fair go - hofreps - 1970

Contexts in which the phrase fair go was used in the House of Representatives during the 1970s

However, 1 am moved to reply to ray friend, the honourable member for Purl Adelaide (Mr Birrell) who put up an argument that we often hear in this place that the workers do not get a fair go and that other people in the community get a much greater share. [More…]
I think there ought to be something of a fair go, if I may put it that way. [More…]
If the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating) wants to correct the position, he should appeal to the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) and to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) not to ask so many questions and to give back bench members of the Opposition a fair go. [More…]
I am keeping a good tally to ensure that all Parties get a fair go. [More…]
On numerous occasions I have had requests from the Opposition that more questions should be asked in a day to give the backbenchers a fair go- if I may use that expression. [More…]
During the short period that I have been a member of this House they have taken advantage of the very fair go they have been given not only by this side of the House but also by your predecessor, Mr Speaker. [More…]
I ask honourable members who really believe in a fair go for people living in country areas to vote with us on this issue. [More…]
Fair go. [More…]
I suggest that honourable members opposite should not argue the point about not getting a fair go. [More…]
I repeat that if New South Wales was being given a fair go by the Postmaster-General in the matter of finance, equipment and the rest, that State would have only 38.8% of deferred applications instead of 65%. [More…]
Matters of definite public importance in the last Parliament had a fair go and if the Government regards those matters as irresponsible it is perfectly competent for it to say why. [More…]
All that we are asking is that the Government give us a fair go. [More…]
I ask the House to give me a fair go. [More…]
The Acting Prime Minister was given a fair go. [More…]
Give them a fair go. [More…]
It stands by the wealthy sector of the community and will not give the credit unions a fair go. [More…]
It affected their make-up psychologically to the extent that they have not had a fair go in life. [More…]
All we are asking for is a fair go for the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation. [More…]
The Government is not giving us a fair go. [More…]
I do not think this is a fair go. [More…]
Let us come here for a 3 day week and, above all, let us have a fair go at the bureaucracy. [More…]
If, as I firmly believe, they stand for justice, for the fair go, they will throw out this disgraceful Budget and with it throw out this discredited Government. [More…]
This is what the Government calls a fair go. [More…]
All I want is a little fair play, a fair go and a little equality. [More…]
Shame on the Government which tolerates such conditions and shame on any Minister who denies to any worker the right to fight for a decent fair go in Australian terms for himself. [More…]
The first is that the individual member of the staff of this House should be given a fair go. [More…]
I hope that tonight they will be just as self-righteous and will show some consideration for the people who are not getting a fair go here. [More…]
It is not a fair go if staff have to miss out on a meal because members of Parliament are having a function in the official dining room. [More…]
I am one of those who feel that in many instances ex-servicemen do not get a fair go. [More…]
The Australian Government is not giving a fair go to the Australian owned company R. W. Miller. [More…]
The reasoning behind this section is very similar to the reasoning that lies behind the sub judice rule in courts of law - which is to ensure that justice appears to be done, and that the parties appearing appear to get a fair go, that the tribunal itself is protected and not subjected to pressures, because if it has to make a decision, and it has to make a decision sooner or later, it must appear, above all else, that when it does give that decision, it is made on the evidence before it and the submissions that are put to it and which can be answered before it; and not by what someone like the Prime Minister or any other Minister has said outside the tribunal and which cannot be answered before the tribunal. [More…]
If it adopted that course of action the farmers of Australia would get a fair go and would not be subjected to the disadvantages of the present iniquitous system that this Government has implemented. [More…]
Australia is very grateful to all the people who come to this country and trade but it certainly looks for a fair go. [More…]
The fact is - this cannot be denied; it has been proved too often in the past and nothing has happened to alter it - that the wool grower is being denied, and in fact is being cheated out of, a fair go on the auction floor by the collusion amongst the wool buyers. [More…]
All that it wants is a fair go. [More…]
Above all, they will help us retain our national identity of concern for the underdog in which an essential part of the fair go outlook is that each individual is also’ responsible for his mate. [More…]
Is this a fair go? [More…]
I am putting the point of view that you have denied members of the Opposition any right to a fair go. [More…]
After a decision has been made, a prisoner can have no valid reason in those circumstances to suppose that he has not had a fair go or that he has not had fair treatment because justice has manifestly been seen to be done. [More…]
No prisoner who is refused parole will believe that justice has been done to him or that he has had a fair go when he knows that the decision on whether he would be released was in the hands of people whom he does not know, who probably are unknowable to him and whose decisions he cannot influence, but who in his mind are associated with Crown prosecutors and police prosecutors who helped to put him in gaol. [More…]
We have to help them to reconstruct in the country and to see that they get a fair go. [More…]
In the short time left to me I will read a little of an actual transcript of a Crown Solicitor’s questions which shows that some ot these people are not receiving a fair go. [More…]
Our adversary system of justice is not an inquisitorial system; it does not seek to find out what actually happened - it seeks to give a fair go. [More…]
-I realise that I am not dealing with a function of the Department of Immigration, but surely it is concerned about the way migrants look at Australia and their expectations, whether they feel that Australia is giving them a fair go. [More…]
It should give a fair go to people who live in houses built by a public authority. [More…]
As I said, those young Turks who in 1950-51 were making sure that their comrades who served in the war would get a fair go, are silent today except for some crocodile tears. [More…]
Women have had less of a fair go than have young men: people in industrial areas have had fewer opportunities than those in nonindustrial areas; people in country districts have had much less access to higher education than those in a city; people in Victoria had much less access to higher education than people in New South Wales; and Aboriginal people have still not achieved the same equality or anywhere near it. [More…]
I speak as a member of this Parliament who likes to see a fair go and who likes to see a company like BHP and other companies which are big and successful and which are doing a good job for the thousands of workers that they employ aided and abetted by any government, whether it be the government that presently holds office or any other government that may hold office in the far distant future. [More…]
They have had a very fair go. [More…]
They have had a fair go at the wicket and now if by some machinations of private enterprise it happens that their interests contravene the Act, they should sell out what is over the prescribed interest: and if this takes them below the limit they should have no right to buy back above the prescribed interest. [More…]
The mass media does not give the Opposition a fair go but the Opposition still goes very close to the Government in elections. [More…]
But the industry went to Japan and said: ‘Look, we are not getting a fair go. [More…]
As we have found our way as a nation, the background, cultures and particularly the religions of our settlers have helped us to pick up a uniquely Australian identity and at the heart of this there is the belief in tolerance, a belief in a fair go and a belief in diversity. [More…]
It is not interested to see whether children get a fair go but merely to ensure that it can push its own barrow on the question of education, particularly in respect of non-denomination schools. [More…]
The whole Australian character is built on the idea that you give a man a fair go and a chance to put his point of view. [More…]
Is that a fair go for the community? [More…]
ls that a fair go for the people who come along to do an honest day’s work and are prevented from doing so? [More…]
That is not too bad for a company which honourable members opposite say is not getting a fair go. [More…]
All I ask is a fair go, too. [More…]
In regard to the second part of the question asked by the honourable member for Murray relating to the matter of compensation, this will of course be closely examined and I am sure that my colleague, the Minister for the Interior, who will deal with this matter will fully discuss it and give these people a fair go. [More…]
I do not think that we will be giving ourselves a fair go from a physical and mental point of view if we do not carry this amendment. [More…]
The report quite rightly is being debated by the House, but I think we have had a fair go. [More…]
The headline reads: ‘Give me a fair go - McMahon’s plea’. [More…]
In an interview telecast by Channels 3 and 9 last night Mr McMahon made an appeal to voters to give him a fair go. [More…]
By the time the election comes around I think people will say: “ Fair go, mate. [More…]
And with all that experience and with all the mess he has got the country into in the few months that he has been the Prime Minister, he still only wants a fair go. [More…]
Surely it is the people of Australia who need a fair go. [More…]
This Appropriation Bill gives some examples of why they need that fair go. [More…]
Industrial Registrar have been realistic enough to see that the vast majority of strikes originate at the floor level and not in the offices of union officials, this Government has proven itself stupid enough to believe that it can prevent strikes by merely conducting a secret ballot among those whose pressure for a fair go are seeing the strike weapon as the only resort open to them under a system that has become bogged down with legal technicalities and Government interference. [More…]
We are slowly but surely coming to grips with the problem, but we cannot come to grips with it unless we find a different atmosphere in both the Labor Party and the trade union movement - an atmosphere that is favourable to moderation and an atmosphere that is favourable to giving a fair go to each and every worker in the community. [More…]
The Prime Minister in an interview in Bunbury telecast on channels 3 and 9 on Saturday night made an appeal to voters to give him a fair go. [More…]
By the time the election comes around I think people will say: ‘Fair go mate, give him a chance’. [More…]
The industrial arbitration machinery in Australia has been aiming at trying to get a fair go for people working in industry and for employment generally. [More…]
What is the Government doing about this insidious practice which contravenes all feelings of a fair go for individuals, most of whom do not want to see a socialist government in Australia? [More…]
I ask the Minister to reconsider the decision and give the backbench members a fair go. [More…]
As I said yesterday, I think all honourable members believe in giving people a fair go. [More…]
If the Minister had been given a fair go he could have answered the question more quickly. [More…]
This Government is too lazy, too unconcerned or too incompetent to trouble itself about working out a system or formula for giving the family man a fair go. [More…]
I wonder when the States, local government bodies and semigovernment authorities will get a fair go from the Government? [More…]
I think that the Darwin people, whilst they are good people in many respects, like to have a bit of a bitch now and again - if I may use the vernacular - and they do not hesitate to have a bark either if they think they are not getting a fair go. [More…]
But 1 oan assure the people of Darwin that they are getting more than a fair go. [More…]
He did not believe that he was getting a fair go. [More…]
If there is one member who cannot complain about not getting a fair go it is the honourable member for Stuart. [More…]
It is about time we gave young people a fair go. [More…]
I am asking that the Commonwealth Government in co-operation with the States enter into the public acquisition of land when it has rural value, before it is rezoned into urban land, so that it can be developed in the interests of all the people of Australia and so that they can get a fair go. [More…]
Queensland will go ahead if we have a fair go from unionists - a fair go to realise on our great resources. [More…]
We believe in a fair go for the working man but not for this sort of blackmail that happens in some of our seasonal industries. [More…]
The only thing that will stop it happening is the Australian Labor Party which believes that a fair go should be given to Australians in the determination and the solution of this problem. [More…]
We heard sanctimonious speeches made almost nauseatingly with a hand over the heart and tongue in cheek which suggested that we did not give the then opposition a fair go. [More…]
It is therefore time for tolerance and a fair go by everybody in Australia. [More…]
I congratulate the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) for his swift action in keeping Labor’s promise to give Australian youth a fair go. [More…]
as 1 am sure we all are, dedicated in their efforts to see that the Aborigine gets a fair go. [More…]
That is to say, that the 20 minutes to be selected should be by chance so that everybody would get a fair go and we would not have the editorial responsibility superimposed on the position and we would not get the bias of an editor. [More…]
That is a pretty fair go in a Parliament which is limited for time. [More…]
When honourable mem; ben opposite were in Government they did not give us such a fair go. [More…]
For the migrants also I say this: A fair go is what they are entitled to and what we should give them, but we should be very careful that we are not opening the Australian Treasury to plunder - not by the migrants who are here; they are not the people I am talking about at all. [More…]
It is not a fair go for these people. [More…]
This is not really a fair go for the Australian people, who are very greatly affected by what happens in amalgamations of unions, the putting together of very powerful groups in the community. [More…]
We ask for a fair go - that is all. [More…]
The honourable gentleman says he did not get a fair go in the Committee stage of the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill. [More…]
Honourable members opposite should not complain to me that they have not had a fair go from the present regime. [More…]
But for honourable members opposite to say that they are not getting a fair go and that adequate time is not being given for discussion is something that cannot be substantiated. [More…]
We are interested in a fair go for both airlines. [More…]
As a member of the Australian Country Party, I fully support the platforms and policies of that Party, based as they are on the solid philosophy of ‘a fair go for all’. [More…]
1 am quite confident that if the Government does not do something constructive about inflation it will be out at the next election, and the people who already recognise that they were given a fair go under LiberalCountry Party governments will decide to return those Parties to government. [More…]
They are taxpayers of this Commonwealth and they are entitled to a fair go. [More…]
Question time affords an opportunity for back bench members to get a fair go in the Parliament. [More…]
One would have thought that a Liberal-Country Party Government so intimately interested in the material development and allegedy so interested in the economic development of the community would have seen to it that technical education got a fair go. [More…]
What we should be doing in the Parliament tonight is unanimously accepting that this is a means of putting all our industries on a sound footing and of giving all of them an equality of opportunity to ask for a fair go. [More…]
I emphasise that I would like the Government to look very hard at the isolated children’s assistance to see that isolated children are given at least a fair go from the point of view of getting tertiary and senior secondary education. [More…]
The honourable member for Moreton, who says that he did not get a fair go, spoke 4 times on it today and spoke a lot of rot every time. [More…]
Listen, fair go. [More…]
To go into a rural electorate today and suggest that country people were embarrassed by the previous Government’s attitude towards them and at their getting a reasonably fair go over the last few years from that Government- [More…]
Finally I ask, what of the old Australian adage: ‘Give him a fair go’? [More…]
The Labor Government has been in office for only 1 1 months and it has not for a moment been given a fair go in the Press, on television, in cartoons, in most editorials or by some competitors. [More…]
After all, the business of the House is in the hands of the Government, but it also bears the responsibility of ensuring that both sides of the Parliament have a fair go. [More…]
We have not been getting a fair go. [More…]
Yet he will stand up tomorrow and tell you that he is not getting a fair go. [More…]
My friend from Shortland says that that is not enough; it really ought to be 72c or 82c and we should never expect these people to be entitled to what is referred to in the Australian vernacular as a fair go. [More…]
We have always been a country of fair go and fair play and the nondiscriminatory policy puts the onus on the man as he is and not what he purports to be. [More…]
This Government of the majority of the working people of Australia has not been given a fair go. [More…]
These officers do not expect thanks from the honourable member for doing their duty but at least they are entitled to expect a fair go. [More…]
In conjunction with the other amendments proposed by this legislation - in particular that whereby the Tribunal will be permitted under section 16 to inquire into and report on its own initiative into all retail prices charged by companies without restriction as to turnover - the new measure will substantially improve the ability of the Tribunal to ensure a fair go for the consumer who purchases imported goods. [More…]
I think the honourable member for Boothby has had a fair go. [More…]
All I want is a fair go. [More…]
I think the Chair has given everybody what I would term a fair go in regard to these matters. [More…]
The actual demand for 1973-74 amounted to 56,151 telephones, so finally, because of the introduction of policies by this Government, the people in these areas are starting to get a fair go. [More…]
He said that at long last he feels that his electorate is getting a fair go with respect to telephone connections. [More…]
Let me instance a case with which I have been concerned and ask him whether his definition of a fair go applies. [More…]
At first glance it appears that the Department has not been given a fair go. [More…]
It is time the pendulum swung the other way, that we dispensed with the catch cry ‘Cheap bread for the people at the farmers’ expense’ and we adopted the slogan ‘A fair go for the Aus.tralian farmer’. [More…]
Is Queensland not entitled to receive a fair go? [More…]
We had an impassioned call by the Prime Minister in the course of the election held on 18 May: ‘Give me a fair go’. [More…]
Of more recent times he said: ‘Give us a fair go; we have to control inflation’. [More…]
Tasmania, Western Australia, New South Wales and Victoria will also say: ‘We want a fair go for Queensland’. [More…]
I believe, and I would say that the Liberal Party of Australia believes, that the laws of this country should be such that they allow all people involved in employment a fair go so that they have no hesitation in applying to a court and feel no restriction in applying to a court and they do not wish to be dominated in any way, as the Builders Labourers Federation portends to do in this case. [More…]
Tasmanians have seen that the so-called rural rump which comes from Tasmania has no influence and no power whatsoever within Caucus to see that Tasmanian farmers, Tasmanian manufacturers and the Tasmanian mining industry get a fair go. [More…]
If there have been delays they have been quite genuine delays in that the people who were responsible were ensuring that everyone had a fair go. [More…]
I am all for the Aborigines having a fair go but money is being wasted by part-coloureds from elsewhere. [More…]
I am giving him a fair go. [More…]
But Australians like a fair go. [More…]
In the history of this nation, when the people have been called upon to face times of crisis, the Australian characteristic of a fair go for all has come to the fore. [More…]
We will take our fair go. [More…]
The States will get a very fair go and they have been told so. [More…]
I ask the Government to give it a fair go. [More…]
-Give me a fair go. [More…]
Let us give this country and this Parliament a fair go- a term we have heard used so much in other quarters. [More…]
-The other day I read a poster which stated: ‘He’s had a fair go and he’s stuffed it’. [More…]
At long last I can say that the Darling electorate has received something like a fair go. [More…]
Are they not entitled to a fair go? [More…]
Surely it no longer wants to control everything in this country but rather to allow free enterprise a fair go. [More…]
Of course there are people who do not treat the Aborigines well but by and large there is a great degree of cooperation today among people out in those areas to try to ensure that the Aboriginal people get a fair go. [More…]
In May 1974, a great number of people felt: Let them have a fair go. [More…]
A great number of people were not prepared to give them that fair go. [More…]
It ought to have seen then that the reductions were going to be necessary, that it was going to be equitable to reduce tax, for reasons which I will come to, and ought not to have been pushed into it, reluctant to give individual taxpayers what the man in the street would call and recognise as a fair go. [More…]
If justice and sanity prevailed in these matters, we would have expected a fair go at last for our legislation. [More…]
What did he do that was wrong in talking to all these leaders and clearly indicating that Australia has not had a fair go from the point of view of trade? [More…]
Are honourable members going to say that that is a fair go? [More…]
I think we just have not had a fair go tonight and last week when Bill was brought into the House. [More…]
Our Prime Minister appeals for a fair go- a fair go for himself- but he does not consider that he should give everybody else a fair go, or even our nation. [More…]
In other words, a very substantial attempt is made to spell out at least the rudiments of what we normally regard as a fair go. [More…]
I think that I have given the House a fair go. [More…]
They are determined that the Speaker, whoever he might be, will not get a fair go if they have anything to do with it. [More…]
The Government has given the Opposition a very fair go in debating this legislation. [More…]
But in saying that let us have a bit of fair go as well as truth in this situation. [More…]
Let me make this quite clear: I am in this Parliament for a number of reasons, but one of the main reasons is to fight for a fair go for South Australia. [More…]
Justice demands a fair go for all citizens. [More…]
Life is naturally competitive and we must argue that everybody should get a fair go but that they must demonstrate in the end that they have energy, ability and those other qualities that entitle them to take their place in society. [More…]
There are some Liberals who have an idea of a fair go. [More…]
It would give all comers a fair go. [More…]
But I think all members in this Parliament must give credit to the drive, initiative and inspiration of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in giving men like Mollison and the men who are now in charge of the gallery a fair go and the moral support that is necessary to make it a great gallery. [More…]
They want a fair go; they want decent pay; they want decent working conditions; they want a prosperous Australia, able to play its pan in world affairs and able to defend itself. [More…]
Has the viewing public had a fair go in watching a range of first-class programs of their choice? [More…]
In a marriage situation we are concerned as between a fair go and a sense of justice between the 2 partners to a marriage. [More…]
Is that a fair judgment of what can be regarded as being in a fair go for the partners in a marriage? [More…]
It has had its fair go and now it is stretching it. [More…]
The National Country Party of Australia because it believes in a fair go for all Australians rejects this proposal which is before the Parliament. [More…]
We who think about the overall picture, about the amount that the taxpayers have to pay, about future generations of Australia, want to ensure that those who get the benefits of superannuation, whether it is public or private, will get a fair go- even a generous go- but will not be able to push their good fortune and good luck too far to the detriment of the young. [More…]
This smokescreen will not work, because I am sure that the Australian people will see from which side they are getting the fair go. [More…]
Japan has had a fair go from Australia. [More…]
It will continue to get a fair go. [More…]
So that the people would get a fair go the Government appointed Mr Nimmo to carry out a study of the requirements of the situation and what should be done about it. [More…]
Where is the great Australian concept of a fair go? [More…]
Our country selected refugees who were least likely to be selected by other countries, people who did not have recognised skills and who normally would not be eligible for entry to Australia, people who were caught in a morass of social upheaval and degradation, people given the opportunity- to use a good Australian expression- to have a ‘fair go’, which is something the Liberal governments during their 23 years of rule, were loath to give the vast majority of Australians. [More…]
Indeed, the cry often went up from the populace during Labor’s early months of office for the Liberals to give the new Government a ‘ fair go ‘. [More…]
I think I can assure the Minister that if he is prepared to give honourable members on this side of the chamber a fair go he will certainly get a fair go from us. [More…]
Does the Government claim that the media is not giving it a fair go? [More…]
Over the years the Government has always talked about equalisation, a fair go for all, one vote one value and that sort of thing. [More…]
You do not want a fair go for voters or candidates. [More…]
Members of the Opposition ought to be going back to their country electorates promoting and supporting electoral reform that simplifies electoral legislation, that simplifies the expression of choice by people and that gives Australians a fair go at the ballot box and a fair go as candidates. [More…]
Our guiding principle is a fair go for Australians and it is a shame that that fair go principle has not been followed completely by all the previous governments. [More…]
The truth is that this Bill is one of the fundamentals of the approaches taken in 1970 to give the States a fair go. [More…]
New South Wales has to get a fair go from the rest of Australia. [More…]
The Huon has not received a fair go from Canberra. [More…]
We wanted to give the young people of this nation a fair go in purchasing a block of land, so that they did not have to pay up to $20,000 for a block of land in the western suburbs of Sydney, 25 miles from the central business district, or $18,000 for a block of land in Melbourne. [More…]
Consequently our young people will have a fair go. [More…]
You had a fair go this morning, Mr Cameron; you had an excellent go. [More…]
I do not believe it is a fair go for the pensioners to see the honourable member once again using them for political purposes. [More…]
I am convinced that Malcolm Fraser is fair dinkum about pensioners and that at long last pensioners will get a fair go from us instead of being treated like political footballs, as the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) and his colleagues opposite are doing tonight. [More…]
I suggest that people should always be entitled to a fair go, but why go overboard and leave out a provision which would ensure that the generosity bestowed by the present Government is not purposely or accidentally taken advantage of at the expense of the public purse in the years to come? [More…]
I suggest to him that the comprehensive nation-wide royal commission which the Labor Government had in mind and which was coming near to finality on 1 1 November last should be given effect to by this Government and that all governments in Australia should be asked to co-operate in the probe which all of us would hope will bring a fair go and justice to Aboriginal people who have been subjected to indignity for far too long in respect of these matters. [More…]
Under the Australian Labor Party Government for the first time ethnic groups were given a fair go- [More…]
All the wool industry wants is a fair go and a sensible marketing system. [More…]
So in interrelated ways I would like all Australians both inside and outside this Parliament to work together so that there will be a fair go. [More…]
Instead of attempting to confuse and to frighten people for its own political motives, the Opposition should get wholeheartedly behind Medibank and ensure that Medibank ‘s new fund has a fair chance and a fair go. [More…]
The provision of finances by governments to assist in providing international competition and technical expertise is simply the provision of a fair go for Australian sportsmen and sports women. [More…]
The commission that was set up by the Whitlam Labor Government set out to do just that- to expose the inequalities within that industry and try to put it on a decent footing whereby the Australian motorist, the user of the fuel and oil would at least get a fair go from it. [More…]
There is little mileage in the long term in the States continuing to wring out their handkerchiefs and again place them upon their eyes to wipe away the crocodile tears, saying: ‘The Commonwealth is not giving us a fair go’. [More…]
They will not believe in the principle, which I outlined a few minutes ago, of giving everybody a fair go. [More…]
A fair go is asked by the Treasurer for the Government’s policies. [More…]
There seems to be little reason why this industry, which was promised a fair go by the ABC when it complained and was promised a chance to state its case, should not be given that chance. [More…]
All I ask for is a fair go and a fair share of the votes, which is at least 50 per cent plus one. [More…]
The only way in which local government can get a fair go is to make sure that we work at all levels of government. [More…]
I commend the Minister to consider that instead of wiping out the duty on coal he should take positive steps in the Cabinet room to give the people of the Wollongong-Port Kembla region a fair go with some reasonable degree of safety by using some of that money to develop the WollongongPort Kembla road system. [More…]
A continuing feature of Australia’s history has been that Aboriginal people have received less than a fair go. [More…]
An argument has been put that the collegiate system gives a fair go to the smaller States. [More…]
I give an undertaking on behalf of the Labor Party that we will support a fair go for the workers and the people of the region of Wide Bay, irrespective of politics and irrespective of State issues. [More…]
Of course we have not because the Government is not prepared to demand a fair go for Australian industry. [More…]
I am sure that they would be free of political bias, but they can see a possibility of the Aborigines not getting the fair go to which they are entitled if the Legislative Assembly has these powers. [More…]
I ask the Opposition: Is that a fair go? [More…]
What happened at that time was that the then Prime Minister, who has so much to say today about judges over 70 years of age still being capable, went into the Commission and argued with the employers for abolition of cost of living adjustments which gave the workers a fair go. [More…]
That is at least an Australian point of view- give it a fair go. [More…]
You are a fascist and you would never ever believe that he should have a fair go anyway. [More…]
The thrust of our trade policy is firstly to ensure a fair go for Australian goods and services abroad. [More…]
We want a fair go to develop. [More…]
It is high time that there was some control over this form of media so that a fair go could be given to everyone. [More…]
I am not opposed to the players getting a fair go. [More…]
When the facilities excuse failed we were told that because representatives of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta had been there and Mr Carleton had been there recently it was felt that Australia had had a fair go. [More…]
I said that already I had had more than a fair go on the uranium question. [More…]
1 quote these figures to show how selfish it is for an honourable member who has had a pretty fair go, who has had a long run, to complain at having to look after an average number of people. [More…]
Four per cent is the lowest for 20 years but those students still need additional assistance to get a fair go. [More…]
In any case the honourable member for Lilley, in March, asked the Prime Minister for some assurances, assurances which to some people would amount to a statement, that the non-government sector would receive a fair go in the allocation of money for education. [More…]
Rural people, whether they be in Tasmania or in your State of New South Wales, Mr Acting Speaker- I believe your electorate has been greatly increased- have not been given a fair go. [More…]
One of the most notable differences in the attitude of the present Government to Tasmanian industry and to the State of Tasmania in general is that for the first time this Government was prepared to bring in a new federalism policy under which our State would get a fair go. [More…]
I think it is a matter of record that this Government not only believes in federalism but also believes in the smallest State getting a fair go, contrary to the policies of our opponents and contrary to the treatment that they meted out to Tasmania between 1972 and 1975. [More…]
The lessons are these: The Australian believes in a fair go for the worker. [More…]
The Australian also believes in a fair go for Australia. [More…]
Yet we continually hear words such as ‘scab’ used against a person who wants to stand up and say: ‘I want to keep working for my company, for my country, because I am really getting a fair go. [More…]
I think if he had a fair go he would make a better fist of the job. [More…]
I say that it is not right that that should be so and I say that it is not a fair go. [More…]
Mr Speaker, as you said this morning, the person who occupies the Chair is not only the protector of the privileges of this Parliament; he is also there to see that both sides of the Parliament get a fair go. [More…]
The greatest and the most significant continuity of policy in terms of parties in Australia has been the simple one- those three simple Australian words upon which any policy will be judged- a fair go. [More…]
The honourable member for Capricornia (Dr Everingham), in talking about beef producers, tried to analyse what would go to some affluent producers and non-affluent beef producers in terms of what would be a fair go. [More…]
Earlier today, when the Opposition said it was concerned at the present level of unemployment, it was saying that it wanted a fair go for those people whom it said were unemployed and whom it said had few employment opportunities. [More…]
There is one sense of fair go on which the Australian electorate is becoming increasingly vocal, and any party that forgets this will fail. [More…]
I invite the House to consider whether one of the great parties in this place has surrendered what should be a fair go. [More…]
It was because Australians at all levels, rich as well as poor, said that that was not a fair go that they decided as they did. [More…]
After all, any proposition that is put forward concerning economic growth in Australia will be judged on one overwhelming aspect- namely, is it fair; does it distribute fairly; does everybody get a fair go. [More…]
The laissez-faire system of the 19th century which some would laud was rejected because it did not give a fair go. [More…]
One does not have to be a fan of Charles Dickens to understand that and one does not have to read Hard Times to realise that democratic electorates, whether in Great Britain or in Australia, will reject any party that does not seek to say: ‘ We will give you a fair go ‘. [More…]
Ordinary Australians who realise that there needs to be a decent sense of profitability and who would support a government that says ‘you have to have decent levels of profitability to have decent levels of investment in a country ‘ said that those transfers were not a fair go. [More…]
So any party in Australia that departs from giving a fair go, from making a fair distribution of resources in Australia, whether it be under doctrines of socialism or whether it be under doctrines of social justice, will be rejected and it certainly deserves and ought to be rejected. [More…]
Having looked at the matter of taxation and a fair go a brief excursion through some of history is also appropriate to be borne in mind and I want to do this for only a few moments because there are very few moments left to me in this debate. [More…]
The growers must be given a fair go. [More…]
I hope that the Government will do all it can to ensure that the growers, who are very efficient and produce very high quality tobacco, are given a fair go. [More…]
What the Government and the Public Service Board put to the union- this has been made public in statements I made last week but it has not been put to the House and I think the House should be aware of it- was that in the case of those people inside the Service who either did not get an interview at all or felt they did not get a fair hearing at an interview there should be a review committee, on which the union could be represented to look into those two aspectspeople who did not get an interview or thought that they did not get a fair go. [More…]
If the honourable member wants the people of Canberra to stand on their own feet and pay their own way, he should give them a fair go. [More…]
These indicate that they do not want handouts, but that, given a fair go, all of us can get on with the job of developing Australia. [More…]
I hope it works to our advantage but I can assure the Leader of the House that we will be watching him carefully because we are not going to stand idly by and see this system used in such a way that the Government is able to shovel all its controversial stuff into the closing hours of a two-week period and then adjourn the Parliament so that the Opposition cannot get a fair go in discussing matters. [More…]
The best thing the Government can <lo with this legislation is to take it away, have another look at it, and bring back legislation which gives every Australian a fair go. [More…]
Queensland ‘s redistribution gave the ALP a fair go, but the interferer’s motivation was not to ‘get’ that party. [More…]
It can maintain its programing capacity only if it has the goodwill of the local community, and it can maintain the goodwill of the local community only if it is broadly producing material which is representative of the local community, its interests and its aspirations and, in fact, if it gives everybody a fair go. [More…]
make certain the barriers are down and that they have a fair go. [More…]
The other point I want to mention is how sickening it must be to those Australian people who believe in a fair go to look through a newspaper and see certain advertisements. [More…]
There are a number of people who, to quote an Australian colloquialism, given a fair go could be put in a situation where they could be internationally recognised for what they are- top artists. [More…]
The Minister has agreed to give the people of Australia a fair go. [More…]
We will provide untold millions of dollars to upgrade the Tasmanian railway system, provided you do one thing- legislate to ensure that the railways get a fair go under the State transport system in Tasmania’. [More…]
Last week, on what we might call ‘Radio Wannon’, the Prime Minister said that his Government had striven to give everybody a fair go. [More…]
We will find dear old Malcolm out in the sticks of Werriwa on Thursday night trying to indicate to the people that he has given everybody a fair go. [More…]
How could he give everybody a fair go? [More…]
If we examine the Government’s rhetoric about self-determination and giving the blacks a fair go we find that it is hypocrisy in the extreme. [More…]
The Minister is obviously one of the most intelligent men in the Ministry and is entitled to a fair go. [More…]
It is contrary to what I consider to be a fair go that public servants in this country are to be exposed to these sorts of provisions we are about to pass. [More…]
They treat me as a normal politician and give me a fair go, and that is all I want. [More…]
The Minister for Health, his Press secretary and private secretary are not given a fair go to try to explain things. [More…]
The Government is opposing wage indexation and the Prices Justification Tribunal and it is doing everything to belittle every chance that the working man has to get a fair go in this country. [More…]
Honourable members opposite are not prepared to stand up for the Australian working people, who deserve a fair go. [More…]
Is it any wonder that they think the whole system is anomalous and that they are not given a fair go? [More…]
I believe that there is no opposition to the legislation but I honestly believe that something has to be done to determine what is a fair go. [More…]
I submit- I agree with the honourable member for Blaxland on this point-that the Atomic Energy Act has not yet been effectively amended to provide that mining companies get a fair go. [More…]
Give Queensland a fair go or else. [More…]
It is the basis of a fair go for all. [More…]
The committee system means that the uniformed elements do not get a fair go when discussions on important matters are held. [More…]
They have not given the Minister for the Capital Territory a fair go on the Council and they have stubbornly refused to increase the quotas of producers in the Australian Capital Territory so that they can dump their surplus eggs in Canberra. [More…]
I have made the point that Canberra producers have not had a fair go in relation to eggs. [More…]
It should be the ombudsman of the Aborigines to ensure that they get a fair go from all authorities. [More…]
In all these areas the Government has inflicted unnecessary hardship upon those who most deserve a fair go, and it should be condemned for its actions. [More…]
If they were offended by it, if they thought it was unjust, I have no doubt that the capable officers representing the public servants of Australia would have risen in rage and said that they were not getting a fair go. [More…]
Nobody could reasonably argue that he has not had a fair go. [More…]
Maybe I could just interpose here that this is not just a question of a fair go for the Minister. [More…]
There is the matter of a fair go for the Australian people, who have a Minister like this involved in the affairs of this country. [More…]
We have cries from Opposition members in the name of decency, a fair go and doing the right thing. [More…]
So this is simply about a very important parliamentary principle, a principle that is designed to enable proper parliamentary scrutiny of Ministers, but at the same time to give to Ministers, in the words that members of the Opposition have used in this debate, ‘ a fair go ‘. ‘ [More…]
A fair go ‘ means that if members of the Opposition have a complaint against the Leader of the House or against any other member of the Government front bench, they should move a substantive motion and have the courage to give particulars of their charge. [More…]
Only when reforms of this kind have been adopted will families be given a chance of having a fair go. [More…]
He cannot claim that his Government has not been given a fair go. [More…]
I think that it has given a fair go in its news columns. [More…]
We note your comments concerning the lack of Rugby League scores on the ABC in Melbourne in comparison to what you have considered to be a fair go for Australian Rules scores on the ABC in Sydney. [More…]
We can settle the matter once and for all and have a fair go for rugby league. [More…]
I will defend the Prime Minister on this for one reason only and that is because his reason for doing this- as it has been with other Ministers- has been to ensure that the honourable member gets a fair go. [More…]
All that these young people want is a fair go. [More…]
The Government should take some action to ensure that the rights of the merchant seamen who served this country during the Second World War are protected and that they are given a fair go. [More…]
Having just lamented and complained that they were not given a fair go to discuss the Estimates, not one member of the Opposition is here in the chamber to discuss them. [More…]
I hope that people listening are aware of the fact that it is unprecedented in my time in this House that not one member of the Labor Party is in the chamber to discuss these enormous Estimates about which they have been so critical and about which such phoney crocodile tears have just been shed because they were not given a fair chance, a fair go to discuss them. [More…]
Introducing the health policy proposals yesterday, the Opposition spokesman on health, Dr Klugman, said Medibank had never been given a fair go. [More…]
In fact this is particularly so among rural incomes where, thank heavens, after years of Labor repression at last the rural sector is getting a fair go. [More…]
Because it is getting a fair go and reasonable incomes the tax has gone up. [More…]