fair go - senate - 1970

Contexts in which the phrase fair go was used in the Senate during the 1970s

In education, in nutrition and in almost every aspect of life the Aboriginal people are not being given a fair go. [More…]
We used to pride ourselves that there was a fair distribution of wealth in Australia, that the Australian people, and especially their children, would have a fair go. [More…]
This is not a fair go. [More…]
It is because I consider that ex-servicemen, particularly those returning from Vietnam, are not getting a fair go in the matter of reestablishment opportunities that I am speaking on the motion for the adjournment this evening. [More…]
We believe that this is the best system of seeing that all people have a fair go. [More…]
But when the States are made so much aware of the fact that the Commonwealth debt has dropped while their debts are increasing and they are obliged out of their meagre resources to pay interest to the Commonwealth on moneys which the Commonwealth has collected from the areas of responsibility of the States, the Premiers have legitimate cause to complain that they are not getting a fair go. [More…]
I would like to see the Government demand a fair go from the United States and a return of the moneys which have been paid. [More…]
They listened to the evidence which was given to the Senate Select Committee and have waited in vain to hear that the average rank and file subscriber will get a fair go - never mind the susceptibilities of the fund directors or the Australian Medical Association. [More…]
In the interests of this country we should aim to keep the wheels of industry moving so that the mass of the people, the men we want to be connected with in life, get a fair go. [More…]
This Budget is not a fair go. [More…]
They are not militants; they are not radicals; they are Australians who assert their right to show the Government that they believe that they are not getting, and have not been getting, a fair go. [More…]
I have tried religiously not to ask a question when it has been a question on notice in order to give the system a fair go. [More…]
But we have to consider the young people and say: ‘Give them a fair go. [More…]
I believe that in a society such as ours, in which the Government claims to be generous with its social service payments, to be an example to other countries and to be giving our citizens a fair go, much more emphasis should be placed on those who need government assistance. [More…]
They know that in the long term there is a price to be paid for these things, and all they are looking for is a fair go and security. [More…]
We are prepared to sit extended hours, but we want a fair go. [More…]
Consequently, they too, were not given a fair go. [More…]
They might say: ‘Well, I am not getting a fair go here so 1 will try the captain.’ [More…]
I would say that the wool growers should get together, have a fair go and get what they believe they are entitled to. [More…]
I also ask: What will the Government do about the request by that body that the subject matter should be put to the Trade Practices Commission to see to what extent some control might be exercised, in view of the fact that now the Australian Shipping Commission is part of the AustralianUnited Kingdom conference, to see that Australian producers get a fair go? [More…]
In the Budget an allocation of $1, 137m is proposed for the defence services, yet we have nol found a means of giving serving members of the forces a fair go. [More…]
That is an example of inequality of opportunity being exacerbated and aggravated by this Government instead of the inequalities being modified in an endeavour to give children a fair go as far as governments can do. [More…]
I urge the Government to take heed of my remarks and, certainly before the Senate election, to bring down recommendations regarding Australian content in television programmes because I believe that Australians engaged in this vital communications industry have not been given a fair go to date by this Government. [More…]
I am not proposing now to refer to a debate that is closed, but I merely want to indicate that we moved in this chamber yesterday for some sort of public trust to be established to give Aboriginals a fair go. [More…]
The judgment of this country is that the pensioners are not getting a fair go. [More…]
There are many ways in which the Government could see to it that, with the immense resources of this country, which is one of the richest countries per head of population in the world, a fair go was given to the pensioners and those people who are not able to look after themselves. [More…]
1 am saying that we in this Parliament have to maintain a balanced responsibility in order to see that everybody gets a fair go [More…]
I am prompted to go a little further by Senator Cavanagh because on a number of occasions he has spoken about our arbitration system and the role of the State to see that at least a semblance of a fair go is given. [More…]
But on the first day of the new session the Democratic Labor Party came into this place and said in effect, in terms to which one could not take exception, that it thought that the pensioners - all of them; age, invalid and widowed - were not getting a fair go and that necessary legislation should be introduced. [More…]
I allowed Senator Little to have a fair go, but I must admit that I felt like interjecting and saying: ‘Look, you must be on the wrong Bill.’ [More…]
Surely if those companies believed that their 2 editors had not had a fair go up to that stage, would not they have wanted to come and give further evidence on this matter to the Committee? [More…]
Obviously their motive is not any sympathy with journalists or anybody who is not getting a fair go; they are, I suspect, grandstanding for the media. [More…]
This was their opportunity to pose as friends of the journalists, as people who want to see everybody get a fair go. [More…]
I urge the Minister to look very closely at the application by TAA so that that airline is given a fair go. [More…]
What we members of the Australian Labor Party have said about the matter is that the Government has not given the pensioners of Australia a fair go and that we would do better. [More…]
However, the question was whether or not rugby league was getting a fair go from the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
I am innocently and sincerely pursuing a persuasion I have, namely, that rugby league is not getting a fair go in the way of television from the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
As far as I know, and as far as I can ascertain by examination of the problems that have been put before me, every airman has had a pretty fair go. [More…]
If such a. person does not think he has had a fair go, he can get someone to take up the case on his behalf and I will certainly have a look at it. [More…]
Despite the fact that we have not had rules governing the calling and conduct of witnesses before a committee, with the possible exception of some rumours about Browne and Fitzpatrick there has never been an accusation that witnesses did not get a fair go. [More…]
I ask honourable senators to give Senator Jessop, who has the call, a fair go. [More…]
The important thing is that the job which has to be done by the Queensland State Government, by the Premier, by the Minister for Conservation, Marine and Aboriginal Affairs and by the Director of Aboriginal and Island Affairs in that State is to give all 50,000 of the black people of Queensland a fair go. [More…]
Can I have a fair go? [More…]
They said: ‘We have had a fair go in one direction. [More…]
But I do not think that TAA can fairly say that it has not had a pretty fair go. [More…]
One is that overseas companies seem to enjoy a pretty fair go, and probably a little more than a fair go, in respect of the money that is paid by way of these grants. [More…]
Is this a fair go for these migrants? [More…]
Is it a fair go for the Australians who jostle with them in ever longer job queues? [More…]
I think that as members of the Opposition are given a fair go it is only right that they should reciprocate. [More…]
Whilst I object strongly to political censorship from either side, all that I argue for is a fair go. [More…]
He does not believe that we should get a fair go on the ABC. [More…]
All that the Government has ever asked for is a fair go, an application of what the Americans call, under the Federal Communications Commission, the implementation of the fairness doctrine. [More…]
I then asked him, in order to ensure that there was a fair go for all political parties: [More…]
It is worth finding out what he means by some extremists’ - that there is something legitimate about wanting to set up an independent government, self determination for a people, there’s something legitimate about saying that the Palestinian Arabs have got to get a fair go and can’t be left in poverty the way they are - neglected by everybody. [More…]
The Government recognised that they had a fair go in the length of time that they were there. [More…]
It is interesting to note that both Senator Webster and Senator Laucke were sufficiently aware of the criticism by the Australian Labor Party in relation to this matter to conclude that Australian industry has not been given a fair go in connection with the provision of pipes for this project. [More…]
If he cannot spare 10 minutes from his daily routine to speak to this representative, I am sure that the people of the Northern Territory are not getting a fair go. [More…]
If necessary, will he appoint a special investigator for the Tasmanian region so that subscribers there who have been overcharged will receive a fair go? [More…]
I believe that this company should have a fair go. [More…]
But if it be said by my friends opposite that everyone in this community is getting a fair go so far as our health services are concerned, as a Minister in the Labor Government I strongly disagree with them. [More…]
I do not care a tuppenny dash which Party is in power; I consider that each Party should be given a fair go and a reasonable chance to produce laws. [More…]
It was long overdue, but we had to have a change of government to give these people a fair go. [More…]
I believe that the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory will do something to help the people but the Government needs to wake up to the fact that it is not giving the people of the Territory a fair go. [More…]
When will the Government give the old people of this country a fair go and do what it promised, that is, remove the means test without these unfair restrictions? [More…]
So, far from opposing this Bill in any way, the Opposition proudly accepts it as part of the program for which it has always stood and continues to stand- that is, the importance to Australia and the world of a migrant program and the importance to the people who play their part in that program of being able to obtain a fair go in Australia. [More…]
Part of the fair go given is that the children should be given special coaching where necessary in the English language to enable them to be able to participate fully in and obtain the rewards from the education system available in Australia. [More…]
Fair go. [More…]
The Government is under an obligation, in my view, to see that every child in this country receives a fair go. [More…]
There are people who believe that they are not being given a fair go. [More…]
Will he again remind the Commissioners of the ABC that their charter of freedom and independence requires them to maintain objectivity and carries an obligation to give both sides in the controversy a fair go? [More…]
I am sure that there is no need to remind the Commissioners of the ABC of their overall responsibility to ensure that everybody is given a fair go. [More…]
I would do so purely on the basic business principle of the need to encourage production and to give the small man a fair go. [More…]
The Opposition has not been given a fair go on the programming of the legislation. [More…]
In short, it was never given a fair go. [More…]
We have injected massive expenditure into education and if we are given assistance or a fair go from the Opposition Parties we will do the same in the field of health. [More…]
These people have said that Queensland is not getting a fair go and that all the benefits and advantages are being given to the standard States of Victoria and New South Wales. [More…]
It is significant that during the last election campaign the average small to medium sized Australian business and some of the larger Australian companies gave their donations to the Australian Labor Party because they knew that they would get a fair go. [More…]
If Dr J. F. Cairns is given a fair go- he can take it- the rest of the speech will fall also. [More…]
We have had a fair go today; we have been talking since 10.30 this morning while Mr Snedden was descending through the fog, and we have been talking about the issue since lunch. [More…]
If there was an affirmative rostrum and a negative rostrum- they could be lecturns on the floor of the House of Representatives chamber, there would be a set place from which people would speak and everybody would get a fair go before the camera. [More…]
All I want is a fair go. [More…]
I suggest to people who want to argue- I am not suggesting that the Bill should be argued on this basis- that this Bill is not giving rural areas a fair go vis-a-vis other areas or that it is giving urban areas too much of the cake, if they want to assess the position on this petty parochial level, they should at least get their facts straight. [More…]
He loved every moment of it, but he adhered throughout to the code of a fair go and playing according to the rules. [More…]
We call on the Government to introduce controls over all types of imports so as to protect the jobs of Australian workers, particularly those who are employed in the established industries which are located in decentralised areas, and above all we call for a fair go for Tasmania and Tasmanians. [More…]
I challenge the Tasmanian senators on the Government side of the chamber to put Tasmania first and to join us in demanding a fair go for Tasmania. [More…]
But I would hate anyone in society, particularly in the emotionally charged atmosphere which surrounds this debate, to go away saying that he did not think he had had a fair go. [More…]
I think Australia owes it to the Israeli people and the Israeli Government at least to give them the proverbial Australian fair go. [More…]
The Minister is not getting a fair go at all. [More…]
They are also entitled to have those who are in there batting given a fair go. [More…]
When the honourable senator was speaking I did not interject, partly because I thought that his speech was too stupid, but I did at least attempt to give him a fair go. [More…]
There is not a single word in the length and breadth of this Bill which gives to the people of Darwin a chance to object and receive a fair go at an appeal. [More…]
Who is talking now about a fair go in this situation? [More…]
He said that Dr Cairns had not given the Senate Select Committee a fair go and that the Committee would have been able to report had the Minister given the Committee an opportunity to do so. [More…]
There is a general recognition that in the administration of the arts there is such a sensitive area involved that in its attempts to get off the ground the Australia Council should be given that minimum requirement of Australian culture, namely, a fair go. [More…]
All I would say about the role of the executive officers of the Australia Council, as well as the personnel of the boards, is that they should be given a fair go in this difficult period of developing an arts policy in Australia. [More…]
I think that those who experienced the Tasmanian bushfires felt that, for all the public appeals, they did not get a fair go. [More…]
He wants a fair go which will enable him to perform adequately his vital role in the economic system, and this Government has acted to see that he gets a fair go. [More…]
Reiterating the point that was made in the second reading debate, we believe that the man who is to be the Commissioner of Community Relations, Mr Grassby, has shown by conduct and action that there will arise in the minds of some who could well be affected by this legislation the feeling that he has an antagonism to them which would lead them to believe that they could not get a fair go from him. [More…]
They are not even getting a fair go- the ordinary Australian concept of a fair go. [More…]
It is high time that the Government stopped being a pacesetter and settled down to seeing that everybody in this country gets a fair go and that should extend, first of all, to the taxpayers, who should be treated in some consideration of equality. [More…]
They should insist that they get a fair go as to accommodation in this place. [More…]
I think it is time that there was a clean-out here, that the priorities were set properly and that the members and senators were given a fair go [More…]
In my opinion, the Government does not express the real Australian character which has always been one of rugged individualism and self-reliance but with proper concern for a fair go for everyone. [More…]
The Labor Party, of course, has a fierce belief in a fair go and it feels that it must match its opponents. [More…]
I think that was a very good exercise where the 4 leaders, who each basically wanted to see the proceedings run properly, smoothly, with the proper dignity and with a fair go for everybody, solved the problem, I think, over 2 sandwich luncheons. [More…]
We on the Opposition side will, of course, be saying to the trade union movement, which gave us for most of the time a pretty fair go indeed because it had the lowest inflation rate the world had seen, the highest sustained level of employment and the highest home ownership rate: ‘Look, we want a proper arrangement and a proper understanding’. [More…]
The percentage of gross domestic product Australia spent on welfare was far below those countries and people were not getting a fair go. [More…]
One would have thought, if that Party truly represented the country people, that it would have been more interested in calling for an increase in the price of cabbages or potatoes or, at least, ensuring that the farmers got a fair go. [More…]
We are dealing with blood money and with a government that will take money and will prevent people from having a fair go at getting education or assistance in coping with smoking. [More…]
They have a great feeling for fairness, and although people sneer at the principle of one vote one value, I believe that the ordinary people of this country are closer to understanding the principle of a fair go for everybody than are their representatives. [More…]
They are doing this not because they like everything which the Government has done economically but because they believe that the Government is right and because they are acting in accordance with that innate basic philosophy of Australians that they want the Government to have a fair go. [More…]
The Government is not getting a fair go. [More…]
Indeed the Government, having had the opportunity to continue, having been given what it asked for- namely, a fair go, a chance to do the things that it maintained it was capable of doing and determined to do on behalf of the total Australian people- has, 1 8 months later, as a result of its policies and as a result of its legislation, put the country in a considerably worse circumstance than it was in previously. [More…]
They have not been able to understand that the Australian people are interested in a fair go for a government, that they are interested in the democratic processes with which the Labor Party has been associated ever since it was formed in 1 89 1 . [More…]
It remained in office in the middle of 1974 on the basis which was pleaded at the time that it had not had a fair go. [More…]
One can say only in the circumstances in which this country is placed that he is not giving the people a fair go by giving them an opportunity to decide whether he is to continue in government or whether the Opposition is to be given an opportunity to see whether it can do better. [More…]
If any single, powerful pressure group in this country believes that it is being sold down the drain, that it is not getting a fair go or that favours are being given to one section rather than to another section, the fight against inflation is doomed. [More…]
Nonetheless I believe that if we do not continue wage indexation for the period ahead, if we do not persuade the unions, as I agree that Mr Fraser and Mr Street managed to persuade them, that they will get a fair go from this Government, we can kiss the fight against inflation goodbye. [More…]
They are thinking that the bugles, the brass bands and, if you like the buns and the biscuits are brought out when a conservative government is elected to office but that when a Labor government is elected to office, especially if it does not have a majority in the upper chamber, the Labor government is not to be given a fair go by the establishment. [More…]
But when we do not get a thrashing and when we do have a win we expect a fair go and our supporters- the people who voted for us and the people who work for us- expect us to be given a fair go. [More…]
When we are not given a fair go these people realise it. [More…]
When we are not given a fair go time after time, as we were not given a fair go, then they very rapidly start to lose faith in the political system. [More…]
I am not one of those who can speak on legalisms, but I can speak on what I would call the Australian concept of a fair go. [More…]
Perhaps it is not a legal concept, but it is my idea and their idea of a fair go. [More…]
We talk about a Christian way of life and a general belief in a fair go. [More…]
We must be given a fair go. [More…]
In spite of our turbulent history and our electoral ups and downs, the spirit of what is good and decent in Australia, the notions of mateship and a fair go, are still the property of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
It was also a moment of recognition of the fact that Australia is a country of a fair go, a fair go for everyone, regardless of his origin, a country which millions of migrants like myself have adopted as their home and as the home of their children and their children’s children. [More…]
All I want to see is that the Department of Health carries out a complete review of the profitability of the drug industry and makes sure that it gets a fair go. [More…]
Any pretence we have of mateship with the Timorese or of giving them a fair go has long since evaporated. [More…]
We hope that the Parliament will look into the matter and help us get a fair go. [More…]
If they believe that they are not getting a fair go, if they believe that they are being ripped off in some way, the existence of an increasing pool of unemployed will not in any way affect their determination to get what they think is a fair wage. [More…]
I gave Senator Melzer a fair go. [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…]
Is it going to lean- to use the difficult political word- on the Queensland Government to make sure these people get a fair go or is it, like a number of other people, running scared of the Queensland Government in case the Premier decides to secede? [More…]
Let me state this clearly: In the knowledge that this year there is to be $ 140m for both per capita grants and equalisation, and in the knowledge that last year there was $79.9m for equalisation, if everybody was to get a fair go and nobody could get less from equalisation than was received last year, with costs having been adjusted, one would not want to give more than 40 per cent to per capita grants. [More…]
Now, Mr President, I live to fight another day in the same battle all over again for the right of everyone, no matter who he may be, to get a fair go and just treatment from the government and the administration of the day. [More…]
WE WANT A FAIR GO. [More…]
We would provide the sort of legislation that would give everyone a fair go. [More…]
I do not believe it is necessary that all positions at the head of the Public Service should be career positions, but I believe that the permanent officers should have a fair go and a fair career structure. [More…]
No longer do we hear the catch cry ‘Fair go’ which we have known over the years. [More…]
In those circumstances anyone who believes in a fair go for all Australians can do nothing else but vote ‘yes ‘. [More…]
The May referendum is all about Australians giving Australians a fair go. [More…]
I say that it is not a fair go for the Aboriginal people of Australia. [More…]
He is not even getting a fair go because this Government is totally bankrupt. [More…]
At this stage I do not intend to relate the tales that surround the Redcliffe CES, but I am beginning to believe the people who say that they do not get a fair go when they go to that office. [More…]
I am all for people getting adequate remuneration and a fair go but the golden handshake, in this instance, seems to be more than a very fair golden handshake. [More…]
Very few people in this country gave Rex Connor a fair go. [More…]
We want a fair go to develop. [More…]
I hope that Senator Lewis and people who think like him, people with the same sort of racist attitude, will read the Hansard reports covering these things and see what they are doing to our own ethnic minority who are not getting a fair go. [More…]
The same group of people, who sit on that side of the chamber, are determined that the members of that minority are not going to get a fair go. [More…]
That is surely a very fundamental and indeed a very modest requirement for a democratic community, for a community and for a political system in which people like to talk in terms of equality of opportunity, of equal chances, of a fair go and all these things which we like to think are characteristic of the political ethos in Australia. [More…]
All I am asking for is a fair go for the family which decides that Mum should stay home and bring up the kids. [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…]
I should have thought that anybody who believes in a fair go in this community would believe that there is a right not to join a union. [More…]
Why do they not take away the fascist legislation that they have introduced to undermine the ordinary working people in this country and give decent men a fair go? [More…]
Here is a particular case in which primary industries, which tend to think that they do not get much of a fair go, have been particularly helped by the Government. [More…]
But if a large enough section of the population comes to believe that the game is rigged and if the proponents of reasonable reform are just not given a fair go within the democratic process, the day of the urban guerilla may arrive in this country earlier than people believe. [More…]
But if a large enough section of the population comes to believe that the game is rigged and if the proponents of reasonable reform are just not given a fair go within the democratic process, the day of the urban guerrilla may arrive in this country earlier than people believe. [More…]
if the proponents of reasonable reform are just not given a fair go . [More…]
Prior to the suspension of the sitting for dinner I was discussing a passage in a speech by Senator James McClelland and asking the question: Who will decide what is reasonable reform and a fair go within democratic process? [More…]
Does the honourable senator imply that the 1975 and 1977 elections were not a fair go, or that elections as we have them here are not a democratic process? [More…]
When we debated the procedure for raising matters of public importance, I said that members of minority parties and independents should be able to have a fair go. [More…]
When this Act was passed I made approaches to the Queensland Trades and Labour Council suggesting that unless the Aborigines got a fair go, and unless mining was carried out with their consent and their general wishes, and in accordance with what they required in return, union labour ought not to be supplied to that mining development. [More…]
The Queensland Trades and Labour Council agreed and subsequently carried a resolution to the effect that it would not supply union labour until such time as the Aborigines got a fair go. [More…]
There has been no fair go at the Doomadgee Mission which, generally speaking, has been totally controlled by the National Party from 1967, when Aboriginals earned the right to vote by the carriage of the referendum, until the State election in 1977. [More…]
They are not given a fair go. [More…]
Will the Government give consideration to calling for an appropriate reintroduction of wage differentials in national awards so as to give a fair go to young people by enabling them more successfully to compete with adults and experienced persons in gaining employment? [More…]
Some of them complained to me afterwards because I was associated with a certain committee at the time that they had not been given a fair go. [More…]
If you give him a fair go this time, you’ll get your chance next time’. [More…]
The feeling that members of the community are not getting a fair go is as strong as it was before. [More…]
That outbreak of temper arose because the agent had been chatted about not giving Aboriginal people a fair go. [More…]
It is these sorts of oversights- if that is what they are- that I ask the Minister and the Government to consider to ensure that the Capital Territory, particularly its poultry industry, is given what I think could be described as a fair go. [More…]
If so, what is the cost involved and what are the technical difficulties in preventing the people of the outback from receiving a fair go with the viewing of major sporting events? [More…]
I think that sooner or later we have to find out and have an explanation from both sides as to whether there was an agreement because we in the Australian Labor Party are trying to give a fair go to the Independent and the minority party. [More…]
Fair go. [More…]
We have heard about a fair go for Labor. [More…]
A fair go for the most hopeless Government in our history? [More…]
A fair go for the party whose leaders- one after the other- deceived the Parliament? [More…]
During my period as President 1 have tried to ensure that this place works amicably I have sought to give everyone a fair go. [More…]
After all, in Australia we believe that everyone, into whatever family he or she is born, ought to be given a fair go with access to living conditions of a decent standard, adequate health care and proper education, without regard to family ancestry. [More…]
I simply say that the Government has intended over the past month, and has demonstrated its intention, to give the Opposition every fair go to get through the business paper. [More…]
Given a fair go, it has shown that it can be more than competitive even against the European and United States marketing machines which are involved in this sort of industry. [More…]
I reiterate that this is an industry which has great potential and which is not simply seeking protection to prop itself up; it is seeking a fair go so that the full benefit of the industry might be felt by the whole of Australia and not just those involved directly in the industry. [More…]
That did not satisfy these people and they are continuing their campaign to make sure that the State Labor Government is not going to get a fair go. [More…]
It is my view that if the Australian Capital Territory had proper representation on the Council of Egg Marketing Authorities of Australia and if some States gave the Territory and one of its industries a fair go- for example, if they would act with restraint between one another and with reasonthen none of this would have happened. [More…]
I point out to the Government and particularly to Senator Peter Baume that, when an Opposition feels that its rights are being whittled away and that it is not getting a fair go in its presentation of matters to the Parliament, it has not only a right but also a responsibility on behalf of the section of the Australian people whom it represents to adopt the attitude of opposition to motions of this nature. [More…]
It has indeed, given honourable senators a fair go, so the suggestion that General Business was never set aside by Labor has been blown apart by Senator Chaney ‘s cold statistics. [More…]
We will give all honourable senators a fair go. [More…]
If Opposition supporters wish it I will bring down in the Senate proof of the fair go that the Opposition has had in discussing its urgency motions, its matters of public importance, of the fair go that it has been given at Question Time and of all of the other ways in which the Government has sought to make this a workable Senate. [More…]
As the Leader of the Government in the Senate, I have a vested interest in ensuring that all honourable senators receive a fair go. [More…]
It is typified in our much vaunted Australian saying of giving a fair go. [More…]
I suppose that that is what human rights are all about- giving a fair go. [More…]
In Australian terms, as Senator Bonner put it, it is very much a question of giving people a fair go. [More…]
I say that until they are prepared to make their fair contribution to our society, until they are prepared to create a situation in which there is a feeling of equity and in which everyone has a fair go, these subversive elements, these tax avoiders, should have this attitude of the community firmly stated to them: ‘No representation for them without their taxation’. [More…]
All it needs is a fair go and a little bit of stability in the market place and this Bill provides that. [More…]