas of environment, community development and housing. [More…]
-The estimates for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development show how the Fraser Government has downgraded the range of initiatives taken under the Department of Urban and Regional Development by the Labor Government. [More…]
The present Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman)not a bad fellow in many respects- is suffering the indignity of presiding over the Australian Government’s abdication of its responsibilities. [More…]
A positive approach by the Government to its obligations could advantage the environment, housing and quality of life of present and future Australian generations. [More…]
It does not matter what one looks at, whether it is essential conservation programs, air quality monitoring programs, soil conservation studies or the Botany Bay environmental project. [More…]
Every one of those Budget estimates associated with the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Department of Construction has been the subject of some savage curtailment. [More…]
I wish to speak on a matter affecting the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
I acknowledge the interest of that Department in the monitoring of pollution in our environment. [More…]
The State Government, through its Environment Protection Authority, has proved unable significantly to abate the nuisance. [More…]
While I recognise the program of monitoring that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development is interested in, it is no good having that program unless there is a back-up to it. [More…]
As to environment, I am afraid the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins) is a bit difficult to come to grips with because he spoke in irrelevancies. [More…]
I understand his point of view, but the limits of my responsibilities under the Environmental Protection Act are accurately described. [More…]
-On behalf of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, I bring up the report of the Committee on trafficking in fauna in Australia. [More…]
With the evidence it received the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation could not but be convinced that it was considering a multi-million dollar business. [More…]
These matters are very important when we consider that there has been an explosion in relation to the knowledge of the world environment. [More…]
There is more awareness of the world environment today. [More…]
They continually scan the earth and provide data on the resources and the environment. [More…]
-The reference I made to air pollution under the estimates for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, leads me to refer to the same matter under these estimates for the Department of Science. [More…]
Yet despite all this expenditure on monitoring and experimental work, we find that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) is reported as saying at page 1924 of the House of Representatives Hansard: [More…]
As to environment, I am afraid the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins) is a bit difficult to come to grips with because he spoke in irrelevancies. [More…]
I understand his point of view, but the limits of my responsibilities under the Environmental Protection Act are accurately described. [More…]
I believe that in debating the estimates of the Department of Science we should say something about the appalling effect in the community of the gross misrepresentation at the present time, and the guessing about the future effect of nuclear energy on the environment. [More…]
References to future threats to the environment and to genetic effects ought to be considerations for the future. [More…]
A Landsat satellite continuously scans the earth providing data on resources and the environment. [More…]
Our country’s foreign policy, if it is to be viable, must take into account the regional environment in which it is to function and although preserving our position on principle it has not and does not serve Australia ‘s interests to place itself on a massive collision course with its largest regional neighbour. [More…]
The Academy has two basic objectives: To provide a sound education as a foundation for further professional development, and to provide that education in a military environment appropriate to the three Services. [More…]
Following this I will propose next year legislation to lay down principles of administration that will ensure both its academic autonomy and scholarship, and retention of the required military environment. [More…]
I wish to announce the Government ‘s decision in principle to establish a Defence Force Academy to provide education at university level in a military environment for selected members of the 3 Services. [More…]
Whilst we look at our appreciation of the future we ought at the same time to look at some of the other problems which are not dealt with by the Department of Defence but which create an environment from which come other problems that are vital to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]
It is a totally new environment in which we now live insofar as defence is concerned. [More…]
The position is this: In response to other questions asked in the House about the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act I have made it very clear that we are not satisfied that the Act is being administered properly. [More…]
On the one hand the thrust of the article was that we were passing the buck on environment; yet in the middle of the article the writer says that the Government wants to adopt a strong leadership role. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: Is it a fact that the United Nations General Assembly will debate the Habitat Plan for Action next week? [More…]
In March 1973, Dr Cass, Minister for Environment and Conservation, and I met in Canberra with the then Premier of New South Wales and the Premiers of Victoria and South Australia to consider reforming the charter of the River Murray Commission, the first time the heads of the 4 participating governments had met in 60 years. [More…]
I would like to refute the assertions that are made from time to time that this Government is giving very low priority to matters that affect the environment and the quality of life. [More…]
Appropriations are made for conservation programs involving the National Estate, nature conservation and grants to the voluntary conservation bodies such as the national trusts and the environment centres. [More…]
Equally, the Government has made it clear that it accepts a role and responsibility for the conservation of our National Estate, whether it be of the natural environment or of the built environment. [More…]
During this debate the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) interjected about the problems of those people on 135 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
I doubt if the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) would have done that because I know that on previous occasions the Minister has indicated that there is a great need for additional funds. [More…]
I mention as an aside that it seems peculiar that in a situation like that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is presiding over a situation where allocations for land commissions have been cut by $28.9m in the Budget that has been debated recently. [More…]
The asset of a home is a hedge against inflation and from an ascetic point of view the home buyer has greater freedom in choosing what he or she requires as a standard of accommodation, location, and in particular, environment. [More…]
I congratulate the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) for insisting that in the Agreement with the States the long established interest rates of 4 per cent and 4 1/2 per cent be maintained, although when the original agreement was made interest rates at 4 per cent and 4 1/2 per cent were approximately only 2 per cent below the current long term bond interest rate. [More…]
It is easy to offer criticism, but, as the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development quite rightly stated in his second reading speech on this Bill, the States are able to make money available for welfare housing from their own funds. [More…]
While the Minister claims an increase in assistance under this Bill for urban transport demonstrates his Government’s concern for the urban environment, the truth of the matter is- I want to make this quite clear to the Parliament- that he is obliged under the public transport Acts of 1974, the 2 Acts I mentioned earlier, to respond to increases in costs of projects approved under the Acts with an increased appropriation. [More…]
He will know that last Thursday his Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development issued a statement that the Government ‘will be looking very closely at the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry and will be announcing its decisions’. [More…]
-I address my question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
EFIC is not in the business of giving more generous credit terms than are necessary in a normal commercial environment to gain business but it is not the intention of the Government that interest rates which will prevail under the new arrangements will be any greater than those which prevailed under the old arrangements. [More…]
We are able therefore to share with them the fundamental difficulties and frustrations they feel when we see an international market which has a tendency to vary depending on the international economic environment over which they have absolutely no control. [More…]
This arises, of course, out of the feeling of the citizens of Nauru that justice would be seen to be done if cases were dealt with by 2 persons independent of the rather limited environment and atmosphere of the island of Nauru which has been delineated by the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith. [More…]
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Treasury and the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]
The Commission has expressed a view that the objectives and working of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act may not be clearly understood in some Government departments. [More…]
The Senate Select Committee on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders presented a report entitled The Environmental Conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the Preservation of their Sacred Sites. [More…]
The health and physical environment problems of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders were considered in depth- at page 79 of the report. [More…]
Recommendations on the future level of plantings were deferred pending the completion of the study of the operation of the softwood planting agreements undertaken by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation of the Twenty-ninth Parliament. [More…]
Normally, expenditure of Commonwealth funds would require the preparation by the States of environmental impact statements on the proposed plantings. [More…]
The States have been advised that, should the Commonwealth and the States enter into agreements for a further period, it would be necessary to comply with the administrative procedures under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974. [More…]
At the very beginning of that meeting I was presented with 2 documents from FIDO which contained a number of what can best be described as misleading, at the worst untruthful, statements on the attitude of the Fraser Government to the environment in general and Fraser Island in particular. [More…]
Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development Parliament House, Canberra, A.C.T.,2600 16 August 1976 [More…]
Soon after his visit, Senator Greenwood fell ill and during his illness there have been two acting Ministers for Environment- making a total of four since Malcolm Fraser became Prime Minister- (compare this with the four Environment Ministers during the last six months of the Whitlam Government). ‘ [More…]
The point I made at the meeting was that the Senator’s illness, and subsequent replacement, was something that no reasonable person could interpret as showing any lack of concern for the environment on the part of the Government, and was something that could not be compared with the fact that the previous Government had four Environment Ministers in its last six months. [More…]
The honourable gentleman spoke of the need for jobs as being a part of the environment in which people must live and of the need for security. [More…]
The natural environment certainly does need preservation. [More…]
In many parts of the world it has been polluted and destroyed because people have not looked with sufficient concern at the damage that members of the human species can do if they are allowed to run wild in certain parts of the natural environment. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development is not represented on this Committee and is not being consulted? [More…]
He may rest assured that the Government will take very close note of what the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, advised by his Department, says in relation to all matters affecting the environment as obviously this report does. [More…]
Furthermore, we should also be looking at the opportunity cost of undertaking increased defence expenditure at the expense of other public programs such as education or health or programs for a better environment, better roads, better harbours or better railways. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) let the cat out of the bag. [More…]
He might have added that every other specific purpose project- funds for the environment, the national estate, area improvement programs, regional employment schemes- will now have to come from general purpose revenue as well. [More…]
Rather than encouraging the private sector the internal conflicts within the Government’s economic policies are now worsening the economic environment. [More…]
The third Minister is none other than the Minister at the table, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]
-If we believed that the Fraser Government had a genuine commitment to the protection of the environment the Labor Party would applaud the amendment proposed by this Bill. [More…]
While the Government amends this Act in what could be a meaningful way it has, by its actions in the related areas that measure a government’s commitment to the environment, shown a lack of awareness. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) went to great pains in his second reading speech to demonstrate his Government’s commitment to the environment. [More…]
The Australian environment is under attack. [More…]
It is under attack because of this Government’s desire for uncontrolled growth- growth in migration, growth in mining, growth in woodchip and wood pulping, and growth in the lack of awareness of people who little understand the delicate nature and fabric of our environment. [More…]
This report confirmed that the Whitlam Labor Government was the first government to make a genuine commitment to the charting of the National Estate and conserving our environment for the Australians of the future. [More…]
We had a mandate to protect the environment. [More…]
We enacted complementary and supplementary pieces of legislation and we appropriated funds all to protect the environment. [More…]
The highlight of our environmental legislation was the Australian Heritage Commission Act. [More…]
It supplemented the working of other Acts of the Labor Government including the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act, the Great Barrier [More…]
Unlike this Government we gave a high priority to the matters that affect the environment. [More…]
Despite the claims of this Government to the contrary, nobody believes that it is genuinely committed to the protection of the environment. [More…]
This Government asked us all to believe that it is giving the environment a high priority because it has made appointments to the Australian Heritage Commission, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and the National Parks and Wildlife Service. [More…]
The people know that no action has been taken to protect the marine environment. [More…]
The people know that this Government is not committed to the protection of the environment. [More…]
The Government has taken no action to introduce the Environment Protection (Marine) Bill drawn up by the Labor Government. [More…]
This is just one more example of its lack of environmental commitment. [More…]
It is further seen in the Government’s stated intention to give the States the administration of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) legislation, its lack of commitment to the built environment, its refusal to fund nature conservation organisations on a non-matching grants basis if funded at all and its abolition of the public environment awareness program. [More…]
The Government’s lack of commitment to the environment protection legislation has been highlighted in several ways. [More…]
Not only was this decision a clear breach of the legislation, but also it shows a complete disregard that powerful elements of the current Government have for environmental considerations. [More…]
The Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) is continuing his efforts to have woodchip proposals exempted from the operations of the environment protection legislation. [More…]
Another and more important example is the statement of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development immediately after the Fox report became public that the green light had been given for uranium mining to take place in this country. [More…]
But the best measure of the Government’s commitment is the future of the environment protection legislation. [More…]
The Minister has stated in this House that the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) legislation is under review. [More…]
In saying this, the Government is ignoring the fact that no State government in Australia has adequate legislation designed to protect the environment. [More…]
State governments, unlike the Federal Government, have a basic conflict in regard to the protection of the environment. [More…]
Of course, I am referring here to the conflict which the States, particularly the less populous States, have in regard to development and the protection of the environment. [More…]
In Queensland there are only 6 people employed in the Co-ordinator General’s Department with the responsibility under the State administrative arrangements to look at environmental questions arising from the development proposal. [More…]
These people never get the chance to comment upon mining proposals because the Queensland Government feels that the environmental issues concerned can be looked after properly in Mining Warden’s Courts. [More…]
Officials of this court are not qualified to consider environmental matters. [More…]
The expertise of multi-disciplinary teams available to the Federal Government puts it in a much better situation than the States to conduct an impartial inquiry into the protection of the environment. [More…]
In addition, the Australian Government does not face the basic conflict that the’ State governments face on the issues of development as opposed to the protection of the environment. [More…]
A further illustration of this Government’s lack of commitment to the protection of the environment concerns the nature of their grants to conservation organisations. [More…]
They were used for research and technical, administrative and information functions provided by various environmental action groups of this country. [More…]
The Labor Government provided these grants in recognition of and support for the valuable work being done by the community action groups in defence of our environment. [More…]
The Labor Government believed that the protection and improvement of the environment were issues which directly affected everyday life. [More…]
This action was considered appropriate by Labor because the Australian Government is prevented from acting on many aspects of the environment by constitutional limitations and by the reluctance and in some cases the refusal of our State counterparts to co-operate with us in these matters. [More…]
By making grants of this nature, the Labor Government sought to establish a permanent and growing network of action and information groups capable of influencing governmental and commercial impacts on the environment. [More…]
We considered community participation in environmental decisions as essential. [More…]
We regarded the grants as pioneering grants or seed money given to help the growth of community concern and activity for the protection of our environment. [More…]
We would never have forced environmental centres to close as this Government will force the environmental centres of certain areas to close. [More…]
The Government is not encouraging people’s participation in this delicate area of our people ‘s environment. [More…]
This is our environment. [More…]
An area of particular concern to me is the lack of this Government’s commitment to the protection and enhancement of the built environment. [More…]
We have seen this Government break down the programs introduced by the Labor Government which were intended to improve the quality of life and enhance the environment in our urban centres. [More…]
We had a broad view of the environment. [More…]
We knew that to protect the environment, related and complementary programs were needed. [More…]
All our urban and regional development programs complemented our environmental programs. [More…]
It could be used to ease the strain on existing infrastructure services and to improve the urban environment, both built and natural. [More…]
It was our intention to use this program to set aside large areas of the Dandenongs in Victoria and the Blue Mountains escarpment in New South Wales for the recreational and environmental purposes of our urban dwellers. [More…]
The duplicity of this Government’s conduct of a public relations exercise, emphasising its commitment to the environment is further shown by this Bill. [More…]
If this Government had a genuine commitment to the environment, this amendment would be commendable. [More…]
But the Government, by introducing this amendment, is paying only lip service to the protection of the environment. [More…]
When the Government shows it is prepared to take real action to protect the environment and when it shows a genuine concern, it may be possible to reach a bipartisan approach. [More…]
-The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) is well able to defend himself. [More…]
It was interesting to note in the Second Report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation into [More…]
I want to offer praise also to the dedication of the officers of the national parks and wildlife services that I have met in the various States as a result of my association first as a member and then as Chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
I want to make it quite clear that this Government is committed to a program of protection of our environment. [More…]
This Government is genuine in its approach towards the protection of our natural environment and towards the uplifting of our built or social environment. [More…]
It recognises the needs for, and the Minister has stated and restated that the Government will uphold the principles of, the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
These bodies enjoy an important place in the operation of this Government and, more particularly, in the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
I assure the Minister that I for one am most appreciative of the service and the attention he has given to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
There is also a full Committee inquiry dealing with the urban environment. [More…]
I want to dispel the thoughts of the pessimists, particularly those on the Opposition benches, and to assure Australians that this Government is deeply committed to the preservation of the environment and the conservation of Australia’s flora and fauna. [More…]
In particular, I commend to the House and the nation the leaflets that have just been produced by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
The 2 bodies concerned insofar as this report on trafficking in fauna in Australia is concerned- the Department of Environment, Housing and Community [More…]
I venture to say that if we were able to count up the countless thousands of hectares that have been cleared for farming- that is, the complete destruction of the natural environment- and to add to that the countless thousands of hectares of partly cleared land that is used for grazing purposes and were to compare that land with the area that has been despoiled by the mining companies we would all be in for a shock. [More…]
As the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) stated in his second reading speech, in 1974 the Parliament legislated to make it possible for the Commonwealth to provide financial assistance to the States for purposes connected with nature conservation. [More…]
Over the past decade, debate and concern about environmental and conservation matters have been widespread, particularly as they relate to our natural environment. [More…]
What concerns me, however, is that not all groups supposedly interested in promoting conservation and environmental issues do so with balance or honesty. [More…]
It is a natural tendency at our stage of developmenta transition from pioneering in both the agricultural and industrial stages into rationalisation and stabilisation- that issues of conservation and protection of our environment become prominent. [More…]
Over the next few months this Parliament will be making important decisions closely tied to environmental issues and the preservation of our national heritage. [More…]
The Parliament will be charged with protecting many areas of unique environmental significance. [More…]
I refer to the hardy race of people who live and work in the harsh environment of the Pilbara area of Western Australia and who put up with the heat, the dust, the flies and the loneliness. [More…]
-The Government’s position in relation to this matter will be made known later this afternoon or this evening by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
On more than one occasion I have referred to the difficulty involved in coming to a decision about this matter because there are legitimate interests in the conservation of the natural environment of Fraser Island. [More…]
by leave- The Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry reported its final findings and recommendations to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 2 1 October 1976. [More…]
The inquiry, which was conducted under the provisions of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 for the purposes of achieving the object of the Act recommended that: [More…]
It is a decision both in keeping with the Government’s policy concerning the Australian environment, as well as being part of our international obligations. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development will consult with the Queensland Government seeking joint Commonwealth-State action to develop an agreed management plan for Fraser Island, having in mind the preservation of the Island ‘s natural features and the oversight of Island activity. [More…]
The natural environment of Fraser Island is of great significance, complexity and fragility. [More…]
But the inevitable highlighting of the presence and importance of these individual features of its natural environment should not be allowed to obscure the links and interdependency of its many fragile elements, while, overall, an impression of wilderness gives unity to the broad spectrum of the particular natural features of the Island. [More…]
It is certainly a great victory for all concerned with the protection of the environment. [More…]
The first set of costs will be borne by the nation as a whole, and this is appropriate as we are seeking to preserve a unique aspect of our natural environment for all Australians. [More…]
After listening to the statement made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), I do not feel much satisfaction about the protection that is being offered to persons who are directly affected by the decision. [More…]
I must make comment upon the statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) on this subject. [More…]
We would be of real assistance in employing the men who are hurt by necessary, progressive decisions taken by the Government of honourable members opposite, decisions which we applaud for environmental reasons. [More…]
-Today the Minister for the Environment, Housing and [More…]
Community Development (Mr Newman) announced the decision of the Federal Government on the report of the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
One acknowledges immediately the Government’s need to maintain its credibility as a government that is sensitive to its responsibilities to the environment. [More…]
There has been a suggestion and argument and counter-argument that opinions polarise to those who are enlightened and sensitive souls and those who derive some practical and material benefit from sand mining on Fraser Island and who therefore are obtuse and insensitive to the environment. [More…]
But I would suggest to this House that one must accept the possibility that the members of the Commission, having an expertise arising from their long association with the environment, associated in turn with their professions, must have subconsciously at least an inclination or a predisposition to maintain the environment. [More…]
Those people may reasonably have expected some security of tenure in their new environment. [More…]
What assurances are to be given to the Maryborough area, indeed to Queensland as a whole, that there will not be another intrusion on the wellbeing of the district as a result of increased ambition by those who have a disproportionate and unqualified commitment to preserve the environment regardless of other considerations? [More…]
This Government has applied the environmental protection impact study retrospectively. [More…]
We delude ourselves if we say that we can maintain the environment of certain sections of this country when we live under the threat of a total breakdown of our economic and social structure. [More…]
Does any honourable member seriously suggest that individuals in one State or another are less sensitive to the environment or are of a lower intellectual standing? [More…]
What nonsense it is to suggest that the environment of Queensland must be protected by the overlording role of the Federal Government. [More…]
Environment, the continual criticisms and charges by the then Opposition, the present Government, that I was doing nothing to save Fraser Island. [More…]
So, having established, in accordance with the environmental protection legislation, a committee of inquiry, we were prepared to await results of that inquiry and then be guided by the findings of fact of the inquiry in order to determine what our future policy should be. [More…]
The whole concept of the environmental impact statement procedure envisages that people’s rights come first. [More…]
But it is not just the right to earn a living; it is the right to enjoy the environment, to appreciate things of aesthetic beauty, and to be whatever it is that makes us humans and not animals. [More…]
The environmental inquiry should be concerned with the total environment. [More…]
I want to consider whether it is concerned with the total environment. [More…]
The total environment consists not only of people being able to walk around sand dunes with trees on them but also of people having decent living standards within their own households. [More…]
Let me read, first of all, the definition of ‘environment’ which activated the minds of the commissioners. [More…]
On the first page of the report it is stated that the environment- …. includes all aspects of the surroundings of man, whether affecting him as an individual or in his social groupings, and ‘environmental’ has a corresponding meaning. [More…]
Having said that in its definition of ‘environment’, the report has completely ignored anything to do with the household environment of the people concerned directly and indirectly in the area. [More…]
It is a totally inadequate report because it has denned ‘environment’ in a certain way. [More…]
Sometimes we forget that in this world the environment exists for man and man does not exist to serve the environment. [More…]
The report deals with the regional economic effects, which are concerned with the most intimate environment of all, on pages 1 73 to 1 75. [More…]
He is concerned with the most intimate environment of all. [More…]
The Commission of Inquiry was appointed on 12 July 1975 in pursuance of section 1 1 of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 to conduct an inquiry known as the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry: … in respect of all of the environmental aspects of the making of decisions by or on behalf of the Australian (Commonwealth) Government in relation to the exportation from Australia of minerals (including minerals that have been subjected to processing or treatment) extracted or which may hereafter be extracted from Fraser Island in the State of Queensland. [More…]
But it must be recognised that this is not a decision just affecting the people in the Wide Bay area; it is not a decision just for environmentalists; it is a decision affecting the whole of the nation. [More…]
I believe the proposals put forward by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) concerning the workers and the region are not good enough. [More…]
I am pleased that Australians who are concerned with the environment and who have fought so hard to protect Fraser Island from the bulldozer mentality have at last had a major victory. [More…]
Neither myself nor the Labor Party ever wants to see destruction to the environment similar to that which occurred with Lake Pedder. [More…]
Whilst I find this decision commendable, I believe it is contrary to this Government’s attitude to the protection of the environment. [More…]
In the past year the Government has given no indication at all of any understandings of environmental issues. [More…]
The Government has cut back drastically on all major environmental commitments. [More…]
Therefore I hope there will be a financial commitment to this side environmental issue. [More…]
Generally the Government’s attitude to the environment is contradictory. [More…]
For a short term economic purpose the Government reduced the amount appropriated for protection of the environment this year. [More…]
It worries me that this is just a sop to the environmental groups and concerned Australians. [More…]
The Government may not have the same commitment to the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry chaired by Mr Justice Fox. [More…]
Whilst I do not criticise the decision on Fraser Island- in fact I have said very clearly that I applaud it- from an environmental protection point of view I am worried by the way the Government intends to protect the displaced workers. [More…]
I think it is only marginally less important when a government decides to protect the environment that it should take definite action to protect the people in the area concerned. [More…]
The Covernment cannot make a decision in relation to one inquiry commenced under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act and then ignore the report of another environmental inquiry. [More…]
The report obviously pre-supposes that Fraser Island is the exclusive preserve of environmentalists and scientists, with lesser beings perhaps permitted, provided they do not disturb the environment. [More…]
Sandmining is obviously a dirty word to environmentalists, with timber harvesting only faring slightly better. [More…]
The working party consisted of representatives of the Insurance Commissioner, the Australian Government Actuary, and the Departments of the Treasury, the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Environment, Housing and Community Development, and Primary Industry. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and relates to AlburyWodonga. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
Will the Minister confirm that the final report of the Commission of Inquiry on Fraser Island is primarily concerned with the environmental aspects of Commonwealth decisions regarding the export of minerals extracted from the island? [More…]
In this event, will the Government also examine the impact of forestry and tourism on the environment of Fraser Island? [More…]
They are disadvantaged not only in the physical environment of the schools but also in their home environment, with all things that go with that. [More…]
It was he who submitted in evidence to the Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties that the influence on educational under-achievement of other factors such as cultural and linguistic difficulties, basic housing and health problems in a domestic environment, the pattern of alcohol consumption and problems of frequent family movement should be recognised. [More…]
If one goes into the schools seeking to discover what is missing in the link between the education situation and the home environment one need only speak to community relations officers. [More…]
However it must also be borne in mind that when people are brought into a completely new environment there needs to be special consideration so far as housing is concerned if they are to fit adequately into a community. [More…]
We are concerned about the economic and environmental consequences of the continuation of agreements like this and we are concerned that the studies undertaken by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and the Forestry and Timber Bureau are not public and may have overlooked many important issues. [More…]
We are concerned that this legislation has ignored the findings of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
We are concerned about this Government’s commitment to the environment. [More…]
There must be a commission of inquiry established under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act to review the entire forestry industry in Australia. [More…]
On 23 July 1 974 the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation resolved to inquire and report upon: [More…]
Stringent conditions should be imposed upon the lending of Federal money to ensure that forestry management procedures designed to protect the environment are strictly observed. [More…]
In recognition of some of the issues raised by the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, the Government has asked the States, and apparently the States have agreed, that new plantings under this agreement will, in the main, be established on land which has already been cleared for agricultural purposes. [More…]
The Government’s decision to waive the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) legislation for monies expended under this agreement causes this side of the House concern. [More…]
We believe that an environmental impact statement should be called for from the States before they are allowed to clear fell native forest areas for the planting of softwood forests. [More…]
It is not good enough for the Government to announce that if future agreements of this nature are made, it will be necessary for the States to comply with the administrative arrangements of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
I do not believe that enough is understood about the delicate nature and fabric of our environment or the conflict that arises between development proposals and the need to preserve our heritage. [More…]
We have a duty to ensure that adequate measures are taken to safeguard the environment and to protect our flora and fauna. [More…]
We have a duty to ensure that clear-felling of parts of our native forests is rationalised and that enough areas of native forest are left to preserve our natural environment. [More…]
We are dealing with our own natural environment and the more we study our environment the more we understand it, whether it be in our gardens, whether it be in our forests or whether it be the people themselves. [More…]
-This is the second occasion this week on which I have followed the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Uren) in a debate on environment and conservation issues. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition stands there in a pious and authoritative way telling this nation that the Government knows nothing and cares nothing for the environment. [More…]
I am concerned, firstly, with the environmental aspects of this Bill and, secondly, with the fact that it is providing employment that is so needed today in this country. [More…]
Although I am interested in the environment, I am not a rabid environmentalist. [More…]
Nevertheless, I hope that I can present a fairly balanced view on matters concerning the environment and conservation. [More…]
I want to refer, as did the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, to the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition referred to the rather sterile environment that results from the planting of many species of softwoods. [More…]
A number of people may refute this but I think the findings of the Environment and Conservation Committee clearly illustrate that a sterile environment is produced by the planting of many of these trees. [More…]
I restate that environmental impact studies and statements should be produced by the States for the various areas that they wish to plant with softwood forests in the future. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) shows a deep concern for environmental issues. [More…]
I refute the statement that is freque’ntly made by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition that this Government is not interested in this area of the’ environment. [More…]
Finally, I state again that the Government is firmly committed to the protection of our environment. [More…]
The Government has referred a number of factors contained in the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation on the softwood forestry agreements for examination by bodies which previously had a preconceived view of the matter in that they had prepared material for the Forwood Conference and, indeed, had given evidence before the Committee. [More…]
At some stage we have to consider what we do about the total timber industry- the total forestry industry- for economic and resource reasons in addition to the environment and conservation aspects that have been mentioned. [More…]
I turn now to the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation which dealt with the reference on the operation of the Softwood Forestry Agreements Acts. [More…]
We examined not only the principles being used in the growth, actual farming and harvesting of the crops but also what measures were taken to ensure protection for the natural environment and the natural flora and fauna. [More…]
It is a matter for caution because of the involved nature of forestry, and because of the difficulty in divorcing from a consideration of softwood forests consideration of hardwood forests, the preservation of native forest and many natural features of our environment. [More…]
But, of course, this does not relieve any of us of the responsibility to improve the conditions and the environment in which Aboriginal people live because these factors undoubtedly do contribute to the health of the people of Central Australia and elsewhere. [More…]
Does the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development issue copies of his speeches to the Opposition 2 hours prior to presenting them in this House? [More…]
If not, will the Minister tell the House how a speaker at the demonstration had a copy of his statement on the Ranger uranium environmental study approximately VA hours prior to its being delivered in this House? [More…]
He will know that last Thursday the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development stated that the Government welcomes any international initiatives for strengthening the international nonproliferation regime. [More…]
I am glad that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) made that amended statement. [More…]
There were implications- deliberately, it seemed to me- in the reply by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development at question time this afternoon that members of the Opposition had given people outside the House copies of a proposed ministerial statement. [More…]
-Mr Deputy Speaker, you will have noticed that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) stated quite properly at what time he handed the statement to me. [More…]
A brief history of the previous Acts is given in the 1975 report of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
Not only is the submerged area directly affected but also the whole ecosystem downstream, the habitat of fish and other wildlife, the farming and townspeople who depend on the water flow from the river; in other words, the total environment downstream. [More…]
If we are to protect this country from the speculator, the exploiter, or those people bent on the destruction of our environment we must adopt and act in accordance with a land use and water resources policy. [More…]
One of the most significant environmental studies undertaken to date, and continuing, relates to the waters of Westernport Bay and the catchment area, including groundwater. [More…]
I quote from the Draft Environment Protection Policy: [More…]
The policy will become binding on all sections of the community-industry, trade, commerce, householders and Government Departments and agencies, including the Environment Protection Authority and the Environment Protection Appeal Board. [More…]
That policy was developed from the 1973-74 Westernport Bay Environment Study- the socalled Shapiro report. [More…]
The important point I emphasise is that this was an environmental study under a conservation ministry laying down a policy which will allow development of resources without damage to a sensitive and significant coastal and water environment. [More…]
The Draft Environment Protection Policy on the Waters of Westernport Bay and Catchment recommends that the Environment Protection Authority in Victoria: . [More…]
Before works could commence the Government required an environmental study to be presented. [More…]
Investigations, public meetings, written submissions, and a study of the implications of the works on the natural and social environment during the phases of construction, inundation and operation have been completed. [More…]
In general terms, the investigators found that no major environmental defects would result from the proposed works, although the exclusion of the public from parts of the catchment area of the Thomson Dam is causing concern to a large number of people and to local government authorities in the Latrobe Valley area of Victoria. [More…]
We want work, a good environment with the sort of community facilities modern urban living should provide and the right to earn and pay our way. [More…]
Resources are to be diverted away from high-cost industries towards industries that are more efficient in the Australian environment. [More…]
What is needed is a more positive approach with practical recommendations for a more efficient use of resources in a competitive world environment. [More…]
The Premier of Victoria is one who certainly has been in the vanguard of protection of the environment; his record stands as second to none in that regard. [More…]
I am quite certain that the Premier of Victoria would not pursue an activity or a State enterprise such as the construction of a power station if it were contrary to the broader interests of the natural environment. [More…]
Of course, the honourable member for Lalor would be well aware that the deadlock over this power station is not just a matter of the environment. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) who is at the table came to this Parliament as a result of undertakings of that nature. [More…]
Last week the Minister for environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), who is at the table, announced certain proposals relating to Fraser Island, proposals which were supported by the Opposition. [More…]
Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER (Mr Lucock)Before I call the honourable member for Corio, I want to make one comment in regard to what was said by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]
-The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) started his speech by saying that he would not have won his seat in Parliament if it had not been for the policies of the previous Labor Government. [More…]
I refer now to the rather pathetic bleatings in the Press statement of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition issued on 7 November following the statement of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) on growth centres. [More…]
I think that many other Australians are starting to feel much the same way about their environment. [More…]
The situation here is that we ought not to produce in legislation, particularly adventurous legislation attempting to create a new social environment for the Aboriginal people, trappings which we do not have in other legislation. [More…]
These provisions authorise directors to have regard to the interests of employees, the effects of the company’s activities on the environment and the interests of the community. [More…]
We have to find out where we are going, what it is all about and what is the new defence environment and foreign policy environment. [More…]
We can take our time about the kind of equipment that we need in this environment. [More…]
We have to look more emphatically at our own immediate environment. [More…]
If we look at our environment within 3000 miles of Australia, we see no country with aircraft which would be able to take on even the Mirage. [More…]
There is a grave inconsistency here because the White Paper points out the new defence environment in which we live and says that we have to be more independent, less dependent on the United States and we have to organise ourselves for more joint force operations; but there is no reassessment of how we should do this. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
The Prime Minister, in an address to the Stanford Research Institute on 15 November, stated that external policy was being used ‘to create an environment where businesses can plan ahead ‘. [More…]
On 28 October, the day it was issued, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) made a Press statement in which he singled out for emphasis only two of those findings. [More…]
Justice Fox and the two commissioners from the Ranger environmental inquiry have attacked the Government over its interpretaton of the Fox Report. [More…]
In a recent letter to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, the Fox commissioners have claimed their first two findings do not amount to recommendations . [More…]
I will not subscribe to the view being put by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) that the Ranger inquiry itself constitutes a full examination by the people of the uranium and nuclear industry issue. [More…]
-Mr Deputy Speaker, this debate encompasses the contents of two documents, the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry and the Ministerial statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) in respect to the supply of Australian uranium under existing international contracts. [More…]
The report of the Ranger Environmental Inquiry or the Fox Report, as it is known, is a document of international significance. [More…]
Obviously from statements of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development at the time of the delivery of the Fox report and on the occasion of the statement in the House of Representatives pertaining to existing contracts, the Government does not take the Fox Commission’s warnings seriously. [More…]
What would actually eventuate depends mainly on 3 factors, namely, how much radioactivity is actually released to the environment; the weather conditions outside- wind directions, rain, snow, etc. [More…]
The interdepartmental committee which was established to examine the fourth report of the Royal Commission on Petroleum comprised the Departments of Business and Consumer Affairs (Chairman), Attorney-General ‘s, Capital Territory, Environment, Housing and Community Development, Industry and Commerce, National Resources, Northern Territory, Primary Industry, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Transport and the Treasury. [More…]
Although the Task Force’s advertisement did not specifically seek submissions from amateur and professional sporting organisations, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development did, I am advised, draw the Task Force’s advertisement for submissions to the attention of national sporting organisations. [More…]
1) and (2) As announced to the Parliament by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 10 November, the Government has reviewed in detail the findings and recommendations of the final report of the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry and has decided that the export of minerals extracted from Fraser Island, other than from below high water mark on the beach south of Indian Head, should be phased out and export should not be permitted for minerals mined after 3 1 December 1 976. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
to (4) An Interdepartmental Committee comprising representatives of Prime Minister and Cabinet (Chairman), Treasury and Environment, Housing and Community Development was established immediately before the Acting Minister’s announcement. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
Achievement of the above with due regard to the natural and social environment of Australia. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
-I direct a question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development a question concerning correspondence between him or other Ministers and Mr Justice Fox. [More…]
They will go to other States where they will find a more attractive environment. [More…]
It explores the problem in some depth and detail and its December 1975 report on housing for Australia is a document worthy of consideration by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and his Department. [More…]
I trust that that Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and his Department will have a serious look at this matter of the lack of rental accommodation. [More…]
Such massive issues as urban affairs, the environment, education and Aboriginal affairs which were not before regarded as the prerogative of this Parliament are now being considered. [More…]
Certainly the environment- the pollution of an already polluted atmosphere-is an issue in the struggle against the Newport proposal. [More…]
To allow these increases, plus that from Newport, to be added to an already bad situation seems to indicate that the official goal of the Environment Protection Authority and the Government that is to clean up Melbourne’s air pollution is not being taken seriously. [More…]
Their motivation principally has been one of the environment but there are also other issues, as the honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Innes) mentioned, such as town planning and resources. [More…]
We recognised that housing policy was an integral part of our policies concerned with the quality of both the natural environment and the built environment. [More…]
The Government and in particular the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who is at the table, do not appear to understand the importance of financial and monetary management to housing policy. [More…]
That is an indication of the priority that this Government gives to the important issue of housing, not to mention the environment and community living. [More…]
That was followed in government by a statement by the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the late Senator Ivor Greenwood. [More…]
But it is thoughtful and sympathetic, and I know that it will be very well adminstered by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development who is at the table and by his Department. [More…]
I am pleased to see that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), who is responsible for these matters, is showing an interest in what I am saying, because the same kind of problem could occur again. [More…]
Even the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who has come out of a very protected life in the socialised service of the Army, would probably know that there are lots of people around who lack the capacity to save $40 or $48 a week. [More…]
The National Country Party believes that the introduction of this Bill by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) is very appropriate and continues the great work of the late Senator Ivor Greenwood. [More…]
The Government believes that, in its measures to assist the young unemployed, it should concentrate on programs which give them real job experience in a real commercial and industrial environment. [More…]
So when it is said in this House for environmental or other reasons that mining needs to be looked at suspiciously in the Australian environment and needs to be curbed in the Australian environment- that is the background of many of the statements- that is a grossly incorrect proposition to put. [More…]
I remind the honourable member of what my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development said recently. [More…]
Discussions on social problems concentrated on the protection of the environment, the control or elimination of pollution and the need for international co-operation in these matters; the growth in population, unemployment and urban poverty and a pressing need in some of the less developed countries to arrest or even reverse the drift to the cities. [More…]
The issue of rural adjustment assistance and the role it is to play in future agricultural policy in Australia must be viewed against the significant changes which have occurred in its structure of the rural sector since the war, and the sector’s ability in a social and economic sense to respond autonomously to changes in its economic environment. [More…]
The Labor Party acknowledges the capacity of the rural sector to adjust autonomously to changes in its economic environment. [More…]
Also, the extreme danger of high level nuclear wastes to our environment means that these allegations and claims require a royal commission or, at least, a judicial inquiry. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
Proceedings to Protect the Environment: Legal Aid (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
Aware that the Conference was convened following recommendation of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment and subsequent resolutions of the General Assembly, particularly resolution 3128 (XXVIII) by which the nations of the world expressed their concern over the extremely serious condition of human settlements, particularly that which prevails in developing countries. [More…]
Recalling the decisions of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, as well as the recommendations of the World Population Conference, the United Nations World Food Conference, the Second General Conference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, the World Conference of the International Women’s Year; the Declaration and program of Action adopted by the sixth special session of the General Assembly of the United Nations and the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States that establish the basis of the New International Economic Order, [More…]
Every State has the right to exercise full and permanent sovereignty over its wealth, natural resources and economic activities, adopting the necessary measures for the planning and management of its resources, providing for the protection, preservation and enhancement of the environment. [More…]
The nations must avoid the pollution of the biosphere and the oceans and should join in the effort to end irrational exploitation of all environmental resources, whether nonrenewable or renewable in the long term. [More…]
The environment is the common heritage of mankind and its protection is the responsibility of the whole international community. [More…]
All acts by nations and people should therefore be inspired by a deep respect for the protection of the environmental resources upon which life itself depends. [More…]
The design of human settlements should aim at providing a living environment in which identities of individuals, families and societies are preserved and adequate means for maintaining privacy, the possibility of face-to-face interactions and public participation in the decision-making process are provided. [More…]
In the planning and management of human settlements, Governments should take into consideration all pertinent recommendations on human settlements planning which have emerged from earlier conferences dealing with the quality of life and development problems which affect it, starting with the high global priority represented by the transformation of the economic order at the national and international levels (sixth and seventh special sessions), the environmental impact of human settlements (Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment), the housing and sanitary ramifications of population growth (World Population Conference, Bucharest), rural development and the need to increase food supply (World Food Conference, Rome) and the effect on women of housing and urban development (International Women’s Conference, Mexico City). [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
It concerns us on this side of the House that the Government has not tabled the annual report of the Corporation, which demonstrates these inequities, even though the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), who had the responsibility for the Corporation, has had the report for at least 4 months. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who is at the table, is aware that interest rates will rise by at least 2 per cent in the next year. [More…]
The intentions are quite clearly set out m the second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development ( Mr Newman). [More…]
I said it would create an environment in which business could be certain about what was going to happen. [More…]
That will do anything but create certainty and the kind of environment in which there will be substantial investment. [More…]
The Australian Environment Council has also expressed concern over these substances and has made several recommendations regarding importation and disposal of PCBs. [More…]
Unless such an environment is established private investment cannot flourish. [More…]
The Committee’s recommendations include: The Torres Strait Islands should remain part of Australia; that the Government should, as soon as feasible, make a statement in Parliament setting out its position on the Torres Strait boundary; if a protected zone is established in the area freedom of passage for Australians and Papua New Guineans should be guaranteed, mining and drilling in the seabed should be prohibited until agreement is reached between all interested parties and new commercial ventures should not be permitted in the area unless they are compatible with the environment; and competent counsel should be provided to the Torres Strait Islanders if required by the people of Torres Strait. [More…]
The departments from which the Committee has taken evidence during the year in connection with the Auditor-General’s report and Treasurer’s Advance include Aboriginal Affairs, Administrative Services, AttorneyGeneral’s, Capital Territory, Construction, Defence, Education, Environment, Housing and Community Development, Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Industry and Commerce, National Resources, Overseas Trade, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Science and the Treasury. [More…]
It is a problem of bad parents, of bad environment and of bad luck. [More…]
The home is vital because whatever the school achieves, however dedicated the teacher is, if the home environment to which the child returns does not place emphasis on correcting a serious problem and if no encouragement is given to the child to progress, in the final analysis very Utile progress will be made. [More…]
Apart from the measures announced on 1 1 November 1976 by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Government’s attitude is that policy decisions in relation to the further development of the Australian uranium industry will have to await the outcome of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
TAA operates in a commercially competitive environment and it would be improper for me to answer questions relating to passengers travelling on particular TAA flights and who paid for the journey. [More…]
Control of inflation was a pre-requisite for an environment in which the private sector would slowly emerge from its state of shock. [More…]
It will receive with a hollow laugh the sentence in the Treasurer’s statement which states that the Government is creating an environment in which the private sector will slowly come out from its state of shock. [More…]
I am told that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has prepared a list of Commonwealth building projects where an arts component could be included in the costs. [More…]
This list has been passed to the Australia Council and its recommendations will be given to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development for further consideration. [More…]
Environment Report on Land Use in Australia (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) With reference to the Australian Advisory Committee on the Environment’s Report on Land Use in Australia which was presented in December 1974, what steps have been taken to implement or review the Committee’s recommendations. [More…]
Would we have secured the services of Dr McMichael as head of the new Department of Environment? [More…]
Was there anyone as well qualified in the Federal Service to head a new Department of Environment as he, with his experience in this field in New South Walesunder a Liberal government, if one wants to make the point? [More…]
I believe we now live in a different political and governmental environment and that in fact the Parliament itself, a Minister himself and whatever relationships a Minister has with the Parliament have to be related more closely to the day-to-day operations of government. [More…]
There are certain other types of weapons of war which are equally horrific and in the environment of which it would be equally as difficult for mankind to survive. [More…]
It was public knowledge and a number of former members of the defence forces, including the present Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), publicly stated that their political ambitions were prompted by their concern for the country and the neglect of the defence forces in which they were serving. [More…]
Honourable members should have regard for the physical environment that exists in inner city Sydney. [More…]
It is an environment particularly lacking in open recreational space and the access to that space is made very difficult by the large number of arterial and sub-arterial roads that run through these districts. [More…]
It is unlikely, as is the case in more fortunately equipped environments, that they can walk to open spaces. [More…]
In this peculiar physical environment there has been developed a project to take children from the narrow physical environment in which they move to the limited open space that is available and, when at this open space, to confront their senses with new opportunities, with innovative toys, with toys of a size and scale which no home, not even the most affluent one, generally has, and with games that excite the imagination. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
There can be no doubt that if this proposal is bludgeoned through by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) the immediate effect on many tenants of Housing Commission dwellings will be a large increase in rental rates. [More…]
Rather than attacking the Labor Premiers who have these and other doubts over the end result of the Fraser Government’s proposal, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development would be more productive if he ensured that studies were undertaken correlating the cost benefit and social welfare implications of alternatives to the existing scheme. [More…]
He took a letter, which was written by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) to State Premiers, as the basis of discussion for a new agreement, out of context and has attempted, for blatant political purposes connected with the Western Australian election, to totally misrepresent the Commonwealth Government’s position. [More…]
If the Government abandons it, as the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) is apparently contemplating, the effect could be disastrous in many ways. [More…]
Certain State Premiers are under attack because they are alarmed at the terms of a letter from the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]
The group will be assisted’ by officials from other departments including Treasury, Finance, Health, Social Security, Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Public Service Board. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development received representations from persons purporting to represent the majority of people in the Geelong area suggesting that the people of Geelong do not want any Commonwealth assistance for growth centre proposals? [More…]
We have established by our taxation policies the environment to make wage restraint reasonable and this ought to be understood. [More…]
Mr Speaker, the Government has noted the report and has taken a decision to establish an office of youth affairs within the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
The Government has asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) to investigate further the question of a youth advisory council or panel and report to it after the Office has been operating some 6 or 1 2 months. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]
I refer the honourable member to pages 26-27 in my Department’s submission to the Inquiry of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment into the Impact on the Australian Environment of the current Woodship Industry program. [More…]
Marine Environment [More…]
In my view, August 1973 was the time when it became quite clear that Government policies would lead us into an economic environment within which the private sector would have great difficulty in sustaining the high level of production, the high level of prosperity, that we had come to accept as the norm in Australia, particularly in the decade prior to 1972. [More…]
I see opposite my old friend the Minister for Environment Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), who is well known in this Parliament as the ‘undertaker of social reforms’ because on his own initiative he has jettisoned about twelve or fifteen major programs which were initiated by the Labor Minister for Urban and Regional Development, by myself and by other Ministers of the Labor Government. [More…]
In the face of this dilemma- this incapacity to pay- which provides a distressing situation for very many families, the bright idea of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is that the Government is going to introduce this housing voucher scheme. [More…]
He has the hide, the temerity and the audacity to criticise the most imaginative Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development ever to come from Tasmania. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) needs no defence at all. [More…]
During question time the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development indicated that adequate copies of the Fox report were available. [More…]
The Leader of the House (Mr Sinclair) will be aware, and honourable members are obviously aware, of the concern being expressed by the Chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation that issues relating to the sittings of the House contained in that report have not come before the House for discussion. [More…]
As soon as there is any pressure on the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), he caves in. [More…]
In an article in a recent issue of ‘Environs’, a publication of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, Professor F. H. Talbot, the Director of the Environmental Studies Program at Macquarie University comments on the report of the Commission on Inquiry into Fraser Island. [More…]
Professor Talbot’s article implies that future logging on the island may destroy its natural environment. [More…]
We have an environment and a lifestyle attractive to many people from other countries. [More…]
These and many other initiatives have made a substantial further contribution to easing the inevitable difficulties of adjustment to a new environment, a new culture and, for many, a new language. [More…]
The environment, after initial interruption, is being restored to better than original conditions. [More…]
So I suggest to the knockers and the critics that they get out to see what these developments are really giving Australia in export earnings, tax revenue and job opportunities, while being very careful in their responsibilities to the environment. [More…]
Tourism based on maximum protection and minimum exploitation of the environment flourishes in the north and for many good reasons. [More…]
The aim should be to ensure economic and social justice for all members of the community, whatever their origins; to reduce or eliminate inequalities of opportunity between social groups; and to protect and enhance the social and physical environment. [More…]
It enters into the question of quality of life in the cities, and the provision of public services, the organisation of the economy, the planning of land use and resources, the protection of the environment, and the need to overcome disparities and discrimination. [More…]
Canada, tike most advanced nations, counts the cost of more people in terms of congested metropolitan areas, housing shortages, pressures on arable land, damage to the environment- in short, the familiar catalogue of problems with which most prosperous and sophisticated societies are currently endeavouring to cope . [More…]
The New Zealand inquiry went on to count the cost of increased population and immigration and their impact on the environment. [More…]
Stagnation, in terms either of economic growth or her own personal development, is not the stuff of which higher living standards can be made and it is not the stuff of which a country can possess itself if it hopes to improve the environment for each one of its citizens. [More…]
The question has been posed whether we should be encouraging people to come to a consumer culture, such as we have in Australia, thus placing a greater load on world and local resources and on the environment. [More…]
The article refers to the need for a spirit of partnership in the community between the new arrivals and those of us already here- the older Australians who have had the responsibility of making such an environment as we have- to be as helpful as we can to the new migrants. [More…]
To take one example, there is no simple relationship between population growth and the environment. [More…]
It might be thought that a stationary population level would preserve the environment and maintain living standards. [More…]
It is possible for population movement to be just as great a threat to the environment and living quality as a population which increases rapidly. [More…]
It is also a fact that population movement out of Sydney and Melbourne can bring benefits to the environment- for example, by reduction of the pressure on the inner city freeways and also by the reduction of the enormous pressure on the sewerage services of those cities. [More…]
On the other hand it is argued by many that if population increases the extra income could be used to protect and restore the environment. [More…]
Government action and legislation could be used to reduce the risks of environmental damage. [More…]
Energy consumers should be given options of supply based on a combination of factors, such as the life of the resource, security of supply, pollution of the local environment as well as simple delivered costs. [More…]
I am rather impressed by his performance as a member of my House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment and Conservation and indeed by his conduct in this Parliament. [More…]
Manufacturing industry is concentrated in a city-urban environment, is the largest single employer of labour, and fulfils a vital socio-economic role by providing a wide variety of employment opportunities which cannot otherwise be created. [More…]
We all wish him well and hope that his expertise will find full expression in his new environment. [More…]
However, they found that in the factory atmosphere and in their strange urban environment their culture was being destroyed. [More…]
They saw a way out- a rural environment in which they could bring up their families in their traditional way. [More…]
Many of them have lived a totally different life, particularly those from peasant farming communities and simply do not weld into the Australian environment the way the bulk of our normal migrants have been able to do so successfully. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 9 March 1977. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]
That the House take note of the Ministerial Statement relating to uranium exports made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 1 1 November 1976. [More…]
Fourth, women, like everyone else, want some reasonable prospects of security and companionship; a decent environment; surroundings and services that are at least modestly convenient, congenial and attractive; reasonable access to libraries, theatres, parks, playgrounds and transport. [More…]
-On behalf of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, I present a report of the Committee entitled, ‘Off-Road Vehicles- Impact on the Australian Environment ‘. [More…]
During the inquiry of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment and Conservation the Committee attempted to examine the extent of environmental problems caused by off-road vehicle use around Australia and to look at existing mechanisms employed by government to control the use of these vehicles. [More…]
The Committee examined the impact of these vehicles on the physical as well as the social environment. [More…]
Two basic legislative approaches to controlling the use of ORVs and limiting their impact on the environment are currently in use in Australia. [More…]
On balance it seemed to the Committee that the environment as a whole can best be protected by banning the use of vehicles off-road except for specified uses and/or in specific areas. [More…]
Combined with the legislative approach the Committee considers it vital that ORV owners be educated to understand the damage they can cause to the environment and the need for restrictions on their activities. [More…]
The Committee urges manufacturers and advertising agencies to accept an obligation not to encourage irresponsible use of the environment. [More…]
On the day the first Fox report was issued, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) made a Press statement in which he ignored all the inquiry’s findings on the risks of inadequate safeguards and the dangers of nuclear war. [More…]
The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development was not even represented on the committee. [More…]
Mr Justice Fox was moved to protest at the misrepresentation by the Government, both in a call which he sought on the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and in a letter to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development which has never been published. [More…]
Fifthly, Australia must take urgent steps at home and in cooperation with other countries- to develop waste control and disposal techniques to ensure that the world ‘s human population and environment will not be exposed to the hideous dangers inherent in nuclear waste. [More…]
He also said that Sir Brian Flowers, the former Chairman of the United Kingdom Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution which published in September 1976 its report on nuclear power and the environment, has publicly lamented the lack of rational debate on nuclear power in Britain. [More…]
Mr NEWMAN (Bass-Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development)- With your indulgence, Mr Deputy Speaker, I think I should answer that. [More…]
-The only thing that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) has done in a public debate in this Parliament has been to re-introduce on the Notice Paper the uranium debate. [More…]
We know that environmental matters have a very low priority under this Government. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is a lightweight, and we all know that little notice is taken of his Department. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development issued a Press statement which deliberately encouraged this interpretation. [More…]
On 11 November 1976 the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), who has just spoken in this debate, said: [More…]
I can’t help feeling sometimes that some people see mining as only a rapacious destroyer of the environment. [More…]
Of course, the environment must be protected to the greatest practicable extent. [More…]
Certainly we should consider the implications for the environment of a decision to go ahead with mining- of any kind. [More…]
No matter how the Government tries to squirm out of it the issue is this: After the Fox inquiry presented its first report the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) made a short statement and there was a 2-hour debate. [More…]
On 11 November the Minister for the Environment made a statement about existing contracts, that is, contracts signed by the McMahon Government before 1972, and debate on that statement was to take place within a week of its having been presented. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, who is carrying the can for the Government on this issue, and a back bencher- the honourable member for Kalgoorlie (Mr Cotter)- have spoken. [More…]
The Minister for Environment says he is keeping records. [More…]
Since the time that this debate was initiated by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), the Government has adopted a steady and evenhanded approach to the debate and to the mining and export of uranium. [More…]
Of course the Government realises that there are environmental factors and that safeguards regarding health and pollution must be given great importance. [More…]
I deplore the statement made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) when he said that the debate has been continuing, deplorable though the state of the debate may be. [More…]
On every occasion that I have appeared on a platform- I have been on them with distinguished scientists who have spoken in favour of mining uranium- I simply say: ‘Do you have an answer to that section of the Fox report which says that there is at present no generally accepted means by which high level wastes can be permanently isolated from the environment?’ [More…]
I am indebted to the Leader of the House and to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who is at the table. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development been drawn to the announcement that a film made in Australia entitled Leisure was awarded an Oscar in the animated short film section of the Academy Awards? [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development related to that asked him by the honourable member for Lang, in answer to which he gave an endorsement of the Hollywood award to the Australian film Leisure. [More…]
The law courts do not need to have any particular awesome quality about them but there is no reason why one of the 3 arms of governmentthe legislature, the executive and the courtsought not to be housed in a very pleasant environment. [More…]
We intended to create theatres and other facilities to improve the work and city environment. [More…]
The conduct of the Study is the responsibility of a Committee of Commonwealth and State officials repotting to the Federal Minister for Transport and the New South Wales Minister for Planning and Environment. [More…]
It is responsible for providing an environment for the restoration of economic prosperity which Australia enjoyed before it suffered the devastation of 3 years of incompetent economic management by Labor. [More…]
The first inquiry carried out by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation was an examination of the Ayers Rock-Mount Olga National Park. [More…]
The guidelines drawn up by the Committee on that occasion have meant that the Committee has been able to talk in a sensible way about the various factors of the environment and conservation. [More…]
There is a fragile environment, and the relationship between the flora and fauna and the environment is susceptible to change. [More…]
The intent of this report is to preserve this environment by improving management while catering for the increasing and continuing use of the park by Australian and international tourists. [More…]
Acceptance of recommendations contained in this report is essential if a serious breakdown in both the environment and scenic attractiveness of this area are to be avoided. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) nods his agreement with that. [More…]
In recent years, major international conferences and intensive studies of world crises have made it very clear that the problems of food, population, unemployment and the environment all have roots in poverty and inequality within and between nations. [More…]
That the House take note of the ministerial statement relating to uranium exports made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 1 1 November 1976. [More…]
On a small point of a technical nature let me say that during that debate the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Uren) made the assertion that the only thing that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has done in a public debate in this Parliament has been to reintroduce on the notice paper the uranium debate, that it has been put back on the notice paper only because of the matter of public importance submitted by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
There is no doubt that it is a panic response by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) to the Opposition’s matter of public importance last Tuesday. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development upon notice on 9 March 1 977: [More…]
The Acting Minister for Aboriginal Affairs will be represented in this chamber by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
We should aim to ensure economic and social justice for all members of the community, whatever their origins, to eliminate inequalities of opportunities between social groups and to protect and enhance the physical environment. [More…]
We can be even more grateful to those people who had the courage to pick themselves up and to be transported 10 000 or 12 000 miles across the world to a totally strange environment. [More…]
Gradually, particularly in the first eight or ten years, the whole social environment changed. [More…]
Particularly in the family-reunion category, a lot of dependent parents come to Australia and for quite understandable reasons find it beyond them to learn the English language at that stage of their life, especially given the fact that they live within a small family environment. [More…]
Governments at all levels, professional planners and sociologists all are aware of the impact on our environment of the movement of people. [More…]
I have no doubt that the professional planners within the Bureau of Transport Economics and the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development are well aware of the consequences which flow from the complexity of our present urban society. [More…]
If, however, we are to ask the Bureau of Transport Economics to play its part in planning or advising on the future shape of our urban society it must have available to it all the relevant expertise which is necessary to create an environment which will allow the majority of citizens to fulfill their ambitions as members of the community. [More…]
The Bureau also will take account of sociological studies of the impact of freeways on the built environment. [More…]
Mr Loxton gave evidence to the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its inquiry into the urban environment. [More…]
It has been considered that maintaining a mimimum acceptable environment for the big cities of the advanced Western nations, including Australia, in the last third of the 20th century is an awesome challenge. [More…]
Urban design and environment are the means of reconciling city and car and reorienting public transit. [More…]
Equally significantly, transportation can help to create the urban designs and environmental changes necessary to make the transport system work. [More…]
If we opt for unplanned cities and unbridled use of cars, the traffic jam will be absolute and the environment intolerable. [More…]
The basic objectives will be housing, public services, and environment. [More…]
Since almost 70 per cent of Australians already live in established cities, it is important to recognise that a primary task for transportation policy is to help in the redevelopment and reconditioning of the existing environment. [More…]
These are the parts of the city most readily subject to public efforts to change the environment. [More…]
But they also strongly believe that this must be undertaken within a structure and environment which ensure impartiality. [More…]
Recently the Australian Environment Council, which is also comprised of State and Commonwealth Ministers responsible for environmental matters, has moved to form the Vehicle Emissions and Noise Standards Advisory Committee (VENSAC) to deal with problems associated with vehicle emission control enforcement at the local level. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 March 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 3 1 March 1 977: [More…]
Under the administrative procedures of the Environment Protection Act, EISs released for public comment are termed Draft Statements. [More…]
For this reason public comments often add greater depth and understanding to the environmental assessment of a project made by the proponent. [More…]
The procedures under the Environment Protection Act recognise that revisions may need to be made to the Draft EIS by the proponent in the light of comments raised during public examination. [More…]
As I said to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development the other day, no action will be taken to withdraw the Tasman Limited without a proper examination of what effect such a withdrawal would have on Tasmania and the tourist industry in particular. [More…]
They knew that basic and needed programs for health care, hospitals, education, housing, the cities, recreation, transport, sewerage, child care, sport, the environment would all suffer from the Fraser federalism. [More…]
Without Federal intervention there would be no unbroken rail guages between the States; urban transport, particularly the railways, would still be burdened with antiquated equipment and rolling stock; young people would still have inadequate and unequal opportunities for secondary and tertiary education; and new initiatives in health centres, the environment and child care would not have been considered. [More…]
The Liberal and National Country parties view as the main objective of government the creation of a society and an environment in which individuals may best fulfil themselves. [More…]
All that has been made possible by another Labor Government contrivance, the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974. [More…]
The appropriate place to locate the new Bureau, to my mind, would be within the responsibility of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
As I read the present organisational structure of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Bureau has been absorbed totally into the Department and there is no trace of its old independence. [More…]
Therefore I believe that it is important that the present counterpart of the old Department of Urban and Regional Development- the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development- should be given greater muscle in this administration and that the Bureau of Roads should be made a statutory authority under the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
That Department has an overall environmental approach rather than just the narrow sectional interest of public transport. [More…]
The proper solution is to merge the 2 bureaus into a single statutory authority and, in my view, to place that under the administration of the Ministry and the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
In fact, that is why the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, so far as this Government is concerned, has a very low priority. [More…]
Its Working Environment Division is concerned with human relations and is doing work in the area of labour/management co-operation. [More…]
Job creation schemes include projects to improve certain basic social infrastructures (construction of roads, bridges and public buildings) and restore the environment (afforestation, land utilisation, etc). [More…]
1 ) The Review should address itself to an examination of the objectives and functions of the CES (including its role vis a vis unemployment benefit) in the light of the significantly changed environment in which it now has to operate and the current and prospective demands for its services. [More…]
We are also told that in the world environment the industry is dominated by a small number of United States firms. [More…]
Often, in the case of protective devices, a comfortable environment h as been established and the manufacturers and those involved in the operation have been content just to poke along comfortably in their sense of security and not make a sufficiently strenuous effort to relieve the taxpayers of Australia of the burden so imposed. [More…]
They are living within an isolated environment. [More…]
-One finds it curious that this motion should appear in the name of the Acting Minister for National Resources (Mr Nixon) when previously the Government had nominated the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) as the Minister responsible for the management of the uranium debate within the Parliament. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community [More…]
Development had responsibility in terms of this debate because the Ranger Environmental Inquiry was established by a Minister for the Environment and the Commission was bound to report to the Minister for the Environment. [More…]
It should be established that it will never be used in the production of plutonium and its waste products will be stored in ways which offer no danger to life and the environment. [More…]
-I welcome the statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) as it has given us yet another opportunity to debate whether or not our uranium resources should be developed. [More…]
It is clear that the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), who is sitting at the table, fall into this category. [More…]
They want to move in as quickly as possible and exploit Australia’s uranium resources purely and simply from the motive of profit, despite uranium’s potential as a pollutant, as a killer, as a danger to the environment and to the lives and future well being of human beings, born and unborn. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development dashed into the media as soon as the Fox report was released with a statement that the report had given the green light to the mining and export of uranium. [More…]
There is at present no generally accepted means by which high level waste can be permanently isolated from the environment and remain safe for very long periods. [More…]
I would like the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development to answer that point some time. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), who is at the table, when speaking on 1 1 November last in respect of approved sales of uranium said that the handling and disposal of radioactive waste resulting from nuclear power generation lies with the countries concerned, that is, the countries to which Australia exports uranium for electric power generation. [More…]
The environment is restored to its natural state. [More…]
Trees are planted and, in many circumstances, the environment is left in a far better state than prior to the extraction of the uranium from the ground. [More…]
I should like to refer tonight to a speech made by Sir Brian Flowers late last year in the United Kingdom, when he explained his methodology and approach to his report on nuclear power and the environment. [More…]
The part of the world in which it is situated has a high regard for the environment. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
It is also observing the terms of the Convention under a voluntary scheme administered by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in conjunction with the State governments and industry. [More…]
Power alcohol certainly is cleaner, and in an environment now facing heavy pollution it could be the answer to the problems of the exhaust fumes which are spread high and wide by uses of conventional fuels. [More…]
The second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) made clear that this is an interim measure. [More…]
In the coming Budget I hope that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development will be striving for a greater allocation of funds for this purpose. [More…]
I commend the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Uren) for a temperate and considered proposition that he has put to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]
-The Minister sitting at the table- the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development- is sometimes referred to in this Parliament as the undertaker of things, especially those things associated with housing, since he, more than any other Minister, is involved with this process of devolution, process of jettisoning initiatives taken by the Labor Government. [More…]
I was surprised to hear the honourable member for Hughes claim that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) had a puzzled look on his face. [More…]
-As one who has been genuinely committed to the welfare of pensioners and the under-privileged since I first came into Parliament 1 1 years ago, may I say that I support the legislation and I congratulate the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) on the manner in which he is performing the duties of his portfolio. [More…]
In addition, it tended to become a mutual admiration society between the honourable member and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) who is sitting at the table. [More…]
I believe that he placed undue emphasis on reading into the excellent second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) meanings which one certainly could not possibly apply, even with a most imaginative approach. [More…]
It is pertinent to remark that the present Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has achieved more positively, in a short period of time, than other Ministers for Housing have achieved in 3 years. [More…]
I believe that it has been a most desirable initiative by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development to grant an extension of 12 months, plus $10m, plus greater State freedom. [More…]
Only the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) was sitting at the table, and it was plain to see that he was very uncomfortable. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in his second reading speech pointed out that under the previous legislation 2017 units of accommodation were provided. [More…]
I make no bones about saying to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community [More…]
Under the terms of the Industries Assistance Commission Act, Part III, section 22 ( 1 ) (c) the Commission is required to: facilitate adjustment to changes in the economic environment by industries and persons affected by those changes . [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) will do what he can to make certain that we will be able to meet solemn undertakings made. [More…]
Any suggestion to deter this spoiling of our Reef and fishing grounds must bear in mind the ultimate cost to our environment now and in the future, the threat of disease in our livestock industries and the eventual cost to the taxpayer if these intrustions are not stopped now. [More…]
I bring this matter to the attention of the House, of the Federal Ministers for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair), Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock), Defence (Mr Killen) and Health (Mr Hunt) because in the intrusions are the seeds of a potential disaster for the Australian industry, the environment and the Australian citizen. [More…]
It has successfully initiated many programs in the fields of health, welfare, child care, education, ethnic affairs, recreation, youth, environment and community information and media access. [More…]
When doing an investigation with the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation just recently, one was led to reflect on the extent of the coastline of Australia and the type of naval craft that were best suited to our purposes, being a large continent with a large coastline and a small population. [More…]
lis prime responsibility must surely be to set the right environment under which growth can take place. [More…]
In order that some comprehension of the way in which the national capital building could be designed appropriately to its environment on Capital Hill, an artist’s impression was drawn. [More…]
I listened a few minutes ago to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) introducing a Bill to strengthen the guarantees under the housing loans insurance scheme. [More…]
I thought it was most valuable in pointing out to the House the necessity in today’s economic environment of increasing the profit share of business of the gross domestic product. [More…]
That refers to myself as Treasurer- the Minister for Environment Housing and Community. [More…]
A request by the Prime Minister to the States seeking a delay in exhaust emission control standards will provoke strong resistance from consumer and environment groups. [More…]
I hope that Hansard is not recording the attempts of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) to interject in a prattling manner. [More…]
Of course, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) kept jabbering earlier about what the Government will do with the funds. [More…]
I believe that this very significant matter ought to be drawn to the attention of the House because the implications of this report on the environment and on the future of the Macarthur Growth Centre as seen by observers, according to the newspaper, are tremendously frightening. [More…]
I have a copy of the relevant sections of that report, along with the statement made by Mr Paul Landa, MLC, the New South Wales Minister for Planning and Environment. [More…]
Yet the previous Federal Government, without making such a study and without concerning itself with the implications and the consequences to the environment of such development, poured multimillions of dollars of taxpayers’ money into such development. [More…]
1) (a) The working party, established to formulate proposals for a natural disaster insurance scheme in consultation with the insurance industry, is chaired by a representative of the Department of the Treasury and includes representatives of the Insurance Commissioner, the Australian Government Actuary, the Departments of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Finance, Environment, Housing and Community Development and Primary Industry. [More…]
The technical committee, established to work on technical aspects of the matter under guidance from the working party, is chaired by the Australian Government Actuary and includes representatives of the Insurance Commissioner, the Departments of the Treasury and Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Insurance Council of Australia- a widely representative body of the general insurance industry- and the State Government Insurance Office, Queensland. [More…]
Is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware that a married couple in the electorate of [More…]
I address a question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
He will remember the different accounts that were given last November and December by the Minister who represents him in the Senate about the letter which Mr Justice Fox gave to him concerning the interpretation that had been placed on the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry’s first report. [More…]
It was only 5 months ago that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) said in a statement that the Government welcomes any international initiatives for strengthening the international non-proliferation regime, implying that the Government itself was not going to devote its attention to the development of safeguards. [More…]
It may be preferable for them to be resettled in another country or to be sustained in a more suitable environment, through the UNHCR. [More…]
The interests of those refugees who, it is assessed, would have extreme difficulty in adjusting to the Australian environment may not be best served by migration to Australia but be better served by action by the UNHCR or other agencies to resettle them in a more compatible environment. [More…]
The changing environment for manufacturing in Australia is in part an aspect of a world-wide process of change. [More…]
A major part of the White Paper is devoted to ways of generating a wider and fuller understanding in the community of the significance of the changing environment for Australian manufacturing industry and to means of establishing through consultation a general acceptance of how to respond to these changes. [More…]
In today’s circumstances and in the changing environment now being encountered, Australian manufacturing industry, over a reasonable period of time, needs to adjust towards a greater degree of specialisation. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) has taken many fine initiatives that have been of benefit to the home buyers of Australia. [More…]
-The honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Cadman), who has just concluded his speech, talked about the prowess of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and gave the impression that the Minister was one of the great achievers in the Fraser Ministry. [More…]
That is in fact the nickname that is given to him here in respect of matters associated with housing, urban affairs and the environment. [More…]
It must be added that the council is also responsible for all the drainage as far as Koo Wee Rup and Tooradin as well as Langwarrin and it is obliged to respect yet another planning authority- the State Environment Protection Authority which looks after all effluent discharged into Western Port Bay. [More…]
The present responsibilities of the Department are to- provide advice to the Government on matters of policy and strategy formulation as they affect productivity promote, including undertake where necessary, research into measures of productivity; interpret measures of productivity, both nationally and within industry determine and undertake research into the continuing needs of industry for productivity improvement including- employer/employee relationships the physical and working environment management practices technology and its application training promote and participate in the development and implementation of national programs for productivity improvement co-operate with and, as appropriate, co-ordinate and stimulate the activities of other departments, authorities and organisations which relate to the above functions publicise, disseminate, and otherwise promote material and ideas relating to the above functions manage assigned government factories for the production of defence material and the provisions of services as required for defence purposes oversee the activities of the defence aircraft industry manage an office for the examination and granting of patents and the examination and registration of trade marks and designs. [More…]
We have to mould our policies to a constantly changing world trading environment. [More…]
These cycle paths are a significant amenity and a special element in the development of the urban environment of the national capital. [More…]
Perhaps that would mean removing them from their present home environment. [More…]
The policy intention of the Government- I believe that policy intention has been effectively translated into the legislation- is very clear and that is to treat in an even-handed fashion the commercial operations and the behaviour of sections of the community in a commercial environment. [More…]
If competition legislation is regarded- as this Government regards it- as being something quite important and fundamental, then the community ought to be prepared to accept the same restraints as a government where it is operating in a commercial environment. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 26 April 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, on notice, on 27 April 1 977: [More…]
-My question, to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development relates to the AlburyWodonga development area. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development would be able to deal with that matter better than I could. [More…]
Projects such as the destruction of pests and afforestation to improve the physical and social environment will also be encouraged. [More…]
Projects may include: economic ventures; town management activities; social advancement; and environment improvement. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Education in consultation with the Mininster for Employment and Industrial Relations and myself, will promote a redirection of education programs to prepare Aboriginals for a work environment or for specific job training. [More…]
Having raised this matter briefly for the attention of honourable members I should like to suggest that it might be appropriate if this matter were transferred to the authority of the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development rather than have it remain with the Department of Primary Industry. [More…]
Over the years agriculturalists have not shown themselves to be good environmentalists. [More…]
I believe that we would be better served by the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development handling this matter. [More…]
The only other thing I should like to say, because I think that the record should be clear here, is that this Government has a good record in its concern for the environment and conservation. [More…]
Under the Environmental Protection Act, we have directed successfully, environmental impact statements on iron ore projects in Western Australia, major coal projects in Queensland, highway projects in South Australia and woodchipping in New South Wales. [More…]
The fact is that the Inspectorate, being under the control of the Minister, is under the control of the person who is very much concerned with the industrial relations environment. [More…]
He is not only concerned with compliance with the awards and the Conciliation and Arbitration Act but he is concerned also with the industrial relations environment in Australia. [More…]
If the Government is really concerned with the industrial relations environment, sticking by its word and providing that the Bureau has the same powers, no more or less, and abides by the same procedures and processes it will amend the Act so that the Bureau is subject to ministerial control. [More…]
If he is really concerned with the industrial relations environment and wishes to avoid confrontation he will have to amend the Bill before it passes so that the Bureau is subject to ministerial control. [More…]
I think the we should look first at the environment in which this legislation was introduced. [More…]
It appeared that that provision was aimed at strikes and bans which had a social or political aim, such as protecting the environment, protesting about the Medibank rearrangement, a particular war or whatever. [More…]
Australia is also observing the terms of the Convention under a voluntary scheme administered by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in conjunction with the relevant State Governments and industry. [More…]
The only Ministers who I am aware obtained an early copy of the report were the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, the Minister for the Northern Territory and myself. [More…]
My colleague the Minister for Housing, Environment and Community Development is well equipped to handle any inquiry on the housing industry. [More…]
Last week in this Parliament I asked a question of the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development on this matter. [More…]
1 ) The Review should address itself to an examination of the objectives and functions of the CES (including its role vis a vis unemployment benefit) in the light of the significantly changed environment in which it now nas to operate and the current and prospective demands for its services. [More…]
Because dairying was carried out in a conducive environment, farmers were able to produce a high class commodity at a low cost of production. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) has to contend with the same Treasury as we had when we were in government and that the Minister will have the problem of fighting its efforts to force up the interest rates. [More…]
I believe that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) covered this subject fairly well in his second reading speech. [More…]
Of course, those resources are considerable, as the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) knows. [More…]
Time is of the essence and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) seems anxious to answer the questions that have been put to him; so, I shall not delay the House. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 May 1977: [More…]
The Task Force established within my Department is chaired by the Director of Environment who is assisted by the Deputy Secretary (Environment Protection) and other officers with relevant expertise and experience. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: Did he receive a deputation from the Confederation of Australian Sport yesterday? [More…]
I suggest that those people who are advocating free trade should put their money where their mouths are and advocate publicly in this place and in their electorates that we should reduce the amount of money being paid to Australian workers and increase the amount of time that people are actually working, and we will see how long they survive in that type of environment. [More…]
Generating a wider and fuller understanding in the community of the significance of the changing environment for Australian manufacturing. [More…]
Mr Justice Toose, as the Minister for Environment Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) who is at the table knows, recommended that lawyers ought to be allowed to appear in appeals. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development will take my message back to the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs to decide whether the Commonwealth Government, especially as it now underwrites State hospitals by SO per cent under the Medibank arrangements might get together with the States and save a considerable amount of money by combining services available in Commonwealth and State hospitals. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) is at the table. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is certainly incapable of being regarded as a radical or a progressive. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is shaking his head. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is again shaking his head, but when the stage is reached where he has to reply he cursorily skates over all this sort of thing. [More…]
Such boards provide an element of veterans’ representation in the environment in which applications are considered. [More…]
He originally came from the Department of Treasury and naturally he would tend to express the same attitude as that from his environment in the Treasury. [More…]
Let me repeat the words uttered by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) in his first statement to the House on the presentation of the first Fox report. [More…]
Let us leave the environmental questions, the global environment interests and the moral questions aside for one moment and dwell upon the market. [More…]
That move in some countries has been temporarily held up by environmental objections and the general view that nuclear power is undesirable. [More…]
There is a possibility that during this period technological advances will reduce hazards to man and the environment, especially with regard to the treatment and disposal of highlevel radio active wastes. [More…]
The other factors which we have to consider in the second Fox report in respect of our mining and milling concern the environment, national parks and Aborigines. [More…]
It is essential that the requirements with regard to the environment and national parks are reasonable. [More…]
In particular, we must see that State and Federal environmental laws for uranium mining and export are coincidental. [More…]
We must not have a situation where a mining company has to meet 2 separate overlapping environmental requirements. [More…]
There is at present no generally accepted means by which high level waste can be permanently isolated from the environment and remain sa te for very long periods. [More…]
I concede to the Friends of the Earth their right to speak up for a pure environment. [More…]
Expansion of the mining operations from the Ranger to the Jabiluka and Koongarra deposits in the region and to other parts of Australia, based on experience acquired through cautious beginnings, will reduce the impact on the physical environment and allow for adjustments to be made in time, if need be, in relation with the Aboriginal community. [More…]
A risk with this type of storage is that tailings will escape to the environment if the dam embankment is breached. [More…]
There is at present no generally accepted means by which high level waste can be permanently isolated from the environment . [More…]
If we combine those 3 points, to me they provide an unanswerable case as to why we should wait until scientists can tell us of a generally acceptable way of containing the dangers and of isolating them from the environment. [More…]
But we must not let the sorts of safeguards that creep into what is predominantly a report to protect the environment set aside other important issues. [More…]
It will have to make judgments as to whether sequential development of the mines is necessary or whether in fact there are other ways of going about the development of uranium resources which have not been put to Fox or which Fox has not thought of and which may enable work to get under way more quickly without any risk to the environment or the Aboriginal population in the areas concerned. [More…]
I think that my interest in matters of environment and conservation is well known to members of the House. [More…]
Anyone who looks at the environmental problems of society today realises that the attitudes on environment of the active capitalist and the active communist coincide, with equally bad results for their communities. [More…]
In the industry of the capitalist society the profit motive means that the environmental factors are probably amongst the last to receive consideration. [More…]
In the communist system, of course, the productivity target which industry has to meet is the important thing and the easiest thing to disregard is the environment. [More…]
I think that that sort of cheap name calling directed at those who take a serious attitude on the question of the environment is unfortunate. [More…]
The nature of the debate has not allowed me to refer to either of the Ranger environmental inquiry reports as we had hoped. [More…]
The Minister for Environment Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) in response to questions I asked indicated that the Government’s monitoring of the public debate has been conducted by at least one official. [More…]
In the environment area and other major areas the United States seems to have a very sound policy line. [More…]
It is opposed to the advanced technology of other countries ahead of the United States in that technology which damages the environment. [More…]
If an American supersonic aircraft had been constructed and was now operating, the demands of those working in the factories building those aircraft would have overcome the environmental problems surrounding its use. [More…]
Australia has extensive deposits of uranium at a time when the world faces the need to make fundamental changes in its supply and use of energy resources, when there is growing concern for the environment in which we live, and when there is anxiety over the proliferation of nuclear weapons. [More…]
I might add that my Department which is the Department responsible for the environment has maintained an active involvement in the interdepartmental committees which have advised the Government on these matters. [More…]
Since the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry the Government, in formulating a policy in this matter, has taken into account the report of the Australian Safeguards Mission which was made late last year, the Prime Minister’s correspondence with President Carter and Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada and the recent visit to North America by the Acting Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) and several other Australian Government officials. [More…]
Having said all that, I say bluntly to the House that on the evidence gathered so far- it is a comprehensive analysis which I have before me- the majority of Australians are not opposed to the mining and export of uranium given adequate safeguards over the uses to which these exports may be put and the guaranteed protection of the environment, the conservation of nature and the highest consideration for the interests of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The inquiry and these reports epitomise in a most comprehensive and profound way what environmental concerns are about. [More…]
The definition of environment in the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act states: - - [More…]
Environment includes all aspects of the surroundings of man, whether affecting him as an individual or in his social groups. [More…]
The commissioners have scrupulously followed the implications of this definition and have reinforced the validity of the environment as a dimension of concern, not only to governments but also to all Australian people. [More…]
The end point of an inquiry is the recommendations it makes, in the first place to the Minister responsible for environmental matters and then he- that is myself in this case- in turn carries them to the Government as a whole for its decision. [More…]
I emphasise that it is the Government and, through it, the Parliament which in the end determine, and must determine, what is acceptable or otherwise for the Australian environment. [More…]
I finish on this note: As the national Minister concerned with the environment, I state that the thrust of the many recommendations of the inquiry seems to me to be entirely consonant with proper environmental protection. [More…]
The ICRP in 1965 recommended that where low activity wastes are discharged to the environment, the pathways by which the released radioactive materials may cause radiation exposure to the public be identified and the levels of radioactive content (not the concentrations as such) released be limited to ensure that individual exposures do not exceed recommended limits. [More…]
Early last year, I wrote to the Prime Minister, Treasurer and Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who are responsible for the provision of funds to the groups referred to by the honourable member, seeking their views on a proposal to use Qantas services wherever practicable. [More…]
Do the housing programs of the Departments of Social Security, Veterans’ Affairs or Environment, Housing and Community Development, provide any specific allocations for Aboriginal housing. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice on, 5 May 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development upon notice on 5 May 1 977: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 May 1977: [More…]
In view of the present strategic environment, does he consider that the deployment to two RAAF squadrons to Butterworth remains relevant to the needs of both Malaysia and Australia and relevant to the realities of the region. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development assure the House that Federal funds have not been improperly used to finance Victorian Housing Commission land deals, including those being examined by the Victorian Government’s board of inquiry? [More…]
Responsibility for co-ordinating the Commonwealth’s interest in energy matters rests with the Minister for National Resources and his Department, with a supportive role on conservation aspects from the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
Parliamentarians, Press Gallery, Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, Commissioners, Witnesses to the Inquiry, Persons and Organisations assisting the Commission, State Government, Media and Principal Public Libraries in the States and Territories. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development a supplementary question. [More…]
How can the Treasurer claim in his Budget Speech that one aim of raising petrol prices is to conserve the urban environment by reducing urban car usage when a 60 per cent decrease in funds will reduce the availability to the States of money to provide adequate public transport which is the alternative to car usage? [More…]
For the first time in 60 years under the former Labor Government, Prime Minister Whitlam and Environment Minister Cass convened a meeting of the 3 interested premiersthe Premier of Victoria, Mr Hamer, the Premier of South Australia, Mr Dunstan, and the then Premier of New South Wales, Mr Askin- to deal with the water quality as distinct from the water quantity of the River Murray. [More…]
The current environment of higher unemployment, however, is associated with a generally slack demand for goods and services and highly competetive selling conditions. [More…]
We tend to try to operate in the environment in which we are experienced in our own country and not adapt our programs to the environment of the recipient country. [More…]
Children who cannot understand English and are suffering from cultural shock, having been brought from one environment to another, should be given special assistance. [More…]
It is not a different environment; it is a permanent part of their environment. [More…]
They are not allowed the normal freedom or the normal environment of any other employee in the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
1 ) Both the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Curriculum Development Centre have been actively encouraging the development of environmental education in Australian schools. [More…]
In collaboration with the Curriculum Development Centre and the South Australian Council for Educational Planning and Research my Department is supporting financially a major educational materials development project in the field of environmental education. [More…]
These materials are being designed to create in students a greater awareness and understanding of Australia’s natural and built environments and the way in which decision making influences the nature of the environment in which we live. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 May 1977: [More…]
Did both the House of Representatives Select Committee on Wildlife Conservation and the Committee of Inquiry into the National Estate recommend that the Australian Government, in conjunction with the relevant State Authorities, provide financial assistance for the establishment of Environment ( Field ) Study Centres. [More…]
If the Government does not propose to take action on these recommendations in the immediate future, will he state (a) the number and distribution of environment study centres in Australia, (b) the present level and source of staffing and funding for these centres, (c) the type of groups using the centres, including the level of use, and (d) the nature of the services and assistance offered by these centres. [More…]
My department continues to monitor the development of environment (field) study centres, and liaise with State government agencies and community groups responsible for such centres. [More…]
The Departments represented on the committee are as follows: Prime Minister and Cabinet; National Resources; Treasury; Finance; Industry and Commerce; Transport; Business and Consumer Affairs; Northern Territory; and Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 1 June 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 2 June 1977: [More…]
Nobody hearing or reading the Treasurer’s Budget Speech could realise that there has been a tremendous squeeze on the States and local government; that the Government has broken its promises on education spending; that spending on health programs is down; that the provision for pensioner dwellings is down by 18 per cent in real terms; that funds for Aboriginal advancement are down 16 per cent in real terms; that provision for urban public transport has been cut by 25 per cent in real terms and funds for leisure and recreation facilities by 60 per cent in real terms; that urban programs have virtually disappeared; that the national sewerage program has been abandoned; that all migrants’ special serviceseducation, welfare, housing, health, languagehave been cut; that the growth centre agreements with the States have been unilaterally repudiated; that environment programs suffered cuts ranging from 24 per cent to 99 per cent in real terms; that the area improvement program has been abolished. [More…]
Specifically it covers technical problems, supersonic operations, all-weather operations, aircraft accident prevention, as I have just mentioned, the application of space techniques relating to aviation, visual aids, the air-worthiness of aircraft, automated data interchange systems, aircraft infrastructure compatibility, the impact of civil aviation development on the human environment and aviation security. [More…]
During this stage all the environmental aspects of the proposed development will be taken fully into account through the environment protection administrative procedures to ensure that the Commonwealth environmental legislation is complied with. [More…]
An environmental impact statement will be required in time to enable it to be adequately examined prior to the granting of any production licence. [More…]
I have received pretty firm undertakings from the NSW Government in response to letters I have written to the Premier and to the State Minister for the Environment that there will not be a second international airport or a light aircraft airport in the Western Suburbs of Sydney. [More…]
It has flowed from four fundamental considerations: the need to reduce the risk of nuclear proliferation; the need to supply essential sources of energy to an energy deficient world; the need to protect effectively the environment in which mining development will take place; the need to ensure that proper provision is made for the welfare and interests of the Aboriginal people in the Alligator Rivers region and of all other prople living in the region and working on the development projects. [More…]
The Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Report stated that total renunciation of intention to supply Australian uranium was not justified and was undesirable. [More…]
In accepting the responsibility of further uranium development we will ensure that that development will be very strictly controlled, with the fullest and most effective protection for the environment and the welfare of the Aboriginal people as recommended by the Ranger Inquiry. [More…]
The vast uranium reserves of the Alligator Rivers Region are located in an area of environmental and Aboriginal significance. [More…]
That mining operation was carried out with inadequate concern for the environment. [More…]
The Government will be allowing further uranium development only where it is satisfied that strict regulation and control can properly protect the environment. [More…]
The Ranger project will proceed subject to the full range of environmental controls recommended by the Inquiry. [More…]
The Supervising Scientist, who will exercise a supervisory and integrating role, will be responsible to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
The Director of National Parks and Wildlife, a statutory officer responsible to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, will have extensive powers over the Region as a whole. [More…]
In the case of Koongarra, it was made clear by the Ranger Inquiry that there would be a considerable amount of planning and investigation to be completed, particularly having in mind the fragility of the environment which could be affected by development at Koongarra. [More…]
In that area to be declared in the subsequent stage of the National Park, exploration will be permitted in the meantime under strictly controlled conditions to be supervised by the Departments of National Resources, Aboriginal Affairs, Northern Territory and Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
The Government is satisfied that the recommendations of this far-reaching and comprehensive public inquiry set out a basis on which mining and export can proceed in harmony with, and with full protection for, the environment, national park and Aboriginal values. [More…]
I would now like to announce the decisions which the Government has taken to ensure protection of the Australian public, preservation of the environment and establishment of a major National Park in the Alligator Rivers Region. [More…]
I will also outline some of the major environmental issues considered by the Government in taking its decisions. [More…]
In describing these measures the vital concern of this Government for the environment will become crystal clear. [More…]
In taking its decision on uranium mining, the national park, and Aboriginal land rights, the Government has been guided by the two reports of the Ranger Environmental Inquiry commissioned under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
In relation to environment protection, the Ranger Inquiry has made a number of recommendations. [More…]
Principally because of the wide ranging nature of the Ranger Inquiry, I have decided that the environmental impact of a number of the matters considered by the Government and announced today have been adequately examined and taken into account. [More…]
Accordingly I have granted an exemption under the procedures of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
To appoint a supervising scientist to coordinate environment protection in the Region. [More…]
In so doing I will show our commitment to the use of the best pollution control technology available in the world and to the adoption of stringent standards to protect people and their environment. [More…]
In the first finding of the Ranger Inquiry the Commissioners took the view that the environmental effects of uranium mining could be adequately regulated and controlled. [More…]
The Government is confident that decisions it has taken will provide the level of control necessary to ensure protection of the environment, and I will return to this aspect later. [More…]
If properly buried deep underground in geologically stable formations, there is little chance that these materials will re-enter the environment in dangerous quantities. [More…]
The Government has taken a number of decisions to ensure nationwide protection of Australians and their environment. [More…]
The aim of this Code will be to protect the health and safety of citizens of this country by ensuring protection of their environment. [More…]
These elements will be based, where possible on existing international and overseas codes, and will assist in making environmental protection practices and procedures developed overseas more widely known in Australia. [More…]
The Ranger Inquiry has noted the environmental problems that resulted from uranium mining at Rum Jungle. [More…]
I recognise that environment protection measures at Rum Jungle could not be considered adequate by today’s standards. [More…]
The Government is confident that the measures which I have announced today will ensure that current and future uranium mining undertaken anywhere in Australia will be subject to adequate environment protection controls. [More…]
As recommended, legislative action will be taken to enable the Director to enforce environment protection provisions, particularly by way of injunction to restrain or compel action, and to give the Supreme Court a wide discretion as to the exercise of its jurisdiction in such cases. [More…]
We will proceed to develop the rest of the Park as quickly as possible; in the meantime its protection will be ensured through special control exercised jointly by the Departments of Environment, Housing and Community Development, National Resources, Northern Territory and Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
The Second Report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry recommended that environment protection of the Alligator Rivers Region could be accomplished in two ways, of which the establishment of a major national park was first. [More…]
The second element recommended by the Ranger Inquiry was the development of specific arrangements to protect the natural and historic features of the Alligator Rivers environment, to protect the Aboriginal people who have lived there for centuries and to protect the mine workers and their families who will take up residence there. [More…]
The Ranger Inquiry recommended that the total level of activity in the Region should be limited to minimise the impact of both the natural environment and on the lifestyle of the Aboriginal residents. [More…]
The Government has decided to appoint an officer, to be known as the Supervising Scientist, to exercise a supervisory and integrating role over all research and monitoring programs associated with environmental protection from the hazards of uranium development in the Alligator Rivers Region and to advise on the specific environmental requirements for the Ranger project. [More…]
As recommended by the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry the Supervising Scientist will be responsible to myself as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and I hope to announce an appointment in the near future. [More…]
The Government has confirmed that any proposals to develop further mines in the Region should be subject to the requirements of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act before any government decisions on these mines are taken. [More…]
Before such decisions are taken the Government will need to be satisfied about the acceptability of the environmental impact on the Region of the development of the mine concerned. [More…]
The application of the Act to other mining proposals in the Region will ensure that the Government will have all the facts on the environmental implications of these proposals when decisions on them are required. [More…]
As the national Minister concerned with the environment I believe the thrust of the many recommendations of the Inquiry to be entirely consonant with proper environmental protection, and it will be clear from my statement today that the Government takes a similar view. [More…]
We will thereby ensure the protection of the Australian public including the Aboriginal people and our environment, and will in so doing protect the Alligator Rivers Region with its rich archaeological sites, abundant wildlife, diverse and interesting vegetation, and exciting and beautiful scenery. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) has in addition outlined the environmental controls to be adopted by the Government and he briefly referred to some of the health aspects of these. [More…]
This Code deals with radiation protection aspects only and is not concerned with the other potential hazards or with the broader environmental issues already elaborated on by my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
The Code was accepted by both this and the previous Government and was submitted in the evidence my Department gave to the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
The Government has accepted and indeed gone further than this recommendation of the Ranger Inquiry and, as already indicated by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Code Will be included in the Uniform National Code of Practice which will be established by the Commonwealth, with the States, by appropriate legislation. [More…]
It commits Australia to renewed export of uranium regardless of the absence of procedures for the storage and disposal of radio-active wastes to eliminate the danger to human life and health and the environment. [More…]
The Fox Commission was equally emphatic on the second great danger posed to human beings and our environment by the use of nuclear materials. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) could only point to processes which have only- in his words, ‘proved to be technically feasible at pilot plant’. [More…]
In a world that has become deeply and properly conscious of the need to preserve the environment and its responsibility to future generations, the nuclear industry offers an unprecedented threat. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, the Prime Minister and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development gave mutually contradictory statements on this subject today. [More…]
The Government’s irresponsibility was laid bare in the statement of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development when he said: [More…]
But, as far as the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is concerned, other countries, other generations, must solve the problems by which we profit here and now. [More…]
procedures for the storage and disposal of radioactive wastes which will eliminate any danger posed by such wastes to human life and the environment; and [More…]
adequate measures to safeguard the environment and national parks and protect Aboriginal rights and interests. [More…]
procedures for the storage and disposal of radioactive wastes which will eliminate any danger posed by such wastes to human life and the environment; and [More…]
adequate measures to safeguard the environment and national parks and protect Aboriginal rights and interests. [More…]
There are problems in many areas- economic, social, biological, genetic, environmental, technical and Aboriginal rights. [More…]
These are the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the increased risk of nuclear war and the dangers to human life and the environment of radioactive waste. [More…]
The statements are completely unsatisfactory with regard to environmental safeguards. [More…]
There is not the slightest doubt that uranium mining will destroy forever the unique environment of the Alligator River flood plains. [More…]
All the mining area has been excluded from the national park boundaries, even Koongarra which the Prime Minister concedes is the most delicate environment of all. [More…]
If the safeguards to the environment are contemptible; the respect for the rights of Aborigines is beneath contempt. [More…]
The arguments relating to the environment and the welfare of the Aboriginal people are tremendously compelling. [More…]
We hear honourable members opposite attempting to argue that in the months in which the two Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry reports have been available there has been a lack of opportunity for debate. [More…]
However, we see them again, notwithstanding what is stated in the reports of the Fox Inquiry, arguing by way of these rather nonsensical approaches that we have to solve problems of storage and disposal of radioactive waste and that we have to have adequate measures to safeguard the environment, national parks and so on. [More…]
The documents which we have received today clearly indicate that every recommendation contained in the Fox report in relation to measures considered necessary to safeguard our environment to provide for national parks and to protect Aboriginals and their interests, have been adopted. [More…]
Paragraph (c) of the proposed amendment states that the following problem must be solved: procedures for the storage and disposal of radioactive wastes which will eliminate any danger posed by such wastes to human life and the environment, [More…]
Both the Prime Minister and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) have taken a particularly offhand attitude to this issue. [More…]
The cynicism of the government on this matter is best illustrated in the statement by the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, when he states: [More…]
There is at present no generally accepted means by which high level wastes can be permanently isolated from the environment and remain safe for very long periods. [More…]
In respect of the Ranger project, the Government says it has accepted all of the Ranger recommendations relating to environmental controls and development. [More…]
The Government also has indicated in respect of the development of other mining in the Alligator Rivers Region that future developments will take place only when the projects were in harmony with the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 and when the Government is satisfied that the impact of such developments will not be detrimental to the Aboriginal people or the region. [More…]
The Fraser Government’s decision will promote the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and ensure that it is safely used with minimal risk of damage to man and his environment. [More…]
With regard to environmental aspects, I and members of the Government committee on natural resources went to Arnhem Land and the Alligator River province last year and looked at the projects. [More…]
We are very impressed with the statements today made by the Prime Minister, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs ( Mr Viner). [More…]
I would like to incorporate in Hansard a table setting out the real cuts m the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development over the last two years. [More…]
Papers were presented by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for National Resources (Mr Anthony), the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair), the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]
They are the need to reduce the risk of nuclear proliferation; the need to supply essential sources of energy to an energy deficient world; the need to protect effectively the environment in which mining development will take place; the need to ensure that proper provision is made for the welfare and interests of the Aboriginal people in the Alligator River region, and of all other people living in the region and working on the development projects. [More…]
There is a need to protect the environment and this is being done by the mining companies. [More…]
I mentioned a short while ago that we traversed wide areas of the uranium fields in this country and we found that the mining companies were restoring the environment to the extent that it was better than prior to the mining operation taking place. [More…]
Indeed, we saw trees being planted and the environment being completely restored. [More…]
We believe that nuclear wastes can be disposed of permanently in geological formations in such a way that there is very little prospect of material escaping into the environment. [More…]
Research has traced the path of plutonium in the environment, and its behaviour is very well understood. [More…]
The Government decided that the Prime Minister, the Minister for National Resources (Mr Anthony), the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Sinclair), the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) should make statements, and those statements were printed. [More…]
These are the need to reduce the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation; the need to supply essential sources of energy to an energy deficient world; the need to protect effectively the environment in which mining development will take place; and the need to ensure that proper provision is made for the welfare and interests of the Aboriginal people and all other people working on development projects. [More…]
With application of the best current techniques to ensure safety for the workers, environment protection, regard for Aboriginal land rights, and an obligation to rehabilitate areas damaged by mining, one can accept the (Fox) report’s conclusion that there is no adequate reason why Australian uranium should not be mined and supplied at the world price to those countries that have elected to develop nuclear power and can be trusted. [More…]
If one visits the Alligator River area of the Northern Territory and looks at the mines there one will find an interference with the ecology systems which is likely to produce serious hazards for the whole environment because it is almost impossible to guarantee that there will not be leakage of radioactivity into the water systems of the area. [More…]
It is accepted that the mining and milling of uranium, particularly given the location of the main known deposits, pose major issues to be resolved in relation to the physical environment and in relation to the Aborigines in the areas concerned. [More…]
Development of these deposits therefore must be handled with extreme care and sensitivity, not only in relation to the physical environment but, more importantly, in relation to the social and cultural wellbeing of the up to 800 Aborigines who are involved. [More…]
It is a matter for the Government but the Government must take into consideration the views of the Australian people and the dangers to the Australian people and to the environment as well as the question of plutonium’. [More…]
Did the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development announce on 12 August 1976 that the Government had decided that the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act will not be applied to the Australian Capital Territory; if so, and in view of the inadequacy of the existing Public Parks Ordinance 1933 of the Australian Capital Territory, what steps does he intend to take to ensure the protection for the benefit of future generations of Australians of areas of national importance such as the Mount Ainslie-Majura foothills. [More…]
I tend to think that rural industries would be well served if some of the attention that has been devoted to that particular question were devoted to other policies- to compensating policies- for rural industries so that they can operate within the Australian environment on a proper and competitive basis. [More…]
Firstly, it is to undertake a study of the nature and extent of adjustment problems of Australian manufacturing industries, with particular reference to the most highly protected industries, arising from changes in the internal and external environment. [More…]
procedures for the storage and disposal of radioactive wastes which will eliminate any danger posed by such wastes to human life and the environment, and [More…]
adequate measures to safeguard the environment and national parks and protect Aboriginal rights and interests. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community [More…]
There is at present no generally accepted means by which high level waste can be permanently isolated from the environment and remain safe for very long periods. [More…]
Like the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Prime Minister emphasised that Australia would not store nuclear waste. [More…]
In my view, public indignation will grow more intense as the Australian people learn more of the detrimental results uranium mining can have, not only on the environment and on fish and tree life but also on the health of our nationals, particularly those who mine it and the unborn, not to mention the raping of traditional Aboriginal lands and sacred dream areas. [More…]
Uranium mining in the Northern Territory, commonly referred to as the Top End of Australia, will destroy the physical environment on which the Aborigines depend for the survival of their culture. [More…]
However, residues were left behind which, according to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission estimates, will continue to pollute the local environment at Rum Jungle over an area of 100 square kilometres for at least 100 years. [More…]
It draws attention to the fact that we must safeguard the environment of the national parks and in particular we must protect Aboriginal rights. [More…]
Hazards to members of the public and the general environment arise at all stages of the nuclear fuel cycle. [More…]
There is at present no generally accepted means by which high level waste can be permanently isolated from the environment and remain safe for very long periods. [More…]
I agree that there are many people who have been terrorised by a concerted campaign of arrant bomb-happy nonsense being spread around the society and which will continue to be spread around the society by people motivated, I believe, in the main not by any real concern for Australia or for the environment but by a desperate search for an issue which somehow will transport them back to the political Elysium from which I hope they have been banished for ever. [More…]
The project was not considered new in that it had reached an advanced stage in planning and development and substantial exploration and development expenditure had already been incurred, some of which dated back to the early 60s; also, mining leases had been granted by the Queensland authorities laying down, amongst other things, stringent conditions to protect the environment. [More…]
These are amenities that only governments can provide such as adequate roads, railways, hospitals, schools, libraries universities, preschools, open spaces and a decent environment. [More…]
An announcement was made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, that the regulatory powers in the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 197S should not be used in the Australian Capital and Jervis Bay Territories, but this decision was made on the understanding that legislation of similar breadth would be introduced for these Territories. [More…]
I am informed by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development that any significant future proposals for the foothills or other areas of the Australian Capital Territory will be subject to the scrutiny of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974. [More…]
The object of this Act is to ensure that the significant environmental issues of any Commonwealth action are thoroughly examined before decisions are taken. [More…]
It was with this object in mind that he directed the preparation of an environmental impact statement on the Australian Capital Territory Electricity Authority’s proposal to extend its 132kv sub-transmission around Belconnen and North Canberra, including the extension along the Mount Ainslie-Majura foothills. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 17 August 1977: [More…]
Within the context of paragraph I the Committee may direct investigations into housing costs and into other related matters as are agreed to or directed by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]
As Duck Creek runs into the Parramatta River which in turn runs into Sydney Harbour the interrelationship of the environment had to be understood. [More…]
The family is crucial for nurturing children and providing a stable psychological environment for their development. [More…]
It was as a result of that political environment and in that context that at the last election in the Northern Territory the National Country Party did not do so well. [More…]
He took into account the various factors that affect this vital River Murray basin, including flood mitigation, irrigation, urban water supply, salinity, pollution and even such important aspects as recreation and the environment. [More…]
The environment has been and is being dramatically altered. [More…]
This will need co-operation between the Department of Health and other government departments such as the Department of Social Security, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and Treasury. [More…]
The television program Four Corners indicated the dangers to human life and the environment associated with the disposal of radioactive waste under normal circumstances. [More…]
It has precisely defined its program for the protection of the environment within the mining area. [More…]
Not only does it work but also it is pollution free and does not change the total heat balance in the environment. [More…]
To maximise the contribution of an expanded and socially acceptable nuclear program which is consistent with the maintenance of a safe environment in terms of solving problems of health and security which may arise. [More…]
The first thing that the Opposition will say is: ‘Of course, that is what we are saying; we want a healthy and safe environment’. [More…]
Unfortunately people in this country who have every right to be concerned about the environment- people in this country have freedom to do so- are being led on, unfortunately, by some of the people that the Opposition represents in this Parliament. [More…]
3 ) procedures for the storage and disposal of radioactive wastes which will eliminate any danger posed by such wastes to human life and the environment; and [More…]
adequate measures to safeguard the environment and national parks and protect Aboriginal rights and interests. [More…]
The Opposition believes that the subject under discussion now, the Government’s policy on the mining and sale of uranium, is being used by the Government as a stooge in an endeavour to stir up division in this country and create the environment for a law and order election which it can pull on at a minute’s notice. [More…]
We have a typical example by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]
There is at present no generally accepted means by which high level waste can be permanently isolated from the environment and remain safe for very long periods. [More…]
My experience after examining government bodies throughout Australia as a member of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation is that we need some overall authority or functional unit which can bring everything into focus. [More…]
Quite obviously the Government has to create an environment which will maximise the opportunities for people to invest in private enterprise with the hope of reward and not allow their funds to be used to a significant degree in the manner in which I have just been talking about, that is, to be used by the Government again for other developments. [More…]
We have to create an environment where people will take risks in creating job opportunities by allowing them a reasonable chance of a reward for effort expended and risks undertaken. [More…]
That, of course, is the question of the environment That affects almost every major State works program. [More…]
One of the cuts is in expenditure on public hearings in respect of environmental impact statements. [More…]
Some of the complexities one must take into consideration are: Our contractual commitments-obligations which were entered into prior to 1972, which the Whitlam Government said would be honoured and which we said would be honoured; our commitment to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty; the handling of waste material; the further proliferation of nuclear material around the world; the codes of mining and the safety of people involved in the milling of uranium; the environment; national parks; and Aboriginals. [More…]
Since receiving the report now being tabled, my attention has been drawn to a statement in the other place on 7 September 1977 by Senator Jessop on behalf of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment following that Committee ‘s examination of the Board ‘s 1975-76 annual report. [More…]
I would like the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development to tell me whether the current Press reports regarding renegotiations of arrangements for the Albury-Wodonga growth centre are accurate? [More…]
As well as the strategic matters I have referred to, we also take into consideration factors of our physical environment, technological developments and developments in methods of waging war. [More…]
There are family crises which are in no way related to temperament or conduct; they could be related to economic circumstances, such as poor housing, poor environment, or lack of income. [More…]
Hazards to members of the public in the general environment arise at all stages of the nuclear fuel cycle. [More…]
the effects of the establishment of a nuclear power station upon the environment; [More…]
Then and only then will our people be informed of the crucial matters relating to the degree of radiation emissions, and their possible effects on health and the environment, and the dispersal of radioactive wastes. [More…]
Thirdly, there is the need to protect effectively our environment in which mining development will take place. [More…]
We want to protect our Aboriginal people and our environment. [More…]
For instance, I believe that there are good economic as well as environmental reasons for sequential development, as Mr Justice Fox and his commissioners recommended. [More…]
But at least something has rubbed off- the bilateral agreements with at least some safeguards; at least some government participation in the Ranger venture, however halfhearted that has been; and at least some protection for the environment and for the Aboriginal people. [More…]
For them it is better to hold the election when the political environment is bad rather than waiting for it to get terrible. [More…]
I draw attention to the fact that at a recent seminar on urban management processes two officers of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development produced a paper in which they claimed that the lack of relative price effect was a major reason for the apparent increase in the size of the public sector. [More…]
I take the opportunity to draw attention to some work being done at the Australian National University at the present time on this matter of relative shares of our gross domestic product going to the public and private sector over a longer period than the period which was the subject of assessment by the two officers from the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
So we get the present problem in Australia that because a child might have poor parents he is to remain deprived and a victim of the environment into which he was born. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, announced on 9 August 1 977 that a scientific study under the guidance of the Australian Ionizing Radiation Advisory Council had commenced on the possible dispersal of radioactive material in the Maralinga area. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1977: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1977: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 25 August 1977: [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
In fact, the establishment of a base line station in Australia has developed out of the recommendation made in 1972 by the United Nations Conference on Human Environment that ten base line stations be established throughout the world. [More…]
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the Department of Science and the Department of Environment in Tasmania will be involved also. [More…]
La Trobe mean that the Government proposes to change the policy under which, as the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Depvelopment told me yesterday in a prepared answer, ‘no new grants were made under the program of capital assistance for leisure facilities m 1976-77 and no new grants will be made for projects under this program in 1 977-78 ‘? [More…]
There is scope for expansion in oilseeds production but, if this potential is to be realised, the industry must develop on a sound basis with an increased research effort to improve yields, combat pests and diseases and, in particular, as you, Mr Deputy Speaker, would know so well as Chairman of our Government Rural Committee, it is very necessary to develop varieties that are suitable to the Australian environment. [More…]
August I sought to have published letters and cables which His Honour had sent to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and to the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
I put the point of view that judges can properly advise on public issues if they hold statutory appointments, for example, under the Commonwealth Grants Commission Act, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act or the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, or if they hold royal commissions. [More…]
Obviously there has to be some objective assessment of the relative needs of an area to improve the social environment and the opportunities of its citizens. [More…]
-I know the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development would not be happy to hear me continue because the point I am making is that it is improper for Ministers of the Government to continue to attack the provisions of the Commonwealth Electoral Act and the tolerances provided for in that Act. [More…]
Is this the right and proper environment in which to bring up a child? [More…]
Children are being exposed to the drug scene and the drug environment. [More…]
This violates- I stress the word ‘violates’- the second Ranger report’s recommendation that a regional centre be built to contain all the mine workers and to minimise their impact on the environment and the Aboriginals of the area. [More…]
The union says that the industry ought to have a great deal more industrial democracy and that little work is being done to improve the working environment. [More…]
Additional import restrictions were instituted in the context of the disruption faced by the industry in adjusting to a new Australian content plan, the establishment of two new manufacturers under that plan and the generally depressed economic environment. [More…]
It does not provide a very satisfactory job environment. [More…]
We could provide them with a better working environment and pay them more than they receive at present. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) would like us to believe that the Government is maintaining the level of spending on welfare housing. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who is at the table, is little in stature and little in authority and that is the measure of his influence in the Fraser Government. [More…]
It is interesting to note that when the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) first announced some of the details which he wished to discuss with State Premiers the Labor States were most reluctant to join in with what should be an objective for all political parties, that is, the provision of housing for those people genuinely in need rather than a continuance of support for some individuals who should not be receiving the very great benefits which are obvious under the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement. [More…]
I think the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) in fact acknowledged in his second reading speech, and would acknowledge at any time, that this agreement has had a great impact on housing in Australia. [More…]
Agreement and, as indicated in the second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), policies and objectives for future housing. [More…]
The action of the Labor Party in Queensland was such as to create a most unfavourable environment. [More…]
I know the Minister’s great concern to keep people happy in their own environment and give them a choice of remaining among their friends rather than having to go to an aged persons home. [More…]
So bitter was the clash over the apple and pear subsidy scheme that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) threatened to resign and the honourable member for Franklin (Mr Goodluck) was told that he was behaving like a grub and should go back to Tasmania and bury himself in an apple- to use the precise words. [More…]
In relation to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Auditor-General had reported that amounts totalling $6,048,024 were paid under the States Grants (Dwellings for Pensioners) Act 1974 although no warrant of the Governor-General had been obtained for the expenditure. [More…]
I would draw the attention of the Minister to a publication called Nil Net Migration News, published in August 1976 by the New South Wales Environment Centre, which could just as easily have been published by Enoch Powell. [More…]
I cannot remember who signed the particular articles; indeed I am not sure that they were signed at all, but they contain ridiculous propositions with which, deplorably, the Australian Conservation Foundation associates itself, to the effect that before the Government increases immigration it must consider the subject in the light of the Federal Environment Protection Act. [More…]
In spite of what the honourable member for Wills said, there is a government housing policy which the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) has announced and discussed recently with State Housing Ministers. [More…]
-At the moment a series of consultations is taking place between the Ranger joint venturers, the Northern Land Council which is looking after Aboriginal interests, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the special advisory scientist regarding the standards of any mine that might be developed in the area. [More…]
These substantial areas have completely different terms of adaptability and environment which have to be catered for in any breeding program. [More…]
My colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) has secured for Tasmania the establishment of the maritime college in his electorate. [More…]
I support very strongly the moves of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development for the establishment of a Regular Army battalion in Tasmania. [More…]
One of the supposed aims of raising petrol prices was to conserve the urban environment by reducing urban car usage. [More…]
Conserving the urban environment is what we are talking about. [More…]
This great decision by this Government was an environmental decision. [More…]
It has done nothing to improve the quality of the urban environment. [More…]
Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]
That the proposed expenditure for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development be reduced by $10. [More…]
-In speaking in the debate on the estimates for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Department of Construction, I mention first the positive move taken by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) in introducing a proposal to provide funds for the setting up of a decentralisation advisory board. [More…]
-In the very short time I have left in this debate on the estimates for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Department of Construction, thanks to my friend the Opposition Whip, I wish to draw attention to the home ownership scheme that was announced by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
The DEPUTY CHAIRMAN- The question now is: ‘That the proposed expenditures for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Department of Construction be agreed to’. [More…]
The question before the Committee now is: ‘That the proposed expenditures for the Department of Housing, Environment and Community [More…]
The question now is: That the proposed expenditures for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Department of Construction be agreed to’. [More…]
The DEPUTY CHAIRMAN- The question now is: ‘That the proposed expenditures for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Department of Construction be agreed to’. [More…]
That the proposed expenditures for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Department of Construction be agreed to. [More…]
The Crafts Board is concerned to create an environment conducive to the development of the crafts in Australia and has commissioned an expert Souvenir Product Investigation Report to consider ways of stimulating the production of souvenirs utilising Australian craftsmen and materials. [More…]
The Australian Science and Technology Council and the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment are supposedly looking at all research and development. [More…]
-Why did you gag the debate last night on the estimates for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development? [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) has brought in a decentralisation scheme. [More…]
It is now a different country and a different economic environment. [More…]
I am discounting the long range nuclear missile attacks because that is a different environment. [More…]
We are in a new environment. [More…]
I want to say something about the cowardice of the Tasmanian Government in the face of procommunist left wing victimisation of a young apprentice named Chris Symons who works for the tasmanian Railways at the Launceston railway workshops in the electorate of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]
Assistance for capital projects is currently being provided through the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, which operates a scheme of capital assistance for leisure facilities (CALF Scheme). [More…]
Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 September: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 October 1977: [More…]
This is like the environment. [More…]
In redistributing that profit back into this country we provided benefits for people in a myriad of areas where we took up responsibility, such as school dental services, community health services, better roads and improvements in urban environment, Aboriginal welfare and education. [More…]
The continuation of the scheme in 1978 at the 1977 levels of support will allow the export industry further time to adjust to the very difficult economic environment in which circumstances have placed it. [More…]
If these arrangements succeed in eliminating locked-in labour whilst, at the same time, enabling all employees to be identified with a particular employer, it would seem that a very substantial step has been taken towards reducing costs and improving the industrial relations environment at the same time. [More…]
The Minister is to be congratulated for achieving so much in a most difficult environment. [More…]
In regard to existing contracts, the Government’s permission for shipments to proceed continues to be on the basis of the factors, including the safeguards, which I recall were spelt out by the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development in November of last year and, I think, reiterated by him in June of this year. [More…]
-I present a report, together with minutes of proceedings, from the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, being a report that the Committee has been unable to complete its inquiries. [More…]
This is a Bill designed to allow for grants of financial assistance to the States for projects related to the environment. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that the Commonwealth’s role with respect to protection of the environment and conservation is essentially concerned with national policies, and that the States have the authority and the responsibility for the development and implementation of programs that deal with environmental issues at the grass roots level. [More…]
In most cases it is the States that nave the legislative powers to monitor and enforce environmental standards. [More…]
The role of the Commonwealth is to assist the States as far as possible and as far as is desirable in providing the means for coordination of policies for the environment. [More…]
Honourable members Will know that there are councils comprised of Commonwealth and State Ministers through which common standards and common policies with respect to issues relating to conservation and the environment are debated and decided. [More…]
A recent initiative pursued by the Government through the Australian Environment Council is the decision to move towards comprehensive and co-ordinated regulation for the export and import of environmentally hazardous chemicals. [More…]
The responsible State and Commonwealth Ministers have agreed to the establishment of a national body to assess the environmental effects of potentially hazardous chemicals and to recommend the appropriate controls to Federal and State authorities. [More…]
For some years now the Commonwealth has also taken the lead in providing special purpose grants to the States to assist them in undertaking activities within a variety of environment and conservation policies. [More…]
In other words, it is a standing piece of legislation that will be available to provide a proper and convenient means for the Commonwealth to assist the States financially with respect to matters relating to the environment. [More…]
The Bill provides for the Minister to agree with a State upon financial assistance and, acting jointly with the appropriate State Minister, to approve projects relating to the environment. [More…]
It is in essence a simple Bill, but it is, nevertheless, a significant pokey decision which emphasises again the Government’s concern to work co-operatively with the States, through well established means in the interests of responsible and rational management of the environment. [More…]
In his second reading speech the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) indicated that the magnitude of the Commonwealth’s contribution would be of the order of $5m over the period mentioned. [More…]
It is interesting to note that, although this legislation is the preserve of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) or the Minister for National Resources (Mr Anthony), in fact it was introduced by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
Similarly our own Minister from Tasmania, Mr Kevin Newman, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, has done much work on this issue and is very concerned for the people of Queenstown. [More…]
The Tasmania Grant (The Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company Limited) Bill 1977 has many shortcomings which the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) sought to hide in his second reading speech. [More…]
Against that background, how does one establish the safest possible international environment? [More…]
It ought to be noted that since this minute was drafted by the Department of Foreign Affairs as a record of discussion, there have been many discussions between Mr Justice Fox and experts overseas about these matters and I know he has put views forthrightly and constructively, seeking a better and an eversafer international environment. [More…]
The Committee supports the view that visitation to environmentally significant and sensitive areas should be controlled and in some cases restricted. [More…]
It recommends that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development identify those areas requiring long term management plans to protect them. [More…]
The first two paragraphs of the Labor Party’s policy on uranium state that we recognise that the provision of Australian uranium to the world nuclear fuel cycle creates problems relevant to Australian sovereignty, the environment, the economic welfare of our people, and the rights and well-being of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
Labor believes that, having regard to the present unresolved economic, social, biological, genetic, environmental and technical problems associated with the mining of uranium, the development of nuclear power should not continue at this stage. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 March 1977: [More…]
Is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development satisfied that the Government’s policy on sport and recreation can be implemented having regard to restraints on public spending? [More…]
An announcement yet to be made in the other place by Senator Cotton will very shortly be made in this House by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the annual report for 1977 of the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
Following an exhaustive evaluation of all tenders received covering all options it was decided that the offer by North Queensland Engineers and Agents would provide the Navy and Army with craft which met all requirements and particularly would be the most suitable for operating in the arduous service environment. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 May 1977: [More…]
The child may have all the problems of not having a good home environment, having one parent or no parents. [More…]
I am not one who believes that all the gold plated trimmings and so on are needed in education to make teaching effective, but certainly teaching is easier and more effective if the equipment and the environment is adequate. [More…]
It is probably due to some personality problem, the home environment or some other reason. [More…]
It is regrettable that environmental matters have been very low on this Government’s priorities. [More…]
However there is not much moral or financial support given to environmental and conservation programs. [More…]
An example is the Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974, which probably is one of the most important pieces of legislation ever introduced into this Parliament. [More…]
Two studies were undertaken under the terms of the Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
They had wide ramifications and it is very interesting to note that although both reports were brought down during the last two years, no proposal has been referred to the Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act by the Fraser Government. [More…]
The area represented by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) probably has one of the Government’s lowest priorities. [More…]
With regard to the mining of uranium, as I said earlier, both the first and second reports of the Ranger inquiry were brought down under the terms of the Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development did not make all the recommendations; they were made by the Minister for National Resources. [More…]
This is of great significance environmentally in this area. [More…]
This Government’s concern for the environment is subordinate to its championing of the uranium miners rights. [More…]
The environment is in fact subordinate to this Government’s priorities. [More…]
The Australian Government will have to exert control if the State governments will not control this very delicate part of our environment. [More…]
Frankly, I am pleased that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKelllar) in his second reading speech did stress that if we are going to control our environment the only way we can control it is by a spirit of co-operation. [More…]
The whole basis of my criticism of this Bill is that on the environmental front and the conservation front this Government has such very low priorities. [More…]
Instead of accepting the proposition, as reported, that there should be sequential development of uranium mining in the areas and that only the Ranger mine should go ahead first to ascertain what problems would be created in this delicate environmental area- that would have been bad enough- the Government rejected it. [More…]
The simultaneous development of those two mines not only will have a grave effect on that delicate environment but also will have a grave effect on the environment of the human beings in that area, that is, the Aboriginal people. [More…]
Therefore, whilst not opposing the Bill, the Opposition criticises and in some cases condemns the priority given to environmental and conservation matters of protecting our national heritage. [More…]
It is true that for too long we in Australia did not really appreciate the environment. [More…]
If one can be critical of the previous era, one has to say that much of the development by the early settlers in this country was carried out without any significance being attached to the environment and the preservation of our great natural resources for the use of the generations that would follow. [More…]
I join with the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in paying a tribute to the previous Government for sparking off an interest m the environment as far as Australia as a nation is concerned. [More…]
I hope that the small acorn that was planted will grow into a great tree so that the environment will be protected, so that we will not challenge nature and so that future generations will be able to enjoy the benefits of what nature can provide. [More…]
One can criticise it for not spreading its umbrella widely enough or not gathering into its fold aU the things in which environmentalists are interested; but it is a start. [More…]
Let us not forget that this type of legislation will act as a catalyst to encourage private individuals and organisations to play their part in the preservation of the environment and particularly the National Estate. [More…]
Rather, we want to work with the States so that man can live with the environment and does not become a victim of his own misuse of it. [More…]
In this year’s Budget, due to the efforts of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) $2.55m was allocated for the National Estate. [More…]
That is what concern for the environment is all about, the preservation for those who come after us of typical Australian things. [More…]
1 know that the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development will use his considerable persuasive powers to get the Cabinet and the State governments to agree to a massive onslaught on the problem. [More…]
Therefore it is good to see in the Minister’s second reading speech- I compliment him on the fact- that the Government, through the Aus.tralian Environmental Council, will move positively towards comprehensive and co-ordinated regulations for the export and import of environmentally hazardous chemicals. [More…]
But viewed against the background of a government moving in the right direction with great financial restrictions placed on it on account of the state of the economy, this is a positive proof to the Australian people that we are serious about the environment. [More…]
I want to spend a few moments this afternoon in supporting the Environment (Financial Assistance) Bill which was presented to the House by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]
I want to summarise the financial aspects of the Government’s approach to environmental matters. [More…]
Although I do not regard the Bill as a major controversy for the House, I must say that quite consistent with the inability of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) to sustain expenditure in other areas for which he is responsible, there has been this heavy decline in funding of environmental activities. [More…]
Let me mention briefly the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
The Environmental impact allocation for public hearings is down from $694,300 in 1975-76, to $507,268 in 1976-77, to $65,000 in 1977-78. [More…]
That is in regard to environmental impact statements. [More…]
The Government promised in its election policy on environment and conservation a public inquiry on the wood chip industry. [More…]
1 think a matter of concern is that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has allowed his Department to be whittled away. [More…]
The staff ceilings have affected the environmental area quite considerably. [More…]
If their concern for the truth half matched their concern for the environment, I think they would be a lot better off. [More…]
Let me put the facts on this matter of the Government’s concern for the environment and conservation. [More…]
We come to the linchpin of our policies, the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
We have acted under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, whether the matter in question was the Concorde aircraft or wood chipping on the south coast of New South Wales. [More…]
Under the Act there are two alternativeseither a public inquiry or administrative procedures with an environmental impact statement. [More…]
I chose the environmental impact statement. [More…]
This Government is concerned with the environment and conservation issues. [More…]
I suppose we can take some wry satisfaction from the fact that hundreds of people try at elections to serve in this arduous and competitive environment. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 25 October 1977: [More…]
The findings of various research studies conducted both here and overseas indicate that there is a need for further research into the effects of environment on the psycho-social development of young children. [More…]
protection of the unique Antarctic environment and of its dependent ecosystems should be a basic consideration; [More…]
The Consultative Parties also recommended to their Governments that they continue to study the environmental implications of mineral resource activities in the Antarctic Treaty area and to hold a meeting of ecological, technical and other related experts with a view to developing scientific programs aimed at improving predictions of the impact of possible technologies for mineral exploration and exploitation in the Antarctic and developing measures for the prevention of damage to the environment. [More…]
The Consultative Parties also recommended that their Governments cooperate broadly and comprehensively in scientific investigation and in the exchange of information relating to the Antarctic marine environment, and that they intensify as far as possible scientific research related to Antarctic marine living resources. [More…]
Has the Australia Council made its recommendations to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development on the list of Australian Government building projects where an arts component could be included in the costs; if so, when will the list be published (Hansard, 15 February 1977, page 83). [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development upon notice, on 13 October 1977: [More…]
1) The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development undertakes no direct capital works expenditure in the States. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 20 October 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 October 1977: [More…]
1 ) On what date did the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development receive the final report of the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
1 ) On 2 1 October 1976, Dr John Hookey, the Presiding Commissioner, forwarded four copies of the Final Report of the Commission of Inquiry to my colleague, the Minister for Environment Housing and Community Development. [More…]
In April 1 975 the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment heard evidence to the effect that the total Tasmanian Aboriginal population was between 4,000 and 5,000. [More…]
Brown) and others, when I say that I believe you have brought to your office and this place, great dignity, an important sense of propriety and, in what is often an electric and intense environment, fairness and impartiality, and a very welcome sense of humour. [More…]
The Labor Government took much of the burden of improving the environment from ratepayers and it gave dignity and pride in their work to people who, in some cases, are now becoming cynical of ever being acceptable in the work force because there are dozens of registered unemployed chasing each job vacancy. [More…]
During the Whitlam years I was Chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
We saw an end to ad hockery and the beginning of a rational and national approach to so many problems- the problems of urban life, manufacturing industry and education, the immense problems faced by Aboriginal people, the inadequacies of childhood services and health care delivery services, the conservation of our natural and built environment, the development of our natural resources and the upgrading and bringing into the twentieth century of our international relations. [More…]
That cannot necessarily be translated into the Australian environment in exactly the same terms but there is a range of things which are often meant by people when they talk about worker participation. [More…]
I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development who is responsible for youth affairs for initiating the research project into youth unemployment. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware of recent Press reports that the traditional Australian team colours may be changed for the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton? [More…]
One would expect that refugees might have difficulty in settling into a new environment and in finding work within that new environment. [More…]
A project which may attract a grant or loan moneys under this Bill would include ‘the conservation of water resources or water environment’ and ‘the management of water quality’. [More…]
It must be appreciated that over much of Australia rainfall is highly variable both seasonally and from year to year and that floods and droughts are characteristic of the Australian environment. [More…]
In the management of water there is abundant evidence of the interdependence of the elements of the whole environment. [More…]
All our water resources- rivers, streams, lakes and aquifersand the ecosystems associated with them, must be managed in a way which as far as possible will provide overall enhancement of the environment. [More…]
Furthermore, the management strategies adopted for Australia’s inland waters must give full consideration to the effects on estuarine and marine environments. [More…]
Hence it is particularly appropriate in the case of water resources projects that they are planned and assessed not only on the basis of the extent to which they influence economic growth, but also on the basis of their impact on social well being, on regional development, and on the environment generally. [More…]
Previous conferences in the series have been the conference on environment which was held in Stockholm in 1972, the conference on food which was held in Rome in 1974, the conference in Bucharest in 1975 which dealt with population, and the Habitat Conference held in Vancouver in 1976. [More…]
The basic intent in conducting the United Nations Conference on Water was to allow nations to develop an objective policy for the supply of water for basic nutritional, environmental and health requirements of their people. [More…]
With regard to the recommendations to be taken nationally, all delegations endorsed the objectives, policies and guidelines relating to the appropriate action for water development and conservation including the adoption of national water policy statements, the development of appropriate technologies, flood and drought loss management, environment and health, et cetera. [More…]
I think that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) might well lead a team from the Parliament. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
-Mr Deputy Speaker, I again speak briefly, this time in respect to the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
I trust that the new Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom)- I will have grace enough to congratulate him on his appointment- will find some pleasure in his association with the Committee. [More…]
If these committees come into being, we will not be able to rise at the start of a new parliamentary session and deal with subject matter committees such as the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, the Standing Committee on Road Safety, the Standing Committee on Tourism and the others without giving some consideration to the overall picture. [More…]
I am an enthusiast of the Environment and Conservation Committee. [More…]
But if we take a proper look at the committee system it may well be that the Environment and Conservation Committee and some of the other subject matter committees may have to disappear as entities and that the subject matter they examine be covered by some other committees so that the most important matters in a wide variety of fields can be dealt with by members of this Parliament in the limited time they have available. [More…]
It should also be required to give attention to the reasons for its de-emphasis upon the Government’s desire, as expressed in the Act to ‘facilitate adjustment to changes in the economic environment, by the industries and people affected by such changes’ and to give attention to the wisdom of its apparent rejection of any government intervention in the economy which is not general and not market-orientated. [More…]
The more we care for the deprived, the more we think about the problems confronting Australian manufacturing industry, the more we confront the hardships faced by the rural community, the more we grapple with the major issues concerning the environment the more we realise the need for increased government intervention on behalf of the community. [More…]
The mountains and valleys offer superb walking and climbing in a natural environment. [More…]
The environment is much as it was when Australia was discovered. [More…]
We have to create the environment in which all people can live and work with the maximum individual freedom and human dignity. [More…]
AU aspects of government have their effect on people- defence, taxation, the environment, foreign relations and public works, among others. [More…]
The report found that the special branch kept files on people active in almost any progressive force in the State; from peace movements to the women’s movement and to conservationists simply trying to save the environment. [More…]
The Government inherited a housing environment which has made progress quite difficult to achieve. [More…]
Although the time in which to prepare for this debate was very limited one would not need a great deal of practice to demolish the attitude of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]
The new agreement will also encourage the States to give additional attention to the environmental aspects of public housing, such as urban renewal, provision of open space, landscaping and community facilities. [More…]
Now, under the new Agreement, provision is made for note to be taken of the environment, the surroundings and the way of life of the people involved. [More…]
I refer Opposition members to a statement made in the middle of last year by the previous Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the present Minister for National Development (Mr Newman). [More…]
It would seem that the present Government has adopted- I am convinced that that is the case under our new and dynamic Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom)- an innovative program. [More…]
The industry is a clean one and if carefully planned and organised can be a factor in preserving our heritage and our environment. [More…]
More importantly it should be so designed to teach people, and particularly youngsters, where and how they fit into the unbelievably complex environment of which they are an integral part. [More…]
It is felt that the Yooralla pre-employment program offers a positive environment in which independence can be not only encouraged but also shared. [More…]
Potential gains from an outward looking export strategy towards Asia in a progressively de-red taped economic environment are striking. [More…]
I am pleased that my very good friend the honourable member for Braddon (Mr Groom), the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development within whose portfolio this matter falls, is in the House tonight. [More…]
I have pointed out consistently that if there are to be any changes in protection levels, they should proceed only in an environment in which there are appropriate structural adjustment programs such as compensation, retraining, relocation and so on. [More…]
Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation [More…]
Our policies include a proper decision on the North West Shelf which allows the consortium involved an investment environment where it knows it has markets for its natural gas. [More…]
There are difficulties associated with the environment and health in this area. [More…]
The emphasis is to the effect that safeguards are effective, that the problems of disposal have been solved, that the environment is safeguarded and that the rights of Aborigines are protected. [More…]
Perhaps even more seriously is the ever escalating tendency for cities and living environments to be shaped by the private motor vehicle. [More…]
During the post-war period in Australia and in other comparable countries governments have been goaded by the powerful financial, industrial and automobile association lobby groups to spend almost unlimited funds on roads and other improvements designed to promote without limit the use of a motorised vehicle for every transport task, no matter how inappropriate or no matter what the cost to the non-user or to the urban environment. [More…]
The most dramatic example of the imbalance of priorities which has been characteristic of Australian transport planning has been the attempts made in almost every Australian city to construct urban freeways, a form which is intrinsically alien to the urban environment. [More…]
Residents and councillors have together resisted every overture and even a handsome bribe in the belief that the expected traffic volume of 70,000 vehicles a day would destroy the social environment. [More…]
Unfortunately, the present Government, as in so many other areas, has allowed the Environmental Protection Act to be watered down so that we now have the absurd situation in Victoria where in my own electorate in the City of Heidelberg in respect of the Bell Street-Banksia Street connection, the construction authority is carrying out its own impact studies. [More…]
The F1 9 or Eastern Freeway experience totally makes nonsense of this Government’s commitment to devolution, to asserting the rights of local government and to conserving the social environment. [More…]
The situation is that the unions, by heavy handed blackmail tactics, are forcing themselves on major employers who are being forced to buckle under because the employers cannot afford, in the competitive environment of the building industry, to close down the job for a protracted period while litigation takes place. [More…]
I grieve for the small Aboriginal children with their beautiful, wide, innocent, brown eyes, knowing that they are growing up in an environment such as that. [More…]
If it is not carried out, this House should move to refer to the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation the question of the conservation and preservation of the wetlands of Western Australia. [More…]
It means that they really cannot escape from their work environment. [More…]
I am pleased to see that the Government and the Opposition appreciate that the physical environment of Australia emphasises the importance of maritime surveillance, reconnaissance and offshore patrol. [More…]
I do not think any member on either side of this House, the people in the defence forces or the people in the civil section of the structure have yet conditioned themselves to look at a new Australian environment in this regard. [More…]
One condition is that cognisance be taken of the report on softwoods of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
We believe that any clearing of hardwood forests for the purpose of replanting would not be in the best interests of the long-term future of the natural environment or of the nation. [More…]
Firstly, I refer, as did the previous speaker, to the environment. [More…]
In 1974 the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation inquired into the operation of the 1967 and 1972 Acts with particular reference, which I will mention in part, to their environmental, social and economic impact. [More…]
Timber is a versatile, renewable material which compared with other building materials can be produced at lower costs, with far less use of our dwindling energy supplies and with less damage to the environment. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the summary report of the sixth meeting of the Council of Nature Conservation Ministers, Cairns, 29 July 1977, and the summary record of proceedings of the ninth meeting of the Australian Environment Council, Canberra, 1 1 August 1977. [More…]
At stake is their culture, their social structure, their traditions, their environment, their sacred sites and their religion. [More…]
He went on to deal with the protection of the environment and the restoration of mined land because the Aboriginal people talked to him about it. [More…]
The Aurukuns expressed disappointment that the companies had not adequately consulted with them, especially upon the effect the proposed mining development would have upon the environment. [More…]
The people have been happy with the assurances that CRA has been able to give them in relation to safeguarding the physical and social environment of that community. [More…]
The aim of the exercise was to further develop the tactical employment of a balanced combat force in a remote location under terrain and the climate environment represented at Woomera. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1 978: [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]
It is primarily for the authorities in the country concerned to ensure that proper safety measures and environment protection measures are taken. [More…]
Since this Parliament resumed just a few weeks ago it has established committees on such important matters as road safety, tourism, Aboriginal affairs, environment and conservation, foreign affairs and defence, public works, expenditure and a new and permanent Parliament House. [More…]
The creation of jobs in the public sector in response to urgent social needs in fields such as health, adult education, environment protection and social services. [More…]
Sooner or later all such processes must overload their environment, consuming all its nutrients or poisoning it by the waste products associated with growth. [More…]
The third factor which ought to be looked at in the light of our amendment is the question of environmental conditions. [More…]
At least in the previous Bills some attention was paid to environmental considerations. [More…]
In this regard I refer to the 1975 report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation on the operation of the Softwood Forestry Agreements Acts of 1967 and 1972. [More…]
It was not exactly enlightening as far as environmental factors are concerned. [More…]
But in the 1972 Act more note was taken of environmental factors. [More…]
I want to remind the House of some of the matters that were commented upon in the report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation published in 1975, and I wish to refer firstly to some of the findings set out on page 3. [More…]
Another recommendation was that stringent conditions should be imposed upon the lending of Federal money to ensure that forestry management procedures designed to protect the environment are observed strictly. [More…]
With the wisdom of Solomon, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation recommended at that time that the next softwood forestry agreements legislation should cover a period of 10 years- that was not accepted by the Government- with interest accruing from the commencement of the loan and with deferment of the payments of instalments of principle and interest for 15 years. [More…]
I suggest that if honourable members read paragraph 159 of the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation and in particular sub-paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) and clauses (a) to (1) they will see the common-sense approach of this all party Committee to the sort of environmental factors that we should be talking about. [More…]
In fact, it is a Bill of little substance because it states that the Commonwealth Government, for this next five years, will not be involved in some of the matters it was during the previous five years because of a very good consensus with the States and because of advice received from people such as the honourable member for Scullin in his capacity, some time ago, as the chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
Following the presentation of the report by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation when the honourable member for Sculling was its chairman and also a very detailed report entitled The Australian Softwoods Products Industry by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, it has been discovered that the earlier projections over-estimated the demand and that at this stage this excess demand will not be required. [More…]
We must keep this subject in mind I suppose when we speak about the problems of the environment. [More…]
I will mention briefly some of the problems of the environment. [More…]
I do not think he was accurate when he said that the Government has paid no attention to environmental issues in this Bill. [More…]
That report discusses rather extensively some of the environmental issues that we need to face with respect to softwoods. [More…]
They have a pretty strong notion at least that softwood planted in Australia after clear felling of the native timber has had a detrimental effect on the environment with respect to primary production. [More…]
One could argue that those people, by their very existence, have had a detrimental effect on some other aspects of the environment. [More…]
I think it is generally believed that those people probably should have first preference in terms of some minor detriment to the environment, as distinct perhaps from the softwood industry which, if it creates problems for our environment, is in a better position to be cut back, probably in favour of native hardwoods. [More…]
The honourable member for Scullin, when presenting the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation dealing with the operation of the Softwood Forestry Agreement Acts 1967 and 1972, said: . [More…]
The second is for greater research to be conducted into the side effects of softwood forestry upon all the environmental issues raised in the report. [More…]
I would like an opportunity to say that in my view the people employed in the Forestry Commission who manage the softwood plantations and the hardwood plantations in my electorate are the true conservationists who, in their dealings with both the softwood and the hardwood environment, have always been very careful in their management techniques to take account of any environmental factors that they find could be detrimental. [More…]
Without trying to expand the debate outside the softwood area, but keeping to the question of the environment, I want to refer to the woodchipping industry on the South Coast, which has created a lot of heartburning in some sections, especially to some people in the Australian Capital Territory who have created a great deal of protest. [More…]
In my view- I have to admit that I do not have a degree in biology, but I have a great interest in the welfare of my electorate- the present regeneration of our native forests is being very well managed, especially in the area of wildlife and some of the areas mentioned in the report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
I fear that at times the State Government is being put on by people who do not take the trouble to investigate fully the impact of the forests on either the local environment or the local communities. [More…]
I hope that when it is revised in five years’ time it will be changed to one in favour of greater plantings, if not of radiata, of other softwoods which are more in line with the environment and which indicate better replacement possibilities and perhaps a greater population in the early years of the next century. [More…]
I thought that an interesting insight into the mind of the conservative was gained by listening to the speech last night of the honourable member for Barker (Mr Porter) when he referred to the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation entitled ‘The Operation of the Softwood Forestry Agreement Acts 1967 and 1972’. [More…]
There are many side effects of softwood forestry upon the environment which require more attention and care than are currently being given. [More…]
The greater mechanisation of forestry activities has increasing consequences for the environment, especially where water quality is affected - [More…]
Timber is a versatile, renewable material which compared with other building materials can be produced at lower costs, with far less use of our dwindling energy supplies, and with less damage to the environment. [More…]
There are many side effects of softwood forestry upon the environment which require more attention and care than are currently being given. [More…]
The greater mechanisation of forestry activities has increasing consequences for the environment, especially where water quality is affected and where it enables the clearfelling of larger areas of native forest. [More…]
Stringent conditions should be imposed upon the lending of Federal money to ensure that forestry management procedures designed to protect the environment are strictly observed. [More…]
The Opposition, in moving this amendment, has made reference to the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation on the operation of the Softwood Forestry Agreements Acts of 1967 and 1972. [More…]
The Minister then acknowledged that the Commonwealth would normally require an environment impact study where forestry areas were to be cleared for the purpose of planting softwoods. [More…]
It was made clear by the Minister in his second reading speech to the 1976 Bill that the States had been advised that should the Commonwealth and States enter into agreements for a further period it would be necessary to comply with the administrative procedures and the terms of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974. [More…]
If and when further plantings take place it is important that those plantings so far as possible are on existing cleared land or if any clearing is required then the plantings should proceed on marginal land and in the latter circumstances only when the Commonwealth has given its agreement after consideration of a report prepared under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974. [More…]
Again I return to the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation and in particular to the terms of the Committee’s recommendations. [More…]
We recommend: that further substantial pine planting, at the expense of native forest, be discontinued until more research has established the effects on the environment of, and the economic justification for, present practices. [More…]
that wood-chipping operations or other operations involving clear-felling of large areas be discontinued until the environmental effects are better known and properly assessed. [More…]
The whole debate has centred on the domestic environment- domestic supply and demandwithout any regard whatsoever for the global view. [More…]
Turning to the Bill, although a number of Government speakers have maintained that this legislation is very favourable from the point of view of the environment, I suggest that this view indicates a very shallow analysis of the situation. [More…]
On deeper analysis one finds that in fact this legislation is anti the environment in many aspects. [More…]
The contention here is that the more we plant now and the more we have surplus in the future the greater the disadvantage to the Australian environment. [More…]
The man-made forests have a 16-times greater yield than the native forests, and yet the environmentalists argue against the proposition. [More…]
During the debate reference has been made to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, which recommended in its report that an immediate study be carried out by a body such as the Bureau of Agricultural Economics to determine the economic viability of the softwood planting program on both strict financial grounds and on the broadest cost benefit grounds. [More…]
The environment benefits of directing a much greater new planting effort to previously cleared land are obvious. [More…]
The honourable member for Denison and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) were among those who asked: ‘Why pull out the apple trees in Tasmania?’ [More…]
It is disgraceful that the unctuous Ministers for Environment, Housing and Community Development have sat on this report for nearly two years without bothering to act on the proposals for flood mitigation. [More…]
My good friend, the honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage), wrote to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 4 February 1977 requesting information on what action the Minister intended to take on this matter. [More…]
in consultation with the respective State Governments, will be concerned to continue to improve the safety of the working environment; [More…]
In this Bill, and in the Bills that follow the Government gives evidence of its determination to strike a responsible balance between economic development and the protection of the environment. [More…]
In 1975 an inquiry was instituted under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 into the proposal by the Ranger consortium to develop uranium deposits at a site some 200 kilometres east of Darwin. [More…]
Fundamentally, the inquiry was designed to provide a basis on which the Government could take responsible decisions for environmental protection. [More…]
A commission was appointed to inquire, and I quote from its terms of reference: in respect of all the environmental aspects of: [More…]
The second report contained recommendations on measures to ensure that the necessary degree of environmental protection was provided over the full period of uranium mining developments in the region. [More…]
As announced last August, the Government decided that the environment of the region would be protected from the consequences of uranium mining through a series of actions. [More…]
To appoint a Supervising Scientist to coordinate environment protection in the region. [More…]
The first is to collect data on the effects on the environment of the region of uranium mining operations. [More…]
The second is concerned with the development and promotion of standards, practices and procedures for the protection of the environment and with measures for protection and restoration of the environment in the region. [More…]
The third main function is to co-ordinate and supervise the implementation of requirements for environment protection under prescribed instruments. [More…]
The functions of the Co-ordinating Committee are essentially to assist the Supervising Scientist in his role of protecting the environment from the effects of uranium mining operations in the region. [More…]
It will consider and recommend programs for the collection of data, consider and keep under review standards, practices, procedures and measures for environmental protection and restoration and keep under review requirements and their implementation under prescribed instruments. [More…]
The Co-ordinating Committee is the focal point of the system proposed by the Government for the protection of the environment from the consequences of uranium mining operations in the region. [More…]
The role of the Co-ordinating Committee is to provide a forum and a mechanism for these interests and organisations to communicate, consult, consider and reach understandings and agreements on the protection of the environment. [More…]
It will be the task of the Supervising Scientist, presiding at meetings of the Coordinating Committee, to obtain comprehensive and co-ordinated advice and recommendations which take account of all interests and which have as their primary objective the protection of the environment from uranium mining in the Region. [More…]
Honourable members will be pleased to know that under the direction of Mr Robert Fry, who has been seconded from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development to undertake preliminary functions of the proposed Supervising Scientist, steps have already been taken to establish monitoring of base-line environmental conditions in the region. [More…]
Using temporary field laboratories, a significant amount of work has already been undertaken to establish a data base for later development of environmental protection programs. [More…]
I believe this Bill and the Bills that follow demonstrate the Government’s determination to protect the environment in the region, and to safeguard the interests of people in the Northern Territory and elsewhere in Australia. [More…]
The Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill which I have just introduced dealt with scientific institutions and arrangements- the establishment of an Office of a Supervising Scientist and a Scientific Research Institute. [More…]
Aboriginals, with their long involvement with and concern for the natural environment, have a key role to play in park management. [More…]
My colleague the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner), who represents in this chamber the Attorney-General (Senator Durack), will be introducing a Bill to confer jurisdiction on the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, in relation to the enforcement by it of certain legal requirements for the protection of the environment in relation to uranium mining in the Alligator Rivers region, at the suit of the Director of National Parks and Wildlife, or the appropriate Land Council. [More…]
Honourable members will note that the definition of the region in this Bill differs from that contained in the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill which I have already introduced. [More…]
Certain provisions in the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill, the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill and the Environment Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court ) Bill are related to this Bill. [More…]
The establishment of Kakadu National Park is indicative of this Government’s concern for the natural environment and Aboriginal interests. [More…]
Highly skilled and innovative persons sensitive to the special requirements of the Aboriginal people and sensitive to the unique nature of the environment in the Alligator Rivers region will be needed to ensure the success of the Government’s intentions in this field. [More…]
The inquiry was concerned to ensure that the Director of the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Northern Land Council should be able to reinforce the environmental protection machinery. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) has already indicated that the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act will be amended to provide for the Director of the National Parks and Wildlife Service to have appropriate rights of inspection and information. [More…]
This Bill, together with the related Bills which are being introduced today, is a further earnest of the Government’s determination that the development of uranium mining in Australia will be carefully controlled and proceed in a responsible manner with full regard to the need for the protection of the environment and the welfare of all Australians. [More…]
The object of this Bill is to establish mechanisms for protecting the health and safety of the people of Australia, and the environment, from possible harmful effects of nuclear activities in Australia. [More…]
It will enable governments to ensure that the nuclear industry in Australia is so regulated as to afford the utmost protection to the people and the environment. [More…]
I should emphasise that this legislation is concerned with the health and safety of people, and the environment, as distinct from safeguards, the purpose of which is to ensure that nuclear material in peaceful use is not diverted to nonpeaceful purposes or to nuclear weapons. [More…]
Should an unforeseen situation arise as a result of a nuclear activity, which is not regulated or controlled by a Commonwealth, State or Territory law, and which is likely to affect health, safety or the environment, the GovernorGeneral will have power, under clause 13 of the Bill, to authorise the appropriate Federal Minister to act to control hazards associated with the situation. [More…]
However, it is our judgment, after considering all relevant factors, that a contingency provision of this nature is a proper and responsible discharge of our duty to provide for the health and safety of people in Australia, and the environment. [More…]
Orders made under the provisions of this clause have effect only in relation to situations likely to affect health and safety, or the environment, that arise from nuclear activities, as denned in the Bill. [More…]
Initial drafting by the appropriate Commonwealth department, for example, Department of Health for health codes, Department of Transport for transport codes, Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development for general environment protection codes; consultation on the proposed draft code with relevant State and Territory Ministers; the release, where appropriate, of the draft code for public comment, particularly by industry and trade unions; consideration of the draft code by relevant advisory councils such as the Australian Ionising Radiation Advisory Council; final consideration within the Government and submission to the Governor-General; the provision of an order in writing by the Governor-General approving the code; tabling of the order approving the code of practice in both Houses of Parliament. [More…]
In concluding I want to emphasise that this Bill is designed solely to protect Australians and their environment. [More…]
It is responsible environmental legislation that will provide for the development of protection measures in respect to nuclear activities in Australia. [More…]
This body of eminent non-government professional people has already played a most significant part in advising the Government on the effects of the various actual and potential sources of ionising radiation exposure on the Australian population and the environment. [More…]
This legislation demonstrates very clearly our determination to see that uranium development in Australia is regulated and controlled to ensure the protection of the environment and the health and safety of Australians. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to confer jurisdiction on the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory in relation to the enforcement by it of certain legal requirements for the protection of the environment in the Alligator Rivers region. [More…]
The Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry saw the Director of National Parks and Wildlife and the Northern Land Council as having a special interest in reinforcing the environment protection machinery in the Alligator Rivers region. [More…]
It saw as an advantage of the recommendations it made with regard to Aboriginal ownership of land and the creation of the national park that there would be people with the interest and knowledge to protect the environment from the consequences of mining operations. [More…]
The Inquiry therefore recommended that the environment protection provisions be made legally enforceable and that both the Director of National Parks and Wildlife and the Northern Land Council be given the right to enforce those provisions, particularly by way of injunction to restrain or compel action. [More…]
It confers jurisdiction on the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, at the suit of the Director of National Parks and Wildlife or the Northern Land Council, to make orders for the enforcement, in relation to uranium mining, of environmental requirements which are contained in Commonwealth and Northern Territory laws and in instruments made under those laws, and it gives the Court a wide discretion as to the exercise of this jurisdiction. [More…]
It should be noted that the Bill does not give the Court power to impose new environmental requirementsonly to make orders in relation to requirements which are imposed elsewhere. [More…]
The Bill also provides that the Court may order the repayment of costs incurred in work to remedy any detriment to the environment. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that last August the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development stated that strict environmental controls and standards in relation to uranium mining would be adopted. [More…]
In this regard the Government is presently examining the nature of environmental requirements, consistent with the environmental controls agreed on by the Government last August, that would be included in the grant of a mining authority to the Ranger consortium. [More…]
They will carry legal force and will, of course, be subject to supervision by the supervising authorities in the region and subject also to the oversight and co-ordination processes established in the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill 1978. [More…]
In accordance with the administrative procedures under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, Pancontinental Mining Ltd and Queensland Mines Ltd have prepared draft environmental impact statements on the development of the Jabiluka and Nabarlek deposits respectively. [More…]
Western Mining Corporation also made available for public comment a draft environmental impact statement on its research plant at Kalgoorlie proposed in connection with the Yeelirrie deposit in Western Australia. [More…]
As indicated by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), provision is being made in the Bill to amend the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act to protect wildlife and natural features in the stage 2 area. [More…]
Subject to meeting Aboriginal interests in the area and the necessary environmental controls, the Government will be proceeding with a tightly controlled exploration program so that the resources of the stage 2 area can be identified and appropriate action taken as quickly as possible to enable the proclamation of the area as a national park. [More…]
The conduct of these tests and the evaluation of the results obtained are matters on which questions might more properly be addressed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
I asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) to come into the chamber tonight. [More…]
Only one week ago we saw in the electorate of Braddon, which is so ably represented by my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), the closure of a timber business employing some 60 persons. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1978: [More…]
Has the Government supported the Rathburnie Environmental Education Estate at Linville in the Brisbane Valley or any other project which aims to demonstrate the long-term commercial viability of land and environment conservation practices. [More…]
The Government has not supported the Rathburnie Environmental Education Estate at Linville in the Brisbane Valley, however, under the States Grants (Soil Conservation) Act 1974 and the Environment (Financial Assistance) Act 1977 the following projects aimed at demonstrating the long-term commercial viability of land and environment conservation practices have been supported: demonstration catchment, Pisant Creek, South Australia demonstration project- pitting of denuded pastoral and marginal land, South Australia demonstration erosion and reclamation control project in cereal growing districts of Western Australia demonstration of a method of sand-trapping and dune rebuilding, Western Australia. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 15 March 1978: [More…]
In October 1976, 1 announced that the present Government had decided that the institution would be established to provide a university education in a military environment for selected members of the Defence Force. [More…]
As a military academy it will be required to sustain an environment appropriate to the induction of cadets into the discipline and values of the profession of arms, and give them their first training before they go out to their chosen arm of the Defence Force for specialised training in that service. [More…]
The Academy Council will be responsible for maintenance of an appropriate military environment at the Academy, and for military education and training conducted there to meet the requirements of the Chief of Defence Force Staff. [More…]
Is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware of the Iwasaki proposals for a mammoth tourist development at Yeppoon? [More…]
Has an environmental impact statement been prepared and, if so, has the Minister seen it? [More…]
If he has, can the Minister tell us what effect the project will have on the environment? [More…]
Obviously lifestyle and the environment in which people live have a tremendous influence on the state of health of people in the community. [More…]
This light capsules the spirit of strong yet gentle men and women who have lost their patience, who have suffered for what must seem to them an enternity and who are now putting into practice in this modern environment the same sense of preservation, determination and survival demonstrated by their forebears who tamed the harsh dry areas of Australia. [More…]
If the system is controlled, effluent will flow in a rational way so that our environment is protected. [More…]
When we deal with urban matters, just as when we deal with environmental matters, we have to bear in mind that everything is connected to everything else. [More…]
I say to the honourable member for Kingston, who seemed to be concerned about the fact that sewerage was a transport matter, that the second principle in relation to the environment is that everything has to go somewhere. [More…]
Unless sewerage systems are organised in a rational way they will operate in an irrational way and assist to destroy the environment. [More…]
An additional $14m is included for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development for payments under the Home Savings Grants Scheme. [More…]
I think the greatest tribute that I can pay tonight is to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition also engineered the Medibank rip-off which created an environment for the massive explosion in health costs. [More…]
Hence, at three levels the Government has provided a consistent approach to establish a prosperous environment in which the motor vehicle industry can nourish in the future. [More…]
I feel that a practical and positive solution to this problem can now be achieved particularly having regard to the changed political environment. [More…]
The Western Australian Public Works Department, the Western Australian Metropolitan Water Supply Sewerage and Drainage Board, the Western Australian Forests Department, the Western Australian Department of Agriculture, the Western Australian Depanment of Industrial Development, the Western Australian Depanment of Mines and the Western Australian Depanment of Conservation and Environment are represented on the Committee as well as CSIRO and the University of Western Australia. [More…]
Reports from the United States General Accounting Office last September, from a task force which reviewed nuclear waste management for the United States Department of Energy in February and from the United States Congress Sub-Committee on Environment, Energy and National Resources, have all reiterated in the strongest possible terms the absence of technical and regulatory procedures for satisfactorily dealing with high level radioactive waste. [More…]
Those Bills will cover environmental control, certain amendments for the protection of Aboriginals and parks and wildlife. [More…]
There is a whole series of Bills seeking to protect the environment and the Australian community. [More…]
In the first place it recognises the importance of fulfilling contracts and supplying energy; secondly, it protects the Australian community; thirdly, it protects the Aboriginal community and its sacred lands and other lands which need protection; and fourthly, it covers the need to protect and safeguard the environment in the area where the mining will take place. [More…]
Just three weeks ago, the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Sub-Committee of the United States Congress published its findings on the costs of nuclear power. [More…]
This development will take place in a controlled and responsible fashion, taking into account the environment and the Aboriginals. [More…]
The ministerial statement and the Bills make it obvious that we will be following the recommendations of Mr Justice Fox in his report on the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
The several areas that the Opposition is concerned with are environment, Aboriginal land rights, radiation hazards, nuclear explosions, terrorist activity and waste disposal. [More…]
Unfortunately, I do not have enough time to cover the matters of the environment and Aboriginal land rights, but I will deal with some of the other matters. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission was established in this environment. [More…]
Even though it took India 20 years to create the environment within which it could explode a device, it has still, in its own circumstances, proceeded to announce that its plans are peaceful and not identifiable with potential military aggression. [More…]
In those circumstances it would be only the bravest of men who would contend that such an environment would offer no problem for a future government of Australia. [More…]
It protects the power of corporate secrecy and makes Aborigines impotent to challenge a company if it considers that disclosing its technical information might tend to incriminate it in regard to the protection of the environment. [More…]
Reference was made by the honourable member for Cunningham (Mr West) to the specific provisions that I have mentioned briefly relating to the provision of environmental information and also the inspection rights that the Northern Land Council will enjoy as a result of this legislation. [More…]
When we give rights to people to go in and to inspect other people’s records and activities and when we give them the right, as is to be given under the Environment Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court) Bill which is part of this cognate debate to be able to go to the court to protect those rights, there is no doubt in my mind that provision must be made to ensure that information that might be gained but which perhaps is not relevant will not be divulged willy-nilly. [More…]
In conjunction with the amendments to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Act we are debating the Environment Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court) Bill. [More…]
This Bill is designed to give effect to the Government’s decision accepting the recommendation of the second Fox report that legislative action be taken to enable the Director of National Parks and Wildlife and the Northern Land Council to enforce the environmental protection provisions, particularly by way of injunction, and to compel action and to give the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory a wide definition as to the exercise of its jurisdiction in such cases. [More…]
It is drafted on the basis that the court would be able to deal with the parties involved in a way in which one would expect- by fine, by failing to make orders or in other ways available to courts- to ensure that proceedings are not brought vexatiously but only genuinely, in the belief that the environment is in danger and in need of protection as a result of the mining activity and a breach of the provisions that had been specifically entered into by the parties involved. [More…]
The Western Australian Public Works Department, the Western Austraiian Metropolitan Water Supply Sewerage and Drainage Board, the Western Austraiian Forests Department, Western Australian Department of Agriculture, the Western Australian Department of Industrial Development, the Western Australian Department of Mines and the Western Australian Department of Conservation and Environment are represented on the Committee as well as CSIRO and the University of Western Australia. [More…]
The Report of the Steering Committee on research into the effects of woodchipping in the Manjimup area ( Kelsall Committee Review 1 976 ) was issued by the Department of Conservation and Environment, Western Australia, in November 1976. [More…]
In terms of the environment, I suggest that it would be one of the major national parks, not only for Australia but also for the world. [More…]
These three Bills- the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill, the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Bill amending the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975 and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill- are based on recommendations of the second Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry, better known as the second Fox report. [More…]
That is a quote from the Fox report, but the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) was equally laudatory. [More…]
How is it possible, on the basis of the repeated statements by the Fox Commission that it simply does not know what will happen in the Magela Creek system if uranium mining goes ahead, that the Government could come to the conclusion that there would be adequate safeguards of the environment of the proposed Kakadu National Park? [More…]
As a matter of fact I have just arranged to go there in the next few days as a member of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
The environment has not changed. [More…]
The Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill 1978 is based on the recommendations contained in chapter 17 of the second Fox report. [More…]
The report listed at page 294 the various destructive elements that could affect the environment and for which standards and procedures should be set. [More…]
If something detrimental to the environment in the Alligator Rivers region is happening, it is important that it be known by the Parliament quickly and not hushed up. [More…]
Therefore, we shall move that the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Conservation Foundation, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, the Northern Land Council and the Northern Territory Environment Council provide members of the committee. [More…]
The final Bill in this cognate debate, the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978, has almost been aborted at its birth. [More…]
Basically, what this Bill provides is codes of practice to govern nuclear activities in Australia with regard to the health and safety of people, and the environment. [More…]
An earlier draft of the Bill, which we were successful in getting a copy of, provided that there would be an Environment Protection (Nuclear Activities) Advisory Council, which would draft proposed codes for the Minister, who would then hold a public inquiry on the proposals and allow public comment. [More…]
As I mentioned during the cognate debate at the second reading stage, the Supervising Scientist will not be able to let the members of the public know, through the Parliament, of his communications with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development during the period prior to the tabling of his report. [More…]
Of course, the recommendations should go to the Minister but it should be mandatory for him to place them before both Houses of Parliament, as it is under other legislation relating to environment questions. [More…]
the Nothern Territory Environment Council. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) mentioned that the Northern Land Council will be represented on the Committee, and I have no doubt that that commitment will be honoured. [More…]
We have suggested that the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Conservation Foundation, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, the Northern Land Council, and the Northern Territory Environment Council be specifically included in the Bill and represented on the Co-ordinating Committee. [More…]
However, in his second reading speech the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) mentioned particularly the Director of National Parks and Wildlife, the Northern Territory Administration and the Northern Land Council. [More…]
We think it is the sort of Australia-wide, allembracing environment group which could reasonably be added to the list of groups which could be seen to have some sort of interest in this whole business. [More…]
-The three Bills which we are debating- the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill 1978, the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Bill 1978 and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978- form a package of Bills now before the House. [More…]
But, taken together, they deal with the need to make an early start on the mining and development of our uranium resources, whilst at the same time ensuring adequate protection of the environment of the Alligator Rivers Region, protection of the rights and legitimate interests of the Aborigines in the region, protection of the safety of persons engaged in the uranium industry, and the development of adequate safeguards to prevent proliferation of the nuclear armament industry. [More…]
I commend the Government for the content in particular of the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill. [More…]
As the Minister said when introducing the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill, which is designed to establish an office of a supervising scientist, a co-ordinating committee and a research institute for the region, it is the co-ordinating committee which will be the focal point of the system proposed by the Government for the protection of the environment from the consequences of uranium mining operations in the region. [More…]
-I join in the debate on this group of Bills- the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill, the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Bill and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]
Whilst the three Bills are truly environmental and deal with different aspects, it seems to me that the content of the two groups I mentioned is somewhat different. [More…]
I think perhaps I should advert to the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill first. [More…]
Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) commented that the Bill will enable governments to ensure that the nuclear industry in Australia is so regulated as to afford the utmost protection to the people and the environment. [More…]
The first time I was in the area was as a member of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation which investigated wildlife conservation between 1 969 and 1 972. [More…]
This is a fairly sensitive environment to any concentrated pollution. [More…]
Why can we not have representatives from, as he has put forward, the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Conservation Foundation, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, the Northern Territory Environment Council and similar bodies? [More…]
They could give an independent assessment of what may occur in this very uncertain area of environmental protection, the very area in which we are not sure of what will occur. [More…]
The Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill proposes substantial changes to the principal Act. [More…]
This was understood by the Majority Leader from an agreement between the then Majority Leader, Dr Goff Letts, and the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Senator Greenwood. [More…]
This Bill, in comparison with related Bills such as the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill, clearly shows that there is a direct intrusion into local Northern Territory matters whereas the latter Bill largely equates the position of the Territory with that of the States. [More…]
The Bill envisages that the national Director will have a central role in the protection of the environment and in the enforcement of environmental controls, whether relating to uranium mining or not, in the area comprised in the national park or in any conservation zone, pending the extension of the national park. [More…]
I am certain the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) has received numerous representations from those people. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) to consider accepting our proposed amendment in that spirit. [More…]
I refer, for example, to the question of penalties for a supervising scientist who discloses a matter that he discovers in the course of his supervisory duties, which was dealt with in the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill. [More…]
-It seems to me that this is an occasion on which it would be appropriate for the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) to inform honourable members of the Government’s position, which seems to have changed since this Bill was introduced as a result of the reactions of the Premiers of the various States as communicated to the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
In previous correspondence the South Australian Government has pointed out a number of areas particularly in the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill and the amendments to the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
It is of little wonder that the State governments are denouncing this package of legislation, particularly the amendments to the Atomic Energy Act and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]
The Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill abrogates responsibility for the actual administration of these Codes to the States, but it does not spell out how they should perform their duties. [More…]
I would have thought that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), as a distinguished lawyer, would be fully aware of that point. [More…]
We are talking about the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill, and it is the preparation of the codes provided for in that Bill that is important. [More…]
That is why it is called the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]
I agree with the view expressed first by the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Cadman), and more or less reiterated in part by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), that ideally there ought to be uniform codes. [More…]
I join issue with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) in terms of his view that it is an appropriate form of consultation for the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to make a general statement in the House, then for legislation of this sort to be introduced in the way in which it has been introduced, with copies being supplied for the States, and then for the Government to move from that position. [More…]
It also happens to be a fact that in my own State, whatever its imperfections, there is environment protection legislation on the statute book that goes further than anything the Government has contemplated in this legislation, and indeed further than any environmental Commonwealth statute. [More…]
Environmental protection codes operate in Victoria, and there is an administrative structure in that State that is tremendously well developed. [More…]
I was merely pointing out that I believe that one of the main reasons why the States are concerned about this legislation is that what will ultimately happen to the environment as a result of long term waste disposal in Australia has not been properly thought through. [More…]
I agree with the honourable member for Marybyrnong (Dr Cass)- I have not seen all the alternative codes and I have not seen the final Code proposed by the Government- when he said that the likelihood is that we will get better environment protection nuclear codes from a Federal government than we will from individual State governments. [More…]
The object of this Act is to make provision, within the limits of the powers of the Parliament, for protecting the health and safety of the people of Australia, and the environment, from possible harmful effects associated with nuclear activities in Australia . [More…]
shall cause to be furnished to the appropriate Minister of each State, and to the Minister for the time being administering the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 and, on and after 1 July 1978, to the appropriate Minister for the Northern Territory and shall cause to be published in the Gazette- [More…]
The Minister for the time being administering the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 shall, within 1 month of being furnished with a proposed code of practice, make a direction under sub-section 11(1) of the Act that an inquiry be conducted in respect of the environmental aspects (if any) of the proposed code, and the provisions of the Act shall apply to that inquiry. [More…]
Where the Minister for the time being administering the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 is furnished with a proposed code of practice or a proposed variation of a code and an inquiry is currently in progress under the Act in respect of a proposed code or variation, the Minister may direct that the first-mentioned proposed code or variation be referred to the Commission conducting the inquiry, and the provisions of the Act shall apply as if that Commission was appointed to consider that proposed code or variation. [More…]
The Opposition would like to see this brought out into the open and trade unions, environmental bodies and other groups given the opportunity to put something forward for inclusion in these codes. [More…]
These comments relate also to the next amendment through which the Opposition hopes to set up an Environment Protection (Nuclear Activities) Advisory Council which will help in drafting codes of practice. [More…]
After sub-clause ( 1 ) insert the following sub-clause: (1a) The Governor-General shall not make an order under paragraph ( 1 ) (a) before the time at which the public inquiry to be held under sub-section 7(2) or 7(3) has reported its findings to the Minister for the time being administering the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974. [More…]
-The purpose of the amendment to clauses 11 and 13 of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill is to postpone the application of those clauses to the States until a date to be proclaimed. [More…]
I think that this proposal to defer and delay two important segments of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill, namely clauses 1 1 and 13, makes a complete mockery of the legislation. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom): What will happen if there is a dispute as to the interpretation of those regulations? [More…]
In the second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) we were told how necessary it was that this legislation be enacted but we are told now that we will have only part of the legislation; the rest is to be delayed. [More…]
I make the point again that in the interests of the Government, if this legislation were adopted, it would do away with the need for the Environment Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court) Bill which is listed for debate later this evening. [More…]
the health or safety of persons, or the environment, is likely to be harmed by a situation resulting from a nuclear activity that exists in a State or Territory; and [More…]
the laws of the Commonwealth (other than this section) and of that State or Territory do not make provision for protecting the health or safety of persons likely to be affected by that situation, or for protecting the environment in so far as it is likely to be affected by that situation, he may, by order, authorise a Minister, during the period that the order remains in force, to give such directions and take such action as, subject to sub-section (2), the Minister considers necessary to control and eliminate hazards associated with the situation. [More…]
1 ) Where a situation exists where the health or safety of persons, or the environment is likely to be harmed by a nuclear activity that exists in a State or Territory and the laws of the Commonwealth (other than this section) and of the State or Territory do not make provision for protecting the health or safety of persons likely to be affected by that situation or for protecting the environment in so far as it is likely to be affected by that situation, the GovernorGeneral may, by order, authorize a Minister, during the period that the order remains in force, to give such directions and take such action as, subject to sub-section (2), are strictly necessary to control and eliminate hazards associated with the situation. [More…]
The court would look at the real issues- which is what the clause set out to say- the health and safety of persons, or the environment. [More…]
There is no suggestion that we do not want to prevent hazards to the health and safety of persons or the environment. [More…]
-An interpretive role on the basis of whether the health or safety of persons, or the environment are likely to be affected. [More…]
If the Government had defined those words very clearly, as the Opposition has done, setting out in detail the penalties and setting out what the court should look at, the objective test would be whether the health or safety of persons, or the environment, are likely to be harmed. [More…]
-It is not the role of any government to do away with judicial interpretation and the opportunity to a citizen to go into the court and say- no honourable members opposite can object to this- ‘I am appearing in this court on the basis that there is no objection from the point of view of health and safety of persons or the environment. [More…]
In regard to the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill there is very limited jurisdiction in which anybody can appear. [More…]
I have been silenced by the Government Whip each time despite the historic nature of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill which was alluded to by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) when he introduced it. [More…]
Before the debate is resumed on this Bill I would like to suggest that it may suit the convenience of the House to have a general debate covering this Bill and the Environment Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court) Bill as they are associated measures. [More…]
I inform the House that the Opposition opposes the Environment Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court) Bill, for the reason that we proposed amendments to the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill that would have created jurisdiction for a federal court in respect of the matters dealt with in this Bill. [More…]
We say also that any organisation shall be taken to have an interest if it is concerned with the environment in the region. [More…]
The Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill should have been amended to provide for the Federal Court to deal with these matters. [More…]
to the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory of Australia in support of an application made by the Land Council under section 4 of the Environment Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court) Aci 1978; [More…]
The amendment is in the terms used in the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill, which was debated earlier today, to provide that the Houses of the Parliament will have an opportunity to disallow a proclamation. [More…]
The Supreme Court of the Northern Territory of Australia has jurisdiction, at the suit of the Director or of a Land Council, to make orders for or in relation to the enforcement, in relation to uranium mining operations in the Alligator Rivers Region, of any requirement of or having effect under a prescribed instrument, so far as the requirement relates to any matter affecting the environment in that region. [More…]
In clause 3, after the definition of ‘requirement’ insert the following definition: “Supervising Scientist” means the Supervising Scientist as defined in the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Act 1978; ‘. [More…]
In clause 4, after sub-clause ( 1 ) insert the following subclauses: ( 1a) An organisation of persons, whether incorporated or not, shall be taken to have interests that are affected by uranium mining operations in the Region if concern with the environment in the Region is a matter included in the objects or purposes of the organisation or association. [More…]
( 1b) Sub-section ( 1a) does not apply in relation to a particular happening, incident or transaction occurring as pan of uranium mining operations in the Region if the matter occurred before the organisation or association was formed or before the objects or purposes of the association included concern with the environment in the Region. [More…]
We are also proposing that organisations which have as one of their objects concern with the environment will be taken to have a standing. [More…]
The major component of the review directed by the Government of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act is concerned with the role of the Act in relation to State environmental responsibilities. [More…]
Co-operative arrangements for the environmental assessment of proposals for which a State and the Commonwealth each have some responsibility have been made at ‘environment’ Minister level with Western Australia, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. [More…]
Discussions with the five States have indicated a widespread acceptance of the Commonwealth’s responsibilities in environmental assessment. [More…]
I will refer quickly to the abuses of the VIP flight: The wine flight; the strawberry flight; Fraser’s delight, the Opera House flight as the Sydney Sun described it; the Press conference flight for $3,000 for the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development to hold a Press conference; the trips to the tailor; and now the Government’s refusal to provide any information at all on the cost of overseas travel by Ministers of this Government. [More…]
However, the environment surrounding the operations of the CES has changed considerably since its formal establishment. [More…]
Briefly it involves achieving a sustained reduction in inflation and creating the environment both internally and externally for an expansion in the private sector. [More…]
I suggest that having worked in this environment for a great part of their lives, their approach in appeals on tax questions has tended to favour the tax dodgers with whom they have been in contact for so long. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: Has his attention been drawn to statements in the Press that there is likely to be a go ahead on oil drilling on the Great Barrier Reef? [More…]
Another point which might be worth noting is that, quite apart from the fact that no policy stance has been taken on this matter at this stage, there is the added protection of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, which is very relevant to this subject. [More…]
Ultimately the most important objective to which Australia is contributing by this policy and by its parallel high level of activity on nuclear arms control issues is an international environment in which no country could seriously contemplate the nuclear weapon option. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) who is at the table is listening to the words of wisdom I have for him. [More…]
We need confidence in this country in the economy and I would ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who is at the table, to draw the attention of the Treasurer (Mr Howard) to a report which appeared last week in the Australian Financial Review that persons associated with both VAM Ltd and the so-called militant wing of the New South Wales Liberal Party are trying to take over the New South Wales Permanent Building Society, which has assets of $700m. [More…]
It appears to me that it would be better if we could be positive by creating an environment for economic development which by itself automatically would create more job opportunities. [More…]
The leadership of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in a tough and desperate economic environment has seen responsibility in government spending- the brake- and an increase in private investment, be it in business, in the home or on the farm, which is the accelerator. [More…]
I mentioned the other day the wine carriage flight, the strawberry flight, the search and collect mission for cleaning cloths a few weeks ago, the $3,000 Press conference dash by the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 14 March 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 April 1978: [More…]
We are committed to a reduction of gross, bureaucratic elephantitis and to creating an environment in which free individual citizens can run their own lives for the benefit of themselves and their families in accordance with the good of the general community. [More…]
Their main focus is on more effective learning in basic curriculum areas, but they also include organisational changes in schools, radical departures from traditional learning patterns such as cross age tutoring, the extension of the learning environment through outdoor education, field stations and work experience, improved community/school liaison and adventurous extensions of the drama, music, dance and art experience of students. [More…]
The Liberal and National Country Parties view as the main objective of government the creation of a society and an environment in which individuals may best fulfil themselves. [More…]
The Aboriginals are opposed to mining at Jabiluka or Jabiru but because they feel they cannot stop the Government from going ahead with the mining project obviously these people have a right to try to negotiate and try to get some money as compensation for spoiling their environment and their traditional way of life. [More…]
CSIRO research will support such community interests as the better protection of our environment, flora and fauna, and consumer interests. [More…]
The extended period meant that the Lands, Planning and Environment Committee of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly had time to complete its own examination of the proposals and to report to the Assembly. [More…]
It therefore enables Australia to play its full part in a process of responsible environment management. [More…]
Describing the pattern Le Blanc, the Canadian Minister of Fisheries and the Environment, said: [More…]
The overwhelming majority of Australians, supported by the Government, came to the view that the activities being pursued in those regions were detrimental to the environment. [More…]
It is absolutely essential for the debate about the environment to be rational and free of the abuse and vitriol that has been evident in recent years, and for both environmentalists and the Government to assure workers that they will not be disadvantaged financially by any decision to cease the operations of the industry in which workers’ occupations are threatened. [More…]
It is my aim over the next few years to try to find these sorts of solutions to the problems that have emerged in the progress versus environment debate. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 2 1 March 1 978: [More…]
Environment Advisory Committee- To advise the River Murray Commission on matters concerning the environment referred to it by the Commission. [More…]
The Government is anxious to try to assist those people who wish to care for members of their families or relatives or friends in their own home environment. [More…]
The treaty will include further provisions relating to the Protected Zone which will cover agreed principles, parallel measures to be taken by, and co-operation between the two Governments to provide for the following matters: (a) the protection and preservation of the marine environment; (b) the management and conservation of fisheries resources; (c) the protection of plant and animal life; and (d) the prevention and control of pollution. [More…]
The treaty will incorporate further provisions relating to the Protected Zone which will cover agreed principles, parallel measures to be taken by, and cooperation between, the two Governments, to ensure: protection and preservation of the marine environment; management and conservation of fisheries resources; protection of indigenous flora and fauna (including endangered species, notably the dugong and certain species of turtle); prevention and control of pollution. [More…]
I am not closing the debate, of course, because the motion was moved by my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]
New scientific developments can assist in promoting better information on the natural environment and its conservation, and informed health care. [More…]
Equally, technological changes can damage the environment, can threaten health or can result in reduced employment opportunities. [More…]
Also, minutes and agenda papers, and an invitation to be represented at council meetings when items of interest are on the agenda, are sent to the following group of departments and agencies: Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, Department of Finance, Department of Productivity, Department of Transport, Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Telecommunications Commission, and the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
The following list of classifications gives a further indication of the range covered: Aeronautics and aerospace, agriculture, atmosphere, coastal and ocean engineering, communications, construction, earth, electronics, energy, environment, marine sciences, food, forestry, fundamental research, health, industrial chemicals, international relations liason and aid, metal products and machinery, mineral processing, mining, organisation of research and development, scientific and technical computing, textiles, transport, urban and regional planning, water resources and wood products. [More…]
the implications for the community, for the environment, for industry and for Government policy of developments in science and technology; [More…]
One of the oddities of our community at the present moment is that we are very careful of the environment. [More…]
We want environmental impact statements before we cut down a tree. [More…]
If we are going to do anything to the environment we expend a great deal of care upon it, but I think the time has long passed since we gave serious consideration to people. [More…]
But at the same time- I think this is of major significance in the proposal- in the process of the argument or the discussion between scientists and with the politicians we will create an environment whereby the politicians may in fact be educated and may better understand the potential significance of what the scientists are talking about. [More…]
How many unemployed persons were given relocation assistance to take up jobs away from their home environment during 1977. [More…]
At this point one must feel that the Government must be congratulated, as must be the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]
Mr Newman, when he was Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, made the original announcements. [More…]
I want an undertaking from the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) that in tabling that report he will make a statement which will allow the House to debate the housing situation. [More…]
1 believe also that the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development should give us the right under clause 15 to debate this issue every year so that we can illustrate the shortcomings that exist in welfare housing. [More…]
This is a government which attempts to separate the whole question of housing from its planning, from its land and from its environmental context. [More…]
It is a government which sees housing in abstraction, fundamentally, from those contexts, so it favours a form of housing in which it is possible for people to surround themselves with an appropriate environment in terms of their own quarter acre. [More…]
The point of this legislation which the Opposition has refused to acknowledge, and which during the course of this debate, it has consistently contested, is that the legislation introduced by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) in this session provides for the most flexible, the most logical and the most innovative approach to welfare housing that this Parliament has ever seen. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) is not responsible for housing in the Australian Capital Territory, but in Canberra last Sunday there was a strong protest meeting held against government rentals being increased. [More…]
-I would not disagree with a lot that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) has said. [More…]
I understand that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has worked out some different schemes. [More…]
I should like to make two comments on clause 20 for the benefit of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]
We have heard Opposition spokesmen reply to the second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) on this Bill. [More…]
However, among the objectives set out in the second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom)- a trivial speech which did not go into the policy objectives of the Government ip any detail whatsoever- there is not a single reference to. [More…]
The Labor Party wants to herd the people of Australia into a close environment without allowing them the opportunity to have a particular type of house of their own choice, built in a locality that they deserve and desire. [More…]
They will be able to provide funds for the building of self-contained flats or home units specially designed to meet the needs of the aged and invalid pensioners; they will be able to buy and convert or lease existing dwellings in an appropriate range of locations or they will be able to assist local government or, importantly, voluntary bodies which wish to provide accommodation for rental to pensioners in their local communities and home environment. [More…]
He served as chairman of the Australian Housing Corporation and was highly respected by senior staff of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
However, how far do this Government’s economic policy and the housing policy of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) go towards achieving those objectives? [More…]
-The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) has emphasised that he was being responsible. [More…]
The Minister knows, as anybody who has been to the Alligator Rivers Region knows, that no matter what they do and no matter what amendments are brought in, the mining of uranium will destroy that area and that environment. [More…]
-I accept your guidance, Mr Deputy Chairman, but in the whole question of nuclear relationships everything is interconnected and the whole purpose of the Supervising Scientists is to try to make the environment a better place to live in. [More…]
All I am saying is that interrelated with the environment is the fact that the third recommendation of the Fox report was that the nuclear power industry and uranium mining was interrelated with the whole question of the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and that in itself is a threat. [More…]
We have before us the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill. [More…]
As the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) who is sitting at the table, knows only too well people in that Commission have the experience and the ability to handle parks and wildlife. [More…]
After all, he did not mention the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill, nor did he mention the Environment Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court) Bill which refers to this matter. [More…]
I imagine that some honourable members are interested in the conservation of wildlife in the Northern Territory otherwise they would not be speaking on the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill. [More…]
For the convenience of the Committee I point out that amendments have been distributed covering three Bills, the first one of which is the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill, which we are now debating. [More…]
I shall deal with the views of the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) and also of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), that now these Bills have come back amended from the Senate, somehow everything will be all right. [More…]
We do not believe for one moment that a Bill which is little better than a public relations exercise and which purports to protect the environment of the Alligator Rivers Region will achieve that commendable objective. [More…]
I point out to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who is sitting at the table, that he had an opportunity to explain and to enlarge upon these amendments. [More…]
No one believes for one moment that the Bill, by creating the concept of a supervising scientist, will protect the environment. [More…]
The Government, which is so concerned about the protection of the environment, takes the view that was put in the Fox report. [More…]
The Government would consider clearly that it was a job of considerable responsibility and would advertise throughout the world in order to get someone of eminence whose reputation both as a scientist and as one having concern for the environment is well known and publicly established. [More…]
I have never met the gentleman concerned but I do not believe that the Government was genuine in its appointment of the supervising scientist, if the Government is saying that this man sees his role as protecting the environment as against the interests of the uranium miners. [More…]
I concede that there are a couple of people who have been appointed to the supervising committee who will render a valuable service but I think if we are being honest about it we will say that what the honourable member was really concerned about was not that those persons would have any real regard for the protection of the environment but that they would have a slice of the cake, whether yellowcake or otherwise, from the profits that come from uranium mining. [More…]
We know that there has been a struggle within the bureaucracy; that the Department for Environment, Housing and Community Development in many cases lost out to those under the administration of the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony), the growth sector. [More…]
Because of the grave, unresolved problems relating to the environment in the area concerned, the gentleman in question should never have been put in that position. [More…]
One has only to read the first and second reports of the inquiry to realise the grave, unresolved environmental problems that remain in the area, and the grave responsibility that the Supervising Scientist would have. [More…]
My remarks are more by way of a question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]
Land in the Northern Territory, other than land in the Uluru (Ayers Rock-Mt Olga) National Park or in the Alligator Rivers Region as defined by the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Act 1978, shall not, without the consent of the Territory, be acquired by the Commonwealth for the purposes of this Part if it is land that is dedicated or reserved under a law of the Territory for purposes related to nature conservation or the protection of areas of historical, archeological or geological importance or the area having special significance in relation to Aboriginals. [More…]
I would not say that of the shadow Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen). [More…]
There are enough problems with regard to the clauses of this legislation, which honourable members have bypassed to some degree because some of the points were raised in connection with the previous legislation, the Environment Protection ( Alligator Rivers Region) Bill. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) has come into the House without any proper exposition. [More…]
As one concerned for the environment, concerned for the Aborigines and concerned for the relevant government instrumentalities I indict the Minister as being ministerially responsible at least for the most inadequate legislation that has come into this Parliament for many years. [More…]
I remind the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) that when the original Bill was brought into the House it was passed with less than one and a half hours debate. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) is one of the very junior Ministers. [More…]
At least, if the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) is going to tell the Committee the meaning of these provisions he ought to get it right. [More…]
Reading sub-section 10 in the context of the object there, if the Territory or the State have reserved or dedicated land for those purposes, I respectfully agree with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) that it is npt unreasonable for the Commonwealth to say that it will not acquire land without first consulting the State or Territory and that it will acquire land only after it has the consent of the State or Territory. [More…]
For older migrants, we will follow up the suggestion that greater support be given to those willing to care for their elderly relatives at home, and that institutions accommodating old people should specialise more in providing an environment acceptable to ethnic groups. [More…]
The whole essence of the Government’s claims was that it would provide strong, tough codes of practice so that Australians- people who were working in the mining industry, people who were living near mining operations, Aborigines and people who were in any way affected by the transportation of yellowcake- would be carefully covered so that both their health, and the environment, would not be impaired in any way. [More…]
Here is a nice strong series of codes that we believe will protect the environment and the people of Australia’. [More…]
I have been a member of a State parliament for many years and perhaps I understand a bit more about the operations of State parliaments than the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development and members on the Government side. [More…]
This Government is not worried about nuclear codes or the protection of the environment. [More…]
This is absolutely typical of their philosophical stand on the uranium mining question, particularly in respect of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill that we are now debating. [More…]
In August of last year the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) wrote to all the States and said that the Government was going to try to bring in uniform codes of environment protection for uranium mining throughout Australia. [More…]
Conference recognises that the provision of Australian uranium to the world nuclear fuel cycle creates problems relevant to Australian sovereignty, the environment, the economic welfare of our people, and the rights and well-being of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
the absence of procedures for the storage and disposal of radioactive wastes to ensure that any danger posed by such wastes to human life and the environment is eliminated, it is imperative that no commitment of Australia ‘s uranium deposits to the world’s nuclear fuel cycle should be made until: [More…]
I can understand why the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who is sitting at the table, did not choose to speak in bringing down these amendments because if one looks at his speech on 10 April, which is reported at page 1297 of Hansard - [More…]
Clause 11(1) states, in effect, that where the Governor-General says that the laws of a particular State or Territory are not adequate to provide for nuclear codes for environment protection then the Governor-General- in other words the Commonwealth Governmentshould take the lead and should provide for the imposition of codes. [More…]
I shall quote from my own speech: 1 agree with the honourable member for Maribyrnong (Dr Cass)- when he said that the likelihood is that we will get better environment protection nuclear codes from a Federal government than we will from individual State governments. [More…]
The object of this Act is to make provision, within the limits of the powers of the Parliament for protecting the health and safety of the people of Australia, and the environment, from possible harmful effects associated with nuclear activities in Australia, and this Act and the regulations shall be construed and administered accordingly. [More…]
I listened respectfully to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]
It may be that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has greater concepts than this Committee had about this matter. [More…]
It was so ravenous in its attempt to reap the profits of uranium it did not care whether the matter concerned Aboriginals, the environment, the States or anything else. [More…]
Under clause 13 the Government, where the provisions of nuclear codes did not cover adequately what we would like to cover- the health of the people and the environment- could move in and virtually take control. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) said, in answering a previous question- and I assume he will use exactly the same argument here- that under the Constitution extra powers are available. [More…]
I should emphasise that this legislation is concerned with the health and safety of people, and the environment, as distinct from safeguards, the purpose of which is to ensure that nuclear material in peaceful use is not diverted to nonpeaceful purposes or to nuclear weapons. [More…]
I simply refer to clause 13 to remind the honourable member for Robertson that the right of the Governor-General only accrues when he is satisfied that the health or safety of persons or the environment is likely to be harmed by a situation resulting from nuclear activity that exists in a State or Territory, and where there is not already legislation enacted to cover the situation. [More…]
The members of the Opposition say that the Minister has backed down and been stood over, firstly, by the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly on the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill, and secondly, he has been stood over by the States with regard to the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]
There seems to be no valid reason for opposing the proposition that has been put by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) because under the amendments the legislation will allow the State governments a proper exercise of some of their capacities for the protection of the Australian community. [More…]
In this last amendment we are dealing with the question of the health or safety of persons or the environment. [More…]
If the Governor-General thinks that they may be harmed due to some nuclear activity and if he thinks that the laws of the Commonwealth, other than as provided in this clause, and the laws of the State or Territory do not make provision for protecting the health or safety of persons or the environment, under the original legislation he could require certain regulations, but under this amendment the States will be allowed to slip out from under. [More…]
However, every supporter of the Government, including the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), voted for the legislation in its original form which was one of the most centralist pieces of legislation ever to come through this Parliament. [More…]
One has to look only at the history of Rum Jungle and the despoliation that has taken place in the environment there. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
There needed to be an environment in which they felt at home and in which they felt they could study in a relaxed way. [More…]
If it is all right for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to be pro-Aborigine, if it is all right for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development to be pro-environmentalists, if it is all right for the Department of Industry and Commerce to be in favour of industry and commerce, if it is all right for the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs to be pro-business and consumer affairs and for the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to be pro-veteran what is wrong with the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations being pro-labour? [More…]
The Government’s policy is one of carefully regulated and controlled development having full regard to the protection of the environment and the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
Our policy was decided only after most careful consideration of the report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
The development of those resources, while serving the objectives just mentioned, must also be regulated and controlled so as to ensure full protection of the environment and the welfare of the Aboriginal people, and yield the economic benefits to Australia and its people that were described in the report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
A few months ago Mr Landa, the Minister for Planning and Environment, went out of his way, and apparently got some delight out of doing it, to close down north coast mining in New South Wales. [More…]
-On behalf of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, I present the report of the Committee entitled ‘The Commonwealth Government and the Urban Environment’, together with the transcript of evidence and extracts from the minutes of proceedings. [More…]
-by leave-The report that has just been tabled is the first report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation established in the 31st Parliament. [More…]
The perception of Commonwealth departments and instrumentalities of the direct and indirect impact of their policies and programs on the urban environment; [More…]
The honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges) as Chairman of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation has summed up the various aspects that we dealt with and the recommendations we have made. [More…]
The particular area we looked at, the effect of Commonwealth Government decisions on the urban environment, would be of interest to most members of the House. [More…]
What became obvious in the inquiry were the major changes in the urban environment, with the location of buildings, the people working in those buildings, their modes of transport and so on. [More…]
When we use the term ‘ environment ‘ we tend to get stuck on the green aspects of the environment instead of thinking of all the other social and economic factors in the environment. [More…]
After looking at the public sector one can readily realise the need there is to examine the role of the private sector and its effect on the urban environment. [More…]
are made with full knowledge of their ultimate effect on the urban environment. [More…]
It has shown up so many pimples and bumps that we ought to consider how far we can look into the private sector and its decisions which affect the urban environment. [More…]
-by leave-First of all I must congratulate the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
As most of the officers who were formerly in the Department of Urban and Regional Development are now in the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Affairs, I am pleased that the latter Department will be studying this report. [More…]
On the question of population growth, especially in relation to the urban environment, one could argue that it should not be under a special population department but should be part of either the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development or a department with a similar influence. [More…]
Population is related to what quality of life is in the urban environment. [More…]
At least the Commonwealth properties were under the administration of the body that was also responsible for the urban environment and urban planning. [More…]
Interrelated with this is the fact that, in dealing with the private sector, the Australian Government has an enormous influence in deciding where private investment will be made in relation to the urban environment. [More…]
Therefore, we do have now a framework, a proper environment, in which people can invest. [More…]
I hope to prove that if the States are to maintain the standards that they have set and to catch up with the backlog of capital works, particularly those concerning urban environment, it will be necessary for them to increase the taxes they impose, because they have been starved of funds by the Federal Government, particularly over the last two years. [More…]
This afternoon the honourable member for Petrie presented a report on behalf of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation which had looked into the matter of urban environment. [More…]
In its report the Committee deals with the interrelationship between the urban environment and the necessity to maintain services; with the need to inter-relate services if we are to have a better urban environment. [More…]
The Labor Government tried to work in cooperation with the States, try to reach an understanding so that the States could improve the urban environment and State infrastructure to bring them to a higher standard. [More…]
This was set out in the report by the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation which was tabled today. [More…]
It talked about the interrelationship that is necessary between the three levels of government if we are to have a better environment. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]
Mr KEVIN CAIRNS (Lilley)-by leave-This report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Expenditure originated from a recommendation made to it from the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
This report was a realistic assessment of the Northern Territory forestry resources and their little potential for development; it gave due recognition to the realities of the Northern Territory environment. [More…]
No real evaluation was ever made of the inhibiting local environment. [More…]
It really originated in March 1977, when Mr David Cameron, a research forester with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, based in Darwin, made certain allegations during an in camera hearing of the Environment Committee of the House concerning the management and viability of the government forestry program in the Northern Territory. [More…]
After an inquiry into these allegations by a sub-committee of the Environment Committee, the chairman, the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins), reported that the Expenditure Committee should take this matter on board and carry out a full investigation. [More…]
I am very appreciative that the Committee on Youth Affairs- I see the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and Minister Assisting the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Groom) is at the table- is looking forward to ensuring that we have young people who, because of policies of the previous Labor Government which we are slowly but surely eliminating, thereby creating confidence in the business community that we did not have previously, will be ably looked after and who will be confident in the future of a country which we can govern properly to ensure that those people will share in our total wealth. [More…]
Environment Inquiry on Uranium Development in the Northern Territory: Direction notified in the Gazette on 16 July 1975. [More…]
I say to the House that there have been few charges peddled in the Australian political environment in recent years which are as untrue as the statement peddled by the New South Wales Premier that this Government’s federalism policy represents double taxation. [More…]
Indeed, last week the suspended Minister for Finance (Mr Eric Robinson) made a speech, through the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community [More…]
In addition, as a result of the Labor Party’s administration there was a significant decline in consumer confidence, and the Labor Government has to take the blame for the problem- still very much a part of the economic environment in which we live- that the savings ratio, which traditionally had been below 10 per cent, went to about 1 9 per cent. [More…]
We need to constrict our production within our own environment so that those people who exist on dairy farms can obtain a fair income. [More…]
I am telling the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom)- I am glad he has now come into the House- that amongst those 500 people great fear and lack of security prevails. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 15 May 1978: [More…]
At present, decisions taken on exchange control and foreign investment matters are subject to the provisions of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
If one is opposed to that sort of environment destroying proposition, as I am, obviously one would be in favour of the construction of an onshore loader inside the Port Kembla inner harbour. [More…]
One significant channel of contact for small business is the Productivity Promotion Council of Australia (PPCA), through which the Working Environment Division of my Department (located in Melbourne), supports enterprise productivity improvement without discrimination as to the size of firms. [More…]
The Working Environment Division is represented in my Department’s offices in each of the capital cities, and is available for consultation and inquiry on any of the above services. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March, 1987: [More…]
Expenditure on Urban and Regional Development and the Environment (Question No. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 15 March 1978: [More…]
Why were Federal Government outlays on urban and regional development and the environment less than half as great in the 8 months to 28 February 1978 as in the 8 months to 28 February 1977. [More…]
Tribunals associated with the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development (Question No. [More…]
wn asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 4 April 1 978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 April 1 978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice on 2 May 1 978: [More…]
However it would appear that alcohol abuse is mainly a means of escape from a depressed physical, social and economic environment. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the United States report on Nuclear Power Costs prepared by the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Sub-committee of the United States Congress House Government Operations Committee which stated that radioactive waste is a significant and growing problem, that at least 3,000 metric tonnes of spent nuclear fuel are now being stored at commercial reactor sites with an additional 1 7,000 metric tonnes expected to accumulate in the next decade and yet there is still no demonstrated technology for permanently and safely disposing of this waste. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 29 May 1978 : [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 30 May 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 1 June 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 2 June 1978: [More…]
Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]
An essential element of these investigations is to identify the effects of suitable management proposals on the environment, including the red gum forests, ibis and other bird life. [More…]
Papers drawn up under the aegis of the Australian Environment Council. [More…]
The necessities created by a different geographical environment and worsening economic conditions lead to outstanding and profitable inventions in the agricultural field. [More…]
Copies of this NEF have been made available to the NSW Planning and Environment Commission, the Port Stephens Shire Council, the Department of Administrative Services and the Department of Transport. [More…]
Is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware of a Government committee recommendation in 1976 that consideration should be given to Commonwealth Government funding of sport and recreation, including the raising of revenue by means of a national lottery? [More…]
-(Braddon-Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development)- Pursuant to section 6 of the Environment (Financial Assistance) Art 1977 I present an agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and South Australia made under the provisions of that Act. [More…]
The Government is not locked into a form of subsidy that becomes irrelevant to the conditions or the environment prevailing in the industry. [More…]
If the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who is sitting on the front bench, cares to read it I will give him a copy of a submission made to Cabinet by his predecessor, now the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman). [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who is at the table, seems to think that this is some sort of joke, but if he lives long enough, and I trust that he will, to read the views of historians who will write about this time then he will know the impact that this gentleman had on our country, a country of which I am terribly proud. [More…]
I am glad that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) is in the chamber and I am glad that you are in the chair, Mr Deputy Speaker, because what I have to say concerns a place within your electorate. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
I refer the Prime Minister to a Cabinet submission dated 31 October 1977 in which the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development claimed that, without a period of waiting time, the appropriation for the home savings grant for 1 978-79 would be $76m. [More…]
I believe that, by the very nature of the speeches that were made, by the very nature of the provocative advertising in the Press and by the very nature of the environment which was created, large numbers of people felt compelled to act not in a law abiding way but in an emotive way towards people against whom they had no complaint whatsoever. [More…]
The Labor Party and the trade union movement deliberately set about to organise an environment in which a number of people experienced in haranguing crowds could build people up to feel that they have lost something, that they have to take some further action or, in the words of advertisement, that they have to fight. [More…]
These people, in language that one could only describe as innuendo, half-truth and exaggeration, set about to undermine the credibility of the Government- I admit that they are entitled to do that-and to create an environment in which people would feel that they had to do something more. [More…]
Those are the words of the man who went out into that sort of environment and made those sorts of comments. [More…]
As my colleague the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Cadman) told the House, this program began many years ago and in an environment within which the circumstances were utterly different from those that exist in 1978. [More…]
The great majority of these people had come from an environment, prior to 1914, which generally speaking would certainly not have equipped them to purchase, almost ad lib, homes for their families when they returned to Australia. [More…]
Of course, by making that sort of request they are indicating a confusion in their minds about the real meaning of a christening in a church environment. [More…]
In the interest of consumers, will he hold discussions with the oil industry with a view to changing the present ratio of premium/standard grade petrol consumption so that the cost of lead phase down proposals may be avoided while still ensuring that no more ambient lead enters the environment than is presently the case. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 25 May 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 26 May 1 978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 June 1 978: [More…]
What stage has been reached in the preparation of a draft environment impact statement to satisfy the needs of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Following this public review period, my Department prepared an environmental assessment report taking into account the comments received, the response of the Company to these comments and the views of Commonwealth departments and agencies. [More…]
On the basis of this report and taking into account the provisions of the Queensland International Tourist Centre Agreement Act and other Queensland Government legislation, which provide for continuing environmental management of the tourist resort project, the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development provided environmental clearance for the proposal on 25 July 1978. [More…]
The Company has agreed to submit a final EIS within one month of the above date and to make available to the public future environmental studies prepared in accordance with Queensland Government requirements. [More…]
There is also a potential for differences of opinion within the mixed UN force in the highly volatile political environment in which it will be placed. [More…]
Some of us may be followers of Lysenko and suggest that all attitudes are determined by considerations outside our kin, that our environment governs us altogether. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) says that this cut will be counteracted by State income from sales and rents and by a reduction of 5 per cent in the proportion of savings bank deposits required to be held by the Reserve Bank. [More…]
Now Labor Party members are again trying to recreate the fettered environment which is their natural habitat, where any innocent act can be distorted by slur and by baseless innuendo and deceit into a grotesque caricature of what really happened. [More…]
In present circumstances, achieving an appropriately restraining overall domestic policy environment without putting stress on the balance of payments, and on domestic interest rates, requires a balanced mix of policy in which the budget deficit is held under tight rein. [More…]
Honourable members should see and hear these people in their own environment. [More…]
It is moving so harshly and so quickly to bring about such a massive shift in resources from the people to the corporate sector that it is posing a very serious threat to the stability of the Australian society and, therefore, to the stability of the Australian economic environment. [More…]
It is the changing global business environment and the increasing dominance of monopoly capital that defeats the small competitive capitalist. [More…]
It indicates the Government’s total disregard for the urban living environment of the majority of Australians. [More…]
I point out that a study of Australian political and economic history over the last 50 years is a worthwhile experience for those people who are trying to make an objection assessment of the present economic environment in this country. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 4 May 1978: [More…]
1 ) In respect of the administrative procedures under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974, has he received, in accordance with paragraphs 2. [More…]
1 and 2.2 of those procedures, information from the proponents of the Alwest bauxite mining project in Western Australia sufficient to consider the necessity of an environmental impact statement in relation to the proposal. [More…]
Does the Alwest project fall into the category mentioned in paragraphs 4.4.1 and 4.4.2 of the Arrangements Concerning Co-operation in the Environmental Assessment of Proposals between his Department and the Western Australian Department of Conservation and Environment dated 15 July 1977. [More…]
Does the existence of the Arrangements referred to in part (5) mean that he cannot exercise his powers under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 6 June 1978: [More…]
This advisory Committee comprises representatives of Commonwealth and State transport, environment and energy ministries, the motor and petroleum industries, and motorists associations. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 June 1 978: [More…]
1 ) When was the publication Environment Information No. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the report on Nuclear Power Costs prepared by the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Sub-Committee of the United States House Government Operations Committee which stated that radio-active waste is a significant and growing problem with at least 3,000 metric tonnes of spent nuclear fuel now being stored at commercial reactor sites and an additional 17,000 metric tonnes expected to accumulate in the next decade, and that there is still no demonstrated technology for permanently and safely disposing of this waste. [More…]
If no approval has been given, (a) does he have the matter under consideration and (b) has he discussed with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development the necessity for an environmental impact statement on the Alwest bauxite mining proposal. [More…]
(b) I understand that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has directed an environmental impact statement on the Worsley project. [More…]
The Commonwealth’s examination of the environmental aspects will proceed in conjunction with that of the Western Australian Government under the agreed arrangements on cooperation in environmental assessment made between the Commonwealth Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Western Australian Minister for Conservation and Environment. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 August 1978: [More…]
1 ) Has the advice of the Vehicle Emissions and Noise Advisory Committee of the Australian Environment Council been sought in relation to the Government’s proposal that lead levels in petrol sold in Australia should not be further reduced. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development whether his attention has been drawn to the announcement by the Queensland State Government Insurance Office Building Society of a reduction of one half of one per cent on interest rates for new homes. [More…]
The consequence of that situation is that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) has circulated a letter to the unfortunate applicants who have been advised of the delay, suggesting that they could make arrangements with banks to use their letter of advice to get bridging finance. [More…]
-The question that should be asked of the House and of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) is this: Does the building industry need a stimulus? [More…]
I should also mention that the environmental clearance for the proposal was given by the then Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in June 1 976. [More…]
This has been followed up and that environmental clearance has been re-endorsed by the Department at this stage. [More…]
The fact that wives and families were omitted would certainly, in the current environment, become a point for criticism. [More…]
That the Federal Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, and the State Ministers responsible for youth, sport and recreation, appeal to sportsmen and sportswomen throughout Australia not to lend their names and prestige to the promotion of tobacco products. [More…]
Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, and Department of Construction, together. [More…]
There would be more of an employment creating effect if $ 10m was spent in the area of the Minister at the table, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) who is responsible for the building and construction industry, than if that same $10m was spent to buy another piece of defence equipment from overseas. [More…]
Its natural physical environment is less desirable than many other parts of the country. [More…]
We have the best urban environment in Australia. [More…]
I have already taken up this matter with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who is right behind the move to get the Olympic Games for Australia in our bicentennial year of 1 988. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1978: [More…]
Should any proposal come within the provisions of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act and an Environmental Impact Statement is directed then it would be subject to the normal public review provisions of the Administrative Procedures under the Act. [More…]
Inspect- Youth Environment Group [More…]
Recently the Australian Environment Council, with the strong support of the Commonwealth Government, decided to establish a National Advisory Committee on Chemicals to assess the environmental effects of a wide range of substances. [More…]
Chlorofluorocarbons are likely to be one of the chemicals whose environmental effects will be evaluated by the Committee. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) said that the Government was on the right road. [More…]
The Minister would have the primary task of co-ordinating the activities of other related portfolios with responsibility for issues affecting urban needs and the urban environment and for liaison with other levels of government and the private sector. [More…]
It is very good to see the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who is the fine honourable member for Braddon, come into the House. [More…]
We are all aware of the dramatic changes in the world economic environment and how these have led to substantial increases in the cost of the raw products for the manufacture of superphosphate. [More…]
Should we maintain a standing committee system which has a few standing committees in specific areas such as environment, or should we look at the possibility of subject matter committee which can deal with a variety of subjects in a variety of areas and which can take note of the resources of the House in terms of numbers. [More…]
The negotiations under section 44 cover matters relating to the environment, the restoration of the mining area, social concerns and the financial matters in respect of the forms of compensation and assistance in allowing reclamation to be carried out. [More…]
The amount of $385,000 is to be spent on upgrading facilities and rehabilitation of the environment and $394,000 is allocated for operating costs. [More…]
Private development has all too often been dazzled by the opportunity for quick returns on its investment, losing sight of the fact that the industry itself has a vested interest in ensuring the protection of the environment. [More…]
The Minister would have the primary task of co-ordinating the activities of other related portfolios with responsibility for issues affecting urban needs and the urban environment and for liaison with other levels of government and the private sector. [More…]
I believe that the Property Section should not be in the Department of Administrative Services but should be in the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
We need such a weight, such a punch, in influencing the development of our urban communities in such a body as the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
I urge the Government to reassess its administrative arrangements and to transfer the Property Section to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 August 1978: [More…]
What action had been taken under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act before Thursday, 17 August 1978 in regard to the proposal of Pancontinental Mining Ltd to extend the Arnhem Highway to Jabiluka, NT. [More…]
What recommendations have been made by the Office of Environment Protection regarding this proposal. [More…]
Has the Government accepted all the recommendations of the Office of Environment Protection; if not, what are the reasons for rejecting these recommendations in whole or in part. [More…]
The following action has been taken in accordance with the Administrative Procedures under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act before Thursday, 17 August 1978: [More…]
Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development received representations from groups in Western Australia who are concerned at the proposal by Alcoa of Australia Ltd to mine bauxite at Wagerup and who are seeking a public inquiry? [More…]
Both of these proposals come within the Commonwealth legislation and the Commonwealth officers of my Department are working very closely in association with the Western Australian officers to determine what impact these proposals might have on the environment. [More…]
Not one of the Great Barrier Reef Consultative Committee members will now be required to have qualifications in a marine science or for that matter in any of the environmental sciences. [More…]
We believe it is important that the Chairman should be required at least to be qualified in the environmental sciences, and we intend to move an amendment to that effect in the Committee stage. [More…]
This will get rid of the problem of rigidity that now applies but at the same time it will ensure that the Chairman of the Authority is a man who has shown an interest in the environment and has studied and qualified in that area. [More…]
Let me say that I can hope only that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) can put paid to those rumours. [More…]
Nothing would delight me more than to have an unequivocal statement from the Government or the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) or the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development saying that the Government will never permit drilling on the Barrier Reef. [More…]
The submission, which will reach cabinet with the imprimatur of both National Development Minister, Kevin Newman, and Environment Minister, John Groom - [More…]
There has been an increasing public awareness of the fragility of the marine environment generally and of the Reef in particular and an awareness of its vulnerability to further intensification of human activities. [More…]
Now that the border issue is about to be resolved, I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) to investigate this area and see whether the region should be extended so that all the Reef can be protected. [More…]
I sincerely hope that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) takes note of his remarks and is aware of the importance of the [More…]
Who’s Who for 1977 shows that Dr McMichael has been vice-president of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources since 1975, secretary of the Department of Environment from 1973 to 1975, president of the River Murray Commission for the same period and director of the Australian Conservation Foundation from 1967 to 1968. [More…]
The honourable member for Robertson has alluded to the Petersen Government’s callous indifference to matters of the environment. [More…]
I know that the Opposition spokesman on the environment has been to the area to see exactly what is proposed. [More…]
The vandalism from that particular aspect is greater than any other in the natural environment of the Reef. [More…]
In regard to the qualifications of the Chairman, I see nothing wrong with the amendment which has been proposed by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]
Any decision that is made in due course will be subject to the provisions of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation considered this matter and in tabling its report on the Commonwealth Government and the Urban Environment the Chairman of the Committee said: [More…]
The Department of Environment Housing and Community Development asked that we extend the present collection of information relating to construction activity. [More…]
I am confident that the combination of these activities has now created an environment in which the automotive industry can plan with confidence for the future. [More…]
New technologies and products are being developed to meet changing consumer requirements and the increasing influence of energy and environmental factors at minimum cost. [More…]
The motor vehicle plan provides a stable and firm environment until 1984. [More…]
The present environment created by the Government of stability in relation to the motor vehicle plan and the growth now in the market should be used by companies within the industry to plan for the future. [More…]
But those people who live here should not forget that they certainly live in a somewhat favoured environment, just having regard to the amount of money spent on them. [More…]
When those students who had been educated in Australia returned to South Africa with the benefit of education in an Australian environment, they would be able to contribute more effectively to a peaceful resolution of that country’s problems. [More…]
and (2) The designcost study will embrace selection of a suitable reactor/fuel element combination, modification of the chosen concept to meet AAEC requirements relating to radioisotope production, safety criteria and reliability, consideration of environmental factors and possible sites, and estimation of capital and operating costs. [More…]
Any proposal which the Government might make in the future for the construction of a new reactor following review of the study would of course be subject to the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development received a copy of the report of the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority Review Committee regarding Alcoa’s draft environmental impact statement for the Wagerup project? [More…]
If he has not yet received a copy of the report, does he propose to seek a copy before formulating his recommendations under the requirements of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act? [More…]
The cutback in funds made available to the New South Wales Housing Commission- I stress this and I hope that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) will listen to this with some compassion- will mean a reduction of 1,100 dwellings in the number of commencements this year by the New South Wales Housing Commission. [More…]
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In his speech, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) destroyed the arguments of the Opposition so much so that, as a person of independent view who likes to make up his own mind after listening to the arguments, I would say that he has proved once and for all that there is, unfortunately, no effective parliamentary Federal Opposition at the present time. [More…]
My friend, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who is at the table, and the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt), who also is in the chamber, are aware of this situation. [More…]
I congratulate the three Ministers concerned upon their wonderful achievement, in having been able to obtain increased appropriations in a difficult economic environment. [More…]
-In 1974, this Parliament passed a most far reaching and thoughtful piece of legislation, the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
The Bill was hailed by both sides of the House, including members of the present Government, as spelling the end of many years of neglect and disregard by governments for the natural and urban environment of this country. [More…]
For the first time, the Federal Government was obliged to consider and to take into account the environmental consequences of its decisions. [More…]
One has only to look at the excellent work of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry and the Fraser Island Inquiry which were established by the Whitlam Labor Government. [More…]
But where is the environmental responsibility that the Liberals were so keen to identify with in 1974? [More…]
Where is the support for the Environment Protection Act which was promised before the last two elections? [More…]
This Government has breached the terms of the Environment Protection Act on two important occasions. [More…]
In both cases the Government announced environmental clearances before a final environmental impact statement had been produced. [More…]
Yet Premier Court has chosen to go ahead before environmental studies have been , done. [More…]
I challenge the Government to show a little more environmental responsibility than the Western Australian Premier. [More…]
I challenge this Government to observe the spirit of the environment protection legislation which it was so keen to support in 1974. [More…]
1 challenge the Government to establish a public environmental inquiry into the Darling Range bauxite mining proposals. [More…]
It would be difficult to find another development project in recent times which raised such serious threats to the Australian environment. [More…]
Therefore, I ask the Government to carry out the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act which was so well supported by both sides of the House in 1974. [More…]
The Australian Ionising Radiation Advisory Council, which is administered by my friend and colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, reported on the need for scientific inquiry in 1976. [More…]
That matter comes under the jurisdiction of my honourable friend, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
The tax cuts were a trade-off for cutbacks in programs such as the health scheme, Medibank matters, housing and the environment. [More…]
I hope that those who are genuinely concerned about the preservation of the environment and world wildlife generally will be prepared to support the Fund. [More…]
Government both at the Department of Health and the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development levels cannot wipe its hands of these matters. [More…]
Is he also able to say whether the United States Environment Protection Agency has adopted standards which are 20 times more stringent than those of the ICRP and that the safer United States standards have been in operation since January 1977. [More…]
The USEPA standards promulgated in 1977 refer to exposure of members of the public to radiation in the environment from the normal operation of the US nuclear power cycle. [More…]
1 ) and (2) The honourable member’s attention is drawn to the following statement made by my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, on 2 1 August 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Ray Groom, said today that Pancontinental had given an assurance that no work had begun on the Arnhem Highway extension. [More…]
As required under the Environment Protection Administrative Procedures, he had sent his recommendations to the Minister for the Northern Territory, Mr Evan Adermann, with copies to other Ministers involved. [More…]
In order to ensure that there will be co-operative development of uniform nuclear codes of practice to cover such matters as the management of waste from the mining and milling of uranium ores throughout Australia, the Commonwealth passed the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Act in May 1978. [More…]
Department of Aboriginal Affairs; Department of Administrative Services; Attorney-General’s Department; Australian Bureau of Statistics; Australian Electoral Office; Australian Taxation Office; Department of Business and Consumer Affairs; Department of the Capital Territory; Department of Construction; Department of Defence; Department of Education; Department of Employment and Industrial Relations; Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development; Department of Finance; Department of Foreign Affairs; Department of Health; Department of Home Affairs; Department of Industry and Commerce; National Capital Development Commission; Department of National Development; Department of the Northern Territory; Postal and Telecommunications Department; Department of Primary Industry; Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Department of Productivity; Public Service Board; Department of Science; Department of Social Security; Department of Special Trade Representations; Department of Trade and Resources; Department of Transport; the Treasury; Departmentof Veterans’ Affairs. [More…]
When the honourable member for Maribyrnong was Minister for the Environment and Conservation it is a matter of record that he considered recommendations from a body known as AIRAC- the Australian Ionising Radiation Advisory Council- and gave his approval with respect to those recommendations. [More…]
To take one simple example, I think the suggestion that people must travel overseas to a foreign university to study and to live and work within its environment for a year or two is not necessarily appropriate in all circumstances in Australia in 1978 and beyond. [More…]
It recommended to the Minister for Environment of the day- that is, the present honourable member for Maribyrnong (Dr Cass)- and the recommendations put before the honourable gentleman were accepted by him and clearly by the then Government. [More…]
These proposals were accepted by the responsible minister- the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development- who authorised the new survey in May 1977. [More…]
These were the Department of Mines and the Department of the Environment. [More…]
With the agreement of my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) I inform the House of the present position, which is that the radiological and chemical analysis of the large number of soil, water and biological samples collected in 1977 is now substantially complete. [More…]
On 9 August 1977 the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, in a statement announcing a scientific study of the Maralinga site, said: [More…]
On 9 August last year the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development announced a scientific study into the Maralinga wastes. [More…]
We were told earlier by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition that the honourable member for Maribyrnong (Dr Cass), when Minister for the Environment and Conservation, established on behalf of the Labor Government the Australian Ionising Radiation Advisory Council. [More…]
Notwithstanding a difficult economic environment we are not neglecting our senior people, our young or our handicapped. [More…]
For example, the then Minister for Environment, Dr Cass, received a recommendation from the Australian Ionising Radiation Advisory Council in, I think, 1974 that was designed to overturn an earlier recommendation of the Australian Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee in relation to handing land back to South Australia. [More…]
The only transport is an extremely infrequent bus service so that people who are going to be put there will be totally isolated from the rest of the community and put in the most aesthetically unsuitable environment imaginable. [More…]
I welcome the presence in the chamber of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who is a great fighter for the electorate of Braddon and the people of the west coast of Tasmania. [More…]
Dr Howells is a very nice gentleman but his attitude on health is certainly interesting for a public servant, because he is completely committed to what he calls the ‘private enterprise environment ‘ of medical practice! [More…]
Another problem is getting information on what is happening in the world environment. [More…]
Then the British Prime Minister, I believe with great courage in his environment, made it perfectly plain that since there was no wage restraint and since the fight against inflation was of paramount importance for his Government and, in the judgment of his Government, for the people of Britain, he would therefore have to take consequential action on fiscal and monetary policy to compensate for the fact that there would be less restraint in the wages area than he and the Government of Britain had sought. [More…]
In the end it will be shown to have brought together the vital interests- all of which are national interests in their own right- of those people who are concerned about the environment and the interests of the Aboriginal people and those people who are concerned to see desirable national development through the mining of uranium. [More…]
In 10 years $459m was spent on environmental protection and only 30,500 hectares of land were mined. [More…]
One could hardly say that mining is a great blot on the environment although there are cases where more should have been done. [More…]
I wish to take up a number of items of the Budget under the appropriations for the Department of National Development and the Department of Trade and Resources and to allude to several items under the appropriations for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development because they are relevant to the first items. [More…]
Two items under the appropriation for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development are in keeping with the recommendations of the Fox report and the Government’s commitment to preservation of the environment adjacent to mines. [More…]
The appropriation for protection of the environment under the Alligator Rivers Region Act is $760,000- a new item for services. [More…]
The Act provides for the appointment of a supervising scientist to oversee measures for the protection of the environment of the Region from the effects of uranium mining. [More…]
Thus far the Supervising Scientist’s activities have been concentrated upon obtaining precise environment base line data for the area, including the construction of a temporary field research station. [More…]
Cuts’ and which concerned the impact on the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development of staff cuts which have been brought about as a result of this year’s Budget. [More…]
It is also quite clear that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has tried with commendable concern to rationalise its staff, through a period of savage cuts, in such a way as would allow it to maintain intact those functions which it has been given to perform. [More…]
It is clearly a misnomer to describe the Department as the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development because the environmental and community development responsibilities of the Department, while remaining on paper, cannot possibly be performed on the scale and at the depth originally envisaged. [More…]
I believe that the dismantling of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development - [More…]
I will not delay the House for any great length of time, but I do want to respond to the very brief remarks made earlier by the honourable member for Batman (Mr Howe) about the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
I simply take this opportunity- I thank the honourable member for giving it to me- to commend the Secretary of the Department, Mr Lansdown, and the Director of Environment, Mr Higgs, as well as Mr Butler and all the other officers of the Department for all the very good work that they are doing. [More…]
A great deal of work is being done in the building and housing area and in the area of the environment. [More…]
1 ) The purpose of the Workshop was to discuss in detail the component parts of a comprehensive research program aimed at providing the environmental baseline data necessary for defining practical and effective monitoring programs in the Region. [More…]
Because of this the Supervising Scientist did not feel it appropriate to invite representatives from the Australian Conservation Foundation or from the Northern Territory Environment Council. [More…]
Physical Environment issues, including beach protection, pest control and wetland preservation, engineering issues, including water supply, drainage and sewage treatment, socio-economic issues, including employment and social considerations. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 13 September 1978: [More…]
Departments represented on the Task Group are Environment, Housing and Community Development (Chair), Aboriginal Affairs, Education, Employment and Industrial Relations, Finance, Health, Home Affairs (Office of Women’s Affairs), Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Prime Minister and Cabinet and Social Security. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 19 September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 20 September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 20 September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 20 September 1 978: [More…]
The Commission is completely satisfied that its present procedures for disposal of liquid effluent to the Woronora River present no hazard to the general public, including residents of the Woronora River township, or to the environment. [More…]
This will give these people the opportunity of meeting their counterparts and also becoming involved in the new trading environment that is building up in China. [More…]
-by leave-As a member of the delegation I second the thanks of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) to our hosts and, of course, to the Australian high commissions and embassies whose members contributed very much to the success of the tour. [More…]
In present circumstances, achieving an appropriately restraining overall domestic policy environment without putting stress on the balance of payments, and on domestic interest rates, requires a balanced mix of policy in which the Budget deficit is held under tight rein. [More…]
I sum them up in this way: These departments, under this Government’s guidance, continue to espouse- and the Estimates reflect this-that business stability resulting from the fight against inflation will create the environment necessary for creating jobs and reducing unemployment. [More…]
It is not good enough to just sit back and wait for things to happen, hoping that an environment of lower inflation will allow it to happen. [More…]
All these problems, all this irrationality, cannot be blamed on the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) and on this Government, but it has in the main been Liberal governments in Canberra and in Victoria which have lacked the concern and interest and the will to seek to impose order on the urban environment. [More…]
Other conditions that might be responsible for America’s apparent ability to cope much better with its huge bulk of traffic in terms of both safety and efficiency may be related to training, industrial environment, procedures and culture. [More…]
But equally so, I think the opportunity for university administrators to visit other universities and examine other systems of tertiary education is also an invaluable experience, given that the university is set in an international environment. [More…]
If a person attends a poor school and he lives in a poverty-stricken social environment, the school system will do relatively little to overcome those disadvantages. [More…]
Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]
I refer to the appropriation for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the allocation of $350,000 to unspecified conservation organisations. [More…]
It can have no claim to being an objective and impartial critic of environmental policy. [More…]
I must unreservedly endorse the statement of Sir Charles Court on 6 August when he declared that radical conservationism ignores the need for a balance between the needs of development and the environment. [More…]
Job lobbies will have to be formed to meet the challenge of environmental lobbies. [More…]
People do want responsible environmental management which is not incompatible with responsible development, of which wood chipping and bauxite mining are prime examples. [More…]
Let me quote one of the finest environmental scientists in Australia, Professor Des O’Connor. [More…]
He is well aware of the disastrous effects that environmental extremists can have on the economy and on the average man’s standard of living. [More…]
-The estimates being debated are for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
The former Department of Environment and Conservation, the former Department of Urban and Regional Development, and in some respects the former Department of Tourism and Recreation were joined together to form this Department. [More…]
The sad situation is that it has a very low priority from this Government, and I am not casting any reflection on the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) when 1 say that he is one of the junior Ministers in a Ministry of 27. [More…]
The area improvement programs have been eliminated completely and the expenditure on land commissions has been cut by nearly 80 per cent, on other urban development by nearly 80 per cent, on the development of Aboriginal community amenities by 9 1 per cent, on protection of the environment by nearly 40 per cent, and on sewerage and garbage assistance by 8 1 per cent. [More…]
If one looks at the total figures for urban and regional development and the environment one finds that the expenditure in money terms in 1975-76 was $408m. [More…]
If one considers this matter as a percentage of Budget outlays, in 1975-76 allocations to the Department of Urban and Regional Development and the Department of Environment and Conservation represented 7.4 per cent of Budget outlays. [More…]
As far as the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development is concerned, if the Government involved itself right across the board in the problems of local government and in the problems of the States, particularly in the public works sector, it would have an enormous influence. [More…]
I assure the honourable member for Reid that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who is at the table, also has that attitude. [More…]
The new Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) is sitting at the table. [More…]
In addressing myself to division 296, subdivision 3, item 03 of the estimates for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, it is appropriate to build on the remarks of the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen) who discussed in his speech sport and the aims and aspirations of sport. [More…]
I hope that in the next 12 months the Minister at the table, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), will be able to persuade the State governments to participate in a national sports lottery. [More…]
I would like to thank all honourable members who have contributed to the debate on the estimates for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
Instead, we have in the chamber one of the most junior Ministers, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), dealing with one of the most important issues facing this country, that of unemployment. [More…]
There is a valued place for responsible, objective organisations concerned with sensible environmental management- and I say that as the representative of one of the most stunningly beautiful areas in Australia. [More…]
Would you believe, Mr Deputy Speaker, that this organisation which could not survive without Federal Government fundingtaxpayers ‘ money- has the audacity to take out a writ in the High Court of Australia against the Treasurer (Mr Howard) and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) with regard to the tourist development at Yeppoon in Queensland. [More…]
Maximum safety cannot be ensured by control of the environment alone but demands the understanding and cooperation of all persons at all levels. [More…]
The code provides not only for the control of the physical environment, but for the training, consultation between management and employees and their maximum involvement in all accident prevention measures. [More…]
This code, if implemented, would provide a good basis on which to develop a healthier and safer work environment. [More…]
The Division has worked on the origin of salt and its movement in the environment. [More…]
Two years later our judgment as regards Australia’s external environment, and our perception of the time which would be available to us to hasten our preparations, are essentially the same. [More…]
Much of that equipment will contribute to a more comprehensive defence capability in the maritime environment- air, surface,- and sub-surface- of our continent and of our neighbourhood. [More…]
They destroy the ability of consumers and investors and create an unstable economic and social environment. [More…]
These deficiencies have strained the manpower resources of some sections of the Branch and limited opportunities for training staff and undertaking the development and validation of techniques necessary for the examination of new materials coming on to the market or found in the environment. [More…]
A number of functions have gone to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, whilst a number of other functions are in the more technical area. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 26 September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 26 September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 26 September 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 26 September 1978: [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
I assume that the decisions made about two years ago were based upon an appreciation of a stringent financial environment for the years ahead. [More…]
-My friend the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who is at the table, mentioned the north-west coast. [More…]
-On behalf of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation I present the report of the Committee entitled ‘Oil Spills: Prevention and Control of Oil Pollution in the Marine Environment’, together with the transcript of evidence and extracts from the minutes of proceedings. [More…]
-The report just tabled is the second report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation established in the 3 1st Parliament. [More…]
Pollution arising from such sources releases, on a world-wide basis, over 2 million metric tonnes of oil into the marine environment. [More…]
The problem of pollution of the marine environment by oil is, unfortunately, already common in Australia. [More…]
Australia is not well prepared to cope with a major pollution incident, yet ship-sourced oil pollution, accidental or deliberate, is already a major environmental problem and the Committee believes that as Australia’s reliance on imported oil products increases so will the problem. [More…]
Authorities must carefully assess the environmental implications before allowing such vessels to operate. [More…]
The environmental impact of marine oil pollution is difficult to predict not only because our knowledge of marine ecology is imperfect but also because there are no effective means of evaluating the physical factors which affect an oil spill such as tidal and wind movements. [More…]
Evidence suggests there is little information available on the marine environment. [More…]
It is well established that major oil spills have a disastrous effect on the marine environment. [More…]
Much of the effect merely involves the dispersal of the oil as rapidly as possible without consideration of the additional environmental damage involved in the wholesale application of toxic dispersants. [More…]
The Committee believes that environmental authorities must be given the opportunity to become more closely involved in the monitoring and clean-up of small routine oil spills. [More…]
There is an urgent need for expanded research programs into marine environment and ecology. [More…]
The aim of the program would be to encourage research in all States and develop a comprehensive body of data on the marine environment. [More…]
-by leave-I echo briefly the comments of the Chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges), in relation to the staff of the Committee. [More…]
From my point of view it was a very interesting inquiry in the sense that it was the first one in which I have participated and in many respects it illustrated some of the problems associated with environmental protection within modern highly industralised societies. [More…]
Another issue that arose and which is typical in the environmental area is that the solution to or the means of dealing with a problem creates an even more serious problem. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) to recommendation 12 of the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in relation to oil spills. [More…]
-by leave-I too welcome the tabling of this report in the Parliament this afternoon by the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
Surreptitiously and deceitfully, the Fraser Government is washing its hands of any responsibility for the Australian environment. [More…]
On taking office in 1975, the Prime Minister showed his total lack of concern for the environment by placing the portfolio in the hands of a man who was a raw novice in politics, the present Minister for National Development (Mr Newman). [More…]
His performance was pathetic enough as he watched his Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development being dismantled before his very eyes. [More…]
The millions of Australians concerned that this country could become a hole in the ground through the efforts of environmental gangsters like Lang Hancock were momentarily tricked into believing that the Fraser Government had some concern for the environment by its decision to end sand mining on Fraser Island. [More…]
The Minister’s concern for the environment during the previous two years was rewarded by his being appointed Minister for National Development- in other words, the spokesman for the mining companies. [More…]
In his place the man least likely to stand up to the bullying tactics of the Prime Minister was appointed to oversee the protection of the environment. [More…]
Another Tasmanian had to be appointed to the Ministry and, faced with the unpalatable option of Senator Rae, who has a lot of ability but is disliked by the Prime Minister, and the ratbag rump of dissidents who make up the rest of Tasmania’s representatives, the Prime Minister chose the affable but ineffectual member for Braddon (Mr Groom) as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
But this was small fry compared with what was to happen in the future as the Government planned the destruction of Kakadu National Park through uranium mining and the abdication of any responsibility for Perth’s water supply, Western Australia ‘s famed jarrah forests, the Corio Bay fish habitat reserve near Yeppoon, the Great Barrier Reef and the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, which was the only bastion left to protect [More…]
Australia’s environment from the ravages of the ecological piranhas that care not one whit for Australia ‘s heritage if they can see a profit in it. [More…]
The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has suffered the most severe cutbacks of all departments. [More…]
The Government currently is trying to opt out of its responsibilities under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
The Act was introduced by the Labor Government in December 1974 in response to a record of indifference by previous governments, State and Federal, to environmental matters. [More…]
The Act was hailed as the most important piece of legislation concerned with the protection of the environment to come before the Federal Parliament. [More…]
Only in the case of Fraser Island has a venture actually stopped under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
It has increased environment consciousness among companies presenting proposals to government. [More…]
In December 1975, the Liberal-National Country Party spokesman on environment and conservation, the present Minister for Health (Mr Hunt), stated: ‘We will continue to support the Environment Protection Act’. [More…]
We can see where the pressure is coming from when we read the pamphlet produced recently by the Australian Mining Industry Council and urging the Government to hand control of the environment back to the States. [More…]
The States have the prime responsibility for the environment and it was because of the irresponsible attitude of Premiers Court and Bjelke-Petersen that the Australian Government found it necessary to enact legislation which used its powers in foreign trade and investment to prevent their worst excesses. [More…]
Government will sidestep its national and moral responsibilities for the Australian environment. [More…]
On 20 March, in a letter to the New South Wales Premier, the Prime Minister raised the question of a statutory framework for intergovernmental legislative arrangements for environmental assessment to cover on-shore and off-shore proposals. [More…]
Details were sought from the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development by the New South Wales Government. [More…]
Queensland has said that it will not sign any agreement with the Commonwealth because it opposes what it calls Federal interference’ in the environment. [More…]
We know only too well the record of these two governments in environment protection. [More…]
Virtually every Australian would shudder at the thought of areas of national environmental significance such as the Great Barrier Reef, Fraser Island and the world’s only jarrah forest being left to the whims of these State governments. [More…]
Such representative environment areas are a national resource, not simply a State resource. [More…]
There are few better examples of this Government’s and this Minister’s craven fear of the States and this Government’s total lack of concern for the environment than its refusal to take any action whatsoever over the Iwasaki Sangyo company’s proposal to build a major tourist development at Yeppoon in Queensland. [More…]
Here is a perfect example of where the Australian Government, and the Minister in particular, could have used the power of the environment protection legislation to force some changes to the project that would have made only marginal difference to the concept itself but would have minimised risk to the environment of the Corio Bay area. [More…]
A lot of rubbish has been talked about the Iwasaki proposals and has clouded the real issues of environmental concern, civil liberties and the Australian national interest. [More…]
Opposition to the project has ranged from genuine criticisms in respect of the dangers to the local environment to the possible infringement of civil liberties and the reasonable demand that projects of this nature should have some Australian equity. [More…]
The document was a report on the draft environmental impact statement on the resort and was signed by Mr H. Higgs, Director of Environment. [More…]
With the exception of the International Village and Marine Park proposals, elements of the built environment do not directly affect the wetlands. [More…]
By doing this the environment would have been protected a great deal more than it is presently being protected. [More…]
We would see an environmental fight the like of which has not been seen in this country. [More…]
The Federal Government is abrogating its responsibilities for environmental matters and the last vestiges of what could be called a national environment policy is being dissipated. [More…]
Its attitude is causing great concern to the majority of genuine people who have an interest in the environment, conservation and quality of life issues. [More…]
This is a Government which has shown blatant contempt for the environment and consistently yielded to vested interests. [More…]
It will mouth platitudes about its concern for the environment when politically expedient, but one can be assured in these instances that its interests lie elsewhere. [More…]
It is certainly pleasing to hear the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen) at last speak on an environmental issue. [More…]
Since he has had the job he has been almost totally silent on environmental issues. [More…]
However, I welcome this opportunity to say a few words about the things the Government is doing in the area of the environment and conservation and to explain to the House some of the actions that have been taken. [More…]
I believe that, as a government, we are showing real concern for the environment and we have acted sensibly and responsibly to protect it. [More…]
The Government has developed a comprehensive framework within which its policies and programs are being refined to protect and enhance the environment. [More…]
Responsibility for the environment does not rest only in the hands of the Federal Government, as the honourable member implied in some of the comments he made. [More…]
It was interesting that the honourable member raised the general issue of the environment. [More…]
The Government’s basic approach is to co-operate with the other spheres of government in improving environmental protection while, at the same time, striking a proper balance between conservation and economic growth. [More…]
Environmental protection is only one of a number of human values. [More…]
The Government is not the captive of any interest group, whether it be any kind of commercial lobby or a group of radical environmentalists. [More…]
The Government is proud of its record in the field of environment and conservation. [More…]
The Government accepted the recommendations of the Fraser Island environmental inquiry and decisions have been taken since then. [More…]
At this stage, I do not want to go into that issue in great detail because it is well known to those people who have an interest in the environment. [More…]
The Government has accepted the recommendations of the Ranger uranium environmental inquiry. [More…]
They are the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Act, The National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Act and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Act. [More…]
Following that legislation, stringent environmental controls will be imposed on uranium mining operations. [More…]
We have continued to apply the provisions of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
As a result of the operation of the Act, they are very much more aware of the need to be concerned about the environment and protecting the environment. [More…]
We have negotiated draft agreements with four States on arrangements which are mutually acceptable for assessing the environmental impact of projects. [More…]
There is a move among the States, which I think has resulted from the Federal legislation, to have appropriate legislation or procedures so that they can assess properly and adequately projects to determine the impact those projects might have on the environment. [More…]
The honourable member mentions the environmental impact statement on the Iwasaki project. [More…]
There are members opposite like the honourable member for Griffith (Mr Humphreys), who I think it is fair to say, are totally opposed to development and totally concerned with the environment. [More…]
A great deal of work has been done by a number of officers on that project to assess carefully its impact on the environment. [More…]
But, again, very strict conditions have been imposed to protect the environment. [More…]
I believe that these conditions would satisfy any one with a genuine realistic interest in the environment. [More…]
In response to broad responsibilities for pollution abatement and the assessment of the state of the environment, the Government has sought to establish consistent nationwide approaches through the Australian Environment Council and the Council of Nature Conservation Ministers. [More…]
We have supported other research activities including the ecological survey of Australia and the assessment of the environmental consequences of specific energy decisions. [More…]
We have continued to support international environmental activities through the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the Environment Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and regional bodies such as the Economic and Social Commission for the Pacific (ESCAP) and specialist meetings such as the United Nations Conference on Desertification. [More…]
So, we certainly remain extremely active in fulfilling our responsibilities in the area of the environment. [More…]
I think it is worth noting that, in this financial year, there is an increase in the allocation for those areas of the environment in which the Federal Government is involved. [More…]
We cannot say that the environment and the protection of the environment is all important. [More…]
The environment I think should be seen in a broader sense. [More…]
The Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act is being administered effectively. [More…]
Proponents of projects are very much conscious of the need to show concern for the environment. [More…]
We remain very conscious of our responsibilities and we are administering the programs in this area very effectively with proper concern for the environment. [More…]
The not insignificant sum of $3 16m is to be allocated for direct advances for housing to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
As honourable members will be aware, an inquiry under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 was established on 16 July 1975 to inquire into the development by the Atomic Energy Commission in association with Ranger uranium mines of uranium deposits in the Northern Territory. [More…]
In addition to the inquiry under the Environment Protection Act the present Government, during consideration of the Aboriginal Land Rights Bill in 1976, introduced an amendment expressly authorising the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry to investigate and make a finding in relation to an Aboriginal land claim in the Alligator Rivers Region. [More…]
Through an amendment to the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, the Northern Land Council has been given standing in the Northern Territory Supreme Court to seek an injunction against the mining operators should it feel that environmental conditions are not being observed. [More…]
It has been given rights of inspection of operations and documents and is entitled to information so that it may assess whether environmental conditions are being rigidly enforced. [More…]
This is very important and a major concession to Aboriginal interests as they themselves will have the means to be satisfied that the environment protection measures are being observed. [More…]
I now take this opportunity to inform honourable members of the progress that has been made in respect to other aspects of the Government’s environmental policies for the Alligator Rivers region. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that in its uranium statements of August 1977, the Government promised to adopt strict environmental controls and standards in relation to uranium mining in the region. [More…]
We agreed to establish institutions and programs for the specific purpose of protecting the environment from the consequences of uranium mining. [More…]
Since then considerable progress has been made and, in fact, the legal and administrative regime for environmental control of mining is now substantially in place. [More…]
The Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Act was assented to in June of this year and an acting appointment to the office of the Supervising Scientist was made shortly afterwards. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that the Ranger uranium environment inquiry referred to the considerable amount of research that was needed before precise standards should be imposed on the various control aspects of the mining operations. [More…]
As the Ranger mine will not be operational for possibly three years, there is time to develop proper standards for the protection of the environment, and these will be applied progressively as the basic information is obtained and interpreted by the [More…]
The Supervising Scientist will be required to maintain an overall supervision of the effects of uranium mining on the environment of the region. [More…]
In addition, there are some aspects of environment control that will be the direct responsibility of the Supervising Scientist, including the very important matter of disposal of tailings from the mining and milling operations. [More…]
All reports from the Supervising Scientist are to be tabled in Parliament so there will be the opportunity for Parliament itself to be kept fully informed on developments in respect to environment protection. [More…]
May I remind the House of the provision that is made through the Environment Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court) Act for the Northern Land Council, the Director of the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Territory Parks and Wildlife Commission to apply to the Supreme Court for orders in relation to protection of the environment from uranium mining. [More…]
The Government sees this arrangement as providing an opportunity for these three organisations to reinforce the environment protection machinery in the region. [More…]
While some features of the statement made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) have some attractions, we said in great detail what we had to say when the various Bills, including the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill, were debated in May this year. [More…]
Hopefully the environment protection will be considerably better in Kakadu than it was in the previous experience. [More…]
This happens to be the seat of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the honourable member for Braddon (Mr Groom). [More…]
I am disappointed that the honourable member for Adelaide should have entered on that same cart and tried to do exactly the same thing, namely, to discredit the good Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who has worked so hard for this legislation, nicely and quietly behind the scenes, trying to do the right thing for Tasmania. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, because he is a Minister, has been unable to defend what he realises is in the best interests of the people of Queenstown, but he has won through by adopting a nice calm attitude- quite different from me, but that is good- and he will be admired for that in his electorate. [More…]
Although the assistance is for an area in the electorate of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), we do not consider it to be pork barrelling. [More…]
In this respect I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a copy of the minute paper of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development on youth crisis accommodation in Brisbane. [More…]
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [More…]
Radiation in the Environment (Question No. [More…]
Has the Government adopted or does it intend to adopt the United States Environment Protection Agency Standards promulgated in 1977 relating to the exposure of members of the public to radiation in the environment from the normal operation of the nuclear power cycle; if not, why not. [More…]
I would like to inform honourable members of action the Government has taken in response to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment report on annual reports referred to the Committee dated 1 March 1978. [More…]
For example, the Cities Commission Report fell due at a time when the department concerned, now the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, was undergoing extensive reorganisation; and the preparation of the report was overshadowed by tasks of greater priority. [More…]
Report of Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment- Ministerial Statement, 14 November 1978 [More…]
It outlines the Government’s response to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment on annual reports dated 1 March 1978. [More…]
Secondly, there is the Government’s response to the inquiry’s tentative suggestion that research for Australian community interests should not exclude work in support of improved quality of life in areas such as environment, conservation and consumer services. [More…]
The CSIRO is well regarded for what relatively little environmental research it currently performs. [More…]
Especially those of us who are often worried by the shrill prophecies of gloom from some of the environmentalists, such as the obviously biased Australian Conservation Foundation, would appreciate some scientific and hopefully unbiased comments. [More…]
The program has been carefully designed to teach skills within a supportive environment in which full account is taken of the need to work through the often serious problems of the young people, as well as ensuring effective working relationships with the local technical schools and employers. [More…]
Is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in receipt of official reports on the quality of rehabilitation measures implemented by D.M. [More…]
But it was that kind of environment in which the Labor Party was not interested and which it could not achieve. [More…]
We have had the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Staley) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen)- that is Killen of Cunnamulla and the Condamine- at the table for the Government and now we have the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) there. [More…]
I do not often commend any of the Ministers, but I would like the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner), who is at the table, to convey to his friend and colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) my congratulations for the cuts that have been made to the grants for the Australian Conservation Foundation in particular. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development made two important points in a recent news release. [More…]
Investigations by my Department have failed to bring to light the evidence attributed to the United States Environment Protection Agency which, it was alleged, established a statistical relationship between the use of 2,4,5-T and human birth defects. [More…]
It was announced at the same time that the Government had accepted specific recommendations of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry relating to the operation of the Ranger mine. [More…]
G34 of 30 August 1977 notifying that on 22 August 1977 the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development had exempted from certain requirements of the Environment Protection Administrative Procedures the making of decisions by the Government on the mining of uranium in the Ranger project area. [More…]
There are actions yet to be completed, including the submission and examination of a final environmental impact statement (in accordance with the requirements of the Environment Protection Administrative Procedures) on the development of the Nabarlek uranium deposit, before a decision can be taken by the Government on whether, and on what terms and conditions, mining of the Nabarlek deposit may take place. [More…]
A major part of the Government’s trade offensive is to build trade in this particular area in our own environment. [More…]
These people have developed top quality wheats because they realise that wheat quality is limited by the environment, the availability of suitable varieties and the practicability of effective segregation. [More…]
This may be caused by the diet composition or the type of environment in which individual hens are kept. [More…]
of 24 May, that a firm of aerial sprayers are being taken to court by the Victorian Environment Protection Authority over the alleged effects of their spraying the weedicides 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D in the Warrigal area last October. [More…]
Representatives of building societies, in discussions with my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, have indicated that they are ready to bring rates down generally. [More…]
I have seen the statement of my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
It includes: The encouragement of new technology to improve the productivity performance of existing industries and to create opportunities for the development of new industries; the need to relate new technology to people at the workplace; the need for excellence in Australian design to enable industries better to compete, not only in the domestic market but also in the world marketplace; the need to look seriously at our existing patterns of work, to explore the options offered for part-time employment, flexible working hours and the like; the need to improve the quality of Australia’s goods and services; the need to improve our physical distribution systems, that is, every aspect of the packaging, storage, handling and movement of goods; the need to improve our industrial safety and health record; the need to improve the physical working environment of Australians, not simply for safety or occupational health reasons, but to provide the more satisfying and challenging jobs that a younger, better educated workforce is demanding; the need for a greater involvement of employees in decisions affecting their work through better communication and improved consultation and through new systems of work involving concepts such as semi-autonomous work groups; and, finally and most importantly, the need to stimulate industry, both management and employees, to integrate each of these elements of productivity improvement to each other instead of treating them in individual compartments as matters to be looked at and dealt with in isolation. [More…]
As part of its inquiry into the AuditorGeneral’s reports, the Committee also heard evidence from officers of the Department of Defence, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, the Australian Wheat Board and the Superannuation Board. [More…]
-Last Friday, the State Housing Ministers met with the Federal Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, (Mr Groom) in Adelaide to try to overcome the serious crisis that has developed in the housing industry in Australia and, in particular, to discuss the seriousness of the crisis in the public housing sector. [More…]
State Housing Ministers’ calls for a massive increase in Commonwealth funds for housing are quite unrealistic, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Ray Groom, said today. [More…]
These airports are of particular significance to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) who is at the table. [More…]
That giant organisations like Ansett Airlines of Australia and TAA can buy a market share in a related industry from profits earned in a protective environment would appear to contravene the very principles of the Liberal Party philosophy. [More…]
Philosophically it seems wrong that airlines operating in a regulated protected environment can expand their activities into allied industries where private companies are already providing efficient services. [More…]
Has he, as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs or as acting Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development, had his attention drawn to submissions regarding the Iwasaki project north of Yeppoon, Queensland, from Mr C. Tutt, Chairman, Capricornia National Parks and Wildlife Association, and acting President of the Capricorn Conservation Council. [More…]
The submission from Mr Tutt was made in response to a call for public comment on the draft environmental impact Statement (EIS) in accordance with the Administrative Procedures under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 17 October 1978: [More…]
The submission from Mr Tutt was made in response to a call for public comment on the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) in accordance with the Administrative Procedures under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
2), the statement by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) on the Ranger agreement and also the statement on the Kakadu National Park by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]
It demonstrates more clearly that the Fraser Government does not care a damn about the very serious hazards associated with uranium mining, the lifestyle of the Aboriginal people in Arnhem Land or the delicate environment of the Alligator Rivers region. [More…]
If, for example, it becomes clear in the future that the environmental restrictions imposed on the Ranger operation by virtue of its authority to mine are too weak, then this legislation would prevent the Government of the day from updating the conditions attached to rnining, despite that newly acquired knowledge. [More…]
In other words, if the Northern Territory environment is damaged to an unexpected extent or in an unforseen way by uranium mining at Ranger then the Commonwealth would be powerless to improve the relevant environment protection conditions laid down in association with the authority to mine. [More…]
The companies could successfully resist improvements to these environmental protection conditions. [More…]
This aspect of the Bill demonstrates a scandalous disregard for the local environment. [More…]
All parties to the proposed Ranger and possible Pancontinental Mining Ltd mining operations, for example, acknowledge that comprehensive baseline environmental data has still not been collected. [More…]
But it is irresponsible that regardless of the findings of scientific studies of the consequences of mining on the environment of the uranium province no stricter safety measures could be imposed under the Atomic Energy Act as amended by the Bill before the House. [More…]
In the same month, the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Sub-committee of the United States Congress published its findings on the costs of nuclear power. [More…]
We will implement our policy of preventing the exploitation of Australian uranium while its use poses unsolved threats to the environment, human health and welfare and to international security. [More…]
Qantas is a publicly owned transport enterprise operating in a difficult international environment Its shareholder is the Australian Government. [More…]
Any change in this environment is unlikely for some time, despite the fact that there are many total international economic benefits to be gained from a changed environment. [More…]
Successive Australian governments have ensured deliberately that Qantas Airways Ltd, is a wholly owned government company and the only Australian airline designated to operate international services, has operated within this environment as a commercial organisation. [More…]
The Prime Minister has reiterated to the Northern Land Council that the Government has not made a decision to allow Pancontinental to mine and the Government will not be making a decision until the required processes of the law regarding the environment and Aboriginal land claims have been completed. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development a question supplementary to that asked by the honourable member for Wide Bay last week. [More…]
A question was asked today by the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen) about sandmining and restoration and we heard the reply from the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]
In this context, particular care has been directed to the preservation of the unique marine environment of the Strait. [More…]
That is a significant input by the Commonwealth Government into education, notwithstanding a very tight economic climate and environment. [More…]
5 m into a local region to serve the people there who seek higher and better education in a wonderful environment. [More…]
There is a need for the changing technical education environment to be looked at and the study going on at this institute is the most thorough and full, as well as the first, critical analysis of an ongoing institution. [More…]
Standing Committee on Science and the Environment relating to herbicides, pesticides and human health. [More…]
Report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment: Herbicides, Pesticides and Human Health-Ministerial Statement, 24 November 1978. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1978: [More…]
Wall linings, floor coverings, ceilings ($650,000) in lieu of original concept which envisaged that the finish on internal walls would be primarily concrete; as the operations of the courts became more clearly understood by the designers it was agreed that the original concrete wall finishes would not produce a satisfactory internal environment. [More…]
1 ) Reports on Maralinga, Emu Field and Monte Bello by the Australian Ionizing Radiation Advisory Council will be received by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development The final report of the joint Australian/British technical assessment team on the buried half Kg of plutonium at Maralinga will be received by the Minister for National Development I will be receiving a report from the Defence element of the joint Defence-AIRAC reconnaissance of the Monte Bello Islands which took place late in October. [More…]
The decision to pursue a policy of low density planning for Perth was the result of the high priority given to such factors as the desirability of single residential accommodation, the proximity of recreational facilities and open space, the desirability of maintaining a clean environment and reduced sanitation problems. [More…]
What better training ground for apprentices than an environment in which they are learning from the old masters rather than in a big system. [More…]
It is too late to reeducate or retrain these people to cope with either the new technology or the new work environment. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
from the general environment: dose to the whole body is less than 2 millirem per year; dose to the thyroid gland is less than 1 0 millirem per year; [More…]
Have the standards of the International Commission on Radiological Protection been exceeded in any respect by those of the National Health and Research Council at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s Research Establishment at Lucas Heights NSW in the setting of (a) radiation exposure limits for workers and members of the local population and (b) levels for radioactive discharges to the environment. [More…]
What are the estimated exposure pathways for radioactive emissions released to the general environment from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s Research Establishment at Lucas Heights, NSW. [More…]
1 ) What standards apply to the exposure of members of the public to radiation in the environment from the operation of the nuclear reactors at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s research establishment at Lucas Heights, NSW. [More…]
Has the Government adopted or does it intend to adopt the United States Environment Protection Agency standards promulgated in 1977 in relation to nuclear reactors operating at Lucas Heights; if not why not. [More…]
1 ) The standards applied to the exposure of members of the public to radiation in the environment from the operation of the nuclear reactors at the AAEC’s research establishment at Lucas Heights are those recommended by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council. [More…]
asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 November 1978: [More…]
1 ) What information can he provide on the environment dangers caused by asbestos contamination. [More…]
What steps is he taking to increase public awareness of the dangers to the environment posed by asbestos. [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question [More…]
In some cases, however, in localised areas, asbestos fibres may be present in the environment in sufficient concentrations to become an identifiable health hazard. [More…]
The Government of Western Australia has recently announced its decision to move the town of Wittenoom, a former asbestos mining centre, because of blue asbestos fibres in the environment in the vicinity. [More…]
The Australian Environment Council’s National Advisory Committee on Chemicals has included asbestos in a list of substances to be assessed in regard to potential environmental hazards. [More…]
The possible environmental risks from asbestos are under investigation by the National Advisory Committee on Chemicals, whose membership includes officials of each State and Territory, and the Commonwealth. [More…]
I understand that a report to the Australian Environment Council on environmental dangers of asbestos is currently in preparation. [More…]
Are atmospheric discharges from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s research establishment at Lucas Heights, New South Wales, included in estimating radiation exposure to workers and residents in the neighbourhood; if so, what are the exposure pathways for tritium and iodine-131 and other radioactive products vented to the environment. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 8 November 1978: [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 8 November 1978: [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 8 November 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 16 November 1978. [More…]
Did the Prime Minister state on 11 May 1978 that CSIRO research will support such community interests as the better protection of our environment, flora and fauna and consumer interests. [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answers to the honourable member’s questions. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 23 November 1 978: [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
1 ) The Department of Science and the Environment does not normally employ apprentices. [More…]
I am informed that technical advice differs as to what might happen in the environment of the Reef but not on the Reef itself. [More…]
Quite plainly honourable members will understand that if we are talking about the environment of the Reef but not the Reef itself we have to ask the question: Where does it begin; where does it end? [More…]
Where does the environment of the Reef begin and where does it end? [More…]
This design blends aesthetically with the local environment. [More…]
1 ) As the airlines are operating in a commercial environment it would not be appropriate for me to disclose publicly such detailed financial information as asked for in this part of the question. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 9 November 1978: [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to a statement in the August 1978 newsletter of the Environment Council of the Northern Territory that there were 9 public responses to the draft environmental impact statement of Pancontinental Mining Ltd for the extension of the Arnhem Highway, but a response prepared in a Government department was suppressed by a higher authority in that department. [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
In accordance with the Environment Protection Administrative Procedures the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development forwarded his comments and recommendations concerning the proposed action to the action Minister and the Department advised the proponent accordingly. [More…]
However it ought to be said, I think, and I am glad that the honourable gentleman drew it to my attention, that this Government’s support for the environment is unparalleled. [More…]
The principles of the Heritage Commission are of great importance to Australia and this Government will maintain those principles to the fullest; but at the same time there are some elements of the Heritage Commission Act, as originally passed, which do come into conflict with other Acts and which could even stand in the way of matters which have been under full environmental examination. [More…]
For example, there was a possibility of one point of conflict as a result of the Heritage Commission Act involving matters that had been the subject of Mr Justice Fox’s environmental reports and it does not seem to make much sense to have the possibility of conflict of that kind. [More…]
In descending order of importance they were: Access to friends and families, access to education, natural environment, social and recreational facilities, cultural facilities, community facilities, suitable housing and the big city atmosphere. [More…]
That sub-paragraph (1) (b) and paragraphs (3) and (6) of the resolution of appointment of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation be omitted and the following substituted: [More…]
such other matters relating to the environment and conservation and the management of Australia’s natural resources as are referred to it by- [More…]
In the case of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, it is necessary to amend existing paragraph 1 (b) (i) to reflect changes in ministerial arrangements which occurred last December. [More…]
Many pollute our environment. [More…]
Taken together these events represent a deterioration in the international strategic and political environment which has serious implications for our interests, as well as for those of our regional and Western partners. [More…]
They cannot be divorced from the general strategic and political environment and, to the extent that that environment deteriorates, their credibility as instruments of crisis management is diminished. [More…]
They cannot be divorced from the general strategic and political environment . [More…]
The Middle East, Iran, Africa, Indo-China and the potential for a Sino-Soviet clash collectively serve to make the fundamental point that the world is a threatening environment. [More…]
In that environment situations change and events happen so rapidly that what were clear horizons one day carry rolling storm clouds the next. [More…]
It is in that environment that we must be prepared. [More…]
We live in a threatening environment. [More…]
I believe that the Government has recognised the threatening nature of the world environment. [More…]
It must embark on a course to make defence an issue in this country, to improve our defences and to be able to live with some measure of security in a threatening world environment. [More…]
There is a different climate and different environment. [More…]
It is just one of the options facing South Australia in the light of the steadily increasing salinity control challenge for the lower Murray environment. [More…]
The Government believes that the analysis and recommendations contained in the report will be an important contribution to its consideration of long term policies to assist industry to adjust to a changing environment and to promote sound industrial growth in the future. [More…]
The honourable member for Wilmot mentioned the problems that the urban environment poses in supplying facilities for sporting types of recreation. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that his Department (a) investigate and report to him on possible ways of reporting suspect shipping and (b) compile an official register of ships failing to meet adequate equipment and safety standards for use by harbour authorities in routine inspections. [More…]
The recommendations made by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills are at present being closely studied by all those affected. [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that the National Plan to Combat Pollution of the Sea by Oil should be equipped to respond to an estimated pollution threat calculated on the basis of the size and volume of shipping using Australian waters. [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that the Commonwealth Government, at an international as well as national level, encourage the acceptance of compulsory pilotage for all oil tankers and other types of vessels over 10,000 tons in areas where detailed local knowledge is required for safe navigation. [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that he review, as a matter of urgency, the provision of navigation aids in hazardous areas, with particular reference to the addition of 2 telemetric tide gauges in the Torres Strait. [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that the Commonwealth Government take immediate steps to enable Australian notification of the International Convention on Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers. [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that the Commonwealth Government increase the funds available for hydrography work in Australian coastal waters to hasten the upgrading of navigation charts. [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that his Department in conjunction with State Governments and the oil industry establish a register containing information on oil cargoes and frequency and location of spillage. [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that the Commonwealth Government encourage State Governments to amend their legislation to increase penalties for oil pollution of the sea. [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that his Department and the Department of Science and the Environment (identified in the Report as the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development) hold discussions to consider the possibility of extending the National Plan to Combat Pollution of the Sea by Oil to include pollution by other hazardous substances. [More…]
I can only say that against the environment of situations in other countries that cannot be seen as improving- higher inflation in North America and higher inflation in the United Kingdom- the achievements of this Government in relation to interest rates and in terms of economic policy generally- there is much greater enthusiasm now in the manufacturing industry, as is indicated by the quite remarkable surveys by the Metal Trades Industry Association as to the industry’s current situation and future prospects- have been shown repeatedly in many different corners of this country. [More…]
It is therefore a particularly useful instrument of policy to avoid instability in the investment environment for industry. [More…]
In making this decision, the Government has taken full account of the recommendations made by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) in relation to the final environmental impact statement submitted by [More…]
1 would remind the House that, when announcing on 25 August 1977 its decision to proceed with uranium mining at Ranger, the Government indicated that further uranium mining projects in the Alligator Rivers Region would only proceed when the Government was fully satisfied as to the acceptability of the impact of the development on the environment and the Aboriginal people, having regard for the region as a whole. [More…]
The Government is satisfied that the legislative controls which we introduced in April 1978 regulating uranium mining in the Alligator Rivers Region, in conjunction with the environmental requirements which will be imposed on the company, together with the controls negotiated and agreed between the Northern Land Council and Queensland Mines Ltd, will ensure that any adverse impact on the local Aboriginal population will be minimised. [More…]
The legislative controls to which I have referred provide for the establishment of the Office of the Supervising Scientist, a Co-ordinating Committee for the Alligator Rivers Region and a Research Institute to maintain a close watch over the environment within the region. [More…]
In addition the Northern Land Council has been given standing in the Northern Territory Supreme Court to bring suit in relation to the enforcement of the environmental requirements controlling mining at Ranger. [More…]
In relation to the Yeelirrie deposit in Western Australia, the Minister for Science and the Environment advised me recently that there are no objections on environmental grounds to that project subject to satisfactory arrangements being made with the Western Australian Government. [More…]
We want to see a balance between the economic development of our uranium resources and the positive protection of the environment. [More…]
Bureau of Mineral Resources, CSIRO, Division of National Mapping, Department of Primary Industry, Department of Science and the Environment, Department of Housing and Construction, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. [More…]
I am very glad to hear that that company is operating well and profitably and at the same time is taking the necessary measures to preserve the environment. [More…]
I think that just demonstrates what can be done when a company sets out to undertake its affairs in a proper way and at the same time to repair any damage to the environment that might otherwise occur as a result of its activities. [More…]
I think it is a good thing to gain a wide understanding of the necessary environmental protection measures in which public spirited companies are now involving themselves. [More…]
However, at the same time we must balance our considerations between the effect upon the environment of vehicle emission or exhaust gases and the need to conserve our energy resources. [More…]
Departments of transport, environment, energy and health can be or are often involved. [More…]
In some States the main responsibility associated with vehicle emissions is exercised by environmental authorities while in other States the transport authorities exercise the responsibility. [More…]
I refer to the Australian Environment Council which, again, is a national body on which this Government is represented, and of which all of the States are constituent members. [More…]
There is the substance of what I have been saying, not from the Opposition, not from a group with a vested interest, but from the Australian Environment Council. [More…]
The program will assist in ensuring the supply of raw material to future forest product industries and we believe will also contribute to the long term industrial development of that State, as well as enhance the environment. [More…]
The Minister referred in his statement to the fact that recent events represented a deterioration ‘in the international strategic and political environment which has serious implications for our interests’- that is, the interests of Australia- ‘as well as for those of our regional and Western partners. [More…]
Taken together these events represent a deterioration in the international strategic and political environment which has serious implications for our interests, as well as for those of our regional and Western partners. [More…]
In view of the matters of grave concern mentioned by the Minister for Foreign Affairs last week, especially the events in the Middle East and South East Asia and the general pattern of strategic instability, with Europe concentrating on its own interests and the United States playing a less active role in the general strategic and political environment, Austrafia must look to its own situation with renewed honesty and perception. [More…]
The most common Aboriginal conditions treated in hospital are related to the physical environment. [More…]
The first thrust is to improve the physical environment in which Aboriginals live. [More…]
Like him, I stress that one of the major glaring deficiencies in the field of Aboriginal health is the physical environment- so much so that, as the Chairman pointed out, the figures collected in Western Australia indicate that the incidence of conditions related to the physical environment treated in hospital is eight times higher for Aborigines than for non-Aborigines. [More…]
Let me explain what is meant by the term ‘physical environment’. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
1 ) The areas to which the Government accords priority in establishing nuclear codes of practice were spelt out in Second Reading Speech on the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill on 10 April last year. [More…]
Under the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Act nuclear codes of practice will be developed through a statutory process of consultation with the States and the Northern Territory. [More…]
But there is also now wide acceptance that authorities involved in urban planning and development have a responsibility to preserve important elements of the natural environment not only for their own sake but also as an essential element in the future urban environment for a variety of recreational and educational purposes. [More…]
The main issue in this inquiry was the importance of recreation space in the urban environment in one of the Territory’s newest and fastest growing areas. [More…]
In many cases the alcoholic is a victim of a hostile environment. [More…]
As distinct from that we have a committee of the Australian Environment Council- Vehicle Emissions and Noise Standards Advisory Committee- which places far more emphasis on the environmental aspects of exhaust emissions and which in turn tries to make sure that some of the figures and some of the information produced by the Committee on Motor Vehicle Emissions are perhaps wrong or deficient. [More…]
The Departments of Administrative Services, Business and Consumer Affairs, Defence, Health, Housing and Construction, National Development, Post and Telecommunications, Primary Industry, Science and the Environment, Transport and Veterans ‘ Affairs. [More…]
The industry overall has lulled public awareness and duped bureaucratic surveillance through control of information and generally created an environment which is highly profitable to companies such as Hardies but which is deadly for its workforce and the population at large. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) summarised for the House the main conclusions of the 1977 report of the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer. [More…]
Adoption by industry of the ‘polluter pays’ principle, already endorsed by State and Commonwealth Governments and the Australian Environment Council, whereby the costs of pollution including the health care costs of induced diseases are internalised. [More…]
Until a woman can raise her child in an acceptable environment and fully accept the responsibility parenthood entails, society has no right to condemn a child to the horror and misery of abuse. [More…]
Until the Right to Life movement can guarantee a proper environment for a child it has no claim to its future. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government’s economic policies have been consistently directed towards creating the conditions or environment necessary to underpin sustained economic recovery. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, on notice, on 28 February 1 979: [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
On this particular matter one thing that I would like to express is the surprise at the general lack of interest in this type of environmental subject. [More…]
It would appear that concern for environmental matters is well down the drain. [More…]
I refer the House to the report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation of May 1975 on the operation of Softwood Forestry Agreements Acts. [More…]
We find some comments there that indicate that all forms of development are being questioned as to their environmental effects. [More…]
The Environment and Conservation Committee at that time indicated that the financial assistance given to Tasmania on the forestry program should include provision for more emphasis to the purchase of marginal land and to the regeneration of hardwood forests. [More…]
If we take on further the report of the Environment and Conservation Committee we seem to accept that our timber resources are large. [More…]
I am disturbed at this loss of environmental interest, particularly in the forest area which cover such a wide scope. [More…]
The Committee of Environment and Conservation found that the forestry and timber industries were important elements in the decentralisation process and were substantial employers of manpower in rural areas where employment opportunities were limited. [More…]
Over long periods of evolutionary time, a subtle balance has been achieved between the environment and the producers, consumers, and decomposers in these natural ecosystems . [More…]
I believe it will contribute to the long term industrial development of Tasmania as well as enhance the environment. [More…]
The major investigations to which I have referred resulted in reports from the National Estate Committee of Inquiry which my friend, the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren), initiated, the Forestry and Wood-based Industries Development Conference, the Working Group on Rural Policy- these three documents were produced in 1974- and the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
Arising from the report of the House of Representatives Committee on Environment and Conservation, of which I was a member, the Government took up the recommendation that a body such as the Bureau of Agricultural Economics should determine the economic viability of the softwood planting program both on strict financial grounds and on the broadest possible cost benefit grounds. [More…]
I can remember that when I was a kid the only emphasis on the environment or the world around us that we got in school was perhaps on two days a year. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment whether it is a fact that the Government is in the process of reviewing each of the existing Commonwealth Acts covering environmental protection. [More…]
Is it the intention of the Government, following the completion of these secret reviews, to instruct the Minister to introduce amending legislation to each of the Commonwealth environmental protection Acts with the intention of weakening the existing legislation? [More…]
Why has the Government chosen to ignore the current investigations and hearings into environmental legislation and administration being carried out by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation? [More…]
It is no secret that the Government has for some time been reviewing the principal environmental protection legislation in order to spell out properly the role of the States in supervising the protection of the environment in Australia, to ensure that overlapping and possible duplication of effort is avoided so that expense incurred by companies and people involved is kept to a minimum and io make the Act generally more efficient. [More…]
As the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development I mentioned on a number of occasions, in public announcements and speeches, that this revision and review was being carried out. [More…]
In that context the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation to which the honourable member referred has the opportunity and the right to comment. [More…]
Volume 1b contains ASTEC’s views and recommendations on agriculture and forestry, mineral resources, manufacturing industry, services and environment. [More…]
It will work closely with relevant Ministers, particularly the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]
Subject to our giving priority to capabilities needed for operations in our own environment, our defence force should also provide the Government of the day with the practical option of contributing to Pacific defence in accordance with the ANZUS Treaty. [More…]
The size and shape and equipment of our Defence Force should be assessed in Australia’s own geopolitical environment- and this for three reasons: [More…]
Australia’s isolation from other continents, and our physical environment of sea and air space and archipelagic territories, carry a number of pointers for our defence capabilities; as do the physical characteristics of our own continent. [More…]
It is in respect of armed threats within our own geographic environment that our allies could be expected to look to Australia to be reasonably self-reliant, and to make a maximum effort to look after its own security. [More…]
If there is success in sustaining the recognition of a common interest Australia has the prospect of an environment which adds protection to the defence of Australia, rather than creates a defence hazard for us. [More…]
Let us put a dose of freedom into our economic environment. [More…]
I think that when the dust settles we shall find that there has been quite a serious accident in the reactor but the effect on the environment and on people living around will have been very small indeed. [More…]
I point out to the honourable member that the Fremantle class patrol boat will not be operating in any hostile environment; it will not be fulfilling an offensive role. [More…]
At the request of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) this report is to be received by an interdepartmental committee under the chairmanship of the Department of Science and the Environment and it will be reporting to the Government in due course. [More…]
The residents of Pennsylvania have, for the past week, been no more than a hair’s breadth away from the consequences: Widespread radioactive contamination of their environment, the threat of death from cancer and genetic damage on a large scale. [More…]
The worst possible accident in a nuclear reactor- a melt-down of its core followed by the dispersal of its toxic radioactive components into the environment- has been threatening these people for a week. [More…]
Further, we could expect fewer road fatalities, less requirement for land for road improvements and less despoliation of the environment. [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendations of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that the Commonwealth Government make representations at an International level to have the restricted zones around Australian offshore oil platforms extended to a distance of 2.5 nautical miles. [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that the Commonwealth Government take immediate steps to ratify the International Convention on Civil Liability for [More…]
A little later, the administration of this protective legislation is to become the responsibility of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster). [More…]
By 1972 the whale resource situation was so critical that the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment called for a 10-year total moratorium on commercial whaling. [More…]
Whilst the British Department of the Environment did not believe that whale species were endangered, a junior Defence Minister announced in June 1978 that the British armed forces would no longer use sperm oil. [More…]
The Committee believes that the proposed planning system will require examination of the environmental impact of urban development at a much earlier stage and with a wider perspective than generally occurs at present under the existing impact of proposals legislation. [More…]
However, the Committee has said that there should be memorandums of understanding between the Minister for the Capital Territory and the Minister for Science and the Environment to ensure that the system of structure and development plans and the [More…]
On the very same day, the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster), also a National Country Party member, put out a Press release which said: [More…]
Anyone with the remotest knowledge of the environment will know that one cannot interfere with one section of a complex system such as the Great Barrier Reef without affecting the rest of it. [More…]
I ask for leave to have incorporated in Hansard that section of the oil spills report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation which deals with effects of oil in the marine environmentparagraphs 1 8 to 2 7. [More…]
Major oil spills have a clear and obvious deleterious effect on the marine environment and on the communities of plants and animals living there. [More…]
Damage to the environment is not easy to measure objectively. [More…]
The basis of environmental concern is so ill-defined, that it is not surprising that research scientists have reached widely differing conclusions about the dangers of oil pollution. [More…]
Although episodic events, such as the break-up of a large tanker, have a dramatic effect on the physical and biological environment, experience in overseas countries has shown that when the pollution passes, the ecosystems are able to recover and regenerate. [More…]
Damage to the Physical Environment [More…]
While these effects are unsatisfactory, they do not appear to cause permanent or irreversible damage to the environment.” [More…]
On 10 January this year the President of the United States ordered environmental reviews of United States projects abroad. [More…]
President Carter made it clear in his statement that he was concerned that actions by United States agencies could have detrimental effects on the global environment. [More…]
I believe that the Government should make no move which would disadvantage the natural environment of the reef. [More…]
The reef offer Australians the opportunity to get out of a city environment and into the natural Australia. [More…]
Any development in the Great Barrier Reef area has been conditioned to the needs of the natural environment and kept under the control of governments. [More…]
I am informed that technical advice differs as to what might happen in the environment of the Reef but not on the Reef itself. [More…]
Quite plainly honourable members will understand that if we are talking about the environment of the Reef but not the Reef itself we have to ask the question: Where does it begin; where does it end? [More…]
In a statement that he issued on 16 January, Senator Webster, the Minister for Science and the Environment, gave a similar assurance in these terms: [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster, said this today, following earlier reports by the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anthony, that there would be no drilling on the Reef itself. [More…]
What we are discussing is not whether the island is to be more closely integrated into or to become a more remote part of the Australian scene, but how we can preserve the rights of the people of Norfolk Island, the environment of Norfolk Island and the security of Norfolk Island and still retain it as part of the Australian scene with the advantages which that bestows. [More…]
Many of those features are hills, incidentally- and the fact that such a pleasing environment will be created immediately adjoining the town centre, electric railway line, duplicated highway and first class school facilities will ensure a high demand for accommodation. [More…]
That sort of person who, because his background environment would be inclined to say that anybody who had a different pigmentation in the skin might not be deserving of equality that is deemed to be obligatory under international covenant. [More…]
In addition to transport portfolio considerations, the statement reflects the responsibilities of, and advice from, my colleagues the Minister for Science and Environment (Senator Webster), the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) and the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman). [More…]
At the outset, however, I must emphasise that the Commonwealth Government is committed to protect the health and the environment of the Australian people. [More…]
However, all governmentsState, Territory and Commonwealth- must also, in the national interest, have regard to the effects of proposed measures, not only on health and the environment but also on impacts on the consumer, industry, resources and the economy. [More…]
In developing a framework for future action, it is clear that a number of steps must be taken to improve the implementation, administration and durability of emission control systems in the context of realistic health, environment, transport and energy objectives. [More…]
This has been highlighted by many bodies including the Senate Select Committee on Air Pollution, the Australian Environment Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council, as well as ATAC. [More…]
ATAC and Australian Environment Council should be in a position, at their early 1 98 1 meetings, to consider requirements for 1985 standards and the development of a new vehicle emission rule to implement such standards. [More…]
Although not directly relevant to the special ATAC meeting in April, lead issues will form an important and integral part of future motor vehicle emissions strategies in terms of protection of health and the environment and vehicle and energy costs and efficiency. [More…]
I quote, for the benefit of the Parliament, from the statement made by the Victorian Environment Protection Authority: [More…]
This smog can damage plants, paintwork and rubber products and its brown haze reduces visibility and aesthetically degrades the environment [More…]
Let me read again from the article by the Victorian Environment Protection Authority. [More…]
To be added to that observation is the information provided by this Government’s own body, the Australian Environment Council, in January last year. [More…]
It is significant that in the Minister’s statement there was no input by the Australian Environment Council. [More…]
Government, environment has received very low priority and that is what today’s statement is all about. [More…]
The ministry of environment has been tacked on to the ministry of odds and sods over in the Senate. [More…]
Quite clearly, because environment is directly linked with responsible energy conservation, there is no account taken of it. [More…]
I want to remind the House of the conclusion arrived at by the Australian Environment Council in January last year. [More…]
I believe it developed from the need of our pioneers to come to terms with an environment totally unlike any they had ever known. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, on notice, on 22 February 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Science and the Environment. [More…]
These make provision for the safety of users, bystanders, consumers, livestock, wildlife, the environment and trade and take into account recommendations of the National Health and Medical Research Council (see also answer to (4) below). [More…]
February 1 976-Governor-29th International Banking Summer School: ‘Central Banking in a Changing Environment’. [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that in situations where dispersants from the National Plan stockpile are used, a report be presented to his Department, as controller of the National Plan, to enable the compilation of data on the usage and success of dispersants. [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that his Department continue to monitor international developments in recovery equipment to determine suitability for the Australian situation. [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that he determine an equitable basis for contribution from offshore and land-based installations to the National Plan to Combat Pollution of the Sea by Oil, [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that he evaluate alternative levy schemes to determine the most equitable and administratively effective system of levying shipping interests. [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that his Department, in consultation with the Department of National Development and the Petroleum Institute Environmental Conservation Executive, prepare an operational plan which will facilitate the movement and use of National Plan resources in the event of a pollution incident caused by offshore operations or shore based facilities. [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that the Commonwealth Government and the oil industry undertake a joint research project on the toxicity of dispersants and oil/dispersant mixtures on Australian species of marine flora and fauna under Australian conditions. [More…]
Mr A. Tsipouras, Commonwealth Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]
Mr D. A. Speechley, South Australian Department of Housing, Urban and Regional Affairs and representing South Australian Department for the Environment [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that he request the Australian Science and Technology Council to examine the need for increased marine science research. [More…]
Against current strategic assessments, the Government believes that the funds presently allocated for defence purposes provide an appropriate level of insurance for Australia against the risks inherent in the potentialities and uncertainties of our strategic environment. [More…]
We must be able to protect the Australian environment, and in some cases we need controls to do that. [More…]
Also, unlike other honourable members in this Parliament, I believe that Prime Ministers should travel, and travel often, particularly when the international political environment is as fluid and uncertain as it is now. [More…]
All that that means is that the economic growth has been fuelled by and proceeds in an environment of unhealthy, forced hot-house growth. [More…]
Because of the confidence that has been created and the economic environment and climate we now have seven out of the ten deep sea oil drilling rigs in the world operating off ihe Australian coast Quite obviously this confidence has been shared by the manufacturing sector which showed an increase last year of 2 1 per cent. [More…]
Business needed, and still needs, a stable environment in which to plan. [More…]
For the addict hooked on drugs who must be our prime concern the price increase as a result of the upping of the criminal tariff simply mires him deeper into a criminal environment, compelling him to steal and commit the whole range of petty crimes familiar in the drug scene. [More…]
The Australian wool marketing system has already exhibited flexibility and adaptability in responding to changes in the market environment.- These changes have occurred gradually through a process of research, evaluation and steady adoption. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation has announced an inquiry into Coastal Zone Management in Australia. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that since the disbandonment of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development a number of unattached previous officers of that Department have applied for positions in his Department. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: ( 1), (2) and (3) The report of the Australian Littoral Society was received in April 1978 and released publicly with the approval of the responsible NSW Minister and the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
The Minister for National Development (Mr Newman) left Australia on 5 May to attend a meeting of the International Energy Agency and a meeting of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Ministerial Committee on the Environment. [More…]
I might add that the conference also completed informal negotiations in the area of the protection and preservation of the marine environment. [More…]
The first investigation that was made by the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation was into the Uluru or Ayers Rock National Park. [More…]
In 1976 the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation reported on the progress that had been made in relation to the recommendations made by the earlier committee. [More…]
However, the principal need for the protection of the environment in that area is the relocation of the air strip and the village. [More…]
I infer from that that if the Prime Minister stopped at 50 kilometres he must think that 50 kilometres is the maximum limit of the reef environment. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) has been a little less artless than the Prime Minister or his deputy. [More…]
It is an indication of the Opposition ‘s appreciation of the problem of balancing the need for conservation and the desire to attract tourists that the Opposition has one shadow spokesmen for both the areas of environment and tourism. [More…]
The Government for its part has lumped tourism in with business, and environment in with science. [More…]
If ever there was an indication of the Government’s appreciation of the compromise needed in developing tourism and conserving the environment, this allocation of portfolios must be it. [More…]
Will the exclusion of imported stocks of goldfish, guppies, etc., lead to the establishment of exotic fish breeding in Australian waters with far greater risk to our freshwater environment. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment is responsible for advice on environmental policy aspects and for coordination of Government policy on the matter. [More…]
It is a carefully regulated and controlled development, having full regard to the protection of the environment and of the welfare of the Aboriginals. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the statement by a representative of the Queensland Coast and Torres Strait Pilot Service, given in evidence to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation during its oil spills inquiry, to the effect that a very large percentage of ships under flags of convenience have absolutely appalling standards both in trained navigating personnel and in equipment. [More…]
One of the witnesses to appear before the Committee was the Chairman of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly’s Committee on Lands, Planning and Environment. [More…]
He justified his acceptance of the low level of those payments on the basis that the mining companies were making contributions also for the preservation of the environment. [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Accordingly, the Government has taken steps towards the consideration of what information is required concerning the reef environment and what research ought to be undertaken. [More…]
The Australian Marine Sciences and Technologies Advisory Committee- AMSTAChas been asked to submit advice on a program of research on the reef environment for consideration in the Budget context. [More…]
-Will the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment state how many candidates were considered by the Government for the position of permanent Chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority? [More…]
Is it also a fact that while Acting Chairman of the Marine Park Authority for 12 months, he was also Director of Environment? [More…]
Mr Higgs has been a very well respected officer of the Environment Division over a number of years and has been very active in ensuring that the environment of Australia has been properly protected. [More…]
The proposal to sit earlier- and thereby close each day’s session earlier- was raised last night by the Opposition spokesman on the environment, Mr Barry Cohen. [More…]
I present the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation on the preservation of the Quinkan Galleries, Cape York Peninsula, together with copies of extracts of minutes and proceedings and the transcript of evidence. [More…]
These provisions will enable the Minister to specify detailed requirements as to the minimum numbers and qualifications of officers and seamen to be carried in specified ships or classes of ships, to the extent that it appears necessary in the interests of safety or protection of the marine environment. [More…]
Although not a general revision, the Bill now before honourable members provides the framework for a significant updating of Australia’s navigation laws in accordance with the latest international standards of safety and environment protection. [More…]
In this international environment my discussions with President Marcos and President Suharto made clear our common recognition that broadly based cooperation between Australia, the Philippines and Indonesia- and between Australia and the other members of the Association of South East Asian Nations- has become all the more important. [More…]
We did it out of our concern- the common concern shared by Japan and many other countriesfor what was happening in the international environment. [More…]
It has gone against all the principles of government spending in an unemployment environment by cutting back consistently in the public sector. [More…]
Upon receipt of this advice Mr Gillard was questioned by officers of the Region where it was stated that formal advice had been received from officers of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development that this program of assistance was not available in metropolitan situations. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the fact that Mazda dealers throughout Australia have circulated a statement nationwide indicating that the effect of the increase in duty from 45 per cent to 57.5 per cent on imported cars was obviously not known or understood by the Minister for Industry and Commerce or the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who forwarded printergrams to Mazda dealers in their electorates, pointing out how beneficial the Budget had been for them. [More…]
(a) The transfer from Melbourne to Hobart of the Antarctic Division of the Department of Science and the Environment with approximately 120 positions has already been approved by the Government. [More…]
On the other hand we undoubtedly have people who are, I think for practical purposes, extremists in the sense that they object to any sort of synthetic substances being used for any purposes and they worry that all synthetic substances will cause some damage to human beings, to the environment or whatever. [More…]
People have to work in that environment, and we would have the situation of an individual looking at the person alongside him, a person with the same qualifications, the same capacity to maximise the operations of that area of the department, and he would have to protect his own interests. [More…]
We are looking at an environment in which one section of employees is in confrontation with the employer. [More…]
The Government is creating the sort of environment that leads to what in the final analysis is an appeal. [More…]
The courageous and cost effective growth centre projects and the urban and regional development programs which were doing so much to improve the living environment in Sydney have been decimated. [More…]
The people not only pay through the nose to the usurers but also suffer congested and inadequately serviced living environments. [More…]
Now that land speculation is no longer the fortune maker, the financial institutions are turning to encourage and profit from the capital and energy intensive industries that will further destroy the physical environment, restrict the supply of jobs and create further hardships for the majority of people. [More…]
In government we set out to try to look after the sentative environment that was being destroyed by the bulldozer mentality. [More…]
Indeed, one can reflect that he is chairman of a committee which reported 12 months ago to this House on the way the Government might coordinate investment and capital development to the overall benefit of the environment. [More…]
a particularly impressive record in protecting our environment. [More…]
The Director of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Dr Bunt, in evidence to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation when asked what would happen if an accident like the Amoco Cadiz ever occurred on the Queensland coastline, had this to say: [More…]
We don’t know how the living organisms on the reef and the individual reefs themselves respond to the environment in which they live ‘. [More…]
In his letter to the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) on 5 January 1979- he wanted the application for partial renewal of two permits- Q4P and Q5P- to be processed before the Capricornia section of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park was proclaimed. [More…]
His second letter to the Minister for Science and the Environment dated 22 January 1 979 was a bit less forthright. [More…]
The Queensland Government’s record of pro>tecting the environment is a national disgrace. [More…]
Since then the Minister for Science and the Environment has been declaring that the park could not be proclaimed until borders and other relevant aspects of the Sea and Submerged Lands Act had been resolved. [More…]
The Federal Government is trying to play the role of the upholder of the environment yet it is instigating moves to allow drilling on the Great Barrier Reef, be it Queensland or Commonwealth territory. [More…]
Last year and again this year I warned the Government that if it persisted in allowing exploration, drilling or mining off the Great Barrier Reef region, it would have the greatest environmental battle in Australia’s history on their hands. [More…]
Consistent with these considerations the Prime Minister, in a letter to my colleague the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) on 19 December 1978, said: [More…]
The assurances that have been given by the Government, by the Prime Minister, by the Deputy Prime Minister, by me when I was the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, by Senator Webster and by others involved, have been very explicit and unequivocal. [More…]
Obviously our gaols offer a far better environment than that available in Vietnamese society. [More…]
Some indication of the indication of the Goverfment’s downgrading of the Marine Park Authority can be gained by looking at an exercise undertaken by the Department of Science and the Environment to recruit an A grade journalist to be attached to the Authority. [More…]
May I point out that Mr Henry Higgs, while acting Chairman of the Authority for 12 months, was also Director of the Department of the Environment. [More…]
It is quite incongruous that parliamentary committees examine all major aspects of government such as foreign affairs, defence, environment, immigration, public works and expenditure, yet there has been no inquiry into energy by any committee of this Parliament. [More…]
We agree with the suggestion that such people benefit from being able to be kept in the home or the family environment. [More…]
Since taking office, our objective has been to create an environment which fosters sustained, noninflationary economic growth- growth which creates employment and which increases the tax base so that the burden on individuals can be reduced. [More…]
In the extremely tight budgetary environment dictated by the continuing attack upon inflation, the estimated $80m contributed by this measure will help ease pressures which must otherwise apply to other expenditure or revenue raising items. [More…]
The introduction of staff ceilings, as part of the Government’s policy of restraining public expenditure, required the former Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development to closely assess overall priorities. [More…]
If so, what action was taken to ensure that no deleterious effects would accrue either to farm employees, farm products and consumers, or persons working in the vicinity or the general environment. [More…]
What I did point out was that there was a clear difference, and obviously a dispute, between the views expressed in the Senate this morning during Question Time by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) and the views expressed here this morning at Question Time by the Minister for National Development. [More…]
The Minister for National Development gave a totally contradictory reply to that given in the Senate by the Minister for Science and the Environment to the very same question. [More…]
The substantial difference is extremely important because it means that either the Minister for National Development or the Minister for Science and the Environment is misleading the Australian public through the Parliament. [More…]
Other Ministers have also taken advantage of the visit by Vice President Gundelach to provide him with a firsthand impression of how representatives of a middle-ranking trading nation such as Australia view the outlook for international trade in the post-multilateral trade negotiations environment. [More…]
It is prepared to cut back ruthlessly on social welfare spending such as health, education, housing and protection of the environment, to make room for greater handouts to the corporate sector. [More…]
The kind of economy that the corporations want to see in Australia, an economy based on the export of processed resources and a closer real and financial integration into the world capitalist economy, will demand even higher public subsidies and cause even greater problems in society in terms of inequitable distribution of wealth, the destruction of the physical environment, air and noise pollution, traffic congestion, the degradation of a person’s work, and the further loss of jobs in this country. [More…]
Following investigation of this matter in 1975 by a Committee convened by my Department, the Fishing Industry Research Trust Account made funds available to NSW State Fisheries to investigate the effect of exotic organisms in ship’s ballast water on the Australian marine environment. [More…]
But to be effective there must be equality of opportunity for every individual to cope with his environment, occupation, community, family relationships, work and leisure time. [More…]
This scheme was administered very cheaply and brought a whole new environment to Australian education. [More…]
(a) The Australian Environment Council, a consultative body of Commonwealth, State and Territory Ministers with responsibilities for environmental matters, has established a National Advisory Committee on Chemicals (NACC) consisting of representatives from the Commonwealth, States, Territories, N.H. and M.R.C. [More…]
This Committee has established a work programme for the identification, assessment and control of environmentally hazardous chemicals. [More…]
This is one of the most disgraceful and irresponsible acts of any government in the industrial relations environment over the last several years. [More…]
The interdepartmental working group was composed of this extraordinary melange of organisations, namely, the Department of Adminstrative Services; the Department of Education; the Attorney-General’s Department, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development; the Department of Health; the Department of Industry and Commerce; the Department of Science; the Department of the Treasury; the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; the Australian Telecommunications Commission; the Public Service Board; and the National Library. [More…]
Not only will oil spills created by this sort of vandalism create enormous problems for the marine environment, but the removal by the Taiwanese over the last 20 years of a large number of clams must have an enormous effect on the ecological system. [More…]
Clearly, then, the Taiwanese are disturbing and placing in jeopardy the delicate environmental balance of the reef. [More…]
In respect of the marine environment, in the time remaining I wish to deal briefly with the statement of the Minister for Primary Industry that applications are to be called for pilot fishing ventures for harvesting beche-de-mer on the Barrier Reef. [More…]
One question was directed to the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman) in this House and the other was directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) in the Senate. [More…]
The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Groom) and the Minister for Science and the Environment are pressing for the proclamation of the Capricornia section of the Marine Park off Rockhampton. [More…]
In the Senate, however, the Minister for Science and the Environment denied this. [More…]
On the evidence available it seems to me that the Minister for Science and the Environment is the man who is wrong and who is misleading this Parliament. [More…]
In the Senate on 3 May the Minister for Science and the Environment said: [More…]
It is a letter from the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman) dated 22 January this year to the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]
It is not good enough to have the Minister for Science and the Environment wilfully misleading the Parliament in this way. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment knew that full well on 22 January 1979. [More…]
But the Minister for Science and the Environment, no matter how well motivated he might be in the issue of conservation, is misleading the Parliament and the people of this country. [More…]
Fourthly, the creation of a protected zone for the preservation of the unique environment of the Strait area. [More…]
I would like to emphasise that the provisions of the Treaty to a very large extent incorporate recommendations made by the Committee in its earlier report on the Torres Strait boundary, namely that the Torres Strait Islands should remain part of Australia; that freedom of passage for Australians and Papua New Guineans should be guaranteed in the Protected Zone; that mining and drilling in the seabed should be prohibited until agreement is reached between all interested parties; and that new commercial ventures should not be permitted in the area unless they are compatible with the environment. [More…]
The basic concept of the Defence Force Academy was to replace the degree stream component of the Royal Military College, the Royal Australian Air Force Academy, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Darling Downs Institute, and the Royal Australian Navy College with a single academy that would provide a balanced and liberal university education in a military environment for officer cadets of the three Australian services, concurrently with a program of professional military training. [More…]
The Committee agreed that there is a need for a greater proportion of tertiary educated officers in the Defence Force and that cadets should be involved in a military environment as much as possible during their tertiary studies. [More…]
But the oil burning furnaces that produce energy in certain parts of the world and the coal burning furnaces that produce it in others, including this country, have their problems in relation to pollution of the environment and other matters which people do not like. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) has been undertaking this program for several weeks now. [More…]
Bear this in mind: When Ministers mislead this Parliament and when they do so patently, apparently, intentionally, as the Minister for National Development and the Minister for Science and the Environment have done, they are in fact imposing on the Australian public the greatest offence imaginable coming from this institution because it is the Australian public they are seeking to deceive- just as the Prime Minister has sought to deceive the Australian public with his statements about concern for the preservation of the Barrier Reef ecosystem. [More…]
So it seems he has defective hearing at the top end, as it were, or maybe it takes that long for arm twisting from the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) to work because it is quite clear that in this matter the Minister for Primary Industry was keen to preserve the ministerial position of one of his colleagues, the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]
Those two matters, but more especially the first, are quite distinctly different explanations by the Minister for Science and the Environment in the Senate as to why there has been a delay in the proclamation of this Marine Park. [More…]
At the same time the Minister for National Development was asked his question, the Minister for Science and the Environment was asked the same question. [More…]
It had nothing at all to do with the overlapping of boundaries and the conflict which arose from the self-interest of the oil development companies represented by the Minister for National Development with the support of the Prime Minister and encouraged by the Queensland Government, as against the Minister for Science and the Environment or the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Groom), both of whom have argued that the area ought to be preserved. [More…]
In Hansard on 5 April, a letter from the Minister for Science and the Environment to the Minister for National Development reports that the subject of areas over which it is proposed to renew permits ‘is an important topic of conservation’. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has argued consistently that there is no proposal before the Government to renew permits, yet here we have a letter from the Minister for Science and the Environment to the Minister for National Development in which that very point is conceded. [More…]
Believing that the veil of departmental confidentiality on such correspondence matters will preserve the dishonesty in this matter, the Minister for Science and the Environment embarked upon what can only be described as a campaign to lie and mislead the Senate, the Parliament and the people of Australia. [More…]
He sought to explain away the obvious conflict between the statement that he made at Question Time and the statement made by the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]
In the statement he made, the Minister for National Development remained consistent in what he had said in correspondence with the Minister for Science and the Environment, namely, that there had to be a delay, that progress could not be made in the declaration of a marine national park off Rockhampton- the Capricornia one- until the matter of overlapping boundaries was cleared up. [More…]
Just as it is dishonest for the Minister for Science and the Environment to say that it is purely a matter of constitutional difficulties, it is dishonest also for the Minister for National Development- who, in his first answer at least was honest in the sense of being consistent with what he said before- to come here and say that the answer in the Senate was entirely accurate, when he had been arguing quite the contrary four hours earlier. [More…]
At the very same moment, the same question was asked in another place of the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster. [More…]
Only after it had been discovered that the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) in another place had given a totally different answer was there hurried consultation with the Prime Minister to work out, after the debacle of the last few weeks with the horror Budget and all that had been going on there, how he was going to save himself from another bad week by being forced to sack another Minister. [More…]
They passed some laws about conservation and the environment. [More…]
The reputation of Australia stands second to none around the world following all the environmental and conservation decisions that this Government has taken. [More…]
That, of course, is instrumental and important if we are to be able to undertake necessary research to protect the environment on-shore and off-shore. [More…]
To suggest that this Government has no concern for environmental issues and to suggest that it has not acted with strength and vigour in these issues is ludicrous in the extreme. [More…]
On that occasion, I indicated that AMSTAC- the Australian Marine Sciences and Technologies Advisory Committee- had been asked by the Government to submit advice to the Government on a program of research on the reef environment for consideration in the Budget context. [More…]
On 4 April this year, I wrote to the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) and suggested that the Minister might present a submission to AMSTAC on a possible program of research into the ecosystem of the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) long term goal, of 0.06 parts per million for ozone, is, as stated, a long term goal, not to be seen as a level capable of immediate achievement, particularly in the city environment. [More…]
Medical Association Journal, 8 March 1975, wherein Stephen M. Drance, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Opthalmology, University of British Columbia, in an article entitled ‘Myopia- genes or environment?’ [More…]
Mr Acting Speaker, you will recall that the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) has been asserting that the reason for the delay in the declaration of the boundaries of the Marine Park, Capricornia section - [More…]
It has to be established as an important point that the Minister for Science and the Environment has been arguing that the reason for the - [More…]
I regard all of them as decent people who are concerned with the environment. [More…]
I regard this matter with the utmost alarm and I am prepared to table the paper for the benefit of the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Groom) who represents the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) who I have not had the time to contact. [More…]
1 ) When are the surveys on the environment and work related health hazards of both current and former employees of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Lucas Heights, NSW to commence. [More…]
The second report, entitled ‘Interpretation of Hazard and Recommendations’, analyses health indices such as sickness absence, workers’ compensation, and premature retirement and death, together with an analysis of the work environment. [More…]
It’s perfect in this aircraft in the hot and high environment we have up here. [More…]
The report gave due recognition to the realities of the Northern Territory environment. [More…]
The Director then submits the plan to the Minister for Science and the Environment together with any representations made and comments by the Director on those representations. [More…]
In issuing such a licence, the Director shall specify environmental conditions to be a part of that licence to ensure that the Park values are preserved. [More…]
The licence will be a ‘prescribed instrument’ within the meaning of the Environment Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court) Act 1978, which enables the Northern Territory Supreme Court at the suit of the Director of National Parks and Wildlife, the Territory Parks and Wildlife Commission or the Northern Land Council to make orders for the enforcement of any requirement under a prescribed instrument so far as the requirement relates to any matter affecting the environment of the Alligator Rivers Region. [More…]
Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Act, 1978 s. 3 1 [More…]
Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Act, 1978 s.15(l)(d) [More…]
A new environment has developed there and the world will now have to face African people across the table. [More…]
by leave- On 24 February 1977 the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation decided to conduct an inquiry into and report on: ‘The adequacy of arrangements to prevent and deal with oil spills in Australian waters’. [More…]
The main government submissions were provided by the Department of Transport and what is now the Department of Science and the Environment. [More…]
At the time when the report was tabled, the Department of Transport and the Departments of Education and Science and the Environment had already put into action eight of the recommendations. [More…]
These are the ones dealing with tanker safety training; reporting of suspect shipping; official register of suspect shipping; encouragement to States to bring their legislation up to date; national plan equipment; involvement of environmental officers in incidents; register of oil cargo and spill information; and monitoring of international developments. [More…]
I now table this statement to which is attached the recommendations of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation on oil spills. [More…]
-The response from the Government to the recommendations of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation on the prevention and control of oil pollution in the marine environment has taken some nine months. [More…]
I assume from the remarks of the Minister for Productivity (Mr Macphee) that the response is made not only on behalf of the Department of Transport but also on behalf of the Department of Defence, the Department of Science and the Environment and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. [More…]
Because of the references to the faulty navigation charts which the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation found, I impress upon the Government that adequate funds should be made available for that purpose. [More…]
It is essential, if we are to protect our own marine environment, that there be some sort of efficient means of identifying the source of the pollution. [More…]
I mentioned this to my colleague, the shadow Minister for the environment, in respect of the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]
This matter was dealt with by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, in passing, because it was primarily concerned with oil spills from ships. [More…]
The important thing that needs to be noted by the Australian people, I believe, is that oil spills are very damaging to the marine environment. [More…]
I turn now to the report itself which is entitled Oil Spills: Prevention and Control of Oil Pollution in the Marine Environment’. [More…]
Major oil spills have a clear and obvious deleterious effect on the marine environment and on the communities of plants and animals living there. [More…]
Damage to the environment is not easy to measure objectively. [More…]
The basis of environmental concern is so ill-defined, that it is not surprising that research scientists have reached widely differing conclusions about the dangers of oil pollution. [More…]
We are talking about oil drilling and oil spills, but the result is oil in the marine environment. [More…]
But from the findings of the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation and from the evidence presented to that Committee it is very clear that very serious damage, probably devastating damage, will result to the reef. [More…]
We on this side say that the mining of uranium in the area will rape the lifestyle and the environment of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The Labor Party’s policy is that, having regard to the present unresolved economic, social, biological, genetic, environmental and technical problems associated with the mining of uranium and the development of nuclear power in particular, until Australian sovereignty, the needs of our environment, the economic welfare of our people and the rights and wellbeing of the Aboriginal people are understood we will not assist in any way the Government’s actions to carry out uranium mining in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Conference recognises that the provision of Australian uranium to the world nuclear fuel cycle creates problems relevant to Australian sovereignty, the environment, the economic welfare of our people, and the rights and well-being of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
the absence of procedures for the storage and disposal of radioactive wastes to ensure that any danger posed by such wastes to human life and the environment is eliminated. [More…]
In a recent statement to the Sub-committee on Energy and the Environment of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Mr Joseph M. Hendrie, the Chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission stated: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 22 February 1 979: [More…]
1 ) How many proposed actions under the terms of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act have been notified to the Department of Science and the Environment, and the Department’s predecessor, during each year since operation of the Act commenced. [More…]
What proposed actions or classes of proposed actions have been exempted from all or any of the requirements of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act and the Administrative Procedures approved under the Act. [More…]
Which proposed actions have been altered as a consequence of their assessment under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act and in each case what were the alterations. [More…]
Which proposed actions have not proceeded subsequent to being subject to all or any of the requirements of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act and the Administrative Procedures approved under the Act. [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
1 ) Although the Environment Protection ( Impact of Proposals) Act was assented to on 17 December 1974, the Administrative Procedures under the Act were not notified in the Gazette until 24 June 197S. [More…]
1 ) Did Australia and Japan sign an Agreement for the Protection of Migratory Birds and Birds in Danger of Extinction and their Environment at Tokyo on 6 February 1 975? [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 21 March 1979: [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment, has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
CSIRO did not propose the national wetlands survey but with funding provided by the former Department of Environment was engaged in 1975 to undertake a feasibility study to determine how a National Wetlands Survey could best be conducted. [More…]
The first stage of the National Wetlands Survey was initiated in 1 974-75 through the former Department of Environment, when $ 100,000 was allocated for this purpose. [More…]
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation has announced an inquiry into Coastal Zone Management in Australia. [More…]
The National Advisory Committee on Chemicals, on which an officer from the Pesticides Section serves as the Australian Agricultural Council’s nominee, operates under the Australian Environment Council. [More…]
Conducted by Working Environment Division of the Department of Productivity prior to the formation of the Department. [More…]
I do believe that once this particular case is out of the way this House should address itself to that question as a matter of great seriousness because the Australian Labor Party on every occasion has sought to prejudice the environment - [More…]
This environment has led to doubts about the proper and valid application of the 27.5 per cent rate particularly to television, radio and sound appliances. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 2 1 March 1979: [More…]
What action has the Minister taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that the then Minister for Science review priorities to determine the need for increased allocation of resources to marine science research. [More…]
The Code of Practice on Radiation Protection in the Mining and Milling of Radioactive Ores, 1975, prepared by my Department is at present being adopted for inclusion in the Environmental Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978 which is the responsibility of my colleague, the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 28 March 1 979: [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
1 ) The Department of Science and the Environment and other Commonwealth Departments have been giving consideration to the feasibility of collaboration between [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 29 March 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 1 May 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
On 6 May 1979 the Minister for Science and the Environment announced that the Minister for Primary Industry had approved the appointment of Professor J. D. Ovington as Australian Commissioner to the International Whaling Commission. [More…]
Professor Ovington is Director of the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service and his appointment is consistent with the impending transfer of responsibility for matters relating to whales and whaling from the Minister for Primary Industry to the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 2 May 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 9 May 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 22 May 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 30 May 1979: [More…]
Pancontinental Mining Ltd are preparing a final environmental impact statement which will examine in detail the environmental consequences of the underground proposal and the open cut alternative. [More…]
This final impact statement when submitted by the Company will be examined in accordance with the requirements of the Environment Protection Administrative Procedures, before any Government decision is made in relation to the proposal. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 31 May 1979: [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 3 1 May 1979: [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that (a) of the 63 public submissions and 1 5 government submissions to the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority concerning the proposed expansion of the alumina industry of Western Australia, only 2 government submissions were unequivocally in favour of the projects and (b) the Western Australian Government in April 1978 passed legislation to allow for building of alumina refineries at Wagerup and Worsley, before environment review and management programs were submitted by the companies involved. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Both the Wagerup and Worsley bauxite/alumina projects come under the provisions of the Commonwealth Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
The then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development considered all available information and decided that a public inquiry was not necessary. [More…]
Subsequently, in accordance with the Environmental Protection Administrative Procedures, the Minister advised the Minister for Trade and Resources and the Treasurer, as Action Ministers, of his recommendations with respect to this proposal. [More…]
The preparation and submission of an environmental impact statement has been directed on the Worsley proposal. [More…]
Following receipt of the final impact statement the Minister for Science and the Environment will assess the need for any additional information and the manner in which such information should be sought. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 5 June 1 979: [More…]
3461 (Hansard, 31 May 1979, page 2803) is the Minister now able to say (a) when the Department of Science and the Environment received the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation on Oil Spills and (b) when a statement will be made to the House on the report. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question. [More…]
The report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation on Oil Spills was tabled in this House on 26 October 1978 and a copy was received by my Department on 6 November 1978. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 8 November 1978: [More…]
) environment programs research account, and [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
1 ) In relation to recommendation 20 of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its Report on Oil Spills is the Minister able to state whether a working party of the Australian Science and Technology Council has been formed to examine, report and make recommendations on the need for increased marine science research. [More…]
and ( 5 ) Any proposal by the AAEC to construct a new reactor would be subject to the provisions of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 and the Administrative Procedures approved under that Act. [More…]
When will the surveys on the environment and work related health hazards of both current and former employees of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission be available. [More…]
There is a continuing commitment by the Commonwealth to upgrade facilities at Ayers Rock and to rehabilitate the environment. [More…]
Definitive action has yet to be announced on a report into oil pollution by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation which last September recommended the compilation of an official registry of ships failing to meet adequate equipment and safety standards. [More…]
A representative of the Queensland Coast and Torres Strait Pilot Service told the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation that around 40 per cent of the ships he piloted had substandard equipment. [More…]
Whilst there may have been some response to the recommendations of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, the Opposition is looking to a permanent set of procedures which will be ongoing. [More…]
All that should be necessary under a navigation Act is to establish what is required for safety or protection within the maritime environment. [More…]
I serve on the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
I am particularly pleased that the Government has taken action in respect of the recommendations of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, particularly as they refer to navigational aids in Torres Strait. [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
In the recent past Mr Kelleher has acted as the Director of the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, First Assistant Secretary of the Environment Division in the Department of Science and the Environment and Supervising Scientist in the Alligator Rivers Region of the Northern Territory. [More…]
Before being appointed as a Commissioner, he was for two years Assistant Secretary, then Acting First Assistant Secretary in the Water and Soil Resources Division of the then Department of Environment and Conservation. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 27 March 1 979: [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Australian Environment Council has established the National Advisory Committee on Chemicals to develop a national approach to assessment and control of environmentally hazardous chemicals. [More…]
Through its National Advisory Committee on Chemicals, the Australian Environment Council is developing procedures for assessment of new chemicals for potential environmental effects. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 10 May 1979: [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 7 June 1 979: [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Government had regard for all views, including those of the Northern Territory, during the framing of the Bills and the passing of the Acts relating to mining development, the establishment of townships, the protection of the environment and the welfare of the Aboriginal people in the Alligator Rivers Region. [More…]
This duty involves the acceptance of the principle that positive measures may be required to advance the elimination of racism, including assistance to those struggling to rid themselves and their environment of the practice. [More…]
The Lusaka Declaration also states: the acceptance of the principle that positive measures may be required to advance the elimination of racism, including assistance to those struggling to rid themselves and their environment of the practice. [More…]
In the Budget the Government has also recognised the need for industry to be highly innovative and technologically advanced if it is to compete effectively in the environment of the 1980s. [More…]
This will require our industries to adopt new attitudes toward change and competition, to look increasingly beyond the limited environment of the Australian market and gradually come to rely less on government support. [More…]
Since the study group was established, the environment for manufacturing industry has changed markedly. [More…]
Where appropriate we have provided for reductions to be phased in so that industry has time to adapt to operating in an environment of lower levels of protection. [More…]
Instead we are living in an environment of the most contractionary, recessionary, depression-making Budget that this country has had to withstand for many years. [More…]
I refer to the report headed ‘Oil Spills Prevention and Control of Oil Pollution in the Marine Environment’. [More…]
It is the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, dated September 1978. [More…]
As I turn to paragraph 44 of the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, I see the honourable member for Hughes fleeing from the chamber. [More…]
Finally, I draw the attention of the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon), as honourable members from both sides of the House have done, to the importance of the report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation on oil pollution and the critical importance of that issue to Australia with particular reference to the Great Barrier Reef” and Torres Strait areas. [More…]
It stated: the policies of the Budget provide the best possible environment for business . [More…]
That means the best possible environment for economic activity and jobs for Australians. [More…]
What this Budget sets out to do is to maintain a taut financial and monetary environment which includes the requirement that the deficit in the Budget should be of the order of about $2,200m. [More…]
It means that the monetary and fiscal environment will be taut, bearing down on inflation, but not contractionary as alleged by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 7 June 1979: [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
No Commonwealth Environmental impact statement has been directed in relation to the Ben Lomond uranium deposit because the Minister for Trade and Resources has not been asked to take any action in relation to this uranium deposit and has not designated a proponent within the terms of the Administrative Procedures under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment, in providing this answer to the honourable member’s question, has consulted with the Minister for Transport who is responsible for many of the matters raised. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 23 May 1979: [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answers to the honourable member’s questions: [More…]
Australia was represented at the meeting of the United Nations Environment Program Co-ordinating Committee on the Ozone Layer (held on Bonn in November 1978) and the International Conference on Chlorofluoromethanes (held in Munich in December 1978). [More…]
A joint working group of experts from the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Environment Council ‘s National Advisory Committee on Chemicals, and other bodies, will shortly commence an examination of the environmental, health and economic effects of fluorocarbons and their substitutes. [More…]
In the light of information that is coming to hand about other and better ways of improving the environment I hope that the South Australian Premier will declare his hand before he goes to the polls in a couple of weeks’ time. [More…]
We do believe in bearing down on inflation to equip Australia to succeed in a world environment of rising inflation and intensifying competition. [More…]
I refer to the insecurity experienced by people in terms of housing, the distortion of the major urban areas, and the degradation of the living environment of the Australian people. [More…]
The Government should be more concerned about that living environment. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a table headed: ‘Changes in Federal Government Outlays on Housing, Urban and Regional Affairs and the Environment 1975-76 to 1979-80’. [More…]
When we look at Federal Government spending on urban and regional affairs and the environment we find a further cumulative short fall of $ 1,565m. [More…]
A lot of work has to be done to clean up the polluted urban environment, to provide basic cultural and community services in the outer suburbs, to improve and extend public transport services and to ensure security of housing for our people. [More…]
Total Budget outlays on urban and regional development and the environment fell from 2.1 per cent of total government outlays in 1974-75 to 0.3 per cent in 1978-79. [More…]
We would rather a fiscal environment which allows us to run our own industries without government assistance or interference. [More…]
But realists must accept that in a disturbed world environment and excessive domestic wage rises it will not be practicable to resolve our major problems in one Budget. [More…]
With wishful thinking, in an almost charadetype of environment, the Opposition, through many of its members, has tried to make play of two particular things. [More…]
This Budget equips us to succeed in a world environment of rising inflation and intensifying competition because we are determined to have lower rates of inflation than our overseas competitors- countries which are producing goods in competition to ours- such as the United States of America and countries in Europe. [More…]
The tighter we can run our economy, the better we can run our ship, the better we can get through a difficult international economic environment so that we can advance in a hostile external environment. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 23 May 1979: [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer: [More…]
The Government has decided that, in addition to existing funding arrangements for marine scientific research, $400,000 will be provided in 1979-80 and the two succeeding financial years for grants in this field to be allocated by the Minister for Science and the Environment on the advice of the Marine Research Allocations Panel (MARAP) $300,000 of this amount will be devoted specifically to research on the Great Barrier Reef environment which had been suggested by the Chairman of the Royal Commission into Exploratory and Production Drilling for Petroleum. [More…]
The only obstacle that is holding up investment and development in South Australia, as the Deputy Prime Minister has made clear, is the State Government’s ban on uranium and the Government’s consistent obdurate refusal to apply the normal principles of a free enterprise environment which will enable that State to get up and go- [More…]
It forgets the wide range of tax concessions and incentives provided to industry in order to create an environment for real expansion and a growth in long term job opportunities. [More…]
The mission reported that the range of activities of the Annexe was hindered by the poor working environment in its existing location in the Invermay railway yards. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present a report on the National Environmental Economics Conference held in 1978 together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster). [More…]
I am also referring to the Council the final environmental impact statements of Pancontinental Mining Ltd and Noranda Australia Ltd, when prepared, together with any comments, suggestions and recommendations provided by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) under the environmental protection administrative procedures. [More…]
They are: Firstly, to develop among the members of the Australian community an awareness of the diverse cultures within that community that have arisen as a result of the migration of people to Australia and an appreciation of the contributions of those cultures to the enrichment of that community; secondly, to promote tolerance, understanding, harmonious relations and mutual esteem among the different cultural groups and ethnic communities in Australia; thirdly, to promote a cohesive Australian society by assisting members of the Australian community to share with one another their diverse cultures within the legal and political structures of that society; and, fourthly, to assist in promoting an environment that affords the members of the different cultural groups and ethnic communities in Australia the opportunity to participate fully in Australian society and achieve their own potential. [More…]
Because of its likely high public profile as a national resource and advisory centre the Institute will need to develop and demonstrate considerable expertise in a complex environment. [More…]
The Government argues that the contractionary effect will be offset by the improved expectations of a better business environment. [More…]
In the course of the Government’s making its decisions in August 1977 and subsequently, my colleagues the Minister for Industrial Relations, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Minister for Health and the then Minister for the Environment and I held discussions with Mr Hawke, Mr John Ducker, Mr Bill Kelty and Mr Peter Cook. [More…]
Our strategic environment is a Third World environment. [More…]
We are conspicuously different within our regional environment. [More…]
The nature of the international environment makes that a necessity, although I think it should be noted that we in Australia are probably much more fortunate than most other embattled societies. [More…]
My perusal of Special Branch files shows that many hundreds of people have done nothing more than take an active part in many causes where time and changing opinion have usually proved them to be right in the eyes of most Australians- campaigns against involvement in the Vietnam war or conscription for the purposes of that war, the importance of the environment and ecology and so on. [More…]
campaigns against involvement in the Vietnam war or conscription for the purposes of that war, the importance of the environment and ecology and so on. [More…]
It was as a result of an agreement between the Minister for Transport and the New South Wales Minister for Planning and Environment that the time allowed for the Committee to report was extended. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 7 June1979: [More…]
How many (a) motor cars and station wagons by make and tare, (b) trucks and other commercial vehicles by make and mass and (c) motor cycles by make, are operated by the Department of Science and the Environment and statutory authorities and business undertakings under the Minister’s control. [More…]
The Code of Practice on Radiation Protection in the Mining and Milling of Radioactive Ores, 1975, prepared by my Department is at present being adopted for inclusion in the Environmental Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978 which is the responsibility of my colleague, the Minister for Science and the Environment The Code recommends continued health surveillance including pre-employment, continuing and post-employment medical examinations. [More…]
The fact is that I have written to the Minister for Planning and Environment in New South Wales, who has equal responsibility with me for the report of the Major Airport Needs of Sydney study, informing him that I think 14 December is an appropriate date for the study to report to both the New South Wales Minister and me. [More…]
I also look forward to consultations with my colleague, the New South Wales Minister for Planning and Environment, Mr Landa, so that the two Governments can settle down and rationally provide a proper solution to take away all of the concerns of the people of Sydney- that is those who might be affected by any changes- and also to get a proper development so that the future needs of Sydney are properly planned. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the Annual Report of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization for 1978-79 together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Science and the Environment relating to that report. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present an agreement between the European Space Agency and Australia on the establishment of a space vehicle tracking station in support of the European Space Agency space program together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Science and the Environment relating to that agreement. [More…]
by leave- For the information of honourable members I wish to make a statement on action taken so far by the Government on the recommendations on the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation following that Committee’s inquiry into off-road vehicles. [More…]
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation resolved in September 1975 to inquire into the impact of off-road vehicles on the Australian environment. [More…]
This is particularly true in the case of recreation vehicles, where the behaviour of individual riders and drivers is critical to the protection of the environment. [More…]
Because of this, the Government has been especially concerned to implement the Committee’s recommendations aimed at promoting environmental awareness in recreation vehicle users. [More…]
One contribution to this has been a film produced by Film Australia for the former Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
It has been made for showing to recreation vehicle clubs, schools, environment centres and all groups which have an interest in recreation vehicles. [More…]
The code has been printed as a poster and as a sticker for doors and motorcycle fuel tanks and has been distributed to recreation vehicle clubs, motor registries, automobile associations, environment centres and other relevant bodies. [More…]
Environment impact statements on the establishment of new defence training areas include consideration of the effects of vehicles on the terrain. [More…]
The Standing Committee’s report has been drawn to the attention of members of the Council of Nature Conservation Ministers, the Australian Environment Council and the Recreation Ministers’ Council. [More…]
The name ‘recreation vehicle’ is preferred to the term ‘off-road vehicle’ which I believe encourages a use of vehicles which are intrinsically damaging to the environment. [More…]
I hope that recreation vehicle users will support government activity in this field and take care to protect the environment. [More…]
Committee on Environment and Conservation: Report on Off-Road Vehicles-Government’s Response- Ministerial Statement, 20 September 1979. [More…]
It is 2 te years since the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation was tabled in the Parliament. [More…]
Clearly environmental responsibility has been the unwanted child of this Government. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that with the change of Government in 1975 the environment ministry was abolished by the Fraser Government. [More…]
It was absorbed into the odds and sods department, namely, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
Environment was downgraded further still by later becoming a division of the Department of Science. [More…]
Now it comes within the Department of Science and the Environment. [More…]
Let us be clear where this Government stands in relation to environment matters. [More…]
Environmental management and the impact of off-road vehicles on the Australian continent are very serious problems. [More…]
They are matters which create problems for the environment itself. [More…]
The article outlines the basic conflict between the use of off-road vehicles and the preservation of the environment and environmental qualities in urban areas. [More…]
First, there is the damage to the environment itself- the damage to ground vegetation and to beach and foreshore areas, the destruction of wilderness areas and reserves, and the erosion problem overall in all those cases. [More…]
I find it rather regrettable that six of the 15 recommendations put forward in the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation- a report that took some 18 months to bring down, a report that took a great deal of effort by the Committee’s members, together with submissions from any organisations- did not even rate a mention in the Minister’s response. [More…]
A key part of the evaluation of the measures that need to be taken to maintain the environment and thereby make the use of these vehicles compatible with the management and preservation of the environment does not rate a mention by the Government. [More…]
4 which reads: the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development - [More…]
On behalf of the Opposition, I thank the members of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation who participated in the inquiry. [More…]
In my own electorate I was involved in a peaceful demonstration which caused something like 400 police to attend to deal with a relative handful of local residents whose only concern was the construction of a freeway that would destroy their homes and pollute their environment. [More…]
They were just members of a local group concerned about a particular action that was being taken that would have an effect on their homes and on the environment in which they were living. [More…]
campaigns against involvement in the Vietnam war or conscription for the purposes of that war, the importance of the environment and ecology and so on. [More…]
Department of Science and the Environment [More…]
It will equip Australia to succeed in a world environment of rising inflation and intensifying competition. [More…]
Will he supply details of the Local Government Branch functional statement of (a) the previous Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, (b) his Department and (c) the proposed Office of Local Government. [More…]
With the two extremes of environment, the cosy environment of the Conference and the poverty stricken environment of the city itself, Sri Lanka was an ideal position to hold a conference of population and development. [More…]
There was a realisation that no population program should be considered from policies and plans of health, housing, education, employment, the environment and the use of resources. [More…]
The main objectives of the report are to improve the quality of life for these increasing numbers, to have governments concentrate on the requirement of food, shelter, clean water, work, education and medical care, as well as a decent environment to live in. [More…]
The policies of the Budget provide the best possible environment for business. [More…]
The Ministerial Council at this inaugural meeting was I as convenor; Senator the Honourable James Webster, the Commonwealth Minister for Science and the Environment; the Honourable Max D. Hooper, the Queensland Minister for Maritime Services and Tourism; the Honourable Ivan Gibbs, the Queensland Minister for Culture, National Parks and Recreation. [More…]
It creates a mechanism for the interest groups represented on it to provide specialised advice to the Marine Park Authority and to the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]
It is already widely used and enjoyed and effective planning of the environment of the reef can occur only in close cooperation with the community which will continue to use it. [More…]
I would say that the scale, diversity and complexity of the Great Barrier Reef are unmatched by any other marine environment in the world. [More…]
Australians do not have a very good record as conservationists and, regrettably, past generations were guilty of monumental desecration of Australia’s wilderness areas and sections of Australian environment which are of great ecological significance. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) in the Senatefar be it from me ever to attack a Minister- has turned a blind eye to the comments being made by me and others, as if we belong to another world that is old fashioned and out of touch. [More…]
What I am suggesting is that Australia, under the Metric Conversion Board and with the guidance and leadership of the current Minister for Science and the Environment, has been endeavouring to set a new world record in the conversion to metric. [More…]
Lead issues will form an important and integral pan of future motor vehicle emissions strategies in terms of the protection of health and the environment and of energy costs and efficiency. [More…]
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies has been commissioned to establish baseline data on the social environment and monitor the social impact on Aboriginals living in the Alligator Rivers Region. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 22 August 1979: [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
1875 also appears as the postal address of the following organisations: Canberra and South East Region Environment Centre; Friends of the Earth, Canberra; Movement Against Uranium Mining; Mumimbidgee Monitor Association; South Coast Committee; Action for Public Transport; and the Australian Conservation Foundation. [More…]
It should be at that level of government where people participate most immediately in the process of improving the environment in which they live and in exercising some control over the decisions that affect where their families reside, where their children go to school and the grass roots of their environment. [More…]
In this regard, the urban renewal report of the former Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development in 1978 stated: [More…]
There is a need to improve the physical environment where people live by the establishment of parks and gardens, the planting of trees, the improvement of transport services and the rehabilitation of land for recreational purposes. [More…]
These are employment-creating projects and they enhance the environment in suburbs which otherwise would be desolate. [More…]
I believe there is a real and pressing casefor decentralisation of authority and that local governments will best perform many governmental functions in such critical areas as welfare, culture and the environment. [More…]
Official ALP propaganda on unemployment, nuclear disarmament and the environment was handed out at that demonstration. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
It is clear that both countries have to deal with a very competitive trading environment, and we cannot afford to be inward looking. [More…]
This was made clear when on 1 1 October Senator Webster, the Minister for Science and the Environment, was asked a question about black marlin fishing. [More…]
This is just another example of the total incompetence of this Government when it comes to protecting Australia’s environment from predators. [More…]
asked the Minister represent ing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 18 September 1979: [More…]
Does the employment of contract labour allow the Department of Science and the Environment to circumvent its staff ceiling. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Publishing Service, however, does not operate in a completely commercial environment. [More…]
I agree with what the Minister said about the Publishing Service not operating in a completely commercial environment. [More…]
-On behalf of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, I present the report of the Committee entitled ‘Environmental Protection, Adequacy of Legislative and Administrative Arrangements, First Report’. [More…]
The report deals with the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act and the Australian Heritage Commission Act. [More…]
Originally, the Committee had hoped to examine the overall needs for environmental protection in Australia. [More…]
The Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act is a major mechanism available to the Commonwealth to identify, evaluate and co-ordinate direct and indirect impacts of Commonwealth decisions on the Australian environment. [More…]
The purpose of the Act is to ensure that those responsible for developing proposals and those responsible for taking decisions on those proposals think about and take account of environmental factors. [More…]
The Committee noted in its report on the urban environment that the Act places proposals under scrutiny to a much greater degree and this has led to tensions. [More…]
Departments responsible for these activities have a good working relationship with the Department of Science and the Environment and appear to fulfil the obligations placed upon them by the legislation. [More…]
On the other hand, there are a number of departments which are not happy with the legislation and it is apparent that, while some of these departments co-operate reluctantly with the Department of Science and the Environment, others use the discretion allowed under the Act to avoid referring any proposals to the Department. [More…]
To help overcome these tensions and administrative inefficiencies and to ensure departments observe the spirit of the legislation, the Committee has recommended that memoranda of understanding be agreed to between the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator [More…]
Webster) and other Ministers which would provide broad guidelines on the question of environmental significance and matters which should be referred for advice. [More…]
As a balance to the greater autonomy of departments provided by memoranda, the Committee has recommended that the Act be amended to allow the Minister for Science and the Environment to request and be provided with information on proposals. [More…]
The Committee recognises the responsibility of the States in environmental protection and believes that the Act should be amended to acknowledge the States’ role. [More…]
One method would be to amend the Act to give the Minister for Science and the Environment discretion in the application of the Act if proposals have been subject to State procedures and that the State procedures are considered to satisfy the provisions of the Commonwealth legislation. [More…]
The Committee notes that Victoria is the only State which, at present, has comprehensive environment legislation. [More…]
We believe that the Commonwealth should encourage other States to adopt legislation similar to the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
Accordingly, the Committee has recommended that the Australian Environment Council consider the need to introduce in each State legislation similar to the Commonwealth legislation. [More…]
The report emphasises that there is a need for the Commonwealth to maintain powers that would enable it to intervene in environmental matters of national concern. [More…]
Even if the States do adopt legislation similar to the Commonwealth’s the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act must remain to allow in some instances independent Commonwealth assessment. [More…]
-by leave-I commend the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation for his report and say that I was proud to have worked with this Committee. [More…]
The legislation that has been confirmedthe Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 and the Australian Heritage Commission Act 1975- has been given a great deal of publicity, particularly in economic journals, because it has been anticipated that pressures particularly from mining companies would lead to a watering down, if not the complete abolition, of legislation of this type. [More…]
When we received evidence from some of the mining companies- they put the view forward that all environmental matters ought to be the responsibility of the States- I think we were all suspicious of the fact that their enthusiasm for ending Commonwealth involvement in environmental matters was because one or two of the States in particular seemed to give the Australian mining companies almost a totally free go. [More…]
I hope that the Government realises that it was considered by eight members from different parties who came up with very sensible solutions to some of the problems, and that there will not be any diminution- other than what is recommended in this report- of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 and the Australian Heritage Commission Act 1975. [More…]
It is a pity that on a matter which is of significance to the environment and conservation in Australia that those who have been involved in an extensive survey of existing legislation are given such limited time to speak on this matter. [More…]
I turn now to some of the recommendations in the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
They emphasise the intent of the Committee that environmental and conservation considerations be discussed openly and without the privacy of government inquiries and government departmental actions. [More…]
12 states that the Minister should provide details of the reasons why a direction on an environmental impact statement on particular proposals is not given. [More…]
Those recommendations show just where the Committee believes amendments should be made to allow greater public participation and discussion on matters affecting the environment and conservation. [More…]
The Australian Conservation Foundation was extremely helpful, as it always is in inquiries by the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
I get a little tired of those who seek to use the ACF as a whipping-boy for anti-conservation and anti-environmental outbursts. [More…]
I hope that then we will be able to say that at least in the decade leading up to that 200th anniversary the Australian Government and the Australian Parliament have done something to protect the environment and to conserve this country. [More…]
-by leave-I too would like to comment on the role of the Chairman and the staff of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
There were pressures on the Government, particularly from the Australian Mining Industry Council and its affiliates, for quite drastic changes in relation to environmental legislation. [More…]
Within the Government itself there were signs of considerable pressures to the extent that extremely important departments such as the Department of the Treasury and the Department of National Development- critical departments in terms of their interests in and their management of the environment- were extremely reluctant to appear before the Committee. [More…]
I refer briefly to a further agreement by Committee members that the Commonwealth has a direct and continuing responsibility in relation to preserving the environment across Australia. [More…]
We received evidence and were aware of the fact that in Australia at the present time a number of major projects which are of very great environmental significance are being developed. [More…]
Quite clearly those projects which are capital intensive and energy intensive must have a massive effect on the environment in the broadest sense. [More…]
Those mining projects are important environmentally for several reasons. [More…]
I emphasise this point because it illustrates the development of our understanding of the environment and for that reason it is important to refer to it. [More…]
We will have to understand that the environment concerns not simply the matter of protecting trees and rare species but it involves the survival of the country. [More…]
The Australian environment is fragile. [More…]
I believe that the Committee’s report drawing attention to those issues opens up an area of environment inquiry that ought to be pursued. [More…]
-by leave-The report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation is significant for three major reasons. [More…]
The two pieces of legislation under consideration are the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 and the Australian Heritage Commission Act 1975. [More…]
I will make few comments on the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act except to say that the Committee fully recognises the role of the State governments and their environmental responsibilities. [More…]
However, it also recognises the contribution that this Act has had in developing industry awareness, government awareness at the three levels of government and a public awareness of this nation’s resources and the need for their exploitation under conditions that ensure adequate environmental protection. [More…]
I urge the Government to take full consideration of this report and the implications if any major decisions that would not result in the effective management of Australia ‘s natural resources or of our environment were implemented. [More…]
Much emphasis was placed by some witnesses on the damage by the mining industry to the environment, particularly the damage in the Darling Ranges of Western Australia by the mining industry and the bauxite industry and the general damage to forest areas surrounding such mining areas. [More…]
Somewhat less emphasis was placed on the damage to the environment in that area by the effects of farming and urban development. [More…]
Commonwealth involvement in environmental protection be restricted to geographic areas under the direct control of the Commonwealth (e.g., Commonwealth Territories), Commonwealth works and activities, activities which the States have referred to the Commonwealth and matters considered by the Commonwealth Government to be of national significance-, [More…]
I believe that the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act should be implemented with common sense and reason. [More…]
Finally, I believe that local government and the State governments today have a much greater awareness of environmental issues than they had a few years ago. [More…]
I believe that this has been largely brought about by the sensible use of the Commonwealth Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
R;/ BAILLIEU (La Trobe)-by leave-Being a member of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, I appreciate the opportunity of having a couple of minutes in which to make some comments on the Committee’s report and its inquiry into the environmental protection legislation of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The threat to the environment of this country is not only of an industrial nature. [More…]
In many instances they worked in a tough and harsh environment. [More…]
I wish to say to this House of Parliament that I am getting tired, as a member of parliament, of having to deal with unemployed people who, by reason of government policies, are being driven to the point where we now have more and more suicides, where more and more people are getting hooked on drugs, more and more marriages are breaking up, and more and more people are lacking any capacity to relate to people in the most basic sense let alone relate to a working environment. [More…]
The authors of those two reports are presumably referring to several sentences in the published report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation entitled ‘Environmental Protection: Adequacy of Legislative and Administrative Arrangements’. [More…]
It is true that the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation invited the Department of the Treasury to respond to a series of questions. [More…]
I will confer with my colleague, the Minister for Science and the Environment, and seek from him the details of the CSIRO funding. [More…]
-This afternoon the honourable member for Batman (Mr Howe) raised as a matter of privilege the alleged refusal of the Secretary to the Department of the Treasury to answer certain questions in a questionnaire forwarded by the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in relation to the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act and the Australian Heritage Commission Act. [More…]
On 21 February 1979 the Chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges) wrote to the Treasurer (Mr Howard) inviting a submission from the Department of the Treasury in relation to the Committee’s inquiry into Environmental Protection- Adequacy of Legislative and Administrative Arrangements. [More…]
The latter half of the 1970s must accordingly be seen as a period in which the Commonwealth has forced the States to allow the urban environment to deteriorate and the extension of services in rural areas to be curtailed. [More…]
It is extraordinary that someone who has come out of such a fine environment, from such a fine school in the western suburbs, should have degenerated so much and that someone else who has come out of the same environment should have flourished and will soon be Labor Treasurer of this country. [More…]
Firstly, the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation was tabled on 1 June 1978. [More…]
The Committee was concerned to gain an appreciation of the perception by Commonwealth Government departments and instrumentalities of the relationship between policies and programs of the Commonwealth and the urban environment. [More…]
The Committee can only conclude that the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs has no perception as to the relationship between its activities and their impact on the urban environment. [More…]
There are many quotes similar to that where the findings of the Committee were that it was a serious matter and the Parliament ought to consider whether in fact there was any sensibility whatsoever with a number of departments which were making decisions affecting the urban environment. [More…]
Another report brought down by the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation was the Quinkan Galleries report. [More…]
I refer to the report of the inquiry into the urban environment conducted by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
A lack of perception as to the impact of the decisions by departments on the way in which the urban environment is affected. [More…]
The very point of the House of Representatives Estimates committee’s recommendations was that unless there is a department with the active responsibility of ensuring co-ordination between those departments their perceptions will be far too narrow and decisions will be taken with adverse impacts upon the urban environment. [More…]
It is of very great importance to the development of our cities and towns that the Government read and reread the report on the urban environment and that it take note of that report. [More…]
When that Bill was passed the Commission came under the joint administration of the then Minister for the Environment and Conservation and me as the Minister for Urban and Regional Development. [More…]
If we consult the annual report of the Heritage Commission we will see that there are merely two people to deal with all these proposals, all the objections and all other matters relating to the natural environment for the whole of Australia. [More…]
There is one person to deal with the built environment and one for Aboriginal sites. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
My understanding from the Minister for Science and the Environment is that the drums were encased in concrete but that only half a kilogram of plutonium was taken out of the country. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service 1978-79, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Science and the Environment relating to the report. [More…]
The term ‘disarmament’ is most usefully seen as shorthand for ‘disarmament and arms control’, and covering a wide range of activities which could be put under these six headings: Firstly, the negotiations between the superpowers to control nuclear armaments and otherwise limit or control the development of the strategic environment or particular weapon systems; secondly, the discussions in international organisations, particularly at the United Nations, among wider groups of countries to seek the elimination, or ban the use of, particular categories of weapons; thirdly, the diplomatic conferences sponsored by the International Committee of the Red Cross to improve international law relating to humanitarian rights in armed conflict; fourthly, the various activities underway to prevent the diversion of nuclear material to military or explosive use; fifthly, regional negotiations to secure limitations to or a reduction of force levels, or to establish procedures for war avoidance; and finally, unilateral actions by countries to shape their defence forces and their diplomatic posture to diminish the prospects of conflict and enable reallocation of national resources in their region to social purposes rather than military expenditure. [More…]
We must take positions outside that particular environment. [More…]
It has become clear during recent days that fears stressed earlier this year about the future of Commonwealth environment legislation are correct. [More…]
The Minister for Trade and Resources (Mr Anthony) is leading a Cabinet vendetta against environmental protection legislation. [More…]
Together with his hatchetman, the Treasurer (Mr Howard), he has been proposing to amend Commonwealth legislation in order to exempt such major items as foreign investment from scrutiny under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act and to hand over all responsibility for environment protection to the States, except that relating to Commonwealth projects. [More…]
The campaign has been carried out behind a veil of Cabinet and departmental secrecy at the same time as the House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment and Conservation was publicly investigating the same subject. [More…]
Those who have read the documents could have come to the conclusion only that the Commonwealth was preparing to water down environmental controls and hand over virtually all its responsibilities in this field to the States. [More…]
In a statement that was typical of the deception, deceit and doubletalk that has highlighted the term of office of the Fraser Government, he said in the next breath that all that was going to happen was that the Government would hand over to the States the responsibility for environmental matters- that is, all those projects for which the Federal Government has no direct responsibility. [More…]
In other words, unless a Federal Government department is directly involved in building a project, the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act will not be invoked. [More…]
Both the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report and the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) in his memorandum of 11 June, have stated that only one State, Victoria, has comprehensive environmental protection legislation. [More…]
The environment would be the loser. [More…]
The Deputy Prime Minister has stated that he would like to have environmental laws more simply administered than they are at the moment. [More…]
The Treasurer seems to have a similar callous record in respect of the environment. [More…]
Yesterday morning’s Melbourne Age observed that even if there is foreign investment in the Rundle oil shale deposit, the project is likely to escape an environmental study. [More…]
As a result, amendments foreshadowed by the Deputy Prime Minister would give responsibility for safeguarding the environment to that great environmentalist, the Queensland Minister for Mines and Energy. [More…]
The new procedures do not include public participation and environmental impact statements. [More…]
The Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation made specific recommendations in relation to State and Federal participation in environment assessment. [More…]
The Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 be amended to give the Minister for Science and the Environment discretion in the application of the Act if proposals have been subject to State procedures and that the State assessments of the proposals satisfy the provisions of the Commonwealth Act. [More…]
The Australian Environment Council consider the need to introduce in each State, legislation similar to the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1 974. [More…]
The Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974, its procedures and the administrative arrangements with the States should not be amended in a manner which would preclude an independent assessment of proposals being undertaken by the Commonwealth. [More…]
Victoria is the only State which has comprehensive environmental legislation although legislation is currently before the New South Wales Parliament and is in the process of being drafted in South Australia. [More…]
The Committee believes that the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 is the most effective means yet developed to ensure the broad examination of proposals and alternatives and to enable full community involvement. [More…]
The Commonwealth should encourage those States without environmental legislation to adopt legislation similar to the Impact of Proposals Act. [More…]
These same departments were also reluctant to provide the Committee on Environment and Conservation with detailed evidence concerning the Act. [More…]
Yet it is these departments which are involved in foreign investment ventures, such as mining, which obviously can have marked effects on the environment. [More…]
Environment, Housing and Community Development on 23 November 1978, said: [More…]
They probably are, knowing the honourable member’s failure to worry about the environment of his State. [More…]
It therefore must carry out a crusade to gain exemption from the Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
Just as its Minister has a blinkered approach to government, so too is the Treasury blinded to the long term social and environmental consequences of its policies. [More…]
A memorandum, prepared by the Minister for Science and the Environment on 1 1 June this year for the Cabinet review, shows not only that other departments are attacking the Act but also that the Minister for Science and the Environment, who administers the Act, is finding ways to subvert the spirit if not the letter of the Act. [More…]
He proposed to take environmental assessment out of the public domain. [More…]
The change would facilitate the ability of the Environment Minister to take action to conclude his environmental consideration of many proposals without having to resort to directing an impact statement and subjecting the matter concerned to public review. [More…]
we will ensure in development projects, which are likely to have a significant and/or damaging effect on the environment and involving the Commonwealth, that Environmental Impact Statements are prepared prior to decisions having been made . [More…]
It seems ridiculous that the Minister should seek to change the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act so that no impact statement need be prepared, since in the past financial year only two environmental impact statements have been ordered. [More…]
In 1976-77 and in 1977-78, 34 environmental impact statements were ordered by the Department. [More…]
Since 1975, 3,230 proposals regarded as environmentally significant have been put forward, but only 50 of those proposals have needed environmental impact statements to be prepared. [More…]
The Standing Committee recommended: the Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act be amended to require the Minister for Science and the Environment to provide, on request, details of the reasons for not directing an Environmental Impact Statement on particular proposals considered to be of environmental significance. [More…]
However, the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act is a model for the States to follow in environmental legislation. [More…]
The Commonwealth has a responsibility to provide a lead to the States and the Cabinet must not abrogate this responsibility by destroying the Act and reverting back to the dark days of the 1960s when the environment was up for rape and pillage by every form of development that was going on. [More…]
The subject that he has put up for discussion is ‘the Government’s stated intention to hand over to the States certain areas of responsibility for environment protection’. [More…]
The simple fact is that the Government has not stated an intention to absolve itself from the area of environmental protection. [More…]
This Government has a record second to none in the area of environmental protection. [More…]
This Government has made achievements in the area of environmental protection- not just nonsense, not just scatter. [More…]
The Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act also requires environmental impact statements to be prepared in respect of developments outside Australia. [More…]
What Australian Government or political party would have the pretence to suggest that it should make an environmental impact assessment into development proposals in a foreign country? [More…]
It is not a question of walking away from environmental issues. [More…]
It is a question of introducing responsible, genuine and logical measures to ensure that the Australian environment is protected. [More…]
The Liberal-National Country Party Government has the score on the board in environment protection and we are not going to walk away from that responsibility. [More…]
I refer to the recent report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation which examined the preservation of the Quinkan Galleries on the Cape York Peninsula. [More…]
Department of Science and the Environment [More…]
In the Budget the Government has also recognised the need for industry to be highly innovative and technologically advanced if it is to compete effectively in the environment of the 1980s, hence funding for industral research and development assistance has been increased by 33 per cent, following a 75 per cent increase last year. [More…]
This will require our industries to adopt new attitudes towards change and competition and in particular to look increasingly beyond the limited environment of the Australian market. [More…]
One of the departments that Estimates Committee B had before it was the Department of Science and the Environment. [More…]
The Government looks to such studies, and to discussions with other governments, to develop proposals regarding spent fuel which will take full account of all relevant aspects, including safety, the environment and non-proliferation, as well as the concerns of all countries which might be affected by such proposals. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Australian Research Grants Committee on grants approved for 1980 together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Science and the Environment relating to the report. [More…]
Up on the hill there is a galvanised and concrete structure called the gaol which would do credit to Idi Amin from the point of view of incarcerating people in the worst sort of environment. [More…]
Can honourable members imagine the environmental impact of that sort of situation on the women and children in the Yarrabah community- with guard dogs, police in uniform, gaol-like conditions and visiting magistrates? [More…]
In looking at the situation in terms of welfare and advancement, welfare would relate to good personal health, hygiene, a good diet and the right sort of environment. [More…]
The principle on which it was established in 1933 and on which it still operates 46 years later is that ali Australians, no matter which State they live in, deserve the right to receive equivalent government services, thereby providing the environment for a relatively equal standard of living throughout the community. [More…]
If TAA and Ansett can so readily respond to the threat of competition the Government should be moving to create a more competitive and innovative aviation environment. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 13 September 1979: [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: (1)and (2)Yes [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment will consult with his colleague, the Minister for Health, on these matters when the NH&MRC’s advice has been received. [More…]
The National Air Quality Data Centre (NAQDC) is established within the Department of Science and the Environment to collate air quality statistics, including data of atmospheric lead levels, in collaboration with State authorities. [More…]
1 ) Has a decision been made in relation to the proposed transfer from Melbourne to Canberra of the Working Environment Division of his Depanment. [More…]
I am informed by my Depanment that there has been an assessment of the financial costs involved in the relocation of the Working Environment Division. [More…]
In addition there have been discussions with officers of the Working Environment Division on the proposal. [More…]
4580 concerning the proposed transfer of staff of the Working Environment Division of his Depanment from Melbourne to Canberra, have Laurie Doyle and Graeme Coyle of his Department carried out a survey of the views of the staff involved in the proposed transfer, as well as a study of the circumstances of the section, and its functions. [More…]
1 ) I am informed by my Department that Messrs Duke and Coyle were instructed to examine duties and functions of officers of the Working Environment Division (WED) with a view to examining positions for transfer to Canberra. [More…]
I have not had any discussions with the Minister for Science and the Environment on this matter in recent times. [More…]
To ensure that the uptake of” lead from air is not excessive, the Council recommends that the maximum permissible level of lead in air in the urban environment should be 1.5 micrograms of lead per cubic metre of air, averaged over three calendar month periods. [More…]
Since Mr Speaker had his trip to France, the European Parliament and other places, I have been very glad to represent this Parliament at not only a debate on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, to which I was accompanied by the honourable member for Moore (Mr Hyde), but also at a seminar in Geneva run by the Interparliamentary Union, a seminar on the environment. [More…]
The Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, in its report on ‘Industrial Research and Development in Australia’ dated May this year, has provided what I believe to be cogent and good arguments against the views which seem to be those of the Minister, if we deduce correctly from his second reading speech. [More…]
The Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment also quoted from a paper by Professor Brian Johns, the Director of the Government’s Bureau of Industry Economics, when he argued that it is: [More…]
prohibit restrictive practices related to patents and licences, as recommended by, among others, the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment in its report on ‘Industrial Research and Development in Australia . [More…]
I refer firstly to the suggestion that these people are somehow the product of family conditions, personal attitudes and perhaps their immediate social environment, rather than their being in any sense the victims of larger social forces. [More…]
The presentation of these Bills to the House exposes the concern which he has for trying to remove not so much the disciplinary environment of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force but the many tedious and antiquated machinery matters. [More…]
To mention some salient positions, he was chairman of the Australian Universities Commission, Secretary to the Prime Minister’s Department, Secretary to the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, a member of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Chairman of the Snowy Mountains Council, and Secretary to the Department of Minerals and Energy. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 23 October 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Another object is to assist in promoting an environment which affords the members of the different cultural groups and ethnic communities in Australia the opportunity to participate in Australian society and to achieve their own potential. [More…]
to assist in promoting an environment that alfords the members of the different cultural groups and ethnic communities in Australia the opportunity to participate fully in Australian society and achieve their own potential. [More…]
It is in this environment that the Government has had to take action. [More…]
Together with the Government of New South Wales, we supported the application for a further extension of the suspension in the hope that the consultations could take place in a calm and stable environment. [More…]
The working group will be representative of the Department of Home Affairs, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Department of Education, the Department of Social Security, the Department of Science and the Environment and the National Library of Australia. [More…]
We have to make the laws in that environment, but when those laws have to be interpreted people will go to a building which is quite magnificent from the point of view of cost structure. [More…]
People, even justices of the High Court are the product of their environment. [More…]
Although the emphasis on the objectives of these stabilisation arrangements has changed over time, they were generally aimed at providing a more certain economic environment for wheat producer decision making. [More…]
Sole trader provisions as presently operated by the Australian Wheat Board provide a more certain environment for both producers and consumers of wheat. [More…]
It was decided by both the New South Wales Minister for Planning and Environment, Mr Landa, and me that there ought to be appropriate consultations by the Major Airport Needs of Sydney Committee with as wide a range of community interest groups as possible in respect of the development of proposals for the future airport needs of Sydney. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the sixth report by the Australian Ionising Radiation Advisory Council entitled ‘Radioactive Waste Management 1979’, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Science and the Environment relating to that report. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the annual report of the Supervising Scientist for the Alligator Rivers Region, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Science and the Environment relating to that annual report. [More…]
Exhaustive studies were carried out by the Department of Transport after the October 1977 crash to determine what caused the problems that arose and how the deficiencies in the drainage system could be overcome to prevent dangerous liquids that enter the drainage system from the street gutters, outside Mascot airport from traversing the airport environment itself. [More…]
I believe that we are seeking three principal objectives: Firstly, economic growth and higher national prosperity, particularly through the provision of an efficient service to industry, commerce and agriculture, secondly, the meeting of social needs through securing a reasonable level of personal mobility; and thirdly, the minimising of the harmful effects in loss of life and damage to the environment that are often the direct physical result of the transport we use. [More…]
Similarly, the environmental constraints on transport systems, long not understood, are now being seen increasingly to be critically important limiting factors. [More…]
It is obvious that the Labor Party simply fails to recognise that sustained industrial growth can occur only in an atmosphere of confidence- confidence that the Commonwealth Government will act responsibly to maintain an appropriate and stable economic environment. [More…]
As a government we accept the responsibility for providing industry with an appropriate environment and suitable policy guidelines, including industry specific policies where these are needed. [More…]
Accordingly we have pursued a policy of gradualism in respect of tariff reductions and, where appropriate, have provided for reductions to be phased in so that industry has advance warning of those changes and time to adapt to operating in an environment of lower levels of protection. [More…]
Those reports cover a whole range of activities- health, social welfare, the environment, law and government and so on. [More…]
Therefore, Australia’s own strategic environment is influenced to Australia’s disadvantage by any deterioriation in the Middle East, with its uncertain effects on super-power relationships in many areas of the world. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 25 October 1979: [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 6 November 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 6 November 1 979: [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that the grants to voluntary conservation organisations which are now administered by the Department of Science and the Environment were recently reviewed by the Australian Heritage Commission. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
I have decided to examine the program in the light of the changes to administrative responsibilities for the program with the creation of the Department of Science and the Environment last December. [More…]
It must have capabilities matched to our own strategic and geographic environment and appropriate to our future needs at a cost that we can afford. [More…]
One of the things that goes with the pipeline construction is an environmental impact study. [More…]
I was pleased to see the Press statement from the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) on 16 November 1979. [More…]
He announced that the Young to Wagga Wagga natural gas pipeline would become the subject of an environmental impact statement and that once this was available public comment would be invited on the draft. [More…]
I think it needs to be said that the record in an environmental sense of the Pipeline Authority has been a very good one. [More…]
Photographs in the sixth report of the Pipeline Authority show in graphic detail that the environmental impact of the laying of the pipeline is virtually negligible. [More…]
I hope that no problems of an environmental nature will be associated with this project. [More…]
This will have a disastrous impact on the’ environment in Wollongong because the State Government said that it wants to bring all coal except for two million tonnes into Wollongong by train. [More…]
It is intriguing that the New South Wales Government not only is determined to disrupt the environment of Wollongong with train traffic, but it is also determined to maintain a high density of truck traffic on the Mount Ousley road despite a proposal to the contrary. [More…]
Those capabilities that are required to provide a military response to the lesser contingencies which could arise with little or no warning; those high performance capabilities relating to a general strategic requirement as dictated by the characteristics of the environment rather than by specific contingencies and required to provide deterrence against the use of military pressures or military means by a potential enemy to achieve its objectives and which could not be acquired within the period of warning likely to be available before a major threat to Australia could develop; and a representative selection of second tier or substitute capabilities- moderate cost, moderate performance, short lead time systems, that could be acquired in relatively large numbers during a period of developing threat- to enable the development of operating techniques, procedures and doctrines in a short period of crisis. [More…]
Tasmania: Minister for Environment and Water Resources [More…]
-The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (I), (2) and (3)- The information requested is of a detailed commercial nature and as the airlines concerned are operating in a commercial environment it would not be appropriate to disclose such information [More…]
Environment, Housing and Community Development (iii) [More…]
The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development was abolished on 5 December 1978. [More…]
The name of the Department of Science was changed to the Department of Science and the Environment on 5 December 1978. [More…]
Science and the Environment: Uranium (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 22 August 1979: [More…]
What are the (a) maximum and (b) minimum estimates of the (i) past and (ii) projected proportion of the costs of administration of the Department of Science and the Environment devoted to the marketing, use, supervision, control and assessment of Australia’s uranium ore and/or the products, services and activities derived from its existence. [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Government’s policy in respect of uranium development takes fully into account the need for environmental protection. [More…]
Development approval for particular projects will only be given following, amongst other things, completion of the necessary environmental requirements. [More…]
I have referred to the Council Pancontinental Mining Limited ‘s final environmental impact statement on the Jabiluka project together with the comments, suggestions and recommendations provided by the Minister for Science and the Environment under the Environment Protection Administrative Procedures of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974. lt is my intention to do the same in respect of Noranda Australia Limited ‘s Koongarra project and of other proposals for uranium development. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 22 November 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
1 ) The proposed establishment and operation of an aluminium smelter by Aluminium Pechiney Australia Pty Ltd, is being examined in accordance with the Administrative Procedures under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
Other smelter proposals in the Hunter Valley have not yet been formally referred to my Department for action under the Environment Protection Administrative [More…]
Any assessment of proposed smelters in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act will examine all emissions and their possible effects on the surrounding vegetation and communities. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 12 September 1 979: [More…]
Does the Depanment of Science and the Environment override the Depanment of Health in monitoring safety. [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: (1)1 have seen the report in the Northern Territory News to which the honourable member refers. [More…]
I am not aware of any article on Antarctica in the Washington Post of 18 September 1979, but on 17 September 1 979 an article in the Washington Post reported comments made by the leader of the Australian delegation, Ambassador Brennan, in response to several questions directed to him at a press briefing seminar on ‘Antarctic Resources and the Environment’ held in Washington on 14 September 1979. [More…]
In the twenty years since the Treaty was signed Australia and the other Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties have adopted and implemented many measures in furtherance of the objectives of the Treaty, including measures for the protection and preservation of the Antarctic environment. [More…]
1 Branch, Department of Science and the Environment. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 25 October 1979: [More…]
Procedures for the use of such devices have not been discussed in the consultative bodies established by the Commonwealth, the States and the Northern Territory in relation to the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Act 1978 for which I am responsible and which provides for the development in consultation with the States of codes of practice relating to the health, safety and protection of the environment in the course of nuclear activities. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 22 November 1979: [More…]
-The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
What action has been taken to implement the recommendation of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation relating to the relaxation of the export policy to allow Government controlled export of aviary-bred birds and wild common pest species. [More…]
and (2) As stated by me in the House of Representatives on 31st March 1971 (Hansard page 1230) The Australian Forestry -Council at its meeting held on 10th July 1970, agreed that its Standing Committee should examine aspects of forestry activities in relation to the maintenance of the quality of the environment and report on its examination to the Council at, its next meeting. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]
I think it is fairly obvious and well known that the burning of fossil fuels has an impact on the environment. [More…]
It was good to hear the honourable member for Canberra (Mr Haslem) describing the sort of city he would like Canberra to be- a modern swinging city with good quality homes, all mod cons, all the facilities we have come to associate with a modern city set in a very attractive rural environment. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister whether he is aware that in this House on 10 April last year, when referring to Kakadu National Park, the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development said: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 1 1 September 1979: [More…]