environmental - hofreps - 1970

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

If so, will he make an early statement on precautions to be taken to prevent, or at least to assess, the costs and benefits of the Jervis Bay reactor plans as compared with alternative power projects including (a) the risks of a major plant accident (however unlikely) and radioactive ore transport leakage pollution, (b) radioactive waste disposal techniques and their long-term effectiveness, (c) environmental ecology, (d) the cost factor of safety provisions and (e) the independence of the Atomic Energy Authority from profitability motives or influence. [More…]
It is therefore unlikely that the existence of Section 75 (1) of the Income Tax Assessment Act will in itself cause a deterioration in environmental diversity. [More…]
and particularly to his opinion that this section needs urgent attention of government since much harm to environmental diversity and to landscape values could well occur under the blandishment of this provision without any real profit to the community which provides the money. [More…]
The threat to the national interest in relation to environmental pollution, preservation of coking coal reserves, and infringement of Commonwealth sovereign rights over the sea bed caused by the contractual arrangements between Clutha Pty Ltd and the Government of New South Wales. [More…]
In view of the many warnings made by responsible conservation authorities that serious detrimental environmental consequences will follow the construction of the proposed Parkes Way extension along the Lake shore and Black Mountain area of Canberra, will he request the National Capital Development Commission to investigate the possibility of bringing forward the construction of the free-way at present being proposed for the eastern side of Canberra so as to relieve the traffic pressure on the western side of Canberra and perhaps make the Parkes Way extension unnecessary. [More…]
Have steps been taken to ensure that the proposed development will not result in environmental degradation of Commonwealth territory and other land around Jervis Bay. [More…]
Is excessive population, both with regard to total numbers and rates of growth, one of the major causes of the widespread environmental destruction of the earth today? [More…]
1 have read President Nixon’s environmental message to the Congress of 8th February 1971. [More…]
It would not be possible to compile a complete list of chemical elements and compounds known to be environmentally destructive as many substances are environmentally destructive only if misused. [More…]
The Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment to be held in Stockholm in 1972 is considering the establishment of an International Registry of Chemical Compounds as a means towards understanding the effects of environmental contaminants on human health and biological systems. [More…]
Social aspects arising directly out of the manufacturing process itself, such as environmental pollution, are also being encompassed by the review. [More…]
What consideration has the Transport Advisory Council given to the aspects of environmental pollution? [More…]
What consideration has the Agricultural Council given to aspects of environmental pollution. [More…]
The Agricultural Council has considered in detail important aspects of environmental pollution which have agricultural implications such as pesticides, salinity, soil erosion and soil deterioration and the disposal of ships garbage for many years. [More…]
Does this mean that the Commonwealth Parliament’s power with respect to environmental issues remains persuasive only? [More…]
Can the right honourable gentleman give an assurance that, if confronted with indifference to environmental issues by those authorities which have the power to deal with them, this Government will display resolution on the matter even to the point of being accused of centralism? [More…]
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is now responsible for labelling requirements of this nature and this Agency requires the addition of debilitated’ in the second sentence of the warning statement quoted. [More…]
What consideration has the Health Ministers’ Council given to aspects of environmental pollution. [More…]
Has a study been made of the likely long term environmental effects of the development of the base at Cockburn Sound?. [More…]
What were the names and portfolios of the Ministers with responsibility for environmental matters who met in Perth on 3rd December 1971 (Hansard, 6th October 1971, page 2003). [More…]
The Minister for Health has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: (1), (2) and (3) Apart from the actual provision of health services, the social and economic aspects of health care encompass a wide range of matters such as health education, environmental health and social conditions. [More…]
If so, will he use the resources of his office to ensure that environmental desecration is at least minimised even at this late stage. [More…]
The question would be more appropriately addressed to the State Minister for Environmental Control. [More…]
Has Australia taken steps to develop bilateral relations on environmental matters with the United States of America as Canada, Japan, Mexico, Spain, France, Germany, Poland, Yugoslavia and India have done. [More…]
Where and when have there been meetings of Commonwealth and State Ministers with responsibility for environmental matters since 17th September 1971. [More…]
As far as the Commonwealth is concerned, the question is ons of devising a pattern of national development in which environmental objectives go hand in hand with economic, cultural and social goals; [More…]
If so, what did he mean in this statement on 24th May 1972 that the Commonwealth is concerned with devising a pattern of national development in which environmental objectives go hand in hand with economic goals. [More…]
The question of Australia’s involvement in a proposed international convention on the dumping of industrial wastes at sea has been the subject of correspondence between the Prime Minister and the Premiers commencing in July 1971 as well as discussions between Commonwealth and State Ministers responsible for environmental control and also the Ministers responsible for port development and marine affairs. [More…]
In a statement issued after a meeting of the Australian Environment Council in Canberra on 27th July 1972 Ministers attached particular importance to the adoption of actions and procedures to check on dumping in the oceans off Australia and the implementation of adequate controls to prevent environmental damage. [More…]
The Council also directed its Standing Committee to examine urgently the final draft international convention on ocean dumping, expected to be concluded by next November, and to report on the implications for environmental control in Australia. [More…]
by looking into the desirable level of the Australian population; establishing co-ordination of Commonwealth and State activities in the environmental field; and taking part in international activities such as the recent Stockholm Conference on the Environment. [More…]
The honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) mentioned environmental difficulties. [More…]
I said yesterday that I believed that the substance of the environmental statements should be made available and published. [More…]
In answer to a question from the honourable member for Reid on 23rd August did the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts reject the principle of making environmental impact statements public on the grounds that these reports were for Government information only? [More…]
Has the Prime Minister now accepted the principle of disclosing these reports as essential documents for informed public debate on environmental issues? [More…]
If the position is as stated, will the environmental aspects of the scheme based on Lake Pedder be considerably altered. [More…]
As an interim measure the principles developed by the previous Government be adopted immediately and extended in accordance with the next recommendation; in addition, environmental impact statements be required at the Minister’s discretion after consultation with appropriate Ministers, where a proposal has significant environmental consequences and where Commonwealth funds are involved and/or where Commonwealth constitutional power is involved; as from 1st January 1974 the provisions of this paragraph to become mandatory without any discretion at all and the proposing Department or Authority be required to arrange, through the Department of the Environment and Conservation, for public hearings in the case of all impact statements involving the Commonwealth in order to ensure that the public is given an opportunity to express its views on the environmental impact of a proposal prior to the particular impact statement being prepared; the Department of the Environment and Conservation in consultation with other interested Departments to be directed to prepare draft guidelines for the requirements for and preparation of environmental impact statements and to advise on the need for and, if appropriate, the form of covering legislation. [More…]
As a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Australia has adopted OECD’s guiding principles concerning the international economic aspects of environmental policies, including the polluter pays principle. [More…]
How manyof them have had previous experience in organisations concerned primarily with environmental protection. [More…]
The Environmental Fact Finding Studies, the cost of which is shared by the mining companies and the Government, is still proceeding as originally planned. [More…]
ls the Environmental Fact Finding Study, the cost of which is shared by mining companies and the Government, still proceeding in the Alligator Rivers area in the Northern Territory. [More…]
It is now clear that the significant delay to the Pipeline Authority is not any environmental inquiry in New South Wales but the proceedings of the honourable member’s Party - that section of it - in the Senate. [More…]
(a) 20 Environmental Impact Statements have been prepared or are in the course of preparation. [More…]
Similarly these departments largely determine the completion dates for Environmental Impact Statements. [More…]
A proposal for the establishment of a Bureau of Environmental Studies is at present under consideration by the Government. [More…]
Is it the Government’s intention to establish a Bureau of Environmental Studies. [More…]
to develop and introduce environmental education programs and [More…]
How many environmental impact studies have been initiated by him or his Department? [More…]
The information requested by the honourable member is quite extensive as the all-embracing nature of the term ‘environment programs’ means that nearly all international organisations are involved in some environmental programs and Australia has been active in many of these. [More…]
Will he also outline the extent of the Government’s involvement in the environmental programs being conducted by international organisations not specified in part (1). [More…]
I expect a report shortly on the environmental effects of supersonic aircraft from the Australian Advisory Committee on the Environment. [More…]
465 (Hansard, 8 May 1973, page 1844) have the discussions on the development of the detailed procedures to be adopted in the preparation of environmental impact statements yet been completed. [More…]
What action has he taken to develop environmental guidelines for primary, secondary and tertiary industries to ensure the protection of Australian flora and fauna. [More…]
Is his Department able to be an effective public critic of the Government’s environmental policies. [More…]
Has he made a submission to Cabinet containing the proposal to establish a Bureau of Environmental Studies. [More…]
Is there any overlapping in the responsibilities of the Bureau of Environmental Studies, the Centreof Research of the Environment and the three Land Research Divisions of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]
Has his Department set up a Bureau of Environmental Studies. [More…]
I am pleased to see that the honourable member is keeping abreast of the Labor Party’s environmental platform which was adopted at our recent conference. [More…]
However, the honourable member may be referring to the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the Australian National University. [More…]
However, the Government has g iven approval to the creation of a Bureau of Environmental Studies within my Department. [More…]
The prime purpose of the Bureau will be to build up a corps of officers who will study environmental problems in a multi-disciplinary fashion. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that this accusation by Sir Charles is another example of the deliberate misrepresentations that some State Ministers pursue in an attempt to prop up their outdated approach to vital environmental matters? [More…]
There are no current plans to remove RAAF activities from Richmond, but you will be aware that I have instituted a special committee to review the location of al Defence establishments against current and foreseeable requirements, with full regard to be given to environmental and other community aspects. [More…]
What is the nature and extent of the environmental studies being undertaken. [More…]
What establishment has been approved by the Public Service Board for the Bureau of Environmental Studies. [More…]
When does he expect to table the summary of Australia’s involvement in the environmental programs foreshadowed in his answer to my question No. [More…]
Will he ensure that this summary is more comprehensive than the information contained in his statement Environmental Protection: The First Year. [More…]
Has he yet received the report from the Australian Advisory Committee on the Environment un the environmental effects of supersonic aircraft which he referred to in answer to my question No. [More…]
Rehabilitation of environmental damage which has already been caused in the immediate vicinity of Ayers Rock - Mount Olga. [More…]
Has the National Parks and Wildlife Branch of his Department developed environmental guidelines for primary, secondary and tertiary industries to ensure the protection of Australian flora and fauna. [More…]
and (2) Australia, at the first meeting of the United Nations Governing Council for Environmental Programs, offered in principle to establish a baseline atmospheric monitoring station together with a network of regional stations. [More…]
and (2) A consultant has been engaged to report on the environmental problems of the disposal of plastics waste. [More…]
365 (Senate Hansard, 18 September 1973, page 660), has the Government yet received advice from the Australian Environmental Council concerning national emission standards for smoke, solid particles and soot. [More…]
What progress has been made with respect to the feasibility study into an information retrieval system designed to make environmental information available to interest groups and individuals. [More…]
Feasibility Study: Sources off Environmental Data (Question No. [More…]
Part of that preliminary work has been a study which was undertaken by a firm of consultants to ascertain the sources of environmental data available in Australia. [More…]
I am unsure of what the honourable member means by ‘formal procedures’ but impact statements are required where a proposal has significant environmental consequences and Australian Government funds and/or constitutional power is involved. [More…]
Has the Victorian Government lodged an environmental impact study of alternative sites for the Mitchell River Dam. [More…]
Just briefly let me say that the Department of Environment and Conservation has laid down guidelines for all Departments for the preparation of environmental impact statements. [More…]
But that Department at any time can seek a public hearing on an environmental impact statement, as was the case with the report on the Molonglo Parkway. [More…]
A public inquiry was held at the request of the Department of Environment and Conservation, even though the environmental impact statement was prepared by the National Capital Development Commission. [More…]
I note that the environmental impact statement which the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) was good enough to show me earlier has been prepared by the National Capital Development Commission and the Department of Housing and Construction. [More…]
How many positions are provided in the Commonwealth Bureau of Roads relating to environmental studies. [More…]
Environmental studies are an integral part of Transport planning, and therefore environmental matters affect the duties of a number of transport planners and transport analysts in the Commonwealth Bureau of Roads to an effect which is considered the equivalent of approximately two full time positions. [More…]
The function of Bureau staff members concerned with environmental studies is to conduct investigations into environmental effects of roads in order to ensure that the Bureau is fully informed of these matters for the purpose of its responsibilities under its Act [More…]
Certain environmental problems have been raised. [More…]
1 ) How many positions will be provided in the Bureau of Environmental Studies. [More…]
-Mr Speaker, on behalf of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, I bring up the report of the Committee on the Environmental Impact of Freeways, together with the extracts of the minutes of proceedings. [More…]
As part of our commitment, any assessment of whether these flights should be made will include an assessment of the environmental effects. [More…]
If a proposal does in fact come eventually from British Airways it will be accompanied by an environmental impact statement prepared by British Airways in conjunction and in co-operation with the Department of Transport. [More…]
It will no doubt encompass research being undertaken in the United States on the environmental effects of Concorde nights and until this has been assessed and until the Australian community has had a chance to see the document and to comment on it, the Australian Government will make no decision. [More…]
Is he aware of British Airways’ recently announced plan to operate Concorde nights from London to Melbourne from mid- 1976 onwards on the grounds that Melbourne airport has fewer environmental problems than Sydney (KingsfordSmith) Airport? [More…]
37, who are the current staff members of the Bureau of Environmental Studies, and what qualifications and past experience does each person have. [More…]
My question, which is concerned with environmental impact statements on urban freeways, is directed to the Minister for Urban and Regional Development. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the environmental impact inquiry being conducted into Victoria’s proposed F19 freeway does not allow proper evaluation of the upgrading of the Maroondah Highway, perhaps in conformity with the Olivero approach which the House of Representatives Select Committee on Road Safety has recommended? [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of a working group established to review the economic and environmental aspects of the export hardwood woodchip industry, dated April 1975, together with attachments constituting volume 2 of the report. [More…]
Was an environmental impact report obtained. [More…]
Was the Prime Minister aware that the Government’s environmental impact study regarding sand mining of Fraser Island had not been undertaken when he approved the Dillingham-Murphyores Minerals application to negotiate overseas contracts on 26 November? [More…]
Did he make inquiries to ascertain whether the Government’s environmental protection procedures were being observed- or was he more concerned with his campaign for the Queensland State election? [More…]
Did the Minister call for an environmental impact study or statement when DM Minerals began negotiating with his Department in accordance with the mandatory requirements laid down on 1 January 1974? [More…]
Does the Minister for the Environment have any confidence that the Government’s environmental policies will be implemented? [More…]
Does this decision have any significance for environmental protection? [More…]
1 based my assessment of this proposal on the environmental impact statement prepared by the Forests Department of Western Australia and on answers to supplementary questions which I asked the W. A. [More…]
In the circumstances, having regard to the fact that no environmental impact statement procedures had been finalised at the time this matter was considered by the Government and having regard to the fact that the Government had decided not to insist on public comment on impact statements prior to January 1974, 1 was prepared to accept the Western Australian approach. [More…]
I am satisfied that the major areas of environmental concern were identified prior to any Australian Government decision being made, but it was recognised at the time that many of the details associated with the proposal, such as potential salinity effects and the adequacy of reserves of representative ecosystems, could only be determined by research and monitoring programs. [More…]
I would expect this to continue and to take cognisance of the report arising from the interdepartmental working group on the economic and environmental implications of the export woodchip industry established by the Minister for Agriculture and myself in 1973. [More…]
Did the Department observe the environmental impact procedures that were laid down by the Government during January 1973. [More…]
Is he satisfied that sufficient consideration was given to environmental aspects before the decision was made. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to indexed item 1 1- Environmental studies of the Jervis Bay nuclear power plant. [More…]
These surveys were jointly commissioned by the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority and the Australian Government Department of Housing and Construction. [More…]
Reports of all previous monitoring work in connection with Hydrology, Beach Morphology and Ecology of Cockburn Sound have been made available to the Environmental Protection Authority. [More…]
Officers of the Department of Housing and Construction have been consulted, as required, by the firm commissioned by the Environmental Protection Authority to carry out the appraisal survey. [More…]
Is the Australian Government aiding the Environmental Protection Authority of Western Australia in a recently announced $30,000 survey of pollution levels. [More…]
93 in which his predecessor provided a list of research grants allocated by his Department, will environmental research funding now be undertaken by the Department of Environment and, in particular, will assessment of research projects to be funded be undertaken by the Bureau of Environmental Studies which has been established within that Department. [More…]
2370 and 2829 concerning the distinction between the Bureau of Environmental Studies and the work of the CSIRO on environmental matters, how will the Bureau establish areas where a need exists and which have not been adequately studied by other research bodies. [More…]
2173 in which he provided a list of research projects that have been completed or are currently being undertaken by the Bureau of Enrivonmental Studies, will he indicate which of the projects listed are new in the sense that they were commenced after the formation of the Bureau of Environmental Studies. [More…]
The Cranbourne Shire Council has requested the University of Melbourne to conduct an environmental study of the area and in the interim it has been agreed with the Council that no further permits will be given for any additional use of the Army Military Reserve at Langwarrin. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present an information paper on the progress in environmental conservation in the Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay. [More…]
How would environmental groups without adequate financial support be assured of equal access to the law? [More…]
-I ask the Attorney-General whether he can inform the House of the number of community groups, such as the environmental interest groups, which have used the present facilities of the Australian Legal Aid Office. [More…]
In view of the public controversy concerning the Concorde supersonic transport aircraft, the availability of the draft environmental impact statement prepared by the United Kingdom Government and the British Aircraft Corporation, and the claim in the report by the Environment Protection Authority of Victoria that the area of Melbourne affected by the excessive noise of Concorde will be far greater than that affected by the Boeing 707, the noisiest of the present aircraft, and the Authority’s assertion that the introduction of Concorde into service at Melbourne airport is contrary to its noise control policy, will the Minister inform the House whether and when a public hearing will be held under the terms of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act? [More…]
If so, in any such agreement are environmental safeguards included? [More…]
Let me make an initial statement that no development will take place until the environmental inquiry produces a report, but there will be contingency arrangements made as a result of Government policy. [More…]
Has the Government any ground to believe that other nations might be provoked to use force to get access to our mineral resources, including our vast deposits of uranium, if, because of its policies on Aboriginal rights, environmental factors or overseas ownership, the Government did not make those resources available to other nations? [More…]
Has the Government made a firm and final decision concerning uranium exports, thus pre-empting the Ranger uranium environmental inquiry that is being conducted by Mr Justice Fox? [More…]
1 ) Has a sum of $66,700 been allocated by the Commonwealth to an environmental impact study in Melbourne entitled the Eastern Freeway Fl 9 Western Approach Study. [More…]
The Labor Government required that an environmental impact statement be prepared for the proposed first ten to fifteen years development of the Albury-Wodonga growth centre. [More…]
Environmental Impact Statement: AlburyWodonga (Question No. [More…]
What environmental impact statement was prepared for the Albury-Wodonga growth centre before the Labor Government proceeded with its development. [More…]
To cite some examples, there is lack of cooperation between the States; there is duplication, particularly in the preparation of environmental impact statements, which we wish to try to remove; and there is lack of warning to industry in the preparation of environmental impact statements and so on. [More…]
In which ports under its control has the Australian Government established the safety organisation recommended in the document entitled Environmental Considerations of Visits of nuclear-powered Warships to Australia and tabled in the House of Representatives on 4 June 1976. [More…]
I refer the honourable member to paragraph 33 of ‘Environmental Considerations of Visits of Nuclear Powered Warships to Australia’ which was tabled in the House of Representatives by the Prime Minister on 4 June 1976. [More…]
Has the Minister seen recent media reports that the Federal Government was withdrawing from the field of environmental impact inquiries? [More…]
If not, can the Minister assure the House that a complete environmental impact assessment has been made of the major Coffs Harbour woodchip proposal to export 300 000 tonnes of woodchips per annum for the next 1 5 years? [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
The matter raised by the honourable member for Macarthur (Mr Baume) is the subject of an environmental impact study. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, concerns the very important general issue of the protection of our environment and the Government’s and the Minister’s attitudes to environmental issues. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the newsletter alleges, among other things, that he has adopted a position hostile to conservationists and abrogated his environmental responsibilities? [More…]
On what dates and for what ports did the (a) Victorian and (b) Western Australian Governments set up the safety organisations recommended in the document entitled Environmental Considerations of Visits of nuclear powered Warships to Australia tabled in the House of Representatives on 4 June 1976 (Hansard, 8 September 1976, page 794). [More…]
-To that end 7000 copies of the First Report of the Ranger Environmental Inquiry are available through all Commonwealth Government publication offices in Australia. [More…]
The normal procedure that is followed is that where there is a heavy Commonwealth investment in any of the States, the environmental impact proposals are brought into operation. [More…]
Where the States themselves have a heavy investment and the State has an environmental agency or authority, quite often the recommendations of that authority are satisfactory for Commonwealth purposes. [More…]
Has the Minister for Transport or his Department advised the State Ministers for Transport or their departments that the Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act will no longer be operative in regard to State road programs, particularly freeway projects? [More…]
Of course population policy is no substitute for a rational economic, social or environmental policy but an appropriate population policy enables a rational economic, social and environmental policy to be pursued, and that is the rationale behind the Government’s approach to a population policy. [More…]
Has his Department prepared an environmental impact statement under the provisions of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974; if so, when will the statement be made public; if not, why not. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Second Report. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development: Have officers of his Department had discussions with appropriate State officials with a view to the cessation or lessening of Australian Government involvement in environmental protection? [More…]
If so, what measures are being taken to ensure that the States adopt minimum standards for environmental protection and what are these minimum standards? [More…]
On what date did he receive the letter from Mr Justice Fox concerning the interpretation that has been placed on the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry’s first report (Senate Hansard. [More…]
This agreement is to rationalise procedural arrangements so that each Minister might fulfil his respective environmental responsibilities without duplication and in full co-operation with the other Minister. [More…]
Has the Commonwealth Government recently transferred its powers on environmental protection and environmental inquiries to the West Australian Government. [More…]
1 ) Will he indicate how, when and where the Federal Government has participated in the UNESCO/UNEP international program in environmental education. [More…]
1 ) What measures has the Government taken to evaluate the public awareness of environmental, urban and community development issues. [More…]
1 ) Has the Government taken any action to encourage the development of environmental education in Australian schools; if not, why not. [More…]
Mining operations terminated on Fraser Island as a result of a Commonwealth Government decision that, for environmental reasons, they should do so. [More…]
This problem was of paramount concern to the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
-Did the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development hear or has he since been shown a transcript of the remarks made on AM yesterday by a committee chairman of the United States Congress to the effect that the United States had a staggering problem of both cost and environmental danger in regard to what to do with the temporarily stored nuclear waste much of which is in liquid form, something like 74 million gallons of the stuff, which has fife of anywhere from 1,000 years to 250,000 years’? [More…]
On what date was the final report of the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry (a) placed in the hands of the printers, (b) available in printed form to the Commissioners of the Inquiry and (c) forwarded to him by the Commissioners. [More…]
The Fox report drew attention to the same need in its uranium environmental inquiry. [More…]
1 ) Has the Government approached the Western Australian Government with a view to undertaking research into the effects which a decision to close down the whaling industry would have on the economy of the Albany district along the lines of the suggestion that the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry made for an approach by the Government to the Queensland Government concerning the economy of Maryborough (Hansard, 22 October 1970, page 2751, 12 September 1972, page 1236 and 8 November 1977, page 3162). [More…]
Information Services, Incidentals, Housing Costs Inquiry, Environmental Impact Statements, National Fitness Program. [More…]
Before the debate is resumed on this Bill I suggest that it may suit the convenience of the House to have a general debate covering both this Bill and the Environmental Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court) Bill as they are associated measures. [More…]
What has been the attitude of the Queensland Government to his Department’s proposals for a federal role in environmental protection. [More…]
We believe that as far as possible a decision on the status of Aboriginal land should be left to Aborigines and that their views should take precedence over those which may be concerned with environmental issues. [More…]
Two major decisions of the Government are to proceed with the establishment of the Kakadu National Park and to make special arrangements for the supervision of environmental protection measures in the region. [More…]
On what matters and on which dates have (a) environmental impact statements been prepared, and (b) inquiries conducted under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974. [More…]
Before it came into power in New South Wales the Liberal Government conducted exhaustive environmental studies on the development of Botany Bay. [More…]
I can assure the honourable member for Hughes and anyone who is listening tonight that I endorse the suggestion that any development in Botany Bay must be environmentally acceptable. [More…]
Before the last State election in which Mr Wran came to power he promised the people that he would stop any work on any port development in Botany Bay and institute an environmental study. [More…]
1 ) Yes, the Government has completed its consideration of the recommendations of the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
1 ) Has the Government completed its consideration of the recommendations of the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
1 ) Are there any environmental reports compiled by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission which are specifically not made public. [More…]
Has the Australian Atomic Energy Commission published the Environmental Survey Reports for the years 1 975 to 1 977; if not, will he (a) indicate why the reports have not been published and (b) make copies of the unpublished reports available to the Parliament. [More…]
(a) and (b)-The compilation of the Environmental Survey Reports from records has been delayed due to staff shortages. [More…]
The environmental impact assessment procedures were the subject of a Press release by the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 26 July 1978. [More…]
If so, what stage has been reached in its considerations, in view of the state of preparation of the environmental impact statement on the project. [More…]
In view of the information now available on the environmental consequences of the use of chlorofluorocarbons and in view of the availability of suitable alternatives, is the sale of aerosol products propelled by these compounds under review. [More…]
It is a smokescreen for the serious environmental questions which are raised by the existence of 800 tonnes of radioactive rubble, including 20 kilograms of plutonium, which is buried at Maralinga. [More…]
In a letter to me on 3 February 1977 the Minister for Defence said that it was essentially a matter of long term environmental management. [More…]
Was a final environmental impact statement prepared On the Iwasaki development; if so, when will he make it avilable to the public. [More…]
If there was a final environmental impact statement, did it differ from the draft statement; if so, in what particulars did it differ. [More…]
1 ) Has the Government refused a request by the Australian Conservation Foundation and the Northern Territory Environment Council to send a representative to the Workshop on Environmental Studies in the Alligator Rivers Region being conducted by the Supervising Scientist this week. [More…]
Will the Alligator Rivers environmental monitoring program be conducted so as to prevent scrutiny by public environmental organisations. [More…]
Workshop on Environmental Studies in the Alligator Rivers Region (Question No. [More…]
No studies of the type described have been carried out by, or on behalf of, my Department but I am aware of the general environmental benefits of appropriate use of renewable energy resources. [More…]
Officers of my Department have not assisted in the planning of any meetings with the Northern Land Council, local Aboriginal people and Pancontinental Mining Company in order to explain the Jabiluka draft environmental impact statement. [More…]
Officers have met with the Chairman and staff of the NLC to discuss submissions lodged by the Council on the draft environmental impact statements. [More…]
1 ) Did officers of his Depanment assist in the planning of meetings with the Northern Land Council, local Aboriginal people and Pancontinental Mining Company in order to explain the Jabiluka Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement to local Aboriginal people. [More…]
Officers of my Depanment have not assisted in the planning of any meetings with the Northern Land Council local Aboriginal people and Queensland Mines Ltd in order to explain the Nabarlek project draft environmental impact statement. [More…]
Officers have met with the Chairman and staff of the NLC to discuss submissions lodged by the Council on the draft environmental impact statement. [More…]
1 ) Did officers of his Depanment assist in the planning of meetings with the Northern Land Council, local Aboriginal people and Queensland Mines Ltd in order to explain the Nabarlek Uranium Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement to local Aboriginal people. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a statement by Mr J. Y. Hancock of the Northern Territory Medical Service in the report ‘Alligator Rivers Region: Environmental Fact Finding Study- Health and Health Problems’ of October 1973 that it has been reported that the incidence of carcinoma of the lung and acute leukaemia is higher in the population centred around Oenpelli, Northern Territory than would be expected. [More…]
The abrogation by the Fraser Government of its national responsibilities for environmental matters. [More…]
1 ) Fifty-seven submissions were received by my Department as part of the public review of the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) on the proposed Iwasaki Sangyo project. [More…]
The chemical is the subject of a Rebuttable Presumption Against Registration (RPAR) instituted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. [More…]
He claimed that a future government would be unable to update environmental protection conditions to which Ranger would be subjected. [More…]
Condition 4 of the proposed authority attached to the documents tabled by my colleague, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs ( Mr Viner), specifically allows the imposition of further conditions that will render environmental protection more effective. [More…]
1 ) When and in which newspapers were advertisements placed seeking public comment on the Western Mining Corporation ‘s Yeelirrie environmental impact statement [More…]
What co-ordination will be sought between the survey procedure and other surveys and evaluations aimed at assessing different methods of improving environmental factors in health and methods of health care delivery and administration. [More…]
What procedures are followed, and by which Government departments, to monitor or control the importation into Australia of equipment, technology, chemical or pharmaceutical preparations or formulations which may be hazardous from the points of view of safety, health and environmental impact. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environmental, upon notice, on 28 September 1978: [More…]
I regard it as the most important environmental issue in Australia today. [More…]
In addition, the Commonwealth sees value in the definition of practicable and realistic air quality objectives for Australian cities which would be based on broader environmental considerations. [More…]
What are the broader environmental considerations? [More…]
Following his appointment as Deputy Secretary in June 1974 Mr Higgs was responsible for oversighting preparation of environment protection legislation and the formulation and implementation of Federal environmental policies in relation to both national and international activities. [More…]
Which synthetic chemicals or other substances presently in use in Australia are being investigated as a possible cause of birth defects, genetic disorders, cancer or other diseases amongst exposed populations by (a) the National Health and Medical Research Council, (b) the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Occupational Health and Safety Administration or Food and Drug Administration and (c) any Australian university or medical institution. [More…]
What provision is made in each of these procedures for assessing (a) environmental and (b) health effects of the use of those chemicals. [More…]
This Committee is currently developing procedures for assessment of synthetic chemicals used in industry and commerce for potential environmental hazards. [More…]
) What provision is made in each of these procedures for assessing (a) environmental and (b) health effects of the use of those chemicals. [More…]
What are the reasons for not publishing in the Australian Atomic Energy Commission environmental survey reports that readings referred to in part ( 1 ). [More…]
1 understand that the United States Environmental Protection Agency has been examining whether water containing asbestos fibres could lead to cancer and that its report on the matter is near completion. [More…]
1 ) Can he say whether the US Environmental Protection Agency has stated that by all standards of research, asbestos passing through water would or could lead to cancer. [More…]
Has the CSIRO provided any assistance to the supervising scientist in environmental studies in the Alligator River region of the Northern Territory; if so, what was the nature of this assistance, and which CSIRO Divisions were involved. [More…]
Environmental Studies in Alligator River Region (Question No. [More…]
In fact conservationists who deplore the destruction of large amounts and numbers of flora and fauna are indeed referring to a portion of our environmental degradation. [More…]
There is an urgent and pressing need for notice to be taken of parliamentary structure and of the prevention of environmental degradation. [More…]
This occurred in many areas of Australia where the natural environmental production was wool and coarse grains rather than wheat. [More…]
The positioning and development of major airports are stated as a very complex matter involving intensive and extensive investigation into these aspects: Firstly, the engineering feasibility of constructing a suitable airport on a particular site; secondly, the airspace and air traffic aspects of a particular location in relation to other air space users, including air traffic at other aerodromes; thirdly, the purpose for which an airport is required and the allocation of traffic between that airport and other airports in the general vicinity; fourthly, having in mind the purpose of a particular airport the protection of traffic and the capacity of a particular site to meet the traffic requirements; and fifthly, the environmental questions including community effects of aircraft noise. [More…]
She has at least as much need as an A class widow, but her environmental situation physically and financially is such that her total income is $24.50 a week. [More…]
There is now a growing awareness of the problems of environmental pollution . [More…]
Is it a fact that both these papers related to the environmental effects of the proposed nuclear power station at Jervis Bay? [More…]
Many technical studies, such as those carried out by Dr Buchanan, Mr Menzies and others, have shown that Bowen, for example, like Gladstone has excellent environmental physical conditions which would be suitable for the establishment of an export steel complex. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that it is largely involved in the people’s own local government and their own environmental circumstances. [More…]
What investigations have been made by his Department or any other appropriate authority into the effects on’ the environmental ecology of the proposed nuclear reactor at Jervis Bay? [More…]
Mullins, who lectures on environmental studies at the New South Wales Institute of Technology, has given details of a proposed alternative sewerage scheme for Sydney. [More…]
The Executive’s view is that the establishment of a large single Division of Air Pollution within CSIRO would not be as effective a means of working on this, or on other environmental problems, as would continuation of the present practice under which each individual project is tackled in the laboratory in which the relevant expertise is most highly developed. [More…]
Will he make available the reports on the (a) (i) geological, (ii) hydrological, (iii) hydrographical, (iv) meteorological, (v) ecological and (vi) environmental investigations carried out at each of the sites considered for the building of a nuclear power station, and (b) ability of each site to dispose of the radioactive and thermal waste from the proposed reactor. [More…]
The Government is aware of the nature of thermal pollution, and detailed examination of environmental and ecological factors is being made so that any disturbance of the environment at Jervis Bay will not be significant. [More…]
Without such a systematic reassessment we will not even begin to tackle the problem of environmental deterioration. [More…]
To increase our understanding of the problems facing these people, a new section was recently created within my Department to carry out research into the effects of social, cultural and environmental factors on employment and employee welfare. [More…]
I have asked the Minister for National Development whether he will make available reports on such things as tha geological, hydrological, hydrographical, meteorological, ecological and environmental investigations carried out at each of the sites considered and he told me that these were confidential studies made by the Department. [More…]
I suggest to the Minister that consideration be given to referring either to a select committee of this Parliament or a standing committee of the Senate the consideration of such matters as the comparative cost of nuclear and thermal stations, the siting of the power stations, the relation of the first station to planning for the future power needs of Australia, constitutional limitations on the utilisation of nuclear power, the environmental effects of nuclear power stations and Australia’s preparedness for the advent of nuclear technology. [More…]
Of more immediate interest than that is the honourable gentleman’s riding the bandwagon of environmental deterioration in pursuit of this moving platform of increased growth. [More…]
The Electricity Commission took part in the initial survey of possible sites within New South Wales and has also been involved in the environmental studies for the area. [More…]
A number of questions have been asked about possible environmental pollution, especially as regards the discharge of radioactive wastes and warm cooling water. [More…]
Has he seen reports of a United States Presidential Commission under Mr Henry Cabot Lodge which advocates that for the United Nations 25th anniversary next month the United Nations peace keeping machinery be strengthened, that inefficient institutions be reformed, and that international law be strengthened particularly to deal with environmental change, drug abuse and hijacking? [More…]
We have the knowledge to prevent more disease than we prevent today; we have the knowledge to treat more illness than we treat; we know more about controlling environmental health hazards than are put into practice. [More…]
He said he had decided to widen the functions and membership of the Immigration Planning Council to include urbanisation and environmental considerations. [More…]
Our amendment queries whether sufficient consideration has been given to the integrated power needs of the Commonwealth, the economics of nuclear power, the environmental effects, the safety standards for nuclear power stations and the timing of the establishment of our first nuclear station. [More…]
1191 regarding studies made on ecological and environmental factors at the sites considered for a nuclear power station, the Minister replied: [More…]
The Government is aware of the nature of thermal pollution, and detailed examination of environmental and ecological factors is being made so that any disturbance of the environment at Jervis Bay will not be significant [More…]
There are environmental factors. [More…]
For decades Britain has been aware of the environmental and safety factors and such things as those. [More…]
The honourable member for Lang, up to a point, is crying wolf in the sense that he thinks we will run into all sorts of new problems of safety, environmental and other kinds. [More…]
Fourthly, factors involving health and safety both in the environmental and technical sense must be considered. [More…]
This decision was confirmed by the Commission at its regular meeting on 9th February 1970, when it authorised the preparation of a paper dealing with the factors that must be considered in an environmental survey of a reactor site, and how these factors are resolved by research. [More…]
The winning tender will be accepted before environmental studies in relation to the sea, land and air surrounding the locality will be complete. [More…]
The environmental studies, such as they are, are sketchy. [More…]
A few examples of ils Hearings are: ‘Prelicensing Antitrust Review of Nuclear Power Plants’- 696 pages 1969 and 1970; Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program’ - 312 pages 1970; and ‘Environmental Effects of Producing Electric Power’, two volumes the first containing 1108 pages in 1969. [More…]
But to suggest that in this nation today in its present condition - I am talking now about its political condition, about its social attitudes, about the whole of its environmental attitude towards the armed Services - integration is in front of us is, in my view, and I believe in the view of the Government simply not on. [More…]
It would enable the authorities to assess the possible extent of any environmental damage resulting from mining enterprises and urban development. [More…]
First, we must establish a Federal environmental bureau which defines the optimum human environment as a series of goats towards which all Federal and State agencies work. [More…]
It can strive for uniformity by levying taxes in accordance with the legislation - for example, special taxes on pollution, tax incentives to encourage pollution control, and if necessary, a tax surcharge to encourage pollution control - and giving grants to States, local and semigovernment authorities, to ensure a system of policing the environmental effort. [More…]
It is interesting to see the Opposition, in the form of the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren), putting forward a definite matter of public importance dealing with environmental pollution because it illustrates once again the Labor Party’s notorious capacity for jumping onto whatever the current political bandwagon happens to be. [More…]
One of the problems of living in a modern developing society which seems to have escaped the honourable member for Reid is that the very development of that society brings with it problems of environmental pollution. [More…]
I believe it is one of the heartening features of modern society that concern is being felt to an ever increasing degree and attention is being paid to the causes, extent and solution of the problems of environmental disturbance. [More…]
Within Australia there are many examples of environmental pol lution and to me one of the most fascinating, and probably one of the most disturbing aspects of Thor Heyerdahl’s transAtlantic raft trip was his observation that the Atlantic was so polluted by oil that at various times it was impossible to swim. [More…]
Whenever people come together in cities, wherever goods are manufactured and wherever and however people travel, problems of environmental disturbance arise. [More…]
Of course, the greater the concentration of people, the greater the demand for consumer goods and the greater the development of technology and industry, the greater the amount of environmental disturbance. [More…]
It costs a heap of money to reduce environmental pollution and these costs must be met by somebody and they must be met out of the taxpayers’ pockets. [More…]
The Opposition today seeks to suggest that the Government is unaware of the problems of environmental pollution. [More…]
It would be very easy to over-react to questions concerned with environmental disturbance. [More…]
But the point of the whole thing is that we are all, on both sides of the House and in all Parties, agreed that the problems of environmental pollution are great ones which are worthy of deep and close attention. [More…]
There is a danger that over-reaction could take place and I think that any responsible Government should do as this one has done, investigate the problem, realise that it is part of a total overall environmental problem, and act accordingly. [More…]
Yet more and more people are beginning to see economic growth itself as the basic cause of the environmental deterioration which has become one of the nation’s most pressing problems. [More…]
Environmental problems arc complex and their solution calls for programmes of research, planning, education, legislation, the fixing of standards which require enforcement, and of course public information so that the general public will be informed. [More…]
Apart from the defence aspects of the issue there are environmental aspects which are important. [More…]
I believe that the words ‘unless the Government is able to convince the Parliament that the work is urgent’ are very interpretative and they apply not only to the environmental situation but could well apply to the strategic situation as well. [More…]
The point I make as I read these several comments of the Prime Minister is that the commitment is being made and subsequently in its wake after the commitment, which must be upheld at all costs, comes the consideration of the ecology of Cockburn Sound, the environmental factors and so on. [More…]
This has led to the thought that the Commonwealth should establish a Cockburn Sound commission to assume overall responsibility for environmental management of Cockburn Sound. [More…]
I believe that the suggestion for the establishment of a Cockburn Sound commission to take over the responsibility of environmental management of Cockburn Sound is worth while and should be adopted. [More…]
I quote from an article written by him on environmental surveys in relation to the natural environment. [More…]
With this in mind, it can be seen that before any environmental modification can take place there must be a survey or stock-take nf the environment to see: [More…]
The fact that the feasibility study was based on a causeway with a single opening, and that a second opening of larger cross section is now found advantageous, suggests that feasibility of the causeway as a concept was assessed on engineering and narrow economic criteria, with little regard for environmental considerations. [More…]
Such considerations have certainly influenced the final design, but there is some reason for believing that the design changes anti-date the availability of environmental data. [More…]
Why can we not have a look at the environmental considerations? [More…]
(f) - environmental investigations of sites for. [More…]
1191 (Hansard, 19th August 1970, page 252) infer that confidential studies of the environmental and ecological factors in the siting of the nuclear power station at Jervis Bay had been made. [More…]
1194 (Mansard, 19th August 1970, page 253) state that a detailed examination of environmental and ecological factors is being made so that any disturbance of the environment at Jervis Bay will not be significant. [More…]
Question 1191 which the honourable member in substance has repeated in Question 1560 asked if reports could bc made available on some six factors (2 of which were the environmental and ecological factors) in respect of each site considered for the proposed nuclear power station. [More…]
The honourable member was informed that a final decision had not been reached on the point of discharge and that a detailed examination of the environmental and ecological factors which might be affected was being carried out. [More…]
Air pollution is only one facet of the problems of the total environment and departments with an active interest in environmental problems are studying the reports of the Parliamentary Select Committees on Air Pollution, Water Pollution and Aircraft Noise, with a view to preparing recommendations to the Government. [More…]
In order that the results obtained from these scientific activities be co-ordinated into a perfect co-relation with each other and to permit full and complete environmental and ecological studies it is necessary for the ships on which observations are made to be accurately positioned in latitude and longitude. [More…]
There is a distinct uniformity in the types of agriculture and environmental and climatic conditions in both Riverland and Sunraysia. [More…]
In view Of the fact that our agricultural and urban-industrial scene has now reached the stage where scientific research without regard to ecological side effects and environmental consequences is no longer defeasible, scientifically or ethically, will the Minister state what steps have been taken to re-align or alter the research priorities of the CSIRO in the light of the Chairman’s statement? [More…]
The CSIRO has for some lime been doing a great deal in relation to environmental studies and pollution. [More…]
I recall when I took over this portfolio visiting CSIRO headquarters in 1969 and meeting about 30 of the heads of divisions who were there for a conference on pollution and environmental studies. [More…]
There are in fact 25 of the CSIRO divisions currently engaged in research programmes dealing with environmental studies. [More…]
In order to perform this work under environmental conditions which are as near as possible to natural living conditions, tests have been performed in bouses, huts, hospital wards, factories and aircraft. [More…]
The Commonwealth can certainly give financial assistance, but it is not as necessary to have Commonwealth financial assistance for the States to provide adequate law enforcement and research services as it is for the Commonwealth to give adequate financial assistance to enable the States to play their part in providing adequate educational, health and environmental services. [More…]
What does matter is that, from a practical viewpoint, we can do a great deal to prevent crime and other behavioural deviations by a study of their biological and environmental causes. [More…]
The real test of this Government and its successors will come from the environmental factors, because to act on the findings big money will have to be spent and big changes will have to be made, upsetting many vested interests. [More…]
My remarks will be directed to the ruination of Botany Bay which is bordering on my electorate and which, in any case, is a rare gem in our environmental heritage. [More…]
They will recall the determination with which Mr Bjelke-Petersen opposed the appointment of conservationists to the Queensland Environmental Control Council and supported drilling for oil inside the Barrier Reef. [More…]
There is a mounting, and justified, concern in Australia at the risks of environmental pollution. [More…]
Such pollution is not the inevitable by-product of advanced technology and population increase, but it does represent a failure to take fully into account the environmental consequences of our actions, and of the disposal of waste products by individuals and factories. [More…]
The State Governments are showing an awareness of this and the CSIRO has been carrying out a wide range of investigations into environmental quality, lt has indeed been engaged in some 48 projects concerned with such matters as studying biological control of insect pests as distinct from insecticide control - methods of treatment of factory effluent, control of the ash content of coal. [More…]
The Premiers of New South Wales and Victoria said that they were not yet ready but that they desired to set up their own organisations to deal with pollution and environmental problems so that they might have some information relating to the problems in their own States. [More…]
I do not want to spend time in detailing the many examples of the increasing environmental degradation. [More…]
The Commonwealth has power to levy taxes, lt could strive for uniformity by levying taxes in accordance with the legislation - for example, special taxes on pollution, tax incentives to encourage pollution control and, if necessary, a tax surcharge to encourage pollution control and to give grants to the Stales, local and semigovernmental authorities to ensure a system of policing the environmental effort. [More…]
Once legislation has been passed by the Commonwealth and by all the States a joint Commonwealth and State authority should administer pollution and environmental control. [More…]
Some time ago a Senate select committee applied itself to the consideration of pollution and environmental problems. [More…]
For a major party to display an indifference and disregard about environmental matters in the Senate campaign that followed the report of the committee would have spelt disaster. [More…]
Department conducts research into environmental pollution through this body. [More…]
He ought to be aware of his former responsibilities as Minister for the Interior in regard to environmental matters for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Department of Trade and Industry also is involved in environmental matters because it is concerned with the export and quality of foodstuffs. [More…]
I could go on to enunciate many critical situations in which environmental pollution is the order of the day. [More…]
In fact, quite apart from the complex technical problems, there are very difficult questions of economics and finance associated with any move for environmental control. [More…]
It is willing to accelerate the process of centralisation in the most centralised and urbanised nation on earth, occupying the largest island continent on earth, thus intensifying all the problems of pollution and environmental control. [More…]
Japan is an example of a country which, having single-mindedly pursued a goal of quantitative growth, is now counting the environmental cost and finding it extremely heavy. [More…]
We must always bring the environmental argument into the balance sheet, and we must devote part of our growth to dealing with its costs. [More…]
If it allows our big cities to get bigger it will have no hope of dealing with environmental problems. [More…]
The pollutive effects of the project and the environmental destruction which seems imminent in one of the most attractive coastline areas of Australia, to which visitors go from all over the world, should become one of the first investigatory tasks of the new Commonwealth Office of the Environment, if this Government is ever going to demonstrate a decent sense of priorities to the point of getting this Commonwealth Office of the Environment off the ground. [More…]
The best scientific minds available in this field will plan for the future not only on a monetary basis but also on an environmental and ecological basis. [More…]
The committee and the appointed experts should investigate these world research techniques, the feasibility, the costs, the environmental saving and the ecological saving. [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…]
The student who most needs tutorial assistance, of course, is the struggling student, who has not the environmental help from his home background or from access to libraries that is available to other students. [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…]
As the Leader of the Opposition pointed out very cogently and quite clearly, the time has now arrived in this country when the whole environmental question is deserving of a single Ministry with the subsequent responsibility that this will bring about. [More…]
I do not want to push the environmental deterministic line too far, but we cannot escape from it altogether. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the environmental message of President Nixon of 8th February 1971 wherein he said in regard to ocean dumping, that protection of . [More…]
recommend legislation which will require a permit from the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for the dumping of any materials into the oceans, estuaries or the Great Lakes and will authorise the Administrator to ban the dumping of wastes which are dangerous to marine ecosystems. [More…]
These costs include basic research and development, feasibility studies and associated administrative efforts, and also manufacture of prototype and pre-production missiles and equipments used in research and development trials, compilation of initial draft handbooks and provision of equipments used for environmental tests on elements of the IKARA system. [More…]
Two Territory representatives attend WHO Course on Environmental Sanitation; and a local malaria eradication assistant was a member of a WHO specialised course in epidemiology. [More…]
If so, do any of the joint activities relate to environmental problems. [More…]
However, some joint activities that have been established in three scientific fields are relevant to acquiring a belter understanding of aspects of the environment and of environmental management. [More…]
A full range of environmental studies have been carried out and will continue. [More…]
Both this Government and the Askin Government in New South Wales stand indicted in respect of both Jervis Bay and the Clutha deal, because both projects were a fait accompli before either Parliaments or the public had any chance to question, to challenge or to evaluate the issues in terms of cost and in respect of economic, social or environmental factors. [More…]
The optimum number depends on the needs and environmental background of the aged, on which precise information is not available on a national basis. [More…]
1 believe there is a very basic and, if you like, environmental determinist basis to what we are having difficulties with today. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the recommendation of President Nixon of 8th February 1971 that, as a first step towards the institution of disamenity charges on products known to be environmental hazards, a charge be imposed on lead additives in petrol and sulphur dioxide released to the atmosphere? [More…]
Are there any objections which prevent the Commonwealth (a) from passing legislation on a wide variety of environmental issues in Commonwealth territories which legislation would serve as a model for the States and (b) from levying pollution taxes in the States as well as in Commonwealth territories based on emission levels and using the tax collections to provide grants to the States to help them measure and police their pollution laws? [More…]
Will he consider including in the next Budget pollution taxes on (a) lead in petrol (b) sulphur dioxide, (c) pollutants from cars such as carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen, (d) particulates emitted from chimneys, (e) arsenic and heavy metals such as mercury, lead and cadmium, (f) persistent pesticide such as DDT and (g) polychlorinated biphenyls, which are pollutants themselves, or on their manufacture, such as the manufacture of poly-vinyl chloride, the disposal of which causes much environmental damage? [More…]
Does the decision to postpone the establishment of the Office of the Environment indicate that in the Government’s view the Commonwealth need not play a leading and co-ordinating role in the development of a rational environmental policy or that the role is unimportant? [More…]
These works are referred because of the lapse of time since sewerage schemes for Darwin, covering the northern and central zones, were referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works in March 1969, and because of the concern of members of the Darwin community that a satisfactory standard of treatment should be achieved having regard to environmental factors. [More…]
At the same time as manufacturing profitability is falling, profitability in nonmanufacturing industry seems to be rising, and this trend is likely to continue because many of our manufacturing industries face heavy costs for environmental control measures. [More…]
Nevertheless, this House must be concerned because of the very substantial economic effects and because of the diversion of resources which environmental control will cause. [More…]
The first report of tha Standing Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution in Britain is an absorbing document. [More…]
Once legislation has been passed by the Commonwealth and by all States, a joint Commonwealth and State authority should administer pollution and environmental control. [More…]
It takes no action in regard to pollution or environmental control. [More…]
We are also making substantial contributions to Aboriginal welfare, to education and the arts, and we have established a department whose functions include examination of environmental problems. [More…]
High land prices, overcrowding, transport and traffic difficulties, environmental disturbance and pollution, psychological problems leading to high crime rates, the rising costs of the provision of public facilities and the absence of recreational facilities are just some of the factors which combine to reduce the quality of life in many big cities of the world. [More…]
On Friday there will be a meeting of all Ministers concerned with environmental problems. [More…]
Already our major capital cities are suffering from human congestion, traffic bottlenecks, pollution and environmental problems. [More…]
Engineering feasibility and order of cost of alternative plans, some 16 in all, at all these locations were considered, as well as the compatibility of such airports with the adjacent communities, access by surface transport, environmental aspects, etc. [More…]
Quite apart from the aspects I have mentioned, the very important interests of local communities, environmental factors and the very great cost involved in a second airport for Sydney, require that this project must be most carefully considered and all available viewpoints brought to bear upon it before any decisions are taken. [More…]
In considering the alternatives, the committee is to take into account all the relevant factors, including operational, technical, financial and environmental considerations, capacity and accessibility by surface transport. [More…]
Value in terms of potentially improved welfare services, improved education and improved environmental conditions will be lost and will never be achieved again no matter how much the performance of the economy is improved in subsequent years. [More…]
Why encourage greater growth, traffic bottlenecks and environmental problems, the high cost of servicing generally unhappy environments for families and for children? [More…]
Has Qantas an option to purchase Concordes; if so has the CSIRO advised them of possible environmental pollution from these high flying aircraft. [More…]
CSIRO has not been approached by Qantas for advice on possible environmental pollution from high flying aircraft. [More…]
Commonwealth and State Ministers, with responsibility for environmental matters, met for the first time today in Canberra. [More…]
New South Wales- The Honourable J. G. Beale, M.L.A., Minister for Environmental Control, [More…]
Western Australia - The Honourable J. T. Tonkin, M.L.A., Premier and Minister for Environmental Protection, [More…]
We hope that by so doing we will be setting an example in environmental matters of this nature because I am certain that in the months to come these conflicts of interest between conservation and economic development interests will be of growing importance to the nation. [More…]
The inner city schools, almost by definition, by lack of education basically in that particular community, by lack of income, and as a result of that by the environmental deficiencies that have accrued, have provided less for themselves than some other schools but to me it is negative thinking to say that those people who will or can help themselves should not be helped any further because there are others who are less capable of helping themselves. [More…]
The Department of Works designs and builds many public works of obvious environmental impact, [More…]
Is it any wonder that the Government never develops any co-ordinated environmental policy? [More…]
Environmental policy by this Government has grown piecemeal, with never a thought as to whether a total overview of the situation is required, and a restructure of administration. [More…]
We can divide environmental administration into 2 areas - policy making and problem solving. [More…]
The problem solvers will need complete data bank facilities and specialists and will receive environmental impact statements for all activities which will have any environmental impact. [More…]
Population policy, including immigration; natural resource policy, including exports of natural resources; science policy, including research policy; technology policy, including pollution control; educational policy and urban policy will all be influenced by the comprehensive environmental policy. [More…]
The United States of America, for example, has a problemsolving agency - the Council on Environ-, mental Quality - and a policy making agency - the Environmental Protection Authority. [More…]
This is not only because the problem is in large measure an economic one, but also because environmental problems recognise no State boundaries. [More…]
Watching television tonight, I was pleased to note that the New South Wales Government has set up at Lidcombe an environmental control office with a staff of 36. [More…]
They exchanged information on existing legislation and gave their views on environmental problems. [More…]
This is the only way in which we will get anywhere with environmental control in Australia. [More…]
It is dealing with the protection and restoration of environmental quality and industry’s role in this immense task. [More…]
But, unhappily, even though a larger population could well live there, the ‘frontier philosophy’ is even more rampant in Australia than in the United States in terms of environmental deterioration and agricultural overexploitation. [More…]
1 believe 1 have said enough to indicate that environmental hazards can and do transcend international boundaries. [More…]
It was recommended that international treaties should be examined to ascertain their impact on the environment and that parliaments of the world should be advised of the potential environmental effects of those treaties. [More…]
It was recommended also that the United Nations Organisation should sponsor international environmental programmes and that an international pollution data bank should be established and that the function of this bank should be to collect information and to make it available to all countries. [More…]
It was pointed out by the Prime Minister yesterday when he was replying to a question from the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) that, in addition to using powers of persuasion, the Commonwealth could act on environmental matters by advancing certain funds. [More…]
Within the last 20 to 25 years the progress in industry and communications and the increase in the number of city dwellers have created a situation in which man has to take a quick, serious look at the environmental problems which he has created and is still creating and which have certainly been to bis own detriment. [More…]
The great majority of environmental problems stem from the population growth of industrial societies around the world and the impact which they have made on both physical and social environments. [More…]
While public and political awareness of the issues of urbanism, environmental control and the preservation of the quality of life in cities or, for that matter, in the countryside is highly desirable, it is undesirable to make a direct transfer of European or United States experiences and problems to the Australian scene without modification or qualification. [More…]
So, I believe that a case has been fully established for an examination of this important area of environment, for the simple reason that the greatest number of people in this country will be affected by environmental changes in that particular area. [More…]
I feel that I should dwell for a short time on the role as I see it of the Commonwealth in our environmental affairs. [More…]
I have had an opportunity to study the way in which Federal and State systems relating to environmental matters have been adopted in places throughout the world, but I have not studied it in great depth because the time has not been available. [More…]
Wherever there is a federal system there has to be a policy department of the environment and these have to be administrative departments that carry out individual environmental procedures. [More…]
As I have indicated to the House before and as the honourable member for Reid mentioned, there are seven or eight Commonwealth departments that administer various facets of environmental policy. [More…]
Therefore, I believe that in environmental matters the role of the Commonwealth - exclusively; of its own responsibility - should be firstly to set an example within its own territories. [More…]
Secondly, it should see that the administrative departments carry out the task and realise how important environmental matters are at this time. [More…]
What action has been taken by the Government to implement the resolution of the International Parliamentary Conference on the Environment that governments should begin international negotiations on pollution control, research and environmental aspects of treaties and foreign aid. [More…]
Now that the Commonwealth is getting its own involvement in environmental matters through the setting up of a Department, does your Department feel obliged to look at the possible effects on the ecology of dumping this material into the sea? [More…]
There will be a definite improvement of the scenic and environmental aspects of South Head. [More…]
But I can see also considerable merit in making an examination of the environmental aspects that were mentioned by the honourable member, and I will discuss this matter with the CSIRO to see what further information I can get for him. [More…]
know, because of the wide range of soil types, climatic conditions and particular environmental circumstances there is a demand for special fertiliser elements in particular areas in particular types of land use management. [More…]
There has been no research into the environmental factors, particularly in Botany Bay, but anywhere else either on a national basis. [More…]
I find it incomprehensible that the mistakes so evident at Mascot will be repeated by placing an international 24-hour airport in this housing development area ignoring the noise and other environmental problems involved. [More…]
In the United States, I had lengthy and very frank discussions with President Nixon, Secretary of State Rogers, Defence Secretary Laird, Deputy Secretary Packard, Dr Kissinger, Under Secretary of the Treasury Volcker, Chairman of the Council of Environmental Quality Russell Train, and Senator Fulbright, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. [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…]
Department of Foreign Affairs who attended meetings of the preparatory committee in Geneva and New York as observers were not technical experts in environmental matters, will he ensure that in future officers attending these conferences are competent in these fields. [More…]
Australia strongly urged that this pattern was not suitable for a committee on environmental questions if it did not ensure that important geographical areas of the world were adequately represented. [More…]
People are working with local community organisations in order to improve living’ and environmental conditions and particularly to assist the young children in these areas. [More…]
Press releases issued since 1967 by the Ministers relating to aspects of environmental pollution are as follows: - [More…]
Before any export approval is granted, the appropriate State Government is consulted in judging whether the project is in the best interests of the community irrespective of whether it is based on private or crown land resources but save as indicated above the Commonwealth does not seek to intervene in the State Government responsibility for environmental aspects of woodchip projects. [More…]
There is more capacity for self-destruction by way of weapons of destruction; environmental destruction is threatening the world; and there is a plague of population. [More…]
as a school teacher called it, the environmental stimulus in the shack on the river bank that they would have in the town where they would have some form of radio, television and lighting to help them do their homework. [More…]
A continuing programme of environmental monitoring is being carried out by the Commonwealth. [More…]
The environmental disturbance occurring in major cities is something which is quite properly becoming much more important. [More…]
People are realising that if they want to live in circumstances which appear delightful to them they must pay for efforts to overcome environmental disturbance. [More…]
The Minister for Health has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: (1), (2) and (3) The health services field is extensive, covering such areas as hospitals, nursing homes, mental health institutions, medical services, community health, environmental health and quarantine. [More…]
controls over the possession, use, storage and labelling of drugs and poisons; industrial hygiene and occupational health; maternal and child health; dental health; environmental factors which may affect health; prevention and control of mental illness, and the care and rehabilitation of patients with menial illness; traffic injuries; health education; recruitment and training of nurses, and the practice of nursing; matters relating to ionising radiation; the promotion and preservation of health in the tropics; and medical statistics on human morbidity and mortality. [More…]
Can he say what statutes are in force concerning (a) environmental control and (b) pollution in each State and Territory. [More…]
Cun he also say what proceedings have been taken with respect to infringements of statutory provisions concerning environmental control and pollution in each State and Territory in the last 3 years [More…]
As the honourable member will appreciate, there is a very great number of statutes which impinge on environmental control and pollution. [More…]
The United States Environmental Protection Agency, which took over several of the functions of the Department of Agriculture in this connection, in March 1971 announced that it had issued cancellations for the use of 2,4,5-T. [More…]
It will cost millions of dollars and involve tremendous environmental and pollution problems. [More…]
Nuclear power is very important to Japan, a country which not only lacks indigenous fossil fuels but is also subject to the risk of environmental pollution attendant upon a densely populated and highly industrialised State. [More…]
In this particular sense they said, I have no doubt with the best will in the world, a number of things which bear upon and which illustrate what I think we can best call in the parlance of the day the environmental hang-up of the ALP. [More…]
The sort of inequalities they wanted to reduce and which I am sure every member of this House would want to reduce were substantially those which were environmentally based and which were in fact matters which they wanted to overcome by a needs proposition in its general sense. [More…]
Remarkably, however, it is said by some that there would be no significant effect whatsoever because of the environmental restrictions of overseas countries as compared with Australia. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of reports that the Minister for Civil Aviation, after receiving a report from the Academy of Science, has said that there is no environmental reason why the Concorde supersonic airliner should not operate in Australia? [More…]
Geographical and geophysical surveys have been made to look at soil types and important environmental factors, but no-one as yet has acquired the land. [More…]
To propose solutions for environmental problems that would as far as possible take account of all relevant factors, including cost effectiveness; [More…]
To ensure that the results of environmental investigations can be effectively utilised in the : wider framework of the Organisation’s work on economic policy and social development. [More…]
In November 1971 the Prime Minister had discussions in Washington with the Chairman, Mr Russell Train, and other members of the United States Council on Environmental Quality. [More…]
The wider environmental problem facing Australia and other countries was the setting of criteria for chemical and other pollutants. [More…]
The Honourable R. Davies, M.L.A., Minister for Environmental Protection. [More…]
The Council expressed its concern about the need for uniform monitoring of environmental conditions throughout Australia. [More…]
It was recognised that the great majority of environmental problems come within the jurisdiction of the States. [More…]
It recommended that the States and Commonwealth, iri considering the Commonwealth-State Officials’ Report on Decentralisation and action flowing from it give special consideration to environmental factors.’ [More…]
Consultation and co-ordination between the Commonwealth and the States on appropriate environmental matters take place through the Australian Environment Council and its Standing Committee. [More…]
The Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has a general responsibility to act for the Commonwealth in environmental matters including - [More…]
I propose to make a statement on the general environmental objectives of the Government in the near future. [More…]
There is an increasing tendency therefore for countries to concentrate part of their resources on particular areas in which they have demonstrable need, expertise, or unique environmental opportunities. [More…]
There is an increasing tendency therefore for countries to concentrate part of their resources on particular areas in which they have demonstrable need, expertise, or unique environmental opportunities. [More…]
However, on broad technical questions - these include most of the crucial environmental questions - the scientific advisory system is ineffective. [More…]
Environmental questions will in the future increasingly occupy the attention of governments and will require public funds for their investigation. [More…]
The Government has also initiated 2. environmental impact studies of the area to provide information on ways to minimise damage from mining and other activities. [More…]
importance of the park area to the nation from a mineral and economic point of view and the importance of the park in an environmental sense. [More…]
All these things have an environmental effect. [More…]
Will the Minister inform the House what is proposed in Commonwealth administered areas to ensure that Aboriginal children are given every opportunity to overcome their present environmental handicap? [More…]
Having regard to the vastly increased and rapidly increasing importance of our off-shore areas - an importance that derives in part from advanced developments in science and technology and in part from an enlarged public awareness of and concern with the need to preserve our marine ecology and our environmental resources from pollution of various kinds - this question as to the distribution of power as between Commonwealth and States is one that simply cries out for solution. [More…]
We already know that many cancers are preventible, since many of the cancer inducing stimuli are environmental and on occasions occupational. [More…]
It will determine the environmental conditions in which we live. [More…]
What I would call the industrial research bureau must have economists and statisticians, but it also must have sociologists, ecologists and behavioural scientists, and it must be environmental. [More…]
Even though representatives of the States will be going to this Conference in Stockholm it is the Commonwealth which will in the main represent Australia in the world environmental stage. [More…]
The Government has at last recognised that environmental issues do exist, although depressingly it still emphasises only the pollution control aspect. [More…]
The land filling of estuaries in Queensland for tourist development is having a profound environmental impact on the nearby marine ecosystem, although we barely have any knowledge of the impact. [More…]
We welcome the introduction of environmental impact statements on Commonwealth funded projects. [More…]
A good Commonwealth environmental policy would ensure that Commonwealth-State consultations would take place on land use in the States. [More…]
May I remind the Minister that in the Softwood Forestry Agreements Bill 1972 which is before the House there is not one mention of consideration of environmental matters. [More…]
Additionally, because it has enacted virtually no legislation to cover its own territories, the Government obviously feels that citizens living in these territories have no environmental rights. [More…]
We need to have national control over environmental matters. [More…]
We can see this in New South Wales where 4 departments - the Department of Health, the Department of Local Government, the Department of Transport and the Department of Environmental Control - are fighting each other about who has the right to monitor and control motor vehicle emissions and to manage the environment as a whole. [More…]
All decisions by government, by private companies and by individuals have environmental impact. [More…]
What we must do is design a new model which ensures that when any decision is made it is an environmentally wise one. [More…]
We can attain such a goal if we first set up proper social and environmental goals to keep us on course. [More…]
In a world where everything is connected to everything else, it can be very misleading to isolate ‘basic environmental factors’. [More…]
These three basic guide lines must constantly stay in the front of our minds from now on when we consider environmental problems. [More…]
However, if, ahead of time, we have agreed upon a set of environmental goals we will be better off. [More…]
In reporting favourably on the proposal the Committee recommended: If tests and evaluations justify the use of carpets as an economic floor covering and if there is no doubt about its suitability, it should be used in single cabins at HMAS ‘Stirling; service scales and standards of accommodation should be amended to provide carpet as a floor covering in single cabins; the advice of experts on environmental problems should continue to be sought and implemented during development and occupation of the naval support facility; because of the widespread nature of community interest, day to day care and management of areas of Garden Island open to the public should be a State responsibility. [More…]
The advice of experts on environmental matters will be sought during development of the project and in any further development in the future. [More…]
The other point to be welcomed is the statement that the advice of experts on environmental matters will be sought during the development of the project in the future. [More…]
I am not qualified to comment on all the submissions made by environmental experts about the change in currents and so forth as a consequences of the construction which is going into the development of this naval base. [More…]
But the fact that the Commonwealth is interested in continuing to consult with environmental experts is something new and welcome. [More…]
The Commonwealth has achieved some balance in allowing part of Garden Isla.id to be left for recreational facilities and no doubt will achieve further balance in its consultations with the environmentalists. [More…]
The Committee was inundated with requests for environmental protection, to avoid erosion and to safeguard the limited and vulnerable vegetation, and lots of similar issues. [More…]
We must always keep an eye on environmental aspects. [More…]
This Bill, from the environmental point of view, is highly irresponsible. [More…]
Last week the Minister for the Enviornment (Mr Howson) when making a statement said that his Department would examine the environmental aspects of all legislation before being passed through this Parliament. [More…]
The Bill contains not one word about the large environmental impact of the policies contained in it. [More…]
If we were doing the same in Australia, plantings of pines would be environmentally responsible. [More…]
I said earlier that what is being done in Tasmania is environmentally responsible, and the same should be done in New South Wales in particular. [More…]
Every proposal of national development has environmental consequences, and it is about time we did our sums to measure those consequences. [More…]
In some cases the environmental damage is so great that the whole proposal becomes very questionable. [More…]
A sound environmental policy would ensure that with the passage of this legislation the loans will be used primarily for buying up farm land first. [More…]
A sound environmental policy would ensure that wood demand was reasonable and not excessive; for example, that packaging was minimised rather than maximised. [More…]
A sound environmental policy would tolerate the permanent alteration of natural ecosystems only after much thought about the very great ecological consequences. [More…]
A sound environmental policy would see that taxation deductions were no longer given for further land clearing on private land but be given for re afforestation of already cleared land. [More…]
Subsequently at the environmental conference in Stockholm a resolution, which was much less appropriate than the one we voted in favour of and which also referred to the disarmament conference at the United Nations, was put before a committee at Stockholm. [More…]
It is the responsibility of the individual Minister to have an environmental impact statement prepared and submitted when preparing a Cabinet submission on a proposal that has some relevance to the environment. [More…]
The Minister said that it is not expected that there will be any great environmental problems as a result of this scheme. [More…]
What progress has been made with the environmental fact finding study? [More…]
Agreement has been reached between the mining companies which are prospecting over the area and the Government to contribute on a Si for $1 basis towards an environmental impact study to protect the environment including the fauna and flora. [More…]
In speaking to this Budget I shall deal with the environmental aspect and the priorities of this Government. [More…]
From an environmental point of view, LPG is a blessing to city air, while petroleum is a curse. [More…]
It ignores the environmental impact of petroleum on city air. [More…]
This tax on LPG indicates that decisions are made in the Treasury and to hell with the environmental consequences. [More…]
Decisions will be made environmentally-wise’ irrespective of who makes them. [More…]
Cities, factories and denser habitation bring enormous environmental problems and the municipalities, through their health inspectors and limited testing facilities, will undoubtedly be left to try to cope. [More…]
We can be sure in the future that there will be a rising refusal by the people to accept pollution, environmental damage and waste. [More…]
Some of the important reasons why this question has to be tackled with competence and foresight in Australia are as follows: Firstly, the country is large and any energy resources are unevenly distributed geographically; secondly, primary energy consumption is increasing at an annual rate of 6 per cent compared with about 3 per cent for the rest of the world; thirdly, electricity consumption is increasing at the rate of about 9.S per cent per annum compared with 5 or 6 per cent for the rest of the world; fourthly, a high rate of industrialisation and development is taking place in Australia; fifthly, a major exporter of energy resources needs to review periodically its resources and pattern of use to ensure that adequate reserves are retained for domestic use; sixthly, State fuel resources and energy consumption can no longer be considered in isolation - for example, natural gas and proposed interstate transmission lines; seventhly, the environmental and pollution aspects of fuel and energy production and utilisation are becoming of much greater concern to governments and communities; and eighthly, economic benefits may accrue to the nation by control of energy usage patterns - for example, incentives to reduce heavy fuel oil imports. [More…]
I should like to draw the attention of the House to the fact that on 24th May this year the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) stated that, when Commonwealth Government money was involved in anything that could have an environmental impact, an impact statement would be made. [More…]
A power station is to be built at Tennant Creek and a power station, whether it is small or large, can have an environmental impact. [More…]
If the power station is to be built in the township, I would like to know the environmental impact it will have on this area. [More…]
An eleventh hour decision has been made and I would like to know whether an environmental impact statement has been prepared in regard to the siting of this power station in Tennant Creek. [More…]
ls the Treasurer aware that his colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, has indicated that environmental impact statements will be prepared on the effects of any Government measures but only if the responsible Ministers request them? [More…]
Has the Treasurer had an environmental impact statement prepared on air pollution and other sequelae of the imposition of tax on liquefied gas? [More…]
He asked: What aspects of environmental impact had the government studied before making its decision? [More…]
I should like to suggest that the Ministry for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts - this Ministry which is very ambiguous in many respects and which from the environmental standpoint hardly seems to have come down to any positive line of objectivity - should start to accept some responsibility in this regard. [More…]
Tonight we are discussing the proposed expenditure of the Department of Civil Aviation, the operations of which impinge on a major environmental threat - aircraft noise. [More…]
Without disputing this contention by the Minister I feel he should have put greater stress on the peculiar environmental conditions of the rural islands off Australia’s coast. [More…]
Each of the 3 large islands which are important rural producers and are farmed largely by soldier settlers is confronted by a unique set of environmental conditions. [More…]
The first is a scientific examination designed to conquer environmental problems produced by imbalances between soil, plant and animal relationships on the island. [More…]
Again I stress that I support this sort of assistance; I hope that similar comprehensive programmes of assistance will be worked out for other regions which may suffer from the incidence of a harmful combination of economic and environmental factors. [More…]
That the Senate’s amendment be disagreed to, but that in place thereof the following amendment be made: ‘In the Schedule, at the end of clause 9, add “and shall ensure that environmental factors relating to the planting have been considered”.’ [More…]
The absence of reference to the ‘environment’ in the originally proposed agreement does not mean that this important field has been ignored; in fact environmental aspects of forestry activities are very much in mind in the formulation of forestry programmes throughout Australia and the very expression ‘sound forestry . [More…]
The conference will recognise the importance, not only of economic matters concerning forests and forest industries, but also social and environmental aspects of forestry and forest industries. [More…]
The amendment that I have proposed to clause 9 of the Agreement will ensure that planting is carried out each year efficiently and in conformity with sound forestry and financial practices and that environmental factors are considered. [More…]
The purpose of the amendment is to ensure that environmental factors relating to planting are considered; in other words, that the States when carrying out reafforestation programmes will fully take into account environmental factors. [More…]
It is clear that the environmental factors have to be considered. [More…]
In the clearing of timber regard must be had to ecological and environmental influences. [More…]
Planting methods demand that environmental factors be taken into account. [More…]
I believe that there are good reasons to consider the environmental aspects, although I am not as keen or dedicated a conservationist as my friend the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren). [More…]
Because I am at heart a developer, it does not mean that T do not take into account or am not conscious of environmental factors. [More…]
This is the proof of environmental factors not being fully considered in the burning of pastures. [More…]
I think that in all States they are fully conscious of environmental factors but it does not hurt to give them a nudge or two occasionally to let them know that this Parliament is now taking a great interest in environmental factors in re-afforestation programmes which are so important to this nation. [More…]
The other significant issue involved in all this, of course, is the developing consciousness about environmental matters in Australia, and it is good to know that in that extreme northern part there is no less sensitivity about such an issue. [More…]
The State shall ensure that planting during each year is carried out efficiently and in conformity with sound forestry, environmental and financial practices. [More…]
The State shall ensure that natural forests shall not be cleared for planting softwoods unless the particular proposed clearing has beforehand been the subject of an environmental impact study made by an independent expert on behalf of the Australian Forestry Council and that Council after considering the report of the said study has approved the particular clearing.’ [More…]
That the Senate’s amendment be disagreed to, but that in place thereof the following amendment be made: ‘In the Schedule, at the end of clause 9, add “and shall ensure that environmental factors relating to the planting have been considered”.’ [More…]
In fact, they would probably be the leaders in the environmental field. [More…]
But no matter how progressive the environmental people are they have to be open to criticism and there have been mistakes made by the States. [More…]
I am glad that the Government has worked out a compromise in regard to this amendment which related only to the environmental factor. [More…]
Instructions were given that, particularly when there was likely to be an environmental or pollution effect, a statement had to be attached to each one of the Cabinet submissions setting out the nature of the effect. [More…]
I also wrote to each of the Premiers informing them that whenever Commonwealth assistance was given to the States we would expect them to take into consideration the environmental and pollution impact of whatever activities were to be carried out by the States. [More…]
I am now aware why the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) was so sensitive in the House during question time this morning when I interjected, while he was answering a Dorothy Dix question about environmental impact statements, ‘What about the proposed liquid petroleum gas tax?’ [More…]
LPG, from an environmental point of view, is a blessing to the air of the cities, while petroleum is a curse. [More…]
When dealing with environmental aspects it cannot recognise the fact that everything is connected to everything else. [More…]
It ignores the environmental impact of petroleum on city air. [More…]
On 24th May last, speaking on behalf of the Government, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who is now sitting on the front bench, made a statement that all Federal action would require an ‘environmental impact statement’. [More…]
I know what pressures are placed on the Government by the environmental bodies throughout Australia. [More…]
This tax on LPG indicates that decisions are made in the Treasury and to hell with the environmental consequences. [More…]
It will ensure that decisions take into account environmental factors, irrespective of who makes them. [More…]
I know that my colleague the honourable member for Reid is most interested in the environmental aspect. [More…]
They will be children who have a lack of environmental stimulus in their home and a lack of community environment. [More…]
My feeling is that the general trend of social and environmental thinking will put a premium on places like Tasmania if we care to wait long enough. [More…]
The most far-reaching may well be the growing public interest in environmental quality, which may lead to the rejection of the motor car as the universal symbol of individual freedom and the adoption of less time-wasting relationships between home and work. [More…]
Another factor which will emerge in my judgment is that, although heavy initial investment in new centres will be required, in the longer term this will prove to be more a re-deployment of funds rather than the provision of huge additional expenditures, because undoubtedly the environmental and pollution problems and the transport and traffic problems of the growing metropolitan complexes are in themselves providing a tremendous bill to the people - the taxpayers. [More…]
Many countries have tried to set up huge monolithic departments with the power to solve environmental problems. [More…]
One cannot put environmental problems under one bureaucratic roof, for the environment is not a thing but a complex of interconnected natural and man-made items. [More…]
What is important is that an environmental programme be undertaken, no matter who regulates auto emissions. [More…]
The Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts can investigate and write the guidelines to indicate what is environmentally wise. [More…]
The key to the whole process is the socalled environmental impact statement assessment. [More…]
Any environmental impact statements will be for Cabinet and bureaucratic eyes only. [More…]
The Prime Minister in a reply to a question by the Leader of the Opposition in this House on Tuesday last said that in his opinion the environmental impact statement should be made public. [More…]
The final impact statement sent to the Council on Environmental Quality must include all the public comments on the statement. [More…]
The constitutional power Includes the environmental protection of Commonwealth territory, the environmental impact of interstate or international trade particularly the export of natural resources, the regulation of corporations now that quite a few issues have been cleared up by the High Court in the so called concrete pipes case, and certain other areas. [More…]
In areas of environmental impact assessment which do not require Federal money or power and over which the Commonwealth has no jurisdiction the Commonwealth will act to work with the States for rational management and the protection of the Australian environment. [More…]
Here in Australia we have many big environmental problems. [More…]
number among them the environmental aspect of our life. [More…]
It is true that most of what is happening in the environmental sense is to be found in these estimates under the heading ‘Administrative’ which accounts for more than half of the total of over $40m to be appropriated. [More…]
Considering that the Conservation Foundation and various branches of that body are likely at any stage to be quite significant critics of any government which cannot be seen to be doing enough in the environmental sense, I think this is a significant contribution and it is a significant indication of the Government’s intentions in the field. [More…]
One of the biggest problems that confronts this or any other government in doing something meaningful in the environmental area is to work with all the powers that be in the matter. [More…]
I suppose it is fair to say now that the much criticised, in some ways, impact statements are in fact a very considerable move in the direction of a national framework for environmental awareness and action. [More…]
I think people are aware that impact statements are designed to show what any given intended action may produce in the environmental sense, in particular what detrimental effects or what changes in the environment may be brought about by any direction of action. [More…]
What we have to do, what the Minister has to do and what his Department has to do is to get into some reasonable sense of balance the kind of things we need to be done in the future in the environmental sense. [More…]
I believe that this is where environmental action and policy are beginning in our Commonwealth Department. [More…]
The debate which we have only just concluded, relating to urban and regional development, dealt with land use which is one of the most basic facets of this whole environmental business. [More…]
But in Kiryu, Japan, this would not be allowed to happen because this matter is the subject of an environmental or impact study. [More…]
In the time allowed to me 1 wish to concentrate on the environmental aspects of the estimates that are now before the Committee. [More…]
In 1971 an Environmental Protection Authority was set up in Victoria and the pamphlet publicising the setting up of this authority is headed ‘Tomorrow and tomorrow and . [More…]
We must think of the environmental aspects of industry and other things in a total concept of national planning. [More…]
As President Nixon said in his 1972 Environmental Message to Congress: [More…]
The starting point of environmental quality is in the hearts and minds of the people. [More…]
I agree completely with this statement and have a strong belief that we must more strenuously assess our laws, our developmental projects, our manufacturing systems and methods, and our use of scarce resources to minimise adverse environmental impact. [More…]
In the past we have emphasised quantitative growth at the expense of qualitative growth; the failure to attempt to assess environmental effects when undertaking new developments; neglecting to account for the social costs of pollution; the increasing dependence on conveniences such as the car without due regard for the environmental effects. [More…]
Measures aimed at environmental protection are not necessarily divinely inspired and it could be that in some cases the cure is or could be worse than the complaint. [More…]
Firstly, in any consideration of environmental effects there are some very hard questions to answer. [More…]
The cost of the environmental clean-up and maintenance will have to be borne by each person whether as a consumer or a taxpayer and most probably as both, and the cost will not be cheap. [More…]
All this leads to my second warning, and this ls specifically directed at those who see the cause of our problems as being the growth economy and the onward march of science and technology and who advocate as a cure the restriction or abolition of our dependence on technology, the cutting bask of an economy based on growth and the introduction of extremely harsh environmental legislation. [More…]
Firstly, as I have said already, the economy and environmental action are irretrievably intertwined. [More…]
Not to do so is to invite the slowing down or stopping of environmental action as a result of the backlash I have referred to. [More…]
Punitive laws have to be enforced if they are to have any effect, and in an area as widespread as environmental control the sheer size of the law enforcing agency necessary is frightening. [More…]
If, however, both companies and individuals secured worthwhile rewards - and this would almost automatically have to be economic - for acceptable environmental actions, the chances of widespread co-operation would be greater. [More…]
The most important of these problems is the environmental crisis. [More…]
In the under-developed nations environmental stress becomes evident earlier and shows itself in the more traditional manner through starvation and disease. [More…]
A common symptom of environmental breakdown is the use of irrigation for food production, leading to increased salinity levels and the ultimate failure of crops. [More…]
The efforts of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation should be considerably expanded in the field of environmental conservation and the Organisation should immediately undertake the national survey of natural resources which was suggested by the National Academy of Science in 1968 and again in 1972. [More…]
It was suggested by that conference that much more research should be conducted into projects having environmental impact and that individual countries should consider adopting methods in favour of antipollutant goods and services and against certain goods and services which contribute to pollution and that these be of a fiscal nature and involve tax concessions. [More…]
The Vienna Conference concluded that environmental education at all levels is essential to the wellbeing of the planet in which we live and for man’s place in the planet. [More…]
It recommended that all governments support an education and information programme both in regard to policy and money and that every parliament establish a special committee which is competent to deal with environmental problems. [More…]
Even though the Government has emerged so belatedly, in this pre-election period, with concern about Aboriginal welfare, environmental matters and many other things, it will help to compound the efforts that have been made by the Australian Labor Party to make these real issues for the whole country. [More…]
It is staggering to think that the Commonwealth Government, which now has a Minister responsible for environmental affairs, has been a party to putting to the Parliament proposals that would have a deleterious effect on the environment. [More…]
The effect of that is to ensure that in respect of every developmental proposal a study will be made from an environmental standpoint. [More…]
Some members of the Committee were tempted to knock that proposal back also, because it cannot be accounted for in terms of environmental considerations. [More…]
Too strict controls on environmental and ecological matters will create vast problems for governments and private industry in Australia. [More…]
The various piecemeal activities of several government departments must be lumped together so that the environmental policy reflects the environment itself - a whole and integrated system. [More…]
The United States of America, for example, has a problem solving agency - the Council of Environmental Quality - and a policy making agency - the Environmental Protection Authority. [More…]
Many countries have tried to set up huge monolithic departments with the power to solve environmental problems, lt is a hopeless and futile path to take. [More…]
The Opposition really has no clear conception as to how environmental machinery should be established in Australia. [More…]
Both stressed the need for balance in environmental considerations and said that we must balance the needs of the environment against the needs of the economy and try to see that the two march hand in hand together. [More…]
Very early in its term of office the Western Australian Government established an environmental protection authority, and the Government has consistently acted on the basis of its recommendations even where, as in the postponement of the Pacminex refinery project, they were in conflict with other basic Government aims. [More…]
-But in environmental matters, as in all areas where costs are heavy, we will not get anywhere without Commonwealth involvement and commitment. [More…]
In all areas of development the Government is giving special attention to the environmental factors in the Territory. [More…]
A major environmental fact-finding study of the Alligator River area is now under way. [More…]
Government’s aim is to achieve a balance between all the relevant factors, and it is paying careful attention to social and environmental aspects. [More…]
Was any impact study made from an environmental standpoint? [More…]
Having regard to the prominence of Black Mountain and the importance of preserving its natural state as far as is possible, the Government has given very careful consideration to the environmental question and has fully considered all of the representations which have been made on this matter. [More…]
I express my concern firstly because I do not think I can see attached to the report of the Public Works Committee an environmental impact statement. [More…]
On 24th May of this year he made a statement that where Commonwealth moneys were involved environmental impact statements would be made. [More…]
Under questioning from me about whether or not the environmental impact statements would be made public the Minister stated quite coldly that they would not be. [More…]
Following this matter up the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), in a question to the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) which appears on page 1972 of Hansard of 27th September, asked about the environmental impact statements. [More…]
I am aware that a Public Works Committee inquiry was held into the environmental aspect but I would like to know, with due respect to my colleagues on my side of the House who are members of the Committee and also to supporters of the Government who are members, what qualified environmentalist was on the Committee to give advice on the scientific evidence and to make his findings available. [More…]
If we are to have environmental impact statements we want to see trained scientists in the field of ecology and the environment deal with these matters. [More…]
It is time that he got on his feet and told us what he thought about environmental impact statements. [More…]
No environmental impact statements was made in this place even though we made available the bridging finance. [More…]
It will take a while to get it moving but we hope that in regard to environmental aspects we will make available all the arguments, we will make public any documents which are available and we will make our decisions known. [More…]
The Committee heard detailed evidence from the environmentalists. [More…]
They weighed up the environmental problems and they weighed up the recommendations of the National Capital Development Commission. [More…]
We are also told that the proposal has been sensibly approached from the standpoint of all the environmental factors that are highlighted in discussions these days in that the power station is being put behind a number of hills south-west of the town and some distance away from the town in a position where the wind will blow the fumes away. [More…]
So the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) at least will be gratified to know that this project has a clean bill of health and there do not seem to be any environmental problems about the Tennant Creek power station. [More…]
There is no environmental problem about the Tennant Creek school either. [More…]
So given that there were no greater environmental difficulties, or difficulties of distance or of administration, other things being equal, even for their own hospital scheme Queensland could have gained a favourable adjustment. [More…]
Will the Minister now institute feasibility studies of the application of the H-coal process, utilising the vast brown coal resources in the Latrobe Valley of Victoria, in the production of oil from coal on the grounds of national security, environmental protection and decentralisation? [More…]
I believe that following the election results we will have a. representative for Macarthur who will be continuously assiduous in his representations for the needs of decent developmental and environmental standards for the people of Canberra, for the people of Campbelltown and, indeed, for the people of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
Otherwise we would see in the brief of the authority or as components of the Government’s regional development planning essential policies in respect of population, development and conservation of our natural resources, industrial growth, tariffs, rationalisation of transport in Australia and the use of environmental impact assessments as a tool of national planning and government decision making. [More…]
They will be able to ensure the widest use of the natural resources present and would be accountable for the presentation of environmental impact statements on the departments. [More…]
All that the authorities will be able to do is to design the locations on the ground and ensure that, by design, these cities are livable ones of the highest environmental quality. [More…]
We will ensure that all the necessary components of government planning, such as transportation, land use, housing, industry, tariff and population planning and environmental impact assessment, are joined in the national effort to achieve our goals. [More…]
If the proposed takeover is judged to be not against the national interest on this basis, the following additional criteria will also be taken into account: Whether, after the takeover, the firm 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, including employee protection; and whether the takeover would have adverse effects on the Government’s defence objectives, environmental protection or regional development. [More…]
WESTERN AUSTRALIA - The Honourable R. Davies, M.L.A., Minister for Environmental Protection. [More…]
This Sub-committee would be required to establish priorities for a 5 year environmental research programme. [More…]
In so doing the programme should identify and attempt to rationalise environmental research activities being undertaken in various localities and instrumentalities and not seek to duplicate work already being . [More…]
It decided that data on environmental conditions should be made public promptly together with any necessary explanatory notes. [More…]
The Standing Committee was asked to recommend on guidelines for the preparation of environmental impact statements which might be adopted by the States and Commonwealth.’ [More…]
I refer to recent public concern over the possible environmental effects of Concorde aircraft flights were they to be made over the Australian continent. [More…]
He seemed to include in it about 4 kinds of national interest, some of which seem to be major, some of which seem to be comparatively minor and many of which seem to be merely afterthoughts to pay deference to such things as regional development, defence strategy and environmental protection. [More…]
It must be considered whether the takeovers would have adverse effects on Australia’s defence, environmental protection and regional development. [More…]
has not acted in a comprehensive way to ensure that Australian territorial waters are protected from all environmental threats from oil, whether they be from shipping or land based activities and including all ocean dumping and [More…]
The second part of the amendment refers to the Government’s failure to act in a comprehensive way to ensure that Australian territorial waters are protected from all environmental threats from oil, whether they be from shipping or land based activities, including all ocean dumping. [More…]
I come to paragraph (b) of the amendment, which states that the Government - I suppose it means the Commonwealth Government - ‘has not acted in a comprehensive way to ensure that Australian territorial waters are protected from all environmental threats from oil, whether they be from shipping or land based activities and including all ocean dumping’. [More…]
In relation to other aspects of the inquiry, the Committee has made a great number of recommendations which it believes will, in combination, have a profound beneficial effect on wildlife conservation and hopefully on other aspects of environmental protection as well. [More…]
During its inquiry the Committee became: aware of the very great concern of a large number of individuals about a wide range of environmental and conservation matters, many of them outside the scope of this Committee. [More…]
Therefore I think a great deal of emphasis should be placed on the Committee’s recommendation that a standing committee of the House of Representatives should be established in the new Parliament to inquire into matters of environmental and conservation concern referred to it by the House. [More…]
The Committee also recommended that the land usage patterns in the vicinity of the airport should be controlled so that environmental problems associated with the airport development and use do not arise. [More…]
In recommending that construction proceed, the Committee also recommended that land usage patterns in the vicinity of the airport be controlled so that environmental problems associated with the airport development and use do not arise. [More…]
But the people who live in those suburbs and who will live there have every right of call on their environmental surroundings. [More…]
One environmental conscious member of the Committee cross-examined one of the witnesses in regard to recreational facilities for the 1,100 people who will work in this building. [More…]
The honourable member mentioned the environmental concept. [More…]
The Post Office is prepared to consider environmental problems, but we have planned this building in accordance with the broad policies which have been laid down. [More…]
We hope this is all in the past and that the Government has at last awakened to environmental problems and the problems of development. [More…]
and (2) At the request of the Prime Minister all Commonwealth Departments concerned, in co-operation with State and City of Brisbane interests, are completing the engineering and environmental studies as a matter of urgency. [More…]
The study will be most comprehensive and take into account not only a comparison of the costs of all works involved in these proposals but also a comparison of the benefits and costs in all significant aspects including environmental factors and aircraft noise. [More…]
It will seek an Agreement which will also provide for high standards of amenities and an improvement in the environmental character of housing estates. [More…]
He gave a new impetus to conservation and environmental preservation. [More…]
In the Kosciusko National Park some may regard water conservation as the main environmental objective. [More…]
We can define 3 areas of responsibility relating to the problem of environmental conservation. [More…]
me in this debate I should, like to discuss something which relates particularly tq , my own portfolio, namely, the .environmental impact statement technique which we have proposed. [More…]
I concede quite frankly that the previous Government had adopted the concept of environmental impact statements designed to protect the environment; but its proposals had not in fact reached the implementation stage. [More…]
In my electorate of La Trobe there lie 2 gems in the Victorian environmental crown - the Upper Yarra Valley and the Dandenong Ranges. [More…]
These national parks will become more important as increased leisure unlocks the opportunities to enjoy our environmental heritage. [More…]
But 1 feel the Government will need to demand environmental impact statements for all major commercial and private projects as well as Government projects if the total objective is to be realised. [More…]
Our success will lie in removing the increasing internal and industrial disturbances and in halting the over-development of urbanism and its associated environmental ills. [More…]
But, if personal consumption is not to be reduced - and this the Government has said it will not do - the only way we can afford increased expenditure on education, social services, health, care of the aged, housing and urban renewal, improved transport and environmental control is through increased productivity. [More…]
With the increased public interest in environmental considerations, it is pertinent to note that timber sleepers are produced from a naturally replenished source of organic material. [More…]
In this respect, I wish to quote from the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment which inquired into the environmental conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait islanders and the preservation of their sacred sites. [More…]
fs this not an excellent site by reason of its remote situation and the fact that it is a sandstone scrub area which, from an environmental point of view, is first class? [More…]
An environmental impact statement prepared by the South Australian Government is also provided for the information of honourable members. [More…]
They will be able to ensure the widest use of the natural resources present and would be accountable for the presentation of environmental impact statements on the departments. [More…]
All that the authorities will be able to do is to design the locations on the ground and ensure that by design, these cities are livable ones of the highest environmental quality. [More…]
That is what the concept of environmental impact statements is about. [More…]
This work has now virtually been completed and from what I have learnt of it I am confident that this study will present an excellent appraisal of all the significant issues involved in the siting of a new airport, including environmental aspects. [More…]
It is essential, therefore, that the benefit-cost study has sufficient freedom to produce ultimately a selection of the best site having regard, on the one hand, to the community’s need for efficient air transport services, and on the other, to its desire to avoid unnecessary economic or environmental penalties. [More…]
Obviously, neither the Commonwealth-State committee nor the consultants are going to recommend the continuation for another 12 months of a benefit-cost study in respect of any site which has obvious overwhelming economic, environmental or social disadvantages. [More…]
It may well be that careful benefit-cost and environmental studies will show that some or ali of these sites are not the most suitable for Sydney’s second airport but it is clear that the decisions of the Liberal governments were uninformed and were vain attempts to preserve its electoral chances rather than responsible decisions of governments dedicated to decision making in the interests of the community as a whole. [More…]
I understand that an environmental study was being undertaken, that it was completed this week, and that the Commonwealth Government was awaiting the result of that study. [More…]
If money is used excessively and unjustifiably in one area, we deprive other areas of need - education, other areas of health, welfare services, community services, environmental factors and so forth. [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…]
Select committees of both Houses, concentrating on environmental issues, have performed a valuable service to both the Parliament and the people of Australia in recent years. [More…]
The use of a Standing Committee rather than a series of select committees should facilitate the timely consideration of environmental issues as they arise, thereby strengthening Parliament’s role in this area. [More…]
established in the new Parliament with powers to inquire into matters of environmental and conservation concern referred to it by the House. [More…]
In moving for the establishment of this Committee I am conscious of the great many environmental problems that must be both faced and solved if the future citizens of this country are to enjoy the kind of life that so many of us take for granted. [More…]
He was a young lawyer in his thirties who was setting up this department with about 16,000 officers to police the enforcement of all environmental laws throughout America. [More…]
The attempt by the honourable member to make political capital out of an environmental issue, which is of concern to many Australians and which the previous Government, of which he was a member, chose to ignore, will be recognised by conservationists throughout Australia. [More…]
My attention has been drawn to a speech by Mr Uren as the then Opposition spokesman on environmental matters in the Hobart Town Hall on 7th November in which he said inter alia: ‘I would like a combined FederalState review to take place, including the Tasmanian Government, the Hydro-electric Commission, conservation groups, and all sorts of experts from the Federal level. [More…]
Some of it is due to psychological and other environmental factors which require services other than money. [More…]
My Department was represented at an environmental impact inquiry which has been concluded under New South Wales legislation. [More…]
Because of the many unknown factors in off-shore mineral technology and different environmental aspects it is not possible to specify precise permit conditions in this Bill. [More…]
It had become abundantly clear in this, the most urbanised society in the world, with the growing congestion of traffic and people in our major capital cities and with all the associated social and environmental problems of pollution - air, water and noise - with its depressing effect on the human mentality and, I think, with its influence on the increasing crime rate amongst our young people, that the States needed the co-operation and the involvement of the Australian Government to change this trend of growth. [More…]
Quite frankly any different behaviour on the part of someone who speaks so feelingly about environmental and conservation matters, as does the Minister, would be difficult to countenance. [More…]
I am pleased that Opposition members are now showing some concern about environmental matters. [More…]
In the feasibility study which was carried out by an eminent engineering firm based in Adelaide the environmental aspect was dealt with in depth. [More…]
When one is dealing with the environment one considers all aspects so I urge honourable members opposite not to get too uptight about environmental problems associated with the development of Albury-Wodonga. [More…]
That member will be experienced in environmental matters. [More…]
I presume that what he meant was that environmental factors were environmental factors and must be tackled in every way as a whole in that connection and not be regarded as separate matters. [More…]
will realise that they have environmental factors different from those in any of the other areas that he might have in mind. [More…]
Not only should environmentalists who live in Double Bay but also people who have some understanding of what is going on in, say, the outer western suburbs of Sydney and of the needs in that area should be on this Advisory Committee. [More…]
In opposition to the proposition that was implied by the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) I would argue that on this Commission there should be a significant number of people who do not have as one of their background qualifications membership of the National Trust of Australia or some conservation society or environmental group. [More…]
If that was done, if nothing else, at least we would have a balance of opinion between those people on the Advisory Committee or the Commission who belong to the National Trust and environmental groups, who have very definite points of view, and people with different points of view and different priorities. [More…]
We all are well aware of the environmental and social problems that have to be tackled. [More…]
This event - an event which is becoming common these days in our cities - is symbolic of the decline in the environmental quality of the major cities of Australia. [More…]
We have a narrowminded State authority with a brief to build roads only and not to consider any aspects of the environmental or social impact of the development of roads. [More…]
Apparently the Council was influenced by fear of losing Department of Main Roads funds to some other city or municipality in New South Wales, thus it acted in haste after recommending the previous week to let the matter stand over for 4 months pending conferences between the New South Wales Environmental and Local Government Departments and various conservation groups, the New South Wales Department of Main Roads, the Newcastle City Council and residents likely to be affected. [More…]
The Australian Government must give the lead here to get good planning from bureaucracies, such as the Department of Main Roads, by the provision of adequate environmental impact statements; to ensure that the State Government of New South Wales does likewise; and by giving more money to the States under section 96 of the Constitution rather than by general loan funds to ensure that environmentally and socially equitable and sensible transport systems are developed in our cities. [More…]
I know that in recent weeks organisations interested in protecting the environment have contacted the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) regarding the need for a proper environmental impact study to be made of the proposed motorway through Blackbutt Reserve. [More…]
In recognising the need to decentralise, I believe we all agree that we need to take into consideration the available recreational, vocational and environmental amenities in close proximity. [More…]
These proposed international monitoring programs will be further discussed by the United Nations Governing Council on Environmental Programs and the question of Australia’s participation in them is under investigation by the relevant agencies. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Fine Rivers Shire, the Caboolture Shire and Redcliffe City are rapidly developing residential areas, will he refer the proposed site to the appropriate Department for an environmental and planning report. [More…]
The Committee also recommended that guidelines for preparation of environmental impact statements be laid down as soon as possible and that the planning arrangements of the Post Office be examined with the aim of effecting changes in policy or overcoming shortcomings in procedures and resources to avoid late referrals of proposals in the future. [More…]
An interdepartmental committee is examining the policy directives necessary to lay down guidelines for the preparation of environmental impact statements and has set up 3 working parties to assist in its determinations. [More…]
The interdepartmental committee has a target of recommending to the Government guidelines for preparation and presentation of the environmental impact statements in time for amendments of legislation as necessary to be processed during the Budget session of this Parliament. [More…]
The honourable gentleman will recall that the Minister for Minerals and Energy issued a statement on Tuesday in which he blamed the reason for any delay in the delivery of Gidgealpa gas to Sydney entirely on the New South Wales environmental impact inquiry. [More…]
Does this not mean that the Minister was not correct when he claimed that only the environmental inquiry was delaying this project? [More…]
I have in mind the number of farms to be serviced and the natural environmental and agricultural conditions. [More…]
An environmental study also was made, I understand. [More…]
I ask: Where development, technical and environmental considerations can thus be harmonised and are further supported by the economics of the matter, and still the environmental viewpoint is overruled, does not the Treasurer agree that the professed concern of his party and his Government for the environment, which it is said was an important factor in their winning the last election, is humbug and a sham? [More…]
environmental aspects of legislative and administrative measures which ought to be taken in order lo ensure the wise and effective management of the Australian environment and of Australia’s natural resources; and [More…]
The terms of reference relate to the environmental aspects of legislative and administrative measures. [More…]
I hope that the House in passing the recommendation for such a committee will accept that it will not be a committee that deals only with wildlife measures, whether they relate to flora or fauna, it is to deal with the wider environmental aspects as they affect man. [More…]
The immediate objective of the Bill, in setting up a Pipeline Authority is to enable it to acquire the 5 ordinary shares of the East Australia PipelineCorporation Ltd, which are wholly owned by Australian Gas Light Co. Full feasibility studies have already been completed by overseas consultants on behalf of East Australian Pipeline Corporation Ltd. A survey was made of a chosen route and environmental impact studies provided to the New South Wales Government in respect of 3 distinct routes linking Gidgealpa and Sydney. [More…]
All of these companies are carrying on with borrowed funds and have been seriously embarrassed by the 5 months delay during the New South Wales environmental impact inquiry and consideration of the Commissioner’s report and findings, which have not yet been published. [More…]
The Minister has been quibbling and has tried to put the blame on to the environmental inquiry. [More…]
So it is quite obvious that the Minister cannot blame the environmental inquiry. [More…]
Completion of construction has been already delayed for four months, pending completion of an Environmental Impact Inquiry constituted by the Government of Nev/ South Wales, and consideration by that Government of its recommendations. [More…]
Mr James Donald, who will be the Executive Member of the Pipeline Authority, is in a position to call tenders within three weeks of publication of the recommendations of the Environmental Impact Inquiry, and can award the necessary contract within fifteen weeks thereafter, and commence construction in 27 weeks. [More…]
The completion of the construction will be either 85 or 110 weeks, dependent on the final route recommended by the Environmental Impact Inquiry. [More…]
They can lead to resources being channelled into uneconomic activity and, in the process, may have questionable environmental consequences. [More…]
Language and communication difficulties are legion, to say nothing of the long neglect of ethnic, cultural and environmental considerations which constitute a challenge to educators and sociologists alike. [More…]
One of the virtues of utilising the Camp Hill site, which as all honourable members know but the public at large may not know is the site immediately behind this Parliament House - the King O’Malley site and I think, the area where the King O’Malley memorial is located - as against the Capital Hill site is that Capital Hill will be left with all its environmental virtues, its softness and its greenness which Canberra deserves. [More…]
In the face of the raging controversy about the utilisation of Black Mountain for telecommunications purposes, it could be regarded as some placation for the environmentalists, the conservationists and the people who are concerned with ecology. [More…]
The manifestation of the regional problem lies in the economic costs, the environmental problems and the social problems which are the result of this population concentration. [More…]
The first prong should be the commencement on an annual basis of selected regional growth centres to accommodate up to 300,000 people each throughout Australia away from the existing cities; secondly, there should be metropolitan redevelopment to help overcome problems of population and environmental pressures in the major cities; thirdly, the provision of general incentives and subsidies to assist country areas to overcome their existing economic disadvantages to industry, commerce and investment and also the social disadvantages for the people; and the fourth prong is that State governments should be given every encouragement to continue with their selective support in country towns generally to maintain a healthy and viable growth rate in those towns. [More…]
If this is the case there will be greatly increased pressure on the Dandenong Ranges, the Mornington Peninsula, Westernport Bay and other areas of environmental, recreational or ecological interest. [More…]
In any case, the project, along with many other projects which were handed on to us when we came into office, was reviewed by the Coombs task force which also recommended that on economic grounds and because of growing environmental concern we should not continue to support the project. [More…]
The Treasurer told the Parliament that the Government would support a wide range of activities in the fields of environmental protection and conservation. [More…]
Environmental protection is an endeavour which has been conspicuous for its neglect by the Government. [More…]
Not only does the Budget make an inadequate allowance for environmental improvement but the Minister whose area of responsibility is directly involved has yet to make any statement to this House outlining his activities during the past 9 months. [More…]
Australian environmentalists in all the groups in which they are active will be rightly disappointed with the meagre provisions this Budget makes for the vital concerns of environmental improvement and conservation and its promises and pledges in the area of the environment. [More…]
It was explained to the Committee that the operation of the Parkway systems involved in this proposal does not depend on the proposed Molonglo Parkway, which has been the subject of an environmental impact study shortly to be subjected to public inquiry. [More…]
I am satisfied that as a result of this reference to the Tariff Board there will be an overall assessment of the whole of this very important Australian industry and that there will be some aspects which have never previously been considered by governments and upon which they have not taken advice, such as the location, safety, employment and environmental aspects which hitherto have been ignored. [More…]
For ‘those reasons and on environmental grounds - not for political purposes - I believe we would have come to the same conclusion even had there been technical reasons purely from a civil aviation point of view to support the establishment of an airport at Towra Point. [More…]
It is perfectly clear that those considerations still obtained when the Minister for Transport either announced or arranged for an announcement to be made in the Press that regardless of environmental considerations he was going to put the new airport at Towra Point, a decision which was changed - although at the time it took no notice at all of environmental considerations - to Galston without any environmental examination whatsoever. [More…]
It is a personal explanation in that I have been accused of making a decision previously on political grounds and I am explaining that there were grounds - environmental grounds - and that they were important grounds. [More…]
This British firm of R. Travers Morgan and Partners worked with an environmental study group established, so far as I understand, by that committee. [More…]
As a result of this investigation the Galston site was rejected decisively in the recommendations of the Commonwealth-State committee on environmental grounds and also on economic grounds, especially as compared with the upgrading of Mascot airport. [More…]
As I understand it, the study by the British consultants was supplemented by investigations by an environmental study group established by the committee. [More…]
Such a group would have taken into account the environmental aspects which are particularly important in the case of the Galston area. [More…]
The Minister controls his department and will table what he said he would table, that is, the report on the environmental impact study. [More…]
The second point I want to make arising out of the speech by the Postmaster-General is that I agree with him as to the great environmental damage and damage to the quality of life that would have been caused if an airport had been established at Towra. [More…]
The next announcement a day or two later was that this was not so, that an airport was going to be established at Galston although .no proper environmental examination whatsoever had been made. [More…]
Has a proper environmental study been made? [More…]
Was it one that we would consider as perhaps we might consider an environmental study by a joint committee comprising members drawn from both sides of this House which was established to look into the damage to the environment done by this proposal? [More…]
We, as a Government, appointed a committee comprising members from both sides of this House to examine the environmental damage that had been done at Mascot. [More…]
I have raised the general question of environmental education with my colleagues the Minister for Education, the Minister for the Media and the Minister for Science and have been assured of their interest and support. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Science, has suggested that Australian Government Departments might examine in detail the question of environmental education when the initial program of the curriculum development centre has been proposed. [More…]
My Department recently advertised for staff to conduct a feasibility study for an information retrieval system which would be directed towards making environmental information available to interested groups and individuals. [More…]
This Government has shown by so many anti-decentralisation actions in the Budget that it is not genuinely concerned about the future viability and prosperity of rural Australia or for that matter about the many environmental and social evils of disadvantaged metropolitan living. [More…]
The Brisbane airport studies have advanced to the point where preliminary cost estimates are available for government consideration together with a quite comprehensive environmental impact statement. [More…]
Whatever its environmental implications, does not the Minister agree that the altering of section 75 and section 76 of the Income Tax Assessment Act is a form of discrimination against Pitt Street farmers? [More…]
It said that there is a general cultural failure to relate the emotional and physical aspects of sex and to see them in the context of moral and social responsibility, that all the evidence emphasises that environmental factors, especially in the home, are far more important in regard to the ultimate outcome for the child than whether the pregnancy was planned or unplanned. [More…]
Any environmental impact statement which is prepared is available to those who choose to read it. [More…]
As far as I am aware, copies of the environmental impact statement on, for instance, the tower on Black Mountain have been available to members of the Parliament, as they have been available to members of the public. [More…]
I might add that nowhere in the world are people yet completely satisfied with the environmental impact statement technique. [More…]
Developing this technique will not be up to this Government alone; it will depend largely on the community’s perception of environmental needs. [More…]
When the community is aware of this, environmental impact statements will rectify more readily what many of us perceive to be errors in decision making in the country, not limited solely to the Government. [More…]
Perhaps the first chapter of this rather sorry episode concerning the environmental considerations was the fact that the Minister was not even at the Cabinet meeting. [More…]
An environmental impact study had to be concluded. [More…]
However, I did point out that since the Foundation had been established, Departments with responsibility for environmental protection had been formed by Australian and State governments. [More…]
All relevant information, including about 18 booklets on the environmental impact of the various sites, will be placed not in this place because of the cost of printing those booklets but in the Library. [More…]
Environmental Study Begins’. [More…]
That was the beginning or the environmental study, which a reading of last night’s Hansard shows that the honourable members for Lilley (Mr Doyle) and Bowman (Mr Keogh) say was never commenced. [More…]
The Brisbane Airport studies have advanced to the point where preliminary cost estimates are available for Government consideration together with a quite comprehensive environmental impact statement. [More…]
The present Government has endeavoured to justify its stalling of the advancement of the Brisbane airport by stating that the environmental studies are not complete. [More…]
I have written to the Minister for the Environment and Conservation suggesting that a term of reference for the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, of which the honourable member for Scullin is the Chairman, include the environmental impact of mining operations on Christmas Island. [More…]
Does he agree that the submission contained irrefutable proof that the area offers all necessary opportunities and is the appropriate environmental site for such an industry? [More…]
We have vast quantities of coal, but the extraction and use of coal have presented such persistent environmental problems that, today, less than 20 per cent of our energy needs are met by coal and the health of the coal industry is seriously threatened. [More…]
In many ways, the story of the improvement of air pollution control in Newcastle symbolises many of our real environmental problems. [More…]
The manifestation of environmental problems might grab the headlines whereas the slow work to rectify them seldom gains attention. [More…]
However, a further exemption was granted and, by letter of 24 July 1973, the then acting Minister for Environmental Control in New South Wales, Mr Lewis, advised that he had been informed by the Minister for Health, Mr Jago, that the company had informed the Health Commission that it would not install air pollution control equipment on the obsolete plant and that, if required to do so, it would close the ferro alloy plant. [More…]
That is the message of most of our environmental problems. [More…]
The attitude of the Bureau of Roads did differ slightly from that adopted by the Minister for Transport and me, but I have been informed verbally by officers of the Bureau of Roads that the full report will clarify their attitude and will clearly disclose that on environmental and social grounds they see no reason why freeways in inner city areas should be proceeded with. [More…]
I hope that the New South Wales Government will change its view, because we believe that the money being spent on freeways in inner city areas is a misallocation of resources and we hope that the New South Wales Government will not continue to pour money into building huge freeways which will solve no problems but will create greater social and environmental problems in the future. [More…]
It might also help Japan to avoid further difficulties with her trade balance as well as ease her critical environmental problems. [More…]
Not only will the Government provide more money for low income earners’ housing on better conditions but it will also make a contribution through this legislation for improved environmental conditions in housing estates. [More…]
One is the prevention of accidents by designing vehicles so that they are better controlled, by designing environmental factors such as more divided highways into our roads, by better signposting and by having much better road marking. [More…]
The Commission is also conducting an environmental impact study. [More…]
How many environmental impact studies have been initiated by him or his Department on projects proposed or initiated by (a) the previous Government and (b) the present Government. [More…]
What are the projects in respect of which environmental impact studies have been or are being made. [More…]
Will he inform the public of environmental impact studies as they are initiated from time to time. [More…]
If not, how can environmental groups do other than busy themselves in fighting rearguard actions if the public is unaware of proposals likely to prejudice the environment. [More…]
It is the responsibility of the Department or organisation putting forward a proposal to initiate the related environmental impact statement .Nevertheless, my Department has indicated in response to inquiries in numerous cases, that impact statements should be prepared. [More…]
Environmental impact statements have been prepared on the proposed Googong Dam, on the proposed Molonglo Parkway, on the proposed telecommunications tower on Black Mountain, on the proposed water pipeline between Lock and Kimba in South Australia and on the proposed Marri woodchip project in Western Australia. [More…]
The environmental impact statement technique covers a much wider field, but land use is often a fundamental part of the decision. [More…]
Through the use of the Environmental Impact Statement procedure, environmental considerations including land use are receiving greater attention in decision making than they did previously. [More…]
Working Party on the Environmental Implications of the Woodchip Industry and the Softwood Forestry Program. [More…]
Environmental studies undertaken by the Queensland Government, based on similar irrigation development upstream along the Dawson River, indicate that the Baralaba project will result in a significant improvement in recreational, ecological, economic and general living conditions. [More…]
The Government, unable to report to the Parliament on the processes of environmental impact studies, sees the Commission as better exercising this function of government. [More…]
If this Commission is to make more than an economic judgment, it must have a special section to look at the environmental factors. [More…]
Morrison), the Australian Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren), the Australian Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), and the New South Wales Minister for Environmental Control. [More…]
Finally, the question of environmental pollution affects the electorates of honourable members in different ways. [More…]
I represent a suburban area of Melbourne and probably the most important sources of environmental pollution there are either industrial pollution or pollution resulting from automobile emissions. [More…]
Only in this way will the most important source of urban environmental pollution in any case be satisfactorily tackled. [More…]
There are many other environmental matters on which I would like to speak. [More…]
Environmental conservation is therefore concerned both with the quantity and quality of many different resources. [More…]
Conservation of land for agriculture, for forestry or for leisure alone may not be in the best interests of environmental conservation as a whole which aims to harmonise all resources with the minimum of conflict. [More…]
In our travels we were the guests in Great Britain of a pollution and environmental experimental station some miles Out. [More…]
While I have no desire to drink water that has passed through a treatment plant, an engineer in charge of one of the pollution and environmental stations was quite happy to drink the water that had passed through the London sewers and had been treated in the London system. [More…]
The honourable member for McKellar (Mr Wentworth) said that pollution and environmental control has mainly been in the hands of the States. [More…]
The Australian Government has offered to the United Nations Governing Council on Environmental Programs to provide within Australia a baseline monitoring station to measure the baseline levels of air pollution in the world’s atmosphere. [More…]
He spoke of his concern about the environmental effect - particularly with reference to water - on the development of a new reservoir in the State of Victoria. [More…]
When analysed in the calmer atmosphere that should prevail in a department such as that headed by the Minister, we should, if we find there are risks of an environmental nature which cause us to question politically made decisions, be strong enough to be outspoken and to have those decisions changed. [More…]
Where are the resources whereby governments - State, Australian or local - can be funded to enable them to buy other areas of environmental significance? [More…]
Then we find that the resources of the nation are spent in saving something which, if the public had been alerted previously, could have been saved at a fraction of the cost and the balance of the money used for saving that environmental resource could have been spent in preserving other significant assets. [More…]
It has been of concern to me that in answer to questions the Minister has indicated that little has been achieved in the way of consequences of environmental impact studies. [More…]
How many environmental impact studies have been initiated by him or his Department on projects proposed or initiated by (a) the previous Government and (b) the present Government. [More…]
He pointed out that it was the responsibility of the department or organisations putting forward the proposal to initiate the related environmental impact statement. [More…]
He said that these statements will now be required for all departmental projects within Australia which have significant environmental consequences where Australian Government funds are involved or where federal constitutional power is involved. [More…]
I want to reaffirm that at all times I have pressed and will continue to press for the fullest mining of all uranium in the Northern Territory, with due regard to environmental restoration, and other interests, such as Aboriginal rights. [More…]
Included in the Committee’s recommendations are: That a comprehensive management plan for the Ayers Rock-Mount Olga National Park be implemented as soon as possible; that the Park be zoned for management purposes; that the existing village and airstrip be resited outside the present National Park boundaries; that roads be sited in the interests of minimising environmental damage, rather than maximising tourist convenience; that meaningful opportunity be provided for Aboriginal involvement at all levels; that visitor numbers be restricted to the carrying capacity of the Park; that all existing concession holders at Ayers Rock be compensated and given priority in allocation of land at a new village site; that interpretation of cultural, historical and scientific features take- place; that the Park be adequately and professionally staffed and financed; that measures for restoration of areas which have been environmentally damaged be adopted; that the Park boundaries be extended on the basis of ecological requirements; that the Park be declared as a ‘national heritage area’. [More…]
They want to commence immediately on a program of community education designed to see that not only mental illness itself but also the physical and environmental conditions and the strains and tensions from which mental illness arises are identified at the earliest possible stage and that appropriate action is taken to remedy those conditions. [More…]
The Bill gives scant regard to the needs of the environmental and industrial conditions in which producers, distributors, exporters, importers, proprietors and investors can effectively carry on trade and commerce on a viable and profitable basis. [More…]
Has the Land Research Division of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization been split into three divisions dealing with environmental matters. [More…]
Resources Laboratories, and that a Committee of the Chiefs of these three Divisions would be formed, under a Chairman, to co-ordinate their programmes and optimise CSIRO’s contribution in this area of environmental study. [More…]
The Division of Land Resources Management is concerned with the development of management techniques for achieving optimum productivity consistent with the conservation of land resources, and with the study of the environmental implications of changes in land use. [More…]
In addition, an assurance will be given that the maximum amount of motor spirit will be extracted and that the necessary environmental precautions will be taken. [More…]
If it is a sound project within evaluation terms, obviously taking into account the environmental factors, I will have no hesitation in putting it up in the normal way for support. [More…]
I refer to things such as child care centres, assistance for aged persons and environmental protection. [More…]
The environmental study reported favourably on the proposed scheme. [More…]
We would need to look at the necessary pipeline requirements, at the regional development aspects and at the environmental implications. [More…]
That re-orientation has the objective of meeting more effectively the increasing demand for information by those concerned with environmental matters and land use planning. [More…]
I congratulate the Minister for making it a condition for grants that the environmental impact of the project must be considered in formulating proposals for assistance and, if the impact is likely to be significant, demanding that an environmental impact statement be prepared. [More…]
All too often the important environmental consequences are overlooked. [More…]
Already at the University of Sydney the students themselves are calling for the introduction in their courses of the teaching of environmental laws, or as [More…]
The article deals with environmental resources law and it brings together bits and pieces. [More…]
First, there is no doubt that environmental law, both statutory and common law, will come to be of increasing importance to legal practitioners. [More…]
Environmental legislation will percolate through to all levels. [More…]
There has been a course in environmental resources law established at the Australian National University. [More…]
In addition it is understood that before a final decision is made as to which particular airport site is preferred the State Planning Advisory Council will require an Environmental Impact Statement on each of the alternatives. [More…]
(3 and 4) In the event of consideration being given the actual establishment of a second airline airport to serve Melbourne, as an Australian Government project, then public hearings primarily dealing with the environmental impact would be arranged in accordance with the recently announced policy of this Government. [More…]
Failure to research the project from either an environmental or commercial viewpoint and lax administration have resulted in the haphazard growth of poorly equipped farms run by untrained farmers. [More…]
I understand that an environmental impact study has been carried out, though it appears that the company has not released the report. [More…]
The only sense of realism in this matter has been injected by the Secretary of the Building Workers Industrial Union who pointed out that unionists are likely to withdraw their labour because they take the view that an industry which is potentially dangerous to the health of people, or could have a deleterious effect on the environment should not be established until an environmental impact statement has been prepared and published so that the community can see it and comment on it. [More…]
Because of the potentially hazardous nature of the proposed plant, the environmental impact study ought to be freely published and the community should be able to comment upon it. [More…]
I base my statement on the incontrovertible fact that our future social welfare, health, environmental and cultural development depend on the extent to which our effective growth and development are expanded to meet the demands of an impatient society, a society entitled to expect to benefit from and to share in the good things of life. [More…]
From this it was concluded that the motor car was creating social, environmental and economic problems and greater emphasis should therefore be given to the development of public transport. [More…]
As is known in New South Wales the sewage discharged off Sydney beaches in many cases is untreated and, in fact, is creating grave environmental problems. [More…]
It needs to be more emphatically recognised - I really want to drive this home if I can - that children are born into a wide range of environmental circumstances. [More…]
Another fact of life is the environmental aspect. [More…]
The argument develops when we come to environmental reasons which include such factors as ease of study, whether the child’s parents talk intelligently, and whether they keep up with contemporary matters and news. [More…]
All these things are included in the environmental area. [More…]
I think it is safe to assume that what the Government is saying to us at this stage is that the trend, in its opinion, is such that those people who are disadvantaged on environmental grounds should receive some inequality of treatment in order to bring them up to another standard. [More…]
At this point of time one would think that the Government would be saying quite plainly that it sees the time coming when the environmental grounds in which all children are brought up are so level in this country that all children will be able to have pride, no matter where they were born, in being able to get up and say: ‘I won a government scholarship’. [More…]
From what I can learn, it appears that environmental consequences were not taken into consideration. [More…]
Following my visit to Christmas Island I asked for a review not only of wages and conditions but also of environmental matters related to mining and the protection of wildlife. [More…]
Has he or his Department studied reports of experiments by a lecturer in environmental health at the Papua New Guinea University? [More…]
The Minister has just said that we live in an environmental age. [More…]
The second prong is a metropolitan redevelopment program to help overcome problems of population and environmental pressures in the major cities. [More…]
Firstly, the Australian Government has taken every precaution to safeguard the environmental standards of all growth centres. [More…]
As a result, they have taken account of the limiting factors, such as environmental conditions, facing Australian farmers. [More…]
We aim to make our judgments taking into account the full circumstances of each new project or proposal, including such factors as the size and location of the proposed project, the use made of advanced technology, marketing arrangements, environmental aspects, labour relations and Aboriginal interests. [More…]
In view of the many complexities which the reports have revealed, a final decision on the commitments of the capital funds required will be deferred pending the preparation of an adequate environmental impact statement, study of the constraints identified by Mr Smart in his report, and pilot research into the space and feed requirements of large turtles. [More…]
Such an agreement will both overcome the backlog in sewerage services and provide improved treatment facilities at modern environmental standards. [More…]
I believe that before any development takes place in any virgin area of land it should be essential that an environmental impact study be carried out. [More…]
Much of the sort of further reforms that the Liberal and Country Parties will suggest will be involved in the area of environmental and preventive services. [More…]
The magnitude of the task facing this Board is better understood when note is taken also of the treatment works that need to be built to meet acceptable environmental standards. [More…]
The positive environmental and health benefits that will result from the moneys provided in this legislation flow only from the initiative of this Government. [More…]
Adequate sewerage facilities and the efficient treatment works for the discharge of effluent of acceptable standards are basic essentials of any environmental management program. [More…]
A quality of environmental management at this level is being increasingly demanded in our modern society - and rightly so. [More…]
But where we consider that freeways create environmental problems we certainly will not contribute to their construction. [More…]
I bring to honourable members’ attention that there is a 2-volume report to the joint committee on the first stage of the environmental study group’s examination of environmental factors at sites under investigation by the Committee, entitled ‘Report on the Environmental Impact Study Stage 1 Alternative Airport Sites for Sydney’. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present a report entitled ‘Environmental Protection: The First Year’. [More…]
What is the (a) membership, (b) time-table and (c) charter of each of the following interdepartmental committees : (i) Arrangements for provisions of advice on ionising radiation, (ii) Assistance to Industries, (iii) Australian Government Office Space, (iv) Australian Investment Overseas, (v) Australian Participation in NASA Post-Apollo Program, (vi) Australian Trade with Developing Countries, (vii) Brussels Definition of Value for Duty and GATT Anti-Dumping Code, (viii) Consideration of First Report of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission, (ix) Environmental Impact Studies, (x) Freedom of Information Legislation, (xi) GATT Trade Negotiations, (xii) Human Rights, (xiii) Metric Conversion Co-ordination, (xiv) Motor Vehicle Industry, (xv) National Archives Legislation (xvi) National Housing Policy, (xvii) Revaluation Adjustment Assistance for Rural Industries, (xviii) Shipbuilding Industry, (xix) Social Indicators - (Social Welfare), (xx) Soil Conservation, (xxi) Structural Adjustment - (Tariff), (xxii) The Production of Educational Publications, (xxiii) Unified Aid Administration, (xxiv) Urban and Regional Development, (xxv) Urban Transport and (xxvi) Purari River Project. [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/hofreps/1973/19731213_reps_28_hor87/#subdebate-72-31)
Has any regard been given to the environmental aspects of the decision to use concrete sleepers. [More…]
Will environmental studies additional to those already undertaken by the Western Australian Government be undertaken? [More…]
There will also be a report from the Minister for the Environment and Conservation and the Minister for Urban and Regional Development on the environmental and regional aspects of the proposals. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition specifically asked me whether an environmental study wil be undertaken by the Australian Government in addition to that already undertaken by the Western Australian Government. [More…]
In fact I wrote some weeks ago to all Premiers suggesting that thereshould be joint environmental studies in all those projects, government and private, in which the Federal Government has some responsibility. [More…]
Has there been a complete environmental impact study on the effects of the suggested airstrip? [More…]
If not, will he intercede immediately to halt construction and prevent the potential environmental disaster many believe will occur if the airstrip is constructed, until such time as an environmental impact study has been completed and published? [More…]
However, a study of the environmental consequences was undertaken. [More…]
Notwithstanding all these difficulties the environmental impact statement suggested that despite the anxieties there would not be major disruption of the extremely fragile environment as the honourable member suggested. [More…]
On the one hand they have passed increasing responsibility to local government, such as for child care centres, assistance for aged persons and environmental protection. [More…]
Local governments are so poor that in many cases they cannot even afford to police their litter laws let alone to expand and police the environmental laws to -protect the environment which becomes a more important responsibility of local government each day. [More…]
South Wales State Planning Authority, as it was then known - this is now under the Environmental and Planning Department - is working on 5 studies. [More…]
Anyone who has had experience of unsewered suburbs, poor health services, poor planning procedures, inadequate local transport, neglected environmental standards, and the shortage of playing fields, community centres and opportunities for culture and recreation can understand why, because for too long local government has been a vassal of the States. [More…]
Can he inform this House what action this Government is taking to preserve this unique species of bird life and whether an environmental impact statement will be prepared by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works which intends to lay a pipeline through this area in Yellingbo? [More…]
The great social goals of Aboriginal advancement and environmental protection have been fractured by the self-admitted failure of government policies. [More…]
He cited some examples including Black Mountain tower, Lake Pedder and the fact that there is no legislation requiring environmental impact studies to be carried out. [More…]
He said: *we must assume we are all middle class trendy intellectual environmentalists. [More…]
It is intended by this scheme that tribunals should be established every time a major redevelopment proposal is mooted so that the developer, the affected residents, and maybe people interested in historical and environmental matters can come together and have their point of view put before an appropriate tribunal which in tura could make recommendations to the acquisition authority. [More…]
The Government concedes the point that the River Murray Commission should extend its duties beyond the one it has now, which is mainly to look after the River Murray as a drain, if you like, and should consider also the total environmental consequencies in terms of the area of input into the river and the quality of the water resulting from the land use along the water’s edge. [More…]
Another example is the grants by the Department of the Environment and Conservation to local community groups to allow these groups to become their own environmental advocate. [More…]
The Government’s decision was also made on environmental grounds, as well as the foreign takeovers aspects. [More…]
My colleagues the Minister for Urban and Regional Development and the Minister for the Environment and Conservation have placed in the library for honourable members the report on regional development which T. S. Martin and Associates were engaged, as consultants, to prepare a year ago, and the report on the environmental aspects which the Department of the Environment and Conservation prepared this month on those aspects of the project. [More…]
Chip and Pulp Co., became the first company required to submit to the Australian Government an environmental impact statement together with its application for an export permit for woodchips. [More…]
The licence was granted to the company on the understanding that should any new environmental issues arise out of the work of the Australian Government’s inter-departmental working party on the economic and environmental implications of the woodchip industry, which it would be reasonable to require the company to take into account, then the Western Australian Government will include such requirements in its arrangements with the company. [More…]
Following a question asked of my colleague the Minister for the Environment and Conservation on 5 March I wish to make available for the information of honourable members the Environmental Assessment - Proposed Aerodrome on Lord Howe Island. [More…]
We heard, in very short order, how this proposal would lead to a black hole, an oven in summer, an environmental disaster and a claustrophobic squash court - just to mention some of the more restrained criticisms made at that time. [More…]
A very comprehensive document entitled ‘Environmental Impact Statement - Administration Centre, Perth, Western Australia’ is a summary of a considerable number of studies. [More…]
It is not enough to erect acres of houses in social and environmental wastelands. [More…]
It is the intention of the Australian Government to do all it can to ensure that Australian investment in overseas countries will benefit the people in those countries and will be favourable to ownership and control of enterprises by people in the countries in which it is made and will have advanced labour relations and environmental policies. [More…]
However, this does not mean that the social and environmental problems of mass travel will solve themselves. [More…]
This accelerating groundswell of opinion which signals the folly of environmental despoliation, combined with the change that has led to leisure and recreation no longer being the preserve of the few, has led to the recognition that the factor of socio-economic interdependence must be central to the development of a balanced and sensitive national tourism plan. [More…]
This, in turn, means people pollution, environmental despoliation, economic adversity and the soiling, if not the destruction, of the fabric of life in important parts of Australia. [More…]
Environmental studies of the Gulf of Carpentaria have been completed and a numerical model developed of the tides and tidal currents of the Gulf. [More…]
Social and environmental factors will also be given full consideration in selecting projects the Australian Government will support. [More…]
The honourable member for Maribyrnong, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), who has done more than any man I know to subvert one decent environmental organisation in Australia thinks that this is amusing, but he will not be in this Parliament after the business either. [More…]
Have Ministers of the Australian Transport Advisory Council discussed the possibility of environmental hazards because of lead additives in petrol. [More…]
In September 1973, a grant of $83,000 was made to the Radio Telemetry Laboratory of the Department of Environmental Physics of the University of Sydney, to undertake the development of reliable hybrid microelectronic circuits at microwave frequencies. [More…]
Who is conducting the environmental factfinding study in the region, and what progress has been made on this study. [More…]
Government policy can ensure that the firms in the industry adopt policies which conform with broad economic and social objectives of the Government at a lower cost by legislation in areas such as taxation, environmental and safety standards, and restrictive trade practices. [More…]
A comprehensive environmental impact statement was prepared to consider the main environmental effects of the Googong Water Supply Project. [More…]
However, the environmental impact statement identifies a number of areas which will require careful attention during the development of the project. [More…]
The other main objectives are to improve environmental conditions and social conditions of residents of the estate and surrounding area and to preserve the townscape and sympathetically rehabilitate it. [More…]
The principal cause for concern relates to the environmental impact statement referred to in the second reading speech of the Minister. [More…]
Where is this environmental impact statement? [More…]
In his second reading speech in the environmental context the Minister states: . [More…]
I submit it is an absolute disgrace that Parliament does not have this environmental impact statement before it. [More…]
The absence of an environmental impact statement with this legislation has exposed the Government as a humbug. [More…]
But here is this great champion of the conservation cause presenting legislation with admittedly widespread environmental consequences knowing that in fact an environmental impact statement is in existence. [More…]
I, like the honourable member for Corangamite (Mr Street), raise the point that it is regrettable that the environmental impact study has not been tabled and has not been made public. [More…]
I hope that in the future any proposal for a project of this type will be accompanied by an environmental impact study for the benefit of those who are concerned about environmental matters. [More…]
Of course, a very big environmental factor is attached to the construction of the Googong Dam. [More…]
The Captains Flat pollution problem will then intensify the environmental problems of the Canberra lake. [More…]
I do not want to delay the House, but I am sure that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) will quietly agree with me that with every works project of this type there should be tabled an environmental impact study, whether it recommends that the project go on or whether it recommends that it should not. [More…]
Mention has been made of the environmental impact report. [More…]
It says that this document has been prepared in response to a policy decision of the Australian Government in February 1973 that all major projects should be accompanied by an environmental impact statement. [More…]
When honourable members opposite read this report they will find profound potentials about ecological and environmental factors, including the subterranean matters and lots of other things that were mentioned. [More…]
I am sorry that the Opposition spokesman on environmental matters has not even struck anybody who has been able to get hold of one of them. [More…]
I also want to comment on the matter of the environmental impact statement. [More…]
In February 1973 Cabinet made a decision on these environmental impact statements. [More…]
I give the Opposition an undertaking that in respect of any project which comes under my administration an environmental impact statement will be tabled in this Parliament. [More…]
The report also analysed individual freeways on the basis of certain principles formulated by the Bureau for satisfactory freeway development and it took into account economic, social and environmental matters. [More…]
We intend to ensure that detailed investigations are made into the environmental, social and economic aspects of freeway proposals. [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…]
The first objective is to avoid the sudden displacing of the exisitng population and to avoid any disruption to existing community networks; second, to retain the opportunity for low income earners and families and aged people to live close to the city as part of the wider community; third, to improve environmental conditions and social conditions of residents of the estate and surrounding area; fourth, to preserve the townscape and sympathetically rehabilitate it. [More…]
No mention is made of any environmental impact study in the second reading speech. [More…]
As I mentioned yesterday when the House was debating the proposed Googong Dam project, it can be confidently expected of this Government that adequate documentation always will be available, that proper surveys always will be carried out and that it will always make available to the Parliament the environmental impact studies made in respect of such projects. [More…]
It is vital, if we are not to lose some of our accessible natural assets in Port Phillip Bay and its beaches, that sewerage and environmental conservation programs continue to receive substantial financial assistance from the Australian Government. [More…]
Anti-monopoly and mergers, tariffs and other industrial assistance measures, foreign investment guidelines, regional and environmental questions all enter into general resource allocation problems. [More…]
With all the modern community’s wish to overcome the pollution and environmental hazards in life, it amazes me that there has not been a greater outcry in large cities about traffic noise. [More…]
The root cause of this questioning is the neglect of social and environmental needs and failure to provide for the participation of the community in vital decisions. [More…]
These include the training of young workers, environmental cancer, skin cancer in Australia, viruses and cancer, appli-cation of present knowledge to cancer man agement, professional education, social problems of cancer and health screening. [More…]
Thirdly, the Petroleum and Minerals Authority will operate in partnership with technologically qualified private enterprise, both foreign and Australian, to ensure that not only the best technological and environmental methods are used, but also to maintain both Australian ownership and public interest and responsibility at the highest level. [More…]
It is a fact that enough consideration is being given to the social and environmental aspects of freeway development. [More…]
Apart from the serious need to look at the social and environmental effects of freeway development, there is an important need to ensure that finances provided for urban arterial roads and urban public transport upgrading are closely co-ordinated. [More…]
Both the Minister for Transport and I when in Opposition continually pointed out the social, economic and environmental aspects of the destruction of many areas through the upgrading of arterial roads and the building of freeways. [More…]
When we came into power we sought from the Commonwealth Bureau of Roads information as to whether there had been any study of the environmental, social and economic aspects of freeways. [More…]
We have to take into account the social, economic and environmental aspects of freeways. [More…]
Are there any other examples of the Armco Company acting in contravention of desirable environmental practice. [More…]
No other information is available to my Department on the overseas activities of Armco to indicate whether the company has followed desirable or undesirable environmental practices. [More…]
Large industrial organisations which process and fabricate asbestos normally provide biological and environmental monitoring programs. [More…]
A start has also been made on possible environmental consequences of various development options and on the potential for industrial development in the Burdekin Basin. [More…]
How is the $25,000 allocated from the Australian Environment Fund to raise public awareness, survey environmental attitudes and improve public awareness techniques, being spent. [More…]
to enable the Public Awareness Sub-committee to develop a project which will lead to a survey of environmental attitudes and the effectiveness of current public awareness techniques; and [More…]
With regard to (a) the Sub-committee has proposed a pilot environmental attitudes survey be funded. [More…]
and (2) W. D. Scott and Co. Pty Ltd. to investigate sources of environmental information. [More…]
Management Consultants Pty Ltd. to assist in the assessment of an environmental impact statement prepared by a uranium mining consortium. [More…]
The Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation, at the request of the Department of Northern Development, reviewed the design and cost estimates of the engineering works and an interdisciplinary panel of senior State officers examined the likely environmental impact of stage 2. [More…]
No adverse environmental consequences were foreshadowed. [More…]
Water consumption in the tropics is inevitably higher than in most southern cities because of harsher environmental conditions and the requirement of large quantities of water for the maintenance of municipal amenities, such as parks and gardens, recreation areas and street improvements. [More…]
This was the first real drive of an Australian government to work together with the States and local authorities to overtake the backlog of sewerage, to protect the environment and to give every person living in an urban community the right to sewerage and better environmental conditions. [More…]
I suppose they will say that he interested himself in environmental matters in relation to strikes against green belt projects and other building problems in the State of New South Wales. [More…]
I do not know whom the Minister may have in mind to appoint to this important position which could have a lot to do with the environmental factors of the River Murray and which could protect South Australia in the areas that I have already mentioned. [More…]
He does not really understand the interconnection in environmental matters. [More…]
I appointed him on a basis of goodwill, thinking he would make some constructive contribution to the environmental issue, but he resigned without notification [More…]
For the first time money for the necessary environmental works has been provided to the Western Australian authorities by a national government. [More…]
I should like to see as part of every sewerage program which involves Commonwealth Government money an environmental impact statement. [More…]
As well as the Government’s requiring environmental impact statements as a condition of funding sewerage programs, I should like to see innovative investigations carried out by the Department of Urban and Regional Development or the sewerage authorities on other aspects. [More…]
In fact, the low quality of planning and organisation can be identified as one of the reasons for the Government’s failure in the various environmental issues. [More…]
As well as presenting a health threat to swimmers, some of the constituents of sewage are blamed for environmental problems such as the killing of vegetation on our sand dunes and our beaches. [More…]
Consequently in relation to environmental matters in connection with Port Phillip Bay the Premier of Victoria sought a further $3.95m. [More…]
From an environmental viewpoint we not only want to sewer all urban areas but also to make sure that there is environmental protection of all areas, such as Port Phillip Bay. [More…]
The Australian Government has a national responsibility as part of its interconnected policy It believes that everything is connected to everything else in urban living and it is taking upon itself a responsibility to work with State and local authorities in providing sewerage works and in ensuring proper environmental standards for our nation. [More…]
Those terms will assist the sewerage authorities to improve their environmental levels and lower their debt burden, and will assist the States, local sewerage authorities and local government authorities to get on with the job of sewering all our urban communities. [More…]
We are concerned with the quality of the water and the environmental approach in the same way as we are concerned with purification, which will cost us enormous amounts of money because of neglect in the past. [More…]
There will be a further amount for investigations into the planning, manpower, environmental and training implications of further developments of the national sewerage program. [More…]
In addition, firms of management consultants with a similar wide field of interest and expertise were engaged by the Pilbara Study Group, a joint Federal/State body, to provide specialised technical information on various aspects of developmental projects such as port development studies, environmental studies, infrastructure studies, town planning studies, etc. [More…]
I refer to reports in which it is stated that the Australian Government is to hold a public inquiry into the environmental effects of the establishment of the Redcliffs petro-chemical project in the Spencer Gulf area of South Australia. [More…]
It will commence soon after the report being prepared by the consortium on the environmental consequences of the proposal is made available to the South Australian Government and this Government. [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 major aspect which has been dealt with in this report is the environmental side of the problem and covers such things as road design; construction and maintenance; the roadside environment; traffic engineering, including signs, signals and markings; town planning and the transport system, including alternatives to the private vehicle. [More…]
The environmental cost of community disruption of these new expressways was considered by the Committee to be vastly in excess of their value of saving lives compared with new alternatives that were put before the Committee. [More…]
The policies and principles need to cover, among other things, an analysis of future energy supplies and alternatives under a variety of assumptions; an evaluation of their costs and environmental effects; and analysis of the manpower, financial, material, transportation and other constraints. [More…]
Unless there is a diversion of public sector spending to the cities and regions we cannot combat the host of urban and environmental problems which have been created by years of indifference, opportunism and uncoordinated planning by previous governments and in some cases many of the State governments. [More…]
Australia only joined the 1UCN in 1973 but since then we have adopted the broad principles and aims of the IUCN which are in line with the Australian Government’s environmental and conservation policies. [More…]
I believe it can be brought about by a government preparing public environmental impact statements. [More…]
In developing an environmental impact statement the policy, the plans, the development and the intentions could be explained to the public and criticisms invited. [More…]
An environmental impact statement on road making would include a study of the advantages and disadvantages of freeways. [More…]
I start first with the subject of environmental policy. [More…]
If anything bugs a realistic and practical man it is the flights of fancy into which go extremists among environmentalists. [More…]
The following suggestions for an environmental policy may appeal to them. [More…]
However, to continue with some of my suggestions regarding environmental policy. [More…]
There are environmental problems which I believe should have been tackled earlier. [More…]
I do not know where the fault lies but it is disappointing that the environmental inquiry is taking place only now when there has been so much delay already in this industry getting under way, an industry, I repeat, which is vital for my State of South Australia. [More…]
We have had problems with Aboriginal land rights and there are now environmental considerations that have been taken into account over quite a period. [More…]
It would take approximately 2 years for a satisfactory environmental impact statement to be prepared and at least 8 years to build a plant. [More…]
It will be noted that on page 49 of the paper, under section 6, ‘Urban and Regional Development NEC and the Environment’, the section headed ‘Protection of the Environment’ deals with Department of Urban and Regional Development initiatives and we find that $250,000 is listed within that category for a national air monitoring program and $100,000 is listed for an education program to develop a public environmental awareness. [More…]
1) 1974-75 of $475,000 to such bodies as the River Murray Commission for water resources research, the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, the United Nations convention and forum for the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage, the Australian Environmental Council and so on. [More…]
Really, this Parliament should be able to discuss the role that officers of the Department are playing in the United Nations environmental program, where Australia stands with regard to the Earthwatch program and what Australia is doing about the exposition on human habitat; yet, because of the very nature of the way in which things have been presented, this Committee does not have the opportunity to examine those programs. [More…]
It has become trendy amongst governments throughout the world to talk about environmental impact statements. [More…]
The other day the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), the honourable member for Gwydir and I heard a gentleman who is very skilled in the field express his concern about the use of the word ‘impact’ in the term ‘environmental impact statements’ because it has some connotation of force, confrontation, the adversary principle in examination and so on. [More…]
If such are found to be environmentally unsound or harmful to health such information might be attached to the product in much the same way as the smoking warning. [More…]
A product’s environmental effect (in itself or through the process required to produce it) might be included in consumer guides. [More…]
I was particularly pleased to hear the most helpful comments on overseas trends made by the honourable member for Scullin and his reference to the attitude overseas to environmental studies and statements. [More…]
It sees itself as an ‘environmental advocate’ to the Government, which remains as the decision-maker. [More…]
Finally, I direct the Minister’s attention to the urgent need to develop a school for teaching environmental law because I believe that lawyers should be trained to intervene more in these matters and it would be - [More…]
Nowhere is this more clear than in the field of environmental policy. [More…]
Despite all the warnings and the forebodings there still seems to exist among people who are the supporters of the free enterprise system the belief that the government has no real role in determining environmental policy. [More…]
If the survey by the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation, the preliminary design assessment and the environmental impact study can be completed by February next year it should be possible to make a decision and start the final detailed design in March. [More…]
In fact, in certain areas, they are vast concrete jungles, as it were, which we might term environmental prisons. [More…]
Men must learn to live with each other and to overcome the environmental problems. [More…]
No unfavourable environmental consequences are expected from the Clare Weir development and the project could bring considerable improvements in social infrastructural facilities in existing smaller centres. [More…]
the Australian Government to be responsible mainly for longer-term research aimed at improving resource utilisation throughout north-western Australia, bearing in mind environmental and social considerations. [More…]
This has to be done by the use of economic, social and environmental criteria applied at the national level rather than the State or regional level. [More…]
It was also found that the other source of escape of emissions was by liquid waste and there was ample evidence to show that this liquid waste would be treated in a manner that was far more than satisfactory to the various environmental authorities throughout Australia. [More…]
I have studied very carefully the papers associated with this matter, including the report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, and I think I am able to say in answer to the honourable member for Diamond Valley that any cause for anxiety which he may have had in respect of environmental matters and things of that sort, including danger from radiation, can be removed from his mind and the minds of the people in that region. [More…]
I know that the views of progress associations, the local council, the Centre for Environmental Studies and the Institute of Technology have been taken properly into account. [More…]
The single unit of local government has not the resources to employ the engineers, the managers, the environmentalists and the planners. [More…]
Local government must realise that we live in an environmental age and that it will have to adjust to meet new challenges and demands. [More…]
also of the overall economic, environmental and social planning. [More…]
We did not consider the total environmental consequences of the proposed power station. [More…]
I repeat that I have at no time considered the total environmental consequences. [More…]
This Bill seeks to improve consideration of environmental factors in the Government’s decision making through use of the environmental impact statement technique and public inquiries. [More…]
The Government’s proposals reflect its belief that, in the past, insufficient attention has been given to environmental considerations when decisions were being taken. [More…]
It is the most important piece of environmental legislation ever to be considered by the Parliament. [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…]
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…]
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…]
Although we will be limiting the requirement in terms of the environmental importance of a proposal, we will not be limiting its scope in terms of the type of proposal that could be the subject of a statement. [More…]
A considerable part of the Bill deals with public inquiries into matters of environmental concern. [More…]
These arrangments provided the public with the minimum opportunity to influence a decision on environmental grounds. [More…]
The statement will be required to set out the need for the proposal, the objective of the proposal, the alternative means of reaching that objective and the environmental effects of these different alternatives. [More…]
In addition, where the environmental consequences of a proposal are considered to be particularly significant, or where there is considerable public controversy over these consequences, a public inquiry will be held. [More…]
The assessment of the environmental consequences will be conveyed to Cabinet at the same time as the proposal itself is put to Cabinet for consideration. [More…]
Thus we will ensure Cabinet considers the economic, technological and environmental consequences of proposals at the same time, before any decision is taken. [More…]
The procedure will not give to environmental considerations a veto power in decision making. [More…]
Environmental considerations will become an integral part of the information upon which a decision is taken. [More…]
We should also question- I hope the study questions itwhether or not a bus service is environmentally sound. [More…]
So I compliment the Minister on his study and I ask him to consider the environmental facets of the study as well as the pure economics of the situation. [More…]
I say that it is a mixture of good and bad because in the total evaluation beyond economics we must consider the environmental questions. [More…]
In saying that it could create demand I mean that a double track is more likely to increase the desire for urbanisation of this area, and increased urbanisation could be in conflict with the environmental planning of the Dandenong Ranges. [More…]
One must plan with an overall, total, integrated view so that one produces an economically and environmentally sound plan. [More…]
If I could look into my crystal ball beyond this 5-year program to when the Victorian Government has possibly provided the necessary data, I think I could expect that this duplication would take place, but further upgrading beyond that would be environmentally undesirable. [More…]
The report states: ‘Australia faces critical water pollution and should act now, ‘ said an American expert, Professor W. W. Eckenfelder who is professor of environmental and water resources engineering at the University of Nashville, Tennessee. [More…]
The Queensland Government has entered into the national sewerage program to catch up on the backlog of sewerage in our urban areas, to improve environmental standards and to construct new headworks in our cities. [More…]
I have said on many occasions that activities in the field of urban and regional development are interconnected.. Like environmental aspects, everything is connected to everything else. [More…]
The functions are to collect and collate data on environmental investigations to identify gaps in research and to assess their environmental importance. [More…]
The functions are to control and undertake research and studies into environmental problems and investigate and advise on the Bureau’s capacity to handle proposed areas of research. [More…]
Clerk Class 10, Third Division and Clerk Class 8, Third Division (2 positions)- Located in the Data Collection Section of the Environmental Forecasting Branch. [More…]
Clerk Class 10, Third Division, and Clerk Class 8, Third Division (2 positions)- Located in the Indices Development Section of the Environmental Forecasting Branch. [More…]
by leave- This report from the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation entitled ‘Environmental Impact of Freeways’. [More…]
social and environmental impact of freeways on urban areas. [More…]
The Committee’s major aim was to examine the proposed route of State Highway 23 to see if it would cause any significant damage to the social, recreational, and environmental amenities of Blackbutt Reserve. [More…]
As a result, one of the Committee’s major recommendations is the implementation of environmental impact statement procedures in cases such as this. [More…]
Environmental aspects of Service life including pay, benefits, working conditions, housing, effects of military life upon family relationships, leave, superannuation, etc. [More…]
The courses that the Opposition proposes should be instituted at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College are those connected with a city-country type of environment- those connected with surveying and valuing of land, those connected with the environmental sciences whereby people look at the influence of man on the environment and at the way in which the landscape is affected by the development taking place with the construction of houses. [More…]
The environmental sciences could utilise a large part of the facilities already there, taking in such things as soil science and town and country planning, supplemented by things like environmental psychology. [More…]
The point of contact will he the Minister for Minerals and Energy who will refer to other Australian Government Ministers matters coming within their areas of responsibility- e.g., the Treasurer on foreign ownership and on financing aspects, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation on environmental aspects, and the Minister for Urban and Regional Development on urban and regional aspects. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘Whilst not declining to give the Bill a second reading, this House is of the opinion that the Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory should not have been bypassed and that statutory authorities and voluntary environmental and conservation groups in the Territory should be directly and continuously involved in the preparation and review of the plans of management and the administration of parks, reserves and wilderness zones within the Northern Territory’. [More…]
It is my view and the Government’s view that a development corporation should be set up with the State Government to develop this region because it is a very sensitive environmental area. [More…]
These include the Conservation and Agriculture Branch, the Forestry Branch and the Parks and Gardens Branch of the Department of the Capital Territory, all of which have acquired valuable staff and experience in environmental matters in the A.C.T. [More…]
Care should be taken to ensure that existing structures which have been built up over many years and which effectively exercise control over environmental areas of the city and its immediate surrounds are not unduly disturbed by any new environmental organisation. [More…]
These are the domestic areas of environmental control in the A.C.T., including the management of areas like Black Mountain, Mount Ainslie, Red Hill, Mount Majura and Lake Burley Griffin. [More…]
That ail words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘Whilst not declining to give the Bill a second reading, this House is of the opinion that the Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory should not have been bypassed and that statutory authorities and voluntary environmental and conservation groups in the Territory should be directly and continuously involved in the preparation and review of the plans of management and the administration of park, reserves and wilderness zones within the Northern Territory’. [More…]
where operations or future operations for the recovery of minerals or excavations or other works are contemplated provide an environmental impact assessment related to these operations prepared by those proposing to engage in the recovery of minerals, excavations or other works. [More…]
The Minister could quite rightly claim that he has introduced environmental protection legislation which gives the Minister power to call for environmental impact assessments. [More…]
This makes other Commonwealth departments responsible for the submission of environmental impact assessments in areas where there is Australian Government involvement. [More…]
While I have no doubt that the Minister for the Environment and Conservation who is sitting at the table would, in fact, as a matter of course demand that an environmental impact assessment be provided with regard to any operations that may be contemplated within a reserve or a national park another may not. [More…]
It is the thinking of many well informed environmentalists around the world that it is probably better to allow mining to take place where there is mineralisation and where it may be considered to be in the national interest provided the mining is undertaken according to very strict guidelines and under the codes of the plans of management. [More…]
However, before any consideration is given to the possibility of mining I think it should be mandatory that those who are going to take part in the mining exercise, whether it be done by the proposed Petroleum and Minerals Authority, by private enterprise or in association with an authority of the Australian Government, should undertake an environmental impact assessment to ascertain the likely effect upon the environment within that park and the area adjacent thereto. [More…]
I do not know what the position would be but whatever is contemplated in this area I believe that there should be an environmental impact assessment that relates to these operations. [More…]
If anything should be done in a national park which is of such environmental significance as this, an environmental impact study should be conducted. [More…]
So in essence it becomes a sort of environmental impact study procedure. [More…]
The purpose of this separate legislation, which with a bit of luck we may debate later today or tomorrow, is to ensure that anything that is considered of environmental significance, and quite clearly mining in a national park in anyone’s estimate would be environmentally significant, in which the Australian Government has a say and for which it is responsible- and unfortunately we can only hope that the States will follow this lead because we cannot impose anything upon them- will be subject quite apart from the plan of management which will have gone through the whole vetting process which has been discussed, to our Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Bill, which will insist that an EIS or environmental impact study be drawn up. [More…]
In that statement it was announced that the Government had decided to introduce a system of environmental impact statements designed to protect the environment. [More…]
Quite frankly, from memory, that was the first time that 1 heard the term environmental impact statement used. [More…]
Apart from being notable for the introduction of this legislation the month of November 1974 must be remembered and be regarded as an appropriate time to contemplate the present and future status of environmental impact statements in this country. [More…]
The nation’s first few environmental impact statements have been released so that we can decide, with a reasonable amount of confidence, whether they are worth the time and expense which is involved in their preparation and, more importantly, whether they will be an adequate vehicle for bringing environmental considerations into the processes of government decision making. [More…]
The Bill we are debating gives the Minister power to ensure that any project of any organisation or agency or, indeed, the Commonwealth Government or any project involving Commonwealth funds within the States which is likely to have a significant effect on the environment should be accompanied by an environmental impact statement. [More…]
It will take a lot of courage from the Minister to try to exercise the sort of influence which will be necessary to satisfy the public on the one hand and environmental action groups on the other. [More…]
If loan works were to be made the subject of environmental impact studies the consequent delays would mean without doubt that it would be impossible for approved allocations to be expended in the same year. [More…]
This would mean that preplanning, environmental impact studies and design work would have to be carried out at least a year in advance. [More…]
I have read that message into Hansard because I think that the Government needs to take into consideration whether the environmental impact proposals will cover the applications from the States for funds from the Australian Loan Council. [More…]
Re Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Bill 1974. [More…]
whether the Commonwealth has either the constitutional right or the heed to be concerned about the environmental effects of projects financed from borrowings by the States or its instrumentalities as the result of an agreement on total borrowings at the Loan Council meeting. [More…]
There is no doubt that the Commonwealth has the constitutional right to insist on environmental satisfaction with respect to works- [More…]
The whole tone of this legislation is one of apparent desire for dominance by the Commonwealth Government in an area where the majority of the problems are those which must be faced by States and local governments and for which the States have at least as good if not better expertise for the consideration of environmental problems involved. [More…]
The legislation seems to be saying that the States have not looked after environmental matters and they must be subject to some oversight on the grounds that some of the matters which may arise will have national as opposed to local, regional or State significance. [More…]
It is precisely to overcome such an attitude that the standing committee of the Australian Environment Council established a working party to put forward the principles which should be observed in the assessment of the environmental effects of projects and these principles were agreed to by the Council at its last meeting late in 1973. [More…]
Commonwealth Government to accept advice that any project has been subject to an environmental assessment of its effects in accordance with this agreed set of principles and of the outcome. [More…]
There appears to be no disagreement between the States and the Commonwealth that projects of various kinds need to be assessed so that the decision makers are aware of the environmental effects when making decisions. [More…]
There seems to be no disagreement with regard to the procedures and principles for making an assessment of environmental effects of any particular project. [More…]
There seems to be no disagreement that the Commonwealth Government is justified in seeking environmental satisfaction with regard to all projects for which it has some constitutional right to seek that satisfaction. [More…]
Perhaps the Victorian and the New South Wales Governments have moved as far as, if not further than, most governments in the whole of the Commonwealth to try to ensure that the procedures that are adopted with respect to environmental assessments are in fact sound, and more than just window dressing. [More…]
As I have said, the purpose of the Bill was stated by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation in his second reading speech to be the introduction of the environmental impact study technique into the Government’s decisionmaking processes. [More…]
Furthermore, as the Mnister stated, there has been basic agreement by State Ministers sitting on the Australian Environmental Council on what statements should cover. [More…]
For example, it would appear that the Minister has given a great deal of power in calling for or refusing an environmental impact statement. [More…]
Others see them as advocates to Cabinet or as environmental policemen. [More…]
Once having done that, I am sure that we will be able to develop a degree of respect and confidence amongst the community at large for the importance of taking environmental factors into account before taking decisions on a whole range of projects. [More…]
The Bill is the most important environmental legislation to come before the Parliament. [More…]
In a speech to the Academy of Science on 29 November the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), when he was discussing environmental impact techniques, said: [More…]
It will be subject to enhancement as a result of experience and the assessment of the significance of findings on proposals subject to environmental impact statements. [More…]
There is very little Australian literature on the technique of environmental impacts. [More…]
As yet all the States do not have manuals on environmental impact statements. [More…]
Now a new department has been set up and it is combining environmental control with planning. [More…]
In South Australia recommendations of the Environment Protection Council on environmental impact statements have been approved by the South Australian Government. [More…]
In Western Australia there is still no official policy and one can say that the need per se for an environmental impact statement is not yet fully recognised. [More…]
Quite obviously we are all in the same boat as far as environmental impact statements are concerned. [More…]
Clauses 6 to 10 concern environmental impact statement techniques. [More…]
The aim is to protect the environment by 2 means- the environmental impact statement technique and the hearings. [More…]
I emphasise that the aim, desire and hope of the Government is that when major development proposals are being considered it will be just as logical for business, for a government authority or a government department to make an environmental assessment as it is to make a feasibility study. [More…]
In fact I see cost benefit economic analyses or economic studies being just as much a tool for environmental impact statements as I do for economic feasibility. [More…]
Perhaps when we do an environmental impact study on this form of energy production we should look at coal production, the side effects of uranium, the problems with fuel oil and all the rest of it. [More…]
Again there is a need to look at these things in cost terms to get a proper environmental impact statement. [More…]
To conclude in general terms, I have had some doubts about environmental impact statements. [More…]
It also appears to me that environmental impact statement techniques tend to ignore people. [More…]
An environmental impact study was conducted. [More…]
Few people could disagree with the statements of the Minister in his second reading speech when he refers to the virtues of legislation of this type, as distinct from this Bill, and its clauses, and one could be very much inclined to accept the view that to speak about the environment and environmental consequences when we are looking at important developments, is almost the same as speaking 10 years ago about the virtues of the family and family life. [More…]
The word ‘environmental’ has a corresponding meaning. [More…]
I think that the concept of environmental impact statements ought to be widened in the public mind to accept a social responsibility. [More…]
I think that this definition will be more important in the future when the concept of environmental impact statements is seen to be wider, particularly when government proposals are being looked at. [More…]
He stated that these arrangements provided the public with minimum opportunity to influence the decision on an environmental ground. [More…]
Will the Minister inform the public of environmental impact studies as they are initiated from time to time? [More…]
I could find nothing dealing with environmental impact statements or dealing with the important national parks and wildlife legislation before the House. [More…]
Certainly the Galston decision would clearly indicate that a government, where government interests are concerned, could arrive at a decision without regard to environmental factors and it could do so in exercising this sort of discretion. [More…]
We have seen numbers of young lawyers, particularly at Sydney University, express concern at the lack of teaching at the moment of environmental law within universities. [More…]
There is an important principle here that the community ought to have locus standi to be able to undertake themselves where environmental factors are involved and are influencing the decision makers and they ought to be able to do it particularly by bringing pressure to bear through legal action. [More…]
Again in this legislation, which is the second Bill dealing with the environment and conservation which has been before this House today, there are matters relating to civil liberties which appear to be in conflict with the environmental protection and impact proposals that we have before us. [More…]
The honourable member referred to the duplication and triplication of the preparation of environmental impact statements. [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…]
I see no danger of and am not concerned at the possible duplication of environmental impact statements. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to ensure that full consideration is given to the environmental factors involved in the Government’s decision-making through the use of the environmental impact statement technique and public inquiries. [More…]
The provisions for the publishing of environmental impact statements and the conduct of public inquiries are in line with the Australian Labor Party’s policy of open government, of informing the people, of enabling public participation in the decision-making process. [More…]
In recent years increasing concern from all parts of the political spectrum has been expressed that inadequate consideration was being given to the environmental effect of decisions taken. [More…]
Generally, economic and technical considerations have overridden the environmental aspects of proposals. [More…]
Many of our existing environmental problems of today- of noise pollution, air pollution, waste disposal, reduction of amenitywould not have arisen if there had been procedures available for a complete assessment of the impact on the environment of the proposed developments. [More…]
In the Sydney region, Botany Bay would still have most of its own natural qualities if environmental assessments had been carried out before industries and port developments were commenced. [More…]
The concept of environmental assessment is not new. [More…]
We aim through this Bill to protect the environment in 2 ways; firstly, by use of the information obtained in the environmental assessments themselves- the factors threatened, the alternatives and the best course to follow having in mind a full consideration of all factors involved; secondly, by the educative process inherent in public hearings that may be held in association with the preparation of assessments. [More…]
Some people may see the need for preparation of environmental assessments as another round of red tape to be overcome- a further unnecessary cost to be incurred by the taxpayer and a possible further delay in the planning process. [More…]
We hope that, unlike the past when economic considerations were the prime considerations that influenced the decision-making process, in the future consideration of the environmental impact of proposals will take place along with the consideration of the economic features, hand in hand: that is, a parallel process, a marrying of the econ. [More…]
It goes without saying that this legislation will mean there will be considerable scope for co-operation with State environmental authorities- a complementary activity. [More…]
Thus it is expected that as experience in the use of the environmental assessment technique develops, a decision on whether or not a proposal should be the subject of an impact statement will become a relatively simple matter and the preparation of the statement will be part and parcel of any initial consideration of a proposal. [More…]
If environmental impact legislation had been in existence since Federation the 8-year argument over Blackbutt Reserve would have been avoided. [More…]
The people of Stockton in the Lyne electorate would not be subjected to the discomfort and the irritants of air pollution from nearby Kooran.gang Island if an environmental impact statement had been prepared prior to the construction of its industries. [More…]
Coal trucks blighting the whole of the Hunter region presently could have been avoided if there had been environmental impact statements into mining development and transport of coal. [More…]
In accordance with its current practice, the Australian Government also reserves the right to consider the environmental implications of projects prior to agreeing to provide funds for those projects. [More…]
The reference was however accepted as reflecting the wishes of the Environment Council and the environmental impact of beverage containers, while only part of a wider problem, does raise a number of specific issues. [More…]
The recommended ban on ‘ring-pull’ tops, which are a recognised environmental hazard, should not be seen as punitive to the industry as it comes at a time of introduction of new types of self-opening cans which are more environmentally acceptable. [More…]
This inquiry has revealed to the Committee the need for a comprehensive education program at all age levels to make the public aware of the costs in money terms to the community and the environmental problems associated with waste disposal and particularly with litter. [More…]
Industry must be prepared to accept its responsibility in this regard and must examine closely the environmental implications of the marketing of new products so that problems of the proportions created by throw-away beverage containers will not occur again. [More…]
Certain achievements this year have been especially symbolic of our whole philosophyour legislation against racial discrimination, our work for women, our vigorous and successful policies for environmental protection, and our 30 per cent increase in our foreign aid program. [More…]
If the proposed takeover is judged to be not against the national interest on this basis, the following additional criteria will also be taken into account: Whether, after the takeover, the firm concerned could be expected to follow practices consistent with Australia’s interest in matters such as exports, imports, local processing materials produced, research and development and industrial relations, including employee protection; and whether the takeover would have adverse consequences in terms of the Government’s objective for defence, environmental protection or regional development. [More…]
1 ) De-snagging operations on an initial 1 5 mile section of the Murray River upstream of Howlong will begin as soon as possible, after river levels return to normal and investigations of the environmental impact of the removal of snags on fish and wildlife have been completed. [More…]
The commencement of the work has, as indicated in the reply to question ( I ) been delayed because of the need to examine environmental aspects, but in any event would not have been possible over the past twenty months because of continuous high river levels and wet conditions. [More…]
What have been the commercial applications and consequences of research performed by (a) the Environmental Physics Research Laboratories, (b) the Minerals Research Laboratories, and (c) the National Standards Laboratory since their inception. [More…]
The Environmental Physics Research Laboratories were instituted in July 1971 under the Chairmanship of Dr. C. H. B. Priestley FRS, with the object of strengthening the CSIRO research effort concerned with studying the physical processes controlling weather, the experimental modification of weather (as in rainmaking), the interaction of plants and the environment, and the atmospheric effects of pollution. [More…]
The EPRL complex currently comprises the Division of Atmospheric Physics, the Division of Cloud Physics, and the Division of Environmental Mechanics. [More…]
A report published by the Division of Atmospheric Physics in 1972 entitled “Environmental Research- Practical Contributions from a Fundamentally Oriented Group” lists a large number of contributions of commercial importance that have been made by the Division since its inception in 1946. [More…]
The commercial consequences of work carried out by the MRL complex have implications for all sectors of the mineral industry ranging from exploration through to process metallurgy and minimising the environmental impact of mining and mineral processing. [More…]
We want to ensure that the social, environmental and cultural facilities are given to all cities. [More…]
As a government we Will re-establish Darwin, but we must re-establish Darwin on firm foundationsphysical, social and environmental. [More…]
This includes information on natural population densities, rates of dispersal, mating and egglaying habits, and the influence of heat, moisture and other environmental factors on the formation and development of each stage in the life cycle. [More…]
Nevertheless, the paper does reflect a concern that the amount of waste generated in our society by packaging is a significant environmental problem. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, has recently introduced the Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Bill, which will apply to a much wider range of proposals than I originally suggested. [More…]
I ask: What are the environmental conditions imposed by the Australian Government on the Alwest project? [More…]
From the Australian Government’s examination of the Environmental Review and Environmental Management Program- [More…]
Further information is also needed on the details of the transport infrastructure, including the temporary storage of materials at terminal points and the environmental effects of these components of the project. [More…]
The Australian Government is, as you are aware, committed to the principle of optimum public participation in discussions on environmental aspects of those projects in respect of which it has constitutional responsibilities. [More…]
The provisions of the Environmental Management Program being made mandatory rather than voluntary requirements as currently expressed; [More…]
New environmental protection measures being incorporated within the Environmental Management Program as they arise from ongoing research and are found necessary from monitoring or operational programs; and The MonitoringResearch and Environmental Management Programs being reviewed prior to commencement of the operations and at 3-yearly intervals, timed to precede the export licence renewal. [More…]
To ensure that environmental/conservation groups receive the professional assistance necessary to enable them to prepare sound cases on specific issues and thus help the community to become its own environmental advocate. [More…]
The grant should be sought to help resolve specific environmental controversities of significant community concern. [More…]
Recently, in a letter dated 20 November 1974 published in the Australian Financial Review’, Mr Edward St John, Q.C., a former member of this House and an acting judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, said in the course of referring to 2 cases decided by the Privy Council on Australian mining and environmental law that the possibility of such appeals still remaining was, in his words, ‘a deplorable anachronism. [More…]
Consider the fuel that could be saved, as well as the easing of our environmental problems. [More…]
The problems of finding the investment funds for the infrastructure would be removed and environmental problems would not exist. [More…]
The salt and brine near Redcliffs is essential for viability and, in my view, any environmental problems have been overcome satisfactorily. [More…]
1 ) The Bureau of Environmental Studies will, over the next few years, be engaged, inter alia, in evaluating waste disposal systems in Australia and in determining areas where there is a need for new technology. [More…]
If we reject all theories of racial superiority or inferiority, if we genuinely believe that the only differences between the peoples of the world are physical, cultural and environmental differences then we must ask ourselves why it is that racial antagonism still exists in today’s society. [More…]
An amount of $4,429 was paid in 1973-74 to Mr Kemter, a legal consultant who is preparing summaries of all legislation concerned with historic and environmental preservation. [More…]
Rose; Research Officer Grade 2 (Requirements Section), Mr M. G. Hyman; Graduate Clerk (Programs Section), Dr R. St. L. Bruce; Graduate Clerk (Environmental Indices Branch) Mr J. T. Craig; Graduate Clerk (Environmental Indices Branch) Mr G. S. Yeomans; StenoSecretary, Mrs M. Cutler; Steno-Secretary, Mrs K. G. France. [More…]
The following additional staff are expected to commence duty with the BES in the near future: Assistant Director (Studies Management), Dr R. M. Green; Assistant Director (Environmental Indices Branch), Mr D. MacRae; Clerk/(Class 10) (Consultant Studies Section), Mr J. [More…]
The professional qualifications of staff appointed to the BES include biochemistry, civil engineering, mathematics, zoology, chemical engineering, business administration, environmental studies, marine biology, operations research, agriculture, economics, inorganic chemistry and physics. [More…]
Applications are currently being received in response to an advertisement for persons with expertise in statistics, mathematical modelling, meteorology, geography, earth science, botany, environmental law, institutions and organisations, psychology, resource economics and ecology. [More…]
-Was the Minister for Environment and Conservation informed by the Minister for Minerals and Energy 4 days before the Environmental Impact Bill became law that the Minister for Minerals and Energy had sanctioned the export of mineral sands from Fraser Island? [More…]
It is financing an agricultural and environmental science project. [More…]
A social science curriculum project proposed by Mount St Mary’s College will receive $5,025 over a year, and an environmental education survey is put forward by the Curriculum Development Centre itself. [More…]
I give just one example to the Committee as far as this environmental approach is concerned because in a way it links up with what the honourable member for Mackellar had to say. [More…]
Anyone who has had the experience of unsewered suburbs, poor health services, inadequate local transport, neglected environmental standards, shortage of playing fields, shortage of community centres and opportunities for culture and recreation knows that higher rates are not the answer. [More…]
That this House deplores the granting by the Government to a company, known as DM minerals, the right to negotiate overseas contracts for the sale of minerals obtained by sand mining on Fraser Island before making public an environmental impact statement. [More…]
It has been an accepted fact of modern day planning that environmental considerations are an important dimension in any development project. [More…]
He was the first Prime Minister in Australia to introduce the environmental impact statement technique into decision making. [More…]
The Opposition commended the Government and the Minister for the Environment and Conservation for the legislation as indeed most environmentalists and conservationists applauded the Government’s action. [More…]
It was a callous, cynical, political decision showing no regard for the environmental protection of Fraser Island. [More…]
It was not until March this year that the truth came out, shocking the Minister for the Environment and Conservation and environmentalists everywhere. [More…]
One of the reasons that I voted for your party in the last 2 Federal elections was that the ALP policy seemed to offer some hope that environmental issues within the community would be resolved by democratic- and ultimately by legalprocess. [More…]
I conclude by saying once again that I hope that this incident, which will become known as the Fraser Island incident, ushers in a new era where governments in future will never undertake or give approval to development projects of this kind without first undertaking an environmental impact study- an assessment- and making the result of those studies public, and without giving the public an opportunity to put their case. [More…]
He gave the people in the area and the conservationists great encouragement when he declared his attitudes and said that it was his intention to prevail on the Government to take measures to arrest the sand mining operations until such time as a proper environmental impact study could be made. [More…]
The sand mining of Fraser Island is now seen by conservationists throughout Australia as a betrayal of trust by the Australian Labor Government that promised that export licenses would be withheld pending satisfactory environmental impact statements stop Dillingham Mining Company claims to have received export license in December stop Stopping wanton sand mining of Fraser Island provides a test case of sincerity in conservation matters stop The devastation can be avoided by decisive action by the Australian Labor Government stop We urge Australian Government to summon the courage to stop this wanton rape of the irreplaceable wilderness area [More…]
Environmental impact study can be carried out under Queensland legislation, namely the State and Regional Planning and Development Public Works, Organisation and Environmental Control Act. [More…]
The minerals are named- derived from new sand mining ventures, the precise source from which the mineral is to be obtained should be stated together with full information concerning the environmental considerations and safeguards that have been submitted to our colleagues the Ministers for the Environment. [More…]
I stress the word ‘new ‘- for these minerals to be accompanied by an identification of the precise source of the mineral and by evidence that the environmental consequences of the mining operations have been studied and found to be satisfactory. [More…]
Insofar as this might require the preparation of environmental impact statements for submission jointly to the appropriate State and Australian Government Departments concerned, I suggest that this specific matter be referred to our respective Environment Ministers at the meeting which we agreed at our Conference on 7 June should take place shortly. [More…]
You will recall that you wrote to the Premiers of Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia on 9 July last regarding the environmental aspects of mineral sands mining. [More…]
You can’t live on past memories, attitudes, and hang ups and with all the propaganda associated with environmental and industrial conditions that have long ceased to exist. [More…]
It is not too good a quality of school, it is not too good a quality of health care, it is not too good a quality of public transport, it is not the environmental concern, it is not those things on which overwhelmingly this country or this Government has spent money in the last 2 years which Australians demand, but a thousand and one frivolities for which demand has been invented or magnified in the most cynical way. [More…]
No funds have been requested this financial year for the F19 highway in Victoria, but funds have been made available to the Victorian Government to carry out an environmental impact study on the F19. [More…]
I am concerned about the situation, particularly if the highway is to cut through the very delicate environmental area of the Mullum Mullum Valley or if it will affect the North Ringwood area where a large number of families would be involved. [More…]
In particular, we hope that the Conference will help make all states aware that the introduction of nuclear technology throughout the world must be accompanied by internationally accepted standards of physical and environmental security and by adequate assurances of peaceful use. [More…]
This issue confronted the Committee with a problem that arises very often in matters relating to transport, that is, the need to achieve a proper balance between environmental considerations and the need in a rapidly expanding city to provide the citizens of the city with increasingly efficient modes of transport and access to and from different parts of the city. [More…]
Some of these studies were undertaken by the South Australian Department of Fisheries and reports on these studies were tabled at the recent Redcliff environmental inquiry. [More…]
At present it seems that any industry established following satisfactory resolution of the technical and environmental problems associated with the mining would be of small to medium scale. [More…]
The proposed response from the Department was discussed with me and I agreed with the line taken as it was in accordance with previous Government decisions on environmental questions. [More…]
However, at this stage, the Executive considers that appropriate areas for study might include trace elements, minerals and vitamins; nutritional status and energy metabolism under varying environmental and socioeconomic conditions; the impact of tehcnological and social developments on dietary patterns and nutrient intakes; nutrient values of foods; and biochemical aspects of nutrition in relation to growth and development. [More…]
There were, however, serious environmental objections raised against some of the aspects of the scheme itself. [More…]
I am happy to say that the environmental aspects have been overcome. [More…]
One of the reasons that I voted for your party in the last 2 Federal Elections was that the ALP policy seemed to offer some hope that environmental issues within the community would be resolved by democratic- and ultimately by legalprocess. [More…]
What environmental impact studies have been conducted? [More…]
This is the procedure allegedly adopted on environmental matters, on welfare matters and on matters concerning the trade union movement. [More…]
We are genuinely seeking to implement our environmental impact procedures generally. [More…]
When that is done we may then be able to institute environmental impact procedures in co-operation. [More…]
As the Prime Minister has mentioned, it would be ludicrous to have 2 separate environmental impact studies. [More…]
The fact still remains that we have been able to conduct public inquiries and assess environmental impact statements from State governments before legislating because we have been able to get the co-operation of the State authorities and because, in the circumstances, there have not been commercial interests at stake that could make a claim of prior commitment in the way in which the sand miners were able to do. [More…]
Australian Government is not adhering to its policy on environmental impact statements. [More…]
There were no requirements that the exportation of uranium and iron ore should depend upon environmental factors. [More…]
It is a question of whether an environmental impact study is made prior to such decision or whether the whole philosophy of environmental impact assessments is to succeed.’ [More…]
Many people who were persuaded, for environmental reasons and for a host of other reasons, to vote for the Australian Labor Party at the last election have regretted doing so. [More…]
Those uranium deposits which do not concern Aboriginal lands and the mining of which complies with proper environmental conditions into which public inquiries are about to take place will of course be available for export or in due course for processing within Australia. [More…]
I have been shocked at the extreme polarisation of views which occurs in many of these areas- that industries must take the absolute attitude that economic growth and profit are their sole measure of environmental effect, that some of our conservation groups and /or preservation groups are prohibitionists and that they do not want us to enjoy a number of benefits that there are in our national estate. [More…]
We just do not have the bodies which can handle that sort of thing; nor do we have the sorts of land use bodies that can take on the environmental considerations of commercial activities- for example, forestry activities- and determine how they fit into this scheme. [More…]
It is not only the Minister who has been interested in environmental matters; for many years many people on this side of the House have also been interested. [More…]
It does not matter to what field one turns, whether it be the Government’s environmental policy, economic policy or tariff policy, the Government’s record is one of confusion and deceit. [More…]
The Committee believes that the planting rate is excessive and that because of the environmental disadvantages associated with the program it ought to be reduced. [More…]
The main reasons for the Committee recommending a reduction in the planting rate are: (a) Future demand may not be as great as forecast due to a lower rate of population growth and lower consumption rates than those predicted; (b) future supplies may not be as scarce as expected due to the availability of long-term supplies from New Zealand with whom we have a free trade agreement; (c) the planting program has continued with little heed for environmental values especially where the clearfelling of areas of native forest is involved; (d) the financial returns and balance of costs/benefits may not be sufficient for the continuation of the commitment of public funds over such a long period. [More…]
Emerging from the Committee’s examination of this legislation have been some serious environmental shortcomings which the Committee believes require most urgent attention. [More…]
In some cases not the slightest concession is made to environmental values, the only considerations being ease of planting and ease of harvesting. [More…]
The second is for greater research to be conducted into the side effects of softwood forestry upon all the environmental issues raised in the report. [More…]
This involves questions of finance and resource management as well as the important environmental considerations. [More…]
Briefly, the facts are that Mr Sinclair, on behalf of the Fraser Island Defence Organisation, appeared before the Mining Warden and was heard on environmental matters. [More…]
Indeed, it seems that he took the view that the evidence put by Mr Sinclair on behalf of the environmental movement represented only a sectional interest and was not to be equated or consistent with the public interest at large. [More…]
A mandamus was issued and if I have a correct report of what the High Court judges said unanimously, it was held that the environmental interest is much wider and much more important than the Mining Warden considered appropriate for it. [More…]
Environmentalists can take considerable satisfaction from the decision of the High Court. [More…]
I should also inform the House, in conclusion, that legal assistance through the Australian Legal Aid Office was given to the objector and the environmental movement right from the beginning; in the hearing before the Mining Warden, in the hearing for the writ of mandamus in the Queensland Supreme Court and right up to the High Court. [More…]
That is contrary to the terms of the arrangement More than thatand here again the Leader of the National Country Party might take to task the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt)- there is to be an environmental impact study in respect of the Northern Territory. [More…]
The environmental problems of sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere and of all the other pollutants which come from burning hydrocarbons is such that in a small area such as Japan, this will be an inhibiting factor. [More…]
The authors go on to say that those 2 ingredients must be combined and that the Constitution should be a living organism changing as necessary to meet environmental changes. [More…]
Such zoning and management must of course be carried out in the context of the regional development framework and take full account of the overall social, economic and environmental requirements of particular districts and the nation as a whole ‘. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report on the investigation of the scientific, environmental and social issues relating to urban development in the Hallett Cove area of South Australia as commissioned under the National Estate program. [More…]
Of course when we are covering risks like fluctuations in wool prices, the forces involved in the market or in the environmental situation do not allow people to tidy up their books on 3 1 July. [More…]
I have quoted at some length from the National Estate report because I regard it as being a landmark in Australia’s environmental history and a monument of industry, perception and integrity. [More…]
At the same time, the State Government has declared fisheries habitat reserves below the high water mark, which have had a major and favourable environmental impact. [More…]
I wonder whether the northern boundary has been truncated at that point because of a desire not to beg the question of boundaries in the Torres Strait area, but obviously there are areas to the north of the present proposed boundaries that should, at some time in the future, be attached to the park, given the different environmental circumstances of some of the islands immediately north of Cape York. [More…]
The Lindeman family is very very careful about environmental considerations, but in more recent times, in some of the other resorts, it has been obvious when one has looked at the area that not enough care has been given, and these are matters that are going to require considerable care and attention. [More…]
The Great Barrier Reef is not only a scientific wonderland, it is also a great centre of tourism, an area of great beauty and an area where people go to restore their health- to get away from the rush and bustle of our cities and perhaps the environmental problems there. [More…]
It is also the day when the Stockholm environmental conference began in 1972. [More…]
A special area of relevance is environmental protection matters of national concern. [More…]
The Australian Government consults with the State Governments on uniform emission and effluent standards through the Australian Environmental Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council. [More…]
The Australian Environmental Council has taken the view that it might be possible to establish Australia-wide ambient standards as a minimum standard on a national basis, but individual States might wish to impose more restrictive standards under some circumstances. [More…]
The Bureau of Environmental Studies, a division of my Department, is trying to obtain the services of a particular overseas expert to conduct a study of the occurrence of water hyacinth in Australian inland waters and the best methods of water hyacinth control. [More…]
This was from Professor W. D. Williams of the Zoology Department, University of Adelaide, and is the study referred to earlier being considered by the Bureau of Environmental Studies. [More…]
Review of Economic and Environmental Aspects of the Export Hardwood Woodchip Industry- tabled on 13 May 1975 (Hansard page 2 128). [More…]
Is his Department responsible for the public environmental awareness program as shown in Budget Paper No. [More…]
The first payment of $10,000 was made to Spectrum International Marketing Services Pty Ltd for research undertaken in preparation for the Public Environmental Awareness Program. [More…]
To promote industrial design and to improve the quality and efficiency of industry’s products and processes in order to increase its competitiveness and meet consumers’ functional and environmental needs. [More…]
1 ) The Bureau will monitor environmental studies and research undertaken in Australia and overseas, appraise the scope and relevance of work in progress in Australia and in consultation with other sections of the Department and other agencies, identify important gaps in research. [More…]
I think the people who run the isolated pharmacies have a good case for up-dating the consideration of factors to do with the isolation of their pharmacies giving a service which, on the face of it, is uneconomic but which, when looked at from the point of view of social surroundings, the environmental situation and their geographical placing deserves special recognition. [More…]
and (4) The following information has been made available in relation to environmental studies of the Jervis Bay nuclear power plant: [More…]
Davy, ‘Nuclear Power and Environmental Pollution’, Atomic Energy in Australia, Volume 14, Nos. [More…]
In addition, $21,000 has been sought for public notices of environmental inquiries, $48,000 for the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service and $5,000 for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. [More…]
Advertisements for grants to conservation and environmental bodies. [More…]
Public notices of intention to hold environmental inquiries under the Environment Protection (Impact ofProposals) Assessment Act 1974-75. [More…]
The only costs incurred for public notices of environmental inquiries was $8,613 in 1974/75 and $406 in 1973/74. [More…]
What is the distinction between the work the Bureau of Environmental Studies, which is located within his Department, will pursue and the work being pursued by the CSIRO on environmental matters, which comes within the responsibility of the Minister for Science and Consumer Affairs. [More…]
The role of the Bureau of Environmental Studies is to carry out research and investigations to provide factual information needed by the Department of Environment to enable it to carry out its legislative and regulatory functions and to encourage research in those aspects of the environment where a need exists but which have not been adequately studied by other research bodies. [More…]
Development will affect a great many more people, if the environmental impact is as serious as has been suggested, than many other developments which at the moment are causing greater general concern. [More…]
I am advised that the Department of Science and Consumer Affairs administers several scientific research support schemes, including the Australian Research Grants Scheme, under which some environmental research projects are funded. [More…]
To date the Department of Science and Consumer Affairs and the Department of Environment have communicated informally on environmental research. [More…]
It is expected that the establishment of the Bureau of Environmental Studies will allow closer consultation in the future. [More…]
The Bureau of Environmental Studies was established inter alia, to co-ordinate environmental research. [More…]
As a practical matter the Bureau will tend to direct its attention to identifying major gaps in environmental research, with a view to improving knowledge in these areas. [More…]
1 ) What areas relating to environmental protection does his Department fund through its appropriations. [More…]
1 ) Funds appropriated to my Department relating to environmental protection are principally those appropriated for the National Estate Program, although funds appropriated for other programs administered by my Department are occasionally used indirectly for environmental protection. [More…]
The objective of this scheme is to ensure that private environment and conservation groups receive the professional assistance necessary to enable them to prepare sound cases on specific issues and thus help the community to become its own environmental advocate. [More…]
This is the area of environmental and consumer protection. [More…]
-( Cunningham-Minister for Minerals and Energy)- For the information of honourable members I present papers containing the special environmental provisions applying to mineral leases Nos. [More…]
Finally, the ship will be equipped to do basic environmental work including temperature and salinity profiles and plankton tows. [More…]
Such monolithic solutions to problems which no one has adequately defined should be resisted or they could lead to a monumental social or environmental disaster for many Aboriginal groups. [More…]
It so happens that there has been an inquiry into the national parks in the Northern Territory and another inquiry into the environmental effects of uranium. [More…]
-The table indicates the low call on legal aid for environmental matters. [More…]
Let me illustrate with an example the misunderstanding about what legal aid is and its availability for environmental matters. [More…]
The interpretation was that the Australian Government interfered in areas outside its concern and it sided with the woman and the environmentalists, whereas the facts were that after the woman had established that she had a prima facie case against the quarry company she required legal assistance, to take her case to the court. [More…]
Irresponsible confrontation on environmental issues will not solve anything. [More…]
From what I have said, Mr Chairman, you will appreciate that it is very difficult to speak to the estimates of the Department of Environment and environmental issues when it is so hard to work out the total appropriation and the funding for this important area. [More…]
The sum of $ 1 ,000 was made available for an investigation into the environmental aspects of the establishment of a radiation laboratory at Yallambie in my electorate. [More…]
Mr Teodorovic has spent a great deal of his own time and money not only in preparing this report but also in his interest in environmental matters generally and in disposal of waste in particular. [More…]
No environmental health problem has greater significance than the disposal of man’s liquid and solid wastes. [More…]
Estimates debates are too fragmented for use as a platform for any real discussion of our attitude as a nation to environmental and conservation matters. [More…]
That arises simply from the fact that environmental questions come up so often on the basis of competing interests. [More…]
-In rising to speak on the appropriations for the Department of Environment, I wish to direct my remarks to the sum of $315,000 set aside for the costs associated with public hearings held as part of the preparation of environmental impact statements. [More…]
The environmental impact statement approach goes a long way towards achieving this end. [More…]
The Labor Government requires the consideration of environmental factors and public opinion through the use of environmental impact study techniques and later public inquiries before its decisions are made and implemented. [More…]
Participation through planning and the provision of environmental impact studies would encourage positive attitudes rather than negative attitudes. [More…]
Of course, the Australian Government would require an environmental impact statement on programs which involve expenditure of Australian Government money- that is, where the money is identifiable as being Australian Government funds. [More…]
An environmental impact study would need to take into account many factors, including the impact of the proposal on the physical environment, the flora and fauna, and man made materials. [More…]
If the publication of such an environmental impact statement resulted in public comments which questioned whether the proposal had been considered adequately, then the Minister could call for a public inquiry to follow, although I suspect, and it is expected, that only a small proportion of such statements would result in public inquiries. [More…]
It is extremely important that that sort of assistance be given by the Australian Government and that environmental impact studies and public inquiries be carried out if all people in the community are to have their rights observed and the community rights observed. [More…]
He also stated how they can be so easily damaged if proper environmental control is not exercised, particularly by putting roads through this kind of country. [More…]
I was interested to hear the Minister speak earlier about the competing interests that inevitably arise in considering environmental matters. [More…]
The results may form the basis of an environmental impact study if the proposal for a highway is to be taken further. [More…]
I think that one of the most important pieces of legislation introduced into the House in the current Parliament was that relating to environmental impact statements. [More…]
Many environmental impact statements are now under way and I foresee that in the future there may be some need to look at the way that these measures have worked out in practice. [More…]
I give the Government an assurance that when there is a change of government the present Opposition certainly will carry out the same policy in regard to environmental impact statements. [More…]
An environmental impact statement issued on the land in that area has shown that it is environmentally not practicable or desirable that homes should be built in these areas. [More…]
There has been an environmental change related to industry and to the motor vehicle, but there is nothing new about stress. [More…]
The names and planned completion dates of those projects listed in the answer to question 2173 which are new in the sense that they were commenced after the formation of the Bureau of Environmental Studies are as follows: [More…]
In general the findings of each project will be published by the Australian Government Publishing Service as technical papers in an appropriate departmental or Bureau of Environmental Studies series. [More…]
To control, and where possible, prohibit the advertising of products which represent a danger to human health, or which release into the environment toxic or indestructible materials, or which make unreasonable use of scarce natural resources, or which have other significant detrimental environmental impact; [More…]
Environmental Health Committee (EHC) ‘to consider all environmental factors which may influence health and wellbeing and report to Council through the PHAC’ [More…]
1 ) A number of environmental protection measures were attached to the export approval granted to the Manjimup project in August 1973. [More…]
Following that, preparation of the draft environmental impact statement was begun by the Department of Science and was published in February this year. [More…]
The final environmental impact statement was begun in March 1975 and cleared by the then Department of Environment and Conservation in May 1975. [More…]
The new procedures for environmental impact statements also added to the lead time but were an essential part of government policy in the public interest. [More…]
The Committee in recommending the construction of these works has concluded that: (i) The Stuart and Barkly Highways form the main road links within the Northern Territory and its continued development is dependent on the provision of adequate transport facilities; (ii) the upgrading in accordance with the national highways standards is justified and will increase road safety; (iii) the works will reduce the prolonged transport delays now experienced in each wet season; and (iv) the economic and social benefits which the proposed improvements will provide to the Northern Territory community are considered to outweigh any possible adverse environmental effects. [More…]
Warburton is an important environmental area. [More…]
Proper planning with due regard to all human factors and environmental factors will result in sensible balanced development; efficient utilisation of our natural resources; gradual creation of a better life style; preservation of the desirable features of our natural environment; and the restoration and preservation of our national heritage. [More…]
But the real delay came from the inquiry into the national park, and now the environmental impact inquiry. [More…]
What about environmental legal aid? [More…]
Almost every active environmental group throughout Australia has been to the Legal Aid Office. [More…]
-The honourable gentleman’s interest in legal aid and environmental matters is well known and appreciated. [More…]
Westernport and Ballarat in Victoria also were the subject of legal aid in environmental matters. [More…]
Although the report concerns a specific localised area with its own particular problems, the Committee has attempted to set down guidelines which could give a lead to land use planning in other areas, particularly where conflicts have occurred or are possible between environmental and various other interests. [More…]
Its plans in the social, economic, industrial and environmental fields, its plans in research and development and in law reform are all conceived with a clear recognition of the interests of the Australian consumer. [More…]
As a member of a small project team, assist in developing methods whereby Glebe Estate residents can effectively participate in the development of the Glebe Project, be responsible for liaison between the project staff and the community, assist residents with particular problems and needs, stimulate the formulation of ideas and methods for implementing specific objectives and assist in carrying out studies on the social and environmental aspects of the estate. [More…]
An increasing proportion of the middle and higher income earners are finding that as the metropolitan area expands, their economic and social opportunities are curtailed and the quality of their life and environmental surrounds is diminishing. [More…]
The associated control of traffic and car parking to minimise congestion and environmental problems, especially at peak periods. [More…]
Quite clearly, prevention of this pollution is a major environmental undertaking for the Australian Capital Territory and for the adjacent areas of New South Wales. [More…]
In addition, there are community interest groups such as consumer organisations and environmental protection bodies which are not able to afford the cost of challenging the actions of corporations and governments but which have been assisted by the Australian Legal Aid Office. [More…]
We would like to know the number of persons or number of groups of persons who have been able to obtain legal aid for environmental and public interest actions. [More…]
I wish briefly to express a concern which really follows upon the concern I expressed in relation to subclause (4) of clause 29, and that is that a party or group of persons may, under the fairly wide criteria which I envisage under clause 29, be given legal assistance in respect of an action which does not involve the prosecution of individual rights, which does not involve an attempt to recover damages or to assert a claim to property, but which might, for example, involve an environmental action against a particular company, either large or small. [More…]
It is anticipated that the environmental impact of the scheme will be largely beneficial. [More…]
We made a further $50,000 available to try to catch up with the environmental problems that the sewerage problems were creating in that area. [More…]
1 ) and (2 ) As pan of its environmental public awareness program the Department of the Environment and Conservation in February 1975 commissioned Spectrum International Marketing Services Pty Ltd to carry out an exploratory research study to determine current public awareness of and examine attitudes to the environment. [More…]
As part of the study, a number of questions were asked about current environmental problems and issues, including sandmining on Fraser Island. [More…]
To provide a coherent national approach to pollution control, the Government will discuss national environmental standards and criteria with the States. [More…]
One of these problems is the environmental difficulties arising from Sydney (Kingsford-Smith) airport. [More…]
The honourable member for Maribyrnong will know that, following the publication of the draft environmental impact study by British Airways, submissions were invited to be lodged with my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
There is a vital inter-relationship between economic, social, migration, environmental, education, defence and other issues. [More…]
We supported education initiatives, advances in social welfare responsibilities, the increasing demands of our people in conservation and environmental matters. [More…]
Of course we of the National Country Party fully support those environmental issues but the fundamental conservation procedure in Australia should be the preservation of our greatest asset- our soil. [More…]
a) environmental aspects of legislative and administrative measures which ought to be taken in order to ensure the wise and effective management of the Australian environment and of Australia’s natural resources, and [More…]
Since its inception the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation has inquired into many issues of importance for environmental protection and has produced several valuable reports, including those on the environmental impact of freeways, the Blackbutt Reserve, the operation of the Softwood Forestry Agreements Act 1967-72, and development pressures on Jervis Bay. [More…]
In recommending the continuance of this Committee I remind honourable members of the urgency which is being felt by the general public about environmental problems. [More…]
The long term consequences of our actions must be recognised and present environmental problems solved if we are to have any control over the future quality of the human environment. [More…]
In the past the existence of standing committees has enabled the House of Representatives to be involved in initial and formative consideration of a wide range of major environmental problems. [More…]
All parties realise that the recommendation of the Select Committee on Wildlife Conservation for the setting up of a standing committee on environmental matters was a sensible one, and so everyone co-operated in the setting up of that committee. [More…]
I share something of the enthusiasm for the Environmental Committee that my colleague, the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen), has for the Standing Committee on Road Safety. [More…]
So many environmental matters in the community today are judged on a subjective basis, on the emotion that they are able to raise, rather than on an objective balance of opinions and facts and working out what is the best for the present and for the future in our community. [More…]
One of the striking features of environmental and conservation matters is the large number of people and organisations in the community with a point of view to put forward. [More…]
I fear that the present Government will believe that the present financial stringencies are too great to deal with environmental matters such as these. [More…]
The previous Committee was able to examine this matter not only from the environmental point of view but to consider whether in some way we could prevent the criminal associations that go along with it. [More…]
Some of the States have legislation requiring local authorities to demand environmental impact studies to be carried out. [More…]
From these studies environmental impact statements are prepared. [More…]
Another inquiry was into the environmental impact of mining. [More…]
Not the least of the problems was the environmental inquiry which required the re-routing of the pipeline. [More…]
It examined problems involving the social, economic and environmental aspects of life, and that is what is needed now. [More…]
The same applies to environmental issues in which there can be many disputes. [More…]
-Prospective uranium project developers are free to talk with prospective purchasers of uranium around the world but nothing can be finalised until the Fox committee reports on its environmental inquiry. [More…]
The fellow who lives in rented accommodation and who for environmental reasons- say, for the sake of argument, the presence of a noxious industry or an airport, which is affecting his family-and who can obtain alternative rental accommodation only in an area where, in the opinion of the Commonwealth Employment Service, there are little or no employment prospects is rewarded for caring for his family’s welfare by having his umployment benefit terminated. [More…]
Since then other factors have been taken into account, including the environmental considerations presently under scrutiny by Mr Justice Fox. [More…]
I also made it clear that any exports will need to be subject to certain specific factors, including international safeguards requirements and environmental factors. [More…]
In this latter respect, I stress that the Government’s policy in this area will have regard to the findings of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
Environmental problems and traffic congestion, combined with totally inadequate public transport systems were killing our cities. [More…]
All over the world it has been proved that expenditure of this type was wasteful on economic, social and environmental aspects. [More…]
These investigations include a river transport study to assess the type and nature of the vessels which may need to go under the bridge, a development impact study to assess the effects of a second bridge on land use and development in the greater Hobart region, a traffic impact study and an environmental impact statement. [More…]
I say ‘possible’ because it all depends upon the environmental inquiry which is being conducted at the moment. [More…]
The whole question of Australia’s policy on the development of uranium or the processes of the nuclear cycle will depend largely upon the outcome of the present Ranger environmental inquiry. [More…]
Gladstone is a prime example of a city where, according to Sir John Overall and his colleagues, social factors and environmental aspects urgently require Federal Government initiatives. [More…]
We get to 1974-75 and find that the deficit under Labor rose to $2,567m- a colossal increase and one that could only cause damage and create the environmental and financial conditions under which wage claims could be made and achieved. [More…]
Environmental considerations especially in Darwin where there had been an unusually heavy use of insecticide in the area following cyclone Tracy. [More…]
A special maturity is required of progressive people, to realise that some of their colleagues who are workers or just of an older generation may not have had the opportunity to broaden their horizons far enough to really understand by say certain environmental concerns, or the liberation of women. [More…]
In Victoria, pollution orientated monitoring programs have been initiated by the Environmental Protection Authority of that State. [More…]
What the Government is saying about Canberra is that if people in other cities must live in squalid, overcrowded conditions with poor environmental surroundings, inadequate transport facilities, bad roads and lack of sewerage then the people of Canberra should not expect to enjoy the conditions of a well planned city without being heavily taxed for it. [More…]
How do bike tracks, walkways and environmental nonsense help a mother to stay home to look after her family? [More…]
Labor, in developing its regionalism concept, recognised that the individual living standards of the average family, especially in environmental and cultural terms, depend more on the initiatives and efficiency of local government than on the initiative and efficiency of either State or Federal governments. [More…]
I ask the Acting Minister for the Environment, Housing, and Community Development whether the environmental impact statement on the Concorde has been exempted from the requirements under the administrative procedures of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974-75. [More…]
If the Government has exempted the environmental impact statement on the Concorde from these requirements, when will the Minister make public a summary of the reasons for granting the exemption? [More…]
I direct a question to the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development I ask: In view of his answer to the question from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and in accordance with the administrative procedures of the Environment Protection Act, when was the final environmental impact statement prepared by the proponent, which I take it was British Airways? [More…]
Where is the final environmental impact statement available to the public for sale? [More…]
That is the British Departmenthave asked that the proponents now proceed with the preparation of the final Environmental Impact Statement. [More…]
The events of the last 6 months make me doubt whether the Government will give environmental matters the high priority they deserve, particularly when public health and safety is involved, let alone the protection of our national heritage. [More…]
Last week’s decision to allow the Concorde to fly to and from Australia without preparation of a final environmental impact statement is just one reason why I doubt the Government’s intentions. [More…]
The failure of the Government to appoint commissioners to the Heritage Commission and giving it very little financial muscle, the low priority it has given to the preservation of the national estate as witnessed by the Budget measures announced 10 days ago and its failure to appropriate any money for the National Parks and Wildlife Service in the supply Bills last week are just some reasons why all Australians must doubt this Government’s integrity on environmental issues. [More…]
One hundred years ago nobody could have foreseen the pattern of environmental crisis which was to develop in our society as we became industrialised. [More…]
For example, the Australian Advisory Committee on the Environment, in its report on the environmental effects of supersonic transport aircraft, added a proviso to the recommendation that the Government should not prohibit the operations of Concorde in terms of the necessity to have continuous and extensive monitoring of the stratosphere. [More…]
There are people in our community, including members of all political parties and indeed members of the Australian Conservation Council, who are genuinely concerned with the environmental impact of our actions. [More…]
In Australia, economic and physical factors have tended to dominate urban planning almost to the exclusion of other factors such as environmental, cultural and social aspects. [More…]
Situations continue to arise where environmental considerations conflict with economic and physical goals. [More…]
It is generally agreed that, in the past, environmental and, to a lesser extent, social aspects have received inadequate attention in urban planning. [More…]
We should respect the fragility of certain water and atmospheric environments and should ensure a thorough environmental appraisal before taking firm decisions on policies and strategies for industrial location. [More…]
As a result of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environmental Program in 1973, a baseline air pollution monitoring station is being developed by the Commonwealth in southern Tasmania. [More…]
In this debate we are considering one of the major environmental problems of this century- pollution. [More…]
The failure of both Ministers to comply with those requirements, coupled with the events of the past 6 months, makes me doubt whether this Government will give environmental matters the priority they deserve. [More…]
That not only entailed the abolition of many positions in the former Department of the Environment, but also meant that the role the Federal Government was playing in environmental matters had decreased. [More…]
Government to appoint commissioners to the Heritage Commission, the low priority it has given to the preservation of the National Estate as evidenced by the budgetary measures announced 10 days ago, and its failure to appropriate any money at all for the National Parks and Wildlife Service in the Supply Bills last week are just a few of the other reasons why all Australians must doubt this Government’s integrity on environmental issues. [More…]
One of the other more startling actions of this Government in relation to the environment, and a matter which is indirectly related to the subject of the debate today, was its high-handed action in directing Mr Justice Fox to complete the Ranger uranium environmental inquiry by May this year. [More…]
It is my opinion that this Government not only does not have any commitment to the preservation and improvement of the natural and built environment but also does not even understand the most important environmental Act it has to administer. [More…]
The enactment of this legislation by the Whitlam Labor Government is the only example of formalising environmental assessment requirements into statuterequirements that most Australians want followed, not ignored. [More…]
Section 6 of the Act provided a framework for the introduction of the details of the environmental assessment procedure requirements by regulation. [More…]
Regulation 8.1 states that if any written comments are received on the draft environmental impact statement those comments must be taken into account by the proponent in the preparation of a final environmental impact statement. [More…]
Regulation 8.2 provides that the final environmental impact statement, when prepared, will be circulated to interested bodies, including the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and those people who made comments on the draft. [More…]
Regulation 9.1 provides that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development shall examine the final environmental impact statement on behalf of its Minister. [More…]
There is no dispute over whether an environmental impact statement was called for on Concorde flights. [More…]
There is no dispute over whether British Airways, through its agents, was prepared to comply with the requirements of that legislation It in fact submitted its draft environmental impact statement to the appropriate Minister late last year. [More…]
Subsequently comments were received by the proponent, British Airways, on its initial environmental impact statement. [More…]
In a letter to the Minister for Transport the proponent’s Australian agent said, among other things, that the final environmental impact statement would have only minor editorial changes to that submitted originally as a draft and that it was its intention to prepare an addendum to the environmental impact statement which would be its reply to the comments received as a result of the public circulation of the draft environmental impact statement earlier this year. [More…]
In point of fact, y saying that the Minister has said that it is pointless to follow the requirements of the legislation; it is pointless to take into account the views of responsible Australians who fear the environmental damage that Concorde may bring. [More…]
The Minister does not even give the courtesy of waiting to see what arguments British Airways uses to refute the criticisms made on the environmental aspects of Concorde by concerned Australians. [More…]
In the Minister’s opinion, no final environmental impact statement is needed. [More…]
Those regulations, as I have already said, require the proponent to prepare and circulate a final draft environmental impact statement. [More…]
First of all, as the honourable member for Reid said, the British Government, the British Aircraft Corporation and British Airways produced a draft environmental impact statement on Concorde operations in Australia dated December 1975. [More…]
This is the Act that the honourable member for Reid says was not followed- on the necessity or otherwise of holding a public environmental enquiry on the operation of the Concorde aircraft into Australia, in particular to Tullamarine Airport. [More…]
I agree that the key environmental problem for Australia, insofar as it can be determined at this time, is the noise impacts in the vicinity of Tullamarine and upon occasion at any alternate airport to which the aircraft might be diverted. [More…]
I am writing to confirm the agreement we have reached today following our consultation in accordance with the Administrative Procedures of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act of 1974-75 on the necessity or otherwise of holding a public environmental enquiry on the operation of the Concorde aircraft into Australia, in particular to Tullamarine Airport. [More…]
I agree that the key environmental problem for Australia, in so far as it can be determined at this time, is the noise impacts in the vicinity of Tullamarine and upon occasion at any alternative airport to which the aircraft might be diverted. [More…]
Setting this aspect aside, the wider consequences on the global environment have been well canvassed in enquiries in other countries and at this time I do not believe that further knowledge would be gained by traversing these issues again in an Australian environmental enquiry. [More…]
In summary, in the light of the foregoing observations, I agree with your contention that a public enquiry is not warranted and I am prepared to recommend to the Government that Concorde operations into Australia in the form described in the environmental impact statement be not opposed on environmental grounds subject to: [More…]
In summary, in the light of the foregoing observations, I agree with your contention that a public enquiry is not warranted and I am prepared to recommend to the Government that Concorde operations into Australia in the form described in the environmental impact statement be not opposed on environmental grounds subject to- [More…]
The British High Commission again confirmed that the draft impact statement with some minor editorial changes will be the final environmental impact statement on the question of Concorde visits to Australia. [More…]
If account is taken of the environmental issues and the decision can be made that it can come here on its trial run, the sooner we can let the British know about it the better. [More…]
It seemed to me that as nothing in environmental terms stood in the way it was proper that the British be advised as soon as possible of our decision to allow Concorde to come to Australia. [More…]
We will give the operators notice, under due process, when we are satisfied about the environmental impact. [More…]
The letter, whether from our Department or the British Department, indicated that the proponents of Concorde, British Airways and Air France, had been asked to prepare a final environmental impact statement. [More…]
In other words, no such final environmental impact statement is yet available, at least not at the time the letter was written. [More…]
In addition, the Department informed our Minister that an addendum to the environmental impact statement would be prepared by it and it would reply to the comments received as a result of the public circulation of the draft environmental impact statement. [More…]
The fact that the United Kingdom and the United States of America required an environmental impact statement would confirm that our own legislation is not excessive on this score. [More…]
Next, in section 6 it is indicated that, in order to fulfil this requirement to examine fully and take into account environmental effects, certain administrative procedures must be followed. [More…]
Section 8 (b) indicates that each Minister shall do all that is necessary, consistent with relevant laws, ‘for ensuring that any final environmental impact statement’- I emphasise the words ‘final environmental impact statement’- ‘formulated in accordance with those procedures, and any suggestions or recommendations made in accordance with those procedures, are taken into account, in matters to which they relate, in the department administered by him and by any authority of Australia in respect of which he has ministerial responsibilities’. [More…]
We have to await a final environmental impact statement. [More…]
But no final environmental impact statement has yet been prepared by the proponents. [More…]
We called for an environmental impact statement and the draft was received and distributed as required by the administrative procedures, as the Minister pointed out. [More…]
Section 9.1 of our procedures requires the Department of Environment to examine the final environmental impact statement. [More…]
In summary, in the light of the foregoing observations- which really related to whether there would be a public hearing; it was always the Minister’s right to deny a public hearing- 1 agree with your contention that a public inquiry is not warranted and I am prepared to recommend to the Government that Concorde operations into Australia in the form described in the Environmental Impact Statement be not opposed . [More…]
There has to be, first of all, a draft environmental impact statement. [More…]
Your Department have asked that we, as proponents, now proceed with the preparation of the Final Environmental Impact Statement. [More…]
Having studied the submissions received as a result of the procedure for public comments we do not anticipate that any other minor editorial changes to the Environmental Impact Statement are required. [More…]
subject to these editorial changes, the draft will become the Final Environmental Impact Statement. [More…]
Our intention is to prepare an Addendum to the Environmental Impact Statement which will be our reply to the comments received as a result of the public circulation of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement earlier this year. [More…]
Why has the environmental impact study completed by the Australian National Line on its container berth development at Botany Bay not been tabled in Parliament. [More…]
and (2) There is no legislative requirement for the completed Environmental Impact Statement to be tabled in Parliament. [More…]
I think honourable members will be aware of the difficulties associated with environmental problems that the Australian National Line has run into with trucks carrying goods to and from Mort ‘s Dock. [More…]
It is vital that environmental and conservation issues be properly weighed in the making of decisions, whether by governments or by private developers. [More…]
For too long in our history environmental issues were ignored and many of our greatest man made and natural assets have been destroyed. [More…]
Environmental issues must be one of the factors considered in each decision, together with other factors such as the economic cost and community convenience. [More…]
It has attempted in too many cases to give environmental issues an effective veto. [More…]
This is as unbalanced and undesirable a situation in the opposite direction as it was when environmental issues were not considered at all. [More…]
It is expected that the selected consultant, if appointed shortly, would complete the commission of detailed plans and reports, including a comprehensive environmental impact statement by late 1977. [More…]
In furtherance of the objective of ensuring that matters affecting the environment are fully examined and taken into account, the Government has given very careful consideration to a classified draft environmental impact statement prepared by the Department of Defence. [More…]
Nevertheless, in order that maximum possible information, consistent with the interests of Australia be made available to the public, a document titled ‘Environmental Considerations of Visits of Nuclear Powered Warships to Australia’ dated May 1976 is attached to this statement. [More…]
The Government is taking these decisions on the basis of international experience with nuclear powered warships and in light of the assessments in the unclassified environmental document which I am tabling. [More…]
Those matters are dealt with in detail in the document ‘Environmental Considerations of Visits of Nuclear Powered Warships to Australia’. [More…]
Appropriate arrangements concerning environmental safeguards will be applied in consultation with state governments by a group of officials led by officials of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) tabled a document- as you were careful to point out to him, not for the first time, Mr Speaker, he did not need leave to table a document- of in this case over 30 pages titled ‘Environmental Considerations of Visits of Nuclear Powered Warships to Australia’. [More…]
Secondly, the environmental aspects, both Commonwealth and State, had not yet been investigated. [More…]
The only questions which arise are the questions of absolute liability being accepted by the nation whose flag the ship carries and that there should be appropriate environmental safeguards available in Australia in the unlikely event, although obviously the catastrophic event, of some mishap occurring because of that visit. [More…]
Nevertheless, I wish to make this point: Towards the end of last year the position had arisen in consultation between the Department of Defence and the Department of Environment where my Government was about to make an approach to the governments of New South Wales and Western Australia, to consult them about the environmental aspects of nuclear powered ships- in this case nuclear powered allied warships- visiting their ports. [More…]
In what manner the security, environmental safety and matters of that nature could be effectively protected. [More…]
Proper attitudes, sound planning, and enlightened decision-making, taking account of all the facts, are the whole basis of responsible environmental protection. [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…]
However, on looking through the document entitled Environmental Considerations of Visits of Nuclear Powered Warships to Australia I am tempted to mention a couple of things. [More…]
I seriously question the validity of this document placed before us and headed Environmental Considerations of Visits of Nuclear Powered Warships to Australia. [More…]
Where is the final environmental impact statement on warfare conducted by nuclear powered ships? [More…]
As Commonwealth financial assistance is likely to be sought for the development of the project, when will an environmental impact study be commenced by his Department. [More…]
Thus at this stage there is no basis on which my Department needs to take any action to examine the environmental aspects of this matter. [More…]
satisfactory reception of television programs that would adequately serve the interests of the community in that area could be obtained in that area by the means to be authorized by the permit; or ‘(d) in the opinion of the Board, the use of the means to be authorized by the permit to provide a television service in that area is necessary or desirable for aesthetic or environmental reasons. [More…]
That was done by the enactment of the environment protection legislation, and the appointment of permanent heads of departments that had special environmental significance to the Interim Committee on the National Estate, apart from conditions embodied in the legislation currently being amended. [More…]
The majority of people in Australia are concerned with the quality of their environment and are able to make assessments of the environmental aspects of any project likely to threaten that quality. [More…]
The real result is that, whereas the principal Act allowed for wide ranging representationa wide ranging Commission, if you likerepresenting not only the States but all the interested organisations such as the National Trust organisations, Aboriginal groups and environmental protection groups, this Act limits the range of expertise available to the Commission and increases their workload to such an extent that the program of saving the National Estate will be put back many years. [More…]
The Liberal and National Country Parry would provide funds to the States to assist in the preservation of areas and buildings of historical, social, cultural, ecological and environmental significance. [More…]
These are very real examples of how we are concerned with and are protecting Australia’s environmental heritage. [More…]
It is anticipated that the environmental impact of the scheme will be largely beneficial. [More…]
The conservation, development and management of our water resources must take place within a broader framework, including overall economic, environmental and social planning. [More…]
The State has undertaken to carry out an environmental study into the impact of agricultural chemicals used in irrigated agriculture, mainly cotton, in the Namoi Valley. [More…]
Let me remind present Government members of the years preceding 1972 when Australians became frustrated and impatient with the lack of roads, schools, hospitals, sewerage, environmental protection, health care and so on, the dilatory approach to those in receipt of or needing social services and the neglect of the Aboriginal people, which was so bad that when employment figures are quoted now they are inaccurate because at that stage there was no recording of them, or a poor recording of them and lack of attention to them. [More…]
The reasons behind Canada’s review of its mineral policy are the same problems that Australia faces, and they are: The effect changes in global economic conditions can have on the mineral industry and on the economic wellbeing of the nation; the close relationship of the mineral industry to many economic and social problems, such as the rate and direction of economic development; the adequacy of supply to the domestic markets; environmental control; foreign ownership content; taxation; resource adequacy; and the role of multinational corporations. [More…]
At a time when unemployment is expected to climb dramatically unemployment benefits are to be cut by nearly $34m; Aboriginal welfare is to be cut by $33m; migrant education by $ 10m; urban and environmental improvement programs by $ 142m; while wealthy mining corporations are given rich bounty. [More…]
The visits take place only after all the proper environmental controls have been applied, and my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is principally in charge of those matters. [More…]
Such visits take place only after the fullest possible environmental precautions have been taken as they ought to be, as they must be, as they were in Western Australia, as they were in Melbourne. [More…]
I am glad to say that in spite of his earlier decision, the Premier of New South Wales has agreedthis has now happened- to discussions taking place between environmental officers of the Commonwealth and of the State of New South Wales. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development will remember that in the document entitled Environmental Considerations of Visits of Nuclear Powered Warships to Australia tabled on 4 June, it was stated that because the authority for controlling emergency services is vested in State governments, the Commonwealth Government must rely on the States to establish and control the safety organisation in their ports. [More…]
I wrote to a number of Premiers- that was done in June and was not by any means just as a result of this exercise- seeking examination of the environmental issues involved in relation to this matter so that nuclear ships could go into as many Australian ports as possible with complete impunity and safety and with all the proper safeguards taken. [More…]
I hope that there will be an answer because it is essential for Australia’s own purposes that nuclear ships be able to enter as many of Australia’s ports and harbours as possible, bearing in mind the necessity to take account of essential environmental safeguards. [More…]
We are prepared to welcome visits of the U.S. and U.K. nuclear warships subject to the stringent safety precautions ordered by the environmental report . [More…]
The Federal report on the safety and environmental aspects of visits of U.S. and U.K. nuclear powered warships which was subjected to independent examination by the Australian Ionizing Radiation Advisory Council. [More…]
We are prepared to welcome visits of the U.S. and U.K. nuclear warships subject to the stringent safety precautions ordered by the environmental report. [More…]
If one assumes a very conservative estimate, that gives a density of 25 persons per hectare, making appropriate allowances for areas of sensitive environmental and recreational significance. [More…]
The other areas of government affected were the Department of Urban and Regional Development, the Curriculum Development Centre, the Bureau of Environmental Studies and the Bureau of Meteorology. [More…]
It has cut back on any improved sewerage proposals, on improved housing, particularly in the public sector, in improvements to urban public transport, health services, real value in education and in environmental and cultural services within our community. [More…]
The site has already been subjected to substantial environmental study and no major problems in this context have been identified. [More…]
The site offers comparatively low infrastructure costs and considerable time savings because of the planning and environmental work which has been done already in connection with the Redcliff petrochemical project. [More…]
The fact is that the coal industry- a major export industry in my electorate- is now on the point of being held to ransom by a State Government involved in some heavy politicking over ‘environmental questions ‘. [More…]
The Government will not take any decisions regarding the development of Australian uranium until it has received and considered the report of the Ranger uranium environmental inquiry. [More…]
The honourable member neglected to say that when his Party was in office its effort was to nominate one site, not to discuss that with anybody and not to consider the environmental implications but simply to say to the district which the honourable member is now seeking to defend: ‘You shall have it’. [More…]
Environmental matters have an interrelationship with urban and regional development because everything is connected to everything else. [More…]
It does not matter what one looks at, whether it is essential conservation programs, air quality monitoring programs, soil conservation studies or the Botany Bay environmental project. [More…]
I understand his point of view, but the limits of my responsibilities under the Environmental Protection Act are accurately described. [More…]
I understand his point of view, but the limits of my responsibilities under the Environmental Protection Act are accurately described. [More…]
I was led to comment on this by a recent report of a project being carried out by the Centre for Environmental Studies at Princeton University. [More…]
It is noted that an environmental study into the impact of agricultural chemical use in irrigation and that sort of thing will be required and that this will be subject to approval by the Minister for National Resources (Mr Anthony). [More…]
These could include such vital aspects as flood mitigation, flood plain management, environmental matters, etc., but I must stress that any further changes to the charter of the Commission would still require the unanimous approval of all 4 Governments. [More…]
The way is now open whereby the 4 Governments can pool their expertise to provide advice to the River Murray Commission on current and emerging problems, having regard to the needs of rural industries and urban development, as well as recreational and environmental aspects along the river system. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party recognises the growing number of social and environmental considerations which simply are not quantifiable in money terms. [More…]
The Albertan environmental and equity conditions are far more vigorous than those imposed in Australia. [More…]
Of necessity, governments are obliged to do 3 things: firstly, to ensure adequate supervision; secondly, to ensure adequate environmental protection; and thirdly, to ensure that the country’s future is protected. [More…]
He will know that last Thursday his Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development issued a statement that the Government ‘will be looking very closely at the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry and will be announcing its decisions’. [More…]
There is a greater awareness in the community today of the social and environmental issues and, of course, that is a highly desirable thing. [More…]
In view of the far reaching consequences of the recommendations of the Fraser Island environmental impact report, will the Prime Minister give an assurance that adequate time will be provided for the proper assessment of that report and the furnishing by affected parties of submissions to the Government prior to a final decision? [More…]
They are vastly serious for the very many environmentalists who believe that important environmental issues are involved in Fraser Island. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the final report of the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
If there is any doubt in any government department or amongst any government services about the Government’s attitude to the Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, perhaps this answer to the honourable gentleman’s question can be taken as dispelling that doubt. [More…]
I understand that hookworm depends on the environmental conditions in which people live. [More…]
Therefore it is very important to try to improve the environmental conditions of these people. [More…]
I am told that there have been encouraging results from improving the environmental conditions of Aboriginal people in Queensland. [More…]
In trying to eradicate hookworm we have to improve the environmental conditions of the people in those areas. [More…]
The Senate Select Committee on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders presented a report entitled The Environmental Conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the Preservation of their Sacred Sites. [More…]
Normally, expenditure of Commonwealth funds would require the preparation by the States of environmental impact statements on the proposed plantings. [More…]
Minerals continuing to meet the environmental obligations as set down in Mining Lease 102 Special Conditions. [More…]
In areas such as the area improvement program, urban roads programs and environmental programs- just to name a few- the tied grants appropriated for these pro- grams were tied only after full discussions with local government, the community and State governments. [More…]
He has been given the post of visiting professor of environmental studies. [More…]
That in view of the severe consequences to the people of the Maryborough-Hervey Bay district, this House should debate the findings of the Fraser Island environmental inquiry; [More…]
a contradiction exists between an environmental report commissioned in 1974 by the Queensland Government and the report recently tabled in this House; and [More…]
b) the powers of the Commonwealth in export licensing should not be invoked when the Commonwealth is in conflict with a State Government on environmental or other issues not directly related to that power. [More…]
I think the House generally knows that the main purpose of the discussions with the Premier related to issues involving Fraser Island which involve not only, as I have indicated, vastly important environmental issues but also issues of great importance, as the honourable member for Wide Bay would be aware, concerning the employment and the livelihood of the people and industries in the area. [More…]
The highlight of our environmental legislation was the Australian Heritage Commission Act. [More…]
All of these legislative commitments were supported by action- action in appropriating funds for projects worthy of our environmental goals. [More…]
This is just one more example of its lack of environmental commitment. [More…]
Not only was this decision a clear breach of the legislation, but also it shows a complete disregard that powerful elements of the current Government have for environmental considerations. [More…]
In Queensland there are only 6 people employed in the Co-ordinator General’s Department with the responsibility under the State administrative arrangements to look at environmental questions arising from the development proposal. [More…]
These people never get the chance to comment upon mining proposals because the Queensland Government feels that the environmental issues concerned can be looked after properly in Mining Warden’s Courts. [More…]
Officials of this court are not qualified to consider environmental matters. [More…]
Apart from projects funded by federal funds or needing Federal Government approval, environmental impact statements can be sought only when application is made to obtain a licence to export prohibited products. [More…]
These men have no real feeling for environmental questions. [More…]
They were used for research and technical, administrative and information functions provided by various environmental action groups of this country. [More…]
We considered community participation in environmental decisions as essential. [More…]
We would never have forced environmental centres to close as this Government will force the environmental centres of certain areas to close. [More…]
I wish that the Minister’s officials in the corner would give him a little education on environmental questions. [More…]
Of course the national sewerage program is important in this environmental question. [More…]
All our urban and regional development programs complemented our environmental programs. [More…]
It was our intention to use this program to set aside large areas of the Dandenongs in Victoria and the Blue Mountains escarpment in New South Wales for the recreational and environmental purposes of our urban dwellers. [More…]
Recommendation (x) deals with the habitat of rare and endangered fauna and with requiring environmental impact statements on proposed Commonwealth Government financed or controlled development. [More…]
Over the past decade, debate and concern about environmental and conservation matters have been widespread, particularly as they relate to our natural environment. [More…]
What concerns me, however, is that not all groups supposedly interested in promoting conservation and environmental issues do so with balance or honesty. [More…]
Over the next few months this Parliament will be making important decisions closely tied to environmental issues and the preservation of our national heritage. [More…]
The Parliament will be charged with protecting many areas of unique environmental significance. [More…]
I believe the Bill will provide in the future the vehicle by which environmental protection and conservation of our natural resources can all be achieved in balance with our needs for productivity and for the nation’s economic welfare. [More…]
In the long term it is proposed to site other works in this area- of about 9 hectareswhich like the tannery have the potential to cause some environmental problems. [More…]
We were assured by officers of the Department of the Capital Territory that, in the construction and operation of any plant to be developed in the area, laws for environmental protection would be rigidly enforced. [More…]
by leave- The Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry reported its final findings and recommendations to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 2 1 October 1976. [More…]
The inquiry took 15 months to reach its conclusions, and is thus a fully detailed and comprehensive review of the environmental features of Fraser Island and the impacts of the sandmining industry. [More…]
Having regard to the evidence in respect of all of the environmental aspects of the making of decisions by or on behalf of the Australian (Commonwealth) Government in relation to the exportation from Australia of minerals (including minerals that have been subjected to processing or treatment) extracted or which may hereafter be extracted from Fraser Island in the State of Queensland, the commission recommends that: [More…]
We would be of real assistance in employing the men who are hurt by necessary, progressive decisions taken by the Government of honourable members opposite, decisions which we applaud for environmental reasons. [More…]
Community Development (Mr Newman) announced the decision of the Federal Government on the report of the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
In this case a previous environmental report commissioned by the Queensland Government and on which the mining was initiated has been swept aside. [More…]
It would appear now that the ability of the States to determine and manage their own development will continually be at risk of Federal intervention because of environmental issues. [More…]
I suggest that State governments should carry the responsibility for environmental impact studies. [More…]
A government or a committee which had a bias or an interest towards New South Wales- I mean New South Wales no mischief in singling it out for this example- could well turn around and bring in a report suggesting that the methods of open cut mining in Queensland were barbaric, and that such operations should be closed down on environmental grounds. [More…]
This Government has applied the environmental protection impact study retrospectively. [More…]
Certainly everyone acknowledges that consideration must be given to environmental issues. [More…]
So, having established, in accordance with the environmental protection legislation, a committee of inquiry, we were prepared to await results of that inquiry and then be guided by the findings of fact of the inquiry in order to determine what our future policy should be. [More…]
If honourable members look at the record as it is set out in the report of the inquiry or if they look at the parliamentary record they will find that the Minister for Minerals and Energy at that time made it quite clear that any extensions and any further export licences would depend upon the environmental assessment being undertaken by the inquiry. [More…]
Fraser Island is of great environmental importance. [More…]
It is of aesthetic, historic, scientific and social significance for the present community, and for future generations of Australians, as well as being of international environmental significance. [More…]
He said he agreed with this- it is difficult to identify any more environmentally significant and fragile area on the Island than that covered by MLs 102, 95 and the nearby mining leases of Queensland Titanium Mines Pry Ltd, MLs 84, 104 and 105. [More…]
The environmental aspects of decisions having the effect of permitting the mining of all or any of these Teases will involve major permanent and irreversible environmental harm to the landscape, vegetation and lakes of the island and, consequently, substantially damage its value to the Australian people. [More…]
The whole concept of the environmental impact statement procedure envisages that people’s rights come first. [More…]
The environmental inquiry should be concerned with the total environment. [More…]
On the first page of the report it is stated that the environment- …. includes all aspects of the surroundings of man, whether affecting him as an individual or in his social groupings, and ‘environmental’ has a corresponding meaning. [More…]
I would suggest that sometimes on environmental issues that might be an appropriate motto to be adopted by some people. [More…]
The Commission of Inquiry was appointed on 12 July 1975 in pursuance of section 1 1 of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 to conduct an inquiry known as the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry: … in respect of all of the environmental aspects of the making of decisions by or on behalf of the Australian (Commonwealth) Government in relation to the exportation from Australia of minerals (including minerals that have been subjected to processing or treatment) extracted or which may hereafter be extracted from Fraser Island in the State of Queensland. [More…]
As an environmentalist I say to other environmentalists that they should be working to make sure that the people and the workers of the area concerned are not disadvantaged in any way. [More…]
If they are there may be a backlash against environmentalists. [More…]
If the people, particularly the workers, and the companies concerned suffer a great deal, some repercussions will flow to the whole environmental situation. [More…]
In the past year the Government has given no indication at all of any understandings of environmental issues. [More…]
The Government has cut back drastically on all major environmental commitments. [More…]
Therefore I hope there will be a financial commitment to this side environmental issue. [More…]
It worries me that this is just a sop to the environmental groups and concerned Australians. [More…]
The Government may not have the same commitment to the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry chaired by Mr Justice Fox. [More…]
Whilst I do not criticise the decision on Fraser Island- in fact I have said very clearly that I applaud it- from an environmental protection point of view I am worried by the way the Government intends to protect the displaced workers. [More…]
Is the same attitude going to be taken in regard to the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry? [More…]
There has been a wide-ranging debate covering all environmental matters affecting the community. [More…]
The Covernment cannot make a decision in relation to one inquiry commenced under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act and then ignore the report of another environmental inquiry. [More…]
The report is heavily biased in favour of environmental considerations and is apparently written from an extremely narrow viewpoint. [More…]
The report obviously pre-supposes that Fraser Island is the exclusive preserve of environmentalists and scientists . [More…]
What really worries me is this: If the Federal Government accepts this as the bible for all environmental reports, what will happen to my area of Agnes Waters where the sand mining companies have moved in and have established leases? [More…]
Will the Minister confirm that the final report of the Commission of Inquiry on Fraser Island is primarily concerned with the environmental aspects of Commonwealth decisions regarding the export of minerals extracted from the island? [More…]
The honourable member is correct in stating that under the terms of reference of the inquiry the commissioners focused their attention on the environmental aspects of the Commonwealth’s decision on the granting of export licences. [More…]
Any review of the adequacy of current measures is unsatisfactory if it fails to consider the importance of broader environmental factors. [More…]
I do not wish to extend the indulgence which the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith has allowed me in permitting me to intrude into the debate but I wish to say that not only should the School of Art not be transferred to Launceston but also that the School of Environmental Design and Planning must be kept in Hobart. [More…]
by leave- The Government has received the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry which comprised His Honour Mr Justice Fox, Professor C. B. Kerr and Mr G. G. Kelleher as the Commission of Inquiry. [More…]
This environmental inquiry has been long and exhaustive and has presented opportunities for all interested individuals and groups within the community to put their views. [More…]
The second report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry should further illuminate particular issues. [More…]
The preparation of environmental impact statements for uranium mining projects outside of the Northern Territory may now proceed but the Government will not make final decisions until the Commission of Inquiry has made its second report. [More…]
The environmental impact statements will need to take account of any physical and environmental safeguards appropriate to mining sites set down in the inquiry’s first report. [More…]
The Government is therefore setting in hand, subject to environmental requirements, action in relation to: [More…]
We are concerned about the economic and environmental consequences of the continuation of agreements like this and we are concerned that the studies undertaken by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and the Forestry and Timber Bureau are not public and may have overlooked many important issues. [More…]
The operations of the Softwood Forestry Agreement Acts of 1967 and 1972 with particular reference to their environmental, social and economic impact and make appropriate recommendations as to the form of any future softwood industry agreements legislation. [More…]
The Standing Committee was concerned that the existing program did not pay enough attention to economic and environmental considerations. [More…]
We believe that an environmental impact statement should be called for from the States before they are allowed to clear fell native forest areas for the planting of softwood forests. [More…]
Immediate consideration should be given to providing financial assistance to the States for the regeneration of hardwood areas in a way that ensures maintenance of forest diversity and other environmental values. [More…]
Why do we not have a policy to regenerate native hardwood forest areas for environmental purposes? [More…]
They highlight the need for an independent inquiry into the forestry industry to look at the economics, the environmental aspects and the effects on our soils and watersheds. [More…]
I am concerned, firstly, with the environmental aspects of this Bill and, secondly, with the fact that it is providing employment that is so needed today in this country. [More…]
Although I am interested in the environment, I am not a rabid environmentalist. [More…]
Recommendation (vi) states that money should not be loaned to the States for the planting of softwoods in areas where native forest is to be clear felled unless, of course, a thorough environmental impact study is produced and various other aspects, such as sou quality, show such areas to be suitable for the planting of softwoods. [More…]
The Minister, in his second reading speech, said that an environmental impact statement was not required on this occasion before these agreements were to be entered into with the States because the time taken would halt the industry. [More…]
If, however, further agreements are to be entered into I would sincerely hope that environmental impact statements will be required. [More…]
I restate that environmental impact studies and statements should be produced by the States for the various areas that they wish to plant with softwood forests in the future. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) shows a deep concern for environmental issues. [More…]
Due to the complexity of the problems connected with forestry and the paucity of knowledge on its environmental and social effects, this approach may appear to be cautious. [More…]
My colleague the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges) made some comment about the environmental hazards of softwood forestry. [More…]
In fact, the areas might be quite stable and there may be no effect on the water quality but to date one has the impression that too little examination has been done in the way of environmental impact statements for the foresters or the public bodies concerned to be able to say with certainty that water quality, the habitat for our native fauna and a number of other matters would not be affected. [More…]
So the appeal for environmental impact statements is a reasonable one. [More…]
If not, will the Minister tell the House how a speaker at the demonstration had a copy of his statement on the Ranger uranium environmental study approximately VA hours prior to its being delivered in this House? [More…]
The conservation, development and management of water resources must take place in the broad framework not only of development and management of resources generally, but also of overall economic, environmental and social planning. [More…]
The philosophy which the Australian Water Resources Council proposes seeks to maximise community benefit, having regard to economic growth, the impact on social wellbeing, on regional development and on environmental qualities generally. [More…]
One of the most significant environmental studies undertaken to date, and continuing, relates to the waters of Westernport Bay and the catchment area, including groundwater. [More…]
The important point I emphasise is that this was an environmental study under a conservation ministry laying down a policy which will allow development of resources without damage to a sensitive and significant coastal and water environment. [More…]
Before works could commence the Government required an environmental study to be presented. [More…]
In general terms, the investigators found that no major environmental defects would result from the proposed works, although the exclusion of the public from parts of the catchment area of the Thomson Dam is causing concern to a large number of people and to local government authorities in the Latrobe Valley area of Victoria. [More…]
-I ask the Prime Minister: In view of the favourable reference in the Fraser Island environmental report totimber harvesting activities on Fraser Island, will he give an assurance that such activities will not be affected in the event of Fraser Island being declared part of the National Estate? [More…]
The Station will therefore be instrumental in the development and proliferation of livestock herds which are better adapted to our environmental conditions. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s justification for siting the power station at Newport is to achieve a political objective and not an industrial or environmental objective. [More…]
He is seeking to use a declining and valuable resource, in natural gas, for that station in order to arrive at an environmental decision. [More…]
Since the environmental impact study was conducted it has been disclosed that the power station will be changed over to other forms of fuel if natural gas becomes in short supply, and that it will be a continuing rather than a peak load station. [More…]
The Minister is not to exercise any of those powers unless it is necessary to do so for purposes of safety or environmental emergency. [More…]
That this House is of the opinion that in all future environmental investigations involving industrial or mining projects any recommendation to terminate, phase out or to alter the projects be rejected unless the following considerations are satisfied: [More…]
Nothing demonstrates more tragically the inadequacy of the Fraser Government’s response to the report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry than its obvious determination to evade and misrepresent the findings of the inquiry. [More…]
Justice Fox and the two commissioners from the Ranger environmental inquiry have attacked the Government over its interpretaton of the Fox Report. [More…]
However, these fears have been unnecessarily inflamed by emotionalism on the part of certain environmental groups and fanned by irresponsible utterances of Labor politicians. [More…]
In informed debates there is agreement, on both sides of the nuclear power issue, that uranium mining carried out under today’s tight regulations is neither an environmental problem nor a health hazard. [More…]
Their empty statements on safeguards, controls and concerns about nuclear war do nothing to mask their basic concerns with advancing the interests of uranium mining companies, regardless of the social and environmental costs that ordinary Australians may have to pay. [More…]
The magnitude of the problem that this Parliament is now discussing cannot be compared to the possible pollution that can be produced by a Newport power station or the possible environmental destruction of a Fraser Island. [More…]
-Mr Deputy Speaker, this debate encompasses the contents of two documents, the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry and the Ministerial statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) in respect to the supply of Australian uranium under existing international contracts. [More…]
The report of the Ranger Environmental Inquiry or the Fox Report, as it is known, is a document of international significance. [More…]
The Government has engaged and is engaging in a massive deception, and the Fraser Island decision in respect of the dishonouring of contracts following the environmental report is but a throw-away to the environmentalists in Australia to gain some ground for the Government to move rapidly into the development of uranium resources. [More…]
I would like to quote one part of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Report which the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating) was not game to quote. [More…]
The effect of CO, and dust which is a direct environmental consequence of fossil fuel combustion, should be debited against those energy sources. [More…]
It devotes only 3 pages to the environmental hazards of non-nuclear energy resources and concludes that the environmental hazards of fossil fuel use are severe, particularly in the case of coal. [More…]
Australia is already suffering from the environmental effects of a fossil-powered economy. [More…]
the relationship between Aboriginal health and environmental, social and cultural factors; [More…]
I expect that the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs will therefore find that report of value as well as the Senate Committee’s report on environmental conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders which make some specific recommendations on Aboriginal health. [More…]
In view of the findings of the First Report of the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry, which reported on 1 December 1975, was the contract referred to him or to Cabinet. [More…]
1) and (2) As announced to the Parliament by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 10 November, the Government has reviewed in detail the findings and recommendations of the final report of the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry and has decided that the export of minerals extracted from Fraser Island, other than from below high water mark on the beach south of Indian Head, should be phased out and export should not be permitted for minerals mined after 3 1 December 1 976. [More…]
Let us deal with the environmental issue first before getting down to the issue of whether the Newport power station or something like it is needed in Victoria. [More…]
The project has been the subject of the most detailed examination on environmental grounds. [More…]
The honourable member for Melbourne seems to ignore the fact that the Environmental Protection Authority in Victoria has looked into this matter in the greatest detail and completely cleared the project. [More…]
Nevertheless, the fact remains that only 4 per cent of all strikes have been politically motivated or motivated by sociological reasons such as environmental issues. [More…]
If we look at the environmental issues just briefly we can see why the unions are so concerned. [More…]
If we look at the history of the granting of the licence for the power station in Newport we can see that in fact the Government pressured the Environmental Protection Authority and the Appeals Board in a way which enabled the Newport power station to be given the okay. [More…]
The fact is that after the first decision by the Environmental Protection Authority the State Electricity Commission appealed it. [More…]
When the matter went to the Environmental Protection Authority Appeal Board the Board increased the allowable limits for ozone in the atmosphere so that the power station could get a licence. [More…]
To give the House an idea of the enormous increase, it provided a standard of 1 3 parts per 100 million for ozone in the atmosphere compared with 6 parts per 100 million laid down by the World Health Organisation and 8 parts per 100 million laid down by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. [More…]
Whilst those inquiries were going on the Victorian Government let contracts worth $100m relating to Newport despite the fact that it did not have environmental approval. [More…]
It is the fault of that government because it took quite precipitate action in letting those contracts before it had environmental approval. [More…]
So when it is said in this House for environmental or other reasons that mining needs to be looked at suspiciously in the Australian environment and needs to be curbed in the Australian environment- that is the background of many of the statements- that is a grossly incorrect proposition to put. [More…]
Government and, secondly, the health and environmental questions raised by these allegations. [More…]
to an environmental association to appeal to a State Planning Authority against consent given for the construction of radio masts in an area which is a scenic backdrop to a capital city; [More…]
to three conservation groups to be represented by counsel at the final stages of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry; [More…]
to a conservation group to pursue action in the High Court of Australia to ensure that procedures under the Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 were fully implemented. [More…]
Inequitable economic growth, reflected in the wide disparities in wealth which now exist between countries and between human beings and which condemn millions of people to a life of poverty, without satisfying the basic requirements for food, education, health services, shelter, environmental hygiene, water and energy; [More…]
Social, economic, ecological and environmental deterioration which are exemplified at the national and international levels by inequalities in living conditions, social segregation, racial discrimination, acute unemployment, illiteracy, disease and poverty, the breakdown of social relationships and traditional cultural values and the increasing degradation of life-supporting resources of air, water and land; [More…]
The nations must avoid the pollution of the biosphere and the oceans and should join in the effort to end irrational exploitation of all environmental resources, whether nonrenewable or renewable in the long term. [More…]
All acts by nations and people should therefore be inspired by a deep respect for the protection of the environmental resources upon which life itself depends. [More…]
Such policies must be an essential component of an over-all development strategy, linking and harmonising them with policies on industrialisation, agriculture, social welfare, and environmental and cultural preservation so that each supports the other in a progressive improvement in wellbeing of all mankind. [More…]
Health is an essential element in the development of the individual and one of the goals of human settlement policies should be to improve environmental health conditions and basic health services. [More…]
In achieving the socio-economic and environmental objectives of the development of human settlements, high priority should be given to the actual design and physical planning processes which have as their main tasks the synthesis of various planning approaches and the transformation of broad and general goals into specific design solutions. [More…]
In the planning and management of human settlements, Governments should take into consideration all pertinent recommendations on human settlements planning which have emerged from earlier conferences dealing with the quality of life and development problems which affect it, starting with the high global priority represented by the transformation of the economic order at the national and international levels (sixth and seventh special sessions), the environmental impact of human settlements (Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment), the housing and sanitary ramifications of population growth (World Population Conference, Bucharest), rural development and the need to increase food supply (World Food Conference, Rome) and the effect on women of housing and urban development (International Women’s Conference, Mexico City). [More…]
The matters to be discussed will encompass the preliminary thinking of the government in this area as outlined to the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry, the measures proposed in the first report of that inquiry and recent international developments both in this field and in relation to other initiatives for the strengthening of the international non-proliferation regime. [More…]
However, I am pleased to say that when we are considering matters of historical interest and environmental matters oft-times party barriers disappear substantially. [More…]
Apart from the measures announced on 1 1 November 1976 by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Government’s attitude is that policy decisions in relation to the further development of the Australian uranium industry will have to await the outcome of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
This survey is concerned with mapping the major flora and fauna communities and other environmental elements (e.g. [More…]
Research into the ecological relationships of Australian ecosystems has and is being encouraged by Commonwealth financial assistance to State agencies and consultants under the NEIS (Natural Environmental Investigations and Surveys) program and the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Research and Survey Program (4.2.3.2). [More…]
Investigate and make recommendations to the Minister for Transport on the economic, environmental and safety regulation of air transport, and the provision and operation of air transport facilities and services. [More…]
The principal recommendation of that report was that the Government should undertake a further detailed study of all ecological and environmental factors associated with the burial of material at Maralinga. [More…]
Mr Walker, the present AttorneyGeneral and a member of Cabinet in New South Wales, said that the Bay project would bring in its wake environmental degradation and human misery which could be validly paralleled with the senseless destruction of war. [More…]
It constitutes a very serious environmental and safety hazard. [More…]
It would still take 6 months or more for all the various environmental investigations and approvals and for preliminary plans and engineering plans to be drawn up. [More…]
The residents are marching backwards in time as far as the environmental problem is concerned because, even with the best will in the world, the roads cannot be built before the port is open. [More…]
In respect of the Fraser Island sand mining activities terminated by the Federal Government decision based on environmental considerations, will the Minister state the conditions to which the export licences were subject? [More…]
Final Report of the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry (Question No. [More…]
On what date was the Final Report of the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry (a) placed in the hands of the printers, (b) available in printed form to the Commissioners of the Inquiry and (c) forwarded to him by the Commissioners. [More…]
I am informed by the Presiding Commissioner that the Final Report of the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry was handed to the publishers on 6 August 1976 and by them to the printers shortly thereafter. [More…]
Did his Department make any submissions on this matter to the Senate Standing Committee Inquiry on the Environmental Impact of the Woodchip Industry. [More…]
I am concerned about the environmental implications of widespread attack not only on our forests, but on other agricultural and horticultural crops susceptible to this disease. [More…]
Environmental Investigations [More…]
That this House is of the opinion that in all future environmental investigations involving industrial and rnining projects any recommendation to terminate, phase out or to alter the project be rejected unless the following conditions are satisfied: [More…]
Honourable members will no doubt recall that following the chain of events resulting in the termination of sand mining on Fraser Island I sought and received from the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) assurances that the traditional timber harvesting activities on Fraser Island were not under threat as a consequence of the report of the environmental commission or, for that matter, from the ambitions of those who might seek to damage or destroy an industry which has served Maryborough and Australia for over a century. [More…]
In an article in a recent issue of ‘Environs’, a publication of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, Professor F. H. Talbot, the Director of the Environmental Studies Program at Macquarie University comments on the report of the Commission on Inquiry into Fraser Island. [More…]
For Professor Talbert to use the environmental report as an authority in some areas and to ignore its specific findings in others brings into question either his motives or his competence. [More…]
It includes members working in the academic fields of demography, economics, sociology, medicine, urban and environmental studies and foreign policy. [More…]
Environmental issues are high on the list of these problem areas. [More…]
I hope that the new study going on into Sydney Airport will come up with recommendations which will advance even more the environmental factors involved and thus assist the people of St George. [More…]
The Vernon report also noted that immigration tended to raise the level of imports in the medium term without appreciably raising exports and leads to overcrowding and environmental deterioration of the cities. [More…]
Even if Australia enjoyed unlimited natural resources as the Minister claims, there are very real environmental constraints on the development of our rural and urban cities. [More…]
The Commission went on to state that ‘population policy is no substitute for social, economic and environmental policy’. [More…]
Government action and legislation could be used to reduce the risks of environmental damage. [More…]
This corresponds with the emphasis of the first report of our own Environmental Inquiry and the Inquiry recently conducted in the United Kingdom. [More…]
You may be aware that the Australian Government does not intend to take final decisions on the issue of future marketing of Australian uranium until it has received the final report of the Environmental Inquiry which is currently being conducted in Australia. [More…]
The first report of the Environmental Inquiry, which dealt with the more general issues involved in uranium export and nuclear power, stressed the need to ensure that effective restraints exist against nuclear weapons proliferation and it stressed also the need for the fullest and most effective safeguards on uranium exported by Australia. [More…]
The first was the uncertainty surrounding the development of Australia’s uranium resources pending the outcome of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
The wrecking of Medibank is an attack on women; the neglect of the cities is an attack on women; the Fraser Government’s onslaught on social welfare, urban transport, sewerage programs, area improvement, environmental and recreational programs are attacks on the living standards of everyone, men and women alike. [More…]
An environmental study had to be concluded and that study in turn had to be considered by the Victorian Government. [More…]
During the inquiry of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment and Conservation the Committee attempted to examine the extent of environmental problems caused by off-road vehicle use around Australia and to look at existing mechanisms employed by government to control the use of these vehicles. [More…]
The Committee recognises that all State governments are aware of the environmental dangers of ORV use and that some States have introduced control measures. [More…]
Nevertheless, we feel that all State environmental authorities should give earnest consideration to the recommendations of this report. [More…]
First, I would like to repeat some of the remarks I made when I tabled the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry on 11 November 1976. [More…]
The second report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry should further illuminate particular issues. [More…]
He also said that Sir Brian Flowers, the former Chairman of the United Kingdom Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution which published in September 1976 its report on nuclear power and the environment, has publicly lamented the lack of rational debate on nuclear power in Britain. [More…]
While it awaits the final report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry, the Government has conducted a most thorough preliminary investigation on the whole question of nuclear safeguards, both as they apply in Australia itself and overseas. [More…]
It might be interesting to also note that I, through my Department, sent about 1000 letters to interested groups and environmental organisations in all States telling them that the Department would make available to them, if they so wanted, the Fox report. [More…]
Further, it is available to all public libraries and environmental and conservation group centres and offices which we could find. [More…]
We know that environmental matters have a very low priority under this Government. [More…]
The environmental arguments are just as compelling. [More…]
The preparation of environmental impact statements for uranium mining projects outside of the Northern Territory may now proceed but the Government will not make final decisions until the Commission of Inquiry has made its second report. [More…]
Whenever there is to be mining development, particularly in uranium, the Government calls for an environmental impact study. [More…]
Of course the Government realises that there are environmental factors and that safeguards regarding health and pollution must be given great importance. [More…]
One must look at the safety aspect and the pollution and environmental aspect of the question. [More…]
One would like to see whether, for example, environmental factors were considered in relation to transport and other functions of local government. [More…]
In reaching its findings the Committee will take into account all relevant factors- economic and financial, social, technical, operational, environmental and land use, and community attitudes. [More…]
Two consultants have been commissioned to assist in activities concerned with economic and financial analyses, and with public participation, environmental and incidence analyses. [More…]
While the committee will continue its study on the locution of a plant in South Australia no firm negotiations of any kind will be entered into until the final report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry has been made public. [More…]
There are some small formal environmental questions still to be answered. [More…]
There has been a reappraisal and some general adjustment of thoughts in respect to the question of how this area should be treated from an environmental point of view. [More…]
One of the things that occurs in a discussion of the environmental aspects of a national park is the balance between the tourist emphasis and the national park aspect. [More…]
Any support for such a proposal shows a lack of knowledge of people in the Territory, and the environmental considerations that there are in that area. [More…]
It can be seen that the environmental hazards of fossil fuel are severe, particularly in the case of coal . [More…]
They are the zero population growth advocates, those sceptical of economic growth for its own sake, others concerned with conservation and environmental issues and those who fear, quite simply, that the country needs time to digest the postwar influx of immigrants. [More…]
Equally significantly, transportation can help to create the urban designs and environmental changes necessary to make the transport system work. [More…]
Combining transportation with other development programs through the use of air rights over highways is also a means of supplying needed space at economical prices and of overcoming the unwanted environmental effects of expressways. [More…]
Recently the Australian Environment Council, which is also comprised of State and Commonwealth Ministers responsible for environmental matters, has moved to form the Vehicle Emissions and Noise Standards Advisory Committee (VENSAC) to deal with problems associated with vehicle emission control enforcement at the local level. [More…]
Is there a lack of funds to purchase and hold land for environmental and conservation purposes. [More…]
State and local governments are primarily responsible for purchasing and holding land for environmental and conservation purposes and it is for them to determine their own priorities when allocating funds for the acquisition of such land. [More…]
on page 6 1 of its Environmental Impact Statement on the North Canberra 1 32 kv Sub-transmission Development and Extension to Ainslie/Kingston that little information is available on native mammals in the area. [More…]
Is it a fact that environmental impact statements presented to the public for comment by Commonwealth instrumentalities are considered to be drafts and no serious attempt is made to present a finished statement. [More…]
Electricity Authority since the public presentation of the Authority ‘s Draft Environmental Impact Statement. [More…]
For this reason public comments often add greater depth and understanding to the environmental assessment of a project made by the proponent. [More…]
Dr E. P. Ting and Mr Hanscomb of the University of California, Riverside, visited Dr C. B. Osmond of the Australian National University to work on ‘Environmental Control of Photosynthesis and Growths of Cacti (Opuntia)’ from 30 March to 12 April 1976. [More…]
That Department has an overall environmental approach rather than just the narrow sectional interest of public transport. [More…]
The community bears the burden of excessive cost, unwarranted monopoly or competition and undesirable social or environmental effects. [More…]
It is our view that our considerations must embrace land use, social and environmental factors, public transport and many other issues. [More…]
Development had responsibility in terms of this debate because the Ranger Environmental Inquiry was established by a Minister for the Environment and the Commission was bound to report to the Minister for the Environment. [More…]
It is not in Australia’s interest or the global environmental interest to promote actively the unlimited expansion of nuclear power in the climate of the present uncertainties. [More…]
This would explore the economic, resource, environmental and waste disposal characteristics of different reactor technologies and fuel cycles with a view to solving safeguards, physical security and non-proliferation problems. [More…]
We are willing to keep open minds on the subject, and my Government has consistently said that no firm decision will be made before the second report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry is received. [More…]
To say that the decision should be made by any group, whether environmental or other, outside Parliament is fundamentally wrong. [More…]
welcomes the open and honest discussion of the serious risks and disadvantages associated with the various operations of the nuclear power industry in the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry first report. [More…]
There are few subjects in the field of environmental pollution to which people react so emotionally as they do to radioactivity. [More…]
The world reserves of coal are relatively very large but it is by no means clear that coal could be mined on the scale that would be needed to meet growing energy demands, or that the environmental problems arising from its extraction and use would be acceptable. [More…]
On the other hand, nuclear power introduces environmental risks and problems, and some of these appear unique in their implications for society . [More…]
There will be tremendous environmental difficulties in providing alternative facilities in New South Wales involving both road and rail to a considerable extent and also at a considerable cost. [More…]
Larval and adult prawns and environmental factors are being studied from vessels at sea in the Gulf. [More…]
The study has not yet reached the stage where an environmental impact statement is appropriate. [More…]
He will remember the different accounts that were given last November and December by the Minister who represents him in the Senate about the letter which Mr Justice Fox gave to him concerning the interpretation that had been placed on the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry’s first report. [More…]
It will be recalled that, following the release of the First Report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry, the Government announced in the House on 1 1 November 1976 that it supported the Inquiry’s view on the need for the fullest and most effective safeguards on uranium exports. [More…]
As the Government has repeatedly emphasised, this remains a matter for consideration following receipt of the final report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
In this respect the Government’s policy introduces a requirement additional to those recommended by the Ranger uranium environmental inquiry in its first report. [More…]
In respect of this requirement also, the Government’s policy extends beyond the recommendations made by the Ranger uranium environmental inquiry in its first report. [More…]
This requirement is additional to those recommended by the Ranger uranium environmental inquiry in its first report and reflects similar concerns to those expressed by the inquiry in relation to reprocessing. [More…]
These requirements also translate into concrete policy measures concerns expressed by the Ranger uranium environmental inquiry. [More…]
For this reason, although the Ranger uranium environmental inquiry in its first report did not make a recommendation on this matter, the Government has decided that it is desirable that, as a standard practice, a clause should be included in any future contracts for the export of uranium from Australia noting that the transaction is subject to safeguards as agreed between the importing country and the Australian Government. [More…]
It builds on the preliminary thinking of the Government described in testimony to the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry last year, as well as the recommendations of” the First Report of the Inquiry itself. [More…]
Action taken to achieve a social or environmental end such as green bans would seem to us not to be exempted by the exemption clause. [More…]
In August last year a Senate Select Committee reported on the environmental conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and presented detailed comment and recommendations to alleviate the problem of Aboriginal unemployment. [More…]
It was found that there would not necessarily be even 10 per cent of jobs available for the environmental scientists and others who were trained. [More…]
The Government is concerned to strengthen the administrative procedures that are required under the Environmental Protection Act. [More…]
The sorts of problems which he struck and which I have had are things like the need to have cooperation and co-ordination with the States, the need to avoid duplication- duplication between governments going over the same ground and duplication between industry and governmentsthe need to give industry early warning of requirements in the environmental consideration of the project, and the need to make sure that the people nearest to the problem are helping to solve the problem. [More…]
Under the Environmental Protection Act, we have directed successfully, environmental impact statements on iron ore projects in Western Australia, major coal projects in Queensland, highway projects in South Australia and woodchipping in New South Wales. [More…]
For example, they have become involved in social, environmental and political issues. [More…]
That is where the facilities are provided which determine the comfort and quality of our daily environmental living standard. [More…]
However, the Government’s decision in relation to the recommendations of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry will be made in the light of knowledge of the issues of major concern to the Australian community. [More…]
This goes against all the other issues which we mentioned to the Attorney-General such as environmental issues where environmentalists and other groups want to get legal aid, and they need it. [More…]
That is an all embracing clause which would pick up all the environmental issues such as the Fraser Island group or other groups which have an interest in getting assistance for matters which would not come within the normal ambit of the legislation. [More…]
It could happen in other important areas, in areas of environmental law, I instanced earlier cases where the physical amenities of people are interfered with. [More…]
Respectfully urge that you seek amendment to section 6k of the Commonwealth Legal Aid Commission Bill to depoliticise the determination of environmental legal aid by allowing the Commission to consider environmental groups applications on merit without a waiting reference by Attorney-General. [More…]
That means that a person cannot get legal aid for a number of important matters such as environmental issues or the issues he might want to contest as regards a local planning scheme where a council says: ‘You are going to be zoned out of existence’. [More…]
All these other actions, whether they relate to restrictive trade practices or environmental issues, are no longer to be funded. [More…]
The restrictive trade practices legislation, consumer protection, environmental issues and other matters are all matters that are coming before the Federal Parliament now and people are entitled to receive legal aid in those areas as well. [More…]
It would guarantee that assistance would be given to organisations such as the Fraser Island Defence Organisation and the others involved in environmental issues. [More…]
If someone is affected by a disturbance in his environmental amenity, for instance, because a pipeline is being built somewhere, he should not be concerned about whether it is a pipeline constructed by a gas corporation chartered by the State or a pipeline chartered by this Parliament. [More…]
Because the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said earlier in the life of this Parliament that there would be a wide ranging debate on the second report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry during the Budget session, I prepared myself only for a speech on the ministerial statement about the nuclear safeguards policy. [More…]
The Parliament now has before it the final report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
These were, of course, very clearly recognised in the reports of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
The inquiry is of course in the nature of an advisory body on environmental matters and has made a number of recommendations to the Government. [More…]
I draw attention to the section entitled Conclusions in chapter 13 of the First Report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry which states: [More…]
It incorporates and builds on the findings of the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
I quoted as the basis for the last major speech I made on this subject in the House of Representatives 2 extracts from the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquirythe Fox report. [More…]
You have not really thought about the international environmental interest or the dangers. [More…]
Let us leave the environmental questions, the global environment interests and the moral questions aside for one moment and dwell upon the market. [More…]
That move in some countries has been temporarily held up by environmental objections and the general view that nuclear power is undesirable. [More…]
They have no regard for the global environmental interest. [More…]
The information we have before us is the first report of the Ranger Uranium- Environmental Inquiry- the Fox report- which deals with the export of uranium and which really comes under 5 headings, namely, the dangers associated with mining and milling, the dangers associated with the operation of nuclear reactors, the dangers associated with the safe disposal of nuclear waste and the 2 key questions of terrorist activities and nuclear proliferation. [More…]
The second Fox report deals not with the general problem of export but with the specific problems of the Northern Territory and has drawn attention to very serious and difficult problems concerning environmental control, respect of the rights of Aborigines and national parks. [More…]
In particular, we must see that State and Federal environmental laws for uranium mining and export are coincidental. [More…]
We must not have a situation where a mining company has to meet 2 separate overlapping environmental requirements. [More…]
The fast breeder reactors certainly have unsolved environmental problems. [More…]
But the people of this country are entitled to know and to be exposed to the pros and cons of the many matters that have been the subject of deliberation by the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
A lot has been said about the second report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
The report enters into considerable technical and administrative detail on the environmental controls and monitoring arrangements it proposes should mining proceed. [More…]
It even recommends that the landscape setting proposed in the environmental impact statement prepared by the Ranger mining interests be substantially altered. [More…]
He appeared to me after listening to him to be really explaining why there is absolutely no point in Australia keeping its uranium in the ground and why the report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry- the Fox report- is quite correct in stating that no matter what we do in Australia or what we recommend it is not going to make an ounce of difference to what happens in the world. [More…]
The Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry second report stated: [More…]
Anyone who looks at the environmental problems of society today realises that the attitudes on environment of the active capitalist and the active communist coincide, with equally bad results for their communities. [More…]
In the industry of the capitalist society the profit motive means that the environmental factors are probably amongst the last to receive consideration. [More…]
The nature of the debate has not allowed me to refer to either of the Ranger environmental inquiry reports as we had hoped. [More…]
I have studied the first report of the Ranger uranium environmental inquiry and now I am studying the second report with some interest. [More…]
If an American supersonic aircraft had been constructed and was now operating, the demands of those working in the factories building those aircraft would have overcome the environmental problems surrounding its use. [More…]
-This is a cognate debate on nuclear safeguards policy, the uranium industry and the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
I suppose I could also include the third subject of this debate, the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry, under that heading. [More…]
This debate which flows from the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry and now encompasses the recommendations of the second Fox report and the statements of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on safeguards policy is an important element in the Government’s consideration of the technically complex, diverse and internationally significant issues associated with uranium mining. [More…]
The Government has stated time and again that it would not make its decision until the second report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry had been received. [More…]
I must say that speakers in this debate from both sides of the House have comprehended many of these issues, drawing them together in a consideration of nuclear safeguard policies, the potentiality of the uranium industry itself and the reports of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
The 2 reports taken together represent a major contribution not only to Australia but also to international understanding of the environmental consequences of the uranium industry in the broadest terms as it affects mankind. [More…]
In the Commissioners’ own words, it is a uniquely sensitive environmental consideration particularly when applied to the Alligator River area. [More…]
For its part, the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry helped crystallise many of the issues and enabled the Government to take that issue further. [More…]
Since the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry the Government, in formulating a policy in this matter, has taken into account the report of the Australian Safeguards Mission which was made late last year, the Prime Minister’s correspondence with President Carter and Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada and the recent visit to North America by the Acting Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) and several other Australian Government officials. [More…]
As set out in the Government’s statement of 1 1 November following the First Report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry, the Government is satisfied that appropriate controls would apply to the shipments under these contracts which will be used for electric power generation in Japan, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany, all of which are parties to the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons. [More…]
The inquiry and these reports epitomise in a most comprehensive and profound way what environmental concerns are about. [More…]
The end point of an inquiry is the recommendations it makes, in the first place to the Minister responsible for environmental matters and then he- that is myself in this case- in turn carries them to the Government as a whole for its decision. [More…]
I finish on this note: As the national Minister concerned with the environment, I state that the thrust of the many recommendations of the inquiry seems to me to be entirely consonant with proper environmental protection. [More…]
Thus, I would like to see further administrative arrangements developed which are consistent with the discussions I have been having with my counterpart ministers in the States on environmental assessment. [More…]
The results of the measurements, and of other environmental surveying, for the period December 1959 to December 1974 are contained in AAEC reports E151, E151 Sup 1 , El 5 1 Sup 2, E 1 5 1 Sup 3, E246, E27 1 , E30 1 , E335 and E375 which are available in the National Library. [More…]
As indicated in the Working Party’s report, the Biological Conservation Committee was not in a position to report on its terms of reference and the governments agreed that the work of this and of other committees would be superseded by committees which have since been established by the River Murray Commission, including an Environmental Study Committee. [More…]
Further issues of longer term policy significance raised in the submission, such as flood mitigation, river management and environmental protection, will require more detailed examination by the appropriate committees that have been established by the River Murray Commission. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to page 3 of the 5th Report of the Royal Commission on Petroleum which states that there is a clear conflict of policy looming between the national economic interest and the requirements of State Governments, particularly in implementing policies calculated to have some environmental benefit, notably those relating to vehicular emissions, lead and sulphur levels. [More…]
The Government is concerned that environmental and health objectives should be achieved at minimum cost to the community and will continue liaison with the States and the industry to this end. [More…]
It is stressed that the current study is very comprehensive and will look at the desirability of developing new airport facilities in comparison with the desirability of developing existing facilities taking into account the full range of social, environmental, technical and economic factors. [More…]
1 ) How many copies of the First Report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry (the Fox Report), were printed. [More…]
After taking into account a number of factors, including environmental considerations, the then Treasurer, the Hon. [More…]
Responsibility for matters relating to environmental education is shared between my department and the agencies responsible to the Minister for Education. [More…]
Participation in the Unesco/UNEP International Program in Environmental Education is co-ordinated by the Department of Education through the Australian National Commission for Unesco. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has participated in the Unesco/UNEP International Program in Environmental Education as follows: [More…]
In 1975 the Curriculum Development Centre supported financially the participation of Prof. P. Fensham, Faculty of Education, Monash University, in the Belgrade Workshop on Environmental Education, the first in a series of meetings forming part of the International Program. [More…]
The Centre has published Prof. Fensham ‘s report on the workshop and a copy of the Belgrade Charter on Environmental Education has been circulated to secondary schools throughout Australia. [More…]
In 1976, my Department was’ represented at the Asian Region Meeting on Environmental Education, at the invitation and expense of Unesco and on the nomination of the Australian National Commission for Unesco. [More…]
This meeting held in Bangkok, Thailand, was one of a series of regional meetings of experts in environmental education which reviewed the recommendations of the Belgrade Workshop in the light of regional and local needs. [More…]
The forthcoming Unesco/UNEP Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education will assist in promoting recognition of environmental education activities in both formal and non-formal education, and establishing an effective environmental education program with national and international dimensions. [More…]
1 ) Both the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Curriculum Development Centre have been actively encouraging the development of environmental education in Australian schools. [More…]
My department is supporting financially a national conference on environmental education which will be considering the development of environmental education programs at the local and regional levels. [More…]
The conference will bring together education and environmental specialists and community groups from all over Australia. [More…]
In collaboration with the Curriculum Development Centre and the South Australian Council for Educational Planning and Research my Department is supporting financially a major educational materials development project in the field of environmental education. [More…]
The Curriculum Development Centre established a study group, of which my department was a member, to report on action it should take to stimulate the development of environmental education in Australian schools. [More…]
In addition to these specific activities my department undertakes regular liaison with State education authorities, teachers subject associations and individual teachers on the development of environmental education curricula in schools. [More…]
Where appropriate it stimulates or assists with teacher training programs in the field of environmental education. [More…]
A number of the films dealing with environmental issues produced by my department are widely used in Australian schools for teaching purposes. [More…]
1 ) My department has developed a range of mechanisms to assess attitudes on environmental, urban and community development issues. [More…]
My Department also arranges community forums such as the recent ‘National Housing Conference- Housing and the Community’, and the proposed national conference on environmental education which provide an opportunity for the exchange of ideas on such issues. [More…]
My department has a variety of programs covering contact with the media, publication and distribution of information, film production, education activities and conferences which contribute to public awareness of environmental, urban and community development issues. [More…]
What has been the total cost to the Australian taxpayer for the Commission which has conducted the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry? [More…]
Expenditure to 30 June 1977 in respect of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry is expected to he $1,110,000. [More…]
On 16 August, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) asked me if I would table cables and a letter of 8 November 1976 from Mr Justice Fox allegedly concerning media and stock exchange speculation on the Reports of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
The Group is conceived as a small, informal and unofficial body of highly qualified people convened to assess the current and prospective patterns of nuclear development in the light of pressures imposed not only by energy demand but also by environmental and security factors. [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…]
The Opposition notes that the project will be subject to an environmental impact statement, but it needs to be reassured that such an environmental inquiry is conducted by the Commonwealth perhaps with State participationbut certainly not left solely to the State of Western Australia. [More…]
Evidence gathered by the Government indicates overwhelmingly that it is not feasible to construct a parallel runway system at Sydney airport without enormous financial, environmental and social costs. [More…]
There must be a much better way of solving these environmental and transport problems. [More…]
by leave- Since the tabling of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry’s first report on 1 1 November 1976, there has been a wide-ranging debate inside the Parliament and in the public arena. [More…]
It looked at both the world-wide and the local regional environmental issues associated with the mining and export of uranium: the issues of nuclear weapons proliferation and nuclear safeguards; the contribution of nuclear power to world energy requirements; the economic implications of uranium export for Australia. [More…]
The Government is now satisfied that the environmental control and industrial health measures proposed by the Inquiry and accepted by the Government, will provide proper regulation and control. [More…]
The Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Report stated that total renunciation of intention to supply Australian uranium was not justified and was undesirable. [More…]
The vast uranium reserves of the Alligator Rivers Region are located in an area of environmental and Aboriginal significance. [More…]
The Ranger project will proceed subject to the full range of environmental controls recommended by the Inquiry. [More…]
It is completely in accord with the recommendations of the Ranger Inquiry and will provide a proper and adequate basis on which uranium development will proceed so as to harmonise the interests of development, environmental protection, National Park values and Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
In coming to this conclusion, the Government is satisfied that the comprehensive and interlocking administrative arrangements I have already described, which will govern development, will provide the necessary protection of environmental, Aboriginal and National Park values in the course of development and operation of Ranger. [More…]
Subject to satisfactory completion of the necessary environmental requirements and conclusion of arrangements with the Aboriginal people, the Government will take a decision on development of the Nabarlek deposit by Queensland Mines Limited. [More…]
The existing deposits are at different stages of investigation and there will of course be different environmental and other requirements necessary in each case. [More…]
Subject to satisfactory completion of the necessary environmental requirements, the Government will also take decisions on the development of projects in the States. [More…]
In coming to these general conclusions on Nabarlek, Jabiluka, Koongarra, on development in the States and on the question of sequential development, the Government is conscious that particular decisions must await the outcome of environmental procedures. [More…]
The Government believes it is not appropriate at this stage to come to decisions which could pre-empt environmental consideration or foreclose the Government’s intention to take decisions in full knowledge of facts that may arise at a later stage, including the careful monitoring we will maintain of the overall impact of activity on the Region. [More…]
by leave- When it took its decision to proceed with uranium mining under the stringent safeguards already announced, the Government gave the most careful consideration to the views of Aboriginal leaders as recorded in the Second Report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry and to the Inquiry’s recommendations on Aboriginal interests. [More…]
I will also outline some of the major environmental issues considered by the Government in taking its decisions. [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…]
As I stated in the House of Representatives on 2 June 1977, ‘the two reports taken together represent a major contribution not only to Australia but also to international understanding of the environmental consequences of the uranium industry in the broadest terms as it affects mankind’. [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…]
The Ranger Inquiry has identified the major environmental issues and has made recommendations accordingly. [More…]
To adopt strict environmental controls and standards in relation to uranium mining in the Alligator Rivers Region. [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 disposal of nuclear waste and the potential environmental problems which this could pose have been matters of public concern. [More…]
The responsibility for disposing, in an environmentally responsible manner, of waste arising from nuclear power generation in countries abroad, is a matter for those countries which generate electricity by nuclear means. [More…]
As the Prime Minister has said, the issue of nuclear waste disposal has been examined by a number of eminent independent authorities including the British Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, the Ford Foundation and the Ranger Inquiry. [More…]
These elements will be based, where possible on existing international and overseas codes, and will assist in making environmental protection practices and procedures developed overseas more widely known in Australia. [More…]
Environmental standards, procedures and practices will be specified in the uniform Code. [More…]
The Ranger Inquiry has noted the environmental problems that resulted from uranium mining at Rum Jungle. [More…]
The establishment of a national park in this Region is central to the findings of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
This was seen as a means to minimise adverse social and environmental impacts which might occur with the development of mining. [More…]
Before any mining proceeds we need to be assured that any social and environmental effects are acceptable, having in mind the overall impact of development in the Region. [More…]
The Second Report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry recommended that environment protection of the Alligator Rivers Region could be accomplished in two ways, of which the establishment of a major national park was first. [More…]
These recommendations relate to environmental supervision, research, and the establishment of standards, monitoring and administrative arrangements. [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 purpose of this body will be to provide the Supervising Scientist with a small number of highly qualified research staff to assist in the development and management of the multi-disciplinary integrated research programs that will be necessary for environmental protection of the Region. [More…]
This committee will co-ordinate the formulation of standards and procedures and control measures for environmental protection in the Region. [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…]
My colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) has in addition outlined the environmental controls to be adopted by the Government and he briefly referred to some of the health aspects of these. [More…]
This Code deals with radiation protection aspects only and is not concerned with the other potential hazards or with the broader environmental issues already elaborated on by my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
The Code was accepted by both this and the previous Government and was submitted in the evidence my Department gave to the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
Code does not deal with the broad environmental issues of mining and milling of radioactive ores, its provisions are to be applied by operators of mines or mills in the context of comprehensive environmental studies made with respect to any proposal to mine or mill radioactive ores. [More…]
Many of them now regret their decision on both economic and environmental grounds. [More…]
There are problems in many areas- economic, social, biological, genetic, environmental, technical and Aboriginal rights. [More…]
The statements are completely unsatisfactory with regard to environmental safeguards. [More…]
We hear honourable members opposite attempting to argue that in the months in which the two Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry reports have been available there has been a lack of opportunity for debate. [More…]
The disposal of nuclear waste and the potential environmental problems which this could pose have been matters of public concern. [More…]
The responsibility Tor disposing, in an environmentally responsible manner of waste arising from nuclear power generation in countries abroad, is a matter for those countries which generate electricity by nuclear means. [More…]
In respect of the Ranger project, the Government says it has accepted all of the Ranger recommendations relating to environmental controls and development. [More…]
With regard to environmental aspects, I and members of the Government committee on natural resources went to Arnhem Land and the Alligator River province last year and looked at the projects. [More…]
We are concerned about the problems of proliferation, terrorism, waste disposal, contamination and environmental destruction. [More…]
Never before in our political life have environmental conditions and, the industrial and political actions caused so many and such great troubles. [More…]
I am referring to one of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry commissioners, Professor Kerr. [More…]
The case for delaying any decision on uranium mining and export was at least as strong as the Government’s case for making a decision now, one of the three Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry commissioners, Professor Charles Kerr said yesterday. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has made it perfectly clear that Australia’s uranium may now be mined subject to the most stringent environmental and health conditions at home. [More…]
The Whitlam Government’s policy statement made it perfectly clear that that Government put the mighty dollar before the environmental and safeguard conditions which must now apply before Australian uranium can be mined or sold overseas. [More…]
The purpose of those reports was to advise on the worldwide and local environmental issues associated with the mining and export of uranium. [More…]
The Government is well satisfied that the environmental control and industrial health measures proposed by the inquiry and adopted by the Government will provide proper regulation and control. [More…]
I believe we are in the hands of a government of social and environmental vandals who have not a care at all for the rest of humanity for Australia’s advantage as long as they can make some more dollars or as long as they can divide the community for their own political advantage. [More…]
Let me quote from a talk by Mr Kelleher, one of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry commissioners, to the Environmental Engineers Conference in June this year. [More…]
The disposal of nuclear waste and the potential environmental problems which this could pose have been matters of public concern. [More…]
The responsibility for disposing, in an environmentally responsible manner, of waste arising from nuclear power generation in countries abroad, is a matter for those countries which generate electricity by nuclear means. [More…]
Although coal is plentiful and world production can be expanded, this will bring with it associated environmental difficulties as it has done in the past. [More…]
He said that coal brings about environmental problems; therefore it was desirable not to use coal. [More…]
It seems to me, from all I have read and from all I have heard, even with the unbiased mind that I have on the question, that the use of enriched uranium for the production of power or for any other purpose will create far greater environmental problems than the use of coal. [More…]
Very importantly, the people who appeared before the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry provided a vast range of viewpoints and attitudes towards the matter and a vast amount of factual material. [More…]
They have had to acquaint themselves with a vast array of complex environmental problems. [More…]
Those uranium deposits which do not concern Aboriginal lands and the mining of which complies with proper environmental conditions into which public inquiries are about to take place will of course be available for export and in due course for processing within Australia. [More…]
Those uranium deposits which do not concern Aboriginal lands and mining of which complies with proper environmental conditions into which public inquiries are about to take place will of course be available for export and in due course for processing within Australia. [More…]
To produce and export the equivalent quantity without proper environmental safeguards, designed to minimise the further potential risk from proliferation, is not acceptable to the Australian people. [More…]
Already Australia is suffering from the environmental effects of a fossil fuel powered economy. [More…]
Environmentalists ought to cogitate upon that problem. [More…]
under Carter’s scenario a total of 1,000 million tons of coal a year will be extracted but under rigid environmental strictures. [More…]
Uncontrolled coal mining has wrought environmental havoc in the United States. [More…]
It appears that there is a nuclear coal trade off where the economics may make little difference where the decision between the two and the proper mix of the two may depend therefore on an assessment of the environmental and social costs and risks associated with them. [More…]
I have warned Carter that he is sailing on a collision course if he wants more production, more environmental purity and more safety regulations. [More…]
Whether one welcomes or deplores the fact, electricity generation will become more and more dependent on uranium over the next 50 years, or at least until a further abundant source of energy without radioactive or otherwise dangerous environmental waste is available. [More…]
It would have been refused on environmental, ecological or any grounds whatever. [More…]
They were opposed then- I go back to the years 1967 and 1969- because coal would be a source of carbon monoxide development in the world, that there would be hothouse and environmental effects, and so on. [More…]
The background paper titled ‘Health and Safety Aspects of Nuclear Power Generation’ which was published with the documents outlining the Government’s decisions quotes from the British Royal Commission on Environmental Pollutionthe Flowers Commission. [More…]
The first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry also dealt with this question. [More…]
It is interesting to note what Sir Brian Flowers, Chairman of the United Kingdom Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, said in a report on the nuclear power industry published last September. [More…]
There are few subjects in the field of environmental pollution to which people react so emotionally as they do to radioactivity. [More…]
There is no doubt that at the moment the fast breeder reactor poses substantial environmental problems. [More…]
Very early in the public debate that has been proceeding for some time I resolved that I would not come to a final veiw on the subject until after the presentation of the two Fox reports by the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry and after I had had the opportunity of assessing some developments overseas. [More…]
A second reason for Japan favouring a nuclear power generation program is an environmental one. [More…]
In Australia when we talk about the environmental problem as it relates to uranium mining and export we think in terms of the waste disposal problem. [More…]
It was designed to enlist support for my representations to the Government to ensure that the requirements of the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry’s final report would be fully met. [More…]
I do not propose in the few minutes available to me to canvass the rights or wrongs of the decision made on the environmental issue but the fact is that, as a consequence of that decision, very many Australians are suffering hardship and distress. [More…]
It is only proper that the people of Australia, through the Federal Government, should compensate those people adequately, as urged by the environmental inquiry itself in the recommendation to which I referred before. [More…]
To suggest that the mining company commenced operations with indecent haste to thwart the ambitions or the intentions of the environmental inquiry is quite mischievous. [More…]
In actual fact on 16 March 1975, some few days before the announcement was made that an environmental inquiry would be conducted on Fraser Island, the company had expended $6m on pre-mining activities and the construction of plant for that project. [More…]
The object of this Act is to ensure that the significant environmental issues of any Commonwealth action are thoroughly examined before decisions are taken. [More…]
It was with this object in mind that he directed the preparation of an environmental impact statement on the Australian Capital Territory Electricity Authority’s proposal to extend its 132kv sub-transmission around Belconnen and North Canberra, including the extension along the Mount Ainslie-Majura foothills. [More…]
The extent to which the provision of this Act will be applied to future proposals for areas of national importance will depend on a variety of factors including the form of the proposal, the extent to which environmental matters (in the widest sense of the phrase) have been taken into account and the extent to which public review of the proposals is allowed for or encouraged in any future Australian Capital Territory legislation covering conservation matters. [More…]
Generally the second Fox report was honest also about the grave environmental hazards associated with all aspects of the nuclear industry. [More…]
These environmental pollution problems led to the Ranger Commission’s suggestion for the modification of the Ranger mine proposal. [More…]
For both environmental and economic reasons it is not in Australia’s best interests to encourage fast breeder reactors or take any action which would hasten the development of fast breeder reactors in countries overseas. [More…]
The Parliamentary Labor Party’s environmental committee had a representative of the Atomic Energy Commission address it. [More…]
As far as the problem of pollution is concerned, the uncertainty about waste disposal was shared by the Ranger Uranium Environmental [More…]
The Ranger report at page 187 in a postscript which was printed after the first report had been prepared refers to the Flowers Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and spells out the facts. [More…]
But here was a chance, with three uranium deposits which could go ahead subject to environmental study. [More…]
One of the cuts is in expenditure on public hearings in respect of environmental impact statements. [More…]
The Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry identified a number of defects in the then existing safeguard arrangements. [More…]
The Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry was set up by the Labor Government to investigate the safeguards and requirements that would be necessary if Australia were to enter into the rnining and export of uranium. [More…]
The only thing that we have done during the whole of the debate on nuclear energy in Australia has been to insist that environmental safeguards and normal safety procedures should be well and truly established- that the waste, the rubbish that lasts for years and years, should be disposed of with safety to the community. [More…]
In 1969, when the Jervis Bay prototype reactor was first mentioned, it was the Labor Opposition which insisted that environmental aspects of the disposal of waste should be very thoroughly examined by the then Government In order to prove my point, let me quote an answer given on 19 August 1970 by the Minister for National Development to question No. [More…]
Will he make available the reports on the (a) (i) geological, (ii) hydrological, (iii) hydrographical, (iv) meteorological, (v) ecological and (vi) environmental investigations carried out at each of the sites considered for the building of a nuclear power station and (b) ability of each site to dispose of the radioactive and thermal waste from the proposed reactor. [More…]
The real reason that Prime Minister McMahon, the Prime Minister of the day, cancelled the project was that the experts- the same experts who are being quoted now in relation to the disposal of nuclear wastecould not decide on the type of reactor that was required; did not know what environmental effects it would have on Jervis Bay; had no idea where the waste was to be disposed of. [More…]
For instance, I believe that there are good economic as well as environmental reasons for sequential development, as Mr Justice Fox and his commissioners recommended. [More…]
Secondly, the growth of environmental problems in the United States, Japan and Western Europe challenged the supremacy of oil so that oil was not in fact going to be the foremost source of energy. [More…]
The Government has followed very closely the decisions of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry and its recommendations. [More…]
Following the Government’s decision on uranium mining and export the matter of monitoring arrangements in the Alligator Rivers Region will be considered by the Supervising Scientist and the Co-ordinating Committee as part of their responsibilities in the formulation of measures for environmental protection in the Region. [More…]
It is used mainly by students undertaking urban or environmental studies courses. [More…]
Mr Justice Fox was the Presiding Commissioner of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry established by the previous Administration. [More…]
Mr Justice Fox, with his background and experience in this field- so well demonstrated by the breadth and quality of the reports of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry- has indicated that he is prepared to accept this task, a task which is most important for Australia and I venture to say for the wider international community. [More…]
I remember that when I approached him in July 1975 to be the Presiding Commissioner of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry and urged upon him how seminal and crucial it was that such an inquiry should be for all environmental issues, particularly one which had such great national and international importance, he gave very careful consideration before accepting the Labor Government’s commission to conduct the Inquiry. [More…]
Australia could not be better represented at these important international meetings than by Mr Justice Fox, who, I believe, already has secured the respect, indeed the admiration, of all sections of the Australian community and of many people overseas for the way that he conducted the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
Progress has been made in the consideration of the technological and environmental aspects of future minerals exploration. [More…]
The full justification for what we have done in this area comes from the second report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
1 ) The areas involved are more particularly explained in paragraphs 1 and 4 of Chapter 16 of the Second Report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry, under the section headed ‘Proposed Strategy’. [More…]
All these possibilities may be accepted with equanimity by some people such as the zero population growth advocates, those who are sceptical of economic growth for its own sake, others who are concerned with conservation and environmental issues and those who feel quite simply that the country needs time to adjust to the post-war influx of immigrants. [More…]
Clearly, in any large group of individuals such as a trade union, whilst there might be agreement about traditional union goals, the scope for disagreement about other issues- political, social, cultural, environmental- may be as great as the diversity amongst individuals in an organisation. [More…]
This great decision by this Government was an environmental decision. [More…]
Clearly, in any large group of individuals such as a trade union, while there might be agreement about traditional union goals, the scope for disagreement about other issuespolitical, social, cultural, environmental- may be as great as the diversity amongst individuals in an organisation. [More…]
I wonder whether there is an environmental impact statement concerning them. [More…]
Those uranium deposits which do not concern Aboriginal lands and the mining of which complies with proper environmental conditions into which public inquiries are about to take place will of course be available for export and in due course for processing within Australia. [More…]
Environmental protection programs are down by 60 per cent. [More…]
The data from these satellites has a series of applications of both economic and environmental importance. [More…]
the report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry; [More…]
Attempts to devote resources to environmental, Aboriginal and other minority group problems for litigation, submission and representation at inquiries will continue to be ignored. [More…]
A case in pomt is the Budget allocation for meeting the cost of public hearings on environmental matters. [More…]
The report discusses and makes recommendations on the many and varied psychosocial and environmental factors leading to excessive use of alcohol by Aboriginals. [More…]
It is certainly not the view of this Committee based on the evidence it received, or of the Senate Select Committee on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in its report ‘The Environmental Conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the Preservation of their Sacred Sites’, and the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare in its recent report ‘Drug Problems in Australia- An Intoxicated Society?’ [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that the Commonwealth’s role with respect to protection of the environment and conservation is essentially concerned with national policies, and that the States have the authority and the responsibility for the development and implementation of programs that deal with environmental issues at the grass roots level. [More…]
In most cases it is the States that nave the legislative powers to monitor and enforce environmental standards. [More…]
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…]
Labor believes that, having regard to the present unresolved economic, social, biological, genetic, environmental and technical problems associated with the mining of uranium, the development of nuclear power should not continue at this stage. [More…]
We have prepared the way for uranium mining and for development of the North West Shelf gas reserves by the provision of assurances to potential developers and by the appropriate safeguarding of environmental and other interests. [More…]
At both the level of the individual firm and at the national level, inter-fuel substitution is likely to impinge upon national and regional policies other than energy policy, and some degree of conflict is inherent, particularly in respect of environmental objectives, economic efficiency, industry and employment policies, and with energy conservation itself. [More…]
increased attention to alleviating the environmental effects of fossil fuel use; [More…]
The research and planning program allows transport planners to draw on the skills of a range of associated disciplines such as sociology economics and environmental science. [More…]
Environmental factors mean heavy costs for airlines in diversionary flying for noise reasons, curfews on the use of airport facilities which mean about 25 per cent of idle capacity. [More…]
The present Bill extends the purpose of the amended Act to include all environmental programs. [More…]
It deals with all the Government’s conservation and environmental programs. [More…]
It is regrettable that environmental matters have been very low on this Government’s priorities. [More…]
However there is not much moral or financial support given to environmental and conservation programs. [More…]
An example is the Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974, which probably is one of the most important pieces of legislation ever introduced into this Parliament. [More…]
Two studies were undertaken under the terms of the Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
They had wide ramifications and it is very interesting to note that although both reports were brought down during the last two years, no proposal has been referred to the Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act by the Fraser Government. [More…]
With regard to the mining of uranium, as I said earlier, both the first and second reports of the Ranger inquiry were brought down under the terms of the Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
This Government is superficially concerned with environmental and human justice issues. [More…]
I will deal briefly with the environmental aspects of uranium mining. [More…]
The sad thing is that this Government is so superficial even with regard to the environmental proposals put forward by the Ranger inquiry. [More…]
The Ranger report argued very strongly against using the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act, both for environmental reasons and reasons associated with civil liberties. [More…]
It does not allow environmental considerations to disturb its provisions. [More…]
This means that environmental impact legislation is irrelevant and has no force on uranium mining in the Alligator River region. [More…]
The Government has only a moral obligation, not a legal obligation, to recognise the environmental safeguards recommended in the second Ranger report. [More…]
There are other comments to be made on the environmental impact statements. [More…]
The whole basis of my criticism of this Bill is that on the environmental front and the conservation front this Government has such very low priorities. [More…]
Instead of accepting the proposition, as reported, that there should be sequential development of uranium mining in the areas and that only the Ranger mine should go ahead first to ascertain what problems would be created in this delicate environmental area- that would have been bad enough- the Government rejected it. [More…]
Therefore, whilst not opposing the Bill, the Opposition criticises and in some cases condemns the priority given to environmental and conservation matters of protecting our national heritage. [More…]
Therefore it is good to see in the Minister’s second reading speech- I compliment him on the fact- that the Government, through the Aus.tralian Environmental Council, will move positively towards comprehensive and co-ordinated regulations for the export and import of environmentally hazardous chemicals. [More…]
I want to summarise the financial aspects of the Government’s approach to environmental matters. [More…]
Although I do not regard the Bill as a major controversy for the House, I must say that quite consistent with the inability of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) to sustain expenditure in other areas for which he is responsible, there has been this heavy decline in funding of environmental activities. [More…]
I refer now to the grants to the environmental centres. [More…]
One can imagine the mining people and those industrial people with vandalistic tendencies rubbing their hands together with glee when the policemen- the people who alert the country and the governments to environmental destructionare put out of business. [More…]
The Environmental impact allocation for public hearings is down from $694,300 in 1975-76, to $507,268 in 1976-77, to $65,000 in 1977-78. [More…]
That is in regard to environmental impact statements. [More…]
The staff ceilings have affected the environmental area quite considerably. [More…]
I can assure them that when the Labor Government is elected we will certainly be giving to environmental matters the kind of attention that they would like to see given. [More…]
We have continued to subscribe in a very vigorous way to and have provided leadership for two councilsthe Australian Environmental Council and the Council of Nature Conservation Ministers. [More…]
The honourable member for Hughes, typically, has no concern for the voluntary organisations that run environmental centres for the conservation groups around the countryside. [More…]
Under the Act there are two alternativeseither a public inquiry or administrative procedures with an environmental impact statement. [More…]
I chose the environmental impact statement. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition tried to pretend that the Government was going to ignore the environmental promises it had made in regard to the development of uranium mining in the Northern Territory and the declaration of the Kakadu National Park. [More…]
The Consultative Parties also recommended to their Governments that they continue to study the environmental implications of mineral resource activities in the Antarctic Treaty area and to hold a meeting of ecological, technical and other related experts with a view to developing scientific programs aimed at improving predictions of the impact of possible technologies for mineral exploration and exploitation in the Antarctic and developing measures for the prevention of damage to the environment. [More…]
Do any decisions or recommendations of the Wardens Court relate to underground water supply, pollution and environmental consideration of the lands used and occupied by members of the Mount Larcom and District Mining Protest Group. [More…]
1 ) On what date did the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development receive the final report of the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
Improvements were made in education, community health centres were established, research was made into social and environmental problems and possibilities were opened up via the area improvement program. [More…]
Nor should the environmental needs of future generations of Australians be squandered for quick returns now. [More…]
Whilst we should have a basic subsistence level of payment, I believe that an additional benefit should only be paid upon the completion of some sort of work, in the form of community betterment projects, putting our young people to work rehabilitating public facilities, undertaking some charitable work or, as was mentioned by the honourable member for Bonython, some work in the environmental sphere. [More…]
The conservation, development and management of water resources must take place in the broad framework not only of development and management of resources generally, but also of overall economic, environmental and social planning. [More…]
The basic intent in conducting the United Nations Conference on Water was to allow nations to develop an objective policy for the supply of water for basic nutritional, environmental and health requirements of their people. [More…]
A new group headed by ACF councillor Mr Jack Mundey would work for improved social directions and communications between environmental groups, workers and employers’ organisations. [More…]
The aim would be to find strategies for exerting adequate environmental controls. [More…]
It looks to me as though it will be a sort of environmental Comintern, if one may borrow a phrase. [More…]
By that time the MANS Committee ought to be in a position to advise both State and Federal governments on what the real options might be having regard to the social, environmental and economic factors with which it has been confronted. [More…]
The electorate takes in Moreton Island, which is the subject of an environmental battle. [More…]
The new agreement will also encourage the States to give additional attention to the environmental aspects of public housing, such as urban renewal, provision of open space, landscaping and community facilities. [More…]
We on this side of the Parliament will maintain our opposition to the nuclear industry, surrounded as it is with unresolved environmental and security problems. [More…]
These conditions related to proliferation, terrorism, safeguards in relation to nuclear weapons, the existence of proven safe ways of disposal and/or storage of radioactive wastes, environmental concerns and the rights of Aborigines. [More…]
Alongside those who suffer the direct effects of collisions on the road are the more subtle effects of environmental pollution. [More…]
Unfortunately, the present Government, as in so many other areas, has allowed the Environmental Protection Act to be watered down so that we now have the absurd situation in Victoria where in my own electorate in the City of Heidelberg in respect of the Bell Street-Banksia Street connection, the construction authority is carrying out its own impact studies. [More…]
There are also the environmental people, the fisheries people, the people who monitor oil spillage and so on. [More…]
It is perhaps unfortunate that the report has so little feeling for the social, environmental and industrial determinants of people’s health. [More…]
The honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins), who will second the amendment, will deal more fully with the environmental aspects. [More…]
We believe that the environmental aspects of replanting should be taken into consideration and be part of any agreement under which funds are made available for the purpose in the future. [More…]
In 1974 the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation inquired into the operation of the 1967 and 1972 Acts with particular reference, which I will mention in part, to their environmental, social and economic impact. [More…]
Uranium Environmental Inquiry in its Second Report on 17 May 1977 and the purchase of which was promised by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs on 25 August 1977 (Hansard, pages 650 and 667 J. [More…]
The third factor which ought to be looked at in the light of our amendment is the question of environmental conditions. [More…]
At least in the previous Bills some attention was paid to environmental considerations. [More…]
It was not exactly enlightening as far as environmental factors are concerned. [More…]
But in the 1972 Act more note was taken of environmental factors. [More…]
The States shall ensure that planting during each year is carried out efficiently and in conformity with sound forestry and financial practices and shall ensure that environmental factors relating to planting have been considered. [More…]
The other very significant factor in this area is the question of the environmental hazards that arise from such plantings. [More…]
When I talk of environmental hazards I am not referring only to the green issues, if you like- the sorts of things that relate to Australian flora and fauna and cause so much emotional reaction. [More…]
One of the things I should emphasise when referring to the recommendations of the Committee is that this Parliament in its program should not concentrate only on softwood programs but should be willing to consider a similar program for the regeneration of our natural hardwood areas in a way that would ensure the maintenance of forest diversity and a number of other environmental values. [More…]
The other point I am concerned about in this Bill is that no attention is paid to the environmental hazards. [More…]
But in common with most of us who are single-minded in some sort of occupationI was nearly going to say we often cannot see the wood for the trees, but that would be almost a Freudian slip in this context- they lose the awareness of the concern that the environmental hazards can cause in the community. [More…]
We should seek to make certain that at all steps the environmental concerns that are held in the community are observed. [More…]
I suggest that if honourable members read paragraph 159 of the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation and in particular sub-paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) and clauses (a) to (1) they will see the common-sense approach of this all party Committee to the sort of environmental factors that we should be talking about. [More…]
I do not think he was accurate when he said that the Government has paid no attention to environmental issues in this Bill. [More…]
That report discusses rather extensively some of the environmental issues that we need to face with respect to softwoods. [More…]
The second is for greater research to be conducted into the side effects of softwood forestry upon all the environmental issues raised in the report. [More…]
I would like an opportunity to say that in my view the people employed in the Forestry Commission who manage the softwood plantations and the hardwood plantations in my electorate are the true conservationists who, in their dealings with both the softwood and the hardwood environment, have always been very careful in their management techniques to take account of any environmental factors that they find could be detrimental. [More…]
Insufficient research is being conducted into the environmental hazards connected with the plantation of large areas of exotic trees. [More…]
Insufficient research is being conducted into the environmental hazards connected with the plantation of large areas of exotic trees. [More…]
There is a role to be played in the softwood planting program by private forestry interests provided they are subject to the same environmental safeguards as State forest services. [More…]
Immediate consideration should be given to providing financial assistance to the States for the regeneration of hardwood areas in a way that ensures the maintenance of forest diversity and other environmental values. [More…]
that wood-chipping operations or other operations involving clear-felling of large areas be discontinued until the environmental effects are better known and properly assessed. [More…]
It is most desirable from an environmental point of view and from a resources point of view that we should replant this area with softwood timber. [More…]
I support the amendment from an environmental point of view, as I have said, because it puts pressure on forestry organisations to purchase timbered land instead of cleared land. [More…]
Much has been said about the environmental issues in regard to the forestry industry in general in Australia. [More…]
Anyone who talks about environmental impacts should consider that aspect. [More…]
Fundamentally, the inquiry was designed to provide a basis on which the Government could take responsible decisions for environmental protection. [More…]
A commission was appointed to inquire, and I quote from its terms of reference: in respect of all the environmental aspects of: [More…]
The second report contained recommendations on measures to ensure that the necessary degree of environmental protection was provided over the full period of uranium mining developments in the region. [More…]
To adopt strict environmental controls and standards in relation to uranium mining in the Alligator Rivers region. [More…]
I would like to refer to the main clauses of this Bill, which, I am sure honourable members will agree, is a very significant piece of environmental legislation. [More…]
In particular, honourable members will appreciate the scope of the environmental protection measures, in a geographic context, by reference to the schedule attached to the Bill, which is in effect a copy of map 3 from the second report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [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…]
I expect that membership of the Co-ordinating Committee will include representatives of Commonwealth and Territory government agencies involved in the research, monitoring and environmental protection programs, the Northern Land Council and the mining companies. [More…]
Honourable members will be pleased to know that under the direction of Mr Robert Fry, who has been seconded from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development to undertake preliminary functions of the proposed Supervising Scientist, steps have already been taken to establish monitoring of base-line environmental conditions in the region. [More…]
Using temporary field laboratories, a significant amount of work has already been undertaken to establish a data base for later development of environmental protection programs. [More…]
The Ranger uranium environmental inquiry recognised the intrinsic value of the region, and central to its recommendations was the establishment of a major national park to safeguard these assets. [More…]
The management plan prepared by the Director and approved by Parliament will ensure environmental protection, and that appropriate management practices are employed, taking into account the interests of the traditional Aborigines owners. [More…]
Every care will be taken to minimise environmental disturbance during the exploration phase. [More…]
This Bill is intended to give effect to the Government’s decisions on the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry as far as they affect Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
The inquiry was concerned to ensure that the Director of the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Northern Land Council should be able to reinforce the environmental protection machinery. [More…]
The environmental conditions which each mining company in the region will be required to observe will provide for consistency with the relevant codes as they are promulgated, where comparable or more stringent requirements do not already exist in the conditions. [More…]
It is responsible environmental legislation that will provide for the development of protection measures in respect to nuclear activities in Australia. [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 confers jurisdiction on the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, at the suit of the Director of National Parks and Wildlife or the Northern Land Council, to make orders for the enforcement, in relation to uranium mining, of environmental requirements which are contained in Commonwealth and Northern Territory laws and in instruments made under those laws, and it gives the Court a wide discretion as to the exercise of this jurisdiction. [More…]
It should be noted that the Bill does not give the Court power to impose new environmental requirementsonly to make orders in relation to requirements which are imposed elsewhere. [More…]
The six Bills just introduced underline our determination to proceed with uranium development in a carefully-regulated and responsible fashion with full regard for proper environmental control and for ensuring the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The actual individuals to be members of the Uranium Advisory Council have not yet been settled, but the Government has agreed that the Council should include representation from the following groups: The Austraiian religious community; the Aboriginal community; a national voluntary environmental organisation; the Northern Territory community; the Australian Council of Trade Unions; a person with experience in energy matters; the [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…]
In accordance with the administrative procedures under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, Pancontinental Mining Ltd and Queensland Mines Ltd have prepared draft environmental impact statements on the development of the Jabiluka and Nabarlek deposits respectively. [More…]
Western Mining Corporation also made available for public comment a draft environmental impact statement on its research plant at Kalgoorlie proposed in connection with the Yeelirrie deposit in Western Australia. [More…]
Subject to meeting Aboriginal interests in the area and the necessary environmental controls, the Government will be proceeding with a tightly controlled exploration program so that the resources of the stage 2 area can be identified and appropriate action taken as quickly as possible to enable the proclamation of the area as a national park. [More…]
We have set ourselves a policy of carefully regulated and controlled development, paying due regard to proper environmental control and ensuring the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
If one goes through the list one sees mentioned the Australian religious community, the Aboriginal community, a national voluntary environmental organisation, the Northern Territory community, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, a person with experience in energy matters, the Australian uranium industry, a nuclear scientist, a medical practitioner or health physicist, an environmentalist with experience in natural resource development, an economist with experience in natural resource development, an expert in national and international affairs or law. [More…]
Given the fall away of growth in the gross national product in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries, as well as the problems of siting nuclear power stations and the environmental backlash against them, it is very likely that those projections will not be met. [More…]
The area is in a band roughly 10 to 30 kilometres from Melbourne’s centre, but psychologically and environmentally it is as far from Melbourne as Ballarat or Bendigo, with a deepseated sense of social isolation which will be difficult to overcome. [More…]
Added to this is a certain environmental bleakness, made worse by the official vandalism and lack of effective planning by many public authorities- State and Commonwealth. [More…]
Most of the deafness of Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory is due to chronic otitis media which is associated with adverse environmental factors and is widely prevalent in Aboriginal communities. [More…]
Has the Government supported the Rathburnie Environmental Education Estate at Linville in the Brisbane Valley or any other project which aims to demonstrate the long-term commercial viability of land and environment conservation practices. [More…]
The Government has not supported the Rathburnie Environmental Education Estate at Linville in the Brisbane Valley, however, under the States Grants (Soil Conservation) Act 1974 and the Environment (Financial Assistance) Act 1977 the following projects aimed at demonstrating the long-term commercial viability of land and environment conservation practices have been supported: demonstration catchment, Pisant Creek, South Australia demonstration project- pitting of denuded pastoral and marginal land, South Australia demonstration erosion and reclamation control project in cereal growing districts of Western Australia demonstration of a method of sand-trapping and dune rebuilding, Western Australia. [More…]
Has an environmental impact statement been prepared and, if so, has the Minister seen it? [More…]
I understand that an environmental impact statement has been prepared by the Queensland Government. [More…]
As well, I have directed, under Commonwealth legislation, that a Commonwealth environmental impact statement be prepared. [More…]
This must be intensely painful, for the baby of this age has already developed a real sensitivity to touch and pain over the whole of its body, and it writhes about in the uterus during the pickling, trying to escape its deadly environmental pollution. [More…]
All proposals are to be supported by information required to determine, firstly, the economic and social value of the proposal; secondly, the relevance of the proposal to overall urban transport objectives and policies; thirdly, the relevance of the proposal to urban development policies; and finally, the environmental impact of the proposal. [More…]
When we deal with urban matters, just as when we deal with environmental matters, we have to bear in mind that everything is connected to everything else. [More…]
I refer to the major debates on the environmental legislation regarding uranium mining in the Northern Territory in respect of which six Bills will come before the House. [More…]
To undertake any substantial amount of construction work on the Ranger project or to bring a substantial number of workers into the Ranger area without agreement would appear to be contrary to the recommendation of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Report referred to by the honourable member. [More…]
The recommendations of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry, to which the honourable member referred, do not mean that any developmental work could not proceed at Jabiru prior to the implementation of the recommendations in question. [More…]
As already stated, substantial work would be contrary to the recommendations of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
The Government will do everything in its power to ensure that the Ranger project is developed as quickly as possible subject to meeting the necessary constraints, social and environmental, and protecting Aboriginal interests in accordance with the Government’s statements in Parliament on 25 August last year. [More…]
-The introduction of the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1978 demonstrates in the clearest possible way that the Government has failed to take seriously the criticisms of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry of the use of the Atomic Energy Act as a vehicle for the commercial development of uranium. [More…]
The crucial section of the Memorandum provides that contracts giving it effect ‘shall not become effective until Australia has affirmed them following consideration of: (a) the report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry; (b) a report by the Interim Aboriginal Land Commissioner in any claims by Aboriginals in respect of land within the Ranger Project area’. [More…]
Thirdly, there could be a real or apparent conflict of interest between the entrepreneurial role of the Atomic Energy Commission and its responsibilities under the Act to supervise local environmental protection measures. [More…]
At the moment, however, there are only shaky grounds to suggest that an independent Council will be able to offset the Atomic Energy Act’s potential for preventing adequate public scrutiny of the environmental standards at Ranger. [More…]
Indeed the appointment of an Atomic Energy Commission scientist to set up the office of supervising scientist responsible for environmental research and monitoring hardly inspires confidence in the Government’s sensitivity to the need for unimpeachable information and judgments on environmental controls. [More…]
The Government chooses simply to ignore the independent, well-informed judgments of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
Those Bills will cover environmental control, certain amendments for the protection of Aboriginals and parks and wildlife. [More…]
There is a failure on the part of honourable members opposite to see that the Australian will that is implied in the series of Bills coming before the House is recognised by the rest of the world and recognised in such a way that many other countries will take up our safeguards and our environmental protection measures. [More…]
The setting up of the Uranium Advisory Council, the provisions that will come forward for environmental protection, the amendments to the Atomic Energy Act, the amendments to the National Parks and Wildlife Act, the amendments to the Northern [More…]
Labor in government established the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry to clarify the facts and issues surrounding the mining and use of uranium. [More…]
First, reductions in electricity consumption forecasts; secondly, high capital costs and difficulties in raising finance; thirdly, technical problems; and, fourthly, public anxiety over safety and environmental issues. [More…]
The ministerial statement and the Bills make it obvious that we will be following the recommendations of Mr Justice Fox in his report on the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
I quote part of the third finding of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry, which appears at page 185 of its first report: [More…]
Since then we have had the benefit of much information from Australia and overseas, particularly that contained in the report of the Ranger Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
The Governor-General in his Speech when opening the Parliament this year mentioned that the Government would be proceeding with the development and export of Australia’s uranium resources in a carefully regulated and responsible fashion with full regard for the population, environmental control and the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
At the same time the amending measure protects mining interests from disclosure of incriminating material which concerns environmental protection. [More…]
This Bill is intended to give effect to the Government’s decisions on the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry as far as they affect Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
This Bill is, of course, linked with the numbers of important Bills designed to give effect to the implementation of the second Fox report, the proper name of that report being the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
The Bill is designed to provide for the adjustment of the southern boundary of the Ranger project and to provide for environmental information and inspection rights for the Aboriginal Northern Land Council. [More…]
Reference was made by the honourable member for Cunningham (Mr West) to the specific provisions that I have mentioned briefly relating to the provision of environmental information and also the inspection rights that the Northern Land Council will enjoy as a result of this legislation. [More…]
This Bill is designed to give effect to the Government’s decision accepting the recommendation of the second Fox report that legislative action be taken to enable the Director of National Parks and Wildlife and the Northern Land Council to enforce the environmental protection provisions, particularly by way of injunction, and to compel action and to give the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory a wide definition as to the exercise of its jurisdiction in such cases. [More…]
Dr D. M. Devaney of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu is visiting Dr B. R. Wilson and Mrs L. M. Marsh of the Western Australian Museum to undertake a systematic and environmental study of Indian Ocean ophiuroidea based on collections from the International Indian Ocean Expedition and from Western Australia, commencing November 1 977 for ten months. [More…]
A collaborative research project between Dr J. P. Ting and Mr Z. Hanscomb of the University of California, and Dr C. B. Osmond of the Australian National University on environmental factors affecting prickly pear growth concluded on 30 April 1977. [More…]
These three Bills- the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill, the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Bill amending the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975 and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill- are based on recommendations of the second Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry, better known as the second Fox report. [More…]
For example, more than 950 species of plants were recorded in the environmental factfinding study, and they occur in a wide range of vegetation types, including a variety of forest, woodland and scrub communities. [More…]
Their reputation as environmental piranhas is well deserved. [More…]
In fairness to the Government, I state that I recognise that there will be much greater environmental control over mining in the Alligator [More…]
The same argument applies to environmental impact statements. [More…]
We in this Parliament have a responsibility to Australia and the rest of the world to develop our uranium resources as speedily as possible, subject, of course, to essential safeguard provisions, reasonable environmental and safety considerations and the rights and interests of the Aboriginal and other inhabitants of the areas where the reserves are located. [More…]
Under the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Bill the Director of National Parks and Wildlife is given enormous power, not only in relation to national park management and environmental considerations but also in relation to the development of uranium mining and milling. [More…]
Whilst the three Bills are truly environmental and deal with different aspects, it seems to me that the content of the two groups I mentioned is somewhat different. [More…]
The Environmental Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill, which deals with the Alligator Rivers region and the setting up of a scientific structure to monitor events, contains certain deficiencies. [More…]
They could give an independent assessment of what may occur in this very uncertain area of environmental protection, the very area in which we are not sure of what will occur. [More…]
If it is not truly known what the environmental effects may be, we may face a situation where, put under test, it will be shown that in the middle of the national park mining should not take place at all. [More…]
Admittedly, the report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry recommended that the national park be created under a Federal Act but, at the time that report was prepared, moves towards self-government for the Territory were only beginning to gain momentum. [More…]
The Bill envisages that the national Director will have a central role in the protection of the environment and in the enforcement of environmental controls, whether relating to uranium mining or not, in the area comprised in the national park or in any conservation zone, pending the extension of the national park. [More…]
It also happens to be a fact that in my own State, whatever its imperfections, there is environment protection legislation on the statute book that goes further than anything the Government has contemplated in this legislation, and indeed further than any environmental Commonwealth statute. [More…]
Environmental protection codes operate in Victoria, and there is an administrative structure in that State that is tremendously well developed. [More…]
No State government, having regard to its own background knowledge and experience in the handling of industrial affairs and industrial and environmental legislation, where some States are well ahead of the Commonwealth, should be prepared to accept that sort of treatment. [More…]
The Minister for the time being administering the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 shall, within 1 month of being furnished with a proposed code of practice, make a direction under sub-section 11(1) of the Act that an inquiry be conducted in respect of the environmental aspects (if any) of the proposed code, and the provisions of the Act shall apply to that inquiry. [More…]
The Opposition would like to see this brought out into the open and trade unions, environmental bodies and other groups given the opportunity to put something forward for inclusion in these codes. [More…]
It follows, does it not, that there would be many people wanting to test the issue of environmental control and all the other matters as here defined concerned with uranium mining operations, yet the jurisdiction is being limited to the suit of the Director or of a land council. [More…]
Today we had broken, again without notice, an arrangement made by the Whips that four speakers should take part in the debate on the legislation dealing with the environmental aspects of uranium mining. [More…]
The further amendment to clause 4 provides that any organisation, whether incorporated or not, would be taken to have an interest that was affected by uranium mining if included in its objects was the question of environmental concern. [More…]
The Court is not given power to impose new environmental requirements. [More…]
The major component of the review directed by the Government of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act is concerned with the role of the Act in relation to State environmental responsibilities. [More…]
Co-operative arrangements for the environmental assessment of proposals for which a State and the Commonwealth each have some responsibility have been made at ‘environment’ Minister level with Western Australia, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. [More…]
Discussions with the five States have indicated a widespread acceptance of the Commonwealth’s responsibilities in environmental assessment. [More…]
The Queensland Government has not agreed to any detailed arrangements, as proposed by the Commonwealth Government in environmental assessment. [More…]
What are the implications of such a program for environmental problems at Australian airports? [More…]
Environmental factors are again largely the responsibility of the Minister for Transport. [More…]
The Department of Transport has prime responsibility for dealing with oil spills from ships and my Department provides advice on environmental aspects. [More…]
As Minister for Customs, for example, he took one of the first and most significant steps toward greater environmental protection of Australia’s fauna and flora in banning the export of Australian fauna, and especially of the bird trade that was flourishing and threatening many species in Australia at the time. [More…]
That goes back a long time before environmental measures were the fashionable, popular issues that they are today. [More…]
When the discussion started it became evident to me that Mr Hall wanted to put to me certain criticisms regarding the legislation concerning environmental controls and other matters that had been introduced into the Parliament in recent weeks. [More…]
A much healthier, critical attitude has developed, including an acknowledgement that community and environmental needs must be considered directly. [More…]
The Bill enables Australia to continue to play its part in the environmental management program of the IWC and to continue to foster an industry that, although it has a small effect on whale stocks, is of considerable importance to the southwest of my State. [More…]
That is the dilemma in the vast majority of environmental disputes that occur. [More…]
Not till the dawning of the age of environmental awareness in the late 1960s did the public begin to see clearly the consequences of abusive whaling. [More…]
My Department has received from the World Health Organisation a draft document entitled ‘Environmental Health Criteria for Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (TCDD)’. [More…]
While the document contains references to conflicting reports concerning possible association of the substance with alleged still-births and congenital malformations in Vietnam, it does not contain any confirmed report of deaths or defective births from environmental exposure to the chemical. [More…]
Protests were held about the environmental factors in that area. [More…]
Apparently the New South Wales Government had no concern for the environmental factors in expanding the capacity at Balmain which is in the very heart of the city. [More…]
It is extraordinary that the Botany Bay coal loader was cancelled on the basis of an environmental report which was regarded as absolutely vital, absolutely significant. [More…]
It is extraordinary that when an anti-miner decision is involved the State Labor Government will oppose a report by a judge, even though that opposition is against the best interests of the mining companies and the miners themselves; yet when there is a decision that would be to the benefit of the mining industry, that is, the location of a coal loader at Botany Bay, the State Labor Government hides behind an environmental report which, quite frankly, is very poor indeed in quality. [More…]
It seems to me to be somewhat ironic to hear complaints by the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating) about the environmental impact this will have on the Botany Bay area. [More…]
In addition, we are increasingly faced with environmental problems that must be balanced against growth objectives and, along with the rest of the world, we will need to adjust to the widespread ramifications of the coming energy crisis. [More…]
I point out to the Opposition that those terms have been welcomed by Project Jonah and also other environmental groups. [More…]
Not the least of these is the growth of environmental awareness and the impact of this on industry and national development. [More…]
They include the implications for employment, education needs and environmental consequences. [More…]
We want environmental impact statements before we cut down a tree. [More…]
In terms of environmental planning, estate planning and the whole paternalistic nature of that authority and its relationship with it tenants, it has a bad record. [More…]
This is a government which attempts to separate the whole question of housing from its planning, from its land and from its environmental context. [More…]
The environmental aspect should stop it. [More…]
I might say that the Supervising Scientist involved himself in the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
One has only to read the first and second reports of the inquiry to realise the grave, unresolved environmental problems that remain in the area, and the grave responsibility that the Supervising Scientist would have. [More…]
They can have no trust because of the poor record of the Country-Liberal Party in its attitude to environmental and Aboriginal matters. [More…]
This Government’s approach to environmental protection is one of complete ad hockery. [More…]
It has shown that it will sit back and let the States fight amongst each other for development in the absence of strong national guidelines for environmental protection. [More…]
Mr Chairman, what members of the Opposition have said in this debate- it is their allegations that I am answering- is that the States are entirely incompetent to have any influence over the code relating to the uranium environmental protection that we are debating tonight. [More…]
Mr Chairman, I will go directly to the clauses we are debating and point out the fact that the codes which are the subject of the amendments are part of our obligation under international agreements that presently exist and which this Government will be proposing in forums to see that there is a universal approach to safeguards and environmental standards which will apply to the mining of uranium. [More…]
The amendments and this code which the Government has come up with after a great deal of consideration after receiving the report of the Fox inquiry are specifically designed to provide that level and degree of environmental protection which is absolutely basic to the mining and treatment of uranium. [More…]
Labor believes, 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- [More…]
I understand that the States already have codes that cover this kind of legislation; that they did not need this Environmental Protection Act in the first place; they could have drawn it up without us. [More…]
Labor believes 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 . [More…]
The concept of participation within the International Whaling Commission, therefore, of representatives both from the whaling industry, on the one hand, and from environmental groups on the other, is designed to try to ensure that there should be an adequate opportunity for consideration of the Australian point of view. [More…]
It has been brought to my attention that the representative to be sent on behalf of Project Jonah, the environmental group concerned, is in fact neither an Australian citizen nor an Australian resident. [More…]
In accordance with the recommendations of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry, the Government had delayed issue of any formal authorities to mine until other recommendations concerning the grant of Aboriginal land and environmental protection mechanisms have been implemented. [More…]
Analysis of all relevant records, including exposure incidents, sickness absence, environmental and biological monitoring data and previous work history, subject to a statement first being issued to AAEC staff (by the Commission with the support of the Labor Council), that: [More…]
That policy was based on the findings and recommendations of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry conducted under the Honourable Mr Justice Fox as Presiding Commissioner. [More…]
Our policy was decided only after most careful consideration of the report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
The development of those resources, while serving the objectives just mentioned, must also be regulated and controlled so as to ensure full protection of the environment and the welfare of the Aboriginal people, and yield the economic benefits to Australia and its people that were described in the report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
The Minister’s approval for the export of uranium from a particular project will be given only after full consideration by the Government following the completion of environmental procedures and compliance with the Government’s foreign investment policy. [More…]
The machinery and the procedures I have just outlined will ensure that the Government maintains strong regulation and control over uranium exports in the national interest in a manner consistent with the Government’s policy of uranium development announced on 25 August 1 977 following receipt of the report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
Although looking to the eventual development of the Jabiluka uranium deposit, the Government is nevertheless committed to not making a final decision on whether the Jabiluka project should proceed until the environmental effects of the project, both physical and social, is satisfied . [More…]
Apparently the Prime Minister is more concerned about the environmental impact upon the Magela Creek system and the East Alligator River region than is the Deputy Prime Minister. [More…]
This development strategy seems particularly appropriate in the Region as it should also minimise adverse environmental effects. [More…]
I will approve the environmental standards in the Magela Creek and East Alligator Rivers Region. [More…]
The decisions in relation to nuclear codes in particular and also the environmental standards to be set will be made by the States and not by the Australian Government. [More…]
The honourable member for Blaxland also raised the question of the environmental problem in the area in which this uranium mining is to be carried out. [More…]
Commonwealth environmental legislation; [More…]
Recommendations have also been made in a number of other areas relating to helmets and visors; applicability of road rules to riders and cyclists as well as their training and licensing; other road and environmental factors; and safety related publicity campaigns. [More…]
The understanding that I have of the Western Mining project at Yeelirrie is that the company is at the moment seeking environmental approval to put in a research plant to test the feasibility of a uranium mining operation at Yeelirrie. [More…]
So there is no substance whatsoever in statements that Yeelirrie is likely to come in before the Ranger project and it is quite wrong to make statements that that project can go ahead without the satisfactory environmental impact statements that are required before any uranium project is approved. [More…]
There may be some environmental problems, I do not know. [More…]
Environmental impact statements have been directed on the following proposals on the dates shown: 30 September 1975-A.N.L. [More…]
Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry: Direction notified in the Gazette on 1 6 July 1 975. [More…]
What action has been taken, or is proposed by the Government to give effect to the recommendation of the second report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry that consideration be given as soon as possible to the resumption of the Goodparla and Gimbat pastoral leases for inclusion in the proposed Kakadu National Park. [More…]
As I stated in my second reading speech on the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Bill 1978 the Government accepted the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry’s recommendation that consideration be given to the resumption of Goodparla and pan or all of Gimbat, with a view to their incorporation in the park. [More…]
Information had become available from the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States of America that exposure to leptophos in food had caused the death of water buffalo and other species and that there were indications that neurological effects may have occurred in workers involved in the manufacture, packaging and application of the substance. [More…]
Within my Department itself there is an Occupational and Social Health Branch and specialised expertise is also available from the Occupational and Environmental Health Section of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine which includes six staff who, together with the Professor heading the School, hold honourary academic appointments at the University of Sydney. [More…]
Tertiary- Broadly, the service area including such services as building, environmental management and conservation, health, transport and water. [More…]
The home buyer may need to watch out for freeway constructions, because the Government no longer is funding environmental investigation and research. [More…]
The results of the studies referred to are set out in a paper by Brown and Lane published in Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine, Vol. [More…]
1 ) Was an environmental impact study prepared for the Queensland Government on the proposal by Mr Iwasaki to establish a tourist resort near Yeppoon on the Queensland coast. [More…]
If so, was this environmental impact study regarded as unsatisfactory by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
An environmental impact statement (EIS) was prepared by consultants to the Iwasaki Sangyo Company to satisfy the requirements of both the Queensland and Commonwealth Governments. [More…]
Following this public review period, my Department prepared an environmental assessment report taking into account the comments received, the response of the Company to these comments and the views of Commonwealth departments and agencies. [More…]
On the basis of this report and taking into account the provisions of the Queensland International Tourist Centre Agreement Act and other Queensland Government legislation, which provide for continuing environmental management of the tourist resort project, the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development provided environmental clearance for the proposal on 25 July 1978. [More…]
The Company has agreed to submit a final EIS within one month of the above date and to make available to the public future environmental studies prepared in accordance with Queensland Government requirements. [More…]
The Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority, which places great importance on environmental matters, is to set up a task force of teachers and students to examine further the recycling and re-use of suitable waste. [More…]
1 and 2.2 of those procedures, information from the proponents of the Alwest bauxite mining project in Western Australia sufficient to consider the necessity of an environmental impact statement in relation to the proposal. [More…]
If so, (a) is an environmental impact statement considered to be necessary and (b) will he make public any information supplied. [More…]
If an environmental impact statement was not considered necessary, what were the reasons for the decision. [More…]
Does the Alwest project fall into the category mentioned in paragraphs 4.4.1 and 4.4.2 of the Arrangements Concerning Co-operation in the Environmental Assessment of Proposals between his Department and the Western Australian Department of Conservation and Environment dated 15 July 1977. [More…]
) Approved use patterns for chemical herbicides and pesticides differ substantially from country to country due to differing climatic and environmental factors and different pest control requirements. [More…]
If no approval has been given, (a) does he have the matter under consideration and (b) has he discussed with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development the necessity for an environmental impact statement on the Alwest bauxite mining proposal. [More…]
(b) I understand that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has directed an environmental impact statement on the Worsley project. [More…]
The Commonwealth’s examination of the environmental aspects will proceed in conjunction with that of the Western Australian Government under the agreed arrangements on cooperation in environmental assessment made between the Commonwealth Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Western Australian Minister for Conservation and Environment. [More…]
I should also mention that the environmental clearance for the proposal was given by the then Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in June 1 976. [More…]
This has been followed up and that environmental clearance has been re-endorsed by the Department at this stage. [More…]
Without the housing panel the Aboriginal people can look forward only to more homes in the Queensland tradition, designed by white bureaucrats in capital cities who are totally oblivious to Aboriginal needs and to the environmental conditions of the areas where housing for Aboriginals is needed. [More…]
Having said that, I refer to an issue of an environmental nature. [More…]
If I have a criticism of it- this comes from my experience- it is that it has not always paid sufficient attention to environmental aspects in its expansion throughout the ACT. [More…]
A green ban was put on a project on the foothills of Mount Majura until the Authority gave more firm undertakings that the environmental quality would be protected. [More…]
Will he take urgent steps to ensure that a prototype is promptly developed in co-operation with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and the Government’s aeronautical and other technical facilities so that Australia can share in the expertise, industrial development, environmental conservation and removal of undue pressure on later generations of Australians from other countries for our oil, gas, coal and uranium reserves. [More…]
Should any proposal come within the provisions of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act and an Environmental Impact Statement is directed then it would be subject to the normal public review provisions of the Administrative Procedures under the Act. [More…]
Recently the Australian Environment Council, with the strong support of the Commonwealth Government, decided to establish a National Advisory Committee on Chemicals to assess the environmental effects of a wide range of substances. [More…]
Chlorofluorocarbons are likely to be one of the chemicals whose environmental effects will be evaluated by the Committee. [More…]
Perhaps it is wasteful to have a committee always looking at environmental factors. [More…]
Perhaps environmental aspects are only one matter which should be looked at. [More…]
As the Ranger uranium environmental inquiry pointed out, Aborigines have never before been confronted with such important matters requiring a knowledge of a negotiating system utterly foreign to their traditional methods of consultation. [More…]
During these months before the more active and official negotiations commenced a series of documents on environmental, conservation and social welfare matters was prepared. [More…]
My estimate is that the environmental provisions in the Ranger deal add at least five per cent to the cash offer. [More…]
I’m not overjoyed about the environmental provisions, but it is better than we expected. [More…]
I should add that any decision to proceed with the development of the Ranger project will depend upon the Government’s consideration of the findings of the Ranger uranium environmental inquiry. [More…]
the report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
The Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry had an enormous impact on the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
I directed the preparation and submission to me of an environmental impact statement in relation to this proposal on 13 February 1978. [More…]
The draft environmental impact statement was released for public review from 30 May to 30 June 1978. [More…]
Nine public comments were received by my Department and forwarded to the Company to be taken into account in the preparation of a final environmental impact statement [More…]
The final environmental impact statement was submitted to my Department on 25 July 1978. [More…]
My Department conducted an examination of the final environmental impact statement in accordance with paragraph 9. [More…]
Can the Minister indicate whether any environmental study has been made on Brisbane Airport and, if so, whether this will be made public? [More…]
The honourable member asked a question about the environmental impact study. [More…]
It certainly is too early to determine the Government’s attitude to the environmental impact statement which is being prepared. [More…]
Not one of the Great Barrier Reef Consultative Committee members will now be required to have qualifications in a marine science or for that matter in any of the environmental sciences. [More…]
We believe it is important that the Chairman should be required at least to be qualified in the environmental sciences, and we intend to move an amendment to that effect in the Committee stage. [More…]
We propose to move in the Committee stage of the Bill that section 10 of the principal Act be amended by omitting in sub-section (5) the words ‘the field of biological conservation’ and inserting the words ‘the environmental sciences’. [More…]
The Queensland Government’s track record on environmental matters generally has been an absolute disaster. [More…]
I do not propose to catalogue the manifold sins and the environmental wickedness of the Bjelke-Peterson Government. [More…]
The term ‘the environmental sciences’ is an uncertain term in its form. [More…]
At page 9 of the second report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry it is stated: [More…]
Examples of more specific areas of interest, covered by the above broad guidelines are: increase in effectiveness of the methods and techniques for exploration and for the assessment of reserves of petroleum, coal and other fossil fuels; improvements in production, processing, transportation, storage and utilisation of Australian coals; the production of liquid fuels including methanolfrom coals, natural gas and oil shale and production of ethanol from agricultural materials; methods to conserve energy in transportation, in industry and in the design of buildings; utilisation of the various forms of renewable energy, particularly solar energy; relevant aspects of nuclear energy and nuclear fuels; research into solar electricity, magneto hydrodynamics, and other advanced energy technologies; environmental aspects of energy production and use. [More…]
New technologies and products are being developed to meet changing consumer requirements and the increasing influence of energy and environmental factors at minimum cost. [More…]
1 ) In relation to the authorisation given to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to commence a design cost study for a new isotope protection and research reactor to replace the HIFAR reactor at Lucas Heights, N.S.W., will he indicate (a) the terms of reference under which the design cost study is to proceed, (b) whether an environmental impact statement has been ordered and (c) if public hearings will be held before a decision is made on the construction of a new reactor. [More…]
and (2) The designcost study will embrace selection of a suitable reactor/fuel element combination, modification of the chosen concept to meet AAEC requirements relating to radioisotope production, safety criteria and reliability, consideration of environmental factors and possible sites, and estimation of capital and operating costs. [More…]
Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development received a copy of the report of the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority Review Committee regarding Alcoa’s draft environmental impact statement for the Wagerup project? [More…]
because of Aboriginals’ very close identification with the land, the question of environmental protection and the minimising of harmful effects of the mining projects has been one that has been paramount in the Ranger negotiations . [More…]
For the first time, the Federal Government was obliged to consider and to take into account the environmental consequences of its decisions. [More…]
One has only to look at the excellent work of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry and the Fraser Island Inquiry which were established by the Whitlam Labor Government. [More…]
But where is the environmental responsibility that the Liberals were so keen to identify with in 1974? [More…]
In both cases the Government announced environmental clearances before a final environmental impact statement had been produced. [More…]
This Government has not seen fit to establish one public environmental inquiry during the 2V4 years that it has been in office. [More…]
There is no doubt that this project raises very serious environmental questions. [More…]
Yet Premier Court has chosen to go ahead before environmental studies have been , done. [More…]
I challenge the Government to show a little more environmental responsibility than the Western Australian Premier. [More…]
1 challenge the Government to establish a public environmental inquiry into the Darling Range bauxite mining proposals. [More…]
-The honourable gentleman would know that as a result of the Fox Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry the Government has instituted a number of measures to make sure not only that we contribute as fully as we can to international safety through nuclear safeguards but also that we fulfil to the utmost obligations within Australia. [More…]
The Department has only today completed its examination of the final Environmental Impact Statement submitted by the Company, Mr Groom said. [More…]
1 ) Did officers of his Department assist in the planning of meetings with the Northern Land Council, local Aboriginal people and Pancontinental Mining Company in order to explain the Jabiluka Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement to local Aboriginal people. [More…]
Company to explain the Jabiluka Draft Environmental Impact Statement. [More…]
1 ) Did officers of his Department assist in the planning of meetings with the Northern Land Council, local Aboriginal people and Queensland Mines Ltd, in order to explain the Nabarlek Uranium Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement to local Aboriginal people. [More…]
This important matter, which is essentially one of longterm environmental management, has become confused and distorted by several unfounded allegations, in particular that an unexploded nuclear weapon is buried at Maralinga; that radioactive waste was brought from British nuclear power stations and buried at Maralinga; and that about 800 tonnes of nuclear waste material, including plutonium, is buried at Maralinga, which is what the South Australian Minister for Mines and Energy was reported on 20 December 1976 to have said. [More…]
The forthcoming environmental survey should add further data assisting governmental decisions about the continuing secure management of the material at Maralinga. [More…]
The principal recommendation of that report was that the Government should undertake a further detailed study of all ecological and environmental factors associated with the burial of material at Maralinga. [More…]
From the standpoint of long-term environmental management the most important of the extensive facts recorded in the report relate to the burial of some 20 kilograms of plutonium. [More…]
It was also decided subsequently to join the Emu Field area to this study because the proximity of Maralinga and Emu Field suggested that the same, or similar, long-range environmental management measures should apply to both. [More…]
For practical reasons, the Government would greatly have preferred to have dealt with this matter as part of its broader program for the long-term environmental management of the general area. [More…]
We need a government with an understanding of environmental and safety issues; a government with a policy as to how to control nuclear waste disposal. [More…]
the health of the Aboriginal population near the weapons test area in South Australia and the future environmental management of those areas, and [More…]
The Minister should try to understand the environmental aspect of those problems. [More…]
The location of this hostel is totally unsuitable for such use, for environmental reasons, for safety reasons, for social reasons and, furthermore, it will undoubtedly place substantial additional strain on the local community facilities without any apparent additional assistance from the Commonwealth to offset it. [More…]
I hope that it will not be necessary to invoke the national interest provisions of this Bill, and that with goodwill from all parties- the Aboriginal landowners, the prospective miners, environmental interests and the Government- a reasonable and effective solution can in most cases be found to protect the Aboriginal interests and to meet desirable national development goals. [More…]
I should add that any decision to proceed with the development of the Ranger project will depend upon the Government’s consideration of the findings of the Ranger uranium environmental inquiry which is now taking place. [More…]
In 10 years $459m was spent on environmental protection and only 30,500 hectares of land were mined. [More…]
Even a suggestion made by a working party set up in 1973, namely, that a review be made of existing and planned land use so that maximum beneficial use of water was achieved in economic, environmental and social terms, was at that time rejected by all State Ministers. [More…]
The environmental problem of the Kakadu National Park also is unresolved. [More…]
It is clearly a misnomer to describe the Department as the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development because the environmental and community development responsibilities of the Department, while remaining on paper, cannot possibly be performed on the scale and at the depth originally envisaged. [More…]
1 ) The purpose of the Workshop was to discuss in detail the component parts of a comprehensive research program aimed at providing the environmental baseline data necessary for defining practical and effective monitoring programs in the Region. [More…]
As the mining companies are responsible for a number of important research and monitoring programs, their environmental officers were present at the Workshop. [More…]
To date the environmental research activities of the Supervising Scientist have been undertaken by research consultants. [More…]
Environmental Monitoring of the Alligator Rivers Region (Question No. [More…]
Has the Government adopted the recommendation concerning environmental monitoring of the Alligator Rivers Region contained on page 293 of the Second Report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry, that a group of experts from the relevant scientific fields specified in Chapter S be assembled as soon as possible to advise on the selection of those biological, chemical and physical observations likely to be of most practical value to the monitoring program. [More…]
What is disturbing is the trend for the CSIRO to wind down rural research in Western Australia as the Division of Land Use based in Perth is more concerned with environmental and recreational aspects. [More…]
It was a full 17 months ago that the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry commissioners reported that traditional Aboriginal land owners in the Ranger area were opposed to mining on their land. [More…]
It can have no claim to being an objective and impartial critic of environmental policy. [More…]
Is the ACF so shortsightedly concerned for the slightest environmental damage that it totally ignores these questions? [More…]
Job lobbies will have to be formed to meet the challenge of environmental lobbies. [More…]
People do want responsible environmental management which is not incompatible with responsible development, of which wood chipping and bauxite mining are prime examples. [More…]
Let me quote one of the finest environmental scientists in Australia, Professor Des O’Connor. [More…]
He is well aware of the disastrous effects that environmental extremists can have on the economy and on the average man’s standard of living. [More…]
There is a valued place for responsible, objective organisations concerned with sensible environmental management- and I say that as the representative of one of the most stunningly beautiful areas in Australia. [More…]
The work is carried out at various places across the continent by the Divisions of Soils, Horticultural Research, Irrigation Research, Land Resources Management, Land Use Research, Tropical Crops and Pastures, and Environmental Mechanics. [More…]
Whilst the Commonwealth might be responsible for the development of airport facilities, all States are heavily involved in these matters because they have to provide service facilities, such as roads, and take account of the environmental factors. [More…]
Added to this is the developing knowledge that there are ecological chains, that there is interdependence between the various levels of the flora and fauna, and without knowledge of this it is difficult to make calculated judgments on how far one can take environmental measures or preservation measures. [More…]
There has been an environmental impact statement prepared as well. [More…]
The honourable member for Newcastle (Mr Charles Jones) is well known for his knowledge of transport, the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen) was particularly concerned with environmental aspects; the honourable member for Ballarat (Mr Short), the honourable member for Eden-Monaro (Mr Sainsbury) and the honourable member for Cowper (Mr Ian Robinson) were particularly concerned with decentralisation; while the honourable member for Franklin (Mr Bruce Goodluck) who was concerned particularly with Tasmania, was able to make a valuable contribution in respect of local government. [More…]
Australia is not well prepared to cope with a major pollution incident, yet ship-sourced oil pollution, accidental or deliberate, is already a major environmental problem and the Committee believes that as Australia’s reliance on imported oil products increases so will the problem. [More…]
Authorities must carefully assess the environmental implications before allowing such vessels to operate. [More…]
The environmental impact of marine oil pollution is difficult to predict not only because our knowledge of marine ecology is imperfect but also because there are no effective means of evaluating the physical factors which affect an oil spill such as tidal and wind movements. [More…]
Much of the effect merely involves the dispersal of the oil as rapidly as possible without consideration of the additional environmental damage involved in the wholesale application of toxic dispersants. [More…]
The Committee believes that environmental authorities must be given the opportunity to become more closely involved in the monitoring and clean-up of small routine oil spills. [More…]
From my point of view it was a very interesting inquiry in the sense that it was the first one in which I have participated and in many respects it illustrated some of the problems associated with environmental protection within modern highly industralised societies. [More…]
Another issue that arose and which is typical in the environmental area is that the solution to or the means of dealing with a problem creates an even more serious problem. [More…]
The inquiry has resulted in the co-operation of a large number of people, not only the staff of the Committee who, of course, have given their usual excellent service, but also representatives of industry and other interested people who, I believe, have made a genuine attempt to improve the safety and environmental precautions within the industry generally. [More…]
I can think of no more serious example of environmental vandalism than this irresponsible conduct. [More…]
The millions of Australians concerned that this country could become a hole in the ground through the efforts of environmental gangsters like Lang Hancock were momentarily tricked into believing that the Fraser Government had some concern for the environment by its decision to end sand mining on Fraser Island. [More…]
The Act was introduced by the Labor Government in December 1974 in response to a record of indifference by previous governments, State and Federal, to environmental matters. [More…]
On 20 March, in a letter to the New South Wales Premier, the Prime Minister raised the question of a statutory framework for intergovernmental legislative arrangements for environmental assessment to cover on-shore and off-shore proposals. [More…]
Virtually every Australian would shudder at the thought of areas of national environmental significance such as the Great Barrier Reef, Fraser Island and the world’s only jarrah forest being left to the whims of these State governments. [More…]
A lot of rubbish has been talked about the Iwasaki proposals and has clouded the real issues of environmental concern, civil liberties and the Australian national interest. [More…]
The document was a report on the draft environmental impact statement on the resort and was signed by Mr H. Higgs, Director of Environment. [More…]
The Department expressed concern about the environmental consequences of the resort proposed with respect to the marine nurseries of Fishing Creek and Corio Bay. [More…]
We would see an environmental fight the like of which has not been seen in this country. [More…]
The Federal Government is abrogating its responsibilities for environmental matters and the last vestiges of what could be called a national environment policy is being dissipated. [More…]
It is certainly pleasing to hear the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen) at last speak on an environmental issue. [More…]
Since he has had the job he has been almost totally silent on environmental issues. [More…]
The Government’s basic approach is to co-operate with the other spheres of government in improving environmental protection while, at the same time, striking a proper balance between conservation and economic growth. [More…]
Environmental protection is only one of a number of human values. [More…]
The Government accepted the recommendations of the Fraser Island environmental inquiry and decisions have been taken since then. [More…]
The Government has accepted the recommendations of the Ranger uranium environmental inquiry. [More…]
Following that legislation, stringent environmental controls will be imposed on uranium mining operations. [More…]
The Government is co-ordinating and supervising appropriate environmental protection arrangements in the region concerned in the Northern Territory through the Office of the Supervising Scientist. [More…]
We have negotiated draft agreements with four States on arrangements which are mutually acceptable for assessing the environmental impact of projects. [More…]
The honourable member mentions the environmental impact statement on the Iwasaki project. [More…]
We have supported other research activities including the ecological survey of Australia and the assessment of the environmental consequences of specific energy decisions. [More…]
We have continued to support international environmental activities through the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the Environment Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and regional bodies such as the Economic and Social Commission for the Pacific (ESCAP) and specialist meetings such as the United Nations Conference on Desertification. [More…]
-I table, for the information of honourable members, the agreement which includes details of the environmental conditions between the Northern Land Council and the Commonwealth which has been negotiated under section 44 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act in respect of the Ranger uranium deposit and which was executed by the Northern Land Council and myself on behalf of the Government on Friday, 3 November. [More…]
In addition to the inquiry under the Environment Protection Act the present Government, during consideration of the Aboriginal Land Rights Bill in 1976, introduced an amendment expressly authorising the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry to investigate and make a finding in relation to an Aboriginal land claim in the Alligator Rivers Region. [More…]
In following the solution proposed by the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry, the Government announced that it had accepted all of the principal recommendations in respect of Aboriginals. [More…]
I refer honourable members to the statements made by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), other Ministers and myself in August 1 977 which clearly set out the history of the Ranger project and the decisions of the Government in respect of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
Through an amendment to the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, the Northern Land Council has been given standing in the Northern Territory Supreme Court to seek an injunction against the mining operators should it feel that environmental conditions are not being observed. [More…]
It has been given rights of inspection of operations and documents and is entitled to information so that it may assess whether environmental conditions are being rigidly enforced. [More…]
The Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry highlighted the deleterious effects upon Aboriginal society caused by alcohol in the region and specifically pointed to the Border Store on the East Alligator River as a major factor in this process. [More…]
The establishment of Kakadu National Park was central to the recommendations of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
Its creation was seen as essential to the overall strategy for minimising adverse social and environmental impacts which might occur with the onset of mining in the region. [More…]
I now take this opportunity to inform honourable members of the progress that has been made in respect to other aspects of the Government’s environmental policies for the Alligator Rivers region. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that in its uranium statements of August 1977, the Government promised to adopt strict environmental controls and standards in relation to uranium mining in the region. [More…]
Since then considerable progress has been made and, in fact, the legal and administrative regime for environmental control of mining is now substantially in place. [More…]
As honourable members will know, the role of the Committee is to assist the Supervising Scientist in considering and reviewing standards, practices, and procedures in relation to uranium mining operations, as far as environmental protection is concerned. [More…]
It is within this context that I wish to draw honourable members’ attention to the arrangement that the Government has made for detailed environmental protection measures. [More…]
The environmental requirements for Ranger, which reflect fully the recommendations of the Ranger uranium environmental inquiry, are a condition of the authority to mine. [More…]
I might say that all of these environmental requirements were the subject of quite detailed consideration and discussions during the Government’s negotiations with the Northern Land Council, and the Council did indicate its satisfaction with them knowing, of course, that precise standards are to be applied before mining and milling commences, and after adequate research has been done. [More…]
This will ensure that co-operatively, the Commonwealth and the Territory can implement the strict environmental requirements recommended by the Ranger inquiry, and agreed on by the Government in its uranium decision of August 1977. [More…]
Finally, I wish to announce that the Government proposes to introduce a levy as a recognition of the special costs of environmental monitoring and research activities related to uranium mining in the region. [More…]
Because the Supervising Scientist and the research institute will be carrying out environmental monitoring and research activities specially designed for regulation of uranium mining, the Government has decided that an appropriate levy should be paid by the uranium miners concerned in recognition of the special environmental costs involved. [More…]
In all, I believe that the Government, through these legislative and administrative arrangements, and the land use controls to be enforced through the national park procedures has established new and significant standards for resource management and environmental protection, and that the opportunity is provided for a completely satisfactory reconciliation of the various interests in the region. [More…]
Thirdly, the environmental and aesthetic aspects of road planning are generally taken into account although I fear that many transport planners do not take account of the social and community factors in road works and planning, particularly in the laying of major roads and freeways through communities. [More…]
The CSIRO is well regarded for what relatively little environmental research it currently performs. [More…]
Especially those of us who are often worried by the shrill prophecies of gloom from some of the environmentalists, such as the obviously biased Australian Conservation Foundation, would appreciate some scientific and hopefully unbiased comments. [More…]
The article states that Mr Barber said that when commenting on a Department of Commerce study which showed that by 1987 the cost to the copper industry of meeting environmental regulations would rise to a total of $4.5 billion. [More…]
It was announced at the same time that the Government had accepted specific recommendations of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry relating to the operation of the Ranger mine. [More…]
There are actions yet to be completed, including the submission and examination of a final environmental impact statement (in accordance with the requirements of the Environment Protection Administrative Procedures) on the development of the Nabarlek uranium deposit, before a decision can be taken by the Government on whether, and on what terms and conditions, mining of the Nabarlek deposit may take place. [More…]
1 ) Is CSIRO participating in environmental studies in the Alligator Rivers region of the Northern Territory. [More…]
1 ) to (3 ) CSIRO is not at present participating in environmental studies in the Alligator Rivers Region of the Northern Territory. [More…]
Has there been any contact between the Queensland and Commonwealth Governments on this matter and has he made available the document by the World Health Organisation entitled Environmental Health Criteria for Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (T.C.D.D.) [More…]
Library, Registry, Stock Control, Personnel, Australian Heritage Commission Registry, International Referral System of Environmental Data Sources) and various research programs (e.g. [More…]
The data collected for the International Referral System (IRS) is available free on request to the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and the general public. [More…]
If so, were these submissions acknowledged before he approved the environmental impact statement provided by the Iwasaki Sangyo interests. [More…]
The submission from Mr Tutt was made in response to a call for public comment on the draft environmental impact Statement (EIS) in accordance with the Administrative Procedures under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
The submission from Mr Tutt was made in response to a call for public comment on the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) in accordance with the Administrative Procedures under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
As well as that, the Fox Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry was quite specific in its recommendations to the Government not to use the Atomic Energy Act for the purposes of the civil mining project. [More…]
The Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquirythe Fox Inquiry- recommended against the use of that Act. [More…]
We will continue to oppose uranium mining while the serious economic, social, biological, genetic, environmental and technical problems associated with the development of nuclear power remain unresolved. [More…]
We oppose this Bill because it strengthens the hand of the developer to resist environmental regulations. [More…]
Clauses 4 and S of the Bill weaken the ability of the Government to introduce more restrictive controls if unacceptable environmental damage occurs. [More…]
The Ranger inquiry specifically recommended that environmental controls be regularly reviewed and strengthened if necessary. [More…]
Why are stringent environmental and health restrictions placed on its development? [More…]
If, for example, it becomes clear in the future that the environmental restrictions imposed on the Ranger operation by virtue of its authority to mine are too weak, then this legislation would prevent the Government of the day from updating the conditions attached to rnining, despite that newly acquired knowledge. [More…]
The companies could successfully resist improvements to these environmental protection conditions. [More…]
All parties to the proposed Ranger and possible Pancontinental Mining Ltd mining operations, for example, acknowledge that comprehensive baseline environmental data has still not been collected. [More…]
One has only to recall the disaster that was Rum Jungle to recognise that environmental standards change. [More…]
All that would be required would be the development of environmental problems unrecognised or ignored at the time of granting an authority to mine, or, alternatively, the development of a greater environmental awareness than existed at that time. [More…]
The Bill also prevents the addition of new environmental safeguards to the authority to mine unless current conditions are not adhered to. [More…]
Of course, the most troublesome environmental problem associated with uranium is the need to dispose safely and securely of the large quantities of radioactive waste generated by the use of uranium in nuclear reactors. [More…]
The effect of this legislation is that environmental conditions placed on uranium which would take this problem into account, conditions which would place some of the responsibility for this problem and its pollution on the beneficiaries of mining, conditions which could be used to influence the use or choice of particular waste disposal technologies, could not be added by a future government without further amendment to the legislation. [More…]
If one looks at pages 248 and 249 of the second report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry one will see that there can be no stronger recommendations made to a government than that recommendation. [More…]
still less that the local environmental controls be determined or supervised under the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
However, the Industries Assistance Commission report did take into account environmental health standards and the possible effects on the workers at that mine. [More…]
In particular, health and environmental issues were discussed by Woodsreef, the New South Wales Department of Decentralisation and Development, EHCD, the Division of Thoracic Medicine of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, James Hardie, members of the medical professions, and representatives of unions. [More…]
CCA requested a repayable cash grant from the Commonwealth Government of $650,000 to cover the cost of environmental equipment required by the Department. [More…]
Whilst recent concern has been concentrated on the possible effects of 2,4,5-T and to a lesser extent 2,4-D, both of which have been extensively researched, there has been little comment on the other environmental factors- some occurring naturally, some generated by man’s inventiveness- which could result in foetal abnormalities. [More…]
I am confident that the establishment of these systems will allow more extensive monitoring of the incidence of poisonings, congenital abnormalities and cancers and will allow detection at an early stage of change in disease patterns in the community which might be attributable to toxic environmental substances. [More…]
I suggest that it might be fruitful and far cheaper to do a retrospective study of environmental factors in those areas in which birth defects apparently have been endemic in recent times. [More…]
A number of boreholes has been drilled both inside and outside the fenced area to enable environmental surveillance of the area. [More…]
Is it a fact that the International Commission for Radiological Protection and the United States Environmental Protection Agency employ quite different criteria in the setting of radiation protection standards. [More…]
in formulating environmental radiation protection standards. [More…]
There was in addition the New South Wales ‘Botany Bay Port and Environmental Enquiry’. [More…]
(a) and (b) The Second Report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry indicated that evidence presented to the Inquiry showed that the Ranger rnining area and the Jabiluka mine sites were located within the boundary of the local descent group identified as the Mirarr Gundjeibmi and 24 persons were identified as members of this group. [More…]
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reported to have commissioned tests on 2,4-D but to date the results are not available. [More…]
What was the expenditure of the Commonwealth before 30 June 1978 for (a) security and (b) monitoring and environmental surveys at (i) Maralinga (ii) Monte Bello and (iii) Emu. [More…]
As was put to the Environmental Studies Centre at Adelaide University last year, conservation measures, including price increases, efficient vehicle production, intermodal transfers and electric propulsion, can make a substantial contribution by 1990 provided a concerted effort is made now. [More…]
There are also serious environmental objections about the impact of the NEAPTR proposals on the Torrens River valley and also the inner suburbs adjacent to that valley through which the light rail transport system would pass. [More…]
Already there is increasing congestion and environmental decline in the inner areas such as Brighton and Marion to the north of O ‘Halloran Hill, and a lack of access to public transport and increasing congestion on South Road. [More…]
A lack of action by the State Government cannot be justified on economic, social or environmental considerations. [More…]
Long term environmental impact ( 1 960 ). [More…]
Long term environmental impact: [More…]
1 ) Further to his undertaking to distribute Environmental Survey Reports compiled by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission (Hansard, 22 August 1978, page 593), will the Government consider employing more staff to ensure that no delay occurs in the compilation of the records in the future. [More…]
1 ) and ( 2 ) Compilation of the Environmental Survey Reports is the responsibility of the AAEC Safety Department. [More…]
The Survey of Health of Employees in the Research Establishment of the AAEC, Lucas Heights, is an independent study being undertaken by the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney. [More…]
Exposure routes are monitored regularly as part of the AAEC’s local environmental survey and doses to members of the public from these routes have been estimated to be less than 1 per cent of the limits for members of the public recommended by the National Health and Medical Research Council. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a recent report by the World Health Organisation on the dangers of asbestos from an environmental point of view. [More…]
The Australian Environment Council’s National Advisory Committee on Chemicals has included asbestos in a list of substances to be assessed in regard to potential environmental hazards. [More…]
While touching on environmental issues, the report is devoted principally to the human health effects of asbestos particularly in relation to occupational exposure. [More…]
The possible environmental risks from asbestos are under investigation by the National Advisory Committee on Chemicals, whose membership includes officials of each State and Territory, and the Commonwealth. [More…]
I understand that a report to the Australian Environment Council on environmental dangers of asbestos is currently in preparation. [More…]
Increased efficiency of energy usage, together with economic, environmental and human factors, are all aspects of the Organisation’s research programs. [More…]
Is he able to say whether it is recognised world wide that middle ear infection prevalence in fixed settlements is related to these environmental factors and that money spent on personal medical remedies and surveys is wasted in the long term in such communities and would be better spent on correcting the environmental factors. [More…]
The need for improving environmental factors has long been recognised by my Department and by the Northern Territory Health Department and has been drawn to the attention of the various agencies concerned. [More…]
Under the present circumstances, however, it is necessary both to provide treatment and to improve environmental conditions. [More…]
The study report will provide detailed data on the medical, sociological, mechanical and environmental aspects of injury-producing accidents in a major urban area. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to a statement in the August 1978 newsletter of the Environment Council of the Northern Territory that there were 9 public responses to the draft environmental impact statement of Pancontinental Mining Ltd for the extension of the Arnhem Highway, but a response prepared in a Government department was suppressed by a higher authority in that department. [More…]
The nine public comments received on the draft environmental impact statement for the Arnhem Highway extension were summarised in the final impact statement which was made available to the public. [More…]
The Prime Minister will also be aware of increasing pressure from mining companies to water down measures for environmental protection and the preservation of the Australian heritage. [More…]
The principles of the Heritage Commission are of great importance to Australia and this Government will maintain those principles to the fullest; but at the same time there are some elements of the Heritage Commission Act, as originally passed, which do come into conflict with other Acts and which could even stand in the way of matters which have been under full environmental examination. [More…]
For example, there was a possibility of one point of conflict as a result of the Heritage Commission Act involving matters that had been the subject of Mr Justice Fox’s environmental reports and it does not seem to make much sense to have the possibility of conflict of that kind. [More…]
In addition to this, we have a responsibility to ensure that urban centres of the nation develop in balance with the environmental capacity of the regions where they are located. [More…]
Emission inventories estimating the contribution of motor vehicles to urban air pollution have been prepared for Melbourne by the Environmental Protection Authority in 1973, for Sydney by the NSW State Pollution Control Commission in 1972 and for Adelaide by the SA Department of Public Health in 1974. [More…]
comply with the requirements of the Environmental Impact Statement legislation’. [More…]
With the spin-off of supporting employment in the related industries, such rationalisation would mean that in the future Australian industry would be in a position to design and build alternative vehicle products in view of changing energy and environmental requirements. [More…]
If control of production is lost, Australia becomes increasingly dependent on decisions made elsewhere, decisions made only on the basis of what is profitable and not based on social and environmental needs. [More…]
The program is totally justifiable on economic, environmental and social grounds and is certain to be recommended in the final report of the salinity study being undertaken by the Commonwealth and the States by Maunsell and Partners. [More…]
All were forwarded to the proponent to be taken into account in the final environmental impact statement. [More…]
The first action I have decided upon is to seek from the United States the information upon which the United States Environmental Protection Agency based its decision. [More…]
In making this decision, the Government has taken full account of the recommendations made by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) in relation to the final environmental impact statement submitted by [More…]
The Government is satisfied that the legislative controls which we introduced in April 1978 regulating uranium mining in the Alligator Rivers Region, in conjunction with the environmental requirements which will be imposed on the company, together with the controls negotiated and agreed between the Northern Land Council and Queensland Mines Ltd, will ensure that any adverse impact on the local Aboriginal population will be minimised. [More…]
In addition the Northern Land Council has been given standing in the Northern Territory Supreme Court to bring suit in relation to the enforcement of the environmental requirements controlling mining at Ranger. [More…]
In relation to the Yeelirrie deposit in Western Australia, the Minister for Science and the Environment advised me recently that there are no objections on environmental grounds to that project subject to satisfactory arrangements being made with the Western Australian Government. [More…]
In my statement to Parliament on 25 August 1977 I 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…]
As to the Jabiluka and Koongarra deposits in the Alligator Rivers Region, the companies involved, Pancontinental Mining Ltd and Noranda Australia Ltd, have submitted draft environmental impact statements. [More…]
It is the policy of this Government to establish uranium mining and marketing on the basis of the recommendations of the Ranger uranium environmental inquiry. [More…]
There are basic environmental concerns as well as concerns related to the orderly development of the Northern Territory economy and infrastructure dictating the wisdom of sequential development. [More…]
It is a foolish policy even on a commercial basis alone, without any environmental consideration. [More…]
The Government intends that the major naval base at Garden Island, NSW, should remain, but be modernised and developed in a way which pays careful attention to environmental considerations and improved aesthetics. [More…]
Uses will include: Cartography, crop yield forecasting, crop disease detection and monitoring, environmental and pollution monitoring, forest, pasture and rangeland management, flood and lire control, geological surveying, oceanography, water resources management, urban and regional development monitoring. [More…]
I think it is a good thing to gain a wide understanding of the necessary environmental protection measures in which public spirited companies are now involving themselves. [More…]
In some States the main responsibility associated with vehicle emissions is exercised by environmental authorities while in other States the transport authorities exercise the responsibility. [More…]
It is imperative that the Federal and State governments adopt a national energy conservation policy with a balance between environmental and fuel economy requirements. [More…]
If common sense prevails ADR27A will be reviewed by the motor industry and environmental interests as a whole. [More…]
I understand that the research will be carried out in close co-operation with the Northern Territory Department of Health, which will take into account other surveys and evaluations aimed at assessing different methods of improving environmental factors in health and methods of health care delivery and administration. [More…]
The Committee found that the low standard of health apparent in the majority of Aboriginal communities can be attributed largely to the unsatisfactory environmental conditions in which Aboriginals live; to their low socioeconomic status in the Australian community; and to the failure of health authorities to give sufficient attention to the special health needs of Aboriginals and to take proper account of their social and cultural beliefs and practices. [More…]
So I stress that as far as the major environmental health problem is concerned, this Government has a major responsibility to regard this problem in the way indicated by the Chairman. [More…]
The World Health Organisation, along with many other authorities and most people who have studied the environmental problems of deprived communities, particularly indigenous minorities, has said that it is essential that those communities determine their health care priorities and take a major part in planning and decision-making. [More…]
As distinct from that we have a committee of the Australian Environment Council- Vehicle Emissions and Noise Standards Advisory Committee- which places far more emphasis on the environmental aspects of exhaust emissions and which in turn tries to make sure that some of the figures and some of the information produced by the Committee on Motor Vehicle Emissions are perhaps wrong or deficient. [More…]
The following Government Departments have procedures concerned with monitoring or controlling the importation into Australia of equipment, technology, chemical or pharmaceutical preparations or formulations which may be hazardous from the points of view of safety, health and environmental impact. [More…]
Question 1- Section 62 and 63 of the Trade Practices Act 1974 and the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations made under the Customs Act provide a means by which controls are exercised by this Department over the supply and importation of goods which may be hazardous from the points of view of safety, health and environmental impact. [More…]
For example it is as improper as using federal export powers to impose environmental restraints on States. [More…]
Some criticism could be levelled on environmental factors at both the Federal and State governments. [More…]
On this particular matter one thing that I would like to express is the surprise at the general lack of interest in this type of environmental subject. [More…]
It would appear that concern for environmental matters is well down the drain. [More…]
We find some comments there that indicate that all forms of development are being questioned as to their environmental effects. [More…]
Environmentally and economically it is not necessarily wide enough in its scope. [More…]
That may be good economic and environmental management. [More…]
I am disturbed at this loss of environmental interest, particularly in the forest area which cover such a wide scope. [More…]
In referring to the report I would remind honourable members that it recommended that immediate consideration should be given to providing financial assistance to the States for the regeneration of hardwood areas in a way that would ensure the maintenance of forest diversity and other environmental values. [More…]
I hope that we will be able to progress to a situation where we take more notice of the forest diversity and the environmental factors. [More…]
This agreement raises broad environmental factors as well as the question of employment and economic opportunities in a small State. [More…]
I utter the warning that there will be need for further biological survey and constant environmental monitoring if the program is to be properly successful. [More…]
My criticism of this Bill has been based mainly on its restrictive environmental nature and, further, on the rather niggardly attitude of the States concerning the period of repayment of the amount involved. [More…]
I am concerned at this loss of feeling for environmental values. [More…]
What is involved is knowledge of environmental matters and an examination of our marvellous resources, such as timber, a material that is so much a part of our every day life and is so useful in all that we do. [More…]
I notice that the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins) in his speech pointed out the proper connection between softwoods and hardwoods as an environmental aspect which must be noted. [More…]
So the environmental aspects of this Bill are all important to the Labor Party. [More…]
Since the original 1967 agreement- as was pointed out by the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins) who is occupying the Chair at this time- and with the rise in general community concern about the ecological and environmental impact of forestry several major investigations have been made into forestry. [More…]
Although forestry is essentially a State issue, this Parliament has a role, financially, and a responsibility, economically and environmentally, to enlarge the forestry debate. [More…]
In strictly environmental terms, one should not let the occasion pass without reference to the two most heated disputes at present. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Science and the Environment whether it is a fact that the Government is in the process of reviewing each of the existing Commonwealth Acts covering environmental protection. [More…]
Is it the intention of the Government, following the completion of these secret reviews, to instruct the Minister to introduce amending legislation to each of the Commonwealth environmental protection Acts with the intention of weakening the existing legislation? [More…]
Why has the Government chosen to ignore the current investigations and hearings into environmental legislation and administration being carried out by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation? [More…]
It is no secret that the Government has for some time been reviewing the principal environmental protection legislation in order to spell out properly the role of the States in supervising the protection of the environment in Australia, to ensure that overlapping and possible duplication of effort is avoided so that expense incurred by companies and people involved is kept to a minimum and io make the Act generally more efficient. [More…]
Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry, which dealt with the export of Australian uranium. [More…]
Environmental Inquiry report stated that total renunciation of intention to supply our uranium was not justified and was undesirable. [More…]
I join with the honourable member for Blaxland in saying that I hope that, if the Harrisburg incident means anything, it means that there will be a tightening up of the environmental control and operation of these reactors. [More…]
It is exactly the prospect of this kind of disaster which has confronted the citizens of Pennsylvania for the past week: A lossofcoolant accident leading to a core melt-down and a hydrogen explosion shattering the containment vessel and releasing into the atmosphere the fission products that would cause the unimaginable environmental and health devastation the studies have reluctantly described. [More…]
The Committee believes that the proposed planning system will require examination of the environmental impact of urban development at a much earlier stage and with a wider perspective than generally occurs at present under the existing impact of proposals legislation. [More…]
Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act work in a comprehensive and complementary manner. [More…]
She pointed out that the reef cannot be isolated from other physical and environmental influences in its region. [More…]
There have been enough environmentally disastrous oil spills in different parts of the world to indicate to us here in Australia the potential danger to the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]
The basis of environmental concern is so ill-defined, that it is not surprising that research scientists have reached widely differing conclusions about the dangers of oil pollution. [More…]
The most obvious environmental effect of oil is usually the coating of large numbers of seabirds, nearly all of which die. [More…]
I said in speeches in this House last year that if oil drilling on or near the Barrier Reef were permitted by this Government the Government would be in for the greatest environmental battle in history. [More…]
On 10 January this year the President of the United States ordered environmental reviews of United States projects abroad. [More…]
That was said by the same Mr Roulston who last weekend at the State ALP Conference seconded a motion moved by Mr Wilkes to the effect that a Labor government would permit the Newport power station to operate within environmental guidelines. [More…]
Although it was recognised at the time that the immediate response to ADR 27A would be engine modifications which would increase fuel consumption, this factor was outweighed by environmental considerations and the expectation of further technological development. [More…]
In addition, the Commonwealth sees value in the definition of practicable and realistic air quality objectives for Australian cities which would be based on broader environmental considerations. [More…]
Has there been any active suppression of information which could lead to better environmental changes as far as the motor car is concerned? [More…]
If we look at those items, as I will a little later, we will see in more detail the kind of fuel penalties that would be involved if the Government were to adhere to any conscious and responsible policy in respect of environmental protection. [More…]
A similar situation exists in relation to the police, corporate affairs, prices and rent control, industrial safety, mining and minerals, public and private land, environmental protection, child, family and social welfare. [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that his Department, in consultation with the Department of National Development and the Petroleum Institute Environmental Conservation Executive, prepare an operational plan which will facilitate the movement and use of National Plan resources in the event of a pollution incident caused by offshore operations or shore based facilities. [More…]
If so, what are the responsibilities of Mr Snelson and do they include advising the Government on health and environmental aspects of the use of pesticides and other agricultural chemicals. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment is responsible for advice on environmental policy aspects and for coordination of Government policy on the matter. [More…]
an independent regulatory authority responsible for nuclear-related environmental protection, health, safety, security, safeguards and other non-proliferation activities: [More…]
For that reason, the Opposition suggests that we break up the Com: mission so that it will have a commercial function- a function to handle nuclear medicine, radioisotopes and such matters- and an independent regulatory authority responsible for environmental matters, including the Australian Safeguards Office which, even though it has a specific safeguards function, is an integral part of the Atomic Energy Commission in as much as it reports through the Chairman of the Commission. [More…]
Page 56 of the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry deals with the underdeveloped nations of the world. [More…]
The Fox reportits correct name is the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry report, as I mentioned earlierrecommended against the use ofthe Atomic Energy Act to grant authority to Ranger to mine uranium. [More…]
That decision is contrary to the express findings and recommendations of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
It was said by Stephen Zorn, one of the major consultants in these negotiations for the Northern Land Council, that one of the reasons he was prepared to accede to what he described as miserably low royalties was that he had managed to have written into the Ranger agreement considerable amounts to be provided for environmental protection, which he estimated would bring the total to something like 9 ‘A per cent. [More…]
Of course, environmental protection is not just for Aborigines and the royalties paid will still be far short of some of those paid in other countries. [More…]
The prospect is that, if the Government were permitted to proceed with its plans on such a basis, we could find ourselves so substantially committed to uranium exports a decade from now that we would be a desperate seller rather than a seller concerned, as we should be, about the safety, environmental, weapons proliferation and waste disposal problems of nuclear energy. [More…]
The harsh facts are that, firstly, the Government is continuing to do no more than mouth its commitment to selective elements of the proposals in the Fox report; secondly, the Government has not kept abreast of, and has not informed the Parliament of the pace of international developments concerning nonproliferation; and thirdly, the Government is pursuing a policy which is dangerous in terms of economic investment, political, social and environmental consequences and national security. [More…]
The Minister is not to exercise any of those powers unless it is necessary to do so for purposes of safety or environmental emergency. [More…]
Did he state on 10 April 1978 that the Government had agreed that the Uranium Advisory Council should include representation from a national voluntary environmental organisation. [More…]
Mr Bonython has a long record of involvement in environmental organisations. [More…]
In addition, environmental impact statements are prepared where relevant. [More…]
Telephone inquiries made of my Department from the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States of America on 30 March requested an opinion on 2,4,5-T and on Dr Field ‘s report. [More…]
If you take the inflationary situation, environmental rules and procedures, coupled with industrial disputes, and put these things together, Australia then stands in comparison with any country of the world and would be in a much better position than many countries. [More…]
Now that the environmental studies in relation to the new Brisbane airport development have been concluded and circulated, at what time will physical construction begin? [More…]
Once the environmental studies are out of the way the earthworks will be ready to commence in 1980. [More…]
In refuting some of the absurdities put forward by the Oil Drillers Association, Dr Frank Talbot, the Director of Environmental Studies at Macquarie University, a former director of the Australian Museum and a man who has studied the reef for over 15 years was quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald on Tuesday 15 May as follows- [More…]
Last year and again this year I warned the Government that if it persisted in allowing exploration, drilling or mining off the Great Barrier Reef region, it would have the greatest environmental battle in Australia’s history on their hands. [More…]
The complexity is due to a combination of” technical, political, environmental and economic uncertainties. [More…]
Under its terms of reference the joint committee is required to take into account all relevant factorseconomic, financial, social, technical, operational, environmental, land use and community attitudes. [More…]
Moreover, the studies undertaken should satisfy the requirements of applicable Commonwealth and State environmental protection legislation. [More…]
Environmental Protection [More…]
(a) The Australian Environment Council, a consultative body of Commonwealth, State and Territory Ministers with responsibilities for environmental matters, has established a National Advisory Committee on Chemicals (NACC) consisting of representatives from the Commonwealth, States, Territories, N.H. and M.R.C. [More…]
This Committee has established a work programme for the identification, assessment and control of environmentally hazardous chemicals. [More…]
Clearly, then, the Taiwanese are disturbing and placing in jeopardy the delicate environmental balance of the reef. [More…]
Apart from the economic viability of the proposal, the industry could present environmental problems. [More…]
This will enable the Department and the Authority to assess the adequacy of information available to relate the proposed exploration program to areas of environmental and marine park significance. [More…]
The reputation of Australia stands second to none around the world following all the environmental and conservation decisions that this Government has taken. [More…]
The actions we have taken in relation to the Fox report on uranium have scrupulously followed the environmental recommendations on the establishment of the Kakadu National Park. [More…]
To suggest that this Government has no concern for environmental issues and to suggest that it has not acted with strength and vigour in these issues is ludicrous in the extreme. [More…]
(a) There is no established incidence in Sydney of disease caused by oxidants or carbon monoxide as general environmental pollutants. [More…]
I think it is worth quoting from the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry where it states: [More…]
The second report was compiled largely by the Head, Depanment of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, aided by his Senior Physicist, Senior Chemist and secretariat. [More…]
Preparation of the third report which will take the form of a series of research papers in follow-up of some findings in the first report, will also be the responsibility of the Head of the Depanment of Environmental and Occupational Health. [More…]
In keeping with the recommendation of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry the Government decided that the mining town to serve mines developed in the region should be included in Kakadu National Park and should be a closed town with a limited population. [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…]
Those responsible for environmental matters on the other hand stressed that the possibility of oil spills from these various sources is nevertheless always present. [More…]
These are the ones dealing with tanker safety training; reporting of suspect shipping; official register of suspect shipping; encouragement to States to bring their legislation up to date; national plan equipment; involvement of environmental officers in incidents; register of oil cargo and spill information; and monitoring of international developments. [More…]
The basis of environmental concern is so ill-defined, that it is not surprising that research scientists have reached widely differing conclusions about the dangers of oil pollution. [More…]
The most obvious environmental effect of oil is usually the coating of large numbers of sea birds, nearly all of which die. [More…]
The Labor Party’s policy is that, having regard to the present unresolved economic, social, biological, genetic, environmental and technical problems associated with the mining of uranium and the development of nuclear power in particular, until Australian sovereignty, the needs of our environment, the economic welfare of our people and the rights and wellbeing of the Aboriginal people are understood we will not assist in any way the Government’s actions to carry out uranium mining in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Labor believes, 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: [More…]
Because his office has a staff ceiling of 20, much of the scientific and environmental research work has been farmed out to a number of statutory organisations, universities and other tertiary institutions. [More…]
I quote again from page 9 of the second report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry: [More…]
How many draft environmental impact statements have been (a) required by, and made available to, the Department, (b) made available for public comment in part only and (c) made available for public comment in full in each year over this period. [More…]
Department of Defence- Environmental noise, Holsworthy. [More…]
Australian Army- Environmental noise from Hornsby Rifle Range. [More…]
Member, International Academy of Environmental Safety [More…]
Counsellor, International Society of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety [More…]
Which energy research projects funded by the Government during 1978-79 will primarily investigate (a) means of conserving liquid fuels, (b) economic aspects of energy use, (c) social aspects of energy use and (d) environmental aspects of energy production, transport and use. [More…]
The Code of Practice on Radiation Protection in the Mining and Milling of Radioactive Ores, 1975, prepared by my Department is at present being adopted for inclusion in the Environmental Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978 which is the responsibility of my colleague, the Minister for Science and the Environment. [More…]
The incineration was performed under U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Special Permit No. [More…]
However its performance, particularly in the United States, has been well documented by the Environmental Protection Agency. [More…]
Has Pancontinental Mining Ltd proposed to the Government that mining of the Jabiluka uranium deposits might be performed underground rather than open cut, as outlined in the environmental impact statement. [More…]
If so, will the Government require the preparation of a new statement to describe the environmental consequences of underground mining before any approval is granted for mining the Jabiluka deposits. [More…]
1 ) Pancontinental Mining Ltd has advised the Government that, following consideration of environmental matters raised in comments received on the Jabiluka Uranium Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement and further technical investigations, the Company is developing, as a preferred alternative, a proposal to mine the deposit by underground methods. [More…]
Pancontinental Mining Ltd are preparing a final environmental impact statement which will examine in detail the environmental consequences of the underground proposal and the open cut alternative. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that (a) of the 63 public submissions and 1 5 government submissions to the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority concerning the proposed expansion of the alumina industry of Western Australia, only 2 government submissions were unequivocally in favour of the projects and (b) the Western Australian Government in April 1978 passed legislation to allow for building of alumina refineries at Wagerup and Worsley, before environment review and management programs were submitted by the companies involved. [More…]
If so, will the Minister establish a Federal public inquiry into the bauxite and alumina industry in Western Australia using the powers under the Environmental Protection ( Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
This legislation required the companies to submit an Environmental Review and Management Program in relation to the bauxite mining and alumina refinery proposals as a means of satisfying Western Australian environmental requirements before State approval was given for work to proceed on these projects. [More…]
Subsequently, in accordance with the Environmental Protection Administrative Procedures, the Minister advised the Minister for Trade and Resources and the Treasurer, as Action Ministers, of his recommendations with respect to this proposal. [More…]
The preparation and submission of an environmental impact statement has been directed on the Worsley proposal. [More…]
1 ) Has the Western Australian Institute of Technology course for Aboriginal alcohol counsellors been successful in providing Aboriginal social change agents, who offer one of the most cost-effective approaches to prevention of alcoholism by relieving social environmental and cross-cultural problems. [More…]
The general conditions of entry for visits to Australian pons by nuclear powered warships are laid down in pages 3 and 4 of the document Environmental Considerations of Nuclear Powered Warships (May 1976). [More…]
Dr Sidney Joseph Krister, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.P.H., D.I.H., F.A.C.M.A.-Commissioner (1977-78); Environmental and Special Health Services, Health Commission of NSW (1977-78); Director, Bureau of Environmental and Special Health Services, Health Commission of NSW (1975-77); Regional Director of Health, Hunter Region, Health Commission of NSW ( 1 973-75 ). [More…]
Dr John Douglas Harley*, M.D., F.R.A.C.P.- Commissioner responsible for Environmental and Special [More…]
What recommendations regarding transport of yellowcake from Nabarlek were made by the various interested Commonwealth Departments in their reviews of the Queensland Mines’ draft environmental impact statement. [More…]
In carrying out its mining operations Queensland Mines must meet all the conditions of the Special Mineral Lease including the appended Environmental Requirements. [More…]
10) I am informed that no Commonwealth Department, in reviewing the Nabarlek draft environmental impact statement, made recommendations regarding transport of yellowcake from Nabarlek. [More…]
The provisions outlined in (9) were imposed by the Government following its examination of the Final Environmental Impact Statement. [More…]
However, we must ensure that the development of tourism to this region takes place without causing environmental damage. [More…]
and (3) Mr G. Kelleher, a government official with wide experience in environmental matters, was appointed to act as full-time Chairman on 23 July 1979 in compliance with the Act. [More…]
This work followed two years as one of the three Commissioners on the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
This period followed 8 months in 1972 as a Churchill Fellow in the United States and Canada studying environmental management and protection in the United States and Canada. [More…]
As Manager of the Googong Project he led the team which prepared the first comprehensive environmental impact statement produced for the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
What proportion of new synthetic chemicals introduced into commercial use in each of the last 10 years was screened for possible health or environmental effects by (a) the Australian Agricultural Council, (b) the National Health and Medical Research Council and (c) any other Federal Government instrumentality. [More…]
Through its National Advisory Committee on Chemicals, the Australian Environment Council is developing procedures for assessment of new chemicals for potential environmental effects. [More…]
Mr G. Kelleher, a government official with wide experience in environmental matters, was appointed to act as full-time Chairman on 23 July 1979. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry in its first report drew attention to the fact that yellowcake does not attract full International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards. [More…]
The Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry saw this as providing opportunities for states to divert material to weapons production. [More…]
Very demanding environmental laws, harsh trade practices legislation, prices justification regulations, and the development and investment policies pursued by many countries have acted as impediments to economic growth. [More…]
Environmental studies have been made on the three runway developments, that is, the two parallel runways and runway 16/34. [More…]
I can assure the honourable member that the braying that was being complained about in Victoria would certainly offend against environmental protection legislation as far as noise levels are concerned. [More…]
Has a Federal environmental impact statement been called for on the proposed development of the Ben Lomond uranium deposit in the Herveys Range north-west of Townsville, Qld. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether any Queensland State Department or Authority has commissioned any environmental impact statement or similar document on this proposed development. [More…]
No Commonwealth Environmental impact statement has been directed in relation to the Ben Lomond uranium deposit because the Minister for Trade and Resources has not been asked to take any action in relation to this uranium deposit and has not designated a proponent within the terms of the Administrative Procedures under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
I am unable to comment on Queensland Government requirements for an environmental impact statement. [More…]
Research and investigation work covers a wide range of subjects relating to public health and tropical medicine, including studies of biochemistry, cell biology carcinogenesis, epidemiology and biostatistics, entomology, environmental and occupational health, occupational hygiene, health services planning and structures, parasitology, pathology and microbiology, preventive and social medicine. [More…]
Professor of Environmental Health- David Alexander Ferguson, MD BS FRACP; [More…]
Associate Professors- Grahame M. Budd, MD BS, FRACP (Environmental Health); David J. Lee, BSc (Medical Entomology); Robert MacLennan, MB BS Qld DTM&H DCH MS Tulane, MRCP (Epidemiology and Biostatistics); Bruce McMillan, MB BS, DTM&H DAP&E Lond., FRACP FRCPA (Medical Parasitology); Peter M. Moodie, MD BS, DTM&H (Tropical Public Health). [More…]
Senior Lecturers- Thomas K. Ng, MD BS Hong Kong LLB Lond., DPH DIH DPA FIS FHA FRSH MFCM (Occupational Health); Janice C. Reid, B.Sc Adel., MA Hawaii, PhD Stanford (Tropical Medicine); James A. Thorn, MB ChB Aberdeen MSc DTM&H DIH Lond., FRSM (Environmental Health). [More…]
(Occupational Health); Gordon J. Lincoln, BSc (Hons) (Environmental Health); Gershom Major, BSc Melb. [More…]
The question of the introduction of exotic marine life into Australian waters via ballast water discharge is one of the matters being examined by the NSW State Fisheries in a study commissioned by the Commonwealth Government as part of an ongoing investigation of the environmental consequences of ballast water discharge by foreign vessels in Australian waters. [More…]
A joint working group of experts from the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Environment Council ‘s National Advisory Committee on Chemicals, and other bodies, will shortly commence an examination of the environmental, health and economic effects of fluorocarbons and their substitutes. [More…]
However, the environmental, health and safety aspects of alternatives also need to be considered. [More…]
Half of the spending on what the Government calls environmental protection is allocated to assisting the uranium industry. [More…]
The Opposition has said that in government it would appoint an environmental advocate to report annually to Parliament. [More…]
These particular local authority environmental services are the ones most needed to combat the terrific backlog in public health and hygiene in Aboriginal communities. [More…]
To achieve public health control of relevant industrial and environmental factors which contribute to lung cancer. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present a report on the National Environmental Economics Conference held in 1978 together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster). [More…]
Honourable members will remember that one of the principal recommendations of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry was that a uranium advisory council should be established to advise the Government and report to Parliament with regard to the export and use of Austraiian uranium having in mind the hazards, dangers and problems of and associated with the production of nuclear energy. [More…]
I am also referring to the Council the final environmental impact statements of Pancontinental Mining Ltd and Noranda Australia Ltd, when prepared, together with any comments, suggestions and recommendations provided by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) under the environmental protection administrative procedures. [More…]
In its letter the Council does refer to environmental, safety and other controls and regulations on uranium development. [More…]
a reduction in public confidence in environmental safety and other controls and regulations concerning uranium development, including those governing the sale of the product. [More…]
The Code of Practice on Radiation Protection in the Mining and Milling of Radioactive Ores, 1975, prepared by my Department is at present being adopted for inclusion in the Environmental Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978 which is the responsibility of my colleague, the Minister for Science and the Environment The Code recommends continued health surveillance including pre-employment, continuing and post-employment medical examinations. [More…]
Because of this, the Government has been especially concerned to implement the Committee’s recommendations aimed at promoting environmental awareness in recreation vehicle users. [More…]
A national workshop on off-road vehicle management was held at the Canberra College of Advanced Education last December, and was attended by representatives from the Commonwealth, State and local government, off-road vehicle clubs and environmentalists. [More…]
The workshop aimed to bring administrators, planners, managers, users of the recreation vehicles and others to a closer understanding and appreciation of the problems involved in the use of recreation vehicles and the potential environmental damage. [More…]
Other recommendations of the Committee were that the importation of over-snow recreation vehicles be prohibited and that an environmental impact assessment should be carried out before any new type of off-road recreational vehicle was imported. [More…]
Clearly environmental responsibility has been the unwanted child of this Government. [More…]
Environmental management and the impact of off-road vehicles on the Australian continent are very serious problems. [More…]
The article outlines the basic conflict between the use of off-road vehicles and the preservation of the environment and environmental qualities in urban areas. [More…]
He said: the importation of over-snow recreation vehicles be prohibited and that an environmental impact assessment should be carried out before any new type of off-road recreational vehicle was imported. [More…]
There is also room for the Government to expatiate on a policy on Antarctica relating to environmental problems, commercial problems and international relations, particularly in the event of the declaration of a 200-mile exclusive economic zone. [More…]
I think the environmental issues concerning Antarctica should be tackled before any such pressure is applied for development. [More…]
A package of six uranium Bills, covering uranium development, Aboriginal land rights, nuclear codes, national parks and environmental protection measures, has been passed through the Parliament by this Government. [More…]
I am talking now not only from an environmental point of view but also from a tourism point of view. [More…]
1 ) Will the Minister present the departmental assessment of the Nabarlek environmental impact study. [More…]
Having in mind this aircraft’s economic, operational and environmental advantages, will the Minister give an assurance that the early entry of the wide-bodied aircraft will not be delayed? [More…]
It seems that the number of people who are faced with starvation, crop failure and the ecological and environmental destruction of the last few years is of the order of 2,500,000, at a minimum. [More…]
In response to a request from the Office of the Supervising Scientist, 19 CSIRO officers participated in a Workshop on Environmental Programs in the Alligator River Region which was held at Jabiru from 21-25 August 1978. [More…]
Subsequent to the Workshop, the Division of Entomology is advising the Supervising Scientist on insect problems at the Jabiru townsite and is carrying out an exploratory study into the use of insects for environmental monitoring in the region. [More…]
At the present time, other Divisions are discussing with the Supervising Scientist what further assistance CSIRO might provide and additional environmental projects are likely to be commenced when the present program of appointing technical staff to the Office has been completed. [More…]
-On behalf of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, I present the report of the Committee entitled ‘Environmental Protection, Adequacy of Legislative and Administrative Arrangements, First Report’. [More…]
Originally, the Committee had hoped to examine the overall needs for environmental protection in Australia. [More…]
The purpose of the Act is to ensure that those responsible for developing proposals and those responsible for taking decisions on those proposals think about and take account of environmental factors. [More…]
Webster) and other Ministers which would provide broad guidelines on the question of environmental significance and matters which should be referred for advice. [More…]
It could be applied to areas not suitable to the environmental impact statement technique. [More…]
There is considerable potential for overlap between the Commonwealth and the States in environmental assessment. [More…]
The objectives of these arrangements are to ensure co-ordination of environmental assessment and to avoid duplication of State and Commonwealth requirements. [More…]
While the attitudes of the various States to Commonwealth involvement in environmental protection varies, all State Governments, except Queensland, stated that the arrangements are working well. [More…]
The Committee recognises the responsibility of the States in environmental protection and believes that the Act should be amended to acknowledge the States’ role. [More…]
The report emphasises that there is a need for the Commonwealth to maintain powers that would enable it to intervene in environmental matters of national concern. [More…]
One requires the Minister to give reasons for not directing an environmental impact statement and the other recommends an amendment to the Act to allow for round-table discussions between interested parties. [More…]
When we received evidence from some of the mining companies- they put the view forward that all environmental matters ought to be the responsibility of the States- I think we were all suspicious of the fact that their enthusiasm for ending Commonwealth involvement in environmental matters was because one or two of the States in particular seemed to give the Australian mining companies almost a totally free go. [More…]
They emphasise the intent of the Committee that environmental and conservation considerations be discussed openly and without the privacy of government inquiries and government departmental actions. [More…]
12 states that the Minister should provide details of the reasons why a direction on an environmental impact statement on particular proposals is not given. [More…]
I get a little tired of those who seek to use the ACF as a whipping-boy for anti-conservation and anti-environmental outbursts. [More…]
There were pressures on the Government, particularly from the Australian Mining Industry Council and its affiliates, for quite drastic changes in relation to environmental legislation. [More…]
Whilst the Committee received considerable evidence from the Mining Industry Council, the Council and its various State affiliates were not able to come up with a single example of a major mining project in Australia that has failed to go ahead because of environmental legislation, except for Fraser Island. [More…]
I am not sure whether that reflects well on governments, environmentalists or what, but the reality is that despite all the evidence we received it did not appear to us that the Mining Industry Council really had a substantial case for major changes in legislation. [More…]
We received evidence and were aware of the fact that in Australia at the present time a number of major projects which are of very great environmental significance are being developed. [More…]
I hope that the Government will fully take the report into consideration before it makes any decisions in relation to changes to environmental legislation. [More…]
I will make few comments on the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act except to say that the Committee fully recognises the role of the State governments and their environmental responsibilities. [More…]
However, it also recognises the contribution that this Act has had in developing industry awareness, government awareness at the three levels of government and a public awareness of this nation’s resources and the need for their exploitation under conditions that ensure adequate environmental protection. [More…]
Commonwealth involvement in environmental protection be restricted to geographic areas under the direct control of the Commonwealth (e.g., Commonwealth Territories), Commonwealth works and activities, activities which the States have referred to the Commonwealth and matters considered by the Commonwealth Government to be of national significance-, [More…]
Finally, I believe that local government and the State governments today have a much greater awareness of environmental issues than they had a few years ago. [More…]
R;/ BAILLIEU (La Trobe)-by leave-Being a member of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation, I appreciate the opportunity of having a couple of minutes in which to make some comments on the Committee’s report and its inquiry into the environmental protection legislation of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I think the point which has to be borne in mind and which came through in the course of the hearings and the investigations that the Committee made was that the whole question of environmental protection is not the sole province of any one tier of government in this country. [More…]
-I think the report acknowledges that the Federal Government has an enormous responsibility in the area of environmental protection, and it must be borne in mind that the whole question of environmental protection is probably one of the main responsibilities of any elected representatives. [More…]
But it also has to be borne in mind that whereas the Federal legislation for environmental protection refers primarily to the impact proposals, it is the State governments and local authorities which have the on-going responsibility to administer and to monitor any development that is approved. [More…]
It must be remembered that the whole question of environmental protection does not finish after there has been an inquiry, under the auspices of either this Act or any State legislation. [More…]
As a general rule Commonwealth involvement in environmental protection be restricted to geographic areas under the direct control of the Commonwealth (e.g. [More…]
I hope this report will be read by people who take an interest in environmental matters, particularly some of the people who came before the Committee with what I might call some of the more far-out evidence that was brought to our attention. [More…]
For many years they have been extremely isolated because of the poor environmental circumstances for radio communications down to the bases in Antarctica. [More…]
I refer, firstly, to the comments of Mr Geoff Duncan on the Australian Broadcasting Commission program AM in which he concluded a report on Treasury documents concerning environmental legislation with, according to the transcript, the following words: [More…]
The Environmental Protection Act- preferring a behind-the-scenes manoeuvre to get its views across. [More…]
The authors of those two reports are presumably referring to several sentences in the published report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation entitled ‘Environmental Protection: Adequacy of Legislative and Administrative Arrangements’. [More…]
The Committee wrote to the Treasurer (Mr Howard) on 21 February, inviting a submission from his Department on environmental legislative arrangements. [More…]
On 21 February 1979 the Chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges) wrote to the Treasurer (Mr Howard) inviting a submission from the Department of the Treasury in relation to the Committee’s inquiry into Environmental Protection- Adequacy of Legislative and Administrative Arrangements. [More…]
It has been made obvious during the past week that the key department of the Government that is concerned with economic planning and the assessment of major projects infrastructure could not give a fig for the social, environmental and broader implications of economic policy. [More…]
The Minister for Trade and Resources (Mr Anthony) is leading a Cabinet vendetta against environmental protection legislation. [More…]
Those who have read the documents could have come to the conclusion only that the Commonwealth was preparing to water down environmental controls and hand over virtually all its responsibilities in this field to the States. [More…]
In a statement that was typical of the deception, deceit and doubletalk that has highlighted the term of office of the Fraser Government, he said in the next breath that all that was going to happen was that the Government would hand over to the States the responsibility for environmental matters- that is, all those projects for which the Federal Government has no direct responsibility. [More…]
Both the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report and the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) in his memorandum of 11 June, have stated that only one State, Victoria, has comprehensive environmental protection legislation. [More…]
The Deputy Prime Minister has stated that he would like to have environmental laws more simply administered than they are at the moment. [More…]
Yesterday morning’s Melbourne Age observed that even if there is foreign investment in the Rundle oil shale deposit, the project is likely to escape an environmental study. [More…]
As a result, amendments foreshadowed by the Deputy Prime Minister would give responsibility for safeguarding the environment to that great environmentalist, the Queensland Minister for Mines and Energy. [More…]
Queensland virtually obliterated what environmental protection it had last March by leaving individual departments free to make their own requirements. [More…]
The new procedures do not include public participation and environmental impact statements. [More…]
Victoria is the only State which has comprehensive environmental legislation although legislation is currently before the New South Wales Parliament and is in the process of being drafted in South Australia. [More…]
The Commonwealth should encourage those States without environmental legislation to adopt legislation similar to the Impact of Proposals Act. [More…]
It therefore must carry out a crusade to gain exemption from the Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
Just as its Minister has a blinkered approach to government, so too is the Treasury blinded to the long term social and environmental consequences of its policies. [More…]
He proposed to take environmental assessment out of the public domain. [More…]
The change would facilitate the ability of the Environment Minister to take action to conclude his environmental consideration of many proposals without having to resort to directing an impact statement and subjecting the matter concerned to public review. [More…]
we will ensure in development projects, which are likely to have a significant and/or damaging effect on the environment and involving the Commonwealth, that Environmental Impact Statements are prepared prior to decisions having been made . [More…]
It seems ridiculous that the Minister should seek to change the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act so that no impact statement need be prepared, since in the past financial year only two environmental impact statements have been ordered. [More…]
In 1976-77 and in 1977-78, 34 environmental impact statements were ordered by the Department. [More…]
Since 1975, 3,230 proposals regarded as environmentally significant have been put forward, but only 50 of those proposals have needed environmental impact statements to be prepared. [More…]
The Standing Committee recommended: the Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act be amended to require the Minister for Science and the Environment to provide, on request, details of the reasons for not directing an Environmental Impact Statement on particular proposals considered to be of environmental significance. [More…]
Obviously the Committee feels that a reversal of the trend away from environmental impact statement assessment is in order. [More…]
Does anyone suggest that the whole nation should not be concerned at the possible environmental effects of uranium mining at Roxby Downs? [More…]
However, the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act is a model for the States to follow in environmental legislation. [More…]
The simple fact is that the Government has not stated an intention to absolve itself from the area of environmental protection. [More…]
This Government has a record second to none in the area of environmental protection. [More…]
This Government has made achievements in the area of environmental protection- not just nonsense, not just scatter. [More…]
The trouble is that when his party was in power it achieved nothing in the area of environmental protection. [More…]
He- said that the Labor Party set up an environmental inquiry into the mining of uranium at Ranger. [More…]
The Labor Government put the taxpayers of Australia in hock to the extent of hundreds of millions of dollars to finance the Ranger uranium venture, yet the honourable member for Robertson has the hide to come in here and say: ‘We were very sensitive to the environmental issues of uranium mining.’ [More…]
Members of the Labor Party should not come in here and talk about the number of environmental assessment statements that were made by the Commonwealth. [More…]
I interjected and said that those very same proposals had environmental assessments prepared on them by the States. [More…]
There is considerable potential for overlap between the Commonwealth and the States in environmental assessment. [More…]
The Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act also requires environmental impact statements to be prepared in respect of developments outside Australia. [More…]
What Australian Government or political party would have the pretence to suggest that it should make an environmental impact assessment into development proposals in a foreign country? [More…]
It is not a question of walking away from environmental issues. [More…]
Can honourable members imagine the environmental impact of that sort of situation on the women and children in the Yarrabah community- with guard dogs, police in uniform, gaol-like conditions and visiting magistrates? [More…]
It could only be because of the environmental factors I have outlined and the fact that an oppressive sort of superior group is going to control their destiny. [More…]
It is something which does not provide any environmental risk or waste hazard. [More…]
Similarly, the environmental constraints on transport systems, long not understood, are now being seen increasingly to be critically important limiting factors. [More…]
We have to take into account environmental aspects, social and developmental factors- such as the need to service areas on other than economic groundsfrequency and reliability of services, safety, quality and comfort. [More…]
The Army recently completed an exercise in the area, which is now the subject of an environmental study. [More…]
The first corrects a simple error in the calculation of the size of the Ranger project area subsequent to the adjustment to the southern boundary in accordance with the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry recommendation. [More…]
One of the things that goes with the pipeline construction is an environmental impact study. [More…]
He announced that the Young to Wagga Wagga natural gas pipeline would become the subject of an environmental impact statement and that once this was available public comment would be invited on the draft. [More…]
I think it needs to be said that the record in an environmental sense of the Pipeline Authority has been a very good one. [More…]
Photographs in the sixth report of the Pipeline Authority show in graphic detail that the environmental impact of the laying of the pipeline is virtually negligible. [More…]
I hope that no problems of an environmental nature will be associated with this project. [More…]
Has the Uranium Advisory Council inspected all environmental reports and recommendations made by government and semi-government officials and authorities at every stage of uranium mining operations at Rum Jungle; if so, what recommendations has the Council made to ensure that there will be no repetition of the environmental damage which has occurred at any other site at which uranium mining proceeds; if not, will he refer the matter to the Council for a report. [More…]
The operations at Rum Jungle reflected environmental attitudes of 25 years ago which Australians would not tolerate today. [More…]
The Government’s policy in respect of uranium development takes fully into account the need for environmental protection. [More…]
Development approval for particular projects will only be given following, amongst other things, completion of the necessary environmental requirements. [More…]
I have referred to the Council Pancontinental Mining Limited ‘s final environmental impact statement on the Jabiluka project together with the comments, suggestions and recommendations provided by the Minister for Science and the Environment under the Environment Protection Administrative Procedures of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974. lt is my intention to do the same in respect of Noranda Australia Limited ‘s Koongarra project and of other proposals for uranium development. [More…]
1 ) Can the Minister state what Federal and State government environmental impact assessments have been or will be carried out on proposed new aluminium smelters in the Hunter Valley, NSW. [More…]
I expect that any environmental assessment carried out of these proposals would be in co-operation with the New South Wales State environmental authorities. [More…]
All uranium mining operations in the Alligator Rivers Region are now subject to a large body of applicable laws and agreements relating to control of environmental and public health impact. [More…]
Are there any proposals to dispose of waste salt from current or proposed power stations in the Newcastle area, New South Wales (which use Lake Macquarie as a source of cooling water) in disused mine shafts in the Hunter Valley; if so, can the Minister state whether any Federal or New South Wales environmental impact assessment of these proposals has been carried out or is planned. [More…]
My Department has not had referred to it the question of the disposal of waste salt from a proposed power station in the Newcastle area and no environmental assessment has been undertaken or proposed. [More…]
In Australia the previous government decided on an environmental inquiry before there was any further development of uranium. [More…]
I refer to the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]