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

• My interest there was not to examine casino facilities, although quite obviously the casino facilities are the basis of the real development of that place, but to examine the possibility of transforming a desert environment into an improved, beautiful and scenic location. [More…]

• Senator Wright said the core of development plans for Alice Springs would be preservation of the natural environment. [More…]

• 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 I 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…]

• It is therefore given, with safeguards, the responsibility and flexibility of fixing salaries which are suited to its commercial environment. [More…]

• That there be referred in the Standing Committee on Social Environment the following matters for inquiry and report as soon as possible after the appointment of members of the Committee - [More…]

• It refers to a Press report today that the establishment of the proposed Office of the Environment is to be delayed. [More…]

• Bearing in mind the reduction in Commonwealth expenditure and the restrictions in the growth of Public Service employment, for the time being we are deferring the formal establishment of a Commonwealth Office of the Environment. [More…]

• This amendment deletes the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• That is that the words Standing Committee on Social Environment be deleted from the motion with a view to inserting the amendment moved by Senator Little? [More…]

• the Standing Committee on Social Environment (this shall include Housing. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment the following matters: [More…]

• The continuing oversight of the problems of pollution, including ways and means of preserving the environment from pollution. [More…]

• The only point at issue is whether the reference would be more appropriately dealt with by the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• I inform the Senate thatI have received notice from the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson), the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Murphy) and the Leader of the Australian Democratic Labor Party (Senator Gair) appointing senators to the following committees: The Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment: Senators Laucke. [More…]

• In view of the lengthy deadlock between the Department of National Development and the Department of the Interior over proclamation of the Northern Territory Top End National Park, will the Minister for National Development offer himself to the social environment committee for questioning and so allay the fears of many conservationists that he has become unwittingly a lackey of the big mining interests in this country? [More…]

• Undoubtedly the results of those inquiries will be made available to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and any other Ministers who have responsibility for such matters within the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, been drawn to a article appearing in this morning’s ‘Canberra Times’ in which the Goodradigbee Shire Council health surveyor, Mr K. Kirwan, claims that Canberra’s sewerage outfalls are responsible for the present pollution danger to the Murrumbidgee river system? [More…]

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

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts a question relating to the environment. [More…]

• In the present context, litter problems are said by some to assume an importance as environmental problems. [More…]

• I indicate that I will refer the honourable senator’s comments to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts whether he has seen a report of a statement by the Minister for Shipping and Transport in Whyalla on Friday advocating a nation wide approach to protect the Australian coast from marine pollution? [More…]

• Estimates Committee E - Attorney-General’s Department, Postmaster-General’s Department, Department of Immigration, Department of Social Services, Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• Undoubtedly if a protest has been made it will have gone to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• In view of the continued silence of the Minister for the Interior in the face of fierce agitation by the Postmaster-General’s Department for the construction of a communications tower on Black Mountain, I ask: Will he give an assurance that if a request emanates from a group of Canberra citizens for an investigation of the proposal by the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment he will defer making any ministerial decision until such an inquiry takes place? [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts aware that Aborigines of Victoria River Downs station in the Northern Territory are still living under appalling conditions? ‘ [More…]

• I am quite sure that the Minister for the Environment. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts been drawn to legislation being introduced in the Victorian Parliament by which penalties for air pollution in that State will be drastically increased as a result of a maximum penalty of $5,000 being imposed for the contravention of any of the provisions of the Clean Air Act and a maximum penalty of $2,000 being imposed for each day the offence continues after conviction or an order by a court? [More…]

• That the petition be referred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment for its information. [More…]

• Indeed, the whole subject of conservation of the environment is not a matter upon which the Commonwealth Government has any head of power. [More…]

• That being concerned with the environment of Adelaide in the Stale of South Australia and the growing noise nuisance of the Adelaide Airport the petitioners pray that no action will be taken whereby the Department of Civil Aviation will be permitted to extend runways at the Adelaide Airport at its existing location or over other adjacent land. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should, through its Standing Committee on the Social Environment, examine whether construction of a tower of this nature on Black Mountain is in the public interest, having particular regard to the need to preserve the beauty and environmental quality of the national Capital. [More…]

• I shall ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts to provide suitable information for the honourable senator. [More…]

• Whilst recognising that the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts is a newly established Department and obviously some reasonable lime is necessary to obtain full efficiency, the Committee, in its examination of the Estimates of the Department, found that there was a considerable degree of confusion, lack of information and slow progress in reaching establishment in certain areas, particularly the section dealing with the environment. [More…]

• 1 present the report from the Standing Committee on Social Environment relating to Canberra sewage effluent, together with the evidence. [More…]

• Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister forthe Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts a question. [More…]

• In any present planning are continuing steps being taken to ensure the preservation of the environment and to prevent pollution from spreading to one of the few areas of the New South Wales coastline which remains substantially free from pollution at the. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should, through its Standing Committee on the Social Environment, examine whether construction of a tower of this nature on Black Mountain is in the public interest, having particular regard to the need to preserve the beauty and environmental quality of the National Capital. [More…]

• The committee comprises representatives of the Department of Shipping and Transport, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the Department of Navy, the Department of Primary Industry and the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• That the petitions relating to the PostmasterGeneral’s Department, presented to the Senate this day, be referred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment for investigation and report. [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that the circumstances surrounding this discussion involve both the environment, on the one hand, and Australia’s involvement in the international transportation system, on the other? [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether his Department has had any conference in depth with the Department of the Environment about this matter. [More…]

• Further, will he inquire whether some study of this relationship can be undertaken at the United- Nations conference on the environment in Stockholm in June? [More…]

• I shall consult with my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, as to any announcement concerning the delegation to that conference. [More…]

• I ask: Is Australia to be represented at the United Nations sponsored Conference on the Human Environment which is to be held in Stockholm next June? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representingthe Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and Minister-in-Charge of Tourist Activities. [More…]

• That the Postmaster-General’s Department, Central Administration Board’s Policy of recentralising and concentrating certain staffs, under what is called the Area Management Project, to the great detriment of the economies of the towns and related rural areas, and to the detriment of the overall morale, efficiency and independence of the Australian Post Office is against the public interest and should be made the subject of special investigation by the Senate’s Social Environment Committee and by the Senate’s Finance and Government Operations Standing Committee. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• It has not been raised to date in the Australian Environment Council. [More…]

• Does the transfer of the Australian Fauna Authorities Conference Secretariat to the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts mean that the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Wildlife Research Division will also come under the control of the Minister. [More…]

• The status of the CSIRO Division of Wildlife Research will not be affected by the transfer of the Australian Fauna Authorities Conference to the Department of the Environment, Aborigines andthe Arts. [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• What role will the Department of lite Environment, Aborigines and the Arts adopt to ensure that sound conservation principles are adhered to by all the parties working on the Shoalhaven Scheme. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• In view of the fact that 6 identical petitions were referred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment on 22nd March 1972, I, as a matter of consistency, move: [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment the 4 petitions received by the Senate this day relating to the PostmasterGeneral’s Department. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Aborigines and the Arts upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided me with the following reply to the honourable senator’s question. [More…]

• On 9th March 1972 Senator Bonner asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, whether any thought was being given to the employment of Torres Strait Islanders to deal with the problem of the crown of thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]

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

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• Bearing in mind the urgent concern which was expressed by all members of the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution, can the Minister indicate whether the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has taken any of the recommended steps, that is, the steps recommended by that Committee in its report made nearly 2 years ago? [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should call upon the Senate Social Environment Committee to investigate the issue. [More…]

• Mr President, at an earlier stage today I sought leave to make a statement at a later hour this day on behalf of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson). [More…]

• The statement is entitled ‘Australian Environment, Commonwealth Policy and Achievements’. [More…]

• asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Does the Minister intend seeking the enactment of a replica of the United States of America National Environment Quality Act 1969 to enable his Department to operate positively for the protection of the environment. [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I set out the Government’s policy on the protection of the environment in my statement to Parliament of 24 May 1972. [More…]

• Legislation along the lines of the National Environment Policy Act of 1969 of the United States of America is not proposed in that statement. [More…]

• The spokesman would not comment on the charge this would mean destroying the natural environment. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a summary report of the Australian Delegation to the United Nation Conference on the Human Environment which was held at Stockholm this year. [More…]

• Will the Minister consult with the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts in order to formulate standards for television advertising that would prohibit advertisements that display or promote defilement of the environment? [More…]

• Doubtless the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, whom I represent, has also seen it. [More…]

• I take it that the question is directed to me as representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, although I imagine that the question should be directed to the Minister representing the Treasurer. [More…]

• I present the report from the Standing Committee on Social Environment relating to the proposed construction of a Post Office tower on Black Mountain in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• Will the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Greenwood) ascertain from his officers whether any of the members of the Commonwealth Advertising Council are appointed to the Council by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts? [More…]

• One might argue that TransAustralia Airlines is a commercial enterprise operating in a competitive, commercial environment and that it should have complete freedom to determine such matters as the salaries of its senior executives. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator CAVANAGH- The Minister for the Environment and Conservation has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Customs and Excise whether he was one of those who attended the Melbourne Conference of Commonwealth and State Environment and Conservation Ministers. [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment has, as I think every member of this chamber has, had lots of representation on and protests about the Lake Pedder project, which is essentially a matter for the Tasmanian Government. [More…]

• An environmental inquiry is to be conducted for the purpose of ascertaining how someone could go ahead with a project in relation to which there is much opposition without taking into consideration the impact that it may have on the environment and for the purpose of ascertaining how the Lake Pedder project came about despite the great public outcry against it, as well as to ensure that any mistakes which may have been made in the decision to go ahead with the Lake Pedder project will not occur with respect to similar projects in other States. [More…]

• We hope that the inquiry will show the justification for requiring State and Commonwealth governments to make environmental impact studies prior to taking decisions to proceed with such projects. [More…]

• Environment. [More…]

• 4 of the Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee entitled Strontium-90 and caesium- 137 in the Australian environment during 1970 and some results for 1971 (September 1972). [More…]

• -BROCKMAN asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator CAVANAGH- The Minister for the Environment and Conservation has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• and (4) The Minister for the Environment and Conservation indicated in his reply dated 3rd April 1973 to the Western Australian Minister that the whole question of provision of financial assistance by the Australian Government for water development scheme is under review. [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation ascertain from his colleague whether he has studied the Senate committee reports on water and air pollution? [More…]

• When are we to see some real action in relation to the protection of the environment? [More…]

• The recommendations of the National Health and Medical Research Council of November 1 972 relating to national emission standards for air pollutants is being considered by the Emission Standards Sub-Committee of the Australian Environment Council. [More…]

• Further action with respect to the adoption of these standards by legislation will depend on the advice given to the Government by the Australian Environment Council. [More…]

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]

• The study will have regard to all relevant considerations, including the economics of the proposal and its environmental implications. [More…]

• An environmental impact statement will be prepared as part of the feasibility study. [More…]

• It is Government policy that public hearings be held to consider important environmental impact statements prepared in relation to proposals significantly affecting the environment. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]

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

• The adviser from the Department of the Environment and Conservation is not here. [More…]

• Under the heading of environment and conservation I desire to know whether this appropriation includes any expenditure for the Cass committee’s inquiry into Lake Pedder. [More…]

• -Mr President, I ask for leave to make a statement on the activities of the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• I refer to the report of the ministerial working party on kangaroo conservation which he tabled recently, I think at my request, and to the accompanying statement by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Cass, which was also tabled. [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Cass, has written to the Western Australian Minister for Fisheries and Fauna, the Honourable A. W. Bickerton, setting out the deficiencies in the Western Australian Kangaroo Management Programs as submitted by his Department. [More…]

• The Secretary of the Department of Environment and Conservation has also provided this information to the Director of the Department of Fisheries and Fauna. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation aware of the growing tent town on the parklands opposite Parliament House? [More…]

• Is it environment? [More…]

• The Government is prepared to encourage this process, which would give the littoral states a more stable environment within which to pursue this objective, free from the prospect of mounting action and counter action. [More…]

• Did the Prime Minister in a statement infer that the Environment Protection Authority of Western Australia had failed in its task of protecting the environment and water supplies in the Darling Range on both the Alcoa and Alwest mining leases. [More…]

• In its report on the environmental aspects of the Alwest project the Department of the Environment and Conservation refers to adjacent mining lease areas in the Darling Ranges. [More…]

• -I present the second progress report from the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment on the reference relating to the environmental conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the preservation of their sacred sites. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment and Conservation has provided me with the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

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

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]

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

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]

• That there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment the following mailer- the impact on the Australian environment of the current woodchip industry program. [More…]

• But I have consulted with the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation (Senator Wheeldon) about this matter and I am informed on his initiative and assured that the complete power to accomplish what the amendment proposes will rest in the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Bill and therefore this amendment would result in the duplication of the power to be held in another Act. [More…]

• In fact, the words which the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Cass, used were that it would be the height of folly for any Australian Government to seek to do so and that it would be foolish to take parks from the States in the manner suggested because the States require moneys. [More…]

• I understand that my colleague, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, has been examining the question of whether actions by the New South Wales State Government will be in contravention of this treaty once it is ratified by the Australian Government. [More…]

• I will refer the honourable senator’s question to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation for advice about where the matter stands at the moment. [More…]

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

• During his absence the Minister for Health (Dr Everingham) will act as the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen statements by Mr Broomhill, the South Australian Minister of Environment and Conservation, that he cannot agree with statements made by Mr Morrison, the Minister for Science, nor can he believe they were said by him? [More…]

• I inform the Senate that this morning His Excellency the GovernorGeneral determined the appointment of Dr Cass as Minister for the Environment and Conservation and subsequently appointed him Minister for Environment. [More…]

• Senator Wheeldon will represent the Minister for Environment in the Senate. [More…]

• I support the Bill with the amendments that the Opposition will move, despite the silent noises he heard from his own environment- grunts in the stye. [More…]

• 1 ) Has a survey been made of the natural levels of mercury and mercurials in the Australian environment. [More…]

• What, and where, are the losses of mercury and mercurials to the environment in Australia. [More…]

• Is there any evidence of mercury accumulation in the Australian environment. [More…]

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

• I inform the Senate that His Excellency the Governor-General determined the appointment of Dr J. F. Cairns as Minister for Environment on 2 July 1975 and that day appointed Mr Whitlam as Minister for Environment. [More…]

• Senator Bishop will continue to represent in the Senate the Minister for Environment. [More…]

• By leave- I inform the Senate that His Excellency the GovernorGeneral determined the appointment of Mr Whitlam as Minister for Environment from 14 July 1975 and that day appointed Mr Berinson as Minister for Environment. [More…]

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

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

• up-grading of the northern section of the Murchison Highway; if so, what was the date in each case on which the necessary order was tabled in each House of the Australian Parliament, and the dates on which each notice was published in the Australian Government Gazette as required by Section 7 ( 1 ) of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a report prepared by the Australian Advisory Committee on the Environment entitled Postal Land. [More…]

• That whereas the natural environment of Fraser Island is so outstanding that it should be identified as part of the World Natural Heritage, and whereas the Island should be conserved for the enjoyment of this and future generations. [More…]

• that the Australian Government uses its constitutional authority to assist the Queensland Government and any other properly constituted body to develop and conserve the recreational, educational and scientific potentials of the natural environment of Fraser Island for the long term benefit of the people of Australia. [More…]

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

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

• That whereas the natural environment of Fraser Island is so outStanding that it should be identified as part of the World Natural Heritage, and whereas the Island should be conserved for the enjoyment of this and future generations, [More…]

• That the Australian Government uses its constitutional authority to assist the Queensland Government and any other properly constituted body to develop and conserve the recreational, educational and scientific potentials of the natural environment of Fraser Island for the long term benefit of the people of Australia. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• -An inquiry into the environmental impact of the Fraser Island mineral exploitation was commenced sometime in 1975. [More…]

• An interim report was presented to the caretaker Minister for the Environment in November 1975. [More…]

• When it is presented, of course, the steps which will be taken are those which are laid down by the administrative procedures under the Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and relates to the inquiryintoFraserIsland.CantheMinister inform the House of the present state of that inquiry and of the present position of the Government in relation to the report of such inquiry if and when it is tabled? [More…]

• That whereas the natural environment of Fraser Island is so outstanding that it should be indentified as part of the World Natural Heritage, and whereas the Island should be conserved for the enjoyment of this and future generations. [More…]

• That the Australian Government uses its constitutional authority to assist the Queensland Government and any other properly constituted body to develop and conserve the recreational, educational and scientific potentials of the natural environment of Fraser Island for the long term benefit of the people of Australia. [More…]

• I have listened to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood), who represents the Attorney-General in this place. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development inform the Parliament whether it is the intention of the Department of Defence to allow nuclear powered vessels eventually to use Cockburn Sound facilities? [More…]

• Can the Minister advise further whether his Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has recommended that such facilities should not be made available for the use of this type of vessel? [More…]

• 1 ) A Select Committee be appointed for the purpose of completing the consideration of a matter previously referred to, and considered by, the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee on Social Environment, appointed during the previous session, namely, the Environmental Conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the Preservation of their sacred sites, and reporting to the Senate upon that matter. [More…]

• The Committee have power to consider the minutes of evidence and records of the former Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee on Social Environment relating to the matter referred to in paragraph ( 1 ). [More…]

• That whereas the natural environment of Fraser Island is so outstanding that it should be identified as part of the World Natural Heritage, and whereas the Island should be conserved for the enjoyment of this and future generations. [More…]

• that the Australian Government uses its constitutional authority to assist the Queensland Government and any other properly constituted body to develop and conserve the recreational, educational and scientific potentials of the natural environment of Fraser Island for the long term benefit of the people of Australia. [More…]

• It will also provide a hostile environment so that other birds do not inhabit the aerodrome. [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…]

• That there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment the following matter: The impact on the Australian environment of the current wood chip industry program. [More…]

• Science and the Environment: [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 role does the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development play in water pollution monitoring. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]

• The Opposition, as a political Party, some time ago gave consideration to the terms of the motion now put forward by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood). [More…]

• I ask a short question of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I inform the Senate that I have received a letter from the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Wriedt) requesting that Senator Gietzelt be discharged from service on the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment and nominating Senator Colston to be a member in his place. [More…]

• That Senator Gietzelt be discharged from attendance on the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment and that Senator Colston be appointed a member of the Committee. [More…]

• On behalf of Senator Greenwood, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, pursuant to section 8 of the Urban and Regional Development (Financial Assistance) Act 1974-75, I present an agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the State of Western Australia over the provision of financial assistance for Urban Expansion and Redevelopment (Moore River study) 1 975-76. [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…]

• What role does the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development play in air pollution monitoring. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• Let me address myself, as Minister representing the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr MacKellar), to the matters raised by Senator Mulvihill. [More…]

• The Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Under the National Environment Investigations and Surveys program the CSIRO was engaged to conduct a feasibility study for a national wetlands survey. [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 am advised that within the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the information comes into a central computer and is available to be fed back to the States and to various bodies at the decentralised levels. [More…]

• At the Australian Environment Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council levels discussions are going on in order to achieve acceptance of minimum standards on both those questions. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I again refer the Senate to the explanatory memorandum that was circulated by the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Senator Greenwood. [More…]

• The work conducted by the CSIRO concerns the following applications: Domestic water heating, industrial water heating, space heating, space cooling, power production and heat storage, distillation, controlled environment horticulture, heat storage, production of energy from crops, forests and other organic material and swimming pool heating. [More…]

• Exercises with United States forces provide invaluable training for Australian forces, the more so when they are held in the Australian environment and enable benefit to be gained by substantial elements of all three Australian Services. [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…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’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…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development the following question, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) Which statutory authorities come under the control of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’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…]

• I ) How many staff members from the former Departments of (a) Urban and Regional Development, (b) Environment, (c) Housing and (d) Tourism and Recreation, who were listed on those Departments ‘ establishments on 1 1 November 1975, are currently positioned with the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• ) How many staff from the former Departments listed in ( 1 ) have not been employed in the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, and what arrangements have been made to employ them in alternative Federal Government Departments. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [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 answers to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development I present for the information of honourable senators the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development I present for the information of honourable senators the final report of the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development relating to the Fraser Island environmental inquiry. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development relating to the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

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

• If a lighthouse becomes obsolescent, would the wildlife people be called in, with the Minister for the Environment - [More…]

• Simply to recapitulate, I am anxious to know in relation to the Northern Territory the roles of the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Minister for the Northern Territory to whom reference was made in the Estimates Committee hearing. [More…]

• In the light of the exposure that applies to that Commission, will the same thing apply in relation to negotiations between the Australian Heritage Commission and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development or even the Prime Minister? [More…]

• I use that expression because, as the Minister would be aware, as late as last Friday the State Ministers for Wildlife and Conservation conferred with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• What is the projected staff ceiling for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development as at 30 June 1977. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• I think it fair to say that every time Senator Mulvihill speaks on these issues we listen to him with a great deal of interest because this is a subject, together with the other matters concerning wildlife or the environment, in which he takes an enormous personal interest [More…]

• As to his last suggestion, I will certainly bring that to the attention of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]

• Mr Boden Between the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Minister for the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I simply say to the Senate that the Opposition does not oppose the legislation but to put the record straight I seek leave to incorporate m Hansard the recommendations set out on pages 4 and 5 of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• They will be much more specific in relation to economic viability of the future of the industry, but I think if the Government follows the recommendations of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation it will get the best of the 2 worlds. [More…]

• -This Bill provides for a continuation of the Softwood Forestry Agreements Act and is as a result of a report by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation entitled The Operation of the Softwood Forestry Agreements Acts 1967 and 1972. [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 senator’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…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the first annual report of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development for the year 1975-76. [More…]

• I am unaware of the evidence that the honourable senator suggests was given, nor am I able to comment on the suggested effects on the environment of the generation of electricity by that means. [More…]

• I present the interim report of the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment covering its inquiry into the impact on the Australian environment of the current woodchip industry program. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [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 senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’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…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question from information furnished by the respective State housing authorities. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• The Inquiry is the responsibility of my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who may be able to provide additional information on this matter. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) How often is the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development’s publication Environs to be published. [More…]

• Jessop on the Science and Environment Committee. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Science aware that a report in the Australian Financial Review dated 6 December 1976 stated that Dr George Heinsohn, Senior Lecturer in Zoology at James Cook University, called for a study of the effects upon the marine environment of shark meshing, in view of the possible ecological effects of the killing of large numbers of sharks? [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development: ‘Environs’ Magazine (Question No. [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…]

• -My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for National Resources or the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, whichever is concerned. [More…]

• Has any study been made of the environmental impact of such a mill and the possible pollution of Murray waters? [More…]

• That the order of the day standing on the notice paper for 25 February 1977 relating to the motion to take note of the report of the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment entitled ‘Review of the Report of the Senate Select Committee on Air Pollution’, be restored to the notice paper and be an order of the day for the next day of sitting. [More…]

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

• asked the Minister represent ing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

• 1) In what trades have apprentices been employed in the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development since 1 July 1970. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development was formally created on 22 December, 1975. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 10 March 1977: [More…]

• In view of statements by oil experts indicating the unfavourable geological environment Australia affords oil explorers what does the Minister mean by ‘significant quantities’ of oil in his answer to Senate Question No. [More…]

• However, the honourable senator will be aware that, on 5 November 1976, the Minister for Environment. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 3 May 1977: [More…]

• Has the Australian Mining Industry Council made recommendations to the Prime Minister for amendments to the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, in the light of the Government’s decision to ban sand-mining on Fraser Island. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: 1 have had correspondence with Mr Justice Fox on a number of issues. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• -Mr President, I seek leave to make a statement concerning the operations of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• Senator Colston raised a matter which concerned what appeared to him to be an apparent difference between the briefing data provided by, presumably, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and replies given through myself from the Minister concerned in relation to questions put on notice by Senator Colston. [More…]

• As the matter can only be clarified within the jurisdiction of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and his Department, in response to Senator Colston’s request I shall draw the attention of the Minister to the matter and seek clarification. [More…]

• As Senator Carrick has indicated that officers from the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development will be present at hearings of Estimates committees the week after next, I will reserve until a future date my comment on this review. [More…]

• -by leave- Mr President, as Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, I wish to make a statement on behalf of the Committee concerning the Committee’s current inquiry into industrial research and development. [More…]

• This is one of the topics currently under investigation as part of the inquiry of the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment into industrial research and development. [More…]

• -As Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment I seek leave to make a statement on behalf of the Committee concerning the annual reports transmitted to the Committee for consideration over the past year. [More…]

• The Minister, for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1977: [More…]

• The matter relates to a report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment and it is a review of the report of the Senate Select Committee on Air Pollution. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment made a very important detailed and interesting review of the report of the Senate Select Committee. [More…]

• I take the opportunity to add to the remarks of Senator Mulvihill and to express my satisfaction with the report which was brought down by the Senate Standing Committee on Science and Environment about the very serious matter of air pollution. [More…]

• Have the Government and its interdepartmental committees finished their study of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Second Report (Fox Report); if so, when is the Government likely to implement the following recommendation made in the Fox Report: ‘Legislative action to be taken to enable the Director and the Northern Land Council to enforce environment protection provisions ‘. [More…]

• 1 133 to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the answer to which confirms the existence of the Leadbeater possum, the fact that certain problems are presented but that in the final analysis the preservation of its habitat is a matter for the Victorian Forestry Commission. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 26 April 1 977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question; [More…]

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development explain to the chamber the safeguards entered into by the Whitlam Labor Government when it organised the mining and export of Australian uranium just two years ago? [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 March 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 May 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 18 October: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 September 1 977: [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Has Senator Carrick noted the arrival in Australia of Professor Mellanby, who is lecturing upon environmental matters in relation to the use of national reserves and parks? [More…]

• It is highly desirable that documents such as environmental impact statements should be readily available. [More…]

• I am advised that various views have been put forward about the cost of draft environmental impact statements made available for public comment. [More…]

• My understanding is that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development is currently examining this issue and expects to make recommendations to the Minister in the near future on the subject. [More…]

• I remind Senator Rae that if he looks at clause 3 (a) of the Bill he will see that a project is specified as meaning a project by way of the conservation of water resources or the water environment. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I refer to section 6 (2) (d) of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 which provides for the public distribution and discussion of environmental impact statements. [More…]

• I ask: Is the Minister aware that, despite this laudable provision, most members of the public cannot obtain copies of environmental impact statements because of the prohibitive price that is charged for them? [More…]

• In the light of this, does the Minister believe that the interests of the public would be better served if important publications, such as environmental impact statements, were made more accessible through a lower pricing policy? [More…]

• It is a revolutionary approach, and one which has been sharply criticised by the Government and by the director of Environment and Conservation (Dr W. G. Inglis). [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware that some 14 home owners in Salisbury, South Australia, are now placed in financial difficulties, with some of their homes being sold, because the building contractor to whom they were making loan repayments has become bankrupt? [More…]

• I should also like to comment on the role of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment which, in effect, has taken up the responsibility placed on it by the Senate, of a continuing oversight of air pollution and water pollution. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment currently is dealing with two references. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government would welcome any plans by the Western Australian authorities to introduce populations of this species onto other islands free of feral species which adversely affect the environment of the Boodie. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, on notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the summary record 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 1 977. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• As a result of an earlier question on this matter asked by the honourable senator, the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development wrote to the Victorian Minister for Conservation, Mr Borthwick. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing Community Development, on notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, on notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) Is the Minister aware of testimony, given before the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment inquiry into the impact of the woodchip industry on the environment, by the Victorian Forestry Commission that adequate forest enclosures would be retained to preserve the Leadbeater Possum. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment. [More…]

• I would draw the Senator’s attention to OECD document ENV/WMP/762 prepared by the Waste Management Policy Group of the Environment Directorate entitled ‘Economic Instruments and the Control of Waste Lubricating Oil ‘ which would be available to the Senator through the Parliamentary Library. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 7 March 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• It is assumed that the Press Release to which the honourable senator refers is that released by the former Minster for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the honourable Kevin Newman, M.P., on 1 4 October 1977. [More…]

• A meeting was held on 2 June 1977 between the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman and the Queensland Premier, who is directly responsible for the environment in that State. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development advise the progress to date of the housing cost inquiry and an estimate of when the report is likely to be presented? [More…]

• I indicated earlier that I proposed to move a motion for the reference of this Bill to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment for inquiry and report to the Senate as soon as possible but not later than 25 August 1978. [More…]

• Does the Minister consider that the information provided with these products is sufficient to warn the average individual that in the opinion of the Environment Protection Authority in the United States of America extreme care must be exercised in the use of this material, otherwise binh defects or cancer may well result? [More…]

• the environment’ are to be drawn up by the Supervising Scientist. [More…]

• The first Bill to be considered is the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill 1978. [More…]

• Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill 1978 [More…]

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

• Environment Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court) Bill 1978 [More…]

• Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill 1978 [More…]

• The Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill, which we are discussing in Committee, deals with nuclear codes which in effect may exist after consultation with the States. [More…]

• Chairman’ means the Chairman of the Council; ‘Council’ means the Environment Protection (Nuclear Activities) Advisory Council established by this Act;. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) Inspections of the rehabilitation of areas disturbed by mineral sands mining on Fraser Island were carried out by officers of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development on 15 June 1977 and 19 January 1978. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 4 April 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) Were inspections carried out, by officers of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, of the rehabilitation of sandmined areas on Fraser Island since 3 1 December 1976, when sandmining ceased; if so, when. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 14 March 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development inform the Senate of the progress that has been made in the rehabilitation program for the Glebe Estate in Sydney? [More…]

• -Mr President, I present a report from the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment on annual reports referred to the Committee as at 1 July 1978. [More…]

• the implications for the community, for the environment, for industry and for Government policy of developments in science and technology: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1 978: [More…]

• Pursuant to section 6 of the Environment (Financial Assistance) Act 1 977 I present four agreements made under the provisions of that Act relating to New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria. [More…]

• Pursuant to Section 6 of the Environment (Financial Assistance) Act 1977, 1 present an agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and South Australia made under the provisions of that Act. [More…]

• Science and the Environment- Senator Bonner and Senator Colston. [More…]

• Science and the Environment- Senator MacGibbon. [More…]

• The Opposition by arrangement made provision for Senator Mason to take his place on the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• I inform the Senate that I have received a letter from the leader of the Australian Democrats in the Senate nominating Senator Mason to be a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• That Senator Mason, having been duly nominated in accordance with Standing Order 36aa, be appointed a member of the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment [More…]

• I will, of course, refer the question to my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, and seek his reaction to the suggestion. [More…]

• The honourable senator had alerted Senator Carrick as Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development of his concern on these matters. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 February 1978: [More…]

• I will refer the honourable senator’s question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and will get a reply for him. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government, through the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, provided $250,000 towards the travel costs of the 1976 Olympic team to Montreal and the Winter Olympics team to Innsbruck. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 August 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 12 September 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 13 September 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 17 August 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• On 1 1 October the Tasmanian Minister for Environment, National Parks, Wild Life and Water Resources wrote to, I think, the Federal Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development regarding the future use and management of The Nut. [More…]

• Let me say that the early stages of Dr Baker’s training are those which would lead one to become an ecologist or an environmentalist or, for that matter, a biologist. [More…]

• I know just exactly what is likely to happen unless the status of the Authority is maintained at the highest scientific level that is concerned with the protection of the Reef, the ecology of the Reef, the environment of the Reef and the biological life of the Reef. [More…]

• His words will be impressed upon the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom).I am sure that he will take note of them. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government has not received any application for an export permit in relation to uranium from this area nor has the company been directed to prepare an environmental impact statement in accordance with the Administrative Procedures under the Environment Protection ( Impact of Proposals) Act 1 974. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 August 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1978: [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the report of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development for the year ended 30 June 1978. [More…]

• I will refer that question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and seek a reply. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 14 September 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment the following question, upon notice, on 1 3 September 1 978: [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Science and the Environment seen an article in the Press indicating that the Queensland Government has decided to delay for as long as possible the compulsory use of the metric system in advertisements for food and household items? [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 19 September 1978: [More…]

• That the following matter be referred to the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment: [More…]

• -The remaining matter on which the Opposition would appreciate a response from the Minister for Science and the Environment, although our position is not expressed in the form of an amendment, relates to clause 60 and the question of exempt accounts. [More…]

• -As to the point of order that was just taken, I know of no question which was directed to the area of the National Parks and Wildlife Service which comes under the Department of Science and the Environment. [More…]

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

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1979: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 21 February 1979: [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment whether he is aware of an application for Government financial assistance by Dr L. Dintenfass of Sydney Hospital, to carry out a program which involves the participation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States. [More…]

• -For the information of honourable senators I present a report from the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment relating to annual reports referred to the Committee for consideration under the resolution of the Senate of 1 March 1978. [More…]

• I would just like to seek some further clarification from the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) on a couple of points that I raised. [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) made the point that CEMAA is a non-statutory industry body and that the Government does not feel it appropriate to intervene. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 21 February 1979: [More…]

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

• -I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment whether he is aware of recent Press reports in which Professor John [More…]

• I call on the Minister for Science and the Environment to reply to the question. [More…]

• I wish to say how much I welcome the statement which the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) has put down this evening. [More…]

• The document was made available to my office but it was a science and environment matter and, as a result, it was referred to Senator Ryan. [More…]

• I call the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• Senator WEBSTER (Victoria-Minister for Science and the Environment)- In a situation like this an Opposition senator normally seeks the adjournment of the debate. [More…]

• That the Minister for Science and the Environment no longer has the confidence oTthe Senate. [More…]

• by leave- The statement put down by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) is one in respect of which I find virtually no grounds for criticism. [More…]

• I accept the reply of the Minister for Science and the Environment that if I search through the House of Representatives Hansard I will find the answers that I seek. [More…]

• urges all Australian governments to take practical, constructive steps to secure a safe and social environment for the three million Australian children under twelve years of age; and [More…]

• I will direct the attention of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) to Senator Georges’ question and to the matters raised by Senator Mason. [More…]

• There were some other matters raised by Senator Mulvihill regarding the environment. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Science and the Environment aware that a solar energy power station is to be set up under an agreement between the Australian National University and the New South Wales Government? [More…]

• I seek leave to make a statement relating to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment on ‘Woodchips and the Environment ‘. [More…]

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

• Is Mr Groom, who represents the Minister for Science and the Environment in the other place, adequately briefed on important matters within the Minister’s portfolio? [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment a question which follows the most unsatisfactory answer he gave to a very serious question asked by Senator Wheeldon. [More…]

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

• Implementation is under consideration by the Minister for Science and the Environment who has the responsibility for environmental policy advice and the co-ordination of Government policy on the matter. [More…]

• I ask just one question of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster). [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present the text of a statement on World Environment Day 1 979 and what it means for Australia. [More…]

• I think it is very unfortunate that the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) has adopted the attitude he has. [More…]

• I think it would be a mistake if we passed these Bills without replying to the remarks made by the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster. [More…]

• 1 ) That, if the Senate be not sitting when the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment has completed its Progress Report on Pollution of the River Murray, the Committee may sent its Progress Report to the President of the Senate or, if the President is unavailable, to the Deputy President who is authorised to give directions for its printing and circulation, and in such event the President or Deputy President shall lay the Progress Report upon the Table at the next sitting of the Senate. [More…]

• -I take the opportunity in the third reading debate on these Bills to remind the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) that when he is responding to matters raised in the second reading debate he should confine his remarks to the matter of the debate and should not indulge in - [More…]

• I do not wish to enlarge upon them, but I thought I should remind the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster), who is sitting here so complacently as this Bill is going through so rapidly, that Supply did not go through so rapidly in the latter months of 1975. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 22 May 1979: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 9 May 1979: [More…]

• Therefore, I oppose the motion for the adjournment of the matter as proposed by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster). [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 23 November 1978: [More…]

• Science and the Environment: Transfer of Powers to States (Question No. [More…]

• Injuries as a result of uranium mining appear long after the people have been in contact with the environment which causes those effects, unless there is an explosion or an overdose of uranium radioactivity. [More…]

• We are well aware of the Fox Reports covering the Ranger Uranium Environment Inquiry. [More…]

• I thank the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster). [More…]

• I refer the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) again to the matters that I raised concerning the repayment conditions which he dealt with only in a passing sense in his reply to the second reading stage of the Bill. [More…]

• These are specified in the Code of Practice on Radiation Protection in the Mining and Milling of Radioactive Ores 1975 which is administered by the Department of Science and the Environment. [More…]

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

• -Did the Minister for Science and the Environment attend a meeting, chaired by the Minister for Industry and Commerce, Mr Lynch, on 3 1 May this year following the contradictory answers on the Great Barrier Reef issue given by the Minister for Science and the Environment and the Minister for National Development, Mr Newman? [More…]

• Yes, in the Jabiluka Project final environmental impact statement mining by underground methods was selected as the preferred option. [More…]

• There is no provision in the Environment Protection Administrative Procedures for the release of a final impact statement for public review. [More…]

• My Department has completed its examination of the Jabiluka Project and in accordance with the requirements of paragraph 9.3 of the Environment Protection Administrative Procedures, my recommendations have been forwarded to the Action Ministers. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 1 1 September 1979: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment the following question, upon notice, on 22 August 1 979: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment the following question, upon notice, on 28 May 1979: [More…]

• Were members of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment told, during the week of 13 to 18 May 1979, by a member of the Great Barrier Reef Authority that there was such a ship in the area at that time. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment the following question, upon notice, on 3 1 May 1979: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 22 August 1979: [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment: Is it a fact that under the proposed restrictions Japanese longline fishermen will be able to fish up to 30 kilometres inside the Great Barrier Reef region, as defined by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act, in the waters between Innisfail and Lizard Island? [More…]

• I am putting it to the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) that because we have failed to come to some arrangement we should adjourn the debate at the end of the second reading. [More…]

• I speak only briefly to advise the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) that I think it is most irregular for him to tell the Committee that the Government will report progress when it decides to do so. [More…]

• -Minister for Science and the Environment)- For the information of honourable senators I present the annual report of the Patent, Trade Marks and Designs Office 1978-79. [More…]

• -Minister for Science and the Environment)- Pursuant to section 53 of the Home Savings Grant Act 1976 I present the interim annual report of the Department of Housing and Construction. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the annual report of the Department of Science and the Environment for 1978-79. [More…]

• As far as the proceedings this evening are concerned, I think it is upon the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) to indicate now what he proposes to do. [More…]

• In view of the statement of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) that he is unable to give me those figures this evening and owing to the lateness of the hour, perhaps the Committee should deal with the four other departments in Group A still to be considered and tomorrow the Minister might have the answers to the questions I have asked. [More…]

• That would permit the Minister for Science and the Environment then to supply the answers. [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment has suggested that the Committee should pass on to the consideration of Group B. [More…]

• I would like the Minister for Science and the Environment to tell us when we can expect an answer to those questions or, better still, to guarantee that those questions will be answered before the Appropriation Bills are finally passed. [More…]

• Department of Science and the Environment [More…]

• -I did ask the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) for some information on whether the toilets which were installed originally in the High Court building were removed and new toilets installed. [More…]

• I would like to make the point that I sat through the meetings of Estimates Committee F when it dealt with the Department of Primary Industry, as did the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• -I table a number of submissions made to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment during the inquiry into industrial research and development and seek leave to make a brief explanation for doing so. [More…]

• Such information includes matters of a commercial nature and it has been made clear on a number of previous occasions, as Qantas operates in a commercial environment, it would not be appropriate to disclose such information. [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) did give me an assurance. [More…]

• Further, 1 believe that assistance should be accorded by the Commonwealth to local authorities, designed to meet the impact of increased costs, growing population, the changing environment, and the ever widening range of services demanded by local communities. [More…]

• Fleming could be somewhat influenced by his environment rather than by the desire to give an unbiased report. [More…]

• This matter of the pollution of our environment is one that is exercising the minds of many people not only in Australia but overseas. [More…]

• In Queensland in particular the environment is threatened in another way. [More…]

• The beauty of our environment is something with which we should be concerned. [More…]

• Let me refer to what is already being done in the interests of dealing with pollution and the preservation of the environment. [More…]

• Nevertheless, the Australian people have become aware that there is a very real necessity for the preservation of their environment. [More…]

• I am sure that a great deal of this interest has stemmed from the fact that the Commonwealth Parliament, through its committee system, has established a couple of committees that have applied and are applying themselves to the prevention of pollution and the conservation of the environment. [More…]

• It is not without significance that several of the State governments have set up committees of one kind or another to investigate and deal with pollution - air pollution, water pollution or pollution of the total environment. [More…]

• Having made that passing reference to pollution, the next subject with which I should deal is something on the positive side; and that is the conservation of our environment and particularly the conservation of our water resources both in quantity and in quality. [More…]

• They want to live within their family environment. [More…]

• As the world advances we are finding increasingly the development of international conventions, whether they relate to the safely of aircraft, the passage of aircraft, communications or pollution of the environment. [More…]

• I hope that whilst the Bill will receive a speedy passage attention will be given to providing the Senate from time to time with information on the matter of retaining the quality of our coastal environment. [More…]

• During the past few weeks the sad spectacle of this great tanker going aground on a reef to the north of Queensland, with the consequences of that and the threat to the natural environment of Queensland, has been canvassed. [More…]

• We believe that the Parliament has already shown a very keen consciousness of the necessity to take adequate steps to protect the natural environment. [More…]

• As a result of the appointment over a period of time of select committees on the great matters of oil drilling, oil exploration on the Australian coastal perimeter and the protection of the environment- whether the environment of the air or the environment of the water as referred to by Senator Davidson - these matters have received the close and continuous attention of the Senate. [More…]

• and (2) To ascertain even the approximate cost of 24 Phantom aircraft together with air tankers would necessitate a complete evaluation of the aircraft configuration with an assessment of the specialist equipment, engineering changes and support elements required to permit the aircraft to be operated to the best advantage in the Australian environment and to meet Australian requirements. [More…]

• They were forced to go 37 miles into a bush environment for the purpose of living with their promised husbands in the hope that, after associating with the men, the girls would possibly marry them. [More…]

• The agenda, as one would expect, was a comprehensive one and covered such questions as the role and responsibilities of medium and small powers in the maintenance of international peace, social progress as a factor and condition of economic development, prospects for agreement on the control of armaments, the role of parliament in the protection of the human environment and the conservation of nataral resources for future generations, relations between parliament and local authorities and cultural exchanges as a means of increasing understanding between countries. [More…]

• This is rather parallel to the situation in relation to the control of the environment where we see the States expressly legislating within the competence of State laws in these fields. [More…]

• The core of development plans for Alice Springs would be preservation of the natural environment, with tourist facilities blended into the landscape. [More…]

• I reached on my shelves for the glorious publication by the Australian natural painter, Stan Kelly, an engine driver of Ballarat, which contains illustrations of our Austraiian eucalypts and in which he portrays with lovely artistry 240-odd specimens of eucalypts and states that they would be used to beautify the environment of Alice Springs. [More…]

• So I am happy to take this opportunity to refute any suggestion that intensive development proposed in Alice Springs involves a violation of the environment such as has been suggested here. [More…]

• In the Highlands there is a temperate climate with high rainfall, but when one goes down to the coastal areas one experiences a hot and steamy environment with heavy monsoonal rains during certain periods. [More…]

• In these vast areas there are great extremes in the environment and sophistication. [More…]

• The vocational training that they receive assists them in the various fields of employment which are open to them and in their own particular environment. [More…]

• The more important measure provides, in effect, statewide industrial zoning regulations: Instead of just moving into any community where it has land, an industry first must have its plans approved by Maine’s Environmental Improvement Commission. [More…]

• insists that new industrial facilities of any kind be located so as to cause “minimal adverse impact on the natural environment.” [More…]

• They get them home and they produce a much stronger type of wool than they anticipated due to the environment. [More…]

• I have told honourable senators that 1 do not believe that the type of wool that we have in Australia will necessarily be produced in overseas countries because of the effect that environment has on the product. [More…]

• We are introducing new blood into our own cattle breeds to try to develop a breed of cattle which is suitable for the Australian environment. [More…]

• As a result, we have a breed which is suitable to our environment. [More…]

• The Minister tonight said that it is utter hogwash because he talked about the importation of fine wool rams into Western Australia from Tasmania and said that the fine wool sheep could not be reproduced in Western Australia because of the environment. [More…]

• I agree with the Premier that the Vietnam Campaign is pollution of the Parliament of South Australia, pollution of the community and, as he said himself, pollution of the environment. [More…]

• I suggest that the load on the shoulders of young people undertaking this task is so great that very often it contributes to a break up of the home and the home environment. [More…]

• We have come to the stage where the quality of the environment and the essential natural aspects of our life, including the unique wildlife of Australia, are important parts of those things that give human happiness. [More…]

• If one goes out to the Tidbinbilla reserve, which 1 had the privilege of doing recently, one sees the utmost friendship that exists between the animals in a proper environment and visitors, lt is a real education in the pleasure which people derive from seeing wildlife. [More…]

• It is not fully realised yet how wildlife in a proper environment such as national parks and reserves, could enhance that business and act as a terriffic magnet to increase it. [More…]

• One of the extraordinary manifestations in our contemporary history is the growing concern and the acute alertness of the modern world to the significance of environment. [More…]

• If the enthusiasm that is now apparent in this country and throughout the world for the preservation and conservation of national and international environments is mobilised, if there is the necessary exchange of technical skills from one country to another, and if that is mobilised in this country by the interest of the Commonwealth in co-operation with the States to create legislation ultimately - whether in the form suggested by Senator Mulvihill, by the passage of an appropriate Act of this legislature, or by parallel legislation in this legislature and in the State Parliaments, or in some other way - then Australia will be taking her place in this new army of international enthusiasts for the preservation of the national and the international environment. [More…]

• The case for cooperation by the States to protect our environment and to protect the lives of our marsupials has been established here. [More…]

• It is a direct destruction of our environment. [More…]

• We have set up all sorts of committees to investigate the attack upon our environment. [More…]

• They are arrangements which should he brought under the control of a single commission, either an environmental council or a national conservation commission. [More…]

• Despite their comments about aboriginal housing and education, you won’t find them engaged in the difficult task of trying lo educate these children who live in an environment nol conducive to rapid education, or attempting the frustrating task of training Aboriginals to occupy accommodation quite foreign to them. [More…]

• I am not suggesting that the people who would staff these services would not be dedicated people determined to do their best; but they would be servants of the state and in fact they would be in an environment (hat breeds that type of attitude which as we have heard many times from members of the Opposition, is to be found in any government run show. [More…]

• Despite their comments about Aboriginal housing and education, you won’t find them engaged in the difficult task of trying to educate these children who live in an environment not conducive to rapid eduction, or attemtping the frustrating task of training Aboriginals to occupy accommodation quite foreign to them, in fact their habitat is not the habitat and their endeavours not the endeavours of the people whom they ‘rubbish’ despite the inference that they have the answers to all these problems. [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for the Interior read the text of the address given to the Canberra chapter of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and the Royal Australian Planning Institute by Dr J. G. Mosley, the deputy director of the Australian Conservation Foundation, in which the speaker deplored the pre-occupation with motor transport and a failure to preserve sufficient pedestrian areas in our environment? [More…]

• Will the Minister take heed of this analysis and tell the National Capital Development Commission that the environmental ravishment of the Black Mountain region by the building of additional roadways is not warranted to placate a few impatient motorists who, if time is so vital to them, should get out of bed 30 minutes earlier and not bludge on people who want to preserve the best features of the Australian Capital Territory bushland? [More…]

• This is a simple recognition of the fact that the production environment differs in the different States. [More…]

• I would like the Minister to answer me and to indicate whether if this is not done the Corporation, by this clause, is concerned only with ownership of shares and is not concerned with the policy or the operation of that company and with what it does with the environment which surrounds its operations. [More…]

• I thought that the corporation would have taken steps to protect the environment in which we have to live. [More…]

• Honourable members should remember this, that the overseas concerns are not worried about our environment at all because they do not have to live in it. [More…]

• Today more and more people who live in cities wish to experience this type of environment and yet it is continually being destroyed by overseas companies because we do not control their policy and they are not concerned about our environment. [More…]

• The point I am making is that these companies not only have no concern for the environment but also they have no concern for the financial position of this country. [More…]

• lt has been suggested that the words Human Settlements’ in paragraph (l)(f), although entirely appropriate and technically correct, might be better replaced by the words ‘Social Environment’. [More…]

• Therefore, 1 seek leave to amend the proposed motion by deleting paragraph (1) (h) and by amending paragraph (1) (f) to read ‘Social Environment’ instead of ‘Human Settlements’. [More…]

• Environment (this shall include Housing, Transport, Communications and the provision of other facilities): and [More…]

• The matter of a film industry involves the complete life and environment of our community and of our people. [More…]

• The word ‘environment’ is one that is very much overworked these days. [More…]

• We need to remember that water pollution is only part of a much broader pollution problem which the Committee maintains is threatening the whole of the national environment. [More…]

• He was succeeded by a Prime Minister who was supposed to be a nature lover, who had great affection for the tropical north and who was fond of ils marine environment, but he did nothing. [More…]

• We have failed the world of pure science as regards Australia’s marine environment. [More…]

• 1 would bet - it is a fair bet and I think it would be a winning bet - that the Japs would know more than we do about the habits of our fish in our marine environment, and possibly the Russians also would know more than we do. [More…]

• A disturbance of the physical or biological environment may cause changes in [he population dynamics of Acanthaster planci by interfering with the development qf larvae or of juvenile or adult forms. [More…]

• Annual recruitment of young spat into adult populations depends upon the success of spawning, larval development, larval disperal and larval settlement (spa if all), and each of these may be influenced by the physical environment of the ecosystem. [More…]

• Optimum environmental conditions for all stages could result in heavy population recruitment in some years. [More…]

• lt was agreed that changes in the environment which could trigger off a population explosion were often subtle and seldom had a single cause: a rise or fall in surface sea temperatures was cited as a possible triggering cause, lt was also recognised that this type of speculation, though worthwhile, would yield little of practical importance in the absence of much more data about the biological, hydrological, ecological, nutritional and life cycle conditions of the Great Barrier Reef than is at present available. [More…]

• I believe that the work of that Institute, combined with the research which has already been carried out, should mean thai our total knowledge of the marine environment will bc considerably enhanced. [More…]

• The work of the research vessels and research teams which have been engaged on this task for a number of years and which I presume will continue to be engaged, when allied with some of the research work carried out at Townsville, should have a generally beneficial effect for Australia in relation to its marine environment. [More…]

• We have many examples of the genuine interest that has been shown by the Prime Minister of this country in questions of the environment and, in particular, in questions concerning the tropical waters of the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]

• One example, which I was going on to quote and which I will now quote, is that the Government, being interested in the preservation of the environment, moved for and set up committees on air pollution and water pollution, both of which have now produced reports. [More…]

• I believe that those reports, taken together, will assist the Government in reaching some sort of programme in relation to the control of the deterioration and pollution of the environment. [More…]

• To suggest, as Senator Keeffe did, that here we have ad hoc-ery at its worst, with no apparent and real interest in the environment, is to make a suggestion that simply is not supported by the facts. [More…]

• The fact that it has not been obvious is shown when one recalls that these committees were set up early in 1968 before the general public had been made as aware as it is now of the problems of the environment and the problems of pollution. [More…]

• For the benefit of some senators who on different occasions have asked what an autistic child is, an autistic child is a child who lives in a world apart, completely divorced from his social, physical and emotional environment. [More…]

• Bui to return to the small farms about which I was speaking - and I suppose that a man is nearly always influenced by his own environment - with the passing of cash cropping a lot of the farmers turned to dairying. [More…]

• But the flow of history is such that this undercurrent will sweep away injustices and sweep away court authority if it is unjust and if it does not allow a man to be able to aspire towards the great principles of the expression of his desire to be able to improve his own position in the community, to widen his environment, to widen his beliefs and to be able to aspire towards a better life and a higher quality of life. [More…]

• Nevertheless as an added precaution detailed studies are being made of the ecology of the area so that a close watch can be maintained on any thermal and radioactive effects of theJervis Bay Nuclear Power Station on the environment. [More…]

• Particular attention is given to these elements as they are considered potentially the most hazardous of the radioactive materials released to the environment in nuclear tests. [More…]

• Since drought is a feature of our environment, we should be planning now to meet the next drought before it starts. [More…]

• We know that we must face huge expenditure on pollution and in dealing with our social environment in the fields of housing, transportation and services. [More…]

• There is also a need to rebuild rural industries and take into account their part in the total economic environment. [More…]

• They are to maintain our national and personal security, increase our economic strength and stability and provide the best possible environment for our people. [More…]

• I must stress that it is essential to remember that the ANL operates in a competitive and I think tough environment. [More…]

• Full precautions will be taken against possible pollution of the environment during the construction and operation of the station. [More…]

• Apart from matters of pay and conditions of service, most of the unions have been concerned wilh improving efficiency of departmental operations in the interest of the public as well as to provide a more satisfying work environment for their members. [More…]

• It is anticipated that this action will lead to a reduction in the contribution of aircraft to pollution of the environment. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission is aware of the penguin rookery on Bowen Island and, as has been stated before, is anxious to preserve as far as possible the natural state of the environment. [More…]

• Water pollution is only part of the broader problem of the pollution which is threatening our environment. [More…]

• This representative meeting also believes that in the interest of the environment, and the co-ordination of the activities of all the States in the field of pollution, a National Environment Council should be established by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• How fair is it to industry in Australia that in one State its cost of produc tion should be very much higher than in another State because in one State it is required to protect the environment as an inevitable element of its cost of production [More…]

• Yes, compelled under law to do so; whereas in another State it is able to expend the environment and so put its product on the market at a cheaper price and gain a benefit for itself not by expending its own funds in producing that product but by expending that which is owned by the public and which is sacred to the public, that is, the environment, which is something that cannot be replaced - or not quickly anyway? [More…]

• I suggest that in the interests of the public, for the protection of the environment, as a matter affecting the success or failure of industry and the cost of consumer goods and a number of other factors, uniformity of approach is essential for the control of water pollution. [More…]

• He said that it was necessary to go further tha a any of the universities had gone in the training of officers and in all aspects involved in the control of environment and its relationship to the administration and development of a community. [More…]

• When the appropriate standing committee is formed - the appropriate one would seem to be the Standing Committee on Social Environment - I believe that the proper course would be for the Senate to continue its interest in this field by establishing perhaps a sub-committee of that Committee to keep the field under observation and supervision and to see to it that this report is implemented to the extent that the Senate is capable of doing that. [More…]

• It will deal generally with the environment but particularly with water resources and water management. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government is also involved, often in conjunction with the States, in a variety of activities associated with the study and management of the quality of the environment. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - the government research agency - is involved in studies related to the environment. [More…]

• However, as mentioned in the report of the Senate Select Committee on Air Pollution, ‘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…]

• Against this background the Commonwealth is already carrying out a study of its responsibilities in relation to the environment generally and how it might most appropriately discharge those responsibilities. [More…]

• Is it correct that an interdepartmental committee on the environment, under the chairmanship of the Secretary, Department of Health, has been formed recently and that a working party is in the course of preparation of a report? [More…]

• The people concerned had a sense of independence, notwithstanding the depressing environment - I must use that term - and a sense of dignity in their twilight years. [More…]

• In addition, as science and technology improve and advance - and the Press, the television and the other news media have reported the enormous advances of man conquering his environment and spending countless millions to send rockets into space to explore other parts of the universe - aged people living in a world where such wealth abounds should have a little rub off on them. [More…]

• The problem ahead for Qantas has to be examined in the general environment of civil aviation internationally. [More…]

• By way of preface, I refer to a question asked by me on 23rd September last about the setting up of an inter-departmental committee on the environment and the extent to which that committee is making use of the reports of the Senate select committees on air and water pollution. [More…]

• At this meeting the establishment of an inter-departmental working party was resolved and the terms of reference of the working party were to inquire into and advise the conference on the most appropriate methods of approach for the national resolution of the problems of the Australian environment. [More…]

• A report on the formulation of a Commonwealth and national policy on the environment has been prepared by the working party and will be considered by the conference when it reconvenes on 1st October, which is today. [More…]

• It sets out the fallout of strontium 90 in the Australian environment during 1968. [More…]

• We have to ask ourselves whether we believe that the environment of our cities should be spoilt not so much by the use of motor cars as by the abuse of motor cars. [More…]

• I think it was Senator Cant who referred earlier to a section of the last annual report of the Commissioner of Trade Practices in which it is indicated that many of the restrictive agreements which exist at the moment stem from price control in wartime and the unwillingness of many people to depart from the practices which a price control environment created. [More…]

• Because they are out of their usual environment they may be put in a situation which is prejudicial to them and which jeopardises their own position. [More…]

• By putting family units into the environment in which it is now putting people, it will create in Victoria in 50 years time the type of Harlem slums that exist in New York today. [More…]

• The Chapter has said that it is not a slum area and that it is in a pleasant environment. [More…]

• By spending about the same amount of money on taking those people out to suburban blocks to live in an environment in which family life can develop in much more congenial circumstances, an additional 400 homes could be made available. [More…]

• The environment in which the people in those flats are living is such that normal family life is almost non-existent. [More…]

• I believe we will have these hit-run minor spillages, all of which contribute to damaging the environment. [More…]

• Some, honourable senators may laugh but to me the scene symbolised the contrast between the mad urban scramble and the efforts to keep the environment in its natural state. [More…]

• What role does the Department of National Development play in seeing that the gaining of mining export markets does not ravish the local environment? [More…]

• -I cannot arrange for an officer of the Department of National Development to be with Senator Mulvihill at an electorate meeting in Hughes, although I understand his concern about a coal loader which apparently is going to do something to upset the environment of the area. [More…]

• The children are brought up in a bad environment. [More…]

• The only new consideration which the Opposition considers would be satisfactory is the need to look at the whole question of the Services, including the social environment and the family separation which comes from posting, reposting and reestablishment. [More…]

• the effects of the establishment of a nuclear power station upon the environment; [More…]

• The Opposition also seeks an inquiry into the effects of the establishment of a nuclear power station upon the environment. [More…]

• There is also to be considered the contribution that nuclear power can make to a reduction in pollution of the environment, particularly in pollution of the atmosphere by harmful smoke and dust and various gases, sulphur and nitrogen oxides. [More…]

• Today we hear quite a lot about preserving the environment in which we live. [More…]

• They do not emit smoke or noxious gases and involve minimum disturbance to the environment. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment the following matters for inquiry and report as soon as possible after the appointment of the members of the Committee [More…]

• The committee whose establishment was proposed in August last year is to have the task of looking into the social environment of people. [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Social Environment (this shall include Housing, Transport, Communications and the provision of other facilities). [More…]

• One of the most important committees remaining to be established is that associated with social environment. [More…]

• where there has been a tremendous increase in the construction, of high rise housing, lt is hardly a suitable environment ici which to raise families. [More…]

• State., governments cannot or will not at this stage increase education facilities and improve the environment of the inner suburban schools to enable proper education to be given to children living in these sub-standard areas. [More…]

• This Federal Parliament has the right, under the original agreement of 1945 - it was subsequently renewed from time to time - to discuss with the States not only the amount of money that the Commonwealth will lend to them for housing but also the type of housing that we believe is needed and the type of environment required. [More…]

• The proposition before the Senate is simple enough, namely, that there shall be referred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment the question of housing. [More…]

• After all, the type of motion that Senator Murphy has propounded contemplates the appointment of the Standing Committee on Social Environment because it contemplates that there shall be an immediate reference to that Committee when the members are appointed. [More…]

• By an odd circumstance, we find ourselves in a situation in which Senator Byrne is saying: ‘We are not prepared to vote against the motion in Senator Murphy’s name at the moment, but we are prepared to wait, and we think it is logical to wait, until the Senate decides whether in fact it will have a Standing Committee on Social Environment and then decide whether this would be a suitable matter for it to examine’. [More…]

• The question we are deciding on this occasion is whether we should refer to the Standing Committee on Social Environment an inquiry into housing. [More…]

• In addressing my question to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, who represents the Prime Minister, I refer to the decision of the Prime Minister, firstly, to proceed to the establishment of an Office of the Environment which was to deal wilh pollution in Australia, and secondly,. [More…]

• However 1 point out that when the decision was taken not to establish’ the Office of the Environment it was made clear by the Prime Minister that the decision related only to a deferment for the time being of the formal establishment of the office. [More…]

• the Standing Committee on Social Environment; [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts; (0 The Standing Committee on Social Environment (this shall include Housing, Transport, Communications and the provision of other facilities); and [More…]

• In suggesting this I have chosen the Standing Committee on Education Science and the Arts and the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• It is suggested in the document Committees of the Australian Senate’ that we should move into 2 more immediately or as soon as possible, the 2 suggested committees being the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts and the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• There is learning and the new settler acquires the essentials for what people sometimes refer to as a healthy adjustment to the new environment. [More…]

• Office of the Environment [More…]

• I propose now to refer particularly to paragraph (2) (d) of the resolution proposed by the Leader of the Government where the Minister recommends that the committees to be next fully established be the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts and the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• He referred to that part of Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson’s motion which says that the next 2 committees to be geared into action as operative standing committees shall be the Committee on Education, Science and Arts and the Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• The effect of that amendment would be to delete from the motion the section that refers to the Standing Committee on Social Environment and to replace it with our suggestion for the appointment of the Standing Committee on Finance and Government Operations. [More…]

• the Standing Committee on Social Environment (this shall include Housing, Transport, Communications and provision of other facilities); and [More…]

• That the petitions relating to crime in Australia presented to the Senate on 28th October 1970 and 2nd November 1970 by Senator Cavanagh and referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare on 3rd November 1970 be now transferred from the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare to the Standing Committee on Social Environment and that the latter Committee be empowered to take into consideration and further pursue any inquiries or actions already initiated by the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in regard to the petitions. [More…]

• It has been decided that once the Facility is in operation general public access to Garden Island is not considered practicable having in mind safety, security and the need to safeguard the limited vegetation and the natural environment. [More…]

• That there be referred lo the Standing Committee on Social Environment the following matter - [More…]

• the continuing oversight of the problems of pollution, including ways and means of preserving the environment from pollution; and [More…]

• Recently the Senate decided that the Standing Committee on Social Environment be appointed. [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Social Environment having been appointed, we have a body which could usefully continue to work on this problem of pollution. [More…]

• With the Duke of Edinburgh in Canberra, it is timely to mention his warnings on polluting our environment. [More…]

• He said that he had noticed a marked shift in recent years to a concern for the environment - a concern to make this country a satisfactory place in all respects for civilised and rewarding human existence. [More…]

• We must think not only of our own enjoyment and use of our environment but of the next generation and following generations. [More…]

• We must try to restore the damage that we have done to the environment and then ensure that our future actions do not generate other pollution problems for subsequent generations. [More…]

• This includes industry, which must take a very large measure of responsibility for polluting our environment. [More…]

• This is not nearly enough when one considers the amount of damage caused to the environment by industry. [More…]

• Part of a Problem - Water pollution is only part of a much broader pollution problem which is threatening our whole national environment, lt can be solved most effectively by tackling it as a national problem. [More…]

• The existence in Australia of many societies, voluntary organisations and individuals already dedicated to a particular aspect of environmental protection is widespread and plainly evident. [More…]

• Merely as illustrations, we refer here to bodies such as the Aus tralian Conservation Foundation, the Colong Committee, the Great Barrier Reef Committee, the National Parks Association of New South Wales, and to the very many individuals who are greatly concerned about aspects of the environment such as the protection of the coastline, the preservation of wildlife, and the maintenance ir their natural state of water bodies such as the Myall Lakes in New South Wales. [More…]

• I think the Leader of the Opposition will agree when he looks at the official title of the Standing Committee on Social Environment and when he looks at the terms of reference which he himself has proposed should be submitted to the Committee that the matters referred to it are not simply confined to the areas of air and water. [More…]

• Indeed, in some report which I read recently the matter of pollution and environment relates not only to air and water but also to the areas of noise, soil, the sea and coast and perhaps even includes radioactivity. [More…]

• However from the remarks the Leader of the Opposition has made the Senate will readily understand that he is painting a broad canvas in connection with environment and pollution. [More…]

• The inclusion of the term ‘social environment’ in the very title of the Committee to which we are referring paints a broad picture and goes far beyond the areas of air and water, ft is natural that Senator Murphy and all of us who may speak in this debate or who may have any connection with the Committee will have a deep and continuing interest in these 2 areas. [More…]

• The words ‘pollution’ and ‘environment’ are words which are constantly bandied about today so much so that sometimes we bandy them around in contexts where it is difficult to take them seriously. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on social Environment the following matters - [More…]

• the examination of the necessary steps to ensure the continuing oversight of the problems of pollution, including ways and means of preserving the environment from pollution; and [More…]

• ‘Social environment’ is a somewhat new term in Parliament. [More…]

• The resolution proposes to refer to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment the 2 matters which are set before us on the notice paper today. [More…]

• I hardly think that the Leader of the Opposition is suggesting the maintenance of a Senate Standing Committee to be constantly in office as a body exercising a continuing oversight of the problems of pollution, including ways and means of preserving the environment from pollution. [More…]

• Rather I suggest that the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment might come into this Senate with a report following upon what I would hope would be the examination of the necessary steps to ensure the continuing oversight. [More…]

• In short, The Senate Standing Com- mittee on Social Environment if it so thought might well recommend to the Senate that a body, either existing or yet to be recommended, might be the body which would ensure the continuing oversight. [More…]

• T hatthere be referred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment the following matters - [More…]

• the examination of the necessary steps to ensure the continuing oversight of the problems of pollution, including ways and means of preserving the environment from pollution: and [More…]

• It was brought hometothe Committee many limes during the enquiry that air pollution is but one small part of man’s contamination of his environment. [More…]

• Pollution of the water resources of the world, pollution of the soil and, in this mechanised world of ours, pollution of the environment by the noise of man’s activities are all parts of the same problem. [More…]

• In short, the emphasis is on the fact that that inquiry revealed that air pollution is but one small part of man’s contamination of his environment. [More…]

• Water pollution is only part of a much broader pollution problem whichis threatening our whole national environment. [More…]

• The Committee therefore considers that, 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…]

• So, for those two reasons - the total pollution problem in the sphere of the environment and the fact that both the committees that have already done work on this matter considered that a national approach was not only desirable but also necessary - I believe that paragraph (2) of the motion moved by the Leader of the Opposition should read: [More…]

• I suggest that that provides the Standing Committee on Social Environment with the opportunity to discuss very definitely the recommendations and conclusions presented in those 2 reports and to present recommendations to the Senate as soon as possible. [More…]

• If we give it too broad a canvas or if we make its terms of reference too uncertain, it may go on and on and, because circumstances can change, the whole area of the study of the environment may well be brought into disrepute and also the whole Senate committee system may run the risk of being in danger. [More…]

• It is very popular today to be on the bandwagon of the pollution of the environment. [More…]

• It is all very well to criticise industry, communities and even humanity for what they are doing to the various elements of our environment. [More…]

• But never let us forget that in our acceptance of the standards of living that we enjoy, appreciate and talk about we run the risk of being offenders against our social environment. [More…]

• I express the hope that in the end the Standing Committee on Social Environment, in the motton that is before us tonight, will have clear guidelines and clear directions as to the areas in which it is to operate and the areas on which the Senate expects it to report. [More…]

• The States had been activated very considerably to operate in this field of the control of pollution of the environment. [More…]

• The proposal of the Water Pollution Committee was that the Commonwealth should move quickly so that it might capture the activity and enthusiasm of the States and, contributing ils own activity and enthusiasm by the passage of parallel legislation, produce a national code and a national machine to control the pollution of the environment both in the States and in Commonwealth territories. [More…]

• Without attempting to cover a very broad canvas in one or two sweeps of the brush, it can attempt to pick out the steps that can be taken, that should be taken and that most urgently are required to be taken, and commend those to the Government so that at least step by step a programme of co-operative federalism in the concept of control of the environment may be carried into operation. [More…]

• That is the kind of operation that Senator Davidson has in mind - not that there should be, as it were, a permanent select committee looking at this question of environmental control but a committee which could investigate from time to time one step or another which might be taken, which has not been taken and which should be taken to implement finally a total programme of control and protection of the environment. [More…]

• Only by confrontation with some of these departments will we be able to get quick measures which will prevent in a practical way intrusions into our existing environment. [More…]

• The principle inherent in Senator Murphy’s motion is that there must be a continuing and definite Government activity for the preservation of our environment. [More…]

• When one realises that that is within 20 parts per million of a toxic presence of CO, one realises that it is high time that we as a nation became interested in our environment and that what is happening here has not before been completely recognised. [More…]

• I feel that the activities of both the Senate Select Committee on Air Pollution and the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution have led to a deep awareness in Australia of a problem of environment generally and that therein lies one of the greatest benefits of setting up these committees. [More…]

• It states that environment is now more than a passing fashion. [More…]

• I had the delightful experience of seeing the effect of a proper approach by Government to ensure an improved environment in the City of London. [More…]

• As a result the environment and the people’s place of living has been vastly improved. [More…]

• as Senator Murphy suggests, in a continuing role of persistence in ensuring that we maintain here an environment to which we would all ascribe. [More…]

• This article on environment issued by the Information Service of the British High Commission in Australia stated: [More…]

• Sixth-form schoolchildren in Britain may later this year be studying the problems of the environment and pollution as part of their final examinations. [More…]

• The report goes on to state that since Londoners have taken an interest in improving the environment they have recorded that there are now 138 bird species in that city. [More…]

• I say again that Senator Murphy’s proposal for the reference of these matters to the Standing Committee on Social Environment means that the games are over and it is now a serious business to ensure the retention of the Australian environment. [More…]

• My point in rising was to commend the proposal to refer this matter to the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• (9.55) - The Leader of the Opposition (Senator Murphy) has moved that the matter of pollution be referred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• The Senate has since created the Standing Committee on Social Environment and this motion moved by Senator Murphy, subject to adjustment or otherwise of the wording, seems to me to be a natural consequence. [More…]

• That the Petitions relating to crime in Australia, presented to the Senate on 28th October 1970 and 2nd November 1970 by Senator Cavanagh, and referred on 3rd November 1970 to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, be now transferred from the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare to the Standing Committee on Social Environment, and that the latter Committee be empowered to lake into consideration and further pursue any inquiries or action already initialed by the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in regard lo the Petitions. [More…]

• Of the 7 committees in the system which we have proposed, the most appropriate might have been the Standing Committee on Social Environment or the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs. [More…]

• Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• It relates to the Office of the Environment, which is within the purview of the VicePresident of the Executive Council. [More…]

• Will he ask the Office of the Environment to take up with the authorities in New South Wales the serious nature of the present pollution of the ocean and seek an early solution to the situation? [More…]

• In addressing a question to the Leader of the Government I ask him to recall that there stands referred to the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee on Social Environment a whole series of questions. [More…]

• Will the Minister ask his colleague, the VicePresident of the Executive Council, to implement an inquiry by the Office of the Environment regarding possible legislation so that severe restrictive measures do not have to be ultimately introduced into Australia? [More…]

• Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment which we have set up could have this type of question included in its terms of reference. [More…]

• The honourable senator is aware that an inter-departmental committee met last year and that as a result of that meeting an Office of the Environment was established, but obviously there may be some areas in which my Department is maintaining a primary obligation. [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 Austraiian natural and social environment. [More…]

• In relation to fishing, the introduction to the report mentions a Cairns doctor’s report that the crown of thorns infestation was coincidental with an increase in ciguatera - a form of fish poisoning often associated with disturbances to a marine environment [More…]

• The findings, which suggested that these boys exhibited temporary changes in how they saw themselves in relation to their social environment, were published by the University in 1957. [More…]

• However I understand that the question is currently being examined by the Department of Defence to see what action can be taken to improve the environment, particularly in relation to the playing areas at Townsville. [More…]

• 1 mention particularly 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…]

• 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 3 different groups of responsibilities - in Aboriginal affairs; in the arts; and in the environment. [More…]

• I am convinced that people are not aware of the dangers of drugs - the affluent society; the stresses of modern life; the personality factor; the living environment; and advertising and the news media. [More…]

• The 3 aspects which one must look at in the future in an affluent society are (1) the stresses of modern life which I believe are a big factor as to why people try to escape; (2) boredom; and (3) the living environment. [More…]

• The living environment. [More…]

• The priority being placed on growth, development and material wealth should be critically examined so that greater resources may be devoted to improving the living environment of the community. [More…]

• The Bill proposes the appointment of an additional Minister and a spate of Assistant Ministers but most of the song and dance in justification for the new appointments seem to centre on the new Office of the Environment. [More…]

• The proposed Office of the Environment will be administered by the Vice-President of the Executive Council (Sir Alan Hulme) but if it is to have any teeth it needs more than a glorified Minister of State. [More…]

• It is interesting to refer to a recent debate in the other place related to the environment. [More…]

• The Minister for National Development is custodian, as it were, of forests and mineral resources and one or two other important activities bearing on the environment. [More…]

• One would have imagined that in bringing down a proposal to increase the number of Ministers the Government would have outlined clearly the powers of the Office of the Environment. [More…]

• The idea of having a Minister to listen to questions of environmental control without power to act means nothing. [More…]

• As a result of saving ministerial resources in that way, one Minister could have been earmarked for the post of Office of Environment. [More…]

• As for the Office of the Environment, no indication has been given that the Government is accepting any worthwhile proposal put forward by the respective Senate committees which investigated air and water pollution. [More…]

• Previous speakers referred to the environment and pollution of air and water, which have been the subject of investigation by Senate select committees and on which good reports have been submitted. [More…]

• For a long time the Australian Labor Party has considered the problems not only of housing people but also of the environment in which they live. [More…]

• He will speak in more detail than I propose to do on the environmental problems because I wish to address myself mainly to some of the problems which exist in the States under the present Commonwealth and State Housing Agreement. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment the following matter - The content, form and presentation of the Information Section of telephone directories with a view to - [More…]

• lt is questionable whether the Standing Committee on Social Environment, which embraces within the ambit of its functions a consideration of matters related to communications, is the most appropriate body to look at a matter of this character. [More…]

• In those circumstances I feel that there is no alternative but to pursue the motion in the terms in which it has been moved and to seek to have this matter referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• The Government does not resist the reference of this matter to the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• I am agreeing to the motion on the understanding that this will be a short reference to the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• Although the Standing Orders may suggest that a topic such as this should only be looked at together with a similar committee of the House of Representatives, the Senate could provide that the Standing Committee on Social Environment could examine it notwithstanding the Standing Orders. [More…]

• The neglect of areas which nobody would consider to be sweet influences on the environment indicate that in our housing we have to be more careful not merely in the fancy elements of environment but in the fundamental values of living. [More…]

• We live in a system whereby costs have to be provided for one way or another, and that is the position in relation to the environment also. [More…]

• If we are to have parks and gardens in plenty which are carved out of the land and built up to a standard of beauty and acceptance, and if we are to have sewerage provided, there will have to be a new column in the expenses account for environmental expenditure. [More…]

• Consideration has to be given to the distribution of potential income earning capacity via secondary and primary industries, but consideration must be given also to a well balanced basis for that which we are all seeking, that is, a life of happiness and cooperation as a community in an environment which has consideration for all sections of the community. [More…]

• I believe that, in view of all the aspects involved it was a pretty good effort on the part of those concerned to get the legislation to this stage from the end of December, especially in view of the differences of opinion and environment as well as the other differences between the States themselves. [More…]

• Can this co-operative effort between the Commonwealth and the State in the preservation of the environment be interpreted as the initiation of a continuing constructive and desirable approach to enviromental control? [More…]

• I have already asked that this matter be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment but it seems that it is becoming too urgent for that to be done. [More…]

• The initial results of that investigation suggest that the desirability of any Commonwealth action being taken depends upon the approach and the advice indicated by the Office of the Environment which, as honourable senators will recall, is a further department the Government has decided to create but which, for the time being, has been deferred. [More…]

• As I think I. indicated, the view which has been formulated by the Government, and with which my Department is in concurrence, is that these matters should properly be undertaken by the Office of the Environment which at present is under the Department of the VicePresident of the Executive Council and, which will come into full being in due course. [More…]

• It is in this environment that it went to the Victorian Government and asked for assistance. [More…]

• The environment of workers compensation has changed considerably since the old days, and so it should have been changed. [More…]

• In other cases where an injured worker has not dependants consideration might be given to his social environment. [More…]

• The Honourable Peter Howson has been appointed Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and Minister-in-Charge of Tourist Activities. [More…]

• The Minister for Supply 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…]

• Whatever decision he makes he will certainly have considerable problems in regard to conservation and the environment generally. [More…]

• On 7th May 1971 I asked the Minister for Air who in this chamber represents the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) - his portfolio did not exist then but it does now and the notice paper has properly been adjusted by the Clerk - this question: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• I will refer to the Minister for the Environment. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has supplied the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I would mention that the Australian Minerals Council (a body comprising Commonwealth Ministers and the six State Ministers for Mines) announced after its May 1971 meeting that ‘mining and the environment’ was among the subjects discussed by Ministers at that meeting. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister forthe Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided me with the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minis ter for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided me with the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Are not the unions permitted to be interested in the subject of environment? [More…]

• Are not the unionists who live in that area concerned both for themselves and their children with the environment in which they live and in which these children grow? [More…]

• Department of the Treasury to the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• The relevant Minister to refer matters to this Committee therefore is the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• Social environment, I think - a miscellaneous department. [More…]

• The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT - The question, then, is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts? [More…]

• asked the Minis ter representingthe Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (1). [More…]

• (2) and (3) I have invited State Ministers to an early meeting on the environment. [More…]

• Why does not the Government move into these areas to provide finance for our schools, hospitals, roads, transport and housing and to solve our growing problems of pollution and the deteriorating environment. [More…]

• Recognising that the provision of airports, sea ports and other Commonwealth installations is an important national requirement, will the Government consider the establishment of co-ordinating bodies or at least consultative bodies embracing Commonwealth, State and local authorities so that the total needs of the community, including preservation of the local environment, are given every consideration? [More…]

• Social Environment - Senator Little in place of Senator Kane, resigned. [More…]

• As one who took part in 2 aspects of this consideration it is clear that what is now proposed to be done is a measure of the heightened sense of awareness of the general public on matters concerning the pollution of the environment. [More…]

• Although I believe that the first investigation made by the Public Works Committee into this matter was a sound and thorough one it is clear that this new approach comes from general public awareness and a desire for higher standards of cleanliness in the environment. [More…]

• This inquiry will have a far reaching effect on sewage disposal throughout the area of the Australian environment. [More…]

• This is not only a unique occasion but also one which marks in this Senate the heightening awareness of the need for environmental control. [More…]

• Unless they mix into the environment and make progress with the language their education is doomed. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts been drawn to reports of a study made by the Chemistry Department of the University of Tasmania concerning pollution of marine life by metals, which suggests that mercury levels in sea food in some Australian waters are already much higher than is desirable? [More…]

• So, it appears that the report which has appeared in the ‘Australian’ is a report of a preliminary study and that the basis upon which it is made is not available to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts to consider. [More…]

• The preparatory committee of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment has established an intergovernmental working committee on which Australia is represented, and Australia proposes to continue its interest in that field. [More…]

• 1 will refer the honourable senator’s question as to action to be taken with regard to the Senate select committee reports on air pollution and water pollution to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts so that he can reply to the honourable senator direct. [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts had his attention drawn to the widespread response to the television appearances and statements of Dr Paul Ehrlich of the United States of America culminating in a repeat screening of his television programme? [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that this reflects a growing awareness by the Australian community concerning the Australian environment? [More…]

• Can he advise when the Department will be appointing appropriate officers in the environment section? [More…]

• I am sure that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, whom I represent in this chamber, is conscious of the widespread and growing awareness of matters of the environment. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment. [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister for the Environment. [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the [More…]

• The purpose of Air Navigation Order 40.1.5.1.1. is to ensure that the training programme and Bight proficiency test for the first class airline transport pilot licence is conducted in the Australian airline operating environment, both when the licence is initially issued and when it is renewed at 6 monthly periods. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• The role of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts is to co-ordinate and to co-operate with the State governments. [More…]

• However, if the whole range of activities of State governments is to be opened up on the justification that in some specious way those activities affect the environment, then obviously in accordance with prudence, the limitations of question time and legitimate areas of interest there will have to be a reconsideration of the matter. [More…]

• I do not see ecology as being the relationship of man to his environment. [More…]

• In the field of conservation, preservation, pollution, environment, war and peace, and many other new social issues, growing numbers of people are not only concerned but also involved. [More…]

• He was more afraid of the grave deterioration in our environment, pollution and the destruction of resources. [More…]

• It determines the environment in which the major proportion of our population lives, changes all our previous human relationships and highlights the problems of individuals, communities and nations. [More…]

• Our Governments are still in the mad rush for economic growth regardless of its destruction of the environment and its effect on human welfare. [More…]

• Everywhere man is changing the environment. [More…]

• Until recent times his influence on the environment was not serious. [More…]

• Today, because he is now so numerous and technologically adept he not only endangers the environment but also he imperils civilisation. [More…]

• In the few minutes left at my disposal 1 shall deal specifically with the responsibilities of local government in respect of the environment. [More…]

• The people of Australia are probably unaware that the national government accepts little responsibility for environment. [More…]

• Local government is perfectly able to handle environmental matters providing it is given the financial resources. [More…]

• Few aspects of our environment, our culture, our welfare, our way of life can be adequately tackled without involving local government. [More…]

• The people of Australia, whether city or country folk, want a better way of life and a better environment. [More…]

• One normally expects a deprived minority, living in poverty in a degraded physical environment to have a low educational standard. [More…]

• I shall not be derogatory about the current Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), but probably the first time he saw more than 10 black people together was when he visited a Queensland reserve. [More…]

• Our cities are becoming so big and so clogged up by the problems of transport and the provision of services, such as water supply, power reticulation and sewerage, that in the process of attempting to cope with those problems they are getting right away from attending to the quality of life, the betterment of the environment and so on. [More…]

• The simple fact is that this Parliament, the parliaments of the past, and mankind throughout history have been so pre-occupied with living with the material environment that they have not studied living with themselves. [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts seen a report from the Queensland Department of Primary Industries stating that Queensland’s kangaroo population was healthy and flourishing? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• As stated in ray reply to Question 1071 (Hansard, 18 August 1971, page 76), ‘mining and the environment’ was among the subjects discussed by Ministers at the May 1971 meeting of the Australian Minerals Council, which includes all State Ministers for Mines as well as Commonwealth Ministers concerned with mining, and I would expect that further meetings of the Council this topic will be prominent amongst those discussed. [More…]

• It is an activity carried out by the Commonwealth that affects very materially the environment of the people who live under the flight paths and in the vicinity of Mascot and any airport to be constructed in the future. [More…]

• They all came to the same conclusion, that the only way to avoid aircraft noise, pollution and other effects upon environment is not to build airports near major cities. [More…]

• It seems to me that the environment and the people in the 2 subject sites will be affected. [More…]

• I believe that the matters of zoning, environment, pollution and congestion are so paramount in the minds of people today that this statement needs to be given further consideration in the Senate. [More…]

• This effluent enters the marine environment. [More…]

• The May 1971 edition of the ‘Scientific American’ carried an article entitled ‘Mercury in the Environment’. [More…]

• The environment is extremely favourable for its operations because the effluent will flow into mangrove country, which is a breeding ground for plankton and for crustaceans, and so will commence the contamination of the food chain. [More…]

• However I have before me the transcript of an interview in which the Minister for the Environment. [More…]

• I simply wish to take this opportunit to remind government generally, and the Minister in charge of questions relating to the environment, that these actions have been taken, that they are regarded by the Senate as urgent and that they are regarded by the people of Australia as urgent. [More…]

• They also recommended a national approach; that some steps should be taken not necessarily exactly along the lines taken by the Senate Committee but necessarily involving consideration of the question of the extent to which action could be taken under the Commonwealth Constitution either by the Commonwealth or by the Commonwealth and the States acting together to create a national water commission or a national environment body of some sort with sufficient power, sufficient teeth and sufficient incentive to take some action to overcome the problems which have been referred to and which are set out, in startling form, in the reports of the. [More…]

• The statement by the new Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) quoted by Senator Georges a few moments ago is something else that causes me some concern. [More…]

• We have reached a year when there is a feeling of international environmental concern. [More…]

• We are sharing with the thinking people of the world a concern for our environment. [More…]

• We are realising that our responsibilities weigh heavily as we protect and conserve our environment for the future. [More…]

• In my State of Victoria environment has been a matter of immediate concern. [More…]

• The Federal Government’s role in environmental measures perhaps will lie in the creation of a national advisory council which could work in conjunction with the Slates to share research which is undertaken, or to set up a council for the environment which would work with the 6 State governments. [More…]

• When speaking of environmental measures we must speak of individual responsibilities. [More…]

• If we are talking about environmental measures we must accept that just as the first syllable of management is man, so is it man’s individual responsibility to ensure that a personal unselfishness and, perhaps, selflessness is brought to bear in the interests of the preservation of our natural resources. [More…]

• I assume that the new Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts will also be making further opportunities available for research in matters of an environmental nature which directly concern us. [More…]

• I said earlier that we had concern about our environment. [More…]

• Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts [More…]

• These changes are being brought about by changes in our way of life, in our communications and in our environment as a result of the gradual rise in our standard of living. [More…]

• So it may well be argued that the great changes which have taken place since there have been these amendments to the legislation to which I referred earlier this afternoon have come because of a recognition of changed social and economic environment, changed attitudes of people and the changed expectations of citizens as to provisions which may be expected from a government. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• Is it true, as reported in the last issue of the ‘Sunday Australian’, that, despite the fact that the Commonwealth Office of the Environment was created 6 months ago, it has no staff? [More…]

• If the answer to these questions is in the affirmative, are we to assume that the Government has in mind for the Office of the Environment a purely decorative rather than a practical role? [More…]

• Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• It may well be that, as we discuss it now and in the future and as we play our part in the interstate and international discussions on this subject, the whole question of the environment, population explosion and matters flowing from it will influence political philosophies and principles. [More…]

• Another worry is that the number of human beings will increase the elements of pollution and damage the environment. [More…]

• Assuming that there will be food, metals and fuel for an X period of time, say 30 years, and the improvement of research will help in the continuation of these, the implications of the population explosion include the question of whether we can support increased numbers without destroying our environment of land, sea, air and water. [More…]

• It is fitting that we are aware of the international conference on the environment which is to be held in Stockholm next year. [More…]

• The Australian Parliament was represented at a conference held earlier this year in: Bonn in relating to the environment. [More…]

• But all of this relates to environmental studies and the total problems of environment. [More…]

• One of his publications is entitled ‘Population Resources and the Environment’. [More…]

• It is a crisis of population and of resources and certainly the crisis relates to the environment. [More…]

• I believe that Australia has no immediate population or environmental problems. [More…]

• It might be said that the general attitude adopted by Australians to the plight of other nations - every week we hear of some problem relating to famine or some other environmental difficulty associated with an overseas country - is the tendency to say ‘We are fortunate that we are here and that we are not there’. [More…]

• To demonstrate the interest which Australia has shown in the past in this subject, 1 quickly state that the Senate by its Committee Reports has taken great steps to alert the Australian population to the problems of pollution of the environment. [More…]

• Labour groups, particularly in Victoria, are forcing their views in relation to those matters which are seen to upset the environmental balance. [More…]

• Senator Murphy mentioned the United Nations meeting on the environment next year. [More…]

• The politician must carefully assess what has been stated lately by prominent sociologists and scientists and do that which is necessary to prevent the destruction of our environment by over-population and by over-production. [More…]

• It is salutary and timely that we should debate a matter of this nature tonight, realising that in our own activities in Australia there has been an alerting to and an awareness of the situation in respect of the environment. [More…]

• Among the problems that confront the world today, there is none more pressing than those associated with the preservation of the human environment. [More…]

• It is good to see that in international conventions these days there is deep and wide discussion of where we are heading in an overall context in respect of maintaining the environment of the whole world and the atmosphere surrounding it while pursuing the activities that we must pursue in providing for the requirements of our population. [More…]

• This is largely a matter of sustaining and improving the overall environment so that our capacity to continue in food production, for instance, is unimpaired; indeed, so that we may play an increasingly important role in food production to meet the demands of over-populated countries. [More…]

• He said that we have to give more consideration on a worldwide basis to the retention of the environment. [More…]

• I have no time at all for the attitude which we bear expressed in Australia that we should not pursue to the uttermost the development of our resources and a continuing increase in our population, although 1 am aware that we must protect our environment as far as we possibly can. [More…]

• We are looking continuously at whether weaknesses could develop in our attitude towards environmental matters, which weaknesses would be detrimental to the well being of our people. [More…]

• 1 feel that the relevant Senate committees have done a national service in alerting the populace generally to the dangers of pollution which arises from a non-awareness of what could transpire were care and heed not taken of overseas experience in relation to the control of environment. [More…]

• On 1 6th September Senator Murphy asked me a question without notice about a letter from the Australian Mass Communications Council to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts concerning the proposed National Film and Television School. [More…]

• What I am concerned about tonight - I think the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) would appreciate this - is that this is one of the many situations we are going to be confronted with in that a department with the primary responsibility of combating the various insects affecting a crop may be obsessed with that and not worried about maladjustment of the environment that may occur. [More…]

• I believe that this is a grand opportunity for the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) to come in with all guns blazing and co-opt the various authorities that arbitrate on this situation. [More…]

• Like everyone else in this chamber I have been inundating the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts with all sorts of matters, ranging from limestone to many other things, in respect of which I wanted him to instigate effective planning, utilising the Bureau of Mineral Resources to assess various alternative deposits - in fact the whole range of variations of environmental control. [More…]

• Senator Greenwood obviously has been instructed by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• We find that Mr Howson, the Minister for the Environment. [More…]

• This is only one claim that will be made tonight but 1 know from correspondence I have received from quite a number of environmental groups that it will continue to go on. [More…]

• When the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts continues to adopt a Pontius Pilate attitude it does not say much for the research that Senator Davidson, Senator Rae and other people who served on the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution engaged in. [More…]

• When we move into this emerging area concerning effects on the habitat of birds and the environment generally, once again we are essentially in a State area of responsibility. [More…]

• The Commonwealth has established a new Department of Thc Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• Quite apart from environmental matters problems are created by the interest of the Department of Primary Industry and the conceivable interest, to which Senator Mulvihill referred, of the Department of Education and Science, which is responsible for the administration of CSIRO. [More…]

• There is also the fairly pervading influence of the Commonwealth Department of Health, and in a position yet to be evolved in these areas there is the responsibility of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• There is the difficulty of the Ministry for the Environment taking over a problem which is essentially that of Primary Industry - the problem of protecting those people who are likely to be subjected to the ravages of the locusts as is in contemplation at present. [More…]

• Is it more important to protect the hundreds of thousands of farmers who may have their crops destroyed or is it more important to protect that which is constituted by the concept of the environment and all the matters of which Senator Mulvihill spoke? [More…]

• I can only assure him that 1 will convey to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts what he has said tonight and ask him to give a reply to Senator Mulvihill. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• I shall convey the honourable senator’s question to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts with a view to his setting out in some detail the steps which have been taken. [More…]

• Having regard to the health of humans and the environment generally, is it a fact that the pesticide malathion would be the best choice but that because of its higher cost its use has been rejected by all agencies other than the Victorian Government? [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliamentassembled, should, through its Standing Committee on the Social Environment, examine whether construction of a tower of this nature on Black Mountain is in the public interest, having particular regard to the need to preserve the beauty and environmental quality of the National Capital. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Facility is jointly managed by senior representatives of the Australian and United States Governments who co-operate closely with the local authorities to ensure that all personnel on site play their part in protecting the environment including the observation of conservation and anti-pollution measures. [More…]

• I am satisfied that the overall effect of the establishment of the Facility and the absorption of the associated population into the community has in no way, adversely affected the environment at Alice Springs. [More…]

• I will convey fo the Minister concerned - I expect the appropriate person to whom to convey the honourable senator’s sentiments is the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts - what the honourable senator has had to say. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should, through its Standing Committee on the Social Environment, examine whether construction of a tower of this nature on Black Mountain is in the public interest, having particular regard to the need to preserve the beauty and environmental quality of the National Capital. [More…]

• Senator MULVIHILL (New South Wales) - I ask for leave to move that the petition be referred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment for its information. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• In view of the notorious incidence of air pollution in Los Angeles and Chicago, regarded as amongst the worst in any part of the world, will the Minister make urgent representations to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts for immediate consultation with the New South Wales Government to enable such research and action lo be taken as may ensure to Sydney, or in like manner to all of our capital cities, an avoidance of the American cities’ dire experience in’ respect of air quality? [More…]

• I am unable to say whether the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has seen the report of the New South Wales body to which the honourable senator has referred, although 1 expect, having regard to his continuing interest in these mutters, that it has been brought to his attention. [More…]

• Mr President, I seek your indulgence because 1 find it somewhat difficult to decide whether the question which I wish to ask should be addressed to the Leader of the Government or to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• That being concerned withthe environment of Adelaide in the State of South Australia and the growing noise nuisance of the Adelaide Airport the petitioners pray that no action will be taken whereby the Department of Civil Aviation will be permitted to extend runways at the Adelaide Airport at its existing location or over other adjacent land. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [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…]

• 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…]

• The effectiveness of policy in relation to the arts will depend in part on the vitality and wisdom of the institutions set up to administer it In the Commonwealth, overall responsibility for the arts has been placed by me with the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [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…]

• The Prime Minister said that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) will bring together the chairmen of the various Commonwealth agencies in the arts field to discuss their present responsibilities and relationships one to the other. [More…]

• I have before me a letter that was recently sent by the Australian Writers Guild to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• Will his Department carry out a survey to ascertain how much mercury is imported, who uses mercury in industrial processes and whether any of the mercury which is used escapes to the environment and so enters the food chains in a manner which leads to a danger to the health of the community as a whole? [More…]

• 1 present the report of the Standing Committee on Social Environment on the content, form and presentation of the information section of telephone directories. [More…]

• I have pleasure in presenting to the Senate the intitial report of the Standing Committee on Social Environment which deals with the content, form and presentation of the information section of telephone directories. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• While I recognise the degree of inconsistency in those approaches, I am sure that it is the wish of the Senate that there should be legislation which will effectively enable the processes of competition to bring in their train the benefits to the consumer and to the public and the whole of the business environment which we on this side of the chamber believe they should bring. [More…]

• I can assure the Senate that the intention of the Government, with which I wholly identify myself, is to ensure that the benefits of competition are revealed, as far as they can be, by the environment which this legislation can create. [More…]

• An environment has to be created. [More…]

• The most you can hope for is to create an environment in which the dynamics of competition can operate. [More…]

• 1 direct my question to the Minister representing the PostmasterGeneral, and 1 ask it following the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment in relation to telephone directories. [More…]

• Projected market growth, and additional capacity to be provided by new aircraft types, provide a favourable environment for continued growth of the airline. [More…]

• The Council respectfully prays that the Senate will investigate this proposal and its accompanying threat of pollution and disturbance of the natural environment in the district surrounding the township of Coalcliff. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Is it a fact, as reported in the 26th September 1971 issue of The Sunday Australian’, that despite the fact that the Commonwealth Office of the Environment was created 6 months ago, it has no staff. [More…]

• Is it also a fact that only four positions have been established and they will not be filled for several weeks; if so, does the Government have in mind for the Office of the Environment a purely decorative, rather than a practical role. [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• and (2) Executive Council approval was given on 16th July 1971 to the creation of the following offices in the Office of the Environment Division of my Department: [More…]

• It is agreed that such an enterprise should be developed in ways which will not detract from the environment. [More…]

• Then we come to the Senate Standing Committee onSocial Environment, of which Senator Laucke is chairman. [More…]

• It has another reference before it dealing with the environmental conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the preservation of their sacred sites. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, In Parliament assembled, should, through its Standing Committee on the Social Environment, examine whether construction of a tower of this nature on Black Mountain is in the public interest, having particular regard to the need to preserve the beauty and environmental quality of the national capital. [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and MinisterinCharge of Tourist Activities inform the Parliament why his Government recognises - even if only partially - land rights for some persons in Papua New Guinea but consistently refuses the same recognition of tribal land rights to Australian Aborigines and islanders? [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…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts ascertain whether the Australian Film Development Corporation has invested in an Australian feature film called ‘Stockade’ on the basis of a return of I2i per cent of all profits made? [More…]

• The main heads of subjects discussed at the Conference were: The Commonwealth and Problems of World Security; Problems of the Environment; Challenges to Parliamentary Democracy; and Economic Development. [More…]

• Surveys show that we spend about half of our time in our shelter - in our home: within the home environment. [More…]

• The Labor movement believes that it is the responsibility of government to promote and provide the resources so that the whole country is properly housed in an environment that is planned, pleasant and adequate. [More…]

• They look to the Government for cheaper land, cheaper and better housing, cheap transport, better education facilities, welfare and other services as well as for a decent environment. [More…]

• The planning of Canberra, the city of Elizabeth, the Mount Druitt project, the satellite city of Campbelltown - I agree that here I am dealing with some of the New South Wales areas - all continue this emphasis on government involvement to provide an acceptable environment for the ordinary person. [More…]

• A large proportion of these university appointments is filled by highly qualified personnel who in fact have chosen to come to Australia to work in the scientific environment which is undoubtedly here. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts aware that an atempt to ask questions about the living conditions of Aborigines employed by the Hooker Corporation at Victoria River Downs Station was rejected at the annual meeting yesterday of Hooker Corporation Ltd? [More…]

• This is an area not within the Attorney-General’s Department but within the Department of the Environment. [More…]

• I have pleasure in presenting the report of the Standing Committee on Social Environment in relation to Canberra sewage effluent. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should, through its standing committee on the social environment, examine whether construction of a tower of this nature on Black Mountain is in the public interest, having particular regard to the need to preserve the beauty and environmental quality of the national capital. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister represent ing the Postmaster-General, and I ask it following the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment in relation to telephone directories. [More…]

• The recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on the Social Environment on the presentation of telephone directory information pages are being studied by my Department. [More…]

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

• That, consistent with the Resolution of the Senate of 30th March 1971, which referred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment the continuing oversight of the problems of pollution, including ways and means of preserving the environment, the Senate refers to that Committee the following matter: [More…]

• operations which can be the subject of Commonwealth legislation or administration, may constitute or contribute to a problem of pollution or affect the environment. [More…]

• The Committee is requested to recommend, on or before 30th September 1972, what legislative and administrative measures should be taken by the Commonwealth to preserve the environment and to prevent pollution by the Clutha Project. [More…]

• That the Committee is of the opinion that the Report of Estimates Committee B relating to the slow progress in the establishment of the Office of the Environment is of grave concern and expresses the view that urgent action should be taken by the Government to establish an effective organisation to deal with the problems of the environment. [More…]

• One of the functions set out was activity relating to the environment, including the responsibility for the Office of the Environment. [More…]

• There is what has come to be called ‘the environment’. [More…]

• An office to bring together and generally io 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 m relation to the environment. [More…]

• The Commonwealth, by establishing an additional portfolio by the Ministers of State Bill, accepted its responsibility in the environmental field. [More…]

• It said that the environment was a new initiative on behalf of the Commonwealth, that the environment was an important matter for the Commonwealth and that it would take a rapidly developing role in relation to the environment. [More…]

• Shortly after that the present Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) was allotted that portfolio. [More…]

• I notice that his portfolio is that of Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and Minister-in-Charge of Tourist Activities, but there appears to be nothing relating to tourist activities in the heading set out in the Particulars of Proposed Expenditure. [More…]

• What are the facts about the environment within the sphere of the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and Ihe Arts? [More…]

• I suppose that apart from the all-embracing heading ‘Administrative’ there is not one word mentioned about the environment. [More…]

• lt appears that the total number of officers in the Department of the Environment. [More…]

• want to establish the anatomy of the environment section of the Department as distinct from the other sections. [More…]

• How many of the 75 people would be engaged exclusively on environmental matters? [More…]

• The approved establishment of the Office of the Environment Division is 7. [More…]

• The 2 senior positions in the Office of the Environment Division - First Assistant Secretary and Assistant Secretary - were created on 20lh May. [More…]

• Secondly, I think the important point with the Office of the Environment Division is that it is true, as the Minister says, that I have jurisdiction over this area of the Department. [More…]

• Insofar as there is an office of the environment which is nol, at least as yet, categorised as a separate division, thai will be directly within the responsibility of the Minister. [More…]

• I think one must appreciate that this is u new Department, that Commonwealth responsibility with regard to the environment is a recently accepted responsibility and that the extent of that responsibility is hogtied by constitutional limitations :Ind ‘here is a very real .limit to the effective work which can be done. [More…]

• So we have been told that the Office of the Environment Division has one and a bit officers and apparently no specific policy has been determined or outlined for this Division of a department which is to have a total staff of 75 officers. [More…]

• Only last week the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment presented to the Senate its report on Canberra sewage effluent. [More…]

• The administrative step of establishing the Office of the Environment within the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has been taken by the Commonwealth, but this Office appears at the time of the preparation of this report to have done little more than play the part of a liaison agency without developing the operative co-ordinating role in Federal action that seems desirable to focus the Commonwealth’s multifarious interests in spheres of activity bearing on environmental problems. [More…]

• We say that, if the Senate believes in the committee system, as it does, and especially in the select committee system, and if we want action taken on reports of those committees, we cannot tolerate the present situation where there is such slowness in bringing up to its full establishment of 7 the staff of the Office of the Environment Division. [More…]

• I rise to speak to the question of the activity or inactivity of the Government in relation to environmental control. [More…]

• The Senate has been very deeply concerned about the protection of the environment, has created 2 committees and has commended proposals in relation to one aspect for urgent attention. [More…]

• The bodies which were created, re-created or strengthened under those Acts were the State Pollution Control Commission and the Metropolitan Waste Disposal Authority, and an environment improvement committee was to be set up. [More…]

• Victoria has been conscious of the need for environmental projection, which was evident from the many Acts in that State dealing with this question. [More…]

• My recollection is that there was such a variety of legislation and authorities with jurisdiction in one area or another of environmental interference, and therefore of control, that it was very difficult for Victoria to operate successfully. [More…]

• However, the position in that State now is that the Environment. [More…]

• Protection Act provides for the Environment Protection Authority, the Environment Protection Council and the Environment Protection Appeal Board. [More…]

• The bodies that are created are the Environment Protection Authority and the Environment Protection Council and, at the University of Melbourne, environmental research sponsored by the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works, the Australian Universities Commission and a consortium of Commonwealth and State governments has been embarked upon. [More…]

• I understand that last year an Act called the Environment Protection Act was introduced and that the Victorian Minister for Public Works, Mr Byrne - a man, obviously by his name, of intense and dynamic energy and interest - proposes to introduce 9 anti-pollution Bills in the spring session of the Victorian Parliament. [More…]

• What Queensland has done is to set up an Environment Control Council and 2 technical advisory committees relating to noise and solid waste disposal. [More…]

• The Queensland Acts, which are somewhat old now but have operated for some time, are the Clean Air Act 1963, the Clean Air Regulations 1968, the State Development and Public Works Organisation Act Amendment Act 1970 in which provision was made for the establishment of the Environment Control Council, the Litter Act 1971 and proposed legislation on the pollution of waters and the Pollution of Waters by Oil Act. [More…]

• In South Australia, the Premiers Department, at the date of the compilation of this information, was awaiting a report from the Committee on Environment. [More…]

• In Western Australia, at the time of the preparation of this information a report from the Department of Environment Protection was anticipated. [More…]

• The Physical Environment Protection Act 1970 proposed to set up a Department of Environment Protection which was to be constituted by a Bill to be introduced in 1971 which would constitute also the Environment Protection Council and the Environment Protection Authority. [More…]

• The Environment Control Section has been recently established under the portfolio of the Department controlled by the Chief Secretary and a Director of Environment Control is to be appointed. [More…]

• An Environment Control Bill has been prepared to deal with all the main types of pollution. [More…]

• This Bill is similar to the Victorian Environment Protection Act, to which I have made reference, and the licensing of scheduled premises, similar to the. [More…]

• It could have recommended the use of constitutional power to give ihe Commonwealth an overall disciplinary control of water pollution that would go, perhaps, to pollution of the environment generally. [More…]

• 1 do not propose to take the matter beyond that, apart from showing that there is tremendous State activity and it would be a shame if the opportunity were lost by the delay, inattention or disinterest of the Commonwealth Government to co-ordinate all these available activities so that we might get what we call a national approach to the whole question of interference with the environment. [More…]

• Senator Douglas McClelland referred to some of the dialogue which ensued between members of Senate Estimates Committee B and the officers of the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• The witness was referring to retractions on staff recuritment a decision was made not to formally set tip an Office of the Environment Division hut when, as it then was, the office of the VicePresident of the Executive Council was formed, it was decided to go ahead. [More…]

• Fortified by that assurance I waited for the honourable Peter Howson, who is Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, to get cracking in this field. [More…]

• It may have been Senator Greenwood, deputising for the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, who supplied the answer I have in mind. [More…]

• I appreciate that it has overtones for the Western Australian Government, but it is clear that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has no ammunition to enable him to play a valuable role. [More…]

• I never aim too high and in that way I avoid disappointment, but I suggested to Mr Howson that the first thing he could do would be at least to utilise the Bureau of Mineral Resources for a gigantic national mineral survey so that every time there was a controversial mining operation which could be a threat to the environment, the Minister could say: ‘You cannot operate here, but you can operate there.’ [More…]

• I believe that about 95 per cent of the officers of the Department of the Interior support conservation principles, but I had hoped that the appointment of a Minister for the Environment would give us an edge in making decisions in favour of conservation. [More…]

• 1 appreciate that after the conference in Perth it was almost felt that the milennium had arrived, but I do not accept that, lt gets back to my idea of the functions of an Office of the Environment. [More…]

• 1 think the Minister for the Environment should be a sort pf administrative filter who would vet all these ideas and determine what is true and what is false. [More…]

• In the electorate at large 6 months ago when 1 mentioned the name of the honourable Peter Howson in circles interested in the environment the light of hope came into people’s eyes, whether on the north coast of New South Wales in a fishing village or out in the central west region of New South Wales where interest was taken in, say, a mining venture or the erection of pipeline for oil wells. [More…]

• One thing was remarkable: Gathered around the table were senators who embrace a variety of political ideologies, but they all accepted that we could learn from countries with federal control of environmental matters and in that way much more effective action in the field of the environment. [More…]

• 1 hope it will galvanise the Office of the Environment, which is the victim of the big brother attitude of senior Ministers in the Cabinet. [More…]

• A great deal has been said so far in the course of the discussion of the estimates for the Department of the Environment. [More…]

• I propose to have something to say in due course about the basis of the motion which has been proposed by Senator Douglas McClelland, but before doing so I would like to refer to the constitutional basis upon which the Commonwealth must determine how it is to act with regard to the broad question of the environment. [More…]

• In starting may I say that, in terms of the environment as a subject matter of constitutional power, the Commonwealth has no direct legislative powers whatsoever. [More…]

• But the position is that, under our Constitution, the power to make laws with regard to air pollution, water pollution, and the environment generally is essentially disposed to the States. [More…]

• Against that background, what has been the development in this area of the environment? [More…]

• The Senate has had 2 committees which have dealt not with the subject of the environment but with matters which have come to be part of what is involved in a discussion of the environment. [More…]

• So it has been that diligent efforts have been made by the Commonwealth with a view to seeking the co-operation of the Slates with the Commonwealth in various areas relating to the environment. [More…]

• Following the presentation of the reports of the committees on air pollution and water pollution discussions have taken place with the States in regard to the environment. [More…]

• The Commonwealth has not been slow in setting up Commonwealth-State bodies in other areas and those bodies have some incidental impact on environmental problems. [More…]

• For example, there are 6 existing councils of Commonwealth and State Ministers the activities of which have significant direct environmental consequences and with which any environment council necessarily would have to establish a satisfactory liaison. [More…]

• They are all bodies, as I have said, which have as their constitution Commonwealth-State ministerial representation and they all have some responsibilities in the area of the environment. [More…]

• What is necessary is for the new State Ministers for the environment or the State Ministers with new responsibilities in the field of the environment to get together with the new Commonweath Minister for the environment and try to work out an area of responsibility. [More…]

• In addition, it must be recognised that there is a variety of overlapping authority in the States which does have some impact in the area of the environment. [More…]

• What did Mr Townsend, the Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and ihe Arts, say to Senate Estimates Committee B when he appeared before it? [More…]

• This is merely to illustrate the early stages in the formation of the Office of the Environment Division. ‘ [More…]

• But within all this there is continuous consultation with all the executive departments which have some responsibility for the care of lbs environment, including the Department of National Development, CSIRO and the Department of Health. [More…]

• That meeting last Friday agreed to the establishment of an Australian environment council. [More…]

• because 1 know something of the efforts he was under taking, that a very real impetus to the development of that council was given by the present Commonwealth Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), lt is proposed that through this council effective consultation and coordination between the Commonwealth and State Governments will be achieved on appropriate environment matters. [More…]

• One of the foremost topics discussed by the Ministers was the need for measures to encourage enterprise and individuals to increase efforts to combat pollution and protect the environment. [More…]

• The Ministers also agreed that there was a need to assess any other possible measures which could encourage the installation of plant, equipment and buildings 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…]

• To have this co-operation 1 think that in the first instance we should be matching the diligence of the Slates in respect of their environmental problems through legislative provisions. [More…]

• Then we would have a base from which to work to seek this cooperation which I feel is so essential to achieve worthwhile things in Australia in the field of pollution generally and in maintaining our environment. [More…]

• In the report submitted last Thursday by the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment, of which I am Chairman, we said: [More…]

• Such as our Standing Committee on Social Environment - in the present circumstances ki which all the States have embarked on new legislative and administrative initiatives while there has been no specific legislative activity on the Commonwealth’s part. [More…]

• The administrative step of establishing the Office of the Environment within the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has been taken by the Commonwealth, but this Office appears at the time of the preparation of this report to have done little more than play the part of a liaison agency without developing the operative co-ordinating role in Federal action that seems desirable to focus the Commonwealth’s multifarious interests in spheres of activity bearing on environmental problems. [More…]

• It is my wish and great hope that through this Office of the Environment we will achieve those things which will be of permanent benefit to Australia. [More…]

• It is impossible to discuss with (he State authorities good ideas for betterment in a general setting, when we have not provided basic foundations to achieve to such betterment, as recommended in reports concerning the environment, particularly from the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution and the Senate Select. [More…]

• More action should be taken which will give us backgrounds which are vitally necessary if we are to give purpose and meaning to the environment and the problems associated with it. [More…]

• They obtained and collated a body of evidence never before available in Australia as to the extent and the nature of the problems which confront us in the preservation and protection of our environment. [More…]

• But there has been ample opportunity, notwithstanding anything which has been said by the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Greenwood), as Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), for this Government despite any constitutional problems which may exist to have taken action and to have shown an awareness of the problem and a keenness to take steps to overcome the problem. [More…]

• So far, the steps taken are that last year during the election campaign it was announced by the then Prime Minister that steps would be taken in relation to the environment. [More…]

• some 14 months after the announcement, all that can be said by the officer who represented the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts before Estimates Committee B is that’one and a bit’ officers have been appointed. [More…]

• I regard the war in relation to the preservation of the environment as being of significance comparable with that of a war in relation to the preservation of a society from external attack. [More…]

• That is why I cannot believe that any States would be sufficiently small minded to stand out from a suggestion which was made not in a spirit of taking away from the States their rights but in a spirit of what is the only solution which is available to this country to a problem which is a national problem, if we wish to preserve for those who are to follow us anything like the beauty, the majesty and the integrity of the environment which we inherited. [More…]

• I suppose it is fairly easy to become emotional about this question when, like many other honourable senators in this place, I have been involved in a couple of committees relating to specified areas that concern the environment, and have moved into the area dealt with by the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• I think it is probably quite wise to draw attention to the content of the report of the Senate Estimates Committee B in which, in referring to the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, there are references to what the Committee called on that occasion it considerable degree of confusion, a lack of information, and slow progress in reaching establishment in certain areas, particularly the section dealing with the environment. [More…]

• I drew the attention of the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood), who represented in that Committee the Minister for the Environment. [More…]

• 1 asked why there was not an officer concerned particularly with the environment. [More…]

• I received an answer that indicated that the Office of the Environment was the central part of the Department. [More…]

• and I point out again, that in the last three or four years there has been considerable public interest in the environment, particularly in the sphere of water management and matters related to air pollution. [More…]

• I reiterated the fact that not only was this of public interest but also there had been a considerable public response both at State level and at local or regional level, and it was a matter of considerable personal disappointment to me that nothing was contained in the estimates and there seemed to be no provision that gave those of us who sat around the table any idea that there had been not only some initiation but also some development within the area of the environment. [More…]

• I hope that the Office of the Environment within the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts does not go down as the Department that is credited with one and a bit officers. [More…]

• I draw the Senate’s attention to the report of the Water Pollution Committee which states that this is only part of a much broader pollution problem which is threatening the whole of our national environment. [More…]

• I hope it will recognise the fact that in this debate on the estimates for this Department, and in the proceedings of the Estimates Committee there has been this expression of strong feeling from senators right around the table, including members of the Government parlies, it should recognise that Australia is in a situation in which, unless there is some form of national leadership, national administration, national co-ordination and national co-operation, it will become the victim of environmental problems in the same way that other countries have become victims of such problems. [More…]

• Within the next 6 months there will be the great United Nations conference on the environment. [More…]

• I for one am very glad that it took place and that certain things have been laid down, but in his comments this afternoon the Minister referred to the variety of councils involved in the environmental area. [More…]

• It may well be that some rights have to be sacrificed so that the freedom of all to enjoy the total environment can be achieved. [More…]

• It has been a study of constitutional, legal, social and all the other environmental problems. [More…]

• Matters relating to the environment know no Slate boundaries because the coastline goes from Stale to State, rivers flow from Stale to State, the air goes from State to Slate. [More…]

• It is extremely important that we recognise it as a matter of grave national importance so that not only in terms of water or air but in the whole concept of the environment and the styles of life which are threatened by reason of our advancing technology the benefit of a good environment can be preserved for mankind not only for this generation but also for the future. [More…]

• In October 1970, the previous Prime Minister, Mr Gorton, in his policy speech for the Senate election, announced that the Commonwealth Government would establish an Office of the Environment. [More…]

• I make this point: In December, less than 2 months after the Government had been returned at the Senate election, the then Prime Minister wrote to the Premiers of the States inviting their co-operation in coming together to discuss the environment. [More…]

• It received from 4 of the States an immediate response that they would co-operate, but from 2 States it received the immediate reaction that until those States had set up their own legislative framework with regard to the control of the environment they were not prepared to co-operate, lt was not until July of this year that there was a willingness on the part of all States to meet with the Commonwealth to discuss these matters. [More…]

• In the time that the Office of the Environment has been established as part of the central administration of a new department formed in May of this year, there has been achieved, in the face of apparent difficulty and opposition, the agreement to the establishment of Ihe Australian Environment Council. [More…]

• 1 believe that the fact that an Austraiian Environmental Council has been established is of significance in the Australian approach to these matters. [More…]

• The 2 senior positions in the Office of the Environment Division - First Assistant Secretary and Assistant Secretary - were created on 20th May. [More…]

• But what bas been done by the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts? [More…]

• The substantial part of the period from June to November was taken up by the Public Service Board and the Department of the Treasury - not the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts - in dealing with the proposal. [More…]

• If the Parliament wants to change that system, let it change it; but 1 believe that, on the inadequate information which was available to the Estimates Committee which looked at this matter, there was no warrant for saying that the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts was responsible for slow progress. [More…]

• The further point thatI wish to make is this: Accepting as I do the information given by the Attorney-General - for whose information, veracity and opinions I have the greatest of respect - as to the workings of the Public Service in relation to the appointment of officers to the Environment Division of the Department, I can say only that this has demonstrated more vividly than anything else I can imagine in quite some time the need for the Senate to forgo the number of references to Committees which were passed today and to look urgently at the workings of the Public Service. [More…]

• The only person who has spoken in support of the Government’s contention on this matter throughout the whole of the debate has been the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) who represents the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson). [More…]

• The Minister seems concerned that as a result of the digging and probing which went on at the Estimates Committee hearing certain facts were elicited.I again remind the Minister that on page 29 of the document entitled ‘Particulars of Proposed Expenditure for the Services of the Year ended 30th June 1972’, under the heading Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts’, we find the following divisions listed: Administrative Assistance for the Arts, Commonwealth Archives Office, Australian Government Publishing Service, Australian War Memorial, Office of Aboriginal Affairs, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies and National Library of Australia. [More…]

• When one finds those divisions listed in the appropriations for the Government for the year, the ministerial portfolio is the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, and no mention is made of the Environment section of that Department, what does the Government expect? [More…]

• That was when the portfolio of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts was established. [More…]

• Although there is an establishment of 75 in the Department - in fact the establishment within the division of the Environment is only 7 - the Australian community would expect in a period of -8 mon:hs more than ‘one-and-a-bit’ officers would have been created to deal with matters relating to the Australian Water Resources Council, the Australian Forestry Council, the Australian Agricultural Council, the Australian Fisheries Council, the Australian Transport Advisory Council and the Australian Minerals Council, just to name those that were mentioned by the Minister. [More…]

• I urge the Committee to support this proposition to the hilt and to urge the Government to get on with the job and to tackle the problem of the environment because it is much more serious than apparently the Minister seems to think it is. [More…]

• Whilst recognising that the Department ot the Environment. [More…]

• particularly the section dealing with the environment. [More…]

• f can only say - and I invite anyone to read this record and to contradict what I say - that I can find no evidence in the Hansard record of a possible concern expressed by any member of the Committee about the progress in reaching the establishment of areas other than the office of the Environment division. [More…]

• The second aspect is that the Govern ment is concerned to promote awareness in the community in the way that Senator Rae expressed it of the need to be conscious of damage to our inheritance and our future in what is happening to the environment which we have taken for granted. [More…]

• The first motion moved was in relation to the environment. [More…]

• guard the ecology and environment from pollution by fuel extraction and energy generation. [More…]

• 1 do not want to raise a scare by suggesting that radioactive material is going into the river but J am suggesting that there is other waste that can be detrimental to the environment. [More…]

• Wales and Victoria.. A few nights ago honourable senators engaged in a long debate on the shortcomings of the Office of the Environment. [More…]

• In the debate on the estimates for another department I referred to the rape of the environment by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in the Finniss River region. [More…]

• Surely there has to come some point in this incessant battle between the conservationists and the mining interests - the people I regard without any qualification as the rapists of the environment - when some Minister will say: ‘You can do what you like on 1,000 square mites but the other 800 square miles are off limits’. [More…]

• In the meantime any applications for mining leases in the area would be granted on conditions negotiated between the Government and the company concerned, including conditions to protect the environment. [More…]

• The situation was that the Leader of the Opposition in this place pleaded with us in that debate - I do not have to go to the Hansard record because I think he remembers the occasion well - that we should do something to take this salary out of the public service environment where there was a limitation of salaries. [More…]

• He has made some suggestions of which I am sure the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) will take account. [More…]

• But in the final analysis one would hope that the remedy will be found in the environment and in the home. [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts on a matter which may have escaped his attention. [More…]

• I assure him that I will have the matter referred to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and I hope that a speedy response can be given to the honourable senator about the particular matters which are concerning him and members of his union. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and Minister in Charge of Tourist Activities. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has furnished the following reply: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Minister for the Environment. [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD - The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts whether it is a fact that the infant mortality rate for Aborigines is 6 times higher than the rate for other Australian children. [More…]

• I will undertake to ascertain whether the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, whom 1 represent, or the Minister for Health is the appropriate Minister and I shall supply an answer to the honourable senator. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has supplied the following answer to the honourable senator’s question from information received from the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs: [More…]

• As the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) said in his second reading speech on the States Grants (Aboriginal Advancement) Bill last October, governments throughout Australia are spending some $44m this year on behalf of 140,000 Aborigines and, in addition, as Australian citizens, they also receive social services and other similar benefits. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should, through its Standing Committee on the Social Environment, examine whether construction of a tower of this nature on Black Mountain is in the public interest, having particular regard to the need to preserve the beauty and environmental quality of the National Capital. [More…]

• We see forward movement and economic development and the movement towards political stability as the best means to promote an environment conducive to our own interests. [More…]

• Here we have these men saying that what is required in the east is political stability as the best means to promote an environment conducive to our own interests. [More…]

• I do know that from the very beginning of its planning very careful steps have been taken to preserve the environment and to fry to protect the area as much as possible. [More…]

• I refer to a question that I. asked of the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts about Aboriginal land rights. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• If there is a feature of life in our generation which has come to require our acceptance, it is the conservation of our natural environment and the fauna which inhabit it with us. [More…]

• I refer to recent statements by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Works that it is the intention of the Government to preserve the natural environment of Garden Island and Cockburn Sound, apart from those areas required for the naval facility. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• What are the details of Australia’s present contribution to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. [More…]

• Does the Minister know that the United Nations Conference, and papers recently presented tothe Special Committee on Problems on the Environment, specifically refer to the impact of man-made lakes on existing eco-systems and the food producing potential of tropical savannah eco-systems. [More…]

• Does the Minister consider that an integrated multi-disciplinary resources study of the entire Ord River Scheme, with regard to environmental, economic and sociological aspects, would be a worthy contribution by Australia to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. [More…]

• As such a programme would lake about 5 years, and only preliminary work could be done before June 1972, will the Minister consider presenting such a proposal to the United Nations Conference for endorsement, as an undertaking by Australia on behalf of the global environment. [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment is not a scientific conference at which technical papers will be presented. [More…]

• Australia has submitted a national report on the environment. [More…]

• In addition, we have sent observers to the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Declaration on the Environment as well as the Preparatory Committee of the Conference. [More…]

• to provide information that would form a basis for local action to mitigate the undesirable effects of ecological changes on human health, agricultural and pastoral production, and the environment generally, with particular reference to conservation and pollution. [More…]

• On the other, the Australian socio-economic conditions of the Ord area, and hence the impact of environmental changes on the inhabitants, differ vastly from those prevailing elsewhere in the tropics. [More…]

• More valuable as a model for large-scale irrigation developments in other tropical environments would be the study being made by an international team of experts in the Mekong Valley, with its typical high density development accompanied by social problems of villagers displaced by the scheme. [More…]

• It is also relevant to note that the Special Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), a high-level international body established in 1968 by the international Council of Scientific Unions, has appointed an ad hoc Committee on Man-made Lakes, so that the subject is by no means being neglected internationally. [More…]

• CSIRO advises that major irrigation works, while increasing the areas suited to some of them, do not create a uniquely-favourable environment. [More…]

• Apart from current investigations, land surveys by CSlRO’s Division of Land Research in the Old-Victoria region in 1949 and 1952 provided extensive basic information about climate, geology, landforms and soils of the Ord area and examined the relationships between factors of the physical environment and growth amd distribution of native vegetation when still little disturbed by human activity. [More…]

• together with South East Asia and the Pacific Ocean, a major segment of our strategic environment, its great extent and relative emptiness in the past have of themselves given us security. [More…]

• It was suggested that the Commonwealth Government should play its part in financing home care services for the elderly citizens of this community so that, instead of shifting them from their own home environment and transplanting them in a home where they were completely strange because the situation was completely foreign to them, the Commonwealth could be engaging in a scheme to keep them in their own homes so that they could live in the environment to which they had been accustomed over the years. [More…]

• Do honourable senators opposite believe that public works, agriculture, mining, conservation, lands, decentralisation or the environment are important? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• I am not able to recall the original question to which the honourable senator referred and in respect of which I must have supplied the answer from the Minister for the Environment. [More…]

• In addition to 1. above, the holder shall direct his activities in such a way as to give all reasonable protection to the environment including reasonable restoration of disturbed areas. [More…]

• He shall also take all reasonable steps to direct and control the activities of employees, including off duty activities, to protect the environment. [More…]

• In the meantime, continued prospecting and any mining which may eventuate will be allowed only under special conditions designed to protect the environment. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• Bearing in mind the evidence given to Estimates Committee B and that Committee’s report to the Senate as to its concern at the slow rate of progress in the Office of the Environment reaching establishment, can the Minister indicate what progress has now been made in bringing that office’s staff up to establishment? [More…]

• At a meeting of the chairmen of agencies which advise the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) on support for the arts, it was agreed that our programmes should have the following broad aims: The promotion of a standard of excellence over the whole field of the arts; the widening of access to and understanding and appreciation of the arts in the community generally; the expression of an Australian identity through the arts; and the presentation of Australia’s cultural achievements abroad. [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts expects the committee to begin its inquiries immediately. [More…]

• by leave - The Opposition welcomes the statement by the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood), on behalf of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), on this matter. [More…]

• However minor the action which is starting to come out of the Ministry of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, let us welcome it, because so little has happened and so little is likely to happen. [More…]

• Before they come to this country, some of them are Macedonian peasants with no acquaintance whatsoever with secondary industry, no knowledge of the language and completely strange in their new environment. [More…]

• Those who have read the Press during the last few days will know that I related a certain incident to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• I make this appeal to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) at the Commonwealth level and ask him to conduct a searching inquiry into the Queensland Department and the conduct of all senior people who come under the control of the Queensland Minister. [More…]

• 1 ask that this also be referred to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, lt is not the first time there has been discrimination in Townsville. [More…]

• AllI will say is that I will convey to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), whom I represent, the matter that he raised. [More…]

• I shall refer what Senator Keeffe said to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts so that he can examine the matter. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts aware of the project known as ‘Operation Earth Day 72’ - an imaginative undertaking launched yesterday by a number of organisations and aimed at concentrating public attention upon the need for balanced development and conservation of the environment? [More…]

• Will the Government commend and study this project with a view to encouraging similar educational promotions towards a continuous and growing public understanding of the vital problems of environment and ecology? [More…]

• Whether the attention of the Minister for the Environment. [More…]

• I have not read the letter in the ‘Financial ‘ Review’ but the honourable senator and the person who wrote the letter would be correct in saying that not only the elements of transportation and a new phase of transportation in the air, but also the matter of the environmental impact are involved. [More…]

• The Department of the Environment has been kept informed by us of any work which we have done in this regard as, indeed, it has kept us informed of its work. [More…]

• Has this disease caused affected trees in streets to lose their leaves and branches to die; if so, does the Minister regard the disease as an immediate threat to Canberra’s environment. [More…]

• Because of the sporadic effect of incidence of the disease and its association only with poor drainage it is not regarded as likely to provide a major threat to Canberra’s environment. [More…]

• That there bc referred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment the following matter: The Petitions presented to the Senate on 21st March 1972 relating to the Postmaster-General’s Department. [More…]

• The reason why I do not want to deal with Senator Cavanagh’s motion today is that it seeks to refer to the Standing Committee on Social Environment certain petitions that have been presented to the Senate. [More…]

• Therefore I suggest that the question be put on Senator Cavanagh’s notice of motion, which is to refer petitions to the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• I understand that 2 representatives of the 2 Australian companies to which I have referred recently saw the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson). [More…]

• I already have spoken to the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) about this, both in his capacity as AttorneyGeneral and as Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• I shall also direct the attention of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), whom I represent, to the matter to see whether anything can be done on a basis which acknowledges the rights of people to move to better jobs and, at the same time, to avail themselves of opportunities to establish businesses in this country. [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts investigate an allegation of cruelty on the Yarrabah Reserve as it has been stated that a male resident had his hands handcuffed behind bis back and was then assaulted? [More…]

• It could look at the physical environment of schools to cull out those with inadequate buildings and facilities, and insufficient teaching aids. [More…]

• Your Petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, will through its Standing Committee on Social Environment, examine whether the proposed inundation of Lake Pedder is in the national interest, having regard to the need to preserve the unique flora and fauna of this wilderness area for the enjoyment of all Australians, including future generations. [More…]

• In the circumstances did he discuss the likely injurious effects to Aborigines and the environment with the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts before he made his decision? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The special industrial Course emphasises on-the-job safety, orientation and allied topics and aims to familiarise migrant workers with the industrial environment in which they work. [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…]

• 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 area 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…]

• In the Senate on 8th March 1972 Senator Kane asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, the following questions: [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has furnished the following replies: [More…]

• I present the report from the Standing Committee on Social Environment relating to 2 petitions seeking co-operation and financial assistance for crime prevention, together with certain documents and correspondence. [More…]

• In presenting this report, I believe that as Chairman of the Committee I should mention some of the important factors that were basic to the Committee’s deliberations on the 2 petitions seeking co-operation and financial assistance for crime prevention which were referred originally to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, and were later transferred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Social Environment considered this to be a proper course to adopt and took note of the comments received. [More…]

• 1 found, when Senator Laucke, the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment, presented to the Senate the report of that Committee on petitions seeking co-operation and financial assistance for crime prevention, that I could not agree with a number of comments which were made in his introductory remarks. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment had not been established when the petitions were presented and they were referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, from which committee they came to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• In the light of what Senator Keeffe has said, I think that an adjournment of the debate should be sought and that the resumption of the debate should be made an order of the day for the next day of sitting in order to give those honourable senators who are not members of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment an opportunity to read this report. [More…]

• I am not certain of the facts in regard to this matter or of whether the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts is the appropriate Minister to whom the question should be directed. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• Particular attention is given to these elements as they are considered potentially the most hazardous of the radioactive materials relased 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 conducting 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…]

• That the Postmaster-General’s Department, Central Administration Board’s Policy of recentralising and concentrating certain staffs, under what is called the Area Management Project, to the great detriment of the economics of the towns and related rural areas, and to the detriment of the overall morale, efficiency and independence of the Australian Post Office is against the public interest and should be made the subject of special investigation by the Senate’s Social Environment Committee and by the Senate’s Finance and Government Operations Standing Committee. [More…]

• is against sound business principles, is uneconomic, is against the public interest, and should be made the subject of special investigation by the Senates Social Environment Committee and by the Senate’s Finance and Government Operations Standing Committee. [More…]

• I present the report of the Standing Committee on Social Environment relating to the Clutha Development Project. [More…]

• This statement, which is quite a long one, was delivered in the House of Representatives yesterday by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson). [More…]

• (The statement by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts read as follows): [More…]

• should be made the subject of special investigation by the Senate’s Social Environment Committee and by the Senate’s Finance and Government Operations Standing Committee. [More…]

• Does he still stand by his earlier decision to inflict the Concorde aircraft upon the Australian environment in June? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Health whether he is aware that the Director of Health in the Northern Territory recently gave evidence before the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment to the effect that the situation in relation to Aboriginal health in the Northern Territory was not improving. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines andthe Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Did Professor S tanner, a senior member of the Council of Aboriginal Affairs, tell the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment on 25th February 1972 of the vital place held by land in Aboriginal tradition and culture saying one cannot exaggerate the importance, intimacy and closeness of this tie between the Aboriginal communities and their land’; if so, is the Minister in conflict with him? [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• On 9th March 1972 Senator Rae asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, what progress had been made in bringing the staff of the Office of the Environment Division up to establishment. [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has now advised me that the approved staff establishment of the Office of the Environment Division is: 1 - First Assistant Secretary, Level 3 1- Clerk, Class 8 2- Clerk, Class 6 1- Clerk, Class 4 [More…]

• That the Postmaster-General’s Department, Central Administration Board’s policy of re-centralising and concentrating certain staffs, under what is termed The Area Management Project, to the great detriment of most of the staffs affected and to the detriment of the economies of the towns and related rural areas, and to the detriment of the overall morale, efficiency and independence of the Australian Post Office is against the public interest and should be made the subject of special investigation by the Senate’s Social Environment Committee and by the Senate’s Finance and Government Operations Standing Committee. [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…]

• 1 felt that when he was speaking he had in mind the reports relating to the environment. [More…]

• An environment impact study for the Alligator Rivers area of the Northern Territory has been set up. [More…]

• The negotiation of special conditions provides the opportunity to include stringent conditions for the protection of the environment. [More…]

• 1 assure Senator Mulvihill that the Government, together with myself and I think most other honourable senators, is as concerned as he is to protect the environment. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• That this problem is compounded when an assessment is made of the price paid by the Tasmanian people for continuing to pursue such policies in terms of the destruction of environment, pollution of waters, and elimination of beauty in this uniquely beautiful island State. [More…]

• Thai the Postmaster-General’s Department, Central Administration Board’s, policy of re-centralising and concentrating certain staffs, under what is termed the Area Management Project, to the great detriment of most of the staffs affected and to :he detriment of the economies of the towns and related rural areas, and to the detriment of the overall morale, efficiency and independence of the Australian Post Office, is against the public interest and should be made the subject of special investigation b> the Senate’s Social Environment Committee and by the Senate’s Finance and Government Operations Standing Committee. [More…]

• I digress for a moment to point out that only a few weeks ago there was presented in this Senate a report from the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• That the Postmaster-General’s Department, Central Administration Board’s Policy of re-centralising and concentrating certain staffs, under what is called the Area Management Project, to the great detriment of the economies of the towns and related rural areas, and to the detriment of the overall morale, efficiency and independence of the Australia Post Office is against the public interest and should be made the subject of special investigation by the Senate’s Social Environment Committee and by the Senate’s Finance and Government Operations Standing Committee. [More…]

• Because poverty is part of the environment the need to meet that poverty is an environmental matter. [More…]

• The motion calls for an extensive inquiry by the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment, a Committee which has received some attention tonight because of the heavy work load it now bears. [More…]

• I would like to express my appreciation to Senator Byrne for the attitude he has adopted towards the proposal to refer this matter to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• I think honourable senators will find that the proposal to refer the matter of housing to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment was moved on 23rd February 1971. [More…]

• I moved for the Committee to inquire into the environmental conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the preservation of their sacred sites. [More…]

• The Committee reported also on the possible pollution of the environment by the Clutha project. [More…]

• That the Postmaster-General’s Department, Central Administration Board’s policy of re-centralising and concentrating certain staffs, under what is termed The Area Management Project, to the great detriment of most of the staffs affected and to the detriment of the economies of the towns and related rural areas, and to the detriment of the overall morale, efficiency and independence of the Australian Post Office is against the public interest and should be made the subject of special investigation by the Senate’s Social Environment Committee and by the Senate’s Finance and Government Operations Standing Committee. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• Besides warmth in their living environment, old people require additional nutrition to supply the body with extra fuel foods for warmth. [More…]

• What would be the Minister’s attitude if a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment sought a briefing on the matter contained in (2) and an inspection of the area of the Scheme so as to allay fears of undue despoliation of the bushland. [More…]

• I think the honourable senator is aware of some very significant steps which have been taken by the Government in the whole field of the environment. [More…]

• I refer specifically to the fact that the Commonwealth, in consultation with the States, has established the Australian Environment Council’ which will enable cooperative effort by State and Commonwealth governments in their areas of responsibility. [More…]

• It seems to me that the question should properly have been directed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [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…]

• asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: ls the Minister aware that a census-laker is alleged to have revealed that up to 27 Aborigines live in one small home at Hall Road, near Edmonton. [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• A competitive environment keeps businessmen on their toes; encourages innovation and trying to do better than the other fellow, and, it should be emphasised, through making the automatic passing on of increased costs more difficult, discourages soft attitudes towards excessive wage demands. [More…]

• I will be seeking leave to make a statement to the Senate on behalf of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) entitled: ‘Australian Environment. [More…]

• 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, 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…]

• I might say, in passing, that with my Queensland colleague, Senator Georges, 1 look forward to the debate on the motion moved by Senator Davidson on the statement on the Australian environment. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and the Minister-in-Charge of Tourist Activities. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Priorto the period 1966-1968, employment by an airline was required in order to ensure that pilots wore properly trained in the actual airline environment. [More…]

• Vehicle emissions also concern the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Environment Council. [More…]

• I direct a ques tion to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Acts. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should call upon the Senate Social Environment Committee to investigate the issue. [More…]

• The report recognises the existence of prospecting activity and the likelihood of mining in the region and emphasises the need for stringent controls to protect the environment. [More…]

• – My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and Minister-in-charge of Tourist Activities. [More…]

• I cannot recall the question which I received on behalf of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts in April and am not clear as to what answer was given in the House of Representatives yesterday. [More…]

• Honourable senators will be aware that as a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment I presented a minority report on the subject of gun control. [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and the Minister-in-Charge of Tourist Activities. [More…]

• Some criticisms have been made that the marine environment of Townsville has been subjected to some metal pollution. [More…]

• 1 have spoken previously of the dangers of nickel contamination, especially in the marine environment because there it escalates at a great rate. [More…]

• Because of the type of environment, the pollution can spread up and down the whole of the province of the Great Barrier Reef and to areas outside it. [More…]

• Reference have been made here before to mercury and nickel pollution and other forms of metal pollution in the marine environment. [More…]

• Coral spreads very rapidly if it is left alone in its natural environment. [More…]

• I shall quote - J think this is all bound up with the halting progress that is made through these decisions - a statement on the Australian environment, Commonwealth policy and achievements, issued on 24th May 1972 by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and the Minister in Charge of Tourist Activities (Mr Howson) or, as some nasty people call him, the Minister for Odds and Ends. [More…]

• lt shows what the Government thinks of the environment. [More…]

• This is what the Australian Labor Pary thinks of the importance of the environment: In its policy it proposes: [More…]

• But there will come a time, if that reef is ruined, when tides may sweep in over the low coastal lands and the environment will be wrecked further. [More…]

• I must quote a couple of other points frOm the policy of the Australian Government on the ‘ environment. [More…]

• 1 want to say quite frankly that for some time prior to the hearing of the Committee in Perth I had been assisting the Western Australian organisation known as Environment 2,000 in the preparation of the case it would put to the Public Works Committee for extra public access to Garden Island. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment. [More…]

• Has the composition of the Australian delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment been finalised; if so, what are the names of these persons. [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Honourable Peter Howson, M.P., Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Leader) [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and Minister in Charge of Tourist Activities. [More…]

• A portfolio was created to cover conservation and Mr Howson is now Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• The points made by the previous speaker on the preservation of our environment and related matters are significant when one comes to consider the types of forests to be planted. [More…]

• There is an urgent need for resources evaluation to provide for all the future needs of an expanding community in Northern Australia; and (ii) a reservation programme to meet present and future needs of conservation of timber, soil, water, wildlife and environment before committal of the land to single purpose exploitation. [More…]

• Some 2 years old plots of the species are already in excess of 20 feet in height and it appears that a thorough testing of this genera in relation to species, environment, provenance and phenotype is warranted. [More…]

• Professional advice made available to the Government, both departmentally and from independent sources, is almost unanimous that elderly people should be encouraged to remain in their domestic environment, as long as they are able to do so. [More…]

• At the same time, the plan is designed to ensure the continuance of nursing homes as a recognised form of institutional care, particularly for chronically ill aged persons who can no longer be adequately cared for in a domestic 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 the Australian environment arising from activities with nuclear explosive devices either in this country or elsewhere. [More…]

• The question of the development of Australia’s natural resources consonant with the protection of the Australian environment is becoming of tremendous significance. [More…]

• If we do not move now to ensure the elevation of environmental concern to a very high national position, the opportunity will inevitably and irrevocably be lost. [More…]

• That is why with a Bill of this nature we are disposed to propound an operative amendment in terms of our concern for the preservation of the environment. [More…]

• Since then the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) has made a statement on the subject; but I should like to see a more recent statement showing what steps have been taken to implement or to adopt, or to adopt with qualifications, the recommendations of that Committee. [More…]

• We have taken the lead, particularly in this chamber, for the protection of the environment, and the States should be told by this method that we hope that they would be parties to the incorporation within any CommonwealthState agreement on their side of this recognition of the need for environmental reference in any agreements which may he entered into for the provision of finance to supplant indigenous growth by exotic forest planting. [More…]

• The purpose of the first amendment is to ensure primarily that the principles which were set forward not only in our deliberations and in the decisions taken by our conference, but in the announcement by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, are observed. [More…]

• Secondly, our amendment emphasises the importance we attach to environmental matters in any question of redevelopment. [More…]

• We do not think for one moment that consideration for the environment should of necessity and inevitably surmount every other consideration. [More…]

• We know there must always be found that reconciliation between the legitimate need to explore natural resources and the protection of the environment and sometimes one or the other may have to be sacrificed. [More…]

• The important thing is that the environment shall not be disregarded, that it shall be given its due place and at least shall be a matter of concern when a judgment has to be made. [More…]

• It is a study of the effect the project will have on the local environment, the local fauna and the local flora. [More…]

• So an impact study is not merely a study that looks at whether one will conserve as much water by the growing of pines as by the growing of eucalypts but the whole effect on the environment and the ecology of the area. [More…]

• Surely it is not too much to say in this new concept of environmental concern that is developing all over the world that this is a matter that should be taken into consideration in any developmental project where there is a danger of disturbance of the ecology or the environment by the contemplated commercial venture. [More…]

• I believe that because of the continued lack of planning in this industry on the part of Commonwealth and State governments we have run into problems so far as the environment is concerned and so far as the preservation of flora and fauna are concerned. [More…]

• Senator Kane’s amendment, to which I draw Senator Byrne’s attention, is directed towards environmental matters which I touched on earlier. [More…]

• In this connection it is relevant that the Australian Forestly Council has discussed at length the necessity to consider the effect on the environment of forest management practices. [More…]

• If one regards oneself as a person concerned with the environment, pollution of the air and all the ecological factors one should bear in mind that one of the great things that we want close to great concentrations of people is huge, dense forests. [More…]

• I am optimistic enough to believe that in the calm of tomorrow when Senator Cotton browses through Hansard and he has to explain to his fellow Ministers what the amendment meant, if this arbitration structure on environment or conservation is carried- [More…]

• So far as natural forests are concerned, I am afraid that I cannot speak with great knowledge of the situation in New South Wales or Queensland, but certainly in relation to the natural forests which exist in my own State of Victoria and in Tasmania I am aware that there is great environmental interest if environment’ covers the regeneration of the type of forest which exists in natural forests. [More…]

• In his mind it is the impact that it will have on the whole subject of environmental life and flora and fauna in the area. [More…]

• Is he an expert on clearing land, on the environment or on wildlife? [More…]

• In particular, the question is asked: What is an environmental impact study all about? [More…]

• Those who have remained in the chamber and who have taken an active interest in this debate - I have paid them proper tribute at an earlier stage - might like to learn some of the factors that are believed to be important in the environmental impact position. [More…]

• In general terms the impact on the environment of afforestation is almost entirely favourable. [More…]

• Forest services are now very conscious of their environmental responsibilities, as well as those of conservation and the wise use of resources. [More…]

• Both the environmental and productive values are highly significant. [More…]

• An increasing variety of native animals, birds, etc, have adapted or are becoming adapted to the recently established coniferous environment. [More…]

• Anyone who is interested in the environment would be forced to support the amendment because we may do irreparable harm if we simply allow States to go ahead with the destruction of indigenous forests in order to plant softwoods. [More…]

• There are 2 fields of thought ‘ in Australia and, as Senator Byrne said, we are getting more environment conscious. [More…]

• I see the necessity for the non-destruction of our environment. [More…]

• In view of the high priority that we put on the environment today I think that this subject should be given more careful study in the future. [More…]

• Will members of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment be able to peruse such reports. [More…]

• Can a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment attend meetings of the Committee or be provided with a summary of the proceedings. [More…]

• Since the Atomic Energy Commission is a subsidiary of the National Development Ministry why was this ministry given inflated committee membership when the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts was excluded. [More…]

• At end of motion add ‘and that the medical, social environmental, and legal aspects of the report and recommendations of the Committee be referred to the Standing Committees on Health and Welfare, Social Environment and Constitutional and Legal Affairs, respectively, and that these 3 Committees be authorised to undertake the continuing oversight of those aspects and to recommend from time to time what further measures might be taken to implement the recommendations or to overcome the problems revealed in the report’. [More…]

• They, too, hold in their hands the intelligent handling of our environment in the future. [More…]

• Our eighth recommendation, which is perhaps one of the most important to be considered right across the spectrum of human endeavour, referred to the living environment: [More…]

• The priority being placed on growth, development and material wealth should be critically examined so that greater resources may be devoted to improving the living environment of the community. [More…]

• I believe that we hit the nail on the head - we have not been alone in making this opinion known - when we said that a lot of the problems of drug misuse and drug abuse are the result of our living environment, the age in which we live and the manner in which we live in it. [More…]

• So if we are really to try to beat the drug menace in Australia it is important that we get to people not only through education but also through the environment in which they live. [More…]

• He had referred to the second Chinese nuclear test which, he said, not only polluted the environment but was also an affront to the possible aspirations of mankind. [More…]

• These investigations have included environmental matters. [More…]

• The concept of an impact statement’ designed to protect the environment was first outlined in the Senate by the Attorney-General on behalf of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts on 24th May 1972. [More…]

• These regulations are designed to protect the water supply and also to preserve the environment of the catchment without unduly inhibiting good farming practice. [More…]

• We recognise that relations between the major powers will be the predominant influence on Australia’s future strategic environment. [More…]

• No adverse effects on other aspects of the environment are expected to occur. [More…]

• It is to be hoped that in the final analysis a complete remedy will be found not only in enforcement or in treatment or rehabilitation but also through an improved environment and education in the home. [More…]

• Social Environment Committee to investigate the issue. [More…]

• For once it is very good to hear that a programme which, after ali, changes our environment has no opponents on the grounds of ecology or anything else. [More…]

• I, like some of my friends in the Senate and particularly Senator Cavanagh who expressed a point of view the other night,, agree that we have to watch this sudden enthusiasm for not changing the ecology and the environment. [More…]

• We have to see that preventing such changes does not go too far, After all, we live in a continent where,; had we not changed the environment, npt even the convicts who. [More…]

• In this country it is necessary toremember always that it was –the changing of the natural environment as: it was when discovered by people who .came from Europe in the early days which, has made it possible for what was once almost a desert to bloom and blossom in small parts today and give us a satisfactory way of life. [More…]

• We must not turn ourselves against changing the environment merely for the purpose of being against it. [More…]

• we do we may go back to where bur predecessors began and that is with a. very difficult environment with which to cope. [More…]

• The Ministers of the Environment in both South Australia and New South Wales have already protested about the imposition of this excise. [More…]

• This reference to the Standing Committee on Social Environment was just one of the assignments that has been given to the Committee. [More…]

• The resolution of the Senate, as set out in that report, was that the Standing Committee on Social Environment report on the content, form and presentation of the information section of the telephone directories. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment the following matters - The content, form and presentation of the Information Section of telephone directories with a view to - [More…]

• When this matter was first debated in the Senate a number of reasons were advanced for referring it to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• Senators will be aware that amongst the 7 legislative and general purpose standing committees of the Senate there is one entitled the ‘Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment’. [More…]

• These 2 words ‘Social Environment’ would seem to indicate that a whole range of matters might be referred to that Committee without very much regard to their relationship to the type of committee that it is. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment the following matters - [More…]

• I have read the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment and I know that the PostmasterGeneral and his Department have given attention to the recommendations which it has provided. [More…]

• The Minister has no proper department operating in the tourism field, nor does he have a proper department operating in the environment field. [More…]

• You will recall, Mr Acting Deputy President, that I said earlier that we have no real office of the environment. [More…]

• There have been meetings of Ministers of the environment. [More…]

• At least the Office of the Environment ought to have been able to arrange streamlined entry for the Australian delegation at that Conference but that was not so. [More…]

• I hope the Territory will be given the assistance and encouragement that are needed to develop a system that will suit its environment and the conditions of that country. [More…]

• They have gone their own way and have survived in and often despite their environment. [More…]

• Having met these people in their own environment and seen them up in the Highlands and various parts of New Guinea, I ‘ can say that they are lovable people. [More…]

• Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [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…]

• The Budget again fails to provide any resources to stabilise local government finances, to move them out of the horse and buggy era and to supply them with funds to provide a proper and decent environment and adequate community facilities. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minis ter for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I wish to ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, ls it a fact that at 2 recent international conferences Australia managed to record 2 different votes on the same subject of a 10-year moratorium on the commercial killing of whales? [More…]

• Is it a fact that at the Stockholm Conference on the Environment the Australian delegation, led by Mr Howson, voted for the moratorium and that 3 weeks later at the International Whaling Commission conference in London the Australian delegation, which on that occasion did not include Mr Howson, abstained from voting on the same question? [More…]

• I am sure that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts will be very keen to answer it as soon as he can. [More…]

• When the Senate was last discussing the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment on telephone directories, which was last Thursday, I had been indicating the course of action which had been taken by the Postmaster-General (Sir Alan Hulme) and the Postmaster-General’s Department in the light of the recommendations which had been made by the Committee. [More…]

• As the member of this chamber who was responsible for proposing the referral of an inquiry into telephone directories to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment, I am naturally interested in the activities of the Committee and its deliberations and recommendations. [More…]

• I want to ask a question which perhaps Senator Laucke as Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment may be able to answer. [More…]

• As Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment I have listened with great interest to honourable senators who have taken part in the discussion and debate on the reference given to the Committee by the Senate on 13th May last year. [More…]

• 1 have been asked: ‘How come a reference such as this was made to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment?’ [More…]

• Social environment encompasses a tremendous range of interests, which is evident from the wide variety of subjects referred by the Senate to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• The word environment’ taken alone immediately conjures up in one’s mind those elements of nature which constitute the immediate surroundings in any given place. [More…]

• The environment as such is in the public mind in this sort of . [More…]

• But when we refer to the social environment it opens up a terrific area of interest impinging On the very way of living in almost every facet of the social and economic life in the nation. [More…]

• The fact that the Committee on Social Environment has referred to it the matter of telephone directories was in accord with this extremely wide area which the social environment encompasses. [More…]

• I want to take up the discussion on the report on Canberra sewage effluent, which has been tabled in this Senate by the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• Another background was the terms of reference of the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment the following matter: [More…]

• the continuing oversight of the problems of pollution, including ways and means of preserving the environment from pollution; and [More…]

• As the report states, the terms of reference were wide-ranging and gave the Committee a continuing charter - a charter to exercise, on behalf of the Senate, an oversight of the problems of pollution and ways and means of preserving the environment from pollution. [More…]

• The Committee was entrusted with something which was described as the continuing oversight of the problems of pollution including ways and means of preserving the environment from pollution, and making recommendations. [More…]

• Water pollution is only part of a much broader pollution problem which’ is threatening our whole national environment. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment, having a particular job to do, was confronted with a situation in which there was a water question which involved a national capital area and State geographical areas. [More…]

• I think that the activity of the Senate Committee on Social Environment represents the first step towards taking a responsible decision in relation to its pollution terms of reference. [More…]

• The Department under tha control of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) seems to be an organisation that other departments merely put up with. [More…]

• It never seems to be a matter to be dealt with by the Minister for the Environment. [More…]

• In this debate we are dealing with a report of the Standing Committee on Social Environment, dealing specifically with the problem of Canberra sewage effluent. [More…]

• But for the purpose of this debate I do not think it would be appropriate for me on behalf of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) to refer to that aspect in detail. [More…]

• The Committee on Social Environment made inspections of the waterways and treatment facilities and took evidence about the quality of effluent and the treatment operation. [More…]

• The standards being adopted in the control of water here are those recommended by the United States Environment Protection Agency and supported by recent recommendations of the technical committee on water quality of. [More…]

• In connection with these recommendations made by the Standing Committee on Social Environment concerning the ; report of the Canberra Sewage Effluent .Committee of December 1971 the position as at today’s date is as I shall now describe. [More…]

• Senator Davidson mentioned the overriding reference to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment; that is, the continuing oversight of the problems of pollution which includes pollution of water and air and noise pollution - whatever type of pollution it may be. [More…]

• They concern employment and, as such, are related to both physical and psycho.ogical needs - the need for the material support which flows from regular and satisfactory earning levels and the need for psychological support which flows from the sense of wellbeing and confidence which comes from doing a worthwhile task in the best possible environment. [More…]

• This expansion of support measures for migrant families should do much to break communication barriers and to help new Australians adjust to aa environment which cannot but be alien to them at first but which can offer them exceptional opportunities for security, prosperity and happiness. [More…]

• Proposals in the 1972-73 Budget anticipate further new integrated measures for chronically ill patients in nursing homes and the assistance of aged infirm people who can be looked after in a home environment. [More…]

• There is a reference already in my name to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts to which it is proposed to refer this matter in relation to the education of deprived children, that is, children who come from certain economic and geographic areas and who by virtue of some degree of intellectual starvation or lack of communication within the domestic environment, arrive at school somewhat disadvantaged when compared with their contemporaries. [More…]

• I preface my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration by referring to a minority report from the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment on crime in which I advocated that passport control place greater emphasis on criminal than on political activity. [More…]

• If not, will the Minister take urgent steps to trace the source of that mercury with a view to invoking the principle supported by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, that the polluter must pay? [More…]

• I ask the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment whether he can inform the Parliament of the action which the Committee proposes to take in its investigation of the Postmaster-General’s Department’s installations on Black Mountain in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts [More…]

• Has the Minister read of the reported statement by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, when opening a tourist convention, in which he called for lower air fares within Australia? [More…]

• It took from them their pride and interest and in many instances made mendicants of those who were not capable even of a desire to move from the existence into which their environment had forced them to an existence made possible as gradually that environment was changed. [More…]

• The environment had changed completely and absolutely by the intrusion of white settlers who brought with them new knowledge and experience and who were able for the first time to apply the advantages of capitalisation to the enormous natural resources of this country - resources which at that time had not been exploited, such as the mineral resources which no-one knew existed in this country. [More…]

• He was not a nomad in the accepted sense that the Australian Aboriginal is because the environment of the Australian Aboriginal is so much more difficult and harsher. [More…]

• Nowhere in the world previously has statistical evidence been gathered and collated to show the infant mortality rate among people who live in and who are still influenced by the type of environment in which these people have lived and survived when probably our race would have been wiped out. [More…]

• The environment has given to the people who have lived and survived in it a specific set of circumstances which they have learned to use to survive. [More…]

• Because of their environment they do not understand. [More…]

• One cannot take the child in an environment such as this and shove the necessary foods down its throat, because the first time that the child gets ill what happens in the tribal circle is that the white man is condemned for the fact. [More…]

• Those things were adequately suitable in the environment in which they once lived and which, if we leave them alone, they will leave behind them in their march forwards towards a civilised community. [More…]

• It takes enormous capital resources and enormous know-how by international companies such as Vesteys to sustain the proper breeds of cattle in the environment in which they will be grazed. [More…]

• Even if assistance were poured in and even if Aboriginals were left for a short period on their own in the climatic conditions of that environment, one bad season would wipe out the business enterprise and if they were not rescued the whole of the Gurindji tribe would be wiped out as well. [More…]

• I do not criticise the Aboriginal people here, but because they had become accustomed to their environment they did not even leave the tin huts in the middle of the night but urinated against the wall until they had rotted the walls away. [More…]

• It is the circumstances of history and the environment that have led to a way of life that was necessary in those circumstances to survive but which is no longer necessary. [More…]

• I will be continuing that line of action and I will be talking again with the Minister for the Interior and, I hope, with the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) about providing in Canberra a permanent building which can be used by Aborigines as a permanent lobby. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Did the Australian delegation to the Stockholm Conference on the Environment, led by the Minister, vote for the moratorium and, 3 weeks later, at the International Whaling Conference held in London, did the Australian delegation, which on that occasion did not include the Minister, abstain from voting on an identical question. [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Were discussions held between officers of the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, the Department of the Interior, and the Department of National Development on the establishment of a Top End National Park in the Northern Territory; if so, when and where were the discussions held and what decisions resulted. [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• That statement also goes on to mention that Labor would guard the environment. [More…]

• -I present an interim report from the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment on the reference relating to the environmental conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the preservation of their sacred sites. [More…]

• I wish to emphasise what the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment has said in the presentation of this report. [More…]

• Certainly one can expect that when those amendments are introduced many people who now occupy places in aged persons homes might be able to return to their own home or to some other suitable place and that the procedure involved under that legislation should enable costs to be reduced and ensure that the elderly citizens of this country have the best of care in an environment to which they have been accustomed or which is more suitable for their needs and requirements. [More…]

• If an elderly person is taken right away to another part of the State in which he lives, he is right out of his environment and his relatives and friends are unable to visit him. [More…]

• We feel that, because of our strange constitutional situation, the protection of the environment is not a matter that can be handled without the closest co-operation between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]

• I know that the conservationists - of whom there are many associated with our Party, as there are associated with all political parties; it is a growing movement with developing enthusiasm - will be gratified to see the national recognition in this form and the fact that the Commonwealth has now insisted that, in an agreement between the Commonwealth and the Slates for the provision of money to the States for afforestation, there be a requirement that the environmental factors shall be taken into account. [More…]

• This will be regarded as a very great advance in the field of the conservation of the environment generally. [More…]

• We have every reason to expect that this form of words will not be regarded merely as such but that there will be due regard for environmental factors in terms of the amendment, under which the Agreement will provide that the States shall ensure that environmental factors relating to the planting have been considered. [More…]

• Therefore, we can see a new future in the attitude to the protection of the environment consonant with national development. [More…]

• 1 make this final point: We must recognise that there must always be a coinci dence of the demands of national development and of the protection of the environment. [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) has stated that he personally is most impressed by the work being done by the Aboriginal medical service in South Sydney, and believes that the Aborigines and non-Aborigines involved are providing a referral or treatment service to numbers of Aborigines in the Sydney metropolitan area who would not at this stage have the necessary confidence to seek treatment in the first instance from the normal community services. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts: Can the Minister advise the Senate of the general method of administration of the Commonwealth Literary Fund? [More…]

• I also suggest to the honourable senator that he may desire to pursue the matter further when the estimates for the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts are before the appropriate Senate estimates committee in the near future. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment. [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senators question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minis ter for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I would also observe for myself - this is not a departmental view but a senator’s view which I have expressed before - that I believe that the issues of quality of life, long term interest in the environment, conservation of resources and addition to resources are all very good matters to be considered by the Senate, which I regard as the custodian of the long term interests of the Australian people and their general heritage. [More…]

• The absence of reference to the environment in the originally proposed agreement did not mean that this important field bad been ignored. [More…]

• Environmental aspects of forestry activities are very much in mind within the Australian Forestry Council which recommended the softwood planting programme. [More…]

• practices’ in clause 9 of the original agreement contemplated recognition of the effects of forestry activities on the environment. [More…]

• The Government has no objection to including in the agreement a form of words that recognises the need to protect the quality of the environment. [More…]

• In addition, all States have a Minister with a specific responsibility for the environment. [More…]

• The State Ministers meet with appropriate Commonwealth Ministers regularly as the Australian Environment Council. [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 of social and environmental aspects of forestry and forest industries. [More…]

• The council has also established liaison with the newly formed Environmental 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 to it to be 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…]

• House of Representatives and to which I have referred will ensure not only that planting each year is carried out efficiently and in conformity with sound forestry and financial practices but also that environmental factors will have to be considered before plantations are established. [More…]

• The Minister for National Development also recommended that similar special references to the environment should be considered in any future agreements. [More…]

• We are also informed that the Minister for Conservation for New South Wales had ordered a full environmental study of the Boyd Plateau region which was to be considered before further planting was undertaken. [More…]

• Incidentally, the Colong Committee asked the State Pollution Control Commission to require the Forestry Commission to submit an environment impact study on Boyd Plateau. [More…]

• Of course, the whole object of the exercise was to indicate the concern of the Federal Government and of the national Parliament on the question of conservation and the preservation of our natural environment. [More…]

• This was to be done by an amendment to this Bill, which provided that if the Commonwealth were to provide moneys, it should be a condition precedent to the availability of those moneys that the environmental factors should be considered. [More…]

• Discussions took place between Senator Cotton and myself - he representing Sir Reginald Swartz - in which it was pointed out, I think in quite compelling and convincing terms, that if we were to insert the requirement as was proposed and was executed in the amendment requiring an environmental study by an independent expert before a reafforestation programme should proceed in terms of the pending agreement, it would involve a number of things. [More…]

• In addition, the States expressed perhaps legitimate concern that this was a trespass not only on their sovereignty but also on their real solicitude and concern for the protection of the environment and consideration of the environment in any reafforestation programme. [More…]

• He pointed to what he regards as specific failures by one of the States to have that regard for the environment and the preservation of natural forest which he would always try to engender. [More…]

• I think we must accept the fact that the States are as conscious of the protection of the environment as is this Parliament; and that they already have taken very many steps in their own field on questions relating to water pollution, and conservation of the environment in many areas and in many forms. [More…]

• However, I think it was not inappropriate that, following the presentation of this Bill and the consideration of it, the Senate should express its insistence and its concern to put on record that it should be a condition precedent to the availability of this money, in terms of the agreement, that the environmental factor, as a matter of agreement and of law, should be considered by State governments which plan to proceed with forestry plantings with money made available under this legislation. [More…]

• That will impose on the States the obligation, if this money is to be made available and utilised, that in terms of the agreement they shall be able to assure the Commonwealth that in their forward planning they have considered the environmental factor. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government, perhaps for the first time, has taken a strong legislative stand in relation to insistence on respect for and observance of the protection of the environment. [More…]

• As I pointed out when speaking originally to this Bill, we members of the Democratic Labor Party have been in the very forefront of the programme for environmental concern. [More…]

• It is one in which some of our members are intensely and personally interested because they serve on various national and State committees dealing with environmental protection. [More…]

• In the long term, if we developed our own softwoods we might further eliminate damage to the environment. [More…]

• He is reported to have said, in words of encouragement to people to build industries in that State, that he would protect them from the environmentalists. [More…]

• Besides that, it is in their interests to see that the environment is encouraged to the utmost by giving the younger trees a chance to perpetuate forests. [More…]

• I said earlier that the proposal that we ure considering was a watered down version of the amendment which we carried originally and that I hoped that it would have enough teeth to ensure that the environment was properly protected. [More…]

• However, this is what I want to know from the Minister - and he is aware that I am now speaking on the Boyd Plateau issue: Should there be a stay of proceedings until February as a result of the outcome of the New South Wales State Government’s feasibility study, whatever it may be, am I to understand that when this Bill is passed today the die will be cast and it will not be impossible in February, if the day is lost by the conservationists - and 1 certainly hope it will not be - for those involved to approach the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) or, conversely to come back to the Minister for National Development (Sir Reginald Swartz) for Commonwealth intervention? [More…]

• Honourable senators have the acceptance of the general proposition contained in this amendment and they have the statement that the Minister for Conservation in New South Wales intends to make a full environmental impact study before proceeding with his plans. [More…]

• However, we have the advantage also of having a Commonwealth Minister for the Environment and the report by the Minister for National Development, which I will not refer to in depth but which gives his observations on the environmental importance of this matter. [More…]

• The States require not only well trained teachers who are able to impart their knowledge to the children but also the establishment in the environment of the schools themselves of the standards which have been set in Canberra and which should be a yardstick for the standards to which the other States should aspire and which they should seek to maintain. [More…]

• Most people are aware or are becoming aware of the problems of the environment. [More…]

• The Minister went on to say that the research will be based on the need 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…]

• When they recovered sufficiently to return to their natural environment with their parents, very often it was difficult to be satisfied that they could return with a reasonable expectation of maintaining their recovery. [More…]

• This problem is aggravated by a lack of an internationally accepted regulatory framework enabling scheduled services and charters to develop as a viable total transport system, provid ing a stable and orderly environment to meet the increasing pressures for mass low cost transportation. [More…]

• It is hardly necessary for me to say that the Australian Government is determined to continue to provide a suitable environment for Qantas to function as a profitable enterprise and fulfil its invaluable national role in a most highly competitive and technologically expensive industry. [More…]

• Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts been drawn to proposals by the Australian Gas Light Co. to pipe natural gas from Moomba to Sydney? [More…]

• In view of the Commonwealth Government’s new found concern for environmental matters, will the Minister ask his colleague to use his good offices with the New South Wales Government to ensure that no park lands, least of all wilderness areas, are in any way affected by natural gas activities? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator COTTON- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and Minister-in-Charge of Tourist Activities has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Was Mrs Patricia June Eatock summarily dismissed from the Commonwealth Gazette Office of the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts at 4.51 p.m. on Friday, 18th August 1972. [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator COTTON- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and Minister-in-Charge of Tourist Activities has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Commonwealth Literary Fund is administered by a Committee comprising the Prime Minister (Chairman), for whom the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts acts, Mr P. E. Lucock, C.B.E., M.P., Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Mr E. G. Whitlam, Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Civil Aviation any information on a report from a committee on environment commissioned by the Government of South Australia? [More…]

• 1 am quite sure that the environment study to which the honourable senator referred will be known to that committee and through that to any officers of the Department of Civil Aviation who arc concerned. [More…]

• It means that we have regard for the planning of new cities and what part in that scheme of things natural gas will play, lt means that surely we will have regard for the environment. [More…]

• Everybody seems to pay lip-service to the importance of the environment in the scheme of things today. [More…]

• Surely it comes within the competence of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) as well as the Minister for National Development to act in relation to these matters, and surely these are matters which the Standing Committee on Industry and Trade should examine. [More…]

• We believe, as do many of the conservation groups, that the environmental factors have to be considered very seriously. [More…]

• In point of fact, I recall that not so long ago Senator Byrne and some of his colleagues were quite vocal on the matter of the environment and the natural habitat, and with the assistance of the Australian Labor Party they were successful in carrying a resolution that the Senate request the Government to have another look at its softwoods legislation because the environment was very much affected by it. [More…]

• We wil) take into consideration the matters of the environment, decentralisation, the economy and the public interest. [More…]

• The costs of acquiring the private property and the public property which must be traversed by the pipeline, the economic consequences of natural gas, the effects upon the environment, the effects upon the future development of new cities and an active policy of decentralisation are surely all matters which come within the province of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• If we want an investigation into that aspect of laying pipelines anywhere in Australia then the reference should go to the Senate Select Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• If inquiries are encouraging, will he have discussions with the respective State Ministers for the introduction of this new method of disposal to further reduce the general pollution of the environment. [More…]

• I ask: What has been done to accelerate the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s investigations of the apparent disastrous effects of 1080 poison on the environment? [More…]

• Probably it is unfortunate in some respects that this legislation has come before us before 1 and my colleagues Senator Laucke, Senator Keeffe, Senator Webster and others have been able to complete our deliberations as members of the Standing Committee on Social Environment which is considering the problems of Aborigines. [More…]

• To illustrate the substantial provisions made by the Commonwealth since the 1967 referendum the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) prepared a table which he subsequently had incorporated in Hansard. [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 *.hem 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…]

• The stresses and strains of growth are having an impact on the living conditions and the environment of the entire Australian community. [More…]

• As I explained to the Senate 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…]

• Now we have asked the Commonwealth Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts to initiate a royal commission into the conditions at that reserve. [More…]

• For a while the scheme worked fairly well, but I must say that under the present Minister for the Environment. [More…]

• They have survived in an environment in which possibly no other people, including ourselves, would have survived. [More…]

• Without those things they can never cross the enormous chasm that exists between the type of life their environment forced upon them and the type of life that we have been able to develop. [More…]

• Firstly, my Party does not think that this is possible and, secondly, we do not think it desirable that they should leave everything behind them that they have learned in order to survive in the type of environment in which they have survived. [More…]

• True it is that their environment has caused our Aborigines to have a skin pigmentation different from that which some may think is desirable. [More…]

• I do not believe that the pigmentation in my skin is quite adequate for the environment in which I live. [More…]

• Whatever they are, they managed to survive, to their great credit, in an environment in which I am certain that our own race of people would not have survived. [More…]

• In my view, they are repeating jargon and a slogan that has been sold to them by other people who are trying to make political capital out of people who have been handicapped for so many years by their environment and who. [More…]

• Nobody who has fairly considered the history of this country could say that the Australian Aborigines, any more than the animal species of this disappearing continent before the white man came, would have survived through to this generation had it not been for the intervention of the white people, bringing the knowledge and skills of Europe with them which enabled them to tackle the deteriorating environment of this country and make it what it is today. [More…]

• In a natural environment unaltered by the skills of the settlers who had come from Europe, they were to a large extent, over the centuries, deteriorating in numbers. [More…]

• It was the infusion of farming skills that overcame the drought seasons which periodically blasted this country before there was any control of the environment. [More…]

• That served them well in the environment in which they lived. [More…]

• As they develop into a different type of society in a different type of environment they do not want to bring with them all the old cultures. [More…]

• The Aboriginal culture gives him rights over a 17-year-old girl who is living in a different environment. [More…]

• 1 would not be as clean as he is and I would not be living at his standard if I had had to live in his environment all my life. [More…]

• Boys having to prove themselves before they are men and some of the physical things which girls are forced to go through as part of tribal rites are things which, if we leave the Aborigines alone, they will not try to bring with them across the bridge from the environment which they once knew to the environment in which it is inevitable that they must some day live, unless the fools in the Opposition force them to do it. [More…]

• They were the sort of things which helped to sustain them in the environment in which they were forced to extract a living - which they did - and which would have caused many other races and many other nationalities to disappear from the face of the earth. [More…]

• A great number of social workers are employed helping the Aborigines to understand the difference between living in the environment that they are used to and transferring to a certain type of house. [More…]

• Perhaps the houses themselves have not blended sufficiently the environment that the people who are now living in them are used to with the environment to which we hope they will aspire - an environment which is similar to our own. [More…]

• Anybody who makes even a cursory examination of the circumstances in which this problem has emerged will find in the process that the greatest responsibility in relation to this aspect of the problem goes back to the environment from which these people come, their habits, the requirements of that environment, and the circumstances in which they had to learn to survive in that environment. [More…]

• Those circumstances, that way of life, can be totally destructive if applied to our type of environment. [More…]

• In that environment the children and the infants were regularly breast fed until they were 4 or 5 years of age. [More…]

• As we can understand now from our knowledge of nutrition, in the new environment the children gradually have been lacking the nourishment that was required to sustain them. [More…]

• Now they are in settlements where the mothers have no responsibility in this regard because they too are products of the environment, habits and circumstances forced upon them. [More…]

• Probably similar statistics have never been collated before in the history of mankind, namely, statistics relating to people so recently emerged from a primitive environment. [More…]

• I concede - this was stated in the second reading speech, and the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) has conceded this - that this is a small number, but it represents a distinct improvement in the situation. [More…]

• With that background I was very interested to read a Press statement issued last Friday by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) in which he announced that 2 Sydney journalists would receive the first Commonwealth Government awards for critical writing stimulating interest in and knowledge of the arts. [More…]

• The Australian Council for the Arts, I am informed, made the recommendation some months ago but the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts sat on the recommendation for months. [More…]

• A group comprising representatives of Primary Industry, Fisheries Division, CSIRO Applied Chemistry, CSIRO Fisheries and Oceanography, Departments of National Development, Navy, and Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, as well as a representative of the oil industry has been established to advise on materials and equipment to be stockpiled. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• This is the second occasion on which the Standing Committee on Social Environment has reported on a matter originally brought to the Senate by way of petition. [More…]

• The whole question raised in this petition is naturally of interest to a Committee with environmental responsibilities. [More…]

• In all the circumstances, the judgment of the Standing Committee on Social Environment is that duplication of the inquiry already held would be a superfluous and unproductive exercise and that the matter is best left to the determination of the Parliament in accordance with its view of the report of the joint Committee. [More…]

• It is quite untrue, as some people claim, that the Standing Committee on Social Environment would have been duplicating the functions of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works. [More…]

• While I do not think that in Australia we have reached this degree of application of nitrogenous fertiliser - I trust that we will not -I hope that every user of this fertiliser will have some concern for the ecology and environment in which they live and try to balance out the capacity of the good earth to absorb these residues of nitrogenous fertiliser and not continue with their application for application’s sake. [More…]

• The point *s made that with only one unskilled machine attendant, the noise and poor working environment are matters that are worrying the workforce. [More…]

• not the fact that it’s going to disrupt their lives and change the total environment of their slice of Darwin . [More…]

• asked the Minister rep resenting the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has supplied the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts [More…]

• It is not my intention to speak at length in this debate on the estimates of the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• Senator Mulvihill asked whether action would be taken by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) to give effect to the recommendations of the Mount Hagen conference concerning fauna conservation and protection. [More…]

• The appendices to the report presented by Estimates Committee B contain a letter from the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) which gives the Minister’s answers to the particular problems which concerned Senator Douglas McClelland during the course of the hearing. [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts appoints 4 or 5, whatever the number, of his own representatives to the Commonwealth Advertising Council. [More…]

• As the Chairman of Senate Estimates Committee B, I want to make a further reference for the sake of the Hansard record, as I did during the hearings of the Committee, to the environment section of the estimates which we are discussing at present. [More…]

• The Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) will recall that towards the close of the hearings 1 drew attention to what I considered quite an inadequate amount of detail in the explanatory notes relating to the whole field of the environment. [More…]

• I asked a number of questions about funds which might be provided for a number of interstate organisations, authorities and establishments as well as about funds set aside for other matters relating to the environment such as water, noise oi the air. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator GREENWOOD- The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Will the Postmaster-General consult with the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts so as to formulate standards for television advertisements, which would prohibit advertisements which display or promote defilement of the environment. [More…]

• I have discussed with the Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board the question of advertisements which could be considered to display or promote defilement of the environment. [More…]

• The matter raised by Senator Willesee appears to merit consideration for inclusion in the guidelines and the Board is proceeding in the matter in conjunction with the relevant industy bodies, and will consult the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• If inquiries are encouraging, will he have discussions with the respective State Ministers for the introduction of this new method of disposal to further reduce the general pollution of the environment. [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has provided the folowing information: [More…]

• The Australian Environment Council has asked its Standing Committee to report on waste disposal in Australia. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts whether his attention has been drawn to statements by the DirectorGeneral of the Port of London Authority, Mr John Lunch, referring to the factual and quite magnificent results of that Authority in cleaning up the pollution of the River Thames. [More…]

• I am sure that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, whom I represent in this chamber, is well aware of what has been done and what can be done in comparable areas in Australia. [More…]

• I have indicated to Mr O’Donnell that the matter is under my consideration and it is also under the consideration of my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, Mr Howson, because he administers, for example, the Commonwealth Literary Fund. [More…]

• So many words have ‘been written about a Jack of co-ordination, a lack of foresight, hindsight and planning that I am sure many people have come to recognise that our environment is not planned despite the efforts of many wellmeaning public officials in the State and local spheres. [More…]

• Our social services, our living standards and our environment have all been pushed aside by this Government and by its predecessors. [More…]

• It is true, having regard to the state of health of the mother or the state of home and tensions, that some children would benefit from the tensionfree environment which they would probably find in a child care centre. [More…]

• Whilst such an environment may not have the scientific technical perfection of the trained mothercraft nurse, it will at least have the softness of the family home and family background. [More…]

• The consequence of the present proposals will be to further strengthen those existing centres which at present have a very strong ‘ghetto’ environment in them, to encourage the establishment of new centres of a similar kind, and to maintain this ghetto’ approach at least until the Commonwealthassisted centres have taken over virtually the whole child care field. [More…]

• At the international conference on environment a few months ago, it was a matter for deep regret that I represented a country which was not able to express its views on the law of the sea. [More…]

• We have no real laws for the protection of the environment. [More…]

• Nor have we any law at all for the real protection of the marine environment. [More…]

• As you know, Mr President, the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment is currently investigating the social problems of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the preservation of their sacred sites. [More…]

• I have deliberately mentioned the Commonwealth Office of Aboriginal Affairs which, under the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), has a direct responsibility to the Aboriginal people of this country. [More…]

• Not many weeks ago the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment was investigating the housing conditions of people of the Northern Territory and a senior social worker who had his heart in the right place decided that there were a couple of people who needed to be returned to a reserve so that they would be able to talk to members of the Committee. [More…]

• I am respectfully suggesting, although not in accordance with the terms of this Bill, that you, Mr President, and the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment, Senator Laucke, ought to have a serious discussion of whether or not public servants can be inhibited, intimidated or otherwise disposed of when they want to help a Senate standing committee. [More…]

• Yesterday I consulted the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment, Senator Laucke, on this matter. [More…]

• We have an assurance from the Minister for the Environment and Conservation that the quality of the water will not be impaired. [More…]

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

• Since the environmental impact statement on the proposal to build on Black Mountain, Canberra, a tower for the Postmaster-General’s Department contains expenditure figures which do not coincide with those given when the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment visited the site with PMG officers, can we have an early breakdown of the figures which appear to indicate a considerable difference in the attitudes adopted by the 2 departments? [More…]

• The statement in this morning’s Press is that there will be no halt in the construction of the tower on Black Mountain for environmental reasons. [More…]

• It was considered at this stage that it was too late to investigate the matter or halt the project for a further study of the environment. [More…]

• An interdepartmental committee has been established to consider the effect of certain buildings on the environment. [More…]

• In view of the disquiet in the minds of many Australians arising from uncertainty as to Government attitudes in relation to the legalisation of the distribution and sale of marihuana or any other narcotic drug that could lead to the pollution of the moral environment of our youth, will the Minister clearly state the Government’s intentions in this matter? [More…]

• An interdepartmental committee has been established consisting of representatives of the Departments of Health, Social Security, Customs and Excise, the AttorneyGeneral, and Environment and Conservation to look into how, in effect, some total approach might be made to these questions. [More…]

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

• That conference was attended by Dr Cass, the Australian Minister for the Environment and Conservation, the Honourable G. F. Freudenstein, M.L.A., Minister for Conservation in New South Wales, the Honourable Robert Dunstan, M.L.A., Minister for Water Supply in Victoria, and the Honourable J. D. Corcoran, M.’H.A., the Minister of Works in South Australia. [More…]

• Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• I refer particularly to the reported statement of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation that he is powerless to act in any matters of conservation and that the Federal Government had no constitutional power. [More…]

• Will the Minister examine this aspect of the report in the light of the reported statement of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation and advise the Senate whether he agrees with this conclusion reached by an allParty committee of the Senate and, if not, will he give the Senate the reasons for the decision? [More…]

• Further, as chemical processes can create environmental problems, what steps are being taken to make sure that there will be minimal pollution of the environment? [More…]

• It has reached the point where it understands that it cannot go on indefinitely expanding its industry and trade at the price of the environment, its people, pollution, urban overcrowding and urban under-development. [More…]

• Some aspects of the operations of those stations will not be revealed to members of the Parliament - there are some things which cannot be told to members of the Parliament - but at least members of the Parliament will be able to visit the areas, will know the environment and will be better equipped to debate matters concerning them in the Parliament and to say whether in their opinion co-operation between Australia and the United States in those areas is a good idea. [More…]

• The meeting was chaired by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Cass. [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 large number of persons in the community are unable to work, owing to some physical or mental disability in the environment which our society has built, and we shall have to overcome this problem. [More…]

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

• Will he advise whether representatives of the Department of the Environment and Conservation have been asked to join the joint CommonwealthState committee? [More…]

• If not, will the Department seek to do so to ensure that matters impinging on the environment are not disregarded? [More…]

• I ask finally: Can the Senate have an assurance from the Minister for the Environment and Conservation that he will strenuously oppose any move to place an airport in the national park south of Sydney, or at Duffy’s Forest, which would encroach upon Kuring-Gat Park? [More…]

• Now that the Department of the Environment and Conservation has been established, all Federal projects will be subjected to an environmental impact study prior to Cabinet’s approval for the work to be undertaken. [More…]

• I assure the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate that an environmental investigation will be made of any site recommended and that the report of the investigation will have a big influence on whether the site is accepted. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator CAVANAGH - The Minister for the Environment and Conservation has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

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

• I had a conversation with the Minister for the Environment and Conservation about the financing of water supplies. [More…]

• Does his Department make a study of environmental matters when considering a Commonwealth project? [More…]

• In view of the establishment of the Department of the Environment and Conservation and its proper interest in the environmental impact of Commonwealth public works, which possibly could cause some delay in future Commonwealth projects, what is the Government or the Minister doing to ensure that the future program of works is not delayed? [More…]

• From time to time the Department of Works has had interdepartmental committees do environmental studies. [More…]

• On occasions it has been concerned with the environment when the erection of buildings or the building of roads, etc., was under examination. [More…]

• Under the present Government there is a Department of the Environment and Conservation which makes environmental impact studies on all proposals. [More…]

• The occasion to which the honourable senator referred was one when an environmental study was made after the Department had proceeded with plans and the calling of tenders in relation to the communications tower on Black Mountain. [More…]

• Environmental studies will be made before there is any definite move in relation to any project. [More…]

• Identification and acceptance of an airport site as part of a regional plan for that area is at least 2 years away, partly because of completing of environment, conservation and regional planning aspects and partly because of a need to test in depth the air safety acceptability and airport engineering feasibility of the ultimately agreed short list of possible airport sites. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator CAVANAGH- The Minister for the Environment and Conservation has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Environment and Conservation aware that the Minister for Country Water Supplies in Western Australia has stated that he has not received from the Commonwealth Government a reply to his request for further Commonwealth finance in extending the comprehensive water supply scheme in that State? [More…]

• I undertook to take up with the Minister for Environment and Conservation whether such a letter had been received. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment and Conservation replied to the letter on 3rd April. [More…]

• Concerning the Black Mountain Telecommunications Tower, which was the subject of a minority report by Senator Mulvihill and Senator Keeffe, a paper has been presented to the Cabinet by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation and also by the PostmasterGeneral. [More…]

• Yesterday the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation answered a question I had asked him on 29th March concerning extra Commonwealth funds for extending the Comprehensive Water Supply Scheme in Western Australia. [More…]

• Department of the Environment and Conservation [More…]

• This was brought home very strongly and deeply to me and my fellow honourable senators who were members of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment before the Committee’s reconstitution. [More…]

• It inquired into the environmental conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait islanders. [More…]

• Our Aborigines have been forced to live in a primitive environment. [More…]

• To survive in that environment they must condition themselves Jo their circumstances. [More…]

• To try to make Aborigines move from that way of life and live in our present day environment would be to court disaster. [More…]

• This is one area in which Aborigines have not been able to keep pace with us, not because they could not do so but because the circumstances of their environment made it imprudent that they should even try. [More…]

• These problems stem not from the environment to which they have become accustomed but from association with the ideas and standards by which the present society has learned to live. [More…]

• A close study of Aborigines in their simple environment reveals that they had excellent methods, for example, of maintaining family levels at a standard which was commensurate with their environment and which enabled them to survive. [More…]

• I am mentioning now only one of the problems with which these people, in such a primitive environment, must learn to live as they feel the impact of modern society on their lives. [More…]

• Of course, we have a new department - the Department of the Environment and Conservation - which is working actively in this regard. [More…]

• Accidents often have multiple causes including the humans involved, the vehicles they drive or rode, the roadway systems and the overall environment in which the other three elements interact. [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation say whether it is still proposed to carry on with the abortive inquiry into the Gordon River power scheme in Tasmania, which is almost completed, when Mr Reece says that the inquiry is humiliating to him and in fact has demanded curbs on the inquiry, which has been refused by Dr Cass? [More…]

• The Commonwealth’s environment study that is under way is a new proposal, but it will have very little effect upon schemes which have been commenced and are at an advanced stage. [More…]

• There have been discussions between the Premier of Tasmania, the Prime Minister and the Minister for the Environment and Conservation on the question of studies in Tasmania. [More…]

• The main thing that the Commonwealth wants to do - realising that it cannot stop schemes that have been commenced - is to see that developments which have taken place to the detriment of the environment will not occur again without firstly an environment impact study being undertaken. [More…]

• For that purpose an Australian environment committee has been established comprising representatives from the State and Federal spheres. [More…]

• In February 1973, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) requested the Australian Academy of Science to report to him 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, under water, or on or near the surface of the earth, with particular regard to the past and prospective explosions by France in the Pacific. [More…]

• The new council will report to the Government through my colleague, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, who will in future table its reports. [More…]

• Will the Postmaster-Genera) supply to the Senate the reasons why telephone installationsin the PrestonReservoir areas of Melbourne are being changed from underground lead-ins toprivate property to the overhead wiring variety, in view ofthe modern practice of preserving our environment and the ghastly distortion of our surroundings occasioned by overhead electric and telephone poles and wiring. [More…]

• If not, beyond the consideration of rotational and atmospheric movement influences to which the AttorneyGeneral has already referred, on what grounds does he claim that the Chinese explosions are not as detrimental to the Australian environment as the French explosions are? [More…]

• In particular, we will regulate exploration, development, transportation, marketing and use of oil, natural gas and all related hydrocarbons We will also prevent the pollution of the ecology and the environment by fuel extraction. [More…]

• These things will also influence the decision of anyone who has to make this free vote within the environment of the Parliament. [More…]

• In conjunction with this we have in the world today a situation in which great numbers of people are growing up in areas of combat and areas in which physical conflict involving life or death has been part of the normal social environment. [More…]

• Today I had the pleasure of the company of the newly appointed Director of Environment in Queensland on the flight from Brisbane. [More…]

• Whilst the Department is appreciative of the desirability, of preserving the living environments from unsightly aerial construction,the erection of comparatively light unobtrusive telephone leads on existing power routes does littleto add to the disfigurement of the environment. [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation institute inquiries so that he can inform the Senate as soon as is reasonably possible of the fees and allowances being paid to the chairman, deputy chairman and members of the committee set up by the Australian Government and known as the Lake Pedder Committee of Inquiry? [More…]

• Environment and Conservation so that he can initiate inquiries. [More…]

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

• He is gaining an asset, he is proud of his home and he attempts to maintain it and to keep it in an environment in which his family is pleased to live. [More…]

• Before the formal establishment of this Branch, arrangements had been made - and these arrangements are continuing - for certain officers of the Adjvisings Division to assume special responsibilities concerning legal matters relating to the environment. [More…]

• As part of the arrangements, 2 officers, while on other duties overseas, have had a series of consultations aimed at providing a guide to action that the Australian Government might take to protect the environment through the law. [More…]

• That officer subsequently had discussions in Washington with senior United States officials and others concerning water and air pollution laws, the functions of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the operation of the National Environmental Policy Act. [More…]

• He subsequently had discussions with officers of the Environmental Law Centre in Bonn (an organ of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature) and attended an IBM Conference on Computers and the Environment at Bad Liebenzell, Germany. [More…]

• The Australian Government has already announced that it will require environmental impact statements to. [More…]

• This is only one aspect of the way in which the law will be used to protect the environment. [More…]

• As the Government formulates the details of its policy, other proposals for legislation to ensure that Australia’s environment is protected will be announced. [More…]

• This legislation will form the basis of a comprehensive national environmental legal code. [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 number of departmental, inquiries presently are examining the question of pollution and the effects of insecticides and certain chemicals on the environment, plant life and human life. [More…]

• I believe that the Department of Primary Industry and the Department of the Environment and Conservation are having a discussion on this question. [More…]

• -I present the interim report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment on the 6 petitions presented to the Senate on 21st March 1972, relating to the PostmasterGeneral’s Department. [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…]

• Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation will recall two earlier questions I asked relating to requests by Western Australia for further Commonwealth finance to extend the Comprehensive Water Supply Scheme in that State. [More…]

• He also will recall that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation replied that the whole question of Federal Government assistance for water development schemes was under review. [More…]

• Is the Minister for the Environment and Conservation now in a position to announce financial assistance for the Western Australian Comprehensive Water Supply Scheme? [More…]

• I presume that details of the conditions to which the honourable senator has referred on this occasion have been conveyed to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation by the Western Australian Premier. [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation noticed a statement attributed to the New South Wales Minister for Environmental Control, Mr Beale, calling for a national pollution monitoring network? [More…]

• If not, will the Minister arrange with his colleague in another place to call a meeting of State ministers concerned with the environment with the object of discussing ways and means by which such a network could be established? [More…]

• I do not know whether the Minister for the Environment and Conservation has received any correspondence from the New South Wales Government on this question. [More…]

• 1 believe that a conference is to be held which will be attended by representatives from the Department of the Environment and representatives of the States, lt will deal with the whole question of pollution. [More…]

• Will the Government cease the practice of transferring government departments to this hostile environment or at least pay danger money if it does not? [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, lt will enable operators to carry out the necessary preliminary surveys and testing of techniques before deciding whether an area is worth an application for an exclusive exploration title - a permit. [More…]

• Our main aim will continue to be that this legislation shall encourage efficient and adequate exploration and exploitation of our offshore 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 say that we regret that the Australian Labor Party has created in this country an environment and a climate of opinion in which a need is felt to repeal this provision in order to allay apprehension and fears. [More…]

• Will the Postmaster-General, in view of the modern trendto preserve all aspects of the environment, inform the Senate as to why underground connecting wires for telephone installations in homes in some northern suburbs of Melbourne are being replaced with unsightly overhead connections. [More…]

• Whilst the Department is appreciative of the desirability of preserving the living environments from unsightly aerial construction, the erection of comparatively light unobtrusive telephone leads on existing power routes does little to add to the disfigurement of the environment. [More…]

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

• As the Minister for the Environment and Conservation has officially advised me that no decision has yet been made as to the fees to be paid to the members of the committee of inquiry into Lake Pedder, whose report is expected to be available at the end of July, can the Minister advise me on what principles this open-ended contract for services will be decided? [More…]

• The honourable senator next referred to the environment and to the damage that was likely to be caused to it by a public authority such as the one suggested in the legislation when constructing pipelines from point A to point B. I would invite the honourable senator to visit Queensland at any time he likes to see what has happened there under private enterprise so far as damage to the environment is concerned. [More…]

• One can go a little further up the north coast and see the same type of operators similarly damaging the environment. [More…]

• I repeat that the possibility of damage being caused to the environment by a public authority is much less than it would be if the same project was undertaken by private enterprise. [More…]

• A difference of opinion has arisen as to whether such action would be a threat to the environment. [More…]

• The need for us to watch the environment of this country is great. [More…]

• Once all knowledge on a proposal has been examined, a determination must be made on whether to proceed with the project and whether to cross the fine line beyond which that project may become a threat to the environment. [More…]

• That should be the case whether those who wish to interfere with a project are private individuals, people who have banded together to form a society to protect the environment or people who have banded together to protect the wages and influence of those who work in a specific industry - and I refer there to a trade union. [More…]

• Such people may obtain information from another source that the Parliament has not examined a proposition and that a project still is a threat to the environment. [More…]

• It should be under supervision to ensure the protection of the environment to the fullest possible extent. [More…]

• I say that because [ know that the people of New South Wales irrespective of party labels have been concerned about pipelines and their effect on the environment. [More…]

• This is the vision splendid that I can see appearing if we achieve a meshing of all the hopes and aspirations of Mr Connor aided and abetted by Dr Moss Cass, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• I sincerely believe that whether it be a State enterprise or a private business enterprise a levy must be imposed to protect not so much natural resources as the natural environment so that people can at least experience the good aspects of the Australian continent and sec that they are protected. [More…]

• make a comparison of the minimum damage done to the environment in a project of the magnitude of that undertaken by the Snowy Mountains Authority and consider also the sick and sorry record of some of the beach mining undertaken in Queensland and New South Wales, we can see that, with some notable exceptions, unfettered private enterprise operations are a pretty poor show. [More…]

• Only by having a Government authority such as the Pipeline Authority will we find that big establishments, such as the oil companies or the Australian Gaslight Co., which create inroads into the environment will look to their laurels. [More…]

• Representatives of departments concerned with the environment throughout Australia have met and tried to get Australia-wide agreement on proposals for controlling the environment. [More…]

• I believe that the Australian Environment Council, which again meets in July, has an extensive program for consideration. [More…]

• There are the environmental factors which are so dear to the hearts of many senators, particularly some senators opposite. [More…]

• If the environment is likely to be affected, we all know that governments, whatever political complexion they may be, have the idea of getting a job done, and they disregard or ride roughshod over the complaints, the views and the statements of people who are interested in the environment. [More…]

• I am not suggesting that the complaints or the arguments of those who have even an obsessed view in relation to the environment should be paramount. [More…]

• I think the natural history of public authorities which have no responsibility to the people is to ignore or to ride roughshod over the views of those who seek to protect the environment, whereas Parliament, which is more subject to pressures and more subject to the views of the people, would be inclined to listen to these complaints. [More…]

• The same remarks apply to the comments regarding the environmental matter which was referred to earlier. [More…]

• -The Government’s position on the environment and environmental aspects is quite clear. [More…]

• It is our intention to ensure that the environment in all these measures which are taken by the Government is properly protected. [More…]

• Victoria’ is a State which has made significant advances in the development of legislation dealing with the environment, ecology, conservation, national parks, wildlife reserves and the requirements of the town planners. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Works in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Urban and Regional Development or Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• I do know that it has been examined and in fact is still under examination by the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [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 view of the continuing introduction of sophisticated highperformance jet aircraft into service with the domestic airlines and Qantas Airways Ltd and the far-reaching consequences that the introduction of such aircraft will have on safety, the environment and unemployment, and in the interests of open government, will the Minister take steps to have this important report released for public examination or at least made available for perusal by members of the Parliament? [More…]

• 32, ‘Environment and Conservation - Proposed Joint Committee - Consideration of Message No. [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…]

• But with deference to Senator Withers and his colleagues, they should be appreciative of the fact that we have a Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment with my colleague, Senator Keeffe, as Chairman. [More…]

• I strongly argue that no matter what Party one represents here, conservationists in the Senate have a place on this committee on environment and conservation. [More…]

• In recent years there has been a growing awareness of the need for careful planning of centres of population and for real consideration to be given to the protection of our environment. [More…]

• But how wrong this proved to be when inquiries into our environment were really made. [More…]

• I hope that the new awareness of the need for a better environment in which to live and for an avoidance of overconcentrations of population will continue. [More…]

• If we set out through this legislation to develop more cities of the Melbourne or Sydney type and have no concern for the effect that such cities may have on surrounding areas and their environment, we may only compound the problems that we face already rather than achieve what I believe the Government is honestly setting out to achieve by the introduction of this measure. [More…]

• But it is to the inhuman environment of the cities around which this Bill develops and to which attention is now being given. [More…]

• But one of the matters to which His Excellency referred was the matter of environmental research. [More…]

• I hope that the new Commission will undertake environmental research, and I hope that it will draw upon the results of research which is being undertaken by a large number of commissions and committees related to other departments. [More…]

• I refer to the inexpert committee which the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) has started travelling to inquire into the Lake Pedder project in Tasmania. [More…]

• Criticism of this matter has been voiced because of its impact upon the environment. [More…]

• I have brought into the Senate 6 photographs which will illustrate the reflections of the new lake and which, I hope, will attract the interest of honourable senators and others to what is called now the destruction of the environment. [More…]

• I think that the hydro-electric development there is a magnificent project showing how, by prudent management, man can improve the environment, greatly enhance the human enjoyment of the area and contribute to the quality of life in an unsurpassed manner. [More…]

• Then I come to the king hit by which I am greatly convinced that Dr Cass is displaying the responsibility of a prudent Minister for the Environment and Conservation when he is asking us to spend money on an inquiry into a project on which $43m has been committed out of a total, I believe, of nearly $107m, and tries to criticise a scheme that has been so adequately canvassed. [More…]

• But before doing that, I think that I would be singularly remiss in my duties if I did not reply to the scornful attack which Senator Wright made on the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass). [More…]

• One classic illustration of the utilisation of the mobile work force came to light when I was in northern Australia last year with my colleague, Senator Keeffe, on the Senate Select Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• I hope the Qantas management is not gulled by cries about the environment. [More…]

• We have to balance our environmental factors and our utility factors. [More…]

• I hope that Qantas is not pressured by the Minister for the Environment (Dr Cass) into not accepting the Concorde, because I think it is needed. [More…]

• Another matter I wish to mention concerns the ridicule of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) whom I represent in this chamber, in the most offensive terms that the abundant vocabulary of the eloquent senator from Tasmania could supply, by expressing his fascination for 2 little worms in Tasmania. [More…]

• Many of our citizens throughout Australia prefer the natural environment of the little lake with the animal life that assembles there. [More…]

• I am not saying that this is right but there is a growing section of the community - it is now a large section - which is for preserving the environment and not sacrificing it, as Senator Mulvihill has said, for commercial achievements. [More…]

• environment as it was than to have a hydro-electric scheme there. [More…]

• With the environmental consciousness of the people today we must get a system for justifying our advances on every occasion when man destroys the natural environment of some description. [More…]

• I have been to Black Mountain and I do not think that the preservation of the environment is a consideration which should stop the building of the tower. [More…]

• The agitation now is not about the environment but about my Department forgetting to put an extra staircase into the tower to meet fire prevention requirements. [More…]

• ‘No, I am not, but some people feel so keenly about the preservation of the environment that they will stop a project by refusing their labour. [More…]

• We have to convince them that we are taking action not to destroy their environment but for the, advancement of our way of life in Australia. [More…]

• In the initial agreement the Commonwealth wished to impose certain restrictions in relation to environmental matters. [More…]

• Because the new Commonwealth Government is not particularly concerned about the environment and because the regard which it has for the environment is only a matter of window dressing and flag waving, the Minister gave way in relation to that. [More…]

• The reason the then Prime Minister made that statement on behalf of the Government was that the Government believed that the stresses and strains of growth were having an impact on the living conditions and the environment of the entire Australian community. [More…]

• The French Government, in seeking to find reassurance for its radio-active contamination of man and his environment, in the dose limits for critical groups of the public recommended by ICRP, might also have noted the following comment in the same publication. [More…]

• The elements in question are peculiarly the result of nuclear testing and it seems that more and more is becoming known about the dangers of these and their effect upon the environment generally and the human body. [More…]

• So traditionally the social worker is committed to helping people adapt to their particular problems and to the social environment in which they find themselves and generally to understand the norms and the quality of life of individuals, families and groups. [More…]

• But there can be a temptation for people such as these to be more concerned about other matters in the social environment than involving themselves in providing a helpful service for the needy and for those socially disadvantaged. [More…]

• In recent times metropolitan councils on the northern side of Sydney have taken the extraordinary but desirable step of stopping the movement of traffic along certain streets to try to protect the environment of the local residents. [More…]

• If a number of local authorities were seeking finance for the conservation of the environment or the elimination of pollution related to a stream running through their areas they might well be considered as a regional organisation much more efficiently equipped to handle that situation. [More…]

• Indeed, the public interest is the justification for the growing concern and Government action which are designed to protect the environment from pollution and to maintain and preserve the desirable features of our environment. [More…]

• We trust that that border arrangement will be one that is clear and satisfactory to persons who move across that border as part of their ordinary habitation of the border environment and that no problems will arise between the 2 governments with respect to it. [More…]

• My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• I refer in the first instance to the statement made by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation in connection with World Environment Day and I note particularly his mention of a national water policy in co-operation with the States, which would deal with water resources, water quality and water pollution. [More…]

• I have seen the reference to World Environment Day. [More…]

• As a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment I went into this question extensively by speaking to people in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. [More…]

• I thought that, in the light of the fact that the Australian Labor Party is introducing great changes, is introducing new departments to deal with the environment, tourism and other matters, and is extending the area of government operations a great deal, the increases she mentioned were quite moderate. [More…]

• Prior to the change of government, on 31 October 1972 the Departments of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Treasury, Works and Environment were asked to seek the concurrence of the then Prime Minister and their respective Ministers to the acquisition of the 32 square miles of freehold land concerned. [More…]

• They represent failures in a complex transport system involving the vehicle, the road, the driver and his social environment. [More…]

• My first question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Senate how sincere the Government is in its determination to preserve the natural environment in areas under its control? [More…]

• I have been advised by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation in the following terms: [More…]

• Consideration of these matters is also a function of the Australian Water Resources Council, through its Technical Committee on Water Quality and also of the Australian Environment Council through its Monitoring Sub-Committee. [More…]

• I understand that, by arrangement with Mr President, it has been agreed that daily Hansards will be provided for, I think, the Joint Committee on Prices and the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]

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

• The Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment has as part of its charter a continuing oversight of the problems of pollution and the preservation of the environment. [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…]

• In actual fact that money is for grubbing orchards out and destroying in a day when the environment is supposed to be one factor considered as well as economics the lovely orchard country that has been built up by hard work for 50 years in many cases. [More…]

• While the Committee recognises that capital assets such as good grounds and buildings provide an enriching environment for education, it is obvious that it is becoming increasingly difficult even for the most affluent schools to service such debts. [More…]

• I think that is because we pay more regard now to the impact on the environment of many projects contemplated by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• We also have the situation that as from 1 July environmental impact studies have to be presented in relation to all projects, which means that a closer examination has to be undertaken by the Committee. [More…]

• It was at one stage suggested that the Committee should also carry out the actual environmental impact studies. [More…]

• I think that the environmental impact studies should be taken up at a different level from that of the inspection and examination of projects by the Committee. [More…]

• I think that many projects have to be examined in depth because of the new factor of their impact on the environment. [More…]

• After hearing evidence from various departments and the representatives of various organisations in Western Australia - yacht clubs, environment organisations, bush walkers and others - the Committee was able to reach a decision, with the co-operation of the Department of the Navy, whereby three-quarters of that lovely Island would still remain available for public use. [More…]

• We have to set up a body at high level of professional people and include in it, as Senator Poyser suggested, people expert in relation to the environment. [More…]

• There should be persons with some knowledge of and ability in regard to environmental factors, for instance engineers. [More…]

• As Senator Poyser mentioned, when a large public work is undertaken or a public building is erected in any city, or in any area for that matter, studies of the environment and many other aspects have to be coordinated with the proposed construction. [More…]

• Works costing less than $lm are considered by the Minister for Works (Senator Cavanagh) and the Treasurer (Mr Crean) and, there again, either one of those Ministers could call in - and undoubtedly would call in - the Minister representing the environment portfolio which has been set up or the Minister representing the urban development portfolio which has been set up. [More…]

• So although technically, if a small amount of money is involved, it will be a matter for the Minister for Works and the Treasurer, the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) and the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) are increasingly being brought into these matters. [More…]

• It immediately moved up departments, as we han seen, such as the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• I might say that this matter falls within the responsibility of my colleague, Senator Cavanagh, in his capacity as the Minister representing the Minister responsible for the environment and water resources. [More…]

• We have established a new Department of Conservation and the Environment. [More…]

• We have a Department of Urban and Regional Development where all the decisions which have been taken for transport and other matters have been considered, and where even this very matter of the airport has been very carefully considered in conjunction with the requirements of wise conservation and environmental approaches as developed by Mr Uren, the Minister in charge of that Department. [More…]

• On every hand the Government has been trying to overcome neglect and, incidentally, to pay attention to the reports of this Senate on environmental matters such as water and air pollution. [More…]

• We are subjected to added burdens of work due to environmental matters. [More…]

• We find that more and more people come before us to put their points of view on the environment as it relates to certain projects. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation be drawn to an article written by Owen McKenna and published in last week’s Melbourne ‘Truth’ in which it is claimed that the $64m Dartmouth Dam project has become a ‘circus of bungling and money wastage’? [More…]

• -Yes, I have seen the article and I have discussed it with the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• The Department of the Environment and Conservation has every confidence that the constructing authority is a capable department. [More…]

• -My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• When the Australian Labor Party Government established the Department of the Environment and Conservation did it give the people of Australia an assurance that each of the major capital works would be preceded by an environmental impact study? [More…]

• If so, will the Minister lay on the table of the Senate a study by the Department of the Environment and Conservation relating to the development of the Galston airport? [More…]

• I think that aspect would probably come more within the scope of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• They involve medical, vocational, social and educational measures and should aim at returning the disabled person to a full and rewarding life in the work force and home environment. [More…]

• The fact is that one in every five families in Australia today is leaving its home voluntarily for a change of environment. [More…]

• I have a grave difficulty- I had a greater difficulty yesterday- with the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass). [More…]

• I find that it is a closed season for the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• In the Budget $3m is set aside so that people like the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Cass, and the Minister for Urban and Regional Development, Tom Uren, can collaborate with people who want to preserve the best of the past. [More…]

• The actions of Australian citizens or organisations in protesting against the carrying out by the French Government of atmospheric nuclear tests in the Pacific have to be understood in the light of the open disregard by France of the ruling of the International Court of Justice and the relative effects on the Australian environment of fall-out from French and Chinese tests (see the answer given in the Senate on IS May 1973 to Question No. [More…]

• The Australian Government had announced that such projects are subject to feasibility studies and environmental impact studies. [More…]

• He also will find it in statements made repeatedly by the Prime Minister and by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• I answer this question in my capacity as Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, who is responsible for water resources in Australia. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Works who represents the Minister for Transport in this chamber whether he noticed an article in this morning’s Press which stated that Dr Cass, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, had said that all international air travellers should use the Tullamarine Airport at Melbourne and domestic travellers should use the Sydney Airport. [More…]

• I feel too that the Senate should give some consideration to referring the matter for investigation to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment, under the chairmanship of Senator Keeffe who is a Queenslander and who knows what is going on. [More…]

• These two substances remain radioactive and remain in the immediate human environment for many years. [More…]

• The French nuclear explosions to date have added comparatively little carbon-14 to the human environment. [More…]

• In 1972 the Second International Parliamentary Conference on the Environment was held in Vienna, in Austria. [More…]

• The basis of our claim is that the French are committing a nuisance in our environment and we are hoping that the International Court of Justice will take steps to restrain that nuisance; to enjoin the French from committing it- the same way as can happen between neighbours - [More…]

• That environment applies only to Australia? [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, refers to page 257 of the Hawkesbury River Valley environmental study background report which states: [More…]

• As the Galston-Dural area is within the catchment area mentioned, can the Senate be assured that the report is brought to the attention of the Commonwealth Minister for the Environment and Conservation so that he might give full consideration to the matters dealt with as they affect his portfolio? [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a copy of the Interim Report of the Lake Pedder Committee of Inquiry together with an engineering review which was prepared at the request of the Department of the Environment and Conservation by the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation. [More…]

• That is something which I know the people of Australia will not deny, because so many people can point to their own increase in standards and prosperity which could have come about only in the type of environment which the previous Government created. [More…]

• This is part of the environment in which some action has to be taken and in which, as I stress because it is the purpose of debating this matter of urgency, the Government has shown that it is quite reluctant to do anything. [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…]

• -My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs concerns the matter which was raised by Senator McManus, that is, the enforced displacement of a 7-year-old Aboriginal girl from the environment in which she was raised by foster parents in Darwin to a life completely foreign to her. [More…]

• It is not a question of the girl being taken into a strange environment for some ulterior motive. [More…]

• If so, why does not the Minister await the outcome of this hearing and avoid the possibility of unnecessarily damaging the environment? [More…]

• The question of the environmental impact or consequences of the Concorde is now occupying the attention of the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• I think that before any final commitment is made we will have that report before us in order to see whether there are any environmental dangers in connection with these flights. [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 first of the 3 main provisions of the Bill relates to the financial assistance provided by the Australian Government for home care service scheme- in other words, housekeeper and other domestic assistance which helps to keep aged people in the environment of their own homes for as long as possible. [More…]

• I suggest that the matter is really one which concerns the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• Next, he expressed doubts about the ecological aspects of the scheme and referred the matter to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) and to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• That action subsequently was supported by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation which referred the matter to the AuditorGeneral who is at present carrying out an investigation. [More…]

• Because the Minister took the necessary steps to refer these matters to the various people to whom they should have been referred- to the Attorney-General and subsequently to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation and to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation- a campaign was started against him which I regret was responsible in a great part for his transfer. [More…]

• I would say that the whole of this project was referred for scrutiny to the Minister for the Environment and to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• It was a private letter from Mr Dexter to members of the Council for Aboriginal Affairs as to the evidence that they would be giving before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• The control of the use of insecticides and the protection of the environment from the over-use of such chemicals are really the responsibility of the State governments, not the Australian Government. [More…]

• The experience of the New South Wales authorities is that the use of these chemicals in the past has not created any environmental problems. [More…]

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation confirm the announcement appearing in today’s Press that the Federal Government has approved a new national water resources policy? [More…]

• I know that the report of the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution has been under continuous consideration by the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• I believe that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Cass, will be making a statement on the water policy of the Government. [More…]

• The third aspect was the control of the environment against pollution and to ensure development is in keeping with modern urban standards. [More…]

• As well as providing handicapped people with the opportunity to augment their pension income, sheltered workshops 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…]

• Tonight I request Senator Cavanagh, as Minister representing the Minister for Conservation and the Environment, Dr Cass, to ask Dr Cass to confer with the Queensland Premier on a very important conservation matter. [More…]

• As the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) in the Senate, I will see that the matter is referred to him. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation whether I am correct in recollecting that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation constituted a committee to examine the question of draining Lake Pedder and removing construction work there? [More…]

• I do not think that there is an honourable senator in this chamber who would not acknowledge that Senator Mulvihill has acquired or made for himself a reputation in areas of conservation and the environment, basically because he has used the adjourment debate as a forum in which to express his views. [More…]

• This new lake provides a beautiful environment that far surpasses anything that was in the old lake. [More…]

• It is time that especially the mainland Press of Australia knew a few of the basic facts with regard to this insane delusion that by draining the new Lake Pedder the environment will be improved while a lake of infinite beauty and with a terrific expanse of 93 square miles- as against 10 square miles of the old lake- will be destroyed, and the economic development of hydro-electric power in Tasmania will be impeded. [More…]

• I want to say a few words on both of the matters that have been raised because one comes under my portfolio of Aboriginal Affairs and the other comes under the portfolio of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) whom I represent in this place. [More…]

• However, before the last election the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) who was speaking in Tasmania with the authority of the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) said that if a Labor government gained office it was his view that he would be the Minister for Environment and Conservation, and he gave an assurance to the people of Tasmania that a feasibility study would be carried out on the restoration of Lake Pedder. [More…]

• This is an acknowledgement of responsibility to the wave of environmentalists who are so very concerned about the question of Lake Pedder. [More…]

• The Department of Transport has this matter continually under review, as has the Department for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment is already conducting an intensive inquiry into the environmental conditions of Aborigines and that the reference to that Committee includes the matters to which he has referred? [More…]

• He gave evidence in camera before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• It would be fallacious to think that the attempts to establish for these people- for themselves and in their own right- business ventures which would provide an opportunity to enter into the type of environment which we have would be successful from the beginning. [More…]

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

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, upon notice: [More…]

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

• Finally, will the Minister for the Environment and Conservation preserve his usual masterly neutrality on this supremely important environmental matter? [More…]

• It is not the function of a trade union properly to determine matters of the environment. [More…]

• However, he pointed out that because of what was happening and because no one else was taking action he considered- and I am speaking in regard to the environment- that there ought to be bodies with appropriate functions which could give proper advice and which would have authority to stop the erection of buildings which would destroy the environment and stop the destruction of those buildings which were part of our history. [More…]

• What has been done by Mr Mundey and by the trade union has occurred because of the default of the New South Wales Government to attend properly to matters of the environment. [More…]

• I am not criticising the trade u MOI movement or those who want to preserve the environment or the conditions of Sydney. [More…]

• Perhaps what Israel has done, as Senator Wheeldon rightly said, was not done with complete justice to everybody concerned, but it is an established fact today that Israel has created a miracle in an area of the world where people had to grub from the hostile environment only the barest necessities of life. [More…]

• To amend the Science and Industry Research Act where necessary to strengthen CSIRO’s involvement as a research organisation in new fields, particularly in consumer standards, safety, transport and environment research. [More…]

• To direct rural research, both technical and economic towards increasing efficiency and profitability, while avoiding long-term damage to the environment. [More…]

• To promote research in areas important for the wellbeing of the community including transport, human settlement, environment and energy production, distribution and use. [More…]

• To promote research into the prevention of accidents and the promotion of a safe environment. [More…]

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

• -The Australian Department of the Environment and Conservation has not done any work in the area of pollution caused by petro-chemical industries but is aware of this danger and is seeking a report from the Director of the South Australian Department of the Environment and Conservation who recently has been overseas studying this question, particularly the pollution control methods of such plants. [More…]

• The test is whether we have achieved in this world an atmosphere or an environment in which by our actions our own country is more secure and more free and we are living in an atmosphere in our region in which there is stability and freedom and we are respected for the views we hold and because we are willing to stand up for the other fellow and his right to be different. [More…]

• -I .fer the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation to a report which appeared in a recent edition of the Melbourne ‘Age’ which claims that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation and the Minister for Minerals and Energy are on a collision course over the proposal to establish a uranium enrichment plant in Australia. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether there is any truth in this report and whether, as the ‘Age’ states, the Department of the Environment and Conservation will be preparing an environmental impact study on the project. [More…]

• As the rest of the question referred to an environmental impact study I suggest that I am the appropriate Minister to answer it. [More…]

• Under the Government’s environmental impact policy an environmental impact statement must be made on all occasions when it is necessary. [More…]

• The impact statement is made by the sponsoring department and not of necessity by the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• The sponsoring department must proceed with an impact statement for any project which may have a detrimental effect upon the environment. [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…]

• The general purpose of social policy- which encompasses such areas as education, housing, health services, employment policies and other matters, as well as the more specific issues of income-security payments and personal welfare services- is to provide an environment in which the individual is given the opportunity to develop his or her personal abilities to thenmaximum potential. [More…]

• Special provisions must often be developed for particular individuals or groups of people who are in need of particular assistance to enable them to cope with inherited or environmentally induced disadvantages. [More…]

• Involved in the whole environment of our senior people is the matter of their retirement and what they do on their retirement. [More…]

• One of the social problems with which all of us have had some association is the situation whereby senior citizens have to be moved from their own environment with which they have become familiar for a long time into another environment which might provide security and a whole lot of other social advantages but which is not the area in which these people have grown up and with which they have been long associated. [More…]

• It is true that there are people who are prepared to put up with discomforts and disadvantages so that they can stay in this environment. [More…]

• But a judgment has to be made in regard to whether or not a person should be moved into an environment which is more secure but which does not have the same kind of relationship to which I have just referred. [More…]

• Interestingly enough, a significant number of people concerned in this study were described as those who used immigration to Australia to try to escape personal and environment problems at home. [More…]

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

• I do not know whether the remedy in the Australian Capital Territory falls within the responsibility of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• I think we have to give serious consideration to whether penalising people is the solution to this problem or whether the solution lies in educating people to take a pride in their environment. [More…]

• In view of the increasing amount of unbiodegradable insecticides, weedicides and other offensive effluents that are finding their way into the rivers and the seas throughout and around the nation would the Minister, in conjunction with the Minister for the Environment and Conservation introduce a system of periodic warnings through the Australian Broadcasting Commission of pollution levels as a service to the public similar to weather reports? [More…]

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

• I think that the Department of the Environment and Conservation will make money available to the States on any occasion where it can assist by such a grant in stopping the pollution which is taking place. [More…]

• Should there be legislative enactment of this Parliament to protect the environment, the marine environment in particular, and, as Senator Lawrie said, the air above the sea and the soil below the seabed, it will mean that there will be resistance, Queensland leading the way, from those areas in which there is a vested interest in what might be extracted from the sea. [More…]

• But there are other aspects, particularly in relation to the preservation of the environment. [More…]

• I quote paragraph 13.2 of the introduction dealing with conservation and the marine environment: [More…]

• It was emphasised by the Premier and others on his behalf that no damage had been done to the environment. [More…]

• ) the present form of the scheme would permit and ensure sufficiently concerted Commonwealth and State action to have blowouts stopped; to contain effectively and subsequently to clean up any spillage, which did occur, with the least possible damage to the environment and with the greatest expedition. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that, when the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, the honourable Moss Cass, recently announced that the Australian Government had decided to sign the Convention, he foreshadowed amendments to Customs legislation to prohibit international trade in those species covered by the Convention. [More…]

• For the Department of Environment and Conservation the increase is only in salaries. [More…]

• The sum of $318,000 is sought for the United Nations Environment Fund. [More…]

• I wish to make it quite clear that I visited Lockhart recently for the first time for a number of years in company with other members of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment visited all these places in one week. [More…]

• I denounce as completely untrue any suggestion that Senator Keeffe acted in any way without complete propriety and decorum when I was with him on Tuesday 30 October when we visited Lockhart River, on any occasion at any of the areas that we visited during that week or on any other occasion when the Senate Committee on Social Environment has conducted its investigations. [More…]

• I rise only to associate myself with the sentiments that have been expounded by Senator Little on the conduct of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment and its investigation into the conditions of Aborigines. [More…]

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

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

• In view of the fact that mercury has been detected in fish in the vicinity of the Derwent River and other Australian waters, can the Minister say what the Australian Council of the Environment is doing with respect to industrial effluent control? [More…]

• In answer to the first part of the honourable senator’s questionanother environmental question- let me say that the Australian Environmental Council has established a sub-committee on marine pollution which is examining the whole range of issues relating to the marine environment. [More…]

• A standing committee of the Australian Environmental Council is meeting in Canberra today and the Ministers are to meet in Hobart on 30 November and the work of the sub-committee will be discussed at these meetings. [More…]

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

• As the Premier of Tasmania now has turned down the offer of $8m for expenditure on a moratorium on the flooding of Lake Pedder, and as the Minister has displayed such keen interest in the conservation of the environment of Australia’s most beautiful State- Tasmania- and further, as it is increasingly and tragically clear that the destruction by pollution of the Derwent and Tamar Rivers and possibly parts of the north-west coast of Tasmania is taking place, will the Minister reconsider the offer and give the Tasmanian Government an opportunity to accept the money to meet the cost of steps necessary to save those rivers and that coastline? [More…]

• All new proposals must be the subject of an environmental impact study. [More…]

• The Minister for Urban and Regional Development has agreed with the Minister for the Environment and Conservation that there shall be an inquiry as to whether any adverse effect will result from the road being so close to the Lake. [More…]

• A public inquiry on the environmental impact will be held in Canberra. [More…]

• -My question, which I address to the Minister for Customs and Excise, refers to a statement on the export of kangaroo products which was made by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation yesterday in the House of Representatives. [More…]

• Has that Department submitted a management program which the Minister for the Environment and Conservation considers does not meet the requirements laid down by the working party set up by the Commonwealth? [More…]

• Yesterday Dr Cass, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, tabled a statement in another place on the export of kangaroo products. [More…]

• In addition, Senator Georges was interviewed about this matter on ABC television in ‘This Day Tonight’ on 1 1 October together with the former Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, the Honourable P. Howson. [More…]

• -My question is directed to either the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation or the Minister for Customs and Excise and concerns the report prepared by the working party which studied kangaroo conservation methods and harvesting programs. [More…]

• We have an opportunity to help this industry, which is one of the most wonderful industries in Australia, in this age of regard for the environment, in which Senator Mulvihill should rejoice. [More…]

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

• If so will he advise the extent to which the Department of the Environment and Conservation has investigated the economics and environmental advisability of adopting the use of solar energy in this country? [More…]

• -The Minister for the Environment and Conservation is on record as having expressed already his interest in the large scale use of solar energy in Australia as an alternative source of power. [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment and Conservation has recently engaged a consultant to advise him on the future uses and development of solar energy. [More…]

• Now it is with all nations and particularly those with whom we share a common environment and common interests and with whom we seek relationships of equality. [More…]

• Does the Minister know whether there has been consultation with the Department of the Environment and Conservation and also the Department of Urban and Regional Development? [More…]

• I am fortified in my remarks by some of the statements that were made in 1972 at the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment and also at a parliamentary conference that took place a few weeks later. [More…]

• At a meeting in Stockholm from 6 to 15 June 1972 the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment carried the following resolutions: [More…]

• Having considered the need for a common outlook and for common principles to inspire and guide the peoples of the world in the preservation and enhancement of the human environment, [More…]

• Man is both creature and moulder of his environment which gives him physical sustenance and affords him the opportunity for intellectual, moral, social and spiritual growth. [More…]

• In the long and tortuous evolution of the human race on this planet a stage has been reached when through the rapid acceleration of science and technology, man has acquired the power to transform his environment in countless ways and on an unprecedented scale. [More…]

• Both aspects of man’s environment, the natural and the man-made, are essential to the well-being and to the enjoyment of basic human rights- even the right to life itself. [More…]

• The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world; it is the urgent desire of the peoples of the whole world and the duty of all governments. [More…]

• The third proclamation of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment states: [More…]

• Wrongly or heedlessly applied, the same power can do incalculable harm to human beings and the human environment. [More…]

• We see around us growing evidence of man-made harm in many regions of the earth: dangerous levels of pollution in water, air, earth and living beings; major and undesirable disturbances to the ecological balance of the biosphere; destruction and depletion of irreplaceable resources; and gross deficiencies harmful to the physical, mental and social health of man, in the man-made environment; particularly in the living and working environment. [More…]

• Largely this is a State responsibility, but unfortunately not all States are mindful of the great moral and legal responsibility placed upon them to protect this part of man’s environment. [More…]

• In order to safeguard the marine environment and its resources through the development of effective and workable principles and laws, the information and insight of international and regional fishery bodies, as well as the national fishery agencies are essential. [More…]

• Further develop and strengthen facilities for collecting, analysing and disseminating data on living aquatic resources and the environment in which they live. [More…]

• The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, [More…]

• Having considered the need for a common outlook and for common principles to inspire and guide the peoples of the world in the preservation and enhancement of the human environment, [More…]

• Man is both creature and moulder of his environment which gives him physical sustenance and alfords him the opportunity for intellectual, moral, social and spiritual growth. [More…]

• In the long and tortuous evolution of the human race on this planet a stage has been reached when through the rapid acceleration of science and technology, man has acquired the power to transform his environment in countless ways and on an unprecedented scale. [More…]

• Both aspects of man’s environment, the natural and the man-made, are essential to his well-being and to the enjoyment of basic human rights- even the right to life itself. [More…]

• The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world; it is the urgent desire of the peoples of the whole world and the duty of all governments. [More…]

• Wrongly or heedlessly applied, the same power can do incalculable harm to human beings and the human environment. [More…]

• We see around us growing evidence of man-made harm in many regions of the earth: dangerous levels of pollution in water, air, earth and living beings; major and undesirable disturbances to the ecological balance of the biosphere; destruction and depletion of irreplaceable resources; and gross deficiences harmful to the physical, mental and social health of man, in the man-made environment; particularly in the living and working environment. [More…]

• In the developing countries most of the environmental problems are caused by under-development. [More…]

• Therefore, the developing countries must direct their efforts to development, bearing in mind their priorities and the need to safeguard and improve the environment. [More…]

• In the industrialized countries, environmental problems are generally related to industrialization and technological development. [More…]

• The natural growth of population continuously presents problems on the preservation of the environment, but with the adoption of appropriate policies and measures these problems can be solved. [More…]

• It is the people that propel social progress, create social wealth, develop science and technology and through their hard work, continuously transform the human environment. [More…]

• Along with social progress and the advance of production, science and technology the capability of man to improve the environment increases with each passing day. [More…]

• A point has been reached in history when we must shape our actions throughout the world with a more prudent care for their environmental consequences. [More…]

• Through ignorance or indifference we can do massive and irreversible harm to the earthly environment on which our life and well-being depend. [More…]

• Conversely, through fuller knowledge and wiser action, we can achieve for ourselves and our posterity a better life in an environment more in keeping with human needs and hopes. [More…]

• There are broad vistas for the enhancement of environmental quality and the creation of a good life. [More…]

• For the purpose of attaining freedom in the world of nature, man must use knowledge to build in collaboration with nature a better environment. [More…]

• To defend and improve the human environment for present and future generations has become an imperative goal for mankind- a goal to be pursued together with, and in harmony with, the established and fundamental goals of peace and of world-wide economic and social development. [More…]

• To achieve this environmental goal will demand the acceptance of responsibility by citizens and communities and by enterprises and institutions at every level, ali sharing equitably in common efforts. [More…]

• Individuals in all walks of life as well as organizations in many fields, by their values and the sum of their actions, will shape the world environment of the future. [More…]

• Local and national governments will bear the greatest burden for large-scale environmental policy and action within their jurisdictions. [More…]

• A growing class of environmental problems, because they are regional or global in extent or because they affect the common international realm, will require extensive co-operation among nations and action by international organizations in the common interest. [More…]

• The Conference calls upon the Governments and peoples to exert common efforts for the preservation and improvement of the human environment, for the benefit of all the people and for their posterity. [More…]

• That completes the proclamations made at the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. [More…]

• Man is starting to come to grips with his environment, yet people still want to think as their forebears did that the earth is flat. [More…]

• That there be referred for inquiry and report to the Senate Standing Committee for Social Environment: [More…]

• Whether adequate consideration is being given to the environment and ecological factors in Aboriginal advancement programs financed from the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account and the Capital Fund for Aboriginal Enterprises. [More…]

• It is not the physical environment which makes a country great; it is the people within that environment who make it great. [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…]

• facilitate adjustment to changes in the economic environment by industries and persons affected by those changes; [More…]

• The clause goes on to state: 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…]

• facilitate adjustment to changes in the economic environment by industries and persons affected by those changes; [More…]

• I consider that, in addition, the Commission could be directed to have particular regard for certain related objectives of Government policy- namely, the Government’s desire to: improve the efficiency with which the community’s productive resources are used; facilitate adjustment to changes in the economic environment (by the industries and people affected by such changes); recognise the interests of consumers and consuming industries likely to be affected by measures proposed by the Commission; ensure that its policies on assistance to, and development of, industries are integrated with national economic policy as a whole; ensure that Australia’s trade and protection policies are compatible; provide adequate scope for public scrutiny of public policy. [More…]

• In addition we find a reference in clause 22 ( 1 ) to: 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…]

• I refer to the report of the ministerial working party on kangaroo conservation which he tabled recently, I think at my request, and to the accompanying statement by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Cass, which was also tabled. [More…]

• Department of the Environment and Conservation [More…]

• The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation produced a report recommending that turtle farming should be run as as conservation project on a cottage farm concept in which turtles would be farmed and then released into the sea as a means of maintaining and ensuring turtle stocks which are being depleted. [More…]

• If the Government acted on the report of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Environment and Conservation, chaired by Dr Jenkins, the project would become a conservation project and would become the responsibility of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), and I would not be responsible for it. [More…]

• These 2 experts were retained on the advice of the Secretary of the Department of Environment and Conservation and other expert sources. [More…]

• There is a viewpoint that environmental influences of the home and of the neighbourhood persist right throughout a person’s life regardless of the expensiveness of education. [More…]

• Of course, the environment and home influences are particularly strong. [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Cass has supplied the following information in answer to Senator Drake-Brockman ‘s question: [More…]

• However it should be noted that the working party included officers of the Department of the Environment and Conservation, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and each State and Territory wildlife authority. [More…]

• Any programs submitted by the States are examined by the Department of the Environment and Conservation which reports to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation who then decides whether these management programs meet the requirements set out in the working party’s report. [More…]

• I am sure that my colleagues on the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment will agree with me when I say that Aborigines are in varying stages of development. [More…]

• The people involved must meet with the Aboriginal people in the local area and environment to look at the problems with which they are faced in these important fields of housing, employment, education and health. [More…]

• The future of Ayers Rock was also the subject of a report by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, recently tabled in the House of Representatives. [More…]

• I expect that the views of the deputation as contained in its submission will be taken into account by the Government when considering the report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• It is designed to practice in a tropical environment the specialist military techniques normally employed by the SASR. [More…]

• One has little respect for the Labor Party and its pronouncement on environmental matters when one remembers the comments that were made and the great political stunts that were carried out in relation to Lake Pedder. [More…]

• I remember the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts in the previous government, Mr Howson, saying that the fact that he lost his seat at the last Federal election was due very much to the organisation of the Lake Pedder action group. [More…]

• The Labor Party has said it will conduct environmental impact studies before undertaking developments in city areas. [More…]

• It had not even conducted an environmental impact study or wondered what would happen to the people of that area. [More…]

• The stupidity of Labor shows up in matters of environment and development. [More…]

• Struggle as we may for 7 years or 10 years we cannot get to first base in establishing a community there consistent with the demands of the environment and catering for the tourists. [More…]

• I think it is a great pity that we entertain a project of this sort without a practical committee sifting feasibility reports, getting engineers before it who would speak of the design, the engineering, the economics and the environment of the project. [More…]

• As I understand this legislation the Corporation is not to be merely equipped for engineering, developing and constructing purposes, embracing designing, planning and obligations as to the environment; it is also to take over all local government functions and, as one of my colleagues said, do so for an indefinite time. [More…]

• For the first time a department, the Department of the Environment and Conservation, has been appointed to look into such questions. [More…]

• In view of the special responsibilities of the Commission in regard to the River Murray there will be close and continuing consultation between the Commission and the development organisation to ensure that development programs are compatible with the River Murray environment. [More…]

• This immediately brought on me the wrath of Dr Jenkins, who is the Chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a report entitled ‘Environmental Protection- the First Year’. [More…]

• This is a summary of the Department of the Environment and Conservation’s activities within the Labor Government’s first year of office. [More…]

• A special scheme for the provision of legal aid in cases raising environmental or conservation issues is being developed in conjunction with the Minister for Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass). [More…]

• functions, factors connected with the ecology and the environment. [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…]

• This is because of its threat to the environment, both during operation and during removal of its radioactive wastes. [More…]

• We find steadily increasing pollution and destruction of the environment despite all the wealth and the many admirable and desirable features in the United States- and there are many admirable and desirable features. [More…]

• I believe that it is very important, in this environment, for attitudes to be clearly explained and for positions and approaches which have been adopted in the past to be adhered to consistently. [More…]

• The Labor Party’s paid, glib writers who had been students of the Kennedy regime in America of the 1960s had seen a Western democracy hungry for values beyond the material values, hungry for what is called the quality of life- the environment, conservation, the general human values - [More…]

• I believe that those people who compare what they have been forced to accept ever since the war years and what they have now will appreciate that they now have a dynamic and thoroughly dedicated Government that has great plans about increasing the welfare of the people and the environment in which they live. [More…]

• -Of course the tents opposite Parliament House are far removed from the portfolio of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

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

• If the young of my race mean the kind of black power which says that I am proud of my race and I am as good as the next person, and if they get out and help themselves in the white man’s environment and beat him at his own game, I say that is good black power. [More…]

• I have discussed this question with the Minister for the Environment and Conservation and I can only say that the response to the lead given by this Government for an enlightened national kangaroo conservation program has been disappointing. [More…]

• I am having discussions with the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Cass, with a view to deciding whether those exports which are approved under the circumstances I have already outlined should be terminated except where the products have been derived from kangaroos taken in accordance with a national conservation program which is satisfactory to the Government. [More…]

• Are we to believe that the meeting in Western Australia between the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Cass, and the Western Australian Minister for Fisheries and Fauna in regard to the lifting of the ban on the export of kangaroo products was a lot of ballyhoo for local consumption, because in interviews with both Ministers it was stated on the media that this would lead to the lifting of the ban on the export of kangaroo products? [More…]

• I understand the correspondence with the Queensland Minister has been from Dr Cass, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• What action has the Minister taken to ban the chemical Weedazol which had disastrous effects on the environment when used recently in a weed killing test in South Australia? [More…]

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• In his absence the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, the Honourable M. Cass, is Acting Minister. [More…]

• Only today the ‘Canberra Times’ published the report of the Australian Advisory Committee on the Environment which was set up to consider the effects of exposure to supersonic aircraftand the falsifying of the Government was revealed again. [More…]

• There has been no attempt to understate the difficulties or uncertainties in Australia’s strategic environment. [More…]

• On 12 March 1974, Senator Laucke asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation the following question, without notice: [More…]

• However, I have been informed by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation that there have been some additional developments since that time and you may find the following information helpful. [More…]

• Senator McLAREN- My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• That conference was attended by Dr Cass, the Australian Minister for the Environment and Conservation, the Honourable G. F. Freudenstein, M.L.A., Minister for Conservation in New South Wales, the Honourable Robert Dunstan, M.L.A., Minister for Water Supply in Victoria, and the Honourable J. D. Corcoran, M H A., the Minister of Works in South Australia. [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…]

• 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…]

• I had a look at this matter previously in regard to the reference to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment in connection with a previous proposal on the South Coast of New South Wales. [More…]

• In presenting this second progress report, I wish to refer only briefly to the activities of the Senate Standing Committees on Social Environment in its examination of the environmental conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the preservation of their sacred sites. [More…]

• The second progress report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment relating to its reference to investigate the environmental conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islands and the preservation of their sacred sites has been brought forward by its Chairman, Senate Keeffe. [More…]

• The report has been tabled in the Senate today against a wide variety of activities and an environment of changing events. [More…]

• Like so many matters relating to the environment of Aborigines the processes tend to be slower than some would like to see them. [More…]

• 1 would like to enumerate for the benefit of honourable senators these other inquiries: Firstly, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment and Conservation into the question of farming turtles in the Torres Strait Islands; secondly, the Special Minister of State’s inquiries comprising a report by a Melbourne accountant, Mr L. P. Smart, into the organisation and management of the turtle farming project and a joint report by 2 scientists, Dr A. F. Carr and Professor A. E. Main, into the ecological implications of a turtle farming project; thirdly, the Joint Committee of Public Accounts investigation into Aboriginal housing in the Northern Territory; fourthly, the Auditor-General ‘s inquiry into the financial and managerial aspects of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs; fifthly, the Public Service Board inquiry into administrative procedures of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [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…]

• The Government’s proposals recognise that the Australian people have a right to enjoy this country’s historical heritage and its unique environment, and that that right should not be limited by the interests of particular groups in our community who are concerned, for private gain, to take those rights away from the Australian people. [More…]

• To take up the assertions made by Senator Webster, I remember that in the last Parliament there was an idea- it was actually implementedto have a joint committee on the environment and conservation. [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…]

• But I wish to quote the remarks of another Minister, Dr Cass, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• -I believe what I read in that newspaper because it substantiates the views that have been put to me by doctors who have come to Australia to escape this public service environment and it has also been put in letters which I have received over the years from hundreds of patients who believe that the system in Australia is far from preferable to the one that they experienced for many years in the United Kingdom. [More…]

• He comes down solidly in support of the concept of fee for service medical treatment in the community centre environment. [More…]

• He has been practising in the Australian Capital Territory in a public service environment at Melba. [More…]

• The Treaty deals with a matter of environmental importance to both countries. [More…]

• My colleague the Minister for the Environment and Conservation currently is looking into this matter. [More…]

• These professional skills should blend with the environment of the Glebe both in its landscape and its community. [More…]

• Mr President, 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…]

• On 24 May 1972 the Minister for bits and pieces, as we used to call him, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, the Honourable Peter Howson, apparently expressed a certain belief. [More…]

• The National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Fisheries Council and the Australian Agricultural Council are also concerned with aspects of water quality, whilst the recently formed Australian Environment Council, in its wider role, has decided to set up a specialist committee to investigate and, where appropriate, to make recommendations for national emission standards and guides to environmental quality criteria. [More…]

• The Australian Environment Council at its meeting on 7 April recognised the need for a greater public awareness of matters concerning the environment and agreed that each Minister will take immediately appropriate steps to promote this awareness in his own sphere, lt also instructed its Standing Committee to propose for its consideration at its next meeting ways and means of improving public knowledge of the needs of the environment. [More…]

• In conjunction with my Department, the Department of the Environment and Conservation has established a working group for the purposes of making a comprehensive report on the economic and environmental factors associated with the wood chip industry in Australia and also with the softwood planting program. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation able to say whether the Australian Environmental Council has laid down any guidelines with respect to environmental studies associated with projects such as the Redcliffs petrochemical works in South Australia? [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a statement made by Dr John Coulter, the Vice-President of the Conservation Council of South Australia, which described the South Australian Government’s document planned for the environmental study of the Redcliffs project as ‘pathetic’? [More…]

• In view of the national importance of protecting Australian waters against industrial pollution, will the Federal Government seek the cooperation of the South Australian Government to comply with the request of the Conservation Council of South Australia that a 3-month public review period be allowed to consider an environmental impact study associated with the Redcliffs project? [More…]

• I think that the question the honourable senator asked, seeking details of the Redcliffs project and the problems in relation to it, is a matter for the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• It has been considered by all the departments responsible- the Postmaster-General’s Department, the Department of the Environment and Conservation and the Department of Housing and Construction. [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 regional development. [More…]

• As the mining company has appealed directly to the Privy Council, thereby giving British judges the right to determine this important environment issue, will the Attorney-General give urgent consideration to offering financial help to the Wyong Council in its endeavours to retain this valuable natural area for the people of Australia? [More…]

• He knows that Dr McMichael of the Department of the Environment and Conservation is a member of the River Murray Commission. [More…]

• All honourable senators know the environmental difficulties involved in this project and these have been thoroughly canvassed in some detail. [More…]

• An environmental impact statement was prepared in conjunction with the Department of the Environment and Conservation and it has been circulated. [More…]

• Screen planting will be provided for the pumping station and the water treatment plant to reduce the impact of those structures on the environment. [More…]

• I note with appreciation that the Minister in his second reading speech has given expression to this very fact and has gone as far as to acknowledge that the non-bank institutions when operating in a competitive environment certainly increase the efficiency of our financial sector. [More…]

• There is no denying that these non-bank financial institutions operating in a competitive environment can increase the efficiency, of the financial sector attracting funds and channelling them into the areas they are needed most. [More…]

• The Opposition agrees with the general principle that we should preserve and furbish an inner city area, that we should as far as possible avoid displacement of people in the community; that we should help people on low incomes to live close to the city; and that we should improve the environment. [More…]

• A test of the bona fides of this Government will be whether or not it is willing to provide more money for the development in Waterloo which is an area in which we could go far more extensively into providing the kind of environment in the inner city area that we need. [More…]

• There is the State Planning Authority in New South Wales which soon is to be replaced by the Department of Planning and Environment. [More…]

• We, as an Opposition, have spelt out our desire that the quality of life and the essential environment and ecology should be predominant at all times and that within the inner city areas we should do all that we can to revive the city, to look after the precious heritage of the Rocks, Glebe and elsewhere and to aim at giving decent housing to people on low incomes. [More…]

• I think the Government has acted correctly in setting up virtually in the heart of Sydney a social laboratory capable of being interpreted in consultation with the local people to work out what are the best ways in which low income groups, as well as those in the middle groups, may be acclimatised and established in a local environment. [More…]

• The shadow Minister for the Environment and Conservation, the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt), happens to be a Country Party man. [More…]

• We will seek to retain something of the human environment which has made this an attractive area for those people who live within it. [More…]

• This is what the Labor Government is all about: It wants to establish a co-operative movement between the 3 arms of government and the local residents, to establish an infrastructure of some sort which will enable us to see how people want to live, where people want to live, what environment they want. [More…]

• It has created a Department of Urban and Regional Development and a Department of the Environment and Conservation- something which has never been done by any other Australian Government. [More…]

• This project involves participation of residents in the wider community in planning 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…]

• Thus the Bill responds to the needs arising from this industrial environment by providing procedures facilitating both the certification of agreements and their operation according to their tenor. [More…]

• However, they can also have a detrimental effect on people who have to be moved to make way for them and on the environment in the inner city areas. [More…]

• A very important development is the fact that the AIDC will be required to invest according to certain guidelines relating to Government policy in relation to trade practices legislation, environment, industrial relations and efficiency in industry. [More…]

• If nothing else, those guidelines provide a significant new factor in Australian business which has not been present before and which hopefully might set an example to great Australian private industries which have not concerned themselves with guidelines such as environmental protection, the efficiency of industry generally and industrial relations policies. [More…]

• I think that the strength of our type of society has been built up because in the competitive environment the efficient have survived and the inefficient have not survived. [More…]

• Social Environment (this shall include housing, transport, communications and the provision of other facilities). [More…]

• Industry and Trade; and (0 Social Environment (this shall include Housing, Transport, Communications and the provision of other facilities). [More…]

• The same might be said about the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• As Senator James McClelland said, it was simply the adjustment by a young person to a new environment. [More…]

• He was talking in Washington in July 1973 about, of course, the Liberal-Country Party coalition- have sprung in large measure from a vague and generalised fear of our own environment, the feeling has been alien in our own continent and our own region. [More…]

• I say this quite candidly: If we have unused sources of uranium and solar energy comes into being with less destruction of the environment, then I think it is sound policy to develop the latter. [More…]

• The Green Paper also goes into the field of rural reconstruction, the welfare of rural people, land utilisation, environment and conservation, decentralisation and so on. [More…]

• The overwhelming majority of primary producers in this country are hard working and, within the restrictions of their total environment, very efficient. [More…]

• Just as the public interest is not served by large corporations or, for that matter, small corporations which ignore the rights of consumers, the interests of the environment, the interests of employees or the interests of the national economy, so too there is ample evidence that the other major section of organised power outside the Government, that is the unions, is currently failing adequately to recognise the public interest. [More…]

• I repeat: Just as the public interest is not served by corporations which ignore the interests of consumers, the environment, the national economy, employees and others, there is ample evidence that the trade unions, that other major section of organised power, are currently failing adequately to recognise the public interest. [More…]

• They have demonstrated a preparedness to act in relation to foreign affairs and environmental matters by imposing green bans and taking other action which has caused severe loss, suffering and inconvenience to the general public, has damaged the national economy and generally has not been of any particular advantage to individual members of the union concerned. [More…]

• Thus the Bill responds to the needs arising from this industrial environment by providing procedures facilitating both the certification of agreements and their operation according to their tenor. [More…]

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• We also insist that these treatment facilities should meet standards which safeguard the 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 cast out the backlog of sewerage and to protect the environment. [More…]

• I regard it as a most unfortunate environment for our Public Service. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the growing concern of the objectors at the threatened danger to the environment of this partly rural and partly residential area and the damage to the amenities of the district through the wholesale destruction of trees and the creation of traffic problems, quite apart from any health hazards that might result? [More…]

• Does the Government intend to proceed with this proposal in the light of the objections and the highly critical environmental impact statement prepared by the Preston Institute of Technology? [More…]

• All Government projects are the subject of investigation and an environmental impact statement by the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• The increase in charges foreshadowed by the Government is not much of an anti-inflationary measure, but it is essential if any kind of brake is to be put on a form of social investment which is heavily capital-consuming and, henceforth, in a capital-scarce environment like ours, inflationary. [More…]

• During his absence the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Cass, is acting as Minister for Science. [More…]

• At that time the Premier of South Australia said that the environmental studies had been made and Spencer Gulf would be safe from any possible pollution by this proposed plant. [More…]

• When the South Australian House of Assembly met earlier this year I was able to ask the South Australian Premier to produce the report which he said he had before the election and which gave the all clear on the environment in Spencer Gulf. [More…]

• I have, on several occasions (and so too has Mr Scriven told industry that in any construction they would need to consult at each stage with the Environment and Conservation Department. [More…]

• I was particularly concerned not only in relation to the establishment of this industry in South Australia but also in relation to the protection of the environment of the northern Spencer Gulf waters. [More…]

• The development of a strong public sector employment base is important in the initial stages and the creation of an attractive environment for new residents is important. [More…]

• The South Australian Government took the view in 1972 that the existing Adelaide environment should be preserved; therefore, to do this, the new city of Monarto should be commenced. [More…]

• Department of the Environment and Conservation [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment the following matter- [More…]

• Under the present Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Moss Cass, an amount of $9m is to be provided for this purpose this year. [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 financial role in the tourist industry. [More…]

• This is the first occasion on which everyone seems to be praising everyone else, and the mutual admiration is creating a strange environment. [More…]

• Redcliffs Project: Environmental Consequences Senator Wheeldon-On 30 July 1974, Senator Jessop asked me, as the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, the following question without notice: [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment and Conservation has now furnished me with the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I do not think Australia will become an environmental guinea pig on this question. [More…]

• The Minister has reported that he would welcome the operation of the Concorde aircraft on some routes which were proved by trials in order to establish once and for all whether the Concorde would be accepted environmentally in Australia. [More…]

• As the Minister stated, he is agreeable to holding some trials to see whether we can find a terminal for the Concorde in Australia which will have a minimal effect upon people and will not harm the environment [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…]

• Surely the answer in general terms is that we want a parliament house which expresses the aspirations of the Australian people but which is at the same time dignified and in harmony with its environment. [More…]

• It is set in a physical environment and atmosphere far away from the courts which are associated in the minds of most people with criminal matters and various ether matters involving money transactions. [More…]

• We support the inclusion in this year’s Budget of $ 10 a week as a payment to parents or guardians of physically or mentally / handicapped children under the age of 16 who are cared for in a family environment. [More…]

• I was formerly a member of the Senate Select Committee on Social Environment which investigated the environmental conditions of Aborigines. [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…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment and Conservation: Is the Government aware that a group of unions in Victoria is standing over the Victorian Government by simply telling it that the power station, essential for Victoria’s future power needs, is not to be built at Newport? [More…]

• Is not the Minister aware that this attitude is being taken against a background of exhaustive enquiries into the environmental impact of such a station, all of which inquiries have resulted in findings in favour of the station being built? [More…]

• Is it not also a fact that the Minister whom the Minister represents, after initial opposition to the Victorian power station, now indicates that the inquiries have been found to show that the station will not be a detriment to the environment? [More…]

• I ask, in the interests of balanced and sensible environmental policies under which buildings can be constructed after the necessary inquiries have been conducted, will the Minister come out and strongly support the Victorian Government’s position? [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Cass, will be absent from Australia until 17 November attending a ministerial meeting of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Environment Committee in Paris. [More…]

• In his absence, the Minister for Health, Dr Everingham, is acting as Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [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…]

• As this area has already attracted the attention of the Minister for the Environment and ConservationI understand he is absent from Australia at present- and as he has inspected the place and said that it should be preserved as a priceless historic feature for South Australia, will the Minister take urgent steps to see that this area is declared part of the National Estate? [More…]

• This matter is being examined as a result of a visit to the area by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• Proposed expenditures- Department of Health, $99,872,000 and Department of the Environment and Conservation, $3,653,000- passed. [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) has visited South Australia to inspect this geological structure and agrees that something ought to be done about it. [More…]

• But what I am suggesting to the Government and in particular to Senator Cavanagh is that they are now in a position to do something about prohibiting any further bulldozing in that area until the Minister has had a chance to examine it on the basis of the evidence that has been presented by his colleague the Minister for Environment and Conservation, Dr Cass. [More…]

• We spent most of this debate speaking about Hallett Cove which really comes under the Department of the Environment and Conservation and not the Department of Urban and Regional Development. [More…]

• But the preservation of an historic site comes under the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• I had occasion last week to be in north Queensland with members of the Standing Committee on the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• I personally and many of my Aboriginal fellows find nothing wrong with money being allocated for Aboriginal advancement as the advancement must be taking place in a new environment that is different from what was the Aboriginal way of life before the 1788 invasion of Australia. [More…]

• In his absence the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Cass, will act as Minister for Health. [More…]

• It is bad enough that the mature couple- the parents- are involved in such a situation but it is a tragedy when children are involved in such an environment when they could have so much more out of their early lives if they had had the benefit of a happy home. [More…]

• Provision of a suitable environment, the development of community amenities, education and health services, and the opportunity to obtain suitable housing as essential prerequisites of a sound family life. [More…]

• Assistance to encourage families to care for their aged and invalid relatives within their own environment. [More…]

• Mr President, I think it was Galbraith who once drew attention to the nexus between ideas and the environment of people who conceive those ideas. [More…]

• The thought which struck me was that pharmacy must be an extremely lucrative business, if the association between a person’s environment and the ideas that he holds and the way in which he interprets or conceives reality is valid. [More…]

• The personnel of the Lands Department and the Department of Agriculture in South Australia will have to uproot themselves from their social environment in Adelaide, shift to Monarto and live there or else they will not have their jobs. [More…]

• We shall be willing to participate at the official level in a joint working party with officials of the State and Brisbane City Council to examine the problem as a whole- the engineering, urban planning, environment as well as financial implications and taking into account the report already completed- with a view to obtaining the information which will be necessary for the Australian Government to come to a decision’. [More…]

• These courts, while they continue to operate in often overcrowded conditions, in antiquated buildings and in an environment not always conducive to the careful consideration of important decisions affecting the intimate lives of citizens must remain as the Commonwealth finds them. [More…]

• I would have thought that it was obviously desirable that the courts should be operating in the same environment and working together. [More…]

• The Court will require new standards and methods, both in its physical environment, its procedural methods and in its approach to marital problems. [More…]

• Subsequent to the establishing of the Act and the commencement of the construction an Act was passed by the Parliament of Victoria providing for an Environment Protection Authority, an independent body over which the Minister had no power of direction and which had the obligation to pass judgment upon whether government decisions and government proposals were consistent with environmental protection. [More…]

• It was the Government of Victoria which requested the Environment Protection Authority to conduct an inquiry into whether the Newport power station should be built. [More…]

• The result was that in 1973 the Environment Protection Authority reported that under certain conditions, which the Authority said it could enforce and would enforce, the power station could proceed, be licensed and, as the report of the Authority said, be a compatible neighbour. [More…]

• An appeal was taken by third parties- by interested conservationists- to the Environment Protection Authority, and from that Authority an appeal went to the Environment Protection Appeal Board. [More…]

• I think it is relevant to refer to the decision of the Environment Protection Appeal Board because this proposal, costing $145m in 1971 and now costing a sum vastly in excess of that, has gone through the parliamentary procedures and through all the environment protection procedures which a Parliament has laid down. [More…]

• The Environment Protection Appeal Board said in its judgment: [More…]

• In the present appeals, the third parties have focused public attention on the proposed power station in a manner which has called upon the Commission to justify to the fullest extent its proposed activity and to demonstrate that such activity will present no threat to the environment or to public health. [More…]

• The Board is satisfied that the proposed amendments are reasonable and that adherence to the revised conditions will not have any adverse effect on the environment. [More…]

• The Board is satisfied that adherence to these amended standards will meet the requirements of the Authority in having no adverse effects on the environment. [More…]

• One could read- I have it here if anyone wants to see it- the full judgment of the Environment Protection Appeal Board and see from it that there is absolutely no risk either to the environment or to public health in Victoria, in the Board’s judgment, if the conditions are observed. [More…]

• These questions, which in this case were decided by the Parliament and then through the environment protection procedures, are questions which ultimately are Parliament’s responsibility. [More…]

• I indicated that the decision of the Parliament has been vindicated by the procedures of the Environment Protection Authority. [More…]

• Senator Poyser is a member of the Victorian Labor Party which had the opportunity to go before these various bodies to express its protest and to ask the Environment Protection Authority and the Environment Protection Appeals Board to consider the various matters upon which it is now relying but no attempt was made to do so. [More…]

• I think it was on 23 November 1972 that the Premier of Victoria indicated that the matter would be referred by the Government to the Environment Protection Authority. [More…]

• This was after the decision of the Environment Protection Appeal Board some 2 or 3 months ago. [More…]

• There would have to be new hearings by the Environment Protection Authority. [More…]

• Doubtless, there would be appeals to the Environment Protection Appeal Board and the question of land acquisition might well be involved. [More…]

• I think it is relevant to recall that Dr Cass as the Minister for Environment and Conservation had originally said that he felt the Environment Protection Appeal Board had reached a decision which it was difficult to understand. [More…]

• The joint operations with the State fauna authorities were very good and demonstrated how mutual co-operation between these groups can provide a more effective control of the environment to reduce the incidence of unlawful movement and trafficking of fauna both within and without Australia. [More…]

• On the question of referring the report to the appropriate committee, I suppose the Committee on Social Environment would cover matters such as this. [More…]

• If so, will the Attorney-General reject the request and inform the Foundation that it should accept the decisions of the Victorian Government Environment Protection Authority and the Environment Protection Appeals Board before which its representatives appeared? [More…]

• I remember clearly how I questioned Mr Dunstan during the election campaign as to what protection there would be of the environment of Spencer Gulf, especially in relation to the prawn industry, which is based on a very delicate environmental factor in those waters, and of course other factors of general pollution. [More…]

• Before I leave the environmental factor I wish to remind the House that the Premier said in April before the 1973 election that the environmental question had been cleared; yet in May 1974, over one year later, a report of his own Government- of course, a report obtained under the pressure of politics in my State- under the heading of Effluents’, in part of a very large report of the South Australian Department of Environment and Conservation, said that little information is yet available on the nature and quantities of plant effluents and noise. [More…]

• respective Federal Minister had to bring discipline to the question of the environment in this matter because the State Government was incapable, following the first standard that the Premier set, of looking after environmental questions of the Spencer Gulf in South Australia. [More…]

• We do not need it at the destruction of the environment of Spencer Gulf; we do not need it at the destruction of the operation of free competitive trade in Australia. [More…]

• I ask the Federal Government to take the same disciplines in regard to other parts of the indenture as it has taken in relation to the part which has included the environment of South Australia. [More…]

• Ad hoc programs based on limited funds will never achieve the wishes of this Government and the States to give a reasonable standard of urban environment to all Australians. [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 provide them at a reasonable cost 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 second reading speech of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) representing the Minister for the Media, stated that the amendments gave 2 new powers to the Australian Broadcasting Control Board which the general public had always thought the Board had. [More…]

• Society has recognised that its most precious resource is its children and that it has a responsibility for undertaking a positive program of environment directed to meet the particular needs and interests of children. [More…]

• In being accommodated at the local mental hospital he was uprooted from the environment that he liked and in which he was advancing at the sheltered workshop. [More…]

• I ask: Is it not a fact that whilst the trade unions have played an important role in their quest to protect the environment and general quality of life in the working class area of Newport in Victoria, these same unions are simply spearheading a campaign on behalf of numerous environmental groups and people living in the immediate and surrounding area of the district in which the Victorian Government is insisting that a new power station be built? [More…]

• -I am not aware of all the details of this Newport matter but I do know that many questions have been raised about the environment there, as they have about many other places. [More…]

• Curiously, the trade union movement has been in the forefront of the campaign in various cities to save the environment, especially in relation to projects like the Clutha project in New South Wales. [More…]

• Bills on the environment are at present coming through this Parliament. [More…]

• 1 think it is reasonable to expect that those governments- I am speaking particularly of the governments of the political colour of the Opposition- ought to be catching up with the world-wide movement directed towards preserving and improving our environment. [More…]

• It is partly a constructional one and partly an environmental one. [More…]

• I am quite satisfied now that that was a mistake and the concentration of so many personnel in a place which is not at all natural in terms of the environment is one of the hazards facing this industry. [More…]

• In future any Postmaster-General or relevant commission ought to consider the separation of the types of employment in such an organisation, and more consideration should be given to the working situations from an environmental point of view. [More…]

• I start on the basis that all governments and indeed all sections of the community are as one in desiring to improve the urban environment and to improve what is now known as the quality of life. [More…]

• The debates in the Parliament at that time indicate the warnings of Labor speakers that unless Commonwealth responsibility for finance, planning and other aspects was accepted in this area we would finally reach a point where we would suffer in our environment and in our quality of life. [More…]

• There is a section dealing with the environment, which is something of which it had never really, heard 18 months ago. [More…]

• The development of Monarto, the development of Albury-Wodonga, the appropriation of the Glebe lands for redevelopment in an imaginative way, the proposed appropriation of 90 acres of land at Woolloomooloo for new development in an imaginative way, the report of the Committee of Inquiry into the National Estate, which for the first time has established criteria about the essential heritage of this nation and the sort of things of which, when the petty issues of today are gone, Australian children of the future can be proud, including the vital heritage of the environment, the landscape and the buildings which are so important in the building of a national tradition. [More…]

• This program will be determined in consultation with the States and the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) has already written to each State Minister responsible for wildlife and national parks asking for proposals of acquisition to be submitted for consideration. [More…]

• The environmental impact statement procedure introduced through this Bill represents a development and improvement of policies adopted by the previous Government in 1972. [More…]

• That Government had required impact statements to be prepared on environmentally important proposals being considered by Cabinet. [More…]

• In considering requests by State Governments for financial assistance for major development projects, the previous Government merely required assurance that associated environmental factors had been suitably investigated and taken into account. [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…]

• Following public scrutiny the impact statement will be finalised and submitted, together with the report from any public inquiry, to the Department of the Environment and Conservation for assessment. [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 or their place of living. [More…]

• These include: directors’ interests, direct and indirect, in the securities of the corporation and in contracts with the corporation; the number of persons employed by the corporation; arrangements made by the corporation for protecting the safety and health of its employees and of the public and for protecting the environment; and arrangements made by the corporation for the protection of its consumers. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Moss Cass, was allocated a government flat in Canberra in 1974? [More…]

• The Prime Minister and some other Ministers in addition to the Minister for Science have earlier expressed strong misgivings about proposals to dump nuclear waste in the Antarctic, especially in the absence of scientific data concerning the likely effect of such dumping on the Antarctic environment. [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…]

• 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…]

• The Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) will also soon be introducing a Bill to make finance available to the States for nature conservation purposes and a Bill creating a Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. [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…]

• The Bill has been amended in the House of Representatives to clarify its objectives and, to this end, during the debate the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) quoted from a letter from the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to the Premiers which elaborated the conditions of the grants as mentioned in Clause 4 (5) of the Bill. [More…]

• The urban lands are where people live or are to live- their environment for life. [More…]

• I wish to acknowledge, if I may, the co-operation given in the other place by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Cass, to my colleague Mr Hunt and in this place by the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation in an attempt to remove the areas of disputation in the Bill. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment and Conservation in another place has said repeatedly that it is not the intention of the Commonwealth Government to seek to override or to supplant the States in their role in connection with national parks, wildlife and nature conservation. [More…]

• We can test this- indeed the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) has said in another place that he recognises this- by introducing a motion which incorporates the wording that the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) has used in another device. [More…]

• Together with the senior adviser of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), Dr McMichael, who in a State capacity, accepted, as do all major Parties now, the responsibility that the Australian Government has in this particular field, together with the redoubtable New South Wales conservationist Milo Dunphy. [More…]

• I know that that is what is in the mind of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Cass. [More…]

• The report deals with the vexed question of the jurisdiction of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation as distinct from that of the Minister for the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The fate of these, and the manner and extent to which man and other biota in the environment may be subjected to them are important matters on which some information has been sought. [More…]

• In setting effective anti-pollution safeguards not only is the environment protected but mining companies immediately know the standards which they must maintain and will know if and when they can operate so removing speculation from their activities. [More…]

• It is essential that mining companies can move in a predictable environment in which to make decisions and that governments do not leave them (up in the air) as to their rights and obligations. [More…]

• I would like to be sure, if it is to be under the control of Dr Cass and future Ministers for the Environment and Conservation, that there are adequate powers to ensure that the Minister will not be subservient to perhaps some Minister for Minerals and Energy who might encourage a mineral survey in the region. [More…]

• I have had lengthy correspondence with Mr Broomhill, the Minister of Environment and Conservation in South Australia. [More…]

• The only thing I would like to add at this stage is some reference to the amendment which has been moved by Senator Carrick to the effect that the Australian Government has in some way bypassed the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory and that the statutory authorities and voluntary environmental and conservation groups in the Territory should be involved in these matters. [More…]

• The material which has been given to me by the Secretary of the Department of the Environment and Conservation reads as follows: [More…]

• Also an officer of the Department of the Environment and Conservation - attended a public seminar on National Parks held in Darwin and answered questions in relation to the proposed legislation. [More…]

• A telegram was sent by Dr Goff Letts, the majority leader in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) to which the Minister has replied. [More…]

• National Parks and Wildlife Bill due further consideration this week will have greatest impact Northern Territory stop There have been no public hearing or proper consultations as suggested in first principle of stated functions of Dept Environment and Conservation stop I have prepared statement for first meeting Legislative Assembly this week stop Not opposed certain concepts in Bill e.g. [More…]

• tables report (b) Government considers executive role newly elected Assembly after studying above report (c) Ministers for Northern Territory and Environment have discussions Assembly representatives (d) Northern Territory public properly consulted stop Further passage Bill this week would show contempt Territory people and new Assembly. [More…]

• That is a very strong telegram from Dr Letts particularly in view of the circumstances which were outlined in the memorandum from the Secretary of the Department of Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• Government’s legislative program must proceed stop Please be assured of Northern Territory interests being considered at all times in matters of environment and conservation. [More…]

• This Bill brings into focus an important tendency in the modern community to assert that when government is making policies of any kind it should take into account the effect, if any, upon the environment of those policies. [More…]

• Therefore over recent years the States have passed legislation insisting that where some action is to be taken by a private or other authority there be prepared a document, an environmental impact study, and that that document be used by governments in determining whether the particular proposal should go on. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that governments at all levels should look to the impact on the environment before they take action. [More…]

• It supports the Council of Environmental Ministers which, when considering procedural matters, agreed on what should be the nature of an environmental impact study and decided that all statements should assert the need for the particular undertaking, its objective, what alternative means there are to achieve the same ends or goals and what the environmental impact might be. [More…]

• In the other place a number of questions of this type were raised with the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass). [More…]

• I write concerning several matters which you raised in the debate last Wednesday night on the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Bill. [More…]

• In the latter respect, it is my understanding, from discussions that have occurred within the Standing Committee of the Australian Environment Council, that the States would not be prepared to enter into any such agreement or arrangement. [More…]

• It is for this reason that I am encouraged by agreement that has so far been reached in the Australian Environment Council on this matter. [More…]

• I might say, that in respect of Victoria, my departmental officers advise me that already they are relying very considerably on advice received from the Victorian Ministry of Conservation in assessing the environmental effects of proposals being developed in that State. [More…]

• The 4 Bills to which I refer represent the culmination of 2 years of extremely hard work and enlightened dedication by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), and their significance should not be overlooked. [More…]

• As I have said, this is the first time in Australia that there has been any statutory attempt to go nearly so far in relation to environmental impact statements as this Bill seeks to go. [More…]

• The measure deals not just with pollution, not just with aesthetics, not just with environmental matters in any narrow sense. [More…]

• In order that the true effect of the Bills can be understood I invite the attention of the Senate to the extremely embracing definition of the word environment’ appearing in clause 3. [More…]

• It does seem to me that too many persons at least up to date, have taken the view that environmental matters are narrow in their concept. [More…]

• I invite the attention of the Senate to the first proclamation of the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment as to the scope of the environment as that proclamation saw it. [More…]

• Man is both creature and moulder of his environment, which gives him physical sustenance and affords him the opportunity for intellectual, moral, social and spiritual growth. [More…]

• In the long and tortuous evolution of the human race on this planet a stage has been reached when, through the rapid acceleration of science and technology, man has acquired the power to transform his environment in countless ways and on an unprecedented scale. [More…]

• Both aspects of man’s environment, the natural and the man-made, are essential to his well-being and to the enjoyment of basic human rightseven the right to life itself. ‘ [More…]

• I would for myself add the further point that I do not think that in the ultimate any question of the environment in the true sense can be considered in isolation from the question of planning. [More…]

• In other words, environmental issues do not exist in a vacuum; they are related to the planned development of this earth and everything about it for the benefit of man. [More…]

• I want to pay a very brief tribute to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Cass, because I know from extremely bitter personal experience how difficult it is at times for a Minister charged with this type of portfolio to be able to achieve ministerial co-operation, at least completely. [More…]

• I do not believe it correct to say that anyone has ever made a proper assessment of the effect of the wood chip industry in relation to the whole ecology of Australia and to the general question of the environment. [More…]

• One could debate this matter at length but all I want to say is that if this Bill is passed the first thing I propose to do is to request the Minister for the Environment and Conservation to direct an inquiry on a national basis under clause 1 1 into all aspects of the wood chip industry so far as it affects Australia and our future. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Government and the Minister, Dr Cass, in particular, have grasped the nettle with this Bill and they have given the nation of Australia a basis for hoping that man will intelligently mould to his total environment, including his social groupings, to his advancement and happiness. [More…]

• In conclusion this is a day for which responsible environmentalists have hoped but their hopes, I suggest, would never have materialised without the enlightened policies of the Australian Government which now are in statutory form. [More…]

• I think everybody acknowledges that in the late twentieth century the twin questions of how man controls his environment and how man respects his privacy are the most vital questions for the development and future of mankind. [More…]

• We see, as we did not see earlier, despoliation of our natural environment inways which were quite perceptibly occurring but the import of which was never sufficiently appreciated. [More…]

• I hope that just in the expression of some views we can resolve these problems in the future and at least make the community aware that desirable and commendable as the protection of the environment is, it ought not to be done at the cost of the preservation of individual privacy. [More…]

• On the subject of impact statements the statement made on behalf of the then Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts read: . [More…]

• I wish to announce that the Government has decided to introduce a system of ‘impact statements’ designed to protect the environment. [More…]

• That is to say that when a Commonwealth Minister prepares a submission to the Cabinet on any proposal that has some relevance to the environment that submission must be accompanied by a statement setting out the impact the proposal is likely to make on the environment. [More…]

• I might add that State projects for which Commonwealth financial assistance is sought will also need to be supported by assurances that all environmental factors have been considered and evaluated. [More…]

• However, one difference is to be noted, and that is that under the proposals which the Government is implementing, it seeks to have its own impact statement procedures apply to Commonwealth financed State projects, whereas the view of the previous Governmentand it would be the view which the present Opposition parties would preferably follow- was that the State procedures ought to be sufficient for an effective evaluation of impact on the environment of various types of proposals. [More…]

• -Before the sitting of the Senate was suspended I was indicating that the power which the Commonwealth Government was asserting in respect of this environment protection legislation was immensely wide. [More…]

• The environment is defined as including all aspects of the surroundings of man, whether affecting him as an individual or in his social groupings. [More…]

• ‘Environmental’ has a corresponding meaning. [More…]

• I think the environment is immensely important. [More…]

• I go further: On 3 1 October I asked the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation who represents the Minister for the Environment and Conservation in this place a question about the Newport power station project. [More…]

• I also asked the Minister whether he was aware that this attitude was being taken against a background of exhaustive inquiries into the environmental impact of such a power station and the fact that those inquiries had been held and that all of them had been resolved in favour of the power station. [More…]

• I asked the Minister whether he was prepared, in the interests of balanced and sensible environmental policies and with a view to upholding the authority of the State of Victoria, to express his strong support for the Victorian Government’s position. [More…]

• Senator Wheeldon, the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, stated quite categorically in simple words ‘no’. [More…]

• The Victorian legislation which will be to a large extent duplicated by this legislation- indeed, it may even be superseded, but ultimately that is for the High Court to decide- indicates that there is an Environment Protection Authority and an Environment Appeals Board which can examine whether projects in Victoria are consistent with what is required for the protection of the environment. [More…]

• It is a challenge to the authority of the Government and it is being conducted in the name of environment protection - [More…]

• -And environment protection, to answer the Minister, is the name of this Bill. [More…]

• I believe we ought to have an attitude expressed by the Government which clearly discloses where it stands on this matter with regard to State environment projects. [More…]

• I have said earlier that the need to protect the environment is quite clear and unchallengeable, but this Bill imposes upon individuals the right to submit to the requests of persons appointed by the Minister- who are not judicial officers but who may be anybody in the community whom the Minister appoints- to attend before them, to answer questions, to produce documents, and indeed to allow their properties and premises to be entered without any warrant whatsoever. [More…]

• But I suggest that you cannot resolve satisfactorily these environmental protection questions by simply saying that individuals can be subjected to all sorts of impositions, to coercive powers, because the environment requires that individuals must submit to those powers. [More…]

• Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Bill 1974 [More…]

• Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Bill 1974 [More…]

• Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Bill 1974 [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…]

• The display by Australia is for the purpose of assisting in gaining wide acceptance for Australian films and television programs on an international basis and also to create an ideal environment in which Australian producers can conduct business in Cannes. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation whether the Minister has recommended the relaxation in New South Wales and South Australia of the export ban on kangaroo skins and products. [More…]

• As the honourable senator probably would be aware, I do not have the information relating to this matter at my fingertips but I will obtain it from the Minister for the Environment and Conservation as soon as possible and let him have the answer. [More…]

• In the last few months the State Planning Authority, which was the successor to the Cumberland County Council, has been abolished and we have a Planning and Environment Commission under the direct control of the Minister. [More…]

• If people are to be resettled in a better environment in Darwin and if they are to suffer no monetary loss, who is to say that that is not right? [More…]

• I would hope that based on the evolutionary experience of planning in Australia members of the Opposition will not turn the clock back; that they will learn from the experiences of people even within their own Party and within their own State governments; that they will even at this late hour discuss the matter with Mr Fuller, the Minister for Planning and Environment in New South Wales, and with Mr Hamer in Victoria and those other enlightened Ministers who, based on their experiences, have seen the need to change the emphasis from the bureaucracy back to the Parliament; that the Senate will not be stampeded, on the basis of a false, incorrect and inadequate understanding of what is involved in this important Darwin Reconstruction Bill, into amending the Bill, emasculating it and rendering it sterile when the important job is to pass the Bill to enable the Australian Government properly to carry out its responsibilities to the people in Darwin. [More…]

• If honourable senators opposite have any doubts about it then I suggest they should look at the manner in which the Ministers have operated and at the way in which I have operated in local governmentinvolving people at all stages in their immediate affairs and not relying upon bureaucratic processes to create the better environment that we all want to see. [More…]

• For instance, the Australian Government Printing Office, which is responsible for the printing of millions of dollars worth of government publications, was an adjunct of the old Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• The amendment seeks to leave open to any person in Australia the right to object to a determination, whether they have a vested interest or a peculiar interest such as conservation or environment. [More…]

• An environment committee in Melbourne could object to a determination of the Commission. [More…]

• If people are to be resettled in a better environment in Darwin and if they are to suffer no monetary loss, who is to say that that is not right? [More…]

• Putting aside such gratuitous comments as the last statement, the fact of the matter is that Senator Gietzelt is saying quite clearly- I fully agree with him- that if in its wisdom the Commission decides that it will resettle people in a better environment in Darwin, that is its prerogative. [More…]

• Officers of the Department of the Environment and Conservation have visited all States except Queensland in order to discuss this matter with the States. [More…]

• This year’s budget for the Department of the Environment and Conservation provides $381,000 for wildlife conservation and ecological research. [More…]

• -So far, the officers of the Department of the Environment and Conservation, as Senator Mulvihill has said, have not visited Queensland. [More…]

• Has he seen reported statements by Mr Broomhill, the South Australian Minister of Environment and Conservation, that the Federal Government’s anti-mercury seafood laws will place the fishing industry in danger of collapse and remove fish from most Australian diets? [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 could never get anywhere unless it recognised, as a national party, the need for national involvement- by the national Government through the national Parliament -in the concerns of the people over the whole range of policy- their schools, their cities, their hospitals, their culture, their recreation, their immediate environment, and providing access to jobs, shops and recreations. [More…]

• As has been reported previously to the Senate, there has been a thorough inquiry by the Water Resources Branch of the Department of Urban and Regional Development, by the Department of the Environment and Conservation, by the River Murray Commission and, I believe, by the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation to see that there is no deterioration in the water supply as a result of the development of AlburyWodonga. [More…]

• During the debate on the report the Senate resolved that the Standing Committees on Health and Welfare, Social Environment and Constitutional and Legal Affairs should continually oversight the report and recommend from time to time the further measures which might be taken to implement the recommendation or overcome the problems revealed in the report. [More…]

• Some of these areas would be more appropriately dealt with by the Standing Committee on Social Environment and the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs. [More…]

• We have suggested that the areas of the Select Committee’s report on the living environment, psychiatric and counselling resources for children, cannabis research and legislation on cannabis, treatment and rehabilitation legislation, and drug abuse research required further investigation. [More…]

• We suggested that the living environment and legislation could be more appropriately dealt with by the Standing Committee on Social Environment and the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs respectively. [More…]

• They have not because a night-time agreement was made in the middle of the cane paddock to allow this company to continue wrecking the environment of the area. [More…]

• If they did not they would not be able to pay for the plush surgeries, the cars, environment and rentals, or whatever, in which they live, with the rather small turnover they have and giving very lengthy, friendly consultations to the rich people of that area. [More…]

• To the extent that the Australian Government is initiating supplementary economic measures and has appointed a Committee of Inquiry into Taxation Indexation, we welcome the emergence of an environment within which wage indexation has the best chance of effective operation. [More…]

• However, it is clear that we expect wage and salary claims to reflect the economic realities of the environment within which they are made, and our affiliates are aware of that expectation. [More…]

• For example, people might write letters to newspapers, speak on talk-back programs and maybe, if they have a case to present as would, for example, the people associated with the environment movement in New South Wales and those associated with green bans, be interviewed on ‘This Day Tonight’ or the current affairs programs of commercial stations. [More…]

• The Opposition acknowledges the cooperation of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) in the other place and the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation (Senator Wheeldon) who represents the Minister for the Environment and Conservation in this place. [More…]

• I direct a question to Senator Wheeldon in his capacity as the representative in this chamber of Dr Cass, the Minister for Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• A number of groups in the Murray River area have raised this matter with the Minister for the Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• The Bureau of Environmental Studies, which is a division of the Department of the Environment and Conservation, is trying to obtain the services of an overseas authority on the subject of the water hyacinth with the intention of carrying out an urgent study of the problem in order to develop some means whereby the growth of the water hyacinth can be controlled. [More…]

• I also understand that the New South Wales Department of Agriculture has made available to the Boomi Shire Council, which is responsible for noxious weeds control in the infested area, the sum of $50,000 for immediate spraying of the infestation with environmentally acceptable weedicides. [More…]

• Directors’ interests, direct and indirect, in the securities of the corporation and in contracts with the corporation; the number of persons employed by the corporation; arrangements made by the corporation for protecting the safety and health of its employees and of the public and for protecting the environment; and arrangements made by the corporation for the protection of its consumers. [More…]

• In the present international environment there is a lot of talk about detente. [More…]

• This evening Senator Greenwood referred to the extraordinarily detailed provisions for directors’ reports, to how much information must be provided, to how necessary it is that one must supply directors’ reports to members, and to what details concerning employment and environment activities undertaken by the company should be supplied in particular cases. [More…]

• 1 know my colleague and friend, Senator Guilfoyle, would agree when she looks at me and recalls my own record as Minister representing the Minister for Social Security and as Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass). [More…]

• There is an overlap with the Standing Committee on Industry and Trade, the Standing Committee on Finance and Government Operations and the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [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…]

• 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…]

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

• In view of the fact that the title Department of the Environment and Conservation’ has been amended to ‘Department of Environment’, can the Minister inform the Senate whether the administrative arrangements under which the Department operates will be affected? [More…]

• The change in name resulted from a suggestion from Dr Cass, the Minister for Environment. [More…]

• He consideredand what he put forward was agreed to- that the title ‘Environment and Conservation’ was unnecessarily cumbersome, that the conservation referred to in the title ‘Environment and Conservation’ was intended to mean conservation of the environment, and that it was a rather long winded title which caused some confusion. [More…]

• I remember that one day one honourable senator in this chamber, without attempting in any way to be satirical, referred to the Department as the Department of the Environment and Conversation. [More…]

• In fact, in 1973, when the Australian Labor Party amended its platform, it amended the section which previously had been entitled ‘Environment and Conservation’ to ‘The [More…]

• Environment’. [More…]

• It singles out 3 Ministers of the Crown, namely, the Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party, Dr J. F. Cairns, the Minister for Environment, Dr Cass, and the present AttorneyGeneral, Mr Enderby. [More…]

• To protect the environment and to satisfy the people there is no substitute for natural growth development. [More…]

• In his absence, the Minister for Environment, Dr Cass, will act as Minister for Health. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to Senator Wheeldon as Minister representing the Minister for Environment, relates to a situation in Tasmania somewhat akin to the Fraser Island mining venture and raises the question of the necessity for an environmental impact study to be undertaken on any project on which work has already begun. [More…]

• The Director of Environmental Control in Tasmania, Mr Pottinger, is now saying that before this work can be finished a study will be needed. [More…]

• Honourable senators will realise that the text covers a pretty broad base and includes such things as the establishment of an economic zone, the breadth of territorial sea, the right of passage through international straits, rights over the resources of the continental shelf, archipelagos, fisheries, marine pollution, scientific research of the marine environment, and the pressing question of the rights to the resources of the deep sea bed beyond the national jurisdiction. [More…]

• Will the Government give consideration to the proposal that from June 1975 the Department of Environment and not the Department of Agriculture represent Australia at future International Whaling Commission meetings? [More…]

• I certainly would not agree to the Department of Environment providing the representative on the International Whaling Commission. [More…]

• There are many children- I think it applies to most children- who for reasons of intellect, environment and psychological and other reasons do not proceed to matriculation, colleges of advanced education or to university level, are left doing courses which in some States and in some schools are merely watered down versions of the academic level courses. [More…]

• I have already spoken of the importance of ethnic identification for many children caught in the no man’s land of ambivalence between their home environment and that of their school still geared to the assimilationists ‘ goal of Angloconformity. [More…]

• In just the same way, if we have a legislative framework which declares that racial discrimination is illegal, that legislative framework in itself has some educative effect and it is part of the environment and the context in which people grow up. [More…]

• They deal with the question of inheritability of IQ, the measure of intelligence generally and the whole question of the extent to which one’s intelligence is determined by environment as against being determined by inheritance. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for the Media: In view of the announced intention of the Department of Environment to proceed with 2-minute radio commercials to inform the public about environmental issues, and the subsequent statement by a representative of private industry that it is a most unusual length of advertisement which apparently has not been available previously to private advertisers, is the Australian Broadcasting Control Board giving special consideration to the Government to enable it to broadcast radio advertisements of a most unusual length which is not available to private industry? [More…]

• I am told that the environment and conservation advertising campaign is conducted on radio only and is sponsored by the Department of Environment. [More…]

• Apparently the advertising is arranged through my Department and my Department is the servicing department but the actual preparation of the advertisements is the responsibility of the Department of Environment. [More…]

• The campaign, which deals with the problems of the environment generally, pollution, conservation and so on, is designed to make the community aware of the tremendous problems that exist in this area. [More…]

• -Mr President, on behalf of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment I present a general report on 4 references. [More…]

• The Senate will know that I, with others, am a member of one of the Senate Standing Committees, the Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• Therefore I feel, looking at clause 31 again, that systematic and extensive programs of community education may in the long run very well be the most effective way of creating and maintaining a harmonious social environment that is free from discrimination. [More…]

• Would it not be more sensible to look for species which are uniquely suitable to the Australian environment? [More…]

• I ask: Can we assume that the inference is that animal breeding and husbandry in Australia are second class and unsuitable to our environment and that the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and other research institutes are unaware of the constant need to fit species to the Australian circumstance? [More…]

• Is it not a fact that our environment and climate are major contributors to the excellent standards of Australian meat, grain and fibre production? [More…]

• We know that the Committee detected early that some reasonable employers wanted to do something about the environment, but their competitors were not compelled to observe a certain code and could undercut on costs. [More…]

• Admittedly the trade union movement believes that it has a responsibility to its membership beyond its industrial provisions, that it has a moral responsibility to its membership, to society and to the environment in which the trade union movement works. [More…]

• No one should impose upon an association of people the demand that they should in some way destroy the environment in which they live and in which their children shall live. [More…]

• That organisation- that union- has a right to deny the use of its members, efforts and skills in protection of the environment. [More…]

• Trade union interest in environmental issues has arisen because of the growing concern about the effects of capitalism ‘s notions of perpetual economic growth and profit making. [More…]

• There is also concern at the devastation caused by capitalism’s regard for the natural environment as its sole preserve for the production of profits. [More…]

• I refer again to my previous question concerning the intention of the Department of Environment to place advertisments of up to 2 minutes duration with commercial radio stations. [More…]

• That is a power of enormous import- the power to compel people to present themselves and answer questions- and in that environment the Commissioner may endeavour to reach a settlement. [More…]

• This is scanned and, in addition, the inquiry is automatically routed to the other 3 sets of library information stored on the computers of CSIRO and the Department of Environment and Conservation. [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 the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) 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 allocated 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…]

• 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 had disfigured our environment. [More…]

• In relating its findings to the Australian environment, the study group should focus particular attention and make recommendations on the functions and location of any institute and how it would relate to a national system of coaching and training; the types of courses and programs to be offered at such an institute and the facilities and staffing required to implement them; the development priorities and funding of any institute. [More…]

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

• Has any interdepartmental committee visited Norfolk Island recently to examine the environmental impact of a proposal to upgrade the existing wartime airstrip for jet aircraft? [More…]

• If so, who were the members of the committee, which departments did each represent and which of those officers is considered to have expertise in environmental matters? [More…]

• -An interdepartmental committee did not visit Norfolk Island to study this matter, but some officers of the Department of the Capital Territory visited the Island and have produced a draft environmental impact statement. [More…]

• At that meeting there will be representatives of the Department of the Capital Territory, the Department of Transport, the Department of Housing and Construction and the Department of 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…]

• In brief, these are to build a new and permanent Parliament House and to ensure parliamentary control of the environment surrounding it. [More…]

• 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…]

• I think the essential principles are set out in clause 4 of the Bill where the National Estate is defined as follows: 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…]

• All of us have various views about the significance of our relationship, as members of the human species, with our environment. [More…]

• From now on, with this legislation and the other legislation to which I have referred as a basis, we can proceed in this country with guidelines which will provide perhaps a better environment for future generations of Australians than that which has existed in the past. [More…]

• The three components of the cultural and natural environment forming the National Estate are those which are: [More…]

• In that definition the Committee also pointed out that these things fall into many categories, some of them matters of natural environment, some of them man-made and part of our cultural environment, others archeological and others cultural. [More…]

• They include land use, wildlife, parks, coastlines, built environment, Aboriginal sites and special areas, historic sites, geological sites, caves, museums, historic shipwrecks, archives, export of cultural property and education. [More…]

• They were the first positive steps in the national sphere to protect the environment. [More…]

• We had a plan for the environment of Ayers Rock and we were the government that established a royal commission on a national basis for an examination of all the superlative values of the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]

• In the Department of Works over which I presided in the latter years there was a standing instruction that no work was to be submitted to Cabinet unless an environmental impact study was undertaken on an interdepartmental basis. [More…]

• The Minister for Health has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (1)1 am not aware of any large scale surveys into the natural levels of mercury and mercurials in the total Australian environment. [More…]

• No figures are available on the losses of mercury and mercurials to the local environment. [More…]

• In order to determine mercury accumulation in the Australian environment, a continuous monitoring program would be required to examine mercury levels in sediment and in organisms. [More…]

• However, a continuous monitoring program for the total environment is not being carried out at this time. [More…]

• Since then he has had discussions with Mr Broomhill who is the Minister of Environment and Conservation in South Australia. [More…]

• They have under consideration the recommendation contained in the report that further land be purchased for the purpose of protecting the environment around Hallett Cove. [More…]

• I moved for that disallowance so that representatives of the Academy of Science would be able further to put forward the point that the traffic which would flow from the arterial road from the off-take point would affect the environment of the Academy. [More…]

• The Academy representatives told me that until the day before I moved for the disallowance they had been under the impression that the western distributor which would subsequently be built from the off-take point would go underground and therefore there would be minimal disturbance to the environment in the vicinity of the Academy of Science. [More…]

• They were disturbed to find that no such final plan had been made and there was every possibility that the distributor might be above the ground, in which case the environment of the Academy would be very seriously disturbed. [More…]

• I reiterate my private hope that the matter can be adjusted to suit the environment. [More…]

• I suggest that it has achieved much in its 2 1/2 years of existence in such a hostile environment. [More…]

• To amend the Science and Industry Research Act where necessary to strengthen CSIRO ‘s involvement as a research organisation in new fields, particularly in consumer standards, safety, transport and environment research. [More…]

• Dr Cass, when Minister for Environment, was ultra scrupulous. [More…]

• He wrote to the then Minister for Environment (Dr Cass) on 27 April stating that he believed an expressway was to be built across the island and requesting the Minister’s support in reclaiming the island to be used for a recreational complex. [More…]

• The then Minister for Environment referred the matter to myself as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs saying that he doubted that he could interfere in this matter since his financial support is confined to areas of national park significance, which usually means a considerably larger area than that concerned in this matter’. [More…]

• The New South Wales Planning and Environment Commission apparently has recommended - [More…]

• The New South Wales Planning and Environment Commission has apparently recommended to the Minister for Lands and Forests that the island remain in its natural state, with the small north-eastern tip of the island to be developed as a fishing port. [More…]

• The Planning and Environment Commission recommended that the north-east tip of the island be linked to the mainland by an access road. [More…]

• However, the present plan is regarded by the Tweed Shire Council as a satisfactory compromise between the wishes of the Council and the recommendations of the Planning and Environment Commission. [More…]

• As a result of representations which were made by the Opposition and by Mr Hunt, the shadow Minister responsible for these matters- and I must admit with the co-operation of the then Minister for Environment, Dr Cassrecognition has been given to this problem and to the necessity to co-operate with the Queensland Government. [More…]

• Queensland senators on this side of the chamber, particularly Senator Wood who will be speaking later, will have a good deal of knowledge of what steps have been taken in the past to protect the environment in this region. [More…]

• I commend the shadow Minister for Environment, Mr Hunt, for his cooperation. [More…]

• As honourable senators know, the former Minister for Environment (Dr Cass) in the other place was helpfulthe Opposition was helpful also- when a number of the clauses were considered in accepting a number of amendments to satisfy the Opposition. [More…]

• It is understood that this was because the question of environment was raised. [More…]

• On 2 July I advised the Governor-General to terminate the commission of the Minister for Environment, Dr J. F. Cairns. [More…]

• I emphasise this to draw the contrast between my decision to transfer the honourable member for Lalor from Treasury to Environment on 6 June and my decision to advise the Governor-General to terminate his commission. [More…]

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

• -The answer to Senator Keeffe ‘s question is as follows: Yesterday the Minister for Environment announced the purchase of 1000 hectares of land at Elanda Plains adjacent to the proposed Cooloola National Park in Queensland. [More…]

• At present the effect of the activities of the equipment on the environment is under expert investigation. [More…]

• To intervene to ensure effective national development, to preserve and conserve’ the environment and its resources, to stimulate competition arid to achieve equity . [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…]

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

• 1 ) The Minister for Environment wrote to the responsible State Ministers on 18 September 1974 inviting applications for financial assistance under the States Grants (Nature Conservation) Act for the acquisition of lands for nature conservation purposes. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment has not directed the preparation of environmental impact statements under the provisions of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 for any of the four projects identified above for the following reasons: [More…]

• In the interests of clarifying the provisions of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1 would like to point out that the publication of an order required in Section 7 ( 1 ) of that Act refers to an order made under Section 6 of the Act. [More…]

• Section 6 is concerned with Administrative Procedures which will provide general rules for the application of the environmental impact statement technique. [More…]

• The Act does not require the making or publication of orders relating to the preparation of environmental impact statements for specific proposals. [More…]

• Consequently the Committee was concerned to preserve as much of the natural environment as possible. [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…]

• And I emphasise this point- reflects within the overall budgetary restraints the continuation of programs designed to improve the environment and the quality of life of the community. [More…]

• It requires time to work in a politically stable environment; it probably does not have that. [More…]

• His question included a reference to the statement published in the Press today by Mr Dick Wordley, of the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Foundation, who was a witness yesterday before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• In all defence facilities programs very close attention is now paid to environment considerations to ensure as far as possible that solutions found are acceptable to all parties with genuine concern. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Environment aware of the increasing world-wide concern at the widespread release to the atmosphere of chlorinated fluorocarbons, especially from aerosol sprays? [More…]

• -The Minister for Environment has told me about the United States report which was issued in June. [More…]

• The Minister states that the Department of Environment is maintaining a close watch on the results of overseas studies as the theory, in his opinion, is not yet proven. [More…]

• That the determinations of the Remuneration Tribunal relating to the Secretary to the Postmaster-General’s Department; Australian National Railways Commission; Commissioner for Community Relations; Commissioners under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974; Road Safety and Standards Authority; Director of National Parks and Wildlife; Aboriginal Hostels Ltd; Schools Commission; and Health Insurance Commission, tabled this day, be disapproved. [More…]

• Consequent upon the Government’s decision to disapprove the determinations passing on the 3.6 per cent wage adjustment and in order to treat office holders within the jurisdiction of the Remuneration Tribunal consistently, I also have moved to disapprove the determinations of the Tribunal in respect of the Secretary to the PostmasterGeneral’s Department, Australian National Railways Commission, Commissioner for Community Relations, Commissioners under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974, Road Safety and Standards Authority, Director of National Parks and Wildlife, Aboriginal Hostels Ltd, Schools Commission and Health Insurance Commission. [More…]

• That whereas the natural environment of Fraser Island is so outstanding that it should be identified as part of the World Natural Heritage, and whereas the Island should be conserved for the enjoyment of this and future generations, [More…]

• that the Australian Government uses its constitutional authority to assist the Queensland Government and any other properly constituted body to develop and conserve the recreational, educational and scientific potentials of the natural environment of Fraser Island for the long term benefit of the people of Australia. [More…]

• We would be ordered to develop these resources and then we would have trouble about foreign ownership, conservation and the protection of our environment. [More…]

• Look at Clutha Development Pty Ltd and at its record in relation to the pollution 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…]

• Discussion is now continuing between me, the Minister for Environment and the Prime Minister, who has had representations from the Premier of New South Wales, as to whether there should be some lifting of the ban on those stockpiled skins which were harvested at the time the ban was on, in view of the fact that there are now controls over the culling and management of kangaroos. [More…]

• The man is part of his environment. [More…]

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

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

• Advice to my Department on the negative aspects of dispersants and oil on the marine environment is provided by a Committee of Advice. [More…]

• This committee consists, of among others, representatives of the Australian Government Departments of Environment, Agriculture (Fisheries), Science, Minerals and Energy, Transport, and CSIRO, and also of the oil industry. [More…]

• Under the National Plan dispersants will only be used when their effect on the marine environment will be less than that of the oil if it were allowed to come ashore. [More…]

• But if one goes into the area one will find that the environment has been totally devastated. [More…]

• I believe that if natural minerals are being exploited for a profit motive the environment ought to be protected, the health of the workers ought to be protected, decent standards and working conditions ought to be the order of the day and there ought to be a fair return of profit to the Australian people. [More…]

• Utah has not spared expense on the environment, that issue which concerns Senator Keeffe so much in relation to the mining industry. [More…]

• That whereas the natural environment of Fraser Island is so outstanding that it should be identified as part of the World Natural Heritage, and whereas the Island should be conserved for the enjoyment of this and future generations. [More…]

• that the Australian Government uses its constitutional authority to assist the Queensland Government and any other properly constituted body to develop and conserve the recreational, educational and scientific potentials of the natural environment of Fraser Island for the long term benefit of the people of Australia. [More…]

• On 2 April 1974 the Premier of Queensland proposed an international marine park for the Torres Strait area which would protect the environment and control commercial activities. [More…]

• Discussions between Australian and Queensland officials are proceeding on an environmentally protected zone along these lines in the hope of producing agreement on a special regime for the Strait. [More…]

• I address my question to the Postmaster-General, representing the Minister for Environment. [More…]

• -A11 1 can do is to refer the honourable senator’s question to the Minister for Environment. [More…]

• Further details may be found in ‘Toxicity of Industrial Metals’ by E. Browning, published in 1961, ‘Mercury in the Environment’ (CRC Press), published in 1972, ‘Health Hazards of the Human Environment’ (World Health Orgainzation), published in 1972, and ‘Health Effects of Environmental Pollutants’, by G. L. Waldbott, published in 1 973. [More…]

• The report said that the actual effect on the health of people of alkylmercury from fish caught in a natural environment will have to be examined in detailed intensive studies. [More…]

• Such means should be directed at the maximal reduction of controllable sources of mercury emissions to the environment and the provision of adequate regulations that minimise exposure of vulnerable sub-groups, such as children and pregnant women, to mercury from fish. [More…]

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

• 1 ) Mr P. Sims, Honorary Director of Tasventure Environment Centre. [More…]

• The Tasventure Environment Centre originally applied for a grant of $1,200 to prepare a report on the Norfolk Range area. [More…]

• Recommendation of a three-man committee chaired by an officer of the Department of Environment with representatives from the Department of Science and the Australian Conservation Foundation. [More…]

• 7 ) Tasventure Environment Centre. [More…]

• The Department of Environment subsequently received a financial statement audited by a qualified accountant setting out a detailed break-down of expenses and stating that the grant did not form part of the funds of Tasventure Tours. [More…]

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

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

• Did Mr Peter Sims of a firm known as Tasventure make a request or recommendation to the Minister for Environment that the Cradle Mountain Road should not be sealed until there had been an environmental impact study. [More…]

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

• Yes, from Tasventure Environment Centre. [More…]

• Tasventure Environment Centre has requested $5,500 to undertake the study with the assistance of consultants from the University of Tasmania. [More…]

• THAT whereas the natural environment of Fraser Island is so outstanding that it should be identified as part of the World Natural Heritage, and whereas the Island should be conserved for the enjoyment of this and future generations, [More…]

• that the Australian Government uses its constitutional authority to assist the Queensland Government and any other properly constituted body to develop and conserve the recreational, educational and scientific potentials of the natural environment of Fraser Island for the long term benefit of the people of Australia. [More…]

• I address my question to the Postmaster-General in his capacity as the representative of the Minister for Environment. [More…]

• I understand that only the estimates for the Department of the Environment are left to be considered by Estimates Committee E. I believe that by 8 p.m. this evening all Estimates Committees will probably be in a position to present their reports to the Senate. [More…]

• That whereas the natural environment of Fraser Island is so outstanding that it should be identified as part of the World Natural Heritage, and whereas the Island should be conserved for the enjoyment of this and future generations, [More…]

• that the Australian Government uses its constitutional authority to assist the Queensland Government and any other properly constituted body to develop and conserve the recreational, educational and scientific potentials of the natural environment of Fraser Island for the long term benefit of the people of Australia. [More…]

• That whereas the natural environment of Fraser Island is so outstanding that it should be identified as part of the World Natural Heritage, and whereas the Island should be conserved for the enjoyment of this and future generations. [More…]

• that the Australian Government uses its constitutional authority to assist the Queensland Government and any other properly constituted body to develop and conserve the recreational, educational and scientific potentials of the natural environment of Fraser Island for the long term benefit of the people of Australia. [More…]

• That whereas the natural environment of Fraser Island is so outstanding that it should be identified as part of the World Natural Heritage, and whereas the Island should be conserved for the enjoyment of this and future generations, [More…]

• That the Australian Government uses its constitutional authority to assist the Queensland Government and any other properly constituted body to develop and conserve the recreational, educational and scientific potentials of the natural environment of Fraser Island for the long term benefit of the people of Australia. [More…]

• That whereas the natural environment of Fraser Island is so outstanding that it should be identified as part of the World Natural Heritage, and whereas the Island should be conserved for the enjoyment of this and future generations, [More…]

• That the Australian Government uses its constitutional authority to assist the Queensland Government and any other properly constituted body to develop and conserve the recreational, educational and scientific potentials of the natural environment of Fraser Island for the long term benefit of the people of Australia. [More…]

• Of course, the responsibility rests with the British Aircraft Corporation to provide a comprehensive environmental impact statement. [More…]

• This will be considered by our Department of Environment. [More…]

• I understand that the Heathrow tests are a source of concern to Mr Berinson, the Minister for Environment, and that he expects that the impact statement will cover results of both the Australian and the British noise level tests. [More…]

• -1 ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Environment. [More…]

• I understand a committee is studying the desirability of increasing the authority of the River Murray Commission, or of establishing some other body to cover flood mitigation, erosion, pollution, environment and navigation. [More…]

• Concerning the honourable senator’s question about the River Murray, I can inform him that a working party was set up some time ago to report on a whole range of problems- pollution, erosion, flooding and environmental aspects- of the River Murray. [More…]

• Its report was submitted this week to the Minister for Environment, Mr Berinson, and will be considered in depth by a committee of Ministers tomorrow. [More…]

• Surely he can remember that an election was held in that environment. [More…]

• The Commission’s decision that more of its work should be concerned with identifying, researching and providing well-documented advice on likely changes in the environment for industry development should help to ensure that the social and economic effects of changes in assistance to industries are fully researched before Government decisions are taken. [More…]

• That whereas the natural environment of Fraser Island is so outstanding that it should be identified as pan of the world natural heritage, and whereas the Island should be conserved for the enjoyment of this and future generations, your petitioners humbly pray that the members, in Parliament assembled, will take the most urgent steps to ensure: [More…]

• That the Australian Government uses its constitutional authority to assist the Queensland Government and any other properly constituted body to develop and conserve the recreational, educational and scientific potentials of the natural environment of Fraser Island for the long term benefit of the people of Australia. [More…]

• Certainly even in the present environment officials engaged in central control activities would welcome a more dynamic PAC concentrating on the broader issues of expenditure control. [More…]

• My colleague, the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) has had a number of consultations with 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…]

• One becomes corrupted by one’s environment. [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…]

• You have a long and distinguished record of committee service including the chairmanship of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment from 1971 to 1973 and membership of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Government Operations and the famous Senate Select Committee on Offshore Petroleum Resources. [More…]

• That whereas the natural environment of Fraser Island is so outstanding that it should be identified as part of the World Natural Heritage, and whereas the Island should be conserved for the enjoyment of this and future generations, [More…]

• that the Australian Government uses its constitutional authority to assist the Queensland Government and any other properly constituted body to develop and conserve the recreational, educational and scientific potentials of the natural environment of Fraser Island for the long term benefit of the people of Australia. [More…]

• Science and the Environment. [More…]

• Recognising the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development as the virtual custodian of all national parks and fauna reserves in Australian Territories, I ask what guarantee he can give the Senate on the sanctity of the boundaries of the Kakadu National Park in the Top End of the Northern Territory in the face of utterances made by his colleague the Minister for National Resources contending that uranium extraction has first priority in the Territory? [More…]

• Can the Minister give us an assurance that there will not be an environmental pack rape of that park? [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Environment and other matters. [More…]

• The Northern Territory, with its unique environment, has the potential to be one of the nation’s leading tourist destination areas both nationally and internationally, but cooperation between the Government and the tourist authorities in the Northern Territory is needed to bring this about. [More…]

• Another field in respect of which I must express grave misgivings because of the gap between words and action is the environment. [More…]

• I am especially disturbed because the task of looking after the environment has been given to the leader of the demolition squad, Senator Greenwood. [More…]

• There are phrases in the Speech which suggest a concern for the environment; but will honourable senators on the Government side, particularly Senator Greenwood, please stand up and tell us what he proposes in relation to the Australian Heritage Commission? [More…]

• All over Australia there are buildings and sections of the environment that need nurturing and help. [More…]

• The creative arts are doomed under this Government, just as the environment is doomed. [More…]

• The rapid changes in the economic environment over the past 4-5 years, sometimes traumatic, can have had few parallels in recent times. [More…]

• We will be responsible also for providing general supportive and welfare services to the refugees once they have arrived in Australia.The migrant services section of my Department will liaise with the Department of Immigration and EthnicAffairs indeed with all other departments such as the Department of Education, the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development- to enable any difficulties to be overcome with regard to the refugees on their arrival in this country. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: Is it a fact that an advertisement was recently inserted in the Government Gazette inviting applications for the position of Personnel Service Manager for the South Australian office of the Australian Housing Corporation? [More…]

• -I direct a further question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development that flows from his answer yesterday to a question about the Kakadu National Park. [More…]

• Australia has a continuing concern to overcome problems of blindness, particularly the special problems that are faced by the Aboriginal groups arising from the climate and the environment generally. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community [More…]

• Development: As he has already eliminated the technical assistance scheme for voluntary citizen’s conservation and environment organisations in 1975-76, will the Minister indicate whether in the next Budget this Government will adhere to its election pledge, which was quoted as follows in the December 1975 Australian Conservation Foundation newsletter: [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, relates to the national parks lands acquisition scheme and the Australian Heritage Commission. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, refers to the question asked of him by Senator Mulvihill. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development received a communication from the Surfers Paradise Chamber of Commerce criticising the Federal Government for repudiating its policy on tourism? [More…]

• -Mr President, I have suggested on previous occasions that Sydney is a classic example of pollution in the environment. [More…]

• I was in England last year and I took the trouble to talk to people in the environment department which is fast becoming an octopus enveloping practically every other department in Great Britain. [More…]

• I will go back to my subject which I am sure Senator Mulvihill, the shadow Minister for the Environment, must applaud, and that is that solar energy is the most attractive environmental source of energy. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood), who is in the chamber, may be able to tell me whether the Victorian Electricity Commission pays regard to that aspect. [More…]

• This league has been advised by the National Football League of Australia that their claim for assistance for the introduction of a National Coaching Scheme has been rejected by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Sir, I respectfully request that you approach the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development with the view to having him consider, and reverse, his Department’s rejection of the NFL application for assistance. [More…]

• I will hand to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community [More…]

• On 13 December 1974 the Honourable Edward Gough Whitlam QC, then Prime Minister and Minister for Environment, the Honourable Reginald Francis Xavier Connor, the then Minister for Minerals and Energy, The Honourable James Ford Cairns, the then Treasurer, and the Honourable Lionel Keith Murphy Q.C., then Senator and Attorney-General of this Commonwealth, purporting to act as and in a meeting of the Commonwealth Executive Council signed and/or caused to be signed a certain Minute Paper headed ‘Department of Minerals and Energy’ recommending for the approval of His Excellency the GovernorGeneral, inter aiia, that in pursuance of Section 61 of the Constitution the Minister for Minerals and Energy be authorised to borrow for temporary purposes a sum in the currency of the United States of America not exceeding the equivalent of $4000m and to determine on behalf of Australia the terms and conditions of the borrowing. [More…]

• I direct to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community [More…]

• That statement indicates his naivete and his failure to comprehend the struggle for the conservation and preservation of the Australian environment. [More…]

• We now have a Federal Government which talks about returning issues of the environment to the States. [More…]

• Anybody who lives near Port Phillip Bay, anybody who has to travel by Melbourne transport, anybody who lives in the Dandenongs or anybody who lives in the Westernport region knows, if he thinks about it, that the idea of there being no Federal influence in what takes place in his area environmentally and the matter being left to the State Government is absolute rubbish as a political proposition [More…]

• In the past 20 years of Liberal Government many changes have taken place; but in the area of public expenditure, in the area of public responsibility accepted by both the Liberal Party and the Labor Partymatters such as transport, education, health, care of old persons, the environment and so on- there has been really nothing which anybody, I believe, could report with pride as a matter of political management. [More…]

• While such fields as defence, foreign affairs and some areas of national resources and trade are logically handled nationally, I feel that the Commonwealth should reduce its interest in such fields as health, housing, education and the environment. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development whether he recalls answering a question from Senator Mulvihill concerning assistance to conservation bodies seeking to place evidence before environmental inquiries? [More…]

• Will the Minister indicate whether the Friends of the Earth organisation is receiving sufficient assistance to allow it to present a full submission to the Ranger environmental inquiry? [More…]

• Does the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Affairs acknowledge that the establishment of a new university in the Albury-Wodonga decentralisation project is regarded by the AlburyWodonga Development Corporation and by the local community as vital to the success of the scheme? [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: As there is a continual need for the protection of the environment in this country, will the Minister state what is the policy in relation to federal funding of both the national park lands acquisition program and the Australian Heritage Commission? [More…]

• -The Government’s policy for the protection of the environment is quite clear. [More…]

• -As I am sure Senator Mulvihill has ascertained, it refers to land use planning, to adequate research, to the protection of the environment and to the promotion of Australia’s heritage. [More…]

• A program of financial assistance was instituted by the previous Government for the protection of the environment and for the promotion of Australia’s heritage. [More…]

• 1 understand that when the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) delivered the second reading speech on these Bills he moved that so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as to permit the Bills to go through all their stages without delay. [More…]

• Science and the Environment. [More…]

• The committees that Senator Withers has suggested should be established are the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee, the Education and the Arts Committee, the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, the Social Welfare Committee, the Trade and Commerce Committee, the National Resources Committee and the Science and the Environment Committee. [More…]

• Science and the Environment. [More…]

• I think that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood), who represents the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Ellicott) in this chamber, will appreciate my point. [More…]

• I am not reflecting at all on the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) who is in charge of the Bill. [More…]

• I want to raise a matter with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood). [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• If any honourable senator or any citizen believes that the Commonwealth police have acted unlawfully or improperly, the courts are open to them- as my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development said yesterday- and I think he also said that legal aid is also available to them. [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…]

• I should like to comment before the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) replies. [More…]

• Under the Fraser Government, Tasmanians can again expect a stable economic environment in which all people can work. [More…]

• I note that the Government is proposing to consult with the States to work out an appropriate basis of co-operation not only for particular industries but also for protection of the marine environment. [More…]

• I point out that for the reasons I have given the problem is much greater than one simply concerning particular industries or the marine environment. [More…]

• Those of us who have regard for the environment were encouraged by the assurance given in the other place that mining would not proceed until after Mr Justice Fox had completed his investigations. [More…]

• -The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development will recall saying yesterday that continuing financial assistance for growth centres was now under review despite the Government’s assurance during the election campaign that, if elected, it would continue commitments entered into by the Whitlam Government. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood), who is also a member of this chamber, is not uttering one word of opposition to the Minister in another place who is selling the minerals of this country wholesale in the nearest auction room and wrecking the environment in the process. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development seen reports that the Australian Government is proposing to sell the Glebe Estate, the purchase of which was supported by all parties in the Senate in 1974. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development will recall telling the Senate during the adjournment debate of 24 February that an amount of $258,000 remained unexpended out of the total amount provided in the Whitlam Government’s Budget for Australian sport and that the present Government had decided that $208,000 of this amount would not now be available, but that the remaining $50,000 was available to ensure that coaching commitments would be met if difficulties arose. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Is it not surprising that the Environment Protection Authority of Victoria, which some years ago was charged with the function of preventing marine pollution, did not make this discovery? [More…]

• Does the Minister share the view that the Environment Protection Authority of Victoria is not performing its function adequately? [More…]

• In view of the fact that Mordialloc Creek flows into Port Phillip Bay which is, of course, connected with Bass Strait and in view of the High Court decision in the Seas and Submerged Lands Act case, I ask the Minister whether in his capacity as Federal Minister for Environment he would be prepared to assist the Hamer Government to deal with the problem of pollution in Mordialloc Creek? [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister for Environment. [More…]

• You may be interested to know that the Association has recently written to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Minister for Capital Territory and the four A.C.T. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development seen reports that Australia proposes to order the United States guided missile system which has the capacity to launch missiles with nuclear warheads? [More…]

• The Borrie report stated that a new flow of 100 000 migrants probably would be manageable in terms of both environment and resources. [More…]

• Secondly, will the 1 7.5 million constitute the ideal population base for Australia in terms of resource utilisation, exploitation and the environment. [More…]

• It will involve consideration of immigration, decentralisation and environmental policies. [More…]

• The second consideration involves a discussion of the ideal population figure for Australiaideal both in relation to resource utilisation and economic growth and in terms of the environment. [More…]

• It only goes as far as suggesting that the figure of 17.5m should pose no problem as to economic capacity or environmental deterioration. [More…]

• I saw in today’s newspapers a report that the Minister for Environment in Victoria said that he will look into the matter, having had it put in front of his nose. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I ask my question of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, in his capacity as Minister representing the Attorney-General. [More…]

• It is, if properly used, the instrument or the environment in which a statutory body being not the master but the servant of the people of Australia discharges its duty with fairness, objectivity and a sense of comprehensiveness of programs. [More…]

• -I draw the attention of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development to the remarks of Mr Justice Fox when he adjourned the Ranger uranium impact inquiry. [More…]

• I have advised the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood), who in this place represents the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street), of” the situation and I have sent a copy of this letter to him. [More…]

• help yourself in the white man’s environment and beat him at his own game’ - [More…]

• There is the type which says ‘be proud of your race, you are as good as the next person, get out and help yourself in the white man ‘s environment and beat him at his own game’. [More…]

• We on this side of the Senate are under the impression that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) represents the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations in the Senate. [More…]

• That whereas the natural environment of Fraser Island is so outstanding that it should be identified as part of the World Natural Heritage, and whereas the Island should be conserved for the enjoyment of this and future generations. [More…]

• that the Australian Government uses its constitutional authority to assist the Queensland Government and any other properly constituted body to develop and conserve the recreational, educational and scientific potentials of the natural environment of Fraser Island for the long term benefit of the people of Australia. [More…]

• I direct my question to Senator Greenwood in his capacity as Minister for Environment. [More…]

• In 1972 the United Nations called a conference on the human environment. [More…]

• They said that the rich nations got rich by polluting their environments and that the conference was a plot to prevent the poor from trying to get rich by stopping them polluting their environments. [More…]

• At this environmental conference apartheid was brought in. [More…]

• That conference declared as its first principle that man had the fundamental right to freedom, to equality and to adequate conditions of life in an environment of quality, permitting a life of dignity and well being with a solemn responsibility to protect and improve the environment for present and future generations. [More…]

• The resulting Report showed that Albury-Wodonga can be developed as planned without the development having a degrading effect upon the riverine environment. [More…]

• Further studies are examining the impact of development to meet a basic principle of the development of AlburyWodonga: that the riverine environment should not be downgraded by the development. [More…]

• Did the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, indicate at the dinner of the Urban Development Institute that the Australian Government would withdraw from the growth centre program which had the support of both Houses of the Parliament and ail Parties over the last 3 years? [More…]

• 4 standing in the name of Senator Mulvihill and relating to the reference of a matter to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment formal or not formal? [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment the following matter- The impact on the Australian environment of the current wood-chip industry program. [More…]

• In 1972 the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was called in Stockholm. [More…]

• They said that the rich had got rich by polluting their environment and that those countries were trying to stop the poorer nations from getting rich by polluting their environments. [More…]

• The conference declared as its first principle that man had the fundamental right to freedom, equality and adequate conditions of life in an environment of quality, permitting a life of dignity and wellbeing with a solemn responsibility to protect and improve the environment for present and future generations. [More…]

• Up until this point nobody thought that by providing the sheer physical environment, a place where women could meet, talk and discuss their problems, we might be going a long way towards curing some of those very real, very nasty and very modern complaints that do so much to tear the fabric of our modern society apart. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community [More…]

• I preface my question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development with the comment that a number of Australian sporting bodies have approached me to express their concern at the manner in which the Government has reduced assistance to their organisations and as a consequence are particularly worried about the financial situation confronting the Australian Olympic contingent. [More…]

• Which government introduced the area improvement program which was designed to improve the urban environment in what were in many cases badly planned housing commission estates built in the 1950s and 1960s? [More…]

• I hope that the present Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development will struggle to maintain the land commissions. [More…]

• I want to quote one paragraph in particular of the second reading speech made in the other place by the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr MacKellar) on 18 March. [More…]

• That was the only question the honourable senator asked in the Committee stage and I never heard a reply given to it by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) when he replied. [More…]

• I am most grateful to Senator Cavanagh for answering some of the distortions raised by Senator Rae and added to by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood). [More…]

• Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) could get together and determine what their policy will be on the use, for instance, of places such as migrant hostels which are still standing and which are still operating in most States. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• That whereas the natural environment of Fraser Island is so outstanding that it should be identified as part of the World Natural Heritage, and whereas the Island should be conserved for the enjoyment of this and future generations, [More…]

• That the Australian Government uses its constitutional authority to assist the Queensland Government and any other properly constituted body to develop and conserve the recreational, educational and scientific potentials of the natural environment of Fraser Island for the long term benefit of the people of Australia. [More…]

• There is a growing interest and concern in all sections of Australian society for the conservation of the environment, natural and man-made. [More…]

• My question, which I direct to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, follows on the question that I asked him yesterday, ls it a fact that some $90m in Federal funds have already been committed to the Albury-Wodonga growth centre? [More…]

• With the age of the computer, the technicalities of local government and the problems of town planning and the environment, there is need for new expertise and skill. [More…]

• We run the risk of training students in what are essentially courses designed for an Australian environment and of sending them back to their own countries- a different environment with very particular problems- without necessarily having given them the means to meet those problems. [More…]

• He has taken heed of that and has been very restrained and very courteous since he has been the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, concerns the provision of Federal funds to the States for swimming pools in certain areas. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, is prompted by his reply to my question of last week in which he claimed that Queensland conservation policy on kangaroo harvesting was meeting the same standards as the policies in New South Wales and South Australia. [More…]

• 1 ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: Is it true that the Government has deferred the final approvals for expenditure in this year’s area improvement program? [More…]

• -Did the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development earlier last month visit the Glebe lands housing estate in Sydney? [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• -Is it a fact that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has approved the redundancy of positions of some 70 employees in his Department into which has been incorporated the former Department of Tourism and Recreation? [More…]

• He will appreciate that my Department is a new department consisting of the former Department of Environment, the former Department of Urban and Regional Development and part of the former departments of Housing and Construction and Tourism and Recreation. [More…]

• By virtue of their environment, they have to be basically slow moving. [More…]

• Where weapons are manufactured in Australia, safety and functioning tests are carried out to a routine schedule which is developed by the Army Quality Assurance Service taking into consideration the similar schedules developed in the country of origin and the peculiar requirements of the Australian Defence environment. [More…]

• That we do so with the addendum that the management of the forest and industry connected with the logging take all care possible with the environment that surrounds Eden, in order to support the principles of conservation and planned management of native forests. [More…]

• Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment [More…]

• That there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment for report from time to time the following matter: [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Surely we ought to make an adjustment to the limitations of our environment. [More…]

• and (3) The responsibility for the administration and programming of funds within the National Sewerage Program rests with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• There is a growing interest and concern in all sections of Australian society for the conservation of the environment, natural and man-made. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware that poisonous European newts have been sold in Adelaide? [More…]

• Has the Minister noted that Professor Williams, of the Zoology Department of the University of Adelaide has warned that newts found in slow moving streams and ditches could have an adverse effect on the environment? [More…]

• What action has been taken to locate people who have purchased these creatures in order to see that the newts are recovered and eradicated and do not become a threat to the South Australian environment? [More…]

• That there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment for report from time to time - [More…]

• This deals with some of the statements made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) in his summing up of the second reading debate. [More…]

• The relevance of European education to Aboriginals who wish to live in the culturally satisfying environment of their own traditional country is questioned by some tribal elders. [More…]

• 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 in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs: What provision is made to see that adequate film supplies are available for exhibition in cinemas throughout Australia? [More…]

• The home savings grant scheme which my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has introduced will do much to restore the proper balance in Australia so that those young people particularly who seek to own their own home will have a proper opportunity to get one. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development seen a publication headed ‘To all members of the Australian Parliament’ and signed ‘concerned residents of Lawley House’ which was circulated to members and senators recently and which expressed concern at the proposal to increase the tariff at Lawley House and the alleged refusal over past weeks to admit new residents? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Can the Minister advise the Senate of the effects, if any, of last week’s detonation on Australia’s environment which have already been detected or which are expected to occur? [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• There a growing interest and concern in all sections of Australian society for the conservation of the environment, natural and man-made. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who has been rusticating during most of question time. [More…]

• Mindful of the decision of the 4th International Parliamentary Conference on the Environment urging all nations to examine immediately all programs that could over stretch the ozone layer of the atmosphere, and the United Nations document that confirms the possibility of this cancer hazard, I now ask the Minister: What is he doing to curb the monumental folly of his colleague, the Minister for Transport, in inflicting the Concorde aircraft on the skies of the Southern Hemisphere? [More…]

• Consideration is currently being given to what role the de- partment should undertake in relation to any proposed legis- l ation for the protection of the marine environment. [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…]

• There is a growing interest and concern in all sections of Australian society for the conservation of the environment, natural and man-made. [More…]

• That whereas the natural environment of Fraser Island is so outstanding that it should be identified as part of the World Natural Heritage, and whereas the Island should be conserved for the enjoyment of this and future generations, [More…]

• that the Australian Government uses its constitutional authority to assist the Queensland Government and any other properly constituted body to develop and conserve the recreational, educational and scientific potentials of the natural environment of Fraser Island for the long term benefit of the people of Australia. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development seen a statement which appeared in the Adelaide Sunday Mail of 24 April and which was attributed to the Deputy Premier of South Australia, Mr Corcoran? [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Will the Minister agree that such a proposal, along with the proposal by the Ports Authority of New South Wales to construct a coal loader and container port in Botany Bay, will have a deleterious and injurious effect on the environment in the area, particularly on the environment and community development of the people living in the municipalities of Hurstville, Kogarah and Rockdale? [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development inform the Parliament whether the Government can guarantee continued financial assistance to Aboriginal housing societies throughout Australia? [More…]

• Even people like Senator Jessop, who will be chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment, have been converted by me. [More…]

• This will mean that council rates will have to increase rapidly merely to keep pace with the demands of citizens for a better environment and better services. [More…]

• The opportunities for establishing new decentralised economic ventures in a better working environment will be lost. [More…]

• There is a growing interest and concern in all sections of Australian society for the conservation of the environment, natural and man-made. [More…]

• There is a growing interest and concern in all sections of Australian society for the conservation of the environment, natural and man-made. [More…]

• What is more, my intentions were misrepresented on one of those occasions by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) in the previous debate. [More…]

• There is a growing interest and concern in all sections of Australian Society for the conservation of the environment, natural and man-made. [More…]

• -I direct a twofold question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• In the first instance, can the Minister assure the Senate that no further export permits for woodchips will be granted until the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, under the chairmanship of his colleague, Senator Jessop, has examined all aspects of this industry, mindful of the fact that it did commence such an operation during the life of the previous Parliament. [More…]

• Against that background, there has been a reference to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• There is a growing interest and concern in all sections of Australian society for the conservation of the environment, natural and man made. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• In relation to the second aspect, I have had some discussions with the Minister for Conservation and the Environment in Western Australia, Mr Jones. [More…]

• -I ask a question of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development which in some respects is related to the question just asked. [More…]

• My question is also directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Would I be in order if I asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development whether there is provision in Commonwealth law for freedom of movement for guide dogs in Australia? [More…]

• In their own environment they do not speak their own language but speak a kind of lingo that is spoken quite frequently amongst their own people. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and is supplementary to the question I asked him yesterday about the area improvement program grant to the Baulkam Hills Shire Council. [More…]

• I desire to ask a question of the Minister for Environment- and all the other aspects that he represents. [More…]

• Will the Minister ensure that in examining this matter, careful consideration is given to the possible impact on the environment of Mount Taylor and that before any action is taken to construct the tower, a detailed environmental impact study is prepared? [More…]

• Telecom Australia is preparing a final environmental impact statement. [More…]

• When it is received it will go to my colleague, Senator Greenwood, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development who then, as I understand it, will have 3 options open to him. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and refers to the capital assistance for leisure programs involving South Australian recreational projects, in particular at Adelaide, Kadina, Port Augusta, Marion, Gepps Cross and Bowden. [More…]

• There is a growing interest and concern in all sections of Australian society for the conservation of the environment, natural and man-made. [More…]

• There is a growing interest and concern in all sections of Australian society for the conservation of the environment, natural and man-made. [More…]

• I understand that the population projections in the National Population Inquiry Report are being used as a basis for policy formulation in a wide range of fields, including education, community development, aboriginal affairs, housing, social security and the environment as well as immigration. [More…]

• Details of the scheme have been recently announced by the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Using the basic course and following discussion with management of a particular industry, the course can be modified and adapted to take into account safety factors, specialised vocabulary, and factory rules and regulations applicable to the work environment of the particular industry. [More…]

• There is a growing interest and concern in all sections of Australian society for the conservation of the environment, natural and man-made. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned members of Diamond Creek and District Environment Action Group, c/o 33 Deering Street, Diamond Creek 3089 Victoria, respectfully showeth that [More…]

• There is a growing interest and concern in all sections of Australian society for the conservation of the environment, natural and man-made. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, relates to the United Nations habitat conference to be held in Vancouver later this year. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware of the woodchip industry controversy in Cairns a few weeks ago? [More…]

• Should the woodchip industry attempt to establish a pulp industry in these areas, what environmental safeguards will this Government demand to ensure the protection of the environment? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• -It is true that Senator Greenwood was conscious of the need to study the aspects of supersonic flight, specifically related to the Concorde aircraft, with a view to preserving the environment. [More…]

• Certainly I give an unqualified assurance that this Government will take into account environmental impacts before any decision on the Concorde is made. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry and could well also involve the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and for the information of honourable senators, I present the annual report of the former Department of Environment for the period July 1974 to June 1975. [More…]

• Again, on behalf of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and for the information of the honourable senators, pursuant to section 8 of the Urban and Regional Development (Financial Assistance) Act 1974-75,I present an agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the State of Western Australia in relation to the provision of financial assistance for urban and regional development, 1 975-76. [More…]

• Mr President, I seek leave to move a motion in respect to the presentation of the annual report of the Department of Environment. [More…]

• Local government was formulated in this country in the last century in an entirely different environment from that in which it operates today. [More…]

• There is a growing interest and concern in all sections of Australian society for the conservation of the environment, natural and man-made. [More…]

• There is a growing interest and concern in all sections of Australian society for the conservation of the environment, natural and man-made. [More…]

• I gave the general assurance that, overall, the Government has a keen interest in all the environmental impacts on the question of uranium but that we would wait for the Ranger report as the Australian Council of Trade Unions will do in this regard. [More…]

• Where there is a new proposal or a new development, obviously an environmental impact study is desirable. [More…]

• I shall certainly ensure that the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development looks at this matter and I shall invite Mr Street to study the other part of the honourable senator’s question. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Department of the Treasury has refused a submission from the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development for a substantial redirection of housing funds to New South Wales? [More…]

• The concept of the Olivero system of intersection treatment was referred to in a document intitled Roads and their Environment’ which was the second report of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Road Safety. [More…]

• I think the reasons for its introduction are clearly and adequately set out in the second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood). [More…]

• The Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• The Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• The acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The report, together with the representations and the Acting Director’s comments on the representations, were submitted to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development for consideration by the Executive Council as per sub-section 7 ( 1 1 ) of the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975. [More…]

• The Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• In the past two years a joint working party under the Australian Environment Council has developed a co-ordinated program to update air monitoring facilities throughout Australia. [More…]

• The States and Territories through the Australian Environment Council agreed in April 1975 on the measures needed Ibr co-ordination and standardisation of methods of measurement, types of pollutants to be measured and formats for recording data. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing 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…]

• He listened to my advocacy of environment protection procedures and then pointed out that his council would be up for a six figure expenditure in regard to future tipping. [More…]

• We reached agreement in relation to environmental and conservation problems. [More…]

• Mr Crabtree is the Environment Minister in the New South Wales Government. [More…]

• The annual report of the Department of Environment was tabled last week in the Parliament. [More…]

• I seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard the article out of Aeroplane Press which outlines the actual area that is involved and also pages 1 1 and 12 of the annual report of the Department of the Environment for 1974-75. [More…]

• The Department is co-ordinating the Ecological Survey of Australia which seeks to assemble data on the nature and distribution of ecosystems of the Australian environment. [More…]

• Agreement between the Government of Japan and the Government of Australia for the Protection of Migratory Birds, Birds in Danger of Extinction and their Environment [More…]

• The Australian Government’s statement on national water policy is intended to guide the future management of Australia’s- rivers, streams, lakes and aquifers- and the ecosystems associated with them, so as to enhance and protect, as far as possible, the total environment. [More…]

• The Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: ( 1 ), ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) Attached is a table presented at the South Pacific Conference on National Parks and Reserves in Wellington, New Zealand in February 1975. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• The Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senators question: [More…]

• There were cuts in expenditure on construction, the environment, housing, education and many other areas about which we all know. [More…]

• We find that almost all government interest in the environment is gone. [More…]

• I believe that the care of children; transport needs, perhaps above all needs in the country; the development of reasonable urban facilities and the preservation of the environment are appropriate matters for discussion, decision and initiative by the national Parliament. [More…]

• The areas in which these cuts of $ 1,300m will fallwhatever else there is to come- were outlined by Mr Lynch and include environment, housing, community development, transport, construction, etc. [More…]

• It is to be reined in on the environment and on regional development, on those things which the Labor Government tried to do to ensure that no longer would there be vast agglomerations of people in this huge continent living in a few square miles, with all of the problems that come from a large urban area. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I refer to the specific assurance given by both Senator Carrick and the Minister he represents that there would be a very close examination of all environmental hazards associated with the impact of the Concorde aircraft on Australian skies before a decision was made. [More…]

• It is fair to say that no greater environmental impact study could have been made than that which was carried out in the United States where in recent years an immense study has been done into the whole technical and technological factors involved. [More…]

• It is significant to note that as a result of that study no environmental factors of any imperative nature had been raised in America. [More…]

• I am unaware of any adverse environment factors at all arising out of that. [More…]

• On behalf of the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and for the information of honourable senators, I present an urban paper entitled A Report on the Information and Library Needs of the Citizens of the Western Region of Melbourne. [More…]

• The water functions of the former Departments of Environment and the Northern Territory were transferred to the Department of National Resources. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) explained in his second reading speech that the Bill replaced the existing provisions with a new system of valuation based on the internationally recognised Brussels definition of value. [More…]

• I also inform the Senate that the Minister for Repatriation, Mr Newman, is acting as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Mindful of the unfortunate illness of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, I ask: Did either Mr MacKellar or Mr Newman jointly evaluate those reports with Mr Nixon or was it entirely, as I suspect, Mr Nixon’s show? [More…]

• I rise to respond, wearing 2 representative cloaks- transport and environment. [More…]

• My understanding is that the environmental impact statement was made by the British Government itself, that in its preparation and in the whole of its journey up to the drafting stage, which we understand is its final stage, there was continuous association between this Government and the British Government, and that that knowledge was available to both departments. [More…]

• I think that the impact study itself can be taken as having been done on the broad lines that are now accepted internationally- thank goodness- as standard by governments in preparing these kinds of statements; and that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development can be taken to have been associated with that investigation. [More…]

• I understand that both departments received submissions from the public and from environmentalists, and evaluated them. [More…]

• Essentially the report rests on the British environmental impact statement, together with the 2 streams of testing that have been done in Australia. [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 cooperation with the medical profession. [More…]

• The provisions will assist in creating an environment in which health maintenance organisations might successfully operate. [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 reduce 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…]

• New possibilities for positive U.S.-Soviet co-operation have emerged on issues in which the globe is interdependentscience and technology, environment, energy. [More…]

• The Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• The Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• The Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• The Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• The Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• There is a growing interest and concern in all sections of Australian society for the conservation of the environment, natural and man-made. [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…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether an environmental impact study was carried out by those concerned and, if so, whether the results were made available to the public? [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• -I present the report from the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment on its review of the report of the Select Committee on Air Pollution. [More…]

• The report also makes mention of a recently recognised threat to our environment, the possible weakening of the earth’s ozone layer by chemical reaction with fluorocarbon propellant from the common aerosol can and the exhausts of high flying aircraft. [More…]

• I turn to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development where there is a big reduction from the figure of $ 1 14m in the Appropriation Bill last year to $54m this year. [More…]

• I am trying to emphasise that, no matter what sort of ballot system is used in union elections, unions get officials who are the product of their environment. [More…]

• 1 ) Are officers from the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, and the Department of Transport, to visit Alice Springs on 29 May 1976 to investigate the possible resiting of the rail head in conjunction with the new standard gauge link from Port Augusta to Alice Springs; if so, will the Minister ensure that the people of Alice Springs are kept well informed as to the present position of the inquiry and also ensure that reasonable notice be given by any person inquiring into the matter. [More…]

• 1 ) Officers of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Department of Northern Territory and the Australian National Railways met in Alice Springs on 3 1 May to discuss the draft environmental impact study relating to the future location of the Alice Springs Railway Terminal. [More…]

• Environment, Housing and Community Development in relation to the future location of the Alice Springs Railway Terminal. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Transport, concerns widespread publicity given today to a report from the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment concerning the effects of supersonic aircraft on the ozone layer. [More…]

• Does the Minister agree with the main thrust of the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment tabled yesterday that the Australian Government should maintain a continuing attack on air pollution in Australia and that it should co-operate with other countries in order to keep a close watch on upper atmosphere pollution on a global basis? [More…]

• I noted with interest the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• On behalf of the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, and for the information of honourable senators I present pursuant to section 6 of the Commonwealth National Fitness Act 1941 a report on the activities carried out under that Act for the year 1974-75. [More…]

• The unique nature of the Territory’s physical environment has bred in, or attracted to it, a special kind of people. [More…]

• Coincidental with those 2 matters is a tendency to move dairying from those areas where the physical environment is unfavourable. [More…]

• It seems quite prophetic that the Senate should be discussing this Bill today when yesterday the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment presented its report on air pollution in this chamber and also, as I understand, tomorrow is environment day- or e-Day- in the United States of America. [More…]

• As honourable senators know, I received reports from the United Nations in Jamaica 2 months ago but there was no feedback to the States or to the Commonwealth Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• What was the expenditure by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development for the financial years 1973-74, 1974-75 and what is the anticipated expenditure for 1 975-76 in each of the States and Territories. [More…]

• The Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• As the honourable senator will be aware, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development was brought into being in December 1 975. [More…]

• This was done by combining together and rationalising elements of the former Departments of Environment, Tourism and Recreation. [More…]

• As the Prime Minister has made perfectly clear, the package which was recently brought down by the Minister for Environment. [More…]

• by leave- Mr President, I inform the Senate that on 8 July His Excellency the Governor-General determined the appointment of Senator Ivor Greenwood, Q.C., as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and accepted the resignation of Mr Kevin Newman as Minister for Repatriation. [More…]

• On the same day His Excellency directed and appointed Mr Kevin Newman and Senator Peter Durack to hold the offices of Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and Minister for Repatriation respectively. [More…]

• As a result of these changes, the following representational arrangements will operate in the Senate: Senator Carrick will represent the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and Senator Durack will represent the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, the Attorney-General and the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs. [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 senator’s question: [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 senator’s question: (1)I understand that the New South Wales Government approved a limited number of school buildings to be started in 1975-76 on the basis of no payment for work until July 1976. [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 senator’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…]

• What financial assistance is the Australian Government providing to functions and activities organised as part of World Environment Day held on 5 June 1 976. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Financial assistance for the promotion of World Environment Day in Australia was provided from a fund administered by the Australian Environment Council which comprises State and Commonwealth Ministers responsible for environmental matters. [More…]

• An allocation of $60,000 for World Environment Day was provided by the Australian Environment Council from its fund of which $30,000 might be considered as the Commonwealth Government contribution. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• Has the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development received reports of pollution in any Australian rivers caused by polychlorinated biphenyls; if so, (a) which rivers are involved; (b) what action is being taken to ascertain the exact level and causes of the pollution of the rivers concerned; and (c) what action is being taken to reduce the level of pollution in these rivers. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the former Department of Environment have taken an active role in the control of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). [More…]

• The Australian Environment Council has also taken an active interest in PCBs and commissioned a study to investigate present patterns of use of PCBs, their disposal and their presence in the environment. [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 senator’s question: (1), (2) and (3). [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 senator’s question: [More…]

• No approval from the Commonwealth Government has been called for and therefore the provisions of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974-73 do not apply. [More…]

• Accordingly, no environmental impact statement under that Act has been prepared. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) How much has the Commonwealth Government spent on conservation and the environment for the 10 years to 3 1 December 1975. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The amounts that the Commonwealth Government has spent on conservation and the environment from 1966-67 to 3 1 December 1975 are shown in the accompanying Table 1. [More…]

• These issues should concern a number of Government Ministers, including those holding the portfolios of National Resources; Environment, Housing and Community Development; and Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) has completely disregarded assurances that were given to the electors in that area in NovemberDecember 1975 by the Liberal Party on the future of that area. [More…]

• Senator Greenwood, the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development was honest enough to say in the Senate that he acknowledged the fact that the Fraser Government had no real policy on urban and regional development. [More…]

• There is a growing interest and concern in all sections of Australian society for the conservation of the environment, natural and man-made. [More…]

• On behalf of the people of Sydney and all the sporting writers who have plugged this theme, I hope we will get some tangible evidence that the Minister for Administrative Services has got in touch with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and said: ‘Eastern Command has to find another area for the Engineers depot at Moore Park’. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister , for Environment, Housing and Community Development: What has been the effect on land prices of the provision of Commonwealth funds to the South Australian Land Commission? [More…]

• Did the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development see a report in The Australian on Wednesday, 21 July 1976, headed Boycott Team has Eyes on Brisbane Games, in which Mr Ram Samy VicePresident of the South African Non-racial Olympic Committee, stated that a group of Londoners, most of them exiles from South Africa, organised the Montreal Olympic Games walkout by representatives of some African countries? [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development concerning the regulation of the sport of boxing. [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…]

• That can be seen from the explanatory memorandum that was distributed by the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Senator [More…]

• Another problem that I believe the Commission had is that the welfare field in general and the social security field in general does not only involve the Department of Social Security but also involves departments dealing with education, housing, the environment, urban and regional development and in particular the Attorney-General’s Department in respect of legal aid. [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister for Education in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• -My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• That is the only plan that will work in the shipbuilding environment in Australia. [More…]

• In very simple language I raised with the then Australian Government Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Prime Minister and the appropriate State Ministers what this migratory bird treaty meant. [More…]

• I also ascertained from other circles that before he left Australia he asked the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development what he could say to the Japanese since Japan and Australia were co-signatories to the migratory bird treaty. [More…]

• It is of no little significance, I believe, that this examination was undertaken by one of the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committees of the Senate, namely, the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• I suppose, too, that one of the harmonious ways I can recall in which the Committee worked was when the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment ceased to exist and reappeared in the form of a new committee. [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development give assurances that the fear of subsidy strangulation that is held by major conservation groups is unfounded and that such groups who operate as environmental vigilantes will not have their operations curbed in the face of mounting mining industry pressures? [More…]

• I was never of the opinion that we should seek the worst environment in which to put Aborigines. [More…]

• The Australian universities are moving from an environment of steady growth in student numbers to one in which there will be no growth. [More…]

• I think the fact that Senator Carrick represents the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Eric Robinson) and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) in this chamber makes him singularly fit to listen to my representations. [More…]

• Senator Carrick will appreciate that the dividing lines of power between Mr Eric Robinson, the Minister for Post and Telecommunications and Mr Kevin Newman, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, have never been rigidly defined. [More…]

• Radio station 2KA which is a component of the Federation of Commercial Broadcasters- I think the station is called ‘The Voice of the Mountains’could look a little beyond the blinkers which seem to encompass it and say: ‘We recognise that there is a case for protecting the environment and we will find other land’. [More…]

• If radio station 2KA wants to be in the big league as a radio station, it should not be at the expense of the environment. [More…]

• When, once again, on October 21, 1975, the League Executive met federal members and the Minister for Environment, Mr Berinson, and the Secretary, Dr McMichael, in Canberra and informed them of the Swan Hill meeting’s resolution- [More…]

• Conservation of the Great Barrier Reef and the application of control measures to the crown of thorns starfish which might be warranted falls within the responsibilities of my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Finally, strict social control over the environment, to enable us to cope with the exploding problems of urban life and to plan for the responsible use of our natural resources. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• -My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• CSIRO is not aware of any reported effects within the ocean environment of nutrients such as phosphatic and nitrogenous fertilisers carried to the sea from farming areas. [More…]

• This tendency may spring out of a social insecurity felt in a foreign environment, compounded by a willingness to please. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Will the Government agree to conduct an urgent study into the extent of the disease and its long-term effects on the industries mentioned and on the environment? [More…]

• Softwood forests are much more prone to these problems of devastation than are eucalypt forests which have learnt to survive through the normal activities of Australian man against his environment. [More…]

• At the same time the Commonwealth Government expressed its concern to promote its policies in an environment where it wants Commonwealth involvement in the supervision of the expenditure of money by the States kept to a minimum. [More…]

• In hospitals experiencing staffing problems, every effort is being made to ensure rosters allow staff the maximum breaks possible from the theatre environment. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia and users of the New South Wales Environment Centre, an open, community resource and information facility established with funds provided by the federal government, respectfully showeth that: [More…]

• There is a growing interest and concern in all sections of Australian society for the conservation of the environment, natural and man-made. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development whether it is a fact that his colleagues the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Primary Industry have made recommendations to the Government for either the repeal or the major modification of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act because they are under pressure from the mining and woodchip industries. [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 senator’s question: [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development whether he is aware of the following statement made in the other place regarding the Albury-Wodonga growth centre and I quote: [More…]

• I will direct the attention of my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in another place, to the question asked by the honourable senator and, specifically, to the final part of his question. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, follows an earlier question. [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development noted recent reports that air pollution levels in Sydney and Adelaide have exceeded safety levels recommended by the World Health Organisation? [More…]

• Will the Minister ask his colleague in the other place to list this subject on the agenda for discussion with State environment Ministers at the next meeting of the Australian Environmental Council, if that is the appropriate forum, with the object of introducing appropriate legislation in the States and the Commonwealth to deal with this important matter? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [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…]

• Under the Labor Government’s administration the IAC was obliged to have regard to the desire of the Government- a Labor Government was in power when this legislation was pursued in Parliament in 1973- 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 living standards. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• How many journalists were employed in the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, and in commissions and statutory bodies under the Minister’s control, at 1 September 1976. [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 senator’s question: [More…]

• I direct a question in relation to Fraser Island to either the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development or the Minister responsible for export licences. [More…]

• In view of those comments, 1 ask the Minister to refer the matter to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development or to the Minister for Primary Industry for examination. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• -The implementation of legislation relating to the environment is not one for my Department. [More…]

• It would be a matter for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, which is under the supervision of another Minister. [More…]

• However, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is quite a part of the research into environmental matters and indeed it is part of the world investigation into this problem of air pollution and pollution of the environment generally. [More…]

• But I think that a question relating to the implementation of legislation concerning the environment should be addressed to another Minister. [More…]

• Essentially these controls ensure that before release in Australia, any dog or cat which has originated in a rabies infected country has been in a rabies free environment for a period exceeding the possible incubation period. [More…]

• These controls ensure that before release in Australia, any dog or cat which has originated in a rabies infected country has been in a rabies free environment for a period exceeding the possible incubation period. ‘ [More…]

• After the Liberal Party returned to government he became Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• His mastery of detail and his allround competence were clearly displayed in the important and onerous portfolios that he administered- Health, Attorney-General and, in the brief period before his illness, Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• It was followed by his assumption of the most difficult portfolio of Environment, Housing and Community Development, to which he was completely unaccustomed. [More…]

• I direct a question to Senator Carrick as Minister representing the Minister for Environment and refer to the action I took last Thursday in furnishing him with a telegram from the Fraser Island Defence Organisation which implied that the existing mining agreement was being breached and which the Minister undertook to check with both the Minister for National Resources and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The matter is being examined by the Department of National Resources in consultation with the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The Government will be concerned, pending its consideration of the final report of the Fraser Island environmental inquiry, to ensure the maintenance of the environmental safeguards previously adopted in relation to exports of D.M. [More…]

• Also it would not wish to pre-empt the final report of the environmental inquiry. [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development indicate whether any, and if so what, inquiry or investigation into the Australian Government’s role in and support for sport is proceeding? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Has a proper environment impact inquiry been held into the major woodchip industry at Coffs Harbour? [More…]

• Has the Federal Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development been involved in any environmental impact assessment of this proposal to date? [More…]

• Further, has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a report on page 3 of today’s Sydney Morning Herald in an article entitled Woodchips Showdown Today’ that the Federal Government is withdrawing from the field of environmental impact inquiries? [More…]

• The desire to come to Australia is based on economic return rather than a desire to transfer themselves from the Christmas Island environment to the environment in Australia. [More…]

• In this sort of situation, when the economic difference is so great, these people would prefer to come to Australia rather than to return to their own community environment. [More…]

• They are generally happier there and would prefer that situation to a situation of considerable difficulty in an Australian environment. [More…]

• If Australia accepted this territory, or bought this territory in order to exploit it, perhaps we might think of the booby birds alone and the environment of the island alone and accept our responsibility to that part of the world. [More…]

• I refer to health, education, welfare, the environment, urban improvement and transport. [More…]

• As Mr Justice Else Mitchell has suggested, local government, because of its very nature and character, is the only arm of goverment that is able to improve the local environment. [More…]

• Whatever we may do in Canberra- irrespective of which government is in power either in Canberra or in the States- when it finally comes down to the local environment, it is the local council that makes or breaks the area which it represents. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• Live in a congenial environment. [More…]

• The Academy has two basic objectives; to provide a sound education as a foundation for further professional development and to provide that education in a military environment appropriate to the 3 Services. [More…]

• Following this the Minister 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…]

• Then as a fourth interest we have the representatives of the community who are basically the recipients or the clients and who themselves have a vested interest in creating a society or an environment in which to live. [More…]

• On 2 1 September in answer to Senator Walters I stated that the Government had given block grants to the States, announcing that it placed emphasis on the development of community based health services and, at the same time, the Commonwealth Government expressed its concern to promote its policies in an environment where it wants Commonwealth involvement in the supervision of the expenditure of money by the States kept to a minimum. [More…]

• Everybody should have the right to live in the type of environment they wish without being subjected to large scale obnoxious industries forced upon them and financially reducing them to a situation where they cannot escape. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• In the first report made public by the Fox Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry it was indicated that, while the green light was given for the mining and milling of uranium in Australia under certain conditions, the mining of uranium in the Northern Territory could not be commenced until the second part of the report was made public. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Mindful of the caution shown by Mr Justice Fox in his interim report about any uranium extraction in the Northern Territory, will the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Minister for the Northern Territory exercise the power mentioned by Senator Carrick during Estimates Committee discussion to declare the boundaries of the Kakadu National Park before- I emphasise before’- any future uranium extraction is attempted in the Territory? [More…]

• My understanding is that the Minister for the Northern Territory and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development have agreed that Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory is of national significance and at the appropriate time should be declared under the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975. [More…]

• My understanding is that although the commissioners were not required to do so by their terms of reference they pointed out in the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry that they had been asked to suggest where the boundaries of the National Park should be, having in mind proposed and possible mining operations. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development will have regard to the suggestions of the commissioners and will have further discussions with the Minister for the Northern Territory before defining the boundaries and declaring Kakadu National Park under the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975. [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [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…]

• I wish to take this opportunity to ask the Government one or two questions concerning the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Department of Science. [More…]

• I ask both the Department of Science and the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development to say what progress has been made in this area. [More…]

• Or has that Department now passed the responsibility to the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development? [More…]

• If the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development is now responsible for this area, what funds are to be made available for the research that every investigation has suggested should be carried out? [More…]

• I would like Senator Carrick, the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, at some stage to make a statement on what is happening to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. [More…]

• It established an authority of 3 members, who were prominent in the environmental and scientific field, to supervise a consultative committee of up to 18 persons. [More…]

• Many ecologists and environmentalists from overseas have made specialised studies of the problems that face the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]

• There is no doubt that eventually, if the Department of Science gears itself correctly and the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development supports it, our experts will become the leading experts. [More…]

• Has the responsibility previously held by the Department of Science been passed to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development? [More…]

• If it has been passed to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, what has been done by the Department? [More…]

• It is also a matter for consideration by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• That whereas the natural environment of Fraser Island is so outstanding that it should be identified as part of the World Natural Heritage, and whereas the Island should be conserved for the enjoyment of this and future generations. [More…]

• that the Australian Government uses its constitutional authority to assist the Queensland Government and any other properly constituted body to develop and conserve the recreational, educational and scientific potentials of the natural environment of Fraser Island for the long term benefit of the people of Australia. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• In the middle of all this evidence, on 16 October the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, said in Launceston that there was an encouraging improvement in the construction industry and there were signs of further gains. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I refer to the results of the Hookey-Hicks environmental inquiry into sand mining on Fraser Island which stated that the only area where sand mining should be allowed is a small area below the mean high water mark on the eastern beach. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of recent criticisms by environmental groups that the National Parks and Wildlife Service has been stripped of most of its staff and ‘restricted to being purely an advisory body to State authorities’? [More…]

• -I can say emphatically that the Commonwealth Government’s policy with regard to the environment, with regard to the ecology and specifically with regard to the National Parks and Wildlife Service is that we should maintain an effective system. [More…]

• Knowing the workload of the Committee of which I have the honour of being Chairmanthe Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment- I feel that those Committees would not have any time in which to deal with these important matters. [More…]

• I direct my remarks to the United Nations Environment Fund under division 305. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]

• I wish to refer to an item concerning the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development which relates to Commonwealth Hostels Ltd. [More…]

• In view of the Minister’s earlier answer today to Senator Missen on the Commonwealth’s responsibilities in respect of the environment and conservation, is the Commonwealth going to look after this island? [More…]

• I address myself, under the estimates for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, to division 297, item 01, Contribution to operational expenses- Hotel Kurrajong, Brassey House and Ainslie Guest House. [More…]

• I also was worried when I read that the South Australian Minister for the Environment, Mr Simmons, had requested that a further environmental study be made before work proceeded. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• An environmental impact statement covering the preferred scheme will be prepared at the appropriate time and published in accordance with the requirements of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974. [More…]

• 1168) Senator Keeffe asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• I understand that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development is maintaining a data base on fluorocarbon production and usage in Australia. [More…]

• That the natural environment of Fraser Island is so outstanding that it should be identified as pan of the World [More…]

• That the Australian Government uses its constitutional authority to assist the Queensland Government and any other properly constituted body to develop and conserve the recreational, educational and scientific potentials of the natural environment of Fraser Island for the long term benefit of the people of Australia. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community [More…]

• I should imagine that the question concerns a number of departments, including the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• At the present time the CSIRO is concentrating its resources on the types of research which may produce benefit for domestic water heating, industrial water heating, space heating and cooling, power production and heat storage distillation, controlled environment horticulture heat storage and the production of energy from crops, forests and other organic materials, which is of particular importance in Australia at the present time. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I now put it to the Minister In the light of the report that Mr Justice Fox conferred with the Prime Minister yesterday, does he still stand by the assurance that the Minister for the Northern Territory and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, will alone define the boundaries of that park? [More…]

• 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…]

• The extent, location and design of the highway network will be such as to minimise energy consumption, provide a high level-of-service for off-peak freight and private car usage, and protect the natural and social environment. [More…]

• The provision of car parking in the main centres will be maintained at the minimum necessary to protect the environment and promote public transport usage. [More…]

• Collins Street, Melbourne, is no longer the place it used to be because decisions have been made in board rooms in New York, London, Melbourne and Sydney which have completely changed the environment of the city in which I live. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether the development of the project would justify the enormous financial and environmental costs when compared with the development of other areas in South Australia which already have sound economic bases, such as Mount Gambier, Millicent, Whyalla and Port Augusta? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and it follows the answer he has just given. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minster for Environment, Housing and Community Development, follows the questions about Monarto. [More…]

• I have lived in a trade union environment for a long time; I was a member of a trade union movement a long time ago. [More…]

• -Seeing that the matters of age, fitness, sport and things like that are in the air, I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• As these chemicals have caused human tragedies in the past as well as damage to the environment from time to time, can the Minister inform the Senate what research has been carried out into the genetic extermination or control of the blowfly? [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…]

• 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 1 974. [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 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…]

• When the Labor Government was in power Mr Broomhill, who was then Minister of Environment and Conservation in South Australia, raised the issue of a lighthouse on land which was a valuable area for a particular breed of wallabies. [More…]

• I am not trying to anticipate the Justice Fox findings, but Senator Carrick pointed out that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and the Minister for the Northern Territory (Mr Adermann) could make a decision in relation to the dimensions of this national park. [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 senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) The results of monitoring fresh fission product fallout, including iodine- 131, from the 1 974 series of French nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere over Polynesia and the results of monitoring programs to measure strontium-90 and caesium-137 in the Australian environment during 1971, 1972 and 1973 are contained in a report by the Australian Radiation Laboratory (Department of Health) in the publication ‘Fallout over Australia from Nuclear Tests’ which I tabled in the Parliament on 25 August 1 976. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing the Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The Australian universities are moving from an environment of steady growth in a student numbers to one in which there will be no growth. [More…]

• Their home environment was not inducive to their believing that they could do anything better. [More…]

• Some of themsome very few of them- succeed when taken out of that sterile or artificial, if we may describe it that way, environment and are put into the real world environment. [More…]

• I have noted that in the other place the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) regaled much on what each had done. [More…]

• Both Liberal and Labor Premiers were lined up when Mr Berinson was the Minister for the Environment but unfortunately the then New [More…]

• I refer to the journal prepared by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [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…]

• They include the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• If any commitment of the national environment which would form pan 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…]

• When Mr Hunt was Opposition spokesman on environment matters, he had this to say on the legislation of last year: [More…]

• It is in times of prosperity, full employment and social security that a population is likely to concern itself with the environment of 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…]

• Future generations may well condemn this Parliament if little of our National Estate survives and all that remains of our built environment is a few lucky relics of the ruling class of the day, that is, if in fact this Parliament fails to exercise its jurisdiction in this area. [More…]

• I am not negating the enthusiasm of any Commonwealth Minister for the Environment; I simply believe that he would be fortified when he went to his Cabinet for ratification of this if it were put in that form. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• There is a growing interest and concern in all sections of Australian society for the conservation of the environment, natural and man-made. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• What he found by looking at the reproductive organs of male grey teal in the MurrayDarling area revealed evidence of remarkable adaptation to its environment and the first understanding of the species’ eccentric life cycle. [More…]

• In the following two years he was blessed with good luck; floods in 1956 and then drought in 1957 pro.vided him with further evidence of how duck had adapted to their unpredictable environment to ensure the continuation of their species. [More…]

• Some of us, including my colleague Senator Colston, had the pleasure and honour of hearing the people in the top eschelon of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation testify before the Senate Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• Are we to accept this incredible statement by Mr Newman, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, in a newspaper which I do not think anybody in his wildest imagination would accuse of having any slight leaning to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• That is the sort of pronouncement that is coming from the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• It quotes the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, as having made certain statements. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development said today that reports in this morning’s Press had completely misconstrued a statement he made the previous day about housing. [More…]

• Mr President, yesterday in the Senate in answer to a question from Senator Mulvihill I said that I had been instructed that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development had not received a letter from Mr Justice Fox and his colleagues. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment presented a report to the Senate earlier this year in which it suggested that a lot more attention needed to be given to the effects of those pollutants on the upper atmosphere and the ozone layer. [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 senator’s question: [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 senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I direct my question 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 Government has appointed a Minister for Housing who has other responsibilities, particularly for the environment and community development, which at the moment are very onerous. [More…]

• The housing allowance voucher experiment was announced by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) soon after he’ took over the portfolio. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has talked about the housing allowance voucher scheme as being the brave new world, the great new initiative in housing. [More…]

• The allowance is described as a series of regular, periodic payments made directly to a family or eligible individual unable to afford a decent home in a suitable living environment. [More…]

• The definitions that I used before and the definitions that are used in other places involve the use of terms such as ‘decent homes’, ‘suitable environment’, ‘need’ and ‘modest neighbourhood’. [More…]

• That Bill is in the hands of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and it will be bis representative in this chamber who will be piloting that Bill through the Senate. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I am mindful that Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation forestry experts have given evidence before the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• In talking of land acquisition for this purpose it should be borne in mind that the wetlands are very important to our environment. [More…]

• The Minister would know that one of the most trusted officers of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, Dr McMichael, at various times has been under attack from misguided people even when the Government was trying to control grazing in the Mount Kosciusko State Park. [More…]

• A former Minister for Environment, Dr Moss Cass, has referred to grants. [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…]

• My colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following information that is relevant to this question and also to questions 1062 and 1063 asked by the honourable senator, answers to which I have already provided: [More…]

• The Commonwealth and the States have been concerned at possible effects of certain chemicals on the environment and, through the Australian Environment Council (AEC), joint action is being taken to develop recommendations on appropriate control measures. [More…]

• In addition the AEC has recently decided to develop recommendations on comprehensive policy measures for the assessment and control of environmentally hazardous chemicals. [More…]

• This decision is strongly supported by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development Consultations are being initiated between Commonwealth departments covering environmental, health, agricultural and other relevant interests to develop a co-ordinated input to this activity. [More…]

• In view of further claims that these dumps present a health hazard, will the Minister ask his colleague in the other place, either the Minister for Defence or the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, to make a public statement on the matter in order to dispel the concern that has been expressed? [More…]

• I do not think that he was referring to this project in particular but he made the general comment, and I think that there would be general agreement with the comment, that in the past many water conservation projects have been spawned in haste without any real investigation as to results which might flow- not just the economic results but especially the environmental ones. [More…]

• The Senate would be well aware that the creation of a fresh water inland sea such as the one on the Ord in an environment which has a 6-month dry season naturally will change the environment of the region. [More…]

• On occasions people interested in the medical side have raised questions as to how the change in the environment might affect the health of the people in the region. [More…]

• The special techniques appropriate to a tropical environment need to be used before the full benefits of that scheme will come into being. [More…]

• As I have said, these matters have destroyed the sort of consensus which was being worked for and they have destroyed it in a totally different and worse economic environment from the one which prevailed at the beginning of this year. [More…]

• Many countries have hydroelectricity, but they are fortunate countries which have the environment for it. [More…]

• Let us look around the world and see how many countries have such an environment. [More…]

• It is all very well to look at the Australian environment, but in the European environment some countries have only three or four hours of sunshine on the days when they really require energy- when it is cold, when homes need heating, when industry needs to be kept going and when more lighting is required. [More…]

• Any doubt that anybody still has about that attitude should be dispelled by the comments made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, in the third paragraph of his statement when he said: [More…]

• The fate of these, and the manner and extent to which man and other biota in the environment may be subjected to them are important matters on which some information has been sought. [More…]

• In setting effective anti-pollution safeguards not only is the environment protected but mining companies immediately know the standards which they must maintain and will know if and when they can operate so removing speculation from their activities. [More…]

• It is essential that mining companies can move in a predictable environment in which to make decisions and that governments do not leave them (up in the air) as to their rights and obligations. [More…]

• I said to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, and to the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Street: ‘Well, now, how do we know that with radon everything will be all right? ‘ [More…]

• This flies directly in the face of the major Fox recommendation and refutes the claims of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) who stated that he agreed with all the Fox recommendations. [More…]

• It seemed to us that the objectives and working of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act may not be clearly understood in some government departments. [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…]

• The Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, in the Senate yesterday retracted his original statement that no such letter had been received by Mr Newman. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [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 senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

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• Through the Australian Environment Council, the Government is examining with the States ways in which air monitoring can be fostered and harmonised. [More…]

• Debate on social problems concentrated upon the protection of the environment and the problems of population growth, unemployment, the drift to the cities and poverty. [More…]

• The foothills and the mountain together form an environment which sustains special members of Australia’s fauna, the grey kangaroo and swamp wallaby, which can be frequently observed grazing on the foothills. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Those were the remarks of the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) at the opening of the Aboriginal exhibit at ‘Environment 76’ on 8 October. [More…]

• She was found back in her natural environment, preferring to live in her whirlie or however one would describe it. [More…]

• The retention of the power by the Australian Parliament and Government was also recommended by Mr Justice Woodward and supported by the Senate Select Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• The Senate, on 28 November 1974, resolved that there be referred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment the following matter: [More…]

• The Impact on the Austraiian Environment of the current Woodchip Industry Program. [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Social Environment embarked upon an investigation of this reference during the Autumn Session of Parliament 1975. [More…]

• On 25 March 1976, in terms identical to the original resolution, the Senate resolved that the matter of the environmental impact of the woodchip industry be referred to the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment created on 2 March this year. [More…]

• The total environmental impact of woodchip operations cannot be fully assessed at this time because of the large number of inadequately researched factors to be taken into account. [More…]

• Empirical observations, coupled with experience and some research, tend to indicate that in the sort term, present operations in relatively restricted areas are acceptable provided environmental prescriptions are observed. [More…]

• The Committee accordingly considers that no new projects involving the clear felling of forests specifically for woodchips should be started until such time as the doubts concerning long term effects on the environment can be resolved. [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; competent counsel should be provided to the Torres Strait Islanders if required by the people of Torres Strait. [More…]

• It was left to another Minister, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) to move the third reading of the Bill. [More…]

• It can therefore be said that the dairy industry has been well and truly protected and has not lived in the environment of the wool and beef industries which have had to stagger from one difficult season to another. [More…]

• In summary the policy provides for cyclists and pedestrians, efficient local bus services, development of an express intertown public transport system, discouraging the use of private cars for commuting, a parking policy to reinforce these provisions, and the development of a road network which provides a good level of service for freight and off peak car usage, and protects the natural and social environment. [More…]

• I have sent this study to Mr Newman, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development for examination. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• Molonglo Parkway Proposal- A Report on the public inquiry into its environmental impact- 1973- Department of Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• The clause that we are discussing proposes to move planning from a neutral environment to a politically influenced atmosphere. [More…]

• Before examining the provisions of the Bill in detail, it would be appropriate to examine some of the quite significant structural changes which have occurred in agriculture in recent years, the factors which have produced these changes and how the rural sector has responded to changes in the economic environment. [More…]

• A feature of the rural sectors in Australia has been the speed and the magnitude of the changes in the economic environment affecting different rural industries and the capacity they have shown to adjust autonomously. [More…]

• Can the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development utilise the existing facilities of AMDEL, particularly in regard to water resources. [More…]

• The Minister Assisting the Treasurer has advised me that he has brought the views expressed at the meeting concerning the sewerage program to the notice of the Prime Minister and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Working Environment Division-Conduct research into problems of industrial safety and physical working environment, develop recommendations on standards and codes of practice for safe working and on standards of physical working conditions. [More…]

• Apart from the measures announced on 11 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…]

• -I direct a question 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 [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…]

• Will the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development have to be relocated in Leighton House, before the move can occur. [More…]

• Space for the Training Section will be available in Australia House ( 145 Eagle Street) when the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development moves. [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 senator’s question. [More…]

• The details of proposed legislative changes by the Queensland Government are not a matter within my responsibility of competence as Minister for Environment Housing and Community Development. [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 senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [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 senator’s question: [More…]

• The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development administers the States Grants (Dwellings for Pensioners) Act 1974. [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 senator’s question: [More…]

• The Australian Environment Council at its Fourth Meeting in July 1973 resolved to co-ordinate a program to bring about a progressive reduction of the lead alkyll content of motor spirit to protect the environment. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Transport and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• He was talking about the environment in which Australia exists at the present time and on page 18 of that speech he made this rather interesting observation: [More…]

• The environment provides grounds for concern to people who are willing to look at the world as it is rather than as they would like the world to be. [More…]

• Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I refer now particularly to a submission that a Dr William Richards from Victoria made to the Fox Environment Inquiry on Uranium. [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…]

• The Commonwealth Minister is endeavouring to finalise the Commonwealth’s attitude on the views of the report as soon as possible, and is currently conferring with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in another place. [More…]

• My question is in 2 parts and is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• Did the 1976-77 estimates for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development show an estimated average employment for 1976-77 of 826, of which 252 would be in the Management Division. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The honourable senator would be aware that on its creation in December 1975 the Department inherited all of the positions and all of the staff from the former Department of Urban and Regional Development, Environment and Tourism and Recreation and from the Housing wing of the former Department of Housing and Construction. [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 senator’s question: [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 senator’s question: [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 senator’s question. [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 senator’s question: [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 senator’s question: [More…]

• The Moreton Island Land Use Inquiry could not have been held under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act because there is no proposed action before the Commonwealth Government at this time relating to land use issues on Moreton Island. [More…]

• I draw the honourable senator’s attention to paragraph 7.2 of the Environment Protection Administrative Procedures which requires that in deciding whether to direct that an inquiry be conducted in relation to a proposed action, the Minister shall take into account whether all or any of the environmental aspects of the proposed action have been the subject of a public inquiry conducted otherwise than under the Act. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Environs replaces three other magazines produced by departments absorbed by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Members of Commonwealth and State parliaments, Commonwealth and State departments and instrumentalities, local government, universities and colleges of advanced education, academic and public libraries, sports, youth and environment organisations, media, secondary schools and special interest groups. [More…]

• To act as a national forum and educational medium for issues related to the built and natural environment, housing, community life and leisure. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, concerns fears which have been expressed publicly in the western suburbs of Sydney about the river systems in that area. [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 senator’s question. [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 senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [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 senator’s question: [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 Senator’s question: [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 senator’s question: [More…]

• However, any new sand-mining proposal for the area requiring Commonwealth Government approval would be subject to examination under the provisions of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable Senator’s question: [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 senator’s question: [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• My question which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, refers to the subject of metropolitan Adelaide’s water treatment program. [More…]

• Investigations are being carried out at present by the World Health Organisation, the World Meteorological Organisation, the United Nations Environment Protection Agency and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. [More…]

• The matter is under consideration and other departments beside mine, including the Department of Health and the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development, and all State governments are alerted to this problem. [More…]

• Some of the areas in which they might participate are in assistance with minor maintenance to community facilities and in conservation or environment protection projects; they might assist in paper and metal recycling activities; they will learn job skills in an informal atmosphere and maintain a positive orientation to work and to job finding. [More…]

• The need to provide a learning environment as well as a healthy environment at school for Aboriginal children is vital. [More…]

• Further education would increase man’s capacity to shape his environment, physical and social, and will give him the opportunity and the capacity to bring about change. [More…]

• Her Majesty indicated that the Government was pursuing constructive foreign policy and through its foreign policy the Government is seeking to contribute to the establishment of a stable international environment in which people can live in peace, co-operation and self respect. [More…]

• It becomes a matter of discussion and debate as to the means whereby the establishment of a stable international environment can be maintained. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Can he indicate how and where public debate is being followed by this task force in the light of the restricted printing of the first report of the Fox Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry? [More…]

• I sincerely hope that Her Majesty’s Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) will look at this matter urgently and come up with a much more generous scheme in the future. [More…]

• Australia was in the fortunate laissez-faire and lucky country environment to be able to boast through its Minister for Labour that it did not engage in manpower planning. [More…]

• The proposal by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) to increase the rate of interest applicable for public housing is one which is deserving of the strongest condemnation because it will force all State Housing Ministers to increase the rents on public housing for low income earners. [More…]

• The existing rules of the International Whaling Commission do not allow observers to participate in meetings of the Scientific Committee, other than scientists from the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the United Nations Environment Protection Authority. [More…]

• I will take up this matter with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Those 2 Standing Committees are the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment and the Senate Standing Committee on National Resources of which Senator Thomas and Senator Jessop are the chairmen. [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…]

• I report to the Senate that I have received a letter from the Leader of the Government in the Senate nominating senators to be members of legislative and general purpose standing committees as follows: Constitutional and Legal Affairs- Senator Missen, Senator Chaney and Senator Rae; Education and the Arts- Senator Davidson, Senator Collard and Senator Martin; Foreign Affairs and DefenceSenator Sim, Senator Knight and Senator Scott; National Resources- Senator Thomas, Senator Maunsell and Senator Townley; Science and the Environment- Senator Jessop, Senator Bonner and Senator Townley; Social Welfare- Senator Baume, Senator Tehan and Senator Walters; [More…]

• Senator Jessop, as Chairman of the particularly important Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, has heard evidence of the requirements of many people for greater funds for energy research in many areas. [More…]

• Previous meetings have dealt with the environment in general, population, food, the role of women and human settlements. [More…]

• Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• -Will the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development give an assurance that the inquiry into land and housing costs which is to be established by the Government will include some representation from the Australian trade union movement in order that the experience and knowledge of workers in the housing and construction industry will be available to the committee in its investigations? [More…]

• The study found that nutritional deficiency in pregnant mothers and infants, and inadequate early infant feeding were primary initiating factors, and of course environment did the rest. [More…]

• In making such a judgment, the environment of the woman was to be taken into account. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Housing, Environment and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The Senate Select Committee on Social Environment in its second interim report of April 1974 and in its final report which was published in August 1976 stated: [More…]

• This scheme must be developed not only because they know the children they teach and because they live in the environment in which they have to teach, but also because they bring to the children the Aboriginal culture and they give to the Aboriginal children understanding and confidence. [More…]

• So they go into a strange environment. [More…]

• But now in the crowded settlements, with tribes crowded together, the environment is quite foreign to their past. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for National Resources or, alternatively, the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware that, as reported in the Herald of 71 March 1977, Australia recycles only a small fraction of used automotive and other lubricating oils and that most of the used oil is either dumped or burned, often with adverse environmental effects? [More…]

• I direct a question which relates to the environment to Senator Carrick. [More…]

• In regard to the protection afforded under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 the National Capital Development Commission has offered to assist in the development of a master plan for the Academy precinct area, in the event that an enlaged Academy precinct is agreed to by the Government or relevant authorities. [More…]

• He simply made the point, in connection with Commonwealth buildings throughout Australia, that perhaps more attention should be given by governments to the impact of those buildings on the environment in which they are situated and also to the quality of those buildings. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 9 March 1 977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I am advised that a report on an environmental study, carried out in connection with a proposal to establish an oil refinery near Alice Springs, was submitted in evidence to the Royal Commission on Petroleum. [More…]

• Should a firm proposal to develop the oil refinery be put to the Commonwealth Government for approval the provisions of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act would apply and the existing report and its public review would be considered in the context of the requirements of the Administrative Procedures under the Act. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 10 March 1977. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) An implementation group has been established within the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development to set up a formal structure, appoint a Director of the Office of Youth Affairs, recruit staff and answer Ministerial correspondence. [More…]

• Expenditure by the Office of Youth Affairs during 1976-77 is expected to be small and will be absorbed within existing Budget allocations for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Consequently the level of salary and other entitlements for staff engaged from outside the Service will be determined jointly by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Public Service Board taking into account such factors as the type of work to be performed and the special qualifications and experience of the appointees. [More…]

• The question requires information from both the Minister for Transport and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, both of whom I represent in this place. [More…]

• I was interested in Senator Baume ‘s remark that he appreciated the fact that the home environment and home circumstances of a child determine to a considerable extent the kind of educational opportunity that that child will have. [More…]

• Its Working Environment Division is concerned with human relations and is doing work in the area of labour /management co-operation. [More…]

• Generally, it is considered that where the environment of the area may be changed either by growth or by the application of water, it is possible for rainfall either to increase or decrease, depending upon the environment. [More…]

• It includes scientists from the United Nations environment program, the Food and Agricultural Organisation, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, private institutions etc. [More…]

• Scientific and technological ‘solutions’ which poison the environment or degrade the social structure or man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction. [More…]

• Ever bigger machines, entailing ever bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• To the contrary a number of reports have been produced in recent years, including the 1972 Report to the UN General Assembly on the ‘Effects of Atomic Radiation’; the 1976 OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Report on ‘Estimated Population Exposure from Nuclear Power Production and Other Radiation Sources’; the 1973 Report of the United States Environmental Protection Agency on ‘Environmental Analysis of the Uranium Fuel Cycle’; and the United Kingdom Royal Commission on ‘Environmental Pollution on Nuclear Power and the Environment’; all of which give objective and comprehensive assessments of the environmental and health impact of the nuclear power industry. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 March 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 March 1977: [More…]

• Does the Australian Atomic Energy Commission plan to prepare an evironmental impact statement under the provisions of the Environment Protections (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974, relating to its intention to build a new reactor at Lucas Heights. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has supplied the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The provisions of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act would apply to any proposal by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to build a new reactor at Lucas Heights. [More…]

• If a firm proposal is brought forward, the need for the preparation of an environmental impact statement will be considered in accordance with the Environment Protection Administrative Procedures. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 March 1976: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: $5,280.50 has been paid to three national amateur sporting bodies this financial year to honour commitments. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 29 March 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 30 March 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The respective roles of the Commonwealth and State Governments in the environment assessment of proposals, including mining proposals, is currently under review. [More…]

• I further ask: If the letter indicates that the Minister is advocating that the Federal Government break its election promises on the environment and on Aboriginal affairs in order to push ahead with uranium mining in the Northern Territory, does not this pre-empt any recommendations which may be made by the second report of the Fox inquiry? [More…]

• Has the Minister had similar correspondence with the Ministers for Environment, Housing and Community Development and Aboriginal Affairs respectively? [More…]

• My colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has the responsibility for this matter. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: In view of the apparent lack of housing for rehabilitation purposes through the women’s refuges, can the Minister say whether pressure can be put on the States to give priority in allocation of welfare housing to the clients of the refuges? [More…]

• In view of the frequency of the occurrence of salmonella organisms in our general environment, the importance of adequate cooking of possibly infected foods and strict personal hygiene cannot be over emphasised. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has also been consulted about a number of matters. [More…]

• Because all relevant environmental matters have been dealt with in the working group and steering committee reports previously undertaken, these will constitute the environmental impact statement which is required. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• By way of preface I refer to an earlier environment impact statement which was made on the proposed Concorde aircraft flights to this continent. [More…]

• I am aware that the Department of Transport and the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development have been in constant contact with evaluation studies undertaken throughout the world. [More…]

• Senator Mulvihill will be aware that the original environment impact study was a British study of which we had the benefit together with supplementation. [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…]

• Environment, Housing and Community DevelopmentSydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart. [More…]

• -On 25 February 1977 (Hansard, page 445) Senator Colston asked me a question without notice concerning a report in the Australian Financial Review of 6 December 1976 that Dr George Heinsohn, a Senior Lecturer in Zoology at James Cook University, had called for a study of the effects upon the marine environment of shark meshing. [More…]

• Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Since the current report of that Department features the role of the present Government on air quality and general air monitoring, I ask: Was the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development consulted by the Minister for Transport on the decision to reduce car and truck exhaust emission standards? [More…]

• I suppose that in a week or two when we are perhaps discussing the energy crisis or the Australian environment it will be brought to our attention by contributors to those debates that the motor car is not necessarily the greatest benefaction that has been inflicted on Australian society. [More…]

• I think that we have to look at it not only in relation to roads but also we have to consider that commerce, industry, housing, environment and, most of all, people, are all part of the problem of the car. [More…]

• The present Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, has been very vocal on housing problems in his short time in this Parliament. [More…]

• The second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) in another place made it clear that this was an interim measure. [More…]

• The comment was made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), who has the responsibility for this legislation, that this debate reveals in this House, as it did in the House of Representatives, that the Government and the Opposition are united in one resolve, and that is that aged people must be helped to the greatest extent possible. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 30 March 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 20 April 1977: [More…]

• When a draft environmental impact statement is released, are copies available in each of the State offices of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• If so, (a) what facilities are available in each State office of the Department for the public to read and make comments on environmental impact statements, (b) where are all State offices of the Department located, and (c) which draft environmental impact statements are currently under review, and where are copies available for perusal. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Copies of draft environmental impact statements are normally made available in the State office of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development when the proposed action, the subject matter of the impact statement, has an effect in the State concerned. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, Bligh House, 4 Bligh Street, Sydney. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, John Curtin House, Brisbane Avenue, Barton, ACT. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 20 April 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• It is characteristic of Australia that introduced pests, vermin and plants have a tremendous capacity to flourish here when in their own environment they tend not to flourish. [More…]

• -I present the final report and the transcript of evidence from the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment on its inquiry into the impact on the Australian environment of the current woodchip industry program. [More…]

• The Senate, on 28 November 1974, resolved that the matter of the impact on the Australian environment of the current woodchip industry program be referred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• On 2 March 1976 the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment was created and on 25 March the Senate resolved that the matter of the environmental impact of the woodchip industry be referred to the new Committee. [More…]

• As Chairman of the new Committee I was fortunate in having as fellow committee members, 3 senators who had served on the former Social Environment Committee and who accordingly brought a large measure of continuity to the ongoing inquiry. [More…]

• In conformity with its terms of reference, the Committee concentrated its attention on the immediate environmental impact of woodchip programs, that is to say, the impact on soil, air and water and on forest fauna and flora. [More…]

• The impact on the social environment has received consideration also. [More…]

• To recapitulate, the Committee concludes that whilst a number of environmental problems exist, curtailment of the woodchip industry program is not warranted on environmental grounds at this time. [More…]

• Clearfelling for woodchips poses a number of threats to the environment. [More…]

• Other environmental threats, notably those relating to soil nutrients, wildlife preservation, and conservation of genetic characteristics, are less well understood and require further research to identify their true nature and magnitude and to determine ways to counter them effectively. [More…]

• Because of the abovementioned environmental threats, any indiscriminate extension of clearfelling for woodchips outside the boundaries of present concession and licence areas would be viewed with concern. [More…]

• The Committee is not satisfied the forestry authorities are doing all that could reasonably be expected in the way of ensuring that management prescriptions for protection of the environment are being correctly implemented in the forest. [More…]

• Schemes to make economic use of sawmill waste and silvicultural residues including thinnings from existing sawlog operations have environmental as well as economic benefits. [More…]

• The Committee is concerned at the potential for environmental damage represented by the present absence of control over felling operations in private forests. [More…]

• The total environmental impact of woodchip operations cannot be fully assessed at this time because of the large number of inadequately researched factors to be taken into account. [More…]

• Empirical observations coupled with experience and some research tend to indicate that, in the short term, present operations in relatively restricted areas are acceptable provided environmental prescriptions are observed. [More…]

• The Committee accordingly considers that no new projects involving the clearfelling of forests specifically for woodchips should be started until such time as the doubts concerning long term effects on the environment can be resolved. [More…]

• It gives me a good deal of pleasure to endorse the remarks of the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• If we can get unanimity of purpose we will save much of our present environment and avoid mistakes that were made notably at Eden in the early years of the woodchip industry. [More…]

• It related to the present policy of this Government to more or less wind up the vision of former Ministers for the Environment, Dr Moss Cass and Mr Berinson, about the Australian Government having its own national parks and wildlife service. [More…]

• The changing environment for manufacturing in Australia is in part an aspect of the 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…]

• 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…]

• Now the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) has virtually said that the growth centre program is at an end. [More…]

• 899 indicate that the recently announced tax incentives are sufficient to find oil, even if the geological environment is unfavourable. [More…]

• The Government’s decision on Fraser Island was announced by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Hansard, 10 November 1976, page 2549) and that decision is being implemented. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for National Resources or, alternatively, the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware that, as reported in the Herald of 2 1 March 1977, Australia recycles only a small fraction of used automotive and other lubricating oils and that most of the used oil is either dumped or burned, often with adverse environmental effects? [More…]

• My question which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, is based on future environmental assessment procedures. [More…]

• I interpret the situation to be that their environment protection Acts will apparently be superior to the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974-75. [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that such counselling and welfare facilities are essential if young Aborigines from isolated parts of Australia and from the Torres Strait Island are to succeed in the new work environment of Canberra? [More…]

• These cycle paths are a significant amenity and a special element in the development of the urban environment of the national capital. [More…]

• Was the study one in conjunction with the Department Of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development is not involved because in the early stages of planning the study, that department did not exist and there was close association with the then Department of Tourism and Recreation. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, on 31 March 1977, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 20 April 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 20 April 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 27 April 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 3 May 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• 2 was released the discussion on the Kakadu National Park boundaries would be vested in the hands of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Minister for the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: In the light of considerable concern in South Australia about the state of the housing industry in that State and the numerous calls for interest rate reductions, does the Minister agree that such an action would be inflationary and would lead to further cost increases which would, in turn, make a recovery in the industry more difficult to achieve? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

• To prevent over-pressurisation of the reactor vessel, the pressure relief valves automatically opened to release some steam into the containment building surrounding the reactor; there was no release to the environment. [More…]

• In their letter of 10 February 1977 the Australian Mining Industry Council recommended that the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act be amended to ensure that in future, it will be applied only to new development proposals, and to ensure a meaningful teamwork relationship between the Commonwealth and a State where any development proposal becomes subject to the provisions of the Act. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware that forestry interests are continuing to extend roads into the Picton Valley region of south west Tasmania within the proposed boundaries of the inquiry being undertaken by the South- West Advisory Committee? [More…]

• However, it is an important matter which concerns the environment. [More…]

• I mention another problem faced by the Great Barrier Reef, although I do not think it concerns the Department of Science as much as possibly the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I have received a letter from the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) but, if what he says in the letter is correct, this problem does concern the Department of Science. [More…]

• I am unable to say whether the situation is as outlined by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]

• High Court decision relating to responsibility may place some further responsibility on the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• If the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has been carrying out research, surely it would be carrying out that research with the assistance of the Minister’s Department. [More…]

• It would be quite unacceptable if the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development set up a whole area of scientific research without the cooperation and full involvement of the Minister’s Department. [More…]

• In July a biannual meeting of the State Ministers responsible for wild life conservation and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) will be held. [More…]

• It has been brought to my attention that after such studies have been carried out it has been possible to reduce the noise greatly to the benefit of the environment. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 20 April 1977: [More…]

• 1 ) How many announcements have appeared in the Australian Government Gazelle announcing the release of a draft environmental impact statement in each year since the proclamation of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable Senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) Although the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act was assented to on 17 December 1974, the Administrative Procedures under this Act were not notified in the Gazette until 24 June 197S. [More…]

• 1 of these Procedures that the availability of a draft environmental impact statement is required to be notified in the Gazette. [More…]

• and (3) The following table lists the date each draft environmental impact statement was notified in the Gazette as available for public review, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 6.3 of the Administrative Procedures under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974; The newspapers approved under that paragraph in which the proponents were to announce the release of the draft EIS; and the number of advertisements either published or approved to be published in those newspapers: [More…]

• It has been reported by the media that after consultation with Mr Nixon the South Australian Transport Minister, Mr Geoff Virgo, has finally selected a route for the Stuart Highway south of the Northern Territory border to Port Augusta and has now indicated that the decision rests with the Federal Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Kevin Newman. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has directed that public comments should be sought on the environmental aspects of each route. [More…]

• As far as I am aware- I will check this matter for the honourable senator- until Mr Justice Fox gave the report to the 2 Ministers concerned, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development, no other person in the Government had a copy. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Affairs (Mr Newman) acknowledged this record in his second reading speech by stating that the premium payable is amongst the lowest in the world. [More…]

• At that time he attributed most of the difficulties to the specific problems related to the unique environment of Kangaroo Island which, it appears from all the evidence available, militates against farming by normal procedures. [More…]

• He is working in an environment devoid of the normal supporting specialties. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 2 1 April 1 977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I direct a question to Senator Carrick in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• They have that responsibility just as Australian mining companies have and accept now responsibility towards the environment. [More…]

• The environment is a part of their lives, just as being a part of society is a part of their lives. [More…]

• Does this letter indicate that the Minister is advocating that the Federal Government break its election promises on the environment and Aboriginal affairs in order to push ahead with uranium mining in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• 4 ) Has the Minister had similar correspondence with the Ministers for the Environment, Housing and Community Development and Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• 1 ) A letter was written to the Minister for National Resources on 14 April drawing his attention to the possibility that the final report to the Ranger Uranium Environment Inquiry may recommend a substantial variation of the boundaries of the proposed Kakadu National Park to those contained in a gazettal notice in May 1 975. [More…]

• Similar correspondence was exchanged with the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development and Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• It is easy as a member of Parliament to become somewhat alienated from one’s traditional environment. [More…]

• Urgently beg you use all your influence to amend Legal Aid Bill to include clause 6(n) specifying aid for matters involving protection maintenance and preservation of the environment [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (to 8 July 1976). [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the Honourable Senator’s question: [More…]

• One of the several criteria taken into account in the examination of a proposal is whether it would be in conformity with national policies concerned with the environment. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 17 March 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 20 April 1977. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• At what stage are discussions between the Minister for the Northern Territory, Mr Adermann, and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, as to the ultimate boundaries of the Kakadu National Park, bearing in mind utterances by senior Ministers to the effect that uranium extraction is due to start? [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Will the Government give recognition to the serious nature of the European carp problem and act with urgency to mitigate the enormous damage currently being inflicted on Australian waterways and the environment generally? [More…]

• The current environment of higher unemployment is associated with a general slack in demand for goods and services and with highly competitive selling conditions. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 May 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 May 1977: [More…]

• Senator Carrick: The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 May 1977: [More…]

• Senator Carrick: The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 May 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 May 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: 1. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 May 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 3 June 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: () To 16 June 1977, 10 194 applications were received under the Homes Savings Grant Act 1976 since its commencement on 1 January. [More…]

• Recognising 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…]

• Believing 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, and in particular to the proven contribution of the nuclear power industry to the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the increased risk of nuclear war; and 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…]

• To sum up, considerably more detailed ecological studies are required to determine the pathways -followed by radionuclides once they are released to the environment. [More…]

• Also, if coal were to be used there would be great risks to the environment. [More…]

• The second report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry which deals with environmental aspects states that under certain conditions of the environment we can export uranium. [More…]

• No decision will be made on mining until we are absolutely satisfied that the needs and interests of the Aboriginal people are safeguarded and that the environment is also fully protected. [More…]

• Whilst I support the mining of uranium I also support the need for a thorough inquiry and discussion by the Government and those concerned to make sure that the socioeconomic well-being of the Aboriginals as well as the environment will be given serious consideration. [More…]

• On top of this, all rehabilitative work with regard to the environment would be done by the operators at their expense and also under certain standards which could be upgraded and subject to review the whole time. [More…]

• The Fox report said that there must be assured protection of the environment at the expense of the person who was mining, and that the obligation on the operator to protect the environment must be legally enforceable. [More…]

• It was said that the performance of the obligation must be fully secured before any mine was opened; that a trust fund or bond must be provided for anybody or anything that may be damaged by the mining; that there must be firm and legally binding undertakings to replace the tailings in the pits and that no relaxation of those bindings must be allowed under any circumstances; that the tailing dams must be sealed by an impervious membrane; that steps must be taken to reduce the loss of yellowcake dust; that the protection of the environment must be assured if mines were to go into liquidation or for any reason were to terminate their operation; that the Government should immediately explore what steps it can take to assist in reducing the hazards, the dangers and the problems associated with the production of nuclear energy; and that a national energy policy should be developed and reviewed regularly. [More…]

• The second report takes up all the aspects of the mining operations as it relates to the environment and the tribal Aborigines in the area in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• This matter concerns the portfolios of National Resources, Science, Environment, Housing and Community Development, Aboriginal Affairs and the Prime Minister. [More…]

• In that regard the legislation does what I have said it does: It puts the industrial relations environment in Australia back 100 years. [More…]

• She would have no idea of the sort of environment in which so many people in industry have to work. [More…]

• These people are entitled to seek protection from that environment. [More…]

• For convenience these are usually divided into six main categories: agriculture, forestry and range resources; land use and mapping: geology: water resources: oceanography and marine resources; environment. [More…]

• Environment [More…]

• LANDSAT has proved to be a most effective tool for monitoring man’s interaction with the natural environment, both on land and in the oceans. [More…]

• Satellites have the capability of providing a synoptic overview of the environment and a perspective of the land, water and air as an integrated system. [More…]

• Furthermore, they can provide a repetitive or seasonal view thereby making it possible to detect slow changes to the environment not readily visible by other means. [More…]

• For Australia, with its large landmass and sparse population, satellite remote sensing offers an effective tool whereby the nation’s managers could obtain the type of information necessary to develop and conserve the natural resources and environment. [More…]

• The Government’s recent decision- upon which I will be putting down a statement at the end of Question Time- is to increase Australia’s activity in Antarctica and is prompted by two factors- the need to ensure the continuation of expeditions by replacing equipment, buildings and transport facilities as existing facilities deteriorate and in view of the increasing interest in exploiting the resources of Antarctica; to ensure that Australia is in a position to participate in the formulation of adequate guidelines for protecting the environment if and when exploitation occurs. [More…]

• In reply to Senator Thomas, the extensions to the scientific program are directed at increasing our understanding of the marine environment off the AAT. [More…]

• It is essential that if those resources are to be exploited it should be under conditions which will not adversely affect the unique Antarctic environment. [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…]

• Concern is expressed sometimes about the establishment of such a petrochemical industry but many environmental impact statements have been carried out in relation to this complex. [More…]

• But all of the studies done with regard to the environment have come out with a very clean bill of health. [More…]

• The answer that I received- this is the point I would like to raise with the relevant Minister- is quite at variance with the contents of a brief that I have been privileged to look at, a brief that was developed by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• In other words, the brief from the Depanment of Environment, Housing and Community Development set out the extent of the backlog, namely $4,000m throughout Australia and $850m in Perth alone. [More…]

• Again, that answer is at variance with the information given in the brief by the Department for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• As the Minister represents the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) I would not expect that he would be able to provide answers to the discrepancies that I have outlined this evening, but I do think they are important. [More…]

• The Department of the Environment and Conservation which assessed this statement noted the amount of technical detail supplied and advised that it was satisfied that the environmental issues of the proposal had been adequately covered. [More…]

• It will operate as a series of integrated engineering systems, which provide isolation from the external environment. [More…]

• Operation or the complex will have no detrimental effects on the environment. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware of the statement made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development that the Army should have a greater commitment in the State of Tasmania? [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 people living in the Region and working on the development projects. [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…]

• That mining operation was carried out with inadequate concern for the environment. [More…]

• It was an operation which reflected environmental attitudes of 25 years ago which Australians would not tolerate today. [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…]

• Kevin Newman, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I now want 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…]

• 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 the 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 on 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 colleage, 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…]

• The Senate will know that one of the responsibilities of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment is to exert a continuing oversight of the problems of pollution in Australia. [More…]

• Senator Mulvihill, who is Deputy Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, will be interested in the question of noise pollution. [More…]

• The ordinance resulted from recommendations made by a sub-committee of an interdepartmental committee established to examine ways of protecting the quality of the environment in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• The second, the Australian Environment Council, was established in 1971 with the aim of promoting common standards on environmental matters throughout Australia. [More…]

• The Council is composed of the environment Ministers from the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]

• Existing divisions of the CSIRO, such as the Division of Atmospheric Physics or the Division of Environmental Mechanics, are active in the study of the influence of air pollution. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, on behalf of the Australian Environment Council, instituted a national air monitoring program early in 1976 to develop a uniform air pollution monitoring program in Australia. [More…]

• The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development purchased three mobile air pollution monitoring caravans. [More…]

• In particular, the hazard from particulate lead has caused the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Environment Council to call for controls on the lead content of petrol. [More…]

• Close co-ordination by State bodies associated with urban development, environment planning and pollution control is also vital. [More…]

• A notable and encouraging move in this direction was the recent creation of the New South Wales Planning and Environmental Commission. [More…]

• The foregoing discussion highlights some of the environmental effects that can accompany technological change. [More…]

• A multitude of new chemical substances is created each year for use in industry, agriculture and the home, with little thought or testing applied to any possible deleterious effects on the environment. [More…]

• The passing into law of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974-75 has helped greatly in providing a basis for formalising environmental assessment requirements into statutory power. [More…]

• Section 3 of this Act defines ‘environment’ to include ‘all aspects of the surroundings of man, whether affecting him as an individual or in his social groupings’. [More…]

• In a letter dated 14 September 1976 to the Senate Select Committee on Air Pollution from the Victorian Environment Protection Authority the Acting Chairman stated: [More…]

• It is understood by the authority that the national air monitoring program is not on behalf of the Australian Environment Council as yet and the national air monitoring program has only been concerned with funding State programs to this stage. [More…]

• Page 9, (c)- The first paragraph is confusing and we are not aware of any work by the Australian Environment Council towards this end. [More…]

• I think that that is worthy of some comment but 1 believe that it is important to register and record the comments that have been brought forward by the Environment Protection Authority of Victoria. [More…]

• An examination of the potential threat to the environment by emissions from conventional power stations is rather interesting. [More…]

• This in itself means that no less than five tonnes of carbon dioxide and many kilograms of oxides of nitrogen and sulphur are being emitted into the environment. [More…]

• I believe that the Select Committee on Science and the Environment has had an opportunity to study the report of the Select Committee on Air Pollution. [More…]

• We must make a very careful assessment of the future impact on the environment. [More…]

• I would like to see that action stepped up in the interests of the future protection of the air environment in Australia. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 17 August 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1977: [More…]

• In view of the testimony, given on oath by Western Australian Forestry Commission officers before the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment examining woodchip industry operations that sizeable segments of Western Australia forests would be converted into [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1977: [More…]

• In view of the testimony, given on oath by Victorian Forestry Commission officers before the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment examining woodchip industry operations, that sizable portions of Victorian forests would be converted into National Parks and Wildlife Reserves, can the Minister furnish details of increased National Park acreages in Victoria during the past twelve months. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1977: [More…]

• In view of the testimony, given on oath by Tasmanian Forestry Commission officers before the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment examining woodchip industry operations that sizeable segments of Tasmanian forests would be converted into National Parks and Wildlife Reservations, can the Minister furnish details of increased National Park acreages in Tasmania during the past twelve months. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 17 August 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Health or, alternatively, to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The 1st annual report 1976 of the Department of Environment Housing and Community Development; [More…]

• -by leave-As Vice-Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, serving under Senator Jessop, I believe that a report of this nature should hearten highly qualified professional people who have appeared before Senate committees. [More…]

• I appreciate Senator Mulvihill ‘s comment because I know that on the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment he and I have exercised incredible interest, a community interest, in these matters. [More…]

• Unfortunately the Leroc Company was faced with a demand- I do not propose to go into the details of this- from the Environment Protection Authority in Victoria to take steps to eradicate a smell coming from its production. [More…]

• As I said, the Leroc Company had trouble with the Environment Protection Authority. [More…]

• Therefore the environment is greatly deteriorating. [More…]

• Yet not a single prosecution has been brought against any major oil company for a breach of the Environment Protection Act because lead is emitted from chimney stacks as a result of the burning of fuel oil without a licence. [More…]

• Further to that, in regard to the actions taken by the oil companies in blending the oil, the views of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development are worth recording. [More…]

• The Trade Practices Commission in its decision of 22 October 1976 quoted from a submission from the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development dated 20 February 1976. [More…]

• The submission stated: as the most environmentally desirable method of disposing of used oil is by re-refining, it is essential for the interests of the independent oil re-refiners to be protected in any arrangement to co-ordinate the recovery of waste lubricating oil. [More…]

• That was the view of our own Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, and I think it adds to the point that we ought to have a policy from the Department of National Resources on what we are going to do to achieve the results mentioned. [More…]

• In the interests of our environment, we must ensure that it is done. [More…]

• The concern of the Australian forces has been to conduct a demanding technical operation in the physically, and meteorologically hazardous environment which eventually claimed the RAAF helicopter. [More…]

• My colleague in the other place, Mr Killen, further adds that the Australian Government has most warmly appreciated the unstinted co-operation of the Indonesian authorities in the search and rescue operation following the helicopter crash and generally in assisting Australian survey personnel in carrying out their task in an extremely difficult physical environment. [More…]

• I think it is about a subject that would also encompass the responsibilities of the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• How can the Prime Minister and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development claim that safe methods of disposal and storage of nuclear waste materials are available in the light of that congressional report? [More…]

• -This is not just a matter for my colleague, the Minister for National Resources; it also impinges upon the jurisdiction of my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I now ask: Are there any powers in the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act under which the Ranger mining company directors could be gaoled if there is any defilement of the environment in the park? [More…]

• The Government has also announced its intention to amend the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act to enable the Director of National Parks and Wildlife to enforce environment protection provisions by way of injunction. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The seasonally adjusted figures just released by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development of the number of housing loan approvals for the period June 1976 to June 1977 demonstrate a strong growth in the number of loans transacted by permanent building societies whilst concurrently the trading and savings banks have experienced zero or negative rates of growth in loan approvals. [More…]

• He was euphoric, of course, in that environment but he should recognise within himself that this was the least that he could expect. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Am I correct in saying that in the proceedings of Estimates Committee C the Minister and his officers asserted that the present environmental impact statement code is the same as under Ministers Cass and Berinson? [More…]

• If the answer is in the affirmative, can the Minister assure me that the residual powers of the Government in relation to the banning of exports where environmental procedures are not followed have been retained? [More…]

• If there is one bipartisan understanding in this Senate and in Australia it is that the Commonwealth has power over exports and can use it if it wishes to enforce its policies, whether on environment or on other matters. [More…]

• It now needs only the approval ofthe Federal Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [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…]

• In particular another confidential document published in the Australian Financial Review a couple of weeks ago showed that the Liberal Party in fact has decided not to mention the alleged economic benefits of uranium mining at all because it is terrified of a public backlash against the implication that the Liberal Party is prepared to jeopardise the entire global environment for a grubby dollar. [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…]

• Any views I have on this question were reinforced last week during the sitting of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment when we heard evidence from people in the coal industry who are regarded as being responsible in the area of research as well as other facets of the industry. [More…]

• I do not know whether Clutha and Utah came along and bleated, but I am going to insist that some of those rajahs of the American capitalist system from Clutha and Utah be asked to testify before the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• I again refer to the evidence taken by the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• It is rather ironic that in this sort of economic environment the Government has the audacity to be talking about, contemplating, suggesting or floating the rumour that a Federal election will be held in the near future. [More…]

• The Government cannot stop the business sector of the community speculating and expressing concern at the present economic environment. [More…]

• This will have consequences for the whole financial environment and is directly contrary to the Government’s promise of lower interest rates- an undertaking that was made or implied earlier this year. [More…]

• At the opening of a fund raising function to send our team to the Moscow Olympics- I think it was in Melbourne- the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) said: [More…]

• This organisation is well worthy of the support of the Government, and I trust that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), under whose ministry it operates, having seen the wonderful work which the League does and the problems which confront the organisations and persons in areas bordering the river, will recommend the reintroduction of the grant which was taken away in the previous Budget and has not been restored in this Budget. [More…]

• The broad thrust of the report that the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment brought down can be compared with studying from a Mount Olympus type vantage point what has happened in regard to water pollution and air pollution. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, each time that the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment has dealt with the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development generally there has been some reference to the funding by the Australian Government of certain pollution monitoring appliances. [More…]

• But the main purpose of the observations made by the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment was that we must have constantly a greater degree of co-ordination. [More…]

• The plain fact of the matter is that the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment was hampered in the taking of evidence because a regular controversy was going on. [More…]

• I would be in a much better position to answer the honourable senator’s interjection if I could get better answers to my questions on this matter from the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]

• For a long time there was inactivity between the States and the Minister responsible for environment in a host of fields. [More…]

• Often in the process, a State Minister moves from the environment portfolio or a State government changes its political complexion. [More…]

• My question is directed to Senator Carrick as Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The problem of unemployment is not overlooked, but it is felt that any significant and lasting improvement in this area can best be achieved through the restoration of a stable economic environment. [More…]

• I supose what’s really necessary is that we all take two years without a wage increase, but I can’t see that happening within the present Australian political environment. [More…]

• At the moment I wish to refer to the management of the Ayers Rock-Mount Olga National Park and to the fourth report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• I do not know whether it was the change in environment but there was an alteration. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• In this inquiry the Committee took evidence from the Departments of Industry and Commerce, Construction, and Environment, Housing and Community Development, relating to four matters. [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. [More…]

• The apportionment of each State’s allocation between the State housing authority and the Home Builders’ Account of the State is determined by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community after consultation with the House Minister of the State concerned. [More…]

• It is of tremendous importance, especially in an area which concerns our environment- in this case the area of air pollution- that we monitor the situation year by year. [More…]

• There is a great need to adjust the community’s thinking, so that people will consider reducing the impact of pollution upon the environment and upon our quality of life. [More…]

• In that sort of environment, the question of solar energy ought to be considered but I become very concerned when I read certain predictions as to what is going to happen by the year 1990. [More…]

• I was very grateful to Senator Thomas for inviting my Committee, the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, to accompany him on a visit to the Queanbeyan premises of Coca Cola. [More…]

• I believe that the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment does not go far enough in emphasising the need for more intensified research in this area. [More…]

• The development of agricultural waste and forest production to provide raw materials for processing complexes producing liquid fuel is a prospect which suits Australia’s climate and its industrial research and development environment. [More…]

• Perhaps one could say that the report and the Senate’s having the Science and Environment Committee look at this particular issue, was prompted by the concern expressed by many conservationists, environmentalists and others on this subject. [More…]

• They included environmentalists, conservationists and people in and outside the industry itself; there were foresters and many others, and after spending much time in the field, and hearing evidence, the report was brought in. [More…]

• She was able to tell me that despite that long interval she could see no detrimental effect to the environment as a result of the operations of the woodchipping and timber industry generally. [More…]

• It is from Proclamation 2 of the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment and reads: [More…]

• The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world; it is the urgent desire of the peoples of the whole world and the duty of all Governments. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Minister for Primary Industry and the Minister for Science set up a working group empowered to determine the details of research needs as outlined in this report, establish research priorities and make recommendations for the initiation and support of appropriate associated research programs. [More…]

• Have the Minister, the Government and interdepartmental committees finished their deliberations on the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Second Report (Fox Report); if so, when is the Government likely to implement the following recommendation made by the Fox Report: ‘Legislative action to be taken to enable the Director and the Northern Land Council 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…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development upon notice on 16 August 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development upon notice on 16 August 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development upon notice on 16 August 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (1), (2) and (3) The Government’s decision on uranium mining in Australia was announced on Thursday 25 August 1977. [More…]

• One can make available to people, whether Aborigines or not, opportunities for better education and health facilities, but unless their children can come home to a decent home with an environment where they can sit down and do their homework, it is all to no avail; so housing is a very important factor for consideration. [More…]

• I agreed with a large portion of it, especially when he put a case for the use of alternative forms of energy, a reduction of impact upon the environment, and the improvement of the quality of our life, with less dependence upon fuels which damage and pollute the atmosphere upon which we depend. [More…]

• Eighty-five people would be retrenched when three Commonwealth hostels in the ACT closed on 24 July, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, says in a letter to the Member for Canberra, Mr Haslem. [More…]

• I refer the honourable senator to the statements to the Parliament on 25 August 1977 by both the Prime Minister and the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development in which it was stated that there is no intention of Australia storing other countries ‘ radioactive waste. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development whether he is in a position to answer the apprehensions of Dr Mosley, the Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation, that uranium mining targets in the Northern Territory make the concept of the Kakadu National Park, as envisioned in the Fox Report, impossible to achieve. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• There is scope for an 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 develop varieties that are suitable to the Australian environment. [More…]

• The Minister will be aware that this matter is currently being examined by the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• They have to work in a hostile environment. [More…]

• He knows precisely what is going on in terms of surveys, conservation studies and environment studies. [More…]

• We have had a recent influx of migrant people from an effete capitalist European environment to try to find a new way of life in Australia. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 6 September 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 6 September 1977: [More…]

• Has the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development investigated logging activities on Fraser Island; if so, (a) is the Department completely satisfied that logging activities are not harming the environment on Fraser Island; and (b) if the answer to (a) is no, what action does the Minister propose taking. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice on 22 September 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Any proposal for such research in the Barrier Reef would be subject to the provisions of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, and under this it would be essential that the feasibility of the project be clearly demonstrated and that no danger would be offered to the Reef. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice on 22 September 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development upon notice on 5 October 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I found this material of interest to me because, as honourable senators are aware, I have just completed an inquiry into the woodchip industry and the effects of woodchip and forestry generally on the environment. [More…]

• This aspect was highlighted during the examination made by the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment ofthe woodchip industry. [More…]

• The Government would be very well served in the current political environment if the responsible Minister did as he can do; that is, inquire of the Australian Broadcasting Commissioners, none of whom has considered this matter of the removal of this program, whether they might review the decision which has been made by the Victorian management eschelon presumably with the approval of Mr Keith Mackriell, the Director of Radio Services. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and stems from a Norwegian Government court of inquiry which examined certain oil blowouts on North Sea oil exploration projects. [More…]

• I have been advised by my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in another place, that his Department has taken this problem very seriously; that it is in communication with the Norwegian environment ministry and other sources of information in relation to the Ekofisk oil spill in the North Sea; and that his Department is being kept progressively informed. [More…]

• Preliminary reports have been carefully studied and speeches made by the Norwegian industry and environment Ministers are documented in the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation inquiry into the adequacy of arrangements to prevent or to deal with oil spills in Australian waters. [More…]

• Officers of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development are currently considering these matters in consultation with other relevant Commonwealth and State authorities. [More…]

• The honourable senator’s very keen interest in the environment, particularly in flora and fauna, is well known in this place and I understand him asking such a question. [More…]

• Surely, the environment in which people work is one that we should improve, that we should be concerned about. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the annual report 1977 of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• By way of preface I refer to evidence given before the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment inquiry into the woodchip industry that the main threat to forestry was die back, a fungus emanating from Western Australia. [More…]

• Faced with the prospect of exploitation, the nations with an active interest in the Antarctic, including Australia, will have added responsibilities to ensure that the Antarctic environment is protected as activity there increases. [More…]

• I notice that the statement attempts in rather muted terms to marry environment with development, and in that area I think the report might have been a little more specific. [More…]

• Senator Jessop and other members of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment are aware of that matter through the evidence presented during the inquiry into industrial research. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and relates to conservation grants. [More…]

• -I present a progress report from the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment on its science policy reference. [More…]

• At the time, the Committee was engaged in an inquiry into the impact on the Australian environment of the woodchip industry. [More…]

• He referred to the marriage between science and industry but I hope that when the report of the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment is finalised we will not have a shot gun marriage between some of the elements involved in the industrial scene. [More…]

• People who believe in continuous production without looking at its effects upon the environment are in for a rude awakening. [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…]

• I think that the first function should be to inform new settlers from ethnic communities, which have no organisations or only very small organisations, about their new environment, the Australian way of life, the availability of services and to teach them English, which I feel is very important. [More…]

• This is a Bill designed to allow for grants of financial assistance to the States for projects related to the environment. [More…]

• Honourable senators will be aware that the Commonwealth’s role in 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 have 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 co-ordination of policies for the environment. [More…]

• Honourable senators will know that there are councils comprised of Commonwealth and State Ministers through which common standards and common policies in 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 in 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 policy 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…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Environment (Financial Assistance) Bill 1 977. [More…]

• Airline Equipment (Loan Guarantee) Bill 1977 Environment (Financial Assistance) Bill 1977 Defence Force (Retirement and Death Benefits Amendments) BUI (No. [More…]

• My question which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is based on a Press release of 5 February by the new Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development pledging total environment protection for the Alligator Rivers region in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• How can we avoid the vision splendid of the Kakadu Park being involved with a series of mining enclaves which will destroy the whole concept, quite apart from increasing the environmental difficulties? [More…]

• Perhaps I can help the honourable senator in this way: As he will know the Government has decided to allow the Ranger project to proceed on the basis of the environmental controls recommended by the Ranger Inquiry, that is the Fox report. [More…]

• The Government has also decided that development of other new mines in the Alligator Rivers region should take place only when the requirements of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 have been complied with in each case and the Government is 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…]

• In the stage 2 area the Government has decided to bring the area under special control exercised by the Departments of Aboriginal Affairs; Environment, Housing and Community Development; Trade and Resources, and the Northern Territory and that there will be no exploration, development or mining within the area without the authority of the Commonwealth and that all measures will be taken for the advancement of Aboriginal welfare within that area. [More…]

• Science and the Environment: [More…]

• Perhaps this is because there is a greater awareness in the community of the trade offs that are made in a Budget contextmore assistance can only be accorded at the expense of expenditure on the environment, health, social welfare, defence … or through higher taxes. [More…]

• Let me state the view of theIAC, the objectives of industry policies should not be to insulate industries from long term changes in their environment. [More…]

• I also know that Mr Stein is considered to be an authority on planning law and environment law. [More…]

• Although modern psychology diverges on a number of matters, there is almost unanimous agreement that the ideal way for a child to grow up is for him to grow up in an environment in which he becomes strongly attached to those people who care for him. [More…]

• Men want and need to feel they are in control of their immediate environment.’ [More…]

• We are eager to put all these to test and eventually to choose that which is most economical in terms of money, the environment, comfort and every other consideration of passengers. [More…]

• -In view of the lengthy discussions with British and Australian scientists about nuclear waste in the Maralinga region of South Australia, I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development whether the British Government has indicated that it is prepared to accept responsibility for the disposal of that waste. [More…]

• I am advised that the survey is being carried out under the guidance of the AIRAC and is supported by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Special assistance is being provided by the Australian Radiation Laboratory, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, the Bureau of Meteorology, the South Australian Department of Mines and the South Australian Department for the Environment. [More…]

• -For the information of honourable senators I present a report from the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment relating to the annual reports referred to the Committee for consideration under the resolution of the Senate of 22 March 1977. [More…]

• In the changing environment now being encountered, Australian manufacturing industry needs in the long run to achieve a greater degree of specialisation, with less reliance on government assistance. [More…]

• The Governor-General’s Speech contained many features relating to priorities, economic policies, rural communities, social policies, civil rights, environment and the sciences and all these matters will find expression in the various legislative measures that will be brought forward in this session and discussed. [More…]

• National Times, argued that the Government’s policies are ill suited to the current economic environment. [More…]

• policies which are followed almost ipso facto in Australia, will fail to be relevant to the economic environment of the 1970s and 1980s. [More…]

• Since, for various technical, strategic and political reasons, pre-emption is not a viable policy for Australia, the environment for future Australian military operations becomes the Australian continent, its off-shore island territories, and its air and maritime approaches. [More…]

• And, fifth, in the new strategic environment, joint force operations assume much greater relevance. [More…]

• It is because of this pervasive influence that our working environment has on our lives that my Government believes fundamental reforms should be brought about in the employment relationship. [More…]

• These would include the selection of new personnel, promotion, training, organisation, the allocation of tasks within branches and departments, the attendance time policy, the administration of safety, health and welfare policies, and the development of the work environment. [More…]

• Their work environment has improved. [More…]

• Each of the measures I have mentioned should bring about a much more harmonious environment. [More…]

• Sue was previously in the Community Recreation Section in the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Because I mentioned the basis upon which exchange programs will be developed in Australia, I should say that in the coming year Australian science will direct much of its efforts into the fields of energy and the environment, areas which have dominated the headlines of this decade. [More…]

• We apparently live in a time of increasing awareness in the community of the fact that the environment is not indefinitely resilient in the face of abuse and that the well being of the environment is inextricably linked with our own future good health. [More…]

• CSIRO is dedicated to tackling the problems of energy and the environment. [More…]

• This, while protecting the environment, could save the industry millions of dollars. [More…]

• The fragile state of the outer walls and roof would not permit taking it apart and I think that to erect it elsewhere than in an Antarctic environment now would see an accelerated deterioration. [More…]

• That emphasises more symbolically than does anything else in the communique the changing circumstances, the changing international environment and the changes which, perhaps, ought to occur in the ANZUS Treaty. [More…]

• Perhaps it comes under the control of the National Heritage Commission and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]

• I add as a postscript that this question is not motivated by any fears of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment which will be in the Alligator River region of the Territory in a few weeks. [More…]

• The Minister for the Northern Territory has been advised by the Northern Territory Executive’s member for resources and health that liaison between the Northern Territory Executive and the Environment Ministers of the Commonwealth and the States is achieved in the context of the Council of Nature Conservation Ministers. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development is also represented on the Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Commission and contact is made with the Queensland and Western Australian authorities on crocodile protection issues as required. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The tests which are currently being carried out there are particularly important so far as environmental conditions are concerned. [More…]

• Indeed, they might have much wider implications than just the effect of the environment. [More…]

• My friend Senator Bonnor probably would agree with me that they had a rather idyllic civilisation in those days, but nobody seriously contends that we shoud go back to those times and that sort of environment. [More…]

• I will be relying heavily upon a document entitled ‘Furnishing Industry Workforce: Its Future in a Changing Economic Environment ‘, which is a submission made to the Australian Government and the Industries Assistance Commission in March this year by Mr K. F. Carr for the Federated Furnishing Trade Society of Australasia. [More…]

• When that task is inadequately defined, a high probability of preventing a failure in the given operational environment is the only basis of analysis. [More…]

• When the environment is such as to make this proposition absurd the problem can be written off as being too difficult. [More…]

• Marine environmental protection. [More…]

• Under various laws, international agreements, and conventions, the Coast Guard is charged with the prevention of damage to the marine environment and the enhancement of environmental quality. [More…]

• The Senate will recall that the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, of which I am the Chairman, has before it the following reference: [More…]

• The continuing oversight of the problems of pollution, including ways and means of preserving the environment from pollution; and the recommending, as soon as possible, of what further measures might be taken to overcome the problems revealed by the reports of the Senate Select Committees on Air Pollution and Water Pollution, and which measures, if any, should be taken urgently. [More…]

• Although my colleagues on the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment may agree with my remarks, I emphasise that my remarks are of a personal nature. [More…]

• Last year the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment visited the Lower Molonglo water quality control plant in Canberra, and I think that all honourable senators should take time to inspect that facility. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, of which I am a member, has heard evidence from coal interests that it is all right to mine under a catchment area. [More…]

• I should like to be confident that when we arrive at one of these highfalutin agreements between a State and the Commonwealth we will be considering not merely what is involved in satisfying water needs but also the attendant need to protect the environment. [More…]

• If I may digress, there are ways in which one may make the best use of resources and neverthless preserve the environment. [More…]

• We have the Department of Health, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Department of Construction, the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation, the Department of the Northern Territory and the Department of the Capital Territory, the National Capital Development Commission, the Department of Administrative Services, the Department of Primary Industry, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, the Department of Finance, the Commonwealth Grants Commission, the Department of Defence, the Department of Foreign Affairs, the River Murray Commission, the Snowy Mountains Council, the Australian Water Resources Council and the Commonwealth Consultative Committee on Water Resources. [More…]

• The fourth subject on which I wish to speak relates to environmental matters. [More…]

• I do not wish to deal at great length with the environment because Senator Davidson and Senator Jessop, who are far more experienced and knowledgeable in this area than I, have made fine contributions in this regard. [More…]

• The fact that I do not spend a great deal of time discussing environmental matters does not lessen in my mind the importance of that subject. [More…]

• In the protection of the environment and industries which are very much dependent upon water and in the protection of the conditions under which livestock exist, it is necessary to give a very high priority to these water resources projects, even if we have to limit expenditure in other directions. [More…]

• I do not want to take up time by reading the definition in detail, but it refers to the conservation of water resources or the water environment, the management of water quality, the distribution or reticulation of water, the drainage and desalinisation of agricultural land, or the mitigation of flooding. [More…]

• The building of dams in the south-west of Western Australia could have a disastrous effect on the already fragile environment. [More…]

• The implications of all this cannot be stressed enough when we consider a statement printed on page 23 of a document emanating from the Department of Environment and Conservation, entitled An Evaluation of The Dartmouth Project, April 1974. [More…]

• It also suggested that existing examination and quarantine measures for imported live fish and their containers are insufficient to give reasonable assurance of exclusion from Australia of exotic plants and animals which could have an adverse impact upon the Australian environment. [More…]

• The future of the Australian environment and the health and well-being of the Australian people and Australia’s water resources and flora and fauna are at stake in this regard. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development if he can indicate whether discussions with the State governments, seeking the establishment of building standards, have been proceeding? [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…]

• On the environmental side, the operation was closely monitored by experts from CSIRO’s Woodland Ecology Unit. [More…]

• The nature of the environment at Woomera is such that it is expected that it will be some time before the full environmental implications of military use of Woomera will be known and final decision made. [More…]

• Our interest is to see that the matters of health, education and community development are dealt with in a way that enhances the environment of Aboriginal life and the opportunity for enrichment of Aboriginal life in these parts of Australia. [More…]

• Is it the intention to clean up the old mining and treatment area of Rum Jungle to ensure that it conforms with present day methods of mining and protects both the environment and people? [More…]

• Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• -Clearly a number of inferences to be drawn from the honourable senator’s questions are beyond response by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• My understanding is that the present Chief Justice has been enormously interested in the Australian Heritage Commission and the environment. [More…]

• What you have imposed upon us is security which is evident at every turn and which alters our environment substantially. [More…]

• If it is necessary for people to be identified to come into the building, if it is necessary for people to be identified as they move from point to point, is it further necessary that in the place in which they work whether it be the refreshment rooms, an office or the Senate itself, they should display their identification as though they were inmates in a prison or a similar environment? [More…]

• The need for the Parliament itself to set an example and to resist strongly any change in our social environment is a great need indeed. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• As the Government has committed itself to protecting the health and safety of the people and environment of Australia from possible harmful effects associated with nuclear activities in Australia and as the description ‘nuclear activity’ figures in government statements on these matters, can the Minister advise the Senate of the way in which the term ‘nuclear activity’ is defined by the Government? [More…]

• -As Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, I seek leave to make a statement on behalf of the Committee concerning its recent visit to the Alligator Rivers Region of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Five members of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment visited the Alligator Rivers Region of the Northern Territory between 20 and 22 March 1978. [More…]

• The visit was undertaken in pursuance of the Committee ‘s reference relating to the continuing scrutiny of problems of pollution, including ways and means of preserving the environment from pollution. [More…]

• Motivation for the visit at this time sprang from a reply on 22 February 1978 by Senator Carrick, in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), to a question by Senator Mulvihill about the Kakadu National Park. [More…]

• The major topic of discussion was the scope and content of the management plan for the proposed Kakadu National Park and the way in which that would make provision to meet various potential environmental hazards. [More…]

• The Committee stresses that firm dedicated and unambiguous management of the park is essential for successful protection of the Region’s environment. [More…]

• -by leave- Members of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment who went on the field expedition endorse the sentiments expressed by the Chairman. [More…]

• Senator Carrick will recall that during an Estimates committee hearing about two years ago it was stated that, broadly, the final arbiters in a dispute between mining companies and conservationalists were the Minister for the Environment and the Minister for the Northern Territory. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]

• Has the Government considered the report of the House of Representatives Committee on Environment and Conservation in relation to the Ayers Rock/Mount Olga National Park. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• My understanding is that if money is required to make the area more secure or to provide a better environment now that the ore has been removed from its rightful place, money would be forthcoming. [More…]

• A whole host of other things, including the preservation of the environment, were to be looked after. [More…]

• He is destroying the environment. [More…]

• When that project is fully established the local environment will probably not be recognisable. [More…]

• Departments-Aboriginal Affairs, Administrative Services, Attorney-General’s, Business and Consumer Affairs, Capital Territory, Construction, Defence, Education, Employment and Industrial Relations, Environment, Housing and Community Development, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Health, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Industry and Commerce, National Development, Northern Territory, Postal and Telecommunications, Primary Industry, Productivity, Science, Social Security, Trade and Resources, Transport, Treasury, Veterans’ Affairs. [More…]

• We must balance, on the one hand the need for pure air, and therefore, the control of emission, and the question of the environment against the immediate threat of the growing scarcity of fuel. [More…]

• I was cultured in an environment that reminded me that it is shameful to be silent and let barbarians speak, and I use no other pointed reference than barbarians. [More…]

• -Will the Minister representing the Minister for National Development make available to the Senate for tabling the 104-page report on nuclear energy prepared by the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Sub-committee of the United States Congress? [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 1 978. [More…]

• In accordance with the administrative procedures under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, Pancontinental Mining Limited and Queensland Mines Limited have prepared draft environmental impact statements on the development of the Jabiluka and [More…]

• As indicated by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, 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 interest in the area and the necessary environmental controls, the Government will be proceeding with a tightly-controlled exploration programme 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 first committee of which I was a member was the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, and the next was the Senate Standing Committee on the Social Environment, which looked into the environmental conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and into the protection of their sacred sites. [More…]

• The next Committee of which I became a member was the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, under the chairmanship of my colleague Senator Jessop. [More…]

• Are the urban fire brigades in the major cities and ports in Tasmania sufficiently equipped to deal with outbreaks of fire on vessels which not only could affect the lives and the cargoes on the vessels concerned but also could affect drastically the port facilities, lives and the general environment. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [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…]

• Ex gratia payments to the mining companies are conditional upon rehabilitation of mined areas to the satisfaction of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Yes; the responsibility for rehabilitation aspects rests with my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• We support first class landscaping around the buildings to ensure they blend in with the present environment. [More…]

• This matter mainly falls within the responsibility of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Extensive scientific investigations by overseas authorities have been evaluated by appropriate expert committees in Australia and is has been judged that the currently approved uses of phenoxy-acid herbicides including 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T, do not represent a hazard to health or the environment. [More…]

• Furthermore, it is well recognised that the merino sheep is the product of and is particularly adapted to the Australian environment and it has reached that stage through many generations of selection for the particular circumstances to which stud masters adapt their sheep. [More…]

• If I could go on to refer to some of the more outrageous treatment given migant groups in the Press, let me say that the Government is not entirely innocent of creating the environment in which the Press can write that sort of story. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment when investigating the woodchip problem and its effects on forest products found it necessary to probe so many of the assertions that are made and the views that are held. [More…]

• I earlier used the word ‘incentives’ and it is worth noting that the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, in its report on the woodchip industry, advocated the use of a carrot to promote the expansion of private forests of different timbers. [More…]

• It is significant that former Senator Everett has played a role on Tasmanian committees in taking on board some of the findings of our own Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment and translating those findings to State level. [More…]

• The State of Michigan at the turn of the last century had a number of areas that had been overcut but with skilful government management and with the co-operation of private forestry operators it was able to reverse some of the ill-fated attempts to create farmland where it should never have been attemped From evidence given to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, which delved into the woodchip industry, I am aware of some of the ill-fated attempts in Victoria to create farmland, of the way in which the environment was raped, of the way in which forests were pillaged and of what followed. [More…]

• What the Tasmanian Minister for Mines, Forests and Environment, also the Hydro Electric Commission, Mr Andrew Lowrey, is considering, is in effect tearing up the existing Acts and starting again. [More…]

• The 1975 House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation reported on the softwood forest agreements. [More…]

• I believe that the appropriate committee to make a reasonably expeditious inquiry into this subject would be a committee of this chamber which already has looked at matters associated with softwood plantings in Australia, that is, the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, which last year produced a report dealing particularly with the woodchip industry in Australia. [More…]

• Therefore, after the Opposition’s amendment has been dealt with- I indicate now that for the reasons I have mentioned I will not be supporting the Opposition’s amendmentI propose to move that this Bill be referred to the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee on Science and the Environment for a report as soon as possible but not later than 25 August 1978. [More…]

• I am supported in those remarks by the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment entitled ‘Woodchips and the Environment’. [More…]

• Clearfelling for woodchips poses a number of threats to the environment, [More…]

• Of course, the procurement of those hardwood chips in some areas, particularly the Eden area, is devastating the environment. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment also made the following statement at page 393 of its report: [More…]

• We heard from Senator McLaren this evening of the devastation caused to our environment by the woodchip industry. [More…]

• The Government has taken this decision because of its concern to ensure nationwide protection of Australians and their environment from the hazards of such activities. [More…]

• My Government is concerned to see radiation protection measures fully implemented nationwide and that further work be carried out to specify standards and control measures to protect the environment. [More…]

• At the Federal level I have asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development to coordinate action on the development of the Code. [More…]

• He was asked whether he believed the Iwasaki project would harm the environment of central Queensland. [More…]

• To insist upon an independent and impartial assessment of all social, economic and environmental impacts of the proposed developments, to be followed by an open public enquiry before an impartial tribunal, at which all interested persons shall have the opportunity to ask questions, to raise objections and to lead evidence as to the anticipated consequences of the developments, and as to the manner in which it will affect their lives and livelihoods, and the environment in which they live; [More…]

• As you are aware, this proposal falls within the scope of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act in view of its environmental significance and the need for Commonwealth approvals in relation to foreign exchange control. [More…]

• On the basis of the information provided to my Department under paragraph 2 of the Administrative Procedures of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, I have determined that an environmental impact statement is required for the purpose of achieving the object of the Act. [More…]

• I wish to draw your attention to the requirement of paragraph 4.2 of the Administrative Procedures in relation to consultation with my Department on the matters to be dealt with by the environmental impact statement. [More…]

• In this regard, you should contact the Office of Environment Protection (Mr W. J. Atkinson, Canberra 46 9136) to arrange consultation prior to your submission of the draft environmental impact statement. [More…]

• COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES [More…]

• Pursuant to paragraph 3.1 of the Environment Protection Administrative Procedures, I, Raymond John Groom, Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, hereby direct the preparation or obtaining, and submission to me, of an environmental impact statement in relation to the following proposed action, namely: the making of a decision by the Reserve Bank on whether to approve exchange control transactions in relation to the proposal by Iwasaki Sangyo Co. (Australia) Pty Ltd to establish and operate a resort and tourist area at Farnborough, Queensland. [More…]

• Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I will close on that note and make this final plea to the Government: That it take the initiative, under the legislation that is available to it, to ensure that before the project is proceeded with every possible safeguard in terms of the environment, foreign investment, immigration, and any other aspect that is to the benefit of Australia is properly investigated and safeguarded. [More…]

• Another concept I do not want to see developed anywhere in Australia is the concept of Australians being denied the right to benefits from and enjoy their environment. [More…]

• The company would have the responsibility of ensuring that no adverse environmental effects resulted from the proposal. [More…]

• It is important for Senator Keeffe to note that on 1 3 January this year the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) issued an order requiring the company to produce an acceptable environmental impact study. [More…]

• The important thing is that the Commonwealth Government has acted in this respect and the company is apparently working on the environmental impact study which is expected to be ready by mid- June. [More…]

• So on two thrusts the matter has come on to the Federal Government’s plate- on the environment thrust and on the question of foreign investment and its implications. [More…]

• The governments of Australia, Commonwealth and State, have between them complete power to decide how any land, any project or any aspect of the environment shall be managed for the future, so if this project is developed complete control over it lies with the elected governments. [More…]

• It is not for me as a Minister at this distance to evaluate the pluses or minuses of the project and it is not for anyone else to do so without a knowledge of the environmental impact study, without a knowledge of the report from the Foreign Investment Review Board and without knowing what are basically the terms of the agreement with the Queensland Government and what is in the small print as to the nature of the undertaking, the involvement of the Australian people, whether it will be something that will create substantial employment for Australians and whether it can attract considerable tourism to Australia. [More…]

• I know that Senator Jessop in his capacity as Chairman of the Senate Standing Committe on Science and the Environment would be particularly interested in this matter, and rightly so. [More…]

• Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill 1978 [More…]

• In these Bills, 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 its site, some 200 km 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 here 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 functions of the Supervising Scientist are set out at Clause 5, and as honourable senators will see, his role is basically threefold: 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 environmental 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 Co-ordinating Committee, to obtain comprehensive and coordinated 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…]

• 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…]

• Mr President, 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…]

• This Bill is the second in the package of three Bills under the portfolio of Environment, Housing and Community Development which the Government has decided to introduce as part of its policy for uranium mining developments in the Northern Territory. [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 Attorney-General, 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 Senators 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…]

• Environment Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court) Bill [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…]

• The Bill also provides that the Court may order the repayment of costs incurred in work to remedy any detriment to the environment. [More…]

• Mr President, this Bill, together with the related Bills which are being introduced, are 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 protection of the environment and the welfare of all Australians. [More…]

• Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978 [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 here 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 people and the environment. [More…]

• I should emphasise that this legislation is concerned with 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 any 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 1 3 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 arises from nuclear activities, as defined in the Bill. [More…]

• Generally, we would see the steps involved in arriving at approved codes of practice as including: 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 in dustry 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…]

• Mr President, 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…]

• -I refer the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development to an answer given by the Minister yesterday in the Other place which appears on page 1957 of the House of Representatives Hansard. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, which carried out an inquiry during the period 1974 to 1 975- at the time of the Whitlam Labor Governmenton the operation of the first two forestry softwood agreements also expressed concern in its report about the lack of research available to the industry. [More…]

• That concern which was expressed by the FORWOOD conference and also by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation led to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics conducting a study of the industry, the report of which was finally published in 1977. [More…]

• Whether it should be the Senate Standing Committee on National Resources or the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment I do not know. [More…]

• If we were to go along with the idea of referring this Bill to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment or to the National Resources Committee, we would not achieve our purpose because no mention of new plantings is made in the Bill. [More…]

• The point I am making is that the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, of which Senator Townley and Senator Mulvihill were members, in regard to taxation incentives have not been implemented by the Government. [More…]

• I refer to the report on the woodchip industry by the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment which is headed by my colleague Senator Jessop. [More…]

• Honourable senators who served on the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment when it inquired into the woodchip industry would agree with me that a much longer term is required to report on any reference relating to the forestry and timber industries. [More…]

• The Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development will recall that yesterday I asked him a question concerning the Great Barrier Reef and oil drilling. [More…]

• New sections are to be inserted after section 23 of the principal Act to empower any person authorised by the land council to obtain information and documents relating either to uranium mining operations in the Alligator Rivers Region or to the applications made by the lands council to the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory concerning matters affecting the environment of the Alligator Rivers Region. [More…]

• This amending legislation protects mining interests from disclosing incriminating material concerning environmental protection. [More…]

• The provisions protect the power of corporate secrecy and make 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…]

• They will damage the environment totally and completely as they did in the Rum Jungle area. [More…]

• I hope that somewhere along the line before these Bills are finished with, the Minister will explain what safeguards were used in transferring the ore from Rum Jungle to Snake Creek and whether there is any danger to the environment or human beings in that area. [More…]

• It will also oppose and seek to amend the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978. [More…]

• As I said at the beginning, I am not going to say very much about the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]

• In brief, the amendments are, firstly, to necessitate a public inquiry before the confirmation of the nuclear codes; secondly, to establish an environmental protection advisory council independent of government control; and, thirdly, to require that codes not be confirmed until after public inquiry and findings have been reported to the Minister. [More…]

• For the reasons I have stated with regard to the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill, it is quite clear that the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill should be rejected by the Senate, particularly in view of the fact that three and a half years ago Liberal and National Country Party senators rejected regulations made under the Act on the grounds that it was improper to use an Act rooted in the defence powers of the Commonwealth for commercial purposes, and the regulations were disallowed. [More…]

• It is with pleasure that I enter the debate on the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill, which the Senate is debating concurrently with the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]

• The environmentalists, who are sincere on this issue, will point out to Senator Walsh and to others that the use of coal can be more damaging to the environment than the use of uranium. [More…]

• However, I do not support the present form of the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill, the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Bill or the Environmental Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court) Bill. [More…]

• The purpose of the proposed amendments is to give the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly some involvement in environment protection and some control of parks and wildlife in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• They are certainly terribly conscious of the preservation of the environment. [More…]

• People with expertise are employed by the mining companies to do all they possibly can to preserve the very valuable environment. [More…]

• -The Senate this afternoon is debating two Bills cognately- the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1 978 and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978. [More…]

• My colleagues on this side of the chamber who will follow me in this debate no doubt will speak on that Bill as well but will speak also on the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]

• I went with the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• It is an area of great significance to the Australian environment. [More…]

• This afternoon we are debating a Bill to amend the Atomic Energy Act and also the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978. [More…]

• This package of legislation deals, as I said, with amendments to the Atomic Energy Act, with aspects of the environment in the Alligator Rivers region where the mines are situated, and with Aboriginal land rights. [More…]

• They even cover aspects of the environment. [More…]

• I support the Government on these two Bills, the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1978 and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978. [More…]

• The second Bill, the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill, is mainly a machinery Bill which will allow us, when the mines commence, to lay down certain regulations under which the rnining operations can take place and which will allow for safeguards, for the men working there and those who would be involved down the line in transport and other ancillaries. [More…]

• What is more, the reactors operated in the natural environment for 1 50,000 years. [More…]

• -The Senate is debating the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]

• I shall turn briefly to the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978. [More…]

• The stated purpose of this Bill is ‘to provide for a code of practice so that nuclear activities are effectively controlled throughout the country in the interests of health, safety and the environment’. [More…]

• But it specifies ‘in the interests of health, safety and the environment’. [More…]

• Of course the provisions of this Bill go far wider than questions of health, safety and the environment. [More…]

• Before I was interrupted I was dealing with the provisions of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]

• We must understand that the Parliament operates in a society in which there should be freedom of discussion and debate on these matters and that persons involved in that process of freedom of discussion and debate should not be subjected to the sort of pernicious powers which are available to the Government under the Atomic Energy Act and which will be available to the Government if the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill is passed. [More…]

• The second Bill which the Senate is debating this evening is the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]

• It simply enables the creation of codes designed to protect the health and safety of the people of Australia and to protect the Australian environment from possible harmful effects of nuclear activities. [More…]

• I repeat that the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill is simply an enabling Bill designed to enable Australians and Australia to be protected. [More…]

• He alleged that the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill goes beyond the protection of the health and safety of the people of Australia. [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…]

• Further to the Prime Minister ‘s letter of 3 1 August 1 977, 1 understand the Prime Minister will shortly send you a draft copy of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]

• It says that the Minister may authorise a person to issue any orders the Minister considers necessary to control or to eliminate any hazards, assumed or otherwise, to the health or the safety of persons or the environment from any nuclear activity. [More…]

• As it turned out, all six States objected to the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]

• The States maintain objections to the amendments to the Atomic Energy Act similar to those they have in respect of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]

• Three of the States have been quite specific in restricting their remarks to the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]

• In consequence of the failure of the Commonwealth to consult with the States, the Prime Minister announced that he would amend the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill in a minor way, namely, by delaying the proclamation of key sections of the Bill until further consultation had taken place. [More…]

• We ought to take into account the damage being done to the environment by conventional power stations. [More…]

• In doing so something like 5 tonnes of carbon dioxide and many kilos of nitrous oxides are liberated to the environment. [More…]

• These create tremendous environmental problems which are not evident from nuclear power stations. [More…]

• Nuclear power stations pose no threat to the atmospheric environment at all. [More…]

• We are liberating all this carbon dioxide to the environment which is increasing, slowly but surely, the temperature of our close environment to a degree- Senator Coleman says she is worried about life- which will necessitate serious contemplation in the future. [More…]

• It is a serious environmental threat. [More…]

• Moreover, the nitrous oxides and other gases that are liberated from conventional power stations pursue a course which takes them to the ozone area and would endanger the environmental shield and increase the threat to life in this world. [More…]

• The Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill does nothing to protect or safeguard human health or safety or to protect the environment. [More…]

• The two Bills now being debated cognately are the Atomic Energy Amendment BUI and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]

• How does the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill or the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill protect that intimacy? [More…]

• I have said already that these Bills will not even protect the environment. [More…]

• How can there be protection of the environment with the mining of uranium? [More…]

• I take this opportunity, Mr President, to draw your attention to Part HI of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill, which is grandiosely entitled ‘Codes of Practice’. [More…]

• Paragraph (a) states that it may: specify standards to bc observed, practices and procedures to be followed and measures (including measures for or in relation to the restoration of the environment from the effects of nuclear activities) to be taken with respect to nuclear activities; [More…]

• We observe that clauses 11 and 13 of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill have come in for some comment from the Opposition and from some State Premiers. [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…]

• I take part in this debate very conscious of the fact that the Government assumes that the Bills- the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1978 and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978- will establish mechanisms for protecting the health and safety of the people of Australia. [More…]

• I refer to a document entitled ‘Conclusions and Recommendations of Report “Nuclear Power Costs” Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Sub-Committee of Committee on Government Operations, United States Congress’. [More…]

• Under the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill, the government would be empowered to declare codes of practice to protect the environment and health and safety of Australians from the effects of uranium mining and other nuclear activities. [More…]

• However, clause 14(1) (d) of this bill ensures that the government can suppress any information relating to the environment, health and safety standards at uranium mines. [More…]

• The Bill leaves it to the Minister for Environment to decide whether the public will have a chance to comment on proposed health, safety and environmental codes. [More…]

• The presentation of this legislation is a cynical exercise which has little to do with health, safety, the environment or nuclear safeguards. [More…]

• The Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill overrides several powers now exercised by the States. [More…]

• I seek your support and co-operation in deferring the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill and the Atomic Energy Act Amendment Bill until full and proper consultations have taken place at the Premiers Conference due on June 22. [More…]

• We strongly urge you to oppose the passage of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill and the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill when they come before the Senate. [More…]

• Our technology is not yet sufficiently advanced to deal with all the known effects on human health and the environment of nuclear energy. [More…]

• Radon is one of the rare gases, without chemical properties, and the only way to remove it from the environment is to freeze it out with a coolant like liquid air. [More…]

• Whilst on the one hand mouthing pious sentiments about the need for consultation between State and Federal governments before codes are proclaimed or enforced, the Government has so worded the clauses of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill and the amendments to the Atomic Energy Act that, in fact, the States have no rights at all. [More…]

• Clauses 8 and 11 of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill are cases in point. [More…]

• I am not in the slightest degree equipped by education or experience to pass a judgment upon the issues to which Senator Haines- adopting the views of others as well as speaking for herselfhas referred with so much concern but I have tried to follow them and I have formed my own judgment in the light of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry and the debates that have been held. [More…]

• Nevertheless, the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1978 and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978 that are before us disclose a real concern although that may only be in deference to a significant section of public opinion. [More…]

• I will refer only to the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978 which I will call the ‘code’ Bill. [More…]

• So clause 9 inserts into the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill these provisions which, to the unsceptical would induce the first blush. [More…]

• Proposed section 13 in Part V- Miscellaneous- of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill provides: [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…]

• CSIRO research will support such community interests as the better protection of our environment, flora and fauna, and consumer interests. [More…]

• The first is that I believe that the findings of the independent inquiry into CSIRO have vindicated this Government’s practice of minimising bureaucratic influence on scientific research and providing the proper environment for innovation. [More…]

• The Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978 purports to provide uniformity in all States and Territories. [More…]

• 1 refer to clauses 12 and 14 of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill, to which Senator Wright referred. [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…]

• -The Senate is debating the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1 978 and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978. [More…]

• I think that anyone listening to the debate in this chamber or elsewhere tonight would not have been aware that he was talking about the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill and the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill, which are two important subjects to Australia that do not figure in his dissertation at all. [More…]

• Let me refer first to the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill which is an unusual piece of legislation. [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…]

• Clause 1 3 of the Bill gives powers to the Governor-General to deal with special situations if he is satisfied that the health or safety of persons, or the environment, are likely to be harmed by a situation resulting from a nuclear activity that exists in a State or Territory. [More…]

• Therefore, I have some concern about the results and the effectiveness of this particular Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]

• I turn now to the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill which is being dealt with in this debate jointly with the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]

• The Senate is debating the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1 978 and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978 conjointly, to which the Opposition has moved the following amendment: [More…]

• Such questions arise with particular force in relation to the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill and the proposed amendments to the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• To requests by State governments for withdrawal of the legislation to enable reconsideration, the Prime Minister has responded that sections 1 1 and 13 of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill, should not commence in relation to the States until the views of the States have been considered. [More…]

• The Department of Trade and Resources, the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Department of National Development and the Department of Health are all concerned with aspects of uranium. [More…]

• Despite that, I am not in favour of the legislation which is before us- the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill- being passed through the Parliament. [More…]

• -The Senate has been debating at length two Bills, the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1978 and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978, and I thank honourable senators for their contributions. [More…]

• As to the background of these Bills, it is worth reminding the Senate that last year the people and the Parliament had before them the results of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry in two volumes, styled the First and Second Reports. [More…]

• The second Bill, the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes ) Bill 1 978, is an important Bill. [More…]

• This second Bill proposes to establish measures to protect the health and safety of the people and the environment from possible harmful effects of nuclear activities. [More…]

• The Government clearly intends to proceed with the mining of uranium regardless of the consequences to health, the environment, the Aboriginal people and their aspirations for land rights, civil liberties and world peace and security. [More…]

• We have been defeated just now in our major opposition to the Government’s intention but we continue our opposition in respect of the three Bills before the Senate at this stage- the Environment Protection (Alligators Rivers Region) Bill, the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Bill and the Environment Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court) Bill. [More…]

• Our opposition to these Bills is based on the assertion that the Bills purport to provide machinery by which the environmental and health consequences of mining can be regulated and their most destructive consequences contained. [More…]

• On the other hand, the Australian Labor Party, the Opposition, has several major objectives in this matter: Firstly, the prevention of mining; secondly the securing of Aboriginal land rights in an unqualified manner; thirdly, the protection of the environment; and, fourthly, the protection of the health of this community. [More…]

• I turn now to the first Bill, the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill. [More…]

• It expressed uncertainty about the types, amounts and chemical forms of mine pollutants; in the environment; changes in toxicity of contaminants with time or place; sensitivity of the environment to toxic substances; and effects of other non-toxic factors such as eutrophication. [More…]

• It should be clear to the Senate that such constructions and facilities could and probably would endanger the environment in many ways. [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…]

• The Opposition welcomes a number of the matters to be included in the treaty, particularly the co-operation between the two governments on mining and oil drilling, the protection of the environment and the magement of the resources in the area. [More…]

• My understanding is that the answer is yes, but bear in mind that the overall codes of practice under the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill will be drawn up as soon as possible and they will have an overriding impact. [More…]

• the Northern Territory Environment Council. [More…]

• The Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill deals with an area which will be almost exclusively Aboriginal land under the provisions of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]

• They spoil the environment less than the white population. [More…]

• I and my Government share many of the goals and intentions of the Opposition of endeavouring to preserve the environment and to prevent despoliation. [More…]

• to consider programs for research into, and programs for the collection and assessment of information relating to, the effects on the environment in the Alligator Rivers Region of uranium mining operations in the Region; [More…]

• Those duties are directed to looking after the environment of the Alligator River, not the mining of uranium. [More…]

• It is to protect the environment, since mining is to take place, and to ensure that the land is reclaimed after mining has ceased. [More…]

• It is not those who have an interest in the environment of the Alligator Rivers Region who are to be listed; rather it is those who have an interest in uranium mining. [More…]

• Surely they should be on the list of those eligible for appointment to an environment co-ordinating advisory committee. [More…]

• We have to ask: Are the mining companies protecting the environment? [More…]

• Do they have documents which indicate they are not protecting the environment? [More…]

• the collection and assessment during that year of information relating to the effects on the environment in the Alligator Rivers Region of uranium mining operations in the Region; [More…]

• He could state: ‘My comment is that XY deserves a bonus for particular efforts to preserve the environment’. [More…]

• Subject to certain provisions contained in the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill the staff of the Supervising Scientist and the Supervising Scientist himself should not be exceptions to that requirement. [More…]

• by inserting after the definition of ‘ranger’ in subsection (1 ) the following definition: “Region” means so much of the Alligator Rivers Region, within the meaning of the definition of that Region in the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Act 1978, as does not include- [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 of areas having special significance in relation to Aboriginals. [More…]

• To illustrate my point I refer to a matter that I discussed with Senator Carrick in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development during the Estimate committee hearings. [More…]

• During the Estimates Committee hearings Senator Carrick admitted that it will be a king-sized job to try to make people conscious of the environment. [More…]

• Radon is one of the rare gases, without chemical properties, and the only way to remove it from the environment is to freeze it out with a coolant like liquid air. [More…]

• Radon is the gas that will be released into the environment of the Kakadu National Park when mining proceeds on these three leases. [More…]

• The existence of these pastoral leases poses a further threat to the environment of the National Park, for reasons which will be evident to the Senate and which have been discussed in detail in the Fox report. [More…]

• I proceed now to the third of this series of Bills which the Senate is now debating and that is the Bill relating to the enforcement by the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory of Australia of certain provisions for the protection of the environment in the Alligator Rivers region. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to confer jurisdiction within the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory in relation to the enforcement of the requirements for the protection of the environment in this area. [More…]

• We do support the principle that a jurisdiction should be established in relation to the enforcement of certain legal requirements for the protection of the environment in the Alligator Rivers region, but we do not agree that this jurisdiction should be in the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Similarly, it is our view that the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill should be in jurisdiction of the Federal Court of Australia, and one of my colleagues will explain our position on that at a later stage. [More…]

• I have had the opportunity together with members of the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment to discuss his role as he sees it in the supervision of this very important national park area. [More…]

• Mr Bob Fry, I believe, is well qualified to oversee environmental matters associated with the park and certainly with the mining that hopefully will be taking place in the near future. [More…]

• I know the gentleman personally and I can vouch for his integrity and his capacity to be able to deal with environmental matters associated with the Bills under discussion. [More…]

• From what Mr Fry has told me they will be comprehensive and will comprise personnel who will be very capable of dealing with matters and safeguarding the environment in the Kakadu National Park region. [More…]

• I was very impressed when I visited the Lucas Heights establishment of the Atomic Energy Commission to learn that the Commission itself has been studying the environment of the Kakadu area over a period of years and certainly recognises the fragility of the environment, particularly in the wet season when the floods can occur. [More…]

• It always amazes me that people tend to over-react in this situation because radon itself dissipates very rapidly in the environment and remains for only a very short period of time. [More…]

• I do so because I believe that this Bill is lacking in National Park and environment protection. [More…]

• I have never heard either the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) or the Minister for the Northern Territory (Mr Adermann) echo the sentiments of the present United States Secretary of the Interior, who has said that, whatever America’s fuel demands might be, wildlife refuges will not be mined. [More…]

• On one memorable occasion, when the Minister for Education took carriage of legislation dealing with the environment he indicated to me- I accepted it in good faith- that the national view on the custody of the Kakadu National Park would prevail. [More…]

• I think that at that time the present Minister for National Development (Mr Newman) was Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The fate of these, and the manner and extent to which man and other biota in the environment may be subjected to them are important matters on which some information has been sought. [More…]

• In setting effective anti-pollution safeguards not only is the environment protected but mining companies immediately know the standards which they must maintain and will know if and when they can operate so removing speculation from their acitivities. [More…]

• It is essential that mining companies can move in a predictable environment in which to make decisions and that governments do not leave them (up in the air) as to their rights and obligations. [More…]

• In the chain of command- the co-ordinating committee- about which we are talking I would like to see the inclusion of a representative of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• I think that Senator Carrick would go in to bat for the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Groom, in the Cabinet discussions but I know enough about numbers to know what will happen. [More…]

• Even at this late stage I believe that the Government could at least have the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment sitting in on the meetings of the proposed committee of Federal and State departments. [More…]

• Alternatively, I would like to believe that the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment could have access to the minutes of this committee in case there is any general difference of opinion. [More…]

• This debate concerns three Bills that are all directly related to and associated with environmental protection. [More…]

• I refer to the AtomicEnergy Amendment Bill and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]

• Of the five Bills, there are three dealing with environmental matters, each covering specific areas. [More…]

• They are the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill, which is more localised, the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Bill, which deals with much broader areas but which still deals with conservation and protection of the environment and the Environment Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court) Bill. [More…]

• I have heard the Opposition today express concern over many aspects of the proposed legislation, concern with regard to the risks of the environment. [More…]

• We have likewise laid down strong guidelines in these three Bills which, I repeat, deal with the environment. [More…]

• That plutonium, if released into the environment, persists for a very long time. [More…]

• My concern at the moment is that the community can be misled by statements about, as some people would put it, the lack of concern, where it is proposed to mine uranium in the Northern Territory, for the protection of the environment. [More…]

• The Government is doing all that it possibly can, as I said earlier, in regard to marketing by way of its guidelines, and in regard to mining and the protection of the environment generally in the area of the Northern Territory where that mining is to take place. [More…]

• In dealing with the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill, which concerns a local area, we can see very clearly just how much effort is being put into making sure that there will be environmental control and protection; that the Government will even go as far as to make sure that those activities are coordinated [More…]

• I pointed out that the Government had accepted responsibilities with regard to the overall aspects of the environment in the whole uranium area in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I said that the Government was also very conscious of the need for environment protection generally speaking and for safeguards and guidelines with respect to the sale of uranium. [More…]

• The Government has made sure that not only will it do all it can to protect the environment but also it will enlist the right type of representation from this area to serve on the consultative committee. [More…]

• Not only has the Government set up a consultative committee with a supervising scientist, to whom Senator Jessop referred this morning when he spoke to this legislation, but also it has gone further and set up a research institute to ensure that the work will not be purely observational but will involve research to make sure that the environment both in the short and long terms will be protected. [More…]

• The Government will make sure that there are strict environmental controls and safeguards generally in this region where mining is to take place. [More…]

• As such it will be able to assess fully and watch closely the environmental impact in this area. [More…]

• But the difference is that we are standing up and dealing with environmental aspects, openly saying that we are in favour of the mining of uranium. [More…]

• In respect of environmental protection, the Government is doing all that it can to make sure that the environment is protected. [More…]

• However in respect of the environment, Mrs Nobbs in a letter to me stated: [More…]

• I have a copy of correspondence dated 13 January 1978 from the Deputy Premier of South Australia, who is also the Minister for the Environment in that State, to Mrs Nobbs in which he said: [More…]

• Accordingly the Department for the Environment has permitted limited exploration . [More…]

• We are now talking about the environment and the concern which is being expressed by a State government which has sent me and no doubt you, Mr President, as a South Australian senator, a telex criticising the Federal Government because the Federal Government is openly bringing in legislation to protect the environment and doing all it can to make sure that the environment is protected. [More…]

• I now come to the interesting part of the letter from the Minister for the Environment. [More…]

• Of course it does not contravene the Act, but who is in charge of changing the Act to make sure that it does if there is concern about the environment and about uranium? [More…]

• Let me make it clear that we are discussing environmental aspects of the mining of uranium in the Ranger area. [More…]

• The South Australian Minister for the Environment has said that it should not significantly impair the quality of the ground water within the uranium ore body. [More…]

• What the Opposition is concerned about and what it is criticising us about is the lack of environmental safety. [More…]

• It is also researching a process which is a greater risk of polluting the environment because of the underwater streams than anything that would take place in the Ranger area. [More…]

• I ask the South Australian Government in turn to stand up as a government of this country and give support to a government in Canberra that is doing all it can to make sure that there will be environmental protection. [More…]

• The Federal Government has openly stated that it will mine and export uranium with stringent safeguards, both with regard to the sale of uranium and with regard to the conservation aspects of the environment in that area. [More…]

• It will make sure that there will be protection of the environment generally and at the same time make sure that we meet our international responsibilities. [More…]

• For one beautiful moment I thought he was in a fine fury because he was appalled at the fact that Aboriginal sacred sites were being polluted and that testing in connection with the mining of uranium in South Australia was endangering the environment. [More…]

• That is one of the main themes to have emerged from a 104-page report on nuclear energy which is soon to be released by the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources SubCommittee of Congress. [More…]

• In his second reading speech, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) said: [More…]

• The diversity as well as making Ranger so interesting, implicates the problem of assessing the impact of any manmade disturbance to the environment. [More…]

• We do not know what the environment or the ecology is like before we start, yet the Government has drawn up Bills to protect them. [More…]

• How can these Bills keep that part of the environment free and clear when the miners themselves at this stage do not know where the dams will be built? [More…]

• The Government cannot say that they will be in a safe place or that the environment will be kept safe. [More…]

• We are less than certain about so much of the environment in this area. [More…]

• It also boggles at how man can go forward and endanger his own environment in this unthinking, unknowing way. [More…]

• How can we talk about preserving the environment? [More…]

• Why are we bringing in environmental Bills when we do not even know what the environment is and we are not prepared to wait to find out? [More…]

• We know what has happened in other countries which have allowed the environment to be polluted, but we are not going to learn by them. [More…]

• I do not doubt Mr Fry’s integrity but I doubt his ability to be evenhanded in the matter of dangers to the environment. [More…]

• With all this pressure on the non-miners, if the Government’s stated concern about the environment is real, why has it not put any pressure on the miners? [More…]

• We all know that it is going to be impossible for them to mine uranium there without there being danger to the miners, to the environment and to us all. [More…]

• I am all for safeguarding the environment. [More…]

• I come from the Northern Territory and, with one or two exceptions, I support the Bills which are before us, namely, the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill, the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Bill and the Environment Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court) Bill. [More…]

• I was interested to hear Senator Melzer’s comments about destroying the environment- the animals, the people, et cetera. [More…]

• Why is it- I exclude the honourable senator from the expression I am about to use- that the ‘greenies’ are concentrating on the Northern Territory- the area in which, naturally, uranium will be mined- and ignoring the other parts of Australia where immense projects which are to take place will destroy the environment and may result in ill-effects for the communities near those projects. [More…]

• It is a very complex and complete plan of action in which the environment is safeguarded and in which the mining and development of uranium is safeguarded. [More…]

• We are dealing today with three Bills- the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill, the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Bill and the Environment Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court) Bill. [More…]

• I think that Senator Melzer was a little hard on the companies in that area when she said they were doing all sorts of things and that nothing was being done to look after the ecology or the environment. [More…]

• Has she seen the environmental surveys and plans that have been conducted? [More…]

• That sort of thing is destroying the environment, is it not? [More…]

• Today we are debating three Bills which are essentially environmental in nature. [More…]

• They are the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill, the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Bill, and the Environment Protection (Northern Territory Superme Court) Bill. [More…]

• The second Bill sets up mechanisms to ensure that the environment is protected in perpetuity. [More…]

• The third Bill- the Environment Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court) Billproposes to confer jurisdiction on the Supreme Court in 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…]

• In the Committee stage I shall be proposing amendments to the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill. [More…]

• The amendments underline our recognition of the role of the Northern Territory in respect of the powers and functions of the Supervising Scientist which are to be established under the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill. [More…]

• Two major decisions ofthe Government are, firstly, to proceed with the establishment of the Kakadu National Park and, secondly, 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, while the other Bill- the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill- will establish the environmental protection arrangements. [More…]

• It needs to be remembered however, that the percentages related to those teachers working in a ‘special capacity’ in the Migrant and Multicultural education area and do not take into account teachers working in the ‘normal ‘classroom environment who may have expertise in the education of migrant children. [More…]

• I refer also to the following statement which was reported in the Melbourne Age of 20 May 1978 to have been made by Mr Brian Appleford, spokesman for the Friends of the Earth: the Department of Primary Industry had insisted that the anti-whaling Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development be denied the right to make a separate submission to the inquiry. [More…]

• I ask: Firstly, is it a fact that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development is registered as or was announced to the International Whaling Commission as being one of the principal parties to the inquiry? [More…]

• -My information is that the chairman of the inquiry, Sir Sidney Frost regards as principal parties the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, along with the Department of Primary Industry, Project Jonah, Cheynes Beach Whaling Company and others. [More…]

• That is dealt with in the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill. [More…]

• The problem is that if people, businesses or companies breach the enviromental protection measures outlined in the Bill in such a way as would be destructive to the environment, to the health of workers in the industry, or to the community generally, they may conceal that breach by claiming that the information which would establish it would lead to their incrimination. [More…]

• Supervising Scientist’ means the Supervising Scientist as defined in the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Act 1978;. [More…]

• 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…]

• The Director is not entitled to maintain a suit by virtue of this section unless the matter in relation to which the requirement is sought to be enforced is a matter affecting the environment in a part of the Alligator Rivers Region that is included in the area of a park, reserve or conservation zone under the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975. [More…]

• After sub-clause (1), insert the following new subclauses: ( 1 a) 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…]

• (IB) Sub-section (Ia) does not apply in relation to a particular happening, incident or transaction occurring as part 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…]

• More importantly, if the Law Reform Commission is to advise the Government as to the people who have a right of action in the realm of the environment, I put forward the enormous weakness in the Constitution of Australia whereby the right to object to unconstitutional expenditure of money is denied to anybody but the State Attorney-General. [More…]

• If the Law Reform Commission is to be entrusted with the function of defining appropriate plaintiffs in the environment sphere, I hope that its members will read in Hansard my expressions with regard to a deficiency of a much more important character whereby private individuals are not entitled to approach any court to declare unconstitutional appropriations which in fact are unconstitutional. [More…]

• The Director is not entitled to maintain a suit by virtue of this section unless the matter in relation to which the requirement is sought to be enforced is a matter affecting the environment- [More…]

• The fact is that we are debating the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill which sets out to achieve in Australia a series of nuclear codes and practices to provide the highest possible safeguards. [More…]

• Against that background may I say that following correspondence between the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the States regarding the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill Commonwealth and State Ministers met in Canberra on 1 8 May of this year. [More…]

• I am advised that the discussions between officials indicated that the States were most concerned about two of the six Bills introduced into the Parliament last month- the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill and the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill. [More…]

• These amendments should not be seen as a weakening of the Government’s resolve to achieve, in co-operation with the States, effective and uniform regulation and control of nuclear activities insofar as those activities affect the health, safety and environment of Australians. [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; [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 insofar 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…]

• Despite the fact that the mining of uranium at Roxby Downs in South Australia might be detrimental to the whole of South Australiait might be detrimental to the environment and to the health of the people- and the laws in South Australia do not provide the necessary protection, whether or not the laws of the Commonwealth provide the necessary protection, the Governor-General cannot do anything about it unless the State Government asks him to do something about it. [More…]

• I used clause 13 as an illustration because it concerns safety and environmental protection. [More…]

• Whilst I admit that I am not a legal man, these provisions may be necessary in accordance with constitutional rights, but if they are necessary we have to admit that the Commonwealth Government cannot protect the environment from uranium mining unless we first get a uniform code of agreement which all States will observe. [More…]

• I suggest that what I have to say is relevant to clause 2, which deals with the coming into operation of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill, and to the amendment which has been moved by the Opposition as well as the Government’s proposed amendment. [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 after1 July 1978, to the appropriate Minister for the Northern Territory and shall cause to be published in the Gazette- [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 major changes are precisely these: In the early part, which largely reproduces the clause as printed in the Bill, we seek to add a provision naming the Minister administering the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, so that he too will become directly involved. [More…]

• We propose to establish an Environment Protection Advisory Council which is to be independent of government control, it being required further that no codes will be confirmed until there has been a public inquiry and the findings of that inquiry have been reported to the Minister. [More…]

• The amendment requires that there be an inquiry under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act on environmental aspects of every code. [More…]

• If an inquiry under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act were to be appropriate the Minister could direct it to be undertaken without the need for this amendment to be adopted. [More…]

• There shall be an Environment Protection (Nuclear Activities) Advisory Council. [More…]

• to advise the Minister with respect to any other matters relating to the protection of the health and safety of the people of Australia, and the environment, from possible harmful effects associated with nuclear activities in Australia. [More…]

• After sub-clause ( 1 ), insert the following new 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…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development been drawn to reports of the findings of a United States Congressional committee last week, which are set out in a document entitled Nuclear Power Costs? [More…]

• The purposes of the amendment were, firstly, to require that before the GovernorGeneral made any orders pertaining to the mining or milling of uranium there would have to be a public inquiry and, secondly that the findings of that public inquiry would have to be reported to the Minister administering the Environment Protection Act of 1974 prior to any such order becoming operative. [More…]

• All honourable senators know that the whole thrust of the Labor Senate Opposition’s argument in the earlier weeks of the debate on the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill was that the Government had been recreant in not consulting the States and that it was imperative that the States should be consulted fully and their views sought and understood, presumably so that a consensus could be reached. [More…]

• These amendments should not be seen as a weakening of the Government’s resolve to achieve, in co-operation with the States, effective and uniform regulation and control of nuclear activities insofar as those activities affect the health, safety and environment of Australians. [More…]

• -The purpose of the insertion of new Part IVa relates in a sense to a judicial and constitutional point which is simply this: Assuming the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978 is passed and proclaimed, the Commonwealth Government will be given paramount rights over the mining of uranium. [More…]

• The Environment Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court) Bill 1978 will confer standing on several Commonwealth authorities. [More…]

• If Senator Missen would like to enlarge upon that aspect, I can note it and draw the attention of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) and the Attorney-General (Senator Durack) to any suggested defect. [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, 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), the Minister considers necessary to control and eliminate hazards associated with the situation. [More…]

• I ) 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), arc strictly necessary to control and eliminate hazards associated with the situation. [More…]

• It arises from deficiencies in the present provisions of clause 13, which require, for example, that the Governor-General be satisfied that the health or safety of persons, or the environment, is likely to be harmed by what is called a ‘situation ‘ resulting from a nuclear activity that exists in a State or Territory. [More…]

• Before the Governor-General can make an order, he must be satisfied, firstly, that the health or safety of persons, or the environment, is likely to be harmed by a situation that results from a nuclear activity; secondly, that there are no laws of the Commonwealth or of a State that do not make provision for protecting the health or safety of persons or the environment likely to be affected by that situation; and, thirdly, that the State requests the making of the order. [More…]

• ) the health or safety of persons, or the environment, is likely to be harmed . [More…]

• The licensing provisions in the codes must be related to ‘the health and safety of the people and the environment from the possible harmful effects associated with nuclear activities in Australia ‘. [More…]

• Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1978 reported without amendment; Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978 reported with amendments. [More…]

• I shall certainly refer the thoughts which have been outlined to the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Durack) and to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]

• It is only 10 days since I was last in Queenstown, being there with Mr Ray Groom, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The specific environment of the film was to be that of workers in an oil plant. [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…]

• Accordingly, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) and his predecessor have met with State Ministers on several occasions over the last 2 years to devise jointly the Agreement that is now before the Senate. [More…]

• Through the ages, as we became more industrialised and extended our agricultural and mining industries, little thought was given to proper conservation, to the effect of our actions on the environment, to trying to return the land to its original state after such development had taken place. [More…]

• We are part of our environment. [More…]

• The environment is not stable, no matter what we might think. [More…]

• Our environment is not stable. [More…]

• We have to live within a changing environment. [More…]

• We have to accept that our environment can be fragile and that we have to act responsibly towards it. [More…]

• It will take cognisance of the natural environment and seek to use it and keep it in its natural form and yet make it available so that the public can enjoy the beauty of the flora and fauna of that area. [More…]

• I welcome the construction of” the resort in the natural environment of the central coast area of Queensland. [More…]

• There were more powerful and aggressive negro tribes who preyed on their own kind’s lack of courage and lack of numbers because of their inability to be successful in their own environment and their inability to organise resistance or escape. [More…]

• It is wrong to say that black society has not developed because the blacks have not had the opportunity or that their physical and social environment has been against them. [More…]

• We the undersigned Federal Members and Senators strongly urge the Federal Government to institute a public inquiry into the proposed $100m Iwasaki tourist resort at Yeppoon in Central Queensland under Section 11 ( 1 ) of the Federal Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974. [More…]

• It was signed by Dr Doug Everingham, the member of Parliament for Capricornia, by Barry Cohen, who is our shadow Minister for the Environment, Senator George Georges, Senator Mai Colston, Senator Janine Haines and myself. [More…]

• -On Thursday, 4 May a media release was issued by Mr Ray Harris, who is the president of the local environment group. [More…]

• That policy was based on the findings and recommendations of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry conducted under the Hon. [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…]

• The development of those resources, whilst serving the objectives just mentioned, must also be regulated and controlled so as to ensure full protection of the environment, 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…]

• Clearly, the Government’s policy does not ensure full protection of 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…]

• Australian Environment Council [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, but the Leader of the Government in the Senate might think that the question would be more properly directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Has the Commonwealth Government recieved an environmental impact statement on the proposed Iwasaki tourist development at Yeppoon? [More…]

• If the Commonwealth Government has not received an environmental impact statement on the proposed development, does it expect to receive one in the near future? [More…]

• -One is being prepared by the Commonwealth Government as part of the operations of the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I understand that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development comes under group B. [More…]

• The question I raise concerns environmental impact statements. [More…]

• The information that we are receiving seems to indicate that there are two environmental impact inquiries. [More…]

• It seems that the Iwasaki company itself has been required to present an environmental impact statement. [More…]

• An environmental impact statement is for public scrutiny and for public comment. [More…]

• He told the Senate that an impact statement is being prepared by our own Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The Minister indicated that that environmental impact statement is not likely to be available until sometime in late June. [More…]

• It is my responsibility to represent in this place the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• identification of impact and analysis of magnitude and importance of environment; [More…]

• Preparatory work is being undertaken in order to lodge a Notice of Intention under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]

• The Company has been directed to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement pursuant to the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act on the project and subject to a satisfactory outcome, the Company is developing plans for handover of the project to the local Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act has implications for two of the Company’s projects- the Edward River Crocodile project and the Torres Strait Turtle project. [More…]

• The Company recently lodged its Notice of Intention under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act and a direction has been made for an EIS to be produced. [More…]

• Guidelines for the EIS have now been determined in conjunction with the Department, the Company, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service. [More…]

• The Company is presently preparing its Notice of Intention pursuant to the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act for submission to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Other projects will be examined in the light of the provisions of the Environment Protection ( Impact of Proposals) Act as the need arises. [More…]

• The Report does not focus on important matters such as the particular education situation of women and girls, and the inner city environment which affects education. [More…]

• I direct a question to either the Minister representing the Minister for Transport or the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• -Mr President, I present a progress report from the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment on its reference relating to the continuing scrutiny of pollution. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment is charged by the Senate to maintain ‘continuing scrutiny of the problems of pollution, including ways and means of preserving the environment from pollution’. [More…]

• These terms of reference require the Committee to keep watch over a great variety of matters affecting the environment. [More…]

• The fact that I stood on one leg for the next 10 years of my life might have been the result of the environment in which I was born. [More…]

• Because of our overall environment- I use the word ‘environment’ in its broad term- and because of the breeding that has taken place here with relationship to that environment, we have been able to breed a type of sheep and a type of wool in Australia that has remained unchallenged in the world. [More…]

• We support first class landscaping around the buildings to ensure they blend in with the present environment. [More…]

• Development of the area involves the interests of environmentalists and tourism. [More…]

• The design of the facilities at the summit basically may result in a compromise between the preservation of the environment and the provision of adequate access, which was a subject of the question which Senator Mulvihill originally asked. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware of a recent survey by P. A. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development administers the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1 974. [More…]

• In general, environment protection during offshore petroleum drilling operations is provided by the detailed procedures incorporated in Directions issued by the relevant Designated Authority pursuant to the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) legislation. [More…]

• Where better can we give them those rights so they can frustrate those who seek to exploit Aboriginal land to the disadvantage of the Aborigines and to destroy the environment in which they live. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]

• My question is directed to Senator Carrick in his capacity as Minister representing the Prime Minister, the Teasurer and the Minister for Environment, Housing and [More…]

• We dealt then with the environment. [More…]

• This was one of the issues which I thought was particularly important because the South Pacific region is fortunate in relation to environmental matters. [More…]

• Of course, many of the countries in the area have expressed concern about the environmental damage that might have been caused by French nuclear testing in the region. [More…]

• When we dealt with this matter I was very pleased to find out that most of the countries involved were extremely aware of the environmental damage that could occur and also were extremely aware of the dangers that the French nuclear tests could pose for them. [More…]

• On the other hand, tourism contributes to urbanisation, dependence on foreign goods, possible downgrading of island cultures, increased prostitution and possible misuse of the environment. [More…]

• The question of the environment in the South Pacific was raised also. [More…]

• I wish to mention another matter involving the environment. [More…]

• So now it seems that Bougainville is to be fraught with an area which is environmentally damaged. [More…]

• We drew attention to the question of environment, urbanisation and health- I think Senator Sibraa referred to health- and to the problems which sudden economic development could have upon the very distinct cultures of these people. [More…]

• See my statements on 26 May 1978 concerning the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978 and the Atomic Energy Amendment Act 1978 (Hansard, pp. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• In view of the concern expressed by the public and conservation organisations over aspects of the Wagerup and Worsley alumina projects, especially their impact on water resources in south-western Australia, is the Government considering the institution of a public inquiry into these environmental aspects in accordance with paragraph 7 of the administrative procedures under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974? [More…]

• My advice is that in accordance with the provisions of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, public comment is being sought on both proposals in the West. [More…]

• Environmental assessment is being carried out under agreed arrangements with Western Australian authorities. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development directed the preparation of an environmental impact statement in relation to this proposal. [More…]

• However, some States have added additional requirements with regard to emission standards, generally under environment protection legislation. [More…]

• In addition to ATAC, the Australian Environment Council has a direct interest in motor vehicle emissions as they affect the environment. [More…]

• Unfortunately, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) has been and is still adopting a studied and prolonged ostrich pose towards the housing industry. [More…]

• The facts of the situation, which the Government consistently chooses to ignore, make a mockery of the assertion on 26 June of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Groom. [More…]

• In another place the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development referred to what happens when interest rates are lowered. [More…]

• Because of the way in which the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) has expressed his views and because of the views expressed by Senator Carrick today, one can feel nothing but gloom about where the building industry is headed. [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…]

• As a result of living in decentralised areas of small population with easy access to an unsurpassed natural environment we have not been angered by the unjust concentration of sumptuary incomes and wealth in the south-east mainland. [More…]

• The Government has always attempted to create an environment in which to promote private sector confidence and profitability. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I refer to the announcement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 28 June that the Housing allowance experiment scheme was to be abandoned by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development or it may more appropriately be addressed to the Minister representing the Treasurer. [More…]

• I know that my colleague Senator Jessop and the members of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment have expressed the view that they want regular reports on what has happened. [More…]

• I know that following the creation of the positions of Chief Scientist and his associates it was assumed that they would be keeping a very close watch on future operations from an environmental point of view. [More…]

• That is very nice, but I like to believe that this Senate is the custodian of national resources and that the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment is the particular watchdog. [More…]

• -My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community [More…]

• This article refers to the fact that the sterile environment in the modern large-scale piggery is causing very antisocial behaviour. [More…]

• However it does seem to provide some solutions and gives some interest to the otherwise sterile environment. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: Were 500 acres of Marina Plains station freeholded in 1974 or later with a plan for development as a tourist resort or as a possible area for mineral exploration? [More…]

• Was an environmental impact study, in accordance with the provisions of existing Federal legislation, carried out or asked for? [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I have made some inquiries of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on this matter. [More…]

• Islanders are dispersed in small communities in a semirural environment where there is little incentive for change. [More…]

• We rely on our scientists, much more than we care to admit, to foresee the problems of primary, secondary, manufacturing and tertiary industries as well as the effects their activities have on the ecology, the environment and social aspects of our country. [More…]

• I do not know what that means in terms of a Greek migrant child in the inner suburbs of Melbourne who is told that Senator Carrick is concerned about quality in education, but I know that it is very important for that Greek migrant child to have the benefit of multilingual teaching in the school, to have the benefit of teachers who can speak in his language and in that of his family, who can speak to his parents, and who can help him to assess his identity in a difficult situation and in a difficult environment. [More…]

• The point I am trying to make is that society has changed very much since that time, the educational environment has changed since then and there are very great difficulties in confronting the sorts of simplistic solutions which people, like Senator Baume, would probably like to advance in answer to some of these problems. [More…]

• I have a feeling that the Government gave consent to the project without the necessary conditions of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development being met. [More…]

• The Government’s role, I believe, is the limited one of creating favourable environments in which people make their own decisions for development, for it is free enterprise with effective competition which is the crucial factor in achieving general economic progress. [More…]

• A government has the right and the obligation to intervene to ensure effective national development, to conserve the environment, to stimulate competition and to achieve equity. [More…]

• This was followed by ‘strikes’ at 13 per cent, ‘environment’ at 7 per cent, ‘public transport’ at 4 per cent, crime ‘ at 3 per cent and ‘drugs ‘ at 3 per cent. [More…]

• In the Budget itself, as was pointed out subsequently by the Minister for Environment, Housing and [More…]

• The QCC was able to assist the CCPC delegation to Federal Ministers in Canberra on the 13th April by liaising with the Canberra Environment Centre and the ACF Liaison Officer there. [More…]

• The report gives the chronological sequence of events as follows: 1 3th January 1978: The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) formally directed that the Iwasaki Sangyo Co. prepare and submit to him an EIS in accordance with the provisions of the Environment Protection Act. [More…]

• 20th July 1978: Final date for receipt of comments to the Office of Environment Protection in the Department of EH & CD who then forwarded them on to the Consultants, UDPA (Planners) for consideration. [More…]

• 26th July 1978: Acting Minister for EH & CD (Mr Viner) announces he has given an ‘environmental clearance’ to the project based on ‘the public review of the company’s draft EIS and an assessment by the Office of Environment Protection within the Department of EH & CD’. [More…]

• The report indicates that it is pertinent to note that both the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Treasurer were prepared to give approval for the project based only on a concept plan and a totally inadequate draft environmental impact statement. [More…]

• That is the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1 974- or its procedures and to this end the Australian Conservation Foundation is considering taking legal action to ensure the Act is complied with. [More…]

• We have only to look at the Gold Coast of Queensland, and at other parts of Australia, to find that development of this nature has destroyed the local environment, it has destroyed the ecological balance. [More…]

• Mr Iwasaki has made a complete farce of the Australian Environmental Protection Act and the Australian Foreign Investment Act. [More…]

• Australians look to the House of Representatives to protect them from the weaknesses of State Governments but in the case of the Iwasaki Proposals the House of Representatives, in refusing to abide by the Environment Protection Act and the Foreign Investment Act, has abandoned its moral principles in an exercise of expediency. [More…]

• The Treasurer noted that the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development had given an environment clearance for the proposal, on the basis that continuing environment protection measures relating to the proposal would be taken by the Queensland Government under its own legislation. [More…]

• Neither the Treasurer nor the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) allowed sufficient time for the public to properly look at the so-called environmental impact statement. [More…]

• The report to which I allude now is the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment which it presented in June this year on annual reports referred to it. [More…]

• I take the opportunity to say that almost immediately the practice which the Senate has developed of sending these reports to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment has shown some considerable reward. [More…]

• The report which has come from the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment again highlights the need for the Government perhaps to review its policy on the Australian Institute of Marine Science to allow it to be staffed at the level that was recommended in the first place. [More…]

• Senator Jessop has presented a report on behalf of the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, in particular the report on annual reports referred to the Committee. [More…]

• Whilst it may not have special relevance to the report of the Darwin Reconstruction Commission, or indeed of the report of the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, I would note the following words in the conclusion of the Commission’s report: . [More…]

• The report that we have before us, from the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, resulted in a unofficial way, from Senator Melzer’s drawing to the attention of the Senate a program on, I believe, the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s Four Corners which alerted the population to problems that seemed to be associated with certain pesticides. [More…]

• Members of the Committee felt that as one of its responsibilities was to exert a continuing surveillance of matters associated with the environment, we should take steps to inform ourselves on this matter. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment points out that it is taking an interest in and is constantly scrutinising the problems involved. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) Grants were provided to the following States in 1 977-78 for a range of nature conservation purposes under the States Grants (Nature Conservation) Act and the Environment (Financial Assistance) Act. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Housing Costs, entitled ‘The Cost of Housing’, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) relating to the report. [More…]

• We will encourage people to remain in their home or familiar social environment with a comprehensive home care program which would include assistance with home alterations, and community supports such as half-way houses, short-term nursing beds and hostels. [More…]

• In reply to what has been said it needs to be repeated that the Government is not opting out of its responsibility to support a wide range of care services for senior citizens in their home environment. [More…]

• The senior people prefer to remain within their own home environment, one which is convenient and familiar and to which they have belonged for a number of years. [More…]

• They prefer this to the environment they would experience in an institution, however desirable or efficient it may be. [More…]

• We should always recognise that the problems they face mainly are personal ones which have kept them apart from family and friends, and that their way of life without a settled environment adds to the problems. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I refer to a report that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development congratulated a bank for providing loans to people who have to wait until next financial year to receive their home savings grants. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that this article points out that, by using microbes to leach waste, metals can be recovered and the environment protected at hardly any cost, and that the technique can be used on most metals including, very importantly, uranium, copper, zinc and nickel? [More…]

• Can he also tell us how efficient such a leaching process would be, particularly in terms of environmental protection? [More…]

• My understanding is that research at the University of New South Wales is not directed at breeding the bacteria since that occurs freely in the natural environment. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• It is based on submissions I made during the adjournment debate a fortnight ago when I sought information on the acreage of the proposed Kakadu National Park as set out in the second report of Mr Justice Fox’s Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry as compared with the Alaskan parklands provided for in legislation of the United States of America. [More…]

• I sought information from the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on the points which he raised. [More…]

• I believe he would know, although he did not mention it in his speech, that the genetic quality of merino rams in Australia has been built up because of the unique environment here. [More…]

• I remind Senator Walsh that the sheep that were subjected to those trials were kept in a controlled environment where husbandry was of a very high order. [More…]

• But the facts are that in any given environment merino sheep will change genetically quite substantially, particularly if that environment is a harsh one. [More…]

• When a sheep is taken out of its environment it will produce a different type of wool and if the Opposition is unaware of this I suggest that it does some homework. [More…]

• In regard to the environment the CSIRO has been looking into the effect increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have on our climate, and it has developed a new process to remove the pollutants from wool scour effluents. [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I raised this matter previously in a question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) and I have received a reply from him to the effect that he will be taking up the matter with the South Australian Minister for Housing. [More…]

• I have sat with this young man in an office in Darwin surrounded by telephones, typists and other people working, solicitors and everybody else racing around, but I have also been able to sit with this young man in his own tribal area amongst his own tribal elders and see how he can go from one environment to another. [More…]

• If we look at the Western Australian experience over about the last 20 years we find that up until the late 1 960s the authorities responsible for recommending- there was no compulsionthe varieties of wheat to be grown in the State were strongly opposed to the production of wheat varieties other than those which, under suitable conditions anyway, were satisfactory for bread making whereas, I would have thought, it was always quite apparent that Western Australia, which consistently produced wheat of the lowest protein level of all the States, had an environment, at least in the southern region of the State, which was suitable for the production of biscuit wheat. [More…]

• As Senator Walsh said, the fund provides the money for research into very important matters associated with wheat production- to increase the yields, to increase the quality of wheat, to increase the number of varieties available for different areas to make sure that they are relevant to the type of environment in which wheat is being grown, work on disease control and also work on weed control. [More…]

• The protection of their sacred sites and the protection of their environment and all the other matters that concern them will be agreed to under that agreement. [More…]

• If you are living in the wrong environment, it is a stressful situation and one of the manifestations of stress is aggression which is often redirected at the immediate physical environment, in this case the house . [More…]

• A related development is that the Australian Environment Council has established a National Advisory Committee on Chemicals to evaluate all toxic chemicals used in industry with a view to regulating their labelling, distribution, use and disposal. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I am told by my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, that he is aware of the reports to which Senator Rocher referred in his question-that there are improved prospects for property values in the housing market in Western Australia. [More…]

• That appears to be true- moderately expanding demand and activity and a more settled and predictable environment. [More…]

• That looks pretty absurd in a week such as this one in which four amendments have been made to the Budget, which was supposed to establish a more settled and predictable environment. [More…]

• The economic scene is characterised by declining inflation, moderately expanding demand and activity and a more settled and predictable policy environment. [More…]

• I have some concern in this area because I had already written to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) some weeks earlier. [More…]

• They said that officials of the impact statement assessment division of the Department of Environment would shortly be preparing a report for the Minister of Alcoa’s own environmental assessments of the effects of the Wagerup project. [More…]

• So Sir Charles Court adopts an attitude: ‘To hell with the environment. [More…]

• Sir Charles’s letter was sent after a deputation of environmentalists came to Canberra to speak with the Federal Minister for Environment, Mr Groom. [More…]

• The deputation urged him to use his powers under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, to order a public inquiry into Wagerup. [More…]

• I wrote to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 23 August. [More…]

• Both the Wagerup and Worsley proposals are currently being examined under the provisions of the Commonwealth Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]

• In both cases environmental assessment has been carried out jointly by Commonwealth and State authorities in accordance with agreed arrangements for co-operation. [More…]

• In relation to the proposal by Alcoa to export alumina from the Wagerup project, I have directed that Alcoa prepare and submit to me an environmental impact statement. [More…]

• Department of Conservation and Environment so that the public comment can be taken into account in the preparation of a final impact statement. [More…]

• This report is based on a submission by this Division to the Commonwealth Department for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The ERMP description of the physical environment is mostly accurate and adequate. [More…]

• The description of the physical environment is mostly adequate and accurate. [More…]

• Experience at Jarrahdale and Pinjarra has demonstrated the early success of rehabilitation on the western slope of the Darling Range, but the long term survival, adaptation to environment, water use and effects on hydrologic balance have not been evaluated. [More…]

• The necessities created by a different geographical environment and worsening economic conditions lead to outstanding and profitable inventions in the agricultural field. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 12 September 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment. [More…]

• Undoubtedly, Senator Jessop, as Chairman of the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment and as one who comes from South Australia, has a great deal of interest in this matter and I will give him further information. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: Is it a fact that in 1 978-79 the Federal Government will spend 9c per head on national sport, $1.86 per head on the arts and approximately $200 per head on health? [More…]

• I refer to statements by the South Australian Minister of Environment at a Murray Valley Development League symposium held in Adelaide, which remarks related to what he called a lack of inter-government activity. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Those studies of the impact of carp on other species, and on the environment generally, should provide a fairly sound basis for deciding just how deleterious European carp are in Australian environments. [More…]

• My question is related to the Commonwealth Government ‘s decision not to allow sand mining on Fraser Island but instead to preserve that island’s natural environment. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Did the Minister receive in his mail this morning a release from the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development listing government funding for sport in 1978-79? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 4 April 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The then Minister, in response to a request by Mr J. McMillan, Lecturer in Law at the University of New South Wales, declined to make the reports referred to in the Question public because they were considered confidential at that stage of the Government’s consideration of the action it should take in response to the findings and recommendations of the Ranger Uranium Environment Inquiry. [More…]

• and (3) Yes, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development considered the final overview report of 14 July 1977 can now be made public. [More…]

• I want to stress that when I referred to some Labor people putting environment or mining issues before Aborigines I certainly did not have in mind any of our spokespersons. [More…]

• However, these allegations were denied by both Pancontinental and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Groom. [More…]

• A report of this survey was prepared and copies sent to the Minister and secretary of the Departments of Environment, Housing and Community Development and Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• If we look at Clause 30 of the Section 4 1 authority together with Clause 5 of the Section 44 agreement of which the section 41 authority is annexed we notice that Clause S says that the miners shall observe all environmental requirements, specified in the conditions ofthe Section 41 authority. [More…]

• We are dealing with ‘environment’ (see Clause S Section 44 Agreement). [More…]

• As people often say about we Aborigines, he is a victim of his circumstances and his environment. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answers to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The following table shows, at various times, the number of staff in Environment, Housing and Community Development directly involved in the Housing Allowance Experiment since its inception: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Supervising Scientist for the Alligator Rivers Regionsee Section 36 of the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Act 1978. [More…]

• The Program is conducted within the work environment. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 19 September 1978: [More…]

• ASTEC is concerned that the consequences of poor administration of our marine environment and of an inadequate and unco-ordinated research effort, could be severe. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development should make such a decision. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development whether he is aware that the Sony Corporation of Tokyo, Japan, has developed a sporting aid machine called the videostrobe and that it can play back all individual movements that make up a continuous motion, thereby enabling the pinpointing of any flaw in the action of an athlete? [More…]

• No doubt, it will be of interest to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Groom. [More…]

• I refer to paragraph (f) of the statement relating to a review of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act and ask the Minister. [More…]

• Does the Government anticipate any changes to the existing provisions which require an environmental impact study to be undertaken before approval can be given by the Reserve Bank of Australia to an application by a foreign investor for a project to proceed. [More…]

• For example, the child may be blind and the family did not wish the child to leave its environment. [More…]

• lm was reported in 1973-74 as directed primarily towards objectives in the ‘Environment group’. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 17 August 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answers to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 13 September 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• For now the hidden spring of power is knowledge; and more than this, power over our environment grows from discovery. [More…]

• As Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, acting in furtherance of the wishes of the Committee, I wrote quickly to the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) pointing out the urgency of retaining scientific representation overseas. [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Science and the Environment is currently engaged in an examination of Australia’s industrial research and development. [More…]

• Recently the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment visited Western Australia. [More…]

• It mentions sirotherm desalination, continuous magnetic ion-exchange and adsorption systems, water clarification and decolourisation, treatment of sewage and sewage effluent, oxidation processes and the environment and public health. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• That nomination, which was received from the South Australian Department of Environment and which was prepared by the State Government River Torrens Committee, set out the relevant areas to be preserved, namely, the riverbed and bank from source to mouth but excluding the section of the river in the City of Adelaide. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: Is it a fact that staff ceilings have placed in jeopardy a wide range of safety checks at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission research establishment at Lucas Heights? [More…]

• However, I do not have detailed information from the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I am sure that my colleagues have suffered recently in the environment there. [More…]

• I have to advise that such a subsidy would be contrary to the intent of the Government which has to operate, in its own right, in a competitive market environment with other registered health insurance funds. [More…]

• I hope, too, that the Minister will explain what should be done by the ordinary citizens in the community who are finding that there is a new environment in which they have to make their health insurance arrangements. [More…]

• Funds for the protection of the environment have been cut by 40 per cent. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the agreement and memoranda of lease associated with the lease of stage 1 of the proposed Kakadu National Park, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]

• That the Minister for Administrative Services read the text of the statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The views expressed by Senator Georges and apparently by some members of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation to the effect that we are going to throw away the Great Barrier Reef, that there is an ulterior motive behind all these changes, minor as they are, and that eventually we will allow indiscriminate oil drilling on the Reef with no controls, are, of course, absolute nonsense. [More…]

• Senator Georges puts forward the proposal that the member should have qualifications in the field of environmental sciences. [More…]

• If the honourable senator looks at the courses in environmental sciences which have been recently established in this country, he will see that the scope for selection is very limited if we attempt to find an Australian with the necessary qualifications in environmental sciences. [More…]

• In 1973 the University of New South Wales had an applied science master’s degree course in environmental pollution control. [More…]

• I think it would not take much judgment on the part of honourable senators to decide that a chairman for such a vital Authority needs to have perhaps more than qualifications in the environmental sciences. [More…]

• He is also the present Director of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development advise the Senate of the estimated value of the advances in 1978-79 to State land commissions or councils? [More…]

• Naturally morale in such an environment is not always high. [More…]

• At that mill there was a working environment that would be the envy of most industrialists because people were not regarded as cogs in a machine but as contributors to a joint working experience producing high quality products based on a pride in workmanship frequently handed down within the family circle. [More…]

• By definition the environment would not be a technologically sophisticated one. [More…]

• In a statement made on 21 August 1978 the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development said that Pancontinental had given an assurance that no work had begun on the Arnhem Highway extension and that no activity beyond the permitted survey had been undertaken on the highway’s proposed 25 kilometre extension. [More…]

• That statement also said that the Government has not made a decision to allow Pancontinental to mine and that 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…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• My own view is that those abortions should take place in a medical environment, in a hospital atmosphere, subject to the judgment of the medical profession and the care of the medical profession. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I would like to inform honourable senators 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 the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment- Ministerial Statement, 14 November 1978. [More…]

• Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment in drawing to the Government’s attention some aspects of the 13 reports that have been referred to. [More…]

• For instance, the annual bankcard rate which is around 18 per cent, is hardly an inducement for a person in an environment of high unemployment to go out and spend. [More…]

• I refer to the statement by the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister (Mr Viner) who, when commenting on the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment which was tabled yesterday, said: [More…]

• At present the following State Government departments and authorities offer concessions to card holders: The South Australian Housing Trust, the Hospitals Department, the Public Department of Health, the Engineering and Water Supply Department which deals with water and sewerage rates, the Land Tax Office, council rates, legal aid services, the South Australian Gas Co., the Department of Lands, the State Transport Authority Bus and Tram Division, the Department for the Environment, the Department of Further Education, the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust, the State Opera Company of South Australia, the South Australian Theatre Co., the Art Gallery of South Australia, the South Australia Motor Registration Division and the State Transport Authority Railway Division. [More…]

• My question which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development relates to the announcement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on Tuesday, 14 November, that the Commonwealth will reduce its grants to voluntary conservation groups from a $2 for $1 basis to a $1 for $1 basis. [More…]

• Does he agree with the statement of Dr Geoffrey Mosley, the Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation, that in 1979 approximately only three environmental organisations will be able to operate under the new guidelines? [More…]

• The Committee has serious doubts that these ships can perform their missions in a hostile environment against the current Soviet Navy. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, ACT [More…]

• Environment Protection Authority, Vic. [More…]

• Housing, in our sense of the word, played no pan in their traditional environment. [More…]

• That is why, initially, we focussed on Aborigines living in or near an urban environment, on the empirical evidence that they had elected to live and work in close contact with the European dominated market economy. [More…]

• The first to be developed was the Goorawin, which Senator Peter Baume, when he was on the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment, described as a ‘most promising development’. [More…]

• -I present a supplementary report from the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment arising from follow-up action on the report of May 1977 relating to the inquiry into the impact on the Australian environment of the woodchip industry program. [More…]

• On 28 November 1974 the Senate resolved that the matter of the impact on the Australian environment of the current woodchip program be referred to the then Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• The Social Environment Committee embarked upon an investigation of this reference during the autumn session of Parliament in 1 975. [More…]

• On 1 1 November 1975 the inquiry was halted by the dissolution of Parliament and subsequent federal election, but was resumed in March 1976 by the newly formed Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• The inquiry continued through 1976, culminating in the tabling of the Committee’s report entitled Woodchips and the Environment’ on 24 May 1977. [More…]

• In this connection the Committee recognises that the development and implementation of techniques for the protection of the environment is a continuing process on which many influences are brought to bear. [More…]

• Chapter 1 1 of the report entitled ‘Woodchips and the Environment’, tabled in May 1977, deals with the topic of land use planning. [More…]

• It is accordingly recommending that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) submit proposals to Cabinet for a mechanism to allow integrated consideration of national land use issues, and that the Prime Minister set up a framework for the establishment of a national land use policy. [More…]

• The Committee accordingly is now further recommending that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development draw up and promulgate, in collaboration with the States, a national policy for the development of an adequate system of national parks and conservation reserves. [More…]

• -First of all, on behalf of the other members of the Committee, I endorse the tribute to the extremely efficient secretariat of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment led by Peter Dawe. [More…]

• 607 that I received from Senator Chaney as Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community, Development (Mr Groom). [More…]

• I know that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Groom, is looking at this matter at the moment. [More…]

• 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…]

• The Bureau of Transport Economics told the review committee that it found the two-line airline system not administratively efficient by world standards and as a reason it pointed to the uncompetitive environment of the two-airline style of operation. [More…]

• They are in a somewhat hostile environment- a different culture and language- attending schools in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond, living in high rise flats in a totally strange world. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 26 September 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) An Acting Supervising Scientist was appointed on 29 June 1978, under the provisions of Section 1 4 of the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Act 1978. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 25 October 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, follows earlier inquiries I have made about the preservation of the works of Walter Burley Griffin. [More…]

• I cannot confirm that anything unique has been done by Walter Burley Griffin in the area referred to by Senator Knight but it certainly is true, or so I am informed by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, that Walter Burley Griffin did a design plan for an area of about 20 acres in the East Ringwodd-Croydon area of Melbourne. [More…]

• The market value of wheat is affected by the interaction between genetic factors, that is, the wheat variety, and the environment in which the wheat is grown. [More…]

• Let us by all means argue the great concerns of our lives, such as the preservation of the environment or the nuclear generation of power. [More…]

• Wall linings, floor coverings, ceilings ($650,000) in Heu 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 workable internal environment. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Will the Government exert as soon as possible its legal responsibilities to the Australian environment by instituting a public inquiry into the proposition that a 150-metre wide strip of the foreshore of the Iwasaki land be returned to the control of the Crown, so averting the anomalous and virtually unprecedented present situation in which 19 kilometres of the Australian coastline are owned or controlled to high tide mark by a foreign developer? [More…]

• This amendment is further proof of the inappropriateness of the Act and will mean that no stricter safety measures and no new environmental safeguards will be able to be brought in once the Bill is passed into law, despite the fact that everybody, including this Government, admits and accepts that there is no threshold information available at this point on which changes to the environment can be judged. [More…]

• The Government is just setting up machinery to cover the environment as it now is; but when mining gets under way, if it does, and the information starts to flow in, if it starts to flow in, the Government will not be able to alter the circumstances under which uranium can be mined because the Government will be tied by the provisions of this Bill. [More…]

• Later it says that the Environment Energy and Natural Resources Sub-Committee of the United States Congress published its findings on the cost of nuclear power. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• -On 25 October 1978, Senator Primmer asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development the following question without notice: [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Health relating to the June 1978 report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment: Herbicides, Pesticides and Human Health. [More…]

• The reports of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development are of great concern to this Parliament because of decisions that have been made in those two areas. [More…]

• Because of the difficulty of selecting representative tasks and because benchmark results may not be representative of later performance in a real job environment, benchmarks should normally only be used to verify suppliers’ performance claims. [More…]

• Speaking in what might be called injury time, on behalf of Senator Robertson and myself I ask the Leader of the Government (Senator Carrick) to endeavour to get from the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) an early reply on submissions that we made on 16 November, as recorded on page 2146 of Senate Hansard concerning the general discussions on the estimates of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development because the assertions contained in the Australian Financial Review are in contradiction to what was said at the appropriate Estimates Committee hearings. [More…]

• I request the Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Chaney), as Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, to expedite a reply because the matter is of interest to what I might call the municipal militants in the central western suburbs of Sydney. [More…]

• I associate the Opposition with the remarks of the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster, in speaking to this condolence motion upon the death of former Senator Lawrie. [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster, as the Leader of the National Country Party in this place, very appropriately led the tribute to Ellis Lawrie and, indeed, has said what has to be said. [More…]

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

• I refer the Minister to the Prime Minister’s undertaking, given in 1976, that the Government would observe the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act ‘in letter and in spirit’. [More…]

• I further refer the Minister to the Liberal and National Country Party policy in the 1975 and 1977 elections which states that ‘the cost of safeguarding the environment from damaging intrusions by man is a cost, properly incurred in producing goods and services, which must ultimately be met by the producers of those goods and services and reflected in the price’. [More…]

• I ask the Minister how, having regard to those statements, he reconciles his own recent announcement as the Minister for Science and the Environment that he was sympathetic to the view that Government decisions on environmental questions are often inappropriate intervention and that business has lost out in the bargain. [More…]

• I acknowledge the question from Senator Button relating to the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act which has been a matter of discussion over a number of years in this place. [More…]

• It is certainly a policy on environmental matters that could be followed by many political groups in the community. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Science and the Environment aware that Ranger Uranium Ltd is to be served with a conservation order because of unnecessary damage at Jabiru? [More…]

• Will the Minister assure the Senate that the Government, as a partner in the venture, will ensure that in future strict environmental protection measures will be adopted at Jabiru? [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment the following question, upon notice, on 6 March 1979: [More…]

• -Minister for Science and the Environment)- For the information of honourable senators I present the resolutions of the 105th meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council held in Sydney during August 1978. [More…]

• In such an environment I am sure you will agree that the tight funding position for government departments and instrumentalities generally makes it essential that maximum benefit be achieved from every project funded and this must, of course, have inevitable implications for your own Commission. [More…]

• Some of these people never quite adapt to living in an environment which to them would perhaps appear to be hostile, an environment where people do not cross all their t’s and dot all their i’s. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 1 9 September 1978: [More…]

• The Prime Minister reiterated to the Chairman 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…]

• That the following matter be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment: [More…]

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

• Honourable senators will be aware that on this occasion the chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment accompanied me, thus opening the way for future flights to take place. [More…]

• My recollection is that the allocation for this year was an amount of $95,000 which the Department of Science and the Environment would make available to the Department of Defence for its part in this matter. [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister for Science and the Environment which follows the question asked of him a short while ago by Senator McAuliffe. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment whether his attention has been drawn to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald of Saturday, 17 February, which referred to a study on vehicle emission controls prepared last year for the Australian Environment Council. [More…]

• That matter does not come within the ambit of the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• Nevertheless, it is the Government’s aim to ensure that pollution of the environment due to uranium mining is reduced to a practical minimum, and we are confident that this can be achieved through the arrangements which both the Commonwealth and the Territory Governments have made for the control of mining in the Region. [More…]

• We recognised that 87 per cent of the Australian population lived in the urban environment. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Science and the Environment or alternatively the Attorney-General. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the decision given by Mr Justice Aickin in the High Court on 16 February 1 979 to the effect that private citizens and organisations claiming a non-property interest cannot enforce compliance by the Government with the administrative procedures of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act? [More…]

• Did the particular case refer to an attempt by the Australian Conservation Foundation to require the completion of a final environmental impact statement before approval is given for the development of an international tourist resort near Yeppoon in Queensland? [More…]

• Does the Government intend to introduce an amendment to the Act which will give citizens and groups the right to seek the implementation of existing environmental legislation? [More…]

• The High Court found that no locus standi existed for the ACF as a private group to force Commonwealth Ministers to comply with the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act and the administrative procedures. [More…]

• As the Minister for Science and Environment (Senator Webster) has just stated these two Bills are very much interrelated and therefore the Opposition does not object to the two of them being debated at the one time, especially as we of the Labor movement do not offer opposition to either of them. [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) has indicated in his second reading speech that the objective of establishing this philatelic administration is to provide revenue for the people of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. [More…]

• Looking at the span of interests, as Senator Chaney is in the chamber I will refer particularly to Estimates Committee E. Last year it dealt with the Departments of Administrative Services, Industry and Commerce, Transport, Productivity, and Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• That is the sort of environment in which decisions could be made in this place. [More…]

• Perhaps I am more fortunate than others in the committee on which I serve, the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, but in the admittedly short term that I have served on that committee I have not noticed a single tendency on the part of the chairman or members of that committee towards party politicking. [More…]

• My question, addressed to the Minister for Science and the Environment, relates to a conference on endangered species to be held in Costa Rica at which, I understand, a senior officer will be present. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment whether he saw the article in last Thursday’s Australian about the 85-tonne American space craft Skylab which is due to re-enter the earth’s atmosphere prematurely later this year or early next year and is planned to impact in a corridor 1,600 kilometres by 160 kilometres, which area includes part of eastern Australia. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment a question which complements a question asked earlier today by Senator Maunsell. [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…]

• I think that the Minister was absolutely right when he said that the matter of economic influence and interest, the matter of power politics, certainly has played a part in reaching the point where we have a deterioration in the international environment. [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 and to the extent that the environment deteriorates, their credibility as instruments of crisis management is diminished. [More…]

• It is most appropriate that Senator Webster, the Minister for Science and the Environment, is here tonight as he has a particular interest in this subject. [More…]

• My concern, and the concern of a large number of people in the Northern Territory, is that no environmental impact study has been made of the proposal to build the casino. [More…]

• This clearly is outlined in the document which the Minister for Science and the Environment has in his hand. [More…]

• The foreshore studies indicate the casino will not unduly affect the environment, as the development is further back than the existing caravan park. [More…]

• Before self-government on 1 July 1978, the Commonwealth Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1 974 applied to all projects in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Consequently, without any provision to the contrary, it can only be concluded that the Environment Protection ( Impact of Proposals) Act continues to apply to ail projects in the Territory after self-government. [More…]

• I am placed in the situation yet of awaiting firm advice as to whether there is a part for the Department of Science and the Environment under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act to have any application in that area. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Science and the Environment seen recent Bureau of Statistics figures which indicate that spending by Australian companies on research and development fell by 18 per cent between 1973-74 and 1976-77, that is, from $190m to $157m, and that the number of man-years involved fell by a figure of 40 per cent? [More…]

• We face an environment where at least 700,000 new jobs need to be found over the next seven years even if we were concerned simply to contain unemployment at existing high levels. [More…]

• That the following matter be referred to the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment: Oil Exploration in the Great Barrier Reef area, including all the possible effects of any such exploration. [More…]

• One of the few remaining features of the Westminster system as we have it in Canberra is that even though partisan politics are practised on the floor of the Senate and in the House of Representatives, when matters are referred to a committee such as the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, the members of the committees quite often- in fact, more often than not- lose their political identity and are able to reach a consensus. [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…]

• That statement certainly conflicted with the proposal by the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Groom, to declare the first part of the marine park. [More…]

• That editorial, more than anything else, eloquently sums up the position of the Australian Democrats and the reason that we ask the Senate to pass tonight this motion which seeks to refer this matter to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• I wish to make one or two comments on the motion before the Senate which seeks to refer this matter of oil exploration on the Great Barrier Reef to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, of which I am Chairman. [More…]

• I take some pride in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment following its inquiry into the effect on the environment of the woodchip industry. [More…]

• Chapter 13 of that report covers conservation and the marine environment. [More…]

• Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation reported on the prevention and control of oil pollution in the marine environment. [More…]

• In view of increasing development of natural resources in the marine environment of particular interest to Australia, such as proposals to explore for oil on the Great Barrier Reef, and also because of the growing risk of pollution of Australian coastal waters, the following matter be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment: Australian marine science, including the development of a marine science program for Australia, in the tropical, temperate and sub-Antarctica waters and the coordination of research efforts between the various agencies involved in these areas of marine science, fisheries development and oceanography’. [More…]

• Our position is based not only on our demonstrated concern for the environment but also on the numerous reports of inquiries which have been presented to this Parliament on this matter, particularly the report of the Senate Select Committee on Off-Shore Petroleum Resources and, of course, the report of the royal commission which inquired into this matter. [More…]

• The point I would like to establish as a preliminary point is that there is no doubt that the party with the only real record of protecting the environment at the Federal level is the Labor Party. [More…]

• It was the Labor Party which drew up all the significant environmental legislation which now exists at the federal level. [More…]

• It passed the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act which resulted in the saving of Fraser Island and it initiated the Fox inquiry into uranium. [More…]

• It made grants to various organisations involved with the environment. [More…]

• Against that record there is so little of note at the federal level that it is clear that the party which is interested in the environment is the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• It is true that honourable senators on the other side of the chamber often have talked about the environment but their track record of achievements is limited. [More…]

• Firstly, the Government has a dubious interest in protecting the environment. [More…]

• Ever since it came to office this Government has been trying to water down the environmental safeguards established by the previous Government. [More…]

• For that reason, it allowed to remain in the environment portfolio a Minister who had no interest whatsoever in the environment and who was prepared to buckle under pressure. [More…]

• The real test on uranium is yet to come but there is waning confidence in the community that the Government will insist on adherence to proper environmental standards. [More…]

• Those activities, of course, were carried out under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974. [More…]

• As a consequence of that decision, the Prime Minister gave Mr Newman, who was then the Minister who had the national responsibility for the environment, instructions to transfer the powers under that Act to the State governments. [More…]

• Agreements were entered into with most State governments which effectively mean that environmental issues will be taken seriously only in those states where there are in fact Labor governments. [More…]

• Transferring environmental control to Sir Charles Court is tantamount to saying that environmental issues in Western Australia are of no signficance at all. [More…]

• As the National Country Party now effectively has control of the environmental issues through the Deputy Prime Minister and Senator Webster, no environmentalist could be very optimistic about the results of that review. [More…]

• For some time the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) has played no real role under the Act. [More…]

• There is even a further worry for those who are concerned about the environment. [More…]

• On this specific issue one only has to go back on the answer he gave to the Opposition spokesman on the environment last Tuesday to which Senator Chipp referred in his speech. [More…]

• The operative words of the Prime Minister were: ‘Where does the environment of the reef begin and where does it end?’ [More…]

• In the last election campaign of 1977 1 made a public statement disclosing the existence of a Cabinet submission signed jointly by the Deputy Prime Minister and the then environment Minister, Mr Newman. [More…]

• The anti-environment lobby is very strong in these circles. [More…]

• Mr Newman to look after the environment. [More…]

• The current Minister for Science and the Environment has said very little to date. [More…]

• Maybe we will see him project himself as a strong environmentalist but there is nothing at this stage to suggest that he will. [More…]

• We are debating a motion to refer to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment an inquiry into oil exploration in the Great Barrier Reef area, including all the possible effects of any such exploration. [More…]

• Senator Chipp asked whether there was some shift in the Government’s position concerning the operation of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act of 1974. [More…]

• I ask Senator Missen: Is there a secret sub-committee of the Cabinet existing at present which is reviewing the operation of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act of 1974? [More…]

• To my belief and if my information is correct, there is a subcommittee looking at this very Act and there is a sub-committee which possibly will recommend an amendment to the Act which will remove much of the protection that the environment needs and which it has received under this Act. [More…]

• If there is to be some move to exploit or to explore the oil possibilities of the Great Barrier Reef, perhaps this Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act will be amended retrospectively or in some way compromised to facilitiate that. [More…]

• I support Senator Jessop ‘s suggestion foreshadowing an amendment which would refer the matter to the Science and Environment Committee in due course. [More…]

• I do not know why it is but Australians take very little interest in their marine environment. [More…]

• I return to my starting point which is basically a plea for an increase in the scientific knowledge of the marine environment off the coast. [More…]

• I hope that as Minister for Science and the Environment he was a little emotional and did not mean what he said. [More…]

• The honourable senator also complained that there had not been enough investigation of the Geat Barrier Reef and in fact of the marine environment generally. [More…]

• That the following matter be referred to the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment: Oil exploration in the Great Barrier Reef area, including all the possible effects of any such exploration. [More…]

• Committee on Science and the Environment, expressed supportive views. [More…]

• Energy and Environment Division, appeared in the Observer in September 1977. [More…]

• There is, however, a need for greater research of the marine environment, both within and outside that defined area. [More…]

• This fact was recorded by an all-Party House of Representatives committee in a report tabled in Parliament last year on the subject of oil and the marine environment. [More…]

• I am concerned at the somewhat vague statements which the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) made earlier this month when discussing the possibility of drilling. [More…]

• Standing Committee on Science and the Environment has foreshadowed will be put at a meeting of the Committee tomorrow and that is that the Committee should continue to have a watching brief not only of the Barrier Reef situation but also of the Kakadu National Park situation as well. [More…]

• These plans take account of differences in the local environment. [More…]

• We are, of course, speaking to a motion by Senator Chipp to send a reference to the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment for investigation. [More…]

• There was a fellow named James Ford Cairns who, on 2 July 1975, was dismissed as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Environment over particular allegations. [More…]

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

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

• The departments which will be co-ordinating the arrangements include my own Department of Science and the Environment and the Department of Defence which also incorporates the Natural Disasters Organisation. [More…]

• The Commonwealth remains the steward of the taxpayers’ funds and, in an environment which is seeking more effective use of those funds, should be conscious of the obligations which arise from that stewardship. [More…]

• I would be interested to know from the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) in his reply exactly what is happening in respect of program effectiveness reviews. [More…]

• But I would be reinforced in that assumption if the Minister for Science and the Environment were to give some assurances to that effect in the course of this debate and I would believe even more in the Government’s good faith if it were to accept the amendment to proposed new section 48F which I propose to move in the Committee stage. [More…]

• However I do suspect that it may be argued by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster), in reply, that this amendment, while not unexceptionable in principle, and while consistent with the Government’s intention and the Auditor-General’s intention and everybody else’s intention, is nonetheless unnecessary as a matter of strict statutory language because- no doubt this will be suggested- in this instance ‘may’ is to be read as meaning ‘shall’. [More…]

• -With respect, we have been subjected to some of the most mercilessly unmitigated waffle that we have been privileged to hear from the Minister for Science and Environment, Senator Webster, outside of the context of Question Time where, regrettably, that kind of behaviour is par for the course. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment who is also the Minister representing the Minister for the Capital Territory. [More…]

• Why has the linchpin for the protection of both the Aboriginal people and the environment at the Ranger uranium mine site- that is, the declaration of the Kakadu National Park- not been used? [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…]

• No matter what goodwill the present Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) or the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman) may have- and I believe they have the goodwill to get an energy policy- I can tell them they will never get it and they ought to know they will never get it unless the people give us this power at a referendum. [More…]

• I would like the Minister for Science and the Environment or any other Minister to tell me what real steps are we taking to solve the future energy problems of Australia. [More…]

• Yet, the Minister for Science and the Environment and the Minister for National Development say: ‘We believe in solar energy’. [More…]

• Australia seeks an environment which would enable countries of the region both individually and collectively to pursue policies designed to enhance political stability, economic advancement and cohesion. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Science and the Environment aware that no environmental controls are being enforced at the Ranger uranium site in the Northern Territory and that both pollution and erosion are virtually uncontrolled? [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Parliament who, in fact, will be responsible for environmental protection during the development of mining sites and the exploitation of uranium deposits in the Northern Territory? [More…]

• The honourable senator asks who will be responsible for environmental protection. [More…]

• I think the honourable senator will know that generally when an environmental impact statement is prepared under the environment protection legislation, certain provisions indicate whether there are faults or flaws in the environmental impact statement which has been produced and whether further work will be necessary. [More…]

• The environmental matters will be supervised. [More…]

• The enforcement of environment protection can take several forms which, I think, as yet have not been decided upon. [More…]

• -Despite the temptation which always comes upon me when I hear the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) make a speech such as that, let me ignore all the predictable, gratuitous and, as usual, quite ineffectual jibes, insults and heavy handed ironies of which his speech was so full. [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 Queensland Mines on 19 January 1979. [More…]

• I remind the Senate that the Government, when announcing on 25 August 1977 its decision to proceed with uranium mining at Ranger, 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 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 suit in relation to the enforcement of the environmental requirements controlling mining at Ranger. [More…]

• Environment advised the Minister for Trade and Resources recently that there are no objections on environmental grounds to that project subject to satisfactory arrangements being made with the Western Australian Government. [More…]

• In his statement to parliament on 25 August 1977 the Minister for Trade and Resources said that the Commonwealth Government would take decisions on the development of projects such as Yeelirrie subject to satisfactory completion of the necessary environmental requirements. [More…]

• We want to see a balance between the economic development of our uranium resources and the effective protection of the environment. [More…]

• Of course, the Government has consistently placed mining interests and profits before the interests of the environment and, as we see it, before the interests of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• 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…]

• I think it has to be accepted that the environment is rather a passive aspect and therefore it cannot in its own right articulate its views. [More…]

• Here I raise questions of safety and appropriateness as well as the question of land rights and the environment. [More…]

• The two major devices recommended by Mr Justice Fox to protect the environment and the Aborigines in the Alligator Rivers region have been disregarded. [More…]

• All those high and mighty words about carefully planned development, about looking after the interests of the Aboriginal communities, about being concerned about the environment are being shown for what they are- a front for an open slather by the mining companies. [More…]

• It is ludicrous to suggest that a management plan can be in operation and environment controls established before full scale development begins at Ranger and Nabarlek. [More…]

• By that time a Labor government will be installed in Canberra and, as already indicated through my Party’s federal conference, that government will repudiate any new uranium sales contracts in the light of the lack of safeguards, in the light of inadequate consultations with the affected communities and in the light of the failure to implement promises to protect the environment and to establish national parks, matters which were expressed clearly in policy considerations for the 1975 and 1977 election campaigns. [More…]

• This statement, like so many of the Government’s statements which are placed before the Senate, ignores the basic problems that beset the uranium industry, ignores the basic problems that face Aborigines in the area, ignores the commitments that we have made to protect that environment and ignores the commitments that we have made to establish the essential national parks in that region. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Science and the Environment aware of a claim by the Senior Lecturer in Administration at the University of Tasmania that the Federal Cabinet has under review the following Acts: the Environmental Protection Act, the Australian Heritage Commission Act, the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service Act, and the Great Barrier Marine Authority Act? [More…]

• As I understand it, the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act has been under review for a number of years. [More…]

• In relation to the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, there is a review. [More…]

• The Government is continuing to examine matters of real environmental significance. [More…]

• The letter to which the honourable senator refers is incorrect in suggesting that there is any downgrading at all of environment protection. [More…]

• This Government is devoted to upholding the protection of the environment for the good of the Australian public. [More…]

• Science and the Environment recall making reference on 1 1 May last year to a White Paper on Antarctic policy and programs which at that time he believed would be before Cabinet within some weeks? [More…]

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

• I draw his attention to a question which I asked in this place on 7 March 1979 and which dealt with environmental problems at the Northern Territory Ranger uranium site. [More…]

• The Minister will no doubt remember that he was referring to the environmental impact statements. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that on 20 September 1978 his predecessor, the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Groom, when referring to environmental impact statements, said: [More…]

• I take it that the honourable senator is anxious to know what are the environmental procedures set down in relation to the development of the Ranger site and that the honourable senator feels that there is some inconsistency between what may have been said previously by the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development and by me as Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• My own view is that there is no reason for the environmental consequences of Ranger not being made known and I was of the view that that point had been put forward by the Minister under whose control the matter rests. [More…]

• I said that I would compare the two answers that had been given by the two Ministers in their capacity as Minister for the Environment and see whether there was anything inconsistent. [More…]

• I see no reason for the environmental assessments not being made public and I will look into that matter. [More…]

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

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

• I feel that this question should not be addressed to the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• On 22 February, I asked the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) a question relating to this matter. [More…]

• We recommended that the Federal Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development as he then was and the State Ministers responsible for youth, sport and recreation appeal to all sportsmen and women throughout Australia not to lend their names and prestige to the promotion of alcohol or tobacco. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 21 February 1979: [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Science and the Environment or alternatively to the Minister representing the Minister for Health. [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…]

• -My question, which is directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment, refers to the present status of the Ayers Rock-Mount Olga National Park. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Science and the Environment seen reports about a cerium filter which has been developed by the vast Belgian firm known as the FN Group? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment: As New Zealand has recently announced a large discovery of underwater phosphate reserves in its off-shore territorial waters, is the Minister aware that any similar reserves exist in Australian territorial waters? [More…]

• The questions that are asked of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) are obviously planned questions. [More…]

• -I will decline the offer of the Minister for Science and the Environment to start again- I will not: I will go on from where I left off. [More…]

• I had a question for the Minister for Science and the Environment today; he knew nothing about it, and he never knows - [More…]

• Among them are the reports of the Department of Science, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, as well as other instrumentalities of importance in the fields of science and the environment. [More…]

• I support the views expressed by the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, Senator Jessop. [More…]

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

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

• -The Commonwealth Government is concerned about the possible environmental risks associated with the importation of aquarium fish, particularly fresh Water species. [More…]

• On 1 December 1976 the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, accepted the responsibility for advising the Commonwealth Government on matters relating to aquarium fish. [More…]

• Of course, any escape of these fish into the fresh water environment would be a very major problem because these fish would harm our fresh water species in many areas. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Science and the Environment noted that in an address yesterday to the Australian Academy of Science in Canberra His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales drew attention to what he understood was the absence of an oceanographer in the Academy fellowship? [More…]

• I would have thought that Senator Missen, with his long interest in conservation and environment, would be interested in taking into account the additional fuel costs involved with air-conditioning. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs, because of the effect of technological developments on future employment prospects; or it may be directed more appropriately to the Minister for Science and the Environment, who is responsible for preparing us for future shocks, technologically speaking. [More…]

• On 7 June 1978 the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment tendered a report on the subject of annual reports being referred to the Committee. [More…]

• On behalf of the Government, the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) said that he was unable to give the Senate any accurate information on the matter; that he would attempt to get an answer on whether the report had been pigeon-holed; that he did not know the quality of the report; and that he was unable to make any further comment at that time. [More…]

• So far as I can tell, there is no provision for levying hens kept by egg producers in the Northern Territory, but that is a matter I will be taking up in the Committee stage or on which I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) to advise us in his reply to the second reading debate. [More…]

• However, I am not able to find in either of the amending Bills or in the second reading speech of the Minister for Science and the Environment any indication of how that objective will be achieved. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Science and the Environment seen a report attributed to Professor Noel Hynes, who is Professor of Biology at Waterloo University, Ontario, in which he suggests that the River Murray could become a muddy canal with carp and little else and is in danger of losing traditional fish species? [More…]

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

• What action does the Minister propose to take to ensure that major changes in the environment are not made without first considering the effect they will have on local species of plants and animals, so that our nation’s natural beauty may be preserved? [More…]

• -As I rise to answer this question may I just comment, if you will permit me to do so, Mr President, that there are honourable senators who are particularly interested in science and the environment. [More…]

• Senator Georges, who rises regularly to complain about the length of answers has not asked one question on an environmental matter in three years. [More…]

• The Minister will realise if he goes back over the past three years that I have asked many questions on the environment. [More…]

• I have also asked questions on environmental matters concerning the Iwasaki project at Yeppoon. [More…]

• I know that it would be dear to the heart of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster), who is at the table, if the appointees were to include a prominent rural producer from Victoria. [More…]

• The program will assist in ensuring the supply of raw material to future forest product industries and we believe contribute to the longterm industrial development of that State, as well as enhance the environment. [More…]

• Teach them to protect their environment and let them know how the unions want it left unspoiled. [More…]

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

• I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment: When is the Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory to be gazetted? [More…]

• Has the Minister for Science and the Environment read the report from the United States authorities on the use of 2,4,5-T in Oregon? [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment, follows the question asked earlier by Senator Melzer. [More…]

• If the Minister has not done so already, will he read the findings of the United States Environmental Protection Agency that led to the bans on 2,4,5-T in March 1979? [More…]

• -This matter relates to the interests of the Department of Health and the Minister for Health as well as to my own interests in science and the environment. [More…]

• Perhaps it comes within the realm of questions which ought to be answered by my colleague, the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• -My question, which is directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment, follows from a question that I asked earlier this week about the importation of aquarium fish. [More…]

• The Acting Supervising Scientist appointed under the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Act 1978, is Mr R. M. Fry a distinguished Scientist, who is one of Australia’s most experienced health physicists. [More…]

• It will be appreciated that the functions of the Supervising Scientist, as set out in the Act, require that a sizeable organisation be established, to undertake research, supervision, and regulatory tasks, including monitoring of the environment in the Alligator Rivers Region. [More…]

• The action of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) in incorporating this statement vindicates my point that such information should be given subsequent to Question Time rather than during Question Time. [More…]

• by leave- I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a summary of the Government’s response to the Reports on Annual Reports presented by the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs and the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs presented its ‘Report on Annual Reports Referred to the Committee’ on 6 June 1978, while the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment ‘Report on Annual Reports’ was presented on 7 June 1978. [More…]

• The Minister Assisting the Prime Minister, Mr Viner, commented on both these matters in his response to the March report of the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment (House of Representatives Hansard 14 November 1978, pages 2729-30) and the Government does not believe that they require further response now. [More…]

• One other issue, which was mentioned by the Committee on Science and the Environment, was the need for a Government response to problems raised in annual reports. [More…]

• The Government has pointed out that very shortly the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) will be making a statement in regard to the CSIRO ‘s role in water resources. [More…]

• I think that the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) reflected the feelings of all of us when he said in his second reading speech that it was the expectation that the new parliament house would be what he called the crowning achievement ‘within the parliamentary triangle where already we have our great National Library and where the new National Gallery and High Court are now under construction’. [More…]

• Volume IB 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 (Senator Webster). [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…]

• In 1962 the Liberal-Country Party Government’s representative at the Stockholm conference on the human environment voted in favour of a 10-year moratorium on the taking of whales. [More…]

• The way in which the people working on that project went about establishing their case, explaining their case, appeared before the independent inquiry, presented their case and persuaded the inquiry of the validity of their case is an exercise in real participatory democracy on the one hand, in that people who are interested and informed can bring recommendations to the Government; and a real outpouring of concern for natural resources, the environment and conservation on the other hand. [More…]

• By respecting their right to live and to co-exist peacefully with us there is evidence that we can find harmony with our environment, with our fellow creatures and perhaps with ourselves. [More…]

• In the course of that question I asked the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster), who is now in the chamber and who is the Minister representing the Minister for the Capital Territory, the following specific question: [More…]

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

• The current session of the law of the sea conference in Geneva is dealing with the protection of marine environment. [More…]

• I ask: Why is not the Department of Science and the Environment represented at this meeting? [More…]

• Does not this situation expose grave negligence on the part of the Minister as he is responsible for comprehensive legislation to protect Australia’s marine environment, nationally and internationally? [More…]

• At the present time these matters do not concern my Department of Science and the Environment. [More…]

• I assure the honourable senator that when those matters are concluded he will find the Department of Science and the Environment well forward in seeking to protect Australia’s interests in those areas. [More…]

• My question, which concerns the Harrisburg nuclear plant and the general public concern about it expressed in most countries, is directed to two Ministers- the Minister for Science and the Environment, who of course would be concerned about this matter, and the Minister representing the Minister for National Development. [More…]

• Finally, to what extent will environmental matters which might concern the Ministers at present be reviewed, and when will information be given to the Parliament? [More…]

• I noticed that the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) mentioned that the agreements had been signed in February. [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…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster), who is in charge of the House at the moment, is probably one of the victims of people on this side of the House who have tried to persuade him that there should be more research into solar energy and plants for the development of vegetable alcohol, if one may describe it in that way, in the same way that the plant at Sarina does use sugar cane for the development of alcohol. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, on notice, on 21 March 1979: [More…]

• The working environment division of the Department of Productivity was engaged last year to design a model public contact area for departmental officers. [More…]

• Has the Government responded to recommendations made in a report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment following an investigation into the herbicides 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D? [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Science and the Environment tell the Senate how many SIROTEM machines, developed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation for mineral research, and manufactured by an Adelaide firm, have been sold in Australia and how many have been exported? [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment, relates to project ‘Storm Fury ‘ and a recent statement by the head of his Department that many advantages had been gained from the visit of the United States aircraft which took part in some experiments during a cyclonic situation in Australia. [More…]

• In answer to the honourable senator’s second and third questions, I state that the supervising scientist is required to advise me in the first instance on the effects of uranium mining operations on the environment in the Alligator Rivers region. [More…]

• This will provide the opportunity for debate in the Parliament on the measures adopted for environmental control in the region. [More…]

• In response to the honourable senator’s fourth question, I draw his attention to the comprehensive statement incorporated in Hansard on 29 March on the role of the Supervising Scientist and the measures being adopted by the Northern Territory Government and this Government to protect the environment in the Alligator Rivers Region. [More…]

• 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 impact of proposals legislation. [More…]

• 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 Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act work in a comprehensive and complementary manner. [More…]

• The administration of this protective legislation is to become the responsibility of the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• But when we sought information from the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) about our sovereign rights in the Australian Antarctic Territory, some ambiguity arose. [More…]

• I notice we have transferred the future policy making directive role from the Department of Primary Industry to the Department of Science and the Environment. [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment told me that it was a case of taking the middle ground and trying to blunt the thrust of the Soviet Union and Japan which wished to maximise their operations. [More…]

• 79 Environment (Financial Assistance) Act- Agreement- Paper. [More…]

• 1 44 Science and the Environment- Standing CommitteeReport (March 1978) on Annual Reports Referred to the Committee- Ministerial Statement. [More…]

• 187 Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development- Annual Report 1977-78- Paper. [More…]

• We are speaking about activities which in the normal sense would be described as political activities whether they are associated with the protection of the environment, an industrial struggle or issues associated with a contest of opinion between one group of people and the government of the day. [More…]

• I will quote from Hansard so that there can be no mistake that in actual fact the words that I refer to were used by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) in reply to a speech by Senator Keeffe about the problems that were being recognised in the nuclear industry. [More…]

• I would have thought that the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster, with that portfolio, would have been much more aware of what is happening in the nuclear industry. [More…]

• All of the details that I am going to give Senator Webster can be found in either the SIPRI annual report or in the Contingency Plan put out by the Work Circle Environment Centre in the United Kingdom or in Ms Coleing ‘s paper for the movement against uranium mining. [More…]

• How can the Minister for Science and the Environment sit in this chamber and say that there has been no loss of life? [More…]

• Because the Minister for Science and the Environment is not terribly well informed on nuclear matters let me just tell him that since the USS Thresher incident, and up to October 1976- because that is the last date that I have- there were a total of 32 accidents involving nuclear submarines. [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment said last night that the nuclear industry is a responsible industry, and I have to agree with him. [More…]

• It is responsible for irreparable damage to the environment, and it is responsible for the sheer waste of human as well as financial resources. [More…]

• Anybody who cares to look up The Contingency Plan put out by the Work Circle Environment Centre in the United Kingdom can verify the other statements. [More…]

• No, unfortunately he is rather like the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• As Minister for the Environment- I have expressed this opinion in this place before- I believe that the burning of fossil fuels in our society is perhaps one of the greatest risks we face. [More…]

• -Does the Minister for Science and the Environment recall my question in May of last year concerning the high level of infestation in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia of the Portuguese millipede, which invades houses, cupboards, linen closets and so on in huge numbers during the autumn and spring periods of the year? [More…]

• These include the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, the Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of Japan for the Protection of Migratory Birds, Birds in Danger of Extinction and their Environment, the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, and the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. [More…]

• The plan of management prepared by the Director and approved by Parliament is intended to ensure environmental protection, and that appropriate management practices are employed, taking into account the interests of the traditional Aboriginal owners. [More…]

• Aboriginals, with their long involvement with and concern for the natural environment are seen as having a key role to play in Park management. [More…]

• 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…]

• It will extend over some 120 kilometres and harmonise the conservation of the environment with the traditional interests of Aboriginals while permitting development to take place. [More…]

• Last night there was unanimity on both sides of this chamber when the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) made a statement in relation to the protection of whales. [More…]

• Australia established a 200-mile off-shore fishing zone and indicated that the environment should not be interfered with in that zone. [More…]

• I refer the Minister to page 1 of his statement in which he indicated that a plan to provide detailed environmental conditions which should be observed if uranium was mined was taken into account. [More…]

• It is from the then Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the file number is 78-2360. [More…]

• I think the Senate should exercise its powers and direct the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, Senator Jessop, to police this matter rigidly. [More…]

• The State Government took the Aboriginal people out of the familiar environment of a settlement and put them in the foreign environment of municipal councils under which they had self-management but were denied any of the protection which the Queensland legislation gave to Aboriginals on settlements. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment, deals with metric conversion. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Science and the Environment and refer to the concept mentioned by Mr Justice Fox of Kakadu National Park reaching stage 2, which would have included river catchment regions and would have embraced the Gimbat and Goodparla pastoral leases. [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, 1 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 1981 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 would like to see the Government perhaps giving that a little more attention and seeing an electric vehicle not only as providing a solution to a problem of fuel conservation but also as providing a solution to a problem with our total environment in our cities and perhaps as making a much greater contribution towards community health than the Government realises. [More…]

• The bigger the engine capacity of a car and the more gas it guzzles, the more pollution it spews forth into the environment. [More…]

• At the outset, however, 1 must emphasise that the Commonwealth Government is committed to protect the health and the environment of the Australian people. [More…]

• 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…]

• Therefore, more than health and the environment is to be taken into consideration. [More…]

• As a senator representing New South Wales I feel that my State and, in particular, the capital city of that State is most affected by the statement that has been put down in the Senate this evening by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster). [More…]

• Peter Cox, the New South Wales Minister for Planning and Environment, the Hon. [More…]

• I commend the New South Wales Minister for Transport, the New South Wales Minister for Planning and Environment and the South Australian Minister of Transport for standing up to the arrogant attitude that is being adopted by the Commonwealth of saying as far as the great city of Sydney is concerned that the status quo should continue until 1985 and that if by then the situation appears to have deteriorated further additional controls might need to be implemented. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 October 1978: [More…]

• Is the Minister for Science and the Environment aware that the Wide Bay-Burnett Conservation Council in Queensland has had its grant, made under the grants to voluntary conservation organisations scheme, slashed from $5,000 to $2,850? [More…]

• I think that a change in policy was notified by the previous Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development in that there would be a dollar for dollar grant to conservation organisations. [More…]

• there is abundant evidence of the interdependence ofthe elements of the whole environment. [More…]

• Not only are millions of dollars spent on hospital treatment which a healthier living environment would make unnecessary, but more millions have to be spent on unemployment relief because Aborigines have not received the training and skills which would qualify them for employment. [More…]

• People benefit from a stay there but return to their former environment and habits. [More…]

• In a country where some can indulge their every whim in luxurious dwellings, yachts, travel, cars, sports and entertainment, another section exists in an environment of degradation in which children are being forced into the same pattern as their elders. [More…]

• Is it not a fact that during the 1977 election campaign a joint Cabinet submission from the then Minister for National Development and another Minister- I think it was the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development- seeking approval to drill on the Great Barrier Reef was made public? [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister for Science and the Environment been drawn to an article in yesterday’s Australian Financial Review which reveals that Offshore Oil NL has written a confidential letter to the Queensland Commissioner for Corporate Affairs announcing that it has acquired a majority shareholding in Gulf Interstate Overseas Ltd, a corporation registered as a foreign company in Queensland, which has some expectation that it will be able to drill on the Barrier Reef? [More…]

• Will the Minister for Science and the Environment confirm that the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park has not been proclaimed? [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Science and the Environment aware that many members of the community continue to show deep concern at the methods used by the Canadians in the seasonal culling of young seals? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment. [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 Co-operation and Development Ministerial Committee on the Environment. [More…]

• That the Minister for Science and the Environment no longer has the confidence or the Senate. [More…]

• Last Thursday, Senator Webster, the Minister for Science and the Environment, provided information to the Senate which was wrong, which he knew to be wrong and for which there has been no satisfactory explanation. [More…]

• In October of that year, the Minister for National Resources, Mr Anthony, and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who was then Mr Newman, put up a Cabinet submission recommending exploration in the Capricornia channel area of the reef. [More…]

• Mr Groom, who had taken over from Mr Newman as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, was at that time in disagreement with Mr Newman who since taking over the National Development portfolio was very keen to have the applications for permit renewals dealt with. [More…]

• I seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard a copy of a letter dated 22 January 1979 from the Minister for National Development to Senator Webster, the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• J. J. Webster, Minister for Science and the Environment, Parliament House, Canberra, ACT 2600 [More…]

• Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The Minister in charge of the environment was seeking second-hand views as to whether various oil companies would object to the proclamation of a park authorised by this Parliament some three years before. [More…]

• That information demonstrates just how weak this Government has been when it comes to environmental matters, and it demonstrates just how much the Government is subject to manipulation by oil companies. [More…]

• I asked Senator Carrick about the submission from the Minister for National Resources and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, seeking approval to limit drilling on the reef. [More…]

• Under those circumstances, no member of this Senate can any longer have confidence in answers given by the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• Since that time, various Federal Ministers, including the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister for National Development and the Minister for Science and the Environment, have made statements about government intentions in relation to the reef. [More…]

• All three Ministers who have been responsible for the environment at some stage under this Government have been involved. [More…]

• That the Minister for Science and the Environment no longer has the confidence of the Senate. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister for Science and the Environment been drawn to an article in yesterday’s Australian Financial Review which reveals that Offshore Oil NL has written a confidential letter to the Queensland Commissioner for Corporate Affairs announcing that it has acquired a majority shareholding in Gulf Interstate Overseas Ltd, a corporation registered as a foreign company in Queensland, which has some expectation that it will be able to drill on the Barrier Reef? [More…]

• Mr President, you would be aware that the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is an area which lies within my province as Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• Will the Minister for Science and the Environment confirm that the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park has not been proclaimed? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment, lt follows previous questions concerning drilling on the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]

• Senior Government Ministers including the Prime Minister, his deputy, Mr Anthony, Senator Carrick, the Leader of the Government in the Senate, and Senator Webster, the Minister responsible for the environment, are all publicly denying that drilling on the Reef will be permitted. [More…]

• I also draw attention to a joint statement issued by Senator Ken Wriedt, Senate Opposition Leader, and Mr Barry Cohen, shadow Minister for the Environment. [More…]

• JOINT PRESS STATEMENT BY SENATOR KEN WRIEDT, SENATE OPPOSITION LEADER, AND MR BARRY COHEN, SHADOW MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT [More…]

• Mr President, you may acknowledge that as I came to the Environment portfolio in December of last year there was a great deal of background relating to this matter which is probably best known by the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and others. [More…]

• If the applications for renewal were ultimately to be entertained, it would be necessary to assess them in terms of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]

• In so doing, I am indebted to the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) for rereading to honourable senators the Hansard of last Thursday. [More…]

• -I am reminded that the Government is having informal discussions with those two groups of people to subvert the very process which the Minister for Science and the Environment should be concerned to protect. [More…]

• The Senate has before it a motion moved by Senator Wriedt that the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) no longer has the confidence of the Senate. [More…]

• In other words, it is a censure motion by the Opposition moved in the full seriousness of such a motion, as Senator Wriedt has said, against the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• As Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster is responsible for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act and its administration. [More…]

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

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

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment the following question, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1 979: [More…]

• The ‘List of Species and Genera of Aquarium Fishes Proposed for Continued Importation’ was drawn up to reduce to manageable proportions for import control purposes the number of species of exotic freshwater aquarium fishes approved for importation but to include species that had been commonly imported by the trade for many years and were regarded to be of low environmental and disease risk. [More…]

• The guidelines followed by the Advisory Committee in compiling the list were to exclude species that fell into any one or more of the following categories: have caused problems when introduced anywhere in the world: might have detrimental effects on other species of fish; might have detrimental effects on the environment: were known carriers of any economically important disease or parasite believed not to be in Australia; were harmful to man or livestock; had a wide capacity for survival and dispersal; might readily be confused with undesirable species: or grew to a large size suitable for food or game fish stocking. [More…]

• Within the Commonwealth Government, responsibility for environmental policy advice and the co-ordination of Government policy on the matter rests with the Minister for Science and the Environment and the administration of import controls and quarantine rests with the Ministers Tor Business and Consumer Affairs and Health respectively. [More…]

• They have also been referred to the Minister for Science and the Environment who is responsible for advising the Government on environmental policy aspects and for co-ordinating Government policy in this matter. [More…]

• I draw to the attention of the Minister for Science and the Environment a report from Gulnare in South Australia that some low-lying land with a high salt content and subject to flooding has been converted into productive country following Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation experimentation and importation. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment whether he recalls yesterday, during a debate involving himself, using these words: [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Science and the Environment aware of the report published in the Age on Friday last released by the United States National Academy of Scientists which concluded that there was no known threshold below which radiation ceased to have adverse effects on human beings? [More…]

• I receive a number of letters which put to me as the Minister for Science and the Environment that the Council is attempting to bring pressure on the Government. [More…]

• I would have thought that if it were it would have attempted to bring pressure on me as the Minister with responsibilities for the environment. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment whether he is aware that in an interview today with the ABC the newly appointed Chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Mr Higgs, said in answer to a question about possible differences between the Commonwealth and Queensland governments: [More…]

• Has the Minister for Science and the Environment, received any progress reports on the research and development of SYNROC being conducted by Professor Ringwood of the Australian National University? [More…]

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

• The classic lesson we can learn from this paper is that worker participation- not the kind of worker participation that terrified the unions when such a suggestion was put under another guise in previous years, but genuine worker participation, as Senator Button quite aptly described it- can create an environment for future discussion, for future consultation and for future consensus. [More…]

• All I will say is that it does create an environment, to use Senator Button’s words. [More…]

• My perusal of Special Branch files show 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…]

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

• Did he see the television program Nationwide last evening in which the interviewer, Mr Richard Carleton, said that he had invited him to discuss the Great Barrier Reef issue with the Opposition spokesman on the environment, Mr Barry Cohen. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment and concerns the statements reported today of the newly appointed Chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Mr Higgs. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate and relates to a question asked by Senator Wriedt of the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• -Will the Minister for Science and the Environment clearly define the role of the consultative committee in relation to the Great Barrier Reef Authority? [More…]

• In view of the explanation he gave earlier in Question Time of the reasons for Senator Webster’s inability to appear on a television program last night, I ask: Will he give us an assurance that, if a similar invitation is extended to Senator Webster today to debate the matter with Mr Cohen, the Opposition spokesman on the environment or with any other member of the Opposition, he will permit Senator Webster time to appear on that program? [More…]

• Last Tuesday when I moved a motion of no confidence in the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster), I indicated to the Senate that I was not bringing on that motion light-heartedly. [More…]

• Specifically, Ministers who are involved in this cover-up and who have played some part in it are the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anthony, the Minister for National Development, Mr Newman, the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Carrick, the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster, the Minister for Housing and Construction, Mr Groom, and the Minister for Administrative Services, Mr McLeay. [More…]

• I have already indicated to the Senate that the Opposition does not believe any of those statements in view of the correspondence which passed between the Minister for National Development and the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• Yet, here we have clear evidence of an arrangement between a government authority and an oil company which will be detrimental to the environment but which has had the approval of the current Minister for the Environment and his predecessor. [More…]

• Indeed, the current Minister for Science and the Environment, is even proud to come into this Senate to give us this information completely unaware of what he is doing. [More…]

• In response to a question from Senator Cavanagh, the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster, indicated that there was no conflict between Mr Higgs’ statement and his own views. [More…]

• It is well to remember Senator Webster’s position in the Government in that he is responsible for the environment. [More…]

• If the Environment Minister is not fearful of the prospect of mining or drilling on the Barrier Reef, there is little chance that any resistance will be raised in Cabinet to the views of those ministers, such as the Minister for National Development, who favour such activities. [More…]

• Senator Wriedt, in order to bolster his case today, widens that attack which he started earlier in the week against the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster). [More…]

• -I will refer that matter to the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• Commonwealth and State Ministers for the environment have met recently and have come to some conclusions. [More…]

• I thought that the Prime Minister, the Minister for National Development, the Minister for Science and the Environment and I- Senator Webster and I have referred to the matter this week- have made the Government’s position quite clear. [More…]

• 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…]

• Pursuant to section 6 of the Environment (Financial Assistance) Act 1977 1 present an agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and Tasmania in relation to the provision of financial assistance for projects related to the environment for 1978-79 made under the provisions of that Act. [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…]

• Because of the wide range of trade issues addressed in the MTN their outcome will shape the world trading environment for at least the next decade. [More…]

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

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

• My “question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Transport and relates to the oil spills report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, which contains recommendations concerning navigational aids and practices affecting the passage of Great Barrier Reef waters by oil tankers. [More…]

• We found that the Australian Government Publishing Service was linked with the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]

• Programs which are wholly didactic in content and approach tend to be avoided by the average child, who may well have spent most of the day in a classroom environment. [More…]

• In this international environment the discussions with President Marcos and President Suharto made clear our common recognition that broadly based co-operation 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…]

• I find it rather difficult to understand the Government’s attitude when we find that even within its ranks there is a difference of opinion between the two Ministers who have some responsibility in this area, namely, the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) and the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman). [More…]

• One aspect of health about which I am concerned is the increase in the incidence of cancer, especially cancer that is caused by the environment in which we work and live. [More…]

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

• I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment a question about drilling on the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]

• I refer to a meeting of Federal and State Ministers in Sydney last Thursday, which I think involved the Attorney-General and the Minister for Science and the Environment, concerning jurisdiction over the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]

• The discussions were not, as some of the Press reports would seem to indicate, in relation to what would be policy questions regarding the environment, the protection of the reef and those sorts of issues. [More…]

• Will the Minister for Science and the Environment, on behalf of the Government, make a statement that no drilling will take place on the Great Barrier Reef being the area from the most southern point of the Barrier Reef to the most northern point of the Barrier Reef, which is covered by the Seas and Submerged Lands Act, in order to allay the fears of many Australians and many people throughout the world of what could happen to the Barrier Reef if drilling were permitted in the region? [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Science and the Environment aware that objections to the listing of Moreton Island in the register of the National Estate have been lodged by the CoordinatorGeneral ‘s Department on behalf of the Queensland Government, and also by the Mineral Sands Producers’ Association? [More…]

• -My question, addressed to the Minister for Science and the Environment, follows a question asked by Senator Martin. [More…]

• At the beginning of my speech I said that there was a dichotomy between protecting the interests of the people of Norfolk Island and giving them as much self-government as possible- perhaps more than the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) would desireand recognising at the same time that the standards which are applicable to the Norfolk Island people should be as far as practicable the same as the standards which are applicable to the Australian people in matters such as income tax and social welfare legislation. [More…]

• Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974-s. 4. [More…]

• Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Act 1978- s. 5. [More…]

• I rise because of what the Minister for Science and the Environment has just said. [More…]

• Before my colleague, Senator Cavanagh, last rose the Minister for Science and the Environment said, in brief, that the Government does not agree to the proposal put by the Opposition in its amendment. [More…]

• I have spoken to the staff of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) about the document and I shall call it document A. [More…]

• My colleague the Minister for Science and the Environment has referred to me your request for information concerning the location of zoos and sanctuaries which in the last three years have recieved Australian kangaroos and wallabies. [More…]

• Senator J. J. Webster, Minister for Science and the Environment, Commonwealth Parliament Offices, 400 Flinders Street, Melbourne, Vic. [More…]

• We might add that we also feel that Austrlaian native animals should not be supplied to foreign zoos unless such zoos create a realistic environment for them. [More…]

• I want the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Consumer and Business Affairs and the Department of Science and the Environment to co-ordinate their activities on this matter and to give me a detailed reply. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 27 February 1979: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment the following question, upon notice, on 27 March 1 979: [More…]

• 1 ) Why has the linchpin for the protection of both the Aboriginal people and the environment at the Ranger Uranium mine site, that is, the declaration of the Kakadu National Park, not been enforced. [More…]

• This Statement set out in detail the various steps which have been taken for the protection of both the Aboriginal people and the environment in the Alligator Rivers Region since the government announced its uranium decision on 25 August 1977. [More…]

• The environmental and public health effects of these aerosol propellants are being kept under continuing review by the Australian Environment Council and the NH & MRC. [More…]

• In the area of working environment, at least two companies and one union have held discussions with departmental experts on the possibility of setting up 9-day fortnights, and assistance on new factory layout to ensure optimum working conditions has been given to others. [More…]

• That the Minister for Science and the Environment no longer has the confidence of the Senate because he deliberately misled the Senate on a number of occasions in relation to issues pertaining to the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]

• That the Minister for Science and the Environment no longer has the confidence of the Senate because he deliberately misled the Senate on a number of occasions in relation to issues pertaining to the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]

• The Opposition moves this motion of want of confidence in the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) because of his wilful, deliberate and persistent misleading of the Senate over the actions of various Ministers in relation to the Great Barrier Reef issue. [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided answers to questions that were incorrect and which he knew to be incorrect. [More…]

• Let me briefly reflect on the full extent of the Opposition’s charge against the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• In any event, the key disclosure made by Senator Webster was that on some occasion, the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Groom, wrote to the Minister for National Development, Mr Newman, and provided him with certain information concerning the boundaries of the Capricornia section of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. [More…]

• I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a copy of a letter dated 20 October 1978 from Mr Groom, the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, to Mr Newman, the Minister for National Development. [More…]

• In your previous capacity as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, you received a letter of 3 November 1 977 from the then Minister for National Resources in which concern was expressed over the proposed Proclamation of the area encompassing Lady Elliot Island and the Bunker and Capricorn Groups as part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. [More…]

• That the Minister for Science and the Environment no longer has the confidence of the Senate because he deliberately misled the Senate on a number of occasions in relation to issues pertaining to the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]

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

• I am aware of minutes in which assessments of various letters are made and which indicate the attitude of which this Minister for Science and the Environment should be aware in discussions on this matter. [More…]

• In dealing firstly with what Senator Webster, the Minister for Science and the Environment, is now pleased to call his case, I should make clear that it is not a defence to the Opposition’s charges for a Minister in this chamber to say: ‘I am ignorant’. [More…]

• The final part of his speech was most important because he said: ‘I am not going to be held to a recollection of what took place before I became Minister for Science and the Environment’. [More…]

• Today he said: ‘I am not going to be held to a recollection of what took place before I became the Minister for Science and the Environment’. [More…]

• The refusal to answer questions, the fudging over issues and the selective reference to documents, show quite clearly that the Minister for Science and the Environment is quite aware that he misled the Parliament on 3 May. [More…]

• The Senate has been treated today to a re-run of what is becoming a tired and cracked old record on the subject of some of the answers given in the Senate on certain days by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) and his remarks in certain debates that have taken place here on those answers and in respect of the Government’s policy on the Great Barrier Reef and the reef region. [More…]

• Senator Webster received this letter very shortly after he became Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• The Opposition thinks that it has a trump card in producing and incorporating in Hansard today the letter from Senator Webster’s predecessor as Minister responsible for the environment, the present Minister for Housing and Construction, Mr Groom, which was addressed to the Minister for National Development and dated 20 October 1978. [More…]

• He says that it was brought to his attention after he became Minister for Science and the Environment and before 3 May. [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- AMSTAC- has been asked to submit advice on a program of research on the Reef environment for consideration in the Budget context. [More…]

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

• My question is directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment and concerns the Kakadu National Park. [More…]

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

• Last week members of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and Environment were told by a member of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority that there was such a ship in that area at that time. [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether any specialised sections of the departments concerned- the Department of Health, the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and the Department of Employment and Youth Affairs- are dealing with research or information related to the occupational hazards of working in the environment of that herbicide? [More…]

• No doubt, comment will be made about the additional that Zorn included for protection of the environment, which brings the 4Vi per cent to a higher level; but, compared with the 1 5 per cent royalty that is paid to Indians in the United States and the royalty that is paid by the Bougainville copper mine in Papua New Guinea, it is certainly a pitiful amount. [More…]

• Council agreed that the final report of that Working Party bc brought to the attention of the Australian Environment Council for consideration by that Council’s Vehicular Emission and Noise Standards Advisory Committee. [More…]

• Council recommended that its views be widely circulated to the appropriate authorities, including the Australian Minerals and Energy Council and Australian Transport Advisory Council, to health and environment authorities, to industry and other interested authorities and organisations. ‘ [More…]

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

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

• -I refer to a statement made by the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster, during Question Time to the effect that I had not done as he requested I do on 23 May, namely, place on the Notice Paper a question to which I sought an answer. [More…]

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

• I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment a question relating to the Landsat satellite. [More…]

• When the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) answered the question which was put to him by Senator Archer, I raised a point of order. [More…]

• We have had the example of Senator Georges choosing to use that piece of paper as a means of having yet another attack on the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• All this is of great assistance as the figures show that the majority of women return to their home environment after the initial crisis. [More…]

• For the same reason the operational environment would be relatively unsophisticated. [More…]

• It will be difficult to exercise control over this, but the Government must be prepared to approve concepts which might limit the complexity of the environment in which our Defence Force might have to operate. [More…]

• They interfere with the ecosystem or ecology of the environment in the area. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 28 March 1979: [More…]

• The reference by Senator Mason to vehicles leads me to say that motor vehicles do contribute up to 90 per cent of air lead levels, particularly in the urban environment. [More…]

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

• So far as my interests in science and the environment are concerned, I know of no vessels that are carrying out seismic work in that area. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment. [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- AMSTAC- has been asked to submit advice on a program of research on the reef environment for consideration in the Budget context. [More…]

• The Commission strongly recommended that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts oppose all phases of offshore oil development until a number of conditions are met, including waiting ‘until blow-out and spill prevention technology have sufficiently improved to be clearly fail-safe and until oil spill technology can adequately cope with an ocean spill in adverse seas and weather conditions so as not to cause any damage to the marine environment and public health from its own effects. ‘ [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- AMSTAC- has been asked to submit advice on a program of research on the reef environment for consideration in the Budget context. [More…]

• Would the Mi nister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) be prepared to seek from those who are responsible for the report the reasons for the change and would he get them to give the Senate some explanation why such an important change should be made? [More…]

• I confine my remarks to the Department of Science and the Environment. [More…]

• I take the Committee back to the occasion when the second report of the Ranger Uranium Environment Inquiry was presented to the Senate. [More…]

• I seek information on whether the bulk of the $300,000 for the rehabilitation of the Finnis River will be handed over to the Northern Territory Government now that the Northern Territory has assumed statehood or whether officers of the Department of Science and the Environmentwhom I regard as the custodians of the environment in the federal sense- are working in collaboration with the Northern Territory Government to see that the river is fully rehabilitated. [More…]

• It expressed some fears that a certain impression might have reached the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) that because its membership may have declined there should be a cut in its annual grant. [More…]

• I hope that the misinformation from News Weekly sources will not be used to hobble the Australian Conservation Foundation in the vital role it plays as a custodian of our environment. [More…]

• I would like to know when the Department of Science and the Environment or the Atomic Energy Commission first started to rehabilitate the area, when the job will be completed and how much the job will cost. [More…]

• We are examining five departments one of which is the Department of Science and the Environment. [More…]

• That was an observation made in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment which was presented here in March this year. [More…]

• When I commenced I stated that I wanted to talk about division 543, which relates to the Antarctic Division of the Department of Science and the Environment. [More…]

• I was saying that Mr Webster from the Department of Science and the Environment said at the Estimates Committee hearing that a great number of firms gave a great deal of elaboration in their proposals and that the Department had received 40 or 50 such proposals to the design request. [More…]

• Because of his report to the Labor Government, we continued with the project subject to an environmental impact statement. [More…]

• That environmental impact statement has not yet been produced. [More…]

• We spent $6m on this project and yet we still do not have that environmental impact statement. [More…]

• We do not know the direction that the turtle project has taken and the impact it has had on the environment. [More…]

• Where is the environmental impact statement that the previous report called for? [More…]

• Instead of fishing and living off the environment they pay the money into the government store. [More…]

• Because of the information I have just given to the Senate, I am compelled to ask some questions of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) who is in the cham ber at the moment. [More…]

• But because it is a matter of importance I think that the Minister for Science and the Environment, who is in charge of the House at the moment, should have it referred to the Department of Foreign Affairs tomorrow morning, at first light if necessary, and make sure that a reply is before the Senate preferably tomorrow or at the latest by Monday of next week when the Senate resumes after the weekend break. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment: Is it a fact that the Capricornia section of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park has not been declared because the areas of permits Q/4P and Q/5P infringe on the proposed section of the Marine Park? [More…]

• 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, the Darling Downs Institute and the Royal Australian Navy College with a single academy which would provide a balanced and liberal university education in a military environment for officer cadets of the three Australian Services, concurrently with a program of professional military training. [More…]

• The Committee 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…]

• Whilst the report admits the benefit of cadets being involved in the military environment, as it is called, as much as possible during their tertiary studies, it also says that there were advantages in the additional use of tertiary institutions, in which there are increasingly additional places available. [More…]

• Mr President, I wish to report to the Senate on the implementation of recommendations of both the initial report on ‘Woodchips and the Environment’ presented by the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment in May 1977 and the Committee’s supplementary report on November 1978. [More…]

• Commonwealth portfolios were involvedPrimary Industry, Science, and the former Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The Supplementary Report contained further recommendations to the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair), the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, and to myself as Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• Assessments of environmental impact have been carried out under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act where applications have been made to review licences and to increase export quantity, as in the case of the Harris Daishowa (Aust.) [More…]

• Where appropriate, both the Australian Environment Council and the Australian Forestry Council have been involved in discussion of the reports ‘ recommendations. [More…]

• In common with a number of other inquiries, the Committee has stressed the importance of land use planning in environmental management. [More…]

• However, many land use interests, such as nature conservation, soils, forestry and environment, are covered by existing ministerial councils. [More…]

• The statement which has just been incorporated by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) states, in part: [More…]

• When the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment commenced operation there was a tremendous interest in the woodchip industry. [More…]

• Senator Webster, in his portfolio as Minister for Science and the Environment, should give maximum thrust to every echelon of the CSIRO to see that this industry maximises its contributions on research. [More…]

• I do so in these terms: At Question Time this morning I asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster, some questions relating to the reasons for the failure to proclaim the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. [More…]

• I think it has been raised on three occasions by way of a censure motion against the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) for giving conflicting answers, for giving answers which are nonanswers and for fudging the issue. [More…]

• We had that bizarre Question Time a week ago when the Minister for Science and the Environment just refused to answer any questions on this issue at all. [More…]

• That is why, subsequent to that and after the document had been served on the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) this afternoon, when the Minister was making his statement to the Senate I asked whether he was making a ministerial statement. [More…]

• But what cannot be taken from us is the feeling- perhaps I could use the word ‘suspicion’- that Mr Newman was required, in fact forced, to alter his position on this matter in order to protect the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster. [More…]

• What is revealed by this whole matter is a conflict between Mr Newman’s Department and the Department of Science and the Environment. [More…]

• What has been the attitude of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster)? [More…]

• There are people in this country who do not give a damn about conservation or protecting our natural environment. [More…]

• It would be able to make a contribution to the assessment of the social, physical and environmental problems associated with the mining of uranium, but obviously the State Minister has no desire to seek or even to accept its assistance in any way. [More…]

• It is very significant that environmental bodies, whether they be wildlife organisations, littoral societies or ordinary environmental groups, are not going to be prevailed upon to assist in any way. [More…]

• The ActingDirector of the Townsville Environment Centre wrote to Mr Camm on 2 1 May in these gentle terms: [More…]

• Townsville Environment Centre [More…]

• The director of the Townsville Environment Centre, Mr Grahame Wells, said today that he had discovered that dangerous levels of radiation were being emitted from a warehouse a few minutes walk from the Townsville general post office. [More…]

• Townsville Environment Centre [More…]

• Present land use and description of area applied for and immediate surroundings, to include general characteristics of environment (topography, watercourses and vegetation): [More…]

• Physical alteration of environment (likely change of soil cover, topography, vegetation, watercourses, etc. [More…]

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

• Mention was made on AM this morning that a report from the Department of Science and the Environment indicates that radioactivity levels at Nabarlek uranium mine in the Northern Territory are higher than was previously indicated, and that the health of workers there may be endangered. [More…]

• I heard this morning’s AM report on the subject and I understand that it referred to my Department’s assessment report on the final environment impact statement prepared by Queensland Mines Ltd. [More…]

• In accord with normal practice in the administration of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, the Department’s report was referred to Mr Anthony, Mr Howard and Senator Chaney, the three Ministers with direct responsibility for Commonwealth decisions relating to Nabarlek. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has made estimates of radon daughter and gamma ray exposure levels, which are five to ten times higher than estimates made by Queensland Mines in the environment impact statement. [More…]

• The Department’s report recommends that appropriate environmental protection measures be taken in order to safeguard the health of workers. [More…]

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

• Does he believe that adequate work is being undertaken altogether by the Department of Science and the Environment to inform people in Western Australia of future dangers and the best means of avoiding them? [More…]

• -Senator Wheeldon is correct in that the Department of Science and the Environment has some reference to the matter. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment, concerns statements reported today by the head of the wildlife division of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Mr Bill Jordan, who is visiting Australia. [More…]

• I refer the Minister for Science and the Environment to the Australian drifting buoy program for the global weather experiment. [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment will remember that earlier this year I asked him a question on the proposed re-entry date and re-entry path for Skylab. [More…]

• The honourable senator should recognise from the last half a dozen questions that have been asked of me that it would be impossible for me to be adequately briefed on all subjects which come within the portfolio of Science and the Environment, let alone for the Minister who represents me in another place to be adequately briefed on them. [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…]

• They have lived all their lives in this environment because the bureaucracy- the authorities- says that they are mentally retarded and require no more than to be kept warm, to be fed and to be sheltered. [More…]

• The Schools Commission was asked for funds from the innovations program to give these children the education and the environment they needed. [More…]

• That is the sort of environment in which they live. [More…]

• On that occasion he indicated that AMSTAC- the Australian Marine Science 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 the Prime Minister wrote to Senator Webster, the Minister for Science and the Environment, 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 Queensland Government is not to be trusted with matters which concern the protection of our environment; that has been proven time and time again. [More…]

• I have had a verbal acknowledgment from the Minister for Science and the Environment, I have had an acknowledgment from Mr Fife to my submission of 23 May but I have had nothing from Mr Peacock’s office. [More…]

• But I doubt such measures helped the wombat in this miserable and totally alien environment. [More…]

• One gorilla was caged there in reasonable area and seemed resigned, but of course neither of these would have been imported from Australia and were in their natural climate and environment. [More…]

• holidays, tourism, environment factors and the like; or [More…]

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

• However, because of the type of work in which my Department is involved, with its responsibilities for the environment, particularly in the Northern Territory, under the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act a vessel of similar type- but perhaps not as expensive to run as is this one- would be very useful for conducting research on fresh water crocodiles and other aspects of river estuaries. [More…]

• -Does the Minister for Science and the Environment recall advising me, in response to a question I placed on the Notice Paper, that between 1975 and 1977, of the 558 tests on final effluent being discharged into the Georges River from Commonwealth establishments in Sydney some 79 samples failed to comply with the bacterial and chemical standards of the New South Wales Clean Waters Act; and that a report will be forthcoming from the Department of Housing and Construction, to the Department of Transport on the environmental survey investigations being carried out at Bankstown aerodrome? [More…]

• Perhaps more properly it should be directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• Is the Queensland facility monitored by representatives of the defence Services or the Department of Science and the Environment? [More…]

• Subject to the approval of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster), I seek leave to have that document incorporated in Hansard. [More…]

• His opposition to the mining of uranium on environmental grounds is well known. [More…]

• We are not reassured that there is no danger to the environment. [More…]

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

• Mention was made on AM this morning that a report from the Department of Science and the Environment indicates that radioactivity levels at Nabarlek uranium mine in the Northern Territory are higher than was previously indicated, and that the health of workers there may be endangered. [More…]

• In accord with normal practice in the administration of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, the Department’s report was referred to Mr Anthony, Mr Howard and Senator Chancy, the three Ministers with direct responsibility for Commonwealth decisions relation to Nabarlek. [More…]

• I have drawn to the attention of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) extracts I have taken from the London Economist and Time magazine of parallel debates dealing with the current debate in the United States Congress on the allocation of land in Alaska. [More…]

• Senator Mulvihill claimed that the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment will drag the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory before it and give him ‘what ho’. [More…]

• Yesterday I asked a question concerning the problem of radioactivity levels at the Narbalek uranium mine indicated in a report from the Department of Science and the Environment. [More…]

• The intention is that by including the town in the National Park it will be planned and managed in harmony with the Park, and the impact of the town, both on the environment and Aboriginals, will be minimised. [More…]

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

• As yesterday was World Environment Day, which was celebrated throughout the world, does the Minister agree that the absence of a clearly thought out energy policy designed to minimise waste and to encourage alternative energy uses disadvantages the entire community? [More…]

• The second part of the question related to the fact that yesterday was World Environment Day. [More…]

• Each nation under World Environment Day was able to decide its own theme. [More…]

• Those who were associated with that day in Australia thought out the title which was used, which I think was very appropriate, and indeed had good media coverage so that people could consider that which we wish to retain- our natural environment. [More…]

• In view of recent statements in the media attributed to the petroleum industry that it would cost more than 5c a litre to reduce existing lead levels and a counter claim by Professor Lloyd Smythe, Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of New South Wales, that it would cost less than lc a litre, will the Minister for Science and the Environment ask his Department to research this matter, inform the Senate of the result and issue an informed public statement as soon as possible? [More…]

• I will take the question on notice and see whether the Department of Science and the Environment can look at that matter. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment: In view of the widespread concern expressed and the large number of petitions presented to the Senate in relation to the metric system of measurement, will the Minister now seriously consider the points raised in those petitions? [More…]

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

• Mr Collins’ reference to the Uranium Advisory Council as the Commonwealth watchdog on these matters’ betrays a lack of knowledge of the arrangements that have been established for the protection of the environment and uranium workers in the Alligator Rivers Region. [More…]

• As recommended by the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry under the chairmanship of Mr Justice Fox, the health and environmental aspects of uranium mining are regulated under applicable Northern Territory law but the supervising scientist for the Alligator Rivers region, who is appointed under Commonwealth statute, has an overall supervisory and co-ordinative role. [More…]

• -I present the report and transcript of evidence from the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment on its inquiry into industrial research and development in Australia. [More…]

• The Senate, on 7 April 1 976, referred the following matter to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment: [More…]

• Whenever we burn coal we increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the earth’s environment and its atmospheric envelope. [More…]

• Since carbon dioxide has a very long life in the atmosphere- no-one knows precisely how long it remains in a residual concentration, but it is of the order of hundreds or thousands of years- to increase the number of coal-fired thermal generating stations does exact a real price in terms of the ecology of the earth ‘s environment. [More…]

• Unfortunately this seems to be the natural environment of this Government. [More…]

• On the second occasion the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) conceded that I had a good case. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment a question in relation to the anatomy of his Department. [More…]

• -Mr President, earlier this day I gave notice of motion to enable the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment to be lodged with you during the recess. [More…]

• On 9 May 1979 (Hansard, pages 1730-1 ), Senator Coleman asked the Minister for Science and the Environment a question without notice concerning a newspaper report released by the United States National Academy of Scientists which concluded that there was no known threshold below which radiation ceased to have adverse effects on human beings. [More…]

• Does the report from the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment which was tabled this week say, in part, that at present there is no clear national policy for science and technology in Australia? [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment will recall questions I asked last year relating to the manufacture and use of seaweed extracts. [More…]

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

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

• Migrant children are showing more determination than Australian students in staying on at school for good results despite a ‘hostile environment’, according to a Commonwealth Government report. [More…]

• Students of non-English-speaking origin often face the kind of hostile environment that might be expected to make them leave school rather than stay on ‘, the report claims. [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) seemed to be confused as to whether it has ever been presented. [More…]

• I feel I was misrepresented this morning by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) in his reply at the end of Question Time to a question I asked on Wednesday last. [More…]

• In view of recent statements in the media attributed to the petroleum industry that it would cost more than5c a litre to reduce existing lead levels and a counter claim by Professor Lloyd Smythe, Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of New South Wales, that it would cost less than1c a litre, will the Minister for Science and the Environment ask his Department to research this matter, inform the Senate of the result and issue an informed public statement as soon as possible? [More…]

• This morning the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) stated in his reply that the actual figure referred to by the industry was5c a gallon, not 5c a litre, hence there was no cause for disagreement, 5c a gallon being roughly1c a litre. [More…]

• It seems to me strange that the Department of Science and the Environment should presumably have advised the Minister to answer the question in the way he did. [More…]

• I readily concede- the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) will probably make the point in his closing remarks- that a levy for a similar purpose was imposed by the Federal Labor Government in 1973, but we have been persuaded to modify our view on this matter for the following reasons: Firstly, to a substantial extent, the brucellosis and tuberculosis eradication campaign is a public health measure. [More…]

• Perhaps the Minister for Science and the Environment can give us some reasons when he replies to this debate. [More…]

• While the Goverment is engaging in an Export Now policy, I suggest to the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster), who is at the table, and to the Minister for Trade and Resources (Mr Anthony) that they should be looking at the promotion of Australian wine, particularly on the export market, to ensure that there are greater opportunities for Australian workers in the industry. [More…]

• In the second reading speech the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) indicated that the Australian Wine Board is responsible, under the Wine Overseas Marketing Act 1929, for controlling the export of wine and undertaking promotion in Australia and overseas. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 23 May 1979: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs, because of the effect of technological developments on future employment prospects; or it may be directed more appropriately to the Minister for Science and the Environment, who is responsible for preparing us for future shocks, technologically speaking. [More…]

• I draw the attention of the Minister for Science and the Environment to claims by the Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales that one of the world’s unique beauty spots, Lord Howe Island, is in danger of ruination by well-intentioned incompetents. [More…]

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

• For the information of honourable senators I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Transport on the report on oil spills by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]

• This is quite apart from the environment damages which may result. [More…]

• I will round off my remarks because I know that Senator Mason, a fellow member of the Senate Committee on Science and the Environment wishes to supplement them. [More…]

• Environment protection and conservation (including parks, reserves and gardens and preservation of historical objects and areas); [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 29 March 1979: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 3 April 1979: [More…]

• Health, safety and environment remain primarily matters ibr individual Governments and unilateral action by Australia would not be appropriate. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 9 May 1979: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment the following question, upon notice, on 9 May 1979. [More…]

• Under the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Act the Supervising Scientist exercises an overall supervisory role in the implementation of the Code of Practice and he has been involved jointly with the above Northern Territory authorities in the consideration of and approval for Queensland Mines radiation protection and monitoring programs. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment the following question, upon notice, on 23 May 1 979: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment the following question, upon notice, on the 7 June 1979: [More…]

• I understand that the complex issues raised in the report have been referred to the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Environment Council for consideration. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 7 June 1979: [More…]

• Despite the millions of dollars spent on research on aluminium alloys no methods have yet been developed which can prevent corrosion economically in the aeroplane environment. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment a question about the proposal to transfer to Tasmania from the Australian Capital Territory the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Division of Forest Research. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment in his capacity as that Minister and as Minister representing the Minister for Housing and Construction. [More…]

• I understand that the Minister for Lands has under consideration a Bill to be introduced next year to amend the Lord Howe Island Act to enable the establishment on the island of reserves of national park status to be administered by the Lord Howe Island Board and that an officer of the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service nominated by the Minister for Planning and Environment will be a member of the Board. [More…]

• I was dismayed to learn in answer to several questions on notice which I asked of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) that the officers of that section doing that work have been totally removed from that area for the past several years. [More…]

• -The Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) has now touched on a point which was raised by way of interjection by Senator Sibraa and which we ought to take into consideration. [More…]

• On 31 May Senators Jessop and Mulvihill spoke about some aspects of the comments by the responsible Minister, on behalf of the Executive, on the results of the woodchip inquiry of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• For instance, the Committee urged the Government not to issue any new woodchip licences, other than in respect of the use of sawmill waste, until environmental matters outlined in the report were resolved. [More…]

• If we look at the Hansard record of 3 1 May we will see that the Government’s response, through the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster), was as follows: [More…]

• -I wish to say something about this proposal, to support what the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) said and certainly to support his comment that the proposal outlined in paragraph 18 of the report should not be brought into effect by way of a Standing Order. [More…]

• What the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) said caused me some concern. [More…]

• I recall the report presented some time ago by the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment on the woodchip industry. [More…]

• I decided to ask the Minister for the then Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development whether any tests had been carried out during the period 1975-77 to discover whether any Commonwealth Government establishments or instrumentalities discharged effluent or waste into the Georges River in New South Wales and, if so, what had been the results ofthe tests. [More…]

• As I have said, I asked the Minister representing the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 24 October last year whether any tests had been carried out during the period from 1975 to 1977 to discover whether any Commonwealth Government establishments or instrumentalities discharged effluent or waste into the Georges River in New South Wales and, if so, what had been the results of the tests. [More…]

• The Minister for Science (Senator Webster), representing the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, on 1 May this year, just prior to the Parliament going into recess, replied on behalf of the Department of Defence in relation to the Holsworthy Defence establishments. [More…]

• If the then Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development found this occurring so far as discharge into the Georges River was concerned, some action should have been taken by the Department to clean up the whole situation. [More…]

• We have a clear admission from the Minister for Science and the Environment that the Holsworthy defence establishment and the Bankstown aerodrome are contributing to the discharge of effluent and polluted material into the Georges River. [More…]

• From the reply that was given to me by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) on 1 May of this year to a question which 1 had placed on the Notice Paper on 24 October last year, it was obvious that the Holsworthy defence establishments, Federal Department of Defence establishments, and the Bankstown aerodrome- a responsibility of the Federal Department of Transport- were contributing substantially to the pollution of the Georges River. [More…]

• Environment, Housing and Community Development upon notice this question: [More…]

• That question was not answered until the information came to me following the transfer of responsibility for the environment to my Department. [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) has only one way out. [More…]

• These provisions will enable the Minister to specify detailed requirements as to the minimum numbers and qualifications pf 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…]

• The Commonwealth shares the concern of the NSW municipalities that the environment and ecology of the river system be protected. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Science and the Environment aware of a report carried by the Australian Press earlier this month that an accident at the French Muroroa Atoll atomic testing range may have been responsible for several deaths, a number of other casualties and a minor tidal wave? [More…]

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

• In the arrangements establishing the Ranger Joint Venturers and in the associated agreement with the Northern Land Council, there are cast iron guarantees that the elaborate arrangements for the protection of the environment will remain in force in the event of any partner disposing of its interest in the venture. [More…]

• Under this agreement the Commonwealth has undertaken to make provision that the Joint Venturers shall observe all environmental requirements specified in the conditions of the authority to mine or otherwise imposed by the law. [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• I refer the Minister for Science and the Environment to my question to him on Tuesday, 2 1 August 1979, relating to the position of Lord Howe Island, and to his reply the following day which merely repeated known facts as to the administration of the island, which was the reason for the complaint. [More…]

• The disadvantages of disposal of spent fuel or indefinite storage of the fuel is that there is a wastage of energy but, in addition, it could escape from the disposal site back to the environment. [More…]

• I have obtained today, with the compliments of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster), some very interesting documents from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]

• Environment Committee “A landscape of nuclear tombs” [More…]

• I wonder whether the Minister for Science and the Environment is aware of it and whether an environmental impact study has been done. [More…]

• Not so very long ago the Minister for Science and the Environment said, as did Senator Collard a little while ago, that there had not been a death in the nuclear energy industry. [More…]

• We are not against the mining of uranium if we can establish that there is not going to be any harm to the environment or to the people who are in the immediate surrounds. [More…]

• The Crawford report, the Williams study and the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment on industrial research and development point out strongly that there is a need to increase the amount of government money going towards technology and research in this country. [More…]

• My question, which is addressed to the Minister for Science and the Environment, is about the tragic death of a member of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition near Casey in Antarctica on 6 August this year. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment and relates to the announcement that considerable quantities of car fuel may soon come from alcohol distilled from Australian wheat. [More…]

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

• The Standing Committee on Science and the Environment is now under the chairmanship of Senator Jessop. [More…]

• When the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment was assigned the task of considering annual reports it was studying the Murray River report. [More…]

• The first report that I want to refer to is the report of the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• That is dealt with at some length in the statement of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster). [More…]

• The other report to which the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs adverts is that of the Science and the Environment Committee. [More…]

• One might, on reading Hansard, think that the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs had the temerity actually to give a report on the Senate Standing Comittee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• I will not respond to the science and environment questions because a separate committee handled them. [More…]

• I checked with the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster), who was previously at the table, and with the former occupant of the Chair, Mr Acting Deputy President. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment: Is it a fact, as alleged in the article entitled ‘The Great Goldfish Battle’ published in the Weekend Australian of 1 1 and 12 August 1979, that he is introducing plans to ban imports of goldfish and some tropical fish which could wipe out the decorative aquarium industry? [More…]

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

• In June this year the Prime Minister announced the Government ‘s preliminary assessment of the inhumane and environmentally damaging aspects of the seal hunt in Canada, Norway and the Soviet Union and he proposed a total ban on all seal products imported into Australia, as well as a ban on the products of all other endangered species. [More…]

• This ban was referred to the Minister for Science and the Environment for investigation. [More…]

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

• Is he aware that this spillage is having a deleterious effect on the local environment and also could seriously affect the purification processes that the New South Wales Government has put into play in respect of the protection of the oyster industry in the area, which is an export industry? [More…]

• What discussions, if any, have taken place between the Department of Science and the Environment and officers of the Department of Transport to see that all precautions are taken to prevent spillage in advance of any tanker entering Botany Bay and discharging its cargo at Kurnell? [More…]

• At present the matter is not one for my Department but certainly it should be involved in the effect it is having insofar as the environment is concerned. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment has put down two reports, neither of which has resulted in a ministerial response in the relevant period. [More…]

• These pressures will make even more urgent the need for Australia to adjust its international structure to changes in the world trading environment, an adjustment process which is now widely recognised as having been inhibited by past protection policies which have tended to shield highly protected import competing industries from the uncomfortable truths emerging from changes in international trade. [More…]

• They constitute a change in our trading environment with which Australian industry must learn to live in the years ahead. [More…]

• The policy of fostering industries which are unsuited to the Australian environment is not only inimical to the development of such a trading relationship but is also exposing a widening credibility gap between our trade and foreign policies. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 22 August 1979: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 22 August 1979: [More…]

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

• -I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment: What research is being done in Australia by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation or other government agencies into the carcinogenic effects on workers of chemicals used in industry? [More…]

• The Budget significantly reduces the call of Government upon this nation’s financial markets and equips Australia to succeed in a world environment of rising inflation and intensifying competition. [More…]

• The result was that Playford, in the environment of a Labor Prime Minister, got a great deal for industry in South Australia. [More…]

• As recently as yesterday in the House of Representatives in attacking Mr Hawke the Prime Minister talked about the hostile external environment and the difficult international economic environment. [More…]

• I want this evening to raise a matter which was raised in the Senate by Senator Martin on 22 August, in a question without notice to Senator Webster, the Minister for Science and the Environment, and also to refer to a report in today’s Australian Financial Review. [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment has indicated, again in answer to the question asked by Senator Martin, that he feels that there may be a case for upgrading the Division of Forest Research regional Office in Tasmania. [More…]

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

• -Has the Minister for Science and the Environment noticed a recent article in the Australian alleging that there is a kangaroo plague on the western plains of New South Wales? [More…]

• Honourable senators will note that the report which has been tabled by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) is an interim annual report for the year ended 30 November 1 978. [More…]

• Periodical burning off for grass regrowth does not provide the ideal environment for timber regeneration. [More…]

• That is why I have already alerted the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator [More…]

• urges all Australian Governments to take practical, constructive steps to secure a safe and social environment for the three million Australian children under twelve years of age; and [More…]

• urges all Australian Governments to take practical, constructive steps to secure a safe and social environment for the three million Australian children under twelve years of age; and [More…]

• I bring to the attention of the Senate the life and the environment of a section of our three million children who are under the age of 1 2 years. [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster, and pursuant to section 16(1) of the Dairying Research Act 1972, 1 present the seventh annual report of the Dairying Research Committee for the year ended June 1979. [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister for Science and the Environment and for the information of honourable senators, 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 Act. [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster, and for the information of honourable senators, I present an interim statement of the activities of the Australian Egg Board for the year 1978-79. [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster, and for the information of honourable senators, I present the interim annual report of the Australian Dairy Corporation for the year ended 30 June 1 979. [More…]

• I can make no further comment because, although the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Chaney) has just tabled the report on behalf of his colleague the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) and despite various efforts, I have not been able to secure a copy of the report. [More…]

• In relation to prevention, my Department has been providing substantial financial assistance for some time to State and local government authorities and Aboriginal communities and organisations to improve the environmental conditions of Aboriginal people. [More…]

• Assistance is also given by my Department and others to improve non-material aspects of the environment- employment, education and recreation facilities for example. [More…]

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

• -My question to the Minister for Science and the Environment has been prompted by the Australian Association for Humane Research and relates to experimentation involving animals. [More…]

• They include Defence Force employeesagain, people whose work is often hazardous and often performed in an environment in which a serious injury could occur. [More…]

• It equips Australia to success in a world environment of rising inflation and intensifying competition. [More…]

• I suppose that some people might say that, although a power station might have acceptable local dangers, it could be offensive to the rest of the world because of the way in which it damages the worldwide environment. [More…]

• I have pointed out already that burning fossil fuels- coal, oil or natural gas- is raising the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere worldwide and that is potentially the most serious environmental problem facing the world. [More…]

• We live in a radioactive environment. [More…]

• To suggest that we should attempt to stop nuclear power generation in other countries because of possible damage to the world environment is farcically absurd. [More…]

• They can do nothing with yellowcake or with the fuel rods for nuclear power plants, and the plutonium in the reactor waste is in a highly radioactive environment and is not accessible without enormous technological effort. [More…]

• The Australian Fisheries Council Resolution is under consideration by the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• Under the Agreement, the Department of Science and the Environment is the co-operating agency of the Australian Government. [More…]

• Their importance has been emphasised in recent reports by the Senate Standing Committees on Publications, Constitutional and Legal Affairs, Finance and Government Operations, and Science and the Environment. [More…]

• Might I say, first of all, that I concur with much of what the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) said in his statement when tabling this report. [More…]

• -I commend the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) on the statement he has tabled. [More…]

• As chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, I welcome the new thrust that apparently will emerge from the report. [More…]

• I am tempted to take advantage of the interjection of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) to speak about Animal Farm, but I will not. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 22 August 1979: [More…]

• It is not appropriate for me at Question Time, representing the portfolios that I do, or in my responsibility as Minister for Science and the Environment, to answer such a question. [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster, and pursuant to section 3 (7) of the Australian Dried Fruits Corporation Act 1978, 1 present the report for the final period of the Australian Dried Fruits Control Board, 1978 together with financial statements and the Auditor-General’s report thereon. [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster, I seek leave to make a statement relating to the commencement of the 200 nautical mile Australian fishing zone and to move a motion that the Senate take note of the statement. [More…]

• The Committee accepted that the hire of pot plants could be justified on the grounds of economy, flexibility in the use of open plan office space and to provide an aesthetically pleasing work environment. [More…]

• I should place on record the fact that not only was I not laughing when I was reading from the transcript but also immediately the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster, sat down he burst into laughter. [More…]

• -The reply by Senator Webster, the Minister for Science and the Environment, was an attempt to denigrate a member of this Parliament for carrying out a function which he thought was honourable and justified. [More…]

• I rise to take objection to the remarks that the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster, made in regard to the use of cars by members of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party. [More…]

• I mention to the Minister for Science and the Environment that in raising these matters he should remember that Ministers of the Crown are entitled to the use of ministerial cars, and much more so than ordinary members of the Australian Parliament. [More…]

• The CI30H navigation equipment being installed is a modern self-contained navigation system providing a high degree of accuracy for tactical air resupply in a hostile environment devoid of external navigation aids. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 30 August 1979. [More…]

• 1 ) Does the summary manner in which criticism is dismissed by the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the Jabiluka Uranium project recently issued by Pancontinental Mining, comply with the spirit and intention of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974. particularly in view of the fact that criticism by the Friends of the Earth was based on months of research: and consultation with Professor Kerr of the Ranger Inquiry. [More…]

• 1 ) The Administrative Procedures under the Environment’ Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act require that a draft environmental impact statement be made available for public review and that this draft should be revised taking into account, and summarising or including in full comments received. [More…]

• My Department has completed its examination of the Jabiluka Project and in accordance with the requirements of paragraph 9.3 of the Environment Protection Administrative Procedures, my recommendations have been forwarded to the Action Ministers. [More…]

• Pancontinental have compiled with the requirements of the Environment Protection Administrative Procedures, which contain no provision for making a final environmental impact statement available for public review. [More…]

• The economic costs and benefits, and the environmental advantages and disadvantages were considered. [More…]

• Pancontinental have indicated that the selection of underground mining as the preferred option in the final impact statement has resulted from further environmental and technical investigations carried out in response to comment made on the draft statement. [More…]

• A week or so ago I asked the Minister for Science and the Environment what monitoring of dangerous chemicals was done in Australia. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment whether he has seen two recent articles, one by Gerald B. Goeden entitled ‘Is the Great Barrier Reef being Overfished’ which appeared in Australian Fisheries in September 1979, and the second by Dick Coates entitled ‘Taiwan’s Poachers may destroy the Barrier Reef which appears in the current issue of the Bulletin? [More…]

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

• The evidence suggests that the last few years have witnessed an unhappy industrial relations environment at the Cootamundra works. [More…]

• One would hope that the Government, and particularly the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster), would take a very firm stand against any further reduction in the funds for these important organisations. [More…]

• However, the sorts of responsibilities that citizens have taken upon themselves, that is, the protection of the environment in its many and varied forms, being borne in mind, it is becoming more and more important that they have the wherewithal to carry out the important function of protecting the public and community interest. [More…]

• We have seen abundant evidence over the last decade or so of the need for community action to bring to the attention of the bureaucracy- and government is a part of that bureaucracy- what should be its concern for protecting important matters which fall generally within the umbrella of the environment. [More…]

• Of course, that means that dedicated and concerned citizens have to identify what public authorities or the private sector will do in respect of matters affecting the environment. [More…]

• In recent years we have seen not only a reduction in the amount of funds provided but also in real terms a lessening of money available to the organisations at a time when development in both the public and private sectors of our economy is putting more and more pressures upon the protection of the environment in its varied forms. [More…]

• One of the pleasing things we have seen in more recent years is the degree to which young people have taken upon themselves the need to protect the environment from the many pressures that exist within the Australian community. [More…]

• Young people have a better sense of conserving our environment and more concern about what is happening through the varied forms of pressure and development that take place within our community. [More…]

• Environmental impact statements on all matters of development, whether in the private or public sector, are becoming very important from the point of view of looking at all sides of development. [More…]

• It is sad to see the environment movement, with its lack of resources, having to match the largely unlimited resources that the private sector has in these matters. [More…]

• They give up their time and need extra incentive, resources, funding and encouragement so that the Australian environment, which, relatively, is in its infancy at this stage of our economic development, will be protected for all time, and future generations will look back and say that those who acted in a voluntary capacity and those in the Parliament both played their part to present a balanced view of development as it relates to the Australian environment. [More…]

• To begin with, I would like to congratulate the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) and the Government on one point. [More…]

• Surely the point is that the natural environment of Australia is not a sectional interest; it is not a sectional viewpoint because it is a common heritage of benefit to the entire community. [More…]

• The Australian Democrats feel it is wrong and unfair that the attitude should be taken that these are groups of people who, for some weird reason, are concerned about the environment; that it is something they own or which is to their benefit and therefore they had better get out and raise some money to protect it. [More…]

• From my experience of environmentalist groups, like other public causes a lot of the work is carried out by a few people. [More…]

• The real point of the matter is that that was a confrontation between business and people concerned with the environment. [More…]

• It is right and proper that there should be adequate Government funding of those concerned enough about the environment to allow them to proceed with their work. [More…]

• Indeed, if the environmental organisations and the people who work for them have to devote a lot of their spare time to raising money, they will have less time available to do the job that they should be doing- acting out a watchdog role over environmental matters. [More…]

• The community may well hand out the money the groups need; however, the environmentalists are people who are concerned about this national problem but who are being put at a disadvantage because effort has to go unnecessarily into that part of their task. [More…]

• I was advised by the environmentalist movement this morning that the dollar for dollar basis will have serious detrimental effects on a number of environmental centres that are finding it hard enough to raise funds in today’s economic climate. [More…]

• It will cripple substantially the Darwin environmental centre, possibly the one at Townsville, and at Cairns as well. [More…]

• Probably the only viable environmental centre left may be the Total Environment Centre in my electorate of New South Wales. [More…]

• The Total Environment Centre in Sydney. [More…]

• However, the Government has ended the technical assistance grants, established under the Whitlam Government- grants of $5,000 to $7,000-which were made specifically for research into areas of concern for the environment which cannot be carried out without money. [More…]

• Those valuable grants led to the consultant study on the Border Ranges- a most important and valuable contribution to this country’s literature on the environment- and the book entitled Native Forest Ecosystems, which are good results from what was a generally useful series of grants. [More…]

• The statement goes on to say that there is to be discussion with the non-government environment and conservation groups to get their views, the views of the States and the views of the Australian Heritage Commission. [More…]

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

• I ask the Minister, in his capacity as Minister responsible for the environment: What protection does he offer to the rattlesnake against the threat posed by the statement of that member of the Legislative Council that he would sooner go to bed with a rattlesnake than make a deal with the National Party? [More…]

• -As Minister for Science and the Environment, I can assure the honourable senator that I have no competence in the matter of whether it is wise to go to bed with a rattlesnake. [More…]

• I must express the extreme disappointment of the Opposition and particularly of myself, as a senator for the Australian Capital Territory, with the contents of the statement which the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) has just made. [More…]

• I hope that the Government can adopt a rather more broadminded attitude, possibly look at the question from the point of view of the functions which the lighthouse can serve and then seek funding partly from what it would cost to run an automated lighthouse, partly from the Department of Science and the Environment from the point of view of the preservation of the environment and the provision of meteorological information, partly from the point of the funding of a lifesaving station, in effect, and for various other purposes, so that together all these sources can provide the necessary funds to keep the manning of this station. [More…]

• As late as last week the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment was taking evidence in Perth. [More…]

• The Government can see the basis of Senator Rae’s concern which is, of course, about the interests of the local fishing industry and the protection of the local environment. [More…]

• James Webster, the Commonwealth Minister for Science and the Environment; the Hon. [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 is unmatched by any other marine environment in the world. [More…]

• J. J. Webster, the Commonwealth Minister for Science and the Environment; the Hon. [More…]

• The marine park concept has come into being as a result of concern for the conservation of marine environments. [More…]

• The scale, diversity and complexity of the Great Barrier Reef is unmatched by any other marine environment in the world and therefore a marine park designed to allow reasonable use while conserving the Reef will differ, at least in some respects, from other models already in existence elsewhere in the world. [More…]

• The recommended Zoning Plan, together with representations from the public, will then be formally submitted to the Minister for Science and the Environment for his review, approval and subsequent tabling in the Parliament. [More…]

• In relation to the Great Barrier Reef Consultative Committee, the Ministers noted that the Minister for Science and the Environment was to announce the membership of the Committee at the conclusion ofthe meeting in terms of the attached statement. [More…]

• The Council agreed to refer matters to the Consultative Committee through the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• The Opposition is pleased that the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) has given the Senate a full explanation of what took place in the Great Barrier Reef Ministerial Council meeting last Thursday and an opportunity to discuss it in the Senate. [More…]

• Day in day out we had the spectacle of the Minister for Science and the Environment being under siege because he failed to inform the Senate fully in relation to government intentions. [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment said tonight that the decision on 4 June to place a ban on further exploration in the reef region was the result of the Government’s examination of the royal commissions’ report. [More…]

• I want to refer briefly to some of the specific issues arising from the statement of the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

• In general, the Australian Democrats approve of the basic sentiments expressed by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) in this statement providedSenator Wriedt made this point- that those sentiments are supported by concrete facts; in other words, provided that the plan which emerges for the Great Barrier Reef is one which is definite and not merely, as so much of this statement is, an utterance of generalities. [More…]

• They are not allowed to occur with malice or any particular desire to destroy ecologies or the environment, but they happen. [More…]

• The growth centres that we hope ultimately will appear at Albury-Wodonga will change materially the living conditions a well as the environment of those two important cities. [More…]

• We have all recognised that the tremendous, unplanned growth of our capital cities in the post-war years has been to the detriment of citizens, to the detriment of public authorities, and to the detriment of the environment. [More…]

• It is a matter for great regret that this Government has taken steps to reduce the Commonwealth’s financial involvement and commitment on the other side of the coin as far as urban development is concerned- the pursuit of an active policy of decentralisation, not as a gimmick but in a way that provides opportunities for accommodation and jobs in an environment that is far better than the congestion which is a characteristic of our major cities. [More…]

• Whilst that was in November 1975, 12 months later the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, announced that the Commonwealth Government would maintain support for the activities of the Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation by providing $21m in loan funds under the existing financial agreement. [More…]

• Over a period of three years there was a funding of $90m from the Whitlam Labor Government; a promise in 1975 by Mr Fraser to continue a commitment to the development of growth centres; a statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in September or November 1976 of a loan of $22m and thereafter an amount of $5m for each of the next five years. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 13 September 1979: [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister for Science and the Environment been drawn to the statements made by the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory at the National Press Club yesterday where he criticised the National Parks and Wildlife Service’s active administration of the Northern Territory’s two main national parks and described it as pouring taxpayers’ money down the drain’? [More…]

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

• I draw the attention of the Minister for Science and the Environment to a report in the Melbourne Herald dated 25 September 1979 relating to the International Whaling Commission. [More…]

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

• In the exercise of that control, the policies of the Government which would be relevant include its policies with respect to marketing, safeguards and the protection of the environment. [More…]

• It is in this environment that we see the present Government’s continuing program of heavy overseas borrowings as creating current and contingent problems. [More…]

• On Wednesday 16 May a staff member of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, during informal discussions with members of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, referred to press reports of the presence of the survey vessel Eugene McDermott II off the Queensland coast. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Science and the Environment aware that the proposed second section of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park lies between Lizard Island and Innisfail? [More…]

• I refer the Minister for Science and the Environment to a statement made yesterday by Mr Viner, the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs, in which he linked the Unemployed Workers Union to the Australian Conservation Foundation because both organisations, together with a number of other organisations, share a particular post box in Canberra. [More…]

• Is the Minister able to confirm that this post office box number is the address for groups which share the facilities of the Canberra and South East Region Environment Centre? [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government is approaching finalisation of a redraft of this code to include it in the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Act 1978. [More…]

• It is a real people’s movement which began at the grass roots level and sought to bring about, through the enactment of government legislation, a recognition of the need for us to apply ourselves to conserving our resources and our natural environment. [More…]

• They have regarded land in the proper light; they have regarded land as part of their home environment. [More…]

• When I say that there is no appeals provision in the present legislation, I am saying that the environment in relation to the rights of the subject, the rights of the citizen, has changed considerably in the last few years as a result of legislation of the previous Government and of this Government. [More…]

• This legislation should be made consistent with that changed environment in relation to these matters. [More…]

• One must consider the rest of the islands and accept the special responsibility to see that the environment is not interrupted, not destroyed and not overprotected, although I am not suggesting that it should be overprotected. [More…]

• I am trying to say that the report seems to have arrived at the only solution for the area- recognition of the rights of Papua New Guinea and the protection of the peoples and the environment. [More…]

• A lifestyle is developing which to my mind is equal, if not superior, to our town, when one considers the beauty of the environment. [More…]

• However, if we go there let us do so without damaging the environment by bringing in some of the rather superficial, commercial, shallow attitudes and ways that we have. [More…]

• I wish to address some remarks this evening to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment entitled Industrial Research and Development in Australia. [More…]

• That the Departments of Productivity and Science (now the Department of Science and the Environment) study the operations of the (UK) National Research Development Corporation and other similar bodies, in order to identify the detailed requirements and terms of reference for an Australian equivalent for consideration by the Government; and that following consideration of the above study, an NRDClike body be established in Australia, financed in the first instance by a government loan. [More…]

• I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard two tables which appear in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• Department has the Overseas Telecommunications Commission (Australia); the Department of Primary Industry has the Bureau of Animal Health, the Commonwealth Council for Rural Research and Extension and the Australian Wine Research Institute; the Prime Minister’s Department has the Australian Science and Technology Council; the Department of Productivity has the industrial research and development bodies; the Department of Science and the Environment has a whole string of them; the Department of Social Security has the National Advisory Council for the Handicapped and the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat; the Department of Trade and Resources has the Uranium Advisory Council; and Treasury has the Bureau of Statistics. [More…]

• Wool Testing Authority, the Bureau of Meteorology, the Canberra College of Advanced Education, the Australian Chicken Meat Research Committee, the Commonwealth Practitioners Board, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Commission, the Criminology Research Council, the Curriculum Development Centre, the Environment Protection Commissioner, the Fishing Industry Research Committee, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, the Institute of Family Studies, the Medical Research Endowment Fund, the Metric Conversion Board, the National Health Act Committee, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian National Library, the National Parks and Wildlife Service, the National Standards Commission, the National Television Advisory Committee, the Oilseeds Research Committee, the Pig Industry Research Committee, the River Murray Commission, the Schools Commission, the Supervising Scientist for the Alligators Rivers Region, the Tertiary Education Commission, the Therapeutic Goods Committee, the Whaling Inspector and the Wheat Industry Research Council. [More…]

• I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard tables from pages 77 and 85 of the report of the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment on gross expenditure on research and development on a per capita basis and as a percentage of the gross domestic product in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries since 1 973. [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment and I have spent time at Siding Springs and know of the importance of astronomical and astrophysical research in this country. [More…]

• The growth of public disenchantment with the role of science and technology is the result of several factors, including the military applications of scientific discoveries, a questioning of the true value of high-cost technology such as space exploration, and the impact of science and technology on the environment. [More…]

• I compliment Senator Puplick on his wide-ranging and erudite remarks on the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment which is before the Senate, particularly his remarks concerning the importance of science and technology to the Australian community. [More…]

• So even though I am a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, I cannot commend the Committee so strongly for what it has done. [More…]

• However, the Committee wishes to point out that by offering a protected economic environment, any government to a large extent renders inoperative one of the outstanding factors which produce innovative activity: the profit motive. [More…]

• I have no doubts about that at all, I make a plea to the Government to take notice of the Crawford report on structural employment in the country, the Industries Assistance Commission report on manufacturing industries and, to a lesser degree, the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment on industrial research and development in Australia. [More…]

• When the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment produced its report this had still not been done, and still nothing has happened. [More…]

• Reports on Woodchips and the Environment- Government Response [More…]

• Senator JESSOP (South Australia)-by leave- My Committee’s report on woodchips and the environment opens with this quotation from Proclamation 2 of the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment [More…]

• The protection and improvement or the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world; it is the urgent desire of the people of the whole world and the duty of all governments. [More…]

• On 31 May 1979 the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) presented a statement purporting to be a response from the Government to the recommendations arising from my Committee’s inquiry into the impact on the Australian environment of the woodchip industry program. [More…]

• My Committee, and the earlier committee on social environment chaired by Senator Keeffe worked extremely hard for over two years on this reference. [More…]

• Last week the Committee, consistent with its obligation to exert a continuing oversight of environmental matters, returned to the Manjimup forest area. [More…]

• It was able to take with it people from the Conservation Authority and the South West Forest Protection Foundation and to talk with foresters, representatives of industry and conservationists- 1 would point out to Senator Missen- in an unemotional environment. [More…]

• On 29 August this year I asked the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) whether he was aware of a report carried by the Australian Press earlier in the month that an accident at the French Mururoa Atoll atomic testing range may have been responsible for several deaths, a number of other casualties and a minor tidal wave. [More…]

• I draw to the attention of the Minister for Science and the Environment a report in the Bulletin of 2 October relating to Taiwanese fishing poachers alleged to be operating on the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]

• As a result of this, as Senator Knight has mentioned, legislation is being considered to re-establish in the Australian Capital Territory an environment in which orderly and efficient marketing can occur. [More…]

• If that clause is not directed to dealing with that particular problem, and the quarantine may have lost power once pratique is granted, then I think the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) may care to tell the Senate whether it is intended to deal with it by either an amendment to this Bill or at some stage in the very near future. [More…]

• Despite complete agreement with the statements made in the second reading speech, an abundance of time during the long drawn-out reply of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) to everyone who supported him left me unsatisfied with the wording of the Bill. [More…]

• The matter that I too would like the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) to answer relates to clause 6 which proposes to insert new section 69A(7) which states that an owner is not entitled to compensation if, in the case of his not being notified by the quarantine officer of the destruction of goods, the goods have been destroyed. [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) can say what the Department believes and Senator Teague can say what a good Minister will do. [More…]

• I express my dissatisfaction very briefly at the answer given by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) to Senator Cavanagh concerning clause 6 which seeks to insert a new section 69 ( 1 ) in the Act. [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment said in some of his replies to Senator Cavanagh that this might cover a case where the owner had already recovered moneys through some other form of indemnity. [More…]

• The genius and ability of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) are far ahead of mine, so I wish he would bring the argument down to my level so that I can understand it. [More…]

• I refer to the reply of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) to the question I raised in regard to the soya bean meal in Darwin. [More…]

• I did not think I would have to speak to the motion for the third reading of the Bill but my contribution has been brought about by a statement made by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) in his reply to the second reading debate when he made mention of the Australian National Animal Health Laboratory in Victoria and said that primary producers should be grateful to his Government for establishing the laboratory. [More…]

• Committee, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the National Energy Research Development and Demonstration Council and the Education Research and Development Committee, which are responsible to my colleagues the Ministers for Science and the Environment, Health and National Development and myself respectively. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment whether he has seen a report prepared for the Australian Science and Technology Council in June 1979 by Professor Ron Johnston which deals with science indicators and their role in Australian science policy. [More…]

• The Department of Science and the Environment has endeavoured, through Project SCORE, to bring together some of the facts. [More…]

• As the honourable senator knows, the monitoring procedures which are being set up, basically through the Department of Science and the Environment and the Department of Primary Industry, call for six-day reports on the catches that are being taken, in an effort to get some permanent record of the living resources that are available in these waters. [More…]

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

• However, this Government has set up very careful protective devices, including the Office of the Supervising Scientist and the provisions of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, which require Pancontinental and other mining companies to submit environmental impact statements which are subject to public review. [More…]

• legislation is being considered to re-establish in the Australian Capital Territory an environment in which orderly and efficient marketing can occur. [More…]

• A proposal to establish and operate an aluminium smelter in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales would fall within the ambit of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act if a Commonwealth decision is required. [More…]

• I am not impressed with what the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) said yesterday. [More…]

• -On 19 September Senator Maunsell asked a question of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) relating to congressional approval for the United States to sign the International Sugar Agreement. [More…]

• This is an extension of its policy encouraging a wider spirit of participation and employee involvement to improve work environment, industrial safety, promotion opportunity and job satisfaction. [More…]

• The Publishing Service, however, does not operate in a completely commercial environment. [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster), who appeared to be asleep all night, on realising that he was the only Minister present in the chamber rose to his feet and told us what he knew, although we already knew it. [More…]

• I do not know why he walked out of the chamber without giving the Minister for Science and the Environment the information that we are seeking. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Science and the Environment aware of recent studies in the United States which indicate that anti-pollution devices installed in smoke stacks to clean air are discharging highly charged electrical particles into the atmosphere? [More…]

• Is any study of their effect on the environment being undertaken? [More…]

• -Did the Minister for Science and the Environment notice statements in the media this week that Japan plans to spend $35,000m, no less, on a huge plant to develop alternative energy sources and that her investment in solar energy, geothermal power and coal conversion is expected to create 300,000 new jobs in Japan between now and 1990? [More…]

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

• Many of these young people in this category are among the homeless because the length of time they have been out of work and their own lack of self-esteem have driven them away from their home environment. [More…]

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

• -I draw to the attention of the Minister for Science and the Environment reports that are abroad that the Government is set to opt out of environmental control. [More…]

• On the other hand, does he have confidence that each State would always act in the national interest if primary responsibility for the environment were to return to the States? [More…]

• Over some years now it has been an on-going matter for government to review legislation of all types, and the legislation relating to the environment in Australia is no exception. [More…]

• Indeed, encouragement to the States with regard to environmental assessment is a most important matter with which both Federal and State governments should be associated. [More…]

• The Code is now being redrafted for inclusion in the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Act 1978. [More…]

• The Code was stated to be an ‘authoritative document’ by the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry and no union has objected to the Code. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Science and the Environment aware that MFC Survival Ltd of mid Glamorgan, South Wales, in the United Kingdom, has developed a portable decontamination station that can be erected at the scene of an accident within minutes? [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Science and the Environment aware that the annual research budget for the IBM company this year will be $1.25 billion? [More…]

• I think that he, as a Government senator, will be aware that this Government has done a great deal towards encouraging research and development in this country, not only through what I believe to be the great reservoir of funds which have been projected into areas of research undertaken by the Department of Science and the Environment and organisations within its responsibility, but also through the funds which have been projected into the Department of Productivity. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment and follows a question I asked yesterday about a continuing Federal responsibility for the environment. [More…]

• The Minister said that environmental legislation in the States varied in quality and that, in fact, in some States there was no legislation but only regulations. [More…]

• The Minister also affirmed the Federal role of encouragement of the States with regard to environmental assessments. [More…]

• Does the Minister have regular meetings on environmental matters with his State counterparts? [More…]

• Will the Minister consider as a topic for a meeting of Federal and State Environment Ministers the need to compile a register of materials which are dangerous to the environment in the same way as a register of the National Estate has been compiled? [More…]

• He drew the attention of the Senate, firstly, to the fact that all States do not have similar environmental legislation. [More…]

• I refer the honourable senator to page 2208 of the House of Representatives Hansard, of 18 October 1979, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, which had just presented its report, stated: [More…]

• The Committee notes that Victoria is the only State which, at present, has comprehensive environment legislation. [More…]

• I have been aware of, and have read, the article in the Age which speaks of environmental legislation. [More…]

• As he will know, meetings of the Australian Environment Council are held regularly. [More…]

• I rise to comment in particular on the statement of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) about the Kakadu National Park. [More…]

• He says in his statement that the Park is an area of outstanding natural beauty and contains much of scientific, cultural and environmental interest. [More…]

• Every bit of spoil taken from that mine will go through the crusher and will finally end up carefully contained in a rock and earth tailings dam where it can be held because of the danger to the environment below it of the heavy metals used in uranium processing, to say nothing of the possibility of some residual radioactivity. [More…]

• I believe- I did raise this point with the people of Ranger- that environmental measures there have been scrupulously abided by. [More…]

• I enter this debate simply to say that all that we have heard from the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) and what is in the minds of Senator Robertson and the Deputy Leader of the Australian Democrats (Senator Mason) simply justifies Senator Webster’s forming an alliance with the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• I simply make the plea that I hope the Government will grasp what I have suggested previously and that the Standing Committee on Science and the Environment will be given permanent statutory authority to maintain a form of auxiliary monitoring system and, if necessary, for trespassers into the park or into whaling to be given the opportunity to put testimony before that Committee under the chairmanship of Senator Jessop. [More…]

• I rise to ask a question that I would like to have asked at Question Time but did not have the opportunity to do so, perhaps largely due to the extensive answers given by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) to several questions posed to him. [More…]

• My question for passage to the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Fife) by the Minister for Science and the Environment, who is in the chamber, is simply: Will the Minister urgently consider the removal of such restrictions as exist either on the issuing of licences or the imposition of excise on the construction and operation of a distillation plant to manufacture power alcohol from vegetable matter? [More…]

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

• Is the Minister aware of the warnings by Dr Mark Harris, a Sydney paediatrician attached to the environmental health group of the inner Sydney regional council for social development, that the concentration of carbon monoxide and other pollutants in the atmosphere in south-western and centra] Sydney was sufficient to exacerbate bronchia-pneumonic and respiratory complaints in children and heart disease in adults. [More…]

• I must express the view of the Federal Opposition with regard to the report that the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) has just put down. [More…]

• -If Senator Puplick takes that view he might be more in touch with what is happening in our universities and in the employment market than is the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster. [More…]

• If there were a neighbourhood where some factory wanted to build a monster which would be belching out polluted air and destroying the whole environment the entire neighbourhood would be up in arms, outraged. [More…]

• Boss; State Planning and Environment [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 22 August 1979: [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment, arises out of the report of the Australian Research Grants Committee which he tabled yesterday. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Science and the Environment noted repeated proposals for the harvesting of icebergs from Antarctica? [More…]

• Mr Macphee ‘s Department is also involved in research on improving the physical working environment in Australian industry and issues publications for use in industry. [More…]

• I am advised by the Minister for Productivity that he places a high priority on reducing the incidence of occupational accidents and on improving the physical working environment. [More…]

• Advice has been received from the Department of Science and the Environment and from the Australian Radiation Laboratory. [More…]

• The CSIRO is not aware of any studies being undertaken in Australia aimed at determining whether the electric charges on particles emitted from chimney stacks have any effects in the immediate environment of coal-fired power stations but has good reason to believe that such effects will be minimal. [More…]

• However, there appears to be no evidence that the chemical nature of these particles produces any adverse environmental effects which should cause concern. [More…]

• Because of the changing environment, the rising standard of living and the tremendous population growth that was brought about substantially by Federal Government migration programs in the post-war years, we need to recognise that local government cannot be expected to provide all of the funds to create a reasonable environment in which people may live. [More…]

• It has an important role to play in improving the environment in which people live and in providing a range of facilities which perhaps were not even dreamt of when local government first established its franchise. [More…]

• Is it to increase and to improve the environment? [More…]

• Is it just a holding operation or is it an operation designed to improve the environment in which all of our people live? [More…]

• Eric Kyle was raised in that kind of family environment. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment whether his attention has been drawn to a report in the Australian Financial Review of yesterday’s date which suggests that the production of medical isotopes at Lucas Heights, Sydney, can be done much more cheaply and much more safely by a machine known as a cyclotron. [More…]

• As late as last week, the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment received very important evidence in Adelaide about the protection of marine mammals. [More…]

• That was the kind of environment in which the 1 973 controversy was fought out. [More…]

• I know of their likely tendency, in the Australian environment, to approach a Bill of rights with the same degree of application as they would approach a dog Act or a tax Act. [More…]

• I can recall that when I was Chairman of the Standing Committee on Social Environment a number of years ago when we had a senior official from the Department of Aboriginal and Islander Advancement before the Committee- admittedly both sides of the Committee, members of the Liberal Party and the Labor Party, by this time were obviously pretty good cross-examiners- our reward for the further cross-examination of DAIA officers was an instruction from the Premier that never again was any member of his Department of Aboriginal and Islander Advancement to appear before that particular Committee. [More…]

• When the Minister has received the report from the National Health and Medical Research Council I feel sure that he would make reference to those matters raised with regard to the environment and the difficulties that can be experienced by people who live in an environment where there is exposure to chemicals. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment and follows a question I asked him on 25 [More…]

• October relating to uniform Federal-State legislation and the need to compile a register of materials which are dangerous to the environment, just as a register of the National Estate has been compiled. [More…]

• I have put the matter under study within the Department of Science and the Environment. [More…]

• The meeting which I suggested might take place in February is not of the Australian Environment Council, which is the appropriate body to be discussing the concerns that Senator O’Byrne has mentioned. [More…]

• It is the body which has established the National Advisory Committee on Chemicals to implement the National Action Plan on Environmentally Hazardous Chemicals. [More…]

• documents entitled ‘Environmentally Hazardous Chemicals’ and ‘Disposal of Chemical Wastes’. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 10 October 1979: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 23 October 1979: [More…]

• This centre, which is known as the NASCOM Switching Centre, is staffed and operated by officers of the Department of Science and the Environment. [More…]

• In this place, none other than the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster, weighed in on the doctrine of ministerial responsibility. [More…]

• I notified Senator Webster, as the Minister for Science and the Environment, that I proposed to speak in relation to a follow-on from the decision of the Government regarding the recommencement of exports of kangaroo products. [More…]

• I draw to the attention of the Senate that when an Estimates committee was dealing with the Department of Science and the Environment- and with the role of Senator Webster’s officers who were more or less acting in concert with the State- it was told that the United States Government had not made a decision in regard to the importation of kangaroo products from Australia. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Science and the Environment and ask whether the Minister has read an article in the Press of 5 November reporting a claim by an eminent United States scientist Dr Roy that he has discovered a process to reverse phenomena that occur during nuclear fission chain reaction thus making radioactive waste harmless. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment whether the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s Division of Radiophysics has the necessary equipment and qualified personnel to carry out a program of search for extra-terrestrial intelligence. [More…]

• The report of the Australian Ionising Radiation Advisory Council on radioactive waste management is not yet available to honourable senators but, according to the account of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster), it is a moderate statement. [More…]

• I think the Government has to concede that there is genuine concern in the Australian community about the problems of radioactive waste management and that, in fact, on all occasions when this matter has been checked by the pollsters a degree of concern and apprehension has been shown as to the actions the Government will take in protecting not only the present environment but also the future environment. [More…]

• This in itself, I submit, requires a measure of social control which can only erode civil liberties and hard-won industrial rights and which obviously threatens the environment if governments do not see their responsibility to adopt a policy and a process which protect not only the present environment but also the environment in the thousands of years that lie ahead. [More…]

• Although the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment has made several visits to the region and has seen certain revised techniques which may reduce the environmental strains on the Alligator Rivers system, I do not want to see in 1982 a virtual changing of the guard with a new Supervising Scientist because in the tooling-up period of acquiring a certain awareness there could be breaches of environmental codes. [More…]

• If this report had been tabled 48 hours earlier it could have been perused by a number of honourable senators who are aware that the Supervising Scientist is the virtual environmental custodian of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I notice that in the statement the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) states: [More…]

• The Opposition would like some assurance from the Minister that when these sorts of conflicts of interest manifest themselves, the Government will back an objective look at the matter and recognise our commitment to Aborigines, not our commitment to multinational mining companies, many of which are foreign owned and have shown in a historical sense all over the world that they are interested in development for their short term purposes and that they have not really appreciated the damage that they have done to the environment in various countries. [More…]

• I think it is worth asking the Government at this stage, through the Minister or through the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster), just when it does propose to declare stage 2 of the park. [More…]

• Another point is what environmental effect it will have on the Kakadu National Park in view of the uniquely primeval nature of that park, where we will need to have a guaranteed zero effect on the environment if we are to preserve it into the indefinite future. [More…]

• Stage 2 of the Kakadu National Park, as he mentioned, is more the responsibility of my colleague, the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster), to whom I will refer his remarks for consideration and reply. [More…]

• As I said, a number of amendments to the Bill we considered previously arose as a result of the discussions which took place between the University representatives and the members of the Government parties on the education, science and the environment committee. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 25 October 1979: [More…]

• Other major sources of funds for research are the Australian Research Grants Committee, the National Energy Research Development and Demonstration Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council which are the responsibility of my colleagues the Ministers for Science and the Environment and Health respectively. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment: Is it a fact that the Bureau of Meteorology has offered to contribute a sum of $10,000 towards the maintenance of a manned lighthouse at Maatsuyker Island? [More…]

• As it appears that the Minister for Transport and his Department are not particularly interested in retaining any form of manning for that lighthouse, will the Minister for Science and the Environment endeavour to co-ordinate an approach involving the Tasmanian Government, the Bureau of Meteorology, the maritime services rescue coordination centre and the various other organisations which have been referred to in questions which have been asked in this chamber over a period of 12 months or more, in order to put together a plan which will enable that lighthouse to continue to be manned for all the purposes which have been made so clear so often in this chamber? [More…]

• The installation of automatic measuring facilities means that so far as the Department of Science and the Environment is concerned the lighthouse need not be manned. [More…]

• Therefore, Australia’s strategic environment is influenced to Australia ‘s disadvantage by any deterioration in the Middle East, with its uncertain effects on superpower competition in many areas of the world. [More…]

• The Committee considers that the reduction in the number of fish species approved for importation cannot be justified on quarantine grounds and recommends that further investigations be undertaken to establish the environmental issues involved. [More…]

• The Department of Science and the Environment should be responsible for producing and maintaining a list of permitted and prohibited fish species for use by the Bureau of Customs and the quarantine service. [More…]

• But above all there must be generally accepted social assumptions about the meaning of their lives- about exploitation of the environment, the desirability of material possessions, the value of knowledge, the value of work. [More…]

• I assure the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster), who is at the table, that it consists of three straightforward pages suitable for incorporation. [More…]

• I notice that the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster, nods his head. [More…]

• I am prompted, firstly, by the previous reply of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) and, secondly, by the remarks of Senator McLaren. [More…]

• As the Minister would have the health and comfort of the men of the Melbourne at heart, will he or perhaps the Minister for Science and the Environment be able to give advice as to how the vessel could be fumigated or how the cockroaches could possibly be eradicated without the vessel coming temporarily out of service? [More…]

• My question, to the Minister for Science and the Environment, refers to the weed known as Paterson ‘s curse. [More…]

• I thank the Minister for Science and the Environment for providing answers to some of the questions that I asked last night. [More…]

• I thank the Minister for Science and the Environment for the part answers that he has given to me. [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) sought cooperation. [More…]

• For the second time in relation to this group of estimates I rise to join in the debate as a result of statements by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster). [More…]

• How many times does the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) have to be told? [More…]

• I hope the Minister for Science and the Environment will be able to provide me with information through his colleague the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) at an appropriate time. [More…]

• I draw the attention of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) to the fact, that according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, teenage divorces are becoming a common social phenomenon, with one in 10 youthful marriages failing. [More…]

• The prohibition was introduced through the machinery of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations following receipt of a request from the Minister for Science and the Environment who is responsible for metrication matters generally. [More…]

• This is indicated in a statement which was made by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) who when presenting the report, stated: [More…]

• These people do not care about human life and the environment, because there is a fast buck in it if they can get away with it. [More…]

• They do not care about the consequences not only for the present but also as to the half life of this substance and its damage to the environment in the future. [More…]

• I should like to refer to a Department of Science and the Environment assessment report on the proposed Nabarlek uranium project, dated February this year. [More…]

• Environment report refers to earlier states that exposure should be kept as far below these levels as practicable. [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster, at that hearing referred me to the Department of Trade and Resources for an answer to my question. [More…]

• An item dealt with by Estimates Committee D referred to reimbursement to the Northern Territory Government for the provision of environmental regulatory services. [More…]

• The matter refers to environmental regulatory studies in the Northern Territory pertaining to the mining of uranium. [More…]

• Mr Thompson from the Department of Science and the Environment informed me that: [More…]

• Apparently, consideration of the estimates under Group A was postponed as the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster, who was then at the table, undertook to obtain some information for the Committee. [More…]

• I seek clarification from the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster), whether my interpretation of that paragraph is accurate. [More…]

• The fact is that the Minister for Science and the Environment, Senator Webster - [More…]

• I will take them in sequence if that is all right with the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) to whom I have already spoken. [More…]

• As a matter of urgency could you kindly ask the Minister for Science and Environment the following: [More…]

• Firstly, I asked the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) who represents the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr [More…]

• I think that the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) might have misheard me. [More…]

• It is incomprehensible to me that the Government should expect co-operation from members of the Opposition when very little justice is given to our colleagues- especially my colleague Senator Walsh, who has now been removed from the chamber, not for one day but for one week- and when the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) sits mute after reasonable requests have been made for information. [More…]

• Having made those comments I draw the attention of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) and the Committee to the report of the Senate Estimates Committee D as it relates to the National Capital Development Commission. [More…]

• I wonder whether the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) can inform us what is the anticipated target by the Defence Service for new homes and to what extent that target has been met. [More…]

• Senator McLaren frightens me by saying that we may be doing a serious injustice to primary producers by agreeing to this appropriation simply because the Minister for Science and the Environment does not have the explanation. [More…]

• All we are asking is for the Minister for Science and the Environment, who has been asleep all night, to repeat the information to us now so that we know that there is no injustice to the primary producers. [More…]

• I am sure that the Minister for Science and the Environment, knowing that I have a very deep affinity with the poultry industry, will have an answer for me. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for the Capital Territory and also, equally importantly, to the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]

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

• -I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment, absolutely without notice, what progress has been made on the upgrading of Australian legislation and Customs regulations to reflect the changes made in the appendices to the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species which were made at meetings held in Berne in 1977 and in Costa Rica earlier this year. [More…]

• J. J. Webster, Minister for Science and the Environment, Parliament House Canberra, A.C.T. [More…]

• J. J. Webster, Minister for Science and the Environment, Parliament House, Canberra, ACT 2600 [More…]

• It has certainly borne out the concern which has been expressed from time to time about the impact that this situation will have on the life and the environment of the Aborigines in that region. [More…]

• It was not only the question of losing title to land and of having the land sold, but also the effect that it would have on their own environment. [More…]

• Otherwise an environment which is important in many respects and which is socially of enormous consequence to the people in that area may be harmed. [More…]

• Because of Australia’s relatively high technology, resource and economic potential and its potential to maintain sizable, modern defence forces, there is an important role for it to play in providing stability within its area of strategic environment- the South Pacific, the southern and eastern Indian Ocean, and the island chain to our north. [More…]

• In his second reading speech, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) said that one of the early objectives of the Institute would be to define multiculturalism and then to follow that through with various worthy aims, which would include the development of awareness among cultural and ethnic groups, the promotion of tolerance, understanding and mutual esteem, the promotion of cohesiveness through existing political and legal structures, and the promotion of an environment conducive to participation. [More…]

• Institute as set out in clause 5(d) is the promotion of an environment conducive to participation. [More…]

• From our experience of that Department, it would be hard to imagine it allowing an environment conducive to too much participation. [More…]

• I showed them to the President when he was in the chair and to the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster). [More…]

• I should like to seek an assurance from the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) that this would not be so. [More…]

• -My question, which is directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment, refers to the Uranium Advisory Council and particularly to pages 4 to 7 of its report. [More…]

• For instance, the Commonwealth Government has devoted extra resources to encouraging preservation of the environment in the area. [More…]

• I passed these tables to the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster), who is at the table, but I am not sure whether they have reached him yet. [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 do not know whether all members of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment share my view, but I believe that one of the problems we have to live with is the advent of the multinational company. [More…]

• That aside, the final report from the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment in relation to research and development makes it obvious that Australians want more encouragement in this technological battle. [More…]

• The important thing is that the steps which the Government has been called upon to take were recommended by the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• -As Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment I have an interest in this matter. [More…]

• Australian Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, Parliament House, Canberra, A.C.T.2600 [More…]

• As I explained more fully in my Second Reading Speech, the essential basis of a patent system is to assist indigenous industrial development by enabling local industry to exploit new technological developments, initially, by the provision of an economic environment within which to create a commercial market by excluding competition through the grant of a patent and, subsequently, by the disclosure of the necessary information enabling industry generally to fully utilise those developments on the expiry of the patent. [More…]

• Chairman Australian Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment Parliament House Canberra, ACT 2600 [More…]

• I would like to believe that when there are problems in this area from time to time, the unanimous recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment would mean that the Government would use those recommendations as the structure on which to base further legislation. [More…]

• It might have been of some assistance to the Senate’s consideration of the matter if the Opposition, instead of going off on a frolic of its own, had had some discussion with members of the Senate Select Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• An expert committee will be set up to consider the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• He has indicated that the Government has had regard to the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]

• I intend to incorporate a document- the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) who was at the table earlier and the Acting Deputy President have agreed to its incorporation- that sets out a good story that was made to the Queensland Teachers Union by the teacher who was most affected by the dispute. [More…]

• Of course, as did the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) during the debate on the Appropriation Bills, he became quite vicious and referred again to an overseas trip I had had this year as though it were something that I should not have undertaken and as though I had negelected my parliamentary duties during the course of that overseas trip. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 13 November 1979: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 14 November 1979: [More…]

• 1 ) How many letters of complaint have been received by: (a) the Department of Science and the Environment or its predecessor, and (b) the Government, in relation to the introduction of Metric Conversion, since January 1 976. [More…]

• Its composition and terms of reference have varied with time but currently it comprises the Departments of Science and the Environment, Defence, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Attorney-General, Finance, and Industry and Commerce. [More…]

• The further information requested is of a detailed commercial nature and it has been made clear on a number of previous occasions, as Qantas operates in a commercial environment, it would not be appropriate to disclose such information. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment the following question, upon notice, on 18 October 1979: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 7 November 1979: [More…]

• What is the classification each company in each of categories (2) (b) and (2) (c) above, by industrial or other sector, based upon the classifications given in the Report of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment, Industrial Research and Development in Australia, pages 67-68. [More…]

• The material presented at the seminar was supplementary to and not a substitute for that contained in the books and reflected the current state of knowledge in a rapidly changing environment. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment the following matter: [More…]

• Since the introduction of supersonic aircraft, which led to general concern about the resultant effects, particularly that of noise, on the environment, what co-operative studies are being conducted on an international level? [More…]

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

• Have orders been given for the preparation of environmental impact statements for the following Tasmanian Government and local government works being carried out, or proposed to be carried out, with the assistance of the Australian Government money and, if so, what was the date in each case on which the necessary order was tabled in each House of the Australian Parliament, and what were the dates on which each notice was published in the Gazette as required by section 7 (1) of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposal) Act 1974: ( 1 ) Reconstruction, upgrading and resealing of the Bass Highway from the vicinity of Elizabeth Town to Latrobe, Tasmania; (2) cutting of walking tracks in the Dial Range in the Penguin Municipality in Tasmania; (3) construction of the Burnie Expressway, Tasmania; and (4) upgrading of and the northern section of the Murchison Highway, Tasmania? [More…]

• The Fourth Report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation has recommended in relation to the Ayers Rock-Mount Olga National Park that: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Science and the Environment, upon notice, on 7 June 1979: [More…]